Medford mail tribune., December 01, 1921, Page 1, Image 1

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The'Weather
Maximum yesterday 57
Minimum today 45
Precipitation 09
Predictions
Rain.
tlally 6lJ?tPenth Year.
Weekly Fltty-Flrat T.
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MEPFOKD, ORIXiOX, TliriiSDAY. DEC'K.M I.KK
V.V21
NO.
in;
FOGH COIviING
HERALDED BY
Fl WHISTLE
Short Blasts 20 Minutes Before
Arrival School Children to
See Military Leader Le
gion to Help Police Handle
Crowd.
WKIiOOMK TO FOCH
The .Medford Post of tho
American legion and the Med-
ford Chamber of Commerce
have requested that Medford be
given the honor of a brief visit
! and word of greeting from
! Marshal Koch, the supreme
commander of the allied armies
during the late world war. Our
request has been granted. W'c
understand that this community
Is the only one in Oregon, other
than Portland, to bo thus lion-
ored.
The exigencies of the tour on
which this great soldier is now
proceeding prevent bur arrang-
ing any detailed or elaborate
program whereby thi3 eonimu-
nlty could show the esteem in
which he is held. ' Hut we can
show our appreciation of this
- honor through numbers and en- :
thuslasm.
We therefore earnestly urge
the citizens of Medford and vi-
cinity to turn out en masse to
! welcome Marshal Foch tomor-
row morning.
KHAXK P. KAURKI.U
Commander Medford Post...
HEX C. SHELDON,
Pres. Chamber of Commerce.
POHTLAND, Ore., Dec. 1. (Spe
cial to Mail Tribune.) Marshal
Koch's special train leaves Portland
'. 1 p. m. tonight.
Medford will doubtless turn out one
of the greatest gathering in her his
tory to welcome Marshal Foch anil
party who are scheduled to stop tor
a few minutes tomorrow morning, as
their special train passes through en
route to San Francisco.
Arrangements have been made Cor
words reaching the city about '10 min
utes prior to the arrival of the train
and tile fire department's whistle will
announce such word by a series ot
short toots.
The school children of tho city will
bo given an opportunity to see and
hear the great lender, Huperlntendunl
Smith having arranged for their
marching to. the station in a body.
Tho space immediately north and east
of the Chamber of Commerce's exhibit
building will bo reserved for them.
The train will stop so that the rear
platform will be about abrenst of
north end of the exhibit building.
Citizens are requested to gather to the
northward of this point. Commander
Karrell has asked that as many of
the legion boys as conveniently can,
help the police department in handl
ing the crowd. Captain Canaday will
have as many of the members of the
local militia company as can he reach
ed on so short a notice, out for 'the
same purpose.
The local committee having charge
of arrangements for the visit expect
to send a delegation to Grants Pass
to board the train there so that there
will bo no delay in presenting the dis
tinguished visitors to the citizens
when the train arrives.
The special train benring the Foch
party which will include Hanford
MacNIder, national commander of the
American Legion, will, leave Portland
about 10:30 Thursday evening and is
scheduled to pass through Medford a
little before nine o'clock Friday morn
ing. The local post of tho legion will
invite the legion men of Ashland,
flrnnts Pass and Gold Hill posts to
assist it as host for the occasion. Com
mander Frank Fnrreil, George Cod
ding, vice-commnndcr of the state,
legion and Pen Sheldon, president of
the local chamber of commerce will
go to Grants Pass and come to the
city with the party.
Owing to the fear of delays, the
officials having the marshal's tour in
charge sk that nothing further in tin
way of a meeting be arranged than an
Informal gathering at the railroad,
which will be addressed from the rear
platform of the train by the marshal
and probably Commander MacNIder.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 1. Mar
shal Ferdinand Foch was formally
n-peied this morninc hv a recention
committee after spending the night
in a hotel following his arrival f rom i mrougn me voiuinoia gorge nave not
Puget Sound in the course of his tour'et ,,(n re established,
of the countrv. Conductor J. L. McRary was in
Following a parade through thccl,arR r ,rain N"- 17 ani1 Conductor
downtown district the allied general-! '- w- Allison was in charge of No. 12
hsimo was to be taken on a sight The special train bearing the injured
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Supreme Court Appeal
Give Doomed Pair
Life Till February 3
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 1. Gov
ernor Olcctt last night granted
a reprieve until February 3 to
John L. Hathie and F.lvle 1.
Kerby, alias James Owens, who
were sentenced to be hanged
here Friday for their part in tho
Pendleton jail break of July,
1920, which resulted in tho
killing of Sheriff Til Taylor of
I'matllla county. Tho reprieve
is allowed for the reason that
attorneys appealed to the su
preme court from a derision of
Circuit Judge Ulnghani denying
a writ of habeas corpus. The
constitutionality of tho capital
punishment law Is being attack
ed. 6KILLED.22HURT
Head On Collision Near Celilo
Late Passenger Detoured
to S. P. Line Account of High
Water. Hit By Late Train
Rush Nurses and Doctors.
THE DALLES, Ore., Dec. 1. Tho
head-on collision at midnight be
tween eastbound and westbound j
Oregon-Washington llallroad and,
Navigation company trains in which
six persons wero killed, occurred on
the right hand track which lor a
short distance is used by trains in
both directions. The wreck Is near
mile post !)7 and within about a half
milo of Cello Station. Doth trulns
weru making a speed of about 110
miles an hour, according to railroad
men here.
Four of the dead wero taken from
train 17 which was the more badly
wrecked of the two.
The injured were taken to Portland
on a special train, accompanied by
surgeons and nurses, leaving The
Dalles at :'J0 this morning.
In adidtion to the six persons kill
ed, four were so seriously Injured
that their recovery Is not expected.
They are:
Mrs. Lloyd Cole of' McMinnville,
Ore., whose little boy was killed.
Mrs. Joseph H. Duncan, Portlund,
Ore.
S'. E. Thompson, Portland, fire
man on train 12.
Hoy Hodges, Stanfield, Ore., aged
15 years.
Tho seriouBly injured are:
Thomas Allen, Portland, engineer
of train 12.
John Gardner, Portland, engineer
of train 17.
A. Anderson, Portland.
PORTLAND. Ore.. Dec. 1. Six per
sons were killed in a head-on collision
shortly after midnight between- the
eastbound Portland-Spokane limited
and westbound Oregon-Washington
limited trains of the Oregon-Washington
Railroad and Navigation company
two miles west of Celilo.
The dead: C. J. Yarbough, porter
train No. 12; Jack Cole, McMinnville,
Ore., aged 5; Mrs. J. W. Wallin, Amity,
Ore.; A. 11. Mcllride, marine guard on
train No. 12; L. J. Kirk, Joseph, Ore.;
George Hristow, fireman.
twenty-two persons were injured.
The Portland-Spokane limited No.
12 left Portland last night and the
westlKiund Oregon-Washington limited
No. 17 was due in Portland at 7:15
a. m.
The injured were rush to The Dalles
where first aid was rendered and are
now enroute to Portland on a special
train which will lie met by a corps of
doctors and nurses who left Portland
early this morning.
On account of the bridge at Kagle
creek being damaged by high water it
was necessary to detour all Oregon-
Washington Railroad and Navigation
trains over the SKkane, Portland and
Seattle between Portland and Celilo.
Train No. 12 had just transferred to
the Oregon-Washington main line at
Celilo and was proceeding east when
it met No. 17, which was late, having
been delayed by water troubles In the
vicinity of Giblion and Kaniela.
Celilo is 97 miles east of Portland.
Information early today was scant
because the Oregon-Washington wires
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MIDNIGHT CRASH
COLUMBIA GORGE
BULLETIN
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1. Mrs.
Irene Morgan, defense witness in the
Roscoe Arbuckle trial, was found un
conscious at noon today in her room at
the Clift hotel. According to the house
physician, she had been drugged.
SAN FRANCISCO, Occ. 1. The
prosecution finally rested at 2:45 p. m.
today in the manslaughter trial of
Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle in con
nection with the death of Virginia
Rappe. The defense renewed an offer
to submit the case without argument.
The prosecution declined. A recess
followed. r
BLUEBEARD OF
Fl
Smiles for First Time Since
Trial When Verdict Given
Seduced Victims and Cut
Their Body Into Bits for Cre
mation in Small Stove.
VERSAILLES, Dec. 1. (Ily Associ
ated Press.) Henri Desire l.andni,
the "Illuebeard of Ganibais" smiled
last night for the first time since his
trial opened. A flickering expression
of amusement crossed his face as he
listened to the words of Judge Gilbert
sending him to the guillotine for a
series of the most heinous crimes in
tile history of French jurisprudence.
"Thank you, gentlemen!" said l.an
dru, flourishing his weather beaten
hat in a mocking bow to the jury, and
he disappeared through the little door
leading to the Versailles jail. Lnndru
refused to be a party to a petition ask
ing President Millerand to commute
the sentonce to life imprisonment
which whs signed among others by the
Jurors.
"It has been a great show," he said,
referring to the trial. "1 hope the pub
lic is satisfied. I give you a rendez
vous for the end of February or the
beginning of MarcJi to show you how
an innocent man dies."
Tho last hours of the trial saw one
of the greatest crowds.
"If the trial lasted another day I
would be unablo to find a seat myself"
I. a nil in told the gendarmes.
I .ami in seduced his woman victims
through promises of marriage. After
luring them to his villa at Gnmbais the
prosecution charged that he killed
them and disposed of the bodies by
burning them 111 a small stove after
first cutting them into small pieces
and crushing the skulls. The stove
was one of tho principal exhibits at
tho trial.
The motive ascribed to Landru was
that of robbery.
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 1. Danger of a
repetition of last week's flood condi
tions In tile "Willamette valley have
passed, according to river observers
here tin the strength of reports from
Jefferson that the Kantinm liver,
which rose rapidly throughout Wed
nesday above the flood stage, is re
ceding today.
The "Willamette river hern contin
ues to rise and In the, three biurs
ending at 1 1 o'clock this morilnv
gained a foot. It now stands at is.r
feet a rise of about five l'--?t .Mnce
yesterday morning and is expected to
reach the 23-foot stage before It
begins to drop.
Heavy warm rains In tho liio jiil.ihif
at the headwaters of the S.inti im and
other tributary streams eontiiiue to
fall but it Is reporte 1 most of the
snowfall Is melted.
LOWETO PREPARE
I
The Jackson County Fair associa
tion will have an exhibit at the Ash
land Winter fair which will be held
the first four days' of next week, and
D. M. Lowe is authorized to prepare
tills exhibit.
All persons who wish to enter ar
ticles in the exhibit are requested to
L'et Into touch at once with either
Mr. Lowe or II. L. Walther.
ME THANKS
RY FO
DEATH
FAT SCORES i
IN REPORT
Of DOCK
Virginia Rappe Sufferer Krcm
Chronic Ailment Main
Contention of Defense Up
held Dr. Orphtils Explains
M'Nab to-Close Argument
This Afternoon.
SAN FUAXC'ISCO, Dec. 1. A
special meillcul emu mission's report
that the Madder or Miss Virginia
Uappo showed e hlenee of chronic
in Hum mat ion ami tin presence of
t-upt tire, was submitted t inlay in tic
manslaughter trial of J Iosco-. ( '.
( Katty ) Arbuckle in connect ion wit h
Miss Uappe's death. The report ton
fir mod defense evidence thai t he
Madder was affected before the d.'ath
of .lins liappe.
The defense contended that the
bladder rupture which ca used M iss
Happe's death was (he rlheax of a
chronic condition and no1, caused by
external force applied by Arbuckle.
The prosecution was granted '.lie priv
ilege of examining the report. The
defense characterized the report as
a point "very much" in ils favor.
The commission was named by the
court and by counsel for boih sides.
The report was read by Or. '.Villi. un
Ophuls, who was named on the com
mission by the prosecution and who
performed a post mortem examina
tion on Miss Itappe's body.
The report "absolutely corrobo
rates" the deposition of lr. Madricc
Rosenberg of t'hirajro, who treated
Miss Itappe supposedly for a bladder
disorder in UM.'l. according m Cavin
MeNab, chief defense counsel.
"I don't understand tho report,"
District Attorney Matthew I'.rady Kaid.
The prosecution summoned Dr. Oph
uls to take tho stand after the noon
recess and explain the report. In de
tail. Tho prosecution announced it
would (lose finally, with Dr. Ophul'K
explanation and that Deo Juried man,
assistant district attorney would then
make tho first closing trgmuont for
the people.
McXah announced ho would n ake
the only argument for .he defense
and expected to conclude it loday.
T expect to take Irs tnan two
hours." he. said. Each side wu.h given
four bonis.
JAP SAILORS DIE
IN PACIFIC GALE
VANCOUVER, 13. C, Doc. 1. Five
Jiipiineno sailors lost their (Ives when
the JupaneBe auxiliary schooner Koun
Maru foundered 2 00 miles off Capo
Flattery in a southeast galo Tuesday,
according to a wireless report re
ceived here today. The remainder
of tho crew rescued 1- the .lupan
ese steamer Toasn Maru, outward
hound from Tacoma to Japan.
First reports were that all mem
bers of the crew wero saved.
The Daily Robbery
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Dec. l Gold
bullion to the amount i.r Ji'.ii nun tt a
obtained by bandits armed with sawed
orf shotKuns who hold up the Argonaut
mine at Jackson, Amador county, last
night, according to a report to the
Sacramento police department e.niv
today.
fa'
iComedian's Fate Rests in Hands of These Men and Women
r s" -)-) v x t
litre is tho Jury of Ihlrtoon that iirj- tryhiK Ilfiwoo ("Fatty") ArljUi-lttn. Those Ptamllni; fire (left to rlht)
Ilniiiff Hnrry McOnverti nnd tho follolnc Jurorn Alternate Stephm IlojikfiiH. Henry .1. Keif. TIioi.vih Kil
kenny, Mrs. Kitty McDonald, Min Ituiro V. Winterburn, Mrs. Heie.i V. Huhh.in (wlm itutirntid tin uvrsio.i to
lein(? photfiKr.iplH'd) nnd VIKia.n II. Tnrpey. Sealed: Mr. Adeline M. .Wtemi, I'laiMnc (. S.tyi"''. Arthur 1 1.
L'runt. Mix. Dorothy U. O'Dtn, Atiyust Tiitze and John J. II. DRtKh.
Foch Rests Hand
1
Ferdinand i'och. Marshal of France, the greatest ami oldest U"publlc
in the world, outside of the I'uit.'d States, paid a visit to America's most
historic city. Philadelphia, at:';, at Independence Hall, saw the famous old
Liberty licit, which proclaimed the inilep'"Hience of (be I'nited Utaiea of
America, one hundred and foriy -six yearn awo.
Marshal Koch will be in Medford in the niornintr for five minutes on his
special train.
CHARGE BRIBERY
SMALL'S AIDES!
Illinois Governor Says 'Buck'
Evans, Disappointed Job
Seeker, Circulated Story
State Official Writes Letter
Exposing Forces Seeking
to Destroy Political Future.
SPRINGFIELD, :r.-c. I CU.M'ges
In circulation here for several days
that the stale was investigating alleg
ed attempts to bribe grand jurors who
indicted Governor I .en Small, Lieuten
ant Governor Fred Sterling and Ver
non Curtis for embezzlement, conspir
acy and confidence game, culminated
today in a statement from Governor
Small asserting that William D.
(Duck) Evans; a member of the grand
Jury, circulated the story after fulling
to obtain money or a job from tho ad
ministration. Tho sonsutlonal charge was made
through a statement in which the gov
ernor made public a lotter received by
him from C. II. Jenkins, director, of
public welfare, dealing with alleged
grand jury corruption and purporting
to be an oxpose of political forces at
work to destroy Small und some of his
colleagues.
In his letter to the governor, Jenkins
referred to rumors afloat for some
I time thaj. Slate's Attorney Mortimer
j possessed Information connectijj.
friends o( Governor Small Willi at
tempts to Tlx tho grand jury so It
would not return tho indictments last
July.
When these rumors finally reached
publication, Jenkins according to the
letter, was Informed that they In
volved him In an alleged attempt to
bilbe Evans.
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OF GRAND JURY
on Liberty Bell
WAR LOOMS FOR
IRELAND, VIENNA
HOISTS RED FLAG
Virtual Collapse of Peace Ne
gotiations Brings Bloodshed
.Wear Austrain Mob Attacks
Fashionable Hotel Where
Foreigners Reside Hurl
. Fursiture in Street.
LONDON, Dec. 1 . ( Uy the Asso ciated
Press.) The possibility of re
newed bloodshed in Ireland stares
the Ill-it !.sh isles in the face In con
sequence of the virtual eollapso of
this neaco negotiations which have
nioceedcd under a truce for tho last
live months.
The Sinn Fein has stood firm !)
its demand for an all Ireland parlia
ment us the basis ot settlement, r.t
ibo same tlm i refusing to concede al
legiance to tho "i''!tlsh crown. Uls
ter has refused point blank to scrap
her own pitiliunu.ni to enter an nil
ile'and parllamect 'under present
coi'dh;ons."
'1 I.e. govern me .1. heads arc bending
il'ilr entlro ctiuwa to seekr.n some
r.iieplored avenue of negotiation liilt
it i' believed all iosslbllitle.i ot s-t-l!.
iiient have been exhausted.
VIENNA, Dec. 1. (By tlm Asso
ciated Press.) Rioting of u R-.rtom
mi lure broke out in Vienna today fol
lowing a great demonstratirj:i heft re
the parliament building, when red
rings were raised on Improvised
masts! The crowds then began
smashing windows and looting shops
dealing In articles of luxury.
Largo crowds also attacked a num
ber of fashionable hotels, most of
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S-' .Ml' t
SHANTUNG
MESS TO BE
RECTIFIED
China to Proceed On Basis
Only Two Points Involved
Japan's Formal Proposal for
70 Per Cent Ratio Navy
Held Delicate Issue.
ASII1NGTCN, Dec. 1.
t Hy the Associated
Press.) The Chinese
arms conference dele
gation In tho direct ne
gotiations on the
Shantung question, in
augurated today, will,
according to Chinese
spokesmen proceed on
the basis that there are only two
points on which China Is prepared to
negotiate and that these are Japan's
demand that Tslng-Tao be declared
an open port and Japan's demand
that vested interests bo respected.
The latter would bo only partially
susccptihlo to negotiation.
China, it was stated, cannot nego
tiate control of the Tsing-Tao-Tsl-Nau-Fu
railroad and bns not receded
from her position taken at Vertallles
Unit Shantung bo unconditionally re
turned by Japan.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 1. (By the
Asssoclntcd Press.) Tho situation
resulting from Japan's formal pro
posal that the sixty per cent naval ra
tion allowed her under tho American
limitation plan bo increased to 70
I per cent was regarded by American
officials toilay as a delicate one but
: not without hope that her spokesmen
ultimately would accept tho original
plan.
Entirely removed from tho stago
of technical discussion as to presoat
fleet strength the question . today,
through tho formal roqtiost of Hu
ron Admiral Kato, senior Japanese
delegate that the Increased ration bo
recognized as necessary to Japan's
security, had bocome a matter of pol
lety for settlement by tho penary
delegates of tho powors. The pro
posal on this question, it was baid,
has been presented personally by Ba
ron Kulo to Secretary Hughes and
Arthur .1. Balfour, head of the Brit
ish delegation, with the full support,
It was said, of the Japanese govern
ment. V A H II I N O TO X, 1 )oe om he r 1 .
"Vliat Jh tho 'Shantung L Question
after all, and what part do Klaochow
and THiiiKtuo play Iji It?"
ThlH (itU'Htlou 1h aiiHwerod In a )uil
letin iHHued from tho Waahlngton, D.
C, headquarters of tho National Geo
graphic Hoeioty aH follown:
"Tho 'Hhantung Qucutlon' had Its
gcnenlH when Germany, cayer to com
peto with other European nations,
which wero becoming more and more
important In tho Far lOant, determined
to huvo a port nnd naval base of her
own on the HhorcH of northeaHt China,
It took definite Hhapo when in 1897
two German mimdonarleH wero killed
in teeming Shantung, most densely
populated and economically and nen
tltueutally ono of tho most important .
of China's provinces. Ity way of in
demnifying herself for tho loss of her
nationals, Germany forced China to
grant her a 9 D -year lease on an area
roughly ten or twelve miles In diame
ter on tho coast of Shantung at tho
ontrnnee to Kiaochow Kay, and to
neutralize a stone 33 miles wide skirt- .
Ing tho entlro bay nnd including tho
leased region. On the leased plot tho
Germans built a typical German town, .
Tslngtao.
First Only u "Kiw-C1iow" Problem.
"Tho leased nnd neutral zones, to
gether comprise a relatively small
part of the 5(3,000 squaro miles of
Shantung. So far ns area Js con
cerned. It is very roughly as though
Virginia, Maryland and Delaware
were substituted far Shantung, the
District of Columbia for Tslngtao, and.
for tho neutral Kiaochow territory, a
fun-shaped area of Maryland counties
with a radliiH equaling tho distance
between Washington and Baltimore.
"When this most stubborn of Far
Kastern questions first emerged With
Germany and China as tho chief par
ties concerned, it seemed to be only
a "Kiaochow Question. Hut the Kiao
chow inch rapidly developed into the
Indefinite, but looming Shantung, "ell'
when Germany's economic - d.e signs
were understood and tho later amend
ment of tho plans made tho problem
still brcader. For tho agreement in
cluded concessions to build railways
outside tho leased and neutral areas.
In Shantung proper; and coupled with
tho railroad concessions was the right
to exploit mines In 2onea twenty miles
wide, traversed by tho railroads.
Tho Question Springs Vp Again.
"Tho 225-inllo railway lino from
Tsingtno to Tainan, tho capital of
Shantung, was opened lit 1904. Whon
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