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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 8, 1921)
PACE ETfiTTT TITE RUNT. CRFiON. TTTITR&TVAY. DFOEMP.ET? K. 1f21 FOR USE COUNTY about $40,000 from the state, uboutfit of o:io "or at best few individuals $20,000 from Medford and about SliO.uuO from thu county. This in surance of today by the county court insures the Imilcin of the armory, and the Mart of construction work about January Int. Tin; levy for the budget outside of high school districts is -7.4 mill? bid Inside high school districts nulls. The outstandiriK features of Hie public meeting of tho county budget commlttoo for Jackson county today for a complelo discussion of tho es timate of the amount of money pro posed to be raised by taxation for tho ensuing year were that $2,D00 was allowed for an asistant to County Agent ('ate, $S20 additional was allowed to the $ 1 ,200 previously agreed upon for tho county home demonstration agent, and tho almost certain assurance that the county's appropriation for the national guard armory in Medford would be forth coming, thus uiHklng it probablit that work of bulldln BURGH SEEN NEAR MURDER SCENE "1 GALE BATTERED SMP, FF CAPE FLAnERY S LOS AXGEI.KS. I)os. X. Arthur C. riurch was lit lleverly Glen on the night of August fi, both before an 1 alter the Bbooting of J. Helton Ken nedy on that night, according to the testimony today of .Mrs. Elizabeth lie santy who declared she saw him pass her cottage 100 yards from Kennedy's thu armory will be ; bungalow, where the shooting occur- begun on January 1st. A large delegation of orchardists and citizens was present at the meet ing led by II. V. Hingham, Dave Kos enberg, C. C. I.emmon and (luy Con- red, early In tho evening. Ilurch was driving an automobile roadster, she said. Hetwoen 10 and 11 o'clock, after the i,hooting and after investigating off i ner to urge the appropriation to pro- PerH n!l, i,.fl tho place, she said she vide for an assistant county agent, and another delegation of American Legion and National Guard men were present in the Interests of the pro posed new armory. It was announced at the meeting that the payment for tho state tax out of the county general fund, which had boen estimated nt $30!:, (100, would be! only $250,000, according to authen tic Information received, nnd this big cut In the state, tax put the county court in such shnpo that that body pave assurance that as soon as a com plete tabulation can be made so as to make certain the county Is within tho 0 per cent limitation they will pay over the entire sum asked for as the county's r.haro in building the armory. This armory will be built with saw him pass a,;ain in the same car. F HONOR FIGHT UievreB?" Colone! Hethel was asked, The demand of the bloc for a repre- "Yes." he said, "one was erected sentatlve of agriculture on the federal ! there for execution of acouvicted ) reserve board, Mr. Weeks laid, was as! soldier." ! worthy as .would be similar demands, jt was ul f;icvr3- accorlli!g to in-; from "manufacturers, labor, commerce I formation giv. n Henutor Watson by1 or any single great Industry." former tervlce men that soldiera , were hanged without trial. A number of those infoi mr.nt.-. . nlirned by' the Georgia senator. re summoned before tho commit- j i.-i.-, ijii.tuwu a man i rum ruru i.eutenwcTin penitentiary convicted atlon of the edpiouag.) act who, 1 atson said, could give names of j important witnesses. i j Colonel Jiethel informed the com-. ! mittee that the American military au-f j thorilie:i had exclusive Jurisdiction , ; over the American army and thej j French never attempted to exercise jurisdiction in criminal cases. , The first of the eleven executed, j ; he said, was convicted of murder and I rape, and the second, a negro soldier, j I for rape on a French woman, CS years i I UIU. Tho third and fourth executions, tho colonel said, also were for rape, both soldiers, hanged, after trial, be ll. V, negroes. After testifying that the first his cases were for assault, tho witness testified that tho Beventh case was that of a negro soldier who murdered a French professor as the latter attempted lo save a woman tioin u mob of rowdies. Case number eight waa I he hanging of a white aol dier who attempted assault on un eight year old lieigian girl. Next was the hanging of a white soldier for murdering another white soldier, the crime being characterized by Colonel Ilothel as particularly atrocious. The last case, the hanging of two negro soldiers together, was after conviction of assaulting a French girl and murdering her lather as ho attempted to save her. KKATTLK, Ip S A wircl'-fi ms khko from the stt-umor T'ikiv.a Maru, off Cape Flattery, picked up hvrts thin .iliernoon, h-iKI tho Tokiwa wan rvish iiiK to tim .'iHHiMtfiiiro of thu JaprnuHO nt-:iint r Uaiftn Maru, in clistroK.i afu-r a battle in a lu'avy ale. Tin position of t lie JJaifien Maru wuh not am mi mi mi ggery The Noted Dead WASHINGTON, Dec. . Kepre sontutivo Henry D. Flood, democrat of the. Tenth Virginia district, died of heart, trouble t bis home here to day, lie had been ill several weeks. BRUTALITY HEARINGS BEGIN I Continued frpn. Fage i-'ntit KNOXVII.I.K, Tenn., Dec. S. The defense In the trial of Maude Moore. ( eb.'irgett with the murder of i,oroy ; llartb In HMD won a point today when ! TT . .lurKey Dinn.ero ( .Judge iS'flson rovrrsud a prcviouM rnl (inK. Htirth'H ilyiim words, an mib tuil It-tl in evidence, w t'i o "Mu ink Moore nhot me, to rob mi I think. ; Today the. jmWrc Iiarroil tho words "lo rob nio, I think." I Tho dt1 fondant broko down and wept d it rl ni? r mss-oxa in i nation whfMi nho faid hho tdiot Hartli In ilofomut of j her honor. Kin told of Kiiu: ronin, Wuh., whoro hu va:i arruHtod, OE CASE UP ONCE IRE IN COURT; i Dec. now 8. Circuit trying the Friday Eve, Dec. 9 Ciivon by the ladies of Christian Church In Church Ilasement. mi:. si; Itonst Turkey Oyster Pressing Mashefl lkot:itos llrown (inivy (Vlery Tips Wuldorf Salad CYanlHwry Sauro Mince llo Cut'fco Adults "rc: Clilldi-on under Vi, 5flc (Jet tickets at door KVK.nvitoDv i wn'r.n COllVAI.I.IS, Ore., .fudge Sklpworth is so-called "d(e' ease appealed from tin' l'blloinalh Justice court last fall against Hurry Winklcy, II. C. Irvine, A. A. Hull, .lay KeynoIdH, ,11m Oal lagbor and C. H. . Ileynnlds, charged wltli having killed and disposed of j deer meat during the recent hunting REAL NEED IS CLEAR HEADS (Continued from pugo one.) laws passed, It seems to be, was thnt Increasing (he Interest rato on farm loan bank bonds to &lj per cent and leaving tho rate to the farm borrower the same as It had been." Mr. Weokn then reviewed "tho fur ther legislative program" of the agri cultural bloc, characterizing us "un wise'' tho uncalled puro wool bill, de clared that tho proposed law to regu late cold storage would "make tho price of many articles of food higher" aud described the federal highway bill as being designed to construct "roads purely local In character"' for the bene- vit by Kanuiel 1-opg ol'Taterson, N. 11., nlleglng that he saw a private soldier killed by a sergeant with a bayonet because ho was a conscientious objec tor nnd refused to carry a gun. Two other affidavits or a similar character were presented. "So we see." Senator Watson said, "threo Instances where privates woer killed by their superiors without pro vocation and without trial." Kenneth C. Hobins-m of Washing ton, D. C In an affidavit, said ho saw a private suspended by tho wrists from a tree from 7:.'i'i p. m. to II a. in. nnd then knocked down by a colonel be cause ho refused to work on bread and walor. According to an affidavit by Henry L. Kcolt, of Kenmore, Ohio, a major to Ta- i openly shot and killed two soldiers finally "without provocation." Scott will bo I suojoonaed. "Can you give us an Instance where a private soldier was arbitrarily hanged?" Chairman Hrandegee asked. "Yes, I expert to get to that as fast as I can," Senator Watson replied. The inquiry then drifted into charges of sleallng by soldiers. "I understand we went over to save France, not to pillage her," said Chair man Hrandegee, to which Senator Watson replied human nature often went wrong when a man was hungry. Senator Overman, democrat, North Carolina, read an order by American military authorities In France for pub lic horsewhipping of men guilty of theft, designed, ho said, to break up, that sort of crime. , Writing from Devil's Lake, N. D., Dr. W. D. June.t, In n letter to Senator Watson, read to the committee, de clared his son, a marine, told him of the execution of a negro soldier with out court martial. ; The negro, according to the doctor's son. gave money to a French girl, and on her refusal to return it, he took it forcibly. For this, it was alleged, the negro was hanged. It dovoloped that young Jones be longed to T'.'tli corps marines. Ho was ordered summoned. Colonel Ilether, who was General Pershing's chief legal adviser over seas appeared beforo the committee after Senator Watson in an oponlng tilntomont, li.u! presented a number of affidavits and letters from former soldiers to support his chnrges. .e lo MedforcTs Clothing Headquarters for Men offers its complete fine stock of men's furnishings for your selection in solving the Christmas gift problem for father, grandfather or brother. He will be sure to ap preciate one of the many articles which we offer. 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