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Newspaper Page Text, n Medfokb Mail Tribune The Weather Pridlctlon Pair Maximum ytrday 05 Minimum today 29. Weather Year 'Ago Maximum ........... 7D Minimum 4 llully Keveiitnth Ysr. Warkly Kiriy-WuunU Year. MEDFOKD, OltECJOX, FIJI DAY, APRIL 28, 1922 NO. 32 2! OUTRAGE S.CALIFORNIA IS REPORTED Los Angeles District Atty. De clares Citizen of Standing Whipped and Mistreated By Gang of Masked Men List of Oregon K. K. K. Secured Probe Continues. I.OH ANUKI.KM. Anrll JR. T1i district attorney's rri- announced tuitny thai within the past two " litres weeks lher nnilnr out- rnt In southern California. Tim statement wttil: . "A tltUen of repute and standing In a town f Urn Aners county re ported in thi' district uitorney Miat tie wa taken from hi hm by a Ban or masked turn, whipped and otherwise maltreated. The rlMinii Mid he believed III ojllunt were member of the- Kn Klux Klan," The district attorney' offlc said tho man had nWrl that hla name and the titration of hla hiinew h wltrUirld, Wnlix ha fen red further violence and that h had asked that protoc tlnn l accorded hint. Deschanel, Former President France, Influenza Victim PARIS, April 2H (fly AHocliied I'roaa), I 'a it! Itcschunel, former presi dent of France, died till afternoon. M. I)oclianl wu taken lit with In fhu-tira u few day ago und on Wed nesday It wax announced that compli cation hud developed and hi condi tion wax aerloua. After lila roslitnuflnn fnitn the French praldVnry In September, HC1, 1' i .- f ft 1 s! if " 1 LOS ANGKI.K3. April 2. Early conference looking toward tho Im panelling of a grand jury to Investi gate the aetlvltte of th Ku Klut KUn In l-o Angela county were planned (or today by Thotnaa Lee Wnolwlne. district attorney, and Judaea of (ha superior court. While lha conferences were In progre dep uty district attorney and attache of lha sheriff office were expected to continue their examination Vf the document and regalia aelted Wed neaday at the local headquarter of V. S. Coburn. grand goblin. 1'aoiric domain. Knight o( the Ku Ktut Klan. Already, according to Mr. Wool wine, evidence ha been found dfl ivltely linking lha l.os Angela head quarter of the klan "with the re cant outrage" at Inglewood. a su burh of thla city, and at Hakersfleld and Tft. In Kern county. California Wool w ine Krrpa Mum Mr. WoJlwIn I making public ver)' littl cf lha Information oh. tallied tli rou Kh the seltures but he ha atuted that ho ha learned the name of 1,013 residents of U An ge city and many other of other purl of tha county who apparently are member Of tho klan. jl I alao In receipt of a statement from X. A. Ituker, klan kleagle. or organUer, who la ald to have led the nlil at lnglewoud lurit Saturday n'.gbt when threo prure officer, maaked and armed member of tha raiding band, were (hot, one ao aerloiialy that ha died a hort lime afterward. 'Thla atatemenl la Raid to contain Daker'a verlon of the raid, but 11 bag not been made public. Nolthojr har Un clrcuintuncn which led lin ker t make It. hut It I known that In do'ng ao ha acted under the ad vice of an attorney who accompanied hi in to the office of Mr. Woolwine where he wa queationed at length. Oregon Mt Secured,. From tho aeliuroa mado at lrnnd Ooblln Coburn' office, the headquar ter of tho klan for lx weatern Ute. It la aald tho offlclala have tibtulned report and memberahlp en tf llmenta from Waahlngton, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada, Arliona and Califor nia, together with correspondence allowing that at leaat tlx minlater of the goipol have rommnnlcated with tho klan officer. - Information received by the dis trict attorney and the sheriff wo twld to bo to the erfoct that evory mall took large numbora of resigna tion from the klan to tho office ol tha grand goblin. Klan Ih Prnouncrd rtamea or- three member In tho CMASTt. 1 M. i)i'hiin-l lived In retirement rr aeveral iiionih. Ilia condition Im proved ateudily and late that year It wa announced be bad completely covered in health. In January of Uat year bo bmame a candidate In the arftatoilal election, being returned rr i-.ure el lilre on January 9. He befenn attending the eeniilo actxlon tho following May and In January of thla year wa apixilnted g member of the eeniile foreign affair conmillon to replace M. I'oirare when the latter Rxtimi'd the premierahlp. mm SITUATION Utmost Pessimism Reigns in France over Russian-Ger man Entente Believe tary Alliance Probable Allies Make Known Terms to Russia. FIGHTING ATTACKS SEC Y ItliElK FALL Wisconsin :cnator Declares Harding Cabinet Officer Is Ablest Opponent of Conser vation $ince Roosevelt Days Oil Land to Big Interests PARIS. April 28 (Dy Aociated 1'rriisl. Mope wa Mill ex'preiapd In official circle here today that a non aggrcaxlv agreement might be adopt ed at Genoa but the utmost telmUni prevail concerning the protpect of any kind of a utlifactry understand ing with soviet riussla. HeHirt to the foreign office from rariou ource regarding alleged an nexe to the ItuMMoierman treaty ap pear Ui huve mode nn Impresaion. Ac cording to tliese aource. the annexea are declared t Include a clause pledg ing Knssl to aupiMirt Germany In claim for her former colonies or at least to the mandate for them. Another clause I asserted to pro vide for a military underatandlng In case the Genoa conference falls to real lie the mutual desires of Russia and Germany. A King Without a Crown or Country Goes Roving With His Sister ' Wild Women Beat Up Defenseless'1 Men in Wisconsin and Kas. A - f J . A - ' , X"- : "; i GREEN BAY, Wl.. April 28. Pleading guilty in municipal 4 court Thursday to chargea or as- aault and battery four women 4 alleged to have attacked "Pat" 4 4 Cuffney and Carl Zoll, propria- 4 tors of a road house Tuesday 4 night were each fined $100 and 4 4 costa and put under $500 peace 4 4 bond each for two year. 4 4 4 4 INDEPENDENCE, Kaa., April 4 4 28. necauae of talk that he had 4 4. been slandering them In pool 4 4 halls. Reason F. Prior, a laborer, 4 4 wa taken out on a country road 4 4 and whipped by two women early 4 4 thla week. It became known here 4 4 today, 4 4 4 444444444444444444 . 4 - Otto of Austria who has just been declared King Otto II by the legit imist party of Austria aeetns to be very little worried about bis crown. Otto Is now 10 years old. With the young prince Is his sister. Archduchess Ade laide who I 8 years old. This photo wa made about two week before the death of hla father, the exiled king of Austria. , 18,000 PEOPLE ARE CUT OFF B! WASHINGTON. April 58. Con grraalcnal investigation Into the leas ing by the Interior department of the oil right of the Teapot Dome naval reserve to the Sinclair oil Interest today appeared In prospect after a long attack in tho icnate on the louses by Senator LnKollette, republi can, Wisconsin, and announcements by republican leadora to support a resolution of lnitlry. (Continued on Page Three) II ' mi) ujxmms NEWSPAPER MOVE WASHINGTON. April 28. lily the AiHocluted Pre. 1 Senator I41K0I lutte, republican, Wisconsin, attack ing lenses of nuval oil reserve lands In tbp senate today, doclured the re serve were being "scrapped In behalf of (peclully favored private Interest." Hi speech win In reference to leudos recently made by the Interior department In the Teapot Dome, Wyo ming reserve, to the Sinclair oil In terest. Tho Wisconsin senator contended that the department In making the lease which grant "to favored ln dlvlditnlH public properties .worth hundreds of millions of dollar which belong to tho people." He urged adoption of his resolution calling upon tho administration for all tho fucta nnd documents regarding the Teupot Dome leases. Secretary Kali of the Interior do- Barthou Talks With Psrl GENOA, April 28. (Ily Associated Pre). Vice Premier Itarthou, head of the French delegation here, con vened at length during laat night over the long distance telephone with Pre mier Poincara In Pari, and a a result It was stated this afternoon that the official viewpoint with regard to the reply to P.ustla had been harmonlied Divergencies had developed In the attitude or the French delegation here and that of the government in Pari, especially toward the Ruaalan ques tion and It was announced that M. Rarthou had asked permission to go to Paris for a day or two to consult the premier. It was said this afternoon that whether M. Rarthou would pro ceed to Parla for the consultation de pended largely upon the outcome of today's discussion of the Russian ques tion here. Russian Plan Outlined GENOA. April 28. (Ry Associated Pre). Plana for Russia'a reconstruc tion were being finally determined upon today In the conference aub commlsslon on Russian affairs and the Indications were that a definite pro position would be laid before the Rua alan delegation by the week-end, with out further discussion. The Italian press today' gives indi cations of what the allied proposals are. First, It Is asserted, no loan will be offered to aovlct Russia, but It will be suggested that an international con sortium. be formed to finance trade with Russia through combinations of firms and Individuals of the various countries represented. Germany will bo Included In the consortium, it is declared and provision made that the I'nited States may Join. Thla plan contemplates the econo mic oolonlzatlon of Russia, with guar antees that the autonomy and sover eignty or the soviet government will not be infringed Uxn. There Is considerable discussion as to where the conference will stand if the Russians refuse all the proposals made to them. THREE CHILDREN LOSE LIVES IN RUSK ITER DESCHUTES FIRE TRIBUTE IS PAID WILSON BY won ONLY I Iff FARMER RESTS ON RAILR. CUT Secy, of Agriculture Declares Railroad Rates Must Be Re duced to Pre-War Leve Befors Farmers Can Enjoy Prosperity. (Continued on Page Three) LOH ANOEIJJ8, Aiull 28. Hon ore C. Connette, newspaper inun held lit the county Jul I here pending an In.. veHtlKatloii of possible, knowledge concerning tho mysterious shooting of Wllllnm Desmond Taylor, motion picture director hero February 1, to day denied "that he had killed a man In "defense of honor,"' ns the llllo, T. II., sheriff cabled the district at torney here he hud information that Connette so admitted. The llllo sheriff's cnhle nlno said that Connette gave u nriiplilo de scription of the killing. . MAN DENIES HE KILLED IN DEFENSE OE DONOR Connette explained this by saying thut In unNwop to tho request of a llllo newspaper reporter for Infoi'. matlnn concerning tho murder niys tery, ho drew a diagram to muke moro clear tho situation In which tho body was found, hut this diagram was bnsed upon n diagram published by a Loa Angeles newspaper. 'Connette is being held merely n a witness, ponding .investigation of reporta that he know tnoru about the UHii'dcr myntery than bud been pub liHhed. ViafSDURO. Mis., April 28. Twelve thouaand persons are reported to have been cut off In the northern and eastern sections of Uiaquena county by back water from a break In the Mississippi river levees. Five hundred persons are said to have been caught In the town or Val ley Park, by the riling water. The entire area In this section, covered by second rioor of the house when the water which came from a break high-1 Hre. which had started in the Incit er up the river, comprises a tract 35 miles long and CO miles wide. Calls for help also have reached Natcher, it was said, from Clayton and Lake St. John, both In Concordia parish. REND. Ore., April 28. Three children, Mildred and Eunice Berg strom. aged 13 and 10, and. George Llvesley, their cousin, aged 4. were burned to death oarly today at the ranch home of W. U Bergstrom near Deschutes in a fire which started from an Incubator. Bergstrom and his wife' are In a hotel at Deschutes suffering from burns. The children were asleep on the NEW YORK. April 28. Unless there Is a quick reduction la railroad freight rates to "about pre-war lev. or the price of agricultural pro- els.' Thousands of Delegates to Convention Women Voters Stage Demonstration in Front of Ex-President's Home Wilson Not Strong Enough to Make a Speech. NATCHEZ, Miss.. April 28. A call waa received here for rescue workers at Clayton, la., and in the vicinity of Lake St. John in Concordia parish, where it ia reported several hundred person are marooned. Water is re ported nine feet deep at Clayton. Alexandria, l a.. April sand persons, forced to 8. Six thou leave their bator, was discovered. Mr. and Mrs. i Bergstrom made futile efforts to .break through the wall of fire which I prevented them reaching the chlld- Iren'a room. Both were burned and narrowly es caped with their lives. Mrs. Berg . strom was able to reach the stairs. but liergstrora's escape waa cut off and he had to break a window and jump to the ground. In breaking the glass In the window he cut an artery of hia right hand. Rergstrom later, in spite of his burns and injury, cranked hia car and drove two miles to Deschutes, where ho and Mrs. Bergstrom received med- homea In Catahoula and Concordia icaj attention. The ranch house was parishes. La- by the flood waiters or tho Mississippi and other rivers were concentrated today in he vicinity or Jena, Sicily Island, and Holloway. La., according to the local Red Cross representative. Corset Makers Scared To Death; Girls Don't Wear Them Anymore 4 4 4 4 CHICAGO. April 28, It seems to bo a question whether tho girls wear 'em any more. - The ways and means commit-' teo or the Chicago Corset club met today to outline a life sav- Ing program for the industry. "Only B5 per pent of the wo- men are wearing forsets," ac 4 cording to Miss Rose Hey, sec- rotary of the organization, which Includes manufacturers, 4 4 saleswomen and designers of the 4 4 feminine form frames. 4 "More and more womon are giving up the corset," said Mme. 4 Alia Riploy, president of the 4 FuBhlon Art League or America. 4 "Young girls? Why to tell 4 you the truth, I don't know a 4 4 girl who wears a coraot," she, 4 said. ' , , .4 4 . 'r ' -'; ' 4 National At Pittsburg. R. Cincinnati 5 Pittsburg 3 Ratterles: Gotten and Wlngo; Carl son, Yellowhorse, Wheeler and Gooch. II. .10 11 At Brooklyn. R, H E. Philadelphia 10 15 0 Brooklyn ....... 7 16 1 Batteries: Hubbell and Henllne) Grimes, Mammnux, Gardonier and Miller. At Boston. N- R. H. E. New York 10 10 0 Boston 6 15 4 Batteries: Nehr and Smith; Watson, Oeschger and O'Neill.', , destroyed with loss estimated at )2, 000. American , At Detroit. R. H. E. Chicago 9 11 0 Detroit : 6 11 0 Batteries: Davenport, Wilkinson and Schalk; Oldham, Stoner, Dauss, John son and Basslor. ' At New York. R. Boston 3 New York - 10 Batteries: Karr, Fullerton. Dodge and Rtiel; Bush nnd Schang. H. 7 It Coast Vernon-Portland game v.tt grounds. postponed, ST. LOUIS. April 28. Kenneth Wil liams knocked out his seventh home run In six days, In slamming a circuit DISCARDED SAFE CRACKER'S! FOUND IN CITY While moving electric power poles yesterday afternoon E. W. tierhard and his crew of t-tae California-Ore gon Power company, found a aet ot safe crackers tools consisting of a pipe wrench, a Jimmy bar, a punch nnd a longer punch made from an old rat tail file. Tarts of two dlf' ferent safe combinations accompa nied the tools. Two dials and a turn Mer were also among the parts. Th tumbler bears the number 26488. The Copco men were moving pole from the yard on North Fir street near the Valley Fuel company, where they are now stored, to the new warehouse site on Kouth Fir. ." It may be that the aafe part belong to some of the safes which have been broken into in this vlcln tty within the past few. months as In several cases the dluls and, other parts were carried away, , ASTORIA A A Y CAUSED BY LOG 44444444 44444 4 Clevelnnd. No one was on base. ASTORIA. Ore., April 28. A. J. Gustnfaon, 45, was drowned when he was knocked Into the Columbia river by a log nt a sawmill near here yesterdny nnd John Riser, a follow .aI.am I. In n l--D,...,l ha. nn-Ui.L.I.I V " "' "" injured us a rcnult of being struck by the log. ducts Increased snfflciently to equal the rate advance, there will be pro found re-adjustments In agricultural production Involving readjustments in Industry as well," Secretary Wal lace of the agricultural department declared in' an address today before the New York Academy of political science. The "blighting effect" npon agri culture ot the present level ot freight rates, the secretary said, "can hardly be comprehended." What he regarded as the probable eirects or present rates continued tor any length of time, were summarized by Secretary Wallace as follows: "First, to favor the farmers or South America and Australia at the expense ot our own farmers. (Substantial decrease in ocean rates emphasized the disadvantage ol the American farmer, he pointed out.) "Second, to keep prices on farm products in the large surplus produc ing states at figure lower than are justified by the investment In land and equipment and cost of production. "Third, prolong the period of dis satisfaction among farmers and en courage advocates of economy falla cies or all sorts. "Fourth, improve the position or eastern truck and fruit growers but add considerably to the cost of milk and dairy products because of the advanced prices ot hay and coarse grain necessarily shipped, in from the west. "Fifth, gradually shift industrial enterprises westward, nearer the aur- plus food producing territory. 'Sixth, promote sectional rather than national spirit and make more and more difficult national policies with respect to International affairs." rresent freight rates impose a tax on the farmer of the surplus produc ing states, Mr. Wallace said. "The most hopeful sign of the pret ent time is the apparent recognition ot the railroad management that our present high ratescannot be contin ued without disaster to the railroads themselves and that rates must come down to a point not far. if any, above the pre-war levels." WASHINGTON, April 28. Su :ral thousand women. Including numer. i., delegates to the Baltimore conversion or the 'National League of Wouic'? Voters and to the convention here of the League of American Penwoti'-u staged a demonstration last night bo- tore the home or former Presld nt Wilson. Cheers or the women brought Wilson to the door and npon reque. U tor a speech he declared that wt he appreciated the compliment T. ry much he felt he was "not strtOfj enough to make speech." Mr. Wilson called back by ti cheers, thanked the women and a li ed: "I will repeat for you on of my favorite limericks, which runs follow: For beauty I am not a star,' There are others more handsome by far: My face, I don't mind It. Because I'm behind It " " The rest or the verse wa lost !i a burst or laughter that wot he: J tor blocks. The former president mad hla a , pea ranee resting heavily on a cane and. assisted by a negro butler. wa attired In a black frock enat aul top hat and smilingly greated his vis itors. Doffing his hat, and hanging his cane in the pocket of hi coat, ho bowed and then safd: "Thank you very much tor the com pliment. I appreciate It very mucii. I am sorry I am not strong enough to make a speech." Mr. Wilson then retired to ltt house and when the cheering thro a ? kept up the tumult calling first for Mr. Wilson and then for Mr. Wilson, the former president and hi wife ap peared at an upper window and rnil Ingly waved to the crowd below. It waa then that Mr! Wilson repeated bis favorite limerick. For several minutes he and Mrs. Wilson remained at the window whilu the women visitors sang songs and applauded intermittently until tho window was closed. The delegation wa to have teu headed by Lady Astor. but she diet not appear in the throng. She hud another engagement at the tamu hour. BALTIMORE, Md., April JS.TW.t, Is Washington day of the convention ot the National League ot Women Voter which will wind np It annuul session tomorrow after a week re plete with discussion of its social and legislative activities. ;' 4 The delegate will ytelt cong'-eot. be entertained at luncheon by mod than a score of Washington bosti;.-.i any many of them will be received by Woodrow Wilson and Mr. Wilson at the former president' home. The delegate will return to Haiti more for the closing meeting tomor. row forenoon and return to Washing ton tor a reception at . the V blu House in the afternoon. Die in Batb Tab. EVERETT, Wash., April 3-'.. Fred A. Durr of the Durr Tractor company, died suddenly at hi homo here last evening while taking ti bath. Heart disease caused dentil. He waa 60 years old and Is survive l1 by his wife and several children. MISSING SCHOO L TEACHER FOUND DEAD PARSONAGE MURDER IS SUSPECTED IIOOPESTOX. 111., April 28. An nouncement early today by. the cor oner's physician that Miss Gertrude Hanna. 25, former school teacher, whose body was found late yesterday in the unoccupied United Presbyterian church parsonage, two blocks from her home here, was approaching ma ternity, increased their conviction, county authorities said, that she was murdered. An analysis of the contents of the young woman's stomach today la ex pected to throw further light on the mysterious death. The body, lying just Inside the basement window, waa found by cat -penters who had been working tboro for four day. ; 'Miss Hanna last was seen'alivo when she left the home ot her father, W. T. Hanna, Hoopeaton Miller, March 24. No evidence of violence was fo'm 1 on the body ot Miss Hanna, accord ing to Dr. F. A. Bumgart, who assist ed County Physician J. O. Fisher lit the autopsy. The body waa lu a re markably good state ot preservaMuti, Dr. Baumgart stated, Indicating I .. i she had been dead only a short tlm ;, not over two weeks.