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MEDFORD, OKKGOX, Tl'KSDAY, JUNE 0, 1922
NO. . Go
Boy Admits He Tried
To Kill His Mother
With Poison in Tea
Postal Business Gain
BEAUTY OF
RAIL STRIKE
Biggest in 7 Years
Sign of Prosperity
KB
MAIL
' "Babe" Back
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2 WORLDS
IS CALLED
Lillian Russell, Singer and
Stage Star, Dies From In
juries Received On Ship in
Storm End Unexpected
Started Life As Choir Singer
Wife of Publisher.
" PITTSBURG, Juno C (By Associat
ed Press). Lillian Itussell, (Mrs.
Alexander. P. Moore) ' bright star of
American comic opera for three de
cades and internationally known as a
professional beauty, who died at two
.o'clock this morning, had been ill sev
eral weeks following a shipboard acci
dent while returning from Europe.
J-lor death was unexpected as her phy
sicians two days ago announced she
had passed the crisis and would re
cover. Mrs. Moore, the wife of Alexander
P. Moore, publisher of the Pittsburg
Leader, later suffered a relapse and
yesterday was so Ul members of the
family were summoned to the bodslde.
Her 'physicians, however, refused to
give up hope and early in the evening
were so confident that she would sur
vive that they arranged for a confer
ence to be held here this morning with
Dr. John B. Beaver of Philadelphia.
The accident, which Dr. Schllldecker
one of her physicians said, was the
primary cause of ner illness ana aeain,
occurred when she was violently
thrown on the ship during a storm.
The effects of the Injury were not im
mediately serious, nevertheless and
although she steadily failed in health
after her arrival . liqme, . pven , -those
closely associated with her were not
aware of the decline. Mrs.. Moore's
trip to Europe was undertaken at the
request of Secretary of Labor James
B. Davis for the purpose of making au
intensive study- among prospective
immigrants to the United States.
Mrs. Moore, who was very well
known throughout the country for her
Interest in ciric niatterB, was in great
demand as a public speaker, and only
a short time prior to her death filled
a number of such engagements. She
was actively interested in civic affairs
in this city and was a leader in wom
en's movements. In addition to her
husband, there were present at her
bedside during her last moments her
daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Crflblt and her
niece, Mrs. Mildred A: Martin. She is
also survived by two., sisters, Mrs.
Suzanne Westford Allen of New York
City and Mrs. Hattie Leonard Colburn
of Schenectady, Hf. Y.
The funeral will probably be held
Thursday at Trinity church, with bur
ial in this city.
CHICAGO, June 6. It was In Chi
cago that Lillian Russell laid the foun--datlon
of what became a spectacular
Xtitage career. One of eight children,
' she was born In Clinton, Iowa, Decem
ber 4, 1861, and when but six months
old was brought to Chicago by her
parents.
Her father, Charles E. Leonard, was
a printer by trade. It was in the old
( convent of the Sacred Heart that
Helen Louise Leonard, later to become
"Lillian Russell' first took up the study
of vocal and instrumental music.
, Early in life she took up vocal work
In a church choir. When she was 14
she moved to New York with her par
ents and there took up the study of
opera under Leo Damrosch. Her first
appearance on the stage was at the
age of 15 in the chorus of Edward E.
Rice's Pinafore company at the old
Casino theatre in New York.
nnrinir her engagement with . the
Pinafore company and while living at
a boarding house in Now York, Tony
Pastor, on a visit to friends in the
same house by' chance Happened to
hear .the young chorus girl rehearsing
one of her songs. "Becoming interest
ed, i Pastor arranged a-meeting later
offering her an engagement at the old
Tony Pastor, theater at $50 a wqek.
. (Continued on page eight)
ROMANTIC SWISS BUTLER TRIES SUICIDE
NEW YORK. June 6. August
Vrobtrt, young Swiss butler, wh'jse
heart affairs with Pittsburg society
girls at the exclusive Rolling Rock
club, were alleged by his friends to
have moved others to railroad him
out of the country, was deported to
day on the Mauretanla.
The government engaged an atten
.
BOISK, Idaho, June 6.
George Han, Jr., 11 years o'd, in
the county jail hero today, has
confessed, according to peace of-
fleers, that he made two unsuc-
cessful attempts to kill his
mother by putting poison in tea
and coffee intended for her.
The boy Is said to have admit-
ted that his mother always was
kind to him. He explained, the
alleged confession state, that his
father had sugested to him:
"If we could get rid of Mamma
we could have a good time to-
gether."
Han, Sr., a laborer, has not
been arrested.
CRASH DUE TO
Captain of Welsh Prince, War
Hero, and Pilot of lowan,
Charged With Misconduct
Confusion of Signals Is
Blamed for Loss of Ship.
PORTLAND, Ore., June 0. Cap
tain Edward Sullivan, pilot of the
British freight, Welsh Prince, which
was sunk in the Columbia river above
Astoria May 28, with loss of seven
lives after collision with the freighter
lowan, was placed on trial today be
fore the United States steamship In
spection service board here and Cap
tain A. R. Pearson, pilot of the lowan
was to be tried later. The trials folr
lowed the filing of charges of miscon
duct against the pilots by Captain E.
S. Edwards, inspector of hulls- and
John E. Wynn, inspector of boilers.
who yesterday concluded an investi
gation of the wreck.
Testifying at his trial this morning
Captain Sullivan declared the acci
dent was caused by a confusion of
whistle-signals. He said the upbound
lowan gave two blasts. Erskine
Wood, attorney for Captain Pearson,
Insisted however, that the lowan gave
only one blast.
Captain Sullivan said that when
the Iowau gave two blasts, signalling
that each vessel would keep to the
.right of the channel, the Welsh
Prince proceedpd with this Intention
until the lowan whistled a second
signal, this time ono blast, which
would have passed the ships at the
loft of the channel. The Welsh
Prince could not maneuver such a
passage. Captain Sullivan said, and
it Immediately gave a danger signal,
a series of short blasts, stopped the
engines and ordered them put in re
verse.
AVlth no loss ot time, the pilot of
the Welsh Prince declared, his ves
sel gave two blasts, a Bignal that It
would have to keep to its course.
Captain Hugh E. Hill, master of
the Welsh Prince,' corroborated the
testimony of Captain Sullivan. He
declared the'lowan's flret signal was
distinctly two blasts.
HELD FOR
SEATTLE. June 0. Mrs. Ethel
Fell, 32, demonstrator for a drug
firm, who was seriously wounded
during a quarrel In a hotel here yes
terday will recover,' physlciuns said
today .Norman O. Chapman, a street
car conductor, Is being held In con
nectlon with the shooting of Mrs,
Fell. .
4 ftunar AHvlnMi
. PORTLAND. Or.. June 6. A ten
oent advance has been announced in
sugar effective Wednesday morning.
dant ' to "'accompany Probst, who at
tempted suicide by slashing his wrist
at Ellis Ipland yesterday. The at
tendant was toTeport on the butler's
physical condition and to bring back
a receipt from his parents showing
that the prodigal has returned to his
home In Switzerland.
It was charged that Probst came to
America without passports.
COLUMBIA RIVER
WHISTLE
BLASTS
Ono of the happiest men at the I'oio grounds on May 20th, was Harry Weber, manager ot the mighty Babe
Ruth. In commemoration of his return to the game Weber prosonts to the Babe a silver bat. J. T. Riley also
presented the bambino with a loving cup from his Baltimore admirers. Insert Mrs. "Babe" Ruth, out ot the hos-
pital after a serious operation, takes her first outing In the grandstand at the Polo grounds. ,''!.-
MS IN
ATTACK ON
HIGH COURT
Labor Chief Says Chief Jus
tice' Taft's' Comment Bitter
and Unforgivable Thinks
Some Latent Power Will
Repudiate Decision Vic
tory for Capital, Claim-
CINCINNATI, June 6. (By Associ
ated Press.) The decision of the
supreme court of the United States In
the Coronado mine case yesterday was
denounced today by Samuel Gompei'S,
president of the American Federation
of Labor, as setting a precedent under
which capital can "impose nny condi
tion on the working people of tho coun
try and they would dare not resist."
The veteran labor loader, who ar
rived here today for the federation
convention which begins next week.
declared, however, that he believed
Sam Gompers
thero was "some latent power over
and above the supreme court the con
gress and the people of the United
States" which would repudiate the
court's ruling.
Mr. Gompers especially condemned
the statement of Chief Justice Taft in
reading the court's opinion.
,"The comment of the chief Justice
that It 'was the great regret that the
court finds itself unable to affirm' khe
award of damages by the lower court
Is gratultlous, bitter and unforgiv
able," said President Gompers.
"TIy court has, for the first time in
the history of federal legislation, laid
down the principle that a voluntary co
operation Is liable to be held for dam
ages by any act committed by one of
the group of members, no matter how
! far unrelated thefnay be in distance
! or supervision.
J "The Corcnado case conies as the
I (Continued on page eight)
GEJ
METING SNOWS
E.
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Columbia, San Joaquin and
Fraser Rivers at Flood
Stage Willamette Also Up
Hood River Gardens Are
Saved By Pumps. '
HOOD IUVEH, Ore., June 0. The
Columbia freshet has peached the
point here ' where; truck gurdners
whose tracts are diked In, find It
necessary to utilize pumps in remov
ing seepage water.
PORTLAND, Ore., Juno 6. Tho
Willamette river today stood at 20.2
feet at Portland, five feet above the
orfieial flood stuBo and the weather
bureau forecast a riRO tho next three
days with a stage of 22.05 by Friday.
No damage has been caused here by
the high water which Is due to a rise
In tho Columbia river cnused by
melting snow In tho mountains. Up
per Columbia river points reported
further rise in that stream today.
MODESTO, Cal.. June 0. Waters
of the Kan Joaquin river inundated
more than twelve ranches near tho
Crows Landing road, 13 miles west
of Modesto yesterday and property
luss estimated nt between I $50,000
and $75,000 had been cutiscd. Oreater
damage is " expected.. Water wns
pouring through two breaks In the
river levees, duo to melting snow.-
SUMAS, Wash., Juno 0. Flood
water in tho Fraser rlvor caused by
the melting snow in tho mountains Is
reported to be approaching the
danger point. The gaugo at Mission
registered IS feet six inches yester
day and the water was rising at the
rata of one Inch an hour. . Farms on
Nleomen Island are said to bo in
danger nnd some of the farm lands
on Sumas prairie are under water.
BASEBALL SCORES
Nntlonnl
PHILADELPHIA, Juno C Pitts
burg at Philadelphia; rain. ,. ..
BROOKLYN, June 6. Cincinnati
Brooklyn postponed; rain.
NEW YORK, June G. New York
Chicago game postponed; wet
grounds.
At Boston R. H. E.
St. Louis 2 9 1
Boston - 7 12 0
Batteries: Shordell, Worth, Walk
er and Filllnglm; Alnsmlth and Gow-
dr. 1
American.
At Cleveland: II. H. E.
Washington 3 10 0
Cleveland 0 t 2
Llickson nnd Charrlty: Coveleskle,
Bagby and Sewell, O'Neill.
At Chicago: R. H. E.
New York S 6 0
Chicago 1 1
Hoyt and Bchang; Faber, McCabe
and (Vhulk. ,
! At Detroit. , K- H. S.
iPhliadelphia 1 8 1
.Detroit U 1 1
I Batteries: Hasty, Yarrison and Per
i kins. Bruggy; PHIetle and Ilassler,
Woodall.
CAUS
FRESHETS
AS
SECTIONS
t mm
SENT WOrVlEN
IN EVIDENCE
Action Comes As Surprise to
Army Board Probing Death
of Colonel Killed By Oil Man
Mrs. Day to Repeat
Testimony. - .
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okl.l., Juno 6
(By tho Associated Press) A new
angle was .Injected today In tho case
of tho killing hero April 4 last of
Lieutenant Colonel Beck, comman
dant of Post Field, Oklahoma, avia
tion station by Jean P. Bay, promi
nent oil man and attorney, when
Day's attorney presented to a special
army board Investigating tho killing,
letters Heck Is alleged to have re
ceived from different women.
The action, it was said, came as n
surprise to members of the board, as
it wos not expected that Day would
undertake to develop a further de
fense than that given tho coroner's
jury after the killing tha ho had re
turned home, found Ilcek attempting
to attack Mrs. Day, and had procured
his revolver nnd struck tho officer
with the weapon, which exploded ac
cidentally, burying a bullet In Beck's
brain. ,
Day was tho principal witness bo
fore the board today. The hearings
were secret and no Intimation was
given as to bis testimony, nor were
the contents of tho letters presented
niado public.
A coroner's Jury found Day was
justified In killing Beck and recom
mended that- no chnrges be filed
against him, xTho army board, which
was appointed especially by Secre
tary of War Weeks arrived here yes
terday nnd re-opened tho hearing.
Late today members of the board will
visit the Day home and question Mrs.
Day. who. It Is expected will repeat
her testimony at the- coroner's hear
ing : that Colonel Beck, while, alone
with her, hud attempted to tako her
' in his iii'iiis. exclaiminir "frirl. Kirl.
you have swept me off my feet. ' You
must come to my room tonight."
SALEM, Ore., June fi. The Ore
gon State Bar asosclatlon today filed
with the clerk of the state supreme
court proceedings for the disbarment
of Joseph Woerndle, Portland attor
ney, charging him with misuse of his
citizenship papers in lending them to
Hans Bochm, Herman spy.
The grievance committee through
Elton Watkins. alleged practically all
ot the charges that Woerndle met In
his recent hearing In federal court at
Portland when Federal Judge Bean
dismissed the charges on the grounds
that the offense was committed prior
to the entrance of America Into the
world war.
Woerndle has until June 3ft to
make answer to the charges.
WASHINGTON. June 6. An
Increase of noarly 15 per cent in
the business of the postofftce do-
partniont during May as com-
pared with the same month of
last year was regarded today by
the department as an indication
of steadily Increasing prosperity
throughout the country, especial-
ly as it related to business. 4
Assistant Postmaster Genoral
Glover stated that this increase
was the greatest within the past
seven years.
George W. Carmack, Dis
coverer of First Alaska Pay
Dirt, Dies at Victoria, B. C.
Story of Career Com
panion of Indians.
SATTLE, June 6. Arrangements
were being completed hore today for
tho funeral of George W. Carmack,
whose discovery of "pay dirt" on Bo
nanza creek August 17, 189G, sent
00,000 prospectors scurrying Into life
Klondike gold fields und opened a
vast territory visited up to that time
only by trappers, - traders, and mis
sionaries. '
Carmack died In Vancouver, B. C,
Inst night utter a brief Illness.
. Known nv lbu "outside" as the
man who stumbled upon the 'north's
richest gold' field, "Carmack will be
remembered in Alaska and the Yu
kon country ns "the man of his
word." . Tho old timers recall that
his two Indian associates on the
trip which resulted in the bonanza
find, wero rewarded with claims
next to tho discovery. They later
threw their millions into the faro
banks of Dawson.
Born In Contra Costa county,
California, In 1860, Carmack spent
tho early years of his life prospecting
for gold in the hills of his native
state. In 1885 he went north und
for 11 years earned a precarious liv
ing ns a hunter, trader and pros
pector in tho Yukon valley.
During tho first few months of
1890 Carmack fished nenr tho mouth
of tho Klondike river. Later, accom
panied by an Indian assistant "Skoo
kum Jim," 'ho prospected up tho
river as far as Bonanza creek. Tho
two discovered "likely" country and
hurried buck to the mouth of tho
Klondike whore they outfitted and
wore Joined by another Indian, "Ta
glsh Charlie."
With tho first panful of dirt wash
ed from Bonanza they realized they
had "struck It rich." Carmack
stayed only long enough to stnko
claims, then hurried to "Forty Mil
camp" tolling cveryono ho met of his
discovery. His story started ono of
the greatest stampedes' In history, led
many a man to millions and many to
death and peopled two territories
within a half dozen years. On tho
way out. Carmack staked claims In
every direction and on every claim
he found gold.
Two years later Carmack visited
his old homo lri California, but re
turned to the Klondike after a few
months. In 1900 he left tho north,
and made his home In Seattle.
OH I'li-nl Itnlihcd.
LOS ANGELES. Juno 5. Two
masked holdup men today robbed
William Mnnson. cash collector for
the Richfield Oil company of $5,000
In tho company's garago here. The
robbers had followed Manson lnio
tho garage, evidently having trailed
him on the collection trip, police say.
KLONDIKE KING,
NOH'SINOF
HIS II DEAD
KENTUCKY BORN RUSSIAN PRINCESS SPY
WiaurvRTny Ttm it Secretary
of Labor Davis th rough the bureau of
immigration today ordered the imml
rrntlnn miihmitles at New Orleans to
admit Princess Ivan Tschernltschew
of the erstwhile Russian aristocracy to
the United States. The princess claims
American citizenship. '
After making a trans-Atlantic voyage
as a stowaway without food and partly
n n stewardess on tho steamship Tex-
andria the prlncesB was ordered ad
mitted unconditionally.
: The princess who claims she was
born In Louisville. Ky.. in 1886 has
spent more than a year wandering
over Europe endeavoring to ream
America. i
VOTE AFTER
C
1,200,000 Workers Affected
in Mechanics and Freight
Classes Labor Board De
cision On Telegraphers July
1 Savings to Roads Is
Higher Than Reductions.
CINCINNATI, June 0 A strlko
vote ot approximately 1.200,000 rail
workers will be taken by the indiv
idual unions nftected by railroad la
bor board wage reductions, recently
ordered and pending, It was decided.
The vote in each organization will
be returnable within thirty days af
ter the board announces a wage cut
tor that class of employes, the vote
of the shop crafts, whose reduction
was ordered by the board today, be
ing returnable June 30,
WASHINGTON. June 6. H, L.
Brunson,. special representative 111
Washington of the International As
sociation of Machinists, declared to
day that a strike vote would be imme
diately taken among the 400,000 ma
chinists affected by today's decision
of the railroad labor board reducing.;
wages. Mr. Brunson said that the de
cision was regarded as unjustifiable.
CHICAGO, June 6. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) It was learned today
that the United States Railroad labor
board's decision affecting telegraph
ers, the next class to be dealt with In
a wage ruling, "will not be handed
down for some time, and undoubtedly
will not be Issued In time to become
effective July 1, the date the main
tenance tff way and shop craft de
cision, take effect. i
The reason for it was explained,
that the chief question In the tele
graphers' case is not how much money
shall be paid, but how -Inequalities ot
pay on different roads Bhall be set
tled. '
This matter is expected to take
several weeks more of discussion by
board members.
The effect of this delay on a possi
ble strike would be considerable, tor
telegraphers are considered among
tho most Important unions in the traf
fic moving mnchinery and are among
the most difficult to replace quickly.
CHICAGO, June . (By the As
soclated Press) Over the strong
protest of the three labor representa
tives of the United States railroad
film,, hniitvl n new u'iiifa cut nt seven
cents an hour for railway shop me
chanics and nine cents for freight cur
men, cutting 400.000 shop men ap
proximately $00,000,000 i year yas '
ordered by the board today.
Tho new wage reduction- brought
nn estimated added saving- of. $59,-,
609,347 annually to the railroads fol
lowing on tho heels of a $50,000,000.
cut-in the wages of maintenance of
way laborers last .week. The shop
crafts decision becomes effective July
1, the same dato as last weck'B order,
Tho minority report of the labor
leaders pointedly stated that tho ma
jority decision was mado "with no
consideration of human heeds" and
chnrges that It falls to. carry out tho
function of the board to set a "just
und reasonable wage." '
"The tendency of this decision, is
to vindicate tho propaganda f tho
railroads and consequently condemn
such statements as tho employes have
been able to bring to public atten
tion." tho .minority opinion said. It
was signed by Albert O. Wharton, W.
L. MeMlnlmen and Albert Phillips,
the three labor representatives..
Supervisory forces of the rallwny
shops were not decreased. t.
(Continued on pag elghl) s.i.')
I :' A,fter her arrival she told Immigra
tion officials she was followed as she
jmado her way across Europe on foot,
by Russian agents seeking papers oc
the Russian royaliBt regime, which
had been entrusted to har by her hus
band, Prince Ivan Tscharnitschew, Just
before he was crucified by bolshevik
troops over the gate of his estate at
Craschzno, near Nlew Novgorod. She
also explained she was seeking her
son who she declared was sent away
by her himband early iu tho bolshevik
revolution to a place of safety., .
Princess. Tschernltschew arrived In
America without funds but v several
offers to assist her hnve been received
through the department of labor.
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