Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 02, 1922, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextAILT RIBUI Weather Year Ago Maximum 94 Minimum 55 Daily Seventeenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Second Tear. MEDFOHD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, .1022 NO. 113 The Weather Prediction Falp Maximum yesterday 94'a Minimum today 52z i News From Jacksonville at 3 P. M., Is That Result of Grand Jury Probe May Not Be Known Until Late This Evening Rumors Rife K. K. List Expected. All Jackson county was tense with excitement today awaiting the report of the special grand Jury appointed to Investigate the activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Medford and Southern Oregon. At press time, reports from Jacksonville were to the effect that the report would not be made public until four o'clock and perhups would not be forthcoming until lato this ovenlng. The usual rumors were afloat, but no reliable or definite in formation, regarding the substance of the jury findings could be secured. J up to noon touay me special giauu jury investigating the night riding out-1 rages of Jackson county, was still in n deliberation, and no news is expected on the findings of the Inquisitorial body until late this afternoon. The indictments returned will be kept secret until the accused is uhder arrest, and this phase of the work will be under the supervision of the federal authorities. The grand jury is also expected to make a concise and complete report on the local situation as they found it, which may include the list of 381 resi dents of Jackson and Josephine coun ties, said to belong to the Invisible Empire of the Ku Klux Klan. Some of those thereon have since withdrawn, some say they never attended but one meeting, and some claim "it is a mis take." The records are Bald to contain the date of Induction Into the Klan, the Kleagle who procured the candidate, and a financial report for the weok. K. K. K. Apologists Busy Rumor mongers were busy Monday afternoon in the rural districts, one report being circulated that "all the . members of the grand jury were Cath olics." The religious faith of the body is unknown except that one of them is a Seventh Day Adventlst. Final desperate efforts of those ac cused, to present "backfire" testimony at the last minute, was overruled by the assistant attorney general on the grounds that It was not a subject of investigation for a special grand jury. One of these was said to concern the alleged conduct of one of the "hanging victims" a coupld of years ago. The bearer of the testimony was advised to bring the matter before the regular grand jury, which convenes In October. Arthur Purr, colored, ' known as "Heavy," loft Tuesday night for Mo desto, Calif., after telling his story to the grand jury. The indictments, if returned, will probably be based on those sections of the Oregon statutes covering riot, mob violence, and assault with a deadly weapon, the first named being excep tionally stringent. JOHN BLACK BETTER, SAN JOSE, Aug. 2. The condition of John Black, noted golf player who was seriously hurt, in an' automobile accident at Irvlngton, Col., Monday night, waa said by K)r. Raymond Waylnnd, the attending physician, to be "most favorable today. The police are investigating a com plaint by Arthur Brown, brother of Herbert H. Brown, San Francisco broker, who was killed In the snme accident, that the broker was robbed of a gold watch and chain and some money1 while "he was lying fatally in jured at the Ride of the highway. KUiKLUX KLAN IS AGAIN RAISED AS ISSUE IN TEXAS PRIMARY CAMPAIGN DALLAS. Texas, Aug. 2. The Texas political pot, which has been silent since the July 22 democratic primary In which Senator Charles A. Culberson tailed of re-nomlnatlon after 24 years in the United States senate, began boiling again today with the opening of the campaign for the second, or run-off primary, to he held August 26, In which prohi bition and the Ku Klux Klan appar ently will be important issues. - In firing their opening guns last night, the two seekers for the sena Young Boy and Girl Released By Police Headed for Medford . PASCO, Wash., Aug. 2. Dorothy Coombs, aged 20, and Kenneth Tozter, who will "soon bo 19," are on their way pre sumably to Medford, Ore., to- day, after the girl's father, Pr. J. W. Coombs of Ellensburg, told the sheriff to let them go. The pair were picked up by a Northern Pucific special agent after they had '"beat their way" from Ellensburg to Pasco. The couple had a little less than $G betwcn them and claimed Medford as their destination. FOR ji III iJury Tampering Charged By Both Sides in Mrs. Oben chain's Second Trial Vote Stood 8 to 4 for Acquittal State to Try Again. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 2. Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain of Evanslon, 111., today in the county jail faced a third trial for murder of her sweet heart, J. Belton Kennedy, August 5, 1921. The jury which heard her sec ond trial was discharged late yester day when after 97 hours of delibera tion' it reported it was still unable to reach tin agrement.' l M. O. Euddocft, the foreman, told tho court the final vote was 8 to 4 for acquittal. The district attorney's office announced the state would try Mrs. Obenchain again, and Judge John W. Schenck put the case upon his calendar for next Friday for re setting. Intimations came from the prose cution that charges might be filed against certain of the jurors on the ground they entered the jury box with certain preconceived ideas of the defendant's Innocence. These were answered by the defense that it might charge certain attaches of the district attorney's office with, jury tampering. When the court discharged tho jury certain of Its members declared Foreman Paddock had refused to permit a full discussison of evidence. It was said the jurors, early in their deliberations first "cleared" Mrs. Obenchain of the murder charge, next of second degree murder and then voted as to her possible guilt on a manslaughter charge. It was upon manslaughter. It was said, they made their last stand of S to 4 for acquittal. v Tho jury in her first trial disa greed,, 9 to 3, for conviction. Tfyo first trial of Arthur C. Burch, Mrs. Obenchaln's Co-defendant, whoso third trial is set to begin October 9, resulted in a disagreement, 10 to two, for conviction while his second trial ended in another disagreement, seven to five for acquittal. The Noted Dead DUBLIN Harry J. Boland, former representative of the Sinn Fein in the United States died of wounds received Monday in the Grand hotel at Skerris, near here, while attempting to evade capture by national troops. WASHINGTON Glenn E. Plumb, counsel for the 16 larger railroad or ganizations and author of the celebrat ed "Plumb plan," is dead. He had been ill several months. torial nomination, Earle B.sMayfield and James E. Ferguson, outlined what Is generally believed will be the principal features of the campaign. Mayfield, speaking at Fort Worth, declared the Jtransportation question was the biggest problem before the American people today on account of the "unreasonable rates saddled upon commerce by the interstate commis sion." Prohibition ta another im portant question, he declared, in crit icising Ferguson, who, ho said, had the backing of American brewera JURY FAILS 10 REACH VERDICT REED LEADS SECT LONG IN MISSOURI Bitter Foe of Ex-President Wilson Apparently Winner Over Former Assistant Sec retary of Navy Light Wine and Beer Candidates Also Lead. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2. (By the As sociated Press.) James A. Reed, se nior senator from Missouri, is lead ing Breckinridge Long, third assist ant secretary of state in the Wilson cabinet, in the race for the Missouri democratic senatorial nomination. The Reed-Long race overshadowed all other issues in the primary cam ralgn. The senator was bitterly as sailed by followers of Woodrow Wilson, by those who objected to his war stand, by friends of the League of Nations, prohibition, suffrage and federal maternity bills, by women's organizations and by those democrats of Missouri who assisted in reading him out of the party in 1920 when the action' of his home district in electing him a delegato to tho nation al convention at San Francisco was twice overruled. On the republican side In the sen atorial nomination R. R. Brewster of Kansas City, won carried the en dorsement of the "old guard" repub- Means as well as that of Governor Hyde's administration and William Sacks were receiving most votes, with Sacks leading as a result of strong support In St. Louis for his light wine and beer platform. Wpmcn' Aro Defeated With the interest in the contests, particularly that between Reed and Long, overshadowing everything elBe, the count oh other offices was slow. Incomplete unofficial returns, how ever, indicated that 14 of the pres ent congressmen, 13 of them republi cans, and one a democrat, ,have been renominated. Most of them had no opposition. In the second district representa tive W. W. Rucker, is running be hind Ralph F. Lozler. In the 16th district, where Representative Sam uel A. Shelton, republican, was not a candidate for re-election, Phil A. Ncmimt is leading D. M. Rush. All four of the women candidates for congress apparently have been de feated, although m the eleventh dis trict where two women were, in the republican race, and tho twelfth, where one woman was a democratic candidate there is yet too meager in formation to make a decisive state ment Both districts are in St. Louis. In the eighth district E. M. Zeevely of Linn, classed as a wet, Is leading Mrs. St. Clair Moss of Christian college, Columbia, Mo., and Charles E. Dewey of Jefferson City for the democratic nomination. BASEBALL SCORES American League. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2. Kenneth Wil liams of the Browns today took the lead among major league home run batters by hammering out his 28th circuit drive of the season of Rom mell with none on baso In the fourth inning of tho gamo between Philadel phia and St. Louis. It was his sixth homer In six days. Rogers Hornstiy of tho St. Louis Cardinals, who hold tho champion home run batting honors this season for several wocks is one behind WI1 Uums. . f : At Chicago: It. H. E. Washington 4 11 0 Chicago 1 4 1 Batteries: Johnson nnd Plcinlch; Lcveretto, Hodge and Schalk. At Cleveland: R. H. E. New York 5 10 0 Cleveland. 1 2 1 Batteries: Bush and Rchang; Cov elcskie, Mulls and O'Neill. DETROIT, Aug. 2. Boston at De troit postponed, rain. BOSTON, Aug. 2. Cincinnati Boston double header postponed; rain. Treasury Notes Oversubscribed WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Nearly a billion dollar over-subscription to the treasury new issue of four and one- quarter per cent short term notes is announced by Secretary Mellon. Sub scriptions for the Issue which was for about $300,000,000, ho stated, aggregat- ed over (1,200,000,000. All of the fed eral reserve banks renorted over-sub.; scriptlons of their quotas. J Dr. Afexander Graham Bell, Inventor of Telephone, Dies at Summer Home SYDNEY, N. S., Aug. 2. Dr. Al exander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, died at 2 o'clock this morning at Beinn Breagh, his es tate near Baddeck. Although the in ventor has been in failing heulth for sevoral months he had noi been con fined to bed and the end was unux pested. I ate yesterday afternoon his con dition became serious und Dr. Kerr of Washington, a cousin of Mrs. B-tH a house guest and a Sydney physi cian, attended him. With Mrs. Bell when he died were his daughter, ,M,m, Marian Hubbard Falrchild, and her husband, David Falrchlld, of Washington. The In ventor leaves another daughter, Mrs. Elize Grosvonor, wifo of a Washing ton magazine editor. Dr. Bell will be buriod on top of Mount Beinn Breagh, a spot chosen by himself. 0LC0TI GAINS HALL RECOUNT SALEM, Ore., Aug. 2. The Multno mah county ballots for contested prd cincts are to be counted ii Salom In stead of Portland as first planned, It was announced today by Attorney W. S. U'Ren, for Charles Hall in tho re count of the May gubernatorial pri mary election. "The reason for bringing the ballot boxes to Salem, said Mr. U'Hen, "Is that time and expense will bo saved." At 2:30 this afternoon Olcott hud made a net gain of four votes out of the thirty counted precincts In tho 39 contested. SALEM, Ore., Aug. 2. When the re count of ballots cast for governor in the May primary election began this morning, Governor Olcott gained two votes in the first precinct checked, Salem No. 11. Two other precincts checked gave no change (n the official count. Attorneys for both, sides petitioned the court to move to Portland tomor row to recount the ballots cast In Mult nomah county before beginning to take testimony In the charges of Illegal vot ing by individuals in Marion or other counties. The court signified its wil lingness, provided the legal assurances were forthcoming that the ballots would be surrendered by the comity clerk, as the Marion judges have no jurisdiction-outside this county. JANITOR LOSES LIE OAKLAND, Cal., Aug. 2. William Elkens, aged janitor of an Oakland hospital is dead today, while fifty in fant patients for whom he climbed to the flaming roof of tho hospital yester day and fought a Maze which threat ened to destroy the institution all were safe. Elkens fell into the arms of a firm man as the latter reached thn mnf. He died a few minutes later, i 4 MORE VOTES President Thayer of tho Amorlcan Telephone and Telegram company, on hearing of Mr. Boll's death, ordered all the subsidiary corporations of the Hell system throughout the United Slates to half mast flags on their buildings. The photograph above shows Dr. Bell while at Palm Beuch this last winter. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. News of the death of Ur. Alexander Graham Hell at bin Hummer place and labora tories at Haddock, N. 8., caino as a shock to tho scientist's many friends In Washington although thoy know ho had bean 'failing for several months. At a birthday luncheon Bomo months ago, Dr. lioH's friends wore surprlxed to sco that ho had become fepblo from ago during tho last year una inai ins remarkable vigor was fuse disappearing. OfflcinlH of tho National Geo graphic socloty, In which Dr. Hdl was prominent, received word of his death In prlvato udjficcs from Bad- U. S. MARINES CASPER, Wyo., Aug. 2. United States marines In command of Cap tain Georgo Shulor at noon today stood guard over a well on section 20 of the Topot naval oil reserve, 40 miles north of here, having carrlod out orders of Assistant Secretary of thd Navy Roosevelt to oust drillers of tho Mutuul Oil company, which was said to have continued operations In defiance of intorlor department or ders. . . No friction of any kind occurred between tho marines and the drillers In currying out tho department man date. By noon today all movable tools have been removed in a large truck the boilors are cooling off and the government senl has been placed on the rig by Cnptaln Shulor, who pro nounced It shut down for-all further operations. An Inventory was taken of all stationary tools, heavy pipe and well rigging. HIGHER APPLE RATES WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. Propos als of southeastern railways to alter rutos on apples coming from tho Pa cific coast to Virginia, Georgia and the CarollnaB were hold unjustified today by tho Inter-state commerce commission. Acting on the complaint of the Vir ginia corporation commission, and western apple shippers, tho commis sion orders sot aside certain proposed schedules which would have increas ed the apple rate ot the territory named by amounts ranging between nine and 53 cents per 100 pounds. Pendleton Man Killed BEND, Ore., Aug. 2. Dr. Herbert Lcmert of Pendleton, artesian well pump expert, was killed late yesterday at Horse Ridge, 20 miles east of Bend, when a derrick cable caught around his legs, severing them from his body. COMMAND WELL WYOMING 16 People Injured In O. R. and N. Wreck La Grande, Oregon LA GRANDE, Ore., Aug. 2. Sixteen persons wero Injured, one liossibly fatally, in the wreck ot train No. 4 on the Oregon-Wash ington Railroad and Navigation company 41 miles cast of hero early today. Mike Molsmuu, who suffored a fractured skull was re ported in a critical condition. Tho wreck was- caused by a broken rail near North Fork, according to roKiits recolvod by railroad officials hero. Tho train was thrown Into a ditch. R. H. Wilson, Reported to Be Supported By Ku Klux Klan 15,000 Votes Behind J. C. Walton for Governorship Stubbs Losing Out Kansas. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Aug. 2. (By Associated Press). J. C. Walton, mayor .of Oklahoma City, continued leading R. H. Wilson, Btato superinten dent of public instruction and declared Ku Klux candidate, by more than 15,000 votes when returns wore tabu lated from 1418 out ot 2837 precincts in today's state-wide primary election for the democratic nomination, for gover nor, The count gavo Walton 60,16 L ; Wilson 44,750, and ThomuB H. OwUn, former justice of thq state supremo court 33,909. . For the republican gubernatorial namlnatlon, John Fields continued his landslide over Georgo Heuly with 9848 agulnst his opponent's 1044. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okln., Aug. 2 (Ily Associated Press). Representa tives from six of the eight Oklahoma congressional districts, including Miss Alice Robertson, tho only woman now in congress, have won their way into tho November general election If leads on Incomplete and In some casos mou- ger unofficial returns from yestorday's primary eloction, are maintained. Mantiel Herrick of Porry, republican "flying congressman" from tho eighth district, and T. A. Chandler, republican Incumbent from the Hrst district, were the only two to full behind. "Miss Alice" of Muskogee was load ing Gus H. Tinch, oil man, with a good margin on meager returns and it ap peared she would again meet W. W. Hastings, democrat, whom she defeat ed two years ago In tho goneral elec tion. With 15 precincts out of 204 accounted for, tho count stood: Miss Robortson 180; Tinch 35. Stubbs Drops Behind TOPEKA, Kas., Aug. 2. (By Associ ated Press). After leading on earlier returns W. R. Stubbs, former governor dropped below W. Y. Morgan, Hutchin son newspaperman and former lieuten ant governor, in the race for republican nomination for governor when reports from 47 counties in the republican and democratic primary had been received here today. The figures, largely from middle sized cities and smaller towns were Morgan 15,551; Stubbs 13,810; T. A. McNeal, 8057; W. P. Lambertson, 0771 Fred W. Knapp, 4287.' Elizabeth Lorraine Wooster, wh op posed dancing In public schools and the use of cosmetics by women school (Continued on Page slx.l DEAD; SPENT BUT UNIONTOWN, rn., Aupr. 2. Unit ed BtfitcB Senator Wlllinmxl. Crow died at hiH country home In tho mountuins near hero thin morning. Senator Crow woh taken 111 three years ago and althoiiHh under the tare of eminent physicians was never nfterward ronnldered phyHicntly fit. He was taken to a lMttHhurK hospital lust December hut not until a few months ago did hln physicians an nounce that ho wa.8 Buffering from pernicious anemia, nnd that It had been necessary to resort to blood transfusion on a number of- occa sions. William Evans Crow was 'horn on a farm in Fayette county, afterward the center of the Pennsylvania coke Industry, March 10, 1870, In 1895 he was appointed an as K.K. CANDIDATE FALLS BEHIND OKLA. PRIMARY PEACE PLAN IS ACCEPTED BY UNIONS Strike Chiefs Vote to Accept President's Proposal to End Strike New Move Said to Be Up to President Some Compromise On Seniority Rule Is Necessary. CHICAGO, Aug. 2-(By the Asso ciated Press.) Chiefs of tho strik ing rail employes today voted to ac cept President Harding's proposals for ending the railroad strike and appointed a committee to draft the text of the acceptance and lorward it to tho president immediately. The action of the union heads was tho only outstanding event in the rail strike situation today. President Harding was said by Secretary Hoover to be contemplating no action today concerning the strike and there was no Indication as to when or whorol the next peace move might arise. CHICAGO, Aug. 2. (By the Asso ciated Press.) More thun 100 union chiefs, headed by B. M. Jewell, lead er of the striking railroad shop crafts workors, mot again today to act on President Harding's plan for settle ment of the shopmen's strike. Fol lowing yesterday's session It was in timated formal acceptance ot the plan would be voted. While this action by the strikers was thought probable, new moves for peace were expected, to come from tho rallroifll executives and from Washington. It was-pointed Out that dofinlte rejection of the , president's proposal concerning restoration of seniority rights to men who wont on strike, would lonve tho noxt move to Mr. Harding. Well informed rail men hore believed tho president might address an opon letter to the rail executives urging them to stop quibbling over seniority when the national welfare is menaced. Such a lottor would serve at the same time as an address to the country at large. ' Although chiefs of 148 railroads at their meeting yesterday In New York failed to reject the .seniority proposal the bellof was current here that this did not constitute the ex ecutives' final word In tho matter. RIGA, Aug. 2. (Jewish Telegraphic Agency). Two hundred, passengers perished when a five car train was burned between Kiev and Shepelowka, says n roimrt from Kiev today. In cluded among the victims were eight Zionist pioneers who- wenq -proceeding to join tnoir group on mo way io rates tine. Crude Oil Price Cut TULSA, Okla., Aug. 2. The Pralrlo Oil nnd Gas company today announced a further cut in the price of mid continent crude, making the new prices of Oklahoma and Kansas oil $1.25 and that of North Central Texas $1.50. NEW YORK, Aug. 2. The Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation today an nounced a cut In crude oil prices equal to that made by the Prairie Oil and Gas company, 25 cents a barrel. ,,,. 10 ONE DAY IN SENATE sistant district attorney and' from that time until his appointment by Gov ernor Hproul to succeed the lato Philander C. Knox, In tho United Ktates senate, ho was prominent in Pennsylvania politics and In 1909 was made chairman of tho republican stato committee. Senator Crow bocaino o 111 after his appointment to tho United States senate that his only appearance in the capital was the day on which he touk tho oath of office. . PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 2. The death of Senator Crow makes the third vacancy in tho United States senate from Pennsylvania within ten months. Senator Knox died on October 12 last, and Senntor Boies Penrose on new year's eve.