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MEDFOHD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, .1022
NO. 113
The Weather
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Minimum today 52z
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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those thereon have since withdrawn,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.