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MEDPOED, OKEGOX, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1922
NO. 234
M
MEDFORD
4
COMMUNITY
ARID CAMP
Widow and Father of Tom
Richards Positively Identify
' Murdered Son By Initials
On Belt Buckle Bodies in
Masonic Temple Guarded
By Troops. " : :
MER nOUOli, to.. Dec. 33. Tho
tfato moved again today in tho More
house kidnaping ease when Attorney
Crencrul A. C. Coco announced that
an open hearing, used but onco pre
viously In this state would bo Insti
tuted at Bastrop, tho parish scat, on
January G. His announcement fol
lowed a conference with local ' offi
cers after his arrival at Bastrop, 8
miles from hero on the state troop
train that brought a machine gun
company rrbm New Orleans and an
Infantry company from Alexandria,
as well as a car of ammunition and
machine suns.
The troops established their camp
on the courthouse grounds in the
heart of the little town of 2S00 In
habitants. One of their duties will
be to guard the courthouse while tho
hearing is in progress..
The hearing will be equivalent to
grand jury proceedings, but open to
all who are privileged-to come into
1 tho court a.nd tull what they know of
tho kidnaping of five prominent Mer
ltougo citizens Inst August by 50 or
more, masked and white robed men
and the subsequent disappearance of
two of them, whoso bodies, authori
ties ore satisfied, were blown up from
the bottom of Lake LaFourche yes
Uerday by unidentified . dynamiters
who were believed to have been" at
tempting to steal them.
- Tried By Night Riders.
v;At tW hearing, . it 4s reported, the
state will submit testimony that Watt
Daniels and Thomas' ItichardSr iden
tified by relatives as the dead men,
had been carrfed before a court of
white robed and masked men and
questioned a short time before their
disappearance. . ..
i'utns hnvo not been completed for
the Inquest to be held over the muti
lated wire-bound bodies 'now lying
under military guard at tho Masonic
temple here. The extent of tho tes
timony the state wilt permit to be in
troduced before this inquest has not
been announced. There Is the possl
bllity that the coroner's Jury will
name certain Individuals as rcsponsi
ble for the crime. The jury also is
expected to announce officially the
identity of tho bodies of Daniels and
lUrhards. . ,
ltcports of ill feeling between two
groups in this community since tho
kidnaping was fanned yesterday uy
tho recovery of tho bodies. Some rel
atives of Daniels and Kichnrds nro
positive tho men wero allvo before
being thrown Into tho Inko and that
death resulted from Htranguiution.
Pvoplo (So Armed.
' Men nro now seen driving automo
biles and wagons with shotguns and
rifles by their tddo; weapons are
strapped to their saddles when on
horseback, and even at street cor
ners revolvers are seen bulging from
tjielr hip pockets..
The Monroe troop stationed here
was ordered this afternoon to break
ramp and entrain for Bastrop.
BASTIlOl', ta Deo. !8. Attorney
General Coco this afternoon handed
a warrant to Sheriff Carpenter order
ing the arrest of one man in -connection
with the Morehouse kidnaping
cose.
Mayor lljlnn Pleased.
NEW TOItK, Dec. 23. .Mayor Hy
lan today wired Governor Parker of
Louisiana his hearty congratulations
on "your bold, vigorous fight against
the Ku Klux Klnn," which he char
acterised as a "slimy brood of ven
omous reptiles, squirming In an in
visible empire."
"I believe," said the. message,
"that every man and woman, re
garding of race, creed or color, owes
you an undying debt of gratitude for
your heroic American fight to end
tho Infamous outrages to which the
members of the Ku Klux Klon' will
(Continued on Page slo
CO-ED POLICEMAN
GIRLS HAVE
SEATTLE, Dec. 23. Amelia 8o
renson, who graduated In sociology
from the University of Washington
Inst June and who Is 24 years old, is
a Seattle policewoman, on guard In
one of several dance halls whose
operations Is being investigated by a
grand Jury.
Miss Sorenson, whose parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Swan Sorenson. live at El
Irnsburg, Wash., became a, police,
woman In September by ranking
highest In a competitive examination.
Newporters to Fly
From New York City
To Spend Week-Ends
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. New
Yorkers who spend their vaca-
Hons at Newport have over-BUb-
scribed funds for establishing an
fr airplane service for week-end 4
trips next summer. Vincent Astor
and T. Suffern Taller are ia
charge of the project.
Planes will leave New York Frl-
day and Saturday and return
Sundays and Mondays. The time
of the trip one way will be an
hour and a quarter. By train the
trip takes six hours. Newport is
225 miles from New York by train
'
0
DUNCANS
N. YORK CHURCH
Bishop Manning of Episcopal
Church Cancels Invitation
to Famous Dancer to Ex
plain 'Moral Dance' Before
St Mark's Forum.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Bishop W.
T. Manning intervened recently to
provent Isadora Duncan, classic
dancer, from appearing nt tho Episco
pal chuhreh of St. Mark's on tho
Bowery, a notice to Episcopal publi
cations from the bishop's office to
day rovealed. .
Announcement that Miss Duncan,
who was scheduled to address the
forum on "the moralizing effect of
dancing in the human soul," would
not appear Christmas evo, was made
In a brief statement by Rev. Norman
Guthrie, rector, of the church after
his original statement had created a
storm of opposition.
- Bishop Manning's statement read:
"The bishop of New York has re
ceived letters of earnest protest from
many parts of the country In regard
to announcement widely uublished In
the newspapers that a dancer whose
exhibitions have urouscd great criti
cism In many of our cities would ap
pear and spenk at St. Mark's In the
Bowery, New iork.
"In answer to these letters of pro
test Bishop Munnlng wishes to state
that the dancer .referred to will not
speak nt St. Mark's church nor ap
pear professionally In nny connection
with the church or its Services."
ILLNESS DEPRESSES
CHRISTMAS CHEER IN
WASHINGTON. Dee. 23. Christ
mas at the Whito House will lack
much of the usual spirit of times gone
by because of Mrs. Harding's Illness.
Thero will bo no house guests and
no Christmas. Neither the president
nor Mrs. Harding has made any Hoi I-
day plans. She may come down stairs
In her wheel chair and preside at the
table for Christmas dinner but other
wise the day will be like any other
since she was taken 111.
To add a little cheer, tho White
House tins yuletide wreaths In the
windows and thero will bo a profusion
of flowers.
An a Christmas present to tho thou
sands of government employes, Presi
dent Harding issued an executive
order closing the government depart
ments at noon today and at that hour
most high officials also closed up their
desks and wont homo.
The senate, too, joined In the early
beginning of the Christmas season,
holding only a, short session, but tho
house went ahead with the considera
tion of appropriation bills.
100 MANY
EDE CHINE
Some of her conclusions from her ex
perience nre.
"The trouble with most of these
girls is crcpo dc chine soul. They
can't endure cotton next to their
skins. I must have pretty things my
self to be hnppy, and 1 know what
makes the girls I work with stoop to
things they do.
"A woman's best weapon Is sym
pathy. It Is the only one she carries
on her cabaret beat where she la on
duty from eight until midnight."
REFUSE ISA
ORA
DANCE
WILL HAYS
T
ONDECISION
Fatty Arbuckle Will Be Given
His Chance Regardless of
Criticisms From Many Parts
, of Country Federated
Churches Call On Hays, for
Explanation- .." '
TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 23. Numor
ous criticisms against the reinstate
ment of Roscoo Arbuckle ill fllmdom
will not In the least affect the decis
ion of Will H. Hays, national motion
picture mentor In Knuitlng the film
comedian "a chance to come back,"
Mr. Hays said here last night.
In an Interview referring to tho
Arbucklo decision, Mr. Hays said em
phatically: "I stand on that absolutely. I hare
nothing- to add to It and no explana
tions to make. - I am perfectly con
tent. My action docs not mean that
the pictures Arbuckle made before
the trouble are to be rcleasod. It
simply means he has a chance to go
back into the profession and make
good if he can.
"Every man In tho right way and
at the right time ia entitled to his
chance to make good. It Is apparent
Roscoo Arbuckle's conduct since hiB
trouble merltB a chance. So far as
I am concerned there will be no sug
gestion now that he should not have
his opportunity to go to work In his
professsloti," ; ;
Mr. Hays passed through. Topeka
lust night on Ills way east.
l-'cilcratcd diuretics Act.
NEW YORK, Dec. 23. Tho Ttov.
Charles S. MacFarlund, general sec
retary of tho federal council of tho
churches of Christ In America, to
day made public a letter to Will H.
Hays, head of the motion picture in
dustry, calling for an explanation
why, he as a member of Mr. Hays'
committee on public relations, was
not consulted about the reinstate
ment of Roscoe Arbuckle, who fig
ured in the party that resulted In the
death of Virginia Ituppe.
Mr. MacFarland, as goneral secre
tary of the church federation, is a
member of the executive committee
of the committee on public ralatlons
which Mr. Hays organised recently
from various religious and civic or
ganizations to aid him in putting tho
movies on a higher plane.
His letter, besides raising the
point of why' ho was not consulted
doclarod that "unfortunately tlio im
pression has gained ground that this
Is due to pressure of financial inter
ests invested In Arbuckle pictures."
Mr. Macl-'arland quoted tho fol
lowing telegram from the St. Louis
federation of churchCB:
"St. Louis church people aro In
censed over the proposal of Will II.
Hays on behalf of moving picture in
terests to bring Arbucklo back Into
the films. Strong supporting resolu
tions will undoubtedly be passed in
St. Louis by denominational ministe
rial bodies, by ministerial alliance.
and by church federation. Is fed
eral council taking action?"
"Tho enclosed telegram." his let
ter said, "Is merely an Indication, In
my judgment, ot the general expres
sions which aro coming and will con
tinue to como from our religious and
moral forces relative to your decis
ion in tho Arbuckle matter.
"May I raise the question as to
why there was no consultation what
ever with persons representing tho
church whoso cooperation you have
sought? It would seem as though
this would have been a matter on
which above all you have wanted
counsel and advice from people who
represent these large bodies reflect
ing so wide an area of public opin
ion." Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
MINNEAPOLIS, Dee. 23. Bandits
today invaded the Minneapolis down
town district, staged two daring Jew
elry store robberies wltliin a half a
block ot each other and fled with
about $25,000 In cash, diamonds and
Jewelry. The first robbery wan at
the I. R. Welsman Jewelry company
store where the bandits got 1 12, 000
In Jewelry and I ISO In cash after
binding a clerk, and the second was
at the Harry Rush Jewelry store,
here they scooped up between $11,
000 and $13,000 in diamonds.
STANDS P
Latest Men Fashions
H s come when tho womon began
such things, thore wero sonio who predicted that tho cycle would bo complot
et when the men began to wear skirts and jietOcoatst This picture tells tho
sad tale, mates. Tho costumes seen here nre tho latest thing in men's
nttiro for social functions nnd weddings.
SANTA GLAUS AND.
ANGELS CONDEMNED
. BY SOVIET CHIEFS
MOSCOW, Dec. 23. (By tho As
soclatcil Press ) Santa Clans 1b apt
to find Christmas little to his liking
in the principal cities 'tad towns ot
soviet Russia this year; in fact, to
the young communist . he will be
"persona non grata.'',
Members of that organization, con
tending that Christmas and St. Nich
olas are both worn out myths have
forbidden the Russian celebration of
Christmas. Tlioy have furthor' de
cided that the singing of Christmas
carols shall be dispensed with and
tho flguro of an angel may not bo
displayed on a Christmas tree appear
ing In public.
Instead the celebration plans call
for torchlight processions, masked
balls, dinner pnrtlos and gay theater
performances day and night, to
gether with various forms of amuse
ment designed tq suppress and offel
any religious coremonles.
The young communists contend
that Christmas logends hnvo fooled
children and their elders long enough
that they should know better.
N Y- BREAKS RECORD
NEW YORK, Doc. 23. Holiday buy
ing in New York has broken all
records. This Bum roprcBents an In
crease of IS to 20 per cent over last
yner. ' '
The Noted Dead
DENVKIt, Dee. 23. Dr. Charles
A. Powers, widely known surgeon.
president of the American Society for
Control of Cancer, dropped dead in
the University club hero tills utter
noon. Dr. Powers was 61 years old. He
wns one of tho most widely known
surgeons in the rountry, had Bnrvrd In
Prunes during the world war nnd was
to havo been given the distinguished
service mertnt next Tncsdny In con
nection with his surgical work In the
war zonu where ho specialized in the
surgical treatment of faces, mutilated
by war wounds,
Physicians ascribed Dr. Powers'
death to apoplexy.
No I'aiwr Christina Hay,
As usual there will be no is-
suo of the Mail Tribune on
Christmas Day, Monday, De-
eembcr fnth. The special
Christmas edition of the Mod-
ford Sun will be Issued tomor- 4
in Czecho-Slovakia
to wear mannish nttiro, brooches nnd
START CAMPAIGN
UPON BOOTLEGGERS
WASHINGTON, B.C.
WASHINGTON,' Dee. 23. Whis
pered chnrgcB thut bootleggers ply
their trado without restrictions under
the dome of tho capltol of the United
States and number among their cus
tomers some of tho nation's foro
mout legislators wero rocognized to
day by Senator Curtis of Kansas,
chairman of the rules committee, who
ordered tho capltol police to arrest
any bootlegger who vontured to trade
Intho capltol irrespective of who in
terceded for him.
President Harding had before him
today a letter from Itoprosentative
Upshaw urging blm to Issue a Christ
mns proclamation calling on citizens
to respect the law.
The holiday boutlcggltig season, in
Washington' is beginning to feel tho
results of the concern recently ex
pressed ljy the president nnd members
of tho cabinet nt disregard for tho
prohibition laa Chaws of iNHrtlcg-
ger.i through tho streets of tho capl
tal with resulting nutoinobtle smash
ups and Injuries to bystanders have
becomo freriucnt.
One of the latest rnlds wns made
on n high priced aimrtment liuue li
tho exclusive DuPont clrclo neigh
borhood. where more than $6000
worth of liquor w selxed Mlth
list of names of customers which tho
police said Included lending lawyers,
citizens d legislators.
POSTMASTER AND ;
WIFE SENTENCED
TACOMA, Dec. 23. Kranels M.
rilemi, coiifcd embezzler of gov
ernment funds, while postmaster at
Vtlllapn, Wash., was yesterday sen
tenm-d to fifteen months nt ttw Mc
Neil Island federal penitentiary and
lined 2,i:;,.lil ty r'cclcrul ,ludgu lOd
ward K, Ctishnmn.
Clenn's wife, nt bnn tlmo pust
mlstrcHS nt Wlllnpn, nlHo was found
gulKy of a nhartage In iioslnl ac
counts. In her ease Judgo Cushmnn
Imposed a sentonco of six months in
Jail, -which lie ausuviMlvd.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
, EVBHKTT, Wash., Doc. 23.-
Yeggs who broke Into tho Granite
Kails Staia bank early this morning
drilled opon the vault and broke
open sixteen safoty deposit boxes.
Two hundred dollars of hank money
and stocks, bonds and other negotia
ble paper, the exact amount of which
will not be dotormlned until full
check has been made, with the box
owners: were stolen. Two revolvers
and a high powered rifle along with
an ample supply of ammunition were
also taken row th ban, t .
Aged Domestic Falls
S Stories Thru Sky
Light Not Injured
OAKLAND, Call,, Dec. 23,
Although Mrs. Sarah Grigsby,
an aged domestic, fell five
stories from a hotel window
and plunged through a sky-
light today, she was but slightly
injured.
Mrs. Grigsby sold she fell
whllo walking lii her sleep.
The skylight is of wire netting
and glass and aided in break-.
& log her fall, '
MURDER CHARGE
FILED AGAINST
PORTLAND PAIR
Cash Weir and Son Are
Charged With Death of
Unknown Girl in Houseboat
' Last September Mrs.
1 Leary Gives Details.
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 23. Appli
cation for a writ ot habeas corpus was
made today by Cash Wolr's attorney,
and District Attorney Stanloy Myors
immediately ordered his deputies to
file a charge of first degroe murder
against Cash Weir and a charge of
accessory after the tact sgalsst his
son, Karl Weir, basing these charges
on allegations made by Mrs. He!?-
Leary that Cash Weir, veteran river
man, had slain an unidentified IS year
old girl In Ills houseboat here Septem
ber 23 last and that Earl Weir had
aided his father in flisposlng ot the
body. Hearing on the writ application
was Bet for this afternoon. In circuit
court.
Earl Weir was subjected to a severe
grilling last night and early today, but
police did not obtain any definite
statement from him, they announced,
Police, and district attorney's depu
ties were still unable today to obtain
any information concerning the iden
tity ot the alleged victim. Mrs. Leary
has furnished them with a detailed
description which she has repeatedly
given without variation. According to
this the girl was - rather chunky,
weighing around ISO pounds and tlte
feet three Inohes tall. Sho had brown
hair, not bobbed.
Mrs. Leary said the girl told her alio
was "born and raised" in Portland.
She also said that her mother and
father wero living in. Portland and two
brothora also horc. She said that she
had married sister living In Wash
ington. .
UGHTNER GETS A
LIGHT SENTENCE
POllTLAND, Ore., Dec. 23. Dave
Llghtiier, convicted at ono trial of
consjilraey to smuggle nurcotics nnd
liquor and at another ot conspiracy
to vloluto tho federal narcotics and
litiuur laws, received two sentences of
eighteen months each In federal peni
tentiary today, the sentences to run
concurrently. The sentences Imposed
today were by Federal Judge Dietrich
of Dolse, Idaho, who sut at Llghtnor's
second Irinl here.
Sentence for Llghtnor's conviction
in his first trial is yet to bo passed
by federal iuiim 11. B. Jlean before
whom he was tried and Judge Diet
rich said In giving the 18 month's
senU'ce. that U waa " Mile len
lont," but Hint no w,a mriuonccd by
the fact that Judgo Uoun could tidjust
IHHiMiiiieiit In tit second mnienft:
and also by tho fact ho understood
federal officers Intended to deport
Llglitner when hi sentence 'Xili.
EX KAISER SELLS OFFICIAL PHOTO OF .
- RECENT WEDDING FOR $1 0,000 CASH
DOOUN. Holland, Dec. 23. Tho
former German emperor has sold lo
a London and New York compnny tho
world rights in what ho describes as
tho first official photograph of his
foccnt wedding. Tho prlco paid was
10.000. -The
picture shows tho former kai
ser In the uniform of a field mnrshnl.
Prlnco Hormlne Is wearing the fa
mous dtadom, wedding gift of "her
JUDGE GARY
OPPOSED 10
12HDURDAY
Head of SteeJ Trust. FinaJJy
Yields to Demand and Also
Declares 8-Hour Day So-
ciaily Right, But Economi
cally Disastrous at Present
Time.
CHICAGO, Dee. 2J Eventual
abolishment of tho 12 hour day in
the steel industry is hoped- for by
Judge Elbert II. Gary, chairman ot
the board o tiio United States Steel
Corporation, but Germany and
Franco are going back to the two
shifts a day system and there Is agi
tation to the same end in England
In order to compete with American
steel, he said today In an interview
authorized by him.
The steel corporation did reduce
Its 12 hour workers to 14 per cent,
hut to adopt geueraly tho eight hour
day would, Mr. Oary said, entail
staggering losses or aa increase ia
steel prices which would be a bad
thing for tho steel industry and the
country. - . . .
The practice ot "Pittsburg plus,"
that is, basing the price of steel on
the cost plus freight from Pittsburg
to destination, instead ot retarding
development ot the middle west
would see more steel plants open In
that territory than without the sys
tem, he mM. "PtUe-hurg p'.as," he
asserted, was a stabiliser by giving
both buyer and seller a definite base '
on which to figure prices. . f
' v Can't .Pay IHvIUcnds' v V '
"We are not making enough, now
to pay . our dividends oh common
stock;" Judge Gary Baid. '-'Thoy are '
paid- in part from surplus. "With
such an added expense as the eight
hour day must necessarily eatali, we
would face staggering losaes or an
increaso in prices which would be
likely to have most de.pressir.g ef
fect upon all building and many oth
er lines of Industry. 1
."Germany and France are. going
back to the 12 hour day because they
must produce and compete with as.
There is agitation In England to the
same end. In brief, it comes down
to this: ' The price ot a. coinpiete
change to the olght hour day would
bo moro than business would jay.
Ethically and socially it is right.
Economically It Is not feasible now.
Eventually e hope to bring ft
about."
Moro labor Is needed and Judge
Oary ad nested Increased immigra
tion but with stricter regard for
Quality than quantity.
"Also adjustments in price levels
are ncodod," ho said. "Our work
men ere not getting mare th they
need. Some workmen are getting
more than tholr share. Carpenters
at $ 1 0 a day or more, brlcklayeTS an CI .
painters at $14 a day up are helping
to keop up the cost of necessaries
which tho laborer must 'pay. If I
had the power to adjust all prlco lev
els reasonably, with profit to lt, . t
could Install the eight hour day. with
out raising the prlco of steel a cent,
and without real hardship to any
one." Occasional Rains
WASHINGTON. Dec. 23. Weather
outlook for the week Lcgina'ag Mon
day: Pacific states flennrallv fair In
seathtsm Callfnrala. trnnornl cloudiness '
and occasional rains elsowhoro. Nor
mal temperature,, -
Blast Kills Rancher
TAOOJJA, Dee. 23. Karl tteekm-
bai'-hor, GG, a rancher living near hero
was severely Injured by a premature
Mast yesterday while clearing stumps
on his land and died while being hur- .
rled lo a local hospital.
husband. It Is understood that WIN
helm was consldvrably annoyed when
ho learned of tho prnTils that hod
been mndo from tho salo of his por
trait byukiofflclnl and unuitthoriiced
photographers, and this consldcrillon
together with a desiro to augment
his Income, Induced htm to make the
sale. ' . .- .
Elaborate and extensive proporn-V
tlons are being made at Doom rastlv
tor the Christmas season: