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I'uv, V Ok ail Tribune The Weather EDFOR.D Weather Year Ago Maximum ......50 Minimum 33 Precipitation 08 . Prediction Rain Maximum yesterday 43 Minimum today 32 Precip. .09 Snow '2 inch Cully Seventeenth Tear, fceefdy Klfty-Seoonrt Year. MEDFQRD, 01JEQOX, MONDAY, MAI.CII 19215 XO. 293 Texas Senator-Elect Says Peddy Charges Absolutely False MM A GIlUi IV TEN THOVSANII" LATEST IIKAVTY CONTEST FLY Defense Suddenly Halts in Emrick Ballot Box Trial M M 1 KLAN CASES JURY TOLD HOW HALE W TAKEN Miss Roberta Pierce Is First . Witness for State .in Night Riders' Trial Hale Taken From Medford to Jackson ' ville in Court Ambulance Outline of Cases. .. '".JVMnitI by a pliyslciiin, J. V. ifoln, alleged victim of tho local night riders nnd principal wit-tics.- for the -stayc against them wan taken to Jacksonville tills afternoon In an nmlnilaiice, 1icrt It Is expected lie will tell lila story to the jury later in the tluy. Hale was reported to have had a bad niglit last night. Inil when Informed that counsel for tho stato and defense could not coiiHi to im agreement reai-clliiK holdlnc a Jury t-csston in the biuscim-nt or tlio Medford Hotel, Hulo Insisted upon taking the trip disregarding the warning by lil.s physician that the strain might result fatally to himself. Tho first witness in the nightridini; trial of which Dr. Jouctt P. ISray. J. F. Hittson nnd Howard 'Hill uru de fendants, was called to tho stand at 11:30 a. m.. and was Miss ltubvrta pierce, 24 years old, a former county clerk employe, who testified that March 17th last, she had gone to the Hale residence, to got some phono graph needles, and that while she was there, masked men knocked, told IIoId n tilmnn full nV;iitirl hllll. Ulld that they all left in an auto. She mid she waited an hour before look ing for him, and that he returned about ono o'clock In the morning "be draggled." Hale's son, .lay war. In the houso nt tho time, and their pertur- lio Hons rt-ore. described by the comely Kill, who answered ail questions freely and clenrly. Sho was sun under cross cxanilnatlon by tho de fense when court rocesscd at noon. To Call J. r Hale. There were- two outstanding fea (ures In tho resumption of tho Jack son county nlghtrlding cases In tho circuit court at Jacksonville this morning; tho decision of the state of Oregon to call J.. F. Hale, Its chief witness, stricken last Thursday with hemorrage of the stomach "if the doctors permitted, even though it killed him," nnd the opening state ments to the Jury of counsel for both sides. A report was made to tho court from tho medical commission and tho attending 'physician of Hale this morning which stated Hint Hale would bo able to testify at the hotel where ho is confined, but not In the courtroom. Th report stated that Hale was suffering from lack of food and sleep, worry and physical de bility caused by his Illness. Dr. I'tckel told the court that there was danger of a nervous collapse, If tho patient was brought Into the atmosphere of MIC I'UUI U UUIII. UI1U IMilU lino ........ ion would be missing in the hotel. ' ' In deciding to bring Hale to the rnnrlrnnnv thi, Ktiitn M.ilri It CXIlCctod Hale to bo questioned as any other normal witness, within tho realms of tho law. The defense contended Hint they were placed at a disadvantage, and In a position of "Jumping on n inn when he is down." They re , retted that he wn's not in full pos session of his health and vigor. Tho court suggested that the testi mony of Hale be taken in the bnse ment banquet room of the Medford hotel, and tho defense counsel went Into a conference on this point. They returned nnd Attorney wlnslow then veauested more clarity on Hale's con dition from tho physicians, to keep tile record clear, and determine whether the illness "was not due to fear of facing the Jury." '.Hale will probably appear as wit ness tills afternoon and accommoda tions have been arranged for him in on nnto room, where he will be under a doctor's care until called to the st.ind and may tell his story from n P Assistant Attorney General LHJo jfivlst phoned Hale, hefore deciding to Continued on page emnti 1 ARDENT OF DENVER, March S. Al Cornish was shot and fatally wounded early this morning by Miss llessle Thomas, !l. who according to police, confessed and declared that the shooting was the culmination of ovrr-nidciit wooing on the part of the slain man.' Miss Thomas was arrested. The shouting occurred on the side-I walk In front of a hotel . where the. -hi was rooming. A number of; hassersl.y witnessed the flaying. Cor "h died nt a hospital. He was 351 W001 DENVER IN .WASHINGTON. Mar. 5. Senator-elect "Surlo B. Mnyfield of Texas toduy gave out a state- mem hero declaring "Infamous and absolutely fanse" tho olec- tion contest charges filed re- cently with the senate by Oeorgo E. B. Teddy, the ropubllcan-in- dependent-democrat candidate for senutor defeated by Mayflold last Soptembor. Poddy had charged that Sen- ! ator-clect Mayfleld belonged to the Ku Klux Klan and had en- tcred a conspiracy with Its members by which his election was fraudulent. The statement today by Mr. Mayflold declared Mr. Peddy's election contest a "continuation of a campaign of misreprcscnta- tion and abuse.". DOLLAR GALLON BY LAFOLLETTE WASHINGTON, March 5. "A dol lar a gallon for gasoline" is the pros pect held out for the consumer in the report of the LaFollotle oil In vestigating committee to tho senate unless means are taken to break what the report declares to be a com plete domination and control of the oil Industry by the Standard compa nies. "If a few great oil companies are permitted to manipulate prices," during tho next few years, as they have been doing since 1920, the re port, presented yesterday, said the people of tho country must bo pre pared "before long" to pay "at least" that price. Tho result of a three month's In vestigation into conditions., the ro port declnred, tho Standard compa nies, in violation of the 1911 dissolu tion decree of the supremo court ex ercise their alleged control in such n mnnnor ns to fix the "price which the producer of crude oil receives at the well, the price which the refiner re ceives for his kerosene and gasoline, as well as tho retail price to the con sumer." Asserting that the more "subtle" methods of such control placed tho industry and the public even "more completely at the mercy of the Stand ard oil interests" than before tho su preme court decree dissolving the Standard Oil company of Now Jersey and Its subsidiaries, the report de clared that "with slight exceptions.," there was still a total avoidanco of competition among iho Standard companies. "Two of the leading Standard com panion. New Jersey and New York divide tho world between them selves in marketing operations," the report said. Among eight measures recom mended by the committee to curb the evils found were establishment of n uniform accounting system for oil companies to show costs and profits; compulsory monthly reporting to a government agency to show particu larly quantities of crudo oil' and its products In storago and transporta tion; divorcement of tho ownershiy of pipe lines from companies trans porting the oil; and prohibition or regulation of the exportation of pe troleum Join Furm Bureau Governor Pierce Hears Walters Case Tuesday SALKM, Ore., Mar. 5. Governor W. M. Pierce announced today that he would hear pleas tomorrow for the life of Hunted Walters, who Is con demned to died on the scaffold noxt Friday. Unless the executive grants a commutation, Walters faces deulh for the murder of Patrolman Jerome Palmer of the Portland police force in November, 192 0. This Is Farmers' Week LEADS TO DEATH AND VENICE 01 years old and the sole support of his aged mother. VENICE. Cal., March G. The shooting of a young woman In an apartment house was under Investi gation today while llenjamln Hojar- quc was held In the county Jail after being arrested with Dloodsiainen clothes In the room ill which the body of Eileen Zlminerly was found. llojaiquez told the police the young woman ended her life when he re-j fused to marry her. ' GAS PRED GTED REFUSES JOB FROM PRES'l New Mexico Banker Declines Recess Appointment, U. S Comptroller After Senate Refuses to Confirm Same Harding's Leave for Vaca tion Capital Deserted. WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. James G. McNary of Now Mexico, whoso nomi nation to bo comptroller of the cur rency failed of confirmation by the senate was offered a recess appoint ment to the place today by President Harding but replied that he could not accept. Afterward it was announced that D. C. Crisalnger, the present comptrol ler would continue in that office for the present, despito the fact that he had been nominated and confirmed U6 governor of the federal resorvo board. It was made known also that Mr. Harding had decided not to withhold longer the commission of Mllo D. Campbell of Michigan as the "dirt" farmer member of the reserve board. Although confirmed several weeks ago, tho presidont had refrained from signing his commission pending a senate decision on the McNary nom ination. WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. Presi dent and Mrs. Harding, accompanied by a party of friends, left Washing-) ten today on a special train for Flor ida, whore they will take a vacation houseboat trip of more than a month. Tho presidential special pulled out a few minutes after noon' tor. an un interrupted run to Orniond, Fin., whore tlierpartylsto board the house boat. H was Mrs. Harding's first ap pearance outside the White House grounds slnco her serious illness of last summer, but she appeared al most her old self and stood on the ob servation platform waving farewells until the train was out of sight. WASHINGTON, Mar. 5. An at tempt by legal process to prevent At torney Gonoral Daugherty, Chairman Laskcr of the shipping board and John Barton Payne, a former board chairman, from leaving Washington for a vacation trip with President Harding in Florida, was begun and then abandoned today shortly before tho hour BOt for tho departure of the president's special train. At the request of attorneys for Charles W. Morse, the New York ship builder whoso trial here on charges of fraud In connection with war con tracts had been set for next Wednes day, the Unltod States marshal's office iBsued subpoenaes requiring tho throo men to appear in court on Wednesday as defense witnesses. While a deputy marshal was trying (o servo tho subpoenaos, however. District Attorney Gordon conferred with the Morse counsel and It was agrocU that the attempt would be abandoned. Both tho attorney general and Mr. Laskor, It was Bald, were to be asked under tho plan of the Morse attor neys, to bring into court certain rec ords of their offices In connection with the war time ship contracts. WASHINGTON', Mar. 6. A record for congressional service was estab lished by Theodore V. Sliuey, Civil war veteran and dean of tho senate shorthand reporters, with the adjourn ment yestorday of congress. It wast tho 27th congress whoso adjournment was witnessed by Mr. Shuoy who Ib 78 years old and bepnn work nt the senate In 18CS. Senator HarrlBon, democrat, Mississippi, in tho closing hours of the session, paid a tribute to the "pothook" expert, who still dally rciiorts tho senate's proceedings. , Hardings Leave WASinfAyrtfr.','-. Mar. 6. President Harding looked forward to his first vacation in nearly a year today on leaving. .WflfjUlnMon with Mrs. Hard ing and a party it friends, to spond a month l Florida. Although no itin erary had been made public, much of the vacation will be spent, it was understood, In a leisurely houseboat crulso down the Halifax and Indian rivers, wiin occasional stops at nor- Ida coast resorts, where the party will go ashore for golf. For Mrs. Harding the trip means more than a change of scene and Hi mate, for her departure from the White House today to board the spec ial train marks the first time she has gone outside the executive grounds since she became 111 last September. Mrs. Harding was looking forward to the benefit expected from tho trip (Crntlnucd on pase eight) . Miss Alyoo McCormiek. of O inn ha. Ni?b.t who hiiH juit tirrivi'U in Nirw York. Miss McCormick was picked from a field of ten thousand com petitors as the most beautiful girl in her stM'tion of the country. RECEIVE 4 BIDS FOR OIL LAND IN SALT CREEK FIELO CHEYENNE, Wyo., March 5. The Wyoming state land board, at a pub lic meeting this ' morning, received bids for a five year operating lease on section 36-47-7D, Salt Creek field, this lease to become effective at the ex piration October 1.-1 924 of tho lease on the section now held by the Mid- AVest Oil company.' Four bids wore. submitted as follows:. Texas. Producers company; royalty of GO per cent,, ofvaluo; of oil pro duced; oil to bo refined In Wyoming. John W. Hay of Rock Springs; royalty of C5 per cent on gross value of oil and 40 per cent on gross value of' gas produced, on basis of poster! mid-continent price; oil to bo refined in Wyoming. Derrick Oil company of Douglas. Wyo.. royalty of 51 Vi per cent on oil produced, -state board to establish, an equitable price on which royalty is to be calculated; o.il to be rctlncd in Wyoming1. Mid-West Oil company, several alternative . proposals as follows: 1. Such a royalty as may bo agreed upon by the land board and the Mid-West after negotiations; 2 royalty of 12 per cent and bonus of $5,000,000; 3 Royalty of $1.25 a barrel, plus 65 per cent on any amount received in excess of tho posted price; 4 Royalty of 05 pet cent. Join Farm Bureau Daily Report on thi Crime Wave SEATTLE, Mar. 5. An unidentified burglar attempting to rob tho offlco of tho City Dye workB hero wan shot and killed early today by Charlos S. Gilbert, night watchman. Gilbert told police he was aroused hy the sound of breaking windowglass and while Investigating found a man prowling in the dark. Ho said ho ordered him to Hold up his hands and surrender and fired when the man refused to obey. A key ring In the slain man's pocket bore tho name John Atkins. Join Farm Bureau The Noted Dead DAVKNPOIIT. Iowa, Mutch 5. Captain H. L. Hanks, of Princeton, lown, first cousin of Abraham Lin coln and fnr the irrcater nart of his life a Mississippi river pilot running between Stillwater. Minn., and Kt. Louis, died today at the home of his son. S. L. Hanks, here, lie wus 02 years old. Captain Hunks was born in Ken tuckv near tho hirthnbico of Ahri.- hnin Lincoln, his father being a brother of Nancy Hanks, the mother of tho first martyred president. As a boy Captain yllanks romped nnd played with his cousin and their frli-ndship continued until the death of the president. - - Join Farm Uureau Life Saved By Sleeping With His Window Open CHICAGO. March .6. William Powers, state representative today owed his life to a habit of sleepInK with his room window open, thus escaping death from deadly vapor that yesterday snuffed out the lives of six persons, three generations of one family, In the npartnient where he resides. The entire family of six were killed by fumes of a Kas used as a dlsinfoctunt In a enfe under their apartment. j FALLS 1 HOEOIES Howard Young, Known As the Human Fly, Falls Eight Stories From a Broadway Hotel Dies En Route to Hospital Movie Cameras Catch Fatal Drop. NEW YORK, liar. 5. Howard Young, known as tho "human fly" fell eight stories today while climb ing the front of the Hotel Martinique In Broadway and died whllo being taken to a hospital. Young wus ono of the organizers ol the "safety last" society founded here last week. .Membership Includ ed persons engaged in hazardous call ings who are not accepted by Insur ance companios as good risks. Mrs. Young was in the great crowd and 8a w her husband full. She swooned and was taken to a hospital. Dozens of movie camera men caught the fatal fall and ground out yards of film showing the crowd, esti mated at 2 0,000, gnthoring uround tho body. ; Young had toured the entire coun try and given hundreds of exhibitions by crawling up the sides of hotels and sky scrapers. No explanation of the accident has been given out. Young was nearlng the top when ho sud denly dropped and a cry of horror wont up from the huge crowd below. Join Farm Bureau NEW SWORN IN AS I WASHINGTON, March B. Harry S. New, who completed a six year term as United Stales senator from Indiana yesterday, took tho oath of office today as tho 49th postmaator general of the United States. Ho suc ceeded Hubert Work of Colorado, who wus promoted by President Harding to bo socrctary of tho Inte rior In place of Albert 13. Fall of New Mexico, resigned. Dr. Work witnessed tho swearing In of tho new postmaHtor gonoral then went Immediately to tho depart ment of tho Interior whero ho was sworn in as tho head of that depart ment. Hu is the USUI secretary of thu Interior. At the war department, Dwlght V. Davis of Kt. Louis was formally In ducted Into offlco as assistant soero tnry n short" time beforo Hocretury Weeks left for n vacation of two or throe weeks at St. Augustine, Flo, Doost Farm Bureau r WINS IN ENGLAND LONDON, .March t,. (Hy tho As sociated Press) Sir Arthur Grlf-fiths-Boscawen. minister of health In tho Itunar Imw cabinet has been de feated In the bye election for the Mitcham dfivlslon of Hurfvy by J. Chutcr Kikv tho labor cundldate. Colonel O. F. Stanley, under secre tary fur home affairs, who was de feated in tho bye election for the east division of Wlliesden, tendered his resignation today. Colonel Stanley was dofoatod by Harcouit Johnstone, nephew of Olf ford I'luehiit, governor of Pennsyl vania. This Is Farmers' Week Uplift Organizations Join Together for War On Wickedness NEW YORK, Mar. 5. Threo of tlio country's oldest and most mibsttintlul reform organizations havo pooled their financial resources und mapped a plan of campaign against prohibition repeal,, race track gambling, prize fights, salacious literature, Sunday theatrical performances und tialflo In narcotics, the New York World de clared today. The new organization, according to tho World Is to be known us the fn tnrnatlonnl Reform bureau of the World Temiiorunce Foundation. The affiliated bodies are said to lie the In ternational Reform Ilureau, the World Prohibition Foundation and the Na tional Tcmperanco society. PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 3. The dofenso suddenly rested to- day n the Emrick case. The nc- tion came so unexpectedly that u recess had to he granted while tho Btuto scurried ubout In search of somo rebuttal witness. S II. ICmrlck, chairman of tho night counting board In pro- cluct 201 at tho May primaries Is on trial charged with wilful neglect of duty. Tally sheets 4- failed to check with tho ballots cast when tho laltor were ro- counted at tho Hall-Olcott ro- check. IV I KENOSHA, Wis., Mar. 5. Launch ing for the mother, aunts nnd other relutlves of Wallace Rcid, a campaign agulnst the plan of erecting a narcotic buimuriuin to oe named uitcr mu screen actor, who is said to have died fighting the drug habit, John West brook, Kenosha, today made public letters recolved from his relatives In which they denounco tho action of Dorothy Davenport Rold, wlfo of tho actor, In lending her support to tho venture. Tho letters to the Kenoslian aro from Miss Maude Westbrook and Mrs. Viretnin Westhrnnk !lnkun. slntern of J Mrs. Uei-tha Westbrook Rold, tho mother of the dead actor, and they purport to present the attitude of the Retd family regarding the proposal. The lettors also announce that Mrs. Rcid, tho mother, has written a bi ography of her, son In an effort to omphaBizo other aspocts of hls 'irfo than the fight against the drug habit whttch is alleged to havo caused his death. The KonoRha man Isurgod to mako public the "real situation" as It is viowod by tho mother and tho two aunts. Boost Farm Bureau . E PITTSBURO. March 5. Ono hun dred riolliu'H wum tho prlco paid in po lice court today for u tablo Bpoonful of whlHkey. Peter Mnliadle, pro prietor of a north uldo hotol, footed thn bill. "When a womnn complained that Mulladlo was soiling liquor to her hut-ibund, police raided bin CHtablfHh mcnt. They found only a table spoonful of whlBkey in a broken bot tle. Tho cvldunco was produced In po llen court. . Mallndio denied the charKe, but Masi'uiate It. J fiuoco fined him $100 with tho option of 30 days In jail, This Ih Farmers' Wook RAISE FUND TO RGHT OREGON SCHOOL BILL LA I'OHTK. lnd., March 5. A special collection will bo taken In all the Catholic churches of the Fort Wayne diocese Sunduy, March 11, to aid In tho fight on a law recently enacted In Oregon which abolishes tlio Catholic and Lutheran parochial schools of that state, according to un appeal of the Bight llev. Herman J. Alderlng, bishop of tho diocese, to be read tomorrow. A fund of $100,000 (h lifliit mitt,.,! In r-nrrv un rttlemtit In have thn Oregon law doelurcd un constitutional by the United Htutus supremo court. Boost Farm Bureau UNCLE SAM PAYS D. FOR FIRE SET WASHINGTON. Slur. r,. The ago of tho ulrplano Is ulready bringing new worries to congress In the form of claim bills for damage done to property by forced landings of army and navy planes. Congress voted money In payment of soveral Buch claims Just beforo adjournment. One (if those ordered paid is that of I). M. Lowe of Medford, Ore., a farmer. In this case one of the for est patrol planes selected tho Lowe 1 FIGHT ON DRUG CURE IDEA $100 PUT BEFORE GRAND JURY District Judge at Bastrop Ad dresses Grand Jury On Out , rages By Masked Bands in . Moorehouse Parish Atty. Gen'l. Coco Takes Personal Charge of Case. BASTROP. La., liar. S. A grand Jury was organized hore today to con sider evidence In connection with the Morehouse parish hooded band atroc ities nlloged acts of tho Ku Klux Klan. Upon ompanoling the Jury District Judgo Fred M. Odom read the follow ing chargo: "1 desire to call your-special at tention to certain violations of tho law which have boen more or less fre quent in Morehouse parish during tho last year or more. I refer especially to the activities of bands of hooded or masked men who have on differ ent occasions kidnappod, beaten and deported citizens of the parish, and moro especially tho incident on . tho Bastrop and Mor Rougo public road on August 24, 1922, when scores of citizens on their way homo from Bas trop were held up, flvo of thorn kid napped and carried soveral njiles away whore two of them were beaten and turned loose, ono without pun ishment, the other two not having been seon since. Tho Incidents to which I refer are matters of common knowledge and need no further spe cial montlon by mo. The details woro fully gone Into 'at the public hearing here somo time ago and I Jo! sure that those .who .represent tho stato will soe that all available Jaots In connection with each separato casd' .will bo presented to yon In tho course- of your deliberations." BASTROP, La. Alar. 5. Attorney General A. V. Coco was here today to personally present to tho More houso parish grand jury the testi mony gathorcd by tho state at tho hearing hero In January In connec tion with tho series of kidnappings, floggings and other offeiiBes alleged to havo been committed by masked bands In this vicinity last summer. This Is Farmers' Week AIR Fl FFT Fl IRHT POSTPONED A DAY MONTGOMERY. Ala., March 5. Announcement was made hero shortly beforo noon today by officers of tho United States army air servlco squad ron, stopping hero en routo from San Antonio, Texas, to Porto Rico, that the planes will not hop off on' tho third leg of their flight to Arcadia, causo of repairs that cannot be com pleted before midnight. It was be lieved at first that tho planes would bo ablo to luavo this afternoon. t '"' Boost Farm Bureau r LA CROSSE, Wis., March : B. Daniago estimated ut Bovcral hundred thousand dollurs was done In western Wisconsin by yesterduy's sloot und snow sturm. Streets of LaCrosso were littered with broken ' trees. Railroad truffle was paralyzed. Thu southern Minnesota line of tho Chi cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rtill rnml u-im fh tinniest lilt. Manv trees and poles were across the tracks. Ton menen oi inow icii nei-e. - .s BY U. S AIRPL place for a tcniporary landing hut on coming within 10 fcot of tho ground tho pilot decided he had picked a poor spot, so he "turned 'er loose." Thero was a burst of flamo from his engine as he soared aloft, which set fire to the grass and developed a lively fire that burnod tho Lowe farm hotiso and outbuildings. , The claim was settled for $832.42 In payment of household goods, (arm supplies and implements. M. LOWE $634.42