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The Weather
Prediction - Rain
Maximum yesterday 63
Minimum today ....43
Weather Year Ago
Maximum 43
Minimum 32
Precipitation 20
' pally Seventeenth Tear.
I Weekly Fifty-Second Year.
MED FORD, OREC10X, FRIDAY, MA15CH It!, 19L3
NO. 303
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South and Mid-West Storm
Swept Lower Mississippi
Valley Suffers Floods Are
Near in Missouri, Snow in
Illinois.
MEMPHIS, Tenn., March 10.
Eight persons wero killed and fifty or
wrecked tho village of Savage in Tato
more injured In a storm which
county, Mississippi lato yesterday and
swept through parts of I'anola and
Quitman counties, according to word
received today from the storm swept
area.
John Kerr, a merchant, was crush
ed when his store at Savage was de
molished. Ho died early today at
Crenshaw, where he was taken for ;
medical attention, according to W. S. i
McCoy, a telegraph operator, at j
Crenshaw, who brought the first
definite news of the storm's havoc to
MemphiB today. He said three other
persons were drowned when they
were blown into the Coldwater river.
Mrs. T. H. Rich of Savage was
brought to a hospital here today with
herskull fractured.
CHICAGO, March 16. The north
eastward march of the two storms,
one from the liocky Mountain region
and tho other from . the Southern
Rocky Mountain region, brought re
lief to the upper Mississippi valley,
but destruction to tho lower Miss
issippi today.
Tho storm that centered over New
Mexico Thursday on its eastward
sweep wns marked by death and de
struction ns it crossed northern Miss
issippi last night. At Luiihcrt, Miss.,
four negroes wero reported killed.
Virtually tho entire town of Savage,
Miss., wns reported destroyed where
20 persons were blown into Cold
water river. Sonio still wore unac
counted for today.
Other towns In tho vicinity were
without lines of communication and
the damnge in that section for that
reason hnd not been checked early
today.
Relief parties were making for the
stricken area. Tho storm left tho up
per portion of tho valley including
Kansas,. Nebraska and Illinois nnd
Missouri partially covered by snow.
In portions of eight states it was re
ported at a depth of more than one
foot.
The temperature dropped twenty
degrees in St. Paul, following a light
snow there yesterday. Early today
tho thermometer registered eight de
grees above zero.
Freezing temperatures and snow
flurries wero general over Oklahoma.
South Missouri had its hardest rain
In live years nnd rivers in that sec
tion were at flood stage. Tho Mis
souri river at Jefferson City, Mo., was
rising.
Ciales of 52 miles an hour swept
across a portion of Texas and carried
the severest blizzard of the year into
tho panhandle. Tho high winds were
felt at Fort Worth. Galveston, Palcs
( tine and Corpus Christ!, Texas.
MF.MPTJIS. Mar. T6. Sardis. Her
nando, Phillips and Crenshaw, Miss.,
nlso felt the effects of the storm. j
At Sardis, twelve dwellings wero i
wrecked, the front of a hotel was torn '
away and a railway water tank wns
blown across tho track, according to
reports brought to neighboring towns. I
Two persons wero reported injured at
Sardis. i
(Continued on Page Six!
LIKE FLIES, IN
MOSCOW, Mar. 16. (By Associated
Press). A tribe so primitive that It
believes Amerlcnns live on the bottom
' of tho world nnd tiro therefore In dark
ness, has been found ln the mountain
villages of the DagheBtan by Dr. F. A.
Golder of tho Hoover foundation.
Theso people. Dr. Golder said, upon
his return here, think that Americans
do their plowing whllo walking upside
down with oxen to whose horns can
dles are tied. Believing that the world
la table shaped, with themselves on
its top, they feel that the Amerlcnns
are Indeed" unfortunato because they
are compelled to live In eternal night.
Dr. Golder said that In ninny of the
vlllngcs delegates greeted him ns a
man from tho world below. Some were
nnxlous to know how Americans man
aged to get about, one old graybeard.
norelv perplexed by what seemed an
unsnivahlo riddle, finally came to the
coneluskm Hint inasmuch as Ameri
cans are a wonderful people they have
undoubtedly taken a lesson from the
fly and learned to walk upside down.
"They thought I arrived by way of a
Uole In tho ground, tho ladder to
RK TMNKS AMEHCMB WALK
New Stamps Ready
WASHINGTON', March 10.
Four new stamps of tho com
plulo new series being issued by
tho postoffice department wjll
be placed on sale at the depart
ment's) philatelic agency here
March 20. The department said
the new stamps would be sent to
postotflces only when tho pres
ent supply Is exhausted.
One of the new stamps is
suing today is of twelvo cents
denomination and hears a por
trait of President Cleveland, tho
others are a thirty cent stamp
bearing; tho picture of a huf-:
falo, a two dollar stamp with a
picture of tho United States
capltol and a five dollar stamp
hearing tho head of "America"
taken from the statuo on tho
capltol dome.
'Insufficient Evidence' Says
Grand Jury Bastrop Not
Surprised Klan Cyclops Is
Pleased With Verdict, and
Hopes State Is Satisfied.
BASTROP, Ln., March 16.-Thc
Morehouse Parish grand jury which
began its sessions here on March 5
in connection with tho masked band
actvities in the parish last summet
submitted its report to Judgo Fred
M. odom yesterday, stating its fail
ure to find indictments on account
of Insufficient evidence.
After stating that it had "carefully
considered all tho cvldenco brought
beforu this grand jury as to tho ac
tivities of masked and hooded men."
the report added:
"The majority of this body ore of
the opinion that tho evidence pre
sented wns not sufficient to warrant
tho finding of true bills against any
particular party."
The report of the Investigators to
day caused little surprise here, as
it had been forecast by many of Bas
trop's citizens.
Captain J. K. Sklpwilh.exalted Cy
clops of the Morehouse klan, de
clared he was pleased with tho ver
dict. "Tho state has tlono Its duty
and I hope it is satisfied and will let
the matter rest," ho said.
NEW ORLEANS, March 1(1. The
stale may movo to obtain a new
grand Jury in Morehouse parish and
through it make a second attempt to
obtain indictments on tho murder
charges of those it believes respon
sible for tho death of Watt Daniel
and T. F. Richard on August 24, ac
cording to T. Semmos Walmsley, as
sistant attorney general here.
Ho Indicated that at tho same time
the attorney general's offico prob
ably would file Information against
more than two score Individuals who
he said, had been linked with the
Morehouse parish crimes on minor
charges on this plnn of procedure
were carried out. he explained, the
cases in which tho men charged with
minor offejises were involved would
not require action by a grand jury
and the state would proceed witli
their prosecution In the courts.
The new grand Jury then, if sought
by the attorney general, ho added,
would receive only such evidence ns
the state thought necessary to bring
about murder indictments.
ETERNAL DARKNESS
which is kept by the czar of Moscow,"
Dr. Golder asserted.
These people still make fire with
flint nnd steel and used stone ham
mers and shepherd's pipes. Justice Is
administered through trial by ordeal.
The men, who nro of remarkable phy
sique, go nbout armed to the teeth, for
they aro feudists. Tho families live
in stono huts In the practically valley
less hills. Though the people aro Mos
lems, the women are not veiled and
because of the present shortage of cot
ton cloth their only clothing consists
of simple sheepskin coats.
"They nearly overwhelmed mo with
hospitality," Dr. Golder said, "appoint
ing as my special guard a one-eyed
bandit who had 35 notches in his war
club. Ho would not let me out of his
sight."
As a result of Dr. Holder's visit into
this unfrequented region, the Amer
ican relief administration has sent ra
tions for ten thousand children to the
mountain villages where starvation is
general. William Drlseoll has gone to
Daghestan to take charge of the operations.
NO INDICTMENTS
IN MER ROUGE
limnirrn mmrtrrr
W:M) V Unutn
MICHI
AN 1
OF SOViFT PUT
i
Only Before Breakfast or After
Supper Go to Bed at Ten
Committee to Burn Up
All Incriminating Matter
No Letter Writing.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 10.
With Shoriff GoCfigo Bridgeman of
Berrien county, still on tho stand, the
trial of William Z. Fostor, charged
with criminnl syndicalism, entered
the last day of its first week today
with tho taking of evidence well un
day way. Bridgeman was to ho fol
lowed bv Maurice Wolff and Jacob
Spolansky, federal agents who assist
ed him last August in raiding the
communist party convention in tho
sand dunes near hore, as a result of
which Foster and 75 others were
named in warrants charging viola
tion of tho Michigan law against syn
dicalism. Tho state finished tho di
rect examination of Bridgeman and
the cross examination was taken up
by Frank P. Walsh.
Tho sheriff described the raid on
the communist convention and the
finding of two barrels of papers, doc
uments, filing envelopes, typewriters,
duplicating machines and other sup
plies and paraphernalia which had
been burled on the convention
ground.
Chief Intorest in today's session
centered in the introduction by the
state of the "regulation of the
ground committee" found among the
evidence dug up at tho convention
scene from two burled barrels.
Delegates to the convention appar
ently enjoyed little freedom under
tho regulations.
Some of tho rules of' this document
provided:
- "No ono can leave the grounds
without tho permission of the
grounds committee. All persons
leaving the grounds must register
when leaving and report when re
turning. "Persons shall go bathing only be
fore breakfast and after supper.
"All persons going in bathing mUBt
wear bathing suits.
"No persons shall mingle with
strangers.
"No persons shall ho allowed to
send messages or mail letters.
"No incriminating literature or
documents shall be kept in baggage or
in rooms. All such matter must be
turned over to the committee every
evening. Tho grounds committee
must nrrango for tho sate keeping of
this matter.
"All porsons nro prohibited from
throwing away papers or written mat
ter of any kind. All written notes
no longer desired must be handed
over to the committee for destruc
tion. "No one shall disclose or ask for
tho legal name of any person pres
ent. "AH lights shal be out at 10 o'clock
standard time.
"All persons must be up at 10
o'clock standard time."
Besides the rules of this commit
tee there was a committee of stew
ards to enforce them. The stewards,
according to another document Intro
duced today by the state, had each
sleeping room and its occupant num
bered, saw that those turned over
their Incriminating papers and went
to bed at proper time at night and
got up nt six In the morning.
The Noted Dead
ANTIP.ES, France, March 10.
(By the Associated Press) Former
Queen Mllena of Montenegro died
hero at 1:20 o'clock this morning. Tho
end enmo one hour after her daugh
ter. Queen Helena of Italy, had left
Antilles for homo by special train.
"When the royal carriage reached
Oenna Queen 'Helena, who hnd
hastened to her mother's bedside on
"Wednesday, received a message an
nouncing tho death. Mllena was TO
years old.
BALTIMORE, ' March 10. The
body of William H. Carter, former
president of tho Brotherhood of
Locomotive Firemen and Englnenien,
j who died at a hospital here lust night
: today wns taken to Washington.
where he will bo burled with Mn
i sonic ceremonies. Mr. Carter, since
he relinquished the presidency of the
brotherhood, had been living In
Washington, serving ns manager of
the research bureau.
MII.WAt.'KF.F., Wis., March IB.
Tho death in Pnrld of Mmo Mary
Pliinimer Clenienceau, estranged wife
ot the "Tiger'' of France nnd war
tfmo premier. Is announced today by
tho Milwaukee Journal.
Mmo. Clenienceau was a native of
Durund, Wis.
BAN ON BATH NG
Bangs9' All
Since Duke
Fiancee
NEW yOKK. Snip! go the scissors, nnd off comes more of mi
lady's locks. This time it's a fringe across the forehead she cuts, in
imitation of the Duke of York's fiancee. Ever since the first photo
graph readied this country o Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the serious
eyed, shy-munnered young woman soon to become Princess Mary's
sister-in-law, Vie girls-wno-used-to-be-callcd-llappers have taken to
'cutting themselves "bangs" to match hers,
Not content with a straight fringe, many have twisted the "bang"
into weard shapes never thought of by Mature or the hair-dressers.
LF
MIAMI, Fla., Mar. 16. Refreshed
from a night ashoro in tho Cocolabo
country club at Cocolaba Bay, Presi
dent Harding and his fishing party to
day awaited tho calming of choppy
seas before venturing into tho open
Atlantic for a taste of barracuda fish
ing. Tho presidential party arrived at
the island late yesterday after a round
of golf earlier in the day on tho Fla
mingo course, while Mrs. Harding
spent her first night ashoro in moro
than a week with her hostess, Mrs.
Edward B. McLean, in n cottage near
tlfe Flamingo hotel. Calmer sens were
expected with abatement of tho stiff
northeast wind which held throughout
yesterday nnd last night.
Cut off from tho mainland by Bis
cayno bay, with radio tho only moans
of communication, the president is en
joying more seclusion than nt any
time since his vacation started.
Bishop Improves.
ST. LOUIS, March 10. The Itlght
Rev. Daniel S. Tuttlo, senior bishop of
the Episcopal church In tho United
Slates, who has been seriously ill at
his residence hero with an attack of
grippe, today was reported as "hold
ing his own."
ATTENTION
Meeting tonight of nil cam-
palgn workers In membership
campaign of the Chamber of
Commerce.
Time 7:. 10.
Place Craters Club room In
tho basement of tho Hotel
Mi'dford.
Program:
1. Roll call of all team cap-
lalns and members of team.
2. Instructions to workcrB
by II. L. Wnltber.
3. Talk by M. .1. Duryen on
his experiences in other Cham-
her of Commerce campaigns.
4. Sales talk by Goorgo T.
Collins.
5. Talk by Paul B. McKce,
chairman of the campaign. .
G. Discission of sales man-
uel, by John II. Carkln.
I'rnnnnrn of nverv nersnn rop-
nerted with tho campaign Is ab-
solutely essonllnl.
The Rage
of York's
Wears A Set
LOCALS PLAY 3.30
SALEM, Ore., Mar. 1G. Salem high
school won the first gamo of the state
Interscholnstlc basketball tournament
being hold here under tho auspices of
Willnmetto university, when It defeat
ed the Athena high school five by a
score of 50 to 29 last night Tho do
feat eliminates tho Athena five from
furthcB participation in tho tourna
ment. This nfternoon nt 3:30 o'clock the
Medford and Astoria teams will moot
Jn tho second of the elimination games
and that contest will bo followed by
a clash between tho teams from Tilla
mook nnd Myrtlo Point.
Tonight tho opening game will ho
between Tho Dalles nnd tho Univer
sity high school of Eugene. The sec
ond game will bo between Joseph and
Salem.
LISTED 'INSOLENT'
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Mar. 16. The
British Earl of Balfour's noto advising
England's debtors to pay up "because
the United States was so exacting"
was characterized ns "insolent, almost
contomptlblo," hero Inst night by Sen
ator Joseph T. Robinson, minority
lender in the national senate, In nn
address. Senator Robinson, howevor,
approved the terms of tho British debt
settlement, calling It tho largest Blngla
financial transaction In history.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
ST. IXJUIS, Mo., Mar. 16. (By As
sociated Press), Six bandits todny
held up the state hank of Wcllstnn,
west of the city limits, lined up em
ployes nnd customers ngainst a wall,
scooped up between $10,000 nnd $15,
000 from tho cages and escaped In
automobiles.
Tho robbery was executed ln less
than two minutes, It was aald.
if
It's About Time
I.OS ANGELES, March 10.
Elmer (hiss, a window washer,
determined today that ho Is an
aerial Jonah and hereafter will
stay on the ground. For tho
sixth time a fellow workman
crashed to tho ground, while
each time Goss from tho snmo
scaffold averted injury to hlin
sep while five of his follow
workers met death and tho
sixth today Is suffering from a
fractured skull.
Tho last fatal accident to a
companion of the window wash
er was on March 5, when A.
Polski nnd Gosh fell six stories
and Polski died.
Today tho scaffolding sway
ed and John Basset, fellow
worker, fell three stories, while
Goss saved himself by grasping
a rope.
BABE RUTH SUIT
FILED. ORIENTAL
NEW YORK, March 1G. The
(50,000 suit of Dolores Dixon against
Babe Ruth, Yankee home run slug
ger, accusing Ruth of attacking her
during motor trips to Long Island,
was filed in the New York county
clerk's offico today by George Fein
berg, hor lawyer. Tho complaint al
leges that Ruth is the father of a
child, as yet unborn to Miss Dixon.
The complaint ngainst Ruth, Bworn
to by Durbaral Kscoo, guardian ad
litem for Miss Dixon, declared also
that Ruth was a visitor at her homo
during July and August, 1!)22, nndj
that ho threatened hor brutally.
Ruth, who is now training, with the'
Now York Americans at Now Orleans, I
several days ago, through his attor
ney, cliaracjorlzod tho chargos- ai
blackmail.. He claimed hu did )3t
know Miss Dixon.
NEW YORK, March 16. Evan
Burrowes Fontaine, Oriental dancer,
who with hor mother, was Indicted
yestorday in connection with tho tes
timony given iu the dancer's $1,000,
000 damage: suit against Cornelius
Vanderbllt Whltnoy, will surrender
herself when she hns arranged ball,
her attorney announced today.
Tho dunuor'g mothor wns Bitld to ho
in California with Miss Fontnlno's In
fant son, who figured prominently in
the suit. ngainst Whitney.
CENTRALIA RED TO
NEW YORK, March 10. The
American Civil Liberties union an
nounced today that Elmer Smith of
Centralia, Wash., an attorney for the
Industrial Workers of the World,
who was arrested whllo addressing
an I. W. W. meeting In that city on
February 'IS, would endeavor to
speak there again next Sunday under
tho Joint nusplces of tho I. W. W. and
tho Civil Liberties union.
Tho latter organization entered tho
Issue after Smith's arrest . on tho
ground that it Involved froo speoeh,
Roger N. Baldwin, director of the
union, said.
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SALEM, Ore., March 10. Will T.
Kirk, n member of tho stnto Indus
trial accident commission for tho past
four years, today tendered his resig
nation, effective April 15, to Gov
ernor Pierce. No announcement ns
to who would bo appointed to tho
placo left vacant by Kirk's resigna
tion wns forthcoming from tho
governor's office.
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OF KANSAN; WHY HE IS CRAZY
PARSONS, Kas., March' 16
James A. Mnlmgren, 40, nn Inmate
ot the Kansas state hospital for epi
leptics horo, was recovering today
from nn operntlon performed Wed
nesday night when 27 spoons were
removed from his Btomnch.
According to doctors, Melnigron's
DIRT FARMER
DEMAG'GUES
UPON Gil
Menace Seen in Control of
Votes By Executives Ford
Muscle Shoals Project Is
Propagandaed Blame the
'Lame Ducks' for Failure to
Pass Congress.
WASHINGTON. Alarch 16. Con
gressional advocates and opponents
of tho Ford Musclo Shoals offer had
their last fling, so far as tho 67th.
congress was concerned, with, the is
sue today of the post-sesssion num
ber ot tho Congressional record.
Representative James, republican,
Michigan, and Oliver, democrat, In
serted statements ln the Record urg
ing acceptance ot tho Ford offer,
while Representative RIddick, repub
lican, Montana, let loose a vigorous
denunciation of the American Farm
Bureau Federation, headed by Grey
Silver, who has been active ln urging
the cause of tho Detroit manufac
turer. He also assailed "dirt farmer
demagogues" who claim to represent
the farmer.
Mr. James replied to a statement
by Frank W. Mondell of Wyoming,
retiring republican leader, that if the
Musclo Shoals offor had been made
by "any ono but Mr. Ford It would
have boen smothered ln ridicule."
"My opinion," said Mr. James, "Is
that if tho sanio offer had boen tuado
by tho Alubama Power company, tho
fertilizer trust, or, In fact 'any ono
but Mr Ford,' tho lame ducks look
ing tor jobs to tuko the place ot the
jobs which have been taken away
from them by dissatisfied constit
uents would have seen to It that the
house would have been given an op
portunity lust June to vote on tho
proposition.
"It was theso lamo ducks who ro
fusod to glvo their follow legislators
an opportunity to vote on tho meas
ure, which they knew would pass
congress by a large majority."
Mr. RIddick declared "there Is no
influcnco In America today that is
moro clangorous and more insidious
than the Influence exerted by those
organizations which purport to rep
resent tho farmer and the laboring
man," but which in fact, he said rep
resent nothing except the wishes of
their highly paid executives."
Tho executives of theso organiza
tions huve unlimited power voted to
them und vested In them at their an
nual conventions, he added, "which
they forthwith abuse by using It to
blackjack members of congress into
acquiescence with their personal
wishes regarding public measures."
Tho farmors of tho country, said
Mr. RIddick, should go slow before
they tuko the word of two or three
high salaried lobbiests ln Washing
ton having expensive suits In expen
sive offico buildings boforo they take
the word ot such men ub signed the
senate agricultural committee's re
port denouncing Ford'B proposition
as Impossible and indefensible.
Mr. Oliver reviewed the history of
tho Musclo Shoals fight and asserted
that Secretary Weeks had withheld
the Ford offer from congress for
soven months.
"Tho partlullty ot the secretary of
war tor tho Alabama Power company
Is understood," ho said, "but it is dif
ficult to understand how the secre
tary could withhold Mr. Ford's offor
seven, months from congress when
Mr. Ford proposed in his offer to
make 40,000 tons of fixed nitrogen at
nltrato plant No. 2, and Bend the
Alabama Power company's offer to
congress In six days, when that com
pany did not propose to produce any
fertilizer at all."
HELENA, Mont. Governor Dixon
signed a bill recently passed by tho
legislature providing for the sterili
zation ot congenital Idiots and In
sane. mental condition wns responsible for
his mania for swallowing silverware.
His condition had puzzled physicians.
Some ot tho spoons removed wore
partially disintegrated by digestive
frulds and brought the stntoment
from doctors that Malmgren may
have been' cnJoyijiR his "spoon snl
ads" for more thaa a year,