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Newspaper Page Texttf lib. edford Mail Tribune The Weather Prediction Rain Maximum yesterday 82 Minimum today 34 Weather Year Ago Maximum 61 Minimum 30 Dally Seventeenth Tear, neekly Fifty-Second year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 192: NO. 307 M E E jymer Disciple of Cult in Michigan Gives Sensational Testimony Concerning Prac tices in Israelite Home Basement Full of Beer- Benjamin Affectionate. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 21. (Ey the Associated Pross.) Instead of nn early conclusion of the hearing In Federal court hero of the suit filed by John Hansen for an accounting with the Israelite Houso of David, ex tended testimony was in prospoct to day as a result of a ruling hy the court that the evidence might deal with allegod Immoral conditions within tho Benton Harbor colony. Mrs. Emma I.ozetta of Newark, X. J., a former preacher of the cult, was today's first witness. She testified she entered the colony from Birmingham, Ala., with her mother In 1900, and asserted that she was subjected to improper advances by Benjamin Da vid Purnell, hoad of the cult, within two months after her entrance. "He told me," she said, "that whatever he did was proper." "One day," she continued, "he call ed mo into the bath room. Benja min was in the tub and three other girls were there." Airs. Lozette asserted that the basement of Shlloh, Purnell's resi dence, was "filled with boer." "Ilcnjamln called It 'foam' and said It "purged his soul," she declared. "He drank it continually."- She said there was drunkenness among the girls at Shiloh. . '' Testimony intended to show that Bonjamln Purnell, head of the Israel lies' House of, David colony at Benton Harbor, lived in regal Bplendor while his followers lacked platCB from which to eat their carrots and tur nips." "One winter the colony had a hard time keeping bodies and soul togeth er, ' Mrs. Lozetta testified on direct examination. "We nearly starved, but Benjamin and his wife, Mary. lived like lords. They drank cream and aio California fruits out of sea son at a table set with costly sliver." A system existed in the colony by which Purnell learned of every bit of gossip that went tho rounds of his fol lowors, the witness toBtlfied. She also said a mock trial board was establish ed and that secret punishments wero Inflicted upon thoso who failed lo alildo hy Purnell's orders. Women who refused Purnell's advances, Mrs. Lozetta testified, were ostracised. Join tho U of C REFUSE TO PROTEST ADMIRAL SIMS' TALK SACRAMENTO, Cal., Mar. 21. The assembly of tho state legislature to day declined by a vote of 53 to 13 to hear a resolution protesting against tho appearance of Admiral Sims as tho Charter day speaker nt tho Uni vorsity of California next Friday. The resolution itself never got to the floor, tho voto having been recorded on a motion to send It to the committee on rules. Tho resolution was recently present ed to the senate by Murphy and there defeated. It was offered In the as sembly today by Morrison of San Francisco, its presentation bringing on a parliamentary tangle which ef fectually shut off debate on the maiu imcstion. WASHINGTON, Mar. 21. How a half breed Cherokee Indian, Charner Tldvell, lunsuished from his youth for a quarter of a century in rederal pris ons before being released on a base less murder charge, wbb revealed In a tingle story told today hy tho depart ment of Justice. Freed from the charge by a deuthbed confession after his years or suffering, the former prison er is now enjoying the wealth of in herited Oklahoma oil lauds. Three presidents. Roosevelt. Tuft and Wilson, denied pardons to Tidwell upon reports from former Attorney General Knox. WlcUersham and Gre gory that oil evidence lu the murder SAYS S DA WAS m CHEROKEE INDIAN IN CRIME COMMUTED Divorces His 7th Wife for Refusal to Cook His Meals SAN FRANCISCO, March 21. Gubor X. Klngstone, San Francisco chiropractor and sporting man was granted a dl- vorco today from his seventh wife aftor making a showing mat she refused to cook his meals and Indulged In other Ho divorced his other Blx wives . acts of "cruelty" toward him. on the same grounds. FUAXICrOUT OX MAINE, Mni 21. (By tho AsHOcititetl Prows.) Ex ertion of alt offortH against a fresh outbreak of war on tho continent and the conversion of such a condition, later into a revolution aimed at es tablishing a "United States of Eur ope" wero advocated before today's session of the communist congress here. The duty of the communists. It was paid, was to ward off the danger "that Europe and the entire world will be thrown into imperialistic stage not to be compared with 3914." The first task. It was said, was to bring the German workmen to the point of overthrowing the bourgeoise and putting tho great industries of the Khineland and Iluhr into the hands of the German revolutionists. HAMM, Germany. Mar. 21. (By the Associated Proas.) In a resolu tion adopted by the leaders of the Mine Workers' Association of Ger many, the government Is called upon lo "leave no possibility unexhausted to end the Huhr battle and settle tho reparations crisis through . negotia tions." The resolution opposes any attempt to cripple the peaceful resistance cam paign or to prolong the struggle un-j Hilly, linil It. ueiiiuilua him mJ,i kboiuii of every movement aimed at produc ing armed opposition either from in side the Iiuhr or outside. BERLIN Mar. 21. (By the Associ ated Press.) An EsBen dispatch to Erownerts reports. that the Khineland j .nmttliulfr,n hn tuullPil n I1PW OrdCl't forbidding activity in the occupied area by any such organization ns the Huhr relief society. Tho collection of funds, sale of stamps or payments In connection with relief work also are said to have been forbidden. Help Tut It Over 40 CENTS HUNDRED POKTLAND, Ore., March 21. Wholesale sugar prices were lowered JO cents per hundred here today. Dest cane granulated is now quoted at JO. So a sack. SAX FRANCISCO. March 21. Re duction of forty cents per hundred pouuds in the price of refined cane sugar to $9.20 and in refined beet to $9, effective today, was announced by the California-Hawaiian Refinery, the Western Refinery and the bpreck les Sugar company. Make It Unanimous OREGON BANK YEGGS SALEM. Ore., Mur. 21. Robert Burns and Edgar L. Smith, who were indicted liv the Marion county grand Jury for robbing the bank at St. Paul a few days ago. yesterday pleaded guilty and will be sentenced by Judge Percy K. Kelly Saturday, Both arc ex-ronicts. JAIL 50 YEARS FOR BY SOMEONE ELSE case pointed positively, although cir cumstantially, to his guilt Friends of the prisoner, Including former Senator Gore and Representative Alice Robert son, pressed tho investigation of Tld well's continued protestations of inno cence. Finally he was released from Atlanta penitentiary upon a commu tation of sentence recommended by Attorney General Daugherty and As sistant Attorney General dim. In charge of criminal Investigations. After President Harding' commu tation, a woman's deathbed confession in Oklahoma revealed that Tidwell had been convicted of murdering her husband uion perjured testimony. UTA INDIANS ON WAR PATH BATTLELOOMS One Indian Reported Killed in Skirmish and Two Wounded U. S. Marshal's Posse in Pursuit Arrest Causes Out break. SALT LAKE CITV, March 21. Four whito settlers, members of a nosso which left lllundlng, Snn Juan county lust night to trull tlie Allen Canyon band of warring Pluto Indians, fulled to return this morning, according to word received today by way of Monticcllo. Tho fnto of tho miss ing men whether they Iiavo fal len captives of tho renegade In dians or, whether they havo stayed out of their own accord is unknown. SALT LAKE CITY. Mar. 21. A posse of white settlors of Blanding, San Juan county, southeastern Utah early today was reported hot on the trail of the band of renegade Piute Indians which staged an outbreak at Illanding Monday afternoon. The Indians causing the trouble, according to a report received by United States Marshal Ray Ward, number upwards of 12. In a fight late yesterday between the posse of settlers and the warring redskins, one young buck known as Joe Bishop's boy Ib reported to have been killed and two other Indians were wounded. As far as can be learned, the whites suffered no casual ties. The trouble at Illanding started Monday afternoon when authorities brought to trial Joe Bishop's boy and another young Indian - who wore charged with the robbery of a sheep herder's camp. Just before the trial got under way a band of Indluna from Allen's Canyon, neap Illanding entered the town and Btarted making trouble. Joe Bishop's boy and the other young buck were found guilty of the robbery, but they escaped from the custody of Sheriff W. E. Oliver when he went to bring them their supper Monday night. The Pluto Indians in the San Juan section have always resented the com ing of the white settlers and from time to time there has been outbreaks of a more or less serious nature. The San Juan country is mountain ous and once tho Indians gain their familiar haunts apprehension of them will ho a hard task. MONTICKLLO, Utah, March 21. Whito resldonta of Illanding are holding under heavy guard forty or more Pluto Indians, , according to word received here. By retaining tho redskins, the Blajidlng authorities ore said to hope to provont any addi tional Indians from joining the rene gade Allen Canyon band, which is bo. ing pursued by posses following trouble hero Inst Monday. Join the C. of C. CASE IS.REPORIED NEW YORK, March 21. Medical Examiner Schwartz, after an autopsy performed toduy on the body of Mrs. Frances Love Beckwith of Phlladel phla, who died yesterday at Roobc- velt hospital advanced an opinion that tho former .chorus girl had met death In a manner similar to that of Virginia Rappe, movie actress in San Francisco, about two years ago. Mrs. Uockwlth, the divorced wife of Clinton lieekwith of Chicago, a naval officer, was sent to the hospl tal Monday from tho West 82nd street apartment of Edward Cump bell, who said he hnd known the girl about two years. Death at first was reported due to peritonitis but later the bruises were discovered. The girl's parents were with her when she died. Join tho C. of C. SI AMBON", Wis.. Mar. 21. (By As sociated Press). The Wisconsin Na tional Guard received a second blow from the legislature today when tho assembly voted 44 to 21 to terminate state aid for maintenance of armories and to turn over the eight state-owned armories to the cities In which they are located for school and other purposes. I.W.W.'s Stage Riot in Court Room When Sentence Pronounced LOS ANGELES. March 21. Shouting and declaring that they had not had a fair trial, eight members of tho Industrial Workers of the World, convict- ed last week of criminal syndl- callsm, were ovorpowored b clallsm, were overpowered by court here today and taken to the county Jail after they had been sentenced by Jurge J. W. Shenk to Berve from one to 11 4 years at San Qucntin penlten- tlary. Acting as their own counsel, the defendants argued a motion for new trial. When this was . denied by Judge Shenk, the disturbance started. Thoso sentenced today were Roy Leonard, Claud Erwln, James Fink, Lawrence Gross, Arturo Orla, William Allen, JIartIn Larsen and Dan Duffy. c. E IS As was the case last Wednesday, the dining room for the forum luncheon at the Hotel Medford was overcrowded this noon and a number of forum members were forced to take their luncheon in the large din ing room. Chairman Paul B. McKee stated that tomorrow the campaign will be carried forward with the vigor that has characterized, the last two days, and thnf Run mamWa muat ln nh. 1 and that 600 members must be ob tained. It was decided to Blgn membora at $12.50 per capita, with tho proviso that If 600 members are not obtained those signing at $12.50, will not be members and will have their money refunded. It is expected that a largo nuinber will be reached in this way and that the membership will mount rapidly when it is learned that the cost has been bisected. Four hun dred and six members had been sign ed up at noon today. . , Following Ib the list of team cap tains, number of members and the amount of money secured toward the $6300 budget up until noon today. Patton 5 12.00 Hart 5 Hill : 3 Lemmon 8 Paul 14 Schade 2 Carkln 10 Janney 5 Mrs. Schade 6 Mrs. Fabrlck 9 Alendcrfor ... 8 McDonald 1 Buchtor 19 Tonillnl ,. 6 Mohr 12 Thlerolf 8 Total today 121 Yesterday 283 57.00 240.00 121.00 90.00 24.00 48 00 -' 3.00 34.00 204.00 121.00 $934.00 2463. 25 Total 406 $3397.23 A prize has been offered by tho di vision managers for the team bring ing In tho largest number of member ships tomorrow under the new plan of $12.50 per member if 600 mem bers are secured. Anno Shannon Monroe, Oregon au thoress visiting In Medford, was tho principal speaker of the meeting. She advocated thot Oregon place it's brand upon its own products In stood of shipping thorn to other points for packing and branding, and stated that the stato must assert itself and claim Its own products. Ab examples of tho exploitation of Oregon products by Washington and California the speaker cited fruit canned. In Wash ington, Bhipped from Oregon, prunes dried and packed In California, ship ped from Oregon, and other product. She was indignant over the fact that California claims Joaquin Miller and Edwin Murkhani, both sons of Ore gon. In addition to the few scathing re marks directed at allfornta, tho speaker rapped Dr. Chapman, former president of the University of Oregon, for a critical and inaccurate article of his, which Bho read from "Tho Na tion." The article concornnd Ore gon and the delicate reverse-English compliments handed to this state by Dr. Chapman wero frequent through out the part which she read. Help Put It Over Mr. Manor Win CANNES. France, Mar. 21. (By the Associated Press.) Mrs. Mollu U. Mallory. defeated Mile. Vlasco. 7-5, 6-8. In today's play In the lawn tennis tournament here. Make It Ununlmout BRUSSELS Helg-um is about to Issue a 1.000,000.000 franc Interior loon for reconstruction owing to Gor man failure to pay reparations. eras com. TOOKACIIONIO BREAK SHE Uprising Along Arkansas R. R Explained1 Before State Leg islative Investigation Com mittee People Decided Strike Had to Stop. HARRISON. Ark.. Mar. 21. I By the Associated Press.) The respon sibility for the uprising of tho peoplo along tho Missouri and North Arkan sas railroad was placed toduy upon the representatives of the sixteen irtandurd railroad unions who met in Chicago shortly beforo the disorders last January and voted to continue the striko oii the road, by John H. W. Wood of Marshall, testifying before the Arkansas legislative Investigating committee on the disorders along tho road. "Tho citizens along tho railroad heard of the action of tho brother hoods and the next day people in each town along the roud also took a vote and voted tho strike off," bo testi fied. "That night they began organ Izlng." The dependence of this section of Arkansas on the Missouri and North Arkansas railroad, together with tho increase In tho number of depreda tions along the railway started the movement which resulted In the for mation of the "citizens' committee," according to the testimony of County Judge 11. Mussingill, the first witness culled today. . Tho legislative committee is inquir Ing into conditions along tho road in cident to a striko which begun two years ago and the lynching several months ago of E. C. Gregor, a striker. "For nioro than two years tho peo ple in this country wero bulldozed bullyragged. Insulted, boycotted and ... .... . ..... iniimiaateu." fliassinglll tesiincu. ywo got tired of it and it seomcd wo had to tako the mutter in hand to stay whero wo are. "We felt that these strikers could leave cheaper than wo could. Wo dug out this wilderness they did not. They left. Tho strik ers Imagined themselves a favored few. A brukeman walking out of our commlttoe room rcmurked. 'I can't llvo on, $0.60 a day." That Is more money than I ever made in a day. "Three or four hundred strikers felt they could run this country re gardlesH of three or four hundred thousand persons. "Wo can't live without this rail road. Without It we could have no Industries." Make '23 Best Ever E IS SAN FRANCISCO, JIarch 21. J. F. Halo who Bald ho was a victim of night rldoro at Medford, Ore., tho principal witness for the stutc in the recent night rider trials, was married horo March 17, to Miss Ruberta Pierce, who also was a state wltnesB in the trials. Hule at a hotel here Bald ho and Miss Pierce obtained a marrlagu li cense lust Saturday and were mar ried (he mmc day. Halo also said h- intended to no Into business here nud would not return to Medford. Mnko -23 Best Ever INSECT BITTEN EARL'S CAIRO, March 2'.. Tho condition of tho Earl of Carnarvon, who la Buf fering from blood poisoning, was still serious today, although ho passed a satisfactory night and maintained yesterday's Improvement without a recurrence of high temperature. Word has been roceived from Mar seilles that Lady Carnarvon has aban doned hur air trip and Is proceeding to Egypt by steamer. Tho special ist who accompanied her from Lon don to the French city will not como here. Mako It Unanimous Kerensky Wants to Go to Jail in Place of Party Leaders NEW YORK. March 21. Former Premier Kerensky of Russia, Kathar ine Breshkosky, "tho little grand mother of the revolution," and other leaders of tho social revolutionary party, stand ready to surrender to tho soviet government to bo impris oned In place of twenty-two parly leaders condemned at the Moscow trials last summer, according lo a member of the socialist revolutionary group lu New York. Battleship Oregon Can't Be Retained Unless Navy Helps SALEM, Ore., Mar. 21 Flgvros received by Adjutant Goncral George A. White from Rear Ad- -S- nilral John A. lloogewerf, com- mandnnt of Bremerton navy yard covering tho cost of putting tho old battleship Oregon In a pre- sontnblo condition and transport- Ing to Portland from Bremerton Indicated that the project would be beyond the power of the stato unless tho navy departmont will assist. The recent leglalnturo appropriated $M,000 annually for the next two years for the main- tenance of the ship la Portland harbor. . FUTILE EFFORT WASHINGTON, March 21. Rain making, in the official opinion of the United States weather bureau is an "entirely futile undertaking," as are other schemes for artificially effect ing "atmospheric behavior." "It is true that in the laboratory a small amount of moisturo can be pre cipitated by the use of special equip ment." a bureau statement said to day, "but widospcad drought Is due to lack of sufficient moisturo in the atmosphere and tho absence of other conditions essential to the formation of rain. If there Is little moisture to bring down, obviously no devlco for causing rain artificially has any value, because of the absurdity of supposing that human agcnclos can supply adequate amounts of water for extondnd areas, when the atmos phero Itself Is practically dry. "To produce one inch of rainfall over n area of an acre, approximate ly 113 tons of moisture- would have to be drawn up into the air and then precipitated. For a square mile, 72, 320 tons of moisturo would be re quired. A square niilo would be scarcely a dot in th center of any section where drought prevails as In Arizona or parts of Texas. "Enormous forces are required in nature to elevate moisture above the earth before It can be precipitated." Among other weather controlling projects which havo been rolcgated to tho limbo of the impossible, the bureau recalled the 'hnll shooting" scheme that excltod Europe ton years ago, by which crops were to bo pro tected from hail or rain by the shoot ing of bombs into the air to dissipate on-coming storms. A moro recently projected scheme In this country, which tho bureau said to bo "economically impossible" contemplated the use of powerful fans at the baso of high towers for forcing upward great quantities of air and thus simulating conditions in rain producing storms or cyclones. As to the "man who contracted with farmers In drought stricken re gions to produce by a secret chemical process, In Inch or more of rain within a given period of two or three months at a consideration of $1000 an Inch," the bureau regarded the scheme as a good one from his stand point. If the rain came, It said, he collected the fee; It it failed, he did not. Mako '23 Best Ever llcpcul Kugenlc fiw MAUIHON. Wis., Mur. St. (By the Associated Press.) Urpeut of the Wisconsin eugenics luw requiring n physical examination before IBsuanco of a. maniugo license, wos voted by the legislature toduy, f Mukn '23 Best Ever KANSAS CITY. Mnrch 21. The nucleus for a Btato wldo branch or anlzatlon of the fasclstl of Italy has been formed here,' It was unnounced. BY EX-R. EX-MAIL ClHICAOO, Mar. 21. Four years ago Hamuol W. Malt discarded a blue uniform of a passenger train brakemnn and became president of the Sixteenth Street Htute bunk. About two years uto Krcrl Popp, recently found dead with n bullet hole in his head dispensed with tho gray suit of a mall currier when ho started on a financial career thnt carried him to the presidency of tho Logan Square Trust and Savings bunk, Today both of theso Institutions wero closed. Tho Logan Square Trust and Havings hunk depositors and stockholders were engaged In re organizing the institution and mak ing good losses reported nt 1400.000 and the Sixteenth Street State bank USE LABOR AS SHIELD U.S.ATTACK Prosecution in Foster Trial Claims U. S. Reds Plan to Attack Capital Under Cover of Radical Labor Action Soviet Thesis Read to Jury Spite of Protest. ST. JOSEPH. Mich.. Mur. 21. (By tho Associated Press.) Extracts from the "thesis and resolutions" adopted by the third world congress of the communist intornationalo at Moscow In 1SI21 were reud to tho jury in tho trial of William Z. Foster, charged with violating tho Michigan law against criminal syndicalism today. Tho state which introduced tho Russian book yesterday endeavored to show that tho Internationale, as governing body of communists throughout tho world, committed the party In America to a definite pro gram of force and violence to over throw the existing government of tho United States. Tho "thesis" described In detail the strategy to be followed by legal com munist organizations in those coun tries permitting their existence, as in England; and the method to bo pursued by the illegal organizations In the United States and other na tions whero communism can exist only as an underground movement. "Tho communist party must de velop Into a mllltunt organization cap able of avoiding a fight In tho open against overwhelming forces, of tho enemy, concontruted upon . a given point; but on the other hand, tho very concentration of the enemy must bo so utilized us to attack him In a spot whoro hij least expects it," the thesis and resolutions -say. "It Will bo the greatest mistake' for the party organization to stake everything upon a rebellion and street fighting or only upon condition of sovere repression. Ircpnrclncsa Urged "Every legal communist organiza tion must know how to insure for it self complote prepnrednoss for an un derground existence and above all for revolutionary outbreaks. Every 11-. legal communist organization, must on the other hnnd, make the fullest uso of tho opportunities offered by the legal labor movement. In order to become the organizer and real leader of tho great revolutionary masses. "By the uso of force the proletariat destroys tho machinery of the bour gcoiso stato and establishes a prole tarian dictatorship based on soviet power. "Tho revolutionary epoch upon which tho world has now entered forces the proletariat to resort to militant methods mass action, load ing to dlroct collision with the bour geois stato. Join tho C. of C. T ARDMORE, Okla., Mar.. 31. Mrs. William Graham and her three smull children wero burned to death when their home In the llcaldton oil field near hero was destroyed by fire early today, according to word received here. Tho house was ignited by "gas flame" meager details Bald. COATICOOK. Que., Mar. 21. Fire toduy destroyed the'Mothodlst church and pursoniige, tho Grand Central hotel, two fumlturo stores bakery, drug store and a harneBR shop. Sov eral barns and sheds also wero de stroyed. Louis Fournlcr. 90 years old wos burned to death. Several firemen were Injured. R. BRAKEI A t CARRIER IN accounts wero being subjected to tho scrutiny of stuto bunk examiners. The Sixteenth Street Stato bank was closed yesterday with an esti mated shortnge of 1 ."0.000. Malts formed tho bank about four yours ago with a group of nil I roud brakemen and conductors. William F. .McLuughlln, assistant stnte's uttornoy said Malts hnd con fessed making bad loans totaling be tween :I0.000 and $40,000. Loans on questionablo second tuortKO.KC". of fleluls said brought about the bunk's closing. They said Malts used the bank's funds for his personal use and floated bond Issues to cover mort gages of moro thun nctual value of the real estate.