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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
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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.
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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
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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.