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MEDttORD, OREGOX, SATURDAY, MARCH 24, 1923
NO.
rails
Oregon Editors Ask
Uncle Sam to Probe
High Price Paper
Prohi Officers Take
Society in Model Scandal
SEE DANGER
Bribe, Turn It Over
To U. 5. Government
PIN CASE
18 IDENTIFIED
Mysterious Mr. Marshall"
Proves to Be J. K. Mitchell
of Philadelphia, President of
Philadelphia Rubber Works
and Related to Stotesbury
Family.
;1 NEW YORK, March 24. Assist-
ijit District Attorney Pecora today
nounced the mysterious "Mr. Mar-
pH" who was the last person Known
tJl see Miss Dorothy Keenan. slain
nifii Viiifnrft slip wn chloroformed.
Mas J. K. Mitchell ot Philadelphia.
tit Mr. Pecora also identified the mys
terious "Mr. Wilson," as Marshall's
Secretary, who was said to havo
toitered the suite.
Mitchell appeared at Assistant Dls-itj-ict
Attorney Pecora's office late to
?day for further questioning.
I Mr. Mitchell listed In the Phila
delphia social register as J. Kears
Ilcy Mitchell, is president of the Phil
adelphia Rubber Works company,
find husband of Mrs. Frances Stotes
Ifcury Mitchell, prominent in Phila
delphia and New York society.
T Mf. Mitchell came to New York
last night in response to a request
Mrom Mr. Pecora who wanted to
.Question him rurtner auouc ine iuo
Bibility that he might have written
Miss Keenan letters, which could
hnvB heen made the basis for an ef
fort to blackmail him.
Wife Surprised
PALM BEACH, Kid., March 24.
Mrs. J. K. Mitchell of Philadelphia,
iwife ot John Kearsley Mitchell, nam
ed by Assistant District Aattornpy
Pecora In New York as the myste
,,)us "Mr. Marshall," last to see Miss
Dorothy Keenan, Blaln model, before
she was chloroformed, late today
I'professod utmost surprise when told
-;of the announcement.
f Mrs. Mitchell is here with her.fam
illy and children. The family aceani
;panted by Mrs. Mitchell arrived here
three weeks ago. Mrs. Mitchell de-
Jclared the announcement today was
.the first news Bhe had of the matter
land that there has never been any
v conversation with her husband in re
gard to the case and no suspicion on
'her part of her husband being con
nected with the case.
J PHIT.AnFT.PHIA. March 24. J.
iKnarslev Mitchell, announced In Saw
SYnrlr no tim "Mr Marshall" in the
J Dorothy Keenan case, is 51 years old,
son of the late Lieutennnt Colonel
.Nathan Clapham Mitchell and a
"nephew of the late Dr. S. Weir
Mitchell, the noted neurologist and
swrlter. He married Francis Stolos
ibury, the younger daughter of Ed
"wurrt T. Stotesbury, on January 0
1!J19.
', Sir. Stotesbury gave his daughter
on her wedding day a check for $1,
000,000 and jewelry valued at $500,
.'000. I Mr. and Mrs, Mitchell have two
children, a daughter about 12 years
Hold and a son several years younger.
STOLEN AI EVERETT
EVERETT, Wash., March 24.
iMon's wearing apparel valued at
i J4 000 wns stolen last night from the
Jtho Brodeck-Flcld store here. Thieves
'entered through a skylight and ore
'supposed to hove tnken away their
i plunder by automobile or trucK
i Unusual care apparently was taken
! In selecting the goods stolen, as a
S wide variety of sizes and values in
' snkts and overcoats pocks and shirts
tnken. The stock, according to
the nrourletors. wns sufficient to
equip a small store.
"OLD POSEY," PIUTE
LAST SEAND
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March
24. Old Posey, lender of the rene
gade Plutos, has taken what will
probably be his last stand In Dry
Wash, 20 miles from Blanding, the
week's Btorm center of the Indian
troubles of southeastern Utah.
With this veteran of half a dozen
former armed clashes with the white
settlers are less than a score of
troublemakers, mostly Plutes, hut
with a few L'tes recently joined to the
band,
EUGENE, Ore., Mar. 24. The
fifth annual conference of Ore-
gon newspaper men closed at
noon today with the election of
George Cheney, editor of the
Enterprise Record Chieftain as
president and George Turnbull,
Professor o the school of Jour-
nalism, secretary-treasurer. Dean
Eric W. Allen, head of the jour-
nalism school was made chairman
fr of the program committee.
A resolution was passed that
the federal trade commission be
asked to make an investigation
of the excessive high prices of
news print paper and denouncing
paper mills for alleged restraint
of trade.
YANKEE PULLS
E
W. P. Mullen, American, Hero
of Boating Classic Ex
Harvard Oarsman Also in
Boat First Victory for
Dark Blue, Five Years.
PUTNEY, England, March 24.-
(By the Associated Press) Oxford's
varsity crew with un American stroke
and another Yankee pulling a lusty
oar at number four, defeated their
ancient rivals from Cambridge in
their ' 7 Gth" annual race on the Thames
today after suffering defeat In the
Inst four contests. Oxford's official
time was 20 minutes, 64 seconds.
The race was anybody's until the
finish and the dark blues, although
comprising the strongest crew Ox
ford has had in many years, Just
squeezed out a victory by about a
length after a ding dong battle.
Young W. P. Mellen. who carried
Oxford to victory us tho first Ameri
can stroke ever to sit in an Oxford
or Cambridge shell, was the hero of
the hour. Keith Kane, formerly of
Harvard, was In No. 4 seat.
The record for the course is 18
minutes, 2!l iieconds, established in
the 1911 nice, which Oxford also
won.
Haney and McLaren
Appointed to Parole
Board By Governor
SALEM, Ore., Mar. 24. W. O.
McLaren and B. E. Haney, both
residents of Portland, were
named as the successors to Louis
Lachmund ot Salem, and Ira Mar-
tin of Portland on the state parole
board by Governor Pierce this
morning.
Haney U a democrat and wns
formerly United States district
attorney for Oregon. McLaren Is
president of the Oregon Prisoners
Aid society.
Ward Irvine, private secretary
to the governor is the third mem-
ber of the new board.
Skeptic About Tractors.
SEATTLE, March 24. Skepticism
wus expressed by James Allen, state
highway engineer, last night after he
had watched a rotary plow with two
small tractors removing snow "on the
Sunset highway over tho Cascade
mountains. Tho demonstration was
made by representatives of a tractor
manufacturer, who asserted their
plan would keep tho pass open all
winter.
BRAVE. MAKES
AT DRY WASH, UTAH
Surrounding the faslnesses of tho
rocky region whero the Indians have
taken refuge are posses led by sher
iffs acting under orders of United
States Marshal J. Hay Ward, who
has assumed command of the situa
tion. . '
Meanwhile II. E. Crocket, acting
governor of Utah, In tho absence of
Governor Mabrcy, has Indicated that
he will today place a reward on the
ncaU ot Old Posey.
OXFORD CR
WTO
THAMESVICTORY
DISASTER
Farmers Flee From Homes in
Nebraska, Iowa and South
Dakota As Waters of Mis
souri Mount Cattle and
. Livestock Driven Off 2000
Farms Threatened.
SIOUX CITY, la., Mar. 24. (By
tho Associated Press.) Flood dan
ger as a result of ice gorges in the
Missouri river is believed to be at Its
height today. Danger of destruction
of life and property is Imminent as
prospect of the huge ice jam breaking
up increases, due to the warm tem
perature. Residents of the lowlands In the
vicinity of Sergeant Bluffs and On
awa, Iowa, and Yankton and Ver
milion, S. D., are herding their live
stock) from the danger zones and
women and children are being sent
to places of safety.
Already water held back by a mon
ster Ice pack, eleven miles In length,
extending between the Floyd Monu
ment near Sioux City and several
miles south of Sergeant Bluffs, has
inundated several islands iu the riv
er and overflowed onto the lowlands
of the surrounding valley.
The Floyd river is out ot its banks
at several places in Sioux City, due
to water which has backed up from
the Missouri, but has not done great
damage.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, March 24.
The great ice gorgs In the Missouri
river south of SlouxXity still is hold
ing and the flood peril to residents
of the low lands is growing greater
hourly. .
Gorges formed near Vermillion, S.
D., 30 miles nortnwest and' Anawa,
Iowa, 40 miles south, imperil prop
erty valued at thousands of dollars.
Attempts will be made to dynamite
the gorge at Vermillion today. Un
less the jam is broken, a repetition of
the flood of 1881 in that section is
feared. )j.
Charges ot dynamite were explod
ed but failed to burst the gorge near
Onawa. .
Three States Threatened
OMAHA, Neb., March 24. (By
the Associated Press.) Unprece
dented mammoth Ice gorges in the
Missouri river near Vermillion, S. D
Sioux City and Onawa, Iowa, and
Dakota Clly, Neb., today had pre
cipitated conditions that present a
flood menace for all the lowlands
between Vermillion and Omaha and
that threaten to Inundate thousands
of acres- of rich farm land in Sotth
Dakota, Iowa and Nebraska and the
destruction ot hundreds of farm
homes.
An ice gorge reported early this
morning to have attained a length of
eleven miles and a width in places of
seven miles, near Brassfleid island
at Sergeant Blutf, Iowa, south of
Sioux City, was strangling the mighty
Missouri river. The Btream, strength
enod by thaws and spring floods was
engaged in a titanic struggle to
break the grip of the Ice. The river
was dUsIpatlng Its strength in over.
flow to the lowlands. A decided
drop In temperature today helped the
ice mass to retain its grip. But at
any moment the river's terrific pres
sure may triumph and Its dammed
up, choked waters will come down
the valley. A conservative Sioux
City estimates places the numhor of
farms in the path ot such a water
wall at two thousand.
Late laBt night an ice gorge term
ed near Onawa, Iowa, and flood Btage
developed1 forcing' the inhabitants ot
the lowlands' there to flee.. The
godge formej south ot the city and
at mldnlght last night had grown to
be three and ft half miles long with
towering ice 'peaks. At that hour the
authortlos at Pnawn gave up hope of
shattering the gorge with explosives.
At Vermillion, S. D., a gorge form
ed yesterday afternoon and before
midnight menaced the surrounding
rived districts. The gorge caused tho
James river to rise from backed up
water.
It P,njr to Bo a Mummy.
NEW YORK. March 24. The
name of Tutankhamen wns worth
$150,000 ns a trade mark to a local
clothing mcrchnnt, who brought suit
against a competitor for calling
dresses "Tut-Ankh-Amen."
Now Pneiimonln Treatment.
HOIIOKKM, N. J., Mnrch 24.
Minn Charlotte Boyle, who was being
treated by the newly discovered dia
thermic method for a severe case of
pneumonia, showed signs of marked
Improvement today.
IS BfSSi,-, ... "
Mr. E. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia and New York with his daugh
ter, Mrs. J. Kearsley Mltihel, at Palm Ueuch, Via. Mrs. Mitchi'l, whoso
husband was numed today ns tho mysterious "Mr. Marshall" was reported
amazed at the announcement.
UP,
OIL DISTRICTS
PONCA CITY, Okla.i March 24.
Many thousands o Jmitrols ot as yet
unproduced oil will be destroyed by
the fire now burning in a battery of
17 storage tanks of tho Comar Oil
company in tho heart of tho 'lon-
kawa oil field unless the flow of pe
troleum direct from the producing
wells in tho tanks is cut off.
The fire started early today from
an unexplained cause. Tho blaze is
raging unchecked, while the oil from
the wells, said to be among the
world's most prolific producers, con
tinues to add new fuel to tho flames.
Efforts to stop the flow from wolls
to the tanks have been unsuccessful.
Tho burning tanks nre in the midst
of tho richest section of tho Tonkawa
field, known as the greatest light oil
producing center of the world. The
Comar Oil company is the largest
producer in the field.
Because of its high gravity test, tho
oil commands top prices and tho
monetary loss from the fire Is ex
pected to be great.
PREDICTS SURPRISE
FOR OLD PARIS
IN NEXT ELECTION
WASHINGTON, Mnrch 24 A. pre
diction Hint 1824 will contain im
portunt surprises for the old lino po
litical parties unless something Is
done to curb big business was made
today by Sonntor Ladd, republican
North Dakota, in a statement joining
In tho demand for an Investigation of
tho "sugar corner."
"The people," said Senator Ladd
"are long Btretches ahead of ' tho
backwood-looklng parties who seem
without courage to face the problems
of tho American masses."
As a consequence, ho declared, old
party lines are "crumbling."
Seven cents a pound for sugar to
tho consumer the senator character
ized as "puro graft nnd worse," and
ho asked for tho prosecution of those
responsible for tho present "robbery
ot the American people py a .sugar
corner."
U. S HORSE KILLED
. IN STEEPLE CHASE
LIVERPOOL, March 24. Tho
grand national steeple chase resulted
filially yeHterday to at leust one horse,
tho American-owned Masterful. One
of the Jockeys Is known to havo been
hurt while several of the starters foil
Masterful, Foxhnll Kocne's entry
broke n fetlock In taking Ueccher's
brook, tho most formidable Jump of
the course and was put to death.
Prnberts, who was In tho snddlo, sus
talncd an Injured knee.
Jockty K. Gibson broke his collar
bone In a full at another jump.
LIONS
BURN
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DIVINE SARAH
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PARIS, March 24. (By the Asso
ciuted Press) Tho state r of Sarah
Bcrnhurdt's health Is causing tho
greatest alarm. Tho nctress passed
a very bad night and her physicians
today express fears of tho worst.
A bulletin issued tonight after a
consultation, signed by six doctors
snys tho stalo of Mine. Bernhardt's
health has grown worse In tho last
few days and that tho greatest re
serve must bo made in the prognosis.
In view of the serious nnturo of her
Illness, Doctors Marcel Labbe und
Desnls, have arranged for a consul
tation at Madumo Bernhardt's homo
this evening.
Friends who have heen in constnnt
attendance ut tho bedside, say tho
exact nature of tho malady has not
been determined.
IN U. S. PRISONS
. .WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. Exten
sion of vocational training and medi
cal rehabilitation of the 18,000 veter
ans ot the world war serving sen
tences In federal and state penal insti
tutions is planned by Director nines
of the veterans' bureau, who conferred
on the BUbJect toduy with officials of
the department of Justice and repre
sentatives of the American Legion and
disabled veterans ot the world war.
Institution ot the scheme in federal
prisons is proposed as a step preced
ing its extension to the state prisons
and reformatories. Director Hlnos
feels that there are many mem now
serving sentences who may bo un
aware of the duty of the bureau in pro
tecting their wellbeing and possibly
others whose imprisonment may' bo
due to conditions resulting from war
service. Of the 10,000 Imprisoned
men only about 2000 are receiving
benefits from tho bureau. The bureau
director also has approved a plan
for going into the courts In the name
of mentally disabled veterans and cas
ing for tho legal und medical aspects
ot having guardians appointed.
BUTTERFAT TO BE
BOOSTED 2 CENTS
SERIOUSLY
WORST
A
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 24. Cream
ery men today announced a throe cent
advnnco in butter prices, effective
Monday.
Extra prints, wholesale at 47. But
torfat 'bids will bo Increased two cents
to 40 cents a pound delivered in Port
land, "7
NEW YORK, March 24.
The United States government Is
?20,000 richer through the ar-
rest of Ralph and Churlos Sab-
hating, brothers, who are uc-
cused of conniving to remove
$10,000,000 worth ot liquor
from a Brooklyn warehouse by
bribing prohibition otrioiuls.
The $20,000 was alleged to
haye been paid to two prohlbl-
tlon enforcement agents, John
Murphy and Loster A. Reeves.
"Tho Sabbatino brothers
short changed Mr. Reeves and
myself," Murphy Bnid. "They
had agreed to pay us $11,000
euch but they bulldozed us Into
talking $10,000. This money
has been sent to the treasury
department as miscellaneous
collections. It will not be return-
ed to the Sabbatino brothers."
SPIRIT PHOTOS
T OF DEAD
Strange Mystery Surrounds
Pictures Taken Over Casket
of Late Mrs. McVicker,
Spiritualist Unable to Ex
plain Phenomenon.
LOS ANGELES, Cal., March 24.
Three dlBtinct ovala, corresponding
proportionately to life size heads,
which commercial photographers who
took the photographs Bay they cannot
explain photographically and which
friends of the late spiritualist declare
give impression of the heads of Mrs.
Mary Fairfield McVicker, her hus
band, dead a year, and a friend, A. J.
Davis, dead several years, appeared
today in prints of a photographic
plate taken last night over tho cas
ket containing Mrs. McVlcker'a re
mains, It was declared today.
A. H. Hotzel, life time friend of
the spiritualist and whom Bhe re
quested to take charge ofl the post
mortem photography over her casket
to reveal the spirit at five o'clock on
the aftornoon of her funeral, and
photographers in the studio of C. H.
Monroe, commercial photographer,
wore responsible for the declarations
today Identifying the results of the
photography.
T
SAN FRANCISCO, March 24.
MIbs Vivian Moad and Earl Miler,
federal prohibition agents, were ar
raigned In tho police court today on
charges of drunkenness, having boon
arrested last night by two police of
ficers while leaving a cafe in tho
Latin quarter. Tholr cases were set
for hearing Thusday. Miller wus
also charged with violating a traf
fic ordinance,
According to the roport by Pollco
man Emil Hearn, Miss Mead fired
five shots- from a rovolvor to In
timidate tho crowd in the cafe after
It was learned that Bhe and MJllor
wore prohibition agents.
TJ. S. Cotton to IliiHsla.
BERLIN, March 24. Tho first
cargo of American cotton bought on
Russian 'account since tho soviet rev
olution, left Bremen for Russia.
LOS ANGELES
U. S. AIRPLANE BREAKS SPEED RECORD
AT AVERAGE OE 250 MILES AN HOUR
WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. Another
rocord for speed has been established
by the army air service, according to
an official report today by the war
department. The now high mark was
made by Major Leo O. Heffernan on a
recent flight from Nognles, Ariz., to
Fort Bliss. Tho distance of 76 miles
from Columbus, N. M., to the Texas
post was covered in 18 minutes at an
average speed ot 250 miles an hour.
Major Het'fornan piloted a DH-4-B air
plane and was accompanied by Ser
geant Jensen as an official observer.
IN
NAVALPACT
U. S. Navy Authorities Agi
tated By Way 5-5-3 Agree
ment Is Being Carried Out
Hold That Modernization of
Pact Is Necessary to Na
tional Safety.
WASHINGTON, March. 24. The
5-5-3 naval ratio, the foundation
stone ot all the naval agreements
growing out ot the Washington
arms conference, will be utterly de
stroyed unless the United States car
rlos out its program to modernize
the American treaty fleet, in the op
inion of expert navul officers, as It
has taken shape after a careful study
ot tho whole subject.
On a computation In which all the
figures in naval power were consid
ered, some officers occuplng advisory
positions in the navy department are
inclined to rate the treaty navies of
Great Britain, the United States and
Japan respectively on a 6-5-4 basis,
with the United States placed in the
position of being compelled to mod
ernize her capital ships if she is to
restore the competitive standing to
which she subscribed.
This revised basis Is admittedly
reached on incomplete information
and a poBBlble outgrowth of the pres
ent situation Is a request that tho
other parties to the treaty make an
offldlal Btatement of details of their
impending and present naval pro
grams and ot their Interpretation of
certain clauses 'ot the treaty as writ-
ton.
Decision as to - whether such re
quests would be made rests with the
state department which has the gen
eral subject of naval treaties under
dlscusslsnn with naval officials. It
Is thought Improbable that any de
cision will be reached before the mat
ter lias been laid before President
Harding with whom also rests the
final decision as to whether the Uni
ted States should go ahead with the
modernization program authorized by
congress in the face ot hints from
Great Britain that such a course
would bo Interpreted as opposed to
the spirit ot the treaty.
PIG JIG. STOCK
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Mar. 24. (By As
sociated Press). Shares ot class A
Piggly Wlggly common stock, Tield by
Clarence Saunders, president ot the
Piggly Wiggly Stores, Inc., and badly
wanted by "short" sellers who were
caught in the Jam Tuesday when a
bear raid on the stock was repelled,
were priceless today.
"I hnve no price of any kind to offer
to any further short interests. Even
$1000 a share would not buy from me
a single certificate for a 'short' My
offer of $100 was for one day only and
will not be extended," he said late last
night. .
Out of 25,000 shares which Mr.
Saunders said were due him' Just 140
were delivered to him Friday, he said.
Saunders said he would hereafter
dispose of his stock by selling "direct
to the people."
Catholic College Burns
WORCESTER, Mass., Mar. 24. As
sumption college in Greendale, estab
lished In 1904 by a band ot Assump
tion fathers, who had been expelled
from France, was dostroyed by fire
today. The loss was $200,000.
EL PASO, Texas, Mar. 24. Officers
at Fort Bliss say the machine In which
Major Leo Hoffornnn flew from Co
lumbus, N. M., to Fort Bliss, makes a
maximum speed of about 126 miles an
hour in ordinary weather. To have
made more than 250 miles an hour, It
Is said tho wind would have had to
be blowing faster. When the major
left Nognles the weather was clear. A
wind and sand storm was encountered
at Columbus, Kioutly increasing the
speed ot the plane, It was explained,
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