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MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, MARCH 28, 1923
NO.
DAUGHERTY'S
STATEMENT
DISPLEASES
President Regards Prediction
of 1924- Candidacy Not
Good Form Conference Is
Scheduled for Today at St,
Augustine Sugar Rises
and Tariff. Under Quiz.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla Mar. 28.
(By Associated Press). President
Harding, it became known today did
not consider necessary the recent
statement by Attorney General Daugh
erty predicting that the chief execu
tive would be a candidate for re
nomlnatlon or that the statement was
opportune or in good form.
It 1b presumed the president will
discuss the subject with the attorney
general who arrived here early today
from Miami, where he has been recup
erating from a recent illness. The
president and Mr. Daugherty have not
met since the latter issued his state
ment and there naturally was the
keenest curiosity whether there would
be further developments before the
president returns to Washington.
The attorney general arrived on an
early morning train and went later to
the rooms reserved for him in the
Hotel Ponce de Leon, where the presi
dential party is stopping. He spent
the morning resting from the all-night
train ride which it was said he stood
very well. The president went out to
the St. Augustine links about nine
o'clock for a round of golf, and the
possibility of a conference between
them was removed until afternoon.
H ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., Mar. 28.
, The arrival here today of Atotrney
General Daugherty brought Mr.
Daugherty and the president together
for the first time since the former is
sued his statement in Miami ten days
ago, predicting Mr. Harding would be
a candidate for re-nomination.
Interest in the meeting between the
president and the man who acted asj
his chief spokesman in the 1920 pre
convention campaign and who has
since been his chief political adviser,
was heightened by evidences of dis
agreement, privately expressed within
the last few weeks as to the wisdom
of such a remark at this time.'
Mr. Harding has not had a word to
say with respect to the announcement
and Borne republican leaders, now in
Florida, liave expressed a little doubt
as to whether tile attorney general
spoke with the full consent and appro
val of the president. Other IcaderB,
however, have presented the view
that Mr. Daugherty merely made pub
lic what most of the party leaders had
in their minds.
The expectation was that the con-
' ferences between Mr, Harding and his
attorney general would not Include
politics alone and that perhaps politics
would be a minor subject of conversa
tion. The president by his telegraphic
order to the tariff commission yester
day to investigate the relation of the
tariff rates on Bugar to the recently
increased sugar prices, Indicated that
7i'e administration Is going to do as
much as it can to fix the responsibility
for the sky-rocketing of the cost of
sugar to consumers.
The department of justice has an
investigation under way and persons
close to the president said it was safe
to say the sugar question would be
discussed.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. In a tele
Em Inst nieht from St. Augustine,
Fla., President Harding directed that
the commission establish whether the
new tariff law is helping to keep up
thn nrlce of sugar to consumers
4 Under the flexible provisions of the
act, the president Is empowered to
lower the import duty If conditions
warrant it and he promised to do bo if
(Continued on page eight)
r.iTtvnfnV Mnrrh 28. Afl
u.nr.mrv Moss today called
n.nr Stuart of the customs
house at New York for a full expla-
., I. .iieri March 19
nuuon ui nv uni'i -
hv Thomas W. Whittle, surveyor of
that port, permitting l-asse ngcrs on
Incoming steamships to land with one
i - f, medicinal pur-
Soses. MnMoM indicated that the
ir aiuas - i
bably Inter would be mate-
order prol
IDIWOZE '
ORDER PROBED
Another Episode in
High Society Tangle
And Scandal Noted
'
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28.
Another episode in the. noted
Wylie-Hlchborn domestic tangle
was disclosed today when It be-
came known that Mrs. Elinor
Hoyt Hltchborn Wylie had been
granted a divorce from her sec-
ond husband, Horace Wylie.
The divorce waB granted at
Providence, R. I., on the grounds
of non-support, and ended a chap-
ter begun 12 years ago when Mrs.
4 Wylie, prominent in Washington
society circles left for Europe
with Wylie soon after her mar-
riage to Phillip S. Hichborn, son
of Admiral Hichborn. Wylie left
behind a wifo and four children. 4
Two yearB later Hichborn com-
mltted suicide after instituting dl-
vorce proceedings. MrB. Wylie
was granted a separation in 1916
and Wylie and Mrs. Hichborn
were married.
Wylie until recently has been
connected with the Bhlpplng
board here but now 1b in New
Jersey.
ft
State Department. Character
izes Executions As Outrage
Poland Says Affair to Be
Handled Diplomatically
Pope Asks Liberation.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. Decision
of the soviet government to execute
Archbishop Zapllak and Monsignor
Butchkavitch of the Catholic church
in Moscow tomorrow was character
ized today by Btato department offic
ials as constituting an outrage against
humanity which could not fail to
create the deepest feeling of resent
ment and horror In the United States,
Appeals to the department protest
ing against the executions were re
ceived today from the Catholic club
of New York City. Department spokes
men declined to say what steps they
would take officially, but it was inti
mated that a manifestation of the
opinion ot this government would find
its way to Russia and would leave the
Moscow authorities in no doubt as to
American sentiment.
"While other word from Moscow
lends confirmation to the report of the
soviet minister, officials in Warsaw
are not disposed to minimize the seri
ousness of the situation," says a Pol
ish Telegraph agency, "They having
had previous experience with declara
tions of the soviet government."
It Is generally stated, adds the
agency, "that this arrair wnicn inter
ests all the western powers and above
all the holy see, cannot become a
mere object of political bargaining.
ROME, Mar. 28. (By Associated
Press). Pope Pius has - asKeu tne
soviet government of Ruslsa to liber
ate Archbishop Zepliak and other ec
clesiastics convicted in Moscow on the
ground that they are members of the
Catholic hierachy and the pope's sub
jects.
WARSAW. Mar. 28. (By Associat
ed Press). The Polish government has
been informed through the soviet min
ister in Warsaw that the death sen
tence against Arcnuisnop .epiiun.
head ot the Roman Catholic cnurcn in
Russia will not be carried out by tne
Russian government "at least for the
nrescnt." and that the affair will ue
taken up in diplomatic negotiations.
Premier Sikorskl, made this announce
ment to the Polish senate today.
OVER 100 HOURS
DENVER, Colo., March 28. The
i .-, mty alleged members
r known confidence
, - dered tho case 100
i . . . . -.oday and still appar
i ose to a verdict. Loud
ird in the jury room
d court attaches said
rently were debating
sent no word to
Dunklee, presiding.'
SOVIET REIENTS
DEATH ORDER OF
CATHOLIC HEADS
BUNCO JURY OUT
BLACKMAIL
PLOT TOLD
IN MURDER
Cabinet Officer's Son Con
firms Report Daugherty"
Met Slain Model at Ball
Game and Paid Bills Once
Father Silent On Son's Con
nection With Case.
NEW YORK, March 28. Draper
II. Daugherty, son of the attorney
general of the United States, appear
ed at District Attorney Pecora's of
fice today and was questioned at
length concerning any information
he might have about blackmail plots
In which Dorothy Keenan, slain
model, figured as a decoy
Mr. Daugherty was closeted with
Mr. Pecora for about 45 minutes. He
was accompanied by a friend whose
name was not made public.
At the conclusion of the .hearing,
Mr. Pecora announced that Mr.
Daugherty had corroborated newspa
per reports of an attempt to black
mail him made by a man close to
Dorothy Keenan.
Mr.,Daugherty told Mr. Pecora ne
met Dorothy Keenan during ' the
world's series baseball games of 1921
and that his acquaintance with her
had been purely of a social nature.
He admitted that he once gave her
a check to pay her bills when she told
him Bhe was short of funds.
Mr. Daugherty recited in detail
the story of the attempt to blackmail
him. The man telephoned him the
night of March 22, he said, and de-
manded that he Becure a position for I had in carrying out the plans. He ex
hlm in Washington. He threatened I pressed the clion that the Mllwau-
fo.wake ' public Daugherty'g , ac
quaintance with Dorothy Keenan
unless Daugherty complied,
NEW YORK, March 28. The
name ot tho man alleged by Major
Draper M. Daugherty, only son of the
attorney general of the United
States td have attempted to black
mall him because ot bis acquaint
anceship with Miss Dorothy Keenan,
the slain model, was understood to
be in the possesslson of Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Pecora today.
From Major Daugherty, the as
sistant district attorney hoped to
learn the Identity of the man and the
details of his attempted Intimidation.
Mr. Pecora believed the Information
might link with that he has on the
projector $10,000 blackmail attempt
on John Kearsley Mitchell, son-in-law
of E. T. Stotesbury.
ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 28
The announcement was made on
behalf of Attorney General Daugher
ty on his arrival here today to join
President Harding's vacation party
that' he would have no statement of
any kind to make In connection with
the Injection ot the name ot his son
Major Draper M. Daugherty, Into
the Keenan murder mystery.
I
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., Mnrch 28.
The right of . Attorney General
Daugherty's office to direct the pros
ecution of William S5. Foster, charged
with criminal - syndicalism, was sus
tained today by Judge Charles White.
Frank P. Walsh, counsel for Fos
ter, objected to O. L. Smith assist
ant attorney general, taking over the
re-cross examination of Charles E.
Ituthcnberg. Charles Oore, prose
cutor of Ucrrinn county, had con
ducted tho cross examination.
Mr. Smith proceeded today with an
examination Into Ruthenberg's views
on Mlchlgnn as a capitalist govern
ment, revolution, tho soviet govern
ment of TtuSRfa and the theory ot tho
dictatorship of the proletariat.
CHINESE IRATE
OVER JAP ACTS
PEKING. March 28. (Bv the As
sociated Presi.) The wave of oppo
sition to Japan, following her recent
refusal to lease the ports of Dalny
and Port Arthur and surrounding
territory to China, Is running Into
great proportions throughout tho
country, according to official tele
graphic advlcei from a number of
cities.
HUES
OREGON S VIEWS
ON RAIL GROUPS
GIVEN HEARING
Seek to Get Service for Inte
rior of State Milwaukee-
Union Pacific Held Retarder
to Railroad Construction in
State.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 28.
Oregon's views oil proposed railroad
consolidation were given the inter
state commerce commission today in
a hearing to which two days had.
been allotted, but which was con
eluded in about an hour and a halt.
Chairman Honry O. Hall adjourned
the hearing to San Francisco, March
31.
H. H. Corey, chairman of the stato
public service commlHxlon. expressed
approval of the groupings proposed
by the inter-state commerce com
mission which would unite the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul wun
the limit Northern and join the Nor
thern Pacific with the Chicago, Bur
lington and Quiney. He opposed any
union between the Milwaukee and
the Union Pacific on the ground that
it would retard railroad construction
needed to develop such parts of Ore-1
gon as are now without railroad:
transportation. ' I
Corey drew attention to tho stnto
commission's complaint now pend-j
ing before the intcr-stato commerce I
commission, seeking to require tho
railroads now serving Oregon to pro-
vide tho interior of the state with
needed railroad construction.
This will come before the commis
sion m June.
H. J. Ottenhelmer, on behalf of the
Portland chamber of commerce sug
gested that railroad groupings be per
mitted only as a natural development.
He urged that extreme deliberation-be
kee and the Union Pacific should be
continued as separate-systems.
On behalf of the Portland traffic
and transportation association S. M.
Mears expressed opimsltlon to any
consolidation of railroads except
through natural processes and favored
a continued open field for railroad de
velopment In Oregon.
Resolutions-adopted by the commer
cial clubs -of Astoria, Seaside and
Warrenton, favoring the grouping of
the northern lines and the indepen
dence of the Milwaukee and the Nor
thern Pacific were presented.
E
;t
LET ON PROVISO
PORTLAND, Ore., Mar. 28. Con
tracts for . road work aggregating
J700.000 were awarded today by the
state highway comiBSlon, contingent
upon the failure of effortB to Invoke
the referendum on the increase in
gasoline tax from two to three cents,
provided by a law passed by the re
cent session of the legislature. Money
from the gasoline tax goes to the state
highway funds.
Bidders agreed to the conditions Im
posed by the highway commission and
the contracts will be revoked if the
referendum succeeds in holding up the
additional tax, it was announced. The
resignation of Herbert Nunn as state
highway engineer was accepted and
Roy Klein, who has been secretary of
the commission was appointed to suc
ceed him.
Bridge contracts subject to the ref
erendum conditions awarded today In
cluded a bridge over Pudding river
near Aurora, on the Paciflo highway,
Tokin and Pierce, Portland, $74,750.
A bridge ovor Emigrant creek near
Ashland on the Ashland-Klamath
Falls highway, to E. It. Mctzger, Rose
burg, $1470.
The Noted Dead
ORLEANS, France, March 28.
(By the Associated Press.) General
Maunoury, former military governor
of Paris, was selzod with a fainting
fit and died on a train today shortly
after leaving Bordeaux.
Ttlxhnp Tuttlo Hotter.
ST. LOUIS, March 28. The Right
Rev. Daniel S. Tuttle, presiding
bishop ot the Episcopal church In the
United States, was reported today as
maintaining tho Improvement shown
In his condition yesterday. Ho took
more food and conversed occasionally
with attendants, It was said,
j ill w"h grippe.
He
RICH GIRL
BRIDE
POOR
OF
Heiress to $40,000,000 Weds
Childhood Sweetheart -
Went to Same Sunday
School Groom Is 21, Son
of a Furniture Dealer, and
An Artist.
PASADENA, Cal., March 28. Miss
Deliura Angell, heiress to the 40,
000,000 estate 'of John W. (Bot-a-Million)'
Gates, uccamo the bride to
dny of Lester Norris, young car
toonlM and son of a furniture dealer
of St. Charles, 111. The ceremony
was held In the Angoll residence 1"
the Alladena section hero.
LOS ANGELES, March 28. A
marriage license was issued today to
Miss Dullora Angell, heiress to $40,
000,000, and Lester Norris, news
naner cartoonist. Tho ceremony was
to be performed at noon today at the
Angell home In Pasadena, according
to relatives.
Only a few friends and membors
of the fnmlly were invited to the
ceremony' at which Hev. Robert A.
Freeman of tho Pasadena PreBbyte,-
rlan church was selected to officlato,
It was announced by the family. The
ceremony was set for noon at
the
Altadena home of the Angells.
A wedding breakfast was servod
and, the young couple planned to
leave Immediately for a motor trip
through California.
The bridegroom is tho son of Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Norris, and an artist,
Chicago. March 28. The lrlfna -
ship of Mis Dollora Angell. heiress
to the millions of John W. "Bet-a-iul i""". "
Million" antes and Lester Norris, iavo to be ratified by the .respective
young cartoonist and son of 'a furnl-conferences of each 'branch.
n m I'hnfi. in. whmnl'fho conference of the northern
marriage was Bet for noon today in
California, began at St; Charles Hramern in Bn..ula
years ago when aB children they were
playmates. In their home town they
attended tho Methodist Episcopal
church together and engaged In the
sumo childhood games and competi
tion. Miss Angell, who Is liolress to the
$40,000,000 estate, is 20 years old. She
was related to Uates only by mar
riage, antes' son, Charles and his
favorite nephew, Henry Bnkor, wero
looked upon as his heirs, but the
younger Oatcs and Baker died and
tho vast estate went to Mrs. Gates
who wna Dellora'a aunt. Mrs. Gates
died In 1918 and except for a bequest
to her brothor, Edward J. Baker of
St. Charles, she left tho estate to Miss
Angell, who was named Dollora for
her. According to tho bequest, Miss
Angell gotH only tho income from the
estato until she is 31. Thon she will
get one-fourth of the estatoi - after
four years she receives ono-foUrth
and when she la forty, she is to come
Into possession ot the remainder.
Mr. Norris, who Is 21, Is the son of
Cal Norris, furniture dealer of 8t.
Charlos. His paronts are only mod
erately wealthy. Norris wns gradu
ated from tho St. Charles high school
and the Chicago A'.-ademy of Fine
Arts. He Is a cartoonist and has been
engaged in recent '.iionths In news
paper and magazino lllustratlo work.
It is understood tho young people
plan to live at Alta Vista, tho country
place on tho St. Charles river, pur
chased by the Angells Borne time ngo.
Miss Angell is the daughter of R.
F. Angell, who manages the Oatos
estate.
LONDON, Mar. 28. In connection
with the visits to Milan ot Hugo
Stlnnes and M. Jaspar, the Belgian
foreign minister, the diplomatic corre
spondent of the Telegraph says today
that Premier Mussolini last week
made representations to the German
government through ambassadorial
channels urging the relch to make a
concrete offer to the allies. -
Th correspondent suggests that
Herr Stlnnes and M. Jaspar are Id
Milan In such a connection as Premier
Mussolini went to that city yesterday
for what was announced as a series ot
conferences bearing on International
affairs.
Outline Shipping Policy
WASHINGTON, Mar. 28. The Unit
ed States Ship 0rators' association,
second of the organizations represent
ing Interests Identified with the Amer
ican merchant marine to respond to
the shipping board request for co-oper
ation In formulating a policy, recom
mended today thai 'ho board scrap all
unserviceable tonnage, sell its good
tonnage to American operators and
is' strictly withhold any tonnage from
j aliens, .
Texas G. O. P. Asks
All Kluxers in
Federal Jobs Quit
DALLAS, Texas, March 28.
Carrying out "Its declared oppo-
sitlon to the Ku Klux Klnn," the
republican party of Texas,
through its exocutlve commit-
tee hus recommended the dls-
missal from federal service of
all government employes known
to he klansmon, 11. B. Creager,
of Brownsville, chairman of the
Btate republican executive com-
mlttee, said In au announce-
mont here today.
Coalition Not Final, But if Rat
ified General Conference,
Functioning in 1927
North and South Wings Re
tain Lesser Conferences.
ST. LOUIS, - Mo., March 28. The
sub-commlttoe on unification of tho
Mothodlst Episcopal church and
Methodist Episcopal church south,
meeting here, has docided on form
ation" of a general conference to
handle all major mattors of ' both
churches under the proposed coali
tion. Under the plan, however, each
branch would have Its own Jurisdic
tional conference to administer lessor
""' tion "f th aub-comm tteo is
action of tho sub-commltteo is.
mattors of -church government
branch will be next year, and of the
BOTH BRANCHES
METHODISM JOIN
ONMAJORISSUES
JLi nL,. 'n'iterday that the Gorman industriallats
?ner?Lco"f,irencea..ro.p:lhad tried several times to Inaugurate
posed new
reacting both
urHiiciiua. wouia uu,
functioning probnbly In four years.
Tho northern nnd southern . genoral that only official proposals from Ber
conferences then would no longer, lin would be considered. The premier
ESCAPES POSSE
TULSA Okla., March 28. (By the
Associated Press) Al Spencer, Onla
homa outlaw, apparently had made
his oncapo today after outfighting
and outwitting a posse of more than
160 officers and men. -
With one lieutenant, Spencer bat
tled his way out of a death trap set
by the posso and then vanished. Both
Spencor nnd tho man with him wore
bolioved to bo wounded.
Tho search for Spencer and his
companion was being directed today
around Tulsn. Tho bandit leader left
behind him two of the men who were
nlleged to have aided him Monday In
the robbery of tho state bank at
Munnford one dead and the other
In the hands of Creek county officers.
The dend bandit Is Bud Maxfiold,
who started his criminal career back
In tho territorial duys of Oklahoma
as a cattlo rustler. Maxfield is
known to havo worked under Honry
Starr, also dead.
Leo Sturtz, automobllo mechanic,
Is tho man held authorities say.
DENVER, Colo., Mar. 28. Tom
Clarke, former chief deputy sheriff of
the West Side court, and three other
persons wore Indicted by a county
grand jury today in connection with
the expose of an alleged liquor party
Saturday In the grand jury room.
Clarke was arrested and released on
bond.
Lou Blongor, A. W. Duff and J,
Homor French, on trial as members
of a nationally known bunko ring,
wero alleged to have participated in
the party.
Later it was announced that Blon
gor, Duff and French were the throe
men indicted with Clarke. Capiases
wero served upon them In jail. All
the men are charged with violation of
the prohibition act
' Heads Coal Board
WASHINGTON Mar. 28. Howard
Gandy, former member ot congress
from South Dakota has been appointed
executive secretary of the national
coal commission, succeeding J, A
Morrow,
FRENCH EYE
E
France First and Hold Guar
anteesGermany, Feeling
Nip of Ruhr Seizure, Offers
to Accept Hughes' New
Haven Speech As Settle
ment Basis. '
BERLIN, Mar. 28. (By Associated
Press), The German government is
willing to do everything possible to '
Insure payment of its reparations obli
gations as they might be determined
by un International businessmen's
commission Foreign Minister von
Rosenburg has Informed the foreign
relations committee of the relchstag.
The minister said that the govern
ment has communicated to the Euro
pean powers with the exception of
those directly interested in the Ruhr
occupation, Its belief that the propos
als contained in Secretary Hughes'
New Haven speech constituted a feas
ible means of settling the reparations
problem. He reiterated that the occu-
pled region must be unconditionally
evacuated before there could be any
negotiations for a settlement of the
controversy.
Submission of the reparation issues
to an International group on which
Germany had equal representation
would find the German -government
! ready to take steps toward obtaining
an international. loan, : Baron von
i Rosenburg said. . The proceeds would
bo given to the allies immediately as
navment.
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PARIS, May. 28. (By Associated
'Press). Premier Polncare is under-
st00(j to nave toi,i the finance com-
mlttee of the chamber of deputies yes-
. t n Li
uireci negotiations wita rrance, oui
said he hoped that the German resis
tance would end by the last of May.
Although M. Polncare Is said to
have admitted that the economic re
turns from the occupation, have been
relatively slight, he informed the com
mittee that France and Belgium were
prepared to retain the physical guar
antees already held until pay was
made. The Ruhr allies, he added,
could not consider the evacuation ot
Esson until the bill Was fully met,
although they were ready to withdraw
in other instances in proportion to set
tlements by Germany. ,
PARIS, Mar. 27. (By Associated
Press). While various Interpretations
may be put upon the note the repara
tions commission Is Bending to Ger
many in connection with her foreign
currency loan Issue, the correct one,
according to some of the best Inform
ed circles, is that . It holds In sub
stance that there Is no question ot the
German government's right to offer
the loan, but that there does exist a
question as to the security it may
give.' 1
The text of the note, prepared by
Sir John Bradbury of England and M.
Delacroix of Belgium, calls attention
to article 248 of the Versailles treaty,
defining priority rights In reparation,
and continues: v
"Tho commission makes express
reservation, as against subscribers to
the loan, of Its right of priority against
any funds which may be assigned by
the German government to the pay
ment ot Interest or the repayment ot
capital to the loan in question."
It Is affirmed that the original In
tontlon of the French was to prevent
the launching of the loan with a guar-.
an tee by the reichsbank, but now that
the loan Is said to be but sixty per
cent subscribed, the original French
position has been temporarily modi
fled. Tho British position of "benevolent
neutrality" towards tho Franco-Belgian
occupation of the Ruhr was In no
manner altered, it Is declared, by the
discussion engaged In before the send
ing of the present note.
EVERYTHING GONE
BUT THE STILL
HEPPNER, Ore., March 88.
Juniper canyon, where moonshiners
yesterday repulsed an sttempted raid
on their still by Morow county offi
cers, today yielded tip the still to a
posse dispatched from here, but the
operators ot the still escaped,
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