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Medford Mail Tribune
The Weather
Prediction. ...Rain and colder
Maximum yesterday .82
Minimum today .32
Weather Year Ago
Maximum
Minimum ....
..57
..35
Dully Eighteenth Tenr.
Weekly Fifty-Third Year.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1923
NO. G
RECORDCOLD
FOR MARCH
HITS EAST
New York Shivers in Zero
Weather Four Below in
Boston, All New England
Chilled Blizzard Raging in
Detroit Nippy in Pitts
burg. WASHINGTON,! March 29. The
March lion and the March lamb,
which have been playing hide and
geek during the month, today seem
ed to have completely reversed the
traditional order ot things and in
Bcme sections at least, the month
gave every Indication of going out
with a wintry roar. Weather bureuu
officials in making public record
breaking temperatures in the east
and mid-west for so late In the sea
son, also announced that this March
had "taken the palm" from all oth
ers, notwithstanding that the month
Is noted for Its fickle temperature.
Some thermometer readings tele
graphed in today, all of them mark
ing new low points, were: Washing
ton 18; HarriBburg, Pittsburg and
Philadelphia 14; Erie 6; Albany, N.
Y., zero; Buffalo 6; Fort Wayne,
Ind., 14; Greenville, Maine, 18 be
low, and White River, One., 30 be
low. NEW YORK, March 29. New
Yorkers went to work today shiver
ing In the coldest March weather on
record here. The temperature was
12 degrees. The coldest March
weather previously recorded was in
1873, when It was 19. .
At Saranac Lake the mercury drop
ped to 30 degrees below zero and
temperatures of ten below zero were
reported from several other up-state
points.
BOSTON, March 29. The temper
ature In New England today made
new low records for the season. In
Boston early today. It was four
above, making it one of the coldest
mornings of the year.
The lowest official temperature In
New England was 18 below at Green
ville, Maine.
PITTSBURG. March 29.
The
coiaest weaker in me n.Lu., u.
.. . .. . i , . .
Pittsburg weatner bureau lor rcu
19, was recorded enrlv today when
tne mercury ten to j.i uegruus
DETROIT, Mich. March M-Tbe
coldest weather in the history of the
Pittsburg weather bureau for March
29 was recorded early today when
the mercury fell to is degrees aoovo
zero,
: DETROIT, Mich., March 29. The
upper half of lower Michigan and the
entire northern part ot the state to
day were in the grip of weather more
severe than any experienced during
the winter. A bltaard that brought
wilh it Bub-zero temperature was
raging today.
NORFOLK. Va March 29. Four
men were frozen to death today in
Albermarle sound near the mouth of
the North river, thirty miles below
Elizabeth City, N.' C, when the tug
ulian J. Fleetwood capsized during a
storm. Five other members of the
crew were rescued by the Annie Van
Sclver of the North River line.
PORTLAND,' March 29. Warmer
thnn yesterday, when the March
record for warm wenthcr hero was
broken by a traction of a degree, was
indicated today as the wenthcr bu-
L"" le"u''Ir:.rnMBH higher
.UUUa mciiiiui .. -- -
than at the corresponding time yes
terday. The maximum reached yes
terday was 70 and the weather office
expected this to be exceeded today.
According to me omuim
warm speit is quo ,iw " -v....D...
REFERENDUM TAX ON GASOLINE OFF
IF
pr,PTT iNn Ore March 29.
PORTLAND, Ore., Marc" .
nrnnninc of the Drooosed referendum
against the Increase of one cent in
the gasoline tax on certain conditions
was to bo discussed this afternoon at
r conference of representative of the
Oregon Automotive Trades associa
tion, which started the movement for
the, referendum and members of the
highway commission and Governor
P W. M. Pierce.
CERTAIN
Bourbon Head Says
Tariff to Blame
For Sugar Prices
WASHINGTON, March 29.
While the tariff commission
was preparing for a broadened
Inquiry to determine, in accord-
ance with President Harding's
Instructions, whether present
Import duties were "even par-
tially responsible" for high
sugar prices, Cordell Hull,
chairman of the democratic na-
tional committee declared In a
published statement today that
It had become the duty of the
commission to report "imme-
diately" to thd president that
"it was partlully responsible."
Chairman Hull asserted that
on a buyers' market a fifty per
cent reduction in the sugar tar-
Iff, which the president would
be authorized to make under
the flexible provisions ot the
tariff act, would "certainly re-
duce the retail price between
two and three cents a pound."
Pacific, From Tropics to Arc
tic, Swept By Gales and
Rain and Wind Forecast-
Typhoon in Guam Damages
Naval Lines.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 29 Ship
ping In the eastern areas ot the Paci
fic ocean from the Arctic to the
Tropics is being tossed about today in
one of the worst storms ot the year
which should reach the coast states in
the next two days, the United States
weather bureau reported hero today.
Forecaster George H. Willson said
he had received four messages from
the steamer West Ivan "that she was
in a full southwest gale and that the
wind recorded was as high as 75 miles
an hour." The steamer Bearport, Ma
nila to San Francisco, reported a wes
terly gale. The West Ivan was 11UU
and tne
M Cape
jj. 0re
fixnected reaoh the
coast of the northwest states tomor-
- rt nn,l Infni. la nvnactfi,! in
' raln anv wlnda to California,
amount of ram shoul(l be eDongb
a dT0UgU in tne state,
to wulgon
foree o( the Btorm ,a ex.
nortort in ntrlkn thn Oreeon coast and
to spread northward ana soutnwara.
SAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 29. The
typhoon reported last night from the
vicinity of Guam, the American naval
outpost between Hawaii and the Phll
Innines. did considerable damage to
the naval establishments there, ac
cording to meager advices received to
day by the naval radio service from
Guam station.
The main force of the typhoon
ntruck only one corner of the Island
according to these advices, but it
wrecked the wireless antenna and put
the control lines out of commission
and did other damage. The navy how
ever,' rigged temporary wireless com
munication and temporarily resumed
Denbv In Jamaica
" AROARD U. S. S. HENDERSON,
KINGSTON. Jamaica, Mar. 29. (By
wireless to the Associated Pross)
1 Secretary Denby and his accompany-
- - ., i, .,J hmioo
ing memDers oi me reai
were given a round of receptions on
hoi arrival here today aboard the
tranan0I. Henderson, enroute home
from the fleet maneuvers in raimam
imv
1 The automobile men were said to
,, , riron the referendum if
h wiillns to dron the rcforend
ha hichwav commission would be
nledeed to adhere to a published
budget of bond retirement, highway
maintenance and new construction,
ai d If the governor and commission
agree to appointment of a commtttco
to prepare a revised schedule of au
tomobile license fees to be submitted
to the noxt legislature,
HEADED
OREGON
COAS
DUE TOMORROW
CONCESSIONS
HP EST
OF U.S.REDS
ON STAND
W. Z. Foster Belongs to
Nothing, Did Nothing En
dorses Soviet Plans Paid
Visit to Russia for Magazine
Denies Delegate to the
Michigan Convention.
ST. JOSEPH, Mich., March 29.
(By the Asociated Press.) William
K. Foster, charged with criminal
syndicalism, took the stand In hi
own defense today to describe his
work hi secretary treasurer of the
Trade Union Educational league.
Foster testified he has been a
member of the I. W. W., Seamen's
union, Car Men's union and other or
ganizations. Ke quit the I. W. W,
he said, "because 1 no longer agreed
with its DOlicies and program."
"Are you a member of any politi
cal party " Frank P. Walsh, Foster's
attorney asked.
"I am not."
"Were you a member of the com
munist party in August, 1922.'"
"I was not."
"Were you ever a member of the
Workers' party?"
"I was not."
The prosecution introduced last
week a questionnaire alleged to have
been filled out by Foster at the com
munlst convention last year and In
which he. stated he was a commun
1st party member.
Foster described a trip to RubsIb
1921 on which he attended tho
third Congress ot the communist In
ternationale at Moscow as a visitor-
He said he represented the ".Nation
New York publication, and the Fed
erated Press,, on his Russian trip
Foster said the only relationship
between the communist partyv of
America and his trado union educa
tional league was confined to an en-
orsement by the communists of the
league '
Foster said he first learned of the
Bridgman convention of the commun
ists two or three days before he came
to It William F. Dunne of New
York Invited him to attend the con
vention, he said.
Foster said he did not receive
either a questionnaire or a portfolio
t the convention The state has in
troduced a questionnaire and a port
folio alleged by witnesses to have
been Foster's property. Foster said
he delivered an extemporaneous ad
dress at the convention. Ho denied
he had ever attended a meeting of
a communist group and said he had
attended but one meeting of the par
ty's executive committee held In New
York City
"Were you elected a delogato to
the communist convention?" Mr.
Walsh asked.
"I wob not."
"Had you ever Bought election as
delegate?
"I had not."
Mr. Walsh asked the witness to re
peat the substance of the speech he
delivered at the convention
Foster said he had pointed out to
the convention that tho socialist par
ty had failed to concentrate on trade
union work and as a result It had
collapsed In the first test. Therefore,
ho said, he was glad to see the com
munist party was preparing to build
ou a trade union foundation
There seems to be an idea prevn
cnt In this country FoHter said he
told tho convention, thnt Americans
are immune to radlcnl ideas. Ho dis
puted that belief and suld highly de
veloped capitalism In America In
Itself helped create a militant union
ism. .
He cited the Chicago Federation of
Labor as one of the most progressive
labor organizations in the country, It
having endorsed tho labor party and
adopted resolutions in favor of geno
ral amnesty and similar subjects.
Fostor said ho told the convention
of a seven weeks' speaking trip he
had made through the west during
the shopmen's strike. He had told
the convention, he said, that at vir
tually every stop on his 8000 miles
trip the stations were plastered with
Injunction notices. Ho saw, he said.
armed guards at Deer Lodge, Mont.
Mllford, Utuh, and other places and
tho men were indignant over tho
treatment they were getting.
"I also told the convention about
the power of tho Oompers machine,'
Foster continued. "There Is an opln
Inn In somo circles that tho Oompnrs
machine Is very strong. I told them
this Is not true and the machine Is
strong only because the progressives
and radicals In the unions are not or
ganized. I told the mthcro are hun
dreds of thousands of strategic of
fices In the unions going begging be
cause we have no one prepared to
luke them,"
Death Of Philadelphia
Ex- Chorus Girl Like
A That of Virginia Rappe
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,vl mm THr
MEW YORK. Acuta peritonitis
(to those which resulted in the death of Virginia Rappe in the ArbucUe
case resulted in the death of Mrs. Frances Love Beckwith, former
chorus sprl, at Roosevelt Hospital March 20. . " ;..
Mrs.' Beckwith is the daughter of a wealthy Fhiladelphian. The
Injuries which caused her death were received at a fatty attended by
habitues o New. York's Great White. Way. ,.
BARBARITY TOLD lASHLANDWQMAN
BY WITNESS IN
T
State Rests, and Defense
Opens in Mine Massacre
Reporter Tells of Defendant
Denying Water to Wounded
Man Identifies Stories' of
Outbreak Last Summer.
MARION, III., Mar. 29. (By Associ
ated Press). The prosecution in the
second Herrln riot trial rested today
after having called 32 wltnessoa Blnce
the taking of testimony started on
March 5. Tho defense began the
presentation ot its case.
At the opening of today's Reunion,
the state called Donald M. Ewlng,
Chicago newspaperman, back to Me
stand for re-Ulrect examination.
Tho wltnoHs testified yesterday that
ho camo to Murion tho day of tne
riots as a staff correspondent of tlio
Associated Press, took an automo-
bllo to Herrln and saw six victims of
the outbreak lying in the road out
side the city.
Ewlng said that ho was prcventea
from Riving ono of tho wounded men
a drink by Ucrt Grace, one of tho six
defendants, and then went to Herrln
whero ho telephoned his story to the
St. Louis office ot the Associated
Press.
On cross examination tho witness
Identified certain parts of his account
of the tragedy, declaring that fho
words were "substantially" his. One
Bcntonco regarding men and women
luughing at tho wounded men he de
nied having written.
Tho witness Bald that besides him
self the Associated Press had two
local correspondents In Williamson
county at the timo and also had the
right to use nnythlng sent from the
sceno by special correspondents to
their newspapers when the latter
were members of tho Associated
Press.
"Undo" Tlnk Donihoo, 78 years
old. tho first defense witness, testi
fied that ho lived near tho mlno of
tho Southern Illinois Coal company
where the outbreak started. Ho said
he had used n public road that
crossed the mine property for forty
years until It was cut In two by work
ers In the mlno and a detour con
structed. MOCOW Russia offered citizen
ship to Isadora Duncan, tho dnncer,
recently expatriated by tho United
States,
IN
caused bv circumstances similar
TRIES TO KILL
SELF IN HOTEL
Domestic Trouble Alleged to
Be Cause Mrs. N. P. Shu
ler Fires Bullet Into Breast,
Condition Serious Hus
band Silent On Affair.
A telephone mOHHaRO from Ashland
this morning stated that Mrs. rlhulcr
d.f from her so.f mflic.od wound
mis morning.
.
ASHLAND, March 29. Domestic
troubles are tho alleged contributing
cause for the attempt ot suicide yes-
terday ot Mrs. N. P. Bhuler, recently
returned wtin nor nusoana irum
southern California, in tho vicinity of
San Diego. Tho couplo wore guests
of the Columbia hotel, wnoro tno
tragedy occurred about the noon
hour on Wednesrtuy, tho woman
shooting horself near the region of
tho heart with a 38 calibre rovolvor,
she being seated in a bathroom. The
bullet went clear through hor body,
ponctrntcd tho chair, then fell into
tho bathtub. The' victim was con
scious after tho deed, though doubts
woro expressed as to her recovery.
Tho husband could not be Interview
ed regarding tho affair, particulars
concerning which are somewhat veil
ed In secrecy. Ho is an Englishman,
said to he possessed of domineering
traits and characteristics.
He Is credited with being the owner
of extonslvo properties In Alaska and
elsewhere Tho couplo have visited
Ashland at various times and though
not deemed permanent residents,
wore nevertheless well known horo,
Mrs. Rchulcr being prominent In so
cial circles, hor acquaintance In this
roulm being extensive. Hhe Is about
40 years of ago Is of a pleasing per
sonallty, and hor many friends will
bo pained to learn of this tragla clr
cumslanco. Tho family have resided
In various places about town, and for
a time wero domiciled at the Palmer
Chamberlain ranch In the south part
of tho city.
, ItclKlum Active.
BRUSSELS, March. 29. The Bel
gian government has Instructed lis
military headquarters in tha Ithin
lund and tho Ruhr that the Belgian
troops shall participate actively In
operations for tho confiscation and
shipment of coal and coke from gov
ernment ownod mines In the occupied
territory it was Bald today.
First Instance in
History of Strikers
Settling Own Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, March 29.
(By the Associated Press.)
Notice that striking railroad
men themselves had colled off
the Btrlke on the Northwestern
Pnctflq railroad, the first au-
thentlc instance of tho kind ever
reported to the United States
railroad labor board, was given
to that board In n lottor from
W. S. Palmer, of San Francisco,
president of the road, made
public today. The road ex-
tends fiom San Francisco to
Eureka, Cal. ,
Tho letter from Mr. Palmer
enclosed one from tho officers
of the system) federation No.
115 notifying him that their or-
ganlzatton had officially called
off the strike.
That striking shopmen will
be treated only aa men applying
for work, without any previous
Borvlce with the road, was an-
nounced In President Palmer's
letter. Virtually all the men
employed In the shops of the
road left tho service July 1.
1922, he stated, and have been
suplanted bv an almost entirely
new forte which has formed its
own organization.
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LAID TO REST
Paris Pays Tearful Tribute to
Mme. Bernhardt, Trage
dienne of Stage Huge
Crowd Crushed in Rush to
Cemetery.
PARIS, March 29. (By the Asso
ciated Pross) Paris paused today to
pay a final measure of rospoct to tho
great Sarah Bernhardt.
Crowds that gathered at tho church
of St. Francois do Sales for the ser
vices and at tho cometory Pere la
Chaise, mourned sincerely for her
whom they loved so well and they
brought In profusion tholr tribute of
flowers. 1
Uernhardt's body rested in the
rosewood casket which she ordered
mado thirty years ago. On the breast
of her white Batln dress was pinned
the cross ot tho legion of, honor,
while about her neck was tho gold
locket containing the likeness of her
son.
The ceremony at the church was
simple, for Bernhardt had expressed
a wish that thoro be no eulogies.
The Btroets leading to the Rue Am
pore, whero the church of St. Fran
cois de Salea is located, wore throng
od with crowds.
The blor was placed at tho head ot
the nave, elevated about etn feet ana
. " ,T
foBt ngh ftt tno foot.
The ceromony In the church ended
I 0 one o'clock. The coffin was placed
n n hearse covered with flowors and
j followed bv flvo floats, each drawn
UJP two horses and each bearing a
mountain of flowors, ten or a dozen
foet high
As the procession moved toward
tho cemotory pero la Chaise, all Paris
soomed to bo either lining the streets
or hastonlng to find places on tho
routo to tho placo of burial.
Tho day was ono of beautiful sun-
Bhlno, moro liko summer than spring
The police estimated that there
wore ono million persons between la
Madeleine and tho Thcatro Sarah
Bernhardt. All traffio along tho
routo was suspended from ono unll
tnroo p. m
Practically every window along tho
way was filled with spectators.
James K. Harkott was present at
1
Sarah
1
FLOWERS
INDIANA WILL NOT TAKE ACTION
INDIANAPOLIS, March 29. Mrs.
Edward Franklin White, doputy at
torney general of Indiana, in an in
formal opinion today expressed the
belief that the marriage of Rudolph
Valentino, film star, and Miss Wlnl-
fod Hudnut at Crown Point, Ind., re.
ccntly was illegal. No action against at& their re-marrlage here on that
the couple 1b contemplated by state. , . , .. ..
authorities, however, who point out ?at were legal and that no question
that county officials are responsible , ln iectioa with the marriage had
for determining the eligibility of ap- arisen.
pllcants for marriage licenses. Ko opinion on the validity of the
Strictly Interpreted, the Indiana law license or the' marriage had been
tequlros that the woman be a resi- sought and none had been transmit
dent of tho county in which the H-'tl to the clerk's office, it was add
cense is granted, led, ....,,
SWEETIE' OF
BUTTERFLY
GIRL TALKS
Guimares Says Slain Model
Introduced Him to Draper
Daugherty in Cabaret Now
Admitted Murder Due to
Blackmail Plot No Evi
dence for Arrest. ;
NEW YORK, March 29. Alfred
Guimares, Intimate friend of Dorothy
Keenan, slain model, today broke the
silence he has maintained before
newspapermen and declared that
cither District Attorney Pecora, or .
Draper M. Daugherty, son of Attor
ney Clencral Daugherty, was In error
in saying that Daugherty waa un-
i acquainted with him.
I Mr. Pecora yesterday interviewed
I Daugherty as to his relations with
Miss Keenan with a view to ascer
taining who tho man was who tried
to blackmail him of aid In obtaining
post in the United States depart
ment of justice under threats of dis
closing his acquaintance ; with tne
deud girl. Later he quoted Daugh
erty as saying he had never met Gui
mares.
Guimares, talking freely after he
had . been arraigned on a charge ot
violating the law against firearms
and released in $2,600 bail, said he
had been introduced to Daugherty
In a cabaret by Miss Keenan.
NEW YORK, March 29. The pq
lice and the district attorney's office
started tor tho first time today on a
Joint Investigation In the slaying ot
Dorothy Keenan.
Every person already examined,
wus under rocull to undergo re
questlonlng by the combined force.'
Until now the police held the mur
der was the. bungling ot a burglar
seeking gems who did not know how
to use chloroform, but the district
attorney's office proceeded on the
basis that Miss Keenan was killed
In some ramification of a $100,000
blackmail plot devised to victimize
John Koarsley Mitchell, son-in-law
of E. T. Stotesbury of Philadelphia.
Whllo Assistant District Attorney
Pecora was informed by Major Dra
per M. Daugherty, son of the attorney
general, of the name of the man he
asserts attempted to Intimidate htm
by exposing whnt the major says was
a "casual and social" acquaintance
with Miss Keenan, Mr. Pecora Indi
cated he hasn't sufficient evidence
for an arrest.
This individual already has been
mentioned In the case as one of its
minor figures and was very .close to
the dead girl, said Mr. Pecora, but
that was as far as he would identify
tho man.
Let I. W. W.'b Convene.
CHICAGO, March 29. No inter
forrence will be offered to a north
west conference of 1. W. W., an
nounced to be held in this city April
2, It was stated today by city offi
cials. The organization, it was de
clared, had eliminated from Its writ
ings everything which advocates
overthrow of the government.
the church ns the representative ot
American and English writers and
players; President Mlllerand was rep
resented by Leon Theread, minister
ot education, and the French govern
ment by M. Relbel, minister of liber
ated regions.
Tho cemetery was filled with what
old residents of Paris termed the
greatest crowd in its history and aa
the casket ot the tragedienne was
lowered Into the simple tomb a great
sigh swept over the throng, punctu
ated by the sobs ot those more deeply
affected.
In tho rush to gain a glimpse of
the bier, many were crushed and fell
fainting, while the long lines of gen
darmes swayed to nnd fro under the
pressure of the crowd. Not since the
I victory parade In July., 1919, had
Igathoring of this . Immensity been
seen in Paris.
STILL UNMARRIED. BUT
CROWN POINT, Ind., March 29.
At the office ot the county clerk ot
Lake county today it was announced
that the marriage license issued
March 14 to Rodolph Valentino and
his; second wife, Winifred , Hudnut,