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' "A , Mail Trie The Weather Prediction: Fair. Heavy to killing frost. Maximum yesterday... 61 Minimum today 31.1 Weather Year Ag& i Maximum i 47.2 ! Minimum 32 Precipitation .07 Dally Eighteenth Tear, Weekly Fifty-Third Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, APRIL 13, 1923 NO. 19 Medfoi CD UNE BREAK INTO HOI, FIND ' WIFE DEAD Frank S, On4, Portland Visitor in Medford, Crazed -By Tragic News Received By Wire From Home in Rose ' City C. E. Gates Is Ap pealed to. PORTLAND, Ore., April 13. (Special to Mail' Tribune) The body of Mrs. Lola Orr, wife of Frank S. Orr, agent for southern Oregon for Ford Motor company was .found last night in' her home here. The room filled with gas from a heater which had accidentally blown out. Dog and cat also were found dead. Mrs. Orr arrived here Sunday from Med ford, intending to proceed "to Seattle, to visit her mother. She is believed to have died Monday. A broken-hearted, bewildered man, victim of a pathetic tragedy at his home in Portland Qf which he had Just learned last night, is F. S. Orr, district road man of the state Ford cat agency, having in charge ail the Ford agents south of Eugene, who spent last night at the Hotel Medford and departed this morning On the Shasta for Portland. . "I am going crazy: you just must see me and stay with me at the hotel," was the startling announce ment over the telephone this morn ing to C. E. Gates, with whom he was to have spent the day here on business. The former, mayor hur ried to Mr. Orr from his home as fast as his car would go and there learn ed the astounding story which had Just come to light In Portland during the night and which was wired to Mr. Orr here. Mr. Gates remained with the grief stricken man and did his best-to console him -until the lat ter boarded the train for his grim home coming. Mr. Orr is 43 yeaVs old and his wife is presumably about that age. They were married seven years ago in Portland and shortly after the mar riage he was transferred by the. Ford company, of which he had been an employe for years, to Iowa, and only a month ago, much to their Joy he was transferred back to this state, Two weeks ago Mrs. Orr came down In her car from Portland to spend Sunday and Monday with him at Eu gene and Roseburg. They were devoted to each other and had an ex ceptionally good time together. She then returned to Portland in the car and he continued on about his terri tory attending to business duties. A few days later he received a let ter from her In which she told of her safe arrival home, expressed her de light nt being back in God's country, from Iowa, meaning - Oregon and Portland, and at looking forward to a visit with her mother in Se attle,, on which trip she was to start next day. She stati that she j was DOlting mt-ui iur "itn iil-i. uu&, and that she had sat down to write to him before she dressed up. ( Thereafter he kept writing to her galmost dally and anxiously awaiting other letters or messages from her, which never came. He finally wrote and telephoned relatives In Portland, stating it was strange he did not hear from her, thinking all the time that his wife had gone to Seattle, as she had planned. They had not seen her. Finally yesterday afternoon before , departing for Medford by train from Klamath Falls he called up a rela tive in Portland by phone ami re ceived the information that they had learned that she had not appeared at her mother's home in Seattle and that his own letters written to her had nlled un at that address. Thereupon Mr. Orr told the rela tives at Portland that he could stand the worry no longer that something must be radically wrong and asked them to breaK in i" door of the Orr home and look around. Rnmettme after the arrival of Mr. Orr, last evening in Medford he re ceived a telegram at the hotel stat ing that on breaking into the house they had found Mrs. Orr dead seated k in a chnlr and the pet dog dead on the floor at her side. He then called up relatives over WILLIAM BURNS DENIES HE ASKED KLUXERS 10 DALLAS, Texas, April 13. -Red radicals are becoming a menace to the United States, preaching armed resistance and open rebellion among laboring classes of the north and cast, and the time is near when leg islation to prevent their obtaining a foothold in this country will be nec . essary, William J. Burns, head of tho bureau of investigation, department of justice, said today. The discharge ot agent from the Friday the 13th Is Declared Unlucky Day for Bandit HAVANA, Cuba, April 13. Friday the 13th waB an unlucky day for Ramon Arroyo (Arroy- ito), the notorious bandit, whose exploits around Matan- zas, have kept the countryside in a state of terrorism for two months. He was captured while riding in an automobile bus between Guanabacoa and Regla, within ten miles of lia- vana. Tho outlaw's last exploit was the abduction ot Setter Juan Bautlsta! Cantao, the milllon- aire sugar magnate, whom he held tor a ransom variously said to be between $20,000 and ?ioo,ooo. - ADVOCATED FOR- ALL RELIGIONS Episcopal Church Leader in Favor of Week Day School to Teach Religion As Sup plementary to Public School System. OMAHA, Neb., April 13. (By the Associated Press.) A;l churches are seeing the vital need for week day' religious instruction of children, and Due movement to have them receive it during regular school hours is , spreading rapidly throughout the countrv. Dr. Edward Sargent of Newi York Citv. 'secretarv of week daE re-l iintn.,a (nDnnHntt dannrimoiit nt the : Protestant Episcopal church, told the! church's fourth annual educational conference here today. "The plan for week day instruction is not a movement of any one church or single, denomination," he said. "While three years ago, only five Ctie3 in as many states had the sys tem in operation, today there are some 100 cities in about thirty states where 'the school boards have made it possible for the child, upon the re quest of the parent, to be excused to attend a school of religious instruc tion of the parents' choice held out side the school building. "The plan is exceedingly simple," lie declared. "Upon the home is placed the responsibility of stattng in writing that it desires the school to devote a period of the school day for religious instruction. "Wherever the work has been un- dertaken three very clear results have followed. Jt has held the cmiu imutem aim given il u new point of view and attitude toward things sacred and religious. It has influenced the home to a keener realization of Its responsibility for the child's religious training. It has forced back into the school school on Sunday a diferent set at ideals and standards than they have had here tofore And which it seems Impossible to secure when we consider religious Instruction and training to be merely a thing of Sunday alone." Soviet Meeting Delayed. RIGA. April 13. The congress of the all-Russlan communist party, scheduled to start Sunday, has been postponed until June. The growing unpopularity of the Moscow group among the nrovlnclal Soviets was mentioned In connection with the postponement. the long distance phone. They told him that she had undoubtedly been asphyxiated and died shortly after writing him the letter two weeks be fore. The dog meat was still on the gas stove, and the burner valve had been turned off by her. However, the room und house were full of gas which had come from a leak in the stove, they said. QUIT SECRET SERVICE department who are members of the Ku Klux Klan has never been consid ered, be declared. "Soviet Russia, birthplace of the red menace, is sending emissaries to this country every day and their teachings are being taken up by the radicals In this country." Mr. Burns said. "With two laws now being formulated for presentation to con grass for action, 1 will bo able to drive the radicals from this country.' CHURCH SCHOOL SENSATIONAL CAREER ENDS ON SCAFFOLD Most - Tragic Romance Ever Recorded in Annals of Okla homa Closes With Hanging of Paul Hadley Innocence Maintained to Last Re prieve Fails. FLORENCE, Ariz., Ar!l 13. Paul V. Hadley died on the gallows before sunrise today for the murder of Mrs. Anna C. Johnson. The trap" was palled at 5:10 o'clock' and Hadley was pro nounced dead at 5:22. The condemned man maintained to the end his claim of Innocence of the crime for which he was executed. He met his fate calmiy without display ot fear or bravado. Hadley, an escaped life termer from, the Oklahoma state penitentiary, was convicted of mur dering Mrs. Johnson during an auto mobile trip over the Arizona desert to November, 1921. In tile group of 38 persons who wit nessed the hanging was Peter John son, husband of the slain woman. Johnson, himself severely wounded at the time his wife wag killed, was the state's principal witness ta Hadley's two trials. Hadley mounted the platform with out hesitation. He had eaten no breakfast but had dressed with delib erate care. "I am innocent and ready to meet my death," was his only statement Hadley at his own request was bap tized during the night by the Rev. J v. Henderson, prison chaplain, and Dr. James Hunter, another chaplain, Not until - nearly midnight was hone' abandoned for a stay of exeteu- tinn for the condemned man. His attorney, John L. VanBuskirk of Tuc son. made an eleventh hour appeal to Governor Hunt for a farther hearing on the ulea for a commutation of sentence to life imprisonment, but was' unsuccessful. Hadley's body, unclaimed by rela tives, was buried on the prison grounds. He is survived by his aged mother, two divorced wives, nnd two children, according to his attorney. Mrs. Ida Hadley. the second wife, who served with him in the Okla homa penitentiary, secured a divorce recently. Tragic Romance, MUSKOGEE, Okla., April 13 (By the Associated Press) The execution of Paul Hadley ends the most tragic romance ever recorded In official documents of Oklahoma. In 1916 Hadley and his bride, Ida, were tried in district court here for the murder of Sheriff W. T. Giles of Jefferson county, Texas. Hadley was being returned from Kansas City to Texas to answer a minor charge when Sheriff Giles was killed. As the fast Missouri, Kansas and Texas train crossed the line between Muskogee and Mcintosh counties. Ida Hadley, whom Sheriff Giles had permitted to accompany them, shot the Bhcriff, Jerked the bell cord, and as tho train came to a stop, jumped, with her husband, from the ear and plunged into a nearby thicket. After 24 hours search, therpalr was ar rested in Mcintosh county. She was acquitted, but tho husband was found guilty and sentenced to life im prisonment. Ida begged to accompany her hus band to the penitentiary. Her pleas unavailing, she led an attempted Jail break, was captured and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. Two years ago, Hadley, then a trusty, was released from the peni tentiary to perfect an invention. He never returned. Tho first word from him came from Tucson. Ariz., where under the name of William S. Esta- ver, he was On trial for the murder of Mrs. Anna Johnson, wife ot o Denver contractor. J. Berry Peter son, nn attorney of Tahlequah, recog nised Hadley In the Arizona court room. '-. Meantime Ida (Hadley had been re leased.. She went nt once to Arizona, announcing her intentton to appeal to T. E. Campbell, then governor, to commute tho sentence of death passed on her husband. Her ptans, however, miscarried, and, according to Hadley, she is now in Wichita Falls, Texas. ZBYSZKO IN HOSPITAL AS RESULT OF BOUT: KANSAS CITT, April II. Stanis laus ZUyszJio, former heavyweight wrestling champion, was in a hospital here today, recovering from a slight concussion of the brain, which he suffered when ha wn defeated last night by John Pesok of Nebraska. i'enek won the bout in straight falls and the right ta meet "Strangler" Lewis, title holder. YanderbiltJHetresS T6 Wed In" Deb" Year Can Count On Dad's Consent IT,?. 1 f I,ra,"I(r5L LI g ""j'vANPEKBll-T VT?w"vnPJrT New York -society." calloused to'unusual "family .relationships through the frequent re-marriage of its divorced man; "hers, is nevertheless' drawing, a smile out of. the engagement . of Gathleen Vanderbilt and Harry Cashing, 3rd. When Reggie Vanderbilt married Gloria Morgan, daughter Catft leen was. to have acted as bridesmaid, but she did not hor op. Instead, she spent the day with her mother, Mrs. Sydney; J. Colford, it Palm Beach. . v' Now' that Cathleen must secure her father's consent to her mar ' riage, gossips are wondering what grounds he can find for objBJ,ng. Harry Cushing's family does not move in the-select Vanderbilt , circles, but he is thoroughly eligible, and it would be laughable ior Reggie to object to hij daughter marrying in her "deb" year, whta . she is two year older than her 17-year-old step-mothr.f SI 500 FINE AND ' A YEAR IN JAIL FDR MOONSHINER R. H, Price was sentenced to year in jail and to pay a fine of $1 500 and O. Greer received a six months' jail sentence and tho Impo sition of a $500 fine yesterday af ternoon when tho couple appeared before Glenn Q. Taylor and pleaded guilty to violation ot the state pro hibition laws. . A posse under S. B. Sandefer, county prohibition officer, left Med ford yesterday morning at an early hour for the scene of the raid which !ed to the arrests. Upon arriving at a point on the Ilogue river several miles above Gold Hill, the supposed location of the moonshiner's opera tion was surrounded by the men, moat of whom were armed with ri fles. Two local policemen took part in tho raid. ; The men were taken without any violence, but upon reaching the cabin 3 rifle, an old cap and ball pistol and a double barrel shotgun were found ready for action. The shotgun con tained shells that had been reloaded with 25-20 slugs. It happened that the raldtng party arrived at a time when no one was on guard. A crude still was found at" the scene of operations and a quantity of corn mash was also taken. Later af ter a talk between Sandefer and one of the men,. ten pints of moonshine wore uncovered and confiscated. Price was charged with making, possessing and fermenting mash fit for distillation. Under a new state law, passed at the last sesstsan of the legislature, a maximum penalty ot three years in Jail and $3000 Is provided for this offense. Greer was charged with possess ing the liquor and received the max imum penalty under the state law of $500 and 6 months. It Is declared hy authorities that Greer has been before the federal authorities previ ously On a similar charge. These are two of the heaviest Jolts ever handed to liquor law violators In Jackson county, and in the case of Price. This is tho first action in Jack son county under the new possession law. Marshal Forlt in Cm row. nKRIJN, April IJ. Marshal Foch with cprtatn Frenrh. generals, was re ported in Cracow, SLcR.lA. MOR'SAN-' HOLD MEETING TO SOLVE PROBLEM OCCUPATION PARIS, April 13. (By Associated Press. The premiers of France and Belgium, with their principal minis terial advisers, met here today In an Important conference on the repara tions question. One of the main objects is the devis ing ot new measures to make the Ruhr occupation productive. It Is con tended that as long as the Ruhr is unproductive of coal it will be, difficult to persuade the Germans to accept the i ranco-Uolgian viewpoints. While the French and the Belgians are issuing figures to show that since tea Brus sels conference the datly coal and coke production has Increased from 3000 tons to 5000 tons, the German reparations delegates in Paris declare that after three months of occupation, the two attics are bringing less than ijOO tons daily. Those here who are In touch with the official German viewpoint declare that Germany will not negotiate so long as the allies occupy the Ruhr and they contend the two allied powers are "killing the goose that laid the golden egg," since the Ruhr now is unprofitable and Germany's ability to pay any reparations is diminishing. The explanation offered for the suc cess of the German passive resistance is tho attitude ot tho workmen who, it is asserted, will not now, and never wilt, work In the presence of French troops. When the French and Belgians en tered the Ruhr early In January the allies as a whole were receiving total of 1,600,000 tons of coat monthly of which the French share was 1,009,- 000 tons. It is said that Italy is re ceiving her full quota of coal as pro vided under tho 1822 reparations schedule. Germany has been able Iflsawiaa to continue her shipment of coal to Switzerland and Holland under the old economic Agreements, separate front the reparations question. Threo Killed In Tornado. TililiAUDEAtj'X, La April 13. Three negroes were killed and scores of whites and negroes Injured when a tornado swept across Bayou La Fourche. early today. Many houses In the path of the tornado, which was estimated at 200 yards wide, were wrecked. Nuns to Quit As Teachers Rather Than Doff Garb SALEM, April IS. Nuns em- ployed as teachers In the pub- lie schools ot Marion county will surrender their positions rather than discard their religious garb when the anti-garb biit en- acted by the last legislature be- comes effective May 5, aceord- ing to Mrs. Mary L. Fttlkerson, countj! superintendent of schools. An erroneous report to the effect that the nuns stood ready to discard their religious garb is explained by a statement that the arms stood ready to obey the law. This, it is ex- plained, means that they will give up their teaching positions. A number of nuns are em- ployed as teachers In the schools of this county, particularly in the vtctntty of Mount Angel and St. Paul. - .-'.-v.' ' REPORT HARVEY MAY RESIGN TO ASSIST G. 0. P. Washington Republicans Witt Not Be Surprised to Hear ef Ambassador's Return From England to Aid in Republi can Campaign. . . . tude ot a czar," : . . WASHINGTON. April IS. A com-. Father DtUon t being held. Father prehensive survey of the republican O'Neill, his assistant and Father Me outlook for 1924 has been made the Cuiiough were at the tab ,.p said, last few days in conferences here. In- Father O'Neiil ordered Dillon to go volvlng most of th titular leitr.of -upfttatnr-iuid-r'pacte 5ttii grip"1.' Instead, tho party. Dillon went to his room, obtained ; . Not only men and nollctce but such revolver and returned. ?!" tiL XL? V m M "l lBtMd8d to tv9 h!m cnanco to treasury ana the cnoleo or a 14 , . , - .... , convention city have had active eon- fea "Pt 1 kt?ad slderation. No definite conclusions n police report Dillon as saying, are announced, but the net result has "but as I advanced Into the room, been to still further advance the with the revolver extended, I saw him season ot pre-conventlon activities, grab a salt cellar to throw at me, and already far ahead of tho usual poittt- j f ;r8d twice." cat calendar. As the priest's body slipped to the Thus far the conferences have. , according to Ms story. ttonol Treasurer Fred Upham of CM- cage, several members of the cabt- net and a number of senators who keep a close connection with ail mat - tors of party policy, within a few days two former national chairmen, SmS 5' Ht".c? New "Eorte "."J Will H. Hays of Indiana are expected to confer with others Interested . in the New York primary. K Within a few weeks. Colonel Geo. It. Harvey, ambassador at London, the statement sold. "I took that in is expected to appear, and It ta the , my own hands and I killed him. I belief In political circles that he wiii want to go to Jackson (the state be found willing to contribute some , prison!. I'd rather have the chair. -pertinent advice regarding both party i ..r B8Ver did any barm to my life: policies and eraginzatioa in 14M,1 counted o'Hs oneof The mainsa ot the pre-conventlon movement for the re-election of President Harding' and although he has made no public statement on the subject, Ms name often has been coupled In political gossip here with the efforts of the friends of Mr, Hays ta ro-tnatate htm as national chairman. The state department eipecta Mr. Harvey to return to his post in Lon don after his brief vacation, but it would cause no surprise here if be resigned next winter to take an ac tive part in tho campaign. So far as noiiciea are concerned, the administration proposal for American membership In the Inter - national coon notas nntt ran m court the discussions ot 1924. Secretary Hughes recently discussed the pro posal at great length with Senator Watson of Indiana who pointed out in some detail the attitude of a group of anti-court republican senators. The Indiana senator made fc-ia call at the state department after he had gone over the whole subject with Republican Leader Lodge and at about tho same time the court was discussed at a long conference tween President 'Harding and Seere-1 specifications of her father's wiii, de tary Hoover. rided to make thepology. SPENDS HilDAY. THE 13TH, IN BED IN HOPE OF AVOIDING DISASTER MACON, Ga., April 13. J, A. Paraham, Macon businessman, an nounced that he would spend today, Friday, the 13th In bed, In the hope that he will get through the day safely- Ha save aa his reasons: While working on a machine ta hit garage, a steel splinter struck htm in the eye, destroying the sight on the I3th of the month. The following month, also on She 13th, he broke an arm while crank in I an automobile, PRIEST KILLS HOLY FATHER IN MICHIGAN Rev. Charles DffSon Assist, Rector Kalamazoo . Cathofic Church, Sheets Pastor of Parish at Dinner Table Gives ttt Treatment As the Cause of Crime, KALAMAZOO, Mich., April 13. The Rev. Father Charles Dillon, charged with the slaying of his su perior, the Rev. Father Henry O'Neill, pastor of St. Augustine's Catholic church, here last night, waived exam ination when arraigned in municipal court hero today. Ha was bound over to circuit court and wag to ha arraigned before Circuit Judge George V. "VYimer, this afternoon. KALAMAZOO, Mich, April 13. Armed with a revolver and a phial of holy otbj to administer extreme unc tion to his victim, the Rev. Father Charles Dillon, assistant rector ot St. Augustine's Catholic church, last night shot and killed the Ear. Father Henry O'Neill, paatoV of the parish, follow ing a quarrel at the dinner table. Father O'Neill had ordered Mm from the house. v The killing of Father CNetll cul minated what Father Dillon told police was "thirteen months of ill treatment,' 'during which, he said, father O'Neill "treated me like a little boy, and assumed toward me the atti? , taming noty otis ana iota bhh k minister me aacraiiiesii vi Bivroiira unction at once. t "I knelt before God and prayed that something would happen to that man," puthgf Dillon was quoted a saying Sa statement to Prosecutor Stephen H, ,,,.,.' . .' , , "I had no right to kill Father O'Neill; not one right to the world, never took a cent tram anybody. 'The M children all over Michigan , will tea you uiey mva mo. j D 7 J T-rnn Shnflf ' fOttlana trap OJOOf Opens, Many Compete PORTLAND, Ore., April 13. The Rose City hundred number four trap; hoot was scheduled to open here to day on the Portland Qua etafr grounds, to continue for three days. Many clay pigeon experts from Ore- ! Ron, Washington, British Columbia. 1 aad California are here for the evant , ,n!t -VAral of them took nart veater- day in a practice shoot. Approximately 11400 ia cash prizes will be awarded and some $380 In prises. : Who Woni&at ApotocteU. GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., April U Mrs. Gertrude Linderman Qlimour who has withheld the apology to her .) I ...... hdl. ... ta? ftftft HniM. tK Then in the next month, alto on the 13th, he slipped in grease is his garage and broke his leg. For two months thereafter, -by us ing extra precautions he tot by without a mishap, Then the 13th rolled around and white he was watching mechanic at work on an automobile, a block broke loose from its fastening, fell os aia foot and smashed it. - Last month, on the 13th, hit gar age wa destroyed by ttt.
