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    Medford Mail Tribune
The Weather
Prediction Rain
Maximum yesterday.. .......72
Minimum today.. 44
.Precipitation - -....06
Weather Year Ago
Maximum - 58
Minimum 29
Precipitation . Trace
Dally Eighteenth Year.
Wtxikly Fifty-Third Year.
. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 3923
NO. 22
.8.
Insurance Policy
Puts U. S. Worker in
Soviet 'Jail As Spy
Poison Gas Mask
HOT I BY
Wealthy Speeder Sent to Penitentiary
Perfected by U. S. A.
For War and Peace
MEADS
' LONG FIGHT 1
!
Oldest Active Anglican Bishop
l
t in , World Finally Succumbs
After Marvellous Struggle !
i
Against the Inevitable At;
Death's
Weeks.
Door for Seven
ST. LOUIS, April 17. (By Associat
ed PreBs). The R:ght Rev. Daniel
Sylvester Tuttle, presiding bishop of
the Episcopal church In the United
f States and oldest Anglican bishop In
point of service In tho world, died at
his home hero this afternoon. He was
80 years old.
Death came at 2:03 o'clock. He had
been ill since February 28 with grippe.
With tho aged prelate's death
passed the office of presiding bishop
of the United States, which Bishop !
Tuttle held by seniority since 1903.
Under an arrangement voted at the
Episcopal general convention of 1919,
however, direction of the church's af
fairs has been placed in the hands of
a national council with an elected
bishop as head. Bishop T. F. Gailor of
Memphis heads this council at pres
ent. ,
During his illness, the venerable
churchman was at times unconscious
for long periods while at others he sat
up, took nourishment and read from
his prayer book.
"Now I lay me down to sleep," "was
the prayer he would mumble. It was
his favorite ejaculatory ' prayer. "I
have never given up the habit of re
peating this prayer," he would say. ,
Sketch of Career
Daniel Sylvester Tuttle, presiding
bishop of the Protestant Episcopal
church, a bishop since 1867 and head
of the diocese of Missouri since 18S6,
was born in Windham, N. Y.. Jan. 26,
1837. His father was a blacksmith.
For years Bishop Tuttle was a famil
iar figure in the streets of St Louis,
and a popular preacher there, so well
liked that his Easter sermon in the
Christ Church Cathedral was a feature
of the church-life of the city and the
announcement that he would occupy
a pulpit was sure to draw a large con
gregation. Bishop Tuttle was educated In rural
schools near his father's home, at
Columbia tinlvorsity and at the Theo
logical Seminary in Now York from
which he was graduated in 18611.
Although his father was a Methodist,
Daniel Tuttlo entered the Episcopal
ministry and was made missionary
bishop of Montana, Utah and Idaho in
1867, and in 1880 was olocted bishop
of Missouri.
Bishop Tuttlo had groat physical
activity and his habitual gnlt would
have taxed the powers of many young
er men. In his seventy-sixth year ho
found pleasure in chopping down trees
and cutting firewood. Ho was vlgor-
ous In opposing a plan to make the
post or presiding bishop elective In
stead of Its going by seniority. The
"clectivo plan, ho argued, would tend to
make the presiding bishop of the
church a superior prelate, and would
give tho church what he termed "a
Hlldebrandian touch and tone."
A coadjutor bishop to asslsf "Bishop
Tuttle in the diocese of Missouri was
olected in 1905. Bishop Tuttlo was
married to Miss Harriot M. Footo of
Morris, N. Y In 1865.
Another Wnr Theatcnwl.
TRENTON, N. J April 17.
Threatening to break off friendly re
lations with the New York state ath
letic commission unless It endorses
his action, Newton A. K. Bugboe,
New Jersoy. boxing commissioner, to
day indefinitely suspended Floyd
Johnson, Iowa heavyweight and his
canager. Charley Cook,' for ' failure
to fulfill a signed contract to box
Fred Fulton, at Jersey City last
night.
HIGH RENTS FORCE LONG BEACH
ECCENTRIC TO LIVE IN CHURCH
LONG BEACH, Cal.. April 1.
James M. King who said he was a
draftsman of Salt Lake City, explained
to policemen who found him living In
a church' here that his action was
caused by "high rents."
The police saw a light In a Metho
dist church at a time of night when
no light should have been there. They
found King frying ham nnd eggs over
n small ga stove.
LONDON, April 17. A Con
stantinople dispatch to tho
Daily Mall says that Elgin E.
Groseclose, an American relief
worker, has arrived In that city
from Tiflts, where he said he
spent 16 days in solitary con-
finement In a soviet prison on a
charge of spying.
The charge was based on the
discovery among his papers of
an Insurance policy which the
Bovlet police mistook for an In-
criminating document,
Grosoclose said that while he
was in jail 92 political prisoners
were shot in reprisal for the as
sassination of a bolshevik com-
missar.
E FIENDS
E LAW BY
A
Barred in New York and New
Jersey, Gotham Dancers
Charter Truck and Dance
Into Connecticut Anti
Dance Move Grows.
GREENWICH, Conn., April 17.
Vera Sheppard, dancing with Theo
dore Gill at 2:30 o'clock had danced
67 hours, setting a new world's rec
ord. Gill, who had not been Miss Shep
pard's partner from t'ao Btart, had not
jet readier the 67 hour mark. tMiss
Sheppard expects to keep up the pace
until 11 o'clock tonight.
NEW YORK, April 17. Vera
Sheppard and Theodore Gill, who be
gan dancing at 7:30 o'clock Saturday
night and toddled through three
states this afternoon passed the
world's record of 66 hours and six
minutes set this morn'.ng by Miss
Madelyne Gottschlck of Cleveland
and were stil going strong according
tu telephone advices from East Port
Chester, Conn.
NEW YORK, April 17. Barred In
New York and New Jorsey by the
police the mnratlion dancors who
started out Saturday night to smash
world's records for endurance, trans
ferred their activities to Connecticut
early today without missing a step,
reports from the Cygnot athletic club
at Eastport, Chester, Conn., said that
three of the orlginaf four couples were
still going strong.
The dancerB started in an uptown
Broadway hall and moved to Fort Lee,
N, J., In a moving van when the pollco
Interfered. When the officials there
ordered them to move on, they came
back to Now Jersey in a van starting
in a dingy flat, "Bomewhere in Har
lem." Fearing that they would be
found, they were transferred In a van
again to the Connecticut town.
Chicken soup has constituted their
main diet
Undeterred by reports of hew time
records mndo by dancers In the craze
elsewhere, the trl-state gliders said
they would dance until they dropped
to the floor.
World's Record Broken
CLEVELAND, April 17 The world's
continuous dancing championship
came back to Cleveland and Into the
hands of Madeline Gottshick, at 8:64
a. in. today as she continued dancing
at a local club aftor having establish
ed the new record at 66 hours 64 min
utes, boating by one minute the record
set by Miss Madalene Williams of
Houston, Texas.
Seventeen women and ten men,
among the latter being a one-legged
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At the police station where King
was taken for Investigation, the police
said they found a considerable sum of
money on him and a bank lmok show
ing deposits totaling $1500 In a Utah
bank.
"Well," King was quoted. "It's this
way. Rents are so high I decided to
live In the church for a while. I've
slept there severnl nlKhls and rooked
my menls In tho church."
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PHILADELPHIA, April 17. II. O. Brwk, wnlltiy Ifcikcr nnrt clubman of this city wn sentenced ycn
Urrclay to eight yonin In Ktnte's prison for killing IIhh Mary Murphy several weoks ago when In - nil intoxl
rated condition lio inn Ills enr Into xirty just nUghllng from u street car. Tlio pliotognipli nhovo shows
Bixh'Ic when arrested, his car nftor the crash nnrt the victim of tho tragedy.
2 Deputy Sheriffs
Killed By Moonshine
Gang in Louisiana
NEW ORLEANS, La., April
17. Two deputy sheriffs of St.
Bernard parish were Bhot and
i- killed early today in a fight
4 with rum runnors at tho Lake
Borgne canal bldge near Violet,
La. The dead are Joseph L.
Estoplnal, 49, and August Es-
teves, 47. Esteves also was a
federal prohibition agent.
Tho two men were fatally
'wounded while crossing a brldgo
and tho rum runners sped to-
wards New Orleans in their
whisky laden truck and cscapod.
Posses were formed and hun-
dreds of armed men hunted tho
parish along tho Mississippi
river.
:
TEXAS TRYING TO
STRUGGLE OUT OF
F
AUSTIN. Tcxns, April 17. Gov
ernor l'nt M. Noff In a message to the
Texan legiKlaturo which convened In
special session yesterday, proposed
enactment of elKht rovcntie-raliilng
measures. These includo Increased
gross oil production tax. franchise
tax, inheritance tux, delinquent tux
and Income tax.
AUSTIN, Texas, April 16. Tho
Texas legislature convened today on
special call of Governor Neff to deal
with revenue and law enforcement
measure. Tho primary object Is to
enact laws to bring tho state out of
a deficiency which tho government
hns estimated would amount to $,
000.000 during tho next two years.
Governor Neff has recommended
that the special session enact a law
"to vest the courts with effective au
thority to remove from office any of
ficer against whom It enn bo proved
In open court and a Jury that such
officer' has wilfully and rorruptly
failed and refused to enforce the
laws."
This measure, known ns the quo
warranto bill, was the center of a
hitter fight In tho regular session In
which It failed of passage.
PARIS. April 17. (By the Abso-
rated Press.) Marchioness Mayeda
member of one of the oldest and most
distinguished fntnllies of Japan, died
at her hotel here today.
cwsifftly a. fief trre-$4.
BASEBALL SCORES
National
At Boston. - R. H. E.
New York 4 8 4
Boston 14 3
Batteries: McQuillan and Snyder;
McNamaro, Marqunrd and O'Neill.
E
IF
NEW YORK, April 17. There Is
ample basis for a sustained poriod of
prosperity, Charles E. Mitchell, pres
ident of tho National City bank de
clared in a statement today.
Tho country has a great many
needs to bo satisfied," he said. "We
havo not yet mndo up tho deficit in
construction caused by tho war. If
our prosperity Is short lived. It will
bo becauso wo tried to ride it too
hard.
"Wo want stable business, stable
prices, steady production and regu
lar employment instead of booms nnd
depressions. Just now lnbor Is fully
employed. Industries nro producing
at tho highest rate. Tho traffic of
railroads In tho first quarter has
been tho greatest oxer known and
trade reports from all quarters are
excellent. We oro doing all wo can
and additional pressure will bo harm
ful rather than beneficial.
"The danger In this situation Is not
flnnnclal, but Industrial a too rapid
Increase of Industrial costs."
AUTO, MAN SHOT
SPOKANE, April 17. Posses of
citizens and officers were combing
tho country today In tho vicinity of
Rosalia, 31 miles foulh of here for a
man known only as Reed, who shot
nnd seriously wounded Deputy Sher
iff Dick Caahatt yesterdny when the
officer Bought to arrest him on com
plaint of a young woman of this city.
Tho latter, Gladys Homor, 18, a
waitress, today was declared to havo
a slight chance for recovery from ef
fects of a frnctured skull which she
said she sustained when she Jumped
from Keed'B speeding automobile to
escape his unwelcome attentions.
Cashatt was suffering from a bullet
wound through the lung and was Bald
to hnvo a good prospect for recovcrj-.
Woman 86, Marries
Man 42, Year After
Death of Husband
WALLA WALLA, Wash..
April 17. Mrs. Rachaol Oliver,
agod 86, whose first husband
dlod horo over a year ago today
married Charles Parker, age
42, Justice of tho Peace Frod
Iledgcr performing tho cere-
mony. Friends wero present
with tho couple. Parker was
4 arrested hero Borne time ago on
a charge of operating a still 4
north of Prescott, but tho case
has not yet como to trial. 4
SMASHED AGAIN
DAYTON, Ohio, April 17. At a
few mimttoB after two o'clock this
afternoon Lioutonants MacRoady1 and
Kelly, who have been ongaged In an
endurunco flight since 0:38 a. m
Monday, swept around tho towor for
a now non-stop distance record of
2020 miles. This bottors their pro-
ious record of 1016 miles made
November 3 and 4, Inst, on tholr
flight from Sun Dlogo, Calif., to In
dianapolis. Tho previous rocord, mado by Lieu
tenants MacKnady and Kelly, was at
tho rato of 73 mllos an hour. The
French rocord was 62 miles an hour.
Lloutennnt Harris Is continuing tor
the 2,000 kllomotor record. Llou
ttnnnts MncKcady and Kelly also es
tablished rccordB for 2 500 kilometers
at 21 hours 37 minutes, 30 0-10 sec
onds, and for 3,000 kilometers of 26
hours, 1 m lutes 32 2-10 seconds.
Death Toll of -the
Automobile
HAN ' JOSK, April 17. I'letro Ce
tanl. 21, died In tho hospital horo yes
terday, his being tho sixth death na a
result of a collision between nn auto
mohlla In which ho was riding nnd
nn clrotrlo car at Los Clntos Hundny
night. Mrs. Cctunl was killed.
WASHINGTON, April 17.
An "all purposo" gas mask, lm-
pervious to polBons of every
kind and oquipped with an at-
tachment that permits ready
4 conversation by telephone or
other communicating devices,
has been perfected by the army
chemical warfare service. An-
nouncement of the invention,
made today by tho war depart-
ment, says the new mask has
been porfected by the army
chemical warfare sorvlce. An-
nouncement of the Invention,
made today by tho war depart-
ment, Bays tho now musk has
boon thoroughly teBted by tho
army and navy and has boon
found to moot nil conditions.
A peace time value of the
mask is recognized as an Ira-
portant consideration In connec-
tlon with the invention and It
has been made bo comfortable
that men may koep It on for
days and oven play baseball,
dance or sleep while wearing it
without Buffering. Its inven-
tors claim It would be very use-
ful In mine rescue work.
17 Year Old Youth in Senator
Knabb's Camp Tells
SECOND VICTIM
OF FLOGGING IN
FLORIDA FOUND
Gross Brutality Inquiry lat f tho empire," which is tho Ber
lin government's highest authority In
IntO Death Of Dakota YOUth "' Rhlneland, has been abolished by
' Continues
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 17.
Sheriff J. R. Jones of Tallahassoo
ZtS P Li ,
matoly 123 on each prisoner leased by
Leon county to tho Putnam Lumbor
company, ho testified today before tho
legislative committee investigating
prison conditions In this state, as the
outgrowth of the doath of Martin Ta
bort of North Dakota.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla., April 17.
Alleging that he had been flogged by
a heavy belt while in the convict tur
pentine camp of Senator T. J. Knabb,
until his condition had become so
severe that he was removed by a stato
prison Inspector, Paul White, 17 years
old of Washington, D. C today had
placed In the hands of state author
ities an affidavit setting forth addi'
tlonal details of allogod mistreatment,
Among other things In his state
ment and affidavit, Whlto said ho
bad been forced, while unable because
of lack of physical strength, to drag a
"Bcrape box through tho swampB,
slimy crooks, and through waste
water."
Ho sets forth that he was beaten
tho third day after he had been sen
tenced to tho camp on a vagrancy
charge, and almost every day there
after. TALLAHASSEE, Fla., April 17.
Resuming Its Inquiry into tho doath of
Martin Talbert, North Dakota youth
who, it Is alloged, died as a result ot
whipping inflicted while ho was Borv
tng a sentence In a convict camp, the
Joint committeo of tho Florida legisla
ture today was to call witnoBSos of the
Putnam Lumbor company to obtain
tbolr version of tho affair.
It was in a camp of tho Putnam
company, in Dlxlo county, where Ta
bort died. Waltor Hlgglnbotham, for
mer whipping boss of tho camp, 1b
undor indictment for first dogreo mur
der as a result ot Tabert's doath.
Counsel for the lumber company
Intimated yesterday that the charges
of brutality would be answered, imint ' salors, who testified that 106 mills in
by point. In tho form ot a gonoral Oregon and Washington had con
denial. 1 splrod to fix prices. ? -
S. BOLSHEVIKI DECIDE TO
THROUGH LABOR PARTY IN AMERICA
NEW YORK, April 17. (By Associ
ated Press). Tho communist party
of America has dissolved itself and
dlvorted Its members to the workers'
party ot Amorlca, which It recognizes
as the only affiliation of tho third
Internationale ot Moscow in the Unit
ed States, it was disclosed today by
associates of C. E. Ruthenherg, secre
tary ot the central executive commit
tee ot tho workers' party.
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Belgian Minister Has Narrow
Escape When Train Stopped
Near Break in Track
French Tighten Hold On
Ruhr More Mines Taken
Over By Troops.
DUESSELDOfRF, April 17. (By
the Associated Press.) Attempts
were made last night to wreck two
trains on which members of the
French and Belgian cabinets wero
supposed to be passengers.
Both attempts were unsuccessful.
Bombs were placed on the rails in
front of a train proceeding from
Duesseldorf to Essen, on which Yves
le Trcuquer, French minister of
public works, was expected to travel.
Yves Lo Trocquer, however, was not
on board. Only one of the bombs
exploded and this did little damage
beyond tearing up the track.
An attompt upon a train bearing
the Belgian minister of national de
fense, M. Deveze, came near to hav
ing disastrous consequences. A sen
try at the Alx la Chapelle station
surprised a number of men removing
the rails and called out the guard
which fired on the wreckers and
drove then off. The sentry succeed
ed In stopping the train within a few
sards ot the gap in the rails.'
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fjf COBLENZ, April 17.
sociated Press.) The
(By the As-
"comtnlssatr-
Uha lnter-aJI(fKl Rhinoland, hhjh! com-;
PARIS, April 17. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A Havas dispatch
from Essen today reports that two
unsuccessful attempts wero made last
evening to wreck trans conveying the
French and Belgian cabinet minis
ters who are Inspecting the Ruhr re
gion. No Injury resulted to anyone
from these attempts, the mossage
adds. .
ESSEN, April 17. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The authorities of oc
cupation have bedn tightening the
hold on tho Ruhr noticeably the last
few days and the adoption ot even
sharper measures Is expected In Ger
man quarters as a result of the Paris
conference between the representa
tives of France and Belgium.
General DeGoutte's recent order
for the seizure of coal In transport
Inside tho Ruhr
has been applied
with special force lately, and other'
slops have been taken to screw down
the clamps on all unauthorized traf
fic. ' Tho. occupation of the mines also
has boon extended and the Germans
expect the prosont wook will see the
taking ovor of a numbor of additional
pits.
PORTLAND, Ore., April 17. Hear
Ing ot government charges of conspir
acy In restraint of trade against the
Douglas Fir Exploitation and Export
company was resumed horo today.
The hearing began last October in San
Francisco was transferred in Novem
ber to Portland and has been engaging .
tho federal trade commission's atten
tlon at Seattle for the past moth. n,
The first witness today was C. L. . ,
Lindner, vice presldont of tho Henry
W. Davis Lumber company, , wholo-
- The communists dissolved, according
to Ruthonbor's associates after voting
at a secret convention here April 7
at a socrot convention here April 7 that
they believed "tho support which the
workers' party of America has already
won among the working masses will
enable It openly and publicly to carry
on the struggle for communism in the
United States."
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