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DallyEighteenth Tear.
V, eekly Fifty-Third Year.
, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 1, 1923
NO. 34
FIND SKELETON
OFN.W. STUDENT
KILLED IN
G
V
Ghastly Find On Lake Front at
Evanston Explains Myste-
rious Disappearance Leigh
ton Mount, Student North
western University.
PORTLAND, Ore., Ifay . Leigh
ton Mdunt, whose skoleton was found
at Evanston,. 111., was 18 yearB old
and the son of Mr. and Mrs. John L.
Mount, former residents of Portland.
Mount's parentB moved to Evans
ton before Leighton entered North
western university.
CHICAGO, May 1. Leighton
Mount, Northwestern university stu
dent missing from the September,
1921, class rush, whose skeleton was
found on the Evanston lake front last
night, was killed In the class -rush,
Chief of Police Leggett of Evanston,
declared today.
."Mount's body was carried to the
pier after his death and buried be
neath heavy stones," Chief Leggett
said. "There could be no other ex
planation of the presence there dT his
skeleton.
"It is likely that Mount was killed
accidentally during the class war in
September, 1921, and that his body
was hidden by students who were
frightened as a result of their haz
ing." Both arms and hands, one foot and
one lower leg are missing, the chief
said and the pier, beneath which the
skeleton was discovered, is being
guarded by police until a complete
search can be finished.
Chief of Police Leggett and Presi
dent Walter Dill Scott of the Uni
versity met today to arrange for the
Inquest tomorrow. Chief Leggett an
nounced that the boys who testified
atthe hearing held soon after Mount's
disappearance would bo among those
Bummoned to testify.
'Besides the skeleton, identified by
the boy's mother through a belt
buckle and fragments of a coat, the
chief exhibit for the inquest is a
piece of rope about three feet long
found by the body. Students engag
ed in the class rush of 1921, said to
day it was similar to the ropes given
scores of underclass men for use in
tying the hands and feet of members
of the opposing class.
The rope found by Mount's body
was not knotted and gave no lndi
cation of having been around the
hands or feet of the skeleton. It was
worn, about half way through at
spots about six inches apart,
HANSON PLAN CASES
.'ARE ALL CLEARED UP
SALEM, Ore, May 1 .The Bu
rn n finiir tlila mni-n niv nfftrnifd
decision of Judge F. M. Calkins In
la case or urnce M. wuson vs. uity
f Medford, In a suit to quiet title.
This is a legal . action Instituted
about a year ngo nnd tested tho con
stitutionality of the Extended Pay
ment Plun, generally known as tho
Hanson plan, tho bnsio issue being
whether the city has the right to
Issue certificates of delinquency for
non-payment of. assessments, and if
unredeemed after a certain period,
issue deeds. The Wilson case was
the most Important of the suits filed.
andmuch interest taken In Us final
outcome.
The Fehl case, attacking the Hnn
son plnn at another point, wns de
cided in favor of the city of Medford,
a week ago, and the remaining suit
of nosell vs. tho City of Medford, the
defendant made a stipulation to abide
by the decision in the Wilson case.
AN ENTENTE 1H
RUSH
STONE OF NEW OFFER FROM GERMANY
BERLIN, May 1. (By Associated
Press). Germany's new program for
a settlement of the reparations tangle,
relchstag leaders believe, will propose
the flat payment of thirty billion gold
marks, the promulgation of a 99 year
non-aggression pact signed by the
Rhine powers, and the establishment
of a Franco-German entente.
The items on the program which re
ceives its final approval by govern
ment officials today before it is trans
mitted to the allied governments and
) to Washington, have been closely
1 guarded by Chancellor Cuno and those
immediately around him. Political
Salem Favors Sugar
Boycott, Hoover Is
Friendly to Move
SALEM, Ore., May 1. Mayor
Glesy and the heads of seven
leading civic organiaztions. to-
day expressed themselves as fa-
vorlng a sugar boycott and plans
were outlined for a public meet-
ing to be held the latter part of
this week. The presidents of
five Salem women's clubs do-
nounced the activities of market
speculators which have made
sugar prices "unreasonable."
WASHINGTON, May 1.
American women who are or-
ganlzlng boycotts against use of
sugar "are on the right track,"
In the opinion of Secretary
Hoover.
"The way to control prices of
food commodities," said Mr.
Hoover, "is to bring the spon
taneous control of consump
tion." AURORA, 111., May 1. Unexplain
ed circumstances and a possibility of
murder in connection with the dis
appearance of Warren J. Lincoln, a
former attorney and prominent flori
culturist, a distant relative of Abra
ham Lincoln, caused police today to
widen their search for him.
John Lincoln, 20 year old son of
the missing man, was taken into cus-
today and questioned. Police are
still searching for Mrs. Lincoln and
her brother, Byron Shoup, and a
sandy haired stranger, whom Lincoln
had reported to police had been fol
lowing him. , ---- --. ,
Lincoln's disappearance .yesterday
was discovered by his brother. Ed
ward Lincoln's night shirt and a wo
man's glove were found in a well and
his bungalow had been ransacked.
Near the house a pool of blood was
found and a nearby flower bed bore
the Imprint of a woman's heel. A
blood-stained club was discovered
near the pool of blood.
Mrs. Lincoln Is Lincoln's second
wife and he had started divorce pro
ceedings agajnst her. Shoup was
employed by Lincoln but after the
filing of divorce proceedings both
Lincoln's wife and her brother dis
appeared. It was reported that Bhe
had gone to Seattle.
The police concerned themselves
with reports that Lincoln's life was
insured for $10,000, and that recent
ly he had made his son tho benefi
ciary, substituting the boy's name
for that of his wife.
Young Lincoln told officers that on
the night his father disappeared -he
had been visiting a girl friend, ary
Collins, in Batavia, near hero. Po
lice said the girl substantiated hit:
story.
KILLS SHEEPMAN
PRESCOTT, Ariz., May 1. C. C.
Norton, well known Prescott attor
ney, shot and killed Garland Smith,
a sheep grower of Klrkland, Ariz.
The shooting occurred in Norton's of
fice and the attorney immediately af
terwards notified the sheriff's office
of his act. Norton told the authori
ties he shot Smith after tho latter
had threatened his life during a dis
pute over an attempt to collect a
promissory note.
FRANCE IS CORNER
leaders who have been in close touch
with the government since it decided
to take advantage of the wedge bTfered
by Lord Curzon's recent speech, ex
press the opinion that these three
points are to be the leading features
of the new offer.
In these quarters it Is said that as
alternatives the German government
would suggest submission of the whole
question to the judgment of Impartial
economic experts or would be willing
to have now projwsals subjected to
the scrutiny of such a neutral Jury
upon which Germany would be repre
sented. i
KIN OF ABRAHAM
LINCOLN KILLED,
SON SUSPECTED
EXPECTI. W. W
STRIKE TO
IN A FEW DAYS
Wobblies. Returning to Work in
Coast Lumber Camps
May Day Demonstrations
Quiet Men Admit Have No
Grievances.
ASTORIA, Ore., May 1. Logging
camps in the lower Columbia river
district were operating today with
part crews and no May day disturb
ances were reported. Operators pre
dicted that men who were out would
return In a day or two, and that by
the end of the week most camps
would be running as usual.
According to statements by log
gers to Astoria business men, they had
no grievance, but walked out to show
their strength.
B. A. Avery and A. J. Lushing, al
leged I. W. W organizers, arrested
Sunday on the charge of violating the
Oregon syndicalism law were ar
raigned today and pleaded not guilty,
They were held In default of bail of
$500 each. It was reported that an
attorney was coming from Portland
to defend them.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 1. Whilo
police were prepared for any develop
ment in connection with the I. W. W
strike and the activities of the I. W,
W. in closing bootleg and? gambling
establishments, the headquarters of
the I. W. W. today announced that
orders had been issued to their men
that there should be no disorder.
A picnic in a park here was the
principal feature of the day's activi
ties announced by the I. W. W. lead
ers. Reports this morning from the
logging districts of the state showed
little change in the strike situation,
most camps which had been affected
reporting that men were returning to
work.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 1. Opera
tors of some lumber camps affected
by the strike of forest workers called
In Pacific coast states by the Indus
trial Workers of the World faced May
day In a state of preparedness for
eventualities, while others, like ship
ping operators affected by the strike,
of marine workers called at the same
timbe by the same body, apparently
felt no apprehension over what the
day might brong forth. V
From the Feather river section of
California came reports that mill
operators and superintendents were
ready for any crisis. Previous state
ments from I. W. W. leaders that the
forest strike was not planned to bo
effective in Oregon until today led to
close observation of conditions in
that state. Thus far the proportion
of men returning to work after strik
ing a day or two in advance of the
formal date and of those walking out
just about balanced.
SEATTLE, May 1. Hundreds of
1. W. W., the Seattle contingent, aug
mented by striking lumbermen from
the logging camps of the district,
gathered at Ronton Junction near
here today for their annual interna
tional labor day picnic. Peace offi
cers said the gathering was quiet and
orderly, and that no trouble was ex
pected. May day activities of the I. W. W.
resulted in the closing of a number
of additional logging camps in Wash
ington, according to early reports.
The camp of the Martin Lumber com
pany in Lewis county suspended op
erations and about fifty quit work In
the camp of the Eastern Railway and
Lumber company In the same district,
it was reported.
One camp of the Chlnn Lumber
company near Maple Falls, suspended
operations for the day, according to
advices here.
Daily Report on
, the Strike Crop
CHARLESTON, W. Vn., May 1.
Union electricians and hod carriers
struck here today after employers re
Jocted their demands for Increased
wages. More than 200 men were af
fected. KANSAS CITY, May 1. Several
hundred hod carriers and building la
borers went out on strike here today
when contractors refused their de
mands for increased wages.
CLEVELAND, May 1. Five hun
dred building material teamsters
were on strike here today and a sec
ond strike was threatened by 150
structural steel workers. Employers
of the teamsters would not negotiate
with the union, according to officials
END
of the teamsters' union.
NEW AMERICAN VENUS
REPUTED A PERFECT 34
Meet the new Venus, a perfect 34,
wno una just peon uiBcme. ..y ...
Z . 1 T.r wh,
who stands a good chance of backing
the time honored V. do Milo with her
perfect 34 right off tho boards. Sho
Is Miss Martha Gonzales, a Brooklyn
girl, who is 20 years old nnd meets
every requirement for tho now form
divine. Miss Gonzales was born in
New York. Her parents aro Ameri
can citizens of Spanish; extraction
nnd sho was educated in a convent.
ASHLAND, Ore., May 1. (Special
to Mail Tribune.) Wn. N. Ellis, 40
years old, ono of the most experienc
ed and popular Southern Pacific en
gineers in this city, died early this
morning as the result of Injuries re
ceived last evening whon he was
caught between his locomotive and
anothor locomotive shunting into the
same track. Ellis was on the track
near his engine, and apparently mis
calculated the spnee between the two
tracks, for ho was knocked against
his own engine and then crushed be
tween the two. Ho was rushed to
the hospital and everything done to
save his life, but without avail.
Mr. Ellis loaves a wife and two
children, and a sister, Mrs. Charles
Rose of this city. The body will bo
shipped to tho deceased's former
home at Cavo City, Kentucky.
National
At New York R. H. E.
Brooklyn 3 5 8
New York 4 7 1
Batteries: Grimes
Johnson and Snyder.
nnd Taylor;
At Philadelphia R. H.
E
Boston 12 18 0
Philadelphia 10 17 1
Batteries: McNamara, Cooney,
Watson nnd O'Neill; Hubbell, Behan
and Henline. ,
At Cincinnati , R. H. E.
Chicago 8 8 3
Cincinnati 17 2
Battorles: N. Dumovlch and
O'Farrell; Keck and Hargrave,
American
At Boston R,
Philadelphia 4
Boston '. 6
H. E.
10 0
11 1
Batteries: Ogden, Helmnch
Perkins; Khmko and Plclnlch.
and
At Chicago H. H. E.
St. Louis 3 7 3
Chicago 6 8 2
Batteries: Kolp, Pruett and Sev-
ereld; Levcrette and Schalk,
At Detroit: n. H. E.
Clevoland 6 14 1
Datrolt 6 11 0
Batteries: Edwards, Uhlo and
O'Neill; Francis, Johnson and Wood-all.
l KB r-va , 8
I llsiliir III
S. P. ENGINEER
IS CRUSHED TO
DEATH, ASHLAND
BASEBALL SCORES
MAY DAY VERY
QUIET ABROAD,
REDS INACTIVE
For First Time in 50 Years,
Business As Usual in Rome
Parades and Speeches
Alone Mark Worker Demon
strations.
ROME, May 1. (My Associated
Press). For tho first time in nearly
fifty years, business and industry pro
ceeded here as usual on May day. All
the factories were working and all the
shops wore open, the street cars and
taxicabs were operating and everyone
was at work.
ROME, May 1. (By Associated
Press). Two communists were killed
and several others wounded In a con
filet with a national militia force nt
Milan today when a band of commun
ists attempted to prevent the railway
men froV. working, according to semi
official accounts of the accident.
LONDON, May 1. (By Associated
Press). To the music of numerous
bands, London's working people in
large numbers marched In long proces
sions from the embankment to Hyde
Park today in celebration of May day,
listening to various labor leaders
voice their opinions on governmental
actions and world politics generally.
Resolutions were moved expressing
syml)athy wltIl German workers in the
Ruhr and calling upon the government
. . ... .
to denounce the treaty of Versailles,
recognize the Russian republic and de
mand the withdrawal of the Japanese
troops from the Russian part of tho
i island of Sakhallen.
-
BERLIN, May 1. (By Associated
Press). Semi-holiday conditions pre
vailed today throughout Germany. Pa
rades and assemblies were held in
various- parts of the country, mainly
by the socialists and the communists.
Paris Is Quiet
PARIS, May 1. (By Associated
Press). Up to noon today May day in
Paris seemed more like a leisurely
celebration of the coming of spring
than a day of demonstrations against
capitalism or one devoted to the
strikes originally planned. Except for
the scarcity of the taxicabs on the
boulevards Paris presented the nor
mal aspect of a city celebrating a
semi-holiday aspect.
The strike of the taxi drivers mere
ly diverted more passengers to the
street cars, the busses and the sub
ways. CHICAGO, May 1. Police were
forced to use their clubs to back a
crush of members of the Amalgamated
Clothing WorkerB of America intont
on storming the entrance of the
Auditorium theater today to hear
Eugene V. Debs In a May day speech.
Apparently no one was injured.
- A riot call brought throe patrol
wagons loaded with police reserves
and found a throng estimated by the
police nt nearly 3000 swarming about
the theater building, the doors having
been forcibly, closed after the house
was filled to capacity. The policemen
drew tlioir clubs and forced back the
throng.
FOR 33 DEATHS
VICTORIA, B. C, May 1. The ex
plosion in number four mine of the
Cabin Creek colliers, Inst February
which resulted In the deaths of 33
miners wus caused by the .attempt of
Jung Tow, a Chinese miner, to light
a cigarette when the mlno was filled
with gas, George Wilkinson, official
InvoBtlgntor for tho Canadian gov
ernment, re-sorted today. Jung Tow
lost his life In the explosion. -i '
REFUSED FOOD, TRIP
I
PORTLAND, Ore., May 1. Police
charge today that a tramp, Booking
rovenge fired a lodging house shortly
before midnight last night, causing
threo of tho fifteen occupants to be
painfully burned or injured in flee
ing from tho fire.
A man to whom Mrs. L. Hayes,
landlady, refused to give food last
Friday, Ig Bought by the police
Firemen found three separate fires
burning In tho house, thoy said. In
one place kerosene had been used
Attendants this morning reportod
that all three victims of tho fire wore
recovering.
Nightrider Mob
Disperses 'After a
Talk With Sheriff
SANTA ROSA, Col., May 1.
A mob which gathered In a cem-
etery near Cunningham last
night with the Intention of ap-
plying tar and feather to Frank
Fish for allegod undue atten-
Uoiib to young girls, dispersed
after agreeing to the suggestion
of Sheriff Boyca that1 they swear
out a warrant against Fish. The V
warrant arrived here today and
Fish was lodged In the county
Jail In Santa Rosa.
EVE OF HEARING
CHICAGO, May 1. (tiy Associated
Press). The leaders of the strike of
railroad shopmen today abandoned
their case in defense against the fed-
oral injunction obtained by Attorney
General Harry M. Daugherty last Sep
tember and announced that their prin
cipal contentions in the case had been
upheld.
Tho announcement by counsel for
the defendants, coming 24 hours in ad
vance of the hearing on the govern
ment's application for a permanent in
junction caused Blackburn Esterly,
assistant solicitor general of the Unit
ed States to Interpret the action of the
defense as amounting to a default
which he termed a "fiasco."
After announcing that all attorneys
for the defense had withdrawn at the
request of the offlcors of the railway
employes' department of the Amer
ican Federation of Labor, Donald R.
Rlchberg of defense counsel explained
that the shopmen were satisfied with
the situation and that the government
could find such satisfaction as they
could and do as they wished with tho
case. He made public a letter ad
dressed to himself, Frank L, Mulhol-
land of Toledo, Ohio, and JanieB Eas-by-Smith
of Washington, the attor
neys for the defense, from B. M.
Jewell, president of the railway em
ployes' department, and the other
leaders, explaining their views of the
caBe.
The suit, the letter declared, in
volved the right to strike. The gov
ernment had called tho strike a con
spiracy and Its primary purpose was
to seek to establish that a concerted
refusal to accept wages and working
conditlonss as fixed by the railway
labor board was unlawful. In this con
nection the shopmen's leaders referred
to the Bupreme court decision in the
case of the Pennsylvania railroad
against the labor board In which the
court held that it was not compulsory
to abide by the board's decisions, altho
holding there was a moral constraint
to do so.
The defendants are assured that the
district court will not hold In the pros
ont case that the strike of July 1, 1922
"waB unlawful In its Inception, or was
a strike against the government."
The latter continued that aside from
the primary charge that tho strike was
illegal, no matter how peacefully con
ducted, there was no charge that nets
of lawlessness had accompanied the
strike, The shopmen Bet forth that in
that respect thoy never had opposed
an injunction against lawlessness.
As to the government bill of com
plaint In support of the application
for a permanent Injunction against the
activities of the dofondants In support
of the strike the letter declared:
"ThlB natlon-wldo strike no longer
exists."
Adndrnl Cowles Died.
FARM INGTON, Conn., May 1.
Roar Admiral William Sheffield
Cowlcs. U. S. N.. retired, died here
todny in his 77th yenr.
Rear Admiral Cowles mnrrlcd a
sister of Theodore Hoosovolt. He
van retired from active service in
1008.
OWN UNION FOR
BOULDER, Colo.. May l.-e-Trlal of
the injunction and damage suit of
IlufuB Jones against the order of Rail
way Conductors and the Brotherhood
of Railway Tralnmon in which dam
ages amounting to $200,000 are
sought, opened in district court here
today, A Jury has not yet been se
lected. It Is expected that the trial
will require about throe weeks,
Jones, a Denver and Interurban
railway conductor nnd former switch
man for tho Colorado and Southern,
asks $200,000 dumagos, alleging that
RAIL STRIKERS
ABANDON CASE
STANDARD OIL
FIGHTING FOR
CONTROL U.S.A.
N. YvWorld Declares Big Gas
oline War Now On Claim
Standard Cutting Prices to
Drive Out Independents
Legal Action Is Forecasted.
NEW YORK, May l.-rA strugglo for
domination between opposing ele
ments In the petroleum industry is ;
seen by Wall street the New York
World says today, with the Standard
Oil Interests and a few other big
refiners aligned against independent
companies operating chiefly in the
mid-continent field. The total financ
ing strength of the Standard Oil group
is given as $592,000,000 by the paper :
and that of the Independents as $489,
200,000. . . ' .
The offensive, which was behind the
general smash in prices on the New .
York Btock exchange yesterday, the
World sayB, has been seen by the
street for three weeks. The objective,
it is asserted, Is the wrecking of the
independents and the eventual control
of the mid-continent field by the Stan
dard Oil Interests and their allies.
"Recently gasoline prices have been
subject to several cuts, always Initiat
ed by Standard Oil companies and fol
lowed by the independents," the arti
cle says. "These cuts appear purely
artificial to Wall street, for. the reason :
that while consumption was increased
enormously this year, Mexican pro
duction has continued to slump and
the total supply of gasoline available
is relatively lower than last year.
"For these reasons, it Is said that
the price reductions both in gasoline
UUU VUUIUIIUU UUUQ Mil ltUU UDVU
made as a blow at the independents.
It the independents were out of tho
way It would be possible for the large
interests to take advantage of decreas
ing Mexican yields and increasing
nnnanmnHim In thla pnilnfrv tn ntlf thn .
price of gasoline to almost any figure
desired. , , -
"Some persons in touch with tho
fight and the circumstances behind it "
tlon In animosities and jealousies that
accompanied disclosures at the recent
oil Investigation conducted by a com
mittee of the United States senate.
"It was reported that the indepen
dents probably would take their case
to the department of justice claiming
that Standard Oil despite its dissolu
tion was still in a position to strangle
competition and that its present at
tack on the independents constituted
a violation of the Sherman law."
U. S. OIL GRANT
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 1. (By
tho Associated Press) A convention
putting into effect the railway de
velopment and mining concessions
granted by the Turkish government
to tho American syndicate headed by
Ilonr Admiral Colby M. Chester, re-
tii.n.1 wai altrnorl VftnlnrilnV At An-
gora. ' -
- The Turkish minister of public
works affixed his signature for the
government and Clayton Kennedy for
the promoting corporation.
, Commander Arthur T. Chester, re
tired, a son of Rear Admiral Ches
ter, also signed the document on be
half of the American syndicate.
Now It'i Piano Playing
HOUSTON, Texas, May 1. T. 3.
Kennedy, Jr., held the new world's
record of 68 hours and 20 minutes con
tinuous piano playing here today. He
left his piano at 8:25, his last oppo
nent having dropped out at 2:29 a, m.
The marathon, staged by the Amer
ican Legion here, started Saturday.
The former record of 29 hours was
held by Howard Roth of Toledo.
$200,000 DAMAGES
as a result of a conspiracy between
tho defendants he has lost $6,000 In
wages and his seniority rights as a
trainman.
He clnlma he was prevented from
obtaining employment on the rail
roads when he ceased to be a member
of the union organizations through
forfeiture of his membership by non
payment of dues. In addition to the
damages, plaintiff asks tor a perma
nent restraining order against the
unions in their alleged desire to keep
him from work.