MEDFOUD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY. MAY 2. lfi:?
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FOIWVVORTH, Texas, May 2.
Crude, oil JiJHoea in .'the Menjlu and
Currie j)oia 'vore tut ton cents per
parrel Ntrtdiiy at the Texas company
making the new prices: Alexia $1.80;
Currle, 41 per cent gravity and above
$2.20. The Texas company also met
the reduction in the north and west
Texas fields. ' v
NEW YRK, May 2. The Sinclair
Crude OU Purchasing company and
Texas company today announced a
cut of ten cents a barrel for all
grades of mldcontlnent crude oil. The
cut followed today's reduction of ten
cents by the prairie Oil and Gun com
pany. '-
INDEPENDENCE, Kas., May 2.
The Prairie Oil and Oas company to
day announced a cut of ten cents
per barrel on all grades of crudo oil
in the mid-continent field, effective
at once. This is the second cut o
ten cents since the recent advances,
the other cut being made April 23.
Tho new prices range from $1.30 to
$1.40 per barrel.
' WASHINGTON. Mny 2. A gene
ral investigation of the oil industry is
being made by the department of
justice, officials said today in con
nection with the recent investigation
by the senate committee headed by
Senator La Follette, republican, Wis
consin. ' It was enid to ho the aim of the
government to determine whether
' tiny further action should ho taken
bn the charges of the senate com
mittee report that the supreme court
dissolution of the Standard Oil in
terests was ineffective.
' For about two months a number of
department agents have been at
work collecting information and ex
amining the record of the senate in
vestigation. None of the reports of
the agents had been submitted and
tho department inquiry was said to
be still in its initial stages.
No complaints have been received
by the ' department regarding nn al
leged conflict between the Standard
and Independent companies, but of
ficials said they would welcome in
formation In connection with the
general inquiry from any source.
GOLF PROS LEAVE TO.
;f COMPETE !N ENGLAND
NEW YOJtK, Mny 1. Four pro-
'. foBBionnl golfers twilled to compete
for the British open title at Troon,
Scotland, June 12 Walter Hugen,
who captured tho crown Inst year;
Gene Sarazen, holder of tho Ameri
can open and professional champion
ships, Charles Hoffnor, Philadelphia
and Joe Klrkwood, former Australian
champion.
Jim Barnes, holder of tho national
open championship in 1921 will Join
the Invaders later.
LAND SPECULATION
COLUMBIA BASIN
S CONDEMNED
POIITLAND,' Ore., May . 2. I-and
speculation throughout the Columbia
basin irrigation project was hit to
day at a mooting held in this city of
the board of directors of the Colum
bia linsln Irrigation league.
Resolutions were adopted to' tho
effect that tho league do everything
within lt power to discourage activ
itiea of real estate operators in buy
ing and selling land at inflated
values and warning was given that no
land should be bought or sold until
such time as the land had been
classified and the value fixed.
To carry out tho intent of this res
olution, a committee, consisting of
James Kyle of Stanfield, Ore., A. D.
Jone3 of Spokane and C. F. Stinson. of
Pasco was appointed. This commit-
tee will prepare a statement of thej
policy of the league to be published
and distributed.
Among those-present at the meet
ing were
Second Oregon district: J, H.
SturgtH, Pendleton, and James Kyle,
Stanfield.
Third Oregon district: - J. W. Orft
nong, L. iioise and C. C. Colt of
Portland.
'HELL MAR
PARTY IS BOOMING
CHICAGO, May 2. More than
3000 citizens signed pledge cards to
become members of the Allnute Men
of the Constitution, an organization
fm-im'.I liv fhrtfM ft. Tin was former
director of the national budget, and'
personal friends, at tho association's j
first public organisation meeting in!
Kvanston, a suburb, last night. 1
At present the association, termed,
an Americanization organization fun-
ciiona oniy in -Illinois, ui ivir. jjuwl-h
said applications for membership had
been received from more than 60
cities outside tho state. t
FRENCH ARREST :
KRUPP PRESIDENT
ESSEX, May 1. (Ily tho, Asso
ciated Press) Dr. Gustnv Krupp von
Uohlen und Hallmtjh, preiiident of
tho Krupp works here, was arrested
today hy the Freneh military au
thorities In connection with the
shooting at the Krupp plant on
March 31, 1923, when 14 Germans
were killed and 3D wounded In a
clash with French troops.
Tho head of Ilio Krupp works will
he charged, with three others of the
Krupp directors, with endangering
the safety of tho troopB of occupation
in violation of the decree of General
Degoutle, the French .military chief
in the Ruhr. This decree provides
Imprisonment for fifteen years up to
life at hard labor or execution by
shooting.
The French charge that tho Krupp
directors were responsible for the
blowing of the sirens at the plant
which Incited the German workmen
to attack the troops sent there as the
French have explained to com
mandeer automobiles.
Krupp von Bohlen nil be tried with
the other directors, Friday, May 4.
livestock
"POHTANr, Ore., May 2. tattle
steady; recelptsliS.
Hogs weak; undertone; .receipts
271.
Sheep steady; receipts 133.
liiitti'r
PORTLAND, Ore., May 2. Butter
firm; extra cubes 37c; undergrudeR
35H36c; prints, full boxes, 40c;
half boxes 41e; cartons 41e; dairy,
buying price nominal; butterfat f. o.
li, Portlantl, 39c.
CAL. ALIEN LAND LAW
CONVICTION UPHELD
SACRAMENTO, Cal.,' May 1. Tho
third district court of appeals today
handed down a decision affirming
tho conviction in Sonoma county su
perior court of W. A. Cockrlll, an at'
torney of Sonoma county and Y. Aka-
da, a Japanese, who had been charg
ed with coHsplrncy to violate the
antl-alien land law of California. It
was alleged Cockrlll had conspired
to sell land to the Japanese in viola
tion of the land law.
TOf BOOT LIKE
no matte how
much t0j have
used, out ol the
can
TREE TEA-VGf-eo
SEVERE FLOODS IN
NEW BRUNSWICK
FREDERICKTON, N. B., May 1.
Spring floods, the worst experienced
In the province since 1887, today had
caused damages estimated at more
than tl.000,000 with conditions stead
ily becoming more serious.
Hundreds xjf thousands of dollars
worth of property has been destroyed
along the St. John river and its tribu
taries, while railroad traffic was at a
standstill over practically the whole
province.
At noon three bridges were known
to have gone out including one at
Woodstock which carried with it a
grist mill, a packing factory and 1,500,
000 feet of lumber.
NEW ENGLAND RIVERS
ARE ON A WAGE
BOSTON, May 1. Several million
dollars damage has been dono by
freshets in New England in the last
two days and the situation Is still
serious. Rivers are swollen by con
tinued rains .and fed by. melting Bnow
in tho mountain districts.
Thousands of persons have been
thrown out of work by the flooding
of mill property, tho interruptions to
power supply that have como with
the breaking of dams, and the en
forced suspension 'of railroad ' arid
street car service. Maine is the
heaviest sufferer, millions of feet of
lumber having been- swept away.
PorttaiHl Wheat
PORTLAND, Ore., May 2. Wheat.
hard white, biuestem, baart $1.33;
soft white, western white $1.26;
western red $1.20; northern spring
$1.19; hard winter J LIS.
Today's car receipts Wheat 23;
flour 6; corn 4; hay 1.
San Fi-nnciKco Markets
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. U. S.
Bureau of Agricultural Economics.)
Eggs, extra puileta 27te; under
sized pullets 22c.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. But
terfat 47c f. o. b. San Francisco.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 2. (State
Division, of Markets.) Poultry un
changed..
IN RELEASED
FROM ASYLU
MURDERS FAMILY
CHEAT FALLS, Mont., May I.
Hope wo hold today for the recovery
of the six year old ilntishter-of James
B. Hovey, suffering from an attack
Sunday morning believed by officials
to have boon made by her father with
a club at tho farm home 35 miles
southeast of Malta, after ha had
killed nor mother with an axe and had
clubbed to death her two sistors, aged
three years ami fifteen months re-1
sportively. Hovey afterward commit
ted suicide.
Investigation has Indicated the
truthfulness of the story t&t;i by
Itovey'a two sons hat tlioy disarmed
their father after he had killed th'i
mother. When they returned from a
neighbor's where they sought help,
they found the two girls dead and the -other
badly wounded, the hoys" said.
They are Dine and eleven years of age.
Hovey had been released from an
Insane institution less than a year ago
and wus said to have been suffering
from a delusion that his family was in
danger of starvation although he
owned property in Montana and Min
neapolis. No inquest is to be held.
ATTEMPT TO ROB
POSTOFFICE FAILS
PORT TOWNSBXD, Wash., Slay
1. Four men, overhauled by the
coast guard cutter Areata as they
were attempting to escape in a speed
boat through tho Oak Buy canal were
held here today in connection with
the attempted robbery of the Port
Townsend postoffice early this morn
ing. The postoffiee safe was blown,
but the arrival of a clerk on early
morning duty is believed to have
frightened the' robbers away before
they could obtain any loot.
The clerk notiflod L.. A. Lonsdnle.
master of the Areata, that he be
lieved the men had attempted to
escape in a speed boat. The Areata
gave chase and the boat was over
hauled JttRt ns it was about to enter
the open waters of Paget Sound.
BOSTON, May 1. The rivers of
northern New England, swollen by the
heavy rains of the last two days are
on a rampage. Several dams have
been swept away, bridges damaged
and long stretches of railroad track
washed out, and many highways are
under water.
Trains have been cancelled on sev
eral divisions on the Maine Central
railroad and on portions of the Boston
and Maine. Great log drives have
been swept away.
FREDEHIKTON. N. 8.. May I.
Floods which (already have caused
damage estimated at from $5,000,000
to $10,000,000 in this province con
tinued today causing considerable ap
prehension. The St. John, river,
swollen by heavy rains rose steadily.
The power station has been put out
of commission and it is feared the
city water system will be imperiled.
Millions of feet of lumber flowed
down stream toward tho Bay of
Fundy. . Twcnty-ono bridges have
been swept away.
PREPARE TO RESCUE
STEFANSSON PARTY
TACOAMA. May 1. Rcscuo of
members of .the last Stcfansson expe
dition to the 'Arctic, 1915 to 1919,
supposed to be marooned on Wran
gell island, about 100 miles north of
Siberia, Is an objective of Captain
W. W. Putt,a skipper of the power
schooner lskum, which Is being fit
ted out horo for Its annual trading
Journey to tho far north.
Captain Puttn who has visited
Wrangell Island In the past, says
there are supposed to bo from four
to six members of Stcfansson's expe
dition on the Island, whore they were
located when the last . word came
from them In 1921,
1 Tho lskum will trnve for tho north
within a Week and Captain Putla said
a race may result with a ship fitting
out at Vancouver, li. C, to see- which
boat shall first carry' relief to the
stranded explorers.
Dry Fruit Ilrariog Called.
BAI.EM, Ore., May 2. After Inves
tigating on its own motion intra
state transportation rates and charges
made by Oregon railroads on fresh
and dried fruits and vegetables, the
Oregon public service commission
yesterday ordered a hearing on the
subject to be held In Portland June
14. Forty-two railroads are
quested to have representatives at the
conference.
SCHENECTADY Radio energy
which his father has helped to har
ness, today was in soarch of Vomer
AlcXRnderson, six year old son of E. F.
W. Alexandcrson, chief ongineer of
the Radio Corporation of America,
who yesterday was kldnnped from his
home by an unidentified man.
CHICAGO Emerson Hough, the
author wilt bo honored with military
funeral services today. He was a
captain in the officers reserve corps.
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had been thought to be "King" Benja
min Puraell, missing leader of the
House of David colony, was released
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SPOKANE, .May 2. Northwestern
headquarters of the Associated Fruit
company aro to be established here
June 1, It was announced at tho local
offices of the company today. Harold
Lamb of Freewater, Ore., Is to be
northwest sales manager. Tho con
cern has office In Pacific coast and
eastern cities.
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