Medford mail tribune., May 14, 1923, Page 1, Image 1

Medford Mail Tribune
Weather YeW
The Weather
Prediction Rain
Maximum yesterday ..74.8
Minimum today... 40.2
Maximum ......
Minimum
...48
Pally Eighteenth Ycnr.
, MEDFOKD, OREGON, MONDAY, MAY J 4. J 923
NO. 45
vt eeKly i
-Klfty-Tbird Year.
TORNADO
IN
TEXAS KILLS
. 50PF0PLE
Early Morning Twister Sweeps
Through Lone Star State,
leaving Death and Destruc
tion in Its Wake Victims
Mostly Farmers Red Cross
Rushes Aid. . :
ABILENE, Texns, May 14.,
(4:30 p. m.) A message just
received here from Colorado
City said sixty dead and injured
hud been brought there from the.
tornado swept section. Fifteen
, dead and 33 injured was tho toll
I at Spado ranch, tlio mcssugp
said.
Tho path of tho storm was a
crescent starting in Richardson
community, six miles southwest
of Colorado City and terminat
ing near Lorraine.
Most of tho reported dead were
children. The area affected was
ono of tho most tlkickly populat
ed communities in west Texas.
Many prosperous farm homes
were reduced to splinters and
tho debris scattered for miles. A
terrific rain and hail storm ac
companied tho wind, completing
tho devastation. The hospital
at Colorado City is reported fill
ed with dead and dying.
ABILENE, Texns, May 14
Another tornado struck Mitchell
county at Colorado City shortly
before noon today, killing eleven
persons, it is rumored hero. Con
1 flrmntion is lacking.
SAN AXGELO, Texas, May 14.
i Fifteen dead hud been brought
into Colorado City at two o'clock
this afternoon, according to a
telephone message to tho San
Angelo Standard from tho Colo
rado City Kecord. The Colorado
City paper could not glvo tho
names of tho dead, but said tho
death list would run higher than
fifteen.
COLORADO, Texas, May 14. The
Sanitarium here Is filled with victims
of the tornado which Bwopt a strip of
territory a mile wide and fifteen miles
long near hero early todny. The
number of dead, it is feared, will total-fifty
when bodies nt various
wrecked homes havo been recovered.
Twelve bodies are In Colorado al
ready, about 200 persons aro hurt
and property and crop damage will
total millions of dollars, according to
observers.
Many of the dead and injured aro
children. The cycle was accompanied
a severe hall storm and heavy rain
and mud In the devastated area
makes relief work difficult.
The country which the storm pass
ed over iB.ono of the best farming
sections in this country.
Tho twister first struck at the
Snade ranch, seven miles south of
Colorado, and moving in a northeast
erly direction, passed through the
outskirts of Lorraine, sweeping a
parti 200 yards wide and 25 miles In
the county.
Joe Richburg and his 12 year old
son and JM year old daughter, wore
killed at iclr farm home whilo thoy
slept. The storm struck between 4
and 5 o'rlnelr and her- was no
warning.
COLORADO. Texas, May 14
Eight bodies of parents killed in a
tornado near hiro early Mils morning
have been brought to CV.Iarodo, and
Im was roportcu that several more
bodies are on tho way-1nre. Twolve
persons havo hen cou;ileil dead and
there Is no official est i mala of tho
number of rcrwi tilled, It was
(Continued on Paae Six)
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TWO MEN HURT IN
BEND, Oro.. May 14. Ti.nl Mur-j
phy and Jo Bmlry t Bond were lost
for several bours ,Ac ycH. rday a
mile inside Hio lafi rlvr ' ve, 13
miles from Bend. 1 Hlglry flnnlly
groped his w.v to t'm cave entrance
Utter more th.r, fiv.j hours' struggle
In the inky blackness, and Murphy
was rescued nr;y Oils morning by
searoprs who iiu'l rmbcd tl'e cave
when Ms dlsai't' aranc.f hM f"-en re
.ported. xMuiptiv was In tiie'iave for
flonrly lv hours.
The mfcvt'-' i1""1 ' t viica the
Six Young People
Drowned When They
Jump From Trestle
ROCK ISLAND, 111., May 14.
Six young people, three men and
three womon, were drowned last
night In tho Mississippi river at
Campbell's island, when thoy
jumped from a trestle to avoid
being struck by a street car, con-
trol of which had been lost. The
young peoplao were wlking to
East Molina after having at-
tended a dance at tho Island.
Only one body was rocovered.
ft
STILL MUG
THE RELEASF OF
I
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LONDON, May 14. (Dy Associated
Press). Information received by the
British foreign office from its repre
sentatives in China states that the
only woman remaining In the hands
of the Chinese train bandits is the
wife of a Mexican who refuses to
leave her husband. The other foreign
ers include six Americans, one Italian,
one Frenchman and five Britishers,
making the total number of captives
fifteen.
HONG KONG. May 14. (By Assoc!
ated Press). H. C. Rowsorl, a mem
ber of the staff of the British-Amer
ican Tobacco company, who was cap
tured by bandits north of Pakhol,
southwestern Kwangtung, April 27,
hns been released and has arrived at
Pakhol. Rowson will reach Hong
Kong tomorrow, according to advices
received here today. Whether the ran
som of $110,000 demanded by the ban
dits had been paid, tho advices failed
to Btate.
The kidnaping of H. C. Rowson had
no connection with the raid on tho
Shanghai-Peking express May 0. The
Rowson outrage occurred in southern
China more than a week before the
attack on the train near Suchow which
is, in the north near the bordor of
Shantung province.
PEKING, May 14. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A conference Satur
day night between representatives of
the railway bandits and the Peking
government resulted In agreement by
the brigands to release some of their
captives immediately and to freo the
remainder when their terms Includ
ing tho withdrawal of the troops
were complied with, the ministry of
communications announced, yester
day. The American, French ond Italian
legations have' received word, from
their respective consuls that the ban
dit chief earlv Saturday morning in
formed the officials of his intention
of killing every captive In two days
If his terms were not met.
SHANGHIA, China, May 14. (B
tho Associated Press.) Max Fried
man, whoso brother, Leon Friedman,
is one of tho foreign captives hold in
the Shantung hills by Chinese ban
dits, received today a pathetic letter
from Father William Lenfors, an
aged German Catholic priest of Lln-
cherng, who went alone Into the wild
mountain country to visit the bandit
stronghold and aid tho prisoners.
Tho lotter was dispatched late Sat
urday when the priest evidently was
near exhaustion. He closed tho let
ter by saying, "More I cannot writo
now. Am to sick. Will write
again when see leaders."
He had described his feverish Jour
ney, day and night, to climb to
brigand vlllnge on a mountainside,
with a population of 2,000. But ho
found the village deserted until mid
night when returning members of tho
band informed him that the bandit
leaders would see him Sunday morn
Ing at 8 o'clock.' Communication be
tween the villagers and bandits high
or on the mountain had been ex
changed by signal lights.
CAVE NEAR
torch light which Blgley cnrrlod wen
out after he hnd dropped It when th
two woro a nillo from the cavo a en
trnnco. Tho men became separated
Blgley fell Into a hole and was ron
dered unconscious. When he
covered he managed to reach th
rave's mouth following the cries of
Mrs. W. A. McCnnn. one of the party
who stationed herself at the entrance
when the men failed to appenr. m
two then came to Bend and searchers
were nt onco sent to the cave to res
cue Murphy,
CHINA HQS
AGES
SENSA
I
TRIAL AT KL
Mrs. Mabel Nichols, Who Says
She Killed Bootlegger Be
cause He Attempted to Force
Her to Become Outcast
Woman, Goes On Trial for
Life. ' ' '
KLAMATH FALLS, Oro., May 14.
Mrs. Mabel Nichols, who said she
killed Robert Greer at Summit Station
December 2 because he attempted to
force her to become an outcast woman
went on trial today for her life.
Mrs. Nichols said Greer previously
had Induced her to desert her husband
and child nt Ellensburg. Wash., and to
live with him. The night of December
2 she asserted, Greer camo to their
home drunk and during a quarrel she
killed him with a revolver.
ELLENSBURG, Wash., May 14. A
note found in the Nichols home here
following the disappearance of Mrs.
Mabel Nichols on trial today in Klanv
ath Falls In connection with the death
of Robert Greer, also of Ellensburg,
indicated that she had been forced to
leave. The note road: "I am going
not because I want to, but because at
tho point of a gun." As the woman
had been despondent following a quar
rel with her husband, the latter stated
at the time, he believed she had com
mitted suicide and a general search
was made here for her body. Tho
coincidental disappearance of Robert
Greer, who was charged with viola
tion of the prohibition laws, led local
officers to investigate and it was
learned the two had loft together.
Greer who wob killed by Mrs. Nich
ols In a lonely cabin near Bend, Oro.,
December 2, according to the womnn'a
admission, left a wife and large family
hero.
L. ANGELES POLICE
SAN PEDRO, Cal., May 14. Several
hundred mombers of tho I. W. w.
were arrested here this afternoon by
Los Angeles City policemen whe
they refused to break up gatherings
on the street They were loaded into
electric railway cars and Btarted for
Los Angeles.
LOS ANGELES. May 14. Chief of
Police Oaks shortly after noon today
called out the night and early morn-
ng Bhifts of patrolmen to go to San
Pedro at once for strike duty. '
LOS ANGELES, May 14. Twenty
mon wore arrested In a raid today on
tho Los Angeles hoadquartors ot tho
I. W. W. nnd held on charges of crlm
Inal syndicalism.
SAN PEDRO, Cal., May 14. Thirty-
four more arrests ot alleged radicals
were made In San Pedro nt Immense
muss meetings and street demonstra
tions ovor Saturday night and Sunday
when tho biggest demonstrations of
tho I. W. W. strike wore staged. The
total number of, prisoners taken by
tho the police since tho opening of tho
drive at noon Saturday now stands at
64.
No change was noted In tho situa
tion along the watorfront, with many
ships working short handed, thcro be
ing a shortago of Bailors, firemen any
longshoremen.
U. S. A.
MEXICO CITY, May 14. (By the
Associated Press.) The opening of
tho conference hero ' between tho
American and Mexican delegates ap
pointed to discuss the differences be
tween the two governments, found of
ficials, public and press all optimis
tic that recognition of tho Obregon
administration by the Washington
government would follow.
It has been unofficially learned
that the Mexican government Is pre
pared to promise support or tne pena-
ing petroleum legislation Intended to
make the requests of the United
States without Infringing her nation
al sovereignty and dignity by signing
nny treaty acceding to these requests
as a preliminary to recognition.
FALLS OPENS
Where Body of Leighton Mount Was Found
. y y r it" 4
; t " jwpssw ft
The breakwater at Evanston wher
western university student who has b eon missing was found. The body was
under the breakwater and covered wi th rocks. Young Mount has boon na
tionally searched for and is now be lloved to have boon a victim ot college
hazing. J
CLAIM
P
NOTE WRITTEN
BY N. Y.
NEW YORK, May 14. A woman
will bo named as wrltor of tho Bcurll
lous letters which George Maxwell,
Internationally known music publlslior
has been charged with having written
In defamation ot Mrs. Allan A. Ryan, ,
Mrs. Albert It. Gallatin and several
other socially prominent women m
the last ten years, his friends an
nounced todny.
Maxwell's Intimates, rallying to his
defense, declared that he ' had long
suspected a woman ot being the author
of the "poison pen" missives, and said
that they expected to give her name
to District Attorney Banton on his
arrival here. Maxwell has announced
in London that he will return here Im
mediately to face the indictment
found against him. 4
Officers of tho American Socloty of
Composors, Authors and Publishers,
of which Maxwell Is president, said
that It would have been Impossible for
Maxwell to wrlto somo of the letters
of whose authorship he was accused,
as ho was so 111 at the time they were
mailed that he could not Blgn checks
of the concern. They declared too,
that Maxwell himself had for years
been the recipient of similar lotterB.
Several years ago, they said, he had
gone to Havana, Cuba, with another
man without having first told his
friends his destination. On arriving
at their hotel In Havana, Maxwell'?
friends say, he and his companion
were handed "poison pon" lottors
which had been mailed from New
York.
A short'tlmo later, It was said. Max
well went to Miami, Fla. Ho mot a
Now York society woman and the two
wero handed "poison pen" lotters
which had been mallod from Now
York.
The story goes that on returning to
her hotel after a motor trip, tho wom
an found ono of tho accusative lottors.
Maxwell on returning to the hotel,
was said to also have received a lottor
couched in Bimllar terms.
S.P.
1922 NEW RECORD
NEW YORK. May 14. Net revonue
from railway operations In 1022, ag
gregating fi8,8B4,713, exceodod Hint
of any year since tho record year lw,
but yas S4.614.9D4 less than In that
vear. It is disclosed by the annual
report of the Southern Pacific com-
nanv. marlo nubile here today.
Not railroad operntlng income for
1922 totalled $16,222,848, an Increased
of more than $10,000,000 over 1W1,
and net Income from the railroad pro
perty and proprietary companies, com
bined, totalled $32,600,150 as compared
with $30,618,777 the previous year.
Montagut Glass Dying
NEW YORK, May 14. All hope was
practically abandoned today for Mon
tague Glass, author and playwright
who yesterday underwent an 0orn
tlon for appendicitis.
0IS0N
MAN
e the body of Leighton Mount, North
National.
At Tlrnoklvn R. H. E
rl,la(rn 3 12 1
Bronklvn 8 13 2
Aldrldco and Hartnctt; Cadorc
and Taylor.
At Knw York R. H. E,
Pittshurir 4 8 0
Mow Vnt-lr 1 0 0
C. Adams and Schmidt; Ncht and
Smith.
At Boston
SU- Jiuls
Boston . ....
R. II. B
..7 :'i2o.i,
. .1 7
Bonton
Grenovlch, Fllllnglm and O'Neill.
At rhllndclnhla . R. H. E
Cincinnati 7 11 i
Philadelphia 8
Rixcy and Wlngo; Head and Hon
line.
American.
Philadelphia
Chicairo 0 6
Hnnlv and . Perkins; Fauer ana
Schalk, Graham, Dorman.
At Cleveland R.
H. E
Washington 3
Cleveland
.6 10
Jolinnrn and Ruel; Uhle and
Myatt.
Boslon-St. LoulH' postponed, rain.
N. Y. GRAFT CASES
NEW YORK, May 14. Details of
a numbor of stock soiling schemes
In which big names and big sum
figured and In which was concerned
Mrs. Myrtle Bowman Hayes, Indict-
od last week on a chargo of having
forged the numo of CharloB M
Schwab to n $25,000 note, havo boon
niado nubile by Charles B. Manvlllo,
89, wealthy founder ot tho Johns-
Jlanvillo asbestos concorn.
In statements given out ayestorday
after first denying any connection
with Mrs. Hayos, tho aged flnanclor
told tho manner In which ho allogod
somo of her associates used his nnmo,
without his knowlodgo, as prcsldont
of tho Century Consolidated OH com
pany, rubber stamping his signature
to literature used In a $2,000,000
stock soiling campaign.
Ho said Mrs. Hayes, MrB. Cora Stot
son Butler and Walter B. Clarke had
Induced him to Invest In sovoral on
torprlneB. Clarko, Mrs. Butlor of
Now York and Boston; Ernest E.
Thllllps of Kansas City, Mo.; 1). L.
Peters of Los Angeles; Bonowltz X.
Dawson and Mark S. Mathews ot Now
York wore lndlctod In April of last
year, charged with having usod the
mallB to defraud In tho salo of stock
ot tho Consolidated Oil company.
Liberty Bonds
NEW YORK, May 14 Liberty bonds
closed: BVi's 101.2; first 4's 97.12;
Bocond 4's 87.11; first 4W'b 97.14; soc
ond Vt" 97.14; third 4's 98.12;
fourth 4'b- 97.21: Victory 4's un
called 100.1 ; U. S. Treasury notes 99.5.
Grain Export Increase
WASHINGTON, Mny 14. Grain ox-
ports from the Unltotl Statos last
week amounted to 6,120,000 bushels,
compared with 4,601,O0 bushels for
tho wock previous. .
Mr. Schwab of N. Y.
Among Six Killed
In Paris Airplane
CONTY, France, May 14. (By
Associated Press). Six persons,
including a "Mr. Schwab," New
York businessman, wore klllod
when a passenger nlrplalne oper-
atlng on tho Parls-Iondon route,
was wrecked early this morning
near the villages ot Nonsures.five
miles from here nnd midway be-
tween Amiens and Beauvais.
Tho machine caught fire while
travollng at its usual height on
Its dally trip and thon either foil
or the pilot tried to make a hur-
rled landing. The ' piano was
wrecked by the full and explo-
4 Blon..
The six victims were, bosides
Schwab, the French pilot, the
machinist, tho engineer, an Eng-
llsh woman and a second male
passouger.
CHINK PIRATES
SEIZE S
E
HONO KONG. May 14. (By tho
Aniociated Press) European pas-
sencora woro among xnoso iwnui-
litod and robbed when tho cmneso
stoamor Tnlshun was seized near
Swatow Saturday by pirates, who dis
guised as passengers overpowered
tho crew, sailed tho snip for nearly
24 hours at nicht without lights and
finally left her yesterday at tno
mouth of a small creek, transferring
to a Junk loot valued at $6000.
Tho TalHhun, which was oounu
from Hong Kong for Shanghai, re
turned to Hong Kong yosterdny after
noon. Tho 'chief officer, wounded In
tho forearm by a pirate, was taken to
hospital. Most of tho passengers
had lost all their money and personal
offectM. The -wssol's onrgo, tt 'Valu
able ono, was not disturbed.
The steamer which registers 2000
tons, left Hong Kong with more than
100 passongers. The pirnto passen-
ffofs numbered about forty. wnon
a point near Swatow was reached tho
buccaneers separated into small par
ties as prearranged, worked suddonly
and systematically. Soon thoy had
the ship at their morcy. They rushed
the nrmory, capturing all the equip
ment there. The crow was taken by
surprise. The crew and officers
were locked up In the captain's cabin
where thoy wero compelled to re
main until the pirates left tho ship.
A largo number of Chineso passon
gors, panic stricken, were herded Into
the hold aftor thoy had boon soarcn
cd and thalr valuables stolon. Tho
pirates had no difficulty In handling
tho ship. Steaming all night In corn
plots darkness they reached tho small
croek which was tholr rondozvous
about J00 miles from Swatow, yostor
day morning. A Junk slipped along
side; the loot was loworod Into It; the
ptrutos vanished.
STARTED AT EUGENE
EUGENE, May 14. Tho first car
load of machinery for Rev. David
Eugene Olson's oil well drilling oper
atlons arrived In the local yards Sat
urday morning from Astoria, where
It was' purchased from tho defunct
Lower Columbia Oil and Gas com
pany, according to announcement ot
officials collected with the Guarantee
Oil compnny. Three more car loads
will como In Tuesday.
First drilling operations aro duo to
start on the Eugene Bible University
land 'In City Outlook, bouHi of town
In a few days four drillers will ar
rive from California to start erection
of tho apparatus and to take charge
ot boring operations. Lator, more
will como.
TEAMER
ROB PASS
NERS
. W. W'S, WALK OUT IN CLACKAMAS
COUNTY WHEN TIMEKEEPER IS SHOT
PORTLAND, Ore., May 14. Abouti Georgo O. Mason of the construo
400 out of a forco of 1800 men om-tlon company dented that gunmen
ployed In construction of a hydro were omployed, but admitted that 12
oloctrlo plant In ClnckamaB county, deputy sheriffs had been obtained to
nonr horo, were reported out today, guard tho camp at the time ot the re-
followlng tho death lato Snturday
R. A. Smith, time keeper of Camp No.
8 of tho Hurloy-Mason company, con
struction contractors. 8mlth was shot
Friday night by C. A. PhclpB, a forest
ranger, aftor 8mlth ordered Pholps about 4 00 mon had quit work. Cor
to halt noar the camp. Industrial 'oner O. A. Pace wll hold an inquest
Workers of tho World loaders declar
ed the walkout was In protest against
the employment of gunmen at tho
camp.
OF
Soviet Reply to British Ulti
matum Conciliatory No
Desire for Trouble, But De
mand Equality Release
Trawlers and Leave Differ
ences to Conference,
LONDON, May 14. (By Associated
Press). In British official circles the
reply of the Russian soviet govern
ment to tho British note is considered
as avoiding a rupture. Satisfaction Is
expressed at what the British consider
an about-face on the part ot Moscow
in Its attitude toward Great Britain.
While the British government is ready
to discuss the disputed matters with
Leonid Kraasln or another credited
envoy, Lord Curzon seems determined
to maintain all the points raised In the
British note and will not tolerate long
discursive explanations from Moscow,
It is Indicated. He will also insist, it
is declared, upon adequate apologies
for the wrongs alleged by the British
in their note. :
MOSCOW, May 14. (By Associated
Press). Soviet Russia's note to Great
Britain, the text ot which was given
out here today, is couched in concilia
tory terms. Expressing regretful sur-
prise at the ultimatum, it proposes a
conference ' at a time and place to be
arranged with England, at which re
sponsible representatives of those
governments shall dlscusB not only
the disputed secondary questions
raised In the British note, but shall
also regularize fully the relations be-
. ... i i .) , nntn
The note sets, forth what It declares. . .
1 ... , . J ' DHltl.t. .
VliaifJUO Mill, l Dguiu l"l HUinnuui. " J
Russia In the east While admitting
that Russia naturally sent money to
tha Rnnalnn mnranaiitntlvA In Pftrsla .
it says the British are over suspicious .
in thinking that Russia has no use for
money In the east other than for pro
paganda. It offers to settle by arbitration the
questions raised by the Russian sell
ures of British trawlers and compen
sate Charles F. Davison, an English
civil eiiKiuur eAuuuieu m uoo ,u
1920 and another British subject in
whose caso a claim was made it the
British will agroe to give compensa
tion for the long Imprisonment of sev
eral Russians in England and India.
With regard to the two notes sent
to England signed by "Welnstein,
which Mr. Hodgson, the British agent
in Moscow, returned, complaining that
they were couched In offensive lan
guage, the reply says the first note
returned by Mr. Hodgson was never
sent again to the British government
and thorefore must be regarded as un-
sent, while the second lotter did not
contain anything offensive. These
notes wore In reply to Mr. HodgBon's
protest against the execution ot Mon-
Blgnor Butchkavltch. The note de
clares that despite misunderstandings
Russia greatly appreciates friendly re.
lntlons with Great Britain. The docu
ment, of about 3000 words. Is signed
by Maxim Lltvlnoff, assistant comral
sar for foreign affairs and Is address
ed to Mr. Hodgson. , 'Li,
Beckett KO's Dick Smith ,
LONDON, May 14 (By Associated
Press). Joe Beckett tonight knocked
out Dick Smith In the 17th round of a
bout for the heavyweight champion
ship of England. -
Crudn Oil Cut Again. -PITTSBURG,
May 14. Another
cut ot 25 cents a barrol made In the
price of tho principal grades of crude
oil, was announced today by the pur
chasing agenclos.
of. cent I. W .W. strike.
Mliorirt Wilson and District Attor
ney Stlpp of Clackamas county Tls-
Red the camp yesterday and reported
everything quick. Theyj said that
tomorrow ovor the body of Smith.
Phelps told oftfeer he though he
was being held up when Smith hnltod
him with a flashlight.
RUSS