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Weekly Fifty-Third Year.
MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, MAY, lCt 1923
NO, 41
REPORT TO
GM.'HO
M
REI
STAGES.
HURL THREE
HOSTAGES TO
THEIR DEATH
Unconfirmed Report From
Shanghai Declares Chinese
Bandits' Serve a Ghastly
Warning to Authorities By
Murdering Three Captives
Little Hope of Rescue.
SHANGHAI, Slay- 10. (By
the Associated Press.) With an
unconfirmed report received hero
this morning from IJncheng that
three of . the Chinese captives
held by the Suchow train ban
dits had been hurled to their
death over n precipitous cliff in
the Shantung mountains as a
f warning to the authorities, fur
ther word of tho negotiations for
the release of the foreign cap
tives was awaited anxiously.
The Lincerng report said the Chi
nese victims were Hilled instantly.
The alleged murders were said to
have been intended to impress on the
Chinese gomernment and the foreign
diplomatic corps that the bandits
meant what they said when they an
',' nounced that all the prisoners would
" be slain unless the bandits' terms
were complied with. The period of
the ultimatum sent out i Sunday by
the bandit chieftain, granting three
days, wag believed to have expired
either last nfght or some time today.
Leaders of the bandits are said tq
have met emissaries yesterday after
noon at Dragon Paw cliff, ten miles
north of Tsao Chwang. Counter pro
posals were discussed and it is believ
ed that the outlaws', final decision
was forwarded today.
Demand Recognition
The demands emphasize, as a ba
sic requirement, that the foreign dip
lomats guarantee the bandits against
reprisals from Chinese or foreign
aources, and also that the diplomats
pledge the carrying out of the gen
eral terms. These term? do not men
tion ransom, but require the forma
tion of the bandit force, numbering
8000 into two brigades, wfth Sun Mel-
Jan, one of the bandit leaders, ap
pointed brigade commander5. The
Chinese government also Is ordered
vto send the bandit stronghold fall
"supplies of ammunition, this is to be
preceded by the withdrawal of all pur
suing troops.
Chevalier Musso, a prominent Ital
ian attorney, one of the captives, is
reported in a desperate plight from
Illness.
Another Raid Planned
SHANGHAI, May 16. By the As
soclated Press,) The strong force of
' v bandits entrenched In the hills back
of Lincheng, where they are holding
their prisoners, are contemplating a
possible attempt to kidnap parties of
foreigners at Tsao Chwang who have
been negotiating for the release of
Uie prisoners captured on the Shang
hai-Peking express May 6, according
to advices brought here today from
Lincheng.
Rchurmnn Discouraged
WASHINGTON, May! 16. Minis-
f ter Shurman reported to the state de
partment today that no progress was
being made in negotiations between
the Chineso authorities and the ban
dit leaders for the release of Ameri
cans and other foreigners held cap
tive in Shantung. The minister said
there were indications that the ne
gotiations might drag on indefinitely
(Continued on Page Six)
PRUNE GROWERS OF
A BIG MARKETING ORGANIZATION
PORTLAND Ore., May 18. Steps
were taken here yesterday by repre
sentatives of Oregon and southwest
Washington prune growing organiza
tions to merge all the units Into one
major organization for marketing of
the crop. A committee to map out a
plan of federation was nominated and
It will report within the next two
weeks, it was announced.
The committee consists of M. J.
Newhouse of tho Oregon Growers' as-
Recommend 'Award
Government Work
Crater Lake Road
PORTLAND, Ore., May 16.
Bids on nearly $500,000 worth"
of road work in the states of
Oregon and Washington were
opened yesterday at the office of
the United States' bureau of pub-
' ilie roads. Only one bid was
recommended for award. This
involved 8.7 miles of surfacing
work on the Medford-Crater
Lake road.
This award is for the road bo-
tween Union Creek and the Na-
tional Park boundary line. It is
estimated that the work will
' cost 100,000, and it is under-
stood that work will start at
' once.
UPTON SINCLAIR
S HaD IN JAIL
US HUM
Famous Novelist and Red
Sympathizer Arrested in
Raid Near. Los Angeles for
Violating Ordinance Against
I. W. W. Assemblage.
LOS ANGELES, May 16. Upton
Sinclair, noveliBt and socialist, is
under arrest by Los Angeles police on
charges of unlawful assembly" and
suspicion of criminal syndicalism, it
was announced here today by Chief
of Police Louis D. Oaks. Oaks ap
peared at the police headquarters to-
day after having taken Sinclair and
three others into custody at San
Pedro last night, but gave no intima
tion as to where -the arrested men
were taken.
Later the chief said the prisoners
were being held in San Pedro, but de
clined to say whether they were in
jail.
"Sinclair will be brought to Los
Angeles about one o'clock this after
noon," Chief OnkB said. "In the
menntlrno I shall confer with the dis
trict attorney's office concerning the
charges against the men."
Shortly after 10 a. m it was an
nounced at the chief's office that Sin
clair was beins held In the jail of
the Wilmington branch of the city
jail near San Pedro.
"I will not permit anyone to see
tho prisoners until they are brought
hern at one o'clock," the chief said.
The chief gave out a statement in
which he snld Sinclair was arrested
while violating a ciiy ordinance regu
lating public assemblage.
OREGON FORM
nrtniinn: J. O Holt of Eugene: W. I
Tavlor. Butte Falls: L. F. Kusseli of
the Washington Growers association;
W. S. Allen. Dundee: M. B. Green,
tin.ohiin and Matt Corrigan, Mc-
Mlnnt'iltfl
Under the plans as discussed today
the pack will be standardized and put
out under one brand. It was stated
that 16.000.000 pounds of prunes from
Oregon's last crop yet remain to be
sold. . . .
s
G. J. GOULD
DIES AFTER
LONG FIT
Well Known American Finan
cier Stricken With Pneu
monia March 20th Finally
Succumbs Reported Out
of Danger, But Suffered Re
lapseSketch of Career.
MENTONB, Prance, May 16. (By
Associated Press). George Jay Gould,
the American financier, who has been
iii at Cap Martin, near hers, for some
time, died at three o'clock this mors-
ing.
Mr. Gould was stricken with pneu
monia at his villa on March 20. For
days his condition was critical but he
finally rallied and was said to be out
of danger. Throe weeks later, how
ever, he suffered a relapse and on
May 1 took a turn for the worse.
The end came peacefully. Mr.
iGouid's wife ana two children were at
his bedside.
Sketch of Career
George Jay Gould, financier and rail
road man, succeeded to th8 leadership
of the famous Gould family soon the
death ot his father, Jay Gould, Decem
ber 2..18S2. S
In addition to assuming responsi
bility, as trustee and executor, for. the
180,000,000 estate left by his father,
he carried on and expanded the great
railroad holdings of the latter, and
within a few years, during which he
applied the lessons learned from the
elder Gould, he became one of Amer
ica's foremost railroad financiers. The
6000 miles of road left by Jay Gould
grew into more than 20,000 miles un-;
der the management of his son, while i
the many investments in other hugei
enterprises, including the Western
Union Telegraph company, also werei
largely managed by the principal heir, j
George Jay Gouid was born In New ;
York City February 6, 1864, the sixth
in line of descent from Major Nathan
Gould, old Gold, the original ancestor,
who came from the south of England
in 1646 and settled in Fairfield, Conn.
White many of Nathan Gould's descen
dants attained eminence in colonial af
fairs and through service in the Revo
lutionary War, It remained tor Jay
Gould to become the first financier.
Fortune Made In 1860
The Gould family fortune dates front
I860, when Jay Gould, a partner in his
father's hardware store in Delaware
county, New York, bought for ten
cents on the dollar a controlling Inter
est in the Rutland and Washington
railroad, a little bankrupt line running
between Trey, New York, and Rut
land, Vt. Young Gouid, in addition to
selling hardware, had studied survey
ing in his spare time, and took an
interest in railroad building as a re-
salt of these studios.
Two years after pus-chasing the road
Jay Gould bad succeeded in extricat
ing it from financial difficulties,
whereupon he sold at 120 the Interest
originally acquired at ten. This was
the first feat of that generalship
which, over and over in later life.
made him the foremost railroad de
veloper of his time.
George Jay Gould, even wuen quite
young, showed an inclination to follow
in the footsteps of his father. He re
ceived a thorough education from pri
vate instructors, and subsequently
entered Columbia university, but was
not graduated.
After a tour of Europe, he became a
clerk in the Western Union office,
where he developed such as aptitude
for detail that he soon became the as
sistant of his father. George Gould
was at his desk fen hours a day, and
often remained long into the night,
learning the business which, when he
became its vice-president a few years
later, operated more than a million
miles of telegraph wire.
Fight With Morgan
This apprenticeship prepared him
for the responsibility devolving upon
him when Jay Gouid died. Soon after
he obtained full charge of his father's
interests, he called upon J. Pierpont
Morgan fa regard to the purchase of
the New York and Northern railway
by the Manhattan Elevated road.
Something 'was said which angered
Mr. Gould, and he vowed never to
enter the Morgan offices again.
Fearing, however, that he had made
a powerful enemy, he determined to
neutralize its effects by an alliance
Continued on Page Six)
George Jay Gould Who Died
in Mentone, France, This Morning
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The protofirnph alrove shows Mr. and Mrs. Gcegre Jay 6oa3 tlse
latter on a hunting trip during their honeymoon.
$JGf MEDFDRD
PORTLAND, Ore., May. 16. Cap-
tala Wiiliiam JS. hyni, United States
army air service, who left Keiiy field,
Texas, May 5, to map air currents
and study flying conditions In the
triangle roughly bounded by Sines
between Texas, ' Portland and. San
Diego, Cai., arrived here late yester
day afternoon after a six hour flight
from Burns. Ore. Lynd's arrival was
Unheralded yesterday, but at a hotel
here this morning he told of Ms trip
from Burns. He left at 8:45 today
for San Francisco. He may make
one stop ea route, possibly at M'ed,
ford. The flight yesterday should have
taken about two hours, bat instead'
Lynd and his companion, Master Ber
gsant J. E. English, were in the sirj
about six hoars. At Prlneville Lynd ;
made a landing because he could not!
keep up his speed and dodge pine,
. 1 , l . 1 1 . . v. .) 1
u3e& ii tie ttiityeu UCiVW Lira UUUUO.
Efforts to follow a compass route
from Burns to Portland Brought
Lynd's plane somewhere in the
mountains. The canyon continaed ts
narrow. There was not room to tars
around, so Lynd turned the nose of
his craft straight up into a pelting
rain and snow storm ana climbed oat
of the canyon.
Lakes were frozen over in the up
per Cascades, snow was falling and
a strong west wind was blowing
against the plane, Lynd said.
The flight of the "48," part of the
work of the air service In charting
air currents, landing fields and sup
ply depots, is the first ever made by
a plane of this type over the territory
covered, ,
Lynd feels at home in Oregon, as
he formerly lived at Klamath Fails.
Dancer indicted Again
NEW YORK, May 16. Evan Bur
rows Fontaine, dancer and her mother
Mrs. Florence A. Fontaine, were re
indicted by tho Rockland county
grand jury today for perjury in con
nection with Miss Fontaine's ti.OOO,
000 breach of promise suit against
Cornelius Vanderbllt Whitney.
Ceid In Nebraska
OMAHA, Neb., May 16. Unseason
able low temperature in Nebraska to
day were reported by the local weath
er bureau, with the lowest, 27, at Cai
bertson. Fears for damage to truit
crops were expressed. . ,
.MRS. SOR6 J,
SOULD -
SHANGHAI, May 16. By the
Associated Press.) Memhers of the
Chinese government gent
boarded the traia bossd from Pe
king to Shanghai today, attacked of
ficials, beat their Chinese servants
who resisted, seized everything oa
the tables despite the protests Of for-
eleners, and held possession of the
train for several hours, it was learn
ed when the train reached here this
afternoon. ,
Finally, consular officials aboard,
hacked by the Chinese officials, "pre
vailed upon the gendarmerie to leave
the train.
The dispatch asakeg no reference
in resorts that certain of the prison
ers had been killed hat said reports
had reached Minister Schurmaa from
Conaal Savis at Eslng Taa that the
bandits had transported their pris
oners further into the mountains to
tba main handlt headquarters. The
consai said the action had followed
a conference among the Isandlt lead-
era. '
Father William teafars, tss aged
German Catholic priest who made
the trip Into tba bill retreat of the
marauders, believes the relief par
ties of foreigners at Tsao Chwang ar
la rery grave danger.
Tw strains of coal from a mlna sear j
Tsao Chwang have been seixed by the
bandits and 600 troops who were
guarding them are declared to be aa
trustworthy and likely to go ov$r to
the Brigands at any moment.
Perlanl asserted that American
consul aaihorlties at lilnchaag and
Tsao Chwang have imposed a censor
ship on all telegrams and mail mat
ter going out from those paints. He
said the brigands are aware of every
move being made along the railway
lines and are kept informed ot all
dsvelapmenls In lincheng, Tsao
Chwaag and elsewhere hy a telephone
line Into their hill retreat.
The consensus of opinion among
passengers aboard a train that ar
rived from Lincheng this afternoon
was "nobody can say what will ha the
outcome of taa negotiations with the
brisaads fr the release of their cap
tives or what the fate of the captives
will be. The affair may drag oat for
weeks."
TACOMA. May 1. Two masked
bandit, armed, Jsid art flenrjfe I-
Sfiih at htm home in Knienvilio. this
aftwnnnn and forced him to aivula
the hiding plnee of 147(0 he had in
hi house. They left in an automo
bile,
Is HELD up BY
Oregon Grafter Is
Caught in Dakota
By Radio Message
MINNEAPOLIS, May 18. In-
formation seat oat by radio from
here by tha Missesoia Bankers
association brossght Its first re-
suit today with the detention at
Spearfish, S. &, of a ssaa said to
answer Use aescriptioa of & ssaa
sought by the association. A man
4 giving the name of A. Files, driv-
icg a sport ssodei Essaclsssse with
an Oregon license, is alleged to
have attempted to pass bad
checks ai Litis Fails sad Breek-
snridge, Minn.
PORTLAND, Ore., May 1C
According to the local office of a
national detective agency. Files
is wasted at Kelso, Wash., on a
charge of isasslsg a worthJess
check in a stare. -
Sensational Charge is. Made
Against Mrs. Croker 8y the
, daughter of Late Tammany
Chieftain Dublin - Court
Recognizes Ciainv
SBBMN, May IS. By the Asso
ciated Press.) The allegation that
Mre. Bala Croker was already mar
ried Tfhen sbs went taroagh taa mar
riage ceremony with the late Richard
Croker, Tansmaay hall chieftais, was
tearfe la the caart of appeal aeva to
day oa behalf of Mrs. Ethel C. Whits
of Cedar Hurst, N. Y., in connection
with the Htlgaiiaa aver tba Croker
will. .
Mrs. White Is a daaghter of the
lata Mr. Croker. The eosrt actios
today was la the farm of a feeariais of
her appeal from the decision of Jus
tice Dodd refusing her the right to
plead la tea ease tsreagai against
Mrs. Croker by Kleaard Croker, Jr.
William Jellett, Mrs. White's at
torney, said evidence Bad come to
light since Jaattes Dadd made his de
cision which caald be utilized eniy
If sis client 'wars allowed ta plea.
The plea, he added, woald be esse
of fraud.
Questioned in regard to the aatare
8f the alleged fraad, Jellett repllrd
'that it would be charged that "ai the
time Mrs. Bula Croker went through
taa ceremony of marriage with the
Jats Richard Croker, she was the wife
of another man and that she conceal
ed that fact from Croker ai the time
sad dowa to the day of his deata.
"A farther plea will he that by
rnaklng falsa representations ts the
deceased, she raised a pwjadka la
fcis mlsd against his children."
Sergeant Hanna, for Mrs. Croker,
aid this was part of a eampalga ot
fCostlssed as Pmi ttx.i
UKIONTOWK, Pa., May It.
Chariea W. Johnson and Alfred
Sraest Coras, tor whom warrants
have been Ioed in New York la
connection with Atlantic coast rum
running, were well known baslness
men of Unlontown antu a year ago.
Johnson was president of the com
pany which owns the Uaioaiown
Aatomohlle $eedway aHd Corns was
secretary and treasurer.
After the speedway was abandoned.
Johason, who was also Interested ta
the New Salem Brewing company si
New Salem, fa., was charged with
violating: the Volstead act.
NSW YORK, May 16. By the
Associated Press.) The government,
WBicis sanoasced yesterday plans toi
smash raat riag alleged to ha op
erating liquor fleets from Miami to
Boston, today obtained eight federal
warrants charging conspiracy to vio
Jata ihe Volstead act and defraud the:
government of customs duties. More
warrant, it was aaaoaaced, will be
sought.
President in Letter to -S: Y.
Resident Regarding &rti-
Dry Measure, Sees Treble
if Bl is Signed Compares
the Liquor Industry With
Slavery.
NBWBUHQH, Jf. Y May 16. Re
peal of state prohibition enforcement
ssmiates waaM fee 5ikiy ta ressli Is
"mare or leas caafllet feeiweess atata
and federal authorities, In the opin
ion of President Harding. The view
ef the reaSda were expressed la a
letter to Wesley Walt, of tfels city.
made nubile today. A bill passed by
the legislature repealing the act is
awaiting actios by Soveraer SaiftS.
Mr. Walt wrote to the president,
erglag that If Governor Smith Bhculd
sign the bill congress .fee csaveaed
aad taat the governor asd toe mem-
tsera of iha iegiaSaiure wfco voted for
the bill be suspended.
"Every state official wfee roied tar -
this bill is saisjeet is the law of trea
son, having taken the oath to sas
taln the constitution of the United
States, Mr, Wait' letter said.
la reply President Hardlsg wrote;
"Pending the approval of the Cuvil
ller biil by Governor Smith, Jjis mat- . ,
tr lf hardly ta fee regarded as isai V
lag reached is iag whre aay fed
eral auihority Is called upon for de
termination of nations' policies. With ,
marts of what yea say I am fally in
accord. Mr. Oaeoln eaid at the time
when slavery was still a recognised,
established and accepted taetitaiioa
ihroaghosi part sf tbe aalaa taat
the aailaa coald aot exist half clave .
and half free. The expression has
been accepted ever asiace as preseat
lag the oevleaa sad eeselasls-e logic
of the siiaaiiea which then confront
ed the union. Certainly it would have
beea etlil more imisrssaiise if there
had iseea at tsai iime a eoasiiisiisaai
provision against slavery as there la
now a constitutional provision against
the Ilqaos- trarile.
. Tae U of Sso Xaad.
"The nation has deliberately, after
many years of consideration, adopted
the present .jsoiicy which is written
fsto the eighteenth amesdreeai. It
Is .the Jaw of ihe land and of every
staio within the ssios. So long as it
remalaa the eatioaal pslley there eaa
be only ese coarse for the national
government to pursue, that is fa Use
every means to make effective the
htw paewd la compliance with this
conetltuMeaai mandate. To do this
will be the unquestioning policy of the
prsseot admiaistrstlog and J may add
ifeat 1 am firmly eeavisced tisat it
mast hs iiie pollry of ether adminis
trations that shall come hereafter,
"The executive of the aaiiea- and
equally tae ejtaeailves at the staies,
are sworn to enforce the constitution. '
It is difficult to believe that public '
approval will he gives ta any oiher
tfeas a policy of fally aad iiieraily dss-
CharaiBff'thiS 3ttt. f lint- unm'
-ir 1 f . I... . , m .&
jcessiOiB of a ssltaatiea -wfelea aaa act
yet arirx-rs, it win be ahvloaa tisat
j many complex and extremely diffi
cult situation must arise if any of
the staiea ahail deeliae to aaessme
tfViatlntied on page titj
Oae of the warrants was lataed for
Alfred Ersesi Corns of Baisatsws,
Pa., alleged ta be the supercargo of
tba Srtlisa ctaamer Taagtoa, wateh
pat lata this port yesterday eat of
food aad fuel. It was from the cap
tain and crew of tha Yaaktea taat
tihited giaies sAiiomey Hayward's
office claimed to have ieartsed of taa
manaer la which tha ram fleets were
operated. -
St. JOHNS, N. 'B., May '!, THx
spile reports from New York tsat ih
batted States aroverameat is waclag
Tlgorcas war on ram fleets off the
Atlantic seaboard, the liquor trade
la picking ap Briskly, sow taat ia
werst of taa spring storms are oelief
ed to have passed. Ram sehc-oneri,
reported to oa heading for ta ierw?
ifcres mlio limit, ar paitiag sat ut
most daily. . . .
Three schooners, eicopUonaSly
heavily loaded,, bare cleared tai
week.