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Newspaper Page Textrill,. Crs"7 Mb, arr Medford" Mail Tribune The Weather ' Prediction: Genernlly Vlotidy Maximum yesterday fltt Minimum today 43 Precipitation .......44 Weather Year Azo Mnxlmum KB Minimum . 23 Eally Eighteenth Tear, eekly Fifty-Third Yr. MEDFORD, OREGON, , WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,1923 NO. . 202 N. ORLEANS IS DRIED IP BYEINST1 "Dizzy Izzy" and Ex-Pugilist, After. Two Weeks Sampling of Moonshine in New Or leans, Stage a Wholesale Cleanup Likes Southern ' Hospitality NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 14. Whilo prohibition agents today were chock ing up tho results of tho raids con ducted hero yesterday, Izzy Einstein, nationally known prohibition agent whose stay hero for more than two weeks culminated in ovldenco and in formation responsible for the issuanco of 45 search warrants for tho raids, told of his experiences. Acting under orders from E. C. Ycl lowley, chief of tho general prohibi tion agents, Einstein and Poter Rea gan of New York, a former pugilist who assisted him, quietly sllppod into New Orleans after they had spent three weeks in Mobile, registered at a local hotel under assumed names and set about their work. As longshoremen "Izzy" and Rea gan early one morning last week wan dered Into, a soft drink establishment on Royal street, Einstein said, - and called for two glasses of boer. Tho bartender advised thorn not to drink beor-at that hour of tho day but to take whiskey, instead. ' "All right thon, givo us, two glasses of whiskey," Izzy said. Tho liquor was forthcoming . and after chatting for a while tho two agents walked out with tho evidence. ' : The place was ratde'd yesterday Izzy Bald. At one of tho cabarots Izzy took a harmonica from his pocket and struck up a Jazz' tune while Reagon per formed a buck and wing danco. Im mediately drinks wo4o served to everybody in tho place, Izzy said. But Einstein, instead of drinking, poured 4'he evidence through an especially made funnel and tube connecting with a bottle ho carried in an insido pocket. "They Fell for Mo" MOBILE, Nov. 14 The prohibition raids here by federal officers that re sulted In the issuance of 86 warrants charging various offenses in connec tion with the violations of the na- tnnnl nnnhlliHInn nnondniant mntrcH from bribery of officials to tho selling of prohibited liquors. Tho reports stated that In various raids they seized as much as. 500 cajes of im ported whiskies, wines, brandies and cordials. Isadore "Izzy" Einstein, prohibition enforcement officer, departed from Mobile last night after a three weeks Incognito visit and as a result of lzzy's visit stock in the bootleg market dropped as rapidly as Ocrman marks. "I came, I Baw, I nrtjppcd up." said Izzy as he stood in the courtyard of the custom house where load after load of liquor was deposited. "And believe me, it was some job. I can safely cstlmato that tho number of shinny joints In proportion to popula tion hero Is greater than In any other town I ever struck." Izzy explained his system. "Every day I had a now name, a new job, a net. disguise and a now address. My partner, Peter Reagan and I, worked on the docks unloading freight vessels for a few clays and got a fine lino on tho imported liquor business here. They fell for mo and put me next to oil tho stuff I wanted. One day I sold cigars and was generously treated by many of tho cigar dealors. ' I must say this southern hospitality Is great. I havo been treated to all brands, good, bad and Indifferent." GOOD pnOFIT FROM PENDLETON ROUNDUP PENDLETON, Ore., Nov. 14. At a meeting of tho roundup directors last night, tho dates for tho 1924 show were set as Boptomber 18-20. A gift of $10,000 representing the profits of the 1923 show wns made to the city of Pendleton by tho board of directors for tho improvement of present city parks and tho creation of a new park. The board of direc tors and tho officers. Including H. W., Collins, president, wero re-elected for 1924. ' HUMANE SOCIETY GIANT PYTHON PHILADELPHIA. Nov. 14. A giant pythan at the Philadelphia zoo' boa gone eight months without food, because It will take nothing but a live animal. Keepers have refrained from feeding the serpent through fear that the -Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals might object. This fear has been dispelled and next week the python will be fed a live pig. Tho keeper appealed to Frank B. News of a General Election in England Costs Quarter Billion . LONDON, ,Nov. 14. Know- ledge in the financial district of London that a general eloctlon was Imminent caused a loss of 52,000,000 pounds In the value of gilt edged stocks on tho Lon- don exchango in tho short space of two days. t Although prospects of an elec- tion alwnys has an unsettling ef- feet on.tho market the fact that tho present poll Is only a fow t weeks away has had the most depressing result since tho days of tho Glndstono government's defeat over homo rule. Another causo of tho present depression i has been tho fear that a labor I victory would mean an Iminedi- ato capital levy. AGAIN CLAIMS HE'S INNOCENT SALEM, Ore., Nov. 14. Arthur Co ven, condemned to hang hero Decem ber .21 for tho murder of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Ebba Covoll, in a fllnte ment written on tho train bringing him to the stole penitentiary last night, declares that the horoscopes found among: his possessions, which detailed plans for wiping out tho lives of a score or more of persons and which formed the principal evidence against him in his trial, wero but an innocent record of experiments he made upon himself and the workings of his mind after he had become help lessly crippled. Dressed in at the penltontlnry .this morning, Covell . declared that he would appeal his conviction to the supremo court, and stated that ho was being punished for the crime of an other, yet unidentified person. Tho condemned man wrote two statements on tho train last night; the one protesting his innocence and pleading the alibi, and the other pro claiming his philosophy of xhis lif and the next. Explaining how, through an acci dent which made him a bed-rlddrn cripple for life, hln hody was- vir tually severed and only a string of the spinal cord remained to keep his mind in action, while his lower body been mo entirely use less, Covell wrote that strange nnd grotesque thoughts began to crowd themselves into his head. "These phantasms," ho de clared, "piled rapidly one upon tho other in plots and counter-plots, which he coldly and calculatingly set down in writing," not, ho said, bo rauso he over Intended to carry them out, but because he desired to make a scientific study nf the innermost recefiBPH of his mind. , In one place Covell wrote: "Somewhere there 1h a party or parties whom 1 do not envy always ss long as lifn shall last they will carry their guilty secret and what Is n more terrible load to carry than that of a Wruilty conscience coupled with tho fact that an innocent life is also sacrificed to help hide that guilt?" SENTENCED TO PEN GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Nov. 14. Mrs. nolle Savely, mother of Grace Wall, who was sentenced yesterday at Los Angeles to one to ten years on conviction of manslaughter for stab bing to death H. V. Johnson, declared she believes her daughter innocent, adding the girl was too frail to com mit such a deed. Mrs. Savely today sent a telegrnm to tho sheriff at Los Angeles after she hoard of the girl's, conviction, saying that she felt Grace was shield ing someone and asked that the sher iff trace the movements of Grace's husband, Harry Wall. Mrs. Savely said her daughter had been married to Wall since 13 years old and that the girl Is now 19. Some months ago Wall and the girl left Ashland, Ore. TO ALLOW TO EAT A LIVE PIG Rutherford, manager of tho Pennsyl vania S. P. C. A. who said the python must be fed no matter how. While it may bo cruelty to let the pig suffer such a death It is far more cruel to let the serpent expire from starvation. Rutherford declared the pig would suffer a humane death. When the porker Is put into the reptile's cage, there is only a sudden spring, a flash of colls ani. the pig's life is extinct in an instant," he said, BANDON SLAYER A SB PRESSURE ei. England's Policy to Keep Hands Off Arouses France to Drastic Action Allied Ambassadors Pass the Buck Belgium Delegates De mand Action -LONDON,. Nov. 14 (By Associated PrOBs). Prance Is bringing strong pressure to bear on Great Britain looking to Joint action for tho expul sion of tho former Crown Prince from Germany. For tho moment tho British gov ernment bolievcs It useless to try to undo tho accomplished fact,- but no decision regarding a final policy will bo announced until the cabinet, which Is meeting today, has carefully exam ined the whole subject in the light of Premier Polncaro's latest overtures. MeanwhHo the government has re ceived no official intimation that the former kaisor intends to duplicate tho sensational dash of his heir. PARIS, Nov. 14. (By Associated Press). Tho allied council of ambas sadors failed to consider at Its meet ing today tho question of what action should bo takon in connection with tho return of tho crown prince to Ger many and as to Germany's attitude regarding the resumption of allied military control. The session was de voted to routino work and it is under stood the ambassadors avoided men tioning these two questions because the allies were not In accord as to tho proper course of action. , Great Britain, which took; tho Initi ative in the sending of a coercivo note to 'Germany regarding 'trio return of Frederick William, now is said to be desirous of dropping' the wholo mat ter, while Franco, which at first was Indifferent but lntor camo to favor action of some sort is ready for such action. BRUSSELS, Nov. 14. Deputies Van Hock, Bouessos and Mathieu, re spectively members of tho Catholic, Linoral ann socialist parties, scrveu notice on tho government today that they would interpellate It as to tho measures tho Bolglan government in I tends taking in view of the return of tho crown prince of Germany. Tho intrpellatory will demand that tho government ask the extradition of the crown prlnco in conformity with artl clo 228 of the Vorsalllcs treaty. Tho thrco deputies, tho first two of whom belong to tho governmental , majority, also will request tho govern ment -to take measures to prevent a similar roturn to Germany of tho ex- kalser "which 1b In course of prepara tion." KILL MESSENGERS AND SEIZE $43,600 NEW YORK, Nov. 14. Two bank messengers wero niurdercd by two bandits who stole $43.6000 from them In a spectacular holdup today at tho 55th street entrance of tho west end subway line in Brooklyn. The station was filled with persons on their way to work when the ban dits oponed fire, later fleeing with tho money in an automobile for which tho police sent out a goneral alarm within a fifty mllo radius of tho city. Tho messengers shot were William S. Barlow and William H. McLaughlin both of Brooklyn, and employed by tho West End bank. They were tak ing the money to another bank. Admits Murder of Ambassador, But Is Acquitted PRAGUE, Nov, 14. (By Associated Press.) Atanaa Nikoloff, 26 years old, Bulgarian, tried on the charge of assassinating M. Daskaloff, the Bulgarian ambassador. In Prague on August 26. was acquitted today by a vote nt ft lo 4 after the lurv had been out fourteen hours. Tho supreme court nas yet to pass upon mo ver dict and may reject it. VIlrrtlnfF Ninf.uioil in rnm mitt (n the cr,ime, saying it was by order, of the secret .Macedonian organization to which he belonged, which also had placed three other ministers of Bul garia on the death list. M. Daska- said, because he opposed the Mace donian separatist movement. Yests Gets Nobel Prize. STOCKHOLM, Nov. 14. (By the As sociated Press.) The Nobel prize for literature has been awarded to Wil liam Butler Yeats, the Irish author, it was announced today": BRITAIN Ffrstn?ho Her -Haiti Down ; . Marie and IJ t 'W''' ' . queen marie of. jugo-slaviaand her' infant s6n. PARIS Europe, is still Rasping over the informality of the photograph recently taken at Queen Marie of Jugo-Slavia, second daughter of Qliccn Marie of Roumania, and Iter infant son, the new heir to Jugo-dlavia's throne. The photfgraph is the first showing a queen in any such in formal costume as a negligee and with her hair down. The infantjerown prince was christened at an elaborate ceremony, attended by "flic Dukc and Duchess of York, on behalf of the English govcrjinijnhi SEATTLE STUDENT ' VALDEZ, Alaska, .Nov. 14. Robert Edwards, Seattle, student at the Uni versity of Washington, had a guilty part in the killing of Oeorgo Edwards, San Francisco fellow worker in a Llb byvillo, Alflska, cannery, a jury found In a verdict announced in United States court here today. The Jury con victed the Seattle man of second de gree murdor, for which tho penalty Is fifteen years or more In prison. VALDRZ, Alaska, Nov. 14. Trial of Ralph Wolfe, San Francisco, on a charge of murdering George Edwards, San Francisco, on a trip across the Alaska peninsula in August with Rob ert Edwards, Seattle, was to open In United States court here late today. The case of Robert Edwards, who was placed on trial last Wodnosday on a charge of murdor by participating in the doath ot Goorgo Edwards, was given to a jury last night, TO $85,000 IN AOS PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 14. Spend ing $85,000 on advortlnii.fi, Oregon in publications outside of tho state In the next year was decided upon today by the board of trustees in charge of a $310,000 state development fund raised by Portland businessmen un der the direction of the chamber of commerce. The trustees also allo cated for tho first year $35,000 for aid of organized marketing and $25, 000 for land settlement. Henry Ford to Have Most Costly Private Car in the World 1 CHICAGO, Nov. 14 Tho most luxurious private car In America 4 Is being built in tho Pullman car shops for Henry Ford, according to today's Chicago. Tribune. Tiled 4 4 bath rooms, sumptuous bed rooms, a drawing room equipped 4 with electrically operated, pho- uographfl, as well as a broad- 4 casting and receiving radio set and an electrical kitchen are some of the features to be In- stalled in the car, it Is said. 4 A richly appointed office and 4 accommodations for secretaries and the car's complement of ser- 4 vants are included. in the specifi- 4 cations, according to the Tri- 4 bune, 444444444444'44444 ISWIM IN SECOND DEGREE Taken of Queen Wee New Heir; 4 BRATTLE, Nov. 14. Motion that a chargo of manslaughter against Wini fred Gibbons, 19 year old divorcee, be dismissed on the ground that testi mony yesterday, when her trial opened hero In suporlor court ''proved hor guilty of second degroo murder If of anything," was dismissed today by Judge Mitchell Gilliam without hear ing the argument for tho motion. Miss Gibbons then took the stand. Miss Gibbons told the Jury that she had always been tho "baby of her family. Her attorney who yesterday, in arguing for the motion to dismiss tho charge, declared that testimony of the state had showed that when she fatally shot Harry Lace lie, newly married advertising man, the defen dant was sober; told the Jury in his opening statement that she was Intox icated when the tragedy occurred, at a road house north of Beattlo Octo bor 7. , - .IiiHHiiHy Ih Defense OREGON CITY, Ore., Nov. 14- William Elb, on trial hero following the shooting of his wlfo at their home In a suburb Heptembcr 17 today took tho witness stand in his own behalf after various defonso witnesses had testified he was insane.. Eib said he was ordered com in it tod to an Insane asylum in Indiana in 1020 upon com plaint of his wlfo, after he had at tempted suicide, but that ho secured his release on a writ of habeas corpus. He said ho bought the revolver in tending to end his own life as his wife had started divorce proceedings and declared ho did not remember shoot ing her. After the shooting Eib sur rendered to authorities. Yakima Case Thrill YAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 14. Selec tion of a Jury to try J. K. Pearce, charged with murder becauso of tho shooting of William Hillyer, marshal of ZUluh, on July 30, in a feud arising from a love affair betwoon Pearce's daughtor and lllllyer's son, made slow progress today. With most of tho peremptory challenges exhausted and only seven members of tho Jury un questioned, only eight Jurors had been accepted at noon today. The girl In tho caso and young Hillyor sit fuclng each other across tho table during tho trial, their for mer love affair apparently forgotten as each sides with blood kin. Interest In the caso Is lntenso and there was no standing room in the court today. Primmer Handcuffed . WALLA WALLA, Wash., Nov. 14 Trial of Thomas Walton who is chargo with first degroe murder fol lowing tho killing of George McDon ald and 8. P. Hurt at the state peni tentiary on the morning of October 7. began in superior court hero at about 11 o'clock. Judge E. C. Mills Is pre siding. Tho prisoner was . brought Into the courtroom handcuffed -ip penitentiary officers and appeared cool and collected although Interested in every move. Selection of the Jury began et once, ono woman being called. Not until the sixth Juror had been reached was there any objection to Imposition of the death penalty, Urges Egg Boycott to Prevent Price of Dollar a Dozen CHICAGO, Nov. 14. All egg 4 boycott by householders is urged 4- by Joseph Uushkewtcz, secretary 4 4 of tho city council high cost 4 4 committee which charges 'that 4 4 Chicago dealers are attempting 4 4 to corner tho egg market and 4 4 create an artificial shortage that 4 will boost prices to $1 a dozen. 4 Eggs are now selling at eighty 4 conts a dozen in Chicago altho 4 storage houses are bulging with 4 30,000.000 dozen, ho said. 4 Several dealers, alleged to 4 havo combined, expect to make 4 $9,000,000 before Christmas with 4 dollar eggs," according to Ray 4 Jane, former attorney for tho committee 4 FILIPINOS OFF FOR U. S: TO GET MANILA, Nov. 14. (By tho Asso ciated ProsB.) The American cliam bir of commorco today ndoptod a res olution culliiiR on conKross to rovoko tho Jones law, the organic act of the Vhlllpplno Islands, to siiliHtittuo for it an onabllnft act establishing tho! Philippines as an organized territory of the tlnltod States. ' Tho resolution asks that congress proclaim In the act tho normanoncy ot the Philippines as such organized territory under tho sovorolgnty of the United States. Co-incident with tho action of tho chamber of commerce, Mnnuol Roxas, former suoalior ot tho insular, house of representatives, accompanied by a corps of technical advisers, sailed for tho United States on tho President Madison to lay before President Cool Idge and congress anolhor demand for Independence for the Philippines and to explain in detail the Pllipliios' Bide of the controversy with Governor Gen eral Wood over the question of his au thority here. Roxas and his advisers are acting uudor tho auspices, of tho Philippine indopondonce commission, which last year sent oj mission to Washington headed by Manuol Quezon and Sergio Osmena, then president of the senate and speaker of .the house of represen tatives, respectively, to lay a request for lndopendce before Prcsldont Hard ing. : Among tho advisers accompanying them is A. J.Dovora, former Philippine resident commissioner In New York. Speaking at a luncheon in his honor JubI before departing Roxas Bald he is going to tell the American peoplo that Filipinos could no longer submit to "the militaristic government now pre vailing in the Philippines." Speaking before the senate today, President Quezon said that the trou bles among tho Moros of Mindlano are tho outcome of "an administration which bellovos that KillpinoB can not hear a largor portion of responsibil ity In their government than they now havo and that tho United States will remain horo to tho last.' . ' President Quezon said: "Governor Goneral Wood blames the Christian Filipinos; ho blamos the schools and ho blames everything. But an Intelligent world will blamo him In tho final outcome; for In two yoars he has destroyed tho ordor that has been successfully built up In eight yoars. If he wants to blame us, he ought to give us full-responsibility." i fit runnier Ik-wIm Wins. SAN FRANCIHCO, Nov. 14. Ed (Stranglor) I,owls rctnlnod his heavy weight championship wrestling lau rnls hero last night by defeating An' dreas Coastonas, local grapplcr who claims tho Spanish heavyweight title,, with two straight falls. Lewis used a hcadlork in each case. MEXICAN POLITICIANS SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Nov. 14.-J-Gonoral Aqullo Juarez Rodriguez, former governor of the stato of Yuca tan ard member of tho constitutional convention of Quorotnro was killed, Leon Martinez, a companion, was probably fatally Injured nnd Fornnn do Romero, said to be a first cousin of Mrs. Carmen Romero Diaz, widow of the Into - Porf Irlo Diaz, Is In jail hero as the result ot a political feud which began In Moxlco soveral years ago. Romero declared Juarez caused him to lose a position In Guatemala, followod him to Ban Antonio, and GENERAL S GOAT LIE DIRECT' IS PASSED AT VET HEARING Ex-Director Forbes Proves to Be Militant Witness Calls E. H. Mortimer a Liar Mortimer Laughs Commit tee Chairman Is Forced to Intervene "WASHINGTON, Nov. 14. Piecing out details of his denial of the charges against him, former Director Charles H. Forbes of the Veterans bureau, put now thrills Into the senate veterans' Investigation Dday by flatly contra dicting tho testimony of several pre--vlous wltnossos. ; He passed the lie dlroct to Ellas H. Mortimer of Philadelphia, who had told the Investigating committee that under Forbes' administration confi dential Information was furnished cortnin cuntrnctors regarding pro posed hospital sites. 11 raoramer states tnat," said the former director, "ho 'states that as a lie." - Thon he turned to Mortimer who was seated at a table with the com mittee counsel nnd exclaimed: "You laugh!" m, limn avou ut wie . committee lntorposod. "You aro testifying to the commit too," said tho chairman, "and It Is not necessary for you to address other ' persons." 1 Tho witness also contradicted di rectly tho testimony of Dr. Charles B. Sawyer, personal friend and physician or I'reHldont Harding. Sawyer had ' testlfiod that Forbos was dismissed by the prosldont for not -obeying an . ' w ntuj duiiuh jjiupany anion at Porryvlllo, Md., but the' former director declared today that Mr. Harding had given. ,hlm authority to releaso loaded cars at Perryvllle after tho first stop order was Issued. James S. Easby-Srnith, counsel tor Forbes, read into tho record a requi sition on the veterans' bureau for suppllos for the soldiers' home at Dayton, Ohio, made by General Saw yer. It called for twenty barrels of whiskey, twenty barrels of alcohol. iuu.uuu sncota. iuu.uuu towels, bo.uufi blankets, 100,000 yards of gauze and This requisition Forbes said he re fused to fill. "Why?"' asked the chairman. v "Tho quantities were - excessive," Forbes responded. - Tuklng up tho purchase of the Ex celsior Springs, Mo., hospital site from E. h. (Uv) Morse, prominent in Missouri republican politics, Forbes said there had been a dofinlte com mitment by the treasury department i iJuiuuuHu iiio property unu esttto- Ush a hospital. "Representatives In congress came to me and explnined tho situation," ho continued. "I In turn, discussed ' them at tho White House." Tho wltnoss characterized as "abso- lutoly falso" the tosttmony of Morti mer that the Thompson Black com pany of Chicago which Mortimer said ho represented, was furntshod with a "confidential list" of proposed hospi tal sites so It could solect tho one on' wnicn it prciorroa to ouua. Quostlonod about Mortlmor'B claim" that he had paid Forbes' bill at the Ritz-Carlton hotel ' in Philadelphia Fores said tho reverse was the case; that he paid $27.60 for Mortimer. He explained that he was not well and had asked Mortimer where he could spend a qulot wook end. Mortimer Suggested the RUmCarUon. Forbes dented thnt hn attended Anv nnrtv there. . i : . one else to pay my expenses. If my secretary was along I gave him the money to nay bills and If he was not along I paid thorn," ho addod. , . The witness then made emphatic de nial mat ne naa ever accepiea a "penny" from Mortimer. "That Is ah-' (Continued on Page Eight) FIGHT DUEL IN . TEXAS; 1 DEAD, 1 caused him to be discharged from a position In the consul general's office here and attacked him when they mot on tho streets yostorday afternoon. Romero fired fivo shots. Two struck Juarez In the heart, two struck Mar tinez In tho breast and ono went wild, . Juarez Is said to havo been a close personal friend of the lato President Carranza of Mexico. Ho was appoint ed governor of Yucatan by Carranza and has resided in San Antonio for several months. Ho fled to Guate mala when Obregon overthrew Car ranza and came from Guatemala to San Antonio. .