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MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1923
NO. 227
Rlfty-Thlrd Tea.
IS
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Mexican President Assuming
Personal Command of Army
a Says Revolt Will Soon Be
Crushed Federal Troops
Claim Victory In First Clash
Rebels Claim Progress.
NOGALES, Ariz, Dee. 14 Fed
eral troops at Tepic, Nayarit, have
retaken that city, routed the reb
el troops and are pursuing them
toward Jalisco, according to offi
cial advices received here today.
Tho two Yanul Indian chiefs In
Sonera. Moriu nuil Mapuli, Imvc
offered tho federal government
tho services of 2000 Indians to ad
In uttlliR dow n Hie rebellion, I lie
Mexican consul lierc wus ndvlsctl
by Governor Alejo Bayo of So
lium. No resistance was encountered
fly tho federal t.roois In their
counter stroke against Hie rebels,
(tcnenil IcriilMkrlc Casas is head
line the federal column pursuing:
the flying revolutionist forces.
JUAREZ, Mexico, Dec. 14. (By the
AuBOClate Press) Mexican federal
forces were victorious In their first
clash with the rebels under General
Enrique Estrada ut Ocatlan, Jalisco, j
yesterday, according to official re-(
ports received here. With the rout-i
Ing of the Irregulars, the advices said, I
one of Estrada's captains deserted his
leader and joined the federals, bring
ing with him IliO men and 125,000 pe-
sos In money. ,
The clash .occurred only eighty '
kilometers from Guadalajara, capital
of Jalisco where General Estrada has
his headquarters and upon which ail
advance was said by Iraputo reports to,
have begun Wednesday by the fed
erals. I
"In my judgment there can bo little
douht of the early and successful is
sue of the campaign," President Obre
gon telegraphed the El Paso Times
from Guanajuato. j
EL PA SO, Texas, Dec. 14. Presi
dent Alvardo Obrngon has left Mexico
City to take personal command of
the troops of General Juan Andrew
Almn7.an In the state of Puphln to op
pose the advnnce of the Do la Suerta
troops, according to advices received
in Juarez today.
Rebels Claim Progress
. VERA CRUZ, Dec. 14. A communi
que issued by the insurgent leaderB
says General Enrique Estrada with
three battalions, four regiments and
ten airplanes touched enemy forces
from Mexico City.
This may refer to the clash be
, tween federal forces and those nt
General Estrada, which according to
advices In Juarez, resulted In a vicu.ry
for the federals. The engagement is'
reported to have taken place at Ocat-
lan, Jalisco, northwest of Mexico City.
The statement asserts that the
troops of General Pedro Gonzalez were
able to enter San Andreas and Chal
chicomula after defeating the forcei, of
General Topete. An advance toward
Tehuacnn, where a concentration of
olwut 1000 federal troops has been re
ported, is now being organized the an
nouncement says.
The same statement asserts that the
capture of San Marcos, although de
fended by an Obregon force, is ex
pected momentarily.
Severe Fighting Reported
. EL PASO, Texas, Dec. 14. Reports ;
of severe fighting between outposts of
the advancing rebel army and federals'
entrenched in the path of the march
Continued on Page Rlx)
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TWO CONVICTS SHOOT GUARD, LEAP
FROM TRAIN, RECAPTURED BY POLICE
NEWYORT, Ark., Dec. 14. Benny
Casey and Charles' O Keith escaped
convicts from the Kansas penitentiary
were recaptured at Mlnturn today.
They had leaped from a Missouri Pa
tific train at Alicia, Ark., earlier, af
ter wounding James Burns, a Kansas
Blote parole officer who was taking
them to the penitentiary from which
they had escaped.
NEWPORT. Ark., Dec. 14. Benny
Casey and Charles Okelth, alias Bar
ney Butler, escaped convicts from the
Tax Supervision
Bill to Be Tested
In Supreme Court
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 14. The
constitutionality, of the act of
1923 legislature creating tax
supervising and conservation
commissions In all counties of
the state is to be tested In an
original proceeding In mandamus
that was filed in the supreme
court yesterday by I. M. Schan- 4
nep, R. IS. Bean and J. O. Hales,
taxpayers of Umatilla county, 4
against R. O. Hawks, county as-
sessor, to compel Hawks to levy fr
a tax for the county market road 4
fund of 106. 976.81 which was
removed from tho county budget 4
by the commission.
Leo Koretz Was Always Very
Reluctant to Take Money
From Easy Marks to Invest
in Panama Oil Bubble.
CHICAGO, Doc. 14. Relatives and
friends of Leo Koretz, Chicago attor
ney, sought by authorities as an al
leged swindler who fleeced investors
in an oil scheme out of sums ranging
from J2. 000. 000 to $5,000,000, have
arranged to turn over today us a res
titution fund $400,000 given them by
Koretz before bo disappeared a week
ago. A grand Jury Inquiry into
Koretz's alleged peculations began to
day simultaneously with a federal
grand Jury investigation Into the op
erations of the Buyano River Trust
company of Panama, said by tho
authorities to be a mythical promo
tion scheme managed by Koretz for
more than ten years.
Meanwhile foreign lands and the
sea were looked to as possible places
of refuge of Koretz, who Is thought
by Investigators to have either escaped
to a Central American country, put
out to sea on a speedy niotorboat of
his own, or headed for South America
by nirplane.
The origin of the "Panama oil bub
ble" organized as the Ua'ano Itiver
Trust company. In which friends and
relatives of Koretz are said to have
lost millions was ascribed by his
friends to a swindle perpetrated on
Koretz in 1!U0.
,i relative of nn attorney named
Dan Relasco. said Attorney Francis K.
Matthews, came here - In 1910, an
nouncing he had concessions for rich
timber lands In Panama. He sought
someone to InveH $10,000 to pay for
cutting nnd shipping some of the tim
ber. Koretz Invested that amount, uml
that was the last seen of that pro
moter. Koretz mndo a special trip to Pan
ama to hunt for the man and while
there he evidently acquired a lot of
local color for his own greatest pro
motion venture the Huyano com
pany, and the Inspiration which car
ried him through thirteen years'
of
frenzied finance.
Those who invested with Koretz
described his methods as the exact
reverse of the ordinary type of pro
moter. Ho was Invariably reluctant
to accept the .money of his friends to
invest In his schemes, and always
made it nppear that he had to sacri
fice some of his own holdings to share
them with others.
Isadora Duncan's Hub
Censured By Literati
MOSCOW, Dec. 14. A court com
posed of Moscow's literati has tried
Serge Yessinin, husband of Isadora
Ducan, and thro companion poets on
charges growing out ct alleged anti
Semitic utterances. The court cen
sured the writers but decided to per
mit them to continue work in .Mos
cow. Kansas state penitentiary, who were
captured at Texarkana several days
ago, again escaped early today after
one of the men obtained possession of
the pistol carried by James Burns, a
deputy warden of the Kansas prison,
who was returning them to the Kansas
prison, and shot Burns five times.
They leaped from a Missouri Pacific
train which they brought to a stop by
rullfng tho bell cord. Burns was
placed aboard a train to be taken to
a hospital In St. Louis. It Is feared bis
wounds will prove fatal,
NEW DODGE IN
FAKING BROUGHT
HI $5,000,000
HIVE OF
IS DIVULGED
Prosecutor Charges That Mur
dered Man Had Affidavits
i Concerning Relations of Fox
With Questionable Women
Witnesses for Defense
Claim Fox Insane.
ATLANTA, fla., Dec. 14. The mo
tive for Philip B. Kox killing "Wil
liam S. Coburn was because Coburn
bad in hls-possesslon an affidavit and
other information about the defend
ant's alleged illicit relations with
questionable women, NolU'ltor General
John A Hoykin charged today at the
trial of Vox.
Tho solicitor reveal! the alleged
motive while H. Duncan, a defense
witness," was being cross examined.
Duncan said he was a reporter for the
Dallas, Texas Times-Herald.
The witness had declared tho only
motive he could see for Fox commit
ting the deed was that he is insane.
K. K. Meade, city editor of the
Dallas, Texas Times-Olerald, testi
fied as to Fox's condition following
his nervous breakdown while work
ing on that newspaper. Ho corrobo
rated other witnesses as to Fox's al
leged fits of despondency and added
that ut one time he had a delusion
that "somebody was trying to kill
him."
"I believe Fox was insane at the
time he left Dallas to come to Atlanta
to accept the position with tho Ku
Klux Klan," he testified.
ATLANTA, Oa., Dec. 14. Philip E.
Fox, on trial here for murder, was
on a three day drunk prior to shoot
ing and killing William S. Coburn,
the prosecution charged today vhlle
Congressman Patton "'Sumners of ' tho
fifth district, was on the stand tes
tifying to Fox's character.
"Did you know," Solicitor General
Boykin asked the congressman, "that
he was arrested In a local hotel In
this condition and in company with
a woman, threatened the life of the
arresting officer and was taken to po
lice headquarters?"
The congressman said ho knew
nothing of the life Fox was leading
since coming to Atlanta from Texas,
but during his residence In that state,
his general character was good.
"Knowing Phil Fox as I do such
action as you have outlined makes me
believe he is crazy at least some
thing was fundamentally wrong with
him," dec tared the congressman.
Counsel for Fox entered a plea of
insanity yesterday.
my. GENl TQ
TRY BOOZE CASE
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 14 -It was on
nounced from the office of Governor
Pierce this afternoon that Attorney
General Van Winkle had been request
ed by the governor to take personal
charge of the prosecution of the cane
of Dr. A. E. Wrlghtman, Sllverton
physician, who Is charged In the Salein
justice court with unlawful possession
of liquor.
The statement from the executive
offices that this was done by agree
ment with District Attorney John Car
Bon of Marlon county, who desired aid
In this case, was denied by Mr. Car
son.
If the governor's request Is carried
out it will be the first time that an at
torney general of the state has appear
ed before a justice of the peace, to
prosecute) a case, It Is said.
Casualties of the
, Air Service
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Dec. 14.
Lieutenant Karl D. Willis and Private
DcAlnard, an enlisted mechanic, were
killed today when their plane crashed
during the bombing practice. Because
of the roughness of the bombing range
no rescue planes could land near the
wrecked plane which burst Into flames
after It crashed.
Lieutenant Willis went Into a spin
1200 feet above the ground and was
unable to right the ship. He was a
bombardment Instructor at the advanc
ed flying school, Kelly field. He was
27 years old and his home was Steam
boat Rock, towa.
DeAainand's home was North Akron,
Oblo.
16-Year-Old Bridegroom
And Wife, Aged 50, Bill .
r And Coo As Parents Fret
MR. AND MRS. BURTON TUCKER.
RIDCEFI ELD PARK. N J. "Ain't love Brand?"
Ilurton f. TuckiT. nerd I A.' and his 50-vear-old bride, the former
Mrs. Susie Simpson, owner n the hotel Pasadena on Central Park
West, seem to think the divine passion is all the poets claim for it.
Thev hill and coo in their rented "love nest" here while Tucker's
parents seek to have the marriage annulled, claiming t lie hoy was
kept under duress.
Mrs. Tucker savs she means to send her hushand, the grandson
ot her half-sister to Boston Tech anil later buy him a scat on the
Stock .Exchange.
WIFE REFUSES
TO BELIEVE HER
HEMPSTEAD, N. Y.. Dee. 14.
Aim. Win if r nit Knerrv refused to be-
lievo' that her husband, Iawrenco H.
Sperry, tho aviator was drowned in
the KngliHh channel, where bin
wrecked plane was found.
"If. after his tilanu fell Into the
water, he swam to some little village.
news of him would not reach London
until after the story of the accident
had arrived, she said. "I feel that
ho is safe somewhere."
GARDEN CITY, N. Y., Dec. 14.
This town, where Jawrence 13. Hperry,
aviator, resided was stunned today by
cable diHpatches indicating ho might
have drowned in the English channel.
He kept his miniature piano In a lit
tle hangar near his homo nnd dally
used It to commute toj work in Kann
ingdale and New York.
He had crashed more than" a dozen
times, hut on each occasion has
escaped with hardly a scratch. ' To
hiH friends he frequently insisted that
flying was not half as dangerous as
autymobiling.
Mr. Hperry, who Is tho son' of
Elmer A. Sperry, the electrical engi
neer, began flying when he was in
his 'teens, and has given many exhi
bitions. One of his stunts was to
land his piano, on the steps of the na
tional capltol in March, 1922.
Recently he discussed with Henry
Ford the possibility of turning out
flivver airplanes. Ho served as a
lieutenant U the naval nlr forces
during tho war.
NEW YORK, Dec. 14. The small
airplane In which LavA-ence Sperry Ih
believed to have fallen to his death
In the English channel, enrrled 6nly
enough Rusoline for a flight of two
and a half hxiurs. - '
One of the smallest machines ever
built. It had a wing spread of 20 feet
4 Inches: was 1SV4 feet long and seven
feet high. -
The weight of tho plane empty ran
only 581 pounds and with Its maxi
mum load, 1011 pounds. ,
E
GET 5 ION) YEARS
nOHBBUrtO, Ore., Dec. 14. Judge
Hamilton today -sentenced Jack Con
nelly, Fred Schulte and llort Roberts
to ten, seven and five years respec
tively In the state prison. Connelly
and Hehulte were Convicted of accept
ing bribes In return for protection of
the Heedsport rum ring and Hnberts
pleaded guilty to giving the bribes as
the "retailer" of the organization.
HUSBAND
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CUMINS' PUCE
WASHINGTON, Dee. 14. The or
ganization troubled of tho republican
hou.se lender increaned today at the
same time thai the Hennto organiza
tion row wan showing lgns of sub
aiding. Tho republican lnnuri;ent group in
the house, negotiating with the demo
crat h for a coalition to control the
powerful rules committee, made nuch
progress that a floor fight on the sub
ject seemed likely to develop when
the 'committee assignments arc
brought In for approval.
On the side a woll-defined move
ment developed to end tho deadlock
over election of a chairman of the
Inter-state commerce commlttoe by
tho selection of Senator Couzens, re
publican, Michigan.
There were indications that he
would be satisfactory to tho republi
can senate insurgents who have af
fected a deadlock by refusing to sup
port Senator Cummins of Iowa, the
regular republican choice for the
chairmanship. There were signs also
that some or the organization leaders
wiio have voted for Cummins thruotit
also would bo willing to their strength
to the Michigan senator when ballot
ing is resumed Monday.
It had been planned by tho major
ity house leaders to present their
committee slates for approval today
but Instead they asked for an ad
journment until tomorrow ten min
utes nfter tho session began. Imme
diately afterward Democratic Lea dor
fiarrett asserted the democrats would
hold, a caucus tomorrow before the
senate convenes.
Death Toll of :
the Automobile
7
KOUI-DBn. Colo.. Dec. 14. Four
wero killed and threo Injured , hwt
night when nn automobile crashed
Into a bobsled loaded with University
of Colorado students which was
speeding over tho slippery road four
miles east of Houlder hooked -on be
hind another automobile. The dead:
Jack Simpson, Thomas Ward and
Henri Vld.H, all of Denver, and Ray
Saunders of Houlder.
The Injured are Manley Hetta,
Richmond, . Va., Charles Parker,
Orange, Cal., and J. G. Williams,
Hotifder, Colo.
Williams was the driver of tho au
tomobile which collided with tho bob
sled and then overturned. The other
sin were riding the tiled.
' Coolldge for German Relief.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 14. President
Coolldge announced last night that the
adminiatratlon approves and encqur
agen tho utmost p. ivalo charity for
relief ot the German people.
70 Year Old Veteran
Hatfield-McCoy Feud
Leads in Jail Break
BRISTOL,, Va., Dec. 14. Five
prisoners headed by John Hat-
4 field, 70 year old veteran of tho 4
4- Hatfield-McCoy feud, are at
large In the Cumberland moun-
t tains, having escaped last night fr
4 from tho Wise county jail at Wis 4
Courthouse. Hatfield Is a cousin 4
of "Devil Anse" Hatfield and Is
4 under sentence of twenty years 4
4 Imprisonment for murder.
As the aged leader of the V
escapos made his way from the
jail he was said to have yelled to
prisoners on the lower floors: fr
"Tell that jailer he told a bare-
faced lie when ho i?n id there was
no chance for me to get out of
here."
TEN FROZEN 10
DEATH IN SNOW
STORM N. IX,
Record Breaking Freeze Hits
As Far South As Florida
Heavy Snow in Tennessee
Worst Blizzard in His
tory of State in N. Mexico.
ATLANTA. Ga.. Dec. Winter
traced nn lclclcd finger (through tho
south today, leaving lowered tonipera
tures as far south as southern Florida
and snow in several sections for the
first real winter weather experienced
In tho south tfiis season.
Know foil last night In Tennessee. ;
Chattanooga reported tho heaviest
(fall in tho history of tho weather
bureau. Knoxville reported a four
inch Bnow.
ALBOQtf iinQim' 'N-: W.y Doe.;-' 1 4.y
j Although more than 24 hours hud
elapsed Binco snow stopped falling
New Mexico early today was still try-'
i Ing to "dig out" of ono of. tho worst
I blizzards In years which cuaned at
least ten deaths and blocked railroad
and automobile traffic in many parts
of the state.
Telephone reports from Socorro
nnd San Marclal last night stated that
72 automobiles with more than 300
I passengers were snowbound In No-,
gales canyon on the highway to Hot
Springs, N. M., and that 100 men,,
members of the party wore trying to
dig a passageway out thru tho snow
drifts In the canyon. Food nnd fuel
were taken to the canyon from San
Marclal, the reports stated, and no
suffering was reported.
Hall traffic had been resumed and
highways In .other sections of .the
state wore being opened to traffic, ac
cording to reports received hero.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
BHILADKLPHIA, Dec. 14. Two
bandits today bound nnd gagged the
paymaster of Michael Melody and Bon
company, builders, In the office of
the concern tm& led with $1S,7S8
which he was niacins in envelopes to
j pay the employes.
I LOB ANOKM3S, Dec. 14. Orrln W.
Rchinltz, a mala nurse, was beaten to
death wlthm flatiron early this morn.
Ing by his patient, Karl W. 'Eaton, 27,
a student.
Katon is suffering from a mental
disorder, according to his physician.
KOCIIHSTEH, N. Y., Dec. 14. Two
bandits today bound the drive of a
mall truck at East Rochester, to the
wheel of bis machine and stole a regis
tered letter containing between
000 and $20,000 In currency.
Fear U, 8. Aviator Drowned. '
LONDON, Dec. 14. Fear that Law
rence I). Sperry, American aviator, has
been drowned in the Eimllsh channel
was expressed last night by tho Dally
Mall. (
SHIP GOES ON ROCKS
MONTEREY, Cal., Dec. 14. The
lumber steamer Flavel of the IHam
mond Lumber company of San Fran
cisco, bound from Aberdeen to San
Pedro with one million feet of lum
ber went on tho rocks enrly this
morning in a dense fog nenr hero and
Is believed to be a total loss. Mem
bers of tho crew were picked up In
open hoots by the tug Normandlo.
Later Captam H. Johnson and most
of the crew of fivo returned to tho
vessel to assist In salvage. Sbo Is
high on the rockB, her position appar
CALIFORNIA, CREW
RANCHER
IN
PEON CASE
IDENTIFIED
Medford Man Declares Pro
, fessor Englehardt, Is Per
son Whom Theodore Kauh
ausen Yesterday Charged
With Holding Him and
Others in Bondage.
Peonnge charges filed . with the
California stato immigration board
Thursday against a Rogue River val
ley rancher, by Theodore Kauhausen,
a glazier now employed by tho W. P.
Fuller company of San Francisco,
were directed at Professor Karl
Englchnrdt, whose ranch Is located in
the Agate district nenr the Elks picnic
grounds, 12 miles north of the city.
This Information wa.i furnished - by
Carl Meyer, cabinet maker at the
Medford Planing Mill, whero Kau
haiiKcn was formerly employed. '
According to Meyr, Kauhausen
enme to America from Germany last
August, and remained nn the Engle
hardt ranch, afterwards securing
work at the local concern, upon the
solicitation of Englehardt- He is al
leged to have complained to his follow
workers about the conditions on the
Englehardt ranch, and they regarded
his charges lightly. ' ' '
The two boys, brothers-in-law ot
Kauhausen, are Carl and Alvln Sto-.
dor, age Jd and 17 years, who came to
this country from Metnlngon, Thurln- ,
gen, Germany, last June, Engelhardt .
paying their fare, for which ho. is
alleged to have attempted to exact
long terms of servitude.
Meyer snys that Kauhausen told
him that he was held for an eight
year term,, and that he told him it was
Imiiosstbls..'-f" VV;- "' 'v ! "
Meyer says that Thanksgiving, day
ho was hunting ducks In the vicinity
of the Englehardt ranch, when ho
met ono of the Steder youths, who
was hunting rabbits. Meyer attempt
ed to get his version of conditions, but
Meyer sayB the boy was "so bulldozed
ho was scared to talk, and would not
say anything about his trouble except
that Englehardt had tried to collect
$400 of his wages."
It Is expected that stato and federal
authorities will Investigate the
charges of Kauhausen.
Friends of Englehardt maintain
that ho only advanced tho Steder boys
their passage from Germany, with the
understanding that they work until It
had been repaid, and that the local
rancher acted In good faith.. Engle
hardt himself hns not yet been heard
from.
Terrlll Makes Statement. '.
Sheriff Terrill said this noon:
"I havo tangled with'. Professor
Englehardt two or three times, on
tho samo proposition, and once when
ho was over to Jacksonville as a wit
ness before the grand Jury on some
school business, I told him he was
going to get in a jackpot, If he didn't
watch his step.
-When George Roberts was district
attorney, a rumpus came up. Pro
fessor Englehardt had a boy from
Californiaand ho agreed to give him
$.ri00 if he stayed until he was 21. He
was a German boy. The boy's dad
got wind of something nnd came up
and tried to get the boy. George
sent mo out to get the boy, but he
would not leave, and the father went
homo without him. I have forgotten
what his name wns. There Is no state
law that covers this stuff, and the
best way Is to put it up to the U. B.
department of Justice." ,..'','
EFFORT TO STOP COOS .
,1 BAY TRIAL FAILS
COQUILLE, Ore., Dec. 14. Motion
of the defense In the trial ot Alton
Covell here that the Indictment be
quashed on the ground that th, de
fendant had not received a prelimi
nary hearing after his arrest was de
nied today by Judge Kendall after
hearing arguments.
The defense resumed Its efforts to
clear the sixteen year old defendant
of the charge of having killed his
stepmother, Mrs. Ebba Covell.
NEAR MONTEREY
SAVED, SHIP
ently hopeless. Naval Comma
H. R. Lyons, returning In an
mobile, from a dance, heard the
vet's siren distress signals. He
fled tho Presidio of Monterey and
fishing fleet.
; The tug Normandle put out it
The Flavel struck while she was
Ing to catch shore tog signals. Hi
swells were running but there wo
wind.
Tho Flnvel Is a three m
schooner of v67 tons. She. wan
In San Francisco In 1917 to
lumber, ,
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