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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1924
NO. 247
M
MAIL TRIBUNE
i
BANDIT GANG
WIPED OUT
Five Members of. Notorious
Ashley-Mobley Gang of
' Bank Robbers and Despe-
-Si
radoes Killed in Everglades
of Florida by Sheriffs and
Posses Fight Continues.
WEST PALM IIEACH, Fla., Jan. 9.
(By the Associated Press.) Two
men were Bluin and a woman wound
ed in a fight between officers and
members of the Ashley-Mobloy gang
which raged near here for almost 12
hours today. The' outlaws broke
through the line of officers late this
afternoon and were being chased
through the Everglades.
At three o'clock this afternoon the
battle was still being waged with the
strongly barricaded camp surrounded
by more than 100 officers and men.
The lone machine gun was sweeping
the barricade, and a heavy fire was
said to be coming from behind the
swamp fortress.
Mobley, one of the gang leaders,
was arrested last summer, it was said,
following the robbery of the Bank of
Stuart. He was taken to Fort Lauder
dale, but a short time later escaped
from the Jail there. Officers said that
members of the gang are wanted by
the United States government and the
British government to answer charges
of piracy on the high seas. V
They are charged with having raid
ed boats anchored In the lluhnmas the
Inst throe years and robbing liquor
smuggling craft "between Nassau and
Miami, Fla. " v '" ''
Walter Miller Is believed to bo with
the gang.
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Jan. 9.
The notorious Ashley-Mobloy gang
of bank rubbers and desperadoes,
which hns made the Florida everglades-
Its rendezvous for years, was
nlmost wiped out this morning by
Palm Beach county ' sheriffs and
posses.
Deputy Sheriff Fred Baker and five
members of the gang were .killed.
A fight was made near the gang's
camp at Fruita in the Everglades.
The fight started at 2 a. m. The offi
cers used a machine gun.
John Ashley and Hanfnrd Muhly
were escaped convicts, it wns snid.
with a long record of rohbories and
alleeed murder.
Members of the gang nlHO were
wanted by the federal government for
high sea piracy.
A telephone call to the sheriff's
office nt noon said the fight between
the officers and remaining members
of the gang was still in progress.
Sheriff Bob Baker with a posso of
100 men were reported rushing to tho
scene.
WASHINGTON, Jim. . (3
p. m.) Senator Hiiiith, democrat,
South Carol!. hi, was elected toduy
ns chairman or the Bcnatc Inter
state commerce committee. Four
ropuhlicaii Insurgents mid two
farmer-in nor penatorn from Min
iteHotuj, Jplmsou and. Slilprtead,
switched from Couzens to the
democrats and made possible his
eloctlon. The Insurgents were
Brook hart, Iowa ; Frailer and
Iadd, North Dakota, and Ia
Follctte, Wisconsin.
- Senator Bruce, democrat, of
Maryland, voted for Cummins to
the last. Tho deciding ballot wan
tho thirty-second tdtico tho dead
lock developed early In Uic ses
sion. OF
PLAYED IN
DAWSON; Y. T., Jan. 9. Denizens
of the Yukon will dance this winter
to music played by the best orches
tras from New York to San Francisco
thru the medium of the radio tele
phone. Now that the period of the shortest
daylight is reached, radio fans are
Betting perfect results from their In
struments and the radio dance pro
mises to become the rage In many a
ELECT DEMOCRAT
DEADLOCK OVER
Mabel Normand Films
Barred in Ohio by
State Film Censor
COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 9
4 Motion picture films In which 4
4 Mabel Normand appears have 4
4 been barred in Ohio, according 4
to announcement today of Ver- 4
non M. KleRel, state director o
4 education, under whoso dopnrt-
ment the Ohio board of film
fr censorship operates.
4 Instructions were being sent
4 to all motion picture theaters In
Ohio not to show films in which
Miss Normand appears.
Secy, of Commerce Stresses
10 Planks in Comprehensive
Railroad Reorganization-
Inland Waterway Develop
ment Necessary Transpor
tation Feature.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 0. Forma
tion of Longvlew national policies in
transportation is a fundamental ne
cessity for securing the economic fu
ture of tho United States, Herbort
Hoover declared today in an address
before tho opening session of the
transportation conference. The com
merce secretary listed ten points of
application for such policies among
which were a statutory revision of the
railroad labor board's power to be
determined by ugrement between
labor organizations and railroad -ex
ecutives; reorganization of the state
structure, early consolidation of the
railroads into a few powerful sys
tents, and Inland waterways develop
ment under a national plan.
Julius H. Barnes, president of the
chamber of commerce of the United
States, opened the conference with
the declaration that the "time has
come when national policies which af
fect railroad regulation and affect- as
well water transportation and motor
highways must be co-ordinated, to
stimulate and encourage the expan-
, sion which every study shows would
be Inevitably required."
Mr. Hoover, in urging the need for
"longvlew national policies in trans
portation," declared, the" solution of
the problems in such policies Is only
In part a matter of legislation and
governmental relations. ,
"They are In a large part to be solv
ed In initiative and voluntary co-operation
amongst the business commu
nity." he dec lared. "If I were to at
tempt to express my personal views of
su( h national policies stripped of
secondary considerations 1 would
enumerate them somewhat In tho fol
lowing terms, and much of your. sub
committee reports support such con
clusions: 10 Main Point.
"1. Itailway service under pri
vate ownership in order to secure the
driving force of Individual Initiative
in efficiency and development.
"2. Government regulation of fair
rates and railway finance In order to
protect the shipper and to give sta
bility to honest investment of savings.
"3. Recapture of excess profits In
order to allow rates which will as
sure operation and service for the
railroads in less favored circum
stances, yet prevent unjustified profits
from any particular railways.
"4. The earliest practicable con
solidation of tho railways into larger
systems under conditions of maintain
ed competition in service In order to
secure greater economy in operation,
assurance of development and lower
rates and greater stability in earn
ings. "5. A bias of employer and em
ploye relationship that will stimulate
mutual responsibility as . the first
requisite to continuance of service.
"6. Reorganization of the rate
structure in order to secure a better
adjustment of the burden - between
commodity class and less than carload
rates, most of which can best be ac-
fContlmierf on Prge Eight)
TO
N. Y. CITY
small settlement along tho "great
green Btone" of the Yukon river.
Miners at Miller Creek and Keno
TIII1 have experimented and found
that they can tune in on radio con
certs for their dance music. Broad
castings from Calgary, Portland, Los
Angeles and Ran Francisco compete
with music from New York and Jer
sey City these nights to beguile the
unbroken twilight of the sub-arctic
winter.
HOOVER
IV
PLANS
FO
RAILROADS
DRY RIGHT
IS DEFINED
Atty. Genl. Van Winkle Gives
Governor Pierce His View of
When Search Warrant on
Private Home Justified-
Ad vises Owners Not to Con
sent to Search.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 9. Governor
Walter M. Pierce today had before
him an opinion prepared by Attorney
General I. H. Van Winklo stating that
a complaining witness In applying
for a search warrant should have
knowledge of the facts and circum
stances based upon his own personal
observation or upon reliable infornia
tion 'furnished by others who have
porsonal knowledge of the facts, and
tho Information at least should bo of
such character and entitled to such
weight that a reasonable man would
be Justified in acting thereon, In mut
ters affecting his own welfare and In
terests.
Tho attorney general, however, said
It was impracticable to formulate a
fixed rule as t othe kind and amount
of information a, complaining wit
ness should havo when applying for
tho issuance of a search warrant.
Persons whoso premises are about
to be searched, however innocent they
may be, are not justified in forcibly
resisting a peace officer, ho added.
But they should not consent to tho
search for if they do so their chances
for subsequent damage action are
waived.
Labbe Case Started ,
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 9. Tho
starch warrant upon which, the home
of A.' O. Labbe was-raided by, state
prohibition agents while a .dance, at
tended by about 80 prominent citizens
was in progress on New Year's eve,
was obtained on an affidavit based on
an anonymous letter received by
LJeorgo L. Cleaver, state prohibition
commissioner, according to informa
tion brought out today at the hearing
on the motion of attorneys for Labbe
to quash the search warrant on the
grounds that it was Issued without
probable cause.
The anonymous letter and a state
ment of the raid sent by Cleaver to the
newspapers of the city were written
or. the same kind of paper, It was said.
The publicity that has been given
the case, brought a crowd that taxed
District Judge Hawkins' court room
to Its capacity. Among the specta
tors were members of the Anti-Saloon
eague and the Vf. C. T. U.
E. A. Baker, attorney for the Antl-
Saloon league, assisted by Deputy Dis
trict Attorneys Hammersley and
George Mowry.
Cloaver occupied the witness stand
moBt of tho morning. On direct ex
amination he said he had no Idea who
sent (he anonymous letter, which stat
ed there would be liquor at the party,
but under cross examination by
l-flblie's attorney he admitted that he
had an Idea who sent It bu did not
care to reveal the name. He said he
had received complaints that several
of those who were Labbe's guests had
staged liquor parties In their own
homes.
Written on Cleaver Paper
While Cleaver was on the stand,
Charles A. Hart, one of the attorneys
for Lnliba walked up to him and ex
hibited the anonymous lotter and the
slntemcnt sent by Cleaver to tho
press.
"Mr. Cleaver," the attorney said,
these two documents were written
on the same kind of paper that you use
in your office. Do you attach any sig
nificance to that fact?"
"No," answered the witness.
The hearing developed into two an
gles. Lalibe's attorneys were waging
a fight to have the warrant quashed
and the small quantity of liquor ob
tained In the raid returned to the
owners.
The state was opposing the motion
to quash and the return of the liquor.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
T.fifl A VflPT.P.H Ton. 0 Twn un
masked robbers hold up the First Na
ttomil bank at Hustln. Gran kg county,
shortly after noon toduy and escaped
with an amount estimated at $5000.
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 9. Eleven
bank employes and customers were
locked In the vault of the May wood!
State bank at May wood, near here, to-J
day, by four robbers who leisurely col-I
lected J2000 of caflh and currency, and
New Year Brings Sweeping
Clean-Up To Crime-Ridden
Philadelphia; Butler On job
twf Hill RSkMif
BRIG. GEN. SMEDLEY BUTLER-i
PHILADELPHIA Santa Clus left a pack ol switches in this
ity's stocking in the form of Brig Gen Smedlcy Butler, of the
Marines, and the New Year is witnessing the start of a "clean-up"
such as this city ha never known
Over-run with vice, crime dens," blind tigers, gambling houses
and houses of ill lame, undermined by police and political grafting,
Philadelphia appealed to President Coolidge for the loan of General
Butler, famous fighting man of the A. E. F., who takes office Jan. 7
as director of public safety. . ...
'.Butler, the man who-pacified. Haiti, has .promised to clean up
'the city if he is given a free hand, but il. not he will "pack tip and
hits back to Ouantico." He is promised the complotc co-opcwlio"
of Mayor: W.-Freekind.Kendrick.
SHER FFS ARE
10
DRYJOFFICERS
Governor Pierce Tells County
Officials Methods Pursued
Are No Reflection On Them
Wants State Dry Agents
to Co-operate.
PORTLAND, Ore. Jan. 9. Tho
prohibition law Is horo and It Is the
duty of every law enforcing officer
to do his share in enforcing it, Gov
ernor IMerco. declared today at the
meeting of the sheriffs of the state,
hold in tho office of Sheriff Huri
burt of Multnomah county.
The governor made a strong plea
for co-operation between the state
prohibition department and other
Inw enforcing bodies of tho state, "to
the end that the law may bo enforc
ed to tho letter."
"The state prohibition commis
sioner has been criticized for sending
his men into counties without notify
ing other peaco officers of those coun
ties in advance," declared tho govr
ernor. "I don't think wo ought to
advertise to the world that wo are
going Into a country to clean out the
bootleggers. The best work of the
state prohibition department hits' been
done- when Us agents havo gone Into
a county and worked without tho dis
trict attorney or tho sheriff knowing
they were there."
The executive declared that the
method pursued by the stato depart
ment is meant as no reflection on
other peaco officers. Ho said that
tho state agens areablo to reach
many prohibition law violators who
cannot bo touched by local officers
because they aro too woll known.
"Whatt wo all want Is strict en
forcement of tho law," he said. "As
long as the law stands on tho statute
books, let's enforce it."
The governor said he wanted the
state agents to work in hand with
sheriffs, constables, pollco officers
and district attorneys.
The Noted Dead
BAN D1KCIO. C'al., Jan. 9. Mm.
John KprcrklcH died at the family
home In Coronndo thin morning after
an Itinera of one month.
escaped In an auto. An employe re
turning later from lunch found the
batik' empty and unlocking the vault
discovered the Imprisoned eleven and
released them. , '
HERRIN FRACAS
DEVELOPS INTO
A KLAN FIGHT
MARION, 111.. Jan. 9. Threo com
panies of the Illinois guard aro on
duty In Williamson county under
orders to bo In readiness for any
emergency occasioned by tho 'alleged
growing bitterness between tho Ku
Klux Klan and an antl-klan faction
known as Knights of the Flaming
Circle, following a series of prohi
bition ruids.
Mass meetings said to havo boon
announced secretly for ,today by tho
Knights of tho Flaming Clrclo and tho
Ku Klux Klan is said to havo boon
tho cause fnr Sheriff Gcorgo Oalligan
appealing for the troops.
Tho sheriff's action followed Imme
diately the acij.lttal yesterday of 8.
Glenn Young, former prohibition en
forcement officer and recently depu
tized for work In raids, on a chargo
of assault in a court In which a large
group of his friends had mounted
two machine guns for "self-protection."
Within the last threo weeks fedo
ra agents, aided by hundreds of dep
utized citizens, many of whom ad
mitted membership In the Ku Klux
Klan. havo without tho official
knowledge of Sheriff Galligan car
ried out three Merles of raids in which
212 persons have been arrested for
alleged violations of the prohibition
laws.
E
STARTLES EUREKA
EURKKA, Cul. Jan. 0. A series of
earthquakes was felt hero today, the
shocks coming within a few minutes
of each other. No damage was re
ported. I3EUKELKY, Cal., Jon. 9. A slight
earthquake movement starting at 24
minutes and CI seconds after 2 a. m.
and ending five minutes later was re
corded on the seismograph of the Uni
versity of California today. The shock
appeared to be con to rod in tho Bantu
Cruz mountains of California.
McAdoo KlumH Tux Cut
J,OS ANMKLKH, Jan. 9. VlRorous
opposition to tho administration tax
reduction plan which he termed a
"typical concession to privilege, sugar
coated with mites for the small tax
payer, was voiced In a Jackson day
radio nd (Irons hero last night by Wil
liam Glbbs McAdoo, war-time admin
istrator of railroads and candidate for
the 1924 democratic presidential
nomination.
mm shock
8 Year Old Boy
Sacrifices His Life
To Save His Dog
FORT PAYNE, Ala., Jan. 9.
John Long, eight years old, sac-
rificed his lifo today to save his
dog. With two companions, the
lad wns walking on tho railroad
tracks. A fast train bore down
upon them and the boys leaped to
safety. John noticed that his dog
scomod unmindful of tho np-
proach of tho train and he Jump-
od buck to snve his pet. Ho
tossed the dog from tho track
but John was caught under tho
trnin.
Religious Fanatics in Philip
pines Kill All But Four of
Landing Party Reinforce
ments to Be Sent Cause of
Attack Unknown. '
MANILA Jan. 9. (By tho Associat
ed Press.) Nineteen Philippine con
stabulary soldiers, Including two off!-!
cors, have boon killed by religious fa
natics bollevcd to be members of tho
Cclorum, a non-polittcul socloty, on
Ducas Island, It is officially stated In
constabulary advices from Surlgao, on
tho Island or Mindanao received to
day.. Two hundred additional oonatu
butury - have been sent loSurlRao.
Only four of the party of 23 constabu
lary men which went to th,e Island, ob
caped. The "Colortim" Is a religious body
with branches In many parts of the
Philippines. U gave tho American au
thorities much troublo Tor some titno
after the Filipino insurrection, though
for twenty years little has boon hoard
of it.
One of the beliefs of Its members Is
that the seeming Imprint of a hand on
u large stone In a cave of the San
Cristobal mountains was made by Je-'
sus Christ and pilgrimages often are
made to the cavo by barofooted de
votees. '
MANILA, Jan. 9. (By Associated
Press). Thirteen members of the
Philippine constabulary, Including
two officers, havo been killed by relig
ious fanatics on Bucas island off the
Island of Mindanao, according to of
ficial advices from tiurigao, provlnco
of Mindanao.
Tho constabulary and tho fanatics
clashed near Pamosalngan, a settle
ment on tho lHland, and hut four of
tho constables escaped. Those got
away In tho launch the party had used
to reach the Island. They estlmatod
tho fanatics to the number of more
than 1000 but this number ls thought
to have been cxaggoratod.
Tho officers slain were Captain
Valentin H. Juan and Third Lieuten
ant Juan Gulllermo.
Tho govornor of Surlgao telegraph
ed a request that forces In tho pro
vlnco bo reinforced and tho coast
guard vchhcI Polllto Is being sent from
hero with 100 constabulary soldiers
to reinforce tho Surlgao patrol.
Nothing Is known horo of tho cause
of tho cIuhIi. It Is stated that gather
ings of theso fanatics usually aro
peaceful but It Is thought the constab
ulary may havo been attempting to
disperse tho fanatics and induco them
to return to their homos.
Investigate It. It. Complaint.
SALEM. Ore., Jan. 9. J. P. O'Brien
general manager of the Oregon
Washington Railroad' and Navigation
company In conducting a pro bo in re
gard to a complaint made by Gov
ernor Pierce relative to Inconvenient
train service between Pendleton and
Bond, acrordlng to a lettor received
by tho, public servlco commission to
day. WHO CLAIMED TO BE
POim.AND, Ore., Jan. 9. Jamas J.
(Umbrella Jimmy) Shorldan, a local
character, died thlB morning at the
county hospital. No one know his age.
He himself, during the last two years,
spent at Multnomah farm, Insisted he
was born In 1820, but is quoted as sav
ing he Wad 108. Old residents say he
could not have been more than TO.
Men who grew tip with Portland say
NATIVES SLAY
19 MEMBERS OF
CONSTABULARY
UMBRELLA JIMMY PORTLAND CHARACTER
20ILT0WNS
RECAPTURED
lY OBREGON
Palco Blanco and Puerto Lobos
Important. Oil Centers in
Tampico -District, Taken by
General Gutierrez Rebels
Retreat Federals Claim a
Victory Near Border.
JUAREZ, Jan. 0. Federal troops
under General Evarlsto Perez routed
a band of 300 rebels headed by Vi
cento Davila near Allende, forty mllos
from tho border, yesterday, accord im?
to advices received from Eagle Pass,
Texas. Tho rebels suffered groat
losses in dead and wounded, a mes
sage from the Mexican consul at
Eagle Pass said.
A large quantity of ammunition,
horses and arms wore captured, ac
cording to tho reports.
TAMPICO, Mexico, Via dalvoston,
Jan. 9. (By Associated Press), Ad
vance troops commanded by General
Luis Gutlerroz of the federal forces,
which marched from Tampico today,
occupied Palo Blanco and Puerto
Lobos, Vera Cruz, important oil cen
ters. The terminals of the Atlantic,
Gulf and West Indies, Meridional,
Texas OH and Atlantic, as woll as
other companies are at those places.
The rehel troops, composed of 4600
men retired southward
EL. PASO, Texas, Jan. 9. Virtual
admission that a shipment of Enfield
rifles of the United States army put
tern in 1917 had beon transferred to
tho Mexican side of the border was
made by American and Mexican
authorities today.
Word was rocolvod In Medford to
day' that John Tomlin, president of
tho Tomlln 'Box factory and- ono of
Modford's boat known citizens' was
operated upon yestorday at the Mayo
hospital, Rochester, Minnesota, ' for
appendicitis. Tho operation, accord
ing to tho report was successful In
every "way and Mr. Tomlln's prompt
recovery Is predlctod.
The sad news of tho death of Waldo
AVillard at Hultlmore, Maryland, Jan.
2, has been received by friends In
Medford. A stroke of apoplexy was
the cause of death. Mr. Wlllard lived
for several years on his ranch near
Jacksonville which he purchased from
the late George Daggett.
GET $1,747,035
IN HOUSE BILL
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. Abolish
ment of 21 land offices and consoli
dation of the offices of register and
t receiver In fourteen others are pro
'. posed In tho Interior department ap
propriation bill roported ioday(by tho
houso appropriations committee.'
The bill, first of the annual supply
measures to reach tha house, curries
$261,727,066, approximately $35,000.
000 less than tho total appropriated ,
for tho current fiscal year and $10,
300,000 loss than the amount request
ed In budget estimates.
The offices of registrar and receiver
would be consolidated at-the following
points:.
( Eureka and Sacramento, Cal.; Den
ver, Colo,; JIailoy and Blackfoot, Ida.;
Bozoman, Mont.; Las Cruces, Roswell
and Fort Humnor, N. M.. and Burns,
La Grande and Vale, Oregon.
Items carried in the bill Include:
National park sorvlco $1,747,035.
Bureau of education $702,380. ,
For tho Buker project In Oregon
the unexpended balance of the appro-
i priutlon for tho current fiscal,, yoar
'is re-upproprlatod. , .
Among projects which would, share
In tho appropriation for the . coming
fiscal year are: ,t ij
I Umatilla. Oregon, $940,000; Kljim
!'ath. Oregon-California, $(S&5.0'o,Q
108. PASSES AWAY
they can recall, not more than 20 years
ago, boxing bouts In which "Umbrella
Jimmy" participated before east side
audiences. ;
"Jimmy" and the Inevitable bundle
of umbrellas he always carried, was
known to the boys of the early 1000's,
When they teased him, ho would rush
about brandishing umbrellas right and
left. His wild swings never hurt any
one, howovon
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