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MEDFORD, OREGOX, FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 1924
NO. 261
ACTION ORDERED BY GOOLIDGE
CRIMNA
PRESIDENT1S
AROUSED BY
DISCLOSURES
Latest Evidence in Teapot
Dome .Investigation Stirs
. Chief Executive to Action
Reluctant to Believe in Guilt
of Friends, But People Must
Be Protected.
WASHINGTON, Jaa 25. In
the face of new disclosures In the
senate oil Inquiry President Cool
Idge Is preparing to Initiate what
ever civil or criminal proceedings
may be necessary to protect the
public Interest.
The evidence already produced
in the hearings Is regarded by the
president as pointing to criminal
action, and if he fully is convinced
that there has been fraud the gov
ernment also will proceed to the
annulment of the oil leases in
volved. Mr. Coolidge is reluctant to believe
that any of those connected with the
lease are guilty of criminal intent, but
holds that -the evidence presented has
been such as to require explanation
and the government will undertake to
ascertain where criminal action lies.
Asldo from the criminal action pos
sibility, the government will proceed
with a view to annulment of the leases
to the oil -reserves if the evidence of
fraud is such as to stand in court ac
tion. The whole course ot the government
as determined by the president will be
to protect the interests ot the United j
States and to proceed- vigorously I
against any infraction of laws.
In following this course the depart-!
ment of justice will continue its ob
servation at the hearings and review
In detail the testimony presented to
the committee. I
Oklahoma Acts
OKLAHOMA CITY. Oktu., Jan. 25.
A resolution was Introduced in the
senate of the Oklahoma legislature to
day by Senator Courtlnnd M. Feuquuy
o: Chandler, asking that the United
States senate committee Investigating
the Teapot Dome oil lease ' take tes
timony also In regard to a lead and
zinc mining lease granted by former
Interior Secretary Fall to the Eagle
Piclier Mining company in the re
stricted Quapaw Indian lnnds in north
eastern Oklahoma.
' Stop Work Order Denied
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. The Dow
Jones and company news ticker today
said that officials of the Pan-American
Petroleum and Transport stated
Instructions had been received from
Washington ordering all work stop
ped on naval reserve number one in
California, leased to the company.
This report is denied by Secretary
Denby of the navy.
McNary Bill Endorsed
By More Dirt Farmers
WASHINGTON, Jan. 25. Enact
ment of the McNnry-Haugen bill
which would create an export corpo
ration was endorsed by several wit
nesses from the Northwest before the
house agriculture committee today.
W. L. Stockton, president of the Mon
tana Farm Bureau: Herbert Egbert,
president of the Oregon Farmers'
union and O. L. Mix. Moscow, Idaho,
representing the northwestern wheat
growers and bankers, were among
those who testified.
15,000 AMERICANS
BY AUTOS; SAFETY RULES URGED
CHICAGO, Jan. 25. The National
Safety council today, in announcing
that 15.000 deaths were caused In the
United States during 192S by automo
biles outlined three recommendations
which it said could be applied in any
city to bring a reduction in street
accidents. They are:
j That traffic movement along
main arteries and subsidiary channels
be studied and traffic maps made so
that traffic distribution and control
may be made effective.
Powell Faction of
KuKluxKl'an Quits;
Peace Is Restored
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 25. The al
lied Protestant Americans, which
was recently organized In Ore
gon la no more. Today Its incor
porators, Luther I. Powell, J. A.
Plltz and II. W. Glddlngs filed ar
ticles of dissolution with the cor
poration department here.
The articles dealt 'very briefly
with the decision to disband.
The movement, the papers ex
plain, was the result of a meeting
in Portland, January 22, and prob
ably marks the end of the inter
klan fight.
The coses against Dennis Zlmmorly,
rancher of the Rogue Hiver section,
of selling booze and having It in his
possession fell flat in Justice Tay
lor's court Thursday when Cliff Hick
son who was recently bound overdo
tho grand Jury on the charge of
possessing liquor, failed to testify
that he had obtained it from Zlm
merly, as the prosecuting prohibition
officers had claimed he hud told them
after his urrest. In fact, Hickson tes
tified that he hnd not gotten the
booze from Klmmerly.
Tho arrest was made by Prohibition
Knforeement Officer Sandefcr and
aide, and it is claimed thnt after Hick
son told them, as they claim, that he
obtained (he liquor from Zlmmeiiy,
that while on another case in the
same vicinity, they accldently found
n cache of 15 bottles of moonshine
about 40 or 60 rods from Zimmerly's
house.
It could not be demonstrated at
yesterday's hearing that this cueho
was located on Zimmerly's ranch,
henco the charges were dismissed for
liu-k of evidence.
SILENT TRUE
ATLENINE'S BIER
MOSCOW, Jan. 25. (By the Asso
ciated press) Moscow's mourning
at the bier of Lenlne. prolonged a day
by the postponement of tho funeral
services from tomorrow to Sunday,
has become 'a vast and solemn spec
tacle. Down the two wide streets and sev
eral smaller ones thnt enter the
square on which tho House of Unions
is situated, trudge thousand of per
sons, many from distant villages who
pass Into the chamber where the body
lies in state, glance at the face and
then file out into the cold, perhaps
to walk a dozen mlleB to the little
outlying village from whence their
pilgrimage began.
In the crowd also are delegations of
factory women who sing communist
songs as they march across the square
into the building and here and there
is a hotel emoloye and a house domes
tic, excused from duty to go to the
hall.
Honored, by the state In naming
Petrograd in his memory, tne aeaa
premier Is receiving the homage of
communists In other cities and- coun
tries of Europe, many of whom are
expected fo rthe obsequies.
Moscow is in deep mourning. The
aters and motion picture places are
closed and newspapers are bordered
with black.
KILLED IN 1923
2 That city spot maps showing the
place of every traffic accident be made
so that local centers of hazard may be
Identified and proper treatment ot
conditions prescribed.
3 That the intelligent co-operation
of every user of public streets be ob
tained through community organiza
tion and examination directed at tho
development of safer conditions and
conduct everywhere.
Larger cities reporting Increased
fatal automobile accidents Include;
Oakland, Cat., and Los Angeles.
BOOZE CHARGE
IS DISMISSED,
EVIDENCE FAILS
H. SINCLAIR
ALSO GAVE
FALL L
Harry Sinclair's Personal At
torney Declares Oil King
Sent $25,000 in Liberty
Bonds to Fall Shortly After
He Resigned From Cabinet
Net Tightens.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 25. J. W.
Zevely, Harry Sinclair's personal at
torney, told tho Teapot Dome com
mittee today that Mr. Sinclair had
loaned $25,000 in Liberty bonds to
Albert B. Fall In June, 1923, three
months after Fall resigned from the
cabinet.
Fall could not leave at the time
Sinclair sailed, he said, because he
had personal affairs to attend to and
also felt obliged to go to Washington
to ascertain whether tho administra
tion officials would approve his visit
to Russia.
"Before Mr. Sinclair sailed," Zovoly
said, "I told him tho secretary would
need $26,000. He called on Mb secre
tary, Mr. Wahlburg, and told him to
let mo have $25,000 or $30,000 in
bonds. Mr. Wahlburg sent them to a
bank in El Paso which Mr. Fall had
designated."
Zevely said Mr. Fall gave him a
note for the amount after hiB return
from Russia; that he has the note
but that he has not given any evidence
of the debt to Sinclair except to pro
mise he would pay tho loan.
- Senator Walsh, democrat. Montana,
recalled that Fall had told the com
mittee that $10,000 was all he got for
the Russian trip.
"That waB his expense money," tho
witness said. "The other was in ad
dition." The bonds were sent to El Paso for
Fall, the witness said, after Sinsluir
had invited Fall to go to HusBla with
him to advise him on some business
matters there.
Transaction Suspicious
In his testimony before the com
mittee last Monday Wahlberg de
clared that In October or November,
11122, by direction of Sinclair, ho
placed subject to the order of Zezely,
3500 shares of Sinclair Conoslldated
and $25,000 worth of Liberty bonds.
Wahlberg further testified that tho
stock at least subsequently had been
sold but that he did not know what
became of the bonds. He added that
the transaction seomed to him
"suspicious." .
Zevely said the loan of $25,000 In
Liberty bonds to Fall was arranged
for when he went to Three Hlvers to
see Fall about tho Russian trip.
Senator Walsh said it was odd that
he would have made a trip to Three
Hlvers for that purpose Instead of
writing.
"It may be strange, but Its tne
fact," returned the witness.
Questioned about the sale of 3500
shares of Sinclair stock ho had bor-
owed from Harry Sinclair, Zevely
said he deposited the $115,000 In tho
Ja Ja corporation In New York.
'What's the JaJa corporation?"
asked Senator Walsh.
'That's a corporation I organized
to do a general business," was tho
answer.
'Who are the officers?" asked
Wnlsh.
"I'm tho president, my wlfo is sec
retary, I think I don't know; It's
never functioned.
Chairman Lonroot led the witness
Into tho story of the trip to Russia,
Zevely said Sinclair had some conces
sions from the Chita government, but
he did not know, in the disturbed
stnte of affairs In Russia, "whether he
had anything ot value."
WASHINGTON, Jnn. 25. Mr. Fall
was said today, at the home of Mr,
Zevley, to be under orders of his phy
sician. Dr. John Wharton, to remain
in bed all day. Callers were denied
admission. A slight temperature and
a return of nn old throat Infection
were said to have resulted from the
chanice in climate and Mr. Fall's trip
to Washington In unusually inclement
weather.
The former Interior secretary sent
out word that he hod made no state
ment regarding the Doheny testimony
and would make none until he ap
pears before the committee Monday,
ALBUQUERQUE, N. M-, Jan. 25.-
Tom Jonnson, foreman of A. B. Fall's
ranch at Three Rivers, N. M., left
yesterday for Washington where he
has been subpoenaed as a witness be
fore the senate committee investigat
ing the Teapot Dome oil lease, ac
cording to a report here today.
Oklahoma Wants Probe.
OKLAHOMA CITY. Okla., Jan. 25
The grant by former Interior Sec
retary Fall of a lease on Quahaw In-
(Continued on fage rive)
DAN
tew York State's "Dry
, X Chief" Goes On Trial',
! On Charge Of Extortion
WILLIAM H.
CAN'T FIND MAN WHO GAVE HEAD OF
ANTI-SALOON LEAGUE $20,000 IN CASH
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. ABBlBtant
District Attorney Pocora today con
tinued Ills cross examination of Wil
liam H. Anderson, state superintend
ent of the Autl-Saloon league, in an ef
fort to learn more about the myste
rious "John T. King," named by the
league head yesterday as the man who
gave him more than $20,000 because
he liked him.
Anderson, ou trial on the charge of
third degree forgery, declared that he
had received the last of the "gift"
while taking dlnnor with "King" at the
Waldorf Astoria lute in 1913 or early
in 1914. He coilld not recall the exact
date. At that time, Anderson said, his
benefactor handed him an envelope
which he opened after dinner to find
about $2,000, one $10000 bill, and the
remainder in hundred dollar bills.
Anderson, asked if he had taken
dinner with his benefactor in the room
next to the Waldorf bar, declared that
he was not familiar with those rooms.
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. William H.
GEORGE HILTON IS
ROSEBURQ, Ore., Jan. 25. A group
meeting of tho presidents and secre
taries of the Federal Farm Loan aso
ciatlons of Klamath, Jackson, Jose
phine, Coob, Curry and Douglas coun
ties, was held In tills city today, over
thirty delegates being in attendance.
President D. G. O'Shea'of the Fed
eral Land bank of Spokane was the
principal speaker. Other addresses
were made by C. A. Cauthorne of
Portland; George Hilton', Jr., of Med
ford; E. H. Hurd of Medford; J. G.
Miller of North Bend; Mrs. L. II.
Hague ot Klamath Falls,' and Miss
Sylvia Drown of Koscburg.
A district organization is to be fram
ed and officers elected this afternoon.
Delegates will be selected to attend
the convention to be held In Spokane
soon.
Panama Canal Unprotected
COLON, Canal Jane, Jan. 25. The
Panama canal is at present open to
aircraft bombardment and enemy
naval raids, according to a report of
the umpires of the recent maneuvers
of the American navy, ,
ANDERSON
Anderson, state superintendent of the
Anti-Saloon league of New York to
day faces continuance ot cross exam
ination by Assistant District Attorney
I'ecora, who is prosecuting him on an
Indictment charging third degree forg
ery. Cross examination yesterday
brought from Anderson testimony that
ho had received from a mysterious
benefactor about $26,000. He said he
loaned tho league $24,700 of this
amount, which is involved in extortion
and grand larceny indictments pend
ing against him.
BALTIMORE, Jan. 26. Unsuccess
ful efforts have been made to find the
John T. King, from whom William 11.
Anderson, superintendent of the Antl-
Suloon league, on trial for forgery In
New York testified ho had received
about $25,000 In Baltimore In 1912.
There, are seven men of this name
listed in the city directory and all of
them denied today ever having had
any dealings with Mr. Anderson.
HELD IN BUTTE
BUTTE, Mont., Jan. 20. Alex Hoi
off was arrested bu Butte officers and
turned over today to a representative
of tho Canadian police charged with
being one of three bandits who held
up a train in Calgary threo years ago,
killing the conductor and two police
officers. One of the bandits was
killed at the time and the other was
condemned and hanged. The third
had been sought throughout Canada,
In Alaska, Seattle and Portland, the
trail leading to Butto through the
conductor's watch, which was sold, it
Is said, to"a Turk here and pawned
by him In Seattle. Holoff, who -Is a
Russian, denies that he was ever in
Calgary or any other part of Canada.
Casualties of the
Air Service
BRUSSELS, Jan. 25. A Belgian
military airplane crashed yesterday
Into a swamp near Husselt from an
altitude of 2000 feet. It required nine
hours of hard work to extricate the
bodies of the two aviators, who had
been killed Instantly.
Prince Who Killed
Rasputin, Sells Pearl
Necklace for $400,000
NEW YORK, Jan. 25. Prince
Felix Yousoupoff, Russian noble-
man, famed for his part in the
death of the monk, Rasputin, has
through an agent, sold a string
of pearls to Mrs. Peter Gerry,
Washington, D. C for $400,000.
JUDGE THOMAS
10 SALEM PEN
Harry Trncy today was Riven a year
In tho penitentiary and the sentence
suspended on good behavior by Judge
C, M. Thomas.
Judge Thomas announced from tho
bonch that anyone found guilty of
manufacturing liquor for commercial
purposes in southern Oregon will be
given a penltontiary sentence.
Prison torms were meted out to
four violators Thursday, who filed
pleas of guilty, before Circuit Judge
C. M. Thomas. Three of the lot wore
young men drifters, the court called
them the other was a middle-aged
bootlegger.
William Schultz, age 17 years, a
farmer boy, whose father owns a
ranch near The Dalles, Oregon, was
sentenced to three years in the peni
tentiary for "burglary in the day
time." Schultz entered a home at
Rogue River last fall. Hunger Im
pound him to commit the crime, he
told tho court. "When he left he took
a shotgun, and was arrested an hour
lator walking down the Pacific high
way. "I only took some grub, and the
gun to Kill game with," the boy told
the court.
The court Imposed a sentence of
three years, with the promise that a
letter would be written to tho state
parole board recommending a parole
at the end of ono year, if his behavior
was good.
"On account of your youth, I am
making the sentence light," Judge
Thomas said, in passing sentence. I
hope no bitterness comes into your
life as a result, You are a young man
and should resolve to get a new Btart.
Whatever you do don't como out of
Salem bitter against society."
Hentence of from two to five years,
with promise of tho court's aid at the
end of two years in securing a parole,
was passed upon John Ellis, 22, a
"big town" taxi driver, and Jerry
Kent, 24, a medical school student,
24, both former members of the navy
In war time. They pleaded guilty to
the stealing of r.n auto.
Kent said his parents were dead,
that ho had been gassed during the
war, and that when physical disability
compelled the suspension of his medi
cal studies It "took the heart out ot
him." Then he started wandering.
His home is In Texas.
Ellis said his home was in southern
Illinois, that he had no trade, but hud
driven a taxlcab in St. Louis, and then
became a tourist, befog arrested once
In Idaho for vagrancy, in the course
of his travels.
Asked why they had stolen the car.
Ellis said, "we just didn't feel like
walking over the Slsklyous. or beating
a freight." They intended to aban
don the auto In northern California.
John W. Carl, middle-aged home
steader, whose home is In Merrill,
Wisconsin, pleaded guilty to four In
dictments, charging violation of the
prohibition law, and was sentenced to
two years in state prison, and fined
$250. The court also promised Carl
assistance in procuring a parole, at
the end of the minimum time if his
behavior warranted. Carl made a
clean breast' of his operations, and
regretted, the officers sayt that he
had induced Harry Tracy to enter the
moonshine business with him. Tho
pair were arrested by Federal En
forcement Officer Chaney and Deputy
Sheriff Alden in the Qreen Mountain
Springs district a week ago.
Halelgh and Nye Matthews and
Jack Mayhem of Eagle Point, charged
with being drunk in that city last fall,
were arraigned Thursday afternoon,
entered pleas of not guilty, and will
be given a trial at the next petit jury
term. They are at liberty on $500
bonds.
SENTFNGES V
15 YR. OLD BOY SEES MOTHER FOR
THE FIRST TIME, THANKS TO ROTARY
SPOKANE, Jan. 25. For the first
time In his life since she bent over
him In his cradle, Howard Btraub, 15,
looked on the face of his mother here
today. Ever since he suffered an at
tack of infantile paralysis at the age
of seven months, the boy has been
totally blind.
Today following an operation ar
SAUNA CRUZ
RECAPTURED
BY OBREGON
After 30 Hours' Fighting,
Loyalist Drive Rebels Into
Sea and Retake Important
Port Operations Start Near
U. S. Border Rebels Claim
Victory.
DOUGLAS, Ariz., Jan. 25. Follow
lug thirty hours of severe fighting,
loyal troops under the command of
Oeneral Bravo Izquierdo have recap
tured the port ot Sallna Cruz and com
pelled a part of the rebel force hold
ing the port to embark on the gun
boat Progreso, according to a wire
message received here by Mexican
Consul Roji.
Sallna Cruz was attacked by rebel
forces from the land and sea last Sun
day, the gunboat Progreso bombard
ing the town. Commander Donato
bravo Izquirerdo and his garrison of
200 men were forced to evacuate the
place, but recaptured It with the aid
of reinforcements under General Laue
nno Pineda. The federals lost twelve
killed and thirty wounded.
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 25. (By the
Associated Press.) The rebels lost
150 killed in the thirty hours of fight
ing which resulted in the recapture by
the federals of the port of Sallna Cruz,
according to advices reaching the cap
ital. ; : ...
. BROWNSVILLE, Texas., Jan. 25.
Contingents of cavnlry from Reynosa
and other nearby border points were
brought to Matamoros last night and it
13 said will be used In operations
against rebel bands reported mobiliz
ing near San Fernando, fifty miles
south of Matamoros.
Rebels Claim Victory
VERA CRUZ, Jan. 25. (Via Radio
to the Dallas News ) Rebel forces
commanded by General Salvador Alvar
ado, have taken possession of Slloo,
a railway town near Celaya in the
state ot Guananjuuto and have also
occupied railroad stations at Pedrito,
Btato of Jalisco, Bays a rebel commu
nique issued here. ,
In the action at Sllao the insurg
ents captured abundant supplies ot
ammunition and rifles and also took
prisoners.
At Pedrito they derailed a north
bound train, putting to flight the mili
tary escort. The armored cars guard
ing the train fell into the hands ot
Oeneral Alvarado's men, says the
statements.
The U. S. 8. Omaha and six de
stroyers anchored off Vera Cruz, yes
terdaj obttaned permission to enter
the bay. .-,
"The warships," continues the com
munique, "expect to remain here, for
one or two days and then resume
their trip, which began at the Pan
ama canal zone." '
SEATTLE, Jan. 26. Tha,t Japan
will yet buy heavily of Pacific coast
lumber to reconstruct consequent
upon devastation of the Tokio-Yoko-hama
district by earthquake in Sep
tember was the word brought today
by Major Everett O. Orlggs of Ta
coma and O. M. Clark ot Portland,
lumbermen who arrived on the Admi
ral Oriental liner President ' Orant
after an investigation tour on which
they left the United States in Novem
ber. '
ranged for by the local Rotary club,
bandages were removed and Howard
gazed at his mother, "Oh, mother,
you're so pretty,' he cried and threw
himself into her arms.
The boy, son of Sir. and Mrs. C. A.
Straub of Creston, Wash., near nere.
said his lifelong ambition had been to
look into his mother's face.