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MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1924
NO. 2G8
MATTER OF -HOURS
m
BEAT
ALL HOPE OF
RECOVERY IS
ABANDONED
'"Mp. Wilson Still Alive, But Is
Growing Steadily Weaker
Still Conscious, But Unable
to Speak Or Take Nourish
ment May Live Through
Day Says Dr. Grayson.
WASHINGTON. Fob. S. Dr.
Grayson Issued at 4:45 p. m.; llio
following informal siutoment:
"Mr. Wilson' general condition
la tho same uh It was tills morn
ing. Ho grows steadily weaker."
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Chaplain
Montgomery referred to former Pres
ident Wilson's Illness in Ills prayer in
the house- today.
"In this silence with subdued
breath," he said, "we pray for
. that most distinguished one, as he
' lingers In the shadows of eternal
morning. In that hushed cham
ber, reveal Thyself In the va
ried forms of comfort and peace,
give restful assurance to all sad
and heavy hearts. Shelter and
keep him in Thy secret place and
may the shadow of tho Most High
batho his brow as he awaits the
summons to enter hlB Father's
house In Heaven foievennore:
' through Jesus Christ our Lord
amen."
WASHINGTON,' -Feb: 2. Wood
row Wilson continues to grow weakor
hour by hour, but thore was little in
dication this afternoon how soon the
end might come.
At 3 p. m. Dr. Grayson suld the
sick man's condition had shown no
material change except for the very
slow but certain advance toward com
plete exhaustion.
WASHlTCfiTON Feh. '2. At 1 n.
m., today there was no evidence of
any material change in the condition t
of former President Wilson.
'It- looks ns though Mr. Wilson
would pull through the day," Dr.
Grayson added to the formal text of
the medical bulletin, "but that's sub
ject to the hazard t of a sudden
change."
NEW YORK, Feb. 2. Woodrow!
Wilson, who as president of the Unit- 1
ed Stales declared war on Germany, i
'offered Just before he was scricken .
with his present Illness to aid Gcr-,
many's sturvlng intellectuals, accord-1
Ing to James W. Oerard. who was j
Mr. Wilson's ambassador at Berlin.
"Today I received a litter." said,
Mr.-Oerard, "from Woodrow Wilsons,
secretary, stating that Mr. Wilson
would becomo a member of the com
mittee toruisc funds for writers, doc
tors, artists and other intellectuals of
Germany, which I am organizing.
"It Is characteristic that Mr. Wil
son In the midst of his own personal
distress should mako this effort to
help the slurving and to do away with
hate."
.Steadily Log-iig Ground.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Steadily
losing ground, Woodrow Wilson con
tinued to grow weaker and weaker
today.
But having lasted through a night,
which his physicians thought would
bring the end they cannot predict how
long his remarkable vitality will hold
out. Although he hos.taken no nour
ishment in almost twenty-four hours
and 1b disinclined even to take sips of
water. Mr. Wilson's pulse, respiration
and temperature early today were
practically normal. But he was stead
ily, growing weaker and weaker. Dr.
Grayson, his physician, said his life
was simply ebbing away.
Some BtimulantB have been given In
small doses.
At no time has Mr. Wilson been de
lirious and he seems at all times to be
conscious of what is going on in his
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BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Feb. 2. Fire
which destroyed the huge paint and
blacksmith shop in the center of the
group of buildings at the winter he-id-quarters
of the Rlngllng Brothers and
Bamum and Bailey circus today creat
ed a panic among the animals in the
menagerie and kept firemen and the
keepers In the animal houses busy lor
Anti-Ku Klux Klan
Organization to Be
Formed in Portland
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2.
E. H. Farrln of Washington, D.
C, western director of the Mill-
4 ute Men and Women of America,
fr was here today to organize a 4
4 Portland branch of that body. 4
4 Publication of a weekly paper
will be one of the things started
4- by the new body, according to
4 Farrln who pointed out three 4
4 chief alms:
) To got a law through
every legislature In the United
4 States preventing anyone from 4
4 masking in public. 4
"2 To obtain a law that will
4 require the Ku Klux Klan to 4
4 publish a roster of its momber- 4
4 ship.
"3 To force politicnl candi- 4
4 dates to tell exactly where they
4 stand on the klan question." 4
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GIANT STILL IS
OUTFITSEIZED
Sheriff's Office, Assisted By
Federal Men, Make Biggest
Haul in History North Sams
Valley Higher-Up Still at
Large. . , . :
In a raid conducted by the sheriff's
office, and the federal prohibition of
ficer Thursday afternoon in the upper
Sam's Valley country, tho largest still
yet seized in this section was found,
and E. I. Hatfield. 60, whose family
resides In Klamath Fulls, is held in
the county Jail pending arraignment.
Hatfield, the authorities Buy, cluims
another man, whose identity has not
been revealed, was the bruins and
owner of the illicit plant, -and that he
was only working as the distiller. This
man. Hut Held alleges, it Is said, left
Wednesday by auto, loaded with the
output of the plant. This was a reg
ular occurrence, according to Hat
field, and he never asked any ques
tions as to its destination.
In the opinion of the authorities,
none of the product was disposed of
locally, but was taken north, and in
fancy bottles, and under urtlstic la
bels mustiueraded as rye and Scotch,
from overseas and Canada.
The still, now In the Jul! at Jack
sonville, had a capacity of 100 gal
lons a day. There were also 100 gal
lons of mash, contained in four valu
able redwood tanks, which have been
ordered sold at auction by the county
court, and will go to defrny the ex
pense of tho raid. Other material was
500 pounds of sugar and 100 gullons
of kerosene, used In the still opera
tion, which eliminated any telltale
smoke going up tho chimney.
The house containing the still was
12 by 18 in size, and cleverly on
cealed in the timber and brush. To
remove tho still it was necessary to
tear out the front of the house, and
on all hands was evidence that the
Illicit transaction had been conducted
on a sanitary and businesslike basis.
Water was piped Into the building
from a spring, being filtered before
using. The still wns bright and pol
ished. Inside and out. After the" pro
duct came out of the still, It was fil
tered through a barrel, filled with
charcoal, sand and cotton before being
bottled and jugged.
The raiding party consisted of Fed
eral Officer Nate Chaney, Deputy
Sheriffs Alden and Forncrook and
Night Policeman George Preston, and
the seizure is regarded as the most
important in the history of rum curb
ing in this section.
It Is the second time In a month
that county and federal authorities
have stepped out Into the timbered
places and seized stills, the first being
in the Green Springs mountain dis
trict. LOSS Ml! $100.0111
more than an hour before the fire was
controlled.
A large black ox brought here by the
circus from Italy and known as the
"sacred ox" was burned to death In a
pen just outside the burned struc
ture. This was the oply animal lost.
An early estimate fixed the damage
at 100,000.
CAPTURED
inch
IRVINE 10
01)11 PIERCE
FEB'RY. 15
Private Secretary Resigns Be
cause of Governor's Speech
On Dry Issue Portland
Woman Raided By Cleaver
Christmas Day Sues for
$10,000 Damages-
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 2. From what
appears to be an authentic source
comes information today that Ward
A. Irvine, private secretary to Gover
nor Pierce, will retire from his posi
tion on February 15.
Humors of Irvine's possible resig
nation have been frequent and it is
known that several times he has
threatened to resign because of differ
ences with his chief. The occurrence
that has brought matters to a head, it
is said, grew out of the governor's re
cent address before a convention of
district attorneys in Portland. Shortly
after that, according to the informa
tion, the governor asked Irvine if he
was still In the notion of resigning and
Irvine said he was and it was then
agreed that his retirement would take
pluce February 15.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 2. Suit
for $10,000 damages was filed here
today against State Prohibition Agent
George L... Cleaver by Mrs. George
Peterson, who alleged her homo had
been raided, by Cleaver's men Christ
mas evening-on- a - searc.1- warrant
which had been Issued without prob
able cause. Mrs. Peterson alleged
that no liquor was in her home at tho
time of the raid nor at any other
time.
SELECTED STATE
LEGION BOARD
PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. 2. Letters
from all members of the Oregon dele
gation In congress pledging support
for a bonus for World war veterans
were read at a meeting of the execu
tive committee of the Oregon state de
partment of the American Legion
here today. All state posts were urged
to adopt resolutions thanking tho
congressmen and senators for their
stand.
The committee ordered telegrams
sent to President Coolldge and Repre
sentative Albert Johnson, chairman of
the house Immigration committee
urging that aliens who cannot become
citizens be kept out of the United
States. Similar messages were sent to
the legion departments of California
and Washington.
A national bonus bill mass meeting
wit) be held at Salem Saturday night,
February 9.
Commander Kiddle today appointed
three new state legion committees.
They are:
, State child welfare: George R. Wil
bur, Hood River, chairman; Jacob
Kanzler and Miss Martha Randall,
Portland.
Aeronautics: B. C. Small, Salem,
chairman; Floyd Hart, Medford, and
Howard Carlton, Portland. "
Finance: Frank Moore and Judge
Walter Gleason, Portland.
FOR HIGHER TARIFF
PENDLETON. Ore.. Feb. 2. The
aid of the WeBtern Tariff association
has been pledged to the western wheat.
growers in their attempt to secure
an increase in the tariff on wheat ac
cording to Dr. S. W. McClure of Idaho
secretary of that organization who Is
leaving tonight for Washington to do
everything possible to secure an In
crease In the wheat tariff.
The Western Tariff association Is
an organization of western growers
and producers formed for the purpose
of protecting tariff Interests of the
members. Dr. McClure who has but
recently been In Washington .says that
it Is his1 opinion that President Cool
ldge entertains a very friendly feeling
toward the producers of wheat and
that the chief executive will do every
thing In his power to aid them. Dr.
McClure was a speaker at the Oregon
Woor Growers convention recently
held In Pendleton and at the Wash
ington convention held In Yakima.
Re-United With Mother,
fcl j I
Brooklyn, N. T. Re-unlted with
his ninety-two year
old mot
aftor a separation of twenty years.
George Doty, to-day sat In his
cell in the Raymond Street Jail,
here, fondly gazing at the portrait
of her that he had carried with
A welcome Improvement In the
busiiiQRs district- wHfi. that Inaugu
rated by F. V. Modynski when next
April he will begin erecting a one
story concrete business block with 80
foot front on the west side of South
Central, back to the alley, by 20 feet
in depth. It will really be a continu
ation of the Reddy Jewelry company
building corner of Main and Central.
This will provide four more store
rooms, each with a front like the
Smith shoe store on North Central.
Tho structure will bo completed by
Juno 1st nccording to present plans.
Work can not be begun until April
because the present lease of the J. N.
Cufe does not expire until that time.
Mr. Medynskl owns the full depth of
the land running 140 feet from the
Reddy store fronting on Main street,
back to the alley. The new structure
will be so built that at a later time
one or two stories can be added, when
desired. .
ELECT MOUSE
SALEM. Ore., Feb. 2. M. J. Now
house, assistant general manager of
the Oregon Growers Cooperative asso
ciation for tho past two years and
prior to that manager of the Washing
ton Growers' association, has been
elected to Bticceed Robert B. Paulus,
resigned, as general manager of the
Oregon association. Mr. Newhouse
will take over his new duties April 1.
Meeting yesterday the board of di
rectors of the association, took under
consideration the form of contract
which will be offered growers when
the association Is reorganized 'on an
exclusive dried fruit basis. The pro
posed contract Is permanent In form
with a withdrawal clause permitting
any grower to withdraw at a specified
time during any year.
The directors voted to allow out
side growers to come under the asso
ciation during the present year upon
payment of one-tenth of a cent a pound
for the fruit handled and their share
of the packing and selling charges.
LICENSING OF CATS
SPOKANE. Wash., Feb. 2. More
than 8000 signatures to tho petitions
asking the city council for an ordi
nance requiring the licensing of rats
already have been secured, according
to Professor T. A. Bonser. curator of
the Hpokane public museum. Profes
sor Bonser Is conducting the cam
paign, claiming thnt the destruction
of song birds by common house cats
Is one cause for the increase o Insect
pests,
F. V. MEDYNSKI
TO BUILD NEW
BUSINESS BLOCK
92, After Twenty Years
I him In all those years of wandor-
Ing: years that had brought him
llttlo but sorrow and ended with
hts arrest on a charge of petty
thievery. Insert, Mrs. Latoer, the
mother, as Bhe looked on th
photo.
MINERS RIOT IN
CONVENTION HALL
HOWAT EXPELLED
INDIANAPOLIS, Feb. 2. (By tho
Associated Press.) Amid riotous
sconug tlio4ilennlal. convention of the
United Mlno Workers of America waB
declared adjourned sine die by Presi
dent John L. Lewis at 10:45 a. m. to
day. Adjournment was announced by
the president while the delegates
howlod as Alexander Howat, deposed
president of tho Kansas district, .was
(I ragged from tho plutrorm by two ser
geants at arms.
Howat was forcibly takon from the
platform when ho sought to address
the delegates despite refusal of Presi
dent John L. Lewis to recognize him.
Howat's removal by two sergeants at
arms threw tho convention Into a tur
moil and calls were sent for police re
serves. The wild demonstration was attrib
uted by administration supporters to
InsurgoutB who have opposed Presi
dent Lewis throughout the convention
and who seized upon committee's ad
verse report on Howat's appeal for
reinstatement as the occasion for a
final demonstration.
Called to order by John Watt of
Springfield, 111., about 300 delegates
heard Ilowat after the convention's
adjournment and adopted a demand
for a special convention to "give Kan
sns miners justice," and "Impeach
John L. Lewis."
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JOHNSTON CITY, 111., Feb. 2. One
hundrod and twenty-eight persona had
been arrested today in the dry raids
in Williamson county,' which began
last night and continued today. Sevbral
hundred men, said to be mem bo: s of
the Ku Klux Klan, conducted the
county wide raids which were led by
S. Glenn Young, dry worker and paid
employe of the klan. . .
The raids were principally on pri
vate homes. The Chicago and Eastern
Illinois railroad furnished a special
train to take the prisoners to Denton
for appearance before a federal com
missioned, The raiders confiscated
six stills, 27 barrels of wine, 51 gal
lons of moonshine and 200 gallons of
home brew.
Eugene Rancher Acquitted..
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 2. Nels Berk
rf.m, aged 'rancher living near Cape
Heceta, was acquitted late yesterday
of aiding in the escape of three rob
bers of the Lane county state and sav
ings bank at Florence In December.
' Pendleton Beaten By Athena.
PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 2. The
Pendleton basketball quintet lost to
Athenalast night at the latter city 26
to 21, In a Umntllla county league
game.
Fraternity Boys Kill
1 Woman, Wound 3
In Target Practice
STILLWATER, Okla., Feb. 2.
fr Stray bullets fired by three
Oklahoma A. and M. college stu-
dentH at a target In tho back 4-
yard of their fraternity house
here late yesterday killed Mrs. 4
Matilda A. Hodges, 7li year old
widow, "'and pioneer resident of fr
Stillwater, and slightly wounded
two other women who rushed to
4 her assistance when they Haw her 4
fall.
David D. Zinc, Roy G, Doak 4
4 and Earl Nutter, tho three 4
4 marksmen, nil upper clusttmen 4
4 and leaders in student activities 4
fr at the college, were arrested 4
4 shortly afterward and formnlly 4
4 charged with murder. They 4
4 spent the night In jail. 4
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OIL EXPOSURE
Campaign Manager Declares
McAdoo's Connection With
Doheny Won't Stop Effort
to Make Him Next President
-Reed Supporters Demur.
CHICAGO, Fob. 2.. The campaign
i to bring about the nomination of Wil
liam Cllnbs McAdoo as tho democratic
presidential candidate Is to be In no
way Influenced by tho reported oon
nectlon of Mr. McAdoo with the E. L.
Doheny oil Interests, David Ladd Itock
I well, national manager of the cam
paign, makes It plain.
(ln a telegram to Mr. McAdoo ho said
th'at the cundidute's critics have not a
leg left to Htund on after his tele
graphic reply to the senato commit
tee. ' "The American people," the mcssnge
of Mr. Kockwell said, "will not be di
verted from their determination to
nominato and elect you their president,
by silly rumors and slniHtor influences
operated by Influences inlmlcable to
our country who are seeking to en-
compaB your defeat."
ST. LOUIS, Feb. 2. The testimony
of Edward L. Doheny, oil mngnate,
that William O. McAdoo. cnndldate for
the democratic presidential nomina
tion, Is employod by him in a legal
capacity, "Is fatal," to McAdoo's can
dlducy, assorted Edward A. Glenn,
campaign manager for United States
Senator James A. Heed, ulso a can
didate for the nomination.
"Doheny's testimony at Washngtion
Is fatal to McAdoo's candidacy," said
Cllcnn,
"The democrats of Missouri, or of
no other state, can afford to support
a man for the presidency who Is con
nected with Doheny and the oil In
terests now under Inquiry by the Unit
ed States senate committee."
Two Candidates File
For State Legislature
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 2. T. A. Weinke
of Condon has filed with the secretary
of state his declaration as a candidate
for the Btate senato and Fred C. Holt
baiigh of Clatskanle has filed as a can
didate for the lower house. Both seek
republican nominations Weinke
seeks to represent the eighteenth sen
atorial district comprising allium,
Sherman and Wheeler counties, and
his slogan Is "fewer laws, lower auto
mobile license fees, square deal for
farmer and Btock raiser." Holibatigh
would represent the twentieth repre
sentative district comprising Columbia
county. His slogan Is "Columbia
county's lntorests my Interests."
COUNTY COURT SEES
ENGINEER, RIDE
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 2. Tho Jack
son county court today conferred
with the stnte highway department
ano) mombers of the Marlon and
Clackamas county courts relative to
county highway paving proposed In
Jackson county between Medford and
Jacksonville and part way at least be
tween Jacksonville and Ruch. It Is
not a state aid project, but the visit
ing officials sought advice from State
WONTSTOPTHE
nraoii DRivt
REFUSES 10
TESTIFY TO
COMMITTEE
Ex-Secy. Fall Called Before
Senate Committee, Again
Refuses to Answer Ques
tions Claims Authority of
Committee Has Expired
Fears Incrimination.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Haled bo
fore the senate oil committee today
against the protest of his attorneys
and physicians, former Interior Secre
tary Full flatly refuaed to answer
questions about navnl oil leases and
his relations with Harry F. Sinclair
and 13. L. Doheny.
I Mr. Fall gave two major reasons
why he declined to, reply. The firBt
' was that the authority given to the
' Investigating committee by the last
j congress had expired and the second,
1 that In the light of the action of con
gress In directing Institution of court
action, civil and criminal, in the oil
lease cases, any answers he would
make might tend to Incriminate him.
I
I WASHINGTON, Feb. 2. Clearing
the hearing room of the crowd which .
Jammed every avallablo space, the
committee went Into executive session
; to dotermlne Its course In the light of
; the attitude of the former cabinet
officer and senator. As the commit
tee deliberated Mr. Foil waited with
his lawyers and phyBtcians in an ante
room. , .,. . i
Its authority to continue the invest .
tlgatlon having been challenged by
Mr. Fall, the committee decided to
ask the senato on Monday to remove
all doubt by re-adoptlng the original
resolution authorizing the Inquiry.
The committee then adjourned until
next Tuesday. '
Mr. Fall will be recalled before the
committee next Tuesday and should
he then decline to answer questions
senators said the Ibsuo of the author
ity of the committee to compel :' an
answer under pain of contempt pro
ceedings in the courts would ho
squarely raised.
PARIS, Feb. 2. (By Associated
Press). Mason Day, the representa
tive In Europe of the Sinclair oil In
terests today Issued In behalf of Harry
jF. Sinclair the following statement:
I i expect to reiurn to America, on
either the steamship Berengarla, sall
I Ing Februnry 0. or the steamship
President Harding, sailing February
12.
(Signed) "II. F. Sinclair." . ' '
BIG STILL NABBED
PILOT ROGKJJREGON
PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 2. Nell
Lleuallen of Athena and a farm band
booked as Pennington were haled be
fore the Pilot Rock Justice of the'
peace yesterday afternoon on a charge
of possessing ' and operating a still.
Pennington pleaded guilty and drew
a fine of (100 and a sentence of 30
days In the county Jail. Lleuallen
pleaded not guilty and was bound over
to the grand Jury. The pair were ar
rested following a raid on the Lock
wood ranch near Pilot Rock which be
longs to Lleuallen's brother-in-law, Z.
W. Lockwood, Jr., who Is wintering
with his wife la California.
George Codding Honored '
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 2. George Cod
ding, a deputy In the Btate corporation
department and an attorney of Med
ford from 1916 until 1922, was this
afternoon elected chairman of the
Marlon county democratic central
committee to succeed Henry Downing,
who was recently appointed county
Judge. -
STATE HIGHWAY
OVER SALEM ROADS
Highway Engineer R. A. Klein rela
tive to methods and costs. Following
the conference with Klein the Jack
son county men made a trip over some
of the newly paved Marion county
market roads with members of the
Marlon county court and this after
noon will- inspect paved roads In
Clackamas county. The visitors from
Jackson county were County Judge
Gardner and Commissioners Bursell
and Altord.
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