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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1924
NO. 273
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UNFIT SAYS
4Head of Senate Oil Probe De
' clares Denby Must Be Driven
From Public Life Convict-
ed By Own' Testimony Oil
, Investigation Is Spreading
Rapidly
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. William
Q. McAdoo will bo heard by tho senate
oil committee tomorrow.
.' Appearing at his own request he
will explain fully his professional ser
vices with the Doheny oil interests.
Decision to hear the former secre
tary of the treasury in the Wilson ad
ministration was reached today by the
committee after Chairman Lenroot
had read into the record a letter sent
to him last night by Mr. McAdoo ask
ing .for an immediate hearing.
Frederick G. Bonfils, publisher of
the Denver (Colo.) Post appeared as
a voluntary witness to tell of his ef
forts to assist Leo Stack to enforce a
contract Sta;k had with the Mid-West
and other oil companies supposed to
own acreage in the Teopot Dome re
serve before it was leased to Harry
F. Sinclair by former Secretary Fall.
Before the committee adjourned
Until tomorrow Mr. Bonfils said that
he had turned over to Senator Walsh
the report and evidence of "what Mr.
Stackelback had found in New Mex
ico." - v '
The story was cut sfyrt by adjourn
ment of the committee, whose mem
bers hurried to the senate chamber
to take part In the debate on the
Denby resolution. Senator Walsh said
before closing that it showed conclu
sively the unfitness of Secretary Den
by to act as secretary of the navy.
Senator Walsh Erupts
"Out of his own mouth is he con
demned." Senator Walsh said. "He
had every opportunity to defend his
acts and failed to act. i
"A great crime has been committed.
The very structure of our government
rocks upon Us foundations in view
of the revelations in connection with
it. There is but one way to restore
that confidence which Is lmli.spenHa.hlo
to its stability and perpetuity, namely,
to visit upon the perpetrators the
punishment justly provided under tho
law and drive from public service for
ever one through whoso connivance
or suplnenes it hecame possible.
"Aro you witling, my colleagues, to
turn .back these properties into tho
keeping of Edwin Denby? I am not.
Aro you willing to condone tho fla
grant faithlessness which has charac
terized his administration of his groat
office as revealed by his own testi
mony before you? I am not. Are
you content to let him down easy, lost
sensibilities bo offended or political
prospects be affected? I am not.
"I want to see. .him driven from
office with all the odium that possibly
attaches to his going that his fate may
serve for all time as a warning to
those who might otherwise fail the
republic he has failed."
Oil Inquiry Widened
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. Tho oil
inquiry was widened still further to
day when the senate without debate
adopted a resolution directing an In
vestigation of the circumstances by
which the Honolulu Consolidated Oil
company secured extensive, tracts In
California.
The resolution, offered by Senator
LaFollette, republican, Wisconsin, re
iterated that the company's claim had
been re-opened and approved by Sec
retary Albert B. Fall, after having
boen denied by the preceding secre-
(Continued on rage Three)
SEN. WALSH
SIGHTSEERS CAST ADRIFT ON ICE
I.
QUEBEC, Feb. 8. All of the twen
ty persons whose lives were endan
gered yesterday by the breaking 'jo of
a long ice bridge across the St. Law
rence river escaped the authorities
said today.
Five persons' who floated for hours
on the drifting lee and who were be
lieved to have been lost, reached Bhore
, in safety.
QUEBEC, Feb. 8. Three women
and two men are missing and are be
lieved to have been drowned when a
mile long Ice bridge across the St.
Lawrence river broke up last night as
sightseers were walking over the fra
gile span. Officials said early today
Prince of Wales Is
Thrown By Jumper;
Collar Bone Broken
- Prince of Wales"
LONDON, Feb. 8. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Tho Prince of AVales
broke bis collar bone while exercising
one- of his hunters at Billlngton ma
nor, near Ascot this morning.
The prince was putting his mount
over a fence when the horse fell,
throwing his rider heavily on his shoul
der. The prince got up and was re
mounting wltln. difficulty when his
equerry said: "I believe you've brok
cu your collar hone."
j "Yes, I have," Wales replied.
An evntess train which was stopped
at Leighton Buzzard to take the
prince on board b.ouglit him to Lon
don before noon. After receiving fur
ther surgical treatment he returned to
St .Tarn on palace and went to bed.
The prince was taken to the sur
gery at Leighton Buzzard where lie re
ceived treatment, anil was driven back
to Mentmore mansion. He wore no
collar when he emerged from the sur
gery and his shoulder was in ban
dages, but he was slill smiling.
I The prince is a great lover of horse
flesh and has frequently been thrown
but has always escaped serious injury.
.In addition to following the hounds,
.the heir to tho British throne is keen
on racing both on the flat and over the
jumps and he has taken part in com
petition with professional Jockeys al
though with Indifferent success.
A London dispatch on Tuesday told
of his rising at an early hour and mo
toring to Epsom Downs, thehlstoric
British race course whero lie looked
over tho horses entered for the forth
coming meet anil engaged in im
promptu races with the jockeys.
Wales had eighteen hunters at
Leighton Buzzard and was expecting
to do much hunting with the Waddon
chase hounds. Ho had gone overnight
to Mentmore mansion with Lord Dal-
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the death list might grow as their
investigation proceeds.
The missing men and women were
seen floating off in the darkness on a
huge slab of Ice. The careening Ice
craft, carried up stream by the Incom
ing tide. It is believed, may have car
ried Its human freight to a point
where the five could reach solid ice
connecting with the shore. Four of
the missing persons are Miss Jeanne
Oagnon, 21 years, of Lauzon: .two
sisters, named Halle, 20 and 23 years
old, residents of 8t. David, a nearby
village and P. Couture, 32, also of St.
David. The name of the fifth person,
a man, could not be lparned. At leant
fourteen men and women were saved,
making their way to shore over the
'crumbling Ice.
LETHAL GAS
KILLS CHINK
30 SECONDS
Gee Jon, Chinaman, First Vic
tim of New Method of Exe
cution in United States
Mexican Boy's Life Saved
By Reprieve at Last Moment
Gets Life.
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb.- 8. Gee
Jon was pronounced dead at 9:37 a. in.
and physicians witnessing the execu
tion said death occurred 30 seconds
after the gas was turned into the
death chamber.
The condemned prisoner was walked
forty yards into the prison yard and
eight mlnutos after lie left the con
demned coll he apparently was dead.
During the execution the wltnessos
could smell the poisonous gas, but it
did not appear to have any harmful re
sults or even bother anyone. After
the execution the chemists ordered
that thirty minutes elapse before the
chamber was emptied of gas,, but an
hour passed before the physicians
were permitted to enter.
While the gas was being pumped
out its pdor permeated the prison.
Might Revive Victim
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 8. Dan
ger to spectators in the lethal gas exe
cution at the state prison here -today
was seen by Major D. A. Turner. U. S.
A. medical reserve corps, as he pre
pared to take charge of the medical de-
tails of the event.
Major Turner Baid that he would,
"if granted permission," endeavor to
revive Gee Jon, tho tong slayer, who
was named as the subject for the first
lethal gas execution in the state. War
den Denver S. Dlckerson granted this
permission.
The major explained that lethal was
not a uniform and effective form
of execution and wanted to demonstrate
It. The hydrocyanic acid used In the
execution, ho explained, is deadly but
the persons subjected to It may often
be revived by science.
The warden would not discuss the
probable reviving of the condomned
man. He said that all medical ar
rangements would be left to the physi
cians. Major Turner planned to enter the
death chamber with a gas mask as
soon as possible after the gas was ad
mitted. He said he had revived other
men subjected to this kind of gas.
Major Tumor did not predict that
the man would be revived, but said ho
thought the experiment should be
made.
Dr. A. Huffaker, the prison physi
cian, arrived later to aid Turner in his
official capacity.
The condemned man waB reported
to be bearing up bettor than was an
ticipated as the death procession pre
pared to start.
Boy Gets Life
NEVADA STATB PRISON, CAR
SON CITY, Nev., Feb. 8. (By the
Associated Press.) Gee Jon, Chinese
tong slayer, faced death this morning
in the first execution by lethal gas in
American history.
Until last night two men had been
expected to die in this execution. At
a special meeting of the Btate board of
pardons It was decided, by the vote of
Governor Scrugham; to commute to
life Imprisonment the sentence of the
other condemned man, Thomas Rus
sell, an American-born Mexican, con
victed of killing his sweetheart, an
Indian girl.
P. A. McCarran, a former Justice of
tho Nevada supreme court, had made
an impassioned pica on behalf of Rus
sell, basing the argument largely on
the record In the case, which, the at
torney contended, failed to bear out
the state's case. The mother of the
Indian girl had testified that she saw
Kussell kill the daughter, but Russell
had Insisted all along, even yesterday
as he saw death a few hours away, that
he was innocent, that It was the moth
er who was the slayer.
Yesterday the district Judge who
presided at Russell's trial telegraphed
Governor Scrugham expressing doubt
whether It was a case of premeditated
murder. The governor concurred In
this doubt, while voicing the belief
that Russell killed the girl.
(Continued on Page, Six)
THE TEAPOT DOME
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(Washington Above are pictured
Col. Theodore Roosevelt. Assistant
Secretary Df the Navy, with his
brother, Archie Roosevelt, who ap
peared before the Scnato Land
Grants Committee investigating
Indian Rights Association ' Is
Stirred By Shocking Charges
Against Whitti Men in Okla
homa Tribes Once Rich in
Danger of Starvation.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 8. A report !
stating that .the estates of the mem-!
bers of the Indian tribes In eastern Ok.
lahoma are being, and have been
shamelessly and openly robbed in a
scientific and ruthless manner, through
the administering of the Indian pro
bate law In that stnte, was presented
last night to the 41st annual meeting
of the Indian Rights association.
The report contains an "explanation
by way of preface by Herbert Walsh',
Philadelphia, presidont of the asso
ciation, in which he said the report
of three Investigators, "disclosed a sit
uation that is almost unbelievable In a
civilized country and makes It clear
that a radical and Immediate change
of the Bystem ln vogue Is necessary. If
the mombors of the five civilized
trlhues are to he savod from pauperiza
tion and virtual extermination."
The investigators, whose nnmes are
attached to the report are Mrs. Ger
trude Bonnin, a college bred Sioux, now
living in Washington,- D. C, research
agent for tho Indian welfare commit
tee oT the General Federation of Wo
men's clubs; Charles H. Fabens, Sa
lem, Mass., representing the American
Indian Defense association and Mat
thew K. Sniffen, Philadelphia, secre
tary of the Indllan Rights association.
Tho roport contains a summary, a
bill of particulars, and a remedy. In
the bill of particulars It is stated that
it would be unfair to say that the al
leged practices complained of aro con
doned by all the citizens of Oklahoma.
Interior Department Scored
Aftor stating that congress, in 1908,
took from the Interior department ju
risdiction over Indian probate mat
ters and transferred them to the local
county courts, and that the depart
ment had failed in Its efforts to have
the courts follow rules of procedure
that would afford "a measure of pro
tection," to the Indians, the summary
says'.
"That In many of the counties the
Indians are virtually at the mercy of
groups that Include the county judges,
guardians, attorneys, bankers, mer
chants not even overlooking the un
dertaker all regarding the Indian es
tates as legitimate game.
"The Indian children have been al
lowed to die for lack of nourishment
because of the neartlessnesB and indif
ference of their professional guard
ians, who had ample funds ln their
possession for the care of the wards.
That a woman, aftor being dead
four years, was resurrected as a man
and able to sign a lease all attested
by witnesses and a notary public.
"That the undertakers were solici
tous to Bee that the deceased Indian
bad a first class funeral and they
(Contlnuod on Fags Six)
REVELATIONS IN
INDIAN REPORT
SHOCK-HEARERS
INVESTIGATION
various oil leases. Archie Roose
velt was formerly an official of on
of the Sinclair Oil Corporation
subsidiaries. In charge of the for
rlgn 'department.
Oregon News
in Brief
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 8. Tho
crippled children's law, enacted by the
lust session of tho state legislature,
was officially put Into effect In Port
land last night when the school board
received a report of the committee on
education with a partial list of crip
pled children entitled to the benefits
of the act.
Tho law is tho first of Its kind
passed In the Unitod States. It pro
vides that crippled children who aro
unublo to loavo their homes shall re
ceive Instruction in their homes from
teachers under the direction of tho
city school system. Tho local' school
district has sot aside $1431 for tho
work in Its 11(21 budget.
noSEHUUO, Ore, Feb. 8. Tho
Roscburg lodgo of Elks last night
voted to purchase Fnrquhar Island, a
beautiful niece of land within tho
city limits in tho Umpqua river, which
thev plun to convert into a modern
amusement park und children's play
ground.
The equipping of the park and pur
chase will cost $20,000 and (4000 will
be expended at onro ln building a
brldgo to the island, -
RCTSEBURG, Oro., Feb. 8. The
first carload shipment of broccoli
from tho Umpqua vnlloy was sont out
today to Portland to be distributed
to northwest points.
Tho harvest Is Just starting and car
load shipments will bo niado at two
day intervals for tho next week or ton
days, when the crop will begin mov
ing fnster. During tho height of the
season there will bo between forty
and fifty cars going out each day nnd
It Is planned to' send ono complete
train to Chicago as a publicity fea
ture. Tho dainago from frost, al
though heavy In a few exposed locali
ties, Is very light In percentage when
the entire crop Is taken Into conside
ration. It Is expected that noarly five
hundred carloads will bo Bhlpped out
of tho valley.
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 8. Sixty-nlno
fruit growers of the Hubbard district
In northern Marlon county, members
of tho Oregon Growers co-operatlvo
association will disband at the expi
ration of tho present year, havo or
ganized a local, marketing association
mid .will handlo their fruit through
that organization this year. While
they aro under contract with tho Ore
gon Growers for. tho rest of tho pres
ent year they aro petitioning for lm
medtato release from, their contracts
and It is belioved horo their request
will bo granted.
SIGNED BY PREST.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 Tho names
of 811ns H. Strown of Chicago, and
Atlec pomercno of Ohio, to be spoclal
counsel for the government In tho
oil lease cases were sent to tho scn
ato today by President Coolldgce for
confirmation.
Nominations wcro forwarded to the
capltol after the president had sign
ed the Walsh cancellation resolution..
In attaching his signature, however,
ho appended a , memorandum taking
exception to tho language of the pre
amble which declares the leases wore
mado in violation of the luw and
under circumstances indicating fraud
and corruption.
In a message of notification ont
to the sonato Mr. Coolldgo declared
that In signing the resolution he "ex
pressed no opinion with reference to
the facts which purport to be found
In tho preamble to tho resolution." ,
OIL CANCELLATION
Rumor Resignation
Hell Maria Dawes
Sends Marks Down
NEW YORK, Feb. 8. Heavy
selling of German marks took
place in today's foreign exchange
market on the circulation of in-
confirmed reportB from abroad
that Brigadlor General Charles G.
Dawes had resigned as chairman
of the expert commission on Gor-
man reparations. The quotation
dropped from 21A to 18 7-8 a trll-
Hon. The bulk of sales origin-
ated in Berlin and Amsterdam.' ;
OIL STREAK IN
Auto Magnate Asked To Help
Secy. Denby, Asks for
Deeper PrObe AS tO FttHM-
cial Aspects
Coolidge. -Has Faith in
DETROIT. Mich.. Fob. 8. Tho
sonata committee investigating the'
FORD SUGGESTS
MEXICAN POLICY
Teapot Dome oil leases "might 'ddfj? ,a rtPrtd ln, Honduras following
woll to look Into Iho possibility of a
connoctlon between oil lntarosts and
pur attitude towurd -tho 'Mexican dif
ficulty,'! llonry Ford said today ln a
statement,
Mr. Ford's stntemont issued In ans
wer to a request that he Join hun-i
dreds of Michigan cltlzons In urging
a fair deal for Edwin Denby, score-I
tary of tho navy, and Dotroltor, said:
"I have boon asked to join other;
citizens of Michigan in securing a
fair deal for Edwin Denby, secre-,
inry of tho navy, it 1h alleged horo
that because he has law political in-1
fluonce than othor members of the
government, a pretext may be sought
to make him a scapegoat. My reply!
has been that I am sure that wo can
repose full confidence in Preatdent
Coolldge'fl Bense of justico and will
not permit him to condemn any man
without justico or lnjuro any man's
reputation without good reason. The
senate, a Iho without doubt, wilt ac
cord every man a full hearing and op
portunity for self-defense. No one
in Michigan who knows Mr. Denby
ftaa ever believed him capable of per
sonal dishonesty in public or private
affairs. '
Mnllilnn. In llilc '..nt..mun Unr
over, should be construed as desiring
In any way to limit or weaken tho in-
vostigatlon now In progress. It is not
enough to know who aro 'tho Immo
dlate pornon concerned. Let tho
pooplo go dcopcr until tho Interna
tional banking houses who conceived
and financed tho deal are exposed, for
in the last analysis, they aro tho
sources of tho corruption In which
other men aro caught. If tho Inves
tigation la pushed beyond surface
facts moro than our, rights in the
naval oil reserves will bo recovered;
we may also gain a knowledge as to
what inspires weakness in publlo of
fice. "The dangerous clement ln
this!
matter is not nlono greed and weak
noss of Individuals, but tholr readi
ness to- weakon tho country's defenses
by giving up tho navy's fuel to private
exploitation. Tho committee might
also do well to look Into tho possi
bility of a connection botwoen oil In
terests ond our attltudo toward tho
Mexican difficulty."
WARDEN REFUSES 10
' HUNTSVILLE, Texas, Fob. 8.
While Walter Monroo Mlllor, new
warden at tho Texas penitentiary hero,
was officiating at the electrocution of
five negroes oarly today, tho former
warden. It. F. Coleman, peacefully
slept at his home here because, he
chose to follow the dictates of his
conscience. Io resigned tho post of
warden lust month when It became
known that he would have to act as
executioner in all death sentonces In
Texas. . The state was searched for a
successor. Miller, former shorltf of
Johnson county, finally wbb docid
ed upon. Ho accepted in time to as
sume his duties, which prescribed that
he shall throw tho switch at all elec
trocutions. "It Just couldn't be done, boys,"
NEGROES BUI SUCCESSOR OOFS THE JOB
DISPATCHED
TOHONDURAS
American Residents Appeal for
Aid As Revolution Breaks
' Out Fighting After Elec
tion Deadlock Rebels De
feated by Federal Troops
Guatemala Involved. '
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8. The cruis
er Rochester of the special service
squadron, now at Colon, has been or
dered to LaCelba, Honduras, in re
sponse to an appeal to the state de
partment from American residents
who fear that revolutionary 'develop
ments will Jeopardize their InterestB.
No actual outbreak has been reported
the prospects for an amicable adjust-
ment of the Honduran election tangle
are not good and that fighting may
break out at any time. State depart
ment officials Bay dispatch of the
cruiser does not mean there has been
a decision to intervene.
oain balv auuws, rw. . rigm-
the presidential election, deadlock and
announcement that President Gutierr
ez would continue in office. ,,. ........
-According to' advices receive -by-r
way of Aniapala, Honduran govern
ment tirnopsj . defeated revolutionary
forces at San Pedro, In Sula, northern
Honduras. The rebel loader, Jacobo
Munila. wss wounded
General Car, Qne f th un.
,,,, canulaate8 wno )roc,aImod
h,mseir fc h government Is
. .. . . ,..,
"ported to be at the . Nicaragua!!
frontier with a revolutionary army,
The Guatemalan government ha
extended de facta recognition to the
government of President Gutierrez,
, , . . ;
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PARIS, Fob. 8. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Premier Polncare with all
tne ca,,lnot ministers, exasperated by
tn0 oppositions attacks,: walked out
m mo cnamuer or nopuues tonny. me
Bossion was immediately suspended.
Death Toll of ; ; -the
Automobile
BROADACRES. Ore., - Feb. 8.-
Georgo Pendleton, a local farmer, was
Instantly killed today when an auto
mobllo ho was driving was hit by a
southbound Oregon Electric car at
tho crossing Just north of tho town:'
Tho auto was hurlod cloar .- of tho
tracks, catapuultlng Pondloton to tho
Bide of tho right of way. The ma
chine "broke into flames. The coroner
of Marlon county took charge of the
body and said ha would hold an in
quest. Pondloton was born In this vi
cinity. 'Ho Is survived by his widow
and throe children.
ELECTROCUTE 5 Hr
formor Warden Coleman told nows-"
papcrmcn. "A warden can't be war
den and killer too. The penitentiary
Is a place to reform a man, not to
kill him."
But with Miller It was different. -"It's
a case of duty with mo," he
said. "I have hanged several men
while I was sheriff and to touch the
button or pull the switch of an elec
tric chair means no more to mfi than
pulling the lever of the gallows, At
any rate, It's more humane -the
chair." . ' ' i
Coleman Is now proprietor of ' a
hotel hero. Ho had been warden for
ten years, but his torms did not run
consecutively. The five negroes were
oxocutcd for murder.
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