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ford Mail The Weather Prediction Rain Maximum yesterday 52 Minimum today 27.5 Weather Year Ago Maximum 64 Minimum i 3:t Dally Eighteenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Third Year. MEDFORD, OREGON; SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1924 NO. 280 Med TRIBUNE i U.S.StNATIJR SHOT IN DRY mm Senator Greene of Vermont Victim of Stray Bullet When Dry Agents Fire on Boot legger's Car in Shadow of Capitol Recovery Is Ex pected, Also Probe. WASHINGTON. Feb. 18. An operation to remove, splinters of . bono from tlio brain wan per formed tills afternoon on Senii- tor Frank JU tireeuo of Ver mont. The operation was said to have been successful. "About one and a half square Inches of bone were removed," Dr. John L. Demayo said. "The patient's condi tion is satisfactory. The prognosis is good, provided no complications set in." WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Presl-i dent Coolidge directed his secretary today to Bee that the Washington po lice take prompt action to punish those responsible for the shooting of Sen ator Greene of Vermont, last night in a fight between prohibition agonts and Buspected bdotleggers. As a result the White House was in formed that the cases of the three men held, one of them a prohibition agent, .already had been turned over to the district attorney's office. ' WASHINGTON. Feb. 1G. The pro hibition situation in Washington, for months a center of. criticism ha? cul minated In the shooting down of a United States senator almost within -the shadow of the capltol. I As a result tho whole muddle of I contracting opinions cnKrgw, : vxvnww tions, . denials and counter-charges that have characterized efforts to enr force the prohibition laws hero seemn likely to have a thorough airing in congress. " ; Senator Frank L. Greene of Ver mont was shot in the head last night as a car containing prohibition agents whirled out of an alley into Pennsyl vania avenue in pursuit of another automobile suspected of carrying oootleggers. It appeared that tho wound probably was not fatal, nltho 1 a final determination of that question awaited a physician's more thorough I examination. I The senator was walking with his wife when the shooting occurred, leas than three blocks from the capltol building. He was hit just over the left eye by a bullet fired lroin one of the automobiles apparently by a prohibition agont who was using hla revolver freely In an effort to compel the pursued machine to come to a halt. A prohibition agent is under arrest but no formal charges have been placed against him. j The incident was not the first hi 1 which the lives of those on the streets here have been endangered by pistol battles with bootleggers. Mad chases . through the city have been numerous. A Throe-cornered Fight The whole question has been com plicated by a three-cornered row Joined in by agents of the prohibition unit, officers of the intelligence di vision of the treasury department and the city police. Recently police and prohibition officials engaged In a legal battle In which serious charges were made against members of both forces and several on both aides were suspended. Threo United States mar shals now are held under bond on charges of conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws. & Charges of liquor buying by high officials and ordinary citizens alike have been on the increase. ftot long ago it was announced that a list of hundreds of names of prominent boot leg customers had been seized in a police raid but the superiors of those who made tho raid so successfully shifted responsibility of the list back ward and forward that the names themselves finally disappeared entire ly from public attention. There have been repeated demands In congress for an investigation; gro tesque plcturizations of Washington floating in a sea of rum have been published widely and the capital has teen the butt of many quips and much (Continued on Few Etffht) SALEM, Ore., Feb. 10. Mrs. Har rison Mowerjj, wife of Harrison Mowery, a convict at the state peni tentiary, gave birth yesterday to a nine pound baby boy. which event recalled charges made some time ago that Mowery had been permitted to visit his home each week-end during the Incumbency of former Warden Smith was that he allowed Mowery to BIRTH OF CHILD REVEALS CONVICT WAS ALLOWED 'Sandy" Is Optomistic; Declares Hiram Will Carry Jackson Co. t SALEM, Ore., Feb. 16. San- field MacDonald of Portland, state organizer- for Hiram W. Johnson In his campaign for the republican presidential nominal- tlon, and MacDonald's assistant, James McCarron, returned here last night after a tour of the west side counties. They averred that Johnson will break fifty-fifty with Coolidge in Lane, Linn and Ben- ton counties,' and that Johnson will carry Josephine, Jackson, Klamath, Coos and Curry coun- ties. TRIED TO GET N. Y. World Declares Oil Mag nate Approached Colby, Woodrow Wilson's Law Partner Early in 1922 to Represent Interests. NEW YORK, Feb. 16. Balnbridgo Colby, former secretary of state, de clined to comment today on a Wash ington dispntch to the Evening World which asserted that Harry F. Sinclair, the oil magnate, had approached Mr. Colby as a law partner of the late Woodrow Wilson in the spring of 1922 with a proposal that his firm repre sent the Sinclair interests in any liti gation that might result from the Teapot Dome lease. ; Mr. Colby, read tho dispatch- care fully and said: ' "I have no comment to make on tho report." The story declared that when the proposal was mado Mr. Colby referred it to Mr. Wilson who immediately de cided that It could not be accepted. In this decision Mj Colby acquiesced the dispatch added. Mr. Sinclair's offer, the dispatch declared, was made after Senator Kendrick and Senator LaFolIette had offered resolutions for an Investiga tion into the oil lease. More Witnesses to Be Heard WASHINGTON, Feb. 16 Although the senate oil committee made rapid progress this week in clearing up its witness list many persons remain to be heard. Among them is Edward B. McLean, publisher of the AVashlngton Post, who has been called from Palm lieach for questioning with respect to the slush fund report and also the checks for $100,000 which he has tes tified were returned to him uncashed by Albert B. Fall. Harry F. Sinclair, who Is now re turning from Europe, may be one of tho first witnesses after the recess. Tho committee desires to question him particularly regarding tho $25,000 loan, which his personal attorney, J. W. Zevely, has testified he made to Fall within three months after he had retired from the cabinet. Other witnesses for whom sub poenas have been Issued include John T. King, former republican national committeeman from Connecticut and others connected with the Association for Protection of American Rights in Mexico. The committee wishes to ex amine the books of this organization with res ect to expenditures which the committee has Information it has made in Washington. Cost of tho improvements made to Fall's ' New Mexico ranch will bo another subject of inquiry as late re ports to the senatorial investigators indicate that the sum was in excess of that first reported to the committee. They were unsuccessful In obtaining any Information on this matter from Thomas Johnson, foreman of the Fall ranch, who was examined yesterday after a three weeks stay in Washing ton. Governor Pierce SALEM, Ore., Feb. s Better, 16. Governor 1-ierce naa so ror recuvereu irora m Ellght illness of the past two days that he was able to return to his office this , morning. FACT THAT TO E HARRY SINCLAIR WILSON S FIRM lcavo the prison and visit his homo operations on the Tosa and the each week end. Smith is said to hive AnAKt nave Dcen partially completed admitted that he did so, and Mrs. an(i tne tWo vessels will bo dismantled Mowery yesterday confirmed this also, during the present year, tiie navy de The Mowery family now lives at 1969 partment announcement states. Frederick street and is a county charge. The new baby is a boy and weighed nine pounds at birth. Mrs. Mowery Is the mother of a large family of the White Sox baseball club, he an rhildren. ' Jnounced late today. TAKE ACTION 10 RECOVER OIL LANDS House Adopts Resolution to Recover Standard Oil Lands in California Insurgents Win Fight for Open Hearing in Senate On Roberts and Pomerene. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. Without debate the house adopted today tho Walsh resolution ordering tho begin ning of proceedings to recover sec tions 16 and 36 within naval oil re serve No. 1 in California now ope rated by tho Standard Oil company of California. The measure now goes to President Coolidge, who is directed by its terms to Instruct special government coun sel to prosecute the proceedings. Steps to recover the two sections were taken late in the Wilson admin istration but Albert B. Fall, as sec retary of the Interior, dismissed the proceedings on motion of counsel for the Standard Oil company. The two sections, which are with in the confines of reserve No. 1, but not a part of It, were ceded by the federal government to California upon statehood as school and non-mineral lands. OH subsequently was found and tho Stadard Oil company began development of the fields under stato grant. i Lodge Is Defeated. WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. The -senate voted today to consider in open executive session the nominations of Owen J. Roberts of Philadelphia, and Atlee Pamurone of Canton, who are to be special government counsel in tho oil cases. The, action was taken at tho Instance of democratic and re publican insurgent senators and over the determined and repeated efforts of Senator Lodge, the republican lead er, to have the discussion take place behind closed doors. Tho vote was 69 to 2. A ruling by President Cummins that a motion for an open executive ses sion was out of order at the time, put a decision of the fight over until later in tho day. , Senator Dill, democrat, Washington, who started the opposition in the oil committee against Atlee Pomerene, precipitated the discussion today with a request for unanimous consent that the nominations bo taken up in open executive session. "There will be no unanimous con sent," replied Senator Lodge. Senator Ln Foil otto of Wisconsin, lender of the republican Insurgents, protested that Senator Dill at least had a right to present his request. Senator Lodge formally objected. "Then I move that the senate con sider them in open executive ses sion," said Senator Dill.' "That's not In order," said Senator Lodge atd President Cummins agreed. Senator Ashurst, democrat, Arizona, then served notice, that "this fight has just started." "There will not be any secrecy ln this matter," shouted Senator Ash urst. "I. for one, will not be bound by any executive session." The Incidont was closed for the moment. Within less than an hour, how ever. Senator Dill renewed his fipht and President Cummins again ruled the motion out of order. A long argument" ensued during which Senator Rornh, republican, Idaho, said he would like to have the tiominatlons discussed in tl.n open and would like to get action today. TOKIO, Feb. 16. (By Associated prei!S). Todnv I. the .n.,.mii h. for the completion of the first stage of scrapping of naval vessels in ac cordance with the Washington arms conference treaty, and the occasion evoked from the navy department a statement declaring that Japan has completed tho initial operations re quired to render the doomed ships "Incapable of further warlike ser vice." The ships slated for destruction are the Hisen, Mikasa, Kashlma. Katorl, Satsuma, Aki, Bettsu, Ikoma. Ibukl and Kurama. The Asahi and Khlkl shima are to be diverted to non-com- hatjint niirtiriMf,.. Frnnk Chance Itoxign LOS ANOELEH, Feb. 16. Frank Chance has resigned as manager of Soundless, Viewless Plane, Five Miles Up, Photographs New York City For Huge Map V ABOVE: SHERMAN FAIRCHILD, A YOUTH STILL UNDER 30, WITH HIS NEWLY INVENTED AERIAL "EYE;" BELOW, OBLIQUE VIEW OF MANHATTAN TAKEN AT 10,000 FEET ELEVATION. ' NEW YORK New York City has been mapped from the air by aerial camera iii what is probably the greatest aerial photograph- int( project ever attempted. The map. when assembled, will be 30- teet long by 27 (ect wide. It includes over 2,000 sections, each photograph showing n perpen dicular view of a small section of Greater. New York. These ari being fitted together with minute -care., every tree, every chimney, matching perfectly. .- "'. ; I. , . . .. About 3.000 itnles were lluVn. covering Hie entire greater city; including the live boroughs, Manliatt'm, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn and Richmond;1;! territory 025 square miles. Three planes, slmoiiup with the new high-altitude camera in vented by a young New Yorker, Sherman Fairchild. did the work The new camera will photograph from a height of S mile LIQUOR SUSPECT SHOT AND KILLED BADLY NEAR BR OKINGS GOLD BEOQIt. Fob. 16. Law rence Hare, 21, well known in Curry county, was shot in tho face and died about an hour later In tho Brookings hospital, in Brookings after being ar rested with two other young men, on a charge of moonnhining, by n special stato prohibition officer, accompanied by a deputy. The shooting occurred near the J. N. Warwick ranch, where the stale officers arrived about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon from the south. About two hours later they In tercepted an automobile containing Hare, Wilbur Ostrandor and Uan Warnlck, all young men well known, who wero Buspoctcd of having a load of liquor. First word of the shooting reached Sheriff Huntley hero about 4:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon und within half an hour he was on his District Attorney Johnson stnrted way to Brookings, 40 miles distant, for Brookings early this morning. Telephone messages received here re garding tho affuir nro meager and indefinite. Tho other two young mon arrested pleaded t guilty this morning before Justice of the Peace Miller nt Harbor and were to be sentenced as soon as the district attorney reached that place. K. K. K. RECALL ON OREGON CITT, Orn.. Feb. 10. Re call petitions mado their appearance on the Btreets here today directed against Mayor Andresen and Commis sioners Cross and Csufleld, the three forming the city government Institut ed under a revised charter January 1. It Is charged In the petitions that tho mayor and commissioners have not permitted the city manager, named by them, to appoint his own officers or to manage the city, but have assumed all direction themselves. The recall peti tions follow closely upon three letters signed "K. K. K." sent the mayor no tifying him a recall would be started If he discharged former Chief of Police May. May was discharged Thursday. TWO TWO WOUNDED IN CAFE FIGHT SALT LAKE CITV, Fob. 18 WII- Hnm Lee died nt 5:30 o'clock this morning, according to police an nouncements. The condition of Pa trolman Honoy and Beatrice Hunter was said at 7:30 a. m. to bo unchang ed. Two dead and two dangerously wounded is tho toll of tho gun fight which occurred In tho heart of Bait Lako City's business section last night when police attempted to nrrost Wil liam Loo, alleged cafe bandit. Lee, cool .nnd dcbonnlro and evidently a marksmnn, after killing one police man nnd wounding another, uVcordlng to the police, shot his woman com panion and then attempted suicide by shooting himself through tho abdo men. Tho dend and wounded are: . l'atrolman Nolan W. Huntsman, 26, killed Instantly, Hhot through the heart. Patrolman II. IT.' Honey, 34, shot through tho Intestines, expected to live. William Lee, about 35, of Han Fran cisco, alleged holdup man, shot thru the abdomen and head; died this morning. Ileatrlro Hunter, about 2s, of 1167 Polk street, Han Francisco, shot thru tho cheek; niny recover. Tho shooting oceurrod nlmost across tho street from the postoffice. Leo was reported to havo held up a cafo and robbed It of about $40 and when accosted by tho police almost two blocks from tho cafe sturtcd fir ing. 2 Bank Bandits Found Guilty in Five Days NEW YOIIK, Feb. 10. In five days of actual trial two brothers have been found guilty of robbing and murder ing two Brooklyn bank messengers Inst November, a third man propably with go to trial Monday with a fourth soon to follow. Joseph Diamond, 21, was convicted last night at tho end of a three day trial; his elder brother, Morris Bar- jlow (Whltey) Diamond preceded him i last week In a two day trial; Tony Patano, the alleged Instigator of the crlmo Ib to be tried starting Monday; I Johnny Farina, accused of being oue ' nt tlia turn whn netllulv HM (tin ihnnf. Ing, is the fourth. Follies Girl Blames Her Press Agent for Engagement Report CHICAGO, Fob. 10. All over- zealous press agent is blamed by Miss Jessio Reed, Follies dancer, for the report of her engagement to Russell Grlswold Colt, former hiiBbnnd of Ethol Barrymoro. "I don't want to be Ethel Barrymoro's Buccor"v ' any way," she doclnred. "!.- ..over was a show girl." Corp. Commissioner Gives Out Letters Recommending That John L. Etheridge Be Al lowed to Operate Again in Oregon As Bond Salesman. SALEM, Oro Feb. 18.--Amnng the sixty or more lottors of recommenda tion In favor of John L. Etheridge ofi Portland received by W. E. Crews, state corporation commissioner, before a pormlt to opprato as a bond broker was Issued Ktherldge, were a letter from Judgo Wnltor II. Evans, who pro- cured the Indictments ugalnst Ether-, lilgo aftor the Morris brothers failure, two froirt Stanley Myers, district at torney who tried him on the Indict ment, one from Judge George W. Sta ploton, who presided at the trial and one from W B, O. Dodson, manager of tho Portland Chamber. o Commerce. Dodson's letter reads as a personal letter and not as a lottor ln behalf of tho chamber. i A perusal of the fllos In Commls-' sloner Crows' office shows no lottor from tho chamber. District Attorney Myers' first letter moroly recites Ethelrldge's court record. The second, received only today, along with that of Judge Staploton, Is a recommends tlon that (he pormlt be granted Ether idge. I There is not yet a letter from Mayor Tiaker, but Etherldgo in a letter to Crews today says that a letter from Ilaker Is pn the way. The Myers and the Staploton lottors received today are enclosed by Etheridge In his own letter. The charge on which Ether idge was tried was larceny by embez zlement. The comments made by the above named men In their letters to Crews follow In part: Judge Staploton "I heard all the evidence In that case. It was submit ted to the Jury and the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. I was at the time satisfied with that verdict, be lieving It was the only one Justified by the proof before the Jury, and 1 haven't changed my mind about It from that time to this. The' law hav ing vindicated him of the crime charg ed, as a law officer, that ends It as I far as I am concerned. I know of no ! reason why he should not be accord ed alt tho rights that the law guar anteed to him prior to his being charged with that offense." Stanley Myers, district. attorney Mr. Myers says that since the Jury exonerated him, "I fool that the mat ter of his Indictment and prosecution by this office should not be urged against him or act as a handicap to his futuro success." Judge Evans "The writer Ib B14 familiar with Mr. Ethelrldge's transac tions In connection with Morris broth erg as anyone who may write you, and ln view of the fact that ho has been cleared of all charges against him, (Continued on PaKO Eight) SEATTLE, Fob. 1(1 A small automobile- that dashed around anothor car, ripped through a gate and plung ed Into tho Duwanilsh river from a. drawbridge In the southern part of this city early today was ralsod and Identified us belonging to William J. O'Brien of Benttle. Whllo an offort continued to lift bodies from the rlvor pollco - began hunting O'Brien's brother, John J. O'Brien, a olty firo man. I McElhnny, tondor nt tho bridge, declared that a light was burning steadily on the gate. O. F. Lamb of Auburn, Wnsh., said that he was CREWS EXPLAINS OREGON BROKER Ml AUTOMOBILE DASHES FROM DRAWBRIDGE INTO RIVER, OWNER AND BROTHER DROWN EJ.S.CRUiSER RESCUES OIL INJEXICO Four American Oil Men and 38 Refugees Brought to Vera Cruz By U. S. S. Richmond Mexican Rebels Making Last Stand at Puerto Mexico Is Refugees' Report. VERA CRUZ, Feb. IB. (By the As sociated PreBS.) The United States cruiser Richmond has arrived from Puerto Mexico, where a battle Is brewing, bringing four American oil men and 38 other refugees, including Englishmen, Spaniards and French men. The Americans are; J. A. Palducette, John B. Orynskl, J. Lang stroth and R. K. Manning. The new arrivals say "the rebels are feverishly engaged ln erecting forti fications and otherwise preparing to defend Puerto Mexico against attack by government forces from Santa Lucrecla. The rebel general, Benito Turruco, in charge ,has received reinforcements of 400 men from Yucatan, and the gun boat Zaragosa will be used In the de fense. ABOARD SECRETARY OF WAR SERRANO'S TRAIN, GUADALAJARA, Mexico, Feb. 16. (By the Associated Press.) President Obregon left Gaud alajara today In the direction of Mex ico City after a conference with Secretary-Serrano, General Amaro, fed- . ernT commander on the Jalisco front), and various other leading generals who participated ln the victorious attack on this city. -, According to official reports, the ' main body of the defeated Jalisco In surrectionists has concentrated in the vicinity of Ciudad Guzman. . , Goneral Salvadore Alvarado, com. mandlng the rebels there Is reported through reliable channels to have or dered the execution Of General Crls piano Anzaldo, to whose direction ot tho rebel forces at Ocotlan the rebel attribute their defeat. A split between Generals Dteguez and Enrique Estrada Is reported, the latter, It Is said, blaming Dleguez for the debacle at Palo Vere, where Es trada was forced to flee half clad, leaving his coat with Important docu ments behind. , General Ferrelra, who has arrived here, reports that the Btate of Nayarlt Is tranquil and under government con trol. . Except for scattered troops move ments through the streets, Guadala jara is apparently resuming Its nor mal affairs, although trade Is almost at a standstill, on account of the rebel occupation of more than two months and the consequent Isolation of the city.' HONOLULU. Feb. 16. (By " the Associated Press) Unusual activity la ovldent In the volcano Kilauea, re ports from Hllo, Island ot Hawaii dis closed today. . . . In Halomaumau, tho "house of fire," the lava has reached almost' to tho brim ot the pit. A column of . steam Is spouting a mile high above , tho crater. Many lava fountains aro,, spouting from apertures ln the pit. - waiting in his car for a boom, ol logs handled by four tugs to pass through the draw, when the small car came up behind him, turned sharply past him and dropped into the river, which Is twelve fcot deep at that place. Marks In frost on the bridge showod that a desperate effort had been mado Just before the plunge to stop the small car. Several motorists found hy .the po llco said that Just before the time ot the accident a small car going at Its capacity speed had passed . thorn, southbound. t A body taken from the river was identified as that of William O'Brien. FEAR HILO VOLCANO IS NEAR ERUPTION
