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Newspaper Page TextMail The Weather Prediction ' Fair Maximum yesterday S8 Minimum today 28 Weather Year Ago Maximum 6fl Minimum 48 Dally Eighteenth Yenr. Weakly Fifty-Third Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, SEARCH 12, 1921 NO. 301 MEDFORD Tribune FIND WIFE SLAYER Parents Give Up Son Charged With Murder, Sought Since r February 13 Left Suicide Notes Fugitive Thought to Have Been in Bend, Ore. Crime Was Brutal. PENDLETON, Ore., March 12 El don Hutchinson, wanted for the alleg ed murder of his wire at their homo at Kelso, Wash., early In February, was ' arrested early this morning at the home of his father, E. E. Hutchinson, near Pilot Rock, by T. B. Burfington. deputy sheriff, and Price Rocob, fed eral officer. The apprehensTon of We man came shortly after his father saw his son this morning, and it was on informa tion furnished by the elder Hutchin son that the officers went to the homo and placed the youngor man under ar rest. ', The. officers arrived at the county jail this morning shortly after 8:30 o'clock with Hutchinson in charge. When quizzed by Bufflngton and Ite cob the prisoner talked freoly. He admitted that he killed his wife. The crime was committed on Monday morning, February 4, ho said. Mrs Hutchinson had not rtressod when lie killed her, he declarod in his state ment. He said he did not know what he was doing until he was in the act of choking her. Many of tho detnils connected with the crime he claimed were not clear in his mind. . "I've never been right-since I was about fourteen years old," he said In explaining how he came to commit the homicide. "Sometimes It has seemed that the walls wore rushing In on me and I've had smothering spells. My body and my worries have seemed to part company. I could stick a needle Into my body and it didn't seem to hurt much, and the oaln seemed kinda apart someway." The two had never had any trouble of any kind, he explained. He was not Jealous of his wife because she had never given him any reason and he said that she was not jealous of him "I not only loved her, 1 worshipped her," he declared. "Sh was a good housekeeper and worked hard. When 1 was out of work oho did washlim tc get me a birthday present. All I lived for was to please her."' "Sometimes," he continued I" ex plaining the "spells" he claims to have Buffered at times. "I would see wrig gling forms in front of me. It was this way on that morning." He had his wife's rings In his posses slon when arrested this morning. He does not remember how he happened to get them after the tragedy, ho told the officers. He has no clear memory about cash ing the check on Monday morning, he said, though he admitted that he did receive tho cash. The Hrst night af ter the homicide he spent at Oregon City, according to his statement. The second night he lias forgotten where (he was, he said. On the third night he was in a sawmill town near Eu gene. The fourth night he spent In a vacated summer cottage on the Mc Kenzie river. On the fifth night he said he realized that something was wrong with him and thon ho had the desire to end his own life. "I knew If I did that I'd be lost and would never have a chance to make atonement or to meet my wife in the after life, so 1 decided to koop on liv ing." , "You lost the desire to kill yourself when you put the proposition right up to yourself, didn't you?" he was asked. "Yes," he admitted. He then conceived the Idea of work ing to make enough money so that he muiM enmn In Pilot ROCk tO S66 his father and then return to Kelso to give himself up, he Bald. He worked for R. O. Andrus near Redmond as a farm hand, boarded a train near there and nrrlvnrl nt nieth. three miles west of Pendleton Tuesday afternoon, he ad mitted. Ho then walked to rnoi no.. h ho arrived at nine o'clock, walk o,i ihmuzh hn streets and went to the ram.i. Ho found the grave of his wife he said and spent an hour praying and In lying on his wires grave. he walked to the home oc nis V. V. Hutchinson. He tried to sleep In the barn, but the nivhi wan too cold, so he walked around to keep warm until this morn ing. , , "I didn't go In last night because I vantsH m mv father first, but my little brother, Louis, about ten years old, saw me this morning and he went WITH Century Old Irishman Still Able to Walk, Fight, Cuss and Leap LONDON, March 12. The dan- gerous age In the case of Owen Connelly of Laskey, County Sli- go, Ireland, seems to be an even hundred years. Connelly, hale and vigorous, walked nine miles to tho courthouse recently to an- swcr a charge of having "used threatening language und abused Patrick nrady." "Ho jumped over a fence and threatened me with a black- thorn," declared Brady. Tho maglstrato dismissed the case.' FRIENDJCALLED Roxie Stimson, Divorcee, Ex pected to Tell Amazing Story of Sources of Income of Jesse Smith, Pal of Cabinet Officer. WASHINGTON, March 12. An amazing story, containing many grave insinuations, was told before tho sen ato committee's Dnughertv investiga tion today by Itoxio Stinson of Co lumbuB, Ohio, divorced wife of Jesse Smith, who for years was Attorney Genera? Daugtiertyta ctor(fidant and political lieutenant and who commit ted suicide In the attorney general's apartment here a year ago. (WASHINGTON, March 12. The senate committee investigating the ad ministration of Attorney Dnngherty will open its hearings lato this aftor- noon and will hear as the first witness Mrs. Roxie Stinson of Columbus, Ohio, divorced wife of the late Jesse W. Smith. Smith, a close friend arid political 'leutenant of Mr. Daugherty, lived with him In Washington and commit ted suicide a year ago in their apart nient here. Mrs. Stinsnn is expected to testify s to the sources of Smith's Income, according to senators, both before and :iflcr tho Inauguration of president Harding. She was questioned yesterday nt Columbus by Senator Wheeler Of Mon tnna, prosecutor of the Inquiry, and Is said to havo outlined an "amazing story" for recital on the witness stand. It was not revealed until today that Senator Wheeler had mado his trip to ''oliinibti8. He went there on a tip i caching Chairman Brookhart of the committee. The commltteo's information Is that while Mrs. Stinson was divorced from Smith eight or ten years ago she re mained in his confidence almost up to the time of his suicide. The testimony is expected to relate, among other things, to receipt by Smith of stock shares In tho Pure Oil company. She saifT sTio had known Harry M. Daugherty "for many years," and also had met his brother, Mai Daugherty. After the divorce from Smith, she said her relations with him wore "friend ly." They had always been friends, said the witness of Smith, and the at torney general. Smith always tried to support her. she continued, after the divorce In No vember, 1919. He mado payments In sums of $500 each. When Smith and Daugherty camo to Washington, she said, they lived for a while In a house belonging to E. B. McLean. Sho said she was informed t.hey paid no rent. Mr. Howland objected to the lins or Senator Wheeior's questioning, but the senator declared he did not Intend to be controlled by counsel. 'I want yon to understand you are not going to bulldoze mo, said Wheeler. "You re here by tho cour tesy of the committee." "I expect I'll find my place." smlilng ly responded Howland, after disclaim ine any intent to bulldoze Senator Wheeler. "Counsel for Mr. Daugherty are ex pected to give large amounts of bI lence until your time comes to cross- examine the witness," put In Senator Ashurst, democrat, Arizona. Ttpsumine the witness said, her dl vorced husband frequently visited her at Washington Courthouse, Ohio, al ter he came here in 1921, and commu nicated with her almost every nay, "by wire, letter or telephone." DAUGHERTY QUIZ OPENS, WIFE OF (VI LEAN IN DENIAL IN OIE QUERY Washinaton Publisher Tells Senate Loan Feature Only Connection White House Doorkeeper Sent Message at Slemp's Suggestion Says Curtis was 'Principal'. WASHINGTON, March 12- Ed ward B. McLean told tho oil commit tee today that lie had given it mis leading information about tho celc-in-ntci sioo. f)00 loan because he trusted und .lesired to help his friend Albert Full. Tho publisher insisted that his sec ond storv about tho loan tola to Hen ntni- Walsh 111 January at Palm Beacli was correct. He said ho had loaned the former secretary 1100,000 in checks for a ranch enterprise, but that the chocks wcro returned to him uncasbed. His nrovlous nssortlon that tho loan was mado in cash, ho said, was mado at Kail's request. Tho latter appeared to be in trouble, ho added, but had represented to him it had nothing to dn with oil. Tho publisher nlso asserted that he himself had no Interest in mo win clair or Doheny companies and knew nothing about the Full oil policies ex cept what he had rcud in tho news papers. Asked about the codo messages ex changed between Washington and his cottugo at Palm Beach he was unable to doclphor or explain many of them Ho suld William J. Burns had given ono of his employes a department of Justice code, but that ho" himself never had codod a message.- Ho became a secrot agent of the Justice deportment, he continuod shortly after tho beginning of the Harding administration largely be cause the official badge would make it easier for him to get through po lice lines when traveling with the president. The "principal" referred to in one of the telegrams sent him by his em ployes, McLean, appeared to him to refer to Attorney General Daugherty and did not refor to 'President Cool iilgo. He Identified the attorney general as the author of tho message assuring him not to worry because everything that could be done "would bo done by us." Led into a. long discussion of his relations with Mr. Daugherty he said tho attorney general had lived in one of the McLean houses for seven eight months after coming to Wash ington and that Fall had visited there often. But ho added that Daugherty "wouldn't do anything wrong for me, even if ho had been asked. WASHINGTON, March 12. H. E McKcnna, chief doorkeeper nt the Whlto House executive offices was called before tho oil committee today and ouestioned about a telegram he sent to Edward B. McLean In Florida Informing him of Secretary Slemp's departure for the south. 'He said McLean had asked him to send such a notification , and that Slemp hud suld it would be all right to do bo.- E. W. Starling of the White House secret service detail who also had communicated with tho publisher by telegraph, followed McKcnna on the stand. Starling testified that his message related to the employment of E. I W'llklns of Hopklnsvllln. Ky., In the McLean household. Wllkins, Starling suid. was his lifelong friend. The committee then called E. W. Snilthers, chief of communications at tho White House who operated the Washington ond of McLean's private wire to Palm Beach. Smlthurfl declared'' his duties were "purely mechanical." that he paid no attention to tho BUbJcct matter of the messages handled, and that he took the Job only because ho needed the extra salary. Asked as to the Identity of the "prlnciiial" In the celebrated mes sage of lat January 29, tho witneBB said he didn't know who tho "prin cipal" was unless It waa Senator Cur tis of Kansas. McLean was excused from further attendance on tho committee after he had been on the stand moro than two hours. CHEYENNE, Wyo.. March 12. Pending the arrival this afternoon of Atlee Pomerene and Owen J. Roberts, special government counsel, and the filing by them of " bill In equity seek ing annulment of tho Teapot IJomo. oil lease to the Mammoth Oil com - pany. at orney. rereeK y,cM dulea; , oppofle any and ,1 bHA.. jAr.M ,i,0 ,m ,r,i when a preliminary hearing la held tomorrow before Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy. In addition to the cancellation of the lease, the gov- ernment bill la expected to ask a tom - porary injunction halting operations jointly. more profitable agrlcul on the Teapot Dpme and the ap-. ture; Is nlB Biogan. He offers no plat- (Continued on Page Five). jfonn. ( ROMANCE OF BREWSTER ON ROCKS AS PUBLIC OPINION SMITES "FREE LOVE" i zm j; i i -L?3. Corliss Palmer and Kugene V. Brewsler and (inset) Mrs. Brewster. Eugene V. 'Brewster, millionaire-New York publisher, is all alone in the half million dollar love nest ie bought for Corliss Palmer. Pub lic opinion has won another victory over free love. Refused a divorce by Mrs. Erewster, and shunned by society, he has parted from f'.nliss with the torse announcement, "Circumstances rcquira that sho (Miss Palmer) leave New York City and niter her life sufficiently to cclurm to conditions which we have found impossible to chnnire." LOCAL QUINTET LEAVE TONIGHT FOR STATE IET Medford Listed As One of the Leading Contestants Reg ular Season Lineup to Be Used Titiii Settled in Two Districts Last Night. Tho Medford high school basketball team will leave 111 is oVOtllllff for Salem, to contest for tho stato cham pionship. Tho tenm will play ItB first gume with La Grande Friday night, and will bo cheered by a couple of hundred southern Oregon fans, who will make tho trip to boo their favor ites In nction. Tho team will be com posed of its regular season lineup, Allen, center, Knlps und C.'haslaln for wards and Iteichstein and Williams guards. Tho substitutes have not been named yet. Coach Callison and Mica Jacobs will complete tho personnel. Astoria, the team that put Medford out of the running last year, was de feated last night by St. (Helens, and McMlnnvllle, which was overwhelm ingly defeated by Medford this season, is one of tho tourney contenders. Ac cording to local dopesters. the race lies between I-a Grande, Eugcno high, and Midford. CLATSKANIE, Ore.. March 12. The St. Helens high school basketball quintet defeated Astoria hero last night, giving St. Helen tho right to represent Columbia und Clatsop counties at the stuto tournament at Salcin thlB week. SALEM, Ore., March 12. McMlnn vllle high school won tho baskotball title for district No. 8 last night by defeating Forest Grovo high school on the Salem floor. 23 to 22 and will represent that district in ' the Btuto intcrseholastlc tournament opening here Thursday under tho uuspicca of Willamette university. 2 CANDIDATES FILE LEI E SALEM, Ore., March 12. D. C. LLewsl of Portland and leonard H. Mc- Bee of Dallas, today filed with the secretary of Btate their statements as candidates for the republican nomina tion for representative In the legisla ture from the!" respective districts Lewis Is a candidate to he one of the representatives from the 18th dls trict, Multnomah county. "For tho groator development of Oregon," Is his slogan, and his platform Bays: "En deavor to keep down the expenses of 'government; aid In making tho auto- niob)Io Iawg mor0 equitable; will be congclcntloug , the dlllcharge of offl- measures having for their purpose tho creation of industrial unrest and dig- rupiion or Duainvsn omuuiij. Mr. McBee J a candidate to repre Hent the 12th representative district, !wnich B p0Jk and Benton counties ALONG -DESKS: THE DALLES, Oro., Mar. 12. C. U. Williams, confessed Mosier bank bandit and Hert Taylor, larceny con vict, who escaped from tho Wasco county Jail Sunday night after locking up tho night Jailor, was captured by a ! posso in Macks canyon, one of tho Wildest ,.reglon(ki,alung,tho Doschutos rlvor curly thlB morning. Tho nosso led bv Sheriff Levi ChHsman of Wasco . ,,,. ,,. 1,.,,,h,. uunrlff miirh ru,-!,. t-i n,,t., Bnii,ri tha Mirllivos na thev. woro crossing .the John Pagen sheep ranch near wiulL. mm llio jiui nrwuRum miuuun tho officers in pursuit they dashod into a draw, see-ltlng cover. Ab they disappeared, fully S00 yards In ad vance of tho posse, a volley of shot rained around thorn. Tho pair ro nmlned concealed for about ton min utes while tho offlcors searched tho brush, thon they gave themselves up. Taylor was armed with a riflo and Williams carried a pistol. Tho trial of "Ted tho Greek," othor wlse known as MadronoH, who la ac cused by Williams of having been involved In tho Moslcr robbery wan schoduled to start this morning but 1 had already boon postponed because of tho escape of the star witness. It Is expected that tho trial will get j under way this afternoon. Seven deputies from Wosco and Sherman counties accompanied tho sheriffs on tho senrch which had boon carried on Blnco the Jail break. I When brought back this morning both WllllaniB and Taylor denied hav ing left town In a stolen automobile. " I x u 10 ini.' V 1 i VI I ill ill III 1 " . . . i,. a iii "K ' . " "" "", animmsmmun o. , "'projected civic auditorium. 750,000. toriinl revenue was ordered today by ' J ,.,.,, Kn ' n, . tllO HCnOin. A reBOlllllon pr.viuiiiB lor me vestlgntlon, Introduced by Senator fnuzens, republican, Michigan, was nunpicn: wimoui a rnc.ru vmo. ."""- ator Watson, inninna, will no cuair- man of tho committee and tho other members will bo Couzens and Ernst, Kentucky, -cpubllcons, and New Mexico, und King, Utah, Jones, demo- crnts. E VETS F WASHINGTON. March 12. Tho pain-up lite insurance policies wnion will bo given veterans under - tbo gy a Vva voce vote a resolution of terms of tho new soldier bonus will fPred by Representative Garrett, the bo valued at II a day for homo ser vice ond $1.25 a day for oversea aer vice, It was decided today by a Bub committoo of the house ways and means committee framing tho now measure. An additional 25 per cent of the total amount of tho adjusted sorylco credit would bo allowed, thUB making: the basis on which compensation would bo allowed, thus making the hasla on which compensation would he. figured the same aa provided' in the bill pasBed last session and ve - toed by President Harding. No Chance for Cut 1923 Income Taxes President Is Told WASHINGTON, March . 12. President Coolidge was advised today by Representative Long- worth of Ohio, republican house leader, that It would be "utterly t and absolutely Impossible" to bring about enactment of leglsla- tlon reducing tho 1923 Incomo tnxes by 25 per cent before March 15. a Underwood Carries Alabbama for Democratic Choice- Bryan's Choice Finishes Second Sen. Moses Un pledged, Runs Last. ' MANCHESTER, N. 1I-. March 12. lestorduy'B roturna from tho pros! dcntinl primary In New Hampshire show election of tho oloven delegates to tho republican convention pledged to President Crfollclgo. United States Senator Georgo H. Moses, tho only one-of eight candidates for dolegates at large, who refused to pledgo himself- for Coolldgo, ran last on tho ticket. All democratic contestants stood unpledged. There was no contest for tha eight placos as delegates atarge, , . , BIRMINGHAM, AIn., March 12. Senator Oscar W. Undorwood gained ' the Alabama delegation to tho na M'lftl democratic convention In yos- terdays primary, according- to In- i------ , plurality of approximately 2000 votes over U It. MuHgrove. A. jjlnsmoro, who ran third, mado tho raco us a backer of William O. McAdoo, how ever, Mr. McAdoo had announced ho was not competing in Underwood's hojrio state and was not represented by Dlnsmore. . Musgrove refused to concede defeat and charged that in some counties the votos "had been manipulated in in terests of my opponent." William J. llryan hud spoken In support of Musgrovo. Returns from 69 of tho 67 counties in tho state gave Underwood 42,209, Musgrovo 27,285 and Dlnsmore, 8201. SEATTLE, Mar. 12. Dr. Edwin J. Brown, a dentist, shown by complete returns In a municipal election yester day to havo recoivod a majority of 4H42 over Alfred 1!. Lundln, former prosecuting uttornoy of King county, was tho third man In Beuttlo's history to be ro-eloctod mayor. John K. Carroll, incumbent; Wil liam Hickman Mooro, former mayor, and former councilman Ralph D. Nichols, former stato senator, and W. T. Campbell, were elected to tho council. A proposnl to Issuo $1,500,000 of bonds to erect a bridge- over the west waterway nt tho southern ondof the harbor, wuh carried, 35,794 to 6131. Honds of $500,000 for a bridge over tho lAiko Washington canal, which will give an additional approach to . , m ,.. ,i 1 .. Hi" Hiiinium in Hi" uiiivcrniijr ui Washington, won 86.480 to 808S. A ' fiulrnmnnl ,. 1 1 1, , I ,. I, II, n imlfl f VfirCll ,,,,, , , B ... T,venlv-1 ncrnn ' (hn ,... fmnt f,,r th Seattle nort -nn,n,i,in , .,., . hiiilrilnir to he rontc-fl to tho United HtlllCB for 1mm rn,,on ,.,.,,. wm )C bought under U voto of 27,415 to 8614. E WASHINGTON. Mar. 12 Congres sional Investigation of criminal charges Bald to havo boon doveloped boforo a Chicago grand Jury against two representatives waa ordered today before the house democratic leader, to creato a Bpeclal house committee to conduct an In quiry was adopted. ' By thla action tho house reversed Its decision of yesterday to leave In vestigation of the charges to the de partment of Justice and to make no further effort to have the namos of the accused disclosed. In an effort to head off a vote on the Garrett resolution. Representative Longworth, the republican leauer, proposed fhat it be referred to tho i rules committee, but his motion was COOLIDGE WINS HAMPSHIRE VOTE M'AOOO BEATEN . lost on a- record vote oi ivi io ids. WINTRY GALE SWEEPS AS ST I LL RAGES Virginia Isolated, and Seven Lives Lost in Blizzard At lantic Shipping Lashed Dixie States Suffer and Wires Crippled Forecast Promises No Relief. NEW YORK, March 12. Unspent after 24 hours yesterday's storm blew northeastward alone the New England coast, buffeting shore towns and lash ing the inland country. Tha weather forecaster Bald it would last through out the day. The gale was abetted by a dense fall of snow and wire communication was badly hampered. Seven lives were known to be lost, five In New York City and two In Phil adelphia and many personB were in jured. Virginia received the heaviest blows yesterday and for hours the state was cut off from the world. Much damage was done in Pennsylvania as it was In New Jersey and along tha Long: Island Bhore last night. WASHINGTON, March' 12. Falling temperatures in the south Atlantic states today added to the difficulty of restoring wire communications and train schedules In the wake of the bliz zrad which wrought considerable dam age I nthat region during its north eastward sweep. The snow and wind put many telephones., out at commis sion and caused other damage In Wash ington and vicinity. Joseph O'Brien of East ' Rlverdale, Md., Is reiiorted to have died as a re sult of a fall through the snow laden roof of a chicken house. Trains arriv ing from tho south continued to be late and few direct telephone or telegraph lines to the south were in operation this morning. Many lines to the oast and west also remained down. . ;. CHARLESTON. S. C March 12. Tho steamship Santiago wna sunk sixty mllca south of Cape Hatteras, according to a radio message inter cepted today by the Charleston navy yard wireless station. The wireless mossago. sent bv the -Norwegian stonniHhlp Cissy, reported tho picking up of one life boat containing eleven survivors. , Tho message follows: . "Picked up lifeboat containing aix sallorB, four flromen, one carpenter, . from the stoamer Santiago whlcn sunk sixty miles south of Hatteras. No other lifeboats seen. Proceeding Baltimore." 'It waa algncd ''Captain." ; . KENYON IS SLATED FOR DENBY BERTH WASHINGTON, March .12. (By the Associated Press) Former 8on ator W. 8. Kenyon of Iowa, now Judge of tho eighth federal circuit court Is said to be under considera tion for appointment as secretary of the navy to succeed Secretary Denby. Judge Kenyon arrived here last night and shortly afterward went to the Whlto House where ho conferred with President Coolldgo. . - His frienda said today he had not reached a decision, but had an ap- . polntment with President Coolidge to--morrow morning. STILL NO CLUE TO TACOMA. Mar. 12. County offic ials are still trying today to Identity tho man who yesterday ' Bhot and killed Robert Tolstrop on the mail boat Edith H-. and then took his own life. The body of the slayer Is being held at a morgue here and officers have been sent to the various com munities across the bay from Stella coo in to learn his name and to dis cover his motive. ; Army Maintenance. WASHINGTON, March 12. Main tenance for another year of the regular , army at the present strength of 12,000 commissioned officers and 125,000 en listed men, la recommended In . the army appropriation bill. . .-. , . (Continued on Fags Five). (Continued on Pago Five).