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Newspaper Page Textlb L'liiversltj Library MEDFORD I The Weather Prediction: Fair... Heavy frost ton 1ku t. Maximum yesterday 63 Minimum today 30 Weather Year Ago Maximum 47 Minimum 84 Dally Eighteenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Third Yr. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY MARCH 13, 1924 NO. 302 iAI Tribune IN CLEARING TEAPOT OBI Squatters Driven Off Sinclair n Oil Lease By Armed Force : T. R. Jr., Gave Orders at, Fall's Suggestion One of 1 Harding's Friends Among Lot Deal Called Mess. WASHINGTON, March 13. How American marines cleared Teapot Dome of trespasers after that oil re serve had been released to Harry F. Sinclair was described today to the oil committee. Major General Lejune, commandant of the marine corps was the first wit ness In this line of inquiry. He said orders for the action were issued by Theodore Roosevelt, then acting sec retary of the navy, who was called to testify. This was In July, 1922, General Le jeune said, and George K. Shulur, then a captain of marines, was selected af ter a conference with Secretary Fall, to command the detail sent to Teapot. Four enlisted men were selected to accompany Shuler, who now is trens-. urer of New York state. I ; Roosevelt had ordered that men of tact and discretion" be chosen. Gen- t.be 8 80 M 10 h,,L io.'..hort i.,0 a. ' that his mission had been accomplish ed. Later Fall wrote the navy com mented Shuler foe his work. Asked whether he did not regard this as an extraordinary use of ..the ;ma - ti., ..o Wu uuithe fouri naa a broken rib and a frac- r consider that point at all. He simply tured jaw, attendants at the hospital L --Assistant Secretary Roosevelt tes- tlfled that the Mn... for th.WMri,.' Of tha Teapot Dome came from Fall, ;ho was quoted as saying he and the president wanted the . "squatters" ejected as they were about to take out oil on which the government would get no royalty. Secretary Roosevelt did not recall anything- "very clearly" about a pro- tout (Ynm Mm irnvornnr nf Wvnmlnir mii f.( . ...v ...t, iv, trespassers. On July 29. 1922. Colonel Roosevelt said, he found a note from Fa'l to the effect that "there were trsnassers or squatters on the D"mip ntinut to take oil, from which the government would get no shares. In conversation with him later, the he h faMed ,n Ju)t as tne the preliminary hearing on the gov wltness continued. Secretnry Fall said machine hit the curve before reaching ernment hill in equity seeking annul- ne and the president wanted some ma rines sent to put these people off the oil reservation. The secretary added, he said, that he had not exnected President Harding to favor the action because one ot the men engaged in trespassing was a friend of his. This, however, he declared, made no differ ence to the president. ' In selecting a marine officer for the duty, Colonel Roosevelt proceeded, he had "sought to get some man who would not do anything rash, get Into a fight or shoot somebody." Senator Walsh read Into a record a letter sent to George R. Christian. Jr., secretary to the president, by H. H. . Tammen of the Denver Post, under (late of August 1, 1922, characterized the situation In Teapot Dome as "an awful mess." ' -"You learned In school," he said to the witness, "that the military power Is always subordinated to. the civil power in the United StateB." Yes, Colonel Roosevelt replied. 'As you look at It now, Isn't It an outrageous use of military power?" : "Well, senator. I'd have to look up the law and check the facts. As I the ,aw t(J he retlrement of tna DondB ern standard time) an address by Wll looked at It it was navy property. . 1 nnhle the loans. Ham Marconi which it is hoped will senator waisn lmervenea to say. that the Mammoth Oil company had the ownership. "Rut as I aw It. the navv had inter- est In the oil." said Colonel Roosevelt, Other records produced showed that . fContlnued on Page Eight! GRAND OPERA CHORUS TOO GAY FOR ROSE CITY. HELD FOR SINGING IN CAFE AND WINE PORTLAND. Ore., March 13. Five members of the Chicago Civic Grand Opera company were taken to the Jail here early today. Two of them. Desire Defrere, baritone and C. Splgnall. promoter, were taken from a cafe by Lieutenant Robert Crane, who found them with a party sing ing In a cafeteria about 3 a. m. Three members of the chorus were brought In by a policeman who said he had Oregon Woman Files As Candidate to Go G. O. P. Convention THE DALLES, Ore., March 13. Mrs. Lulu D. Crandall filed ap- plication yesterday with the sec- retary of state for nomination as delegate to the national republl- can convention at Cleveland from the second congressional district of Oregon. Her slogan is "for home and country." Mrs. Cran- dall ill believed to be the only woman in the state seeking the office. " PRESIDENT STATE I IN CRASH Lights of Auto Stage Go Out On Curve Near Astoria, and Concrete- Wall Hit Hurt Man Prominent for Years Three Injured. ASTORIA, Ore., Mar. 13. Otto R Hartwlg, president of the State Fed eration of Labor, was seriously In- jured and three other OCCupants of a bus owned.by Columbia States Inc., are -"Pl he,' Allowing a highway accident at 1:22 a. m. one mile east of Kerry. The stage, driven by A- W. Magulre, struck an abutment to tbo concreto dollly aB lt wug roundin(t a curve. m.twlK th8 m08t Bevei.ely hurt ot this morning. Several stitches were taken in wounds about his head and his eyes were swollen shut. The other Injured are: A. W. Magulre. driver, face badly cut and wrist prdbably broken. Mr. , Schoenbeck of Svenson, rib broken and body bruised. The fourth man. whose nume was ' not learned, received a slight cut 1 under the chin and was discharged from the hospital A fifth occupant of the stage, who escaped uninjured walked aWtty from tne nCcldent scene before assistance arrived. A1) passengers were asleep when the crash occurred but Harlwig said today that the lights hnd gone out on two occasions while he was awake, Magulre declared he had been having the whole trip from Portland and that the bridge. The stage, altho damaged, remained upright after the crash. n.7-....i i,,. v,fla n,ftminnn(w identified with Oregon labor for' years, was on his way to Astoria to th vtu-nni. ninh ..t it noon luncheon today. TAX REDUCTION WASHINGTON, March 13. Secre- . tary Mellon opposed today before the I senate finance committee a proposal to decrease the fund supplied for the reduction of the public debt as a I means of making greater surplus available tor tax reduction. He polnt- ed out that the money paid by Eng- land and other nations on their loans . ihia mnnir mult h nnnllert imriar - - - . - . .. .,, ,. .. I ' ... ...... i ne oresenL law wuu a muse il huh- sible, he Bald, to retire the public debt of twentv billion dollars In about 35 years. chairman Smoot sunnorted Mr Mel- . Ion's views. found them trying to obtain wine in South Portland. Crane later declared he locked up Defrere In one of the steel cells as a Jcke and turned them nil lose after they had-given an impromptu con- cert in tne c un rooms at poi.ee neaa- t! . it. .i . i. ber of the pollc- quartet, joined In the singing and Defrere was quoted as declaring that Crane should be in opera. LABOR FEDERAT E SENATE COMMITTEE NAMED TO INVESTIGATE ATTORNEY GENERAL DAUGHERTY HALT IRK BY TEAPOTLEASES Federal Court at Cheyenne Names Admiral Straus and . A. E. Watts As Receivers No More Drilling Than Nec essaryHalt , Development. CHEYENNE, (Wyo Mar. 13. (Dy Assooiatod Press.) Federal Judge T. Blake Kennedy today granted a tem- , velopment work by the Mammoth Oil 'company on the Teapot Dome oil re- I Judge Kennedy named Rear' Ad miral Joseph Strauss of the United Suites navy and A. E. Watts, - vice president of the Sinclair Consolidated Oil corporation as Joint receivers tor the Teapot Dome property pending the final outcome of the litigation. Rear Admiral Joseph Htrauns of th TTnlrnH Htiitna nnvv hnrf linnrl i-nnllAuf. ed ))y BOVernment counsel as receiver pending the outcome of the litigation and A. E. Watts, vice president of the fiincluir Consolidated Oil corporation, had been named hy the defendants. Neither counsel objected to the man named by opposing counsel. CHEYENNE, Wyo., Mar. 13.- T;, 1J'ake Kennedy today opened u -wv lease eru "torne1Jr nntlnB oth ?ldf hd held an hour's consultation In the judge's office. " " , . Al Kennedy Issue an order granting un Injunction restraining tho Sinclair oil Interests from any further drilling on the Teapot Dome reserve. The order would also appoint a re ceiver to take charge of operations on Teapot Dome and direct him to con tinue operations only so far as ho should deem necessary. EXPECT SPEECH TO COVER WORLD NEW YORK, March 13. Nine radio stations in Great Britain, each using a different wave length, will begin broadcasting at 6 o'clock tonight (cast- ik. -,h .t, -,,m - " V. ...... l. .!!. l(,nn- "" " w w"" special receiving sets in cauror- nla Bni ln Shanghai, China, to cable at once 'hey are able to hear the auuresB. li iney are successiui rauiu will have covered the world. E CATTLE EPIDEMIC SACRAMENTO, Cal.. March 13. Governor Richardson, acting under the advices of Director H. E. Hecke of the Btate department of agriculture and of federal representatives, today issued a proclamation lifting the provisional quarantine placed three weeks ago on M r ' nlI counties ln California on account m lne epiuemio ot iooi ana mouta ais tease m iivestucH. NJiCTION ON LIFT QUARANTIN Tills photograph was taken at Dauvherty. Loft to rlsht aro Brookhurt of Iowa, charrinan. Iho first session of the spoclat Sen- I ol)nlnr n t.- wunnt, a ., . ur r . ... ate Committee which Is conduct- P"-1""" K. Wheeler of Won- Senator Wesley U Jones of Wash ing air Inquiry into .".! .1 acts "'"' Scllator George H. Moses of Ingion, uml Senator Henry F.Ash of Attorney GonenU ilurry M. I Ncw Hampshire, Senator Smith M. urst of Arizona. Shamrock With Roots From the 'Ould Sod' Barred By Red Tape NEW YORK, . Mar. 13. The Rev. Father J. M. Robinson of 4 Wicklow, Ireland, arrived on tho 4 Saxonla today carrying six little pots of Irish sod In which grew the "green" he planned to wear fr March 17. Representatives of fr fr the department of agriculture confiscated the shamrock ex- 4 ! plaining that there was a strin- fr 4 gent law forbidding Importation 4 4 of vegotaltlon with roots. "What a world!" exclaimed tho priest. , "., i TOKIO, March 13. (By tho Asso- elated Press) Japanese, military au thorities have frustrated an nltsmpt by J.. P. McCullogh and . F. Mc Laughlin, American surveyors repre senting Sinclair oil Interests, to enter the northern section of the Island of Saghallen and have taken the two on a Japanoso gunboat from Sagha llen to tho Port of Otaru In Hok kaido, It became known todny. The Americans, accompanied hy a Russian guide, were stopped at Alex- androvuk by Military officials, who declared a determination not to per mit representatives of an American company to conduct surveys under concessions from the soviet govern ment, which Japan does not rocog nlze. McCullogh and MncLaughlin. aro believed to have gone to Peking. The Japanese press took occasion to comment on the possibilities of a grave issue between .America and Japan over tho valuable oil fields. Northern Saghalien nominally Is Russian territory, but now is under Japanese, military occupation. Pow erful Japanese Interests are planning o:i exploitation there tinder the aus pices of the Japanese navy. ' The Sinclair Oil company holds a concession granted by the soviet re gime to prospect for petroleum on Saghallen island, but tho Japanese have refused to recognize any agree ment between KusHla and any other country regarding theso concessions, so long as tho northern portion ot the Island Is occupied by the Japa nese. Tho Japanese have spent large sums Investigating the Saghallen fields. FOR RUM CARGO NEW YORK, Mar. 13. Govern ment confiscation of tho Royal Mall Packet company's passenger ship Or duna was demanded today In a libel suit filed In federal court by tho Unit ed mutes district attorney's staff as a result of a narcotlv and liquor raid aboard the vessel. Tho action Includes chnrges that the Orduna had, since January 16, 1920, the' date of national prohibition enforcement, smuggled Into this coun try Intoxicating liquors and narcotics exceeding $100,000 In value. . . World Flight Monday LOS. - ANQELKH, - Mar. 13. The army's around the world filers who will start from .Clnve'r 'field. Santa Monica Monday will' he guests of hon or at a banquet to ho given hero to night by former army and ynavy airmen. STAMP FATHER TO DEATH AS SECTJACRIFICE 18 Year Old Tampa, Fla., Girl Confesses and Implicates Mother Murder Offering to Lord for Relief Given at Meeting. TAMPA, Fin., March 13 Eva Win chester, 18 year old daughter of J. C Winchester, 65, told the sheriff today that she had stumped the aged man J reSontatlves of the dally traffic for a p'Bl ot Ohio; James. W". Holoomb -and-to death wllh her foul. 'Winchester's - ,,., Henry T. Ellis of Cleveland; Samuel. body was found today at his homo in Seffnor. .. a rto.trntlTo,1irle!.i;;nt,w,,;ich tllttt thoroughfare .Senator Wheeler said subpoena.; she said she was orderod to kill her "'an did the consuB taken by tho ooun- probably would be Issued but the In father bv her mother; Both are In tv court which showed that dallv GOB olent resulted ln another brush be mo county ju.i nu.o ciwuijeu with '"a mory of membership of tbo turn - Hy in a religious sect was told by the girl. She said her father had been1 ill with paralysis. Hho said her mother ami father visited a gathering - ... . . ...... day. The father, she said, was so benefitted that the mother felt un of fering should be given the Lord. Tho killing of tho father was decided upon as. tho offering, tho glrli told the sheriff. !Tho aged man was led 1D0 yards from the home, killed, and tho body draggod back to tho house. The two women walked three miles west to Mango, from their homo and told a school teacher of their act. E FOR THIS STATE . : been holding up a drugstore here last SALEM, Ore., March 13. Mayor 'night, wore captured and a fourth George L. Baker of Portland, Inst night ' escaped nftor firing sovoral shots at opened his active campaign for the ro-',th'""'!omen' , ,. ,,,, ii They gave thoir names as Frank publican nomination as a candidate 'cnnelly, Jack-Jorgesson and George for election to the United States sen-, Maltarno. Authorities declared the ate with an address at a local theater, trio confessed to having held up two His address dealt mainly vlth the pos- other drug stores this week. Police sibilltieB for Oregon development and records revealed that a Frank Con the Importance of securing congroB-1 nolly had .been ncqultted of a charge slonal enactments for the benefit of f murder last November in connec- the state. He emphasized strongly the necessity for building up Industries In the state. He contrasted Oregon with the states adjacent to It, citing their advances through the efforts of their delegations In congress, while, he de clared, "Oregon has been shamefully neglected." Mayor Haker rocolvod greatost ap plause on his statement relative to Im migration and to caro of ex-service nien "I stand for enactment ot a law," ho said, "to exclude all future Immigration until such time as tbo foreigners now In this country shall have been asBlmllated andiAmorlcan ized." " Mayor Raker declared that tho neg lect of the ex-servleo men has been criminal and- that immediate steps should be taken to correct this condi tion. lie spoke strongly for prohibition and law enforcement. D. A. R. Convention. PASADENA. Cal., March 13. Dauglr ters of the American Revolutjon from all parts of California gatherer here ,$180,000 through showing of the Car today for the lfith annual state O'Viifer-lpentlei'-Dompsoy prize fight pictures ence of the ordor. The meeting will which the attorney general would not close Saturday with election of offl - cers, mmmmmmmmmimmmmmm CITY CHECK OF BELOW COUNTY Count During Court Session in 10 Hours Shows Less Autos Passed County Court Cen- sus Showed 605 Cars in Eight Hours. The city administration has Just an nounced figures taken by its own rep. '"""" "'D"r " " . sohville road, which give much less Vnhlole wnnt nvnr thnt rnnrf hotwonn f ft' "h ond 6 P- m' durln 'llB "Brlod 'n which that census was taken, Not only does the city's census show much loss dally travel, but the city's census covers a longor day, the hours uDL.auu u u. ill. nun v ii. ill., uiiu nun taken llt n tlln who travel over the road Is generally supposed to be heav- four or five days when the circuit court was in session. , Tho city's figures aro as follows: Feb. 28, 410 vehicles; Fob. 28, 390 ve hicles; March 1,'BIR vehicles; March! 6, 433 vehicles; March 0, 384 vehicles, NAB FREED SLAYER RAN FRANCISCO, Mar. 13. Three alleged bandits, Interrupted .by two pollocmen as they were Bald to have nun wun ine iieain ul a nuiiiiui. iwu of tho bandits had taken 9700 In nar cotics and $260 ln cash from tho store. CARS11EO BOOTLEG DEAL LAID TO CABINET HEAD BY WOMAN IN STORY TO THE SENATE WASHINGTON, March 13. Will key deals, deals for pardon for a fed eral convict, deals to permit Illegal showing of prize fight films, stock deals and various other alleged deals of a highly sensational nature featur ed today's testimony at the senate committee Investigation of Attorney General Daugherty. In a two hour session replete with thrillers. Miss Roxle Stlnson, divorc ed wife of Jesse W. Smith, "bumper and friend" of the attorney general, testified Smith had told her that he and Mr. Daugherty stood to make . prevent. I Miss Stlnson followed that by re UNITY FOBFIGHI Divorcee Continues Story of Relations Between Daugh erty and Friends McLean Furnished House Free Many Angles to Senate Probe. ; WASHINGTON, March 15. Tha di rect statement that Attorney General Daugherty had told JeaBe. W. Smith his "bumper and friend" that he would prevent prosecution for transportation i of the Carpentler-Dempsey fight films and that the attorney general and Smith were to receive $180,000, was the first sensation Bprung today when the senate committee resumed its In vestigation. . Miss Roxle Stlnson, divorced wife ot Smith, told the committee Smith had told her he was the go-between In the negotiations between picture compa-' nleB and the attorney general. MIsb Stlnson waited patiently for tha questioning to begin while the hearing was delayed In getting under way. The Jam ot senators, , congressmen v. and other spectators was so great the com- EK,05rd..d,,,,.,!u During the preliminaries It develop-' ed that the books of the Midland Na tional bank, of which the attorney gen. ernt's brother Is president, could not be brought to Washington.'. " . Mr. Daugherty's counsel asked that' subpoenas be lBBiied for Mai Daugh-' erty, John Price, former attorney gen. tlnelelder, Mrs. R. A. Hayes and B. H M n.vol.j tween mm anu Mr. riowiana in wnicn Senator Wheeler again reiterated that Mr. Hnwland, the attorney general's counsel, would not "run" the Investi gation. ' ' ' . Senator Ashurat declared that "the' defense might as well learn now," that fl . .... lt, , "" '" ru in,uB uie vommittoB, and said he had not forgotten an ' "In-, suit delivered last night here," Howland. . , ' . by The senator added that Howland was not "going to run any bluff here.", MIsb Stlnson's testimony started with reforeno to the "little green house on K street." She said she was not familiar with Washington and would rather not answer , questions about It. "It was purely personal," she said, "it Is absolutely of no consequence." She reiterated however, that. Smith ' had told her of meeting the attorney ' general there. She said "different . senators and Important people" had . conferences In the house. ' ' ' i ' "Do you know who occupied ittt',ak. ed Senator Moses. ' ' ; ' "I think It was one of Mr. McLean s... I'm not sure about that." ., " She said she did not know of the ' purpose ot the conferences there but Smith had told her the house was used for private conferences where they would not be disturbed. ' - Department of justice appointments were considered there, she said, and people making appointments went there, she was told. .; .,.' Senator Ashurat referred to Colonel . James G. Darden and Miss Stlnson said she met him ln the "shack" near Wash- fCnntlnuert nn Pa F.lirhO latlng a conversation between Smith and Joe Weber, the actor, which relat ed to getting a parole for Weber's brother-in-law,, "a Mr. Solomon." at the : conclusion of which Smith told ber Weber was . "awfully cheaR," and "wanted a lot for nothing." t, " On another occasion, the divorced wlfs testified) Smith turned up at Washington CourthouBe, Ohio. ; Jtist from Washington, with 75 one-thou-ssnd dollar bills In a belt around his1 waist, but wouldn't tell her where lie got the money. , Whiskey,' she said, she knew, had been withdrawn from government warehouses on permit, soon after ftv Daugherty took office at attorney gen-. Oral, but they soon stopped that, she said, because they got afraid of It, .