Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Prediction .'. llnln Cooler tonight. Maximum yesterday OU.S Minimum today 4ft l'n-rlpitallon 04 Weather Year Ago Minimum 6S JVIliilnium .20 Dally Nineteenth Teir. weekly t'ifty-Uilid Year. MEDFORD, OREGON", THURSDAY, OCTOHKIl !:, 392-1 NO. 183 M NEAR E 10 Medford Orchardist Who Killed Sister and Slashed His Throat Has Good Chance of Recovery Police Plan to File Charge of First Degree Murder. PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 23 Consid erable improvement In the condition of Merle I. Minear, demented wealthy Medford fruit grower, who yesterday killed his slier, Mrs. W. E. Nickerson, with a hatchet and then, unsuccess fully attempted suicide, was reported from Good .Samaritan hospital this morning. Minear severed the jugular vein on the right side of his neck with a razor. He rallied through the night and was given more than a fair chance for recovery by attendants, who said he had Bpent a good night. He is umler constant police guard. If Minear recovers, tho police will prefer first degree murder charges against him, they announced today. It will remain for the defense attor neys To prove him Insane, Captain John T. Moore, chief of detectives, de clared. When questioned by police, Minear was able to whisper that he had kill ed his sister because she had been at tempting to poison hlin since he had been brought to her home from the Mountainview sanitarium last Sunday, officers said. Mr. Nickerson. husband of the mur dered woman said there was nothing . to indicate Minear was contemplating any such crime Wednesday morning. Minear, he said, talked rationally at that time with the family. An examination of the dead woman disclosed the fact that she had suffer ed eight fractures of the skull from the blows of the hatchet in the hands of her brother. Following the killing of his sister, Minear returned to the first floor of the house and ransacked it looking for a razor. After slashing his throat on the right side, he stag gered to the bathroom and then Into the dining room where he was found lying on the floor. As the details or the murder in Portland yesterday of Mrs. W. E. Nickerson by her brother, Merle 1. Minear, and his attempted suicide fol lowing, become more fully known to ' the people o( Medford and vicinity, where the family is prominent, the shock of tho almost unbelievable trag edy Is succeeded by deep sympathy for the surviving members of tho fam ily. Especially is thta. sympathy felt for the wife and children of Mr. Minear, and Mrs. It. C. Minear, mother of Mi near and Mrs. Nickerson, who has-been spending some time at her old home In Ohio, after living in Medford for years. . " A letter was received from her the other day by Medford friends from Findiy, Ohio, in which she stated that she was about to return home to can lipr nn. 11 la the belief of Med ford friends todttthat the mother is en route to Portland and Medford, Ig norant of the son's act In killing his Bister, and his attempted self destruc tion. Mrs. Nickerson, better known as Mrs. Maudine Anderson during her years of residence here until a little over a year ago when she was marrie'd to Mr. Nickerson, was the tormer wite of a Dr. Anderson of Portland from whom she obtained a divorce prior to ,,. r n thin cltv. A son 14 or 15 years old by this marriage has been residing in Portland witn ait. ami Mrs. Nickerson. Mrs. Maudine Anderson had a large circle of friends In Medford where she v fPontlnnorl on Pago KlghM F HAS SCHOONER IS CARRIED OFF NOME, Alaska, Oct. 23. (Dy As sociated Press.) The gasoline schoon er 8ilver Wave of Nome with four men aboard her, has been carried off by the ice of the Arctic ocean, It was learned here today. The Sliver Wave, fourth vessel to be seized this season In the fatal grasp of Ice In the Alaskan Arctic was caught In Kotzebue sound, 1K0 miles north of Bering straight, whither she was hurryinit for safety on her last )rlp before winter. Truly S hat tuck Has 69 Pounds of Fat Removed by Surgeon CHICAOO. Oct. S3. An oper- ation on Miss Truly Shiittuck. 60 years of age, vaudeville conic- t Kattna on.l mllolnnl onTIIOllV Rttll fe of twenty years ago. has reduced her weight from 192 to 123 t waist line to 34. according to surgeons or a hospital nere. v Superfluous fat, weighing 69 4 pounds, wns removed they said. if TEAR THE Tl WASHINGTON',' Oct 2. "Preser vation of initiative and enterprise is the primary thing which we must have to do In our country," President Cool idge today told the executive commit tee of the New York businessmen's ns sociation which called at the White House. Initiative and enterprise carries with It. the nresldent said, an obliga tion upon every business organization to the consumer. Declaring the economic system of the government fundamentally sound, the nrosidont criticised those who em- I phaslzo "out of all due proportion" its abuses. Correction or tnese aouses, ne held, lies In the hands of those admin istrating commerce and Industry and only they, he added, can prevent the necessity of government Intervention. "Already they have made great ad vances in this direction," he continued. "Their sense of responsibility has made steady growth In the last two score of years. We no longer hear the nviirosBisnn of indifferent attitude to .relations between business and the public. They are seeking to deliver something more bosiues ; tneir goons and they are delivering it with unite. That new something, is the sense of service to the community. "These are the lines of real prb gress. To tear down a system under which so much of genuine progress has been accomplished in so short a period, merely because the minor de fects that have not yet been entirely eliminated would be a policy of de struction. We need not fear that the Americaivcoinmunity will ever commit itself to such a policy, it is the long expressed genius of the American peo ple to build up, to construct. That genius was never more vigorous, more intent on exercising itself than now. It will still continue to be Bitpreme in our country." IP F GUILTY OF FRAUD SACRAMENTO, Oil., Oct. 22. Dr. Frank 1". Young, prominent Los Ali t.,i iihvHlcian. was found guilty of ! charges of fraudulent Issuance of diplomas In connection with the Pa- Iclfic Medical college or which he is the head and his license to practice iniedicino In this state was revoked shortly nfter midnight this morning by the slate medical hoard of examin ers, following a hearing that lasted two days and all of last night. During the hearing, Professor Wll linm P. Sacks, former official exam iner for the superintendent of public Instruction in Missouri and Jointly lu I dieted with Young In San Francisco : -,t i Annenlt-n rv In rnnnertlon lor uiit-Bcu ... - with tho asserted operations of the so-called "diploma mill" ring, admit ted on the witness stand that while I employed Dy tne siaie ui lHsued more than 1500 "fake" elemen tary school credentials and diplomas, "purporting to he for courses complet- 1 . . . i n..tl..aa whlrh eu in scnooiH he received $10 each without ever see ing the party to whom the credential or diploma wns Issued. The Silver Wave first stranded, ac cording to reports reaching here. Her enrgo and passengers were tnken off near the end of a long peninsula run ning into Kotzebue sound. While Captain Hegness, master and owner, nnd the engineer were ashore, the Sil ver Wave was seen moving out to the ocean. Slush Ice prevented the master and engineer from reaching the vessel and. kept the four men, the remainder of the crew, who had remained aboard, from coming ashore. DO EM DOWN BUT IMPROVE IT PHYS BY ARCTIC ICE FALL NOTE SIGNATURE 01 Mrs. E. L. Doheny Declares on Witness Stand That Fall's Signature Torn From $100, 000 Promissory Note Is. in Hands of Frank J. Hogan, Doheny's Attorney. LOS ANGELES, Oct.. 23. A prom issory note for $100,000, handwriting of which was identified as that of Al bert B. Fall, then secretary of the in terlor and made payable to Edward L. Doheny, wns Introduced by the gov ernment here today In the suit for cancellation of contracts and leases in the Elk Hills naval oil reserve to the Doheny concern, Pan-American Petroleum and Transport company. The government charges this note was receipt for $100,000 given Fall In con nection with an alleged conspiracy to fraudulently grant to the Doheny con cern leases out of which Doheny esti mated a profit of $10110,000,000 would accure to his Interests. Ernest K. Hill, recently clerk of the senate public lands committee and now assistant secretary to Senator Lenroot testified that the note handed to him by Owen J. Roberts, goorn- ment prosecutor,, was the same note produced at the hearing of the senate investigating committee. Theodore Mack, stenographer In the department of interior at the time Fall was secretary, identified the handwrit ing In the body of the note as that of Fall. ...... 1 ' Roberts then introduced the note as an exhibit for the government, not ing that the portion where tho signa ture should be had been torn oft'. Mrs. E. L. Dohnoy, wife of the oil magnate, called to the stand by Sena tor Pomerene, government counsel, lo cated for the first time the missing signature torn from the Fall note. She said it was in the possession of Frank J. Hogan, counsel for Mr. Doheny. E. L. Doheny, Sr., and his son, E. L. Doheny, Jr., when called to the wit ness stand, both made formal state ments refusing to testify on the ground that any evidence they might give might be used against them in the trials pending following their indict ments in Washington, D. C. ATTY.GEN.STONL DISSOLVE TRUST ST. PAUL. Oct. 23. "Effective dis solution" of the International Harves ter company's alleged monopoly of the farm machinery business Is sought by Attorney General Stone In a brief filed in his behalf In federal court here to day by tho United States attorney In proceedings supplemental to the con sent decree In dissolution entered in the same court In 1918. Mr. Stone contends that greater competitive conditions In the farm machinery trnilc should be afforded. The consent decree did not go far enough, he said, demanding that ac tion be taken to give "proper protec tion to the farmers nnd land owners who are dependent upon agricultural machinery and implements obtainable at reasonable prices." "One of two things ought to be done." the attorney general suggests. "Either the great Judges who decided this case ought to be reversed on the ground that their decision was wholly erroneous, or else nn effective dissolu tion should he decreed." The consent decree fulled to effect "any substantial competition." the brief adds, during a test period which ended eighteen months nfter the declaration of peace. On the contrary it says, eight of tho harvester com pany's competitors went out of busi ness in that time and tho defendants compnnles' percentngo of the total actually Increased In 1922 the last selling season under the test period, which was established to permit an accurate survey of the results of the consent decroe under peace time con ditions. Death Toll of the Automobile LORAINE. Ohio. Oct. 23. Six chil dren were killed nnd fifteen Injured late thin afternoon when a school bus wns strucK oy inieruroan near dn field Lake, ope mile east ot here. 0 tXICK DAVID. LATEST MKMBtlt OF IIKII1SH ItOYAI. I'A.MII.Y 1 V ' - " , Hp Ik PrlnPHSw M n rv'n Hecond son, christened; In GniiishorouKh jnurch w ii lion I t In- remnre uf the Kins &i)J W'i.n. Hie huby's gintminn renin C00L10GE US! WASHINGTON. Oct. 23. With n view to determining whether there have been "concealed'' contributions from big business men to the repub lican campaign fund, Suniucl fnter myer asked tho senate Investigating committee today to subpoena the re publican state chairmen of New York, K'... loranu Oliln nml Illinois. l. TTntorniver. who is assoclato counsel fbr Senator Iji Kollette, said it was strange that there were miss ing from the official republican lists the names of such men as Elbert :H. Clary of tho United States Steel corp oration, J. 1'. Morgan, the Rocke fellers : and officWK ,of "tho i great Standard Oil interests," nil "recog nized republicans." Chairman Koran of the committee announced that the request would be granted and the state chairmen would be called to Washington. . Mr. Untermyer also submitted a telegram from Senator Thomas J. Walsh, democrat, Montana, saying was rumored that $100,000 would bo sent to Montana to bo used against him fn his campaign for re-oloction. Tho telegram, dated at Poplar, Mont., October 20, and addressed to Frank P. Walsh,. added: "Rumored that $100,000 coming to Montana to be used against me. Not passing, however, through cither na tional committeeman or chairman re publican committee. Kindly ciucstloi. carefully concerning remittances to this Btale." When Mr. Untermyor cnlled atten tion .to tho absence of the names of a number of capitalists from tho list of republican contributors, Senator Kdrah remarked: "I am mighty glad their names are missing." "If they are really missing," lntor-, Jected Untermyer. "We will try to find that out," re plied Senator Uorah. VOTiPORTLAND PORTLAND, Ore., Oct. 23. In order that the several hundred exhibitors of champion livestock and their herds men attending the approaching Pacific International Livestock Exposition, November 1-8 inclusive, may not lose their privilege of voting on state meas ures and for state and national can didates through being absent from their home voting places on November 4, General Manager Plumiuer of the stock Bhow organization urges that all non-resident putrons and participants in the big annual cxixisltlon bring registration certificates with them. These certificates, upon request, will be Issued to any -registered voter by the county clerk of his own county upon assurance ot necessary absence from his home precinct on election day. lly presentation of Biich certifi cates, exhibitors, herdsmen and others In attendance at the exposition will be enabled to vote In Portland. The Portland Chamber of Commerco and units comprising the state Cham ber of Commerce are cooperating with Manager I'lummer in notifying the farmers, llvestockmen and herdsmen of the state that they may secure theso certificates. Eugene Priest Elected. MILWAUKEE, Oct. 23 The Rev. Thomas R. Carr, LaPeero, Mich., was reelected president or the Catholic rurtil life conference at the annual con vention here today. , Other officer elected Include the Rev. E. V. O'Hara, Eugene, Ore., secretary. iRGlsli NOT FOUND ON SHENANDOAH HPS IM ON ROCKIES Big Dirigible Throws 175- Pound Tank of Gasoline Overboard to Lighten Load in 6500-Foot Climb Moun tains Safely Passed After Rough Trip. KI T'ASO, Texas. Oct. 23. The Shenandoah passed over Port Han cock. Texas, -15 miles east of Kl l'aso at U:45 o'clock mountain time. ' Kl, I'ASO. Texas. Oct. 2.1. Fighting n strong head wind. the dirigible Shenandoah passed over 101 l'aso to day at eight o'clock, mountain time, enrnute to Its home station at I-Jike-hursl, N. J. The big ship was not moving more than twenty miles per hour, according; to estimates of air officials from Fort Ullss and appar ently had all motors going In an effort to gain speed. AHOAUI) Till-: U. S. S. SHENAN DOAH, Oct. 23. (Via- Fort Ullss. Texas). (Ky Associated Press.) lhe last of the Itocky mountain harriers was passed by the U. S. S. Shenanhoah early today, leaving a clear course for the return of tho big dirigible to her hangar at Lakehurst, N. J. I Arizona and tho worst of the Ttock 'los were left behind when Rodeo, N. M was reached at 2:30 a. ni. Tho big ship had groaned and" strained as it drove Into the eddies whirling over the peaks. Tho wind currents rushed 'thru the mountain passes liko mill races. The ship sped at fifty miles nn hour over the ranges of Arizona at an alti tude of 0500 feet. Turning southward 'at Benson at 10:40 p. m. last night the Shenandoah followed the railroad 'southeast towards tho Mexican border. After a short spurt Klsbeo was seen glistening under the moonlight and .in a very few minutes had been (passed. The noso of tho ship was pointed upward until it was on a ' C700 foot level and another 17!i pound tank of gasoline was dropped through tho silken bottom to lighten tho load. With a broad swing over the Mexican. border sho was again speeding east . ward. 10 GIVE RELIEF TO U.S. F DAVIS TRAIN "EN ROUTE TO CLEVELAND. Ohio, Oct. 23 (Hy the Associated Press.) With but one more formal address that scheduled for Cleveland tonight, John W. Davis, democratic candidate for president, was on his way east today completing the last leg of his two weeks' final campaign drive In the middle west. The final drive of the candidate's pres idential campaign will be sturted Sat urday In New York. Mr. Davis put the finishing touches on bis Indiana tour last night at Evans vllle after speaking earlier In the day at Vlnccnnes and for a brief period of time at Princeton. In Evansvllle ne replied to Secretary of War Weeks in Now York Tuesday, characterizing tho war secretary as one "of the still unmuzzled" members of the cabinet. In Vincennes Mr. Davis chatged that the three and one-half years of power of the Hardlng-Coolidge administration had "produced the radical third party of which they complain." Mr. Davis pledged In the namo o!' democracy, to give relief to the farm ers of the country; to bring about a thorough house cleaning of the Wash ington government; to put an end to bureaucracies and Instnll a govern ment based on a sane, forward looking and progressive liberalism. In addi tion, Mr. Davis said ho would cause the tux and tariff laws to be re-written along the lines that know no class or section, privilege or favor. Referring to conditions which he de clared were responsible for the crea tion of the Independent party, Mr. Davis said: ' "Three and one-naif years of power by the Hardlng-Coolldgo administra tion has produced this radical third party which our republican friends complain spilt the republican party. They aroused the American people and have given the opportunity for men to offer new and strange doctrines and urge them on the pcoplo as the cure for all their Ills. Will you seek to cure the patient by giving him an Injection of the same virus that produced his disease? MMDS Dynamite Blast Forces Town to Go On a Milk Diet CHICAGO, Oct. L'3. T-onmnt, 20 milt's Houthwi'Mt of hore, is 4 buying Its water from milk iiumi 4 since a dynamite llunt in a quarry 4 near there causing an artesian 4 4 well, the town's Hole source, to 4 fr no dry. The only free water ! available comes from a spring 4 4 in an abandoned rock quarry 4 4 until pipes can be laid to another 4 ' spriiiK some distance from town. 4 4- 444444444444444 PUN FAILS 10 THE CITV GS1ES TIRNTStX, Oct. 23. (By Associat ed Tress.) Portions of the Eleventh division of the Chinese national army, under command of Ken Yu-Hslanfr. "the Christian general, " revolted nt Peking this morning, seized the city's Kates, out all telegraph and telephone lines and stopped all train service, ac- cording to reliable Information reach- Iiir hero. TRAITOR W IN General Fenpr nnd his army were oi'Kanled in April. 1918. The incor supposeil to have been at Jehol p orators were M. L. Sahlstrom, L. H. (ChenKtehfu ) about !( miles north- iGllham and llutfh Koch. east of Peking, where they were sup- posed to stop nn 'expected advance and experience the concern failed to from Mukden ot the Manchurlan ar- prosper and in March, 1919, found it mles of ChanK Tso-lan, who Is making - self in serious financial straits," It Is Will V 11 111- i-i-llll ill ' iiiM-i - inpr. Apparently General Kent? never progressed beyond the reat wall Whether General Fentf is acting in- dependently In the present revolt or with the collusion of the Mukden gov- eminent has not yet been learned. Humors that General Feng was not in sympathy with the Chihll (central government) have been current how ever,, ever since tho outbreak of hos tilities of Manchuria. RE ACCEPTED BY CHURCH BUI L0SSJ3EPL0RE0 NEW YORK, .Oct. 23. Dr. Harry L'mmcrson Fosdlck no longer Is preacher in the First Presbyterian church. Ills resignation was unani mously accepted at a meeting of the congregation last nlujlit. An invitation was extended to him, however, to . wltnoul a chance of recovery. In our preach nt the church on "such Sundays opinion there wns no time in the hls as ho finds It convenient." I lory of the -company when Its net t A letter from Dr. Eosdlck, Including ! worth was greater than when Clark a copy of a lotter to the New York bought the business for $10,000." presbytery's commltteo was read. Dr. Eosdlck In Ills communication declined to renounce his affiliation with the Uaptlst church. Dr. Fosdlclc was told In a letter sent to him nfter the approval of the report which accepted his resolution: "We will suffer an irreparable loss If you loavo us entirely. Moreover, the Presbyterian church at largo will suffer seriously. "Thousands of young men and young women, attracted by your preaching and writing, will drift away from any church association whatever, but the greatest loss will be to the cause of Christian fellowship and church unity, to which you and we are committed." KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. 23. A conference of civic organizations of Medford, Ashland, Grunts Pass, Hcnd, Lakevlew, Malln and Klamath Falls will bo held here November 12, ac cording to announcement made today hy tho local organization. Civic prob lems confronting all southeri Oregon will he illHciiHHOd. RIVER FEUD AGAIN ALEX HATFIELD P.LUEFIELD. W. Vn., Oct. 23. Another violent death has been re corded In tho family history of tho notorious Hatfield clan of West Vir ginia nnd Kentucky. Recalling the days of tho Tug river feud between the Hatfield and tho McCoy clans, veteran officials of Mingo county to dny were Investigating the killing of Alex Hatfield, the latest ot his lino to feel the sting of a bullet. Ate Hon nf the man who started the far-famed feud ot yenrs ago, was the victim. During an argument over FAKE STOCK DEAL IDE AH In Another Report Oswald West and George Black Claim Public Paid $730,500 for Stock in Phonograph Com pany That Was Never Worth Over $10,000. roitTJ,AND, Ore., Oct. 23. A re port lo tlovernot IMoce covering the affairs of tho St null vara Phonograph, company was tnuilo public Wednesday by OHwald- West and George Black, tho Koternor'a committee. investlRut hiK stock sales in this state. 13 y direct statement and the use of a series of detailed and complicated financial statements tho report charges that practically worthless stock to the amount of (8(M,00 was sold to the i public by F. N. Clark and company and tho Dundas-Martin company. The ! company had Us beginning, the report (says, with the Sahlstrom corporation "Owinjr to the lack of both capital declared. Through the" influence of F, N. Clark, a reorganization, the first of several was effected In April, 1919, when tho name of the company was . changed to the Pacific Phonograph tal stock was lncrousod from $25.1100 to S76.0O0. Tho second Increase In the com pany's cupital stock, according to the report was made December 11, 1919, when the total was raised to $300,000, of vhlch $200,000 was preferred stock and $100,000 common. " A campaign to sell this $'200,000 preferred stock was then undertaken In May or June, 11120, It Is-reported and a prospectus Issued hy F. N. Clark and company carried a (slowing account of tho com pany's prosjirlty, estimating the an nual profits at $140,000, or ten times the amount necessary to pay seven per cent dividends on the preferred stock. The total amount of stock sold, the report says, appears to have cost tho public $H64.000, and of this amount tho Stradivara company received only $091,200, tho balance of $172,800 go ing to the Dundas-Murtin company as sales commission. S "Tho promotion of this undertaking tt tho nnhllc S730.&00 nnd loft It LIPTON TELLS STORIES ON SIR HAM LAUDER NEW YORK, Oct. 23. Sir Thomas Llpton who la here on business, Is tolling two now stories about hla friend Harry Lauder. Here they are: "I asked the noted Scotch comedian to whom he was going to- leave all his money and Sir Harry replied: "'To the widow of the unknown soldier. " "I was walking along Piccadilly with Lauder one morning. ' When we came to a big sign which read: 'One thousand pins in a package for three ponce.' Tho comedian wont In and purchased a packet and left later for Glasgow. When he met me on his return to London he said: " There were throo pins short. I'm going back to tho Bhop.' " SALEM, Ore., Oct. 23. Cracksmen last night blew the Bafes of the Ore gon Gravel company here and the J. W. Copeland Lumber company In West Salem, but secured only $15.75 Investigation by the police and Sheriff Orr of Polk county revealed. Amateur methods were used by the yeggs, the authorities said. The loot wiib taken entirely from the gravel company. BITES THE DUST the coming election, Hatfield Is said to have called Thurman Chambers a "liar." Chambers told offlciuls that ho struck Hatfield with his flt where upon the latter drew a pistol and in a struggle for possession of the weapon Hatfield was shot. ) Alex Hatfield, former postmaster of ' Matewan. W. Vo.., was the Bon ot Floyd Jlutfield. whose suit for a litter of hogs against the McCoys of Ken tucky marked the beginning of a feud In the hills olong the Tug river, during which many members of the two fam ilies met death, 1