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AfEDFORD. OREGON'. FRIDAY. APRIL 1 92.1
NO. 11
Leonard Wood's Boy
Turns Down Movies
To Sell Real Estate
ALIENISTS
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Train Bandit Smokes
Borrowed Cigar As
He Awaits Verdict
FALL WINS
KIBUNE
cm GIRL
IS INSANE
Supt. of StocktorHnsane Asy
lum Testifies That Dorothy
Ellingson Is of Unsound
Mind Evidence Amuses
.Spectators Judge Orders
Fifty Ejected.
- feAN FRANCISCO, April 3. Dr.
Fred P. Clark, medical superintendent
of the state hOHpltal for the insane at
Stockton, considers Dorothy KlUngson
Insane, he testified today at the san
ity hearing of the seventeen year old
plrl who killed her mother in the bed
room of their home lust January af
ter a heated discussion of the girl's
night life.
The girl sat calmly ns her mental
makeup was dissected. She got thru
the morning without fulntlng, although
she was weak and tearful at the noon
recess.
Dr. Clark was preceded on the wit
ness stand by Dr. George Ordulil, n
clinic psychologist connected with the
Sonoma state home fur defectives. He
detailed the results of psychological
tests of Miss Ellington. He termed
her reactions "impulsive," 'and said
that persons of her type were "likely
to act without deliberation," hut he
added that the Intelligence tests had
demonstrated that she was not feeble
minded nor a. moron, but showed "a
high average of Intelligence."
Dr. Clark, relating an interview with
the girl at the county jail said she dis
played no more reticence regarding af
fairs of an intimate nature "thun if
she were discussing the bill of fare for
dinner."
This amused the spectators. Some
of them laughed outright nnd Judge
Louderbuck hod about fifty persons
ejected. He threatened to clear the
court room If there was a 'simllar out
burst. Night I Mo Hovoalotl.
SAN FRANCISCO. April 3. Furth
er revelations of the night life of Dor
other Ellingson were given at her
sanity hearing this morning by Mrs.
K. A .Deacon, a representative of the
district attorney's office. The wit
ness identified a statement taken down
In an interview with the girl in prison
January 22, shortly after her arrest
for the murder of her mother. In this
statement the defendant told of her
acquaintance with jazz musicians in
Chinatown cafes.
: Newspapermen in attendnnce at the
trial, testified to the girl's fainting
Bltells In and near the court room.
Mm. Susie Kennedy, a jail matron,
gave evidence of the girl's hysteria
during her imprisonment.
. l)r, George Ordahl, a clinical psy
chologist of the Sonoma State home
for defective?, detailed his examination
of the child matricide. - He said he
Applied to the girl the tests used on
Inmates of the home.
i He testified that the tests showed
tier to-be of normal intelligence, but
that she was of a type with "reactions
impulsive." Such persons, lie explain
ed, are "likely to act without delib
eration." Cross examined, he added that the
defendant was "not feeble minded or
a- moron, but phowed a high average
of Intelligence."
. The psychologist said he measured
the speed of the girl's responses to his
Questions. She displayed no hesitancy
In replying, he testified.
. The witness said his tests were not
of. a nature to determine the sanity
of the defendant but merely outlined
certain conditions. The court denied
ft motion by the prosecution to strike
but the testimony as immaterial to
the issue.
Death Toll of
"'. : the Automobile
. SALEM. Ore.. April 3. A. N. Mosh
bereer.. Willamatta Vallev Southern
Hallway agent at Monitor, Ore., near
cere, was Instantly killed and Mrs,
Moshberger was severely Injured at
9:25 o'clock this morning when their
automobile was run down by an Ore
ton Electric car on the branch line
between Woodburn and Wet Wood
burn. Their baby, who was alRO in
the automobile, was practically unhurt.
UNNAMED AMERICAN INVOLVED IN
MYSTERIOUS MURDER CASE- IN LONDON
LONDON, April 3. (By Associat
ed Press. An unnamed American
sportsman and a London financier,
Wdlce paid today, probably would be
called iiR witrses al Wmorrow's in
quest over the bodies of (Qtnvllle
. Cooke and &dwyn Foster, whose
; strange depths In a gloomy old
Bloomsbury mansion ave baffled
TAMPA, Fla., April 3. Os-
borne C. Wood today went to
work as a member of the sales
force of a real estate com- fr
pany in an effort to regain his
fortune on what he termed fr
"legitimate grounds."
The Idea of getting back the
money he squandered in four
months In France through his
Wall street broker, has been
discarded, Wood said.
A $50,000 contract with a
moving picture company located
on the Pacific coast was for-
mally rejected today on the
grounds that on effort was
being made to capitalize on his 4
spendthrift activities, he said.
CIEHEL IS
Premier Herriot Turns Against
Finance Minister's Inflation
Scheme and After Compro
mise On Vatican Issue Is
Sustained 530 to 62.
PARIS, April 3. (By Associated
ess.) The chamber of deputies to
day voted confidence in Premier
Herriot, 530 against 62.
PARIS, April 3. (By Associated
Press.) Having thrown overboard
Finance Minister Clementel and his
policy, the government will carry on,
at least for the present. This was
the decision reached at a conference
of Premier Herriot, the other minis
tors and the party leaders of the gov
ernment majority which lasted from
9:30 last night until five o'clock this
morning.
M. Clementel penned his resigna
tion after Premier Herriot had made
remarks In the senate tantamount to
a disavowal of his policy increasing
the fiduciary circulation. Senator
Anatole de Monzle who headed the
comlssion which last year negotiatd
the treaty with soviet Russia was
chosen to succeed him.
The first part of last night's con
ference was devoted to the financial
situation as affected by the sitting of
the senate. Leon Blum and other
socialists present were understood to
have Insisted on a capital levy Instead
of an increase in currency.
It was pointed out that such a solu
tion of the problem would require the
most careful study and maturo pre
paration. This, the socialists admitted and.
they therefore agreed to vote for
measures necessary to furnish the
treasury with fresh resources, on con
dition that recourse be had neither to
Inflation nor to a loan pending reali
zation of their capital levy scheme.
The radical party representatives
after some discussion and some reluc
tance accepted this viewpoint in prin
ciple. The new finonce minister announce
od that ho would introduce In parlia
ment next Monday the governmental
bill to which Premier Herriot re
ferred In the senate last night, pro
viding for the jieds of the treasury.
without a fresh issue of bank bills.
DcMonzie said that he had uccept
ed the office conditionally on the gov
ernmenfs agreement to compromise
on the question of the Vatican em
bassy. . Senator DeMonzie has always ad
vocated retaining the French em
bassy at the Vatican thus being In op
position on this question to Premier
Herriot and his socialist supporters,
who attach high importance to the
question of abolishing the embassy.
Minister of the Interior Chautemps,
after the meeting of the cabinet this
morning confirmed the statement by
the new finance minister that the
government has decided upon a
change of policy toward the Vatican".
St. Louts Brouns Shut Out.
ST. LOUIS, April 3. The St. Louis
Browns yesterday at Birmingham
Ala., were held scoreless, 2 to 0,
by the Southern league club of that
town. The Cardinals won, I to
from the Seals at San Francisco.
Scotland Yard crlJfc? experts. It was
Unted that BensHt tonal disclosures
might he made aO.he Inquest.
Police continue In possession of the
old house and Its grounds and are
searching for further explanations of
I the mysterious life that Cooke, an
Coventor and poet ar0 his young
companion, sonf a wealthy family,
led there.- w
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FRENCH LEADER
OF PIERCE'S
ER AIDE
$10,000 Damage Suit Against
Miss Celia Bowman, Former
Private Secretary of Gov
ernor Pierce Opens in Sa
lem Defendant and Attor
ney Fail to Appear.
SALF.M, Ore., April 3. With
neither the defendant nor her counsel
present In the court room the suit of
Mrs. Alice Bozell charging alienation
of, her husband's affections by Miss
Celiu Bollman, former private secre
tary to Governor Pierce, and asking
$1U,000 damages, opened In the cir
cuit court hero this morning before
Judge Percy H. Kelly.
The court room was crowded with
spectators, mostly women.
Outlining the plaintiffs case. At
torney Guy Smith charged that Fred
Bozell and Miss Bollman hold clan
destine meetings In the homo of Jus
tice H. J. Bean, of the Oregon su
premo court, where she roomed While
living in Salem; at Taylor Grove on
the upper Sunt lam river;- at Gari
baldi Beach, and In Portland.
The testimony of detectives was
also Introduced to show that on No-
vomber 20, last, Miss Bollmnn went
to Portland, met Bozell there and
with him drove to Centralla, Wash
where they registered in a hotel and
spent the night in room 216. Smith
said that Bozell signed tho register
simply as "F. V. Bowman, and that
the "and wife'1 that appeared on the
hotel register was placed there by
the clerk.
It was also charged that Bozell and
Miss Bollman spent the night of No
vember 8 In room 218 of the same
hotel. ,
Bozell's visits to Miss Bollman In
the Bean home were revealed to Mrs.
Bozell by her eighteen year old
brother, who spied upon the pair one
evening, Smith told the jury in his
oneninK statement. The boy, he said.
saw Bo-tell enter the Bean home when
all of the family was away except a
maid. The boy saw light glow in
one of the family rooms for a few
moments and then go out. Next he
saw the lights go on In Miss Boll
man's room, then go out for a time
and then flash on again.
Soon afterward, the boy's story
runs, Miss Bollman came out of the
house, got into her automobile and
drove away. Shortly afterward she
returned but seeing the boy loitering
outside the house drove around the
block. When she returned again and
started to put her car In the garage
the boy crossed tho street, it is al
leged, and asked her where Bozell
was. When Miss Bollman denied that
he was in the house, the boy is said
to have replied:
"You tell him to come home as soon
as he can got there."
Shortly afterward, tho attorney
mum Bozell returned homo in "an
excited state," and was told by Mrs.
Bozell thaJt she knew where he had
been nnd what he was doing and
that he could leave and need not re
turn. With tho amount of the damages
to be fixed by the Jury the case will
go forward the same as though the
defendant were represented In court.
The taking of testimony is expected
to consume most of the day.
ARRESTED IN HI
PORTLAND, Ore., April 3. Two
Portland policemen, M. W. Oallahur
and Joe Pfenning, and three other
men, alleged to be hi-Jackors. were ar
rested today near Washougal, Wash.,
by two federal officers from Tacoma,
accompanied by Federal Prohibition
Director J. A. Mnvllle. The federal
officers reported they seized 139 gal
lons of moonshine, which the alleged
hi-Jackers are charged to have taken
fro mJohn Ilrodala. an old man who
is described by the officers as a "rum
runner."
The three men arrested with the of
ficers gave their names as Henry
HC'innan, Albert Cnllind nnd Arthur
l!. ll tsk Chief of Police I,. V. Jenk
ins who accompiinl'-d the federal agent
took the stars from the two Portland
policemen.
The Noted Dead
NICE, Erance, April 3. Jean Del
Reszke, wltfld famous operatic artist,
for man "years leaning tenor at me
Metropolitan opera bouse, New York,'
la dead. I
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PORTLAND COPS
HACK DRY RAID
Calls Her Beauty Inspiring
SIM '
Iff 4m
Cecil Thomas, noted English sculptor, says Miss Sylvia
Brainerd, daughter of Mr. and Mrs E. C. Brainerd of Washington,
D. C, is one of the most inspiring typos of American beauty
AWARD OF JURY
IN DENNISTOWN
CASE OVERRULED
LONDON. April 3. (By Associated
Press.) Justice Sir Henry McCardie
delivered his reserved judgment in
the Dennlstoun case this morning.
He held that the alleged agreement
for Mrs. Dorothy Muriel Dennlstoun's
support by her former husband after
this divorce was void and could not
be enforced in law, therefore he ruled
that Mrs. Dennlstoun's claim for
damages for breach of contract had
failed.
The judgment sets aside the verdict
of the Jury last month awarding Mrs.
Dennlstoun 5000 pounds, or nearly
$25,000 for the alleged breach of con
tract. Tho plaintiff, however, recovers
tho total amount of 472 pounds 1 8
shillings for sums loaned to Lieuten
ant Colonel Dennlstoun and which ho
has not returned.
She also Is awarded the costs of
the action with the exception of that
part involving tho allegation of
breach of contract. This section of
the costs, the court held, the defen
dant was entitled to recover. The
judge ordered a general stay in exe
cution until further order.
In expressing his Judgment Kir
Henry deplored the fact that the dis
agreeable aspects of the case had
been made public, but he a tided that
the uuestion of publicity was not one
for the coui-ts to decldo. He quoted
Lord Hhaw In another famous case
that "publicity is the soul of Justice."
SECRETARY WORK EN
ROUTE TO KLAMATH
PORTLAND, Ore., April 3. Hu
bert Work, secretary of the Interior,
and Klmwood Mead, director of the
federal reclamation service, will pass
through Portland the latter port of
next week enroute from California
to Spokane.
They were at Han Francisco yes
terday after making a roconnaisance
of the Kan Joaquin valley where a
government irrigation project Is con
templated and will visit Kurcka.
They will be in Klamath county,
Oregon, from next Wednesday until
Friday, and will arrive in Portland in
a special car. Inspection of the Co
lumbia basin Irrigation project will
engage their attention the week be
ginning April 13, when a meeting of
the Columbia Basin Irrigation league
will be held at Pasco, Wash.
Col. C. O. Thomson of Crater Lake
Park will meet Secretary Work at
Klamath and accompany him as far
sis .Mfdford o th" trip north.
New Minister to China,
WASHINGTON. April 3 John Van
A. McMurray, assistant secretary of
staft, has been selected by President
Cool'jtee to succeed Dr. Jacob Gould
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n Killed When Chimney Fall.
BERLIN, April 3. A newly con
structed chimney at Boehlen, near
Leipsic, suddenly collapsed today,
killing It men.
W. M. SHEPHERD
REFUSED BAIL
BY
CHICAGO, April 3. (Uy tho Asso
ciated Press.) Circuit Judge William
M. Brothers refused todiiy to enter
tain a motion to admit to bull William
D. Shepherd, chnrged with murder.
Chief Justice Hopkins In the criminal
court twice previously refused ball
pleas.
Judge Brothers said that to hear the
motion would bo in efrect to review
the action of a Judge of superior juris
diction. The defense after three un
successful efrorts to get out of jail
tho man indicted on a charge of hav
ing murdered his foster-son, William
N. McClintock, by typhoid inoculation,
to get his million dollar estate, now
plans to apply to the Illinois supreme
court for a writ of habeas corpus.
CHICAGO, April 3. (Uy the Asso
ciated Press.) A third effort to got
William D. Shepherd out of Jail on
ball was begun today when his coun
sel made a motion for hail before Cir
cuit Judge William V. Brothers. Two
such efforts wero unsuccessful before
Chief Justine Jacob Hopkins of tho
criminal court.
Judge Brothers upon motion being
made by Attorney William Scott
Steward, representing Shepherd, who
is under Indictment charged with the
murder of his foster-Bon, William N.
McClintock, said bo was not disposed
to hear tho bail motion without con
ferring with Chief Justice Hopkins.
Shepherd was not in court when the
motion was offered and State's At
torney Crowe deferred the matter by
insisting that the defendunt be
brought from jail.
SALEM IS BEATEN
CHICAGO, April 3. In the consola
tion finals, third round today, Fort
Smith, Ark, defeated Salem, Ore., by,
a score of 23 to 22, one of the closest
and most exciting games of the tourn
ament. CHICAGO, April 3. Narrowed to
eight teams, the battle Tor tho Intor
scholastlc basketball title got Into the
third round today.
Games In the consolation tourna
ment today Include, Franklin, Port
land, Ore., versus SprlngfieldOhlo.
CORN LEADS WHEAT
IN PANIC DROP
CHICAGO, April 3.-J-orn took the
lead In the Kraln markets todny and
brought about a severe ifeneral Hmnsh
in prices. All dellvcriO of corn n9
oats collapsed to the lowest levels
yet this year. Hhortly before the
close May corn was down sLt cents
to S3 cents a bushel, w
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JUDGE
HARTFORD, Conn., April 3
-(By the Associated Press)
Tho caso against Cierald Chap-
man, mail looter, accused of
murder, was given to the jury
this afternoon.
Chapman, awaiting the vor- f
diet in tho court houso base-
ment this afternoon seemed at
ease and not particularly con-
cerned with the deliverations of
the jurors.
He smilingly accepted a prof
fr fered cigar and remarked:
"You ran always tell a man by
the quality of the cigars he
gives you. This seems to be
all right, so 1 guess you must
be OK."
Then he leaned back com-
fortably to enjoy it.
TELEPHONE CO.
RATEJNCREASE
Local Company Petitions Pub
lic Service Commission for
Approximately 25 Per Cent
Increase to Equalize Rates
Charged Elsewhere.
SALEM. Ore., April 3. The Home
Tolophone & Telogrnph company of
Southern Oregon, with offices at Med
I'ord, yesterday applied to the public
servlcci commission for authority to
Increuse Its service rntes approxi
mately 2& per cent. The company
clulms that the return on Its invest
ment Inst year was less than 1 per
cent. -
"The value of the property," says
the application, "as Bhown by tho
books of the company on Docembor 31,
1924, was $514,790. against which
there was outstanding first mortgage
bonds In the amount of $200,000, which
bonds bear lnterot nt the rate of 6 per
cent per annum. There was also out
standing 6 per cent notes In the
amount of $10,775 nnd 8:130 shares of
common stock valued nt $249,000.
"During the year 1924 a physical
Inventory was taken of this property
and an appraisal has now been com
pleted. This shows tho value of the
pioporty as of January 1, 1924, at
$412,503.90, and the additions and
betterments to January 1, 1925, give
a value of $416,700. 'JO.
"The rate of return on the appraised
value, as indicated above, for the year
1924 was .965 per cent, and had the
proposed scbodule of rates been in
effect for the same period the rate of
return would have been 4 726 per cent,
or less than 5 per cent Interest on the
Investment"
Copy of lyotter
Publlc Servlco Commission of Oregon,
Salem, Oregon.
Gentlemen:
We are banding you horewith for
filing, a new schedule of tolophone
exchange rates for Tho Homo Tele
phone nnd Telegraph company of
Southern Oregon. The changes pri
marily affect only the Medford nnd
Jacksonville service, which exchanges
nro inlercommunlcatlvo without
charge.
In ndditlnn, we are enclosing, In
compliance with tho commission's
rules and regulations, a stntemcnt of
tho company's financial operations
covering a period of the last five years
and ending December 31, 19U4. This
statement reflects the- company's
books and records.
Industrial activity In Medford has
greatly Increased in the past year, and
this has reached tho stage whore It
becomes absolutely necessary to re
arrange and extend the plant of this
company. Medford is tho principal
city in the company's territory, and
tho Industrial activity above men
tioned will continue to Increase quite
rapidly. The company has nlready
made temporary extensions In its cen
tral office to provide for tho present
growth but this rnnnot continue and a
substantial Investment in new capital
must now bo made by the company in
order to keep pnee with the domands
of this community. - To do this the
company must borrow money, and it
cannot properly finance itself unless
'Continued on Page Slight)
INDICTED FOR
INDIANAPOLIS. April 3. D. C;
SU'phentwn, former grand draKon of
the Ku Klux Kiun In Indiana, was
Indicted todny by the Marion county
grand jury on five charges In con
nection with an alleged attack on
Minn Madgo Obcrholtzer of Indlan
n no lift. 4fc
Indictments also were returned
against Earl Klenck and Earl Gentry,
AGAIN ASKS FOR
DECISION IN
CRIME CASE
Government's Effort to Secure
Criminal Indictment Against
Ex-Secy, of Interior Thrown
Out By Court May Mean
Final Victory for Fall and
Doheny.
WABIIINOTON. April 3. The gov.
eminent will appeal from tho decls
lon of Iho supreme court of the Dis
trict of Columbia quashing Indict
monts returned against Albert B.
Knll, Edward L. Doheny, Harry V.
Sinclair and Edward I.. Doheny, Jr.,
In the oil reserve cases.
This announcement was made to
day by United States District Attor
ney Gordon aftor a telephone conver
sation with Owen J. Roberts of spec
ial government oil counsel at Phlla.
delphia.
WASHINGTON. April 3. The gov
ernment's effort to secure criminal
indictments against Albert E. Fall and
tho oil magnates Who negotiated the
celebrated western oil land leases with
him encountered a serious setback to
day when all of the Indictments were
thrown out of court
Because of tho presence in the grand
jury room of an assistant attorney
general while the Indictments wero
being drawn up last summer, the Dis
trict of Columbia supreme court held
that neither tho former Interior sec
retary. Edward L. Doheny, Harry F
Sinclair nni 1T,lua. T r. , '
had been legally indicted.
ino mil cnarging Fall and the Do
heny s with criminal conspiracy first
was dismissed on the ground that the
assistant attorney-general's presence
in the e-rnnil (,... " .
... ..... 0.u..u J...J luum was .contrary
to law nnd then the court proceeded
u auuiuur opinion to apply the same
rule to the Fall-Sinclair conspiracy
indictment
The opinion today wns handed
down by Chief Justice McCoy who
held that the Semite riunit,tin
ing prosecution of tho oil cases' from
mo u inramii or justice and placing
It In tho hands of special counsel,
took away at tho same Hmn ih. ..ii,
of the attorney general or any of his
ii.iium io appear before the grand
ui y.
Oliver E. Pairnn. linHrlmanr
of the department of Justice for
thirty years, Is tho assistant attorney
general who was nresent fin,.inn.
grand Jury Investigation. Ho drew
tn indictments which now are thrown
out of court.
Tho court over-ruled th mnun(u-
of counsel for tho oil men that the
rauio speech of Senator Thomas J.
Walsh of Montana, ehlmf n.-.,...
of tho senato oil Inquiry during the
win uio caso was pending before the
grand Jury, rendered the indictments
void. Ho also overruled tho claim of
the defense thnt United States Attor
ney Gordon was improperly present
In the grand Jury and that Atlee W.
1'omereno and Owen J. Roborts, the
president's spoclal counsel, roally ap
peared as special assistants to the at
torney general and therefore should
have been barred.
On the latter phase the court said
that It wns immaterial thnt tnmAI.A..A
and Roberts had signed tho Indict
ment as - special assistants," becauso
it wus not necessary that they sign at
all. They wero rightly present, tho
court said, "as the government's spe.
clul counsel."
WASHINGTON, April 3. Indict
ments returned by a grand Jury hero
aeainst Albert KVill r.,pmol. ,
of the Interior; Edward L. Doheny and
cuwaru u. uoneny Jr., were quashed
today by Chief Justice McCoy In the
supreme court of the District of
Columbia. The court's opinion was
based on the ground that Oliver T.
Hagen, special assistant to the attorney-general,
bad been present dur
ing the consideration of the cases' by
the grand jury.
The indictments had to do with the
revelations in the senate oil Inquiry,
but constituted a separate proceeding
from the civil suits recently brought
to trial In Cheyenne.
They charged criminal conspiracy
In connection with the oil leasing pro
gram. Should the higher courts up
hold the ruling and no new Indict
ments be returned, it would mean the
collapse of the government's criminal
proceedings In this case.
ASSAULTING GIRL
said to havo been conjtanlona of
Stephenson.
Stephenson, who was arrested last
night on affidavits filet? by George
E. Oberholtjter, father of Mlra Ober
hoKzer, gained proininence through
out the country as mganlr of the
klan In 21 northern states.
Judge James A. Collins fixed Ste
phenaon'i bond at 125,000.
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