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Newspaper Page Texto o o EDFORB MAIL TRIBUN: The Weather Prediction ....Generally fnlr Maximum' yesterday 6.S Minimum today 35.9 Weather Year Ao Maximum 79 Minimum 4a Ifcily Twentieth Yenr. Weekly Fifty-third Year., MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, APHTL 7, 1925 NO. 14 M E JAZZ" GIRL FLAYS HER Dorothy Ellingson Threatens to Take Stand and Prove She Is Not Insane Prefers Prison to Insane Asylum Statement of Girl Denying Insanity Is Introduced." SAV FRANCISCO, April 7. Dorottiy KUlngsoii, 17-ycar-old matrlcldo on trial for her sanity before a jury in superior court here, Interrupted the proceed ings this arternoon by hurling n glass of water ut her attorneys anil denouncing; them bitterly. "You can't talk about me like that!" cried the girl, smashing a bottle of HmellhiK salts on the table by way of emphasis. "Walt until I take the stand and tell about It!" ..She then wept and Judge IiOiiderback ordered a brief recess. The outburst cam during the cross-examination of Dr. Edward W. Twitchell, a prosecution alienist, who had testified that he considered the girl sane. Sylvester J. McAteo of de fense counsel had been asking the witness about the incidents surround ing the death of Mrs. Anna Ellingson, whom Dorothy shot last January 13 after a quarrel over the girl's night life. SAN FRANCISCO. April 7. The court proceedings which have been marked by many dramatic high lights to determine whether Dorothy Elling son, 17-year-old matricide, is sane or Insane, were expected to enter their final phase today. The opinion was expressed in many -quarters here to day that the-cuse probably would be In the hands of tlie' jurors by tomor row afternoon or Thursday morning. Those attending the young prison er at the county jail today said the girl persisted In reiterating her deter mination of taking the witness stand in an endeavor to convince the jury she Is sane. The defendant, accord ing to attendants, seems still more to fear the stigma of being insane than of being prosecuted and made to pay a penalty for the murder of her moth er, Mrs. Anna Ellingson, last January. SAN FRANCISCO, April 7. A written account of an interview be tween Dorothy Ellingson, the 'seven teen year old matricide and Dr. Jo seph Catton, a prosecution alienist, was introduced at the sanity trial to day and contained a test intended to demonstrate that the girl understood all the proceedings and was capable of making a rational defense. The statement, signed by the girl, quoted her as saying she would rath er stand trial for murder because otherwise she "mtght have to be sent somewhere and have to stand it Inter the quicker the better.". ( The girl added that if necessary she could go into court and defend hersolf. The former "jazz girl" who killed her mother in a. quarrel over late hours and wild parties was quoted In the statement as declaring she "certainly knew," the difference be tween right and wrong and under stood what it meant to take a human life. Dr. Edward W. Twitchell, assistant professor of neurology in the Univer sity of California and director of the psychopathic wards in San Francisco hospital testified he considered the girl sane, legally and medically and would class her only as "a moral de fective." Never Meant to Do It SAN FRANCISCO, April 7. With the resumption of the sanity hearing of Dorothy Ellingson this morning, Mrs. Mary O'Shea, a jailer, was called by the state. The witness said the girl always had talked rationally and coherently since the Imprisonment in the county jail. The girl once said, according -to Mrs. O'Shea. that the people who were trying to prove her insane were more Insane than she was. "I never meant to do It," the girl said of her deed In killing her mother, Mrs. O 8ha related. 'Continued on Pave 81z) LOUISVILLE. Ky., April 7 X peti tion asking receivership for the local unit of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, alleging that funds had been misappropriated, dissipated and squan dered, was filed In circuit court here today by Dr. W, H. Morgan and A. J. Owens, insurance agent, recently sus pended by the state insurance com missioner. O Not less than $20,000 has been col lected by A. D. George, kleagle, and KUN RECEIVERSHIP $20,000 IN due: Secretary Work Not to Come North of Klamath This Trip PORTLAND, Ore., .fy'ril 7. James M. Kyle leaves Portland tonight for Weed, Cal., to hold a conference with Secretary Hubert Work of the Interior department, who Is to arrive there tomorrow for an inspection of the Klamath 4 irrigation project. Secretary Work is accompanied by Stephen T. Mather, director of national parks and Dr. Elwood Mead, cominis- sloner of reclnmatjon. Secretary Work will not come to Portland on the present trip to the state, Kyle was advised. He will spend three days in Klamath county, then will proceed to other points In California. Home-Run King Collapses As He Steps from Train and Is Rushed to Hotel Unconsci ous Apparently Suffering from the Flu. NEW YORK, April 7. The Even ing World says this afternoon that Babe Ruth, professional baseball's premier slugger, collapsed today in the railway station at Ashevillc, N. C, aS the New York Yankees and the Brooklyn Robins reached that city for another game of their exhibition series. The newspaper's baseball corre spondent, traveling -with" the- team said that Ruth fainted and that he apparently was suffering from influ enza. He has been ailing for tho last few days of the strenuous barnstorm ing tour. Ruth had complained of a head ache and a fever as the players' spec ial train left Nashville, Tenn., the dispatch said. On the trip to Ashe villc he took some medicine given him by the Yankees trainer but this did not relieve his complaint and when he stepped from the train he collapsed in the arms of John Levi, the Haskell Indian. He was rushed in a taxi cab to the Battery Park hotel and was carried to his room un conscious, while doctors were called. The bambino was delirious on the train ride from Nashville to Ashevllle, the dispatch adds, and quotes him as saying: "I want to go back to New York. If Hug (Miller J. Huggins, the Yankees' manager) doesn't send me I'll hire an airplane." I NEW YORK, April 7. Jacob A Ross, a diamond merchant, was rob bed of between $40,000 and $50,000 worth of unset diamonds today by men who waylaid him as he was as ccndlng the stairs of a building in west 44th street, two blocks from Times Square. Ross said he was struck down from behind and did not know how many robbers were involved in the holdup. The robbers had telephoned him to deliver some diamonds for a bracelet. They were hiding in the building when he arrived. Police said Ross told them that the diamonds were Insured with Lloyds for $75,000. X. Y. Sugar Hits New Low NEW YORK. April 7. Refined sugar touched a new low price for the year today when the Federal Sugar Refining company reduced fine granulated to 6.75 cents a pound. Escaped Convict Captured. WALLA WALLA. Wash.. April 7.- Wlllam Tucker, convict, who escaped Sunday, was captured last night near Pendleton and returned at once to the penitentiary in Walla Wala. ASKED, CLAIM by A. W. Hoehnx secretary and treas urer, the petition alleged. No report of the funds collected as fnltintlnn fans Hnaa anH thcniip-h ifta to the local order has been made tffl the membership at 0rgc, the petition declared, a Statements made by klan agents dw ciarea in me pennon to nave neen "fraudulent and false." w-p respon sible for the membership eifPollment BAMBINO FAINTS EN ROUTE NORTH, DOCTORS CALLED of 6000 in the city. m GERM CASE IS TAKEN TO SUPREME CT. Shepherd's Attorney Express es Appeal to Illinois Supreme Court for Writ of Habeas Corpus Judge Olson Is Condemned Client Not Getting a Square Deal. CHICAGO, April 7. (By the Asso ciated Press.) William Scott Stewart, counsel for William D. Shepherd, an nounced today he was expressing to Springfield to the supreme court of Illinois a petition for a writ of habeas corpus for Shepherd. The latter Is in jail awaiting arraignment lor the murder of William McClintock. 'As soon as investigation was started by certain powerful interests," said Stewart in his brief in support of the petition, "dissatisfied with the distribution of the large (McClintock) estate and said investigation was called to the attention, through the press of certain worthless scoundrels, who the evidence shows were. conduct ing a fake school and diploma mill and the activities included the black mailing of citizens, there was some talk among these people concerning the possibility of claiming the exist ence of a letter to the school written by William D. Shepherd, Inquiring about a bacteriology course. . . ." Tho brief continues to the effect that plans of these persons to seek "hush money" became known to those who had already inaugurated a cam paign to break the will, "and these characters were bent to the desire of the interests behind this prosecution." The petition, signed by Robert H. Stoll, who shares law offices with Shepherd, stressed the participation of Unlet JUBtlce Harry Olson in the in vestigation, it declared: "The activities of Judge Olson have been such, and his power Is such in Cook county, that with the public opinion inflamed . . . the state's at torney of Cook county, your petitioner represents, has adopted a policy which is highly prejudicial to -the rights of William D. Shepherd, defendant, in a proper preparation of his defense." The petitioner alleges that a pros pective witness for the defense was chaseu down a tire-escape by seven detectives, and adds: "The state's attorney at the present time holds at least four people in custody at the various hotels." PLANT EXPLODFS SEVERAL KILLED HANOVER, Mass, April 7. One man is known to be dead and several other employes of the National Fire works company s plant here are be lieved to have lost their lives when a aeries of explosions followed by fire destroyed a large part of the plant this afternoon. The fire departments of seven towns were struggling to save the magazines and surrounding houses. Several other employes In the same building escaped by jumping through windows into the Drinkwater river. The explosion in the mixing shed was followed immediately by a long series of detonations as building after building went up in fragments. Fran tic girls at work in the sheds dived through doorways or windows to seek safety in the river. So severe was the concussion that all the windows were blown out in the factory of the Han over Rubber company, 1000 feet away, and many workers were thrown to the floor. A high wind drove the sparks far and wide, starting grass and brush fires over a large area. With a large part of the plant already destroyed, th firemen strove to save the com pany houses occupied by workers, many of which caught fire from the sparks. The explosion occurred Immediately after the resumption of work for the afternoon. In the mixing) shed the work of blending powder in 300-pound lots for the manufacture of fireworks toad been done by hand, but today a machine was introduced as a labor- saving device. Ofl'icia believe that a spark from this machine fell on 25 60-DOUiid macs of black gunpowder stoifd In the llttlo building, causing ll lo expiiMie. Clirstle Funeral April irth PORTLAND, Ore., .A.prll 7-The funeral of Archbishop Alexander Christie of the Catholic archdio cese of Oregon City, ,wl died yes terday, .will be hel Wednesday., Anril 15 at 10:30 a. m., .from Ht. Mary's pro-cathcdr here, if plans suggested today are approved at a conference of prelates of the arch- diocese tomorr3 m FIREWORKS Called "Queen of Vamps? Queen of vamps? That is tlie title being claimed for CarracY Myers as a result of her work as Iris, the Egyptian siren, in the screen version of "Ben Hur." Carmel has had a long and success ful (61m) career as a vamp. WRONGED WIFE GIVEN BY SALEM JURY Governor Pierce's Former Pri vate Secretary Found Guil ty of Alienating The Affec tions of Fred Bozell No Defense Presented. ' SALEM, Ore., April 7. Mrs. Alice Bozell was given ail she asked fior in her action against Celia Bollman, former private secretary to Governor Pierce, when a jury in circuit court returned a verdict of $10,000 as heart blam. The action was uncontested throughout, neither Miss Bollman, nor attorneys for her appearing in court at any time in tho proceedings. The jury deliberated Jess than twen ty minutes. Closing testimony in the case In eluded statements from V. B. Jones, detectlvo, who told of Fred Bozell, husband of the plaintiff, and MIhb Boil- man meeting In Portland and follow ing them to Centralia, where they reg istered at a hotel for the night, from Charles Ferrell, street car motorman, who told of a trip to a nearby resort taken by Bozell nnd Miss Bollman and of Deputy Sheriff Bert Smith, who identified the Bollman automobile li cense number. Miss Bollman's car figured promin ently In the trips mentioned In tho testimony. Miss Bollman has been absent from Salem for a number of weeks, reports received here being to the effect that she Is at Olympia, Wash. Attorneys for Mrs. Bozell stated they would follow up every avenuo in an effort to collect the judgment, to arise out of the vordict. WHEAT START COMEBACK CHICAGO, April 7. New advances In the value of wheat and corn went beyond ordinary limits again today. Wheat in some cases showed an up turn of GVi cenV a bushel as com pared with yesterday's finish, May delivery reaching $1.51. Corn scored an extreme upturn of 4 cents. Daily Report on the Crime Wave LOS ANGELKH. April 7. Mr. and Mrs. Ken Marx, and guests. two of them jvomen, wore held ut and rob bed ir Jrwfhy vftltifd at $2oo,ori0 by two ariift'd men who met them In the driveway of the Marx home in their return from a theater party early to- day. According to Marx's report to ,the police one of the men covered them with his pistol when they stepped from the Marx automobile, while the other stripped the three women of diamond rings and bracelets set with diamonds ijnd sapphircs Including one five -carat diamond ring. $1 0,000 1 VICE 15 RAIDED BY POLICE Business Offices of liquor and Vice Corporation' Are Cap tured Along with 8 Minor Officials List of Custom ers Is Secured. CHICAGO, April 7. Evidence of a liquor and vice syndicate which the police said has been doing a business of millions of dollars a year was found here yesterday in a raid on Its headquarters, where eight men Alleg ed to bo minor heads of the organi zation wero arrested. . t Records of wealthy liquor custom ors, names of bribed prohibition en forcement officers, accounts of beer deliveries and details of the channels whereby liquor was brought from rum fleets, off New York, Miami and Now Orleans, wero confiscated. The raiders said they found nn account ing system as efficient as that of a big business concern. Several thousand dollars in checks of suloonmen and druggists, including one for J 5,000 from a north side drug store, were seized. Among the papers was a telephone toll bill of J287 for calls to New York, Miami and New Orleans. ' John Patton, former mayor of Burnham, a suburb, one of those ar rested, was charged by Sergeant Ed ward Birmingham of the raiders with having offered him $5000 to forget the bookkeeping system." The others arrested, tho police said, were under world characters, several with police records. . ' . Tho office suite had a doctor's name on the door and the first room entered was fitted up like a physic ian's reception room Shelves wore stocked with half pints of various brands and kinds of liquor, available for prospective customers to take to their own chemists for analysis. In the scrupulously Itemized ac count books and loose leaf ledgers, detectives said, were, listed names of more than 200 well known Chlcago ans 'and many large hotels here as patrons, customers of ale. beer and liquor here and In outlying towns, details of the management of four largo breweries here, accounts of de liveries of carloads of beer and liquor and the cost systems used In disor derly houses. A GAME FROM GIANTS WASHINGTON. April 7. Mucky in I arris, with fou uPmts, led the Wash- lngton attack yesterday which gave the champions their second Ictory over the Giants 7 to 4 In their exhibi tion series. The other Senators added ten hits to a totl off a quartet of Giant pitchers, whfle the New York ers tooka few liberties with putch Rcuther'a delivery. SYNDICATE CHICAGO Lady Admirals in U.' S. Navy Forecasted . by Admiral Robison SAN FRANCISCO, April 7 (By the Associated Press.) To- ward Oakland the personnel of the grand fleet of the United States turned its attack today in 4 its campaign of friendly rela- tions to subjugate the residents of the bay district. Admiral Robison, the chief speaker, convulsed the audience when he remarked In a casual tono that "we haven't any lady admirals yet but I can foresee tlie day when 'lady admirals' will wall? the quarter decks of the flagships of American fleets.-' EX- STATE TREASURY E Clarence W. Thompson Pleads Guilty to Larceny of Public Funds, Sentenced to 2 Years in Pen, Given Parole by Judge. SALEM, Ore., April 7. Clarence W. Thompson, former cashier In the state treasury department under State Treasurer O. P. Iloff and Jefferson Myers, was last night' sentenced by Judge Percy R. Kelly to two years In the state penitentiary for larceny of public funds but was paroled from the bench. The sentence was Imposed af ter Thompson had pleaded guilty to the charge of larceny of public funds furvhlcU.JQuwwixtigeoUy. indicted by the Marlon county grand Jury, Under a law enacted, by tho 1925 legislature, Thompson will be com pelled to visit the state penitentiary in a few days to be photographed and have his flngor prints recorded. Attorney John H. McNary, In apply ing for parole for his client, introduc ed four witnesses, including the de fendant. Thompson admitted that he had taken the approximately f!)3S mentioned In the Indictment against him but intended to pay the money back and had done so. Most of it had been spent, he said, for the benefit of his wife's health. In addition to tho ,t3G Thompson said he had paid back $100 to cover a shortage in the treas ury that could not be traced.. The loose practlve of the treasury depart ment in advancing salaries to officials and employes, Thompson claimed, re sulted In his arrest and indictment. In pronouncing sentence Judge Kel ly said ho was not impressed with Thompson's accusation that there were other transgressors In the office of the state treasurer. The Judge In formed Thompson that under his pa role he would be expected to refrain from violations of any law of the state. No recommondation was made by District Attorney Carson either for or against the parole. REDDING, Cal., April 7. Dr. Ern est plzler, a member of the city coun cil and former assemblyman, resisted the combined forces of the city mar shal and the police department here last night when they were ordered by P,.C. Mitchell, chairman of the board to expel Dozler from a meeting of the council. Dozler claimed that he had the floor under parllamnetary rulos and clung tenaciously to his seat. Spectators who were sympathetlv with Dozler, who opposed a street paving resolu tion, threatened to Intervene In his behalf, but the tumult subsided and Dozler was alowed to retain the floor. BALTIMORE, April 7. Invention of a device known as "the prismatic rllig," will enable radio fans to see thft nnvt niumnlfl - , ,11 iifur inu L-iieerwiB, u ih pretucien in a rport to the American Chemical so ciety In session here today by the In ventor, C. Francis Jenkins of Wash ington, D. C. He also promises tljpt the stay-at-homes may see the presidential In augural ceremonies from their own fireside; see a distant football, polo or baseball game as It is happening; a regatta, mardi gras, flower festival or baby parade, while these things are actually happening. More essentially applied, Mr. Jen CASHIER ADMITS CRIM PASTOR IS FORGIVEN WIFE 01 Ex-Minister Who Eloped with Wife's Sister Returns to Fireside and Peels Pota toes Wife Returns Also But Finds Mate and Her Home Sold. SOUTH BEND, Ind., April 7." Wilson W. Culp, former Monnonite ' and MothodiBt minister today appar ently had been taken back into the home which he left here several weeks ago to elope to Chicago, with Mrs. Clio Culp, his sister-in-law, Clio Culp, however, seems of a less forgiving nature and his eloping wife found upon her return that her husband hnd sold his homo and house furnishings at ' Nappannee, lnd., and departed. 8he is now rosiding wtth her par ents on a farm near Nappannee. SOUTH BEND, Ind April 7. Wll- !son W. Culp, former Spring Valley, Ohio, minister, father of ten children and one of the principals In two elopoments In the past two years, la forgiven and is back home again peeling potatoes. After eloping last February with Mrs. Cleo Culp, his sister-in-law, he . returned Sunday and was hidden in his homo here by his wife until yes terday when she obtained the pro mise of officials that he would not be , arrested. Interviews last night found Culp paring potatoes for supper. He would nut say anything. He will look for a new Job tomorrow, Mrs. Culp said,' -. Homo time ngo Rev, Culp eloped with the leader of his choir ftt Spring Vdl-y loy, Oh'tb, and was forgrven by hla wlfo after serving a workhouse sen tence. ' , ,' ............ ... v . . Mrs. Clio Culp ' la once more In . her home at Nappannee, Indiana, re-unltod with her husband and two children.. So far as she Is con cerned, nor recent elopement with her brother-in-law, Wllnon W. Culp of South Bend, Is a closed Incident and neither she nor her husband will discuss the matter. She re turned to her home Sunday night, arriving from South - Bend In an auto bus after having returned to the I latter city from Chicago in company with the former Methodist and Men nonlte preacher whose elopment with an eighteen-year-old choir lead er of the Spring Valley church cre ated a sensation In Ohio two years ago. , . At his home In River Park, a South Bend suburb, Culp talked with . reporters before starting today- on his quest for employment, his for mer Job In a department store hav ing been filled. "There is nothing more to it," he Bald. "We have fixed every thing up and I am home to stay. There will be no prosecution." "My wife here," ha added, nodding toward bis wife who sat nearby with the youngest of her ten children on her lap( "has refused to sign any war- . ranta." 10 AT PENDLETON, Ore., April 7. -Announcement was made here today by Henry W. Collins, president of the Pendleton roundup to the effect that the "Pony Express," a gigantic fea ture film as planned by Universal Pictures will be f limed 1 n and around Pendleton this summer. Nor man Kerry will star In the produc tion, according to the announcement and about 1,000 persons will be In the cast. Later, it Is planned, In another play, the roundup wilt be used as the background for a second western feature. LSEE BY kins says that the extension work of the great universities can be more vividly brought to the distant farm boy and girl by radio than In any other manner. In military work the chiefs of army and navy, it is declared, may see at headquarters all that a lens looks upon ns It Is curried aloft In a scout ing airplane. Mr. Jenkins explained that still pic tures are now excellently done both by radio and by wire and that as the speed of the apparatus is the only difference between stills and movies, the public may confidently expect radio movies soon. . The . prismatic ring is a new contribution to opffcal science, the report said.