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MEDFORD. OREGON", MONDAY, APRIL V. IOlTi
NO. V)
I LEAGUE
TEAMS OPEN
1 925 RACE
Baseball Begins Tomorrow in
East Babe Ruth and Many
, Stars On Sick List Cele
brate Jubilee Year of Na
tional Game.
CHICAGO, April 13. (By the As
sociated Press) Tomorrow brings
the event toward which the atten
tion of baseball fundorn has been
directed for long winter-bound
months, the first lap in the gruel
ling race for supreme baseball honor,
with sixteen entries starting from
scratch.
Although the pre-sonson warming
up of the national ""and American
league clubs was marked by a dis
astrous list of casualties, each club
faced the start of the 1925 season
with confidence and with predic
tions of a better showing in all de
partments of the nationul gume.
Even last year's cellar position
teams indicated in cautious state
ments that they did not expect to
again be last in the home stretch.
Manager Jtancroft of the Boston
Braves, tuilenders in the National
league promised a "more colorful,
more interesting, and I hope, more
successful team than last season
while tho morale of the Chicago
White Sox, the 1924 markers of the
American league was reported the
highest since the 1919 world series
with lots of enthusiasm In camp.
While Injuries will keep a number
of regulars out of the opening games
and In some instances a long pe
riod, resourceful managers expected
to plug their positions with veterans
or new talent.
Among the' absentees will be the
ighty Babe Ruth, who will hear 1
niighty
the returns from a New York hos
pital. Stricken with influenza after
his strenuous efforts to work off
excess strength in , the south, the
Bambino for a second time was
horse de combat as his team mates
prepared for the opener.
Some teams, not-ably the 1924
champion Washington Senutors, will
send Into the affray the same line
up that fought last year, but many
new faces will appear on other
teams. ,ln particular a liberal Infu
sion of new blood has been given
both Boston clubs.
Some prize beauties from tho lower
leagues will be given an opportu
nity to prove their worth. The Phila
delphia Athletics have a now bat
tery, reputed to have cost $150,000.
It is composed of Lefty Groves from
Baltimore and Gordon Cockrane
from Portland. The Boston Braves'
roster shows a $50,000 player, Jim
Welsh, obtained from Senttle.
The Washington Americans again
will have the services of Walter
Johnson and four new pitchers have
been added, to the team and the re
serve force has been strengthened.
Last year's runners up, the New
York Giants, do not present an un
broken front, illness and injury mak
ing Manager McGraw's arrangements
for the opener so uncertain that only
one player was certain of a berth.
Frisch's Injured foot was expected
to keep him out but young Lind
strom was a prospect for second
base. Art Nehf probably will take
the mound.
Gaps In the ranks In the New
York Yankees have been filled H)
recruits.
Urban Shocker may ho picked to
pitch, while In Ruth's place will ap
pear the promising Ben Paschal.
The Chicago Cubs find thetaselves
handicapped by injurled with "Walter
( Rabbit) Maranville nursing a
broken collar bone. With Eddie Col
lins at the helm, the White Sox
were reported on their toes with en
thusiasm. The St. Louis Browns have one
holdout, Bill Jacobson, star center
fielder, who wants more money.
Manager George Sisler thinks his
Ditching staff much improved with
the acquisition of Milton Gaston, Joe
Giard and Joe Bush from the New
York Yankees.
The St. Louis Cardinals "are much
stronger in a couple of positions and
every man fit to go," according to
Manager Branch Rickey.
Connie Mack, pilot of the Phila
delphia Athletics made no predic
tions but said he was "going to win
enough games to make the fans for
get the years in the cellar."
40 AFRICAN CHIEFS
NOISY WELCOME
ACORA, Gold Coat, West Africa.
April 13. (By Associated Press.)
After ft busy Sunday the Prince
Wales started another day of cere-monle-by
receiving addrs from
the legislative council which was read
by the senior African member of the
body. Th0 member later presented
the prince with a huge elephant tusk.
Having received the Gold 'oast
, legislators, the prince went to ffie
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Jefferson Day Orator
Declares Pierce False
To Party and Voters
PORTLAND, Ore.. April 13.
Gilbert E. Hamaker, chair-
man of the Multnomah county
democratic central committee, H,
in a Jefferson day speech today
4 before the Tammany society, a
local democratic organization,
attacked Governor Walter M.
Tierce. Ho said the governor
had already opened his cam- 4
paign for renomlnation as gov-
4 ernor by the democratic party,
4 and therefore his claims for re-
nomination may properly be
analyzed.
He declared the governor had
i been false to the democratic
4 party and also false to the 4
fr people who elected him, "having 4
4 fulled to live up to his cam- 4
4 palgn promises." 4
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EASIER FROLIC
LI
Force Mrs. Coolidge to Re
treat When Children Are
Greeted at Annual Egg
Rolling President Looks
Up From Work.
WASHINGTON. April 13. Frolick
ing youngsters abandoned to the joys
of Easter egg rolling were again over
lords of the White House domain to
day. Custom so had it. with the one
interruption of the war days, almost
as long us uie iireHiueuwui muiie m
stood on Its crest of sloping lawns,
Easter- Monday this year falls on
the seventeenth birthday anniversary
of Calvin Coolidge, Jr., who died last
summer.
President and Mrs. Coolidge, how
ever, accepted the occasion for wel
coming the city's children for the an
nual event just as warmly as they did
a year ago.
An early sally by Mrs. Coolidge Into
the throng was turned into a retreat
because the White House dogs insist
ed on being the center of attraction
when the children crowded about
Paul Pry, tho nlredale, and Rob
Roy, the white collie." leaped and
barked when Mrs. Coolidge sought to
mix with her youthful guests and she
was forced to return to the White
House portico.
Mrs. Coolidge tied the dogs up, but
she was not able to return again im
mediately to the festival though the
children and their attendants crowded
about the house and applauded her
every move,
The day, like yesterday, was Ideal
and the grounds were filled early
with children, including many who
were barely able to toddle about.
From his office the president was
In a position to view the happy scene,
although the usual number of bust
ness callers held his attention during
the morning.
TO
START FLIGHTS
DETROIT, April 13. (By the As
soclated Press) The Ford Motor
company today maugurated what is
said to be the first commercial air
line to be established in the United
States, when the "Maiden Dearborn,
an all-metal monoplane of the air
Pullman type, hopped off from Ford
airport, Dearborn, at 9:24 a. m., with
a cargo of company mail and ex
press for the Ford plant at Hage-
wisch, near Chicago.
Alien Bride-Klcrt Dies
SEATTLE, April 13. Ralssa Togo
novskaya, 20 year old Russian lmml
grant girl, died here today from poi
son taken eleven days ago when she
wus refused admission to the United
States. George De TImofeev, a San
Francisco street car motorman, for
merly h Russian naval officer, who
was engaged to the girl In Moscow
five years ago, was at the bedside.
AND RETINUES IN
10 PRINCE OF WALES
polo grounds where crowds had gath
ered since dawn for the royal recep
tlon of native chiefs from the central
province ofVhe colony. The road wa
packed with ma. uses of black human
ity yelling welcome to the royal visl
tor while the polo ground ItHelf pre
sentl a rare picture of tropical coloi
with forty chiefs and their retinues
grouped in a great semi-circle under
gorgeous canopies with a bukground
of trees and the sea.
CAPITO
AWN
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PESTERED
REPORT IN
GERM DEATH
IS DELAYED
Undefined Substance Found in
Body of Dr. Olson, Tests
Under Way Mother Held
for Wholesale Deaths in
Family Last Six Years.
CHICAGO. April 13. (By the As
sociated Press) An undefined sub
stance which will bo tested for poi
sonous properties had been found in
the organs of Dr. Oscar Olson, . It
was lenrned today. The discovery
delayed the report which had been
expected today of an analysis made
of the organs by Coroner's Chemist
William D. McNally.
Dr. McNally will conduct expert
ments to ascertain what the reaction
of a vital organism would be to the
newly discovered substance and
whether tho substance is noxious.
Dr. Olson had been the physician
of tho late William Nelson McClin
tock and a childhood friend of his
deceased mother, Mrs. Emma Nelson
MeClintock.
CHICAGO, April 13. (By the As
soclated Press) Mrs. Anna Cunning
ham, whose husband and , four of
their children died after brief ill
nesses within six years was taken
into custody today at the county
hospital by two police sergeants and
a matron from Gary. Ind., and taken
back there for detention pending fur
ther investigation of the mysterious
deaths.
CHICAGO. April 13. (By tho As
sociated Press) Two Gary, Ind., po
lice officers came here today to take
into custody Mrs. Anna Cunningham,
who has been detained In connection
with tho investigation of the deaths
of her husband and four children
In the lust six years and the poison
ing of her son, David, Jr., now in a
hospital here. .
Tho policemen. went to the county
hospital where Mrs. Cunningham at
tempted to choko herself to death
last night with a bed sheet.
A county physician declared Mrs.
Cunningham is suffering from epi
lepsy. The move to return Mrs. Cunning
ham to Gary came while the author
ities of Lake county, which includes
Gary, of Porter county, and of Chi
cago, were arranging tho exhumation
today of one or more of the bodies
of the deceased members of the
Cunningham family. The bodies were
burled In a cemetery near Valpar
aiso, Ind., in porter county.
EXPERTS ARRIVE
TO VIEW SITES
'Prof. Hurl R. Douglas and Dr. II.
P. Rainey, experts from the depart
ment of the school of education at
the U. of O., arrived in the city this
forenoon for the purpose of making
a survey of various sites for a new
high school building.
They were met at the station by
a committee from the school board.
A. H. Miller and E. E. Wilson, and
a committee from the city planning
commission, Rev. J. B. Coan and
Emll Mohr.
EX OFFICIAL SICK
IN PRISON CELL
SALEM. Ore., April 13. Clarence
W. Thompson, former cashier in the
state treasurer's office, who was sen
tenced Saturday to serve a maximum
of nine years In the state penitentiary
for lerceny of public money was re
ceived at the prison Saturday after
noon. Warden Dalrymple said that
Tohmpson will be given employment
about the prison as soon as he gains
strength. He was 111 prior to the im
position of sentence and is still in a
nervous condition.
SMALL PORTION OF
NEWS IS CRIME NEWS
nnCATUR. 111.. April 13. The De
catur Review today resumed Its unual
makeup after a week of segregating
crime news to one place on the bot
tom of page one.
"The Review has proved its point;
only a small portion of the news
printed is crime news," s$s a state
Iowa Beauty JSfeBrid6
J 6f, EormerlLegionbmmandet
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The secret marriage, some months ago, of Hanford MacNiuV?
(inset), former national commander of the American Legion, and
Miss Margaret McAuley, has finally become known. The couple
now at home in Mason City. Iowa, withheld the announcement until
Mr. MacNider's parents, now traveling in Europe, could, be giveu
the aewg. first'
RICH YOUTH DIES
BY
CHICAGO, April 13. Robert Pres
ton, 21 year old Northwestern uni
versity student and son of a wealthy
Oak Park family, ended what ho con
sidered a "life of failures," with a
strange death in Lake Michigan yes
terday. A bullet wound In the head and a
brief case of diaries strapped to him
and weighted down with three- heavy
pieces of iron were the conclusions
the youth apparently drew from his
self-confessed philosophy "When
you get to the end of your rope, tie a
knot and hang yourself."
Coroner's physicians described the
diaries as amazingly frank revelations
of the phantasies of a modern youth.
The doctors found a tragic story in
the lad's confessions of his struggle
against an incurable diabetic condi
tion and In his consequent indulgence
in the things which a rigorous diet
forbade, him.
While a student at Northwestern
and for a short time previous at the
University of Illinois, he had suffered
almost continuously from tho disease,
his parents said.
In a note to his parents, which he
left in his room in Evanstou, young
Preston wrote:
"Dear Folks I'm sorry I'm caus
ing you nil this trouble, but you nre
working for my good and I am too.
I am only sorry that I could not show
my appreciation for what you are do
ing for me; for I do appreciate it.
I've thought It nil out and am not
acting on tho spur of the moment.
Please let the matter drop by know
ing that I am at last contented."
The youth's father, William H.
Preston is district manager for the
Corticellt Silk company.
SALE OF SHIPS
MANILA, April 13. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The Philippine Cham
ber of Commerce today udopted a res
olution protesting against tho sale of
shipping board liners now In the ser
vice of the Pacific Mail Steamship
company, to the Dollar Steamship
company. 1he resolution was sent to
Governor General Leonard Wood with
the request that ho transmit it to
President Coolidge. The resolution
says: ,
ROSEBURG, Ore., April 13 Tho
last carload of broccoli to be shipped
thl season went out from Riddle to
day and with the exception of a few
small express shipments as the late
crop continues ripening, it' Is thought
there will be no more carload ship
ments, as it took four days to gather
enouKh for flie final ear.
The shipment moved today makes
the sixty-third carload for the senson.
all except one being hlped out of Myr
t'e Creek and Riddle, the only section
of the country wheru the cold weather
of December did m completely kill
the crop.
INT
JO REIVE JOB
HOLDER TESTED
WASHINGTON, April . 13. The
president's power to remove from
office his own or his predecessor's
appointees wus at issue in a ense
reached for argument today In the
supreme court, with the executive
and legislative branchos of tho gov
ernment represented as contestants.
The caso became one for construc
tion by tho highest court of presi
dent's power .under tho constitution
to remove executive nppolntoes to
offices created by congress when the
senate intervenes, in the appeal of the
late Frank S. MyerH, who was re
moved as postmaster at Portland,
Ore., in 1920 by President Wilson.
Myers sued for back pay on the
ground that his removal was illegal.
Prior to presenting argument today
briefs forming tho basis of their op
posing contentions were filed by So
licitor General Beck for tho president
and Senator Pepper for the Hcnate.
Contending that congress has full
power over all government offices ex
cept those created by the constitution.
Senator Pepper In his brief upheld
the provisions of law prescribing tho
"consent of the senate," as a condi
tion of the president's removal of
first, second and third class postmas
ters. Congress, in creating an office,
the br,ief hold, can fix tho tenure or
tho office, determine how the ap
pointment shall be made and how In
cumbents may bo removed.
Solicitor Beck, on the other hand,
declared In his brief that "by attack
ing tho Independence of tho execu
tive." the question at issue struck at
a principle Involving the "very foun
dation of our government."
The responsibility of the president
for faithful execution of the laws, he
contended, must, as a vital necessity,
be considered as carrying with it the
constitutional power to remove the
unfit or unworthy without the con
sent of congress.
Death Toll of
the Automobile
PORTLAND, Ore., April 13. Paul
Caneveri, 45, died at a hospital today
from injuries suffered March
when he was struck by an automobile
while he was walking In a driving
rain along East 82nd street. Police
said they would arrest F. G. Martin
of White Salmon, Wash., who was
alleged to have been driving the car
which hit Caneveri,
. PORTLAND. Ore., April 13. Two
year old Robert Schimtnol pfenning
(fkeil at a local hospital this morning
from the effects of Injuries suffered
yesterday when an automobile ran
over his aliunt'-n. The boy hud
b n playing wit h other children
arouiyl the cur at the home of W. A.
Calkins, two mibs south of here. He
fell under the car Just atone of the
children pushed the machine down
an Incline. Calkins Is grandfather of
the dead boy,
Removal of Floyd
Collins9 Body From
Cave Tomb Denied
CAVE CITY, Ky., April 13.
4 Definite abandonment of plans
to bring the body of Floyd Col-
4 liiiH out of bis Sand Cave tomb
4 through existing passages was
( announced today. A project is
under way to sink the old res-
cue shaft three, feet deeper,
f extend a new lateral westward
from the 05-foot depth and ap-
proach the body from behind.
The shaft is now 55 feet deep.
4 Andrew Collins, brother of
4 the dead explorer, crawled to
4 tho body today and after a con- 4
4 ferenco with W. II. Hunt, di- 4
4- rector of the recovery work,
4 decided tho present lateral at
4 55 feet was ton narrow to pcr
4 mit removal of the body even
though it might bo freed.
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PIERCE'S VETO OF
TAX VOTE BILL
FACES CONTEST
Counsel for Railroads Hold No
Authority for Governor's
Action in Delaying Special
Election Bus Bill Main
Contention Involved.
SALEM, Ore., April 13. It hns
been learned here that certain rail
road attorneys in Portland have been
looking carefully into the question of
the governor's authority to veto the
measure of the Inst legislature calling
for a special election in September of
this year providing any tax measures
were referred to tho people. All
measures roferred were to have been
voted on at thls'eleetlon but for the
interposal of the governor's veto.
Enough has been learned to know
that counsel for tho railroad compan
ies are of the opinion that tho gover
nor's action was without authority;
that they are further of the opinion
the referendum bill Is now a law and
It Is considered probable that steps
may be taken to test the matter In
the) courts. The railroads are Bald to
be particularly interested In the mat
ter as the referendum hns been pro
posed on tho auto bus and nuto tax
measure. If tho governor's' veto
stands this measure will not reach
the people until November 102C,
while on the other hand If the gover
nor's veto was declared by the courts
to be II legal, the ref erend urn vote
would be held In Septembor. In that
event, should the bus tux bill be sus
tained by the people, the buses and
stages would be required to pay the
extra tax from that time. County
courts generally, are anxious to see
the bus measure becomo a law as
soon ns possible as it has a distinct
bearing on the status of maintenance
funds, for roads.
Tho courts of the state never hnvo
as yet passed directly on the question
of tho governor's authority to veto
a measure by the legislature railing a
special referendum election.
NATION IS DRY
NEW YORK, April 13. Condi
tions in the United States regarding
the U" of liquor are "Just like &
Sunday school compared with what
they were before the war," William
E. (Pussyfoot) Johnson, dry cru
sader suld today when he arrived
here for a speaking tour in the east
. "It's all bunk this talk about
liquor being as plentiful throughout
tho country as before prohibition,"
ho said, adding that ho had made
observations during a tour through
tho middle-west. Just completed.
LIMB OF LAW TRIES
WOUNDED; HUGE
IJAV SHORE, N. Y., April 13. A
brief adventure at hi -Jacking by a
state trooper rookie on furlough re
sulted In, his being held under mili
tary arrest today after being seriously
wounded in the back by gunmen of
the bootleggers he sought to rob. His
fellow troopers, acting upon the clue
furnished by his escapade, made a
raid last )li;ht In which $lT0.000
worth of liquor was HHzt'd.
Lieutenant J. If. Lynch, In charge
of the state trooper detachment here,
said that Recruit William pelmadge
while on furlough in Patchogue,
Long Island, accompanied three men
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DECISIONS
Regulation of Hours of Labor
and Compulsory Arbitration
of Strikes Held Invalid .
Does Not Affect Oregon
Labor Law.
WASHINGTON, April 13. Hours
of labor In packing houses and other
Industries cannot be regulated by
states through commissions or Indus
trial courts to prevent strikes In con
nection with wage questions, the su
preme court held today.
The decision was rendered In two
cases brought by Charles Wolff Pack
ing company of Topeka, Has., against
the industrial relations court of that
state.
WASHINGTON. April 13 Compul
sory arbitration in industrial disputes
is unconstitutional, tho supreme court
held today.
SALEM, Ore., April 13. C. II.
Gram, Oregon state labor commis
sioner interprets the decision of the
United Stales supreme court In the
Kansas cose holding that hours of
labor cannot be regulated by state
boards or industrial courts to have
referenco only to the Kansas law.
Gram points out that the United
States supremo court has upheld the
right of the Industrial welfare com
mission of Oregon to regulate , the
hours of labor for women and, minors.
This decision was in the case , of
Frank G. Stettler vs. the Industrial
Welfare commission, which was com
posed at that time o f Ed w"l n V.
O'Hara. Bertha Moores and Amedee
M. Smith.
Relat ivu to the holding of the
United States supreme court that
compulsory arbitration Is unconstitu
tional Gram says that has always
been his contention and tho conten
tion of organized labor In Oregon.'
The Oregon state board of concilia
tion. Gram explains, does not have
authority to force arbitration but may
settle Industrial disputes by arbitra
tion only if both the contending sides
agree to It.
FATAL TO T
LOS ANGELES. April 13. H. B.
Greenhall, 40, killed his wife with a
pump gun here today, shot and prob
ably fatally wounded Mrs. George
Brown, a neighbor, and blew out his
own brains after a family quarrel, ac
cording to police officers.
Another neighbor, Mrs. I. B. Kar
ger said Mrs, Greenhall who had been
separated from her husband for a
woek, returned today to got her
clothing and othor personal effects
when the quarrel developed.
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NEW YORK, April 13. Harry
Corley and Gorge Murphy, who are
said to have offered a $4000 bribe to
officers of a coast guard patrol boat
to bring In liquor from a bootlegger
supply ship off shore are under ar
rest. Officers on the patrol boat pre
tended to accept the officer, they said
today. The two men guided the pa
trol boat to the supply ship, the name
of which is withheld. Whiskey and
champagne worth from $100,000 to
$150,000 was taken aboard. When
tho patrol boat reached the bargo of
fice basin yesterday it was placed
under heavy guard and its crew held
aboard;
HI-JACKING, IS
RUM CACHE SEIZED
to tho unoccupied Benson estate of
40.000 acres nt Ditch Plain, where
Frnnk Dickerson was caretaker and
that they demanded two automobile
loads of liquor. Men hired by boot
leggers to protect their unlawful pro
perly set upon the hl-Jackers, wound
ing Delmadg and a companion.
From LMckerson's place the troop
ers removed l.UlO cases of liquor
from a building and destroyed one
thousand cases found in n field. Dick
Orson wild his otgy connection with
the bootleggers was to provide stor
itfto space at 60 cents to $1 a case.
Ho was arrested.
HITS STATES
FAMILY QUARREL IS