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O c3 O Pie Weather O Prediction Generally Cloudy Mux) mum yesterday 77 Minimum todny J54 MEDFORD MAIL -TM Weather Year Ago nVxImnm ?. 4H I Jf...... 34 Pally Twentieth Tear. Weekly Kilty-third Yeir. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL U, 102;') NO. 20 BXJNE EX- OREGON STAR WINS BIG GAME Jim Poole, Ex-Beaver First Baseman, Knocks Record Home Run at Philadelphia and Athletics Win Five JJnmorR IV! p Hp in fiamn Epidemic in League. PHILADELPHIA, April 14. Hive home runs in ten innings was the record for the season's opening: game, run up by the Athletics nnd Boston Americans at Shihe park this after noon. Jim Poole, Connie Mack's new first baseman from Portland, Ore., helped his team win nine to eight by knocking one of the long drives over the wall. Welch nnd Miller of the Athletics nnd Flagstead and J. Harris of Boston wero the other long hitters. CHICAGO, April 14 Crover Cleve land Alexander, veternn pitching ace with the Chicago Cubs. Joined the ranks of home run hitters today, driving one off Pitcher Tde in the third inning of the Chicngo-PUtsburg opener. ST. LOUIS. April 14. Jamicson of the Cleveland Indians connected with a homer in the first inning of the Cleveland -St. Louis opener today, making it off Pitcher Joo Bush. PHILADELPHIA, April 14. Mil ler, right fielder of the Athletics, hit a homo run in thq seventh inning of today's game with Boston. It was followed a moment later by another over tho outfield wall by .Poole, first baseman. The results follow: American At Philadelphia. . II RoH lO n " r. . . .Tv 8 Philadelphia 9 H. in 13 Batteries: Ferguson, Ross, Wing field, Knllio and Picinlch; Grovosi Harris, Walborg. Kaumgartncr, Horn mel nnd Perkins, Cochrane. At New York. Ji. II. E. Washington 1 ' 5 1 New York 5 0 0 Batteries: Mogrtdgo and Ruel; Shockor and O'Neill. At Detroit. R. II . E. Chicago 3 6 2 Detroit 4 10 0 Batteries: Thurston nnd Schnlk; Leonard, Doyle and Woodull, Bassler. National At Brooklyn. R. IT. E. Philadelphia 15 2 Brooklyn 3 4 0 Batteries: Carlson and Henllne; "Vance nnd Deberry. At Cincinnati. R. IT. E. Kt. Louis 0 6 1 Cinclnnall 4 0 0 Batteries: Haines, Day, Shcrdcl and Schmidt; Donohue nnd Hargrace. At Boston. R. H. E. New York 4 8 2 Boston 5 R 1 Batteries: Nehf and Snyder; Barnes nnd Gibson. At Chicago. R. II. E. rittsburg 2 9 3 Chicago 8 9 2 Batteries: Yde, Songer nnd Smith; Alexander nnd Hartnctt. DETROIT, April 14. Earl Sheely. fiMutnsemnn with tho.Chlcago White UttA. tmiasnea out tne iirsi nome run of the 1925 major league season to day. He drove the ball over the left field fence In tho second inning, of tho Detroit-Chicago opener. No one was on base. Leonard was tho pitch ing victim. CHICAGO, April 14. Bright, sunny weather with just a touch of tho chill of spring, brought record breaking crowds out today for -the opening games of tho 1925 major league season. Ban Johnson, president of the American league, viewing the Tiger opt'iiiu- ill jjuirun una xti'siui'iil Heydler of tho National league, esti mated that approximately 275.000 (Continued on Page Six) CHARLEY CHAPLIN REFUSES TO POSE WITH LEADING LADY. MARRIED NOW SAN FRANCISCO. April 14. Charley Chaplin arrived here yester day. Mrs. Chaplin not with him. He arrived on the steamer Emma Alexander on whh he and his company filmed the last scenes of a picture. Charley posed for the cameramen. But when they asked him to pose with Georgia Hale, his new leading lndy, he flatly declined. "You under stand," he said, "she's not In her makeup and I'm not In mine.' Then Have You Purchased Your Pet Dog to Match Your Gown? LONDON. April II. Owners 4 of fancy dog shops are doing a fr flourishing business this spring fr with the coming in of the voguo 4 for women to hnvo pets to much J their gowns or dress schemes to 4 correspond with the- coat of their favorito dogs. 4 Dealers say that if tho crazo 4 continues It may be necessary for the nnimal shop keepers to de- 4 fr vise some means of dyeing tho 4 I coats of lap dogs to meet tho re- 4 qutromcnts of customers who In- 4 4 sist upon dogs to match their 4 4 dre;jses. 4 44444444444' 10 BE Ex-Prime Minister, After Long Delay, Decides He Cannot Take Post On Terms of So cialists President Domer gue Deliberates. PARIS, April 14. (By the Asso cluted Press) M. Sarraut again re fused to form a government ana President Doumerguc summoned M. Painleve, who arrived at tho palaco of the Elyseo at 9:25 p. m. The French president requested M. Pain leve to form a new ministry. PARIS, April 14. (By the Asso ciated Press) Ex-Premier Briand shortly after six o'clock this evening definitely decided to abandon tne attempt to form a cubinot in succes sion to the Herriot ministry. M. Briand announced his determi nation not to form a ministry to the socialist republican group, to which he belongs, basing it on the K.x-Premier Briand. refusal of tho socialists to collabo rate nnd the conditions they wished to exact in return for support. He considered the conditions incompat ible with his conception of tho role ot premier. Briand's refusal of the task. Pres- ident Doumergue had requested him to perform, came after a period of uncertainty in which it was nt first reported his declination had been doclded upon and then that he would try to form a combination without socialists before giving a final reply to tho executive. The socialist action with regnrd to taking part in the Briand govern ment was reached by tho national council of the party by unanimous vote. It did not preclude, however, their participation in a m i n I st r y formed by the premier acceptable to fCnntinnad on Para Six as an afterthought, he said, "remem ber. I'm mirried." When asked how his wife Is he re plied : "Fine, sh's a great girl." 0 In rply to te question of his une re-enienng tne movies ne said, "no, I don't think so. yA see she's pomewhft an artist; that is. she paints. Futurist stuff. Very fine." Charley's hair was very gr. At the temples it was almost white. It still is bushy, curly hair, but streak ed and"lecked will gray. mm REFUSES PREMIER TERMS FORD PLANT 1 BREAKS PEOPLE FLEE Big Dam at Automobile Power Plant Collapses and Sweeps Away Houses and Buildings People Warned Have Narrow Escape Property Loss Large. DETROIT. April 11. Scores of families in tho valley of tho Huron river between Fhit Rock and Lake Erie were driven from their homes early today when the dam at the power plant of tho Ford Motor com pany at Flat Rock burst and released millions of gallons of water into the valley. The break in tho Ford company dam followed the crumbling of the earth embankments that flank the new Detroit-Edison company dam at French Landing several miles siuh of Flat Koek, yesterday. Vho im pounded water of tho lake rushed through tho break. Engineers esti mated today that nlroady 10.000,000 cubic feet of earth have been wash ed away, while tho river today is eating into the remaining earthworks and engineers believe mora will "e swept out. The new power station of the Edi son company wns to have been open ed May 17. The cost was 1750,000. More than 5000 acres are under water which Is reported to i 12 feet deep in some places and steadily rising. People Warned. Tho valley's inhabitants wero warned of the flood by troopers from l. t nt inn of the I lie duuiii " Michigan state police who started along the river to rouse persons v- J., nAIpl,;r no annn im EllnrdS at the n.b hi.i uj " - .1 . V... ,1 fnlanhnnnH th atnttOn OI the trouble. So rapidly &ld the swrter rise that the omcers wero soon iuiu ,i tn tnin t.. Imiitfl. crntnir thus from houso to houao with their warning, .ferrying scores or lumuies to saim jand sending tho men ahead in com mnnroornri hnntn to aid in the rescue No lives have been lost, so far as I IcnrnAri 11 1 1 h UltL'h 111(1 nV houses, built below tho level of tho dam, wero inundated. Ui-ftB fenm vnrlnim nlnrps along the seven miles from Flat Rock to Lake Erio iitcllcato mat me enure valley at some places a mile wide, 1.1 mwli'n.la nf amall hnliana mnnv Of Wllicn aro set on suns, nne me uvi llevo no lives were lost because of tho warning. Allt.nn.rh tVtn Wfllpr Wnq hlCll around the bridges of the Michigan Central and tne Detroit,- toicuo ana tin ore une raiiroaus ueiow r iai Rock, traffic was not interrupted. Small barns, out houess. wooden f f mi ItntJnmontn Irnoa liltahns and fni-nlliirA n-nrn rlflfllnir dnn'n tho valley on n current running ten miles an hour. chickens clinging to drifting sheds ana once a nog maroonea aiop u small barn, howling In fear as the waves rot'kerl and hnffetnrl hin raft inrougn tno w.recKage. Death Toll of the Automobile ABERDEEN, Wash., April 14. H E. Wallace of Heat tie, and an un known woman were instantly killed about 11:30 o'clock last night when a big touring car In which they and a second man wero riding towards Aberdeen skidded on a sharp turn ten miles east of hero and crashed into a tree. The second man, believed to have suffered no injury, fled from tho scene of tho wreck Immediately, Efforts nre now under way to identify tho woman. SEATTLE, April 14. An unidcntl fled woman killed In an automobile wreck near Montesano last night Is believed to be Mrs. S. Creeb, demonstrator of a Seattle concern who was accompanying R. E. Wallace and another man on a trip through western Washington. Wallace was killed while the second man whose name was given as Strayer, disap peared. The men called on wholesalers wTiile Mrs. Creeb demonstrated to re- tail'merchants. Passing of the Larly Pioneer I.A OKANDH. Ore.. April 14. John Frawley. 7 5. a pioneer of eastern Ore- Ron, died here this morning. He was treasurer of Union county for 24 years, resigning In 1922. because of ill health. He was conductor on the first rail. road train to con Into LaGrande In 1884. A few years later he was Jured In a railroad accident In Wash ington, causing his retirement from Poor School Girl Wins Beauty Prize and Promises of Wealth - K V if J An obsenre sliopgirl a few weeks ago, Mile. Suzy Vernon of Paris is npw famous, and fortune is pouring; in upon her. Awarded first prize In a beauty contest conducted by e newspaper, she now is being showered with oiTcrs to appear on the stage and in the movies. LIQUOR VALUED AT AFTER STERN CHASE OF 150 MILES NEW YORK, April 1 A. Capturo of tho three-mnsted auxiliary Brit ish schooner Madeline- Adams yes terday by tho coast guard cutter Seminole after a chase of 150 miles off the New York coast was reported today when tho schooner was brought Into port with its crow of nine men as prisoners and its liquor cargo valued at $500,000 under selztire. KILLS SUCCESSOR TACOMA, April l t.Two men are dead and two children are fatherless following a shooting affray last night when a divorced husband stormed the homo of his former wife on tho first anniversary of her second mar riage und shot himself after killing her husband. Tho dead men are Fred it. Arnold of Tacoma and H. A. Winston of Aberdeen. Tho killing occurred In view of several children who wore playing with Iwanna Winston, thirteen, in front of her homo. Shortly before eight o'clock Winston, the father of Iwanna and tho divorced husband of Mrs. Arnold, appeared und took Iwanna by the arm. "L.eav mo alone, I don't want to see you," the girl Is alleged to havo said as sho jerked away from her father and ran. Arnold stepped from tho house and, according to tho police, met Winston at the foot of tho porch steps. Tho men faced ' each other angrily and Winston accused Arnold of prejudicing his children against him and preventing Iwanna and her brother, Horace, 15, from writing him. A few angry words were spoken and Winston drew a pistol from his pocket and shot Arnold twice thru the stomach. Arnold staggered down the walk and fell dying in the park ing strip. Winston stepped around to tho side of tho house as Mrs. Arnold came to the door. Ho entered the houso by tho back door and committed suicide in the kitchen. Wall Street Report NEW YORK. April 14. The cloning wan strone. Hulli.xh demonstration In the automotive pofinltlPa femurod the Into trading. Mn'-k trtli-kH Jumping 1 point. U. H. Cast Iron Pipe 5 and Hudaon 3 i to a new 1925 top at 5014. Btock prices resumed their upward movement today under the leadership of the railroad shares, thirty of jvhlch advanced a point or more ffbove yes terday's ffnrtl quotations. Total sales approximate 1.000.000 shares. $500,000 SEIZED Coast guard officials said that tho Madalelno AdamB was tho schooner from which tho government patrol hont 203 obtained 500 cases of whis key and champagne on Saturday when an alleged conspiracy to smug gle liquor from rum row on govern ment boats was uncovered with tho .arrest of two men who wero held as agents of tho rum fleet. Portland Democrats Deny That They Are Against Gov. Pierce PORTLAND, Ore.. April 14. CJIlhert B. Ilnmnkor, who attnek- ed Governor Pierce In a Jeffer- son day npeech hero yesterday la not chairman of tho Multnomah fr county democratic committee as stated, but a former chairman. He was chairman from Juno 1918 to Juno, 1920. Walter II. Gleanon, secretary of tho Multnomah county com- mlttee in a communication today to tho Portland Telegram In which yesterday's dispatch was printed, said that while Hamaker was a member of tho committee he has not attonded any nf tho mcotinRS. Ho added that tho committee "in for Governor Pierce and his administration." The Noted Dead KOKOMO, Ind., April 14. Rlwoorl Haynos, 68, who In 1894 invented the "horseless", carriage Is dead nt his home hero, a victim of Influenza. Mr. Haynes, who had never fully ro covered from a previous attack of the disease, was ill but a few days. Funeral arrangements havo not been mado. Mr. Haynes suffered an attack of influenza while on a trip through tho southern states and on tho ad vice of a physician whom ho had consulted, ho returned home. Heart disease, with which he. long had been afflicted also contributed to his death. Few friends knew of the serious Illness of tho pioneer automobile manufacturer who also gained Inter national reputation n n scientist and metalurgiHt. His widow, son and Slaughter wero at. his bedsldo when aeatn came. BALKM, Ore.. April H. Three nun were arrested and a 100 g-'illon still confiscated between Wood burn and West Woodhurn today by Oeorgo j purchased at a neighborhood drug Hurlbur, a federal agent. Hoy Hrem- store and Intended to use last night, mer, Marion county eputy sheriff, contained enough poison to kill seve and William S. livens, state prohlhl- ral persons. tlon commissioner. It was the first' Boon after Miss Trask left the raid In which Levcns has rtlcl- drug store, the druggist noticed hl pated, retake and notified the police de- Ashland Woman Is Burned to Death In Newcastle Fire NEWv.AHTliK, l'a.. April 11. MIbs Anna Miller. B3. of Aahlnnd, Oro., was burned to death In a flro today which destroyed tho residence of W. 11. Weinsehenck, when the fire was dlsovered and ler was osleep on the third fhmr whe nthe flro wns discovered und wnn believed by other occupants to have become confused in at tempting to escupn by n rear stairway. Miss Miller had spent the winter at the WeliiHchenck ! homo. 4 4, -I- HELD AT Well Known 'Bad Man' of Southern Oregon Arrested in California tor petit Lar ceny Identification Is Said to Be Complete. KAMOM, Ore., April 14. Beit (Oregon) ) .Tones, who on Man-h 28, n JONES A SACRAMENTO 1921, escaped from the Oregon stato)HCiUH for two Weeks preceding hor penitentiary by going over the wall with flvo other prisoners,-. Is undei arrest at Sacramento; Cal., according to Information rocoived by "Warden Dalrymplo today from tho California state bureuu of Identification at Sac ramento. ones is held In the Sacramento Jail on a thirty day sentence for petit larceny. Tho Identification appoara aupcrimcnucm oi punnc instruction, to be certain. I Klrl Kllnck and Karl Gentry, al- Jones wan: one of six prisoners I luI to have been, companions of who mudo ono of tho most darliiK.! Stephenson, are under indictment escapes In tho history of tho OieKon with him on the chargo ot conspiracy prison. - Tho other flvo woro Tom to conmll t folnny, Murray, Joo Jackson, -William John- According to members of the Rill's son, Cllvo Weekly and Ellsworth 1 fmlly, Miss Oberholtzer told them Kell.V. Rno wont 1o Ktophenson's homo In the After a posso hunt that lasted t Hutler coIIgbo district near her own many days tho other flvo men wero .homo on Sunday ovenlnn, March 15. captured und returned to tho prison. Stephenson, Who wa prominent in re Jones narrowly escaped capturo near publican politics and active In tho Jefferson while he and Murray wero , successful campalKn ol Governor together following their escape. Some Jackson for tho nomination and elec of tho possemc'n sighted both men ' tlon, had called hor on what ho snld and began to shoot at thorn when i was an urgent matter Miss Ober they refused to stop. The shots : hollzer Is said to have told her par- caused Murray to give up, but Jones! kept going. About a week ago a press dis patch stated that Jones wns boliovcd to bo located in Josephine county, where he was thought to bo living disguised as a hunchback and wear ing a falBe beard. Tho Information received here today did not state when ho was arrested In Sacramento. Daily Report on the Crime Wave HKATTMf, April 14. With his pistol pointed at several persons who sat nt a lunch counter in a cigar store hero today, a young man held up Harry Druxman, proprietor und took $1000 in currency from a cash register und a diamond ring, valued at $1500 and fled. DAIJiAS, Texas, April 14. A mnn was beaten to death and his woman companion was criminally assulted by two negroes hero last night while tho couple wero riding near tho Southorn Methodist university campus. Ryan Atkins, 2ft, was slugged to death, the negroes using pistols. The woman, Mrs. Mary Steer, Is in a serious condition at hrr homo in the fashlonablo Belmont district of Dal las. Police roported tho couplo was rid ing slowly along when tho two negroes Jumped on tho running board of Jho automobile and beat Atkins. After leaving tho woman, tho negroes ran tho machine sevoral blocks and wrock od It, Thoy escaped. A. C. Allen Is Kcnppolnlcil SAUOM, Ore., April 14. Tho state bourd of control today re-appolnted II. H. Witherspoon. of Elgin, and A. C. Allen of Med ford as members of tho state board of horticulture. '3 DEATH WHEN I,OH ANOEIKS. April 14. "A I woman s intuition, was assigned the reason by Miss Ida Tiask for the probable saving of her life when a pnrkugn of appar- hn -srnrd that ritly harmless rnout h wash she had INTUITION SAVES HI FROM GIRL VICTIM SUCCUMBS 10 POISON Miss Madge Oberholtzer, 28 Years Old, Who Took Poison After Alleged Attack By Ex Grand Dragon of Klan, Dies After Nearly Month of Suf fering, IXDIAXArOLIH. April 14. Miss .Madge Oberholtzer, 28, alleged to havo been tho victim of an attack by D. C. Stephenson, former grand dra gon of the Ku Klux Klan, died today. Miss Oberholtzer has been In a crit ical condition for several years as the result of poison which she told her parents sho took at Hammond, Ind., following Stephenson's alleged attack. Stephenson was Indicted on flvo charges by a grand jury which in vestigated Miss Oberholtzcr's story. Stephenson is at liberty under $25, 000 bond pending a ruling by Judgo James A. Collins to quash tho indict ment which charges assault and bat tery with Intent to kill, assault and battery with Intent to rape, malicious mayhem, kidnaping and conspiracy to commit felony. Miss Oberholtzer had been uncon- .death. Miss Oberholtzer was widely known In public school circles throughout Indiana. She had served as secretary treasurer of tho Young Peoples' Reading Circle of Indiana, an organi zation connected wllh tho public school system and also was formerly 1 employed In tho offico ot tho stato ents. Whllo nt Stephenson's house, ac cording to her parents, sho suld she was forced to drink some liquor. Following tho drinking, members of tho family say, sho told them she was .tnkon on a train to Hammond, Ind., and was attacked in a hotel room there. On Monday, March 36, Miss Ober holtzer said sho was permitted to leave tho hotel in order to purchase a hat as sho had left her homo bare headed. According to tho story, she purchased and took poison and re turned to tho hotel, telling Stephon son and hor companions of her act. She' then was placed in an automo bllo and returned to Indianapolis, arriving In this city Monday evening. Her family declaros sho was not re turned to hor homo until Tuesday, March 17, when a man'' left her at the houso during their absence. Ilo Is said to havo Informed a neighbor that sho had been In an automobile accident. pr. Kingsbury, called to attend Miss Ovorholtzer, said thorn wone many lacerations on hor body, but apparently they wore not the rosult of an accident. The "Daily" Bank Robbery iJFrUOIT, April 14. Three men today hold up tho branch of tho American Stato bank at Oregon ave nue and Kpworth boulovard, shot and killed Charles Tnggart, Jr., tho teller nnd escaped with betwoon $5000 und $R000. Taggart was tho second victim of tho holdup men In tho bank within a month. On March 19, Porry J. Hudson, a customer, resisted the ef forts nf two men to rob tho place and was shot and fatally wounded. partment. Scores of policemen woro dispatched to tho neighborhood and started a house to houso canvass In an attempt to locate the purchaser before sho should use the poison. After a two hour search they locat ed a frlrnd of Miss Trask who had accompanied her to the pharmacy. When Miss Trask was informedof the druggist's mistake, she aald she had intended to use the medicine last night, but she felt as though she should wait until morning. DRUGGIST MAKES MISTAKE railroad work. & 9
