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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
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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
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K
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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
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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.
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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.
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