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The Weather
Prediction Rain
Maximum yesterday OH
Minimum today 40
Precipitation 12
Weather Year Ago
Maximum
Minimum
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MTCDF0RD9 OHF.nON, THURSDAY, APRTfe 16,
NO. 22
CREW m 'RUNAWAY' BLIMP-NEA
DEATH
S.O.S. SENT
T
R-33
First Officer and Twenty Men
Carried to Sea When Eng
lish Dirigible Breaks Away
in Terrific Storm Nose of
Ship Smashed Naval
Sloop Dispatched to Rescue
AMKTEHIMM, April 16. At
7:15 o'clock tonight the folio wins
message wns picked up from the
steamship Amazon Mam:
"All stations Htuiid by. English
airship K-33 S.O.S. Clear at
oneo."
BRDADCAS
BOM
IjON'DOX, April l. (By As-
eoclatcd Press.) The wireless
station at I) Ism, Norfolk, Inter
cepted a radio message from the
K-33 Khortly nfter no veil o'clock
tonight In which the dirigible
called for help and said that the
nose of the Hhlp had been torn
awuy when It broke loose from
the mooring must at Pulham this
morning;.
Tho news that the H-33 had broken
away was tho greatest airship sensa
tion in England since the fatal explo
sion aboard tho R-38 in 1921 when
the dirigible built to become tho ZR-2
of tho United States air fleet was
wrecked during a trial flight near
. Hull with tho loss of forty-six lives,
J Including sixteen Americans.. When
' -tho R-33 brolto loose from her moor
ing mast today there was a prolonged
ripping sound. A few moments later
tho big air vessel sped past llarleston
low in the air and almost scraped the
tops of farm houses as It swept along
helplessly In tho gale. For forty
minutes the R-33 was above Port
Lowestoft, thirty miles from Pulham,
battling bravely against the gale but
'still in danger and dipping eastward
with sudden shifts of the winds.
Hugo crowds assembled on the
shore to watch the struggle. Slowly,
as the engines began to turn, tho ship
took an even keel.
Tho R-33 was commanded by its
first officer. Flight Lieutenant R. S.
Booth, and twenty men of the regular
crew of 28 were aboard.
The wind has veered from a wes
terly direction to the northwest and
has slightly decreased in the neigh
borhood of the ship which now Is
about 75 miles northwest of Amster
dam. The wind has definitely de
creased In the north of Kngland. The
British naval sloop Godetia is follow
ing the dirigible.
It was officially stated that no
rolatlves of members of the crew
were on board. This is denial of a
report that when tho R-33 broke
away relatives of some of her crew
were on the airship and had been
carried off with her.
Passing of the Early
Pioneer
noon river. Ore.. April 16.
t
aken suddenly ill from an attack
t blood poisoning late yesterday
vnoon. Charles A. Bell. 65, and
for fortv vears a resident of Hood
River, died soon after being taken
to a hospital here. He did not ie
gain consciousness and physicians
Bay they are unable to determine
the cause of his sudden demise.
Mr. Bell was a native of New
Brunswick. Canada, and whs proprie
tor or the Mount Hood hotel here.
He is survived by his widow, one
son, Fred H. Bell of Hood River, (
brother, George A. Bell, and one sis
ter, Mrs. Kate Young, both of whom
reside at New Brunswick.
Funeral services will be held to
morrow afternoon.
WOMAN RACE TRACK PLUNGER GETS
$7,365 VERDICT
NEW YORK. April lfi. At the race
track Mrs. Ada O. Wells Ins; nil her
money and all she could g"l from rela
tives, but In a legal action she has re
covered $7365 frcn Phillip S. Abra- ,
hams the bookmaker, who she said,
took Tier bets.
A Jury's verdict, directed by Su
preme Court Just'ce Proskauer was
based upon a section of the penal law
- providing that a person who low1.
r money to a bookmaker can recover the
"Babe" Ruth to Be
Operated Upon As
'Result of Illness
NEW YORK. April 10. Bubo
Ruth, nil influenza patient nt
St. Vincent's hospital will bo
operated on tomorrow for tho
relief of abscesses which have
4 developed -as a rOBUlt of his
weakened physical condition. '
E
HIT BY TORNADO
I
Genuine Twister Sweeps Over
Condon and Pendleton Dis
tricts Homes Destroyed,
Barns Lifted in Air, But No
Fatalities Reported.
CONDON, Ore., April 3 6. Damage
estimated between $8000 and $10,000
was caused by a tornado which
struck Condon and surrounding coun
try late yesterday. Tho storm swept
in from the southwest and after dam
aging buildings in the southwestern
part of town jumped to tho northeast
ern section, whero further damugo
was done.
Two high school students. Art Mor
gan and Thomas Westcott, wero cut
by flying glass when the roof of tho
school house was torn off by the
storm. - ' ' ' ' ' , -
Tho county machine shop and the
warehouse of tho Arlington Lumber
company were wrecked, tho combined
loss to these two plants amounting to
about $G000.
A dozen barns and garages in Con
don wero destroyed and many such
buildings were wrecked in tho country
nearby. Fragments of a barn dropped
nn the roof of the Congregational par
sonage, knocking it in. Many windows
in town were broken.
PENDLETON, Ore., April 16.
Actual damage of approximately
$5000 was done yesterday in the
high wind that visited Umatilla
county and gave people hero the
nearest thing to a corn belt tornado
that this part of tho west has ever
experienced.
Two warehouses were wrecked, one
at Barnhart, ond another at Fulton,
Innumerable trees, big and little,
wero blown over, many small build
ings were wrecked and some damage
to telephone and power lines was
done. In some places the wind was
merely Btrong and came In a direct
line, but in other spots tho currents
apparently camo from opposite 'dl
rectlons and resulted in a "twister"
that lifted buildings and played other
freakish tricks.
LA GRANDE, Ore.. April 16.
LaOrande escaped a disastrous wind
storm yesterday owing to the fact
that it lies protected by hills, nc
cording to persons who declared they
saw two Btorms, ono sweeping from
north to south, and tho other east
to west, meet high above tho city
with terrific force. The strong wind
toppled over several children at the
Central grammar school, Ono boy
was blown against the building and
was slightly bruised. No ono wan
seriously hurt. Trees were blown
down in tho hills. Tho storm was
accompanied by n roar peculiar to
storms in the mid-west, one resident
asserted. He declared his first In
stinct was to hunt a cellar.
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., April 16
Klamath Falls this afternoon was
In the throes of a severe sand storm
. The south wind attained high ve
locity shortly before tho noon hour
and swept before R an ever-spreading
cloud of fine sand which fell
upon the streets here.
Continued on Pag 81x
FROM A N. Y.
amount nf the losses. Mrs. Wells sued
for $11.0rn nnd testifier that her
losses w)re much more, but that she
had destroyed her checks for the
amount in excess of the sum for which
she sued. She said she met Abra
hams at Belmont Park In 1921 and
bet tflth him for two years on 1S2
races. She testified that she lost all
her own money and obtained funds
from relatives at Newport News, Va
only to see that vanish also.
ASTERN OREGON
DAMAGE
I
BEN D0RR1S
KICKED OUT
BY PIERCE
Democratic Member of State
Game Commission Is Dis
charged By Governor Ac
tion Result of Personal Feud
Corvallis Man Gets Place
Sportsmen Aroused.
SALEM. Ore.. April 16. Political
differences and a breach In friendship
that has been widening since early In
the late legislative session caused Gov
ernor Pierce yesterday to oust Ben F.
Dorris of Eugene from the state game
commission. The governor appoint
ed M. H. Bauer of Corvallis to fill the
vacancy.
Tho schism between Dorris and the
governor was. started when Dorris
early In the legislative session is said
to have showed himself In favor of
taking the nppointment of fish and
game commlsisons out of the hands of
the governor and placing them In the
hands of the state board of control.
The governor yesterday afternoon
called Dorris by telephone at Eugene
and requested him to send in his resig
nation by letter. Dorirs replied that
he wanted some time to consider the
matter, whereupon tho governor said
he wanted to take action immediately
and that he would remove Dorris with
out waiting for his resignation.
Dorris became a member of the
commission by appointment of Pierce
Juno 18, 1923, and his term would
have oxplred February'' 20, 1028.
Bauer, his successor, Is a creamery
man at Corvallis, and Is said to bo ac
tive in various game organizations of
the state. ,
Confers with Advisors
Before deciding upon tho removal
of Dorris, the governor conferred at
some length- with his advisers. Btate
Insurance Commissioner Will Moore,
Accident Commissioner Dlllard Elkins
and Milton A. Miller.
Dorris, the ousted commltislnncr, is
prominently connected with tho Amer
ican Legion and served overseas dur
ing the war, where he was seriously
wounded. The governor refused to
comment on the ouster, hut the breach
between the two men has been ob
vious for many months.
One thing that Is believed to have
caused the split is -Dorris' friendly at
titude toward Charles Hall of Marsh
field, whom Dorris Is said to favor for
governor, rather than again support
leree should the latter again be the
nominee of Dorris' own party.
Dorris was nlfro opposed to'tho "tith
ing hill" of the last legislature which
includes the game commission among
tho state activities that are required
to pay ten per cent o fthelr proceeds
Into the state general fund. Dorris
also is said to have resented a sug
gestlon In the governor's message that
the game commission be removed from
politics by being transferred to the
stnto agricultural college. ,
Dorris Says Mttlo
EUGENE, Ore., April 16. "The
Lord glveth and the Lord taketh
away," was the statement of Ben F.
Dorris.-of Eugene, former member of
tho state game commlssloni who was
removed from the office yesterday by
Governor Walter M. Pierce, when
questioned concerning tho affair. Be
yond this, ho would say little.
His only concern, ho declared, wns
for the future of tho game propaga
tion system. Oregon has Invested a
groat deal In game propagation during
the four years the commissslon has
been functioning, he said, and he ox-
pressed the- hopo this money would
not bo wasted by changes In the per
sonnel or system that might result
fro mmaklng a "political football of
the commisslson."
Governor iPerce, he said, called him
yesterday on tho telephone and asked
him for. his resignation, saying that
there was a growing lack of harmony
between Mr. Dorris and the executive.
The commisisoner expressed his sur
prise and asked for a few hours time
that he might consult with friends,
he said.
"The governor did not seem to wish
him to wait, so Informed me that he
was mailing a dismissal," Mr. Dorris
said.
tV On mo PrnlorHvo asinAlutlnn
astounded today on learning of Gov-
nur rieree b hcuoh in removing en
Dorris of Eucene from tho state cam
commission.
Inasmucff as Mr. Dorris Is very
section It Is quite probable that t
matter will be given considerable d
mwinn at trtnfo-hf 'a onn,,n t U,.
of the game protective association
the Hotel Med ford, which hecln
1:30 p. m. Mr. Dorris has attended
these banquets ere for years.
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(Continued on Page Biz)
Construction Begins on Buildings
for Sesqui-Centennial Exposition
Construction "of tlie buil'dings
the Sesqui-Ccntcnninl exposition in JD2G, has been begun, and
plans are being made for a total of 40,000,000 visitors, f W. Free
land Kendrick, the mayor (left) is head of the citizens'. committee,'"
and David C. Collier (right) is director-general of the exposition.
Also shown is Independence Hall, around-which manjof the ex
position crcnts-will center.
0; S. A. AIRSHIP
BREAKS RUDDER
AND RUNS AWAY
Big Scott Field Airship i Drifts
Helplessly Across Illinois As
Rescuers Pursue in Motor
Cars Attempts to Land
Fail.
BLACK WALNUT, Mo.. April 16.
Tho TC-3 and Us crew of seven land
ed here safely lato today after drift
ing with the air currents across the
Mississippi and Missouri rivers from
Caseyville, 111., where tho shlp suf
fered a mishap to the steering appa
ratus.
BELLEVILLE, III., April lfi. The
TC-3, a big Scott field airship with
a crew of seven suffered a mishap
to its steering apparatus whllo over
Caseyville, ill., this afternoon and
was forced to drift with the nir cur
rents like a free balloon.
Tho craft drifted over Granlto
City, ill., about 1:4 5 p.m., then
crossed tho Mississippi river, accord
ing to reports reaching Scott field
and it was believed the wind might
carry it to Lambert-St. Louis field
at Brldgeton, Mo., where a landing
might bo effected.
Immediate hopo of landing tho
ship nt Lamhert-Ht. Louis was lost
when the craft passed bear Floris
sant, Mo., and continued north ovor
the Mlsslurl river about 12:30 p. m.
It wss then about thirty miles north
of Caseyville, HI., where tho acci
dent occurred.
Continuing a northwesterly course
tho ship recrossed tho Mississippi
river and was sighted at Grafton. Ill
at 3:10 p. m. ?
Men from Lambcrt-8t. Louis field
hurried in pursuit of the airship fn
automobiles. It was seen tho 'ship
sometimes dropped towards the earth
but seemingly could not flnlrih the
effort to land -and would rise high
again.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April 16
Expert safe-blowers last night
blow open the safe In tho office of
the Big Basin Lumber company and
looted the strong bos of Its money
contents. Off b l;ils "f the mmpnny
declined to make public the lows, al
though they said It was a srnal
amount.
The yeggs are believed to be the
same who have blown open three
other safes here during the past two
weeks. Police and sheriff's depu-yfr w;
ties have been unable to obtain anyi
clues.
for Philadelphia's world's fair.
BASEBALL SCORES
American.
At Philadelphia R. H. E
Boston t , . . .3 8 :
Philadelphia .7 "13
BntturloH: Kalllo, Ross and Plci
nlel); Rommel and Cochrane,
At St. Louis R. H. E
Cleveland 2 4 l
St. Louis '. . .1 6
Batteries: Uhlo and Myatt; Van
glldor and Ixon.
At Detroit R. H. E.
Chicago rf 4 7
Detroit ; 2 6 1
Batteries: Fabor and Schalk
Colllnsnnd Woodall.
National Leagu.
At Boston R. T
New York ( 8 1
Boston 1
Bcott and Snyder; Cooney,
Namara, 'Benton and Gibson.
At Brooklyn R. H.
E
Philadelphia 8 12
Brooklyn l 6
Mitchell nnd Hcnlino; Rush, Rob
orts, Thormahlln, Osborno nnd Tay
lor.
CHICAGO. April 16. Gabby Hart
nett of tho Chicago Cubs cracked out
two home runs in the fifth and. sixth
Innings In tho game against the
Pittsburg Pirates today. One man
wns on base when ho hit the first
homer off Kremer, Babe Adams
was pn tho mound when ho knocked
tho other circuit clout.
Wall Street Report
NJ5W YORK, April 16. Tho clos
ln was Irregular. Weakness of high
priced specialties was tho outstand
ing fealuro of tha lato trading. United
.States Cast Iron I'lpo breuklng 134
points to IBB, Commercial Hnlvcntn 11
dropping 4 points and Oenoral Eloc
trlct 214. ,
Prlco movements In today's stock
markot lacked uniformity. Oolls, su
gar, copper and steel shares turned
reactionary on . unfavorable trade
news. Hulllsh' demonstrations were
successfully conducted however. In
tho Maxwell, Wlllqs Overland and
Nash Motor issues, nil of which at
tained new peak prices for tho year.
Totnl sales approximated 1,350,000
shares.
Old Stern-Wheeler
On Klamath Lake
Goes Up in Smoke
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April
16. Klre early this afternoon
claimed the old stern wheeler
"WInema." landmark of the early
f pioneer days of Klamath county
and took with It a dock and
! wnrcMhouHft on th short' of up-
per Klnrnath bike at Whipping-
ton. The old boat censed active 4
service on Klamath lake and has
since been used as a dwelling.
Itwa owned by John Totten and 4
as used by Steven Mead. r
Explode Bomb During
Cathedral Funeral;
Many People Killed
SOFIA, Bulgaria, April 10.
(Hy tho Associated Press)
Many porsons wero klllod and
Injured today by the explosion 4
r of an infernal maehlno In tho -r
cathedral during t h e funeral
! services for General OeorKhteff,
who was murdored Tuesday.
Tho cathedral In which tho
services wero being hold w'as
the Bvonta Madella. Tho explo-
slon of tho bomb killed sevo-
rnl persons and wounded many
others, but tho Rovernmental 4
ministers who wero prosont
wero unharmed.
L
ELECTION
SET
5TH
School Board Follows Sugges
tions of Eugene Ex''erts and
Decides to Have Two Elec
tions and Offer Two Sites.
Tho school board, after months of
Investigation, has finally Issued a call
for a special election to vote bonds
for a new high school site, and build
ing, to bo held May 6 next.
This election Is only for tho pur
pose 'of voting $185,000 In bontlH for
the purchuHo of a site, and for build
ing tho first unit of a proposed $300,
000 high school building, but another
special election will be held probably
ii woek biter. May Jli, for tho selec
tion of a slto, at which nt leuat two
sites will bo submitted.
Only proporty owners can nolo at
tho bond election, but at tho site olec
tion all qualified voters of tho city
can voto.
In holding two special elections tho
board Is following out the recommen
dation of tho U. of O. administration
experts,, who had spont tho forepart
of this weok hero in looking ovor tho
situation.
The formal report of these exports
relating to proposed sites, Is expected
here before the ond of tho week, and
may come tonight. ' Tho experts ad
vised that tho bonds bo voted first,
and after that the voters select tho
slto.
Tho experts also almost unanim
ously coincided with tho board's plans
for a building to cost $300,000. and
also agreed that the bond issue be for
$186,000, altho the board could bond
for about $207,000 at tho coming
special election.
In the opinion of the board and tho
experts It would not be wise to bond
for the full amount of $207,000, be
cause of the grado school situation,
which may rcqulro the expenditure
of a considerable sum before crowded
room relief Is furnished by the com
pletion of tho new high Behool unit.
Therefore $22,000 is held back to be
voted for bonds for tho graded
schools situation, In caso such action
is found necossnry.
Tho special election of May 6 will
be held at the high school building
between tho hours of 2 p. m. and 7
p. m. "
Death Toll of
the Automobile
YANKTON, H. D., April 10. Two
women and a child wore burned to
death and another woman was In
jured today when their automobile
plunged from tho highway noar
Horosford, overturned and burst into
flames.
Tho dead, reports roeolved hero
said, are Airs. H. Nevada Hereford of
Aberdeen. Wash.; Miss Dnreen Fin
negan, Yankton, and David Flnne
Ban. three years old. Mrs. I?. M.
Flnnegan, daughter of Mrs. Horo
ford was severely Injurod.
scHon
FOR
MAY
EX-KLAN GOBLIN DENIED PLEA; MUST
SIAND III ON SERIOUS CHARGE
INDIANAPOLIS, April 16. Mo
tions to fiuash five indictments re
turned ngninut I. C Stephenson, for
mer grnnd dragon of the Ku Kfcix
Kbin. c hfirglng him with nn atta-k
on Miss Madge Oberholtzer, were
overruled today by J urine Jn mes A.
Collins in criminal court. Stephen
son, through his attorney, Kph In
man, then eh tared a plea of not
guilty.
Miss Oberho'zer died Tuesday
" .....
CONFESSES
POISONING
3 CHILDREN
Mrs.' Anna Cunningham Con
fesses She Gave Poison to
Children She Loved the Best
Spared Daughter Be
cause She Disliked Her
Took Poison Herself.
CROWN POINT. Ind.. April 16.
Mrs. Anna Cunningham recovered
from an apparont cataleptic state in
the county jail today and for the first
time since she was charged with the
murder of her son Walter by poison
ing and hor confession to poisoning
three of hor children was placed
alone in a cell. Hor preliminary hear
ing has been Indefinitely postponed.
CROWN l'OINT, Ind., April 16.
(By Associated Press.) Calm nnd
unmoved Mrs. Anna Cunningham, 49,
confessed last night that sho gave
poison to three of the five members
of her family whoso mysterious
deaths within six years led to an In
vestigation, resulting In ft murder
churgo against her. '
Tho victims Isahollo, 18; Charles
10 and Walter, 13, sho said sho had
killed because sho loved thorn best.
Sho believed she was going to die, sho
said, and wanted to tako them with
her to join their luther who'diou in
1018.
For the samo reason she had jtven
poison to David, tho Inst son, now In
a critical condition in a Chicago hos
pital.
She denlod that sho had poisoned
hor husband, the first to dlo, or
Marry, another son, In whoso nony
coroner's chemists found arsenic. Bho
spared Mae, 19, surviving daughter,
because she disliked her sho said.
Each tlmo she administered the
arsenic in bread and butter sho took
a slmllnr doso herself nnd after the
death of Walter sho added a teaspoon
full of Iodine, hut always recovered.
Her desire "to join in heaven ner
husband nnd take with hor her best
loved children had prompted her to
administer tho death potion to lsn-
bello. tho first victim, who dlod De
cember 31, 1020.
Tho confession of tho woman wno
had remained unshnken under the
questioning In Chicago of Prosecutors
Robert E. Crowe and John Bbarbaro,
who had obtained admissions of guilt
from Nathan Leopold, Jr., and Rich
ard Loob. was obtained by Sheriff
Benjamin II. Strong nnd Miss Mau
reen McKornan, Chicago newspaper
reporter.
During yesterday after she had re
covered from a state of coma Into
which, she had lapsed Tuesday, Mrs.
Cunningham talked to Miss McKor
nan and admitted that she might
have placed somo arsenic in tho fond
of David by mistake, but was stolid
in i.nil that she had poisoned any
membors of hor family.
Sho permitted tho reporter to apply
cold compresses to hor head and
loosen hor clothing, appearing more
Interested in chnnging hor best black
silk dress for an apron than in her
subsequent coldbloodod rocltal of the
deaths.
Suddenly sho asked that hor daugh
ter Mae hi: sent for and that sho ho
removed from hor cell because of tho
presence thoro of several woman
prisoners. Disregarding tho girl's
frantic screams to remain sllont she
detailed her story first to Sheriff
Strong and later to a court roportcr.
The daughter refused to romaln
and liston to tho nccount of the
deaths of hor brothers and was taken
away. Sho also refused to romaln in
.1 4..II nnv hni. nnlllf)l Htll'lni? IhO
night and spont tho night at a hotel.
When sho was asked to sign thB
transcribed confession at 2:40 a. m..
today Mrs. Cunningham betrayed
emotion for the first tlmo. She broke
down and sobbed.
after an Illness of two weeks attrib
uted by her parents and by her phy
sicians to poison taken following the
alleged attack by Stephenson. An
Inquest Into her death was continued
today by County Coroner Ir. Paul K.
Robinson and funeral services wero
planned for this afternoon.
Because- of a crowded calendar.
Judge Collins Indicated It would be
Impossible to trythe case before
May 25. No date was fixed.