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MEDFORD. CkRECiON, THURSDAY MAY 7, 1925
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B!li SALE Of
LAND MARKS
I I PROJECT
$250,000 Land Deal in Klam
ath River Region Presages
Extension of S. P. to Coast
1 Northwestern Pacific to
Be Connected Up With the
Modoc Northern.
YUKKA, CW.t Muy 7. The
expenditure of approximately
$250,000 for UiouKivnd- of acre
of land In Hie. Klamath river re
gion within liio pant, fow weeks,
wliich became known here yester
day Iiqh given rise to tlic belief In
many quartern tluit It presages
tint extension of traiis-eonUtieiital
railway lines from Keno, Xev to
Knreka, Cal., wliere tliey will Join
with Lite line of tiio Northwestern
Paeifle Itallrontf company.
The proposed extension, it was re
ported here last night, would be from
Reno and thence to Klamath Palls and
Hornbrook to pjureke.
The purported holding company is
the California City and County Land
company of San Francisco.
The prevailing opinion here ts that
the interests behind the acquisition of
the land is the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul Railroad company. Most of
the property has been transferred to
the California City and County Lund
company. -
The purchased properties , include
the -D. M. Horn ranch, 'the' Robert L.
Kerral ranch, the Coow and Smith
ranches and thousands of acres in the
"Weyerhaucser Realty company's hold
ings. S. P. Behind Project.
PORTLAND. Ore.. May 7. Well in
formed Portland railroad men say the
consistent Interpretation of the Yre
ka report is that the Southern Pacific
contemplates extending a branch from
. its projected Modoc Northern line
along the northerly slope of Mount
Shasta to the Southern Pacific main
line and building from. Hornbrook on
the lower Klamath river to Eureka,
connecting there with the Northwest
ern Pacific. Such a route would give
direct connection with middle western
and eastern markets for lumber and
other products of northwestern Cali
fornia. The Modlc Northern will be the
Southern Pacific's short time from
Klamath Falls, Ore., to the east via
the Oukland-Ogdon route. It Is in
conceivable, say local railway experts,
that the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, now in receivership and without
a mile of track south of the Columbia
river will be considering" any construc
tion In California.
The Northwestern Pacific is owned
jointely by the Southern Pacific and
the Santa Fe.
1 tit i road We Shore of K la math
WASHINGTON. May 7. A project
for constructing 250 miles of new line
in central Oregon, was filed today with
the interstate commerce commission
by the Oregon Trunk railroad, an or
ganlation controled by the Northern
Pacific-Great Northern - Burlington
group. No estimates of costs were in
cluded. The projected line will run from
Bend, Ore., in a general southerly di
rection 170 mites to Klamath Falls,
via Bonanza and Eaton. In addition
eighty miles of additional main line
would be built through northward
from Klamath Falls along the west
side of Klamath lake and returning to
to main trunk again at a junction
point called Skookum.
The line would open an avenue of
transportation for very large timber
tracts, the application said, and in ad
dition there would be some traffic
from agricultural and grazing inter
ests. It was further said that the Ore
gon Trunk was affiliated with other
(Continued on Pace Eight)
' IX)S AXOELER, May 7. Joseph
Glenn Phehus thought It rather amus
ing when Mrs. .!raee Moore mlstoook
him for her husband. James V. Moore.
" horn she had not seen for some tie.
but he was more mbnrrassed than
aamtlsed. when she had"ilm arrested
for failure to support her. and he was
too busy iie amused during the two
weeks it took hlul to prove In police
court tlajt he l a. Indeed J. O. I'helius
and none other.
Thn nrairwt him finallv was dis-
mlssed yesterday aftcShe had product
MAN FINDS E MISTAKEN FOR
WWIHER WOMSIfS HUEIBY NOT A JOKE
Secretary Jar dine l
Would Rope a Calf
Against City Official
WASHINGTON, May 7. Sec-
rctary Jarttine, who recently ac-
cepted the dare of a boyhood
chum to enter a broncho riding
event in North Dakota, is think-
intj of also taking on Mayor
James Dahlmnn of Omaha in a
calf roping contest.
4 The mayor's challenge, now
under consideration by Mr. Jar-
4 dine suggests that the contest
be staged at an American Le-
gion rodeo to be held May 12.
fr In his younger dnvs the secre-
tury was a cowboy.
HUGE FLEET OF
RUM. SHIPS HELD
IN U" S.BLOCKADE
30 Liquor Ships Joined By
Four More in Net Set By
Uncle Sam Tvews Air
planes Arouse Suspicion
- Shots Fired.
NEW YORK. May 7. (By Associ
ated Press.) The destroyer Cunning
ham engaged in scouting duty for the
dry armada blocking the rum fleet
off the New Jersey coast today re
ported the arrival of four new ships
on rum row. . - -r
'Qno-i'of these was reported as a
large German liner from Hamburg.
All of tho arrivals apparently were
unaware of the net Into which they
had been drawn.
NEW YORK. May 7. (By Associ
ated Press.). Two observers for the
New York Evening World took a sea
plane trip over the scene of warfare
between the coast guard and the ves
sels of rum row, that newspaper says
today and observed approximately
thirty liquor ships at anchor from 18
to 35 miles from shore.
Each of the rum boats was under
close scrutiny of two 75-footers of the
coast guard which circled closer and
closer to the sides of their respective
wards as the newspaper plane circled
overhead, the observers reported. On
advice of the pilot, Arthur L. Caper
ton, the newspapermen had notified
coast guard officials at the barge of
fice in advance of their flight, to pre
vent the possibility of being fired
upon.
"1 have been shot at several times
by coast guard crews that assumed I
had no business over rum row bo
cause I was not flying a government
plane," the pilot said.
Some of the government " boats.
however, apparently had not" received
word of the newspapermen's visit, for
they kept close watch of the plane
and scurried toward the ships they
were guarding In evident apprehen
sion that the fliers would attempt to
get a message to the beleaguered rum
boats, said the observers. .
Casualties of the
Air Service
NEWPORT NEWS. Va.t May 7.
Major Carl C. Benedict. United "States
army, was killed at Langley field near
here this afternoon when he lost con
trol of an SE-6 airplane he was flying
and crashed 600 feet. ,
! John B. Stetson, Jr., Iloporecl
WASHINGTON. May 7. John B.
Stetson, Jr., of Philadelphia, son of
tho late hat manufacturer, has been
appointed minister to Finland.
Announcement of the appointment
was made today after word of his ac
ceptability had been received from
the Finnish government.
ed public records and depositions to
slffiw that he was horn In Plnttsmouth.
Neb., went to high school there, work
ed in a general store there and was
known both there and here as J. G.
Phehus, the husband of Mrs. Phebus.
Mrs.. Phebus helped testifying she
was sure he' was Phebus, and officials
of a street railway here contributed
an affidavit showing thnt Phehus must
have tieen running n street car In Los
Ar.01es the day Mrs. .Moore alleged
!she was married to Jamea V. Moore
SUPER
Ml
C0LLL6E IN
LAHQOILS
Development Scheme of Dr.
Orlando Miller at Lake Cha
pala in, Mexico, Gets Into
Trouble With Boston Au
thorities Health Ham
mocks Are Seized.
BOSTON, May 7. Four temporary
officers of the newly farmed Boson
chapter, International Society of Ap
plied Psychology, wore summoned be
fore tho county Krand Jury today for
questioning regarding the soculled
"On to Chupala" movement and the
plan to erect here a templo of psy
chology at a cobi of $500,000.
The Boston chapter -was organized
recently by Dr. Orlando Edgar Miller,
a lecturer on psychology. The "On to
Chapala" movement which ho advo
cated was said to be a plan to estab
lish at Lake Chapala, In Mexico, a
co-operative community peopled by
colonists from the United States. Ac
cording to the prospectus each person
would contribute J1000 to enjoy the
advantages of Chnpala. It was said
that the property had already been
purchased, but 'that colonization
would not be begun until (1,000,000
had been obtained from contributors.
The grand Jury will also investi
gate an alleged plan for treatment of
adherents by the use of a specially
constructed hammock, which ,lt was
claimed, would lengthen the vertebrae
and make certain a longer and hap
pier life. , '
'This - device, lt'--w,8" osnid,'-'; was
stretched between two iron ..uprights
and when the patient was strapped in,
the hammock- was made to swing
until the occupant- "looped rlie loop."
The Information in the possession of
District Attorney Thomas C. O'Brien
was that a charge of $20 was made
by the organization hero for each
hammock.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 7. The
plans of. Dr. Orlando Miller and his
followers for tho development inru
psychology' of a race of supermen
through the development of the co
operative colony at Lake Chapala In
Mexico, had Its origin here. Dr.
Orlando began the project by selling
life memberships in tho "Founders'
League of the Chapala Co-operatlvo
University." about a year ago. nop
Inn eventually to raise $1,000,000, of
which 1500,000 would bo devoted to
the building of the university.
The records of the stato corpora
tion commission here show, however,
that the nian to sell life member
ships for $10, this amount to be
allowed Inter on stonk purchases,
was brought to the attention of tho
commission.
The plan was thereupon suspended
here without a formal Investigation
being made and Dr. Orlando depart
ed for the east, although the legiti
macy of "his plan, evidently had
not been seriously questioned.
As announced, the plan was to de
velop by psychological evolution a
race of men that would he ennmea
to enrrjj on the work of the world
by but three hours labor a day and
through them to develop world
leaders.
National
At rittsburg. R. IT. E.
St. Louis 10 19 1
Pittsburg 9 15 0
' Batteries: Sothoron, Day, Sherdel,
Halluhan, Rhem and Gonzales: Ydo.
Adams, Morris, Aldrldge and Smith,
Gooeh.
At Boston.
Brooklyn
Boston
R. H. E.
3 9 8
7 12 1
, Iluhbell.
Batteries: Thormahlen.
Osborne and Taylor;
O'Nell.
Cooney and
At Philadelphia R. II. E.
New York . 11 22 6
Philadelphia I H 0
Batteries: Nehf, Greenfield, Seott
and Oowdy, Hartley; Ring, Decatur,
Couch, Pearce and Wilson.
American
At Cleveland. R. II. E.
Chicago 5 H 0
Cleveland 7 10 S
Batteries: Connally. Mangum. Mack
and Schalk, Orabowskl; Smith and
Myatt.
Probe Death of Denver Man.
DENVER. May 7. Disinterment of
the body of c. H. Blank, real Atate
operator, who was supposfr. to have
died Fubninry 3 hint, and to have been
biiri"l Kebruary 7. was ordfrnii by
Dlstrirt Attorney ("line today as the
Inceptive of an exhaustive Inveiga-
Hon Into the. dealt).
British "Death-Ray" Inventor
to Marry American Divorcee
H Orinriell-Matthews (inset) tamed imi'ntor of n "dVntli ray."
to l-ccwne Hie third husband of Mrs Olive Wnitr. former o(mtii
sinRcr Her first husband m Archibald White. Cincinnati finan
cier Her second pouse. Malcolm Waitc. from whom "die has jus
'.cen diviireiki.-ls now iic'iuit in the movies in Hollywood .'
LA. RAFFETY HIT
BY CAR, HAS A
E
" SALEM, May 7. 1y A. Uaffoty,
chief state traffic inspector had a
narrow escape from serious injury.
and as it was, is sore In several
joints today as a result or oeing
run . down on the Paciric highway
last night by Paul Steinbock of Sa
lem. Raffety ' was guarding a broken
down truck which was stopped on
the highway. With a flashlight he
signalled several automobiles to steer
clear of the disabled truck and says
ho began to signal Steinbock when
he was about half a mile away, but
that Steinbock kept coming rapidly
until too late to stop when he put on j hold as an accessory in the deaths of
his brakes and skidded into tho truck, young McCllntoek last fall and of hlfl
and hit Raffety. The Inspector I mother, 10 years ago.
jumped Just In time to keep f mm jn opposition to her release on her
being crushed and was knocked Into! own word or on bond was raised by
the ditch of the right of way. Robert K. Crowe, state's attorney,
Steinbock, In bis report at the po- wno strenuously resisted efforts to re
lice station, claims he did not see:ieatie Khenherd. now in Jail pending
the signal light from Raffety until
too late to stop and ' claims there
were no rear lights on the truck,
Raffety claims there was a renr light
on the truck but that Steinbock
knocked It off.
Air Trip to North
Pole Is Delayed By
Clouds and Blizzard
4
OSLO, Norway, May 7. The
Shipping Gazette says the anxfl-
lary ship Farm of the Amundsen
north pole expedition has reached 4
Seal bay, Danes Islands, in HI cat-
Ing this may be the place from
which the fileht to the north pole
will start. Unfavorable weather 4
4 conditions, cloudy with snow, 4
were reported.
44444444V44
Wall Street Report
NEW YORK. Mny 7. The closing
was firm.; Renewal of selling pres
sure against American Can forced
that stock down three points in the
late trading.
America Car and Foundry Jumped
5t points and West Penn Power and
Market Street railway preferred five
ach. Public utilities led another
forward mnve"nt In today's active
stock mai'kft. Itumors of capital re
adjuynnt, lncraM"fl dividends nnrl
new comhkwition stimulated ulllnh
operation. Total sales approximated
1,900,000 shares.
W&M ' ' fit
CHICAGO, May Mrs. Julia
Shepherd, named as accessory of her
husband, William D. Shepherd, in the
alleged slaying of their ward, William
Nelson McCllntoek, millionaire
phan, was at liberty today on her own
recognizance aftor surrender last
night.
Her release pending grand Jury
action', on J5000 bonds was promised
tomorrow morning by Judge Jacob
Hopkins before whom she appeared.
Until then, he. stayed service of the
coroner's mittimus from which she
fled Tuesday night after the coroner's
Jury had recommended that she be
trial May 18
"There Is no evidence that I hnve
as ntato'fj attorney that can cause mo
to oppose hail in this case," tho prose
ecutor said.
For the first time since, his arrest
several weeks ago, Shepherd was
taken from his cell to converse with
his wlfo -ufter arrangements for her
visit with her husband had been
made. They conversed for fifteen
mlnntes urging each other to romaln
firm and trust In divine nid. They
smiled as they posed for cameramen.
But Mrs. Shepherd described as a
"Lady MacBeth" by Judge. Harry
Olson who Instigated the Investigation
of thn deaths, sobbed as she left. She
termed the Jury's action and lhat of
Judge Olxon as "persecution."
CRY OF FIRE GETS
DENVER, May 7 By crying "fire"
Instend of "hands up" two small
negro girls sought today by the po
lice obtained elht dollars' from the
cash reRlster of a grocery operated
by L. M. McCarthy here lute yes
terday. "Your barn is on fire," tho. girls
shout ed to M cCn rt h y as they ra n
Into the store. The grocer dropped
scoopful of sugar In his haste to
GROCERYMAN'S COIN
I
reach the back door. ted through the air most of the way.
No smoke was visible but he traversed 500U miles over land und
searched the Interior of the barn sea today completing a hlstory-mak-beforo
returning to tho store. When Ing journey, from Honolulu to New
he got back, the glris who, according York In twenty minutes. Hcvon pic
to his report to the police were nt turee of persons a nd events concerned
more than ten years old, had gone n the sham warfare that the United
and the cash register was empty,
Coast Rain Valued
at Over $19000,000;
Forest Fires Checked
4.
SEATTLE, May 7. Estimates
hero put upon tho wealth pro
duced by rain thnt Bturted In the
night and fell today from Eureka,
Cal., to Prince Rupert, B. C, ex
tending; into OreKon and over the
Cascade mountains into eastern
WnshinKton. at over $1,000,000.
Young forest fires were checked,
pastures revived und grain sue-
cored.
FORD
A
OF
State of Mississippi Brings
Action Against Henry Ford
fnr H19nnnnnn All Fnrri
ior $ifuuu,uuu mii ruiu
Agents Named Co-defendants
in Suit.
CHARGED
VIOLATOR
ANTI-TRUST LAW
priiiuuuiun ui uio uxpunuLiun ui poi
1 son gas for war purposes,
j He recalled that nine of the powers
JACKSON, Miss., May 7. W. J. tnat 8iKned the Washington treaty
Miller state revenue agent, today agreed to try to Induce other powers
filed In the chancery court of Hindu to agree, to measures forbidding the
county here a suit against tho Ford use of asphyxiating gases In warfare.
Motor ' company, charging a crlml- but he admitted that thoro are ob-
nal conspiracy to vloluto the antl-
truBt laws of Mississippi and seek-
ing to collect penalties totalling HZ,- Mr. Burton declares that tho use in
000,000. Iwar of poisonous gases and liquids
All local Ford dealers In Missis- has been Justly condemned by public
slppl and the bunking Institutions opinion and that the prohibition of
which thoy transact business with such use has been Incorporated 'in
are made co-dofendants and the treaties which havo been signed by a
banking Institutions which thoy majority of the civilized powors.
transact business with are made co- "The high contracting parties Uiere-
defendants and the state revenue fore agree absolutely to prohibit the
agent seeks to attach the funds of export from their territory of any
Jhe Ford Motor company on deposit such asphyxiating, poisonous or other
n the several hanks to guaranteo bases and all analogous liquids in
payment of penalties In event the tended or designed for use In connec
sult is sustained In tho courts, t tlon with the operations, of war," the
The bill of complaint Is, based on article said:
contracts between the Ford Motor Mr. Burton also submitted an alter
company and Its locnl dealers and al- native text as follows:
leges that contracts violate tho a"ntl- "To tho. end of lessening the
trust laws of Mississippi; that they
are In restraint of trade. Inimical
to the public welfare and constitute
an unlawful and criminal conspiracy.
The stato revenue agent also seeks
writ of attachment against all rail
way lines In the state, covering what
ever Ford cars may be In transit,
Practically every banking Institu
tion in the state Is named as a co
defendant. Y. W. C. A. PROTESTS
PORTLAND. May 7. A protest
against the appearance In the Hose
festival parade of girls clad only in
bathing suits was filed with the
council today by the board of dl-
rectors of the Y. W, C. A.
Tho council will pass the protest
on to the Rose Festival association.
i - "The signatory powers, to the end
ALBANY, Ore., May 7. Tho state that this prohibition shall be univer
convcntlon of the Modern Woodmen sally accepted as a part of tnterna
of Amorlca in quadrennial session itional law binding alike the. conr
here yesterday elected the following science and practice of nations, de
officers: Floyd D. Moore, Dallas, .clare their assent to such prohibition.
state counsel: J. A. Wright, Salem,
state clerk: .Walter Worell, of Albany,
William Greenhelmer of Ashland, J.
W. Simmons of Portland, and Howard
Palmer of The Dalles, delegates to
national ramp at Milwaukee, Wis.,
June 21. North Bend was selected
for the 1929 state camp.
SENT Ft
TO N. Y.
NEW YORK, May 7. (By AssocL-
ated Press.) Photographs, transmit-
Btuiea army and navy
have been
U. S. URGES
POISON
A
IT
Theodore Burton, U. S- Envoy
to International Conference
for Control of Traffic in
Arms, Presents His Govern
ment's Proposal to Bar
Poison Gas.
GENEVA. May 7. (By Associated
Press.) Condemnation of the use of
poison gas and prohibition of Its ex
portation for war purposes la pro
posed in a new article of the draft
convention offered ,by Representa
tive Theodore E. Burton of Ohio,
heading the American delegation at
today's session of the International
conference for the control of traffic
In arms.
Mr. Burton said he expressed the
desire of the American government
d neople lhat aome Buch provIeIon
regarding poison gnse be adopted. He
said the subject had been brought to
the attention of President Coolldge
jnnd that the president will approve a
stacles to prohibiting the export of
such gas. The article proposed by
horrors of war and ameliorating
the sufferings of humanity IncI- :
dent thereto, the high contracting. ,
parties agreed to control the traf
flce In poisonous gases by pro
hibiting the exportation of all ,
asphyxiating, toxic or deleterious
gases and all analogous liquids, .
materials and devices manufac
tured and intended for use In ,
warfnre, under adequate penalties
applicable in all places where
such high contracting parties ex
ercise Jurisdiction or control."
The Burton, proposal was referred
to a committee of experts. " .
Franco Holds Out
WASHINGTON, May 7. (By Asso
ciated Press.) The-proposal for a
I prohibition upon exportation of pol-
son gases for war use, made by Chalr-
' man Theodore E. Burton of . the
American delegation to the Geneva
conference on traffic In arms, carries
ft Htep farther the purpose -of . the
treaty framed by . the Washington
armH conference and ratified by all
0f the five signatory governments ex-
copt franco. Article five. of that
I treaty reads:
I ' Tne use in war oi aspnyxiaung,
poisonous or other gases and all anal
ogous liquids, materials and devices
having been Justly condemned by the
i general opinion of the civilized world
and a prohibition of such use having
(been declared in treaties to which a
(majority of the civilized powers; are
parties:
agree to be bound thereby as between
themselves and invite all other civil
ized nations to adhere thereto."
The United States, Great Britain,
Italy and Japan have ratified this
convention, but the ratification by
' France is awaited to make It effec
tive. CITY IN 20
carrying on near Hawaii were trans
mitted In the series of experiments.
Twenty minutes after the negative of
each had been placed In the transmit
ting apparatus at Honolulu, the com
pleted picture was in New York.
The experiments were conducted
by yio Radio Corporation or America
with the co-opeAtion of the United
itstutcs army.