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ONLY 3 VETERANS
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world huB ever known. In following
clusely Nnpoleon'8 campulgnri he had
covered much of the revy ground in
BulKiuiu, whore y'.'uic later he was
calk-d upoi. to cofriliu aM formidable
a foe aH the little (.'orimral ever
faced, Krench'H knowledge of J-iel-tflun
soli wan said to have been an
nurmouH help to him. And thin,
fiu) b Insisted, was another hit of
French lurk.
In he enrl married Kleanora,
daughter of It. V. Selhy-LowndeH.
XO NKWS FROM AMLNDSKV.
(Continued From Page One)
DALLAS, Texan.. May 22
shadow of the once great army of the
Confederacy panned through the
streets of Dallas today throwing kisses noon that Captain Itoald Amundsen
to the populace ns though saying fare- J and five companions In two plaiiea
well on their last journey. The kissfH had hopped off from King's bay,
wero returned a hundredfold by the Hpftzbargen, ftt 0: IB P. M. (1:15 A. AT.
multitude who for three hourH wnH.euutQrn Htandard time J.
transported again to the sllrrlng days j jir(!Vious advices to the Associated
of their forefathers as the Confederate jr0H8 Hilj(1 the fI(;flt of (;s( (l,Cp t((
veterans, gray uniforms, immo nags, lho . Q. woui,i n.HUira at least eight
rebel yells and all. ended their thirty
fifth reunion in brilliant pageantry
Only t h reo vet era n s marc h ed on
foot. The others rode In autonioblles,
and a few, the remnants of Forest's
cavalry, wore on horseback. One of
those who walked was Major John
Crowley of New Orleans and he car
ried a banner which read "Only one
left Of Hob Wheeler's Tigers."
KARL OF YI'KKS I) FA I).
(Continued From Page One)
dia, where he performed brilliantly
in bringing cavalry commands up to a
high point of efficiency. Kir George
had not forgotten that rorvlco and
brought Colonel French out of retire
ment to write the new cavalry hook.
The result was characterized ns 'a
masterpiece of lucid explanation and
torse precision." Then the question
aroso as to who was to carry out the
alterations called for in tho book.
Rome answered "tho one who suggest
ed them." French was made assistant
adjutant general of cavalry and pro
ceeded to climb upward to tho com
mand of the first 100.00(1 Hritish sol
dlern who met tho first terrific on
slaughts of the Germans in tho World
war.
Tho Earl of Ypres underwent nn
operation on March 19. Soon there
after he was reported to he recover
ing hut subsequently his condition be
en me worse.
In tho meantime French had made
extenslvo reforms aid was given com
mand of a cavalry brigade. In the
maneuvers of liilift he attracted the
attention of tho entire Hritlsh army.
In these, through extraordinarily dar
ing operations, he completely bafflled
his opponent, a fcunernt using met h ads
which had been regurded as efficient
find necessary until French's genius
made them antiquated. French be
cumo a major general the next year.
Cavalry lender, Boer War
The' Uoer War was to French only
another opportunity to show tho abil
ity which the British military author
ities had shelved seven years before.
Jio was given tho chief cavalry com-
inand and in numerous operations he
hours, but that the expedition might
ho gone several days in case lnnllm;n
at or noiir the pole, fur observation
were found feasible.
The takeoff was effected after
months of careful preparation, super
vised personally and supported finan
cially by Lincoln Kllsworth, New York
engineer and explorer, who Is a mom
bur of the expedition.
Definite the. nrecjiutinns the nvnedl-
'tir.ti lu fif tlwt mnut tinv-iwloMLi Ti'iliu-n
A forced landing might put the men
afoot hundreds of miles from an ac
cessible post of rescue. At least they
would be tar from the two "mother
ships," tho Farm and Hobby, which
were left behind at King's bay.
Tho pilots are both experienced.
Previous advices said Amundsen was
to ride behind Lieutenant Iteuser Lar
son, whilo Ellsworth would be navi
gator of the mnchine piloted by Lieu
tenant Oskar Omdal.
Tho expedition waited for favorable
weather at King's bay since April 1.1.
M. HeKselberg, director of the Oslo.
Norway, meteorological station, made
minute observations. The report yes
terday must have been so favorable
that Amundsen decided to hop off.
The AhiundHGii-rcilKworth pole dash
ftarted the first of three flights this
.summer. The uil-Americun MacMiUnn
navy expedition, with two planes, is
scheduled to start Juno 1 7. Next
month also a British expedition under
(Jrettir Algarsson, n young Icelander,
Intends to make the attempt In a
"blimp," or non-rigid airship.
MTCDFOED MATT; TRTTttTNR MTTDFOTJD, OKKfiOX. FT7TDAY, MAY 22, 1925
ISoth iiluncs were enulDired wMliAuver to M. K. Uocht uf J'ortlaml. for
ulcighft and with sklls ai wore fuTiy cremation or any . other disposition.
Hupi'Hed -ytith emerKPiury provisions M. Hecht believed to be a
nuiticlent fiir one month. Th0 also! wonuin belonging the same cult
carried snfflelont Kuntt and ammnl-l aa Covell.
tioirfor killing gania In Greenland. j Among ose who wltnenned the
The XorweKlau government has em- execution!) were peter Culver, brother
powered Amundsen to occupy any land I 0r the man slain by l'eare and Doc
tors T. T. .Manzt-r of Seattle. Karl V.
he may discover as Norwegian terrl
tory.
MI'ltDKUKliS PAY I'K.N.WIV
(Continued from page one.)
and a Htiiterior tactician. He wan
mentioned in many dlBpatcltos and
went back to Kngland at lho clone o
tho war to be knighted nnd given the,
comuland of all the truopH at Aider
.Morrow and Earl Smith of Portland
and It. Li.- Edwards and W. 11. Mott
of KnU-m.
t'lemency Is Ilt'fll.si'tl
Governor Pierce late yesterday
kill himself, and did not want his after lintening to a delegation ffum
livestock and pets to get Into the Portland that asked commutation of
hands of other people. Finishing Hie death sentence to life Imprlson
this. he sought his nelghlsir, and ment, refused to extend clemency to
slew him. He claimed Culver had Covoll and Peare. The delegation
had illicit relations with Mrs. Peare. was headed by Dr. Kvangelino Wood
,, . . . . . , .as spokesman and others present
Covell wrote out ft slatemen , n-'wcrJ JIennim. r. u,IlK, an u Vm
e,ulI:.K it fur publ ca ion declarinK Mftho e ' ul(
his innoceme and laying he crime h(We fl. uf)d cunHcien.
upon another person, obviously his (oub st Uf of Arlhui.
brother. Dr. Covull, osteopath, who CoV(, am, L w ivare," wild the
is now said to be In Kuwcne, and KoVerilor.H Rtuteinent. I have read
who Is the widower of the slain Uuj teKlimony an( 1)aVe Htudled the
woman. Hut Arthur Covell with- caKe) from evory an(?l(.. Kach of these
drew Ills statement. lie addressed men wus trI(Jt, hy a jury ,n tho coumy
a Hiatement to Warden Dalrymple wh4.ro thL, oilmen, were committed,
which the warden had not received and oach wnR fOU)Ui BUilty. An able
this inornlnK Wlietlier It bears on aml impartial judwe presided. I loth
the crime Is not known, lie left sev-CiitieH wero appealed to the supreme
eral other letters with the warden, court of the stale of Oregon and de
udilressed to different persons, in-,t-rees of the lower court were nf
cludinK his nephew, Alton Covell, j firmed. The mandates uf our courts
now doing life for committing the should no .lightly be set aside. All
murder that Arthur Covell is Je- the elements of first degree murder
lleved to have incited, appear In each case. I can find
I'earo left a few dollars at tho nothing to justify the extension of
orison. He reufted tlmt this be executive ciemency
given to Floyd Hall and the (lold-
stein brothers of Portland, witn
whom lie worked in the prison tailor
Have Month's Food.
OSLO,, Norway. May 22 (Hy the
Associated Press.) tiiven favorable
conditions, the two seaplanes of the
Amundsen Kllsworth expedition which
started from King's bay yesterday lu
an attempted flight to the north pole,
should he back at Spitsbergen in about
24 hours from the time of the take-off.
The distance to the pole, 1 100 kilo
meters, or about C80 miles, was ex
pected to require about nino hours'
flying time.
If u favorable landing place is not
found nt tho polo the journey from
Kind's bav to the note and return
proved himself both a Rreat strategist should occupy about 18 hours nnd tho
pin lies should he back at King's bay
by this afternoon.
If trouble develops and the planes
must be ubamloned, the party will try
to reach ('ape Columbia, Greenland,
shot with tho rank of lieutenant gen- 'where the Peary expedition had a base,
eral.
In J 907 French was appointed in
nectur uenernl of the forces and five
years later he was made chief of ttiej
Imperial general stnrr. no was maoe
a field marshal In 19 1 3 and as such
went to France at tho beginning of
the World War ns commander In
chief of the expeditionary forces.
Hero ngain he displayed his extraor
dinary ability as a military leader, lie
was. in a way, responsible for the
chanRo in ,the yritlsh cabinet result
ing in tho creation of the ministry
of munitions; nt tho hend of which
former Premier Lloyd George suc
ceeded In awakening the munitions
manufacturers to the necessity of
rallying to tho aid of tho soldiers in
th field.,
' In tho early engagements in France
French's army was outnumbered by
tho enemy and short of high explo
slvea to halt the Gorman advance.
To. the latter was attributed tho ne
cessity for the strategic retreat from
Moos, In which he handled the sorely
tried Ilrltlsh army in masterly fash
ion. Later with l.ooo.otM) men under
his command ho scored his great vic
tory at. V pres.
r Tteporting on his operations the
field marshal wrote: "The glorious
troops under my command had gone
Vnllantly to their death when a few
ynaro guns and a few-more shells
would have many times saved their
sacrifice. And still no sufficient sup
piles came." Crltlcizi-d at home for
permitting tho Germans almost im
pregnably to entrench themselves,
French became Involved in a contro
versy with Lord Kitchener, his former
South African commander, then sec
rotary of stale for war.
The lato Lord Northcllffe made n
visit to the British front and upon
his return bluntly told the facts of the
shell shortage It was then that the
change In th0 cabinet was made with
tho result that the factories speeded
up and turned out an Immense
amount of shells and other war Im
plements. Hoplmvd hy llalg
, After 10 months of Intensive war
fare in France, French relinquished
com mand of t he Ilrit Ish forces 1 1
Field Marshal llalg and returned to
Knglund. He was created a viscount
and made commander in chief of the
troops In the United Kingdom, a post i
ho held until ltns. Then m1 was
made lord lieutenant of Ireland, and
crvcd until April 30, when the
Home Itulo Partition Act took effect
and Viscount Fltzalan became vice
roy. On December 19. 1919, while
motoring through Ireland an attempt
was mndo to assassinate the lord
lieutenant. Ills party was fired upon
from ambush, hut French escaped
Injury.
Upon retirement as lord lieutenant
of Ireland. French was created nn
arl by King George. His new honor
was not gazetted for nearly a year
afterward, when It was officially an
nounced that ho had elected to be
known ns the Karl of Ypres after the
place of his great victory. in the war.
Some RurnriOc was occasioned by his
title selection, it being untie unusual I
to take the mime of a reign pi " e
for a title, only a few iTsu. h exam
ples appeing in the Hritish record.
The earl was rMi ardent admirer
and student of Napoleon whom he re
garded aa the uxeatout atratvflat tho
The two condemned men accepted
the governor's decision philosophic
ally. Peare had expressed a wish
shop, and who, ho said, had been l'tiLA- " hMU,,,HI wu tu"ll,,ul1'
, , ,, iCovell s sentence.
kind to him. ... e ,, . '
Jltstnry of rimes
"Do you want me to read the CrimOR for which Arthur Covell and
death warrant, to you now?" Warden u w ,Vui.G wer0 w.ntoncQrt tu death
Dalrymple asked Peare just before Yv.oro ,j0tn committed in Coos county,
he was taken to the execution clmni- in thL. extreme southwestern part of
ber. Oregon. Both men were convicted In
"No. no," wild the did man. "OIv nml execution dates were post-
your time to something more valu- poiied by appeals to the supreme
court.
Arthur Covell, crippled astrologer,
was convicted at Coqullle, November
10, 11)3,, following a trial at which
the state Introduced evidence to show
that he had Influenced his sixteen-
able."
Pearo requested that his body be
cremated and this will be dono in
tho state crematorium at the state
hosp'ital near the prison. Covell left
a request that his body be turned
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cur-old nephew, Alton Covell, to kill
Mrs. Kbba Covell, wife of Dr. Fred
Covell, a brother of Arthur. Alton
was one of two step-children of -Mrs.
Covell. Alton Covell is now serving
uTifo cntenec in the state prison.
L. W. Foare was 'Convicted March
19. lt-L'3. of killing his neighbor,
James Culver, whom Peare admitted
on the witness stand at his trial that
he had shot to death. Peare was also
charged with second degree muriici'-ja
in connection with the death or his
own wife, who was choked to death
in his home immediately before Cul-
ver was slain. Ptare claimed hlo
mind wus blank concerning his
wife's death, saying he had been j
drinking moonshine whiskey and had !
become temporarily deranged. After
his wife was killed l'eare killed his j
dogs and cats and was seized with nn 1
Impulse to kill Culver, whom he fan
cied was to blame for his troubles.
Astrology figured prominently in
disclosures following the arrest of i
Arthur Covell, but was scarcely men
tioned at his trial, tho prosecution
confining Itself to evidence concern
ing the death of Mrs. Covell. Arthur
Covell had been living at the home
of Dr. Covell, and was cared for by
Mrs. Covell And the children. Bed
ridden with U broken back, as the re
sult of injury in an automobile acci
dent, he devoted much of his time to
the study of astrology. Investigators
who caused the arrest of Arthur
..-...a the stand that she km-
of the Plan to murder, but said she
U d ot think it would he carried out
Alton was alleged to huvetrangled
wrpmnother in the kitchen oi u
found notes in code which they said
Indicated ho hud plunned .many mur
ders. CovHI claimed these were writ
ten solely amuse himself.
1 O . . . i l.,- -i itolvimr all
momfc before the death ui 7 ',,. iit-r husband was
Covell, which occurred ptember i. j r; ' " but ,ate, WKM cleart.d
wza, iovcii nau pianneo 9- ' 7 7 ., Ijau.r Alton was
and enlisted the aid ot Alton, i.ucoie i confession
j nil . .1 1 1 . "
1 uinmonla-MJtiked
Covell, 14-year-old sister of
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