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- I'nlr 'nrjr o MEDFORD;llAl-.TPRiBUTffi Th Weather Prediction Fair and nillcl Minimum jOKtfrduy 81 Minimum tuduy 41.8 Weather Year A Maximum 74 .Minimum T..37 0?!lj Twftitlntb Y.r. Weekly Fifty-third Year. . MEDFOKD, OREGON, " TUESDAY, MAY 20. 192 J no. :a RESIDENT . '-OFFER S CHE IS "READY WHEN HP NEEDED Chief Executive Will Place Forces of United States Be hind Effort to Rescue North Pole Aviators When Experts Declare Emergency Has Ar rived. BY THE ASKOCIATER PRESS May 2tt. At 2:30 p. in. New daylight mi vl tiff time, no until hud been reeelved from tlio Amumlseit-KNswortli flying expe dition to the north )ble. The cxplororH IiojiihmI off In the two flying limits from Spits bergen Thursday afternoon. President CooHdge flT consider ing sending; nn American relief expedition but Is not cert n in such, steps are yet Justlfletl. WASHINGTON. May 20. (By As sociated Press,) , Governmental relief for the Amundsen expedition to the north pole is favored by President Coolidge, but he is not certain that the situation has reached the point where such aid would be justified. The president has given no particu lar thought to proposals to send one of the big navy dirigibles on a relief expedition. He considers that a de clsion on any micli project should lie first with Secretary Wilbur who said today that the mny had given no of- ficiul consideration to it. . I Neither was any question of send-r Ing the Los Angeles or Shenandoah to the rescue of the Amundsen party discussed at today's enhinot meeting.. Secretary Wilbur said that any such expedition could be authorized only ufter the must thorough eonsid- eration und on the basis of a plan of procedure manifestly sound and prac- ! tlcal in every way. it wouiu oe an surd, he said, to send our airships into the orotic In a haphazard way to search for. six men over thousands of square miles of frozen waste. Takes Times to Hear NOME, Alaska, .May 26. -iny As mMr,tori Press.) Ainunilsen's pen- chant for startling the world makes it ! difficult to tell when news will be re ceived from the explorer, George S. Maynard, mayor of Nome, and a per sonal friend of Amundsen's declared today. In case a landing is made at Point Barrow, it would probably take at Winnipeg grain exchange today, on least two weeks to get word to Kotze- reports of bad weather the May deliv bue or Nome," Mr. Maynard said, cry touched $2.00 1 this morning. "From Welnwright, - which was Amundsen's former starting place, it might be possible to hear In about ten L days, unless he chooses to wait along '.the Alaska north coast until some vessel with a wireless npparatus should make its way north through Ice ?loes on a trading trip. khlH Is possible, but would not be accomplished much before a week or two." Mnv Have ldllHIfll. rtiasKH I SEATTLE, May 20 Captain Roald Amundsen mny already have landed on the northern coast of Aiaska but I it mny be weeks before the world will know,, persons familiar with the cli- mate and terrain of tho region point-I ed. out here today. ' The ice in tne Arciio oceim m j". , hreaklns: un. No vessels having wire Jess communication are known to be north of Nome. The furthest north radio station is at Kotzebue, about 2000 miles north of Nome and about J300 tnlles from the north pole. Be tween Point Barrow, which is the northernmost tip of Alaska, and ap proximately 460 nautrical miles near er the pole than Nome and the pole is n vast "blind spot" of more than a million square miles. Captain Amundsen first made pre ' parations for a flight across the pole In 1918. His original plans contem plated hopping off at Weinwrlght. 200 miles east ot Point Barrow, whence he expected to fly to Hpltx- ronntlmiftd on Pairs Six) PARK AND TILFORD BUY 1.800,000 GALLONS WHISKEYAT BARGAIN PRICE vpw yotik Vnv 2da (By Asso - H)J(K, y r7 ' lated PressS The Overhult distil- elated lew. founded in 1810 b Abraham Overholt, grandfather of Henry Clay ,a '-I.,.. f ihia ritv m-lth I .. (.00 gallons of whi.key for more than l5.00u.000 for the fourteen buildings Richard Loeb Sick, Nathan Leopold to Be Operated Upon CHICAGO. May 2&. (A. P.) While doctora in the hospital of the Illinois penitentiary at stutevillo prepared to operated today on Nathan P. Leopold for 4 the removal of hifc appendix, Richard Loeb, the other partici- f pant in the murder of Robert Frnnka a year ago, also was a patient In the hospital. He was 4 believed to bo Buffering from measles. Roth youths are aerv- 4 Ins life sentences for the slay- InK. , . 4 I Indiana ;Alone Suffers a $2, 000,000 loss Wheat and Corn Soar As Reports Come in of Record Breaking Freeze in East. NEW YORK, Mny 20. (A. P.) ReroitlH for May cola weather have been shattered and much damage has heen done to crops throughout the, ouat nn(1 mi,ldle west In the most , ,.eeze8' 1 " , in history. It may be several days before temperatures' return to nor-j ma lhe weatner bureau says. Ad- , . . I damage caused by raln, hail and snow after the heat wnvoj Saturday, frosts the last two nights nuvc cut the value of grain, fruit and vegetable crops by millions of dol-1 lars. Indiana alone reports more than $2,000,001) damage. I Reports of crop damage by frost were reflected on the Chicago board , of trade. Wheat went un from nearly two to six cents a bushel. Corn soared three to seven cents. While Texas sweltered in tempera tures as high os 115 degrees, fields of corn an inch high In Missouri were covered with ice. WINNIPEG, Man., May 20. For the fourth time this year and the fourth tlnio since the World war, wheat went above $2 a bushel on the Daily Report on the Crime Wave CHICAGO May . 20. (A. P.) Diamomh and Jewelry of an estl mated value of $150,000 were taken bv three robbers who held up three omnliivpa In the Adolnn uasiman Loan mnk ln thB heart of tho down ,ow district today. Th0 vauita had been opened and (he en,pioyes were arranging the ,viniow an(j show case displays when the robbcra entered, drawing their revolvers. ..MarCh back there, hoys," one of the robbers commanded and sent the employes to a rear room where they were bound. , Then the robbers helped them selves to the diamonds and Jewelry and .escaped. Oastman said he hnd Insurance 6f about $75,000. . CHICAGO. May 26. Angelo Oenna, a brother of Michael Genua, who is reputed to have fallen heir to much of the influence once held by the late MlchaeJ Merlo among the Italian Americans here, was riddled with bul lets from sawed-off shotguns and probably fatally woupded today as he drove his automobile on the north side. (twenty acres of land on the outskirts of piushurg. and the complete stock whskey cause(1 un,rse a fit the prevailing retail medicinal price of $3 a pint the whiskey alone : would be worth -I S.'J'H'.IMiO. The sale is the linnet b-Kltimnlc liquor ideal In the United States since iiulii Million was enacted. GREA DAMAGE m raw mm DROP T PLEA, WHITE SLAVE Roseburg Man's , Sensational Change of Front in White Slave Case in Portland Fails to Move Judge Bean Hor ace Greely Wilson Is Given 18 Months in Pen- PORTLAND, Ore., May 28. Eighteen months in McNeil's Island penitentiary was the sentence im posed toduy by Foderal Judge R. S. Hean upon Horace Greeley Wilson, who last week pleaded guilty o nn Indictment charging violation of the federal Mann aot. Wilson was for merly Indian agent at the klamath reservation and his home recently was at Koschurg. - "Judge,. I tke an oath before God I never married that woman If I did r was crazy." said Wilon in a statement , to Judge . Bean. A crowded court room, tense and silent, listened while Wilson pleaded. Wilson stood calmly before, court and counsel and dramatically de clared he was innocent of a crime to which a few dayB ago in the same court room he pleaded 'guilty. "I do not remember a thing about what Mr. Stearns has said about marrying that wpman, your honor," ho said, referring to Aletta V. C. Lindaley ot New York City, -with whom the ' government 'charged he went through a marnago ceremony. "If I did there is no question but that I was crazy. But I am not crazy now." Ho paused a moment. The crowd leaned forward to get every-word.' Judge Bean moved rest- lessly In his chair. I mere sits my wne anu son anu daughter. They can tell you whether' or not 1 have been a good husband and father." ' Everv eye turned to the little family group sitting on the ' front row of the narrow seats on -the east side of the hot court roonv. . . "Mr. StoarnB has said mnny things hero, many things I know nothing about, nothing about at -all! . your honor.", said-Wilson. ' Singular, Soys Judge Benn. ' "This Is a very singular . case." r"iZZ "A.Tl ,i i. u.. i. , ri(li,r ,,, he pleaded guilty and now he-": Hero Wllfion raised hl8 right hand on1 Inlorfimtarl- t'fnx. I un f ft Wfird judge, may. I say Just a Vord-.'" Dut the court continued: .. "The defendant's entire conduct In this cuHe hiui been very strange. He asked to have the case postponed. 1! i iilo uwic, men i ej of trial when the government naa us witnesses an reuuy, ne-i-u... in anu pieaus gumy. ine wun un only recognize this plea,: as the.de-j fendant did nothing when nil was ready for trial, but to announce It. j "His actions ; hae 'been , strange throughout. Ho has 'wrlttefl letters to the judges, has sent In a petition nnd. now he comes and aftdr plead ing guilty, says he is not. - The court will have to tnke the fclea and pronounce a sentence that In its opinion Is commensurate with the crime-; therefore the judgment of the court'ls that tho defendant be confined in the penitentiary ot Mc Neil island for a term of 18 months." As the Judge spoke, Wilson stood erect nnd the color In his cheeks did not change, Deputy United States Marshal Arthur Johnson quietly told Wilson that he could chat with his family in the marshal's office. ( a he Hummed I'p. . , Assistant United States Attorney Joseph Stearns presented the: case' as fully us though presenting it to aj jury. ' - 1 "1 wish to make a complete state ment of this case, your honor," he began, speaking slowly and low, as If wishing to spare the prisoner's family us much of tbe details &fl possible, "because since the defend-' ant entered his plea of guilty he has been arcund telling -people that he was innocent,- thut he had pleah guilty because he . has no money to secure witnesses and the government was forcing him to trial, "He caused to be printed long statement In the Roseburg News-Re view in which he made the decla- FAILS ration of Innocence that he has talked about.", I ' Kom lick's Protest Killed V Stearns then read the article.' COLUMilUS, Ohio. May 26. (Ry Stearns told of Wilson's courtshlpAssociated Press.) The complaint of with Aletta IJndsley, a divorcee. A a minority of the presbytery n New photograph showing the two togthpr York against action of the body in at Reno was shown the court. A regnrd to Dr. Harry merwin Koa love letter that Wilson was alleged dick s occupancy of the pulpit of the to hi.ve written the woman after (Continued on Pas 8U) Held for Germ Murder Herself . " She Is Aiding Husband, on Trial ' ' MitmifmimfiL ' BScTA WVS! - MOSCOW. May 2.-(A. P.) i V &) VsWiMf I'V v fl ' nbrtmd that the crown Jewell had I if ?1V!?!'j disappeared or had been reduced -j.fr'. J tlf,f t? ji'J&Sk 1" number, the soviet government V .Xi H 4 Invited all foreign diplomats to KSTlifv C A lrf y VI --It the state vault where these ' " 4fA-v ' ' The display was dazzling The Z iiMm VK tMt i"".h. e ulva'len.-o; 3Wmmm mobsiurv w : m r 1 hi v u 1.1 Ml HIM , While Hie '"le ' making a bold effort to send lier husband to tlic gallows on circumstantial evidence, Mrs. Julia Shepherd, wife of William D. Shepherd, on trial in Chicago "bn the charge of mur dering their foster son, William McC'lintock, "orphan millionaire," with typhoid germs is nt his side, offering him all the encouragement she can. She isecn leaving the courtroom after a trying day. Fred Norman, loiraintr railroad r liriLkemfin. intured In nn auto acctd- dont on crater Lake highway Sunday morning, died at Sacred Heart hos- pltal, Monday afternoon, never 'having regained consciousness. odd vclrcumstances surround the trngedy. Dr. R. J. Conroy, attending physicL, entertains the . opinion that , the wild ride, engineered by Norman, might have been with suicidal intent, and bases the supposition upon his (recklessness, while driving from Hutle Falls to this city, coupled with the fact, that relatives told the physician, they have'becn unable to find any of the dead man's letters or belongings. Norman was not a drinking, man. and , no liquor was' found In the car, ac- Kwwrtta auto, trav- eled at a-recklem anoed, und hla no tlOM were noted by many, including Moran. an lie awerved from one a,uw "l l,lv ruuu i.u me unitri , mi side of the rond to J The men were on a fishing trip, and ' their fiBhtng poles, were found Intact i nthe back of the car. I William McCaffey. companion of nj8 con,ution, and regained conscious- ness yesterday morning, but is still too wcnk t(J g!ve ft cohemit version of the accijent, Airplane Service to Gold Stampede in Yukon From Oregon ' 4 PRINCE RUPERT, B. C, May . 26. An airplane for freight serv- 4 Ice between W ran Roll, Alaska, 4 f and the Cassatr gold mining (lis- trlct, arrived here from Portland, 4 Ore., yesterday. Five days, In- fr 4 eluding two, stops, wore con- sumed on the trip. Gold was winter and a stamped a is In pro- fr press. .4 . ... - - Wall Street Report NEW YORK, May 26. The closing wa firm. A better demand for the oils was noted during the late trnd inc with Pirn-American B and Inde- t0 pendent Oil and Gas leading the ad vance. Lackawunna fell back on. profit taking. - - Ruvlns of stocks In today's market wn 0f a more cautious nature, but the main price tendency was upward. Hales aggregated 1,500,000 shares. r list I't e.sl) ti i lan cnurrn was ois- ml.HH-d bv ,h" Presbyterian gwicrnl assembly today. VICTIM OF AUTO - ACGIOENT DIES; SUICIDE HINTED LSTHIA NORMAL SITE SELECTED L! RAT.KM. Ore.. Mav 20. The board . , , ,.. . . , . . , , "elected a site f.r the new normal school at Ashland, contingent on tlio city of Ashland acquiring a portion of lhe s(e 8elcclC(1. , ml , , -,cr' ' The site comprises 1 8. .7 5 ; acres, valued at 30.000, on the aputh side of and ut 'the end of AsJllnhd boule vard, one block from where lhe Pa cific highway from the- south, turns into the boulevard. It is.dlr-eoily wost of Indiana street Of the' IMS acres, a triangular portion confnlitln seven acres is already owned by tho city acies is aueaoy onneu ojr ino -"y. To acquire the .emalnd-eV, Vhlch Is (owned by various persons, It 'would be ! necessary for the city" to caU bond- i'B election The hoard, recommend ed that the next lcgUdimire transfer tu the city the old nor mil I school site. At the next meeting of the board on June 18, John A. iJannes; archi tect, will submit plans for the new buildings. W, C. Knighton, Jlnother architect employed by the board will submit plans for the new i training school for the Monmouth normal, the training school to be located Ht In dependence. ti - - Mr. Hcnnns has pronounced the site selected for the Ashland normal an the moiit scenic of all normal schools In Oregon anil Washington. ? '. The "Daily" Bank Robbery OAKLAND. Cftl.. May 26.(Ry As sociated Press. ) A nervous, robber entered th KincryyJUe, branch of the Mercantile Trust company of Califor- nla, north of here today, pulled a long, black pistol un the ci;snier una then darted swiftly to n waiting auto mobile when he saw that tho cashier was disinclined "to turn oven any of the bank's assets. The robber appeared to ho ftreatly upset when he Saw Hint the cashier was not only refusing- to take him 'seriously but that the customers in (Jie place seemed to rnjoy his ner vousness. ' ' The Noted Dead CHICAGO, May 2(J. (By Associat ed Press.) President Ernest Hewitt Burton of the University -of Chicago, died nt 9:41 a. m. today at the Pres byterian hospltnl. Associated with the university for 32 yoars, since it was established. Or. Burton has been one of Its best be loved lenders, although hedld not be come president until two yearn ago. Find Porh-cinnn's Body PORTLAND. Ore., May 20. The body of Arthur L. McCuir-heon, Port land traffic patrolman drowned a week ago Saturday In the Deschutes river near Gateway iiaa today recov ered by a track walker nt South Junction, seven miles brlow Oiitt'wny, nuf'tnllng to ti wlie ieelved by Chief oi Police Jenkins. BOD EVARD Crown Jewels of Russia Not Missing; Shown to Diplomats IIUIIIIIII UULMIII Testimony of Physicians and Neighbors Regarding the npath nf Wire. Fmma Wllir. UeaW OI IVirS. tmma IVIUr phy Given in Detail Ver diet Awaits Analysis. . Orrtclal lnvcHtlKutlon caused of the death' ot Murphy, who dlt-il Iuhi whone hUHhund, Omar W. Murphy. ffXeoM a nmnHluuKhtor charge In con nection therewith, was launchetl with , tho culling last evening of a coroner' phyKlclaiiH who attended the dead woman, relatives and neighbors. Atl- loui'nlnent was taken nendinE the ar- 'rival from l'ortlund of the stomach -of ,n0 wonalli w,cre It was sent for j analysis. . . . '.i ' . .. . ' . r "The. second high point wan record er test fled that they had cared for e(, whe) Attor Ht'ewart ttpne'nl.d to Mrs Murphy in her last days, und , ,, fl , , h , , , . both testified that thev had conduct-' .... ... ... .. ... ed a complete und thorough examl- nutlon, Dr. -Clnncy testified. tho post mor tem revealed ' nothing organically wrong." Asked by District Attorney Chaney as to the cause of death, he i .,-, 0",0 ' V found nothln ui)on 'mn"n a" we lounu noining uion I which we could base the cause of I can truthfully give death." He added, that "It was one of the unexplalnable things," involv- ing deep scientific research. Dr. Thayer corroborated this testl- mony. Dr. Clancy also testified, that dur- Ing her last Illness Mrs. Murphy was unable tu set up, and complained of aches and pulns. The day before she died she was plnced in a whwl chair at the hospital, he said, but had asked to be returned to bed. The physician described bruises on the hips, and lower lumbar regions, and said that Murphy had talked to him about his wife's Illness, and Insisted "that he had only spanked, not whipped his wife." ; Dr. Thayer testified Hint he hnd been the family physician of the Mur phy's for nearly 20 years, and Mrs. Murphy hnd always been a "reason ably healthy woman," and he had never been "called, as far uh I can remember, to treat a - serious ail ment." Dav'd King, a brother.' and Mrs. Julia Smith, u sister of the deceased Identified the body, and told of her condition after April 1st when the alleged assault was made. Roth tes- ttfleil that when thcy asked Murphy about the affair he Insisted he had "only spanked her." Mrs. Smith testified that Murphy told her, at the hud Hide of his wife, "that he got so dant mad, I did not know whot I was doing," and was "not surprised" when shown the bruises. King testified that Murphy told him he had "spanked" his wife, and that she was "luytng In bed for sym pathy." Roth described ln dotal the (Continued from page six) TIN TOWN. ARIZONA WHEN COW KICKS RISBER, Ariz., Mny 2fi Work of rebuilding Its dwellings of Un faced many Inhabitants of Tin Town,, a Mexican colony near hero today rill because of the antics of n vagrant eow who wrought havoc lo tho village In emulating the bovine of Chicago fire fame. The Tin Town conflagration like ( he fllsnst 01H Chlrngo fire, is sup posed to hnve started yesterday when a cow wundei(.9 Into the kitchen of a LAWYERS IN III TRIAL FACE PROBE W. F. O'Brien and W. S. Stew art, Defenders of Wm. Shepherd, Made Defendants in State Investigation of Jury Fixing Former Rec ords to Be Probed- CHICAGO. May !6 The discharge- of a Juror breaking the first panel ob tained In the trial of William D. Shep herd, charged with murder and Jury tampering charges brought a double sensation In Judge Thomas J. Lynch's court In the criminal building today. "We have Information that must be Investigated, beforo a Jury is sworn in in thiB case," former Judge Robert E. Crowe, state's attorney, declared In answering William 8cott Stewart, chief defense counsel who demanded that Judge Crowe be stopped from further Inquiry as to possible Jury tampering. u,iroW Pmar. 22, the youngest man Oif the Jury, a member of the first panel of four, trie only Jurors thus far ' j sworn In, broke the panel today when ence of the defendant Shepherd,, and (the attorneys in the case that he had '-an opinion In the case' nnd was oppoa Into tho 9ll oapitat punishment. t Mrs. Emma r When examined for' Jury- service-, Friday, und Pillar had not said, that he would not sunsorino 10 ennum puntnnment.. oui apparetitlyyconselous scruples'.Ied him ovoruight.'tQ divulge hlB belief. I Ho first spoke to a bailiff and then wns called Into chandlers ' by Judge yneh who also' summoned the. de- A dnnt and counsel. I Pillar said he Iftid reached an. opin ion and Wanted to Inform the court that he could not believe In capital puniHhmeni. He then was discharged HaiiKlnir nnt, thxua thn Unmt ' Attorney Crowe'i . Jury tampering ln- qulry. Ktewnrt asserted 'that every day the newspapers wore coming out ln.bnld headlines referring to -the tnmperlng charges and that If this continued It would be virtually Impossible to ob tain a Jury. He asserted that Judge ii, " JU''y' "I n"er,e1 tnnt JurtBa Crowe was conducting an newspaper r,i . irt . v.i- ii,i..i fttmbitlon8 j state.8 Attorney Crowe said that he ,had carta hi Information that made j,t necessary, ln his opinion, that the tampering investigation Bhould be con. l,iuctd before a lurv should be sworn nto henr the evidence In the case of shepherd, who Is charged with having murdered his foster son, William Nel son McCllntock, by the administering of typhoid germs. Judge Lynch, however, agreed with Stale's Attorney Crowe that the court was not being interfered with by the action of tho state's attorney's men ln questioning veniremen who had been excutted from Jury service in an at tempt to -learn whether anyone had sought to Influence him. CHICAGO, Mny 26. (By Associat ed Press.) -W. K. O'Brien and W. H. Stewart, defenders of William Shep herd now on trial for the murder of William Nelson McCllntock have been put under Investigation to determine If there hnve been attempts to "fix" successive Jury prospects. The investigation was ordereO by the prosecutor after receipt of u let ter from Robert White, missing wit ness which contained charges that ho hud been forced by defense attorneys to make an affidavit In favor of Shepherd. ' White claimed also by the state as an Important witness, wrote from Philadelphia after several days disap pearance declaring he had ; been forced to flee for his life. A detective was sent Inst night to . return WhHt? here for the trial. Ths state's uttorney snld he would (Continued nn Page Six) NEARLY DESTROYED OVER AN OIL LAMP house nnd kicked over nn oil lamp. There being no fire fighting equip ment In the village one entire block was ruzed. The damage amounted to $ir.oo. . . 1 Tin Town Is Inhabited solely by Mexicans of the poorer class who have ffullt their homes from tin cans, patts of Junked automobiles and any thing else that could be tacked or utueil to tnlhoad ties that funned lhe framework,