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Th Weather
Prediction Fair and nillcl
Minimum jOKtfrduy 81
Minimum tuduy 41.8
Weather Year A
Maximum 74
.Minimum T..37
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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,