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4 e & o o o O "8" tf Mail Teibune The Weather Weather Yefc Ago Maximum 84 .Minimum 50 Prediction I'nscttlitl Maximum yesterday "4.5 Minimum todiiy 45 Dally Twentieth Ym. tVekly Fifty-third Year. BEDFORD, OIEKGOX, TUKSPAY, JUNE 9, 1925 NO. fJ8 AMERICANS III BY U. S. Launch, Flying the American Flag- Fired Upon Near Canton Situation of Foreigners Grows Preca riousMilitary Chiefs Sup port Anti-Foreign Agitation. NEW YORK, Juno 9. (By Asso ciated Press.) A ditmatch to the Evening Post today from Hong Kong said four Americans in a launch fly ing the American flag had been fired on by Yunnanese at Canton, China. The party, composed uf Frank Cramplon. head of an American con tracting firm at Hong Kong and Montgomery Ogden, bursar of the Canton Christian college, and their wives, was endeavoring to cross the river at Canton from Honan island to Shamoen, the foreign settlement when the firing started. Mrs. Crampton was wounded In the arm. The others of the party were injured by splinters of glass. The fir ing continued thirty minutes and compelled the party to return to nonan anu laae sne.tor in tne canton Christian college,., the Evening Post dispatch said. Mr. Crainptori was Bald to have told friends the anti-foreign feeling was Intense and that he hoped the United States would intervene. t x, , ,' . , . j LONDON, Juno I). (Hy Associated my Associated ?e Telegraph Press.) An Exchange Telegraph ' agency dispatch from Shanghai says mat tnnng jso-iin, ne Aiancnurmn military dictator, has ordered two hat tallons of troops to Shanghai to main tain order. SHANGHAI, June 9. (By Associ ated Press.) Tho British cruiser Hawkins arrived at Woosung, the .port of Shanghai today. , Her depar ture for Singapore has boonvpostpbned Indefinitely. SHANGHAI, June 9. (By Associ ated Press.) Chinese volunteers today fired on Chinese workers In a Belgian mill for refusing to join tho general strike, killing one and wounding sev eral others. CANTON, June 9. (By Associated Press.) Cantonese troops tonight were closing in on the city of Canton, but all attempts to capture the city from the Yunnanese troops holding it had failed. Chinese gunboats at mid- night last night attempted to land forces on the Canton side of the Pearl river (Chukiang) but were repulsed, Heavy firing continued throughout the night. General Hsu Chung-Cbl and his Canto n ese t roo ps a re report ed ad vancing on the cHy from the went and General Chu Pei-Tak with further .re inforcements is reported on his way down the North river. Earlier reports that Commander "Wing Fung of the gunboat Poplk had taken a bribe from the Yunnanese and decamped tonight proved incor rect. Wing. It since is reported, col lected $100,000 from the Yunnanese but handed It over to the Kwangtung fojees. The Popik apparently acced ing to the Yunnanese demand convoy ed a number of soldiers across the .river where they promptly were cap tured by their Cantonese enemies to getherwlth a large quantity of opium and counterfeit coins. The situation among tho foreigners here continued extremely tense today. The fighting has been going on con tinuously since Saturday. The foreign settlement (Shamoen) Is not In the line of fire but Is not far removed from the scene of battle. SHANGHAI, June 9. (By Associ ated Press.) Outbreaks of Chinese students at Shanghai were the result of bolshevist actlvltles-schoolboys made the ignorant tools of bolshevist plotters the police prosecutor in the mixed court said today In outlining charges made against defendants ar rested as tho result of disturbances. r EKING, June 9. (By Associated Press.) The vernacular newspapers report that General Feng Yu-Hslang, "Christian general." has issued a cir cular dispatch, supporting the student mnntlntiArt on Pyro KtffhM RADIUM INVESTIGATOR IS VICTIM OF EAST ORANGE, N. J., June 9. (, p.) Dr. Edwin E. Leman, who for the last thirteen years had de voted himself .to the study of ra dium ravs. fs dead, a martyr to the advancement of science. Jl was, noted for his ability tn recover t'Ure radium from Its ore and was aware t diunift milligram by milligram he of the danger In working wilh the' has added to the world s supply, only deadly rays. 'l"" grams of which exist. Battleship Oregon Sails From Seattle For Portland Berth SEATTLE. June 9. (A. P.) Tho battleship Oregon, hand- some with paint, was towed past hero today from the Puget Sound navy yard, Bremerton, on her way to Portland, Ore., on the Columbia river, for a permanent berth as a historic relic. PREFER TO EVOLUTION CASE John T. Scopes Urged By Friends to Drop Famous Criminal Lawyer and Get Ex-Secy, of State to Lead His Defense. NEW YORK, Juno Scopes, young Dayton, !). John T. Tenn., high 8chool teacher, has found himself tho 8ort , odyce from . N'cw York liberals as to the conduct of his trial next month for violating lno Tennessee law ngalnst teaching of jevoiulon vhlc ho fllvo,. acceinlnB offers of aid from Clarence narrow, Chicago !,,, !,.. ,i rnullev Field I .riniina, ,nWyer and Dudley ', xW Vm-lr. nthprs tire ,. v. Vo,k others urged the Lolectlon of Charles Evans Hughes, former secretary of state who recent- ly returned to the practice of law here. I ntted States Senator ueoige Wharton Pepper, of Pennsylvania was ( also urged. I At a luncheon of tho Civil Liberties union, which has guaranteed i nan- cial backing Scopes was plainly" be , insisted tnat ne was to be tho final arbiter In the choice or , .niincil tn nsll .lohn R. Neal. former . " ---- ; dean of tne university or ' " nm- nw inn.. am I andtalmie and agJed ttat ntitHitlrt . nnr.ol should be a man whose I religious views could not bo attacked by fundamentalists. Darrow, speakers said, was reported to he an atheist. Scopes spoke three times Iff reply to various suggestions. He said he con sidered Darrow an agnostic and as such would not prejudice any fair minded juror. He called himself an ncnostic, devoutly religious in his own wav. When no declson had been reached In the matter of counsel late last night Mr. FTughes wbh advanced. Support ers of the former secretary of state ar guetd that Darrow's connection with the Leopold Loch murder would in ject that issue Into the trial. Darrow defended Leopold and L.oei nnd probably saved them from the death penolty for the murder of Bob- by Franks in Chicago Bryan In his speeches has held up e youthful slayers as "specimens of th the evils of over education." Advo- cates of Mr. Hughes' selection believe ne wuuiu acueiit. Scopes Indicated his willingness to eept any assistance which meets the accept any approval of the Civic Liberties union. To that end a sub-eominlttee of tho union will confer todny with him, Dar row, Malone and Neal. 'I want this to he an epoch-making case." he said, "and I don't want any thing to spoil it." 17 STDROIS. Ky June 9. Bodies of the fourteen minors, victims of an explosion in tho West Kentucky Coal v,.. .t,. day were found and brought to the DARROW surface, along with three others originated with Germany it Is ob found last night. The victims, seven vious that for the pact to become white men and ten negroes, were a reality it must be a strictly mu found nt the 400 foot level and tun affair. It said the British corn more than a mile and a quarter back mltment would be restsrlcted to a from the shaft mouth. TO During the last year he suffered periods of weakness and three weeks ago he collapsed. Two blood trans- fusions rnlliyl. The vitality of his tne ,-Khts and obligations pertaining ho became subject to post-lnfec-blood had been destroyed. to members of the League of Na- tlous delirium following an attack of Minr-e Dr. T.eman. then a 8Cn- i M thosa rlfht. nnH nlill- ntnial.a Ininrnvi.d irrefitlv vexteitlnv. inr chemistry studeia at the I'niver- sily ,,f Chicago, bad specialized In ra- OF N. USED BY THEALUES Great Britain Makes Epoch- Making Announcement of Agreement With France By Which Traditional Policy of Isolation Is Abandoned League Is Key to Pact- OTTAWA, Ont.. June 9. (A. P.) Premier King categorically denied today that Canada was party to the Rhine security pact. Asked by J. S. Woodsworth, labor. Winnipeg center, in the house this afternoon If the do minion was party, ho said em phatically the "answer is no." There was no further discus sion. LONDON, June 9. (A, P.) The British government today gave of' ficlal acknowledgement of the Fran co-Hritish agreement on the reply to Germany'B security pact proposal, announced at Geneva yesterday. The Brlflsh government Issued a state ment emphasizing that tho proposed pact Is one of mutual assistance. Tho statement said that Great Britain has guaranteed to protect both sides of the Rhine, and there fore to assist either Germany or France against aggression of the other. The abandonment by Great Brit ain of her long-standing policy of Isolation from continental affairs Is a concession to the peace and secu rity of Europe, the statement said. The statement added that accep , . , , b tn nnie8l if tt)provai i8 gven it by Germany, is contingent upon Germany's entrance ,nt0 th0 ot Nut)ons. Before h .,,..-. func,ion. wmi ue nec- tlie ,. ,,. mombol. entire chance of tho former pol- . . . jL.y under wnicn it naa oeen main- lulned tnnt Gormany 8hould become an unconditional member of the 'ty could be dls u1-" League Is Vital. The security pact Is subsidiary to the League of Nations, the statement ! pointed out. The league's agree ments regarding the eastern fron tiers of Germany, which are closely allied to tho security pact, take pre cedence over the pact, which will be registered with tho league as Us guardian for fulfillment. In effect the pact Is an entente between European powers, as a suc cessor to the treaty of 1839, tho fa mous "scrap of paper" treaty which was supposed to guarantee the se curity of Belgium. The new pact, however, Is on broader linos. The statement said the most im portant accomplishment of tho pact would be the renunciation by Ger many of all efforts to revenge her- ' h neighbonj for tne i058 t nrm i no nH othr terrl- i ... . - ir,. LEAGUE 10 BE , the quolVlce has no money to feed the anl- . i i,innB ia the ."," . ,,';,;: , basis of the permanent boundaries of Europe. I'p to Germany. The official statement leaves no doubt that the British government believes the proposed security pact can make offecttve the treaty of Ver sailles and that Its success now rests In the hands of the Gorman govern ment, One British official said the pact should he accented as placing tu- ropo in the same position as in 1914, but with different boundaries to pro tect. The satisfaction thus expressed by the British government is the hope that Germany will become, a: mem- ber of the League of Nations and I that tho lnntrnn will be raised to the important position of being In real - ty the guardian of the peace and security of Europe. 1,U,,1 that 8nce the security pact suggestion guarantce of the ffontler between France. Belgium and Gormany. Great Britain Is not proposing to intervene in any possible conflict In which It has no real Interest, - tho statement added, but said that by means of such a mutual understand- Ina as the pact proposes, and by a clear statement of British obliga tions, all possibility of war wherein British Interests might -be Involved on the Franco-German frontier might be avoided. German Rights I phdd. The 8ntement said that all slgna- tore8 to the pact would enjoy all Kntjons would apply enually to tier- n nv nce in order for the pact to itP enforced. Germany would become (Continued on Page Klght) Wins B. The degree of B. B., "Bachelor of Beauty" might well be awarded Miss Thelraa Smith of Detroit, just voted the most beau tiful girl in the senior class at the University of Michigan. FACE STARVATION, AID IS RAN DIEGO, Cul June 9. Officials of the San Diego ZQOl"ieal.. nociety slstant supervisor of the Kuiiikau na tlnnwl fnreat t TJi-lnnl ljke. Iiltihn. of - - rcrlnB " lne uny aniniais owned "un ?n'V'n"ln' ,",0Vn " ' tress and said to bo starving In their i cages. SPOKANE. Juno 9. Forty anl- " ' " n.. l,nvitr in their cages at tho head of Priost p rnrmii nva.,)int r.?:;. "Vt..V vr Von 1 . ... forest reported hero today. or The animals, which include 25 dogs, four bear, one wildcat, one eagle and an owl. have been living, on half rations lately and did not get REQUESTED anything to eat Friday and batur- tral wol,i,i be filed and if that Is re day, Mr. Carroll said. - fused an appeal would be taken. "They cannot bo turned looso to (( r Barker, bunker of llutte forage for themselves becnuso they , Falls, was an Important witnoss In would drive all tho game away this trial.) from the lake and . pillage tourists' camps, ' he said. "Nell ttnfpman is in the east. The menagerie was taken over by creditors, but they haven't taken -care of the beasts." Mr. Carroll said the forest ser- mais ano no nas appealed to mw 'public for aid l " BASEBALL SCORES Nntlonul At Chicago. H. INra York 0 Chicago 7 Batteries: Hcott and Snyder; Keen, Jones and Gonzales. At Pittsburg. R. II K. Boston 7 16 1 12 ' -1 Gibson: Pittsburg 4 Batteries: names and Meadows, Krurnor and Hmlth, Gooch. ' At Cincinnati, Philadelphia H. B. 0 0 9 0 Wilson: 11111.1.1111.1. Batteries CariHon and -Luque und W Ingo American At Philadelphia. K. H. K. Detroit 3 9 2 Philadelphia 4 10 1 Batteries: Collins, Doyle and Wood all; Harris, Walberg and Cochrane. M BoHlon r. olevcland ' 3 ' g0!Iton """"'..'. 2 Batteries: rhle nnd I. gahnlier and Hevlng. H. E 5 : 6 I Hewell Dick Loeb Recovering From Mental Collapse CHICAGO. June 9. lllehard Loeb, nne nf the slayers of Hubert Franks, according to his physicians at the prls on hospital at Juliet. They reported he had spells of rationality and ine straps which had held him to his bed were removed. B. Degree 1 IGS S , PORTLAND, Ore.. Juno 9. (By the AsBOclatod Press.) A Jury in federal court today awarded to tho I3rookings State hnnk of IlronliinBs, Ore,' n ver- - ,, , . . ,,, ,. ,7 Kftft . ' """"J ?' "," ,,,, In the bank's suit against tho Federal Reserve hank of W I I Otlll 1' I II11L1BLU. The HrookinKs bank claimed It had , , sunerort from practices ot tne reserve rule for pur collection of chocks. boen i . ' ' e"r 1m charging a small foe for cashing out of town checks, and when the Federal (Reserve hnnk established the ywmi'", lnf making no charge, for this service, 8tct- , , . . , ' ,,,..-,. hotweon tho Captain Pitt has had some very at- Hl.noking8 ban; an(i tho reserve Inati- , c..i.i nD,.. i,nnu .nn. indicated that a motion for a new NEW YOHK, Juno 9. Desplto tho drop In temperature along the east- ern seaboard, heat deaths continue to accumulate. More than 427 per sons have died in the east during two and a half years for an automo the heat wave. bile theft, had escaped from a prison While no deaths were reported in wood chopping gang at nine o'clock New York last night. Philadelphia's this morning, casualties increased by 24. I - An aged wunmn died in Hoboken, N. J., and insanity brought on by heat caused two other deaths. Three more heat deaths are reported In Ontario, , ; t BOOTLEGGERS GREETED BY 'CITY'S BRASS BAND GLOl'CEHTKK, Mass.. June . (A. p.) a biasa band and several hun- dred persons met Albert Gowan and Charles McPhee. paroled rum run- ners of this city here last night as they stepped from a train that hail brought them from Atlanta peniten tiary. Wall Street Report NEW YORK, June 9 The closlnn was steady. An outburst of buying in the oil shares, several of which advanced a point or more above yes terday s final figures, brought about active short covering In other quarters in the late trading. A further downward adjustment of quoted values took pla l;i today's stock market. Havana Klectrlc was the outstanding Individual feature, soaring Tl points to IHH4. Total sales approximated l,2U0,(lill shares. President Coolidge Impressed By View Of Womeji's Hosiery CHIOAfior. June 9. flratified at the receptitin given during his brief stay in Minnesota, President Coolidge was on his way to Wush- lngton today for two weeks of intenslvo work before starting a summer vacation In New Eng- land. Mr. Coolidge wns Impressed by the appearance of the people, the fact that women were smartly dresBOd and there was a generous display of silk stockings which t wore taken by htm to mean that tho northwest was prospering. LEAVES TONIGHT FOR LOCAL CAMP 135 Men and 10 Officers Will Leave Portland Tonight for Medford Thursday 2500 Will Entrain Salvation Army Arranges Reception. SALEM, Ore., June 9. The advance , , .. - A. , , detail of the Oregon National Guard, numbering 13S men and ten off lepra, will leave Portland tonight for Camp Jackson, near Medford. for tho annual . . . . . summer tialnlnc camp. On Thursday ADVANCE GUARD (2500 troops will leave various ports reVolver previous to the fatal Bhoot of the state for the camp and next Sat- ln(? wllB indicated in tlio testimony of 'uraay auu artillerymen will leave tor Fort Barry, Cal., for tho annual train ing period. ThlB wns announced today by Adjutunt General GoorKO A.-Whlto. Captain A. Pl.t. of the Medford corps of tho Salvation Army will bo on hand ut Camp Jackson tomorrow morning1 with his full crow, ready to serve doughnuts and coffee for tho ursi hhu- first detchmeut of the Oregon Natlon- al Ouard, which will arrive sometime early tomorrow morning. uapiain rut will conunuo nis can-, - T . , . ' " . . 1 , . " l " tire period of tho encampment and wll lalso maintain freo reading nnd writing rooms at the Salvation Army headquarters on North ltartlett street, 118 WeI1 aa lunches and lavatory ser i . . ,'"'7 , " " ' ' I tractive stationery printed with "Camp Jackson near Medford. Ore- on printed on tno nonn or tno pa P"; and also on the envelopes, which will bo furnished to tho Guardsmen froe. CONVICT ESCAPES TACOMA, June 8. Search of tho wnnrlx if McNnll tulnnri nml trii'i nl I no of overy ,)OHHn,0 oxIt from tie HUnd Wcro begun by federal prison guards, wn0n it was learned that Peirv Yount. a California prisoner serving Passing of the Early Pioneer BALEM, Ore., Juno 9. Mrs. Nancy Dolman, 87 years old. sinter of Chief Justine T. A, MacKrldo of the Ore gon supreme court, died . at her home here yesterday. Hho was the mother of pr. W. II. Morse of this city. Mrs. Dolman was tho last of the charter members of the First Christian church of Salem. The fu- nerai service win ne ui mo uiiurun Wednesday at ten o'clock, with final services at the Portland cremato- Hum at two o'clock. 10 YEAR OLD BOY IJEItKIOLKY, Cal.. June 9. (A. P.) - A ten year old boy's stomachache has revealed to the. Berkeley police tho maximum gastronomic capacity of an American youth. Confessing tho theft of $30 from a bakery to his mother and then to the police In ex- planatinn of certain severe pains wllh which he was sti ff ken, he gave his menu of sweets for a single day. It In- eluded a meal In a restaurant, peanut FOR 17 YEAR OlDJP l. Y. State Prosecutor De mands Death Penalty for Dorothy Perkins, Who Shot Young U. S. War Veteran at Gay Fariy in Greenwich Vil lage Last February. NEW YORK, June 9. (My Associ ated Tress.) A St. Valentine's day party In the Perkins Greenwich vil lage home at which there was "drink ing, dancing and goings-on," preced ing the fatal shooting of Thomas A. Tompleton, New JorHey war veteran, by 17-year-old Dorothy Perkins, was outlined today by State Prosecutor McDonald at the opening of the girl's trial in general sessions. Prosecutor McDonald donmnded a verdict of first degree murder which would carry a penalty of death. Ho declared that prior to the shooting, Miss Perkins carried a revolver In her purse and that once she displayed tho weapon before Tompleton and friends A remark by Templeton to tho girl's father. Rudolph Perkins, at the height of the party that "Mickey" Connors, 40 year old rival for the ' f nriections ana ner avorue, was yeiiow , aireciiy precipiuuuu inw anw(llnff( Prosecutor McDonald said, The girl replied, he declared, "I'll show you if my friends are yellow," tt Hhot mnS out- aa Tompleton foil to tho floor, . accU(le(1 hai, c,u.rlt,tl tt Joseph Hassell of Jersey Clly, war time buddy of the slain man and mutual friend of the couple. HasHell said that when he, tho ac cused girl, Tompleton and another girl wore at a movie February 10, Miss Perkins! pockethook suddenly burst, open, revealing a blackhandled revolver. s ' . . "What are you doing with that?" Hassell said Temploton asked tho KlrL. i oh," she nnaworcd, "I'm a blonde hatred bandit ' Upbraldcd by Temploton tho girl, Hassell said, declared she carried tho weapon because tho wife of "Mickey" Connors had threatened to do her bodily harm unless she stopped koep Ing company with Connors. j PENDLETON, Ore., Juno 9. Hall that fell heavily late yesterday after noon between Helix and Pendleton in tho heart of tho wheat belt, did heavy damage, according to reports received here today. In places along tho highway east of Pendleton, tho hall piled up from two to three feet deep. A half bushel of hall stones brought to Pendleton by a truck driver last night Included Htones nearly an Inch long and db- long In shape. tlo Most of the stones were about size of marbles. No estimate of tho damage done has been mado, but early reports indicate that the bejt affected was from three to four ml'os wide and of undetermined length.. In Pendleton there was no hall, but heavy showers fell during tho lalo afternoon i' Daily lUnort Crater Lake Trip. 4 4 No. cars secured ..222 4 No. of-cara still needed ,.'..378 How about your car? - Itev. W. Lee Gray, former pastor of tne I'renhyterian cnuren nt noguo Hi ver, In moving to Rutto Falls, having accepted the Presbyterian work for that community. STFALS $30 AND Ei .brittle, a ht dog. hamburger sand- Uvlch, soda pop, a dill pickle, salted peanut, potato chips, bananas, two ice cream sundaes, a sack of peanuts, gum a whole mince pie, root beer, two ,all day suckers, three cream puffs, one butter horn and assorted candies. A : picture show and tbeiurchase of three lops accounted for tho balance of tho tno wh'h ho spent on the stolen money.