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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.
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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-,
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' " . . 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.