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BEDFORD, ORECiOX. WEDNESDAY, JUXE 24. 192
X0. 81
M
FLEE
FgOffl CHIWESE MOBS
FOREIGNERS
1 CHINA IN
GREAT.' PERIL
Many Killed and Hundreds
Flee for Protection On Bat
tleshipsCrisis Expected
On Dragon Day Tomorrow
U. S. Urged to Send War
shipsEngland Alarmed.
ktBy tha Associated Press.) June
24 In renewed rioting at Canton
several Europeans were killed and a
number wounded. Women and chil
dren are fleeing from the city and
about 150 of the refugees, including
Borne 20 Americans, have arrived at
Hongkong, the Hrltish colony.
Preparations are being made in
many Chinese cities for demonstra
tions tomorrow, which is the Dragon
day festival. Shanghai dispatches
say the success or failure of these
demonstrations may materially affect
the entire Chinese situation.
Shanghai and Its suburbs are under
martial law In readiness for possibili
ties. Reports generally Indicated a con
tinuing grave situation in south China,
although messages from Nlngpo where
a serious situation was repotted yes
terday, said the crisis had been passed.
Reports from Mukden, the Man
churian capital, received at Peking,
deny that anti-foreign demonstrations
. have taken plane there, although a
, 1-ondon newspaper printed reports In
sisting there hail Jieen trouble s in
t'Mukden. ,
It developed thut the rtrltish consul
general nt Canton warned the Chinese
authorities ' Monday prior to yester
day's shooting that any attempt by
Chinese to enter , the foreign settle
ment at Canton would be forcibly re
sisted, and that the Chinese govern
ment would be held responsible for
the consequences.
I,ONI)OX.' June 24. (A. P.)
Dispatches from Hong Kong re
ceived here today say Canton
refugees who have miplicd Hong
. Kong (ltM-lurc n KuhhIiui, orricci'
was In f-ominund of the Chinese
who fired ufiou the Khumecn for
eign settlement at Canton yester
day when !. Pusquiere, a French
merchant was killed anil several
foreigners were wounded.
,- CANTON, ,7une 24. (A. P.) Sev
eral Europeans were killed and many
others wounded today when fighting
broke out between Chinese agitators
and residents of Shameen, the foreign
concession here. Wmnen nnd children
are fleeing on the U. S. B. Asheville.
preparing to leave for Hong Kong
tonight. The situation Is extremely
serious.
. The outbreak today came after
ffemonstratois fired In the direction
of Shameen yesterday, killing a non
combatant Frenchman,' K. Pasijulr
und injuring Commissioner of Cus
toms Edwards and V. O. Murrell, a
chemist. The latter was shot In the
arm. Edwards was wounded in the
knee. -i'
It is Impossible to foresee the out
t come of the present trouble, which
apparently will last for some time.
Sittiution Js Crave
NEW YORK, June 24. (A. P.)
Overnight dispatches from , Canton,
new hotbed of .Chinese .nnti-foreign
agitators, picture a serious condition.
Apparently alarmed by yesterday's
outbreuk. In which excited Chinese
exchanged shots with the gunrds
around the foreign settlement on
Shameen Island, the authorities are
sending defenseless foreign civilians
from the trouble zone. A British
steamer carrying 500 women and chil
dren arrived at Hong Kong from
Shameen this morning. The American
gunboat Helena Is proceeding to Can
ton from Hong Kong.
The situation north of .Hong Kong
f Is also reported increasingly grave,
'due to the persistent anti-foreign pro
paganda in circulation there. Despite
(Continued on Page Six)
FOR HEALTH,
NEW YORK, June 24. Read the
newspaper comic sections, cultivate
a taste for good stories and look on the
humorous side nt life if you would be
healthy, wns the nllvlce given today by
Br. Frederick W. Seward, neurologist
o Goshen. X. V.. at the eighty-first
lAmual convention of the American
Institute of Homeopathy.
Heat Expands Rails ,
On Portland Bridge;
Can't Shut Draw
PORTLAND. Ore.. June 24.
The rails of the Steel bridge over
the Willamette river here ex
4 panded so much from the intense
4 hent when the druw was opened
at 2:30 this afternoon to permit
4 a ship to pass through that It
was impossible to bring the draw
4 back into place. Streams of
water were being played on ttto
4 rails to cool the metal. . Mean-
while traffic was being routed
over another bridge. 4
TO
PUTJJADIO
Secretary Wilbur Won't Allow
Polar Boats to Sail Without
Proper Radio Equipment
Wireless Rushed By Motor
Truck.
WASHINGTON, .Tune 24. -(A.
P.) An ultimatum calling- for
tint return of the navy rontln
Wtit with the MacMHIuii arctic:
expedition unleas navy wireless
equipment is Installed on I ho ex-
plomtioii ship ivory, has Ikhmi
Issued by tho imvy department.
"WASHINGTON, Juno 24. (A. P.)
After the navy department had
threatened today to withdraw from
part participation in the MacMIllan
arctic expedition, the National Geo-'
graphic society, joint sponsor of the
undertaking, announced that an '
agreement had been reached and I
the exploration would be carried thru,
as planned. j
The navy insisted on the installa-1
Hon n the Peary, one of the ships'
of the expedition, a navy long-wave
.... ,1 .... t ..o lu. nr. luft
behind. It rushed the equipment
north to Sydney,, by the destroyer
Putnam to be put aboard the Peary.
It was agreed, the Geographic so-j
viviy Hum, mm uiu iiuvy a v wiiea
would he carried out, and it was
added that the whole Incident was
duo to a misunderstanding.
"WASHINGTON, June 24. (A. P.)
Peremptory orders have been issued
by Secretary Wilbur for the installa
tion of navy wireless equipment on
the MacMillan arctic exploration ship
Peary. A longwave navy set is being
rushed from Wiscasset, Maine, to
Sydney, Nova Scotia, where the Peary
is anchored and Lieutenant Comman
der Byrd, in charge of the naval de
tachment with the expedition, has
been instructed to have it put into
service.
The expedition sailed with a short
wave radio set installed by a private
corporation. The navy department
said today this apparatus had devel
oped trouble.
It was the original intention to in
stall the standard navy long-wave
equipment but apparently orders to
that effect did not reach Commander
Byrd and the set wns not taken
aboard at Boston. The apparatus
then was shipped to Wlscasset by mo
tor truck, where it was again left be
hind. SYDNEY, N. S., June 24. (A. P.)
The Peary, first of the MacMillan
arctic expedition ships has arrived
here after a foggy three days trip
from Wiscasset, Maine.
The vessel is awaiting the arrival
tonight of the Bowdoin, in command
of Donald B. MacMillan. Both ves
sels will take on fuel. The departure
for the expedition base at Ktah,
Greenland1, will depend upon the time
required for fueling.
The Peary is carrying United States
navy officers and the three amphibian
Continued "on PaM Slx
PHYSICIAN DECLARES
I "People whose Ire is easily aroused,
who fly Into rage on the slightest
.provocation, are candidates for nerve
jexhaustlon and brain fag," Dr. Sew
ard said.
' "I advise neurasthenics to look for
the funny siof life. The liberal
sprlnklinK of our newspapers with
ironilr strips Is a decidedly bpneflcal
Ithtng from a health standpoint."
NAVY
ORDERS
MILAN
Dayton Prepares
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Dayton. Tcnn., is going to make a feHive occasion of tlie trial of John T. Scopes, science
teacher, on the charge of violating Tennessee's anti-coluton law, a case that is attracting national
attention. A stadium is being built to provide a scene for the trial cupable of accommodutiug the
huge number of persons expected to attend, and Main Street, shown here, is being cleaned up and
decorated- The arrow indicates the drug-store where were held the friendly arguments that result
ed in the indictment of Scopes,
SCHOOL BOARD
DECLARES LAI
IS RESTRICTED
The aid llodfprd school board issued
for publication the following Important
announcement today:
To the voters of school district No.
49:' Not long since the voters of this
district voted to select as a high
school site several tracts of land on
what is known us North Holly street
and adjoining property.
It was the understanding of the
board at the time th!s matter was
submitted thut the piece of property
which the district sold to the city for
the extension of Vermont street, nnd
consisting of a tract 60 teet wide on
the east side of the premises pur
chased by the district from Young &
Hall, would be vucated by the city and
also thut Holly street, or that portion
of It lying between blocks till and t2.
would also be vacated, together with
Woodstock street, lying on the west
of the said premises, owned by the
district.
It now appears that the city council
never was requested to open these
streets and, of course, It had never
promised to do so, and its refusal to
vacate the property which it intends
to use as Vermont street on the east
of the premises purchased by the dis
trict from Young & Hall, and Its re
fusal to vacate that portion of Holly
street between block CO and 62. seem
to be from a traffic standpoint entirely
justified, and this situation leaves the
district with a tract of land 4t4 feet
long, lying Immediately west of Ver
mont street, nnd 353 feet wide, lying
Immediately north of West Second
street, upon which to construct the
new high school.
The property lying west of Wood
stock street could, of course. If ac
quired, be used for athletic grounds,
and refusal of the city to vacate Wood
stock street would not constitute such
a ' serious matter, as these grounds
could be used for athletic grounds;
but the refusal of the city to vacate
the extension of Vermont street and
Holly street between blocks 60 and 62,
is a matter of a more serious char
acter, as this confines the area upon
which the new building must be con
structed upon the tract of land above
described, and the tract therefore upon
which the board of directors must
build the school building contains
only 3.75 acres. -
in view of the matters above re
ferred to, the board of directors con
cluded that the voters should know
what the board Is up against In the
matter of constructing this building.
and that it would be useless for the
district if It could to acquire blocks
62 and 60 for they would be of no
practical value to the district.
This matter is submitted so that the
district would understand why 1 is
that a large tract of land Is not avail
able upon which to construct this new
high school, and It Is In fact very
little larger than the block upon which
tie present high school stands, includ
ing that which lies south of the alley
way on the said high school block,
and concerning which there was very
much controversy and antagonism be
cause the tract was not large enough
upon which to construct a new high
school, and this communication is sub
mitted so that the voters win know
the real condition of affalrb before
construction begins.
Very respectfully submitted.
, I. D. PHI PI'S.
R. K. WILSON,
h. n. mills.
A. H. MILLER.
N. 11. FRANKLIN.
to Make Gala Affair
r
Oregonian Sued by
Ex-Klamath District
Attorney for' $50,000
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Juno
24. (Special.) Libel suit for
$50,000 damages was filed against
the Portland Oregonian today by
W. P. Meyers, ex acting district
nttorney, as the result of ,a spe-
clal dispatch printed in the Ore-
gonian June 14, tellliftruf' Ills re-'
tlrement from the ,' attorney's
office.
!
EGAN OFF GAME, ;
BUT LEADS BY
TACOMA, June 24. If. Chnndler
Kgan, Medford, Ore., U. S. champion
and holder of numerous golf titles,
was thre up on Chuck Hunter, local
star, at the end of their 18 hole play.
Kgan, badly off form ana continually
In trouble with his driving, was supe
rior on his approuch shots and puttng.
His work in that respect is seldom
equalled. Mis recovery shots amazed
the gallery and were almost unbeliev
able.
The youthful Hunter outdrove Kgan
all the way but he failed on his greens
work, being badly off form.
T A COMA, "Wash .. J u no 24 . By
sinking a thirty-foot putt on the
eighteenth green Dr. O. K. Willing of
Portland, amateur champion playing
through, took the leud from Frank
Dolph, another Portland star. In the
morning round of 18 holes In the sec
ond round of the Pacific Northwest
Oolf association, nmateur event at the
Tacoma Country club. He finished
the morning round one up on his oppo
nent. Willing's final nine holeB saw
him turn In a 33. Willing shot a 73
for the 18 holes, while Dolph took a
75.
The contestants played beautiful
golf, the match being bard fought all
the way. Time and again the lead
would change. Willing played super
golf at times, while Dolph hung on
doggedly and played a safe game.
taking advantage of every opening left
by his opponent.
It was anybody's match when the
pair started the second eighteen holes,
PORTLAND, Ore.. June 24. Mar
garet McChesney Hcott, widow of 'the
late Harvey W. Scott, Portland
editor, died here today after an
illness of four months. Mrs. Scott
wan born In Iatrobe, Pa., August 2,
1800. '
She was married to Mr. Scott In
187C and they came to Portland that
year. Mr. Scott as editor of the
Morning Oregonian until he died in
Hi 10. Mrs. Hcott Ih Hiirvlved by two
sons, Leslie M. SotU Ambrose It.
Hcott and one daughter, Mis. J-AToy
11. Field.
of Evolution Trial
KELSO NOW HAS
2 GOVERNMENTS
ON A id BASIS
KKbWW.Wash.. June 24. Two
municipal governments, each asserted
rule today over this ,clty of 3000,
where Thomas Do very, editor, was
assassinated Friday after a ycar'fl fac
tionalism In which A. Hurlc Todd was
recalled June 3 from the office of
mayor.
Todd today, following declarations
at a meeting of his followers last
night when ho addressed 1200 In the
open air, appointed five men to be
councllmen and named others to ad-
1 mlnistrntivo posly. Meanwhile Nat
I Smith, Installed us nuiyor after the
recall, and counvilmen put Into office
with him, continued to perform.
The men to be named for the coun
cil, he says, are:
Frank Hunger, capitalist, and
Charles CarotherH, director of the
Cowlitz county bank, for the first
ward; A. Penhull, South Kelso grocer,
second war; John K. Johnson, Went
Kelso cobbler and K, C, Morrlman,
West K el.so rea 1 1 o r, f o r the t bird
ward. Holdover councllmen, who are
members of the, present council, Jack
Hall and W. O. Mallory.
Todd regards Hall nnd Mallory as
the only members of the present city
cojncll who hold their offices legally.
Necessary court procedure to legal
ize his appointments will be taken,
Todd says.
Meanwhile, the Smith administra
tion city. council met last evening In
the city uudllorium nnd considered
local improvement district plans and
other general affairs for the city.
At what Is said to have been the
largest gathering ever seen In the
city pnrk.'Todd spoke for hours last
night on locaj Issues and county af
fairs nnd dwelt at some length on the
supposed murder late Friday night of
Thomas Do very, publisher of the
Cowlitz County News nnd Todd sup
porter. In his talk which he called
"lie Was My Friend," Todd said;
"Thomas Do very wns one of
the least selfish men 1 have
known. Fearless in carrying
forward what he considered the
cause of the people he never at
tempted to conceal facts from
friend or enemy, whether or not
his presentation of the facts
caused men of great power to
back his newspaper. From his '
pen dripped the spirit of the cru
sader editor."
Cowlitz county commissioners have
authorized the expenditure of $f000
for the Investigation of the Do very
death. Of this sum. $3000 Is to be
paid to Luke S. May, Seattle criminol
ogist retained by the county to trace
the supposed murderer. The commis
sioners snid they would appropriate
another $5000 If it is needed.
Uefore leaving for Seattle on Tues
day May repeated that no tangible
clue to the death mystery had been
found. Of first Importance in the
Investigation, he said, Is the determi
nation of whether or not the gun nnd
bunet found nenr the death scene are
the ones used in Dovery's slaying.
Mows Fleeted KhvnnlH Head
ST. PAUL, Minn., June 24. (A. P.)
John 1 1 . r Moss of Milwaukee, will be
the next president of Klwanis Inter
national. Ho was the unanimous
choice of the nominating committee
here today. The taction will be held
Thursday as pnrt of the organization's
nutiuiiul convention.
King Bootlegger of
Northwest Queried
Anent Income Tax
4
TACOMA, Wash.. Juno 24.
Peter Marinoii, reputed king of
Pacific northwest rum-runners 4
with headquarters in Tacoma, 4
f was served by I'ncle Sam today
with federal Income tax liens
amounting to nearly $U)u.o00 for
income taxeH alleged to be due
the govornnient for the years
lltiiu to 1924. Inclusive. The tax
liens were found on file in the
Pierce county auditor's office and
it was understood similar liens 4
bad been filed In the federal
district court nt Seattle. 4
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TODAY
10 BE
HOTTEST
FOR ALL TIME
Mercury in Medford Hits 104
at One-Thirty P. M En
tire State Sweltering With
NPW Hpat Rpfinrd! Ma HP in
IMCW nCdl nUOUIUb IVIdUe HI
WilloiYiotto Vallov
Wllldmeiie Vdliey. -
Wlth the mercury here at 104 at
one-thirty today all heat records for
the year were smaahed and the
weather officials agreed that the heat
record for all time might he broken
before nightfall. Ifccause of, the heat
nativities by the Oregon ' Natlonnl
Guard were modified materially thin
afternoon.
PORTLAND, Ore. June 24. (A.
P.) Oregon was bit by sweltering
weather today. The thermometer
stood at 96 at Portland at one p. m.
and the weather bureau expected the
maximum this afternoon to be be
tween fl7 and 100.
Murshfleld reported nil heat records'
broken there with official tempera- '
ture of 90 In the shude. Salem re
ported all heat records for June bro
ken with a reading of IH) ' at one
o'clock. Kugeno reported 00 early
this afternoon.
The fire hazard is becoming greater i
each hour. Kdwurd L. Wells, govern-,
ment meteorologist says that the high
northeast to east wind Is drying the
forests rapidly.
flALKM, Ore., June 24. All heat
records here for the month of Juno
as far buck as government statistics
have been compiled were broken at
one o'clock this afternoon when the
mercury reached 99 degrees above
zero. With the mercury still climbing
rapidly, indications were thut the
heat record for all time at Halem, 102
degrees above zero, would be smash
ed. The 102 murk Is a July record.
nOSERURG. Ore., June 24. Pre
dictions at 2:30 today were that the
temperature in Roseburg would reach
1 00 degrees this afternoon. At the
hour of the observation the mercury
stood nt 99 d green after mounting
steadily five degrees hourly through
out the day. until 1 p. m., after which
the rate of the mercur's rise decreas
es.
The Noted Dead
WASHINGTON, Pn June 24. (A.
P.). Doctor William Curtis Furahee,
well known scientist, died at IiIh home
here today after an extended illness.
Dr. Fnrahee, curator of the Amer
ican section of the museum of the
University of Pennsylvania, contract
ed fever In South America.
MADRID, June 24. A dispatch to
the newnpnper El Sol reports the I
sudden death nt Vigo of the Ameri
can consul, Henry T. Wilcox,
llowdoln Arrives In Sydney
SYDNEY. N. S.. June 24. (A. P.)
Commander MacMlllan's arctic ex
ploration schooner. Bowdoin nrrlved
In Sydney harbor this afternoon.
PROMISES
SOUTH WALES CITY SURROUNDED BY
FLOODS. 15.000 PEOPLE HOMELESS
SYDNEY, N. S. W.. June 24. (A. i Itself In only about 3000. Recent Aub
P.) Flood walerH have "jtlrely sur- tralinn (llnpuk'heH have told of wide-
rounded the city of Forties, New South
Wnlnn. The hlKh waters have made
16,000 persons In the dlHtrlct homeless.
' Forbes Is on the rlbt bank of tho
l.arhlun rlvijj. 90 miles west of Hut -
hurst, The population of thu town,
MONEY
IS
BY DEFENSE
Attorney Stewart Works Him
self Into Fury As He Pleads
for Shepherd's Life Action
a Conspiracy By Relatives
to Get Money Faiman Is
Flayed.
CHICAGO. June 24. (A. P.) Wil
liam D. Shepherd was the victim of a
diabolic conspiracy and should not be
bunged on the testimony of one man,
who sought to prove him guilty of
murder of William McC intock, ' the
jury was told today by William S.
Stewart, chief of defense counsel.
"If you gentlemen think this defend
ant went out und talked with Charles
Faiman, hang him." shouted Stewart
at the opening of his argument. "He
didn't have any business talking with
Faiman,"
It wua Chnrles C. Faiman, proprie
tor of the National University of 1
Stl,neo w be gave Shepherd
typhoid germs and taught him how to
UH0 them to n,urder VVilliam McClln-
tock for the $1,000,000 estate he 'had
willed to Shepherd.
I Prosecution of Shepherd was at-
ttt(ed by Stewart as forced by power
lwlnd the scenes, and he charged
Kohert E. Crowe, the state's attornoy.
una wiewan s former chief, with per.-
uiimng nimseir to be made a cut's
paw In a will fight.
huklng hin fist within a foot of
Crowe's race; Stewart demanded to
know why Fuimun's "diploma mill"
had not been closed, and said he would
leave the prosecutor's .explanation to
his constituents. .- ;
Htewart talked for thirty minutes af
ter George E. Gorman, first assistant
state's attorney, had concluded the
prosecution's opening jury plea, a de
mand for the death penalty.
Works Into a Fury .
Stewart worked himself into a freh.
zy as he pleaded for Shepherd. Facing
from the Jury box to Shepherd's side, 1
gesturing forcefully and shouting at
the top of his voice, he was steaming f
perspiration lung before the noon ru- 1
cess halted him. ' I
I "Don't you know that if the defend- .
nnt Is given even one duy In prison V
he will never benefit , by the will of -Hilly
AtcCllutock " asked Stewart.'
l"Don't you see It Is a plot to destroy
him?" .
Stewart told tho jury that the news- "'
papers had kept tho coroner's Jury in
session for weeks ho that they could
print sensational charges against Shep
herd as made by Judge Olson.
Claims Shepherd GoiiftvtHCd.
CHICAGO, June 24. (A. p.) In
direct confessions he attributed to '
the defendant were the burden of
the Jury address today of George
E. Gorman, first assistant state's at ,
toriley, first speaker In the Shep-.
herd murder trial. In opening yes
terday, Gorman demanded the death
penalty, for William D. Shepherd,
for the "coldly calculated, brutal
murder" of Hilly McCllntock, his
millionaire foster son, by administer- .
Ing of typhoid germs. -
Many pieces of evidence about .
which Shepherd was not questioned
yesterday were held up by Gorman
as "uncontradicted evidence In- this ,
case; Shepherd did not deny them
when he wns on the witness stand
and was given an opportunity."
The Shepherds' visit to friends at
Albuquerque, N. M., shortly after
Bill's death was termed by Gorman
as "flight Inspired by a guilty con
science."
"He wanted to put as much dis
tance between himself and the scene
of the crime, as was possible," Gor-
man shouted. '
' Shepherd's conversation with Miss
Isabella pope, Billy's fiancee," ubout
Billy's last hours and Its effect Upon
the youth's physical condition, "was
the voice of a guilty conscience, de- ;
dared the nsslstant state's attorney.
"Faiman came to realize that the
fCenttniind on Pace 81
spread damage from floods In several
sections, chiefly in southern New
I South Wales, with the flooded areas
I In some cases extending well un
toward Sydney. A message Juna 22
1 said Forbes was belug threatened by
i the floods.
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