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05 Medford Mail -Tribune The Weather Prediction Generally cloudy Maximum yesrday 3 Mliilmu today - S 3 Weather Year Ago Maximum M Dilly Twrntlrth Ywr., Weekly r'Hlyhmrth Ytlf. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 22, 192.") NO. 104' APPEAL TO CO I President Asked to Aid in Ef fort to Save Russell Scott From Execution Tomorrow Governor Small Refuses to Extend Reprieve Unless Guilty Brother Produced. . CHICAGO, July 22 (A. P.) Only - the surrender and confession of Robert Scott' can save his brother, Russell, from the noose, dangling ready for, his execution on Friday morning. .' ., - . , Unless Robert returns. Governor Small has indicated there will be no further reprieve ; to snatch Russell from the gallows , as he was saved last Friday. -Russell, from ' the death cell, watching the clock mark the passing of his remaining hours of life, buses his only hope on his brother. . ' The return of the brother also is the objective of the frenzied efforts of Scott's relatives and friends. Rob- ' ert's whereabouts are unknown. He i was indicted with Russell for the murder .of Joseph Maurer, a drug 'cter.k,. in a .holdup,, but never appre-. "hended. A message signed with his name, which reached Governor" Small last Thursday and caused a week's delay In the. execution was thought to !be a hoax. ',. ' liadio appcalB to Robert will be mado by Scott's wife, and by his aged -f atherThey. will augment wire pleas sent by the family . to Prest- , dent Coolidge urging the executive to. ask the governor for .leniency. 'A' nation-wide campaign to. find ?. Uot. missing : brother jaK planned? by a-Detroit newspaper which has asked that- Russell be given a long reprieve while the search Is made. Detroit club - women also raised a fund of $3,1)00 to be used 'In retaining ex pert . legal talent to make a last desperate effort to frustrate the hanging. Clarence 8. Darrow, de. fender of Loeb and Leopold, said he could not serve but that he had telegraphed small asking clemency. Miss Dorothy Newberg, who seve ral years ago sued Scott for breach of promise came out In his defense and was reported- on route to Chi cago from Chelsea, Mies., to aid him bKTROIT, Mich.,, July 22. (A. P.) A group of Detroit ciub women and Miss Maude Gauthier of Sandwich, Ont., today forwarded to Chicago $5000, the result of their efforts to obtain the best legal services possible in a last hour effort to save Russell T. Scott, condemned man from the gallows.. The committee also an nounced that arrangements are being made to rush an emissary to Swamp scott, Mass., to call upon President Coolidge, armed with letters from Governor Alex J. Groesbeck, Mayor John W. Smith o." Detroit and if pos sible from Charles B. Warren, former ambassador to Japan and Mexico. LASTING 30 YRS. ENDED AT LAST NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J., July 22. (A. P.) Jonathan T. Meeker, loser In New Jersey's longest divorce liti gation, lasting thirty years, has been ordered released from the Middlesex county Jail where he has spent nearly three years for (allure to pay ali- mony. -. , , The Meekcrs wore married In 1888 and began litigation In 1892. Several suits by one of the other wore dis missed or denied before Mrs. Meeker was awarded a decree In liti. In No. Mmha n. Ihnl wan It..l... ... I.. 1 1 ed when the 112 weekly alimony ho was ordered tp pay was 1400 In ar rears. , Meeker's petition for freedom was seconded by the Middlesex county so licitor who asserted that the county no longer wished to support him. Anna O. Lines of Rlverdale, his former wife, opposed the release. BAPTISTS PRAY FOR OF DARROW MANDEVILLE, La.. July 22. (A. Prayera for the convention to Christianity of Clarence Darrow, a defense attorney In the John T. Henpea trial, which ended yesterday In Day ton, Tenn., was offered last night at the stale ambly of -the Baptist Young reoJaW union here. SCOHCAS Cigarettes Fatal to Women's Beauty ' Hasten Old Age CHICAGO. July 22. (A. P.) Cigarettes may not affect u woman's morals, but they'll kill her beauty, advises Mrs. Ruth Mnuror. nrcsldcnt of the Amor- lean Cosmeticians society. "I have no personal objec- lions to cigarette Bmoklng, but it has been proved that' the woman who smokes soon finds sloping lines at the corners of 4 her mouth downward curves that will make deep lines and ( ruin a happy expression In old , age," she said. BABY SLAYER IS SENTENCED TO 3 NEW YORK, July 22 .(A. P.) Mrs. Helen Auguste Golsen-Vollc, pro prietress of an East 86th street home for infants, today was sentenced to thre and a half to seven years In Au burn prison on a charge of baby sub stitution, to which she had pleaded guilty. A probation officer's report sub-,, mitted to the court before sentenced was pronounced characterized her as a "woman without conscience, who had strangled, frozen to death and otherwise disposed of infants left in her care." . The report said since February, 1018, at least 53 infants had died while in Mrs. Geisen-York's charge. It al-, leged that she treated children In any way if it meant financial benefit to herself, that she destroyed children for a consideration and non-paying ba bies because they were liabilities. I "She had no maternal affections, at -least with reap oct .to .the,, babies of other people," the report said. "To her they were , puppies, articles of merchandise, to be bartered or ex changed." Mrs. Gelson-volk was arrested last May when she attempted to give a strange ' baby to William Angerer, a steamfitter's assistant, in plane of the seven months old son ho had placed In her care. Judge Mclntyro asked her in court today what she did with the missing baby and the reply was "It died and I left in in a hallway In a satchel." 'Why did you do that?" asked the judge. - I "Because one of the relatives of tho baby asked me to," was tho reply. PORTLAND. Ore.. July 22. (A. P.) A radio ( message today reported that A. P. St. George of Cam-1 bridge, Mass., cut his throat after being discovered as a stowaway on board the - steamer Rose City last! night. The mossage said the wound ( was sewed up Immediately and the man is resting well. j Captain T. J. MacGoon, of the Rose City, who sent the message, expressed the belief that St. George was a deserted from the Mare Island navy yard. Tho message added that I St. George had said that he had had trouble In the Philippine Islands and that later someone at the navyi yard at Mare Island had him under a hypnotic spell. . St. George Bald he belonged to the submarine No. 18. - He was wearing a navy uni. form when found. MILLION DOLLAR FIRE DETROIT, Mich., July 22. (A. P.) A million dollar fire was raging In the Gladstono-Llnwood Avenue sec tion this afternoon and whipped by a high wind was beyond control of fire men at 2:80 p. m. Seven buildings, five of which are apartment houses, were in flames and 200 families had been driven to the streets. TO CHRISTAN FAITH The prayer wan given at the sugges tlon of E. D. Solomon, state accretary of e organisation and hope wan ex pressed that Darrow might be won as St. Paul was won. At the conclusion of the prayer, a chorus of "amens" rang out. YEARS N AUBURN STOWAWAY ON ROSE CITY CUTS THROAT DUEL 10 DEATH MAY DEVELOP AS E Investigation of Strange Trag edy in California, Leads to Suspicion That Honolulu Man Was Bound, Gagged and Murdered. BRAWLEY, Cal., July 22. (A. P.) Indications that H. Kirk, former Honolulu photographer was murdered with his hands tied, not shot In a duel and that rivalry over the affections of a woman may have prompted his slay ing and the suicide of John Truden, whose body was found at Jacumba last Monday, were being scrutinised by police and sheriff's investigators tq day. A letter written by Truden before he killed himself told of a duel at 12 paces with .38 caliber revolvers, "pur chased for the purpose In San Diego," and explained that since he had been victorious In the exchange of bullets with Kirk, his enemy ton. six years, it devolved upon him to write finis to the feud by putting a bullet through his own brain. Late yesterday, however, the city marshal of Imperial found a knot ted silk stocking, a knotted necktlo and an army belt, all bloodstained, concealed near the spot where Kirk's body was found. WlHps of hair re sembling Kirk's clug to tho stocking and necktie, which apparently had been cut, from the body of one who had been gagged with the stocking while his hands were tied with the necktie and his feet bound together with the belt. The officers said he was Batlsfiod Kirk met death bound and gagged. In the Honolulu man's coat was found a letter from a woman in that city dealing , at some length -with a past love affair with Kirk and contain ing the sentence: . "Our affair can go on.no longer."...,, . - - ' ' Truden -was'-a1 formei 'ormymnn but whether, he. was- ever . stationed In Honolulu or ever lived there as a civilian had not been determined early today. - . Kirk, it was learned, had packed his belongings and -made arrangements to leave fur Honolulu a few hours bo foro death cancelled his plans. COOLIDGE ECONOMY BY LODGE LEADER WASHINGTON, July 22. (A. P.) Declaring there iwas danger that the Amerjcnn government might- im pair its efficiency In the enforcement of President Coolldge's economy pro gram, A. W. Fryc, supreme' com mander of the Maccabees (old the organization today that what the people were Interested "In was elimi nation of the pork barrel. "We are all behind the president In his program of business adminis tration of national finances," he said, "but when economy Is practiced to the extent of parsimony, it defeats Its own ends."- He added that there seemed to be a general belief on tho part of "politicians and statesmen," that the people object to paying taxes and that the appeal to the "pocketbook" was heard on every side. "the average man," he said, "does not want to pay any more taxes than necessary to properly maintain our government, but he Is willing and eagot to. pay enough to promoto our national progress and assure our national safety." After referring to technical work ers leaving the government service as a result of the salaries Issue and the question of the defenso of Ha waii, Mr. Frye added: "It Is fine to save tho taxpayers money but we, the taxpayers, don't want our national honor jeopardized for tho sake 'of a few dollars. Wo can't place the dollar, as mighty as It Is, ahead of the flag." HARD TO GET JURY IN MARY PICKFORD CASE LOS ANOBLES, July 22. Defense attorneys for throe men on trial hero today lot alleged plotting to kidnap Mary Plckford. film star, wore trvlnir to find prospective Jurors who had not heard of the screen actress or her hus band, Douglas Fairbanks. Up until noon their aearchwas (rultless. The thre men on trial for thetnlleg cd plot, which was uncovered about two months ago, are Claude Holcombe, Adrian Wood and Charles Stevens. Fairbanks appeared In court this morning ready to testify but Mary Plckford. who also will be a witness, was not In sight. CRM MYSTERY Prince's Hostess in SouthAfrica ' 'Lady 'Graaf, wife of Sir Dtavld Graaf, former high com missioner for South .Africa in .London, was hostess of the . Prince of Wales during hit stay in Capetown.' PENDELTON GIRL FINDS Mrs. Clarence MoNeall, After 15 Year Search, Finds Parents in Quincy, Illinois. -MVas Adopted By Family in Portland, Oregon. QUINCY, 111., July 22. (A. P.) A fifteen year search for her ;n rents was ended yesterday when Mrs. Clar ence McNeall, of Denver, arrived hero and embraced Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Heck of this cily. ! Mrs. MeNcall said that when she was a girl of nine and livms In Ven dition, Ore., among her nuluMior i WdS a childless codplc name 1 (.lardncr, who became very much ailaoin J to hor. They Induced her pironts to allow her to remain with thm for a time, after which the Hxks tonic her bnck home. The Gardners, she said, offered her parents Inducements to allow them legally to aIipt tho child, lout they refused. Mrs. McNeall said "that tho fJi rd (ners thon moved, to Portland, and In a short time a strange man came for her and took her to th tlsi'dners. It J was the last she saw of ncr p.innts until sho met them hero today. The Gardners treated her as their own I daughter and sent her to a p'lvate 'school, at all times endeavoring to Impress upon her that she was nil a daughter could be to them nnd asking her to forget her parents. Some years ago tho Gardners lied, within a short time of each other, find Mrs. McNeall began the search for her parents. A short time ao she learned from a distant relative there was a family by the name uf I lock living -In Quincy, and she wrote this city. Facts contained in the reply left .no doubt In her mind that she had at (last found her parents. Yesterday oiiv cuiiie ii vi v uuu ma itiviiiiiitMiiiuii, wuh completed. COL RAY'S ESTATE U NEW YORK, July 22. (Special.) The schedule nf assets of the estate of Col. Frank H. Ituy of Huntington nnd Now York city, who died April 11th mat, was rued recently in probate court, and shows a gross value of J2.M..MH.47. with debts and admin- lstratlon expenses of 11.540. N3Z.92, leaving a net estate of f 1)61,424.66. to be divided among tho heirs. Including Charles R. Itay of Modford. Oregon, wno ny ino terms ot tne win u icit a one-third Interest. Colonel Ray was well known In this city nnd valley, and formerly was a yearly visitor, Ills brother, C. It. Ray, Is a resident of this eity. and returned recently from New -York, where he was called by the last Illness of his kin. According to tho above mtftnage. Dr. Hay apparently will re- celve slightly nv 1300.000 aa his sharo of the estate. PARENTS SHE TON 1910 BRYAN REFUSES TO DEBATE BUT L LECTURE! ,., r Great Commoner Declines to Meet Darrow and HaVP naVe Christianity Sneered at and Slurred Will Talk and Not Charge Admission. DAYTON, Tom... July 22. (A P.) William Jennings Bryan In a state ment Issued here early today announc ed that he would not consider a debute onany suhjoct with any person. , He made the announcement, ho said, "in aider to sav myself from answering numerous letters." t "I have no time for such meetings," tho statement continued. I have sus pended my lecturing and I have liter ary work that domands attention." I "Recently some of my Invitations have mentioned Mr. Darrow as my op ponent." he said. "I have had a num ber of Invitations from atheists and ag nostics. 'The attitude of the nth lost or the agnostic Is so completely antagonistic to the attitude of a believer In Hlblo Christianity that we are not likely to convert each other and less likely to convert members of the nuditnee. 'Moreover, having heard Mr. Dar row, I am not at all disposed to In- vito Christians to come to a meeting where they would hear their religion slurred nnd sneered at. Me has free dom of speech and can draw crowds of his own. "I shall leavo him, therefore, to, ar range for his own meetings and I shall speak wherever I do speak, for the presentation of our side to those who ' euro to listen. Tho religious question In no so acute that I shall nolthor re- I celve compensation nor allow admis sion to be charged when I defend the Christian faith." I G L WIL .' ( ,t : 'I Aftor going Into dotnit ns- to tho I contents of approved text books, In- WASHINGTON, July 22. (A.' P.) eluding G. W. Hunter's biology which A prediction that Uncle Sam. will cited In the Dayton. Tonn., trial be presented by mother nature with Bnl lne teachings of chemistry, blol a falr.slzed continent In the mid- "W- astronomy and other sclonttflo Pacific was added today to th "Ubjeotii. Wlttnor sot forth that these profusion of discussion and conjoo- taken literally, conflicted with scrip turo that has followed recent selsmlo iurR toxt wn,ch ho n-,"'t0I, a.H s0ttln8 disturbances. i . . . ' Kdwln Fairfax Naulty. of Now' 7hat mnn was created from the .. , . . , ' . " dust In one day nnd that woman wan lork. who ha. studied earth move- f mcnts for many years, said he was ,.Tnat , dea f ev convinced that tho Hawaiian Island hunmn Deln(r tnat ever VP(, wlll be gradually and quietly wore being 1.0BUn.0ct(, ,v0 on judgment day, pushedupward and within a gene. Thta tho first mnn foil bocauso tho ration would Comprise a high and flrllt woman believed what a snake dry territory aa largo as Japan. HaW about eating forbidden fruit. ' Onlv Ihn ,ifii It a nt a n-rAnt rnmrA' ,,nui t .i. i ... i. , 1 1 . . now arise above the surface of tho sea at Hawaii, he said, but a constant "squeezing" process at work in tho hd- Of II.A Plfl n,n k. A.n.A.Art to push those poaks constantly up- ward. Ho added that all the signs pointed to a gradual riao over a pe riod ..of years, partially accompanied by serious earth shocks. DEATH CALLS TRUCE I ; . . ATLANTIC CITY, N. J July 22 (A. P.) A seaman, slowly dying In his bunk on the rum schooner J. Hen- I ry McKonzie, 4G miles out at sea, was the cause of a short truce between waai nuniuo aim iuiii ruiiiium yumur day. Word of the desperato plight of the seaman reachod friends ashore who relayed the Information to Cap tain Randolph Kidgeley of the "dry nnvy." Tho latter, learning that tho story was not a more sea yarn, rilspatMiod a cutter which returned to port boar- Ing tho stricken sailor. He was turn ed ovor tn friends who have promised lnonl p"lM from the trifle north to look after him. west this year. E. A. Brownson of the Wall Street Report kjjvv YORK, July 22. The closing , heavy. Concentrated selling of 'American Can, V. S. Hleel. DuPont, oenoral .Klcctrlo and other market itfcr continued In tho final hour, with losses of one to two points scat. tored through tho Industrial list. Amor- ran Radiator. Continental Can and Foundation company, howover. were among tho Industrial strong spots. ,'. s . - , . Quieter on l Front. FEZ., French Morocco, July 23. -(A. P.) Although a little activity b enemy tribesmen is observed the region of Queuan. northwest of Fiifcl""" leading to th tiellnf thnn mn ntianiflthe may be btunched shortly from that d. rection. There Is a lull alnnr the fiht. Ing front. U. S. Aviators Will Hop Off Tomorrow For War in Africa PARKS, July 22. (A. P.) Tho first group of American avia- 4 tors to volunteer for French ser- vlco under the Sultan of Morocco against AbU-lCl-Krim's rebellious fr llifflan tribesmen, will leavo Paris at thre o'clock tomorrow J ZTZJ"- IT X occo by air. The unit which 4, numbers seven men, will ho un- Charles Sweeney, dor the command of Colonel FILED AGIST UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, July 22. (A. P.) Treasury officials wero .ordered by a local court today to show causo why the salnrlos of school offtcors - hore should not bo withhold becauso of tho teaching of scientific doctrines nllegod to reflect oh tho Bible. ) Tho defendants aro Frank White, treasurer of tho United Klutes; James -H. Lusby, disbursing officer of the District of Columbia and Daniel J. Donovan, auditor of the District of t MONKEY ACTION Columbia. They wore obtained by tho of tho same opinion the appointment District of Columbia supreme court on 'of Senator Sam B. Garland o$ Linn tho petition of Lorcn H. Winner, a county, also Is void. Senator Gar taxpayer, to appear and show causo land has announced that -ho will re on July 28. : linqulsh his seat on the commiaslson. Tho suit brought by Winner was based on a provision In the last Dis - trlot of Columbia 'appropriation bill. In that bill, said Winner's potltlon, congress provided that no part of the money appropriated should bo used to pay the salary of "any superintendent . . . who permits tho teaching of , . .. or any teacher who teaches . . dls- Itespcct 'for. the Holy BIblo.' Under that provision, It .Is sought to stop the pay of Frank W. Ballou, , tnreo senators-wore , to iec in.np superlntondent of schools In Washing- PolMeos to the fish commlsslson, At a tort and W, P. Hays, head of tho Poat "essison conference here the sen department of biology and chemistry, ators were unablo to agree upon ap A list of examples Is given by Winner PolnteM outsldo their own number and in hi. nminn , i i n i Whinh Garland and Beals agreed to accept Hay tnught and Ballou permitted him to teach, things described as conflict ing directly with statments mado ,ln , tho BIblo. from the dead when no blood was left in his veins. "That God mado all tho dust of ir-n n . a n,,nl.Hmon. for the hard-hoartedncss of an Kgyp- tlan king. Lr . , . , ' . That God turned every drop of water In all Kgypt Into blood to pun- Uh the Egyptian king. "That Johub turned water Into wine. 'That Ood turned hot wife into a pillar Of Wilt. 'That tho earth is flat and on a foundation. "That when Joshua commanded, the sun moon nnd stars stood still." .. The appropriation bill provision .cited was Inserted by Heprcsentatlve Hummers, republican, Washington, at tne lftHt """'on of congress and occa- , ' " . y Two other provisions In tho rider ngalnst teaching partisan politics and a statement that tho American gov ernment Is an inferior form of govern ment becamo the subject of some debato with Representative Crampton, republican, Mlchlgnn, In chnrge of tho bill, seeking to havo tho rider thrown out. -i ' t'lcnly of Ittifiigcrntor Oil. 8POKANH, July 22. There will be plenty of refrigerator cars for ship- western r run uxproas sain nero to- dny.- He said cars are being repaired at the shops nt the rate of 25 a day. With affiliated concorns In the onst and south, the Western Frul Kxpress controls nhout 28,000 .refrigerator cars, Mr. Hrownson doclnred. WANTS "ONLY 60 OR DOLLARS" FROM POSTMASTER GENERAL WASHINGTON, July 22. A resi dent of Tomahawk, Wis., has written i Postmaster Ucneral Newt "I read In newspaper! that thousands of dol- ,ar" re '""""l n the dead letters, I'm Just thinking as the owners of a Inrire number are unknown. I trust GOV. PIERCE NAMES NEW FISH COM'R 'V State Executive Chalks Up New Development in Fish Controversy By Naming Bay City Man to Take Place of Senator Beals, Forced Out By Ruling. f i KAI.ICM, Oro., July 22. Governor Plerco chulkcd up a' new development In tho state fish cdmmlsslon contro versy that has boon stirring Oregon politics for the past several months this morning, when he announced the appointment of J. S. Hayes, of Bay City, to succeed Senator A. C. Beals of Tlllnmook, roslgned. , ' Tho governor's announcement was tho first intimation of the action to he taken by Senator Beals In accord ance with tho opinion handed down last woelc by Attorney General Van Winkle that Beals could not hold the offices of state senator and fish com missioner at the same time. By feason nut tne name oi nis successor win noi (bo given out -until the governor and Garland have had an opportunity to confer. ...,-! I Senators Beals and Garland were appointed to the fish commission as result of an agreement between themselves and Senator B. L. Eddy of Douglas county, on one hand, and the governor on me oiner. auriiuz cno iasc "osilbn of the legislature wheroby the '" . . Senator Garland confirmed tho evonts leading up to the appointments In explaining ' his acceptance of tho appointment. COAST SAYS SECY SALEM, Ore., July 22.-J8ocretar tho Navy Wilbur, during a Iwo- ,ute hre t0.day' reue"t01 ' , . i. """"'"", T ,1" '' ,,, . ..T..T'.V''i nBVal P0'" M'atlvtf tO ft, Paclflo floot. Although the Pacific flet is now en route to Australia, that voyage, he made plain, doea hot.lndl- , a charige of ; "If I gave the ImprBselon In Port land." he said, "that any change Is Tlnn t I n IT f o t.i .nr. anfta . Tha avsn pUtt, , tMw now n Pac,flo . watern -nt.tnn i .U. pai,fn .. iW., I will continue In the Pacific as hey nave ior some years, ana tne oases will be Snn Podro, San Dlago. ttian Francisco and Puget Sound as thcyafo now. . r - "The midshipman squadron, com posed of the Now York, Arkansas and Utah, now as Astoria, will return to the Atlantlo and Immediately go to navy yards for modernisation." T TO Ttw Seventh Day ArtvcnlliH rliunii on North lUvewWo'. caught lira thin afternoon and humeri the ground. , ,': Thfl Smrillcy homo, nearby, -was ahi burned, but nt pram time the flames, whlfh spread tn other dwellings, were reported, under control. 70 THOUSAND that It la Clod's will that I-Auld have seventy thousand dollam,- - I surety -thank you unspeakable foe the kind favor by sending me bank draft ' within ten days. Mar the dear Lord bleu us more and more at all timet."
