Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 23, 1925, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextM EDFORD The Weather Prediction Generally cloudy Maximum ynuwday ....-v. 0.S Miulmu ntloduy ..BS RJMJNE Weather Year Ago Mailmum .... Minimum .1011 ...6a . MEl)F0RD, OREOON, TlfrKftDAY. JULY 23, 1925 Dstlr Twmtlrth Yir. WtAly Fltty-fourth Vw. TWELVE PAGES NO. 105 men m dm. wm MAILT ANGELES LOS i CLOSED FOR LOCAL LAND ! Largest Single Purchase Ever Made in Jackson County in volves Property . Appraised at Half a Million Three Or chards and Four Ranches Included. ' Tho largest sale of orchard And farm lands In the history of south ern Oregon was completed yea- business men, after negotiations since J last February. . Although the pur. chase price was not made public, it Is understood that the appraised value of the lands Is approximately 1500,000. The real estate purchased includes three of the finest orchards and four of the best ranches In the val ley. In connection with the opera tion of these lands bv the Los Ange les men, r who h a y e Incorporated themselves as the Rogue River Prop erties incorporated they will erect and operate a new process dehydrator with a dally capacity of 14 tons of dried fruit, near the Oregon Grow ers packing house at the end of North Central avenue, which the company leased from- the Oregon Growers' association 1 to re-lease " for one year to the Suncrest . Or. chard company... a.' southern, CallfoA 51 la concern, wnlcn' nns"o connec tion with the local Suncrest orchard, after which the local company ihrfB an option to pufohase. With the exception of one orchard, jhlch ia the Glen Rosa near the Voorheis crossing, 'the entire acre age was purchased " from the Pa cific Mutunl life insurance company. n.h. .,h.rd. included In the sale are the suncrest. with an acre, tempted to climb a tree to dislodge a age of 465 acres, planted to bear- kite. A woman was killed at her sew- i """l6 ia? aTo "ee ' vista, of "5 acre., 100 In- app es , , b d w k and pears, and h. O Hoii l 80 acres of Newtown apples. Al of no fatalities In" New these are located very close to Med-' ,nnd b(Jt the. storm ,nte yeaterdav ford. . swept down barns, flobded streets, Six hundred of tM 3380 acres are and cellars and washed out railroad Irrigation, known asthe Davis ranch track8 Trolley service and wire com at Davis station on the Owen Ore- munlcatton wer lml)e(led. gon logging rauioaa, aaapiea 10 , arowing of alfalfa ' and Wheat, and also a stock ranch Is one of the four , BtoPm during their trip to Pemberton, ranches purchased. The 1120 acre Mo8Sm an(1 experienced rough going, stock ranch, formerly owned by Hal, , Bingham, 4 miles east of Talent ts TRINIDAD, Colo., July 28. (A. P.) another, the 710- acre Crane stock Fa(r skies 'and a warm sun today ranch 0 miles east of Medford Is the greeted inhabitants of Trlnldnd as third and the 130 acre country club they returned to their homes and prc property adjacent to the golf grounds pared to, check up property damnge east of the city Is the fourth. resulting from cloudbursts late yester- 8lx hundred of the 3380 acres is day. ; . ' orchard land and - 1000 acres are No casualties are reported following under irrigation, an - area of lrri-the heavy rains that sent the Purgtt gated and fruit acreago which never tolre river out of its banks InRt night, before has been under the control hut property damage may reach the of one company In Jackson county or I $400,000 mark: Property losses ln sodthern Oregon. . eluded washouts or bridges and high- The Rogue River Properties com-! ways and flooded basements In busl pany Includes five stockholders, all ness houses and homes along the river of whom ore residents of Los Ange. bottoms. les. They include F. W.' Braun, a1 Train service on all railroads enter manufacturer, H. 8. Mudd, a niln-. ing the city la practlcaly demoralized, lng man; F. Q. StantoDi a builder; With six hundred feet of track and John Pike, monnger of the California' a bridge eone between here and 'cyanide company and F. O. Booth ' Koton, N. M.. the Atchison, Topeka of Los Angeles. . . n"? "B,a ,Ff "rond today r".,1"" The officers of the company n- ble to maintain service over its lines elude Mr. Pike as president, Mr. fro cbl8o to Cnlifornla. Smaller Stanton, iecretary, and Mr. .uootn.i treasurer, and also representative of the company in southern Oregon. Mr. Booth, accompanied by his family, arrived last week to take up his duties, and at present Is a guest at a local hotel, hut will soon be en- sconced at the M Ha vista orchard. Al. though he may not spend his win- ters here, his residence In the valley I will be permanent, especially during the fruit season, which will be a very busy one because of the large acre.l (Continued on Page But) WISN IT KFUSES TOftOOM lR FET DOG CHICAOO, July 83. (A. P.) The Dowager Duchess ofSutherlnnd trav ellng as Lady Milltcent Hawes, ac companled her Pekingese dog when It was barred from the Blackstone hotel today. "Olnko." the Pekingese, barked his presence In a small basket and when the hotel management - politely said that dogs were nev allowed In the hotel rooms, the duchess replied that May Try Negro Leper in Glass Cage On , Charge Killing Wife NEW ORLEANS, July 23. (A. P. A negro leper who has been I Indicted on a charge of wife mur- der, but never placed on trial will face the Judge and Jury here confined in a glass cage with speaking tubes, if a request made r by Dr. Oscar Dowlfng, president of the Louisiana state board of r health Is granted by prosecuting officers. The negro. George Beaurepnlre, 4 1 alleged to have killed his wife more than five years ago. is an 4 inmate ef a government leprosa- Hum.. Efforts made by Dr. Dowllng to bring the cnse to trial have met 4 with the objection that to do so might-sprend the disease. FOUR KILLED IN Severe Electrical Storms and 'Cloud Bursts Bring Destruc tion in New York and Colo radoBaker, Oregon Also Has Deluge of Rain. iIBW ' YORK,' . Juty 23. (A," P.) Four persons we,re. killed by lightning in Metropolitan No York and south New Jersey yesterday. Crops of to bacco, hay and grain were flattened by a serve rain storm In New England and up-state New York A fourteen year old boy was killed by lightning in Brooklyn when he at- Presluent coolldge and his party on ,h Mnvflnwer. were ranvhl In the ' . . . . . with the 'service on the Colorado and I Grande systems. Reports dribbling: in from outlying onmmiinllfM InrHfnfA thnt nrnnnrtv ,OM and aamage woul(1 ex,eetI ,he $400 on0 catlmate ma(Xe ettry today by Trlnnad businessmen, . scores of families, forced to flee to the upiandg iast night, returned to their homes today after a night spent jn uptown hotels and rooming houses, Many of the flood refugees were (Continued on Pure 81k) E "Olnko has traveled around the world with me," and that she would find aa hotel where different rules prevailed. . The duchess is the widow of one of the largest land owners In Europe. Hhe came from the west where she had paid a visit to Mary 'I'ickford and Douglas Fairbanks, whom she had met In London. Lady MUllrent explained that she Is doing some writing as well aa traveling. EASTERN STORM LATEST APE TEST FROM AN ATHIEST L M. Wittner, Plaintiff in Suit Against Law Passed By Congress, Springs Surprise By Declaring His Opposition to Anti-Evolution Law Poses With Monkeys. ' ' , WASHINOTON, July S3 (A. P.) Science will have Its day In court pn the question of teaching evolution if Loren 'H. Wittner, an avowed atheist, realizes the object of his suit brought here to test a provision of federal legislation. . In making clear that he was "at tacking from the evolution side," a provision of the current District of. Columbia appropriation bill, barring payment of sularles to any public school official here who teaches or permits the teaching of "disrespect for the Holy Bible," Wittner declared the purpose of his action was to "make possible the teaching . of all theories and factions In the schools." He and his attorneys believe the injunction proceedings brought yes terday against pay officers in the district and federal government to prevent further payment of certnln salaries, will open the' way to a con stitutional test of the question.: of teaching evolution In a., manner that the proceedlngs- in the Dayton, Tenn., case did . not permit.' They '.further believe It- will open ' the door wide to testimony ti;ln-- court" from both scientists and fundamentalists and thus achieve an object that the de fense failed to gain In the Dayton trial. "No, I am not an agnostic, I am an athlest," declared Wittner, who is a government employe and once candidate f,or congress from Illinois, in discussing the motive of his suit. "Congress Is trying to stifle edu cation," he said. "The differences between the Scopes trial' and the present case Is just this: In the Scopes trial the Issue was whether the state legislature could prescribe the curriculum In the schools; here congress says that all curricula must be narrowed to a point where It will agree with the inane Ideas of a people 2000 yearI ago. Congress Is simply glorifying Ignorance." Wittner made this statement just after he had spent an hour ut the zoo posing with monkeys for a group of photographers. - - i On the question of the constitu tionality ot the clauBe Involved, which wns inserted as a rider to the appropriation bill and sponsored by Representative Summer, republican, Washington,- F. 8. Stevens, corpora tion counsel of the district, who. will defend the district officials in the suit, expressed the off-hand opinion that It was In conflict witlt the first amendment to the constitution. "The provision in question," he said, "scema to M to be an indirect way of legislating an 'establishment of religion,' and my Impression Is thnt congress has no right ' to enact It." . . Wittner expressed surprise today nt the statements his suit has drawn from William J. Bryan and Clar ence Darrow, lending figures In the Dayton trial, both of whom he thought evidently were under the impression that he had ,brought the proceedings aa an nnti-evnlutlonist. Mr. Darrow, commenting at Day ton, said ha believed the proceedings here were "probably an exhibition of bigotry and crankllm," and that he had f'no doubt It will fall," while Mr. Bryan indicated that he welcom ed It as an opportunity to shed more light on the Issue ot evolution and revealed religion. . ' Death Toll of - the Automobile AURORA,' Ore., July 23. Frank Henslt, of Llnnton, Oregon, was kill ed at 2 o'clock this morning when the light touring car which he was driv ing turned and went through the rail ing of a. bridge three-quarters of a mile west of Habhard on the road be tween Hubbard and Broadacrea. Hen sit was on his way to Broadacrea when the aclcdent occurred. He was to be I employed picking berries at Broad- acres. foal MliLn tm Calln.! ! T.nvtmK. Jniv 9 i a pi a strike of all Rrlthh union coal miners will commence July II, the miners' 'executive committee decided at a meeting htr tonight. "A uihentic" Russian i Wins Prize in ; v ?; , J J! t.. I s g MUe.. Fedor, said to be an "authentic" Russian princes., hit won the 'first prixe in comedy for 1625 at the Conservatoire Na tional .deMusioue, Paris.. LETTER DELUGE Leopold Schepp, 83 Year Old Multi-Millionaire, Flees to Country Home to Escape . Swarm pf Grafters , and Cranks After Cash. NEW YORK, July 23, Leopold Schopp, 83 year old ..philanthropist and cocoanut magnate, sought sur cease today in his country home In New Cannan from a deluge of sug. gestlons as to how to spend his money for benevolence. ' On the heels of his appeal to the public to advise him how to do good with his millions came an ava lanche of mall, telegrams and per sonal appeals.; -i Three thousand letters bulged his correspondence. The most of the letters were frank "touches for funds and pleas for jobs. All but fifty of the letters failed to hit upon Mr. Schepp's inntn pur pose the most good to the great est number for the longest time. The appeals 1 for aid ranged from the romantic request of a woman, fat and forty, for $4000 to get a hus band, to the request of a man for endowment of .a "refuge for poor souls about to commit suicide." It was too much for the philan thropist. ' Wearily, ho packed his things and departed. To answer ap. peals, a printer was ordered to strike off 10,000 formul notices acknowl edging their requests and stating all appeals would be referred to Philip nitter, Intermediary for Mr. Schepp. A committee will be ftp pointed to adjudicate the most wor thy claims and Mr. Schepp will abide by Its decisions. . A few altruistic letters pertain to plnns for the aid of boys and girls, a subject close to Mr. Brhepp's heart. He has already established a 2, 000,000 fund to help young boys. As a nine year old boy. Mr. Schepp bought cocoanut palm leaf, fans for 18 cents and sold them for 86. lie continued to deal In cocoanut pro ducts throughout his life. AsHistnant Postmaster Apimlntnl.' HWAMPHCOTT, Mass., July 23. (A P.) W. Irving Olover was appointed second assistant postmaster geenrai today, succeeding Paul Henderson, re. signed, and Robert 8. Regnr was nam. ed as Mr. Olover's successor as third assistant postmaster general. NEW YORK, July 23 (A. P.) Cotton prices Jumped approximately 16 a bale today on heavy buying nnd covering by shorts, on receipt of an unexpected adverse report on thej cot ton crop, Princess Comedy in France ABANDON HOPE MINE Dili . ..- 10 Miners Entombed By Blast in Tennessee Believed Dead . Explosion Occurs When Fire Fighters Go Below to Combat Flames. ' - CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., July 23. (A. P.)r A . telephone message re ceived . here from Rockwood - this afternoon stated the number of men entombed In the Roane Iron com. pany's mine was thought to be ten and that no hope was entertained for their resrus alive. - ; ROCKWOOD, Tenn., July 23. (A. P.) Wllllnm J. Snow, superinten dent of Ronno Iron company coal mines and a party of six men, who went into Bryson Dip on No, . 7 entry to combat a mine fire) last night, were trapped behind an ex plosion early today and grave fears are . entertained for their safety, nrVson Dip I" the scene of a fire that broke out some time ago and was walled up in an attempt to ex tinguish It. . The barricade was removed this week In the iireseuro of state and federal mine .Inspectors who pro nounced Its condition satisfactory and left the city last night. At eleven o'clock . the old bluce broke . out again nnd Mr. Hnow organized a party consisting ot Roy Llmborg, John and Tom Green, Jim Wilson, Mnl IC. King nnd one or two others to go In ana fight the fires. Later the superintendent told King to snake his rounds In other-parts of the mine and as he was return lng to the scene of the fire shortly before two o'clock, he' heard ah ex. plosion and smelled an onrush of after-damp gas. . It. Is said that-he only managed to escape by leaping Into a mule-drawn mine car and out running the deadly gas cloud and that when he reached the main slope he was svml-consclous and barely able to speak. - A rescue party, headed by'Jnhies O. King went ip to try to save the entrapped men today. Rciuilor Chamberlain Arrives , PORTLAND, Ore., July 23. Oeorge E. Chamberlain, former gov ernor und United States senator, now in attorney at Washington, D. C, irrived here today to spend his vaca tion. Xo New Flrrs miu County EUGENE, Ore., July 23. Lane :oum4 sole remaining forest tire, re ;iorted to be blazing neur MurcftU yesterday, was checked today, aecon" ihg lo word sent here, and during thn day there were no new fires reported. Low Neck and Short Pants Urged by Af . D. As Healthy Attire BATH, England, July 23. (A. P.) Men should stop wearing long tfouaera and thereby avoid the dreaded all- utent of varicose veins. Dr. Leonard Hill, member of- the British. Institute of medical re- Benrch today told the British Mcdlcnt association. Tight collars also are harm- ful. he said, explaining that girls by wearing low necked blouses, short skirts and thin stockings, obtain ' more health 4 giving ultra violet rnys than do 4 men. FIRE EPIDEMIC $12,000 LOSS Church Residence, House, Tent, Barn and Silo De- : stroyed By Fires in 12 Hour Period Department Does Excellent Work. A veritable epidemic Of flies,. "which' destroyed a church, a residence, a house tent, a barn, and a silo in and about Medford;; nigell during thd pant 24 hours. The total loss of property destroyed Is given cdnservntlvely nt 112,000,' partially covered by insur ance. The barn and silo, which belonged to Justin Judy of Griffin Creek, about four miles south of this city, was burned to the ground about 2:80 this morning with the cause unknown. The fire was not discovered until the large barn, which contained over 40 tons of hay, was completely enveloped In flames. Beside the loss already mentioned, Mr. Judy suffered the death of his pedigreed thoroughbred Jersey' bull, a loss, which Mrs. Judy says, cannot be replaced. Several farm Implements ' were also destroyed. Twenty-five hundred dollars Is the estimated loss of the Judy pruporty, partially covered by insurance. Evidently some person thinking the barn- fire was within the city limits phoned an alurm to the fire depart ment about 2:45, which responded with the Stuts pumper thinking that the report phoned In was correct, hut when the locution of the blase was discovered the pumper was promptly driven back to the statloh. '- Fire, which started yesterday after-' noon about 8 o'clock from an unde termined' source, completely gutted the Seventh Day Adventlst church on North Riverside and (he residence ot E, A. Smidley at 6G0 Pine street. The residence of Mrs. J. C. Clark, (25 Riverside avenue wus badly scorched and burnt on one side, while a wood shed on the property adjoining the church was practically destroyed. The homes of E. C. Ferguson and Mrs. R. Klncaid near ' the church also caught fire, but were not seriously damaged. That the loss, which Is estimated at 88000, parttully covered hy Insur ance,' was no larger Is due to the prompt arrival ot the fire department, which was confronted with the task of fighting fires burning In five dif ferent places,- with a . strong wind blowing. Four lines of hose were promptly laid, two from the powerful Stuts pumper and two direct from fire hydrants, and within an hour of steady pumping the fire which had threatened to be a disaster was under control. The church, which was a biasing mass when the department arrived, Is now nothing more than a shell, as well as what had been once the home of E, A, Smodley, employed by the Jackson County Creamery. At 8:16 an alarm was sounded for 'Continued nn Pava Hlxl IZZY EINSTEIN POSING DIRECTS RAID NEW YORK, July 23. A. P.) Issy Einstein has long been an actor hut now he's gone and posed as one, much to the dislike of thirsty mem bers of the profession and h Fern olub. Representing- himself as ' Ethetbert Santerre, n legitimate actor at liberty, tssy got himself elected a member of nn establishment In the "roaring for ties" with a clientele confined to I MEDFORD U.S. CITIZEN 1 E Washington Aroused By the News That Morgan Palmer Killed By Bandits and Dr. H. J. Howard Captured v Stern Note to Be Sent . Whereabouts Unknown. ' PEKING, July 23. (A. P.) Morgan Palmer, an Amorlcnn, has been killed by bandits at his ranch on the Sungar river near Harbin. Dr. Howard, an eye specialist attached to. the Rocke feller hospital, was captured at the Bame time. Consular advices from Kalgan Btate that Palmer was killed on July 20 while defending his property against bandits. - Mr. Palmer and his mother. Or. Howard and his son, James, and an American trader named Baldwin of Kalgan, Chlhli province, together with his wife and child, were visiting Pal mer's ranch, which is In the ' Man churlan province of Kerln, when the attack was made. . . The consular advices say that Dr. Howard last night still was in custody and the others are "safe for the pres ent," but their whereabouts is not known. , The American consul, Samuel Sokobin, has gone to see the military governor of Kerln, In an effort to ..... m ivifow vv rr minnit The Rockefeller hospital has been advised that Dr. Howard's son, James, cliocben, ' ' :. Power for Good In China, NEW YORK. July 23. (A. P.) .Morgan Palmer, killed by bandits In I Manchuria, formerly lived In Platts jburg, N. Y. He was an engineer and several years ago joined the American .Red Cross for service In Siberia and China. As a field agent during the great Chinese famine In 1920 he was Instrumental In Baring many lives. Palmer .was unmarried and -lived I with his mother in Peking. I Dr. Harvey J. Howard, captured by the bandits who killed Mr. Palmer, had been chief of the department of 'opthamology at Peking Union Medical I college, established by the Rockefeller foundation since 1918. A brother, Oeorge C. Howard, Is an attorney In Now York. "-. i I A cablegram received by the Rocke ' feller foundation today said that Dr. Howard had been seized by bandits near the junction of the Amur and IBungarl rivers, in Manchuria, near Harbin, and that the American consul i at Harbin had taken action to secure ; his release. Dr. Roger S. Oreene, ' general director of the China medical board, has left Peking for Harbin, the cablegram said,- ' r- - . . Dr. Howard was born at Church- vllle, N. Y and was educated at the University ot Michigan, University of Pennsylvania and Harvard. His son, ' James, la 12 years old. ' Washington Worried. ' WASHINOTON, July 23. (A, P.) Officials here were manifestly dis tressed over the killing ot one Amer ican and the capture of another yea I terday by Chinese bandits, but 'there iwas no Indication that the develop ment would Interrupt negotiations tor a friendly effort by the powers to help I China out of her domestlo troubles. Formal comment on the raid on the Palmer ranch was withheld pending I full Investigation. Meantime, Ameri can authorltles'ln China are expected to take prompt measures to secure tha release of Dr. Howard, the American . held captive, and the punishment of ,. those responsible for his abduction an J (for the death of Morgan Palmer. Heretofore Americans In China have ' ;been noticeably Immune from the t I attacks directed against the nationals .of other, countries and the first lm- ! pulse was to regard yesterday's lnc. ,: rrontlnneif nn Paaw Ma) . AS ACTOR ON BROADWAY CLUB recognised members of the theatrical profession. ' , Yesterday he Introduced Mo Smith nnd two other federal agents. "They're actors too," said Issy. "Set 'eid up." Came forth four whiskies at sixty cents each, ns Issy tells, and Charles Burns, manager of the club, and a ' waiter were arrested, , " ' ,)-'1 Then In walked one nf the club's sources of supply with a halt gallon Jug. He too was arrested, t