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Newspaper Page Textedford M ail Tribune ." The Weather Prediction . Fair aiul muiluurd nana '.Maximum ynttenlny loa Minimum today ... tw Weather Year Ago Maximum 90 Minimum 7. 49 Dtllj Twwitkrtli Tear. ; KffUr fmr-toiirUi Tat. MEDFORD, OREflONV KATtTKlUY. AUGUST R, 192.-) NO. 119 Y. L M CINDERELLA GIR DRUMS POSOW MARY TIRED OF lift III E Driven to Desperation By the 'Nasty Things' Said About Millionaire Protector, Girl : Adopted By E. W. Browning Attempts Suicide, But Little Harm Is Done. NEW YOUK, Aug. 8. (A. F.) Mary Louise Browning, ncwiy-udopled daughter of Edward W. Browning, wealthy real estate operator, admitted today that she "drank poison this morning because or the "nasty tilings" which had been said about Mr. Brown ing's adopting her. ' A doctor was called but when he arrived the girl already had vomited the poison. ...--, ' "Why did you do It?" she was asked. "I did It because I was hysterical and did not know what 1 was doing, and because of the nasty things Mr. Coler has been saying about Mr. Browning," she said. Mr. Coler, commissioner of the de partment of public, welfare, who hug been conducting an investigation Into the clrcumstunccs surrounding her adoption, described It as tbo "must unmoral thing" ho, hud ever encoun tered. " - ' :' , , The girl and Browning had planned to leave today on a . wcek-uud auto trip but this was cuncollod fullowing tho discovery of tho girl's act. ' The attempt at suicide,'' which ,.ocr fin-red In the Bathroom or the Brown ing home In Kew Gardens, was averted by Browning, who eelied a two-ounce bottle ot Iodine from the girl's hand after it small quantity had passed her mouth. A physician was summoned and an antidote administered. . Browning was summoned by tele gram from District Attorney Newcomb this afternoon for a further confer ence. The telegram was followed by a second message In which Mr. New comb said evidence had been obtained which set the girl's age at 21 years. Browning asked the assembled re porters "to find out If tho girl was really 21." "I want to fool out tho pulse of ' public opinion," Mr. Browning said later In a formal statement. "If it is that I should not keep the girl, for the sake of my own child, , 1 will work out some other solu tion. If she Is 21, tho adoption Is, of course, vold.'k By "his own child" it wns assumed he meant Dorothy Sunshine Browning. Bird 8. Color, commissioner ot pub lic welfare, announced toilay that he had an appointment to confer on Mon day with an attorney representing Mrs. William St. John of Kye, N. Y., who appealed to the commissioner to have Dorothy Sunshine Browning re turned to her custody. Mrs. St. John was foster-mother ot tho child tidopted by Browning six years ago. Want to Go Home. NEW YOUK, Aug. 8. (A. P.) Two bright-eyed girls whom Edward Browning has made nappy by shower ing upon them all the luxuries money could buy, were on the verge today of returning to the Impoverished sur roundings whence they came. Questioned for hours yesterday by authorities Involving the adoption a few days ago of Mary Louise Spas, the millionaire real estate operator appeared worn and pale. His secre tary said that Browning was "trying his level best" to find a way out and boped to send Mary back to her humble Bohemian parents today, but Mr. Browning later Insisted the state ment was unauthorised. Mary was convinced that her coach and four must certainly change back to the Ignomlnous pumpkin. "I want to go home," she said. , Commissioner of Public Welfare Bird 8. Coler was also Investigating the appeal of Mrs. William St. John of Rye. N. Y., foster-mother of Ix,r ' othy StinBhino Browning, that the child be given back to her. Dorothy, Oontlnoei, nn Pux IDte-ht) ILT MANSION $1,555,000. SOLD FOR $7,100,000 NEW YORK, Aug. 8. (A. P.) An older requiring all permits with an Ir.terest In the propeHv tu .huw cause why Mr. A lie C. Vardei bill, widow of Cornelius Vanderbilt. should not sell the Vanderblle nmnslon (it Fifth aven- and 67th (tract waa Issued yes- - tU)ay by Sipreinc Court Justlm In- P. giTham. Impossible to Raise Beef Cattle, Oregon Governor Declares BAKER, Aug. 8 A. 1.) Guv- I ernor Pierce, accompanying tho board of regents of Orepun Agrt- r cultural college on their Inspcc- tion tour of tho seven experiment 4 fr statioliH. made u close Invcatlga- tion of the work of the O. A. J. Htutlon at Union. 4 Governor Pierce suggested ! that ho would favor the dlscon- 4 ttnulng of tho ruining of beef cut- 4 tie. owing to tho expense of ban- 4 4 tiling. The governor cited his ex- 4 4 pertenee. slating that ho had 4 4 spent 30 years of hia life In the 4 4 endeavor to do that and ho la 4 4 convinced that it Ih imposalblo.to 4 4 raise beef cuttle in Oregon. 4 Oregon Senator Declares Head of Shipping Board Is Play ing Favorites Threat to Take Ships Away From Portland Is Assailed. -HALUM, Aub. 8 (A. P.)-t-Ui.IM1 a tit ten Senator MuNary said here to day thut if Admiral Palmer is th rout en I ng; to Uike ( tl,e ; jjierchitnt, .miuJiio, fleet from Portland he is acting with out legal authority. .? Ho added that Plainer apparently Is seekinc to glvo control of the merchant marine to a ! favored group. Senator McNary was a member of the senate commerce commission and a member of the subcommittee that framed the- present merchant marine act, thercforo Is famfllur with the in tentions of congress at the time the act was passed. "I was not In sympathy with the resolution passed by the shipping board tranttf erring the emergency fleet corporation's control over to tho shipping board fleet," said Senator McNary, "as I believe it is contrary to tho letter and tho spirit of the mer chant marine act. Consequently 1 feel that Admiral Palmer, in threat ening to take tho fleet from Portland, is acting without legal authority. "Ono of tho foundation suports of the act was to provide for geograph ical and territorial representation on the shipping board, thereby prevent ing 0110 man or one port control of the shipping facilities owned by the gov ernment. Tho committee who framed tho legislation proposed first that America should have a ipe reliant ma rine, that new trade routes should bo established and new markets devel oped and that in oach large port should be an American fleet adequate tu handle the commerce moving to the markets of tho world. The ships should be sold to prlvato operators upon condition that these trade routes be maintained and tho various Amer ican shipping ports have adequate service. If 1 am rightly informed. Admiral Palmer seeks to glvo control of the merchant marine to a favored group, which would tend tu centralize the utilization of the ships in a few hands. It is my Judgment that until congress, can provide supplementary legislation looking to the support of a merchant marine that tho government vessels now operating from Portland and other ports uf the country should not be diminished In number, nor the present trade routes disturbed. The producers of agriculture and manu facturers In Oregon are Interested In an adequate service of cargo carrying vessels, and any attempted action of one man to destroy or mar the sit uation should be discouraged, and If necessary be presented In its true light to President Coolidge. , "Before leaving Washington I dis cussed the shipping board situation on two occasions with the 'President, and 1 think his point of view coincides with the thought shared by the people of Oregon.' BUILT FOR ' Mra. Vanderbilt had applied tor permission td sell the properly for I", 100.000. giving as a reason the .(!. ni,v In character of the nelghh-jrliotH1 no lorger trade the property a suitable dwftllnrf placo. .The inin.i mi ivus elected 'n 1K; and thet ha J an as sessed valuation of 11,650.00 MWY OPPOSES ADMIRAL PALMES ONSHIPPUAM DRAWS OUT E In Flowing Robes and High Peaked Hoods, But Without Masks, Thousands of Klans- men March in National Cap ital As Bands Play and Spectators Applaud. WASHINGTON, Aug. 8. (A. P.) In flowing white robos and hlgb peaked hoods, tho Ku Klux Klun paraded In force today along Pennsyl vania avenue. Hlgb officers of the order headed the pageant and behind them maWicd in mass formation klansmen from many communities In the east, Bouth and middle west. The parade route lay from the capitol to the treasury and then through the Mull to the scene of an outdoor ceremony to be held tonight at the Washington monument. Klan headquarters estimated thai 50,000 members were In the line of march and that the parade, starling at mid-afternoon, would not be over until late evening. The avenue was roped along Its curbs with steel cables, ai; it is on Inauguration days, and behind on. the sidewalks crowds gathered to see the unusual picture, i The klansmen marched with v'sors raised, complying with a capitol po lice ordinance against the wearing of masks. An intermittent breeze played with the' long 'olonks- nd capes but failed to bent off the oppressive heat of an afternoon of dull sunshine and threatening clouds. Extra policemen were stationed two or three to the block along the parade route and a guard of marines patrolled the treasury, as Is customary during unusual public gatherings. As a fur ther precaution all police reserves In the city were held on duty at tholr precinct police stations. Klan sentinels also wore posted along the routs at frequent Intervals. Most of them stood silently on tho sidewalks. By the time the parade was under way the spectators wore ranged six or eight deep throughout t ho mile stretuh from the capitol to the treasury, with iHrgnr crowds at favored places. Thore was frequent applause. A mounted police patrol preceded tho head of tho parade along the route. with them roilo a slnglo klunsmnn carrying aloft a gold fringed Ainorlcun flag. Behind caino others on horseback and in richly decorated robes of bright nnd varied colors, in their mldHt wuh one cos tumed In bluck colonial garb with powdered wig. Pennsylvania delegation, carry inn a banner marked with tho state's keystone, was tbo first behind the uarado .leaders. More than a nun- drcd marched behind tbo flag In tlic f form of a living cross. Then there CROWD were sevoral hundreds in mass nioo uuu .nangeo 10 a iroe. formal Ion. each carrying an Aniorl- Tho ' negro wns lynched following can flag and a hollow square of, his identification l,y a young woman whlto robed women, marphing wlthjas her assailant lute Thursday night, folded arms. while sho and Leonard L'tt, 19, were Thousands of the men marched returning in u motor car to Iho girl's too, with anna folded. In some of home after a 'party. the formations they were thirty abreast. One Pennsylvania group was preceded by a band In Scotch kilts and by a drill team, dressed In trim whlto uniforms with 8am Browne bolts and black leather buttces. Reading, A 1 1 o o n a. Philadelphia, Pittsburg, llurrlsburg, Ijellevue, C'ar neaie. Homestead, and other cities wero namad on tho banners of the. Pennsylvania marchers. Among them 'Yes. I'm guilty." ho replied, ac was a woman carrying a banner, cording to. members of the mob. which Identified her as "a woman Fifty Kansas CHy policemen rush kleaglc." Montgomery county, Ponn-.cd to tho placo armed with riot sylvunla. contributed a hollow square guns, arrived fifteen minutes too of men dressed In olive drab, with late. They recovered tho body and trench helmets, followed by a great turned It over to tbo coroner, pas mass of white robed klansmen who sengers on a train running between marched with Joined hands, each Kxcelslor 8 1 r I n and Kxcelslor rank spanning tho wide nvenue from curb to curb. There were tnuny groupa of wum en. eome ' wearing the regulation white robes, somo In middle blouses, and some In varl-colored capea. The lynching caused an oxodus of American flags wore Bcattered In negroes from Kxcelslor Hprlngs. Last profusion throughout tho parado, night It was reported many of the i.i approximately Ino negroes who lived WAlJHINOTON, Aug. 8. (A. P.) ! "nd dear tho town, had gone to The national capital waa thronged Kansaa City. . with Ku KlUK Klansmen today and I Authorities , hero, however, any no Pennsylvania avenue waa roped off troublo Is expected ' betwoen tho for a parade of robed and hooded faces, , ' ranks. I . ' Beginning In the early hours of 1-iwtt'nnTn Win tiolf Tflfc-. the day. special trains rolled In to CSAHIJKN CITY. N. V Aug. 7.--1A. add thousands to the Influx which p- Kay MoAullfre of Buffalo. N. Y.. set in yesterday. Dusty motor cara- "nd Bill Herrick of New York, will vans brought In other hundreds to meet at J holes tomorrow for the participate In the demonstration national public links golf chnmplon whlch will continue throughout to- "hip. , morrow night. I McAullffe almlulated Bill Courtney Capital police on duty In full force nf Detroit In th. semi-finals toilay, flveand four, while Herrick conquered (Soetlnued on Pae Eight) Al Houghmun of Waahngton, 0 and t. Can She Come Back? Can Mahci Normand come back? The little comedienne, ah- sent from the films since her name figured so prominently in tha stories of the Dines shooting, Is in New' York preparing for an attempt to win public favor via the stage. She will be starred in a comedy Among the guests at a farewell party given for her in Hollywood was Roscoe Arbuckle, who has fallrit in all of hia at tempts to stage a comeback. ' . ; V. . y ' , ' ) . . LAW OFFICIALS UPHOLD LYNCH LAW, MISSOURI County . Prosecutor , at Excel sior Springs. Declares 'Jus tice Has Been Done' No Investigation of Mob Action Contemplated. KXCUI.KIOU SPIilNOa, Mo.. Aug. (A-; P. Officials of Clay, county have indicated that no Investigation will be . innde of tho lynching hero yesterday' of Walter Mitchell, 33, negro, who was taken from Juil by a "Wo reel t lint Justice lias neon uone, uay euminings, county prose- cutor sum. -or course, the motnoti wus crude, I would havo preferred that the negro could havo been nanKcu legally ana I am convinced mac it would luivo been dono." A they wero preparing to hang Mitchell, .mob leaders asked him If ho had anything to say, springs Junction, witnessed the hanging. Tho train was forced to stop when the moh swarmed over the tracks, and paaseiigers crowded the stops and windows. r" CALIFORNIA IS AGAIN SHAKEN I VERY SLIGHTLY San . Bernardino, San Jacinto and San Diego Report Temblors Early This Morn ing-No Damage Done- Volcano in Nicaragua Erupts LOH ANIiKMIS. Aug. s. (A. P.) A slight earth shock ul 2:13 o'clock thlM ninriiinir u-iih rntutrteil tu the ( K,U1,H ,,., dispatcher's office here by the dispatcher at Han lternardinu. Telephone operators and pollco head quarters at Kan Hernardliio reported they had not fell the shock.' HAN JACINTO. Cnl.. Aug. S. (A. P. An earlhqiluke shock of a fow seconds duration was fell here at 11:15 o'clock this morning.' No resulting danuiKC has been reported. HAN IMKOO, Oal Aug. H. (A. P.) A ell,.!., nn.-ll.,..,,.!,. ln,.b Wu fll ,,, rUy ,,fo,.p , , i.Ylock tills ., i.;, i,.iiakes Were reported Hl .,. lln, iien.et. according , v()n r()ut.Ved here. No damage ,W11M done. MANAOCA. Nlialiiuua. Aug. II (A, P.) The double volcano of Omft tepe, on Ometepe Island, In Iiko Nicaragua, has burst Into violent erup tion from both Its ' peaks. Iargo quantities of dense smoke and ashes are being -thrown out. spreading ruin to nearby pltiiiljitlons. Wall Street Report . NKW YOUK. Am. S (A. p.)An othnr fltMplity uT HKKi'Htvf HliPngth wan Khnwit hy tntlnys Hlwk timikot, AlthoiiKh h leiifl'Miry to oonvort impor profltH Into. ciiHli und fixporlmontul Hhort Hollinff tirtUKht about occaniutiul recrwtlnnH uf a point or two. tho gfn- eral HhI Hwcpt forward under th) Icarici-Hhlp uf 11m IiIkM priced IndUH trtalK, ninny uf which wero ukuUi liuoyant. Buying ordain wore up mad over it hroad IImI, hut ceittered larifoly In Iho HtcHfl. cguiViueulM, motorn and public utllHIen, many nf which broke through to iipw fioaU prico fur the year. Iluylnv of the rallH wan uf an active character, eHtabllHhrnent of new peak price by MlKHourt Pacific, pro ferred, nnd Norfolk and Wentern be tnit anion the fw foaturea. (.'hcxa peake and Ohio, Cocog Cola, and U. H. t.'KHbt Iron I J pe fplX bai:k on reul Ixlng, The cIohIdk wan Hlrotig. Tulttl tales upproxlnmtcd 8UO.U00 share, Grants Pass Mayor Quits "The Climate City" for Long Beach (1 HANTS PASS. Aug. 8. Willi tho resignation of Mayor W. U. Fry hist night Iho city ' is now without an udminlstru- tlve hea'il. A sperlnl meeting of tho city council bus been culled to . take nn tho election of a new mayor. Frye'a resignation r was accepted in view of tho 4 fact that ho experts to leavo r August 25 to spend tho winter at l-.ong Beach. GIRLS GIVE UP ALIENGpS Miss Emmeline Grace Will Not Marry Sir Michael Bruce and Lieutenant Bacci Is . Turned Down Cold By Miss Nancy Sayles. . NKW .YORK, Atiff. 8. (A. P.) Tho marriage pluna vt two Aniorieun society girla und two blue blooded forelKiicrs have Bono uwvy. MIhs Hmmellne Murlun Grace, tho duuKhtcr of Kukouo O, Grace piesl dent of tho Bothlehem nteel corpora tion. Is not to wed HIr Michael Vil- liam S h e 1 b,u,, BifU(;o, - adventurous young BcottlHh baronet, becauso hit H to marry urt Kntfllsn girl. Dispatches from London last ntghl said that Hlv Mtchucl, a captain In tho royal field artlllory and descend ant of Robert Bruce, hero king of Scotland, today would beuomo tho husband of Miss Uoreen Dalzlol Green wald, daughter of a British colonel. Miss Grace's engagement was an nounced last decembor from her homo In Bethlehem, lJa. It was cok bra ted by a ball. Mr. Grace's secro- tury from tho steel magnate's sum iner homo at Houtltampton, U, !. yestorday said Miss (.trace's engage men t wns broken several months ago and It was known tu her frtonds hero and In London. Disappointment camo to Llouten unt ' Ernest ltirdlnolll Becci, first UHslMtaut secretary of the. . Italian ministry of tho Interior, when ho arrived on the liner Providence yes terday to learn thut his contemplated marriage next Wednesday to Miss Nancy Suyles of Pawtucket, R, 1., had been postponed Indefinitely. ' A few hours later Lieutenant Becci intimated ho would return to Italy without a bride. Miss Kayles is re puted to be tho wealthiest girl In Rhode Island. Her mother, Mrs. Frank H. Hayles, guvo no reason for postponement of her marriage. Lieu tenant BlmtI Is a Roman Catholic and Miss Hayles a Protestant. Lieutenant Becci left 937.&0A In Jewelry, his gifts to tho prospective bride, n the hands of customs of ficio Ih. Ho didn't want to pay duty on something ho might not need. I'nlr Went her Pmlhlctf. HAN KRANCIHCO, Aug. S.Tho weather outlook for tho weok begin ning August U was announced hero to day by the United Htates weather bu reau as follows: The outlook Is for fair weather In the Interior, and considerable clouds and fogs along the coast. Tempera ture will bo normal. . Tho fire hazards In the . forested areas will remain high In the Interiors of Washington and Oregon, and nor ma (elsewhere. COUNTRY NEVER IN FROM EVERY 8WAMPHCOTT, Mm. Aug. 8 (A. P.) Hecrelary Hoover took advan tugo of hia flrat conference with the 1'realilent' alnce the execullvo left WaahliiRlon to report liualrleHa con- flltlona aa he found lhein on nn ex tenalve tour through the went and to xprciia the opinion thut the public weat of the AlleghunleM waa profound ly Intereated In development of water ways. Tha United Hlutea. Mr. Hoover de clared, waa never In auch a atrong economic condition aa at proaenL The public la cheerful and hopeful, he wild, atundnrda of living are higher than tha country haa ever before en Joyed and there la no unemployment of conaew,uence. B AMERICAN DEAD MAN IDENTIFIED AS California Undertaker Declares Body Found in Cellulose Co. Plant That of G- WBarbe, Tramp and Itinerant Mis sionary Police Seek Con firmation. ' : v... MARTINEZ. Calif., Aug. 8 (A. p'.y Couflrmalioh of tho identification by Cecil Barker, Placcrvllle, Calif., undertaker, of tho body found in tho Paciflu Cellulose' company's plant aft er an explosion was sought by author ities today with only partial success. . Striving for legal proof that It was U. W. Barbe, Itinerant laborer and wandering missionary, who Is the dead man, as asserted by Barker, and not Charles Henry Schwartz, heavily Insured chemist, tho pollco . today questioned numerous persons who might have seen Barbo In tho vicinity of tho cellulose plant. Verification. Sheriff . Veal states, will coroborate his theory that a mur der was commuted and tho body' of the victim employed to defraud Insur ance companies out of more than $1000.000 represented In policies car- lied, by -Schwartz In favor of Mrs. Hohwartz and the company of which ho was .vice president, and gonpral manager us well as chemist. , , . The description of Barbo, which was contained uti n registration csrd -mad q out by, him when, ho ep,lrdtlio sorviuo of tho United Rtateu'lnorcltfint "' marine, wus declared by a resident of Baranao, Calif.,, to resemble- that of the man ho had picked up on tha road and given, . a- ride, to Walnut Creek, where the cellulose plant Is situated, a short time before tho explosion. This man. however, said that tho photo graph at Barbe which was shown him did not strike him as a likeness of tho man ho had given a-II ft'. , A bookkeeper In tho plant of tho company who has given the. police considerable information regarded att lmportunt, said sho hud never- sei anyone around tho cellulose- factory resembling Barbo. , . , , While tho investigators- redoubted their efforts for legal coroboratlon of the Insurance hoax theory. Mm Schwartz maintained flpnly her posi tion, refiiHlng to concede thai tho body is (hat of any other than- her husband whom sho munied In 13h gland after his honorablo dtschargo from -tho Kronen army at tho turnilnatlon ;uf tho World war. i . if, ;. K. Bell, attorney for Mr. Hchwatiz declared - today' that Mrs. Schwartz would not glvo her consent to the btiriul of tho corpse, under the numo of Barbe and he said he had proof that the dead man la Schwartz. Ho stoutly contended that the author ities have not refuted his proof of the body's Identity. . 1 : ASTORIA. Ore.. Aug. 8 (A. P.) Astoria pollco and United Btates cus toms officials1 waited today to board tho Swedish steamer Nordlo 'which was due off the Columbia river at o'clock this afternoon. Timy intend-, ed to make a thorough' search ot tho' steamer for a man who ,waa reported to havo boarded tho vasseLat Oak land, Calif., supposed by California authorities to be Char lei f Henry Hchwait missing Berkeley rhmt. Though radio mewwiffoa from the ves sel said Schwartz was not' on board the officers here Intended to maketa thorough search of tho boat to satisfy themselves that he was nut concealed as a stowaway. The officers planned to proceed with the ship to Westpurt, conducting the search en route to that 'rvtntlnniul m KHahtv BETTER SHAPE ANGLE SAYS HOOVER Condition are had In apota, Hr Hoover admitted, declaring tills waa to bo expected an a nation aa large us the United Hi u ten cannot run on "all cylinders" nt ono time. The furmara of the weat and middle west, he said, are omerglng autlafactorlly from their difficulties, ult hough they lire nut yet entirely In the cleur. With reference to the waterways problem Mr. Hoover reported wide iqireud Interest In the west over com prehensive pinna for flood control, Ir rigation and power development. , ' Mr. Hoover gained tha Impression that President Hoover would be un able t oaccept Hun Kranclaco'a Invita tion to attend the celebration of the seventy-fifth anniversary ,-ot the founding of the city. , . r.