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Newspaper Page TextCO .O o O o O edford Mail Tribune Weather Year Ago Maximum t7 .Mill ii 4 I Prediction I'nseiilcil Maximum yinliTtlay 70 Mllilllillill ftdny ill 0,ll,TM!tlfth Test. VAh rutT-lonrtli Tw MEDFORD, ORKflOX, AVKDN KSDAY. OCTOBER 2S, 102') NO. 188 M BULGARIANS YIELD BUT Athens Orders Evacuation to Halt on Claim That Troops Are Attacked Envoys Say One Thing, Army Leaders Another League Confident of Quick Settlement ATHENS, Oct. 28 It Is understood that the Creek troops In the frouth-r terrltory will not ha withdrawn for the time being. LONDON, Oct. 28. (A. P.) An j Kxehange Telegraph dispatch from I SnloniUI, Greece, declares that while j itio Clock trooDH worn withdruwini; . from Bulgarian territory this i -ning I "It In believed the evacuation must j have ceased," the dispatch adds. i ATI I HNS, Oct. 28. (A. P.) The Creeks were attacked by Hulgarinn forces this morning near Kuinna. it is officially stated. . Ramna, Is ten miles west of Dcmlr hissar, near which the present Greco Hulgarian trouble broke out. and about five miles south of the border, on Greek territory. PARIS, Oct. 28. (A. P.) Greece announced at today's meeting of the League of Nations council that she had given orders for her troops In Bulgarian territory to retire behind her own frontier. 8he assured the .. council that complete evacuation oi Bulgaria would be carried out within the sixty hour llm.lt laid down by tho council. X Bulgaria Accepts ; M. Onrapanos, the Greek mlnlKler, was not present,, when the coiiuell. -flint met' nt 11 St." ftii-and -there wus-u brief adjournment. When the session began al 11:20, M. Morloff, the Hul garinn minister, announced that his government had ordered Its troops to take no hustlle action and assured the council thnt not a single Hulgarinn soldier was now on Greek soil. lie orricially Informed the council in wilting that Bulgaria accepted all the conditions lnid down in the coun cil's ultimatum. ' .M. Cnrnpanos then rend a tclegr-nm from the Greek government which said that, being desirous of accelerat ing peRce as far as possible, Greece already had taken measures In con formity with friendly mediation by Roumanin with a view to ending all operations ami bringing her forces behind the Greek frontier. Greece's unconditional acceptance nf the league ultimatum was followed by perhaps the most dramatic and GREEKS STAY Impressive expression of fiilih In ihe )ljH r0Ult martial on a charge of vio IraguCas an instrument of world j ItiK good discipline, peace since lis founding. ; sharp verbal clash between Gen , Happy Kndliig Set""' oral Sumnierall und Representative Kveryone of the ten members of .'rank R. Reid of Illinois, counsel for the council voiced their conviction (;i,me) Mitchell, preceded Summer that the happy ending of the crisis alya request that the court excuse gave new itnpes for Immunity and i,,n f,om further- attendance, thnt recourse would not henceforlh nl)pport of his challenge Mr. Reid be mnde to the sword but to concilia- Ieaa statements made by General tinn nnd harmony. ' Sunimerall before the president's air Nevertheless, in this general ex- board and coupled with them extracts pvesslon of congratulations, Greece (,., t,e report of Colonel Mitchell did not escape without reproof. Her ulter he inspected the air defenses of Invasion of Hulgarinn Roll was scatn- Ingly denounced by M. Brlanil. A telegram from the general com manding the Greek third nrmy corps reported thut between ten und eleven o'clock Tuesday night, Bulgarian dc tnchments aitncked the Greeks ut Post 73 on the lino between Pelrlch and Rumnn. The fighting still was going on when the dispatch was sent. I the general reported. It Is officially Informed that "Greece immediately Informed the council of the League of Nations of this act of Bulgarian ag gression, constituting a flagrant In fraction of the council's decision nnd at the same time a fresh proof of Bul garian bnd faith." ' SOFIA. Bulgaria, Oct. 28. (A. P Despite the warnings of the League nf Nations council, Greek troops nt fOnntlnueq on pare WI11TF. PLAINS, N -. " "n (A. P.) Mrs. Alice Beift'lce Jonis Rblnelnnder. housemaid, "'lose mni rlsge Inst year to Leonard Kill binder, member of one uf New oldest nnd most prominent caused a society sensation, apparently Is not opposing th charge In his su.i for annulment thnt she Is of negro extraction. Instead she may be ex pected to bnse her defense on me t-onientlon that no fraud wns perpe trated. Tift, disclosure ns well as the ran ilVLt young Ithlnehinder has been dis inherited, was mnde yesterdnv In a hewing on motion of Hnelun- RHINELANDER SPENT $20,000 TO PROVE HIS BRIDE WAS A NEGRESS 14 Below Zero in Rapid City, South Dak.; 12, Montana PRNVKIl. Colo., Oct. 2S. (A. 1M Winter's first blltor on- slaughl of the season In the Rocky mountain regions today sent temperatures hurtling he- j low zero In Montann und spread a mantle of snow over the re- gion. The frigid thrust was most severe at Rapid I'ily, S. 1)., fr where the mercury descended to fourteen below; at Judith liap, Mont., twelve l.elow and at Miles I'liy. elKhl below. COL ITCHFlt COURT BATTLE StOmiy Petrel SllCCCedS .11 o M U f rnet ucuiliy o iviciiiucio ui iuuii Martial Removed On ' the 1 GrOUndS Of Prejudice dial- 1 I lenges Authority of Court WASHIXGTOX, Oct. 22. (A. P.) I After having secured tile retirement of three members of the court martial chosen to try him, Colonel William Mitchell late today challenged the jurisdiction of the court. Tlircugh his counsel the colonel pleuded that the specifications ugaiust him did riot constitute any offense Tnlll.Kr ,.,-..r.,-lv Itn.lal- tho lt-Hrluu nf '' i"ut"-"j ......... ........... ... wnr nnd thnt n court iiini-tlnl there-1 lore was without authority to try the cltse WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.- (A. P.) Colonel William Mitchell he-inn his "ilufense" at his court martial here to day by chiving from the bench three members nf the court, including its pi evident. Major General Charles P. Suinmeinll. General Smnnierall withdrew on hiB motion after he had been charged witli prejudice against the defendant and Brigadier A. J. Bowley was dis qualified by his colleagues on the court ufter the defense challenged Mm on similar grounds. A pre-emptory challenge then was made by Mr. Reid against Major C.en eial Fred W. Sluden. superintendent of the military academy at West Point, N. V. This form of challenge permitted of no argument und General Bladen was excused. The challenges against Sunimeiall and llowley were baaed on utterances of the two generals against the sep arate air department favored by Colonel Mitchell, and in support of which be used language which led to n,e Hawaiian department. ut that time commanded by General Suni- 'inerall. "I have learned for the first time." General Sumnierall suld. of the enmity Colonel Mitchell has toward me. The report lie made is untrue, unfair and ignor ant. This is not the place to piove the efficiency of the air service of the Hawaiian depart ment. I cannot sit ns a member of this court. I beg the court to excuse me from further attend- nnce." The court granted the request after n ubnrt consultation. General Sununerall's retirement .,i..,l Mnlnr General Robert 1- uu-ia commanding officer of the Fifth corps area at Columbus, Ohio, in the president's chair. (Continued on nar der's attorney, for SI S.oon additional ,.-. fees, of which 1350" wns in-iinted. v..,inir P.hinelaniler's attorneys have spent I'.'li.O"" in tracing the pn- ternlty of their client's father-in-law, they said, and Munil tniu nino .- iiflcntes In the Weil Indies and Kng the innd recorded all members of family ns m-Siues. "Not n penny wns spent oy me of fense to sustain It" contention that Ihe defendant is 1101 ui nnna said Isaac N. Mills, an attorney .1.. hn.hnml. "although 13000 for was . ... . l. f,.a. thlH nor- Igrnnteu oy me wu. - pose. G WINS OPENING S. ABA HELD MODEL FOR WORLD President Coolidge Lauds South American Statesman ship in Accepting Gift from Argentina Southern Na tions Have Shown World Peace Is Attainable WARHINOTONOct. 28. (A. V-) South American statesmanship with Its goal of lasting peace was held up as a model for the world by President Coolidge in accepting as a gift from Argentina to the United States a mon ument to General Jose De Hailmnrtin Argentine soldier, patriot, nnd slates man. Praising ftnnmnrtin as Ijitln Amer ica's George Washington and as one ' --"rge wo f the foremost creators of the new 1 ivnt-lil the tireul.lent uli-nuunH "Ihn fiiot 'ha' South American statesmanship lias on the whole been "the fact that American statesmanship has on thewhole been dominated by an earn est nnd Increasingly sincere purpose to avoid war. "Peace has been present." he said, "even though the way to it was not al- ways open. ..V0" wnen men nnu nations are " " flv'"g need to tne voice wnicn pleads for peace." the president con tinued, "They will do well to turn to "these lessqns from the statesman ship, the experience, and the constant aspiration of the' South American na tions." "The continent which of nil the world,.." he said, "has known less of 'Br aml "l01-6 ot Ieace than any other through this trying period. is well en- titled to pride in the service it has rendered to its own people and in the example wnicn it nas sot Betore tne rest of niajiklnd. Democracy .Make Good. ine sophisticated statesmansnip PBlnlcvo informed President IJou of an older world," had entailed pro-! ,. ., VI,lllr lh,,, ho, ,vould found misgivings as to ttie ultimate fate of the new Amerlcnn republics when they firBt were launched, the president said, and added: "Now I nm glad to say we hear less of such misgivings. The world has had its test. The institutions of men nave heen through their trial. Thnt trial has quite definitely nnswercd tne questionings of pessimism. It has provided us with 'much spccltlc in formation by whlrh we mny judge for oursulves whether tho institu tions of a renublican new world or of a monnrchial nld world were best adapted an conservers of human hap piness and human progress. e content to leave the final verdict to history. The republican peoples of the new World are prepared to take their chance on that verdict." President Coolidge sain xanmiuw was like "our own wasnvBi"". of those inspired military chieftains who are capable of thinking at the same moment of terms of war and of politics, of the battlefield and of ihe great human forum. For me, the great significance of Sanmartin, and his deeds and times, lies less in their brilliancy In tn i' ,.mllhment nnd more in i matirvlnc verdict which a later time and a riper experience nave pru- nnunced upon them. i.-vrpinir hone thnt the nanmnr tin statue would "stand through the centuries, ns an Inspiration to nil who lovo liberty," the president tulded : "May It ever he nn nddeil reminder of the fellowship between tne greni nation which gives and thnt which is honored to receive. Mny It serve m teen In the minds nnd henrts of all humankind the realisation of the noble nnd honored place which I" held by that republican system of the new world, of which he was one of the foremost creators." The Profits of Peace. The constant trend of Internntlnn- i reintionHhlns in South America for the nnst century townrd the in .M.imr nr nence rather than "mere ...M.ii or coincidence." had saved those countries, the president clnred from more disastrous connec tion with the World war. "Thev have looked to tho sub- .minion nf reason for force, he ,i n.uA.. 1.aua mnnnLlllv TeCOg- nld in-the most practical fashlon'JoM ; -nd imv ..''"''':' , - lh . nven and niiiifuii un.ii ' " ,.nn Issues of vital Interest to the national welfare mny be determined to i tno advantage of all concerned witnout resort to hostilities. Such problems ns International boundary disputes involving sovereljrty over great areas nnd populations hove been settled! through arbitrations and ndjudlcn- Hons time and ngnln. And these .oiilements have been 'n" f demonstrations of good will and mu- tual confidence, where wnr, no its vordlrt, would surely have ndib to the exosperntlons of both parties nnd left a heritage ot thnt mutual distrust which so Com nSnly is responsible for Increased (Continued on page ill.) Beauty 's Hand-Maiden Uany visitors to Kansas' annual Kafir Corn Festival though Miss Leona E. Turner, El Dorado, one of the niaids-of-honor. real; rival of the'oue'en. PAIEVE TRY T FORM A NEW CABINET iadt nut a (A pv .Pi-fimipi form unother cabinet. PARIS, Oct. 28. fA. P.) M. Pain leve, owing to tho uttltudc of the left groups of the chamber of deputies, has asked President Doumergue for more tinio before replying to his Invi tation to form a new'cuhlnet. Culling on M. Dounu-rgue at fi:10 o'clock this afternoon, lie said he could not give a definite answer until later in the evening. - . i PARIS. Oct. 2S. (A. P.) President Uoumergue toitjiy summoned Premier Painleve to ask him to form u new cabinet in succession to the one which resigned yesterday. , M. Painleve told President Dou mergue he would consult with His friends and the party lenders before definitely ncceptiug the task of form ing a cabinet. Considerable doubt Is expressed that M. Painleve will accept. He is understood to have told friends he would recommend that the precodent choose former Premier llerriot ir. his place. PARIS. Oct. 28. (A. P.) The Syrian situation has assumed such a serious aspect that President Uou mergue nnd Painleve. In their confer ence of on hour this morning, divert ed fully half the time from considera tion of the ministerial crisis to discus sion nf the recent events In Damascus and its vicinity. This Is the Hnforma- tion Imparted by the semi-official Havas agency. It is reported that General Sarrail. the French high commissioner, has nsked about I Mum more French troops be sent to Syria In reinforce the garrjson. BY GOV. PIERCE: PORTLAND. Ore., Oct. 28. Albert Qunrtler, who was sentenced in .Mult- notnnh county circuit court on June 8 to serve six months In the county violation oi uie miiiur iuws, in in no- erty on a reprieve granted by Oover- () llt,rr(llnK , , records on fe )n hp C(Jnty Ju, Thfi r(,cmiH h(w 1)m( hp Kllne(l nlll fl.ei.,im from ju1 hy ,.,,.,,, of Hn exlPn,e(1 rp,r,eV(, HBUP,i i,y n,c Rnvernor on ,,,!,,,.,. , T ,,,, .prieve was to last until October ir that Quiiiler might liHnist In harvesting his grape crop.'; A new reprieve ir-n uciooer 1 1 to Kohruary If. next year, ihcti wns for- wnnieu in nwnu rmun. ineoniy provision is thnt Qunrtler must pay $ao a month to apply on the fine. It's Itnlnlng In Kugono) KUril-lNi:, Ore.. Oct. Irs. A light rnln was falling here this afternoon, the first rain recorded this month, LIQUOR j ... . TAKES POISON DEATH FEARED TlOflEBLTRO, Ore., Oct. 28. MIhs Joiin Muddox, tho popular young daughter of Mr. nnd Mrfl. B. W. Mftd dox, nnd a Junior In tho RoHoburg high school, h critically ill today an tho renult of taking, poison tablets which she miHtoolc for aHpirliu Hor condition although ' Homo what im proved over the curly hotirH of the morning Is very seiiouH and her re covery will bo a matter of doubt for hcvcihI duy. MIhh Miidrtux rcturr.?3 . from the kIiuw late yenterday evening Buffering from a Hevere headache, according to her pnrenlH. .She went to the -medicine cabinet to procure Home anplrln tabletH nnd n there wait np light In the i-iionj, obtained tho wrong bottle. She tonk several of the tabletH and then went to her room. Slip w:ih heard coughing a few min utes later, but liltle attention watt paid until nome time later when her mother became worried an the rough ing continued and went to the young ludy'K room, where nhe wuh found Htirfering lntenHcl. Dr. Ilouck wuh called nnd every poHslble meanw to prevent further action nf Ihe poituin wuh taken, but ntt it had heen given an opportunity to become absorbed by her HyHteni recovery Ih doubtful. her Wire Report on the Pear Market NEW YORK, Oct. 28. (II. S. Mnrknt News Service. 1 Yesterdoy's recelpls: C'ulil'ornln, 7: New York, 4; Oregon, li; Washington, 7; New York, 1, by bout. Prices steady. Oregon Ilosc, 34 cars, extras $:t.25JT 6.21), average $4.2.1, fancy J.i.fjO 4i 4.7r, average 'MH1 An ions, one car. extras $3.3fK4.35, iivnrnn 1:1 Rfl fsncv '. llfl Si 4.4fi. aver rail r age $3.75: Cornice. 1 Vi tars, extras compnny, who died October ID, was parlure, friends say, represent! a de $l 2!ir(( 6.15. average $4.34. fancy $3.70 filed today, disposing ot nn eslnto termination by young Stlnnes to aeeK (1.4.30, average $3.93. CIIICAOO, Oct. 28. (II. S. Market News Service.) Arrivals since Fri day: California, 3,; Illinois, 1; Mich igan, 2; .New fork, Oregon. 4; Washington, 13; Michigan, I, by bant. No Oregon quotations. Wall Street Report NKW YOHK, Oct. 28. (A. P.) Mtei?al.rs market. General Kleetrlc extended congress enthusiastically cheered Its early gain to 12 points. Federal, declarations of William Montgomery Mining and Hmeltlng preferred to Drown, deposed Hrotestnnt Kptscopul nine, and Held Ice Cream, Wool- bishop favoring communism and worth, I'nlted mates Realty and Oln- racial equality of negroes and Vililtes ter mores sold four to seven points last night. higher. Halls wero quiet. The clos- "Long live communism!" he shout ing was strong. United Htntes Uls- ed. "Long live the American negroes trlbutlng preferred snared 15 points on nn equal footing with American kWille final rdly cnrrled Chryir, rly r . ToolW t'niied Drug vorlh, Oulf Htntes meet flenernr ISilwnv and tinned HtnteH Really six to 10 points nnovn last night's closing levels. Hales !: proximated 2,2SS'J0O shares. Floyd Johnson is Barred From Ever Fighting in Jersey TRENTON. N. J., OcU 28. A. P.) Tho New Jersey slate boxlmr commission today defl- tiiMiv itfin-eil Flnvd Johnson from ever fighting In New Jer sey, ns a result of his unsatis factory showing ngninst Harry Wills in Newark, Monday night. Bert MCGllllS Of Portland anOi George Temple of Idaho Make Escape During Night in n . g I ROWDOat from reOerai Prison TACOMA, Oct. 28. (A. P.) Bert A. McOlllis, 29, convicted in Portland for violation of the national motor vehicle theft act, and George Temple, alias Louis I-awson, 24, sentenced from Pocatello, Idaho, for forging postoff ice money orders and violation of the motor vehicle theft act escaped from the McNeil Island federal prison nboUt three o'clock this morning, AicuiiMH was serving a term or i,uieen months begun last June and Temple was under a sentence of two and one half years begun last November. The two wore atwigned to some plumbing work ouUide the main prison building during the night and nna ma .unniin, nm vnt tho night watchman who had his regular rounds to make. He made frequent checks to see thnt they were doing th u.m-k. hnr when he-Worried ht three o'clock they were missing. Daylight revealed the fact that a rowhoat belonging to Guard Nathan Mitchell was mining from Its moor ing near the machine shop and a search of the vicinity failed to dis cover It. Prison officials were conducting their search for the men on hp theory that they were able to get to the mainland or to one of the other islands in the stolen boat. Both were clad in prison overalls. Warden Klnch R. Arthur author ized rewards for their capture. Hith tint fnllim- .if MottHllH nflil tlm wife of Temple me living in Portland, , E CRUSHED TO DEATH CONVICTS MAKE GETAWAY PROM M'NIEL ISLAND Iprunecuuon comcnnefl mat robbery was the primary motive. The state, to prove robbery the mo itengun. a ornKeinan on me lodiih tVe, submitted testimony that a note and Mitchell logging rond operating for $300 made out to Krug and signed out of this city, was crushed between i by W. 8. Kullertun. wns found among the hips as he was assisting In the Weston's effects after his arrest. Also -coupling of two cars here last this there was testimony thnt Weston had morning, and died at a hospital in borrowed a revolver and threatened Salem early this afternoon. He lived Krug's life. only about hnlf an hour after being I ' rushed to Kolem. He Is a resident of r'rnnkfurt, Ind.. und so far ns is known here has no relatives In Ore gon. Bones Puzzle Police. LA G KAN UK, Ore., Oct. 28. Offi cers hero were puzzled today by the discovery of bones of a man's right foot in the Grand Konde river JiiBt west of tills city. They surmised thut the bones may have been washed from many miles upstream. Knough to Live On. NEW YORK, Oct. 28. (A. The will of Thomas Kranklln P.) Mun- vllle, head nf the Johns Manvlllo I reported to nggregate $25 000,000. DEPOSED EPISCOPAL CIIICAOO. Oct. 28.- (A. P.) A crowd of negroes nnd few whites '"-ding ,he American Negro Labor Caucasians. others of his statements wei: "I was ruiironneii oin oi um nouse oi iiinuii m .iew ''" hops 1 was jlmrnwed. - t-aimuiisui is puuui-uur uom u.i, CONVICTED MIIROFRFR If! i ninnni rn : PAH Nh Governor Pierce Gives . Full Pardon to R. H. Krug of Sisters, Oregon, Convicted of Second Degree Murder Three Times Plea of Aged Wife Is Successful SALEM, Ore., Oct. 28. A. J. Wen. ton, twice convicted in Deschutes second degree murder in connection with the killing of Robert H. Krug, aged citizen of Bisters, Oregon, left the state penitentiary last night with a full pardon from the hands of Gov ernor Pierce. ucHion nas serveo a uuie more than a year of a life sentence. His first conviction was reversed by the state supreme court and the case re manded for a new trial. The second trial was had, Weston was again con victed nf fiBcnnri ilnirren mtirriftr and 'once more the supreme court reversed it on the grounds that the lower court -erred in admitting new testimony and '.again remanded the case, A change of venue to Wasco county I was obtained for the third trial In which Weston was again convicted ,nnd sentenced to life. No appeal was , taken after the third trial but Wes- i lon w"e nuH conaianuy Kept - me rn no hnfnra nnvornnp Plntfia A nnla i- case before Governor Pierce, declar ing her Husband was the victim of a "frame-up" and asking for his par don. The governor refuses to com ment on the case other than to say that he became convinced that Wes ton was Innocent. The crime was ' committed March 24, lfllB. A Revolting Crime The murder of Krug was one of the im0Bt revolting in the criminal annals ',."- Mate. ' The evidence Indicated that the aged man had been beaten, Ithen tortured until he ' died after ! which fire was set to his cabin and jthe body burned. Weston was arrest led for the crime eighteen months ! after it was committed, when he was taken Into custody on Information ! 'urnlshed by George Stilwell and Joe i wiiHun, who were empioyea Wlln Weston at sawmill near Krug's home. ! Htllwell declared that he was com pelled by Weston to accompany him i to Krug's cabin, but that he had no ; knowledge the aged man was to be i killed. He. testified that Weston ."truck Krug on the head and tortured him In an effort to then make him tell where his money was hidden, firing the cnbln when Krug died. Joe Wilson's- testimony was that Weston later confessed the crime to him. Thnrn nlUnH . . I . .. I J I , I ' " " -J -" ' ivnillliuilj lllUICLlllg: thfll U'AHtnn Htllwell atwl wnnM engaged In bootlegging; that Kru had knowledge of their activities and thst this 'was one reason for wishing to get him oiit of tho wuy, though the TO TRY AMERICA P.ERLIN. Oct. 28. (A. P.) Tired of family quarrels ' nnd squabbles with bankers nnd receivers over the remnants of the fnmlly fortune, Dr. Edmund Rinnes, eldest son of the late Hugo Stlnnes, Industrial mag nnte, has secretly embarked for the United Stntus. His unexpected de. s now business environment. BISH1P TURNS the church supporting It Is religiously bankrupt. Communism Is sure to come, "The only religion Is the desire to make the most out of Hfe. - "There Is more hope for the work- , ors In tho International Inbor defense movement than In any other, . . ., The social system Is now enslaving you. You are not Irving to overthrow society: you are trying to liberate It from Ignorance class preJudloe,and hatred, ruin and repression. "I nm trying to liberate religion, from the supernatural." v He advised against concluding "thatf Ihe church 'Is had," even though It 0nernlry supports capitalism against efforts to nwu tne workers.