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TheWeathat Prediction Uiuettled, wilb rain. Maximum rtMterdtiy 5? Minimum today 45 iTerlptuuion M edfqrD Mail Tribune Weather Year Ago Maximum Miuluiuiu D.itjr Twmty-thiid T.r f.llj-Filly -uuli Yr TodayfTED BAKER Uncle Sam Is Rich Plain, Unpleasant 23 Maniacs More Purifying By Arthur Brisbane (Copyright, 1S27, by New York Evening Journal, Inc.) I'N'CLE SAM will probably collect in taxes $100,000,000 more th year tban last. Good news for many, especially those that like to see important pub lic works put through. With cue hundred millions ns a start er, yon can do a Rood deal. The latest oil scandid news, in plain, unpleasant words, is this. Investigators suggest that the late President Harding not some of the oil bonds, the trans fiction being in some way con- neeted with the sale of lVsi ; dent Harding's newspaper, the j Marion Star. Absolutely no proof is offered to support the suspicion. When the newspaper was sold, Frank A. Vanderlip sug gested corruption, but pro-l'essi-d unwillingness "to lift, n corner of the shroud" of the dead President. The senate investigators pro pose to. lift off the coffin lid imd find what they can. With Dante through purga tory and hell, you find misery no deeper than you seen in the faces of twenty-three lunatics carried into, court yesterday, that the judge might send them to the asylum. Some wero in straight jack ets, struggling horribly, sonic on Rtretcliers. One young mau had tried to kill himself, wor rying about the indome tax. His income is $23 a week. Their troubles wore nil imag inary. So arc many troubles among those called sane. One hundred years wipes out every thing. Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Long worth sends Senator Borah $100 to help purify the Repub lican party by giving back to Mr. Sinclair money he contrib uted to pay the debts of the Harding campaign managers. One of the most amusing demonstrations witnessed in this nation capable of extreme silliness is the cxeitemnt about giving back bis money to Mr. Sinclair. Senator Reed, of Missouri, sensibly calls it "paying a hired assassin for the ditrger he left in the body of his victim." was not quite as tragic as t)it. Oh the wholi, it was ra tlipr corneal to see a collection of "high fiutneieps," oil men "and others, trying to b dishon est in a deep way, gaining about it with their trumped up Continental Oil company, as foolishly as three-year-old chil dren might have done. You may liavo noticed occa sionally in this column the sug gestion, "Don't sell things short in America." The wise E. I. DuFont Ne mours gentlemen bought 114, 000 shnren of United Suites common a little while ngo. Mnnv said then: "The Stock is very high' Needing a little cash the DuPonts have just sold that steel, making about profit. ' The day is coming, and the -Ponts know It, when they will wlsb they had kept their stocks. However, don'tS)?flmble. Steel will go up, but it can go down, i And It will do that also. VP and) Down, and the DOWN drops out the little fellows wiser, sadder, j poorer. IT. Herring, chairman Of the na- tnnnttnumA nn P. y " " " ' FOUETEEN PAGES mm PRES DENT i Medford Chamber of Com-: merce Secretary to Lead State Association During j Coming Year Vining J Urges Foreign Trade De-i velopment. j i Kl.'OlEXK, Ore.. Mnrch 23. Ted j Maker of Medford was elected premrietu of the State Association j of Commercial Secretaries last j night. Other officers named were H. K. Cully, Hoseburg, vice prei- j dent; 1.. K. Crumh, Itend, nee-J j riMnry-lreftHiirer; Y K. North, l ynn ,,,,,, nnrt , w. a. iteid, corvaiiis. directors, j KutiK.Nr., ure., .Murcn -a. yh-j i -Korelun trade and Its develop- ment should le encouraged ; throughout the entire state if in-j duslries are. to progress. Aiffi- culture and m a r k e t I n k. with I proper support, will ko ahead during the coming year, while co mm unity orKiiuizutlonH will jrove to he the key to prosperity I in many communities. These were llm conclusions laid hefore the secretaries of the chambers of commerce of Oregon at the final meeting today of their eighth annual session, held at the University of Oregon thil week. L,ynn Sabin, of rortland, re porting on the work of the for eign trade committee of the sec retaries' organization, described the proceedings of the last an nual meeting of the Pacific For-i eiirn Trade Council in Victoria.! in. c. ' "The future development of the lcific coast depends to a Kreat extent upon the future - de- velopment of our foreipn mar kets," Mr. So bin declared, "Fac tories will loVate on the rariflc coast only after such markets are developed, and every commerelitl or Industrial organization in the state sohutd give this field In tensive study and support." Oregon is exceptionally fortun ate In Us location for' foreign trade, pointed out Irving E. Vin ing, Ashland, past president of the Oregon State Chamber of Commerce. The state ports are both receiving and shipping points for the Orient, and if proper co-operution of the state as a whole is shown, the possi bilities of expansion along this line are unlimited, he declared. ' A state-wide program of co-; operation In promoting advanced J methods In agriculture and fnl -; lowing this up with profitable! marketing Ideas, was recom-1 mended in the report of the argt-j cultural and marketing committee,! given at the session by AV. S. Nelson. The Dalles, chairman. Agriculture and marketing In j every section of the stnte Is being i studied by this committee. I Community marketing organ!- zalions and what they ran ac complish for the individuals were explained by George O. Gatlin. of Corvallls. Market organizations bring more profit .for the aKrl culturlst and at the same time allow lower prices to the con sumer, he pointed out. The ln- cerased prosperity of the farmers makes for better business and the! entire district shown. progresses it was I ' " j Earl C. Reynolds, Tv- 1 m n t h Falls, president for the past year, i1"" 1,1 ,,u save his report, in which he! 1"moni7iw m8" nn? com .... . . ! mnn on will he nffni-erl " th muw ' L . . !n " " hers of commerce during the last better co-operntlon better ro-nnorniion ri mnr prosperous conditions for the, coming period. i Si ChiUtfn MIa Tf WIm I D LEA F. Miss.. Mar. 23T fIj A huge Mississippi pine tree 4 wch had heen set ablaze three days ngo during a minor forest fire burned thru yesterd.9 and crashed across a roadway burying seven children and the driver of nn r nutomohiie in which they were riding, beneath Its blazing 4 mass. 4 Dnvld Goff. driver of the automobile, nnd his 14-year- old daughter, seated beside htm, nut instant death. At the same moment, Nettl nnd Hattle Goff, eleven year old 4- twin daughters nf William Gn Hnd Edna Goff, 14, nnd 4 Lva Mlxell. 12, suffered fatal Injuries from the crnsh. Horace and Erastus Goff, 4- j 7 nnd 9 years old respectively suffered possible fractures, ( h"t escaped with their lives. 1 T ifTTTT?fffiui went to his death quietly, Business Worry Cause of Death f)LM fl P WW" '-SCHWAB , lv - J. i .l.()lt(.l While, mystery still surrounds the suicide of C.corgu W. Itar kcr. Ituttn FalU Mtnkcr, on Monday last, friends of the dcivasetl are geiHTally agrcctl tluit iiwmIIcss worry over hii.iiie.s affairs was the cause of a menial and nervous breakdown, which re sulted in the tinfortunato trngiMly. di api n ad nw inchnDT mwm DLMuix rLMu UI1 RLfUn I DMHnLRI TflWFR SHIMJFFT PRflPFRTY! i u 1 1 1.11 vi iu i iw HANGING OVER 0 Geo. McDonald, American, '$20,000 Life Insurance 's Is Executed in Canada: Included Among Large for Taxi Murder Wife Also Sentenced to Die, Saved by Husband's Plea. VALLEY FIELD, Que., March 23. (A1) The raising of a bhu k flag on the tower of the Valley Field jail this morning signified tuut George McDonald, notorious , commence man, had paid with his life for the slaying last JulyithP Vine m-lt J.ank of I!utte Kails, oi Aticnru uoucner, Lachlno taxi whose president and cashier.) Arne Souminen of Detroit, re drlver. ' ! George W, Darker, committed sul-jwifned the leadership in the race During his last night there Clde Monday evening. Tha bunk , by n mbling in third In three hours came a telegram from his 22- is under the control of the state jix minutes and five seconds. Ills year-old wife, Doris Dalmcr Me- banking offirhils. who have issued elapsed time is 121:54:05. nald whdm he had absolved '"" in me muruer, unu whose sentence of death was com - '""K'd Wednesday to life 1m- ifiage read, "and I will never cense! i... t.i neVen- . -: r(n.t i, ..i j " ' . ' ",H' " .- Miiiaio wnen ne n-an mn nief - sage only a few hours before he i mounted the scaffold. ' Sheriff Crippin, who was In c h a r ! e uf the execution, an nounced nt 5 olo( k that the death sentence bad been riirriert out 1 nt 1:r,l) n- ni. The blnck flag was raised later. O Meanwhile nrtnrd guards kept reporters away. Alter the sheriff h-w made the announcement the chVf of prov incial police at Valley Field said the announcement was premature. Newspaper men who had been driven away once and had re- turned riose to the walls stated i mil ..., i.ajtjwi.i -m fining ni u.oi u. iii. uj nii.'ir wjin'ntjs. They reriorted hearing the priest say Jn n loud voice: "Jemis, redeemer, have mercy on my soul." Mr Dona Id's repetition of the words was Inaudible to th j lin teners outride the walls. The Idark flac was hoisted at fi a. m. McDonald, apparently roHlgne.l to his fate from the time sen- leiuw was pronounced last J e - ccmnrr j 7, (Bjnt his last night qutetiy. Me waft nttenood by n nrlest of the Roman Catholic the gallows was given1 fj) .and Inst mnimnnion in fhn .or- r,r1nr of the Jail. Officials aid MEDFORD. OliKOOX. FRIDAY. MARCH K f:i ' i i iiui lui i V. IIAHKKK I r Hint iniirnLOiun I Tracts of Timber Land i r " i i- i i i ' Ps'fd' Erlckson of Port Chester. and Real Estate in varn n. y.. was the nrst mt0 ti,P ;ut . j control stntion of the Los Angeles 0US PartS Of City and; to New York marathon race today. ! He covert.-d the 2i.8 miles from County. rending the arrival of W. H. Barker from 1'hocnix. A n z o n a. t,e state bank examiners are n,.kinu- nmn in tin. i.ftHh-u .r a statement assuring the deposi- i tors mat me msiiiuiinn is miunn. 1 The future of the bank rests with the decision of the father and other relatives, at a conference with the state bank examiners to he liehb next week. The funeral services for George t it- t,,,.i.-r w ill hum t tiiu i(,ii """" "l " ; . I Uiwrencp or ine 'i-cn v hr nn . M,.,.h m,irn. ,n, m 1 ... thepe.llonl .Memorial Mausoleum.;'" nie unu ohui uiixuiuh "ijrtu.j )nt nn au((, nnd ,lrVen to a according to an onnounr"- win mude this afternoon. The father, V.O. n.irkor. nn lvp.l thlt. mom- inc. He was not exnected to ar rive until tomorrow. i ror the GM miles froinJ.os An- Worry over business affairH notCeles Iho elapsed time foMhe two connected directly with the bank,! rumiorn was: Gardner, 131:20:10; is assigned by close friends as the ; Gonzules, 16(1:17:57. cause of itaiker takQig bis own! Other finishes Thursday were: life. Acquaintances recall since ; Oil Wantlnen, New York, 5 hours, the tragedy, that during the past ! I- minutes, .'iO second, and I'eter six months he has been given to despondent spells. Thf dead man was of a nervous and exelialde temperament, and intimates be- Inff y tn HlHt, lnsuram.P clinil1liH! '. ve that the scheduled question- ioiiers, loomed as nure Important than It realty was. In the over w ro u g h t mind of t h e wo r ry -harassed c.a pit it IIhI . While no definite decision lias been lynched. It Is not Hkely that an Inquest will be held hy Coroner ConKr. Iiarker, It developed today, car-rii-fl a life insurance policy for S20.000. He Is reputed to be worth in the neighborhood of 1 9 1 oij.himi. owning considerable reai;a ; estate and ti-nber. citizens of Itutte Falls are! ; manifesting great interest in the Mjnif ii ine l ine iien niiiiK, the Onon Owm Lumber com - j !")' vicinity. Is an Impor- jiani luttor tn the vnmuntty lite Steel Magnate and Oil Prince Give Views of Coal j Conditions in the Penn-'l syivania Fields Schwab Raises Laugh by Re marks to Senators. WASHINGTON'. Mar. 23. ) Appearing before the senate com mittee . Investigating the bitumin ous coiil Industry. John J. Kocke feller, Jr.. a stockholder In the Cnnsnlidntinii Pnn 1 rnmimnv. tmlnv rtt'iileJ 'direct knowledge of the Hal- ! timoro uiige agreemeiit which the ji nncn smie woi-Kent previously had rhnrged was violated by 1 he company. The multimillionaire champion j of industry followed Vhaiies M. I Schwao UH a witness after the steel ! man' had testified that his solu tion for problems besetting the bituminous industry was to find I oiher emilloymcnt for the surplnsl "e niurilcr of a taxi driver, the provincial government today allowed Sun.lKin miners, saying this surplnsl nnl' 11 sheriff ami physician to Mew the execution. A few days ago provided the main trouble for the Mrs. '.McDonald (above) was given llfo imprisonment, but .her hus Indiislry. band (below) was executed this morning. I Km kefcller said he owned 111. - 135 hhnres of common and 71.701 Shares of preferred stock In the I Consolidated c o m p a n y, which i amounts to 25 per cent and 21 por cent, respectively, of the total amoun's. lie snld the stock was presented to him by his father. I i lit- iiiu'u ,-unu:s nieej t'om- ! puny did not earn six per cent on J their Investment Inst year," Schwab declared. denying a statement by Senator Wheeler that the public needed to be protected from such j huge industries. "When I came down here." said Schunh, "I was afraid of yuii." As the crowded committee broke Into laimhter, he went on: "I whs told you were going to give me the -devil. Rut now, look t!vilo jrou faces, I am not afraid nt all." Senator Wheeler, to whom ho spoke, smiled broadly and re :- marked: u must have been talking the operators." iiroTfin i r nik! n sftUMI II LCHUIRU Bfl l n I T II fl II mill JYj A K A I H U Pf l(Uit GAI.M'l. N. M., Mnr. 23. (P) Lupton, Ariz., to Gallup in three I hours, 7 minutes, 25 seconds, lie ihns covered the 708.8 miles from Los Angeles In 13ii-11:47. i I'eter Gaviuzzl of Southampton, I Knuland. finished Hecond In three hours twelve minute, twenlv sec- inn,iu n,i an elatserl tinyt of 126:19:31. LITPTOX, Ariz., Mar. 23. (P) Ninety-six runner? In the Ioh An-geloH-New York cross country mar athon pushed forward today from hern toward their 21st control at! Gallup, N. M a distance of 2ti ! niiles. Stepping across California inn a r 7. na inn aernv sis nave I jaunt behind them. : - ' " Mimmmy iuii in uie iiiui union ' ended in a tie bet ween F.d Gardner , ;:, . '. A 7 ' i . Uenver. Tho-two rilnnors Jopm-d i Into l.lipton Horn Navnjo, Ariz.. I complHlin? the m.7 milts In five tiotiiH, 9 nilnuteH and 3Ti HernndK. GavuzWif Southampton, 6 hours. il niinuTHS, zn seconds; Arne Huo minen, !etroit, Mich., who finished yesterday's lap In 6:45: 15, now leads the van with nn elapsed (line of 11 K hours. 3fi nilnutes. Kunnnrs wuo imisiied the run from-Navajo Thursilny Inided Allen Currier of Grants Pas., Ore., (i;;i9:3. e Death Toll of the Automobile LOH t A NO ELKS, Mar, 23. i& fl. J. Stinssenblirtrh. renuted lo be wealthy drug wholesaler of I(o- 1 Chester. S. Y., was killed, his wife possibly fatally Injured and How- 'aid F. Aahmnson. of I,o Aright en i newi in the wiishlre Jail here fol- I 'in which Aahmenson was declared j to have run down th couple as he entered a pedestrian sufviy luno. ERIGKSON The Husband Pays ..T'-'rF',, r. ft r - SNA!-!.- I A,.- VS a X VN i AS V B -i V-'V He cause of the interest in the caso of Doris and Ceorge M. Mc Oonalit, lioth Americans, at 'alley field, nenr Montreal, convicted of " ' ANGELES JAIL! Sheriff Jennings Wires forj Finger Prints of M. Jones, Believed to Be Mi-; lam Jones, Who Escaped .From 1924. Jacksonville in l?pon information furnished by Maurice Coturri, special agent of the Soutlmrn l'nclfi( railway, the sheriff's office today requested the Los Angeles, Culir., authorities for fingerprints of Malcolm D. Jones, recently arrested In that citv for i ..ii i - ii..t... i.. robbery, of a bank lnesscnirer. on I the thefly thai ho Is none other ! than Milam Jones, member of the ! notorious Jones brothers gang who operated 'In southern Oregon rive years ago. Oregon Jones, his brother, was killed In the Salem prison break of August, 1!25. Milam JoueH Is under Indict ment in this county for highway robbery, and while held In the county Jail at Jacksonville, made a daring escape in April 1924, by knocking down t ho jailor. With Jesus Gonzales, a Mexican, he fled into the manzanllu brush near the then county scat. Gonzales sur rendered In a few hours, hut Jones eluded the posses, and made good his escape.. It was thought tit the time, that ho was endeavoring to Join Oregon Jones, who a few duys before effected his first OHcape from the state prison. Ills purported detention In Los Angeles Is the first word of him since his Jnllbrenk here, although his photo and Qf'"g'rprlnta wre broadcast over the land. The crime over the fiend of Milam Jones, In this county, Is the holdup and kidnaping of two auto m' ' dance, 'i he party werf k,. t... tu. " " o . iieiir nic souinern cut nmiih, uun- inii'u mm an flu j lnn,.ly sl)t n f.( mll , Wft. Itlnrkwell hill ncar of ,,... ..,. '.., ,, ,.,.,,, ... ,..,.,1. , to walk home. Jones was also allegt'ii to havo taken part In the Sexton mountain holdup near Grants Pass. William Hchutze, a local barber, and Hprague KHge, now a bond Ki.lcsman of Seattle, Wash., and Walter Smith, a local carpenter, were nmong the holdup victims. JteiKfl was hit on the wrist with the butt end of a revolver by one of the bandits. .Mi him Jones, at ihc time of his escape was married and the father of a baby boy, Ills wife returned to relatives living near Albany, Oregon. In the event that a comparison of fingei prints shows the Los An geles siihpect in he Milam Jones, lit extradition to ihin state, after the disposition of the California charge, will be souiht. ' Chicago Inn 1 bun bed Chicago, Mar. 23. Of) The Stucco Inn, a one-story conci viv ' '"idhy' "i 'he west ld", whs wrecked by n bomb early today causing damage estimated at 110.- 1 door as t 11 o O from his b-d j "d "t by flying glass when win- duws in his huine wore shultora. LOCAL FUGUE HARVARD STAR REPORTED IN L. DROP KICKER IS Ul GUILTY THEFT Charley Brickley, Captain of Crimson Football Jeam in 19H, Sentenced to Jail for H Months, but Allowed Bail. ItOSTON, Mar. 23. (&) Charles K. Itriekley. captain of the Har vard football team of 1914 and one ot Iho greatest drop kickers ever In the game, today was at liberty on $2000 bail pending an appeal from a sentence of fifteen months j lnK 11 1,uckot P "nd larceny fr"1" clun,M- ni uttipy was sentenced inte yes- terday afternoon in the Suffolk superior criminal court by Justice I 'utricle Keating, himself a' Har vard graduate arter Iliickley's counsel, William H. Lewis, all American and Harvard center of twenty yeaiVago, had made a stir ring idea for leniency. Itriekley In u brief address to the court said : "I am very sorry anyone lost money through my tradings in the stock market and If tho wheel of fortune ever turns my way ngaln, I hope to pay back all my obliga tions." Lewis .said In appearing for Itriekley he did so more as n friend than ns an attorney. "Itriekley wasn't a clever stock operator and he was not a thief," he told the court. "Let him go out from hero to work with a pick land shovel or drive an ice wagon, urn let mm start anew." Another Harvard graduate, As sistant District Attorney Frederick T. Doyle, who prosecuted the case. i declared Itrirkley's offenses had not been isolated onen. but showed a clearly imn-il bucket shop. Brickley was originally chJtged with larceny of $40,000 from clients but after elimination of ten counts by directed verdict, he was convicted nf theft of $10,000 In money and securities from Mrs. 1 Georgia Koynton of Marlboro and the larceny of a smaller rum from I'atrlck Callahan of this city. Q Calif. Editors to Hold Convention at Crater Lake HAM I'ltAVrMMPft Mm. 90 A - l The. Cuiifornla Press H1"'1, association wllrhold Its an- 4 mini outing and convention hj'1 Jn r Crater Iake. Ore- 1A1. Offlt-Os of the assorla thjn announced that 100 edl- lors and their wives would spend 0110 day at Klamath 4 Kails en route to the five-day convention. rrntcmiih-1 Itumi.yl Toi'iiKA. KnsO.Mnr. Si. UPt Fraternities and sororities cannot legally exist In Kunsns public lunlor cIQim. Attorney (leneral William A, bmlih ruled today. -i VtlED A 1 ! COLLAPSE Witness Declares St. Fran cis Dam Boss Said Day Before Tragedy That structure Was Unsafe Boss Was Drowned Jury Visits Scene of Dis aster. LOS ANGELES, Mar. 23. W) Warnings that the St. Francis dam was not safe, as told by some of the Bur.vlvors told with tears for' at least one family that heard them but heeded them not today had been made part of the record of the Inquest over the Los Angeles, victims of the disaster. Two engineers, one a builder of 19 dams, Including the ill-fated structure. Itself, and the other his assistant, had Inspected that dam 11 hours before it burst and pro nounced It sound. Hut a power-house boss that snmo. day had sounded a warning: "l!oyq. that dam is not safe." Ills words were echoed at the Inquest by Dave Matthews, one of the survivors, for the power-house boss, L. Iterry, lost his wife In the flood he forecast. . Mathews testified to visiting the dam Saturday with Berry and find ing "the old road washed In, the hlllsido soaked with water and an extra largo amount of water com ing down. the spillway." . "Monday (the dam broke shortly after, midnight that night) I was working at the power-house." Mathews continued In his testi mony, "when I noticed excess water. In the canal. The overflow was running down the road. "On Monday morning Mr. Berry said: 'Boys, the dam's not safe. j I havo got orders . ,topul. ,al tha . logs in me lunnei to stop tna water from flowing down the aqueduct.' Itrotlier Was Wanted. "Mr. Berry told me- to 'mention It to no one. On my way homo I met my brother at Harry Carey's rench " Matthews broke down on .the witness stand and sobbed for n few minutes. "I told my brother for God's sake to get his family out of there, Ahat: the dam was going to burst. Hh said to me: 'Unve, I'll rnovo them . to Newhall tomorrow. "That was the last time-1 saw him. My brother and his family1; died that night." Chester Smith, nnotherw ltness, from the witness stand told how ho ulso had feared the dam as tho result of seeing the leak In the west side of the huge retaining wall. He slept that night in his barn with the door open. The barking uf the ranch dog awakened him. Then came the crash of trees ami telephone poles us tho water wall struck them. Smith dnshed 150 yards to the home of a ranch employee and tho two dragged the lalter's wife from bed. The trio In night clothes made for the hills and reached safety' with feet bleeding nnd ' clothes In rags from scrambling" throiiKh the brush. Smith said he hud expressed his, fears to mfjny valley folk but they", refused to take him seriously. Many of them died on that terrible night when his fears came true. Coroner Frank Nance nnnnunced tfio jtirors would be taken today to the dam site for a personal Inspec tion of the structure. . 1 IS SHOT DOWN WHILE PRAYING i'HICAOO, Mnr. 23. UP) John Infontana, knyllnont fcls prayers, wan allot dead early todny three bulletH In the bark. He was the aecond Italian to fall before aHHa Inn' bullets within thirty houif "The Ulmle," as they called Dla mand Joe Kspposlto, slipped to the sidewalk near his home Wed nesday night with 58 shotxun slugs In his body. Whether his death that of Infontana wore con nected police said they did not know. Coming so closely together, tho one a Binistcr sequel to the other, police are pusulng a theory that the slayings were woven on the same loom. I.Ike Many who have died before in Chicago's half-world gun wars,. Iiifnntuua, and perhaps Ksposlto, was Involved In the "alky" or liq uor racket, police said. Dlvlto, tho landlord, said that In fontana had been given a Job as fontana had Boon given a an alcohol cooker tor a west sld bootlegging gang. He expressed I tho opinion that a rival gang may j have been responsible, for bin deutb. . . O