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    Medford Mail Tribute
Weather Year Ago
Maxliimiti 5.1
Minimum 44
Dally Twenty-third Yett
Weekly Fifty-aixth Var
MEDFORD, ORlXiOy, MONDAY. MAY 7, 1928.
No. 4G.
The Weather
PrrUlnlun rnlr.
Maximum jolcrdujr 77
Minimum today 44
Today
By Arthur Brisbane
Ride With the U. S. A.
If Mellon Would Run.
Ladies 'and Hairdressers.
Don't Imitate Nature.
(Mopyrlght, 1927. l.y New Tork
Evening Journal. Inc.)
Mr. Moody, head of the well
known Investors' Service, tells
yoit) through Cyrus II. K. Cur
tis' paper, that Wall Street
hears will wait a long imc for
lunch.
"Ride with the V. S. A.,"
says he. We have hud a wild
time since 1923. Hut that will
seem mild compared with ft00''
times that arc ahead, in the
next five vears.
1,1 l '
.
The old days, when the 111 -
Eiders nut-prices up, -'distrib-
11 r'
llted stocks ntllOllg the lambs,
then knocked prices down, arc
gone. This is a great era.
SJlie poor bears don't know
what it means for us to be a
creditor nation, for the first
time, or what it means to have
our industries, railroads and
natural resources developed to
so high a degree.
f
1SLT, Mr. Moody, like every
ether wise man, would say to I
you "DON'T GAMBLE." Some
will get rich in the next, five
years; some, including gamb
lers, will become poor.
Com is selling for $1.25 a
1.....1...1 Tf nl,l mum In nue
,
than 25 Cents, and farmers
: burned it because it was cheap
( cr than coal.
Vi Atrl.nnf "rtlimliinrr mcill'llM
V ' . .. . . I
i . nnt nil li.- Hnnli n Wllllt. It Wtttt
ja, little while ago, when this
writer advised the learned Gar
fence Dillon to buy a million
bales of it.
Beneath the country is a lake
of oil and there is plenty of
; (ild in the mountains,
i ' Don't sell this country short.
We are still producing gold
find a wise German economist
warns the world it is producing
, less than half the gold it needs.
That should make American
mild dollars gradually worth
, more. But if ALL the gold
', vanished the loss would not be
great, except tolentists. Wo
; do not cat it and only imagine
! it is money.
If iron, water or, especially
oxygen, should become scarce,
that would be a different story.
4 ,. ,
There is so much political
news that even an outline
would be too long, like Wells'
outline of history.
IViinsylvauia might go to a
strong wet, except that the
workers easily get all tho beer
, they want under pscudo-prohi-
bilion.
Mimv nf the wise ones in
Washington believe that. Mr.
' Mellon will be nominated if the
President persistently refuses.
Mr. Mellon has passed seventy,
but he is able to look after this
nation's money affairs and
I) would he welt nine to run me
( VjtC i Louse ousincss.
.' t. much vouncr than Glad
stone, when the latter sat up all
right In the House of Commons
fighting his home rule battle with
flerco cncry. It Is tho MAN, not
the Ke, that counts. And the
presidency Is not a ditch-digging
Job It demands brains, experience,
wisdom and will. Mr. Mellon has
nil four, highly developed, and
could be elected easily. The diffi
culty Is that he docs not WANT
the Job.
the fight will probably be
So
Smith-Hoover or Smlth-Da'es or
Smttn-i ooiiuge in cpb me uv
choose" Achilles should stroll out
of his tent and say, "All right, since
you insist."
Gabriel FauxTof DIJon. wins first
prlxe as best hair dresser in
' France, most skilful, artistic, rapid
and "the best talker to women."
1 Men ask -vhy women confide
F eir secrets to the hairdresser. It
(Continued on Paf Four)
STEIWER
LAUNCHES
BIG PROBE
Norris, Curtis and Borah j
Are First Witnesses Be
fore Senate Campaign
Fund Committee Good
Humor Marks Proceed
ingsCurtis Says He'll
Win.
Washington. May i.up
Presidential candidates rubbed
' shoulders with one another today.
jus the new senuto campaign fund-.
c!nml,t1ec,1,1ot "ut lhe sr,I,n"i
I offi! bulldlnc to develop facts
leom - ernlne the financing of the
1928 political baltleK.
One by one, the ' candidates
showed up In the committee room,
each being made tho target of
good-natured Joking remarks bv
the members of -ho coinlUce,
CMpcclally when tho cnndldalu hap
pened to bo a member of thy. sen
ate. Chairman Steiwer said tho c'H'.i
mlttcc pro)oHvd to niako an "Im
partial" investigation.
"We will conduct our Inquiry in
such a way us to elicit tho truth-,
but without aiding any cundiil.itu,"
he said.
Senator Norris asked to be
heard first because of a conimll
teo meeting.
He was sworn and steiwer nskrd
him to tell of expenditures of his
campaign and tho scops of it.
Norris was smoking a pipe. v
"I have not been a cundldate,"
tho Nebraska!! said. "1 have not
wanted to be and havo not been
In any sense. Against my wish.
my name was put on the bullet
i Wisconsin and Nebraska, n'.-
though 1 could have stopped It.
"1 have not spent anything
After the primaries in three states,
1 received a letter from n Ne-
braaka editor asking, me; to pay
$ti
for an advertisement.
He said he had not been au
thorized to run It, but 1 paid It.
1 hope this will not induce others
to bill me."
Senator Curtis, tho second wit
ness, said that after It appeared
that president Coolldge would not
be a candidate ugain, friends In
Kansas urged him to declare, but
ho refused to do so until he had
satisfied himself thut Coolldge
would not agree to being drafted.
Organization of his supporters
In Kansas was told he would not
support solicitation of funds for
himself. Ho said he advised them
It would bo all right to accept
voluntary contributions, providing
they were carefully accounted for.
The treasurer of tho Curtlss-for
president club of Kansas iistod
collections as $1.1 15 and cxpomii
tures of $7KH.90, ho continued.
The New York Cuitls-for-rrcl-dent
club reported contributions
of :(05U and expendllurea of
KS03
The expenditures were for rent
of a fourstory building, gas, por -
ter and eiUerta.nment of Kan-
sas 'officlnls.
Of the contributions. $500 was
given, he wild, by Matthews Quav
Olazer, president of the club, and
Klctribiirg, treasurer. Curtis ex
plained that John D. Curry had
opened headquarters In the Wal
dorf Astoria In Now York in his
behalf. None of-t1c Olazer-Stcln-burg
funds had been used in New
York for publicity.
Senator Curtis told the commit
tee that Instead of making an ac
tive bid for delegates in New
York, he decided to be satisfied
with an unlnstructed delegation.
In Oklahoma, where supporters
of urtis claim the convention
delegation, the Kansas senator
said he had been informed $1175
had been collected and $1015.15
expended for publicity, postage,
Correspondence and gasoline.
A Curtls-for-President club
the District of Columbia, th'j
sonunittec was told, collected SSim
and spent M42.25.
CurttH KxpccU lo Win.
The senator said he had no na
tional campaign mannger. but ha3
been directing his campaign him
self. From five friends Curtis
testified he had received a - total
of 10oo direct and had expended
himself $1 664.37. This outlay, he
said, was for postage, stationery,
campaign buttons and literature,
telephone and telegraph. The
only additional expense in comen.- j
limilUII IUI IHPiri luuxin
Kansas City for the republli
convention.
"I have no large fund or any
fund." he said. "I don't believe J
In that kind of a campaign"
Curtis snld he would have 2000!
pictures nitde for h s campaign
i but added he had plenty of but-
tons.
Steiwer asked what promises
Curtis had made with' regard to
disposition of patronage.
"None whatever,"- he answered.
"I have made no commitments."
Senator MacMaster, republican
of South Dakota, asked the wit
ness If he had any agreement
about swinging his support to any i
other candidate, in the event he
did not go over.
(Continued on Page Eight)
SAILS TO AID PERU'S AIR FORCE
Lieutenant Ben H. Wyatt, one of the greatest filers In the V. S.
navy and holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross, is shown with Mrs.
Wyatt, at Los Angeles, as he sailed for Peru to undertake the Job of
building up an air force for that nation. Wyatt has been loaned to
Peru by the U. S. government for the task. The entire work of form
ing, training and conducting Peru's air force falls on the young aviator.
NATIONA
L
TOUR TO START
E
Airplane Armada fo: Make'
Stop in Medford and(
Portland Prizes to Be
Given Planes Showing
Greatest Reliability in Air
Voyage.-
UN
30TH
A bitter primary campaign ap-
DKTROIT Mich, May 7 (Spe-' proached the end today. Indiana
ULiituii, .inch., .iuy i. i l yolerB wU, vote tomorrow for re-
ciall ArranKoments are going tor-1 Inlbiclin an(1 democratic candidates
ward here for the holding of three fnr president, United States sen
events of major Importance on the i ate, congress, governor, state legis
world's aeronautic calendar. They I Iature and county office s Hrcclnct
arc the. National air tour, this James
(Inrdon HonnoM liilnrnutlnnni nai-
loon race, and iho Mitionai niouoi
airplnno contest. All are sched
uled to Htavt on the sama day, June
30. at the Ford airport.
The national air tour this year
wm cover a course more than three
- times as long as that of the first
tour, lour years ago. It will touch
21 cltica in 13 states, over a period
of 28 days. The distance is 6000
miles. The first national tour was
over a PJOO-mlle course; the sec
ond 2G00 miles, and the third 4000
miles. diana and have the support of four-
The annual stepping up of the , fifths f the delegates to tho state
distance for this reliability contest conVentlon.
may be looked upon as a measure Oscar Foelllnger of fort Wayne,
o'f the pro.;ress made each year In state campaign manager for the
air travel, according to Ray Cooper, j Hoover forces, received a telegram
manager of the tour and other alr-lfl.onl Soct'etary Hoover expressing
craft events sponsored by the Dc- i ,iii 'i lalliM for the work done for
troit hoard of commerce. him In Indiana and declaring:
While the itinerary has not been I i.-,.0m all I can learn, your sue
definitely fixed, these cities are rKeKS K depend upon a lull repro-
included In the tentative list of
stnns: ndiananolis. lml.: bt. l-ouls,
Mo.; Tulsa, Okla.: Fort Worth,
Houston, San Antonio and El Paso,
Tex.; Tucson and Phoenix, Aril.;
San Diego, Los Angeles, Fresno,
1 San Francisco and Oakland, t'al.
In.jfedford and Portland, Ore.; Spo-
kanc. Wash.: Missoula and Great
FbIIs. Mont.; Minot, N. I).: St. Paul. '
Minn.; Wausau, Wis.; Chicago, 111.;
Ilattle Creek, Mich.; and thence
back. t6 the starting point. Ford
Rlrport, Dearborn, Mich. '
In addition to the Edsel II. Ford
trophy to the winner, $12,001 in I
cash prizes will be distributed. I
They will he divided as follows:
First, -.:5t)0; secon, 12000; third,
1150: fourth. J1500; fifth, $1250; I
sixth. $1000: seventh $50; eighth,
i$550; ninth, $40, and tenth, $300.
:;:IB0Y BANDIT SAYSHE
Ml BF GOOD N0Wh-"''-"'-v
PORTLAND, Ore., May 7. Wi
The 13-year-old lad of Klamath
Kails who broke Into the Hillsdale
postofflce severul months ago as a
climax to a career of petty crimes,
was'today Antenced to IS months
In the industrial school at Ht. An
thony school. Iila ho. by Judge Mc
Nary. , I.
"I'll like It there. Somebody
I will take care of me," he said.
"After 64 days In the county Jail.
I'm not going to be bad any more,'
-y !
I
LIKE WINNER
Favorite Son Doped'to Carry'
Indiana Primary Tomor-
row By Large Vote
Hoover Manager Only
Claims Nine Delegations.
:
1NDIAXAPOU, lnd.. May 7 (!)
kUUj (.OI1V4,nlfoI1 n)K0 wiu' bo hc
(UIMIIllLLUUIIIVII (H'U tiunhii"."
( i0l.l(M
Principal inlercsl tenters in tho
fight between Herbert Hoover, sec
retary of commerce, and Senator
James W. Watson .for tho prefer
ential vote of the stute for the re
publican nomination for president.
Control of the 33 delegates to
the Kansas City convention Is in
M. Hurt Thurman. national cam-
paten manager for Senator vmwon,
in a tinai statement sam mai r.-
son wlu cany every district In In-
notation at the primary next Tues-
dav."
Foelliiwor predicted that Hoover
would carry In nine districts.
, .
OF
GETS
nOHKBPRO. Ore.. May 7. Wi
Harry Ha pp. recently Indicted
on a charge of possession of liquor,
the accusation growing out of an
automobile wreck In which Jack
Waynick, a local restaurant em
ploye, was killed, entered a plea
milted that he hud been drinking
! nrlnr to the accident and thut
bottle was found In his coat pocket
after the wrec
eck. A -plea for leni-
ade In his behalf b-
, enry was ma
j cause of the fact that he Is still
suffering from Injuries roS)-cd In
the accident. Roland Hch wurtz,
SON LOOKS
OVER
HOOVER
who has been accused of nv.!un- lotteries: Stewart and O'Neill;
tury manslaughter, growing out of Jones, Burke, Vunalstyle and Ruel.
an automobile accident In which! - -- .
Mary Julia Robertson of this city Orvgon Weather,
was killed, filed a demurrer t' Generally fair tonight and Tues
the Indictment and the argument I day; continued mild., Uentlo nor
wai set for Wednesday morning. ' thci ly winds. .
JUSTICE RAND'S
REPORT IS DUE
LATE ISP J.
Pommittee Reconvenes to
Thresh Out Charges By
Attorney Joseph Against
Chief Justice of State Su
preme Court Rand's Ex
oneration Is Expected.
PORTLAND. Ore., May 7. W
Reconvening here this nfter
noon, a committee of In ivy em ex
pected to have a report ready
some time late today on charges
which Senator George . Joseph
made against Chief Justice John
L. ' Hand, of the stuto supreme
court.
The committee ndjuurned Sat
urday to 1 p- in. today and wuh
expected to bo over the testimony
which dealt largely with the liti
gation over the estate of 12. Henry
Wemme, which was pending In the
stale supreme court when charges
were made that Judge Hand had
given an option on mining prop
erty In Huker county to Thomas
Mannix, an attorney who was con
nqeted with the Wcmmo case.
Judgo 11. Wlckey, formerly
connected with the alien property
custodian's office, u party in the
Wemme case, was said to have
become Interested In the mining
property ileal through Mutuilx.
Judge Kami, In u typewritten
statement, placed before the com
mittee u denial of charges tguinHt
him. According to local rumors,
tho report will be a complete ex
oneration of Justice Hand.
1
NEAR DEATH AS
RESULT OF FIGHT
IMSNDLHTON, Ore., May 7. (I)
Ingram Alexander. 1 H -year-old
Indian on the Umatilla reservation,-
Is In a local hospital In a
critical condition, following In
juries Friday morning In what Is
alleged to .have been a drunken
orgy on the reservation. Ills back
I Is broken, spinal cord severed, leg
fractured and hc Is suffering from
other injuries, with only a slight
chance to recover. It is said a car
was driven over his body.
John Sampson, Iawrence Samp
son, Louise Van Pelt, Dorcas Will
Hill are being held as alleged
members of the parly. John
Sampson and Louise VnnPelt are
alleged to have been In Iho ear
when the accident occurred, and
each claims the other drove the
car. Tho two are said to have
jumped In the car to leave the
others when tho accident occurred
on tho reservation south, of the
Indian agency. Alexander was a
student at hte Chemawa Indian
school at Salem Inst year. Dorcas
J WW Hill and Louise VanPelt are
young Indian girls. . .
The story came to light today ' Bucharest today to demand a
through tho announcement of!c,1""Ke ul government. After a
loral police officers who have been
Investigating the affair.
Baseball Scores
Nutlonal.
Philadelphia :
Chicago :' ;
II.
4
..:.. 7
and
H. K.
II 3
8 0
Wilson;
Ilatterles: Walsh
Hush nnd Gonzales.
It.
New York 5
Cincinnati 1
Ilatterles: Uenton and
I Jablonowskl and I'iclnich'.
n.
Poston 4
: Pittsburg 0
; Ilatterles: Itohcrtson. e r t .
land Taylor; Ml) Jus and Smith.
American.
H. H.
& 11
8 11
K.i
1
Chlrngo ....
New York
Butteries:
, and Crouse
, cirabowskl.
Thomus. Barnabe
; Shealy, Plpgrua and
K. H. E.
Detroit 0 5 o ' mei ninny peasants moving toward
Philadelphia !"""!!!!!!!."!!l0 13 l'tne capital with hunners which
Butteries: Carroll, Smith. Ho1-jWP, unfurled. Others were slt
loway and Shea; drove and Coch-'1'"" '"nund camp fins by the
"!""'
R. If. K.
nd - 4 9 0
Boston 2 11 0
Butteries: Miller and L. Sewell:
errss, Russell, Garrison and
ijPry
, ,!
j
Ht. Louis
R. If. K.
Ifi 17 1
.261
Washington
DRAGS BABE FROM TR 1 DEATH j T
, ilt$& Aprs
When Harriet Hagaman, of Tulsa, Okla., grows up she will hear
the story of how Pdtrolia Queen, her uncle's dog, saved her life by
dragging her from the path of a speeding nuto. Harriet, three years
old, was plnying on the walk under the watchful eye of tho canine,
when she toddled into the street in front of tho car. Tho dog
leaped out and draggedjher back. Pctrolia Queen and Harriet are
shown above.
RURAL ATTACK MRS KNAPP ON
ON BUCHAREST
F
Rumanian Govt. Refuses to
Force Bratianu to Resign
Peasants Threaten to!
Refuse Tax Payments-
Army Planes Keep Close;
Watch.
HUC1IAKI0ST, May 7. () The
regency today refused tho demand
voiced by 200.000 peasants meet
ing at Alba Julia yesterday that
the government of Viutlla Hratl-
nau resign.
Julio Manlil. lender of the peas-
mils, who bl-iiugllt the delliiind to
Utlcllul'CHl, was Infol'mcd that the
i-eKcix-y sow no occasion fur de
manding the resignation.
In tiie face of u negative reply
the peasants' pm-ty. may now
adopt passive resistance toward
tho present government, Including
the nun-payment of taxes In order
to i-mbarass It.
AI.MA Jl'I.IA. itumanlu. May 7.
I ' 1'easants were inim-hliig on
Sunday meeting of zou.UUu pens-
ants ami luborri-s hud sworn to do
levcrything possible to remove the
present government and had
broken up in confusion, the crowd
lingered for two hours while sev
eral leaders made fiery speeches.
Then two hmg columns started a
five-day hike for Bucharest.
Ten fighting planes flew over
Alba Julia surveying tho ranks of
the peasants as they trudged to
ward tho capital.
It was stated that each peasant
ES CRISIS' STEALING CASH
11. K.!W11H participating In the march on
7 3 ; his own Initiative and without the
10 i authorization of Julio Maniu.
Hogan; leader of the national peasant
party. The march on Pucharest
I was regarded as a popular 'inanf
H. K. ! Testation, and since the mart hern
0 2 . were unarmed, no hluodfhed was
12 1 'expected.
Alanlu ami I. Mirhulakl. another
leader. Intended to reach the en pi
tnl nhead of the pcasanls by trnv -
eling by railroad. They carried
the demand of the assembly that
tho government headed by Vlntila
Bratianu resign and Intended to
present It to the regency.
The Associated Press corre
spondent who rode from Klaus-n-
,tJJ) toward. Buchari'st,
utiiinius'.
Casualties of the
Air Service
HI-JATTLi;. May 7. (Pj Kdwln
Klnsey, ;', died today us u result
of Injuries received when a Seattle
flying service airplane In which he
was a passenger, fell 300 feet Into
the Duwamlsh river, yesterday.
WllUum L. Coleman, his companion,
and Lon Brennan, the pllo.. Injured
In the crash, uro reported recovering.
STAND DENIES
1 i i -
First Woman Elected in New
j York Claims Check Was
for Furniture Her Dau
ghter Purchased and Sent
to Her Little Home.
ALBANY, N. Y., May 7. VP)
Mrs. Klcmicc 10. H. Knnpp, first
woman ever elected to statewide
public office in New Voi-k, took tho
witness stund today In her own de -
fense itKuiust u charge of grand
larceny in connection with alleged
I misuse of a stato census pay check
Mrs. Knnpp said that sho had
a house In Hyi-iicusa when she en
tered office and when she went out
she had "nothing more." Hho add
ed thut before sho entered office
she also had ubout f-I.GUu In cash.
Hho characterized tho census of
1025 as a "gigantic task," and suld
she asked several of her relatives
to help her accomplish the "vast
amount uf work." Uhe detailed!
various work she said her relatives
hud done on the census. The state
hud sought to show that relatives
whose names appeared on the cen
suspayroll had done little or no
work, and sirtue did not even know
1 their names were on the
oil.
Mrs. Knnpp Identified the en
dorsement, 'C. P. Kmipp," on the
check which Is the basis of the
present Indictment, as In her own
handwriting and testified she hud
caused a bank druft to bo pur
chased with the check. With this,
she swore, she paid for furniture
purchased at a department store
In Hyracue, in accordance with au
thority granted by "C. P. Knapp,
her stepdaughter,
Th Is f u 1 1 1 u re, sho test If led, was
to be used to furnish the Albany
home fur the family during the
census period. As to Its final dis
position, nhe jui Id It was smt to
"our little home" In Bedford, Mass.,
with the stepdaughter's approval.
Taking up the matter of tho
missing records, ordered destroyed i
by Mrs. Knapp, which the prosccu
j Hon charged Included Important
census records, ino witness lean-
ffrd she had no place to store thein,
so she ordered nil but the box de
stroyed without examining the con
tents closely.
The examination of Mrs, Knapp
lusted one hour.
(.Irl HuIiiim Columbia.
PKNDLKTON, Ore., May 7. (VT)
Miss Lucille Hubbard. 20, school
teacher In the Olex district near!
Arlington., yesterday swam the Co-j
lunthlu river, making the round :
trip In an hour and ten minutes, ;
She started her swim two miles I
east of Aarllngton and due to the
t rn n tr current
lap five miles I
the Washington side. The return j
swim sttirted n mile east of Roose
velt and took 2' minutes.
l.lcol. Marvin In O. K. C.
WAMIINOTON. May 7. (Pi
Army orders Issued today Include
the following transfer:
Lieutenant (I. W. Marvin, engi
neers. Humphreys to Corvallls.
Ore., duty with Agricultural col
lege, July 7.
GHTNG
IN T S I N A N
Japanese Bring Down Air
Plane and Continue At
tacks On Chinese Rebels
15 Japanese Reported
Killed Japan to Take
Control in Force Until All
Danger Passed.
SHANGHAI, China, May 7. (P)
According to a dispatch from Tsi
nnn, the Japanese this mornlnii
brought down an airplane of tho
northern forces which was etvnxed
In bombing the foreign settlement
there. Casualties were not men
tioned.
Another war office dispatch sets
the number of murdored In the antl
Japancse demonstrations at 13 with
28 others missing, of whom two aro
believed to have been murderod.
looting Is said tor be continuing on
a small scale.
' SHANGHAI, May -7. VP; To
day's dispatches from Tslnan suld
while tho - atmosphere there was
tense tho situation w-as quiet.
The northerners have been bomli
Iiik Tslniin spasmodically and onu
of their planes crashed yesterday,
killing Its occupants.
SHANGHAI, May 7. (JPh-H. J.
Tlmperlcy,- an Australian newspa
per correspondent In Tslnan at tho
time of the Japanese - Chinese
clashes, has arrived In Tslntao and
wired thatall Americana In Tslnan
wore safe In the Japanese area.
Hteln's hotel, a foreign hostelry
In which Tlmperley stayed, was
looted.
The -correspondent ' stated tho ,
situation was growing quiet,- tho
nationalists having withdrawn ex
cept soma Isolated snipers whlclj
the JapuneHcnt'O cleanlng.vou.
TOKYO, May 7. (P)The gon-L '
m-fil Htnfr mtrl nllipf hlirh win and '
navy affluials propose that Japan
shall hold Shantung provinco and
Its railways until present diffi
culties over Tslnan aro-iolved.. It
was also proposed that tho fight
ing factions of the Chinese bo or
dered to cease warfare In Shan
tung. It was stated thnt sanction of
tho cabinet would be sought for
.'the sending of all infantry units.
including tne uivisionai neuuttuur
tcrs of the Nagoyo division to
Tslngtuo, Shantung, to administer
the railway. Tho sending of live
1 ,utdmonul companies of Infantry
to Tientsin also was urged.
With the general staff plans un
der consideration by the cabinet
and a fnvorablo decision expected,
tho- navy department decided to
send additional ships, to various
Chlneso ports,
Klght destroyers were ordered
from tho fleet base at Kuro to tho
Yangtze river, seven miles from
the Sasebo fleet base at Swatow
and Canton,' and four miles from
the naval harbor at Malzuru to
Shanghai.
General Kazushlge L'gakl, former
minister of war, was appointed
commander In chief of the whole
Shantung expeditionary force which
will number 13,000 men. Including
the soldiers already there.
. Tho Japanese airplane currier
Notoro was ordered today to pre
pare to leave for Tslngtao, China,
where Japanese froces have been
concentrating to meet the Shan
tung 'disturbances.
The Notoro has a capacity of 40
plunes.
FAMOUS AMERICAN -
IDE
NKW ORI.KAN8. May 7. (4'J
Dr. C. Kdmund Kells. Interna
tionally known dentist nnd tho .
first member of his profession to
"J e ""', '7:
his office hero today. Despond
ency over 111 health was attributed
as the cause.
Dr. Kells had undergone 27
operations and amputations In re
cent years to his left arm, which
had become Infected through his.
1 experiments with the -ray. His
i sight also had become Impaired.
Fruit Prices Today :
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