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PAGE mlslE DOCTORS in: Death of Girl Cult Member Investigated in California DEATH LIST MEDFORP m TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OrtEfiQy. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 9, 1929. MYSTERY IN QUEER CULT Mother of Inmate Feeble Minded School' Charges V Criminal Negligence Found Girl With Frac tured Skull and Teeth Knocked Out, Is Claim Made, in Affidavit. ttALRM, Oro., Oct. 9. -P) Mrs. Isabel Keif, of Uugone, uppeured bftforo the Maiion county grand Jury Tuesday to offer testimony In support of her demand for an Investigation Into the admanistra tlon of the Oregon state school for iho feeble minded. Mrs. Keif in sworn affidavits, charges Dr. J. N. Smith, superin tendent of the school; Mrs. J. Smith, Matron and Dr. J. O. Mat this, s'chool physician, with crimi nal negligence In connection with iho death of her daughter, Geor v gia Marshall. In a Eugene hospital 4"" September 5. j I.os Anodes authmitios are srokhifr to determine If the life of Wllln Jthomls (tvii'ei) I O-yejir-nM girl, wus Kaei-il'lred tut ihii of a ritual or a "divine" order. Her body was found hurled under the1 home of her foster uireiits. Sir. and Mrs. V. I, ltliouds (lielmv) haviiitr Ihh'ii iiiescrvetl on lee fr n year. Aliove. Mrs. .May OfN ticorgia Aiai-snan men as me hr , (i:lllh,rr Mrs. uili XVii.i nrnwt.xi nn tin result of unexplained injuries su- the ,MW rrjinluleiuU- roiiwuti KO.OOU. tained a an inmate of the school,! ::-- -;, ---:.-n.-.r-i -- , from which she was removed Sep tember 1 for "proper care, Mrs. She said: 'The doctor is mak- J ing his rounds and I cannot get! him.' ! "Seeing how overcome I was she' I said voluntarily: '.Mrs. Keif 11 want you to know my conscience j is clear. I have never hurt Oeor- gia.' She kept repeating that and also said. 'I believe she Is heavily Keif alleges. Tho Marshall girl had suffered from epileptic attacks since she was C years old and for the past 10 years had been a patient at the state school here for varying pe riods of time, being taken in and Hon warranted. In January of RS ,f ., , i . . ., t..i Supporting the testimony of Mrs. this year Mrs. Reif took the girl, 11 " I , lien iwiuir mi- Kiiiiiii Jiu ttivi Ml M IMIA J&lf Officers Investigating Re ported Deaths Four Ad ditional Women Members of Santa Susanna Sect Girl's Body Was Not Pre served Two Years, Is New Theory. out of the school to accompany her on a trip to California, and who accompanied Mrs. Keif on her visit to her daughter in the school and who assisted In taking the girl to Eugene, and Dr. C. I. Neal, of Eugene, who attended the girl in that city up to the time of her i Mrs. Eva Dix Page, of Eugene. returned her to the school ini .... . . . ; . . ,1 June. I Airs, Reif charges that she wasj called to the school on July 24 last, and was informed by an at- T 1 ' "MH T death. . , , . - . ,, ' (.overnor Kntterson declined to , her arrival she found the eirlj . ,.m, tua t-nn i..rv i Investigation, except to say: "If there is anything wrong nt any state Institution, the state I board of control wants to know about it and wants u very thor- ough Investigation.' . i Secretary of Stale 'rlloss ex-' the skull, and her chin bandaged from a cut to the bone, and blood oozing from her ears and mouth.' The blood in her, mouth, Mrs. Relf alleges, "came from her gums where four teeth had been cut uui ui uvi j,w. ' ,., Mmiwlf lmi1iirlv Tho mother deehties -that. w hen i . she sought to find out what caused the injuries the school officials would tell her nothing beyond say ing that the ghi had fallen. Nuys Doctors Brutal. Mrs, Reif accuses Dr. Matthis and other attendants and officials Leatrice Joy at Isis Tonight One of the most popular of nf ih inHtitntlnn with brutality American screen stars, I,eamce In their sneech both to her and Joy will be seen lit the isis tne-,7:;;o to 8 p. m. Stromberg-Carl son program. .Mcmioissonu s National liiouricnstiiig Co, C:30 to 7:30 Palmollve ' hour. In ternational In Its musical char acter, the weekly Palmolive hour program will go on the air to night. "In Monte Curio," an or chestral number scheduled to bo conducted . by Gustave Haens chen. Is the first selection to suggest a foreign land. The Revelers will return to America for their inspiration as they fol low with "My Ohio Home." Olive Palmer, soprano, contrib utes Rimsky-Korsakoff's Rus sian melody, "Hymn to the Sun" from his opera ."Pantomime" "Le Cori D'Or." The tenor solo- r, 1st Paul --oil veiv-r nooses a ler- man song, "Auf Wiedersehen," for his first number. A tango, ' "l,a Seduction," and "my Scan dinavian Ghi" are two other selections which enhance the foreign atmosphere of the hour. Rroadcnst through KHQ, KOW, KOMO.KGO. KPO and KFI. to her daughter, with negligence atre tonight in "ihe J.iue uan and unconcern reirardinir care of ubc." This is said to afford Miss her daughter, doclares that she' Joy one of the finest churaetcrl whs denied tho use of the Instltu- zatlons in which she has been inn i(.Uihnn in nlncn n lnniriseen since her great success in distance call to. Eugene for help, and says she was refused help In getting the girl from her bed into an automobile when she decided to take the girl to Eugene. In another part of her affidavit Mrs. Keif alleges, that during the last night she stayed with her daughter In the institution, about .1 o'clock In the morning, "-he beenme cyanpsed-like and her fin ger nails turned blue. I called the night attendant, a Miss Wil liams, telling her to call a doctor thnt my daughter was dying. 'Manslaughter." Joseph Sehild- k ra u t a nd Nils Ast her a re fen -tured In her support. Marguerite, a village belle on the Danube is loved by Erich, a young nobleman, and his rival is Kudwlg, a hunchback. He tore Erich is able to marry the girl of his choice, he is swaltowed up in the vortex or war. Ludwig meanwhile -has poisoned Marguer ite's mind agninst Erich and on the very day when the nobleman returns to the Danube, Kudwig weds Marguerite. "They work while you sleep" Do yon have (lays when you foci sluggish when everything seems an effort and you have no appetite? Take a candy Cascaret before yon go to bed I This gen tle, harmless aid to the bowels is often all that is needed to clear up a sick headache and cause any other symptom of sluggishness to vanish. Cascarcts can't harm you for cascara is a favored laxative with medical authorities. It docs a per fect job of cleansing without vio lence and without forming the laxative habit. Cascarets are pleas ant to take, for they are sweetened with pure cane sugar and flavored with real licorice children love them. A candy Cascaret or two will usually clear up a bilious, constU pated condition between night and morning. Their action is so gen tle there is no discomfort from them or danger in their frequent use. They are a pure vegetable product. 1 hey do not weaken tne system. In fact, the cascara ac tually strengthens bowel muscles. Remember this when you have a coated tongue, bad breath, when the head feels dull or there is any sign of poor elimination. overture for tho fantnlU! Hhalte bpeareiin opera "Midsummer NiKht'H Dreum" has been chonen an the opening selection for Klrfntf instruments, 't'nnnonettn," written liy Hihelius, follows, while an organ, violin, vlolin eello and harp will augment the orchestra diirinK the rendition of "Adoration." , Ouy V r a e r Harrison directs tho instrumen talists. CNyde Morse, pianist, will be heard in a soln. Itroadcast through KIIQ, KOMO, KOW, KCiO. KPO and' KFI. to 8:30 p. 111. "Jtoads to Ro manre." Astoria, Ore., tho first American city to be founded west of the Hoeky mountains, will be visited tonlBht hy Jack and Hthyl. Dramatization of the precarious Journey overland to Astoria In 1SI1 will provide a hiKh spot In the. broadcast, which tiring to tho radio au dience another important epi node In tho history of tho early west. ICn route to Astoria,, the Motor Mates will describe briefly tho nicturcsiiue Columbia Hlver hlKhway, the Oregon state fish hatchery at Young Ttiver Kails and the canning of the. cele brated Itoyal Chinook salmon, llroadcast through KHQ, KOMO, KOW, KCO, Kl'O nnd KKI. S::ifl to 9 p.'m. The Hill Hilly Hoys. The weekly proKram de voted to melodies of by-gone days. Interspersed with occn sional modern numbers, will be presented by a group of artists, including Chnrles Marshall, lien McUiughlln. Elmer Crowhurst, Johnny O'lirien nnd Johnny Toffoll. llroadcast through KIIO. 10 to 11 p. m. Cotton Hlossom Minstrels. The old-time onx and the humorous banter of the Interlocutor nnd the "end men" will be heard as Clarence Hayes, Harold I'eary, the southern Har mony. Kour, Captain William ' IVnyle Jac k Curtis. Kylvnno Dale and mher minstrels contribute their share of the entertain ment. Harry Hopkins as the Interlocutor, will complete the, cast. Itroadcast throuah KHQ. KFI ond KMT.. II to 11 inldnittht-rMuslcul M" ketoerf. Walter Ikban, one-time orchestra lender In' tho world's luiKest dance hall nt Hydney, Australia, directs the Musketeers In their capricious syncopations. Specialty numbers complete tho lioiir, which will be broadcast through KHQ. KOMO and Kl'O. I.OS ANC.1CI.1CS, Oct. (I. (fF) Los Angeles illy anil county au thorities today were endeavoring to discover if four members of n religious cult, "Tho Divine Order of the Itoyal Arm of the Clreat Seal," reported missing were deadt and If so, what caused their deaths and what disposal had been made of their bodies. The body of HS-year-old WIMa Rhoads, described as a priestess of tho sect, was found last Sunday in a casket under the flooring of a house occupied by her foster parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Ithoads. cult members. Members of a colony maintained by the religious order In the Santa Susanna hills north of here, were being questioned regarding the re ported deaths of Frances Turner. llarlcne Sartorts, Katherine Itolz and Kddie McOuffin. Investigators said they had evidence to indi cate the women were dead, nnd were bending their efforts to learn In what manner they hnd died und where they were burled, leaders lit Jail. Mrs. Otis Wackhurn. head of tho cult, her daughter, Mrs. Ituth Angellne Wellnnd-ltizzfo, and Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads were held in the Los Angeles county jail pending completion of the investigation of the reported deaths, the burial of Wllln Rhoads, and charges of fraud preferred by Clifford Dab ney, Long Beach, Calif., oil, man and other cult members, against Mrs. JJlackburn and Mrs. Weiland ltizzio. The charges against Mrs. Black burn nnd her daughter, the latter Identified as a cult priestess, re cite that they obtained SSO.OOfl from Dabney and others through representations that a book they wera.to. wrlto by. divine - order would reveul, 'by use of lost meaS' urements, the whereabouts of all mineral wealth remaining In the earth. Mrs. Rhoads told police that her foster daughter would be resur rected when the book, "Tho Blxth Seal," was completed, and she ob jected hysterically to removal of tho girl's body, from beneuth tho Rhoads homo In Venice, Cnl. She said the young woman's body had not been burled for more than two years after her death on New Year's eve. H2!j, from diphtheria. but was preserved with ice, and that when finally hurled. It was embalmed witli spices as in an cient times, in belief that such treatment would least interfere with her expected resurrection. ' ciicmLMs Harriett. rollce chemists, were baffled by the embalming process used, If the data of tho girl's death was cor rect. They described the body as In a remarkable stato of preserva tion. Discovery of a druggist who remembered concocting an embalming fluid from a formula brought him by Mrs. Rhoads three months ago, gave rise to a theory that Wllla's death may not have occurred until recently. Mrs. Blackburn told pollen site wns responsible for the unrecorded burial of the girl, slating that the Archangels Michael and Oahriel had revealed to lu-r that the young woman wns to arise. 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