La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 17, 1923, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text. t - t'l r---1 N r! K fcA GRANDE, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 17, 1923 mbmbhr op associated press VOLUME XXVI MEMBER GF ASiOOATBB MWM NUMBER 87 10 BILLS ARE APPROVED BY COMTIEE Ten of Eleven Appropria j tion Bills are Approved .; Last Evening. FARM BLOCHOLDS I FIRST MEETING Opponents of the Anti-Alien Land Bill May Register .' Protests at Open Meeting Tuesday. ' (By Associated Vress) SALEM, Jan. 17. Woodward's bi!l extending the franchise at school elections to all citizens and providing for dental examination of school children was defeated today by 50 and 44 vo;es respectively. They were known as organization measures but Kubli abandoned them when several leaders and the farm bloc opposed them. The senate passed the Strayer bill giving county courts the erclusivc control of market roads. Hills Introduced. Bills introduced today included Eddy "providing liquor fines go to counties," Ilowen's providing that no city or town imposo a license fee for peddling farm Produce; Zimmer man providing that all bills except appropriations be introduced thirty days before legislature convenes; and Hal lintroduced one making utilities gross incomes one-tenth of one per cent to make the public service com-! mission self supporting. SAI.KM. Jan. 17. Opponents" of the antinlii n land bill will have an op portunity to rt'ffister protests at an open meeting next' Tuesday night -called by the House Judiciary Com. 'llllttlM'. '" A joint ways untl means commute! lias olevtm appropriation bills ready, tin beinif r;apiiro.viU nl the ..mooting1 last niRlit. , . " .The farm bOf, held. their first meet ing Inst nteliK wjtif h..: attended by nbout twenty, ' - .. ... .".". Pierre-Starts Inquiry. SALE.!, Jn., V-pBovejfiipr .Pierce today staretf bQi''tHsh his .legi.slatfv program; byHhuuinng how ttiany bills, following"" recommendations in his message htd been introduced., He also said that he intends to call a conference of two irrigation commit tees and of the state , irrigation se curities commission relative to irri gation policies. , i ' The. question of ' savint; the two and one half million bond issue for the Roosevelt highway, which, will be lost- in February if not matched by Federal funds, is before the house highway committee, headed by Jone3 of Newport, which will meet tonight. At the"rioFC of an c.jjht-hour nc uion. UiO'tftiry-ii the nu ot tlic janit or ( n Cn'Oh vw, Mum l Myera that wmc ta a flow yustcrrtuv . morning., at fl n'clocM, relumed at. h o'clock last llifjlil, eitflit voting for conviction nnd lour far nequtttal. A re-trial will he necessary, thu date being unset as yet. y)M'i;iti;M'K IIIEKAKS tI IOKTI.ANI Jan. 1 7. The Ta cifie I'oa.st t, caput mooting broko up suddi-nly today when directors of the Oakluiid, Portland, l.os Anpctes and Salt Lafce. rlubs walked out nfler rrewdent McCarthy declared a-reao-Ity-n pnwutl granting Vernon equal territorial rights and concessions with Los Angeles. m:sm:u fii.r.s nr,-u itui.it Villi., ,.i U' rualfr nf link or rhu rtrfil with manslaughter of Arthur Cleaver filed a demurrer mtean ot enter ii: a -plea of guilty or not guilty. Fierce Wind Strikes 'Factory at Lone Tree; Damage High winds, that swept the valley j yesterday, inflicted severe damage to the White Pine Box company's fac-j tory situated at Lone Tree, about three miles ca.-t of Iji Granhe. At taining a high velocity, the storm tnrc off the roof of the building for the fuM length on two sides aUo blowing down the blower pipe from the building to the burner in addi tion lo bloving off the roofs of some box cars that were on the side track. IV amount of damages, roughly estimated t.id..y hy ffn ia!s ot it companv. aSgieea'.e about fcJOOO. The tcaricp'tll ul Ihv l'-P yt !hv building SEAHED WOMAN ABSOLVES KLAN IN STATEMENT Mrs. Nevada Standish Says That Branding Va$ Done By Seeming Fanatic. PORTLAND, Jan. 17. Mrs. Ne vada Standish, who was branded with a cross on her breast by maeked men who enterod her house the- night of November 21, Is In Portland with he mother, Mrs. Bd Wllca, at the AcriU i.j'oi, and denies that the attack Up on her was made by the Ku KJus Kian. Hor husband had so staled, cays tli Portland press. Iter husband's statement yester'ay Hint bhe was not a member of the of the Invisible Empire, she said, id incorrect. v, hen I joined the orgauizutloa I did not feel it was advisable to tell my husband about it," sli i said. "Through, all this affair 1 refrained from telling my husband btiuie he was 111 and In tho hospital and I did not v aiit to worry him. "I ft)t able to take care of myself in the matter. I realise now 'hat it wu-4 a mistake not to tell him. .ii:i?omi thu mqr.iv r in which t.io aff.jtr fcs come to has oaused him more dis tress than it would have caused had t told him in tho beginning. She Absolves Kian. "I am confident that I know the man who branded ine, and X know that the kian is not responsible. When I have sufficient information In the matter 1 shall file a complaint and mice the caso into court. . do not know how long 1 shall re main in Portland, but I will have to turn to Tillamook soon, as I hae the ranch there. ; There have been a-n umber ot mis statements about tho case, which make me afraid to talk about it much, for fear of adding to the confusion. I was not warned by Mrs. Larson 16 een still about fh bran dine, as w in stated in some' bf'the- papers, and I have not been' married twice, as was reported elsewhere;" '' he man who madtPthe altack h4 no personal eaUe feP'R.' Tae-fcflff pianation of' his motVifs tUk't I Cft make is to 9f that hft'fieerns it he: a fiiimtlc. H Is name will come, out ki duo time when legal proceeding are begun. i m v , , 1 KJan U InvejttigaUutf.rV ; ( 6 The k lan la" Tillamook qeurnty ris' inventlgattng the, ma tie if and vromiKe?! to - tisuv evory effort to bring fo' Justice the men wijo-dld tliia-l Jmv.nQt siin tho exulted tytfidpa oii tlfdt k1ati! here. He is Taj Very jijilyjnrtrn, ap il, d J f r"" I1!. -u "vt, vuriig ilia,. 8tandi.sli visited her husband at the hospital on h(v arrival ycfrtur day afternoon. She will remain with her mother at the Aorno hotel during her visit here.- - - The state kian orflcUls have tut yet aken rto further utetiS (h InvefltiffntlnB tho affair, beyond receiving a report from the kian in Tillainpouj. r i i MrB. Standish says that every eftort is bolng made in Tillamook county hang it" on tho kian and that. until she has sufficient evidence to go ahead with her case, she can do nothing more than say that the klait is not to blame. SALKM. Jan. 17. The aupreme court decisions Included: ' Anderson vs. Knst Orejron Lumber company, an anneal from Wallowa county, tried In Wallowa court by Judge J. W. Know les. The Judgment of Judge Knowles was reversed and remanded. Justice Harris nnd Justice Bean dissenting. The opinion was given by Justice Uurnctt. Judgment IlcMororf. Another case acted upon was Bword vs. East Oregon Lumber company, an appeal from Wallowa county tried or iginally by Judge J. W. Knowles. The 'iudement was restored and remanded. .The opinion was given by Justice Bur nett. Justices Bean and Harris dis senting. About $3000. constituted the major portion of the los!, the other incidentals being uf "I thought that the Grand Ronde valley was immune lrom sucn nr tntftitm urinrls " remarked an offi cial of the company today. "But when it blows the tops off of box cars 1 reaany conceoe mai inm.sevuun its share of wind problems to com bat."' The wind yesterday and lat evening was one of the strongest that the valley has experienced in some time. No other major casual tks have been reported but' several mailer casts o! WU..1 dauisgvj have oti-urrcl. . HIGHER COURT REMANDS CftSES Vacuum Which MarkW Ad- ' joumment of Legislature ' . is Still Present, SEVERANCE TAX HAS MANY SUPPORTERS Very Little of Real Value to State is Being Done in the Legislature, States' Sen- ator Dennis. - (By nruoe Deiinl)'' STAT ft HOVSB. SALBM, Jant lb. (Speolal)f After a three-day re- oesn during which time legislators either' journeyeil to their homes or to Portland, the (wo houses convened this morning or to Portland, the two houses convened this morning still In the vacuum which marked tho last week's end. - Everyone seems to he awaiting on the other fellow. It Is not a caso of sparring proposition, neither is it a oase of awaiting developments before the big hills are drawn. No session haq ever experienced quite a similar condition. The Hall consolidation bill, said o be an administrative measure, was shot Into the hopper but the results Were far from what were expected, Instead of it absorbing the attention Of every member and becoming the crux of debate in lobbies and at ho tels It rests In the little bod of com mlttee consideration with no one' try lnc to'1 tear off the covers and no one caring a rap' about Its future, ap parently. 1 Its provision to 'abolish' 'alt mom- bf f the public set-Vice" commission buO it temelimes spoken of,1 but ftU3 (retfllWit when opinion is ex Vttmied at all, It Is usually stated that the bill merely provides for tho shift ing, of titles and members cunnotflnd where ilt will -save? .any xuojtey-cta. it ho A ivw diiis sucn 'UStnarnniig ;uin Oresron Trail across the Mate .have paased. piit nothing' thatr.nitiUy af fects Oregon as a Bintit: n ruined tax pavers h'ss yet be.en introduced. if Huj ports of such an-lho laii Investigating committee and the stale audit com mittee, are beinr printed which cause a little delay, biit even so, ih unual trend would be to dlscusHion of these tilings, whereas this aeflsion Is not In dulging in even that. The -severance tax, whlrh was :a campaign slog-'in has many Hiipport- ers provided It can be put in proper fhape, but thus fur not a slnglo bill has been forthcoming to got the wal lop before the liodiea. The aio l true of the much utlked-of Income Uix. Several wills will be brought out In time but none are ready at pies-. ent. Then there Ih the change of asHess- ment which Is of vital Interest to (Continued on rage Eight.) : ' ' ' THE FUTILITY OF IT r- ... tf-L - , , ZT : (-"l W&mf: DIMS SEVERE COLO Cancels All Nthe EngAWJrt : Dates Today m Account of Illness;. Condition Not . Serious. (By Aasoclte4 Frev) i WASHINGTON, Ja-O. 17.- PreAi-i dent Harding cancelled U eagoge-i .ment dates today to rest on account of an attack of gHpp. Tbt White Houso announced .that ta rut was decided on, merely aa a precaution, and that his condition. Is not serl 01B. ' ' 4 By The AasociaKd Press) ' -WASHINGTON. Jaft. 11.- Presl dent llHrdlng. because of a cold which hns afflicted him tor several days, went to tho White House proper Tucsdny soon after the regular cab inet meeting nnd spent (ton afternoon resting. He retired for the nlfht early RriKadier Gonoral Sawyer. . tne presi dent's personal pliyelclan, - ' However, emphnslzed thnt there e nolhlni se rious in Mr. Harding's condition.' v - The first Intimation mat the nrest dent was Indisposed frpa g-tren at the usual Tuesday conferenae with nerS' onoermcn. After &oswerlna eome nuestions on International and domes tic problems, be Indicated his wish that the conference. b prolonged ne further tlmn necessary, and H fas at once terminated. T T Doing Everything Poaisible to Kestrain roincare upV' : ernment from CoerclonL', . i (By The' Assoctatsd' rress) . ; WABHINOTON. Jaai " ta utmost limits conn!nwt WUitJt re servatlon of its reUtlooa Wrtlk Uranca and also Kith Qriwt Britain, the IUI lan government has been exartlaf It self ivilhln the- past Jeer days ta re- Isttatn VrncVirriclalsiXroni proceed ing with extrmvmoaMrea at coercion UKttlUNl:JLrermany. .'-j :.i-v-. ., A, ;ie'an exposMon'MlIUty'B JdtlU in conneotlori f1th the BrotHn, MC th? Ittilir, Invasion- alrnaditaa been made Known to ttniy allies and undoubt jdly.TwIII not he' sutflolenk to cause any ;senHll)le''Chonirrt In the .-Frenah plans. -"The View of tho '.BMW gov ernment : have Tereivedd Bfrtoutf con sideratioo. ; A disclosure of the trajlaa paartion Is likely soon to be 'mude t atficioJi vV;ihlnvioii. and meanwhile, some of lis features have iltienjjlearitef ifrdnj; UlLUrillCfl quttlirin. " . " 1)1)1)0 lltilii' lnTaltia.'' . -'' ::, One Important dlsdlosure Is that tliii Itallnh government, while of necessity concurring In the decision Of the; re parations commission that Ocrtnany was In voluntary detalt In the supply of coat and other supplies required to be turned over to the allies, never contemplated a military invnslon of the Ituhr. TALY AbiS DRASTIC AC CA??TON OCCUPIED (By Associated Prsa) CANTON, China, Jan. 17. Six thousand Kwangsl troops supporting Sun Yat San, have ocupieil the city. Shops have been closed and busi ness is at a standstill. ' SUPREME COURT E Judge J. W. Knowles' Deci sion in Ferguson versus Holbom Case is Affirmed By Justice Bean. ' SALEM, Jan. 17. Tho auoronio court decisions Included: Fermison vs.'. Holborn, appealed from Union county, trlod by Judgo J. W. Knowles. Th rsuit was to vacate a decree of tht. county court setting aside a home stead In La Grande to a widow. From a decree in favor of the defendants the plaintiffs appealed. In nn opinion-by Justice llean. ho holds that the estato for life in real property may, under certain condi tions, bo merged In foo simple title to sucn real estate; but tho statuto does not provide that any mode for the homestead title In fee, to bo merged in. or swallowed up by the llfo estato. Toe setting aside of the homestead did not destroy the devise In tho will either of tho estate, or tho devise of the remainder to callnteral heirs as there was real property of estate oth er than the homestead to which the 111 applies. The decree of the lower court was affirmed. REUEFH : i Followinc tha readincr of ' Near Hast cablegrams , at tho meeting, of the' Neighborhood club yesterday by 1- 3. Handsaker, state director, the club toted to adopt an Armenian i or phan at a cose of viio.uo per yoar while individual membersBUbscribed $181.00 additional, making., a , total of $221 for tho club i r The canvass is ircUinir lined in nicely under the direction of. Mr. Pryke. A. B. Briston is on the field also 'to assist in the canvass.' A grand total oftabout 1M0 has been subscribed in pledges and casn. "Y" DIRECTORS TO : HAVE LUNCHEON The boar.-! of directors of the Y. M. C. A. will meet at a luncheon to morrow nodn in the Y. M. C. A. building where the regular monthly business will be transacted. A nominating committee will be appointed for the election of retiring hoard members and they will also lay I plans for tho annual meeting to be held tho third week of February. " AFFIRMS JUDG AIDED BY CLUB LIGHT COMPANY WANTS PATRONS E Manager J. P. Lottndge Is sues Statement Concern ing Problems Involved in Present Shortage. Arrangements have been made whereby the Eastern Oregon Light and Power company, now facing a shortnge, will purchase power from the Baker Municipal plnnt, J. i. Lottridge, manager of the company, stated today. Ho continued: "We are able to turn into our system about 700 kilo watt hours a day from tho city s plant. This is about two Per cent of our present daily output Two per cent is a small proportion of the total but we arc very glad to get it. On tho other hnn.l it should not be Understood that tho use of tho city s plant by anv means solves our short- ago of power problems. The need for economy is not eliminated. But aB to "inconvenience to our c istum crs, as expressed in the Herald InHt night, we have not asked our cus tomers to suffer any inconvenienco and do not expect to. True we have asked the two dredges tj dis continue operations, but they were prepared for that contingency. Oth er than that wo have only asked our customors to cooperate with us by economizing - in their use of elec tricity, but wo certainly do not ex pect them to suffer inconvenience by so doing. Incidentally, we suppose it is obvious that by economizing, our customers will be compensated by the savinir in their electric light mils Statements have been made that certain mines are unable to operate because ot our inability to serve them. There aro no mines, lo my knowledgo, which are ready to oper ate at the present time, 'which ' lire not operating because of ' our1 enurt- niro of power. , Mr. 'Lottridgo stated further that m addition to reimbursing tho city for the comnanv's1 share of increased expenses at' the citys plant, the E. O. L. & P.1 company is furnishing Its own oporntor and is paying the city a fair price per kilowatt hour be sides. Excitement reigned -supreme at the comer of Elm and -Adams this morn ing. An attempted robbery, the on Kuing capture of tho bandit, and his Bafo installation in .the city jail nil occurred ; in i n -spndil .qfiiiabout ton minutes. ' , . , ; ' ; '. Rol' Bnker, employed tit Scinnton's clothing storo, noticed threo IMcxi enns standing in front of .the store looking in tho show windows, bee that they apparently intended to re main outside he went down in the basement to build the fir, forget ting his gloves. Coming buck to Ret tho forgotten articles, he looked into the front of thci store just m time to see one of the men gn i out of the door with 'a suit of rloth- ing, valued at about IU, undor Mr mackinaw. Giving chnse he enptured the Mexican, -got the suit which the bandit had ditched, and took him, to the polico station.- - .- -,' The Mexican gnve his name as .7,oe Martinez! stating ' thnt he came to La Grande from Salt Lake City. Nothinir was found on his person to complete tho identification with the exception of a cap tnat was secured In Casper, Wyoming. The case, one of larceny in a store, will be turned over to tho county officials. CQNOMIZE 'li ft I-- i...jaly ' I.1 I t ' ' ' . . 1 Armed Action is Taken Against Strikers in South; One Man Hung . HARK. HON', Ark.. Jan. 17. Willi a Kuaponnlou of tho order of (Jo v. T. !. MrlUr, ab MHIo Hock, lute TticNtlity orrlorliiK a com puny of Ar knnnaH iifilloiDit KUurilmiu-n hrro, with n porwllilllty of (Inrlurlnfr martlul upon thfllr urriv il, HurrlHoti Tuc- Jay iileht rcfiuniod a trannull hppi'ur- iiiK'r attr two ilayn ot "uriiipl ur (ton" in whlrh niin ntan wan hiuiKl. inoitHT wound vA ami m'orr.i ut nl-IfKi-'l MIxHOttrl and Norlh Arkann-i railway lrikTH worn owortcd from low 11 to tho M tftHOlirt atato lino, u: "UhipJinlrd hy 11 'VoHiinMtco of 10'MI." i 'oinnititii' IMxprrsct. Th- "rommlUw of Iihmi" broke up tfttr tioldtiiff apodal a'Matoim behind rloifd domn for Iwn daya and our i'kM and Itn ini-mlirra :n on ttif ay lo thi'lr n'p'tlc homt'i Hoiin of tlu romtnttl w a tnii from a tl' 'alien (f 1M) 111 Huh to hhmIhI hi tlif roundup. The ArkaiiKan houc f reprt'Hcnta- Uvea adopted a roMolutlon ftuthorulutfj ueorne W. tNell, hoiei proprieioi" flovernor Meltae to rail out the na-jand local rapttalbd, who Ih aatd l rional Ruard and de laro martial law! Intve ftinilKhcd bull for many atrlk-. nt Mariinon. ' Tin .enolutton Htatljrra nrreated ami chared with aabo that tn(. b KiHlainn, ould inako alll t ivcf. waa taken from lil home ami llj'j apyt op: UUu..i u.tw,. swurely whlnpcd. , v . ' GERMANS ARE ADHERING TD COAL sum Representatives of the Coal Magnates Fail to Appear; , ( Before the Board. :, j FOUR GERMANS ARE NOW UNDER ARREST Coal Magnates Remain Firm in l heir Stand to Cease Deliveries to tire French Forces. '. v.:,; (By 'Associated Tress.) DIISSKLDOTtK. .Ian. 17 Repre-' acnlatlvcs of Dorliinn 'magnates failed to appear today before the control commission, sending word that they had decided lo folio Horlln instruc tions nnd mnko no coal deliveries te tho French. , : : .'.' Four Coal Men Arrested. ' (By AsNOolated l're.. '''-. LONDON, Jan. 17. Router dis. patches from Kssen, say that accord ing to reports from German source, four Huhr Industrial leaders, Includ ing Herr Thyasen, were told by the Krench authorities nt Dusseldorf .U consider themselves undor arrest at- tor they reiterated they would' only obey orders from Berlin. I, . , ' (By Associated Press) f LONDON, Jan. 17. An armiiltica at Mcmcl is in effect and negotia tions' aro in progress between insur gents and the high commissioner to. avert further bloodshed, according t official advices. . ' Franco Maintains Front-':": (By Associated Press) ' nUSSELDORF. Jan. 17. The French are to take possession Of tha mines tomorrow. Ruhr magnate woro. informed that their property will be confiscated and operated by the French for the reparations ac count. The magnates who refused to , cooperate Will bo court martialed. BULLETINS ; ' TO BOTTLE UQVOR (By Associated Press) . NEW YORK, Jan. 17. To protect tho public from poisonous whiskey, bought at drug stores on Prescrip tions, the government has decided to bottle all bulk liquor now held in bond to guarantee tho proof and quality, ( DEBT BO A It I) DEADLOCKED (By Associated Press) WASHINGTON, Jan. 17.-British and American debt commission hnva reached a point jrn the negotiations where It is virtuully agreed ttoat no further progress Can' be made until tho British. ; commissioners . return from London vhcro they vill confer with fho government i U ! ' ' " ' I -' :UT !' ; THE MARKET : J (By Associated Press) II PORTLAND, Jan. 17- Livesteck steady jeggs weak and lower, buying prices 28 to 1(4 cents, selling prices 30 to .'18 cents; butter steady. WHEAT QUOTATIONS' (By Associated Press) PORTLAND, Jan. 17. Quoted va rieties of wheat are $1.2)1 to $1.44. Tucaday nlk'ht. it was mild, virtu. ( ally cvrry Htiikor In Jlarrlaon Jjont 2 on had own oji-rtod from Hip ataU or pluccd In Jul. hy th coinnilHro. Ontt .Man IliuiuPtl. .J Tho body of C. V. (Irtor. 'slrlkine' railway ahopinati, found uurly Tuen-, day mornliiK haiiKntc from a railway ireslM. Tueaduy ntclit wan tuken by ' hbt wife and relation to hla former pom? for burial. (Jrenor, 11 la hiild,' una iiiiiiK'd after lit' re luted utt4 ilipt of the 'vomnilttee of louo' who were xnekhitf to hhntirv ptrmnm who uru f.-ild tt) hao currifd on a eampalnu of aaholaK" a at nut tho railway com- . pany. or.ennr'a home wuh vlJtcd hv a eotnniltieo ilcmandlnjr hb urrond it ralonday nlRht. OrfKr In aliened lo have replied with n revolver -nhut ' ind 'seaped from the Iioiim In a bull of bullet. Kiuery dusit and hiKh ex p1gHlMn were found In (In tfor'n bouse, iiieiiibei-N of tho eommllteo cbarKO. " KollowlnK the tynehluK of Orepor, i ! 1 i 1 w-V-..-..a 4-