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4$ VOLUME XXVI MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS LA GRANDE. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1923. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS NUMBER 89 NOT GUILTY SUN HEU CfiSE Five Defendants in Herrin , Riots Trial Are ' Acquitted. VERDICT BROUGHT L EARLY TODAY! Case Charging Five Men With Murder of Howard Hoffman in Mine Work ers' Riot, Ends in Accniit- ' tai. MARION, 111., Jan. 10 All five! tit fi-nuunls in ilic ileum riots t rial wen? acquitted by a juiy of twylvj Williamson county farmers today. MAIMOX, 111., Jan. ID. Tha first five defuulants brought to tiial as a result of the Ileri.n riots, of June 21 and 22, 1!(22, woe chnrjrt-d with the niuider of Howard Hoffman, one of twenty non-uiticM workers killed dm in;r the diu orders. Indictments, apainst seventy-seven individuals, Jorty.eijjht of them being chained viih murder and the others with lesser .ofi'ons'uy, wore returned by a prand jury that made its formal report on October 28, after nn inves tigation ibt'Kun August 2'.i undrr the directum, of lidwai.l J. Emndage, at torney genera!. .iisi o" thoe indicted were re leased quickly on Ibon-ds tctaliiiy "more than 225,000 r.nd signed by iR J i lieiT'.i nu.cme;-3 men. Ul the 45 ehaigrd with niuitier eight h;:ve been "kept in jail,, all of whom are facing trial Kehiuaiy 5 on another indict ment. The number of difundaintS' at the first triitl was limited to five to fac ilitate tht obtaining of a of a jury as both the piosccution t::,d the de fense arc allowed twenty pre-empt-ory challenges for each defendant and it was feared that an increase in the number of chalkl 'ges would make the picking of the jury virtual ly imPi.s.iilde. , Jury beleeuon IUrf icult. Selec tion of the jury tsgun on No-j vrmber 8 and the first , juror was I obtained on November. 1:. .The jury was omplewd December 8 and the taking of testimony hrKun Decem ber 12. The -juiova ! ftire confined in (juaiteis on the top floor of the same jail that hou.'ed four of the defendants, each of tile jurois be ing paid IJ a. day. lA'itmsses re ceived. .Sl.ull a day. The foul defendants who are unic'n miners, have been ruceivin'r $7.50 a day ftom union funds, or the equiva: lent ef what they would have Earn ed had they beep at liberty. Dining the tiial, witnesses for both sides described the miiwof the I Siuthrrn Illinois coal company, j where the trouble staited, as a shal-' low' ditch dug by a s'.eam shovel. on the desolate' re.1-c.ily faun lands. about six miles from Marion and' four miles lrom Hen in. The coall lies so rear the surface that it is scooped up with a steam shovel, afUr I the surface soil is cleared awayi ,! :,., ; ,,-, (n,,,. ..., m-i..,,,,,! alcnrf both sides of the cut. - - I Kh"ln"- w," 11 vt' lu n h:ivo ru" Tne mine wa? idle for a time dur-. ('ulw''1 notUo of "H! s,1UWtnmi1" tl'p";-ina- the coal strike, uceordmg to wit-I m,nlaI m to hv I'"'- nessc fnr tho st.ntn. itnfil W. -T I.o- triv t hen ou'.ipr of thr- nrnn.rtv which is now known as the t ijrvr.c , oei-t.v Hal T. Huteliir.snii. win. f'oal companv, obtained permission I WIS eteetci UliiMrious no-rot Hi oi ficm the u.iion ofticials to repair ' i"Pl- t K-c'iaicr. tin strain shovel at the pit ana" ! The re n nioirial duto is follow.:.! then to strip back the soil q-.d ex- closely by th ootshMvlint: snriai po.se the coal ltadv for loading whenievr-nt of th-- year, the annual poten ihe strike ended. AUlt this had J tJit'-'s ball to he lu-M in the I'ort becn done, they testified, the union-au.Uti.riinn on WwlncMi.-.y nl;ln, miners were UischargtJ and fortv-; .1amn-y si. This affair will he al- fii.; nth-union workers and thirtv- on armed guards were brought in t:i operate ihe pit. Defense Term Guards ' Roughnecks" Dt-fense witnesses 'pictuiod the guaids as "roughnecks' f;a accused ;h;-ni of various oltens s t ranging fom highway lobbery to the unjus tifiable muider of three union min eis who approached tjje pit the af ternoon 01 Jun? in an effort to peaceably induce the non-union workers to quit. Five of the non union men who deserted the mine earlier in the day wore declared to have qsserted they hn.l besn threat- ny'U.ith death if they left. TheMirst shots were filed when (Continued on Tago Eight.) Committee Approves Bill Premitting Counties To Spend More For Bridges HM.KM. Jan. 'I'b roail htiehwiiy comniitttM' Svniit. - Mi pprovt-'lj tin- K'l'iy J'HI im -n ;if!i'.f from to V I. tt.ii;' pr-p.. ,tt . tb- in, i Milium -M of (ur r Ii t( an 'I n-n-r snl nl f inl l'.ir v. liirh county i ourt may . n(i ::t ii)!"tit tit '-.rs of hl :!it r i hic.itnn p!;in ami sjt.-cti icat :-as. tinis Im n ta'.! J y . hotij.- an n r.. Clmti r ittiilrart. Hill. -wit tf an ixju rx.; com-itilt".' r--p.irl. :!:. n in t'. hoim - roiiii.iitt-i hut ilt-M. han r. cotintiric wtt'i r--p- :. i i ' -n of th- lawn to Hi:w-, i . . ntt f t t , A. '. an-I I", of r t:i .;t 'pal tt th tjoult! v i iiifi' il t!n-.v. r t I lo -t - i t eh. a I. Button Missing On His v Trousers: Man Seeks . Aid of Spokane Police (Ey Associated Pn?ss) SPOKANE, Wash., Jan. 19 Members of the Spokane police ' department report that in tmus (tone by they have been culled to act as first aid in almost ' every sort of an emergency, but they were stumped when a citi . zeu came to the station recently in quest of a button for his trousers. He also desired a nce dla and thread. ----- i According- to the police, the seeker after the dressmaking implements, was downtown witrt his wile and another lady, all ready for a dance, except that a trouser button was missing. Desk Sergeant Pred Pearson, a member of the national guard, from his army "housewife" pro duced a needle alnd thread, but ti uuiton could not be lound. The luckless visitor then remem bered that he had a key to a building near the city hall, l'rom clothing he found there he cut a button, then returned to the po lice station for the .'l.ecdlc and thiead. PORTLAND, Jan. 19. Three bun dled peace officers men who range in lank from the high officials of tho government at Washington to the night watchman of the small western village; from the gold-lnccd inspector of tho royal Canadian mounted police to the patrolman of the local force gathered at the con ventiep of the- Northwest Sheriffs' end Police association at the Port luiwl Women's club building yester day and discussed crime and the mo'nrej of preventing it, states the Oregonian. ; They, were sincere, earnest men men who realized that never before have life and property been held in as little regard us tliey are today they were stern-faced men who do med the sentimentality that char acterizes the present system of han dling criminals and who pleivled for a stricter and harsher method of enforcing the law. The dissected the drug traffic and its willing victims, the drug addict. They pleaded for an international spirit of co-operation between all law - enforcing agencies so that the wrongdoer no matter where he might flea, would fin. I no seluge. Interna tional lines were only ' imaginary lines, they said; fifty should not be used as shields for the lawless.' Never before has Poi Hand enter tained a gathering of this type. Tho three, hvfdred, to u large extent, represented the security of life and pioperty in the northwest. Some aio the sheriffs- of the counties of the" plains. Some are patrolmen who walk beats in the cities of the coa-'t. Others are the government atronls, the keen, alert men wno arc putting up a vigilant tight to prevent the importation of narcotics into the country. , AL' KADERS WILL u'Tiril? "T,WI',lWflVT A T OlAUHi IvttJ-ilUU lLi L PORTLAND SOON ' , , , Members of Al Kmlor tenipte, .M y w- lanii on frauiniay. .mnoar i his rmoniaI will he tin first lo he pro- tcnlifl by Hhrlneri and their ladie- from evt-ry part of the stale. Tho Ramblers, a newly entered basketball team in the city league, will journey to Ut.iion tonight to play the Union tenm in the Rnmbler's first game of the season. They have a strong lineup and are hopeful of downing the strong Union team. - - kn-w Iho Mil cn.jhl not juisu. IoKIoii Itill 'ruhlitl. : Tin MeMaltfin I. Ills Inipo.slni: f.-'i n r- irar.iin .r lit. n ..It &mnTiiiirPTrn&! nuninioitnn nrnprnc wiccT urrK rami 1 lilJUL Ul I I RULERS Til PLAYUNION i i WALLACE KE1D .Wallace Held, popular movie actor, who fiifctiinb'cr to death yesterday nr'turnoon at 1:40 o'clock in Hollywood at I ho tonu . inatipn of a three months' ill ness.' I'hyuSciuns had never diag nosed hi: vixbo hut it in nnder r.tood that hi.j brejikhiH: down in health rame as a result of his ceasing' the .use of "dope" which he la reported to havo taken ul the rule ot" lour granvi of mor phine dally until a few months ano when ho gained m istory over tlio liabit. DEATH OF GIRL Motion Picture Actor and ; Physician Arrested; The Girl's Mother Says She Was Murdered. SAN DIEGO, Gal., Jr. 19. With the arrest at Los Angelas of Koger V. B. Chuk, motion picture actor, and in this city of lr- L. L. Jacobs of the public health service hospital at Camp Kearney, the local author ities Thursday felt confident that they soon would be able to throw lijrht on the death of beautiful Frit zi Mann, dancer, whose body was found on tho Torey Pines beach north of this city, Monday. Mr. Amelia Mann, mother of the dead Pirl, collapsed while attempt ing' to testify at the inquest here Thursday, She hysterically charged that her daughter had bean murder ed and mentioned the name of a man who she said had bcrin with her daughter. The jury's verdict was that Miss Mann came to her i:ath by drowning in circumstances un known to the jury. Dr. John J Shea, autopsy sur geon, testified that the girl was in a delicate condition. Doctor Jacobs nppa,l-t a9 the police station here Thursday niorning to answer . ques tions regarding the case. The police say he had told them previously that he had met Misfi Mann Friday nijrht and that they had discussed her con dition. INCOME TAX HILL PRESENTED (My Associated Ppl'ss) SALEM, Jan. 19. Administration income tax bill, proposing a levy of 50 per cent of the federal tax on individual and corporations income was i.itroduc:d today by McMahan. of Albany. ( 3 GUM J iV irPE UD05SN.T V , v . -v . . LL . J : II IK SLOWLY IN LEGISLATUR Vacuum Pei'sists With Only Temporary Signs of Giving Way. FEW BiLLS ARE BEING INTRODUCED Senator Bruce Dennis Says That Bills Introduced Are Going Through Slowly. STATE HOUSE Salem, Jan. 17. (By Jlail) And still the vacuum holds the legislature. Now, and then it has appearances of triv ;ng up only to tighten down again with no bills introduced for a day and those which havo brtn sent in (and they are few in number) tak ing a slow lumbering course through the different committees. Today in the Housi. Representative Woodard of Portland was kno.-kd out of the box whon his bill to grant franchise to everyone in school elec tions was defeated almost una ni mou:ly. Then his Ibill came up to compel school boards to act with dentists of different communities in the examination and care of school children's teeth- "Paternalism and 8 o c i a 1 i s m" screamed the House member. and bine:, the roll call showed .all was over and the bill was defeated ' A bill was introduced in the House by our old fellow sinner, L. II. Mc Mahan of Marion county, that promise.-? to make the animals yell, as it were. It is a bill to cut down taxes by making every student a the university and .agricultural col lege pay . a tuition f?e of $100 a veur. lint it is also a provision ofi the bill, thqt in case a child wa.ts J to attend these schools and does not have the money for tuition Ik? can give his note to tha treasurer of the state of Oregon at a low rate of interest. Wow. Let's see what will happen. Old dad who has bucked the business world will ray, "Fine, let the boy have some responsibility lelative to his higher education," while it is believed many people who seek to elevate themsrlve.-i on "free education for all" will oppose thy hilt with vigor. It may not pass but it is going to have a lot of decent support jut the same- i In the senate today StrayVr'tf bill No. (i came up for third leading a'rd was passed with "three Votes' against it It is a bill giving country courts the light to expend all Market P.nad Funds, permitting certain state high ways in counties 4o receive .Market lioad money to tniatch state fvi'.ds, and also taking away, th? 'provision m-riviilinc 1 h-.it M;itkT. IJdjkIk lin hntll l.ir pf.nl n,.rt n.wlnr 1 !-. r.'.itu . -i I I specifications furnished bywth! high way department The opposing votes in the senate based tlu-ir opposition on the latter (Continued on Page Kight) "FIRE! FIRE!" aim pelt ADDED TO BAG OF VICTORIES L. H. S. Takes First Game With Wallowa County Teams; Hays Joseph To nif&t. La Grande J!8, Wallowa 17. That was all that the telephone communi cations emnnatinjf from, the stalwart iepic.3tntativenv of ths h'vsh -schoo!. now on a thtvu-prnme invasitt.i in Wallowa county, told. No mention was made as to whether so and so staricd, whether yo and so trot kick ed out of the panic or any of the other readable and interest .Vr de tails. Gloom, ' which thieatened to fall when the hoys left, is not nearly so evident today, Kour straight vic- . toi ies have been packed awav in the ptlt bajr ar.J I,a Grand? is still hoist ing the old flag "On to .Salem." How li"fr it will wave on, high is a mat ter of conjecture bei-ause the llu.1 and 'White facts their hatdet game' of the trin tmiii'ht. nt Jn.-scnh. At least everyone is expecting it to be a hard game and even in .Joseph, they are foxing quite satisfied over their hoop team members' perform ances. If La Grande can hiipg the drape on Joseph tonight and Enterprise tomorrow night, anxiety will no more cloud tho eyes of the scholars who aie pulling for another champion f h i P. La G ra nde has but th irtcen games on the schedule and four are hi.-tory, history of conquest. La Gtande beat Ujnion twire, scoring a' total of 4U points to the Maroon and White's 29, won from. Elgin 24 to 18 and aelded Wallowa to her victims, giving her a total of 101 points in four games to her otpon tnts C4. Every game has been won only by a few points, still the vic tory being d:ci.ive. Two games have I been won when apparently the locals were doomed to defeat, by a super human last half rally. f f W " DIRECTORS " HAVE MEETING I At a luncheon of the board of di rectors of the V. M. C. A. hel l yes terday, presi.d ever by Vice-Pre.-d-di nt 8. J). Ci owe, several matters of business were attended to- A good attendance wi-s pre.-itnt and follow ing the fi-guiar loutine of business a nomiiialing committee was appoint ed, consisting of , Howard (J'lJrien, chairman; A. ('. Hampton and Fred Kiddle who will meet in the near fu tuie and neihiiiate officers, the elec tion to lake Place next month at the annual meeting of the hoard. HI Mvll.S. I ti. Washing. yo;i will huv- iu ((HlTAI.l.tS. Jan. ' 011 'H 1 took out fur." csitit "N'ir,'" lIurlr.Hki', cd-iicli of I In- Wliit,:i!:ia baftUclWatl team. aM"T !. ;.tih' with Hi.- kkU-h. 1 1 it in a 11 lias i'iiy 1 11iri all a!il I :'pI'! k;i is hi :i positton to Know of what ti- ts lutUiii",. TWO MINES ARE TAKEN OVER BY FRENCH TODAY American Negro Digs Own Grave; Then Shot To Death By Mexicans CALEXICO, Cal., Jew. 19. Roy Gibson, a negro American citizen, duy his grave nnd was tho out- ic just shot to : hat i in .it on skirts of Mexicali. Mexico, across, the border from here, Authorities expressed the belief that tho slaying was done by an oigaimation 'of narcotic Btnug gieis. (iibj-twi, according to the nut hoi it ics, was well known along the border he up and had bffn arrested a number of times in. connection with smuggling operations. Tho slaying is be lieved by authorities to be a'ti outgrowth of the arrest here In'sT week of Joe Vadi, alias Iicppo, alias Manuel Sanchez with two others and seizure of narcotics valued at $:t0,000. 'Iha statu department at Washington has been notified of the slaying. IIS ONE BASTROP, Lu Jnn. 19 Testi mony as to tho' identity of ono nicni lici' of tlie masked band which on August 24 UiiVmpped Watt Daniel, T. V. Ilit-liard and several others, was offered Thmsday at tho open hearing btini; conducted hero by tin f-tate of Louisiana into the activ ities of hooded men in Morehouse parish. The mutilated bodies of Daniels and Richard were founil several weeks aKo floating o,n Ihe surface of Lake I.a Pouiche. Palholugists reported tins two men had been tor tured to ileuth before their bodies were thrown into the lake. Othor nmndiors of Iho kidnapped party havo iosiit!C!i to Having been. Hogged by tho kidnappers. Pred Eubanks testified he was held up by masked men on the Ha sh op-Mer Rouge highway that eve ning an.l that he recognized Newt tiray as a member of the party. (By. Associate Press) BASTROP, La., Jan. 1!), William McDonald, brother-in-law of J.. L. Daniel, father of Walt. Daniel, who with T. l- Richard was slain by a masked banT, testified today that "Jan" Jii.ios had told him "the whole dailined Daniel family" would be "clcaiud out" before llie alleireil at tnnpt lo assassinate , Dr-: iMcKoin wa-i settled. ' i JhiMi wi-i-lt u.ll i-i.ici-.. Hpccial llt I..11I inn. In I.a (Inuiile. Various or- Mi. m :'.n ions urn giving I he wi?ck ii-nl on. ami in mhui- ul' tho churches poo ll.'l lil . i . -1 l.-lf t WITNESS IN MURDER CASE LOCAL THRIFT WEEK PROGHAM :;i i stri'ss win lie piaeci on tho!0 n,'"'d it nod been Issue. I py the .-. il wc-iii program. The Meth'i- committee chairman, Senator La Pol-,i,oi-i h Im among these, anil UnJ ll'Uu of Wisccir.sin'. In a statement it ir.t-i inv.L .i ii. -: iN.nhiiH,. ,,f' Prepared in consultation with his at I..I ili nnio N:,ll,.iui hank' to1 '"""y" for presentation to the com-' li ...i t:,c i!, o. -ol s e. t ol ihli-n I mltu'e hB declared he was willing ...ill riiM.eai i.i..-r.ini has li.-eoi'" "'"""ce any records of the Hyva I....--.I I'll IhoMi-vln. which will cori-orauou oearingupon ino mai nwlns at that church. U'!" under investigdlmn by the coin . and a vocal solo l.y! "l,tU'c' ,Ut l',,Ut 1,0 wn J"!. "! '""' I'M It. II:. i.l. ilin.Ni :.'I . Ill I.e. .'t:... ijiii;li-Y, 1111,1 a noil. her py . 1 ; i;:iM-il il.iul.l,. iii;i.v-l will f.aluro the i'iiilnir iniisic. St- A X D It E IT T F. ST I !' I ICS (llv Associated l'r:ss) WASHINGTON, Jan. 111. The I'r.i'.n Pacific uttoiiiey Scandrett in f .iined the inteistate commerce com iiii sio'-. that the U- P. would not op- toe rM.uihcrn I ikmiic remaining with lh. Ci niral Pacific if the Og- j den line :i;l..ptl"J. traffic arrangemtnt was Radio Scoops Fatal Airplane Wreck A V',W. i.'.", San li 1'nlalhi l(.)aii'l. j U, u i v.i pilot, M .Vo-f'ilk, Va., w is ' t i nt i K ill. (I ii ml two ul In r im v.i 1 1 i (!p Ti weir m i lou.vl mjtii'fii 'rhiii'.s i.M u In n tin- M aplai-f f.-ll r.'ct mi,! ft.hni'i t ).it on u .... I: oil ii.iMna Islutiil. hijili-tl WtTi' 1 .11 lit. II. l hltlnali -f Sail KiaiM i o .iill l.lcm. MallhlaN !. Catvliicr tit Wiittll lllKtol. , P. t' I'iMj utfi pw ii.-i.vn mi.ii in tli f iurm. j 'tM i'-r.-i.. .th aiiMtli tlio .(. 1 Ulllll - lo t iJ In Ml til' of i..!.H'4 v. itil li i tnj' i .! w-. . At nn all: tiool.lo il-vilop- 1 'ai t.' I I 'I I, ill. )rop. c lo:- li.ink-. II hit -i Ml ' p! ;l : Ili i:o " t'" Rhineland Ring Now Complete j1 Seizure of State Mines in , juu. . District Is , Begun Today ; BERLIN ORDERS ALL FREIGHTMEN STRIKE ' Manager Ahrens Arrested By French for Refusing to Deliver Coke Today. (By Associated Press) ESSEN, Jan. 1!). Seizure of tho state mines in the Ruhr district by tho French was beKun today. Tha Uorsmnndaifluek and Wcsterhold pits near lEey, were occunied by the mili tary and Mannirer Ahrens was ar rested for refusing to deliver coke to tho troops. tho troops appeared (,t tho Mooller pits at (iladbtck and tho Keinbaden mine at Kottrop. 1' reiKht Tailwaymen - throughout Ruhr have been orTleie.l from Berlin, to strike this afternoon. COBLENZ. Jan. 19. The French chief inspectors took over the cus-: toms thritrict of Rhineland today making a complete .ring around tho territory. The name will be done in a few days in the Ruhr valley. Inspectors also seized customs funds, forests and coal taxes.. llnsiiit'K Halls. (By Associated Press) DUKHMIOLI IDIII', Jan. 111. All Ducuscldorf bunks closed today.' claiming lo bo unuble to trunsuct busi ness owing to tho seizure liv th j French of u local branch or tho IF,.l,.),u linnl; u 1. 1 . t I ' t .... I .. marks. ' ituii.ness Js at a standstill and In', closing the ltelsotiliunk, tho l.Yenoh' rounded up the uutomobllcs pt de positors who hud drawn money, aelx- ed the njoney withdrawn and sel7.et) the automobiles. - ' , Sinchup Denies Right of the , Committee to Examine . Records Outside of Oil In quiry, WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. Harry P. Sinclair Thursday refused to con cedo the right of the senate oil in- jvcstignling committee to examine the I complete records of the Hyva cor j poralion, a Sinclair-owned- private i investment compatny, at the commit tee hearing and Mr. Sinclair was served with a Kubpoena eo present the records Monday. , Mt Kitwli. ur,.nnti.l thn Bumnn col jjui aili.ll that pertain to other matleis not pertinent to thu Hubject i.:der inquiry. " It.MI, CASK M:,lt KM). . (By Associated Press) WA.SIHMJTON, .Inn. 111. The Koutlii-rn I'aclile's effort to retain th-i control of tlo l.'i-ntral l'acillc reach-i-'I lis final stage In nrgiltnent to.luy ' l.elore tin. Int. rstate I'omniereo I'oln- mission. I'n il II. Wood. Soiilln rn I acirie attorney, opened with a gen- 'eral Htal.in.cnt of the Issues Involvi-d. Wires In Tin- IhhIv ..i t ). .I',tri pilt tvM tu Injun ! men -riiiov l to the nt-' ma him? Ii.s.i hoMpitnl (ln.-i . wli-i i ' mirt'OHM Kilt I ihftr t-oitiltOoii was crit- t-al. Iliitlio Hi (US' Ni iw ''oiiiliiit in K"tt'ji.il. Imt i-ln'.irly tin ilMHt;i lll;i lit( tour, tho Voire of Mr. I'olliiiM, iinhijun it purty hi the at:--, piano wiiTk that oi cur-'O'l ut A vn- Urn. Hunin i'lUnitim In! nnl( fuff. hioailrjil'il Itto iIi-IhIIm of the. wwk ' uhout .V3'. (j'cloik o.tti;nlav v nftiV- noon. IS) worn, stutlonM nt jho , rnlit p'ccivlnK htutlon owned"' ly t Itiiiri" l.-iitit:. was n of the lorn I ' t ln-:ipl Hi luwoiint whirls Hat clxeti ithnofti :iutlv wart tin, Aorliiti-tl Jri'."J it lc put fi tlmt - ' ftit II Tl.ll Ohepilrr i',Vf!, f I 111 ' ii "V''pu;. i SENATE PROBE IS CHALLENGED mr ii I'tjJ ifc wJW'iiiwWwi-i 4 ii' w.i