La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959, January 12, 1924, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextEASTEiiN OREGON'S LEADING NEWSPAPER-TEN PAGES TODAY. Ha tonne The Weather '. i PORTLAND AP) Oro- iron Fair tonight and Bun day, ' - C I T Y EDIT I O N VOLUME XXII. LA GRANDE, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 12, 1921. : NUMBER -79 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PltESS MEMnCIt ASSOCIATED PRESS i SEEK I IN Hi' i Coast Lumber STATlE LAND Unsettled Engaged to Sarazen Gil HHE FID UPON BY CHINESE Hunan Soldiers Wreck JSupu 'Mission and At- tack Yankees. TRYING TO "WIPE OUT FOREIGNERS" Mission Looted and De molished; . 'Americans "Not Injured; Attack Is Thought Due to Mut inous Outbreak. PUKING, China (Uy the Asso ciated Press) Chinese soldiers of the Kirst Huntin division fired up on Kluvlsn Mullens, Amerlcun, and Arthur Uenson, ut the Hupu MIh Hion, according to reports from tlio American Consulate at Chung uhu. Neither of tho men were re ported (in . .Injured although the mission Is' described an huvlng been wrecked and looted by the soldier;'. , - , , The soldiers of the Chinese div ision claimed they were acting un der their commander's orders to Wipe out all 'foreign devils" but It In believed that I hu action woh In reality due to mutiny. After the uttuck the mission was put under the guard of other troops. KOMK. (AP) Today's news papers published telegrams from Helgrude assert. n? that the Mumi- question has been settled by the unnuxution of Flume to Jtaly and Porto Harros delta to Jugo-Sluvlu, both ports having cohitnon admini stration. MILITIA SETTLES FOR LONG STAY IN MARION, ILL. JIAIUON. III. (At') The utute mlllllu. stnlioneil here to. aid civil uiitltoiilU'B In rcct-nt linuor mid troublt-o. him setllt-d down for un indefinite slay, aceoidinB to their officers. llohhcrs Kimii! Wonuiii. " FKN'DI.KTDN. Or. Mrs. Jathryn Lang, a widow, who owns und manages a grocery store on West Webb slret. escaped being robbed when she admitted that thert; was no man connected with tho store and that either one of the two , men who entered her place could rob her by using only one hand. The men, one aboul 21 and the other about 27, entered the store shortly after 6 o'clock, asked for the man In charge and said t-V nUNlUU l IIP tUiliviHB' ui un .otjii register. Mrs. Iang pointed to the cush register and told them lo help themselves, but It was duply. Her duv's cash reoosed in a leather bog in her side pocket and was visible j FIUME DISPUTE IS Al l Ii to the nii'n. t h younKur roltlu-r. rv- will ili-llvur IiIh rainons uddrrKH on (U!i'I toMie a parly to rolblnff a'"'rin' Trial of Jt'Hus f'hrlHt rroni a xvoilian, so tln.-y k'ft without any j Lawyur'n Standpoint" on Sunday loot. .jinornlnir at I lit. AH'n's Koriim chili . ' im:HlnK'w-hk'h will he hnld In the t'ln.'i Iti'imlou l'launl. I'irnt Melhodlxl ehurch at' ten COUVAI.I.1S. Hans for a 1 11 1 I 'o'eloek. Mr. Kaklnhua delivered rlasn reunion In June are lielng Ihls adilress. before various ornanl made ly Dr. I.. I'. (lanihee of Port-jzallonH In Ihe past and II has in land, who has I n a eainpUH visit- j ways heen received with keen ap- or.. This class .hud Hi'J lliemliers. preelallon. Kule. Jalllnrc. who is In India, and I The Men's club Is open to every -Kreeman Mason of New Jersey, ex-! one and w ill convene ( II) and editor of the llaromelvr. are twojclose at 10:55 a. in., thus jdvlnR of the nietubers of the l'.H4 class inelillic rs who belong to srmie other w ho ere planninf- to return. The Irhurch the chance, to attend their clans. Jill dlK tip the records, the 'own church services after the claKvprophcsy. the will anil the or-'Men's clilti adjourns, utlon which arc bulled under the A law attendunec IK expected tree west of. Apperson hull. TH' tomorrow for Mr. Kukin and his tree. was the gift or the clusi to the topic never falls to result in an in Collcgc. erested turnout. . Governor Pierce Gives Tax Reduction Views SALK.M (By the Associated Press) Governor Walter M. Pierce, of Ja Cirande. addressing u ronveiillon of county judgeH und louqty commissioners here, said "There can be no big reform in usessments and taxation until we modify or change the inlllugt! lev. led," and ulso suggested increased licence fees, corporation taxes und Insuruiict fee.'- Former Senator I. N. Day blamed the injection of religious huea into politics and ubuses ar ising from the retail upou the pri Photo l of .Mrs. (intoo Cheney Iturffltti or Nan Francisco, whose itHvnt trial for t'.ie murder of her IiuhIiuiiiI, Harry Itarrattl, re sulted In hung Jury. She test I -urn ner ntiMMUiu kiueu nuii 'if In a lit of despondency. Emperor Simmons and Former Imperial Wiz ard Clarke -Expelled for Treason. ' . ATLANTA. Go.,' Al') William JoKr-ph HlmmonK, founder and em porer of the Ku Klu; Ivlun. and lOdward Younu (Murke, at one time acting Imperial wizard of tho or ganlzutlon, have - been banished from the klat for their opposition to tho refftmo-ihx'ttdtid by Dr. W. H. Kvans, imperial wizard, It was announced here Friday. Iiv ktan circle.. In a statement Issued here Clarke declared he was not sur prliied at (he development, declar-' iiijf that ''the attempt was made because Kvans and his associates arc desperate und realize It Is only for short time they will be able to hold the reins of organization and trample, in tho dust all the foundation principles and ideals of I the knights of the. Ku Klux Klnn." Clnrko Will Fight. He declared . that neither Ir. Kvans nor the imperial klonctbim, nor the body of druffon has the leu st 1 i-lurhL to banish either him self or Kmporer .Simmons, und as- serted that tho "real reason for jtlie attempted banishment. ' was an I erro to stp the patherintf of J klansiuen ut the national congress which lie luis called to ineet In !Atlanta. February 20. , The kian official said he would mako t. "regular formal appeal ailust the banishment through the regular courts of the order and then to civil courts of the statu if it becomes necessary." Kmporer Simmons wus expect -ec to tKSue u statement which It (Continued on page 2) "TRIAL OF CHRIST FROM STANDPOINT fill1 I.AWEB TOPIf Itolx-rl H. Kukin. local otlorn'y. mary and initiative measures, ia declared emplmticalllr thai the re call was a 'mistake." Governor Pb-rce udded, ''Let the Koldlers bonus nieiisure contlnu I to function but cut It from u ono mill bawls to u one-half mill or lowr., ".Modify the mil luge laws to leave the elementary school tux laws, but permit the tux commis sions to arrange lr h-S so thut tho money can be raised from indir ect sources rather tliun by taxa tion vt roa.1 property.' KLAN BANISHES TWO OFFICIALS OH MELLON TAX SCHEME House Leaders Hold ii Lengthy OLscuHsion of Measure PRESENT STATUS MAY BE ALTERED Representative Longwort Rep. Longworth of Opin ion Compromise jnccos " sary to Meet Various Demands. WASHINGTON. (Al) ' U-na-tnr Oiii.ln", Itcpiililli'in. Iixlny iinlk'ii)'d Srcretaiy MiJIon joint di-hnlp on II"' .iiwllni or (In nrovssltjr of ri'ilwliiir liirinne Mir laM from B lo 2.ri pel- ci'iil mid flopping H" issuance or ln i'em;! KM'lli-IIInt ns n nn'lllis or illu'rlin', capital lo productive. enterprises, WASHINGTON (AP) Uoullss Ing thut modlflciilioiiM piohahly must bo niacin In the Mellon tux i. in it it i ii in nnmminitl n nut iorit v il. ti. iwmsi. i!inuhtirun mcmlirn 1 of tho ways and means committee discussed tho uut'stlon Friday Wil h : Kepresentative , ionsworth, tho purty leader. j Tho conTerencn tasted several ( liours but those, who participated . declined to disclose, what hud trans1 pired other than to say 'Mlscus Mlon hud been treneral and related solely to procedure." Proposed changes in tax rates, it Is said, wero;not considered and no dec-Is- Ions wero Vouched. Kepresentative Garner of Texas, i ranking Democrat on the commit-! tee, who has, a substitute for tho J. .Mellon plan, declared lie was con- j (Continued on page 0) SHERIFF BACK FROM PORTLAND WITH PRISONER which sank Thursday urier a col lislon with the drcadnaught Iteso- Shertff Lee Warnick returned to Iji Grande this morning on No. 4 from Portland, Oregon where he bus attended u three-day school for sheriffs, deputies and polici during tlio early part of the week and Sheriff WarnlcW did not re turn empty-handed. With him came Clint I.-.Motley, who wus nrrested 1 In Chehalls. Washington and In wanted in Un i ion county it charges of obtaining I money under false iiretences. Mox-1-ley's hearing will bo held today If j possible. j . .Sheriff Wamlck reporta ii pleas- I ant trip In Portland- but annuunces that ho raw unite a bit 'of snow lu the Koso City while lie Was ut the officcri school. . Firm U Sold Christenson Lumber Co. I3uys Olson - Mahoney Lumber Company. j HAN I'liANl'ISl'O. (My Inn AHsn Iilnlid IVi'Ssl-Vrim nil., of tin' Ul-Kon-Mahon-y laiiiihi'r company. 'oni' of the ohlt'Nl on the PuriUc const, lo llir I'lirlsteii.sou dumber (company, ii KiiliHldiary ot Htl'Itlcn iiud flirislruaf 11, waa announced here. I UflliiiilH or tin' Olson-Malinncy firm announced Ike wile was nuulc dim to a desire to devole nil ih'i eouipany'H tllut; (o shipping inttu- It'HlM. Krdi'iislvi' luinlHr InlcrcHtH In Wusltinlon and On-iron uro hold by Suddt-u anil ClirisR'iist'n. Cane of State vs. Stareo Becun in Justice Court Early This Afternoon, j .l.icl; Stereo, of Sturkey, charged with posse."son of liquor on his Droiiiii'es. urrivoil In Crande to (lay and will be tried In the Jus-I tic o of peace court this afternoon beejiuimtf ut one o'clock beforo Jude J lurrh K. ltrady. Klnreo wu:" arrested several week.H ano und was to have been tried in December but the case was postponed until a Inter dale und Stareo was freed under bends. Stareo asked a trial by Jur. which will bo Klven him. Submarine l'CW Thought Drowned; . Hopes Given Up j PORTLAND, Kng. ( A I) Divers 'made a number of unsuccessful ef jfnrts off .Portland hill Friday uf iternoon to learn whether an ob jject located In 3a rat horns of wu- 'ti-r lu lln ItritUh RllluimriliK I i 1 ut Ion. Friday night there was not hing to give hope thai there would be any survivors among the members of the crew. An iind'TM a let examlnal Ion of tiie Itesohil ion slious unmistak ably (hat (he submarine must have been badly holed. , Sioux l-'alls Hank l-'ails. SIOl'X FALLS. S. D. (AP Tin Sioux Falls National bank,, capital ized for $160,(100, nne or the oldest banks In South I mkolu, failed to open Hs doors Friday. The bank I opened May 1. 1XK2. The Decem- ''r 31 statement or the bunk gave .ldeposits of more than $2,&IMI,IMMI. STAREOTRIAL STARTS TODAY; ; INNOCENCE ABROAD RIOT FATAL T Paris Political Gathering Breaks Up in Panic; Many Injured WKRR TO PROTEST II. C. L. ANt) RUHR Anarchist Objected to Using Hall for Politi cal Purposes and Chaos Folknvid. I'AKIK. (Hy the Associated I'ress) A meetlnK of Communists hero lust eveniiiff ut the headquar ters of tho Kxtreinlst Labor feder ation "wus converted Into u riot of considerable proportions. The ob ject or the meetinir was to lnstisrate a protest against the high cost e-f living and also ufrninst the occupo - Hon of this Ruhr Valley, by tin French. Two persons wero killed und score injured In tho chaotic condi tion that, resulted when Miu-meet-iiifr broke up. n anarchist objected to the un of tin; premises for meetinRs of a political nature und prominent Communists pelted und hooted him down. Shoot in sr started then which caused a panic. Fail I', Conrad Named, KAIJ'XM, Or.' - Governor l'lerco announced that he had uppolnled Karl I'. Conrad us district uttorney of Lincoln .county to succeed G; B. McClosky, resigned. ; Mr. Conrad Is practicing uttorney und lives ut To ledo. .... , LITTLE SYMPHONY -ORCHESTRA GIVEN BOOST BY CLUB Coming from tho Kotury Club of Kansas Clky, Missouri, a letter bus been received by tho proprie tors of the'Areude theatre express- delight thut 1 41 Grande Is to heur j (he Kunsus City Symphony Or jchestra Monday evening In tho Ar I cadu theatre. Tho letter Tollows in part: The Kansas City Rotary Club Is happy to learn thut tho , LUtlo Sym phony Orchestra, N.' 1 Ruberlls, conduclor, will bo u guest In your city idiorlly. ' After you heur them, voii will-, know, why, tho .Rotary Club endorses tho organization un qualifiedly. It lun been a great factor for good in our city und community, und we are pleased i to share them with our friends unit neighbor.' .Tho letter, slates thut the LUtlo ! Symphony h going over big und "ono thing mire, De Rubertis anil his men will please everybody." III MEN Mr ! I . K IMioto shows MisM .'Mary IVcli (above), duughtcr of Mr.1 nml .urs. iiotiue . imvk, now spcndhiK the winter nt Ml ami, I'la., wIiom cimngeiiient to (imp Saroxcii, golf htai', lias bcii au noiiuccd. It Is ii'iHirted. The recent rciort or Sarazeii's engage meiit to Miss Pauline dlnrcm, film star, proved "false, it Is sold. First La Grande Team Wins 69 to 12; Second Stringers Win 84 to 8 Over Imbler Girls. The l-u Cirande high school girls first und second busketball teams invaded Imbler hiHt evening und returned to La. Orande with two victories stored uway in their. pelt bag. The first team won U to 12 und. the second team were victors by a M to 8 score., A total of Kill points for La Grande to 2" for Imbler. In the. first team guino tho IHue und White glrla look an early lead (Continued on page f) S TO DIE Convicted Man in Utah Prison to Face a Firing h(iiad on January 18. HALT LA K 11. (AP) (Uoer It Woods, convlcb'd or wire murder must face a Mring siuad in the ( tati state priwui on .tanuniy IK. This wa: the decision Friday of the board of pardons, which de. dined to' take any action whatso ever upon un affidavit he filed last. Wednesday with Governor Charles I. Mabey ft tttt the board, In which In- expressed helled flint A. C. Vad ney of Council, Idaho, wa's one of the two robbers he tins always maintained killed Mrs, Woods. A further charge was that his attor ney luul forred Insanity paptjni In his behalf. rr; I'AI'I,, .Minn. (Al'l AKrl (iiltiiir UirimKh tin- i-oiiiitry in on Un. road to l.Tov.-iy uiu will l)o n mi rra of i;niuul i ot;irity In a Irw (.'nf!i It wnr. ilrrlari'il hy H'5 ri'triry 01 Ai;rl(!ulturi- llunry ('. V;ill:iri', who HpMkn l-'l lilay iM'Toril Hi., Mliin.-iiola Hlati. AkiIiiiIIiiih iiort.-t "l'ailii'-r.; ill all liiirln of the roimtry. InoluillllK I he HortliwfHt, ari' In hclt'-r coii'lltloii tlian laHt i-ai ini'l ill'. imii'(ivfiiii.t'. nhiHilil conllliiii- litliul ly." Air. Wallace Mt'il. ''Acr.ctilliiral ili'iri.it...ton hafl lilt lh lioltoni unit ii: un tlio up. turn, 'if rotirMit I hero will ho a coni.:ilernM" nninhfr of farnifrg yi't v. ho uill bu wtpfil out of Iiiih : m-m. tin in K("i'i'tl ih. tiuiuBtry ii on thv road to aulijty." WOOD HI i AGRICULTURE ! TO- RECOVER . '. . i . j : ... . ' BULLETINS Ciush Atxvmiit (tiuu -- : MANILA (AP)-l-An account of the clash' in which eonstubuhtry soldiers weff- killed und 8 rollg-1 Id us- fanat'on- Hliihi- ); buerl" ro celved here.-- ; ' ' . Cout'i'iuiury patrols 'eruisrd lo linens Island whore about ffDO,; Colorum, the religious sect, were hiding. They anchored the launch and fired ut houses whero tho Col-orhm-' devotees were hiding. No body appeared and the constabul ary landed, dividing Into two pa r thwiind' udvfanced towurd the, houses. They shot six who ap-1 peurec . ' ' ' ' -I Then largo numbers ofj. Color urns, estimated ut rttivjbhU hui dred, rushed Into the ope.iil over wlutlmlng the soldiers?.- Arter 13 wero killed' tho reiuulWdJji,,, rUshed Into the launch. ! Tho deHtructlon ', of (i.n; ' tank, known .us the "mlrucjUlo'ilti tank." believed to hold sacred" i water, In the jeputed .causo of the clash, according to official announce ment.'. About 30 members bf the so ciety were bathing In tho tank or drinking It's water when the. eon ..t.'iiniiaiy Is said to have broken U:j walls. Governor General Wood raid it wus possible that tho break big of the tank was done, becuuse the water became polluted or proved a earrior or Infectious dis ease. - KRpi Weak" ' ' PORTLAND' , (AVJ Kgg's ure' weak on today's mtirkets, priced ut L'8 to :u cents.- J,lvestock und 1111 ter steady. t , Late News Flashes ' FACES MURDEK CHARGE. AHERDEEN, Wash; (AP). Prosecuting Attorney (iraham filed a charge of Hecond degree murder againsU Special Officer Hollingsworth as the result of the death of Mike Dzniariu, fatally shot in a raid on a pool hall here. ', '. ' '.CASE TO JURY TODAY. ( HEIIALIS, Wash. (Ar). The defense in the trial of Senator Kuiclair, rested today. The jury was in sliuctcd by! Judge Reynolds. The defense used barely over one day presenting their testimony while the state used five. Before Judge Reynolds began his instructions to the jury the prose cution called three witnesses in rebuttal., John A. Vandcrpool, . state bank examiner,' declared June 'M, when Senator Sinclair was accused of making the false r.tatemcnt of his bank' srecord, he "would not have taken .an audit of the books to have found the dis crepancy." ', ; ' " .... FILIPINOS KILLED. ' . , MANILA (AP). Eighty members of the Colorum, a religious society, " were killed at Bucks Island last week in a clash-with constabular soldiers, official ad vices disclosed today. Nnicteen soldiers were killed, 13 in a clauh with the Colorum and 6 in another encounted. IS OROERED OPEN TODAY Interior Department Is sues Order Opening Oregon-Idaho Strip WEST BOUNDARY AT THE DALLES Strip Stretches from The Dalles Uastvto Jfoint Opposite Fort Boise, in Idaho. WAHHINGTON (By tho Asso ciated Press) A strip of land ex tundlng ucrosa Oregon from Tho Dulles to a point on tinake River, opposite Fort Boise, In Idaho, has been ordered thrown open today by tho Department of tho Inter ior. v . Tho land was originally a part of the public domain granted for the. constructing of a wagon road by Tho Dalles military road com pany und; the Oregon land com puny: In 1867. . ? It 1h now proposed to open re maining tracts under tho home stead und desert Iuwh thut havo not already been patented.. v Jlvo Vets Pn'feri'nce. . i 10 x -service men will ' be given preference for 91 duys. until May 1!. I!24, In filing upon the old iund grant thrown open for entry. Tho gene nil .public curt (uku tracts un- tuken by ex-soldlers, on May, 3. Kaiisah City Hank Hob bed. KANHAH Cl'IT, AJq. ,(AP) Mev erui negroes iieltl up a toller of the Main hreot bunk at tho door of; the bshorlty before noon IjidavhimtJ with 44.fjOt. Oregon Tribes to Meetiii Roseburg Soon to Pre sent Claims for Vast 'Sum of Money. HOHKUL'Ktt, (AP) A call for u meeting hero January of rep- resentutlves of Western Oregon In dian tribes, in the treuty of 1805 under which the Indians uro claim ing $12,6O(t,0OO for lands west of the Cascade between tho Columbia und Itogue I (Ivors ,hua been 1s- I stiei?. Tribes concerned are "thu, Tllla- mooks, the Hlugluws, tho Umpquus, the Qucillles, the Tootootoneys, tho (.'hitoes, tho Itogues, tho Olul las, the Types and the Culapootas. The meeting is expected to bring together Indiana from all parts oC thOpHtuto to meet Vith representa tives of the Federated Women's Clubs of Oregon, California and Washington, who became interest ed in efrorts of tho hull an a to recover tho uiiiount 'they claim Is lu i them. INDIANS CALL F0RP0W-W0W