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THE MORXIXG OREGOXIAX, FRIDAY, MAY 26, 1922 015, RECLAMATION MERGER IS TRIED Mondell Gets but Little En couragement, However. ACTION IS DEMANDED Pressure Being Exerted by AVest on Majority Iicader, Who Is Blamed for Delay.' THE OREGONIAX NEWS BUREAU, Washington, D. C. May 25. (Speatal.) Pressure brought by residents of the west during the last few days for the early enactment of Smith McNary reclamation bill is beginning to arouse leaders at both ends of the caplfol. Representative Mondell of Wyo ming, house majority leader, who is blamed for the failure of the bill to bo put before the house, took the trouble this afternoon to walk the full distance of the long corridor which leads from one end of the eapitol to the other to confer with senate leaders on his proposal to have the Smith-McNary bill made the land settlement provision of the soldier bonus bill. Mr. Mondell talked with Senator McCumber, chairman of the finance committee, who has the bonus mat ter In charge, and with Senator Mc Kary, and asked for a hearing be fore a sub-committee of the finance committee, which is to report to the full committee on the advisability of Incorporating the reclamation meas ure In the bonus bill. Encouragement I Small. It Is understood that Mr. Mondell received but little encouragement from senate leaders, their position being that the reclamation bill should stand on Its own merits and that ..leader Mondell if sincerely Interested in Its passage, should clear the way without further delay for action upon It- In the house. There is little doubt that favorable action in the house would be followed by similar action in the senate. It has been pointed out by friends of reclamation legislation In the sen ate and house that Mr. Mondell ap parently has been opposing the 6mlth-McNary bill on grounds of economy, but they add that certainly there is no manner of reasoning that the development carried in the meas ure will cost the country any less if made a part of the bonus bill than If passed as a separate measure. It Is asserted by proponents of the bill that to make it a part of the ujouas measure win proDaoiy result in. destroying the intent of the fmmprKW which is to reclaim lands wortli re claiming, lands the value of which will be increased many times merely by irrigation or drainage. It may be expected, It Is declared, that if the reclamation bill Is offered as a bonus intendment senators in the eastern and New England states will insist that projects be created for their sol filers in those sections In order that ther soldiers may not have to go west or south to avail themselves of lomea on reclamation projects. Attention was first attracted to the growing demand from the west for the passage of the Smith-McXary rec- ) lamatlon bill when a local paper I printed on the first page a dispatch from Yakima, Wash., saying that cen tral Washington editors had threat ened political reprisals if the bill was not passed at this session of con gress. Resolution Put In Record. Senator Jones of Washington put the resolution of the Washington edi tors in the Congressional Record. Senator Ashurst of Arizona reinserted the resolutions yesterday, together with a statement from Governor Campbell of Arizona published local ly. Senator Ashurst said he was not going ihome until congress had acted on the bill. Governor Campbell, in his inter view, pointed out that the irrigation commltees of both, house and senate tad reported out the Smith-McNary bill and laid the failure to get action at the door of certain house leaders, Baying: "It appears that a narrow view point of a few house leaders Is en dangering Its passage through in activity and procrastination. We may live a long way from Washington, but we are familiar with the political tactics of letting a meritorious meas ure die on the calendar. The west today is watching the national ad ministration with Just as keen an Interest as the leaders are watching wthe west." U Blocking of Bill Alleged. In charging house leaders with rbtocklng the passage of the bill ! Governor Campbell cited the pledge J of, the republican national platform , to adopt reclamation legislation and i called attention to the fact that V President Harding had sought to keep j'falth by giving emphatic indorse ment to the Smith-McNary bill, i It was learned today that Repre sentative Mondell has been hearing 'from the west within -the last few hours. He has been receiving clip pings of editorials in western news papers censuring his attitude on rec lamation. His proposal to add the Smith-McNary bill to the bonus meas ure Is not taken favorably. If Mon dell Is for reclamation, his critics ask, why not let the house vote on it free of any other consideration? ARMY AVIATORS GUESTS Lieutenants Entertained in Spokane Artcr Flight From Walla Walla. SPOKANE. Wash.. May 25. Ned Schramm and H. C. Minter. lieuten ants in the United States army, were guests of military officers here to night, following their flight in two army airplanes today from Walla Walla to Spokane by way of Lewis ton, Idaho, and Pullman,. Wash. They expect to leave for Seattle tomorrow morning. The flight from Walla Walla was made In 2M hours flying time for the distance of 160 miles, they reported. They were accompanied by Staff Ser geants Charles A. Datto and John E. Cordon, and are using De Haviland planes. Their flight is in the interest of the citizens' military training camp to be held at Camp Lewis this summer. w ould lose more than his necktie if he agreed to go up. "You will t your earliest conven ience go with me to the war depart ment," Mr. HerricR wrote, "and make the request for a plane, and I will back up the request as a congressman personally." , The Oklahoma house member said he would make no requeBt himself because he-"was sore at the depart ment for issuing an order that I must not do any more stunt flying-over the eapitol for fear I might fall." If you really have any sand In your craw to make good the chal lenge," Mr. Herrick added, "why you just mosey around to my office and we will go to the war department together." Dropping Into his own homemade poetry, Herrick gave this: If when we fly away on high, ' " ' We both should fall to ground and die; Then any one who wants to cry Siunt rub an onion in his eye. Advising his challenger further to take out some life insurance,. Herrick said he had none, adding: -"Personally I don't have to, as I am not leaving any dependents behind For I have neither father nor mother, tister nor brother, uncle nor' aunt, nephew nor niece, nor cousin even in the 43d degree. Life to me is not sweet and I don't care two whoops in Gehenna if you go up a couple of miles and stand her -on her nose and let her hit." EXTORTION RING EXPOSED ALLEGED BLACK-HAXD OPER ATORS ARRESTED. Headquarters of San Francisco and San Jose Gangs Declared to Be Small Arsenals. SAN FRANCISCO, May 25. The arrest by federal postoffice inspectors today of Johnny Luppiparu in San Francisco and Vincenzi Moneiva in San Jose, Cal.. on charges of at tempting to defraud through the mails, brought to light the existence of a coastwise ring to extort sums of money from, wealthy Italians under threats of death, Charles E. Caine, chief inspector, announced. Coinci dent with the arrests two supposed rendezvous of the ring in San Jose and San Francisco respectively were raided and proved to be small arsen als, Caine said. The arrests were made on com plaint of Frank Louricella, well-to-do San Jose Italian, who, according to Caine, enabled the police and fed eral authorities to ansper one of the demands and to trap the alleged con spirators. Louricella received the first demand several weeks ago, say ing that he would have to produce $30(rt) or be "blown up." He paid no attention to it, and later his garage was destroyed by . a bomb. The de mand was repeated, this time calling for $5000, and he called in the police. "She officials arrapged to send Mrs. Louricella to the supposed rendezvous here with the money, and the arrest of Luppiparu and the raid followed. In this raid the officials1 obtained enough evidence to Justify a raid on the San Jose establishment. Caine said that "many more arrests are expected." , U. S, EX-ENVOY GETS S a French Said to Have Sen tenced Charles R. Crane. SYRIAN ACTIVITY CAUSE KAISER PENSION FOUGHT Bill Introduced to Prevent Resto ration of Rest of Property. (Copyright by the New York World. Pub lished by Arrangement.) BERLIN, May 25. (Special by Wireless.) Because "the Holienzol lerns brought infinite misfortune and have proved, .without doubt, guilty of the country's misfortunes," the Inde pendent socialists in the Prussian diet have introduced a bill to make certain that what remains of the Hohenzollerns' properties shall not be restored to their exiled owners. Another bill has been .introduced refusing the Hohenzollerns a pension. This is the answer to the reactionary campaign based on the decision of the Munich court that the revelations made by Premier Kurt Eisner of Bavaria, which led to his assassina tion are false. The reactionaries rea son from this decision that Germany was not guilty of inciting the war. Man Sent to Xear East by Wilson Administration Reported Tried v During Absence. , CHICAGO, May. 26. Sentence of 20 years in prison on a charge of Incit ing recent disturbances in French mandate territory in Syria has been meted out to Charles P. Crane of Chi cago by a French military court in Pamascus, according to a copyrighted dispatch from Cairo, Egypt, published today in the Chicago Daily News. Mr. Crane was the American ambassador to China during the latter years of the Wilson administration. These reports, according to the Daily News' dispatch, said the mill;. tary court passed the sentence - alter a hearing by default" (that is, in the absence of the accused). "A notice in the newspapers," the dispatch continued, quoting the offi cial communique, adds that the Amer ican government has been notified of the verdict. According to the newspapers, the court held that Mr. Crane was equally responsible with numerous Syrians who are serving terms in prison an account of the outbreak. "Reports from Syria- are that po litical prisoners are obliged to sleep on the jail floor and to subsist on dry bread and olives. "Miss Twslech Rahwandji, 15 years old, was recently arrested in Damas cus because she was a pupil of Miss Nazid Aabed, a Mgslem teacher in volved in the disturbance. Miss Aabed was one of the women selected by Mr. Crane to receive educational benefit In the United States. His check for $1000 to defray her traveling expenses prompted the charge that the Amer ican government was subsidizing the Syrian malcontents. "After they had put her through the 'third degree' in a vain effort to force the child to give Information they sought, they locked her up for two hours in an empty tomb. She was then taken back to prison in a state of collapse." Charles R. Crane arrived at Damas cus early In April and received an enthusiastic reception from the large bodies of Syrians gathered there, in cluding many prominent Syrian lead ers who are resisting French author ity in that section. Mr. Crane was well known among the Syrians, having been sent to their country by President Wilson during the Paris peace conference for an In vestigation of conditions. The recent return of Mr. Crane was accompanied by considerable agita tion and French dispatches declared that police had to be called out to calm the people. Mr. Crane left soon thereafter. Following his departure several prominent Syrians who had spoken with him were placed under arrest. Later the lncarcaration of Dr. Sah- dande hi Gandhi, one of the foremost leaders, added to the. agitation. Popu lar feeling ran high and when a 'pub lic meeting was held April 14 the mil- Toledo May Buy Water System. CENTRALIA.Wash., May 25. (Spe cial.) 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