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4 CITY EDITION ieAU Hf and If All Tram, FICTION FEATURE TODAT "Her ?" War," story of romance and adventure, on the feature pam o( Tlx Journal. .Appeals to all lovers of good. fiction. Follow th Story day by day In ,Tb Journal. .. - . . CITY EDITION itVAU fcrc and lf AU Tram . THE WEATHER Tonight and Tuesday Minimum teniDerature Bundav : - Portland ....... XT . New Or lea a.. 54 PecateUo- t. New -York,... 2. Los Angeles... . U t Paul, 2 VOL. XX. -NO. 269 . 4 SWeaoe-Ctea. lbttac w Feete'iire. Portia ad. Oreo PORTLAND, . OREGON," MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY,16V 1922. SIXTEEN PAGES. DOTPf Trrrr r'-rrwr'cr ? oi rwaiat ana a 31 CONFERENCE 1 FAR EAST Did Husband: Poison Her? MRS. AUDREY CREIGHTON RYAN, member of prom inent Los Angeles 1 family and " prize winner ; of .the . American Conservatory of Music at Fontainebleau, who is dying at the American hospital at Neuilly, France, from the effects of poison tablets.; Her husband, Thomas S. Ryan, on the staff of an American newspaper in Paris, is under arrest accused of forcing her to take the poison. Troublesome Twins 21 Demands j and Shantung Continue to Be : Snag) Approval of Naval Pact ( Held . Up by These Questions. ; ., , ;.J..-.. By Qeerge R. Holaitt Wsshington, Jan. II. (I. N. a) Tha troubles om Far East twins Shantung and the dewiaada came to the center of the conference stags again today, to remain this time until Ihalr fata baa been - finally aattled by the conference powers. ' It la the plan of the American alloca tion, supported by the British, to drtre straight ahead on the Shantung laaue . until It la settled. To this end prr spec- IW meetings of the naval committee . and of the full Far Eaat commuUe were railed off today Waring1 the field again ' dear for: the Japanese and Chines dele ate to pursue their efforts at a Shan tung agreement unhampered by pressure of other Issue. or mess high Utah hope were expressed by Amtr lean dalegatea that this, the eleventh week of the eonferenoe. will ace the clearing of the eonferenoe aUU. on all questions afftrtzig China. Th meetings which the CV.n'se an iaoaneea bava held In Washington to date have settled every question tn .olved In BhantuTia- with the exception of the railroad, which both aide regard aa the crux of the whole matter. Tha Chinese, making Shantung the teat of Japaneae sincerity In the Far Eaat. have Instated upon abeoluta financial and operative control of the road and havo grimly act tied beck to wait. Alternate proposal augmented by Sec retary Hughes and A. J. Balfour, de signed at settling the controversy along line parallel to the Chlneae position, have been cabled to both Toklo and Peking. Report that the Chlneae cabi net bad decided to accept these have not been followed by confirmatory instruc tlona to the Toklo delegation In Waah ington. , -JAPASt BJCrCCTCD TO TIE ID , 'Th lmprelon .will not down how ever, that ultimately Japan will yield In the Ph ant en a- eontroverey In order to 40ciD4d ao, rae Te. Celeam Opt a . AYER BACKS PLAN I Pledging I1S00, W. B. Ayer propoeed thla morning, at a meeting of the unem ptoyment eommlttre In the may or" a of fice, to make a canvag of bualneaa men of the etty t get them to underwrite the expenee otJhe municipal wood yard. The plan la to Insure the city against any great loa until auch a time aa returna can be had from the aale of wood. Report from the various charity In stitution of the city and the police ahow that the wood yard, located at the foot of Rhartdan street, la a auccrne. It la esti mated that by It operation the unem ployment adtaatton has) been relieved by about 10 per cent The yard affords re lief for the unmarried men and allows Umm who are married first chance at real Job. Mayor Baker aald. An extensive campaign for aelllng ticket to the ' charity, ball win be started, It was decided at the meeting. Bosloeaa men and other will be called poai to purchase the tickets. Proceeds of the bait wHl be uaed to finance the wood yard. The - attending the meeting this morning were W. B. Ayer. E. C 8am mon. K, B. MacNaughton and J. C. Encllah., The woodyard I being operated for men who have no mean of getting food, Fur working la three-hour shift the men receive three meal ticket and 11 cents for a bed at alght. - The wood 1 to be sold to public or ganisation a goon a It ha been prop erty seasoned. Movies to insure v Will Hays Under 2,000,000 Policy New Tork. Jen. It, l N. 8.) Will IL rjayg will be. Insured for 1KK).00! when be resigns a postmaster general te accept . the position of bead of the national moving- pioture Industry, It was learned her today. The policy will be straight life, running three year, the duration of Mr. Hays' contract, and will be payable, la case of death, to the reorganised National Association of tha sieving Picture Industry. Mr. Hays will have to pass a physi cal -examination under about phy eiclana. ".;,. . ', 0 A D NEEDY IN aM..';a..,t j"...,.' 'yCll, iA J ;' - . fc-i, ::,.. 3? ' ' t ' ..' . 1 ' A - r? . - i4 s ""wwulliri I tTiimi i aalslgmj' ' nniii1 i in hsi iiiiiuiiii V n.Y n iHN r .i mi .... .... . -w.ww.. - Tr-"i r -s tiistigM IRISH FREE STATE NOW Viceroy Turns Over Powers to Michael Collins, Provisional President; Dublin Castle No Longer Feared; Troops to Leave Dublin, Jan. 16. Ireland today became a self governing state. Lord Fitzalan. viceroy ' Of Ireland. turned oven his power of government '.0 Michael Collins and the provisional southern cabinet in a dramatic meeting- at the Mansion House. At the same time,' word came from the war office at London that 10 battalions of British troops had been ordered to evacuate Ireland Immediately." Dublin castle, for. more than 700 years the seat of British authority in Ireland. and long the target for bitter Irish ha red, was peacefully .-captured" by the Sinn Feiners. - Occupation of the ancient structure, symbolic of Britain's domina tion, began. Saturday when the old archives were burned and Sinn Fein, dep uties began taking, possession. . - CROWDS CHEER Led by Michael CoUfns, the members of the Irish provisional government entered the room of stale where the final ceremonies of surrender took place. Great crowds gathered outside the gates and cheered. - The crowd had been waiting ' In the cold for hours before three motor ears bearing Collins and bis colleagues swung towards the gates. With Collins seated In the first car, the crowd went wild hailing him as "Conqueror Mickey." . During the two years of guerrilla warfare, when Collins ' successfully eluded all the efforts of Dublin castle to MISHAPS ARE POLICE NAB NUMEROUS ON ROBBER IN ICY STREETS HOLDUP ACT Most Serious Accident Befalls Man Sighted by Two Policemen Geo. B. Lee, Salesman, Whose as He Presses Gun Against Left Leg fs Severed Under Mtl Scott Car; Autos Skid Wildly. Breast of Clerk in Treves Ho tel; Restaurant Yields Loot taring Ice-sheets on pavements and ear tracks this morning caused a long series of accidents, motorists finding It Impossible to hold their cars on the bill streets and : dosens . of machines were damaged by skidding into curbs and other vehicles. The most serious accident reported was on the Mount Scott carline when George B. Lee, 4848 Slxty-serOnd street, southeast, fell under the wheels of a P. hR- I P. train at Laurel wood station. his left leg being cut off below the knee. He was taken to St. Vincents hospital. Owing to the slippery condition of the track, the motorman was unable to stop bis train at, the station, according to a report , given the police. Lee tried to grab the front car. He slipped on the Ice and fell under the trucks of the rear car. ! The accident was about 6:20 a. m. Lee Is a salesman for the Standard' OH com pany and is 32 years old and married. . The unusually low temperature froze surface moisture so hard that chains, ropes and other expedients Were almost useless on automobiles. At : the accident bureau of the police station emergency calls and accident re ports began flowing In before the morn ing tide of traffic was fairly under way. Every street was a source of danger, but the hill streets on the east side were the worst. Before 9 o'clock 11 accident reports1 had come from autoists who started down the Sandy road hill and piled up along its curbing from the top of the grade to its foot at Forty-second street Five: accidents were likewise reported from the Mississippi avenue hill at Fre mont street. Several more reports of broken wheels and bent fenders came from the Oregon street hOL Automobile drivers and streetcar mo tormen were moving- their cars with care , and this alone probably prevented more serious' accidents. The rain blew in, upon the city from the southeast, before the east wind had drawn away more than a few hours. M S'cJoclt the. official, thermometer at the "weather , bureau . station recorded a 10,00010 LDiER AID Mrs. Adcox Dies From Shot Wound Death claimed Mrs. Marie Adcox at 15 o'clock this morning at St. Vincents hospital. . She ' had. shot herself last Tuesday night ia her home, (S3 Siski you street, when her husband. Lather L. Adcox. returned unexpectedly and found her entertaining Eugene . C Habel. Charles Glass and Mrs. M. Case at a din' ner party. - V ' uurtng we altercation wblcn touowed 1 o I L P L f t. n ' n t Mrs. Adcox rushed Into the kitchen and nUpfl. OCnneelOCu IO. rUrClllSeS snot nerseiz inrougn the left long. The I r ni-.t .1 e- o. rirsi biock at t ivrer. went Interest and $17,900 Premium; Cash Bonuses Begin March 1. Fortuitously timed no melodraraatlst could nave done better to produce a theatrical thrill, two policemen at 4:11 o'clock this morning frustrated an at tempt of John R. Pierce, hold-up, to seise the valuables In the safe of the Treves hotel. Eleventh and Stark streets. Police, however, were not so suc cessful at the Olcott restaurant. 41S Washington street, where at about the same time yeggs broke Into the safe, took $61.55 and escaped. While Sergeant Ennis and Patrolman Kelly were passing the Treves hotel they saw David L. Martin, clerk, holding his hands high In the air, and saw an auto matic pistol pressed against his breast. The holdup man waa going through Martin's pockets, hunting for the keys to the safe. CAUGHT IX ACT Waiting until Pierce's weapon was not in such a dangerous position so far as Martin waa. concerned, the policemen rushed Into' the lobby and turned the trick on Pierce. Nothing Is known so far by the police concerning Pierce, except that he Is XI years old and came to Portland two days ago from Vancouver. B. C He Is held on a charge or robbery. Cold chisels, meat cleavers and mallets were used by the restaurant robbers in tearing the doors off the safe. The job was similar to several othea "safe crack ing" exploits of two and three months ago. JIMMY WINDOW The cracksmen Jimmied the front win dow of the restaurant and the Indica tions are that entrance was made about midnight A small safe was located en the first floor. This iron container was carries. to the basement and there the thieves' took their time In hammering It apart The proprietors said the total contents of the safe twere : removed. Detectives could find. no. fingerprints upon the safe and It is supposed that Cloves and blan kets were Used so that no trace could be left and. a the noise could be znuf bullet emerged from under her arm. Pneumonia, which set tn because of a punctured lung, could not . Do con quered, attending physicians said. No inquest will be held over the body. After a conference between Chief of Po nce L. V. Jenkins. Captain - John T. Moore, chief , Inspector, and Dr. Earl Smith, county; coroner. -It was decided that the case was clearly suicide that , there were no attendant circum stance requiring an Inquest to fix, a re sponsibility for the woman's death. The body was removed to Finley's undertak ing esxaDusnment. Funeral -. arrange ments win be announced later. . CHARGES HURLED IN 11 CONTEST ' Paved and tmpaved road onjCaTae f O 'HVr. f!rfty-wer covered with-treacher- J HOME' &AnEl ous coating of loa. Numerous tntotoo- j a teapoC several j VICTIM; IS WEAKER Paris. Jan. ,11 (L N. S. Mrs. Au drey Crelghton feyan, wlio charges that her husband, Thomas 8. Ryan of Mus kogee, Okla., compelled her to swallow thro bichloride of mercury 'tablets, was growing weaker - In-nhe American hospi tal at Keuiuy today. The attending phy sician. Dr. Grose, said she might not live until tomorrow. Although the heart and brain war normal, the doctor said that the kidneys had been eaten almost away by the poison. . Ryan has been detained by authori ties pending the outcoome of his wife's rate. Mrs. Ryan to a California girl who has, been taking violin lessons In rana , Ford Shifts to Moiieylsstie find him. he had completly captured the Irish Imagination. -.V Collins . acknowledged :' the .plaudits with a wave of his hand and a wide grin. The scene in the chamber was far dif ferent tqday from the former days when : the privy council sat in the same room to : adopt coercive measures for Ireland. .Irish soldiers will sruard the castle the Irish bastile on ..Tuesday for. the first time In history. '.'.' biles were stalled at the foot of hills. Unskilled driver found hair-raising ex periences in attempting to guide their cars down grades. ' When Simon Jomak, a tailor, 36 years old, stepped onto the pavement in front of his home. Auditorium Court apart ments, this morning, he slipped and fell. He lies in Emanuel hospital with a frac tured arm. Front 9 o'clock until 2 p. m. the ther mometer continued to rise steadily un til at the latter hour it registered 31 de grees. The weather, man was confident this afternoon that higher temperatures tonight would end tne dangers ox a heavy silver thaw. ,' - Two Sisters Shot Down by ex-Soldier, Who Kills Himself Notorious Gunmen Batter Down Bars. Escape at Detroit Detroit. Mich, Jan, It (C. P.) Four prisoner. Including two of the city's wiost notorious gunmen, fled to freedom from the Itouae or correction today. - Th men made their eeoap while be ing inarched te breakfast. They slid out f th breakfast line and hid In an ante room, after which they battered down th . bar and .dashed for liberty. Walter Wysockl, , the leader of those wh escaped, waa serving a sentence fov bunrtary. Others who escaped were David Hart. Daniel Wornocki and Julius Jaasea. , . , :, ' . . " Chicago. Jan. It. (I. N. S.) Viola and Jobina Hunt, sisters, are hovering between Ufa and death today a the re? suit of bullet wounds Inflicted by Ber nard Fiannery, a former soldier, whose mind was unbalanced by his war experi ences. After wounding the. clrls Flan nery shot and killed himself. So far as friends or relatives of the girls or of Fiannery could relate there was no motive for the shooting. Al though all three lived in the same apart ment building they were hot acquainted and Fiannery. tt waa said, .never bad apoken to the two girls. Th shooting occurred In the vestibule of the apartment building where the Fiannery and Hunt families lived. The girls were returning from a visit to a friend. A they entered the vestibule Fiannery fired without warning. Both girls were wounded In the abdomen. Since he returned from Siberia, where ne was sent with hi regiment Fian nery bad been treated In several hospi tals for his mental condition. Recently he waa sent home as incurable, but was considered harmless. - - Washington. -Jam 16. U. P.-) Aban doning ' his. fight against the : "Interna tional Jew Henry Fbrd thtsSreek wtll open the greatest battle of his career- a nation-wide campaign to readjust, the basis -of American money. The Detroit . automobile manufacturer made me announcement of his new cam paign in, Waahington Just before leaving for home. - While he was in Washington pressure was brdugnt tfpon Ford to continue his anti-Jewish campaign and to "let the money. Issue alone." - . . . . This pressure was brought by . cer tain . Important non-Jewish financial houses. l, t'They would rather we'd hammer the Jew,' he said, "than bring the money question to the front "But the money question today Is vi tal. The world cannot get back to work and prosperity until we have estab lished our . money on a basis of pro ductive energy. ' Our money must create work. ":"''. 'We have all the gold in the world. We have millions of unemployed. .Ger many has no gold. Germany has no unemployed. Germany Is ;the 'busiest country id " Europe." Ford's plan for reorganisation of the American money system calls for estab lishment of a new basis or rams behind money, i eliminating gold. It to his the ory that money should be Issued against great - government projects which In themselves, create -work, such as .' the Muscle . Shoals project IRISH PI-in.viNi mxnriio . - REPUBLIC, B - YAIiERA ' 8AT4 on for- EITEE ROUTE TO THE DALLES IS AGAIN SHIT OFF BY ICE - The Dalles, Jan. 16. With -a minimum temperature of 20 above and a maximum of 81, The Dalles today is BtiU'in the grip of the. wintry blast that, has held River transportation Is packages of ciga rette and: three revolvers were stolen from the home of 'Frank L. JSau. 585 Halsey street Sunday night The, bur glars entered the house through a side window. After breaking the lock of a back window at- the home of William R. Ag- new. 59 Fifteenth street north, burglars climbed into the house Sunday night and stole $5, The police received notice that the fol lowing houses had been prowled : The residences of F. A. Robertson, 517 East Eleventh street north, and M. Silverman, SIS East Tenth street north. A com plete Investigation will be made at both homes. Burglars entered the Oregon cream ery, 130 Second street Sunday night and stole 370 from the cash register. En trance was gained through a skylight The thieves brok out the glass, climbed down to the second story and ransacked the building. Charges that Mrs. Jessie El rod Moore. second wife of the late L. K. Moore, poi soned her husband s mind against his daughter by the first marriage, to such an extent that he left her out of bia ill. were made in Circuit Judge Tas- well's court this morning by Dan J. Ma- larkey, attorney for Mrs. Greta L. Thompson, the daughter. Mrs. Thompson, who now resides with her husband. A. J. Thompson, at Usk. B. C. is seeking to have the will set aside and a decree entered that her father died Intestate. The esUte la valued at about 340.000. E. V. Littlefield, counsel for Mrs aioore, announced mat ne would en deavor to disprove the charges, which include a long list of alleged cruelties practiced upon Greta Moore by her step mother before the death of the father. Malarkey's charges, made in outlining to the court the reaaona for the will contest Included a review of the early atruggles of Moore and hi first wife on their ranch In Morrow county, where ureta was born. After the first wife died, leaving the Stt-year-old baby, and wnen aioore s fortunes began to Improve, Moors married Miss ''Jessie Elrod Ma- larter sail, tn- family later build I ne- una nynw i uasx rourteentn and waaeo street Malarkey enumerated- many al- texea acts or cruelty practiced by the stepmother, .including fiorginn for- no rreaaon.. suppression of sodaV tnetinct. and finally persuading th father to dla- innerii tne girl. . ? . aiaiarkey said ; he would dimmm charge that the girl was .disobedient ana oi weaa moral fiber. Salem, Jan. 13. At a price said to be - the best offered Jn th West for bonds ' since itls. the state bonus ootnmlaeioa today 'disposed of th first . tlO.OOu.OOt block of bonus bonds " to the Ralph Schneeloch company of Portland.' Th . bid 4Vt Per cent Interest and I173M premium put th bond on a basis of 4.4SL . ' ' -.:.:---'":.-'. Printing and cgalng of tha 18. WO Jo- year serial bonds Is expected to take about five, weeks and the commission hopes to begin payment of th approxi- ' mately 13.000,000 In cash bonusus.' aaked by SCS4 cx-aervice men.; by March L Loan totaling $1309.(0. requested by 7231 former soldiers, will follow. . Three other bid were received. John E. Price A Company of Seattle offered a premium of $t&.9M. but at aa interest rate of 4. making the basis 4.(3. The National City company of Baa Francisco ' and Freeman. Smith At Camp of Port, land also submitted offer. ;'.' The comm lesion in time ted that another block of bonds will probably be offered about Jun L Bond buyers, vhe said the offering today was th largest 1 their knowledge, tn th i Padfie state. -advised that future blocks be advertlaed In smaller amounts, net greater than 35.000,000, saying more competition would result The commission Is authorised to sell a total of 310.0O0.0OO la bond. , Th commission Is highly pleased with the result of the sale. Qcurlag. on th basis of the entire amount authorised. saving of S7.S0e.000 to th state do to the delay of tha test suit which pre vented disposal of bonds on the date first et for the sal, when bond price war 9 Children, Wife Survive Suicide Ontario. Or.. Jan. 11 The body of Ira Corbit was .found, Thursday, noon with his head blown off, la. a -vacant cellar on the Harvey Wright place, two mile from French. Idaho, a small com munity 1$ miles from New Plymouth, Idaho.- Corbit ? owner of ' the Corbit Mercantile store at French.' disappeared Tuesday, hatlee and carrying a shot gun. . , III wife and nine children sur vive, ,..., ' ; ; ' . '.' -l ; an uaaiei. uusaneu .. .. .- ((Xpyncht 1922. by International Mew . .. r Seivioe.) . -r- - - t Dublin.. Jan.- 16. Eamonn De "Varerau former. "president of the Irish renublic refused to .accept the. Anrlo-Irish peace treaty oecause be believes that it is not' a stepping stone but a 'barrier to com plete independence for Ireland. De Valera made this Statement todav m "the first authorized interview he has given out since the opening of the Irish peace negotiations. De Valera has improved both in health and spirits .since ,the, bitter struggle In the Dail Sireann when Arthur Griffith, founder of the Sinn Fein, ousted t him from his position- as president Today ne was tne same smiling man the Irish knew before he made his trip to the United States. FburNarcotic Drug Peddler Suspects iiv Custody; Fix Bonds Four- more, alleged -narcotic peddlers fen Into the federal drag- net Saturday night . AU are In the county Jail today In default of . bond.: Thomas Ryan and Ray .Cook were, arrested at the Imperial hotel after they -are alleged .to have sold narcotic agents ounces oi morpmne and 4 Vi ounces of cocaine, or enough narootlca to make up 4800 one dollar packages, the sise- usually sold to drug addicts. Assistant United States Attar r.ey Flegel has requested $2500 " bail agalnrt Ryan and 3ls00 against Cook, Dewey Webb and Eugen Lumblin, 291 Cohimbia street, were arrested after they are alleged to have sold the agents two drams of morphine. - . The alleged , sale was at First and Madison etreeta. ' .The package contained enough morphine to make 60 one dollar package Lumblin. alleged principal la the transaction, is held under 3150ft ball and Webb, alleged agent ox 1-iumDun, under 1000 bail. China Threatened By Revolutionjof a Far-Reaching Scope Canton, Jan. 16. (L N. S.) A new revolution in China on a bigger scale than' any other in the last 11 years In this war-torn republic, was believed to day to be imminent Civil war . Is already in progress be tween the two rival republican govern ments Of the North and South, but there are rumblings of a great uprising which will overshadow the fighting of the Northern and Southern armies. The blow may fall any. time.;". - The forces hostile to the Pekin admin istration are' gaining In strength and ac tivity. General Wu Pel. Fu, . inspector general of - Punan and Hupeh privinces, has- sept , an . ultimatum to Premier Lian Shis Tt at Pekin- ordering him to resign with his entire cabinet- Gen. Wu Pel Fu threatened to march on Pekin to enforce the ultimatum with his army. If tt were rejected. ; again completely blocked as a result of Ice in the river. The east wind has been blowing for several days. The steamer Madeline reached here with difficulty Sunday night about 10 o'clock and left down, again two hours later,' leaving some of her -cargo behind in the, haste to get through the , ice, which was- momentarily getting heavier. , The river here today Is half filled with the drifting ; floes, the ice cakes being a foot or more thick. The Ice is show ing, a tendency to jam at Crates Point three, miles below The Dalles, at the sharp bend in, the river, and it Is also Jamming in the narrows above Big Eddy. The river ;- sloughs are froxen and skating -has been excellent for a week. Hundreds were out on the ! ice all day Sunday. The tee is six inches thick over the sloughs. Snow has fallen - in flurries intermit tently every day since' Tuesday and the condition continued today. Ferry boat service is being main tained with much difficulty and danger by one launch. STANTON IS FIRED OFF POLICE EORCE lear attnctiT. RICHER HED Oil TilURDER CHARGE ' ..... ' ' ' " - . . - :r U. S. Loses in Fight : To Limit Liability On Ship Passengers Washington.' Jan.- li.-t4L N. S.) The director general of railroads today lost his appeal to the supreme court of the United -States for a rehearing of a case lavolrins a contention by the govern ; ment that the law of limited liability for destruction at sea or a ship applied to passengers aa well as to freight Lower courts held the limited liability law did not appty to passenger. .. - c. , er of Late Jake Hamon Will Be Film Actress Harry L. Stanton is - "through as a motorcycle - policeman on . the Portland police force. An order discharging him was signed today by Mayor Baker. Stanton was on a 30 day suspension while three charges against him are being Investigated ; acceptance of "pro tection" money from bootleggers, being drunk on duty and passing bad checks. "It was proved to my satisfaction." said the mayor, "that Stanton took 350 from A. C; French, a bootlegger." The dismissed policeman, according to police investigators, forced several resort proprietors to cash worthless checks under threat of arrest . Stanton and Guy Simpkins, another motorcycle policeman, were suspended early In December when the two were charged with having imbibed of liquor while Investigating a report of noisy hilarity at a .wedding party. Simpkins will b given a bearing by the civil ser vice board Janury 26. President Nominates Oregon Postmasters Washington. Jan. 16. fWASHINO- TON BUREAU OF THE JOURNAL.) Tne president today nominated the fol lowing postmasters r Oregon, Guy E. Tex st Central Point ; Albert M. Porter at Gaaton; William C. Depew at Lebanon ; William G. Smith at Mill City. Washington. William I. Leech at Stlel aooom ; Andrew J. Died rich at Valley; Ex-Convict Escapes t Hospital in Fight Chicago. Jan. It -.a.K &) ' Clad only In pajamas, -Walter Wallace, said to br an ex-convict awaiting trial on another charge, escaped -from the county hospital today, after a hand-to-hand bat tle-, with attendants. Wallace . knocked down the attendants In th police .ward. lied. to a bathroom 'and leaped ont the window to the ground. - - - : Roseburg. Or- Jan. 13. Dou'tlaa Tapp. aged 33. and long- a Douglas county resident is dead, and C M. Young, aged 49.. a rancher residing In th Elk loa dis trict is in Jail here on a murder charge. Young, according to his story, shot Tapp to death about 10:30 o'clock last ounaay nigni at in r. k. fcjrr rancA. located about four mile . southeast of Elk ton. Moonshine alleged to have been manufactured by th dead man is said to have played an Important part in the quarrel , that led up to the fatal ahoot- tng. Young at the Jail today said that he shot In self -defense. (By .Unirenel SerHee) Chicago, Jan. 16. Olive Belle Hamon, daughter of the late Jake L. Hamon, is going into the movies! Olive Belle, who la lust 12 years old. stole away from her home Sunday and visited a studio. where she was "screened" for the first tima , Her TOOther, the former Mr ; Hamon, now the bride Of William L. Rohrer. re tired capitalist is expected to give her consent to the' child's ambition. Th little girl Is a talented musician. -Mother wont object," Olive Belle said today. . "She wants- me to ba happy. I havent decided yet whether I'm going to be another Mary Pickford or a Mabel Norman. -1 like both." , Coast Ball League ; Declines to Accept LandisV Draft Plan San Francisco. Jan. 161 Th Pacific Coast ' Baseball league will not submit to the draft as outlined by th baseball commission .headed by Judge Landla The directors of the league went on rec ord as being opposed to. th draft short ly after the annual meeting opened here this morning. . - Under Landis plan the majors would pay $7300 for each player drafted from Class AA clubs. . Movie Operators1 --I Local Loses Case ' Washington. Jan. 16. L X. S.) Th supreme court' of the United States to day dismissed, for-want of Jurisdiction the case of the Kansas City 'motion pic ture machine operators, local No. 170 against the Eastern Theatre, ; Kansas City.. Th effect of the action by the court Is to make permanent the injunc tion . against .. the labor - union, (ranted by -the lower courts. ; : i Large Steamship Is Eeported Afire London, Jan. 16. O..N. &) Th American , steamer . Pennsylvania re ported by wireless this morning she bad aighted a 3000-ton steamer afire off Gab- bard sands, noting that her lifeboats nan been smashed in efforts to launch them and that two steam trawlers were stand ing by to give aid. .The nam of the vessel had not been mad out at th time th message was sent , ' ., Arbuckle's Chief Of Counsel HI and Trial Is Pompon San Francisco. Jan.' It Roscoe Ar- buckle's manslaughter trial waa Inter- j rupted after a short session this mora-. ; lng by the sudden Qlneaof Gavin Mo-' ; Nab, Arbuckle's chief oovnseL , " McNah was taken ill while examtnmg a prospectrre Juror And court adjouraad until afternoon. MeNab went lmmedl ately to his home wher at noon tt was ' said to be doubtful whether h could ap-' . pear in court tomorrow. - . No further progress towards securing a Jury was made today. s r Leagu e Lives, Wilson Holds ' n n wt h n ; -.r..- t ' Crowd Gathers to Cheer Him! v B CBited 5ew)' " Washington. Jan 13 Wood row Wil son today believes in the unquestionable vitality of the League of Nations, and regards it as perfectly able to "take care of itself." - In his first direct reference to the league sfnee his defeat In 1929 the former president speaking to more 'than 1000 admirers Sunday evening, at his borne, further declared that those -who do not believe In the vitality of the league "will have to look out for themselves." Wilson said his only concern about th league Twas to see our great people turn their faces tn the right direction and move with all their forca," The - former president's Irvmarks were in response to the greeting of th crowd wbo-trudged two mue inrougn sjusny street following a mass meeting in down town theatre at which th local campaign to establish the Woodrow Wil son foundation was launched. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor and. member -of the American advisory com mittee at the arms eonferenoe, as the spokesman, told Wilson the demonstra tion was proof that th League of Na tions was - not dead. - GIVES BRIEF ADDRESS i The former president, leaning; os th arm of Mra Wilson in the doorway of his homer, addressed th crowd as fol lows:. "I need hardly, tell you how such a demonstration of friendship and confi dence make me feeL There can be no doubt as to lb vitality of the League of Nations. U win take car of Itself and those who don't regard It will have te look out for themselves. -.-' I hare anxiety for It my only anxiety Is te see our great people turn their faces tn the right direction and move with all their force. I thank you for all thla. I don't deserve it but I enjoy it never- ' thelesa" . . . , s . ... The demonstration at th Wilson home wss the third that had been tendered th former -president sine his retirement -from public Ufa Th ' first occurred March 4, 192L followluc the lnaugura- : Uon of President Harding. On. that oc caaion thousands flocked to Wilson's bouse. Th second demonstration occur- red during th afternoon of Armistice day. after th ex-president had ridden ' in the funeral procession of the unknown soldier. - --. - - ": On neither of these occasion did Wilson express more than his appreria- ' Uon for the demonstration. On this"' third occasion, which marked th open-. mi or in naitoifWM a rive in hi nam. - wooorow wuson addressed th lam crewd which Jammed th street for near ly half a block tn -vote dear and strong. . CHEERED RT. CROWS ' - Ahhoogh his voice lacked th vol am of more vigorous days It was heard tn th center of th throne and bronrht - cheer after cheer. Tb former oread- ' ' dent's physical appearance waa good and he smiled happily aa U to confirm the reports that be was surety) crowing stronger. -'- Th pilgrimag to th Wilson hosn was . ex tempore and th result af . motion passed unantmoualy at the the aire mass meeting, of which Charles E4- V ward Rasaell was chairman. -' -..- Woodrow WUson week, beginning MoW- day and ending Jsnuary 23. has bees designated as the period in -which . a - -million dollar Is to n raised from &icb th foundation plans-to award a - an nual peace prise, similar to th Neaol peac prlaa- . - r y - -- kV ..