ii V rn r v. ! , -r- ; ii i'i . ! h r Hi ) whl I J la' V I': I li II ? WE SEES ' a 1 SERIOUSNESS j DF SITUflTI! Invaders Are Alarmed at Catastrophic Fall in Ger man Mark Temper of People is feared. PARLIAMENT RIOTS I . FIST FIGHT pOLLOVS ttIy Attempts to Arrange ! Compromise Between Paris and Berlin ; f ' LONDON. Jan. 1 8. The Times correspondent at Essen attributes tba change In the French plans to the r fact ; that France berseil Is alarmed at the catastrophic fill of the mark, -with its- sequel ot enormous rise in prices and declares that this economic dis aster, is"; producing . an , . angry temper on the part tf the popu lace directed solely against the Fiench. ; , , ' ' ! . He declares that the temper ct the people tonight Is worse than . at any moment since the occupation, though fortunately there have .? been no untoward Incidents. l. V''V j , t- - PARIS. Jan. jl8(By f The Associated Press.) After nat is said to hare been the wildest rioting in : the j history: of the Fronrh - narliment dnrlnff ; which &3 deputies j engaged la a free for" all fist light oa; the Hoor. the chamber of deputies this eve n!t tar a Tote of 371 te 14S. decided to suspend the. jarlimen tary immunity of Marce Cachto, the communist' member.' J A commission of the chamber which inTestlgated charges that Caehln M recently had : been - en- aged In communistic , actiTitles that 1m- ! Ki the deputy's parllmentary . ' x musitv be lifted to permit : prose cution of Cahcln by the govern meal on a charge of conspiracy against the security of the state la connection with plans to call s a general strike in the J Ruhr and In French cities in protest ajralnst i France's -selxure of the 'Ruhr, .-v . .' V - -;-1 7 , - Esveral deputies, notably rad- , itals, , during the debate express ly el disapproval of the govenr i bent's action. . They declared j that M. Cachin was: being perse It cuted "for his ' options and 7 that , ' the eTidence adduced by the gov II eminent had not established the 1 ciime alleged. - If . V ' - ?, Epithets Hurled :. I ' ; This aroused the fury 61. ;the '-jnssbers of the rijght, H'--r Leon DDaudet ' was consplcu- ,,: ' Mi In " hn.llnv .nllhfttl I fiCTOSS v iue cnamoer. xne jiemwn tae left replied in kind ana oe- the deTil's utoo" on their desk lids; Francois, Arago,-rice . f M lL . M X X. VXA awing, naa to suspena ue ting lor a time. When it was ? I k ' grew worse and finally the eom- taunists rose In a ' body ,and. bowlSn oter the ushers,' at tempted to storm the president ial , desk, The members of tne right led by Princer Joachim Jdu rat, flew to the rescue. When the two bodies met fists flew, 'Eyes' were Slackened and ? lips and Arit vr awnllpn ' In ;" the i h mela. ' Hr. Aram itnni. ftt hlS ii place ' abore the tumult, finally 1 ertfering the sitting - suspended j r i strain bat the battle went on Icr -4 s ; W . - . ' ' T several minutes unui ; , fP iercementa of mheri h were I troueht nn and succeeded in i rarunehthe belllrerenU and fore 1 ! -it. it z them Into the labor.' them into the lobby. . After the exeltement had sub i:3e4 ,thei sitting , was ' resumed (Continued on page 6) THE WEATHER OREGON: Friday, rain.' LOCAL WEATHER . ;,' '' (Thursday) - raximam temperature, 49. Minimum temperature, 41 Hirer, 11.6; rising. rlafaH, .22 Atmosphere, partly cloudy. "i, south. m BILL WILL JE: ON SENATE The anti-sectariari garb bill will come out of the educa tion committee of the: senate with a majority- and minority report, .the ma jbrity members DUl.py striking out the penalty of fine and imprisonment im posed upon teachers ana the minority favoring allowing the. penalty , to remain, i t V f. . The amendment was moved by Senator Garland, and with him stood Dunn, Edwards and" Brown. The minority is Clark,' Kiepper'and'Todze. Tooze, however favored striking out the imprisonment penalty, but unable to persuade" the committee to his way of thinking sided with the minority. This was a surprse to some of the members. r ; v ; Senator Garland declared that-a penalty 'Should not be imposed upon innocent teachers, but rather upon directors or church authorities responsible for, teachers who might wear the garb. -,'' J : : - : -; :. I -; J ! '", : ' -- The divided report on this measure, is expected to pre cipitate a hot debate on the subject today. . . " "MILLY" REID LOSES FIGHT Popular Movid Actor Die$ in ilollywbotj Snatarium narcotics Cause LOS ANGELES, Jan. 18. Wal lace Reldi hero of romantic film. plays, lost his life In fighting to orercome the drug Jiabit, the end coming this afternoon at a sani tarium at Hollywctod where he had been under treatment for nore than a month. He had ben un eonscious vlor nearly two days, during , all of which his wife., Dorothy Darenport, was at his bedside. ' j ; ; . ;. ' ' j " Ijoees 00 Popnda t 1 The direct cause of death, ac cording to Mr. Reid's physician. Dr. O. S. Herbert, was congestion of the lungs a,nd, kidneys, which resnlted from the actor's collapse when he endeavored to break off the use of narcotics. Reid. who was six feet tall, and whose normal weight was 185 pounds, lost 60 pounds before the end came Up to about a week ago r relatives ' said he was I Improving land would be able to resume wui& u ia Famous Players Lasky corpora tion by July, at the latest, '..s'r C CkmrspBomp.-.to) Xaust". :-- ' "I'm winning the .fight, .mam ma," was the InVarlabie greeting te his wife? when she called on him. Mrs. Reid said her hus band "contracted he" 4rug habit during an illness nearly two years ago. He was working on a pic ture early in November when he suddenly collapsed. He was ad vised to : take a long rest, and started on 'a mountain trip with Mrs. Reid, Teddy Hays, his train er, and H. H. Fuller. On his re turn to Los Angeles bis condition showing, no, Improvement, he went to the sanitarium! Shortly before (Continued on page 2) eipsorjs KILLERS BELIEVED F Narcotic Dealers Suspected of Shooting Negro After He Dug Own Grave - CALEXICO,. Cal., Jan. 18. Mexican police and Lower " Cali fornia authorities - announced to night they were close to an ar rest in the' case of Roy Gibson, negro American citizen, who dug his grave and then was shot to death In It, Just across the bor der from here early today. Persons Implicated In narcotic smuggling activities on the bor der were among those underdose surveillance today, it being the theory of the authorities that Gibson's slaying was an outgrowth of the arrest here last week, ot Joe Vidal and two others aifd.the seizure of narcotics i jslned at $30,000. Gibson, the police said, probably was' executed by the iar cotic smugglers In the belief that he had helped the authorities In this raid. ; v QUI PIV1BEP i f favoring amendment of the OF John P. Robertson Passes on After Fifty-Two Years of Residence Here John P. Robertson, an old and .- . - ' A rnursaay evening aner an of only three days. The funeral services will be held . Saturday morning at 1(X o'clock from; the Hlgdon parlors'; Interment will be in ".the Odd Fellows. cemetery. - Cams Here in 1870 '"J That Is a cold, rcolorless story of the end of one of the best known men of Salem.. ' He came here In 1870 and for more than half a century has been known as a man of courage, of integrity, of far-seeing public enterprise and vision.' He advocated prohibi tion and woman suffrage K and other reforms that are today com monplaces, back in the days when they were considered dangerous to American freedom. 1 He ' lived to see Salem grow out of .the muddy . village days into a city beautiful and good. To see ,the West f gridironed with rallrojads and thickly set with happy homes. 'Fought for Development : Mr. Robertson fought for this development. He served for more than three years in the Union ar my. He was born in 1838 In! In diana. After the war he moved to Iowa where he took ' up Itbe study of law, and he was married in 1866. His wife, who had been Miss Henrietta Harl, died here In Salem in 1916. They had ,th,ree children, Dr. Charles H. Robert son, Mrs. Mildred, Brooks, county recorder, and Miss Mabet Robert son, a teacher In the Salem schools. " There are several grand children and great grand-children. FLOOR PIONEER -THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CEDAR TREE" By a Pioneer's Daughter ; ' if During the reign of King David, his good friend Hiram was king of Tyre and Sidon. t " , r, " When David laid down his kingly reign and his son Soi oman ruled in his stead, Solomon made a league with his father's friend Hiram for cedars from Mt. Lebanon fo build the great Temple and his own palace, paying .Hiram a yearly rental of twenty thousand measures of ; wheat ajid twenty measures of pure oil, to allow ten thousand of his (Solo mon's) jnen to cut the cedara from Lebanon each month, in company with a like number of Hiram's men. V The men of Sidpn were noted, for their abffityasjujmber- meiL ;-.'! ' : ' - ' " : These great trejes were felled and then hauled down the mountain to the sea and from there floated to the site of Solomon's Temple. : " "" A seed from bnc of these trees found its way from the Holy Land to America; and was duly sprouted. v V ; About thirty years ago the little sproutling was planted by Dr. J. A, Richardson on the parking of his property at , the corner of Church and Chemeketa streets, now the Ijome cf Dr. B. L. Steeves. --V-- The little tree, the only one like it in the whole north west, so far as known,1 grew in beauty and stature until this year of 1923, it reached its majority and brought forth a great-crop of cones. .'J K " ; These have disintegrated and flown to the far winds. The thick carpet of broken cones that fell to the pavement has been washed to the sewer by the heavy rahi3 and there by carried far down the Willamette by the recent flood, where in a few years a new kind of tree will spring, up, to the wonder of .the farmers living along the way, as even ,the oldest inhabitant will not remember of ever having seen any trees like them in the whole country. All the while the sturdy cedar on Chemeketa street, Sa lem, Oregon, will smile knowingly and whisper through the wmdi, -Bless "you, my.childreat" V ' y" -.- WHEN CASE : GOES TO JURY, IS STILL OUT At Late Hour Last Night np Verdict Had Been Reachr ed Decision is Expected Early Today. , TRIAL MOST TALKED OF ONE; IN YEARS Judge Completes Instruc-t tions at T :30 Warren Calm Throughout v DALLAS, Or., Jan. 18. (Spe cial to The (Statesman.,) With reports current around Tthe court house that the Warren jury were "not getting along j very . well," the probability of a verdict be ing reached at 10:45, tonlghV was Slight. - 'K. ' - ; , ' ' ' . Judge 11. H. Beit was expected to go home for the night within a. sboct time' and if a decision is reached it would, verdict.. be a sealed DALLAS, Or.,, Jan, 18. (Spe cial to The Statesman. )wnen at 2 o'clock this afternoon Judge! H. H. Belt comnleted his in- at ructions to the jury : and the 12 men who sat upon the case iof the state of Oregon vs. pnu- jlip Warren filed out to th& Jury room thore ended the most tai of murder trial which has taken place in Polk county in many years. --- v ..r '-. "Crowds Attend ' ' Crowds filled the courtroom to capacity during taking of test imony and hung on each' bit of evidence with a tenseness which bpsDoke ' their interest . In , the case. All day Tuesday and Wed r.esday the spectators stayed in the room, many standing aDoui the doors-and crowding In the corridors to get a glimpse of the drama being enacted there and to hear the actors utter the fragments of the lines which in their entirety were to form the basis of th decision as to whether Phillip Warren's life must die .because he shot Glenn Price, federal prohibition officer Oratory Flows The; - same ' crowd was there early this morning to hear Wal ter L. Tooze. Jr., special prose cutor, rise Into flights of ora tory as he built up: Into a con nected narrative the bits of ievl- dence which had been offered bv the state and to demand in the name of the slain ' man that the iunr brine in the verdict which would mean death to t&- ren. v They were there, to hear Ofcar Hayter quietly present the defendant's case to the sober countenanced 'men sitting . there in judgement on the life of the (Continued on page 5) HEY, LOOKITI COLLEGE BRED BLJE COATS Fouc Xear k Vniyersity Course "Idl Criminology Advocated -; ' by, Seattle Man PORTLAND, ORE.. Jan."-18. Establishment of courses In crim inology In Universities to train policemen was recommended : by L. S. May, of Seattle, president of the Northwest Association oi Sheriff and Police in addressing the annual convention of the or- ganizatioa which opened here "to day. 5 According to May there is at present time an organized propaganda of law defiance such as has never existed In the coun try and co-operation of the press, the - nubile and . universities is needed to combat It . ' It Is said that . it takes four years s tb, make ' a policeman," he said,: ''and if we are to fight ef fectively the organized activities of the criminal element, we must have men trained for the work. - VOTE ON BILLS r BE KILLED Senator Taylor Wants Action on Eleven Appropria- . i tions Withdrawn The favorable vote of the joint ways and neans committee on eleven appropriations, which , on Monday night were ordered draft ed into approved bills, probably w'ljl be 'reconsidered and .rescind ed. This as a result of a fiery one-minute speech by Senator Henry. Taylor, of Pendleton at the committee session last night.! Senator Taylor declared that the committee, has "started out in .horse-race fashion' and done things it ought not to have, done." mous vote ordere the bills draft ed and approved Senator Tay lor movjd- that the . action be withdrawn.' His motion did not go to a vote, but is expected to Monday night. ' Senator LaFollett sided with Taylor, declaring that in voting the appropriations the committee bad Increased taxes S 12,009. The committee may allow the bills to be drawn and have them further considered bef or they are introduced. . The appropria tions coTered the governor's of fice, secretary . of state's office, state treasury, attorney general, state emer gency j board expenses, appropriation for 'printing records of the Grand Army of the. Re public, fund for the apprehension of fugitives from justice, Cham poeg memorial park, McLoughlin home, election expenses and fund, for printing the records of con ventions of the United Spanish war veterans. . JURY FINDS JOHN ; NiViM NOT GUILTY 1 Verdict Is Returned - After ' Prolonged Deliberation ' of Twenty Hours . -After being but for 20 hours, the Jury in the case of the state, against: John inman returned a veraict or "not guilty." ine. jurors received . the case at 2 : 30 Wednesday afternoon and did not make heir report untl 10:50 the following morning. . Inman. was charged with assault with a,' dangerous weapon. v ! " The jury was given three forms, of verdicts which might be re turned, either finding the defend ant guilty ot the crime ot assault, with a dangerous, weapon: of as sault without being armed with a dangerous . weapon, or guilty as charged In the Indictment.' In place of all these verdicts the jury returned a verdict of "not guilty." ' v Mrs. .Inman who left her-home in the company of Charles Witty is said to have returned , and Is now living with her husband a Salem. Charles Witty completely disappeared ; and ; could - not be found to appear as a witness against Inman. , , H HERRIfJ JURY UiEGIDEOi Judge ? Instructs Separate Verdict for Each of : De fendantsMust Be Guilty . or Innocent. - . ! "MURDER OR NOTHING" JUDGE HARTWELL SAYS Varying Reports Say Ten to Two for Conviction, Sev en to Five Against MARION, III., Jan. 18. I By The . Associated Tress. ) The Jury of Williamson county farm ers, .Into v whose" hands the ;Iate of ' five men charged with , the murder, of Howard Hoffman,-one of the victims of the Herrin riots, was given shortly before noon today continued-their .de liberations tonight without ' being abie'vto arrive at any verdict. One report ' during the' after noon was that 1 the) jurors stood 10 to 2 for conviction. Another pla'ced s the count at 7, to 5 . tor ccquittal. No. grounds could be found for either rumor. ; ' Require Separate Verdict Under the: instructions given by Judge D. T. Hartwell, the jury will return separate verdict for each of the defendants and may find one guilty and anotner innocent. At the 'same time the jury will fix .the . punishment, if any; ranging, from ydeathlo r 14 years . imprisonment. ' t T . ' "It's murder or nothing." Judge Hartwell said after the jury had retired and he had re fused to give ' any instructions regarding a manslaughter verdict which would carry only a sen tence of one year In prison. He also refused to give any instruct ions regarding self ' defense, ex treme provocation or justifiable bomicide. In his .instructions Judge Hartwell , outlined : the" law re garding reasonable doubt, aiding and abetting conspiracy, and .'de clared that the jurors should not go outside the evidence to obtain doubts. He gave no instructions regarding the libl evidence "of fered by the defense but did re fer in one paragraph to the mine union. ."; . . Jury Locked; tTp Vi , "The jury T is Instructed that under, the Jaw. of Ulinoia It ,1s unlawful for a person to mine coal without being a" member .of the United Mine .Workers and should any persons be assaulted or killed for no other reason than that they, were mining' coal without belonging to the Union Mine Workers such assault or killing cannot be justified, on the ground that they were mining coal without belonging to tne Union Mine Workers", he said. The court also held that If the evidence showed the defend ants took . the prisoners- from th$ mine as a conspiracy which re sulted in .murder, they were as guilty as though they had take part in the killing, even if they were actually miles from the scene at the time- of the slay in gs. -, :. '-y At 9:30 o'clock tonight:. Judge Hartwell announced that he .bad ordered the Jurors' locked up. fqr the night and left his ' office for hie home. He said he would, .be ready to receive a verdict at 9 o'clock, tomorrow morningli the jury reached any decision. Election Board Bill ' Withdrawn by Blowers Representative Blowers of Hood River has adopted a philosophical attitude . toward the fate of at least one of his bills in' the house. ' Blowers Introduced a bill call ing for the repeal Of the double ccuntlpg board at elections. : ,Tbe bill, was referred to the7 commit tee on reylsloh ' of laws. January 10. Wednesday Blowers appealed (o the speaker to hasten a report on the fate of his bill and yester day, when W report" was 1 made. Blowers withdrew hhiU 1 am doijig this.!' said Blow ers, "for .the' good and, sufficient reason that I know-the biH will; not pass. '-; ; " - WATS-and PROFOSED-.lf There will be no direct appropriation by the state l:b lature for the relief of fire-stricken Astoria. ' This became a virtual certainty at a tumultous rnectir -of the joint ways and means committee last night in execu tive session following a public hearing given Astoria off iciah, Portland citizens and members of the legislative relief com mittee. The ;tumultl arose not so much over a question cf appropriating money as over some alternative method cf extending aid, for early in the meeting it became apparent that the committee is almost a unit against the ?500,000 ex propriation proposed in a pending bill. Although the com mittee voted unanimously a sentiment in favor of extendir aid in some way, two members of the senate side, Taylor ai: J LaFoflette, made it plain that they were not pledging them selves as favoring an expenditure of money in any manner.' The attitude taken Jay the committee was a surprise in asmuch as it followed immediately after the public hearin where the cause of Astoria was" presented by a group cf speakers Jed by "James Mott, member of the legislature from Astoria, and city attorney at that pla;e, who presented arguments-for the appropriation in one of the most master! v speeches ever heard in the strength of his talk was made by a number 6f veteran lei lators and by other persons who sat-in the 'public hear!.: : chamber. . . c,-. -.--X! '-' '-' . ' ' " ' BELIEVE I1I10UIE IUII1URDERE Rogers V. B. Clark, Motion .- Picture Director Linked ; With Dancer's Death LOS ANGELES. ' Cal.. Jan. 18 Rogers V. B. Clark, motion picture director, talked freely with " newspapermen and willing ly" posed for photograpers- as . he waited in Jail "here for ' the 'ar-. rival of San Diego ' officers to take him to ' that city on suspi cion of ..murder In connection with .; the ,' death, of Fritzl ' Mann, whose , almost nude body was fcund on the beach near .Torrey Pines last Monday. Bloodstains Found Clark who admits that he was a former friend ' of the : dead. dancer, was arrested today at the request of the San Diego police. Bloodstains found on the ' cush ions and floor 'of his automo bile, and the removal of - one number1 " from the rear - license plate 'resulted in his being book ed on a .charge of. suspicion ot murder. . " ' j)etectivc8 assigned; .tbrthe . case made a. thorough . search bt Clark's room In a fashionable hotel shortly after he was arrest ed 'but failed to '.find any .let ters' or pictures' of Miss". Minn. Information was obtained' by detectives today that Clark ,had consulted a firm of attorneys early f this ; nforning .and t,old them. he. expected "to be arrested. With, the arrest at Ix)s Angeles " (Continued on page 5) T NOT TO ClUffi Number 45. Between Turner L rancf pacific Highway, Xo - Remain as Before 4 : ' After carefully considering tthe pr.os and cons as to the changing of boundary lines in road district number 45. 'between Turner and the Pacific Highway, the county court yesterday decided that' no change was Justified at the pres ent time.- The decision marks the end of a controversy which .nas been warmly contested Jty resi dents of this road district for , the past wetek or twp. " ,:. About .forty residents headed by George Morris presented! a petition demonstrating against the present boundary line. - 'Ah equal number, headed by John McKinney and W. F, Wrighk,- fa vored the present lines. - Changes In road districts pusv ber 11, 12, 7,' 17, 65, 27 and ,5$. all of a minor nature,' were fayqH ed. Objections filed to changlBg boundartps. In Toad strict '.f-ot-; ber 51 were sustained. f - ROAD DHThC mm W state house. Comment on-t!.o The ways and means commit' 3 retired Into executive e . . : : -. session" with the apparent L;t. :i tionof. taking some action on th-9 Astoria bUL This was forestai: 1 at the outset by Senator Ifeary J. Taylor of Pendleton who covf I that-the committee adjourn wrail 7:30 o'clock next Monday n! t. ; Vlt .the rest of you are as tire I as I am you ' want to ad;'; , .too' he said. "As for mys If I don't propose to be rushed o?i V Astoria matter or anything We, started . off In a terse r:n here the first nlstt and lilds . , things that we should cot Lro done. We took some actioa t ; I think should be withdrawn." V.Taylor Against Ilashir , : Representative Xrowucll n:. an impassioned plea for Ait.-..., mentioning Jitat in his district i Multnomah county the-feeling c' sympathy is strong for the t'atsi city. ,-V:"--i 7- . This brought Taylor again t! his foet. " ' BrowneU says he repres e -' a quite a, district in MultDOL iL county, said Taylor. "I repre sent & small district myself - three counties in eastern Oregon, and I know what the people th ;ra want. If he wants , to force tLU Issue to a vote tonight I i.r o vr very well what my vote will La. 1 don't propose to be rushed." - Caution Advixxl "It Is quite apparent to ne," replleod Brownell, "that the i: fi lature is not going to vote Astcria this gift, but Just the same, I -move that wo vote on tins u'-H to night." ;,' ' . . Senator Strayer. stayed this. In ferring ta a telegram that til been read in the public hearing from United States Senator Stan field, urging state action, Straytr declared that he was not stara pedod by a telegram from Senator Stanfleld. . 'Things' at Washington mora slowly,! said Strayer. who coun seled that the committee defer ac tion until the first "of the comln week. "If act tonight we may do ourselves and Astoria irrepar able wrong. : It has been intimat ed at the public hearing tiat there may be an alternative tro- posal, and I cannot vote intelli gently on this tonight, for I have n't had time to think it over." . . : Hurd Wants Action - ri think e. very th Ing tic a speakers said tonight was tr ." said Senator La Follett, "but tl y did not increase my eympathy c- j bit, for I have been deeply pathetic toward Astoria e,ver tiz :a I heard of the fire. Bat tow caa. we help them when we, havea't the money" Repretfentatlye Throne w aj against an immediate' vols. . "Let's think it over,", he ga!i. , "so when this bill is turned dawn we may know what alternative to take." . - - : . Representative Ilurd of T:z-'.i3 spoke at length ia favor ct re'.::! measures, declaring that if it provs impossible Jto paa th3 ap propriation bill, then some c : :. . r means must be taken by tUs Islature. ' J . 7 '-Bfany Sosestions KiaJe "I have brought. out what I de sired when I made my net!: - to vote," Brownell interpose:. 'I am not now able to say ia tat s " i I favor. I do not think tlo s; proprlation :is the thin ' r ' , among men are not .;kirj (Continued ca Z)