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, craouuiTioa Avaraf for Jana, 1923; ' 7 8a&4ay only 1 COO 3 Daily ant Saa4ay , ..&40S ATraf for aix aaoataa ending Job 80, l - ia: . Saadaya only .. , .... .5974 Daily md Sunday L 549 nr this cttt or bit.ttj ' and alaawkara im f mm Marios and Polk Ooaatlaa Kaarty ararybody rood i, The Oregon' Statesman: THB HOME KSWSPAfXB . ' gfcVENTY-THIRD YEAR SATURDAY MORNING, JULY 7, 1923 PRICE FIVE CENT3 v J (0) WW 7; : FlillR-LCIB . 1 TO! Organization Splits and Uin " " ority Go to Federated Group; 9 Individual Plat ' forms Are Planned ' POLITICAL BETTERMENT . SAID AIM OF GATHERING Dictatorship in Russia Is Not i Desiredr Declared ;f.ow . - --r Unshackled ;v ' CHICAGO, July 6.- (By jthe Associated ; Press. V -The, federat ed Faer-Laoor party iand the Farmer-Labor party of the United 'States.' with .individual platforms and candidates, are announced as entries In the 1924 political field. ." The majority of': the' Farmer Labor party today refused to af filiate with the federated organi sation, a group horn In the Farmer-Labor- convention and idecid--ad t on Br 'platform and ticket of its nwDi A minority went orer to the federated party, splitting the . r Fiv Bolters Accepted ,r t cToiiiitfwa rnmmU- tee of the federated party accept ed i fJVd '-or the bolting f ariner-la-borites as members of its exe cutive- committee .and proceeded . to the SeieCllon ;Ol jan wecume council od an Intensive .progranr ' of actirity. Headquarters "of -the federated party ' probably ' will ' be " here, C.,;E.:Ruthenbarg of Cleve- iana, eonvictean mcmiui i communistic tendencies and a leader in the new Oarty antfotfne- f Cd. i - "i' . ,. K- ' , The farmer-labor convention ; was adjourned after a day of ora . lory over a motion of M. Toscan Bennett, member of 1 the party's - sat tonal executive .-' -committee which would have placed ?flve of its members on the ieaeraiea . croup's executive committee with I reservations. After its defeat J Bennett announced ' he would 1 minority faction filed out. Break: With Radicals Non-participation by the Farmer-Labor party with the' feder ated organisation which Bennet characterised as ''threatening sui cide of the ) farmer-labor party" Was not shared by the soJgd-HH-'nniB nnit. which Is credited by its , speakers with having established a clean break with the extreme - . a . : ra.aica.ia; is now uudu".o. - possible red menace and is on us ;. feet , stronger than ever In the pursuit of independent political satisfaction." ' " " ' ' ' John Flttpatrlck, presiaent oi the Chicago Federation rof Labor, who declined the chairmanship of today's meeting In favor of Rob ert M. Buck, Chicago-labor leader ; and editor, sounded the keynote i of non-participation .on the part ' of the Farmer-Labor party, v Want Ballot Control "We want political- betterment for the workers and farmers but we want control through Jhe bal lot In our own ranks and not from a dictatorship in, Russia," Fitz patrick asserted.): "Union men and women will not subscribe. to the tinted platform of the feder ated party its - leadership of ' Ruthenburg, William Z.1 Foster - aad Joseph Manley being suffic ' lent to describe 'Its. ommunistIc - : The break with the radicah ele ment in the workers' partyT In strumental In forming the feder ated party's platform, was a step that ultimately had to be taken, .(iald Buck, and now that it had been taken , "the Farmer-Labor party stands unfettered.rmorer ef r sou raged than any time since (continued on page S) THE WEATHER OREGON: Unsettled with . showers Saturday. LOCAL WEATHER (Friday). Vaximum temperature, 60. Minimum temperature's!, liver, .6 Uinfall. .53. . Wind. west. ,. Atmosphere, cloudy. FFBT S, POTERS:,:' !! av !r Governor Pierce yesterday1; announced that he has ap pointed Seymour Jones, J. J. McDonald and B. W. Powers as the tax supervising and conservation commission for Marion county. The list for all the cdunties of the state will be an nounced in a few days. i f ; Mr. Jones was formerly a member of the legislature and served as speaker of the house at the eession of 1919. He formerly? practiced law in Chicago and is now engaged in farming and fruit raising in Marion county. 1 ft McDonald 'is a resident of Salem and formerly was mas ter of the Pomona Grange fori Marion county. f ' i - Powers lives on a fruit ranch easj of Salem. He was once Uriited States marshal for South Dakota. ; 1 i ."It is understood that one of the appointees for. Polk county.wjll be Frank Fawk. ; - 1 GOtORELD RAZED FEUDS Bootleggers Blamed for Con- flagration; Only ' Six Buildings Remain TONOPAH, Nev.. July 6. The town of ' Goldfleld, with the ex ception ' of six ' buildings, was burned to the ground today. One man 13 dead from causes attribut able to the fire; a woman is miss ing and is believed to have per ished, and several persons were treated fori burns as the result of the conflagration now believed to have been of Incendiary origin, (tarted as part of a bootleggers feud. " "V i. ; Fire Chief I. X : Gaililc of Goldfleld declared that he be lieved an enemy of a known boot legger started the blaze In a build ing in the rear of a garage. Fire Chief Galliac asserted the fire-had too big a start to permit it to be put out with the poor water pressure available through an old pipe line from Lida, ,30 miles away.. . ,..v' The alarm was , turned in by Mrs. Charles Allier. who arose early, intending to go to Tonopah and noticed the flames. This was at 6:15 a. m. Nine hours later the town had - been destroyed." "Goldfleld will come back." was the word sent here after the camp had hastily checked up its losses and had estimated the damage at between 1800,000 and $1,500,000. It 'was j not possible -tonight to make any, exhaustive . survey of the fire area, of one and one half; miles wide, by a mile long, where the flames' .had cut a . cyclonic swath through the heart ot- the Ltawn. ' I! SUSPECT SOUGHT Slayer! of New .York Gover- nessoim ai Liiigci ring er .Prints Taken SCARSDALE. N. T., July 6. After the' release lcte today of James Clark, a negro arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of Dorothy Kaufman, young gov erness' who was brutally slain Tuesdayi night in the home of Magruder Craighead, police again turned their attention to search-1 ing for a! negro ; said to have . jumped aboard a Buffalo freight j Iiusiua ..a j mmm Finger prints have been made from the handle of the knife with which the girl was stabbed to death while alone In the Craig head house, and from a cracker box said to have been dropped by the murderer In vaulting ajfence." - 4Iiss , Kauff mail's body will be sent to her home In Westover, Md where her parents and ' four brothers and sisters reside. -: James Clark, the negro arrest ed today, was taken from a. motor truck on 1 which he had obtained a lift toward New Tork Police, however,! found he did not cor respond In any way to tho de scription of the murderer, .. EGRO MURDERER MEXIOAfJ MEETING Several "Hurdles" Still Re main Minutes. Made Pub lic Next Week MEXICO CITY. July 6.-(By the Associated Press. ) 1 Several hurdles still remain to be passed before the "views" of the United States and Mexican governments can be placed into the minutes of the conference Of American; and Mexican representatives discuss ing questions Involved in the re cognition 'of Mexico. ' Charles " B. Warren, one of the American del egates, said before entering what was regarded as an important ses sion today. - These t preliminary hurdles, he said,' must be sur mounted before the "views" of the two governments can be con sidered a3 finally presented. ' It was learned today, that com pletion of t he minutes will , not -be delayed beyond the middle of next week, although it is almost cer tain that full details of the-understanding then reached will not be made public until after; the American commission reports to Washington. ' fflispra e?ws Attempt to Land Regiment Is BlockedMany Cas ualties Reported1, . SOFIA, July 6. (By the As sociated -- Press.) -A "report re ceived tonight from ' Constanti nople says the Greeks attempted to land a regiment at Kara-Burum near the Dardanelles, and that the Turks repulsed them after severe fighting. There were many" cas ualties on both sides, the report says. ; " . :" ; " Intjie fianting a Turkish tor pedo boajink a Greek ship, ac cording to the Constantinople re port, and many were drowned. The. fighting took place Wed nesday night, but . the report did not Teach here until today. It said that the Greeks occupied the coast line, and the battle ensued, many being killed and j wounded on each side. 1. The Angora -government, the report added, ; has . telegraphed a protest to the Near East " confer ence at Lausanne. It Ja; known here that the Turkish frontier has been closed for the last three days. . ' ! New Man Appointed On - Livestock Sanitary Board One change is made in the per sonnel of the state livestock sani tary board by appointments made yesterday by Governor Pierce. M. R. Biggs of Prinevllle f3 appoint ed" to take the place of K. G. War ner of Pendleton, resigned. Harry West-of .Scarroose. J; H. Dobbin of Enterprise and Walter K. Tay lor of - Corvallis are reappointed. J. R. Colo of Molalla and R. T. Sims of Oregon Agricultural col lege are hold-overs. DLDERS UTTEODGTOR Prosecution Resulting From Number of "Wet" Pre scriptions Is Invalidated By Montana Solon ; HOLDS THAT CONGRESS CANNOT SET QUANTITY Physician Is Permitted to Give Patient Alcohol Un der New Ruling . HELENA. Mont., July 6. (By Tho Associated Press.) Congress once having said that alcohol can be used for medicinal purposes cannot now dictate to the physi cian as to the number of whiskey prescriptions be shall write or the quantity ho shall prescribe, .Fed eral Judge' George M. Bourquin held today: In hia decision Judge Bourquin invalidated the prose cution of Dr. J. B. Freund a Bute physician who it was charged is sued moro than 190 prescriptions within a 90 day period and pre scribed more than one-half pint of alcohol to one patient in 10 days.-: : ' . ' The decision in substance held that eon gr ess cannot substitute its judgment for that ot the phy sician, ruling similarly to Feder al Judge Knox of New York, who on May 9 last granted an order restraining prohibition "authori ties ' from - Interfering ' with t , the praciice of . Dr. Samuel, W. Lam bert with respect to the amount of whiskey which might be prescrib ed to ono patient. Number 'Not Questioned The ruling of the 'Montana fed eral jurists,- goes farther and holds that the portion of the fed eral prohibition enforcement act which seeks to limit the number of prescriptions is invalid as well as that portion limiting the quan tity" prescribed. s : " ' The invalid section of the law with reference to the pnmber of prescriptions is "nothing but an arbitrary-restriction on the ques tion of the number of patients a physician shall treat in ordinary course-of circumstances, or is an unreasonable mandate to malprac tice in respect to them" read the court's decision, f , All Not Alike Continuing the i o u r t said that if therapeutics were an ex act science and diseases and their courses .of unvariablo diagnosis kand patleats were all. constituted alike" the Drovision ; arbitrarily fixing the amount $of alcohofl which could be prescribed might be , valid but "since iaf respect to all these factors; . the truth is otherwise, every - patient present ing to these physicians a differ ent solution, this provision of the statute is invalid." s The court held that the bureau of internal revenue has the power through its regulations to cope with; abuse of the use of alcohol without attempting to dictate; to the physicians in the treatment of cases where alcohol is pre scribed. ' , STATE EXECUTIVES CRITICIZED BY NEA Resolution Denounces Poli ciesThat Curtail Educa ' tion; Meet. Ends OAKLAND. Cal., July 6. The 1923 convention of the National Education association, the world conference on education and al lied educational organ ix a 1 1 o n s here and in San Francisco closed tonight following the election tof Mi sd Olive M.- Jones, New York school principal, as president of the N. E. A. to succeed William B. Owen of Chicago. .-K At the final meeting ot the representative assembly. of the N. E. A. a resolution was adopted criticising " governors of states whose economy-policies made ne cessltp the curtailment of educa tional activities . . ' .": CORSETS ARE ADVISED F0R YOUNG GIRLS Roll 'Em Down' and Quit Bobbing Hair Also Advice Given By Alice Robertson -MUSKOGEE. Okla.t July 6 -"Office girls employed at the fed eral soldiers' hospital here must go back to corsets, quit bobbing their hair, roll up their hose and adopt high neck dresses, accord ing to the ultimatum laid down My Miss, Alice Robertson, former congrcsswoman no.w welfare chief! at the 'Institution. . Vi "Thece has 'been too much laughing . and talking down the hall with the patients," Miss Rgbertson 8aid "Give the boys a run for their money; the girl. a man admires most is one whom ho must fight for. ' " 'i ' "The woman, who flagrantly displays , her charms soon ''will be a bsck number.- They are ' only toys with which men play , and then cast aside. "Go back to corsets, girls, tend to business, wear decent clothes and don't try to hark back to the days of Adam and Eve." j , ; SHIPS TO COMPLY Nationality of, Owners Not Considered By Decision - of Treasury WASHINGTON, July 6. Ship liquor allowances to foreign ships in American .waters under a de cision today by the treasury wiil be based hereafter on the require ments of the laws of the country in whose trade the vessels are operating, regardlesa of the na tionality of the owners. By this addition to th ship liquor regulations a British owned ship engaged exclusively In Ital ian trade will' receive allowances of intoxicants sufficient t com ply with the laws of Italy. If a vessel's -vassenger list ant! cargo come from several countries, each of which has laws requiring liquor stores, the' general medical sup ply will be granted and specifSc provisions of the several laws will be met, in addition. r - The decision resulted from , rep resentations made by the owners of the Cunard liner Tuscania and the White Star liner Arabic through, the . British embassy. Each ship came in conflict with the laws of Italy requiring wine stores for steerage passengers and their owners appealed to this gov ernment for relief." - OREGON VISITED : BY HEAVY RAINS Grain Benefitted, Hay Dam aged Forest fire Dan ger Is Lessened j PORTLAND, July 6. Heavy rains fell over many parts of Ore gon throughout today. . Eastern Oregon points reported that grain would be benefitted, but there was some damage to hay in the fields. : Forestry officials in, var lous districts said the rain was of incalcuablo value in lessening the probability of early forest fires.' More rain was. predicted for tomorrow. ' - . ' . PORTLAND, Or.. July . As reports continued to eccie in from grain growing districts tonight some of them told of damage to growing wheat in eastern Oregon districts In Sherman and Was co counties it was said the dam age would run Into thousands of dollars. Reports from s up the Willamette valley said that dam age to wheat .would result with another day's rain. - Higginbotham Trial Will ; f ' Be Delayed; Juror Is III LAKE CITY, Fla.. July 6. The trial of Thomas Walter Hig ginbotham tonight hangs in the balance. Court was abruptly re cessed, today by the Illness of L M. Chambers,: a member of the Jury,' who Is in a serious condition according to physicians and prob ably "will have to be removed to a hospital. . The Juror is threat ened with appendicitis. " WT TRADE LAWS m Jury Finds Orey Not Guilty of Allowing Minor in Hall and City Council Rescinds Closing Order ! GOOD FAITH APPARENT IN LICENSE AFFAIR Is Card Table Part of Bil liard Room? Is Hair splitting Question Dismissal of alt charges against the ' Blessing & Orey pool room, located at 356 State street, was effected -yesferday when George Orey was found not euiltv bii a charge of permitting a minor to visit the pool room, and at a spe cial meeting of the city council. held late in the' afternoon, the order closing, the rear of the es tablishment was rescinded. , Evasion Was Suspected Orey was arrested on the charge on May 25, and after a jury had been selected to try the case, City Attorney Ray jSnith, believing the defendant wilfully attempted to evade the law, brought the pro posal before the city council with the result that the aldermen In structed, Chief of Police Birtehet to close the portion of the estab lishment occupied by pool and billiard tables. Evidence brought before the council at that time in dicated that the firm of Blessing & .Orey . had tried to evade the payment of a license fee.' ' Explanation of the situation, as made by Mayor J. B. Giesy last night, was that E. F Blessing had filed , the fund necessary for the license with the city recorder and believed his ' part of the proced ure had been fulfilled. Papers" were misplaced, with the result that the firm was held to the opinion that it had maliciously at tempted to evade the payment. The rescinding order was passed after those on both, sides had a complete understanding, at! the special session of the council. . Hali-Splitting Indulged In Trial of George Orey yesterday afternoon occupied . considerable time in Recorder Poulsen's court at the city hall, and was given to the Jury about 6 o'clock. The verdict of not guilty was returned within a few minutes. " Attempts at hair-splitting were made by both - sides, centering chiefly over the question; ;as to whether or ' not ' the card j tables were properly a portion of the pool hall; or if they" were classed separately, as was the ciar stand or' tl.e soda fountain and lunch counter. " Orey at Disadvantage Testimonyby George Orey was to the effect -that' the minor In question, Hugh Walp, was bellev ed io" be under age contrary to h'tf reply to Orey. -Evidence of fered tended to show that the pro prietor did not have sufficient ti ne after making the Inquiry to have Walp sign a statement to the effect that i he was of age be fore Officer Olson obtaired a con fesslor from fthe youlh tltat. he was not yet 21 years of ag. " "trymen who tried the ' case were John A. Patterson. William Gahlsdorf, Frank B. oouthwick. J. C. Perry, Earl H. Anderson and D.' A. Larmer.1 Rural Credit Unions ' Are Under Banking Act ' Organizations of rural credit unions must come under the state banking law ; for the reason that they do a banking: business, and. therefore, the members are sub ject to double liability in event of the failure of the corporation, ac cording to an opinion of Attorney General Van Winkle in reply to an inquiry by Frank-C. Bramwell.l state superintendent of banks. The particular case in point aris es from Douglas county where the farmers are attempting to organ ize a rural credits union. ' , While the opinion does not touch upon this angle, it is said such a corporation cannot be ; exempted from taxation, as contemplated by an . act passed by - the legislature ot ms, PREPARING 10 QUST basic Abolishment Depends Upon Importation of Scfficicr-i Labor, Declares GaryChange Estimated to Rec;u:ro 60,000 Additional Laborers and Will Increase Ccst of Finished Products by 15 Percent NEW YORK, July 6.(By Associated Press.) Influx into northern industrial centers of negroes from the south and laborers from Mexico, the Philippines,. Canada and a few European countries soon will make possible "abolishment of the twelve-hour Jday in the steel industry, Elbert II. Gary, chairman of the board of the United States Steel corporation, announced today.' vr. v ' - CHEF PUGS VISIT TO COAST Wires San Diego That He : Wiil Stay Two Days ,Longer Than Planned SAN DIEGO, Califs July p. Change f in President Harding's plans - by which hfcs stay on the Pacific coasC will be prolonged two days more than had been outlined In his original program, Is an nounced in a telegram today from Seattle and sent to the local re ception" committee vny Walter F, Brown who recently was here tq arrange details of the President's stay in San Diego. Brown's tele gram said: j, ;; ;': 4 -" "Impossible to omit . Santa Ca tania island trip without greatly disappointing Mrs. Harding. Have therefore arranged 1 for president to sail from San Diego August 6. You will be able to carry out the long program with slight mod ifications. Am mailing today de tailed program. Reichstag Now Adjourned; Surnmer Recess Declared BERLIN, July 6. -(By The As sociated Press.) The Reichstag will adjourn indefinitely tomor row for the summer recessj it was authoritatively stated today.. Chancellor' Cund Continued hia conference today with Monsignor Pacelli,' papal nuncio". It -was an nounced that a . special : courier had arrived 'froin" Home bringing new instructions for the nuncio from the Vatican. The govern-, merit's anticipated declaration o'f sabotage in the Ruhr is said to ba mef y a a,mtter of form and the federal cabinet is consulting with the Prussian government on the formulation of the statement. Penitentiary Preferred To Vancouver City Jail WALLA WALLA, Wash;, July 6 George ' Wlritfield, ; Clarke county young man ' sentenced to death some time ago, and who has been in the Washington State penitentiary here since May, left today" In charge of deputy 'sher iffs for Vancouver, where he will be lodged In jail pending the re suit of an appeal to the supreme court. Whitfield is "reported as saying he preferred to stay In the penitentiary to being taken back to The Clarke county jail. His appeal will riot probably be deeided within the next six months, officials state. V , r NOTICE TO OUR READERS The Statesman carriers will call to make their monthly collections today. I ' " ' ; Your newspaper boy is just starting; in business fcr himself." This is his 'first effort to learn business cr. his success or failure depends to a considerable exlct on your good will and co-operation. A pleasant smij and a cheery word will encourage your boy and kz.j him, make a success of this, his first venture in busir.c-1 life.v He will appreciate it and show his good will in cny way he can. " ; . i - - If your subscription is already paid, ignore CI; notice and accept our- thanks. , r : . STATESMAN PUBLKimTG CO. ' Mrl Gary, asserted he could not say when his corporation or any other , company , would get rid of the 12-hour day. entirely, but sail would begin to act In that di rection very soon and would Ls diligent In their, efforts. Mr. Gary's announcement fol lowed action of President Hard ing making public yesterday be fore sailing from Tacoma, Wash., for Alaska, of correspondence be tween , tne president - and the di rectors of the American Iron ar.l Steel Institute In which the lat ter pledged themselves to abolllx the long day when a sufficient labor supply was assured. Mr. Gary estimated that the change would require 60,000 ad ditional laborers' and would in crease the cost of finished stctl products by 15 per cent. URGHEOTS GLOBE fiDCPfnni III UUiildhtL Jury Will Receive Instruc tions in Kearny Hearing ; 1 ins iviurning LOS ANGELES. July 6. Argu ment's were, concluded late today In the case of two army officers and six merchants charged wi.i conspiracy to. defraud the govern ment in connection with auctic a sales at Camp Kearney' in Febru ary. 1922. United States Distil:: Judge" William P. James -announced that he' would deliver t'.i instructions to the Jury at niz o'clock tomorrow. Kleagle and 69 Klansmcn a ;V;:Arrested at Sprincfic'J r SPRINGFIELD, Ohio.. July 6. W- K. Cortner, : Kleagle of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, e .1 69 . other members pf the 1. A Klan, ' many of them prom I:; : zt business men, were arrestej t j a squad of police this afternoon ts they left Fernclift ceraerory, fI lowing funeral services at tle grave of a brother Klansman. ' ' Arrests" were ' made - under tL & recent ruling of 1 PollceV Jud ;a Golden C. Davis that three cr more persons appearing on tie streets masked would constitute disorderly conduct. OUi 3IEX IXDICTCD PORT WORTir, Tex., July C The "federal grand Jury returr i indictinents against 17 oil 1 ro moters today, making a total ct 104voil men to be Indicted f'3 the government began lt3 ell fraud probe last October. . irj;wn 111 UHl