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A L B A N Y C O LL E G E VS. A S H L A N D. A R M O R Y T O N IG H T
8 P. M.
THE POULTRY INDUSTRY
Pair and continued cold tonight.
Saturday fair with slowly rising
temperature. .
is a potential pay roll for Ash-,
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VOL. L
WP •
HRS. CHAPLIN
FROM GETTING
HER ALIMONY
Over Million Dollars is De
manded by Government
For income
ATTACH ALLAOOOUHT8
tT.’ 8. Attorney Refuses to Allow
Any Money to be Paid Proa*
te the gesU-Waekty Tidings y o n — 4>
BROWNING’S BRIDE TO
Spotlight of Publicity to bo
Turned on Farming
Community
C A RM EL, N. Y.. Jan. 21.—
(U N )— Sprawled pictureequely in
the center of a farming commun
ity. Carmel is preparing tp get on
the map In big red letters Mon
day, thanks to Frances "Peaches”
Heenan Browning and Edward Wz
Browning, her husband.
The pretty 1$ year old girl is
expected to tell what happened to
her when she married into the
front pages and riches. The
plump New York real estate man
is elated to reveal the amasing
predicament of a 62 year old
swain gunning for his 'vanished
Youth.
Both seek legal separation.
Neither had been reticent about
adm itting a bad bargain. I t Is
no ordinary domestic squabble
informed of a ll Its erotic flounces,
and a waiting world w ill be kept
LO8 ANGELES, Jan.
21.—
(U N )— L ite Grey Chaplin, es
tranged wife of Charlie Chaplin,
movie comedian, was engaged to
night in an endeavor to wrest ali
mony tees from the
United
States government, which tied up
personal accounts and other pro
perty of her husband because of
his alleged failu re to make cor
rect income tax returns.
"Almost at the same time Mrs.
Chaplin, through her attorneys,
telegraphed the commissioner of
Interns revenue, seeking to have
him releaee Chaplin’s personal
accounts in Hollywood and Los Make Two Motions That
Angeles banks, a new government
Would Prevent Damag
suit was filed here against the
ing Testimony
Chaplin film corporation.
Through the latest action a lien
A U STIN . Texas, Jan. 21.— Dra
w ai placed against the corpora matically. describing the threats
tion to collect ISO, «00 In income that had been made against him,
tax money, alleged to bo due tor Rev. J. Frank Norris, F o rt W orth
the year 1226. , The amount is in Baptist preacher, broke down and
addition to the 919.072.900 in wept on the wUneae stand today,
ae he told how he shot and killed
liens previously filed.
In his plea to Commissioner of D. B. Chlppe, wealthy lumberman
In ternal Revenue B lair at Wash In the pastor’s s tn fy last Jute,
ington to release the Chaplin Through questioning by hla at-
the pastor lad' up to a
bank deposits, Lyndol Young, at
torney for Mrs. Chaplin,. , pointed description of the tragedy by re-
Ottt that liens against Chaglla’q tettng ^haji he h ty bspn toW by
property, estimated to total ap- Chlpps that he intended to k ill
proximately $2,POO, POO already, him because of Norris’ editorial
have been filed.
! attacks on Fo rt W orth o$ty attic?
The attorney asked Internal tale. He further testified that
revenue department to release ch lp p s called him on the phone
914,400 of 9917,000 at Chaplin’s and told bim that he was coming
over to k ill him.
credit locally.
This sum, he said, is alimony
owing 'to the film comedian’s
COURTROOM, Austin, Texas,
wife, with $250 for legal expens
Jan. 21.— ( U N ) — A defense move
es and a $1,150 premium on
to forestali possible attempts of
bonds put up by Mrs.
Chaplin,
the state to introduce alleged in
and the receivers for the Chaplin
admissible evidence in the tria l of
property.
Paster J. F rank Norris on chargee
A court order directing the re
of murdering D. E. Chlpps was
ceivers to pay the $14,400 from
thwarted temporarily Thursday
Chaplin’s personal deposits was
evening.
issued this aftenoon by Superior
Judge J. R. Hamilton reserved
Court Judge W alter Guerin.
ruling on two defense motions
The mandatory order was made
which forecast that the
state
by the court after counsel for the
would attempt to introduce as
girl wife Informed the Judge
evidence previous Indictments of
that she had not received any
Norris which Include one for per
payment on the $4,000 temporary
ju ry and two for arson. The Jury
alimony granted her last Monday.
was taken from the room while
Mrs. Chaplin did not appear in
the motions .were read and at
court, being represented by A t
torneys argued.
torney Young.
The defense qrgued the re
A fte r Judge Guerin had issued
moteness ot the indictments pre
his order for payment of alimony
cluded their admissibility as evi
and attorneys* fees, counsel in
dence and placed the pastor on
t > Chaplin receivership and di
the stand for a faw minutes to
vorce cases held a conference
strengthen the point. Norris ad
with the internal department rev
mitted he had been indicted pre
enue and the United States dis
viously, hut that he had been ac
trict attorney’s office. Following
quitted.
the meeting 8. W . McNabb, U. 8.
Judge Hamilton ruled that he
district attorney, declared the
would pasa on admissibility of
government would hot lif t its in
evidence as it was presented and
come tax liens which embraced
affected an agreement between
Chaplin’s personal account. t
counsel bn both sides that any
questiona concerning the Baptist
minister’s past life would not be
askyd in the jury's presence be
fore he hud passed on thorn.
A long lino tef; Norris* church
members, employes and friends
wars presented as defense witnes
People- Who H elp ed H im ses today to substantiate previous
Reach Los Angeles w ire testimony that Chlppe'was shot as
he returned to the pastor’s study
Money Request
after having once started to leave
LOS ANGELES, Jah. 21- — and to discredit state witness tost«
(U N ) — The man and woman lmony that a woman was an eye
who helped! make It poesible for witness.
— I
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George Young. Toronto youth, — - "I
T W E N T Y -O N E ABOVE
to reach California, wi^ere he
won the 925,040 prise given by
W h ite tbs official thermome
W illiam W riffley, Jr„ chawing
ter registered 21 degrees above
gum
magnate
for
swimming
sera, sooordlng to the record of
Catalina channel, went to collect
Louis Dodge, official weather
the $1,000 they say Young prom
man, s south wind blowing off
ised them If he won the ooonn
the snow capped peakes of the
marathon.
Siskiyous, chiliad Ashlanders
They are Mr. and Mrs. James
last night and today. The lake
Foster, a young couple from
was partly frosen over la the
Quincy,. Maee. The couple. <m p a r k / and
plumbers report
their honeymoon, picked hldk up
many calls from frosen pipes,
and hie "pal" B ill Hastings and
and other cold weather dis
turbances.»
DEFENSE MOVES TO
' FORESTALLEVIDENCE
WINNE« Of SWIM B
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RAY, JAN, 21, 1927
GF A
SMITH MUST THRILLS
AGO ARE
SOLDIER
WAIT FOR THE
DECISION FROM
C O M M IT T E E
CENTURY
VED IN OLD
FORTUNE’S MIND
LOS ANGELES, Jan. A ^ - d lu s f had me.
Word of thp death at Brusee)|).a<] to conqugr.”
Reed Resolution Refering
Illinois Senator's Case
Win« Ont
RETURNS TO HIS HOMS
Will Look Into
ator Elects Past Political
Activities
W A SHING TO N, Jan. 21.
(U N ) — Frank L. 8mlth. repub
lican senator-designate, must re
turn to his Illinois boms and cool
h b heels, while the p rivileges
and elections committee turns
Its searchlight on his past po
litical activities, the senate de-
slded late Thursday whan It
adopted the Reed resolution by
a 48 to 22 vote.
The resolution, introduced hy
Senator James A. Reed, Missouri
democrat, prevents Smith from
taking the oath of office, to
which he was appointed by Gov
ernor Len Small to HU the un-
expired term of the late Senator
W illiam B. McKinley, ropubll-
. and refers hte credentials
to the senate committee.
A few minutes before the fin
a l vote fhe senate defeated a
resolution offered by Senator
Lee Overman, North Carolina,
democrat, which would have al
lowed Smith to assume h b seat
pending investigation of his cre
dent is b .
z
Although the bene us debated
la
Children who « ill be 9
old by March 19 w ill be permitted
to eater the prim ary classes «hen
the new term opens the firs t o f
next mouth, it wee announced to
dy by City School Superintend
ent Briscoe, push children, bow
er. « «S t outer gefcool during
the first week of the new
he sold.
motéis ran
the senate during two day«
,
•"
|n H
paiga
or.h b accept-
P ***n expenditure«
e“ ’
£**•• ot
ot contribuions from pab|^
officiale, tlte 9 1 2 6 .0 ^
n^jR M a»d
* A«
to Smith from Samuel
A,-OS.. Jan 21- (U N 1
pull, Chicago, public u tlli
lofty granite cliffs of
magnate was prominent
da. the graven epun-
background of ail .opposltiqij
hert B. Lqe prega ly
speeches.
j
beloved Dixie ¿»>11
I f the senate committee
daughters ot the
ports unfavorably Smith
n ” paid trib ute to
doubtless be permanently ba ,
59'’.e f the rohth’s 1m-
from the senate, although he was
d on this one httadted
chosen by . the Illinois voters kt
tlpth anniversary of his
the last elsctiop.
,Ths real question at atakO
uniforms and tress
was the right to refuse to ad?
were recovered from
minister thé oath of office to a cedar boxes and those Yew confed-
senator - designate, presenting
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valid credentials.
Regular republican senate lead
ers ’who fought bitterly to seat
Smith, and four democrats con
tended that the barring of Smith
Is a violation of state rights.
Opposing senators claimed that
refusal was justified hy preced
ent.
How far the senate can go in
judging the qualification of its
membership now remains a vague
uncertainty, Smith’s supporters
declare.
During the two day discussions
crowded galleries watched the
proceedings as t ie debates shift
ed from constitutional arguments
to personal and vehement at
tacks.
UND M OF I B O
WILL CREATE IRÛUBLE
Law Would
Held by
' can
Land
Bat Mexi-
NORMA! M S R E IS B
WIN MBANV M
GOVERNMENT
TAKES STEFS
TO PROTECT
A M E R IC A N S
I craved new fields
Carlotta, the mad empress, awofegl
80 the soldier of fortune gath-
ln the .memory of an old soldierjered a ben d of youngsters and led
of fortune the thrills of h a lt a | them towards Mexico to help the
century ago, when he assisted at^republjc overthrow Maximilian,
the execution of her husband, Em-1 *'ho had been sent to rule that
peror M axim ilian of Mexico.
| troublesome land by Napoleon
Colonel John Sobieski, now 94 and Frans Joseph.
Oaly one of Sobieski’s original
years« old, recalled the
companions
landed in Mexico
conquest of Mexico and the
ceeaful rebellion la which he took with him. the rest dropping out
because of bloodcurdling reports
part sad the day when
that reached the adventurers.
ia oommaad o f.* firin g squrth
“W ith my remaining compan
had orders to tiro upon the broth
er of the Emperor F ra n * Joseph ion I joined the rebel forces. He
«as killed shortly afterward in a
and the westernmost tryant.
"I.w o u ld n ’t do It now if I had battle,” Sobieski said.
it to do over again.” «aid tin
Maximilian was s brave man.
mer Polish immigrant; who
When he stood him up before the
fesses to being a deeceadant af-1 firing squad he never flinched. I
K ing John 111. " I don’t
had charge of the execution,
in capital punishment now.'
which Included Maximilian and d
Colonel Sobieski's
number of h b generals.
hot in those days and
“The first volley did not k ill
viving a wound in the civil « n r.
the emporer, but he fell. 1 or-
he says. "I was filled with a de
sire to r adventure. The
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Age Limit For
Children Fixed
NO.
Invaders Defeated 38 to 20;
to Play Again
Tonight
Preparations Are Made to
Remove Twelve Hundred
Families
ORDER MINISTER BACK
,
*1 9
1 .•
. . .
American Representative on His
Way Home is Requested to
Return
Ashland Normal scored s com
paratively easy victory over A l
bany College .last night at the lo
cal armory, winning their basket-
hall clash, 38 to ,20, against the
dame team which defeated them
at Albany last week.
The two teams will play an
other game at the armory this
evening, with
a
preliminary
game starting at 7:30.
The normal basket shooters got
o ff to the lead and were never
headed by the Albany collegians.
The locals not only bhowed mnr*>
speed and
basket shooting wai Or* * *
A1 Marske was ht
E „ « in
ner for the locals, 1 with seven
field goals to his credit. Except
during the closing minutes of the
game, the locals showed splendid
team work.
The teams lined up as follows:
Albany
Normal
Cox
F
Marske
Perry
P
Butterfield
Tate
Caldwell
W lU ert
C
Moore
Bryant
Christy
G
Kinney
Houston
G
Ramsey
Johnson
In a preliminary game Battery
B defeated the normal second
team, 40 to 26, in 40 minutes of
hard playing.”
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Junior Colleges Could Be
Established in Each
District
PEOPLE
UNITED STATES HAS
NO UNFAIR DESIGNS
m s LOSE M M
IN K O BATHE
W ASHINGTON, Jen. 91— Ad
ditional differences w ith Mexico
appear inevitable w ith the Mexi
can alien land law. companion
statute to the oil law which has
provoked the .present controversy,
going Into effect at midnight lest
night.
This law has the same retroac
tive features as the oil law, which
President .Coolidge
has
said
amounts to confiscation of private
American property. '
The land la p prohibits aliena
from acquiring lands, o f being
shareholders in Mexican compan
ies owning land within sixty
miles ot the boundaries apd $0
miles of the coasts. It alto re-
JUA R E8, Mexico, Jan. 21.—
(U N )— Charaeterlsing rebel loe-
hos as "terrific” ia fighting In the
Interior 4>f Mexico, newspaper«
here today said that at least 120
rebels had beta kUled.
Accounts said many others
were wounded or taken captive
in the battle which waa said to*
have taken place .at Tepatltlaa,
Jalisco. This section ia Ute scene
of the most serious religious up
rising In Mexico.
The newspaper account «aid
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(Coatlnued From Pag« Ona)
At Leaat One Hundred and
T w « ty Are Killed,
Many Wounded
TO DECIDE
Each District Conld
¡Whether They
School
ÎSSS5-
W A SHING TO N, Jan. 21.— The
United States government mov
ed speedily today to meet a most
serious threat to foreign live* in
China since the Boxer uprising
rebellion.
Preparations
were
made for a complete evacuation
of 1200 A m ericans there, if the
Minister John Van A. Macmur-
snti-forelgn riots continue,
ray, who is in Korea enroute to
Washington, has been ordered
back to Peking to take charge of
the situation. I f the America!)
naval
forces on the Chinese coast
Committee Mamed to Dis
and in the Philippines prove in
cover Some Service
adequate, .commercial vessels w ill
Tank
—
■
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. be commandeered to carry the
Americans to the Philippines or
The V. M. C. A. Employed
Hawaii.
Boy’s club met for their regular
mid-week dinner and business
Hail for (Yitna
meeting in Pioneer hall last eve
W ar craft from many countries
ning. Ten members were pres of the world were steaming to
ent at last night’s meeting and a ward Shanghai
today. Others
lively business session and discus were fueled, ready to augment the
sion last night was the fixing up fleets.
of s smalt room tn Pioneer hail as
The governmental board of President Coolidge Makee
a elnb room for the club. Mem- trade in London chartered the
Formal Renlv to Nicar
berg I of the club w ill 'do this W hite Star liner Megantic for
agua Minister
and hgpg to have the room use Ms a troopship |o Chl/ia.
Jen.
21.—
up shortly*. Roland Parks,
The British adm iralty stated • WASHINGTON,
Campbell and Hugh O1I1- that the gunboats Aphis and (O N )— The United States has
were appointed as commu Ladybird and the destroyers W an imperiallsflc designs In Nicaragua
te $<i discover some service tasks derer and Wolverine would sail nor any desire to dlctaie internal
that the club might perform. This for China about January 30, ac affairs there. President Coolidge
committee w ill also have charge companied by the hospital ship said in a formal reply when Dr*
Alejandro Cecas, the new Nicara
of next week’s entertainment. Maine.
guan
minister, representing Diss,
Spain
was
reported
ready
to
M elrin Kyner, H arry May and
Russell Herbert were selected as send a warship following attacks presented his credentials at the
A committee on initiation. Mem on Spanish churches in one Chi W hite House.
The president said that Ameri
bers ot the club have been en nese city.
In Washington, London, Tokto can forces would not remain In
larging the hand ball court In
Pioneer hall and hope to have It and other capitals statesmen dis Nicaragua longer than necessary.
"Although
American forces
ready soon for a city wide hand agreed as to whether or not
ball tournament. A t next week’s China’s claims for abolition of have, with the consent and at the
be request of your governsaent, been
meeting the club w ill be the extra territo riality should
guests of their sponsors, O. F. granted. Members of the house landed in order to safeguard the
Carson and C. J. Read. Each of peers of Tokio demanded that legitimate interests of (he United
member will bring a new member the government outline ita Chi States and the lives and proper
ties of Its cltttena, this state of
nese policy more definitely.
for this meeting.
affairs should not continue long
er than is nocessary,” the presi
dent said.
“The United States, as I know
your government, and the people
of Nicaragua fully appreciate, has
no selfish interests or imperial
istic designs to serve. Least of
all have we any desire to Influ
ence or dictate In any way In In
ternal affairs of your country, or
Influence the desires of independ
ence or prosperity of any central
American republic.”
The Nicaraguan representative
said that his country looks to the
United States for guidance and
cooperation.
Z
"W ith • view to the solution of
these Nicaragua looks confidently
to the United States for gold»
a nee, cooperation and aid, having
learned that it may always count
on finding loyal and disinterested
friends,” he said.
E lM E D HOTS HAVE
SILL WOULD
D IV ID E THE
STATE INTO
13 DISTRICTS
- SALEM. Jen. 21.— A bill was
Introduced in the house today
which would take the right of
purchase of all supplies and
equipment from all boards and
commissions of institutions and
place 4 t in the hands of the state
board of control. r I t is a house
bill signed by Speaker Carkln and
tkrenty-seven other members be-^
lng oly one short ot the required
majority. Opposition ia expected,
from Unlversltlee, colleges and
normal school friends. It being
contended that such a b ill would
hamper them in the purchase of
supplies.
The threat of the Eastern Ore
gon Senatorial bloc threatened to-,
day as the legislature adjourned
for the week end. Senator J. Up
ton adm itted that he had called a
conference of the Eastern mem
bers. I t was though that resent
ment over the action, of the ways
and means committee fn killing
the appropriation for predatory
animal bounty wag the cause for
the meeting being called.
8ALEM , Ore., Jan. 21.— A plan
(or llvld lu g Oregon into, 13 junior
milage districts, with county sup
erintendents and eouaty Judge to
jompose a board of regents In re
spective districts, is provided in a
bill which Representative Roberts
Wasco oounty, introduced by re
quest Thursday.
The bill provides that no jus
'or college shall be establisheu
Without a vote of the people In
the diatribi. The purpose of such
institutions, it was said, is to
make educational
advantages
more widespread and general'
and to* relieve the congestion In
the senior colleges. A summary*
Of the provisions for the forma
tion of the 13 districts shows:
District 1— Multnomah. Clack
amas and Washington college at.
■»r near Portland.
District 2— Columbia, Clatsop ’
rad Tillamook, college at Astoria.
District— Marion, Polk, Lincoln,
college at Salem.
| District — Linn, Lane, Benton,
'.ollege at Albaay.
District 5 — Douglas, Coos,*
Hurry, college at Marshfield.
District I — Jackson and Jose
phine, college at Medford.
District 7— Hood River, Wasco,
Sherman, Gilliam, college at The
Dalles.
District I — Jeffereon, Wheel
er, Crook, Deschutes, college at
Redmond.
District 9— Lake, Klamath, col
lege at Klamath Fails.
District 10— U m atilla and Mor
row, college at Pendleton.
District 11— Union and W allo
wa, college at La Grande.
Dlatrikt }2— Baker and Oraat,
college kt Baker.
District IS — Malheur and Har
ney, eoNege at Vale.
Very Little Cutting
SALEM. .J a n . ‘ . 2 1 — (U N )—
Very little pruning was resorted
to by the legislative ways and
iana committee at its session
Wednesday night.
The request of the Oregon
State hospital for 9991,991 waa
allowed la fa ll, as alee was Uw
request ot the luetltuttou
feeble minded for NO I
$401.<00.
rhe request for I
Oregon hospital tor
trimmed down 919,999
4 io . while the estimate i
hy the gtrik* school
from 999,997 to 999.949.
Nona of U mm
capital eatlayu
tttee plana to
tion of aes