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MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 3921
NO. 247
PEACE ISSUE UP
10 SENATE EARLY
MARCH
Al
Harding to Introduce Knox
Resolution for Ending State
of War With Germany
Compares Dempsey With
Pacifist Earning.
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 Senator Ster
ling of South Dakota today predicted
that President-elect Hording would
submit the Knox peace resolution to
the senate immediately after his iu
. atigitratlon, to end the state of war be
tween the United States and Germany
at once. -
Addressing a luncheon here of the
national republican club, Senator Ster
ling said he foresaw a new association
of nations of the world assembled
about the International court of justice
which Elihu Hoot recently had a hand
in forming.
The senator, speaking of "mankind's
inclination for war ratuW than peace",
said he had noted a "certain Air. Jack
Dempsey got $100,000 for a single prize
fight here some time ago, whereas
President Wilson received $40,000 in a
Nobel peace prize for his peace ef
forts." "Who wants to be a pacifist?" he
concluded.
LOS ANOELES, .Tun. 8. A. mlH
spelled word In a telegram, Mrs. Kath
ryne Herdman. said here today, ap
parently caused her former husband,
Leo Herdman, of Omaha, to ask the
police of Omaha and Los' Angeles to
investigate the message. As Herdman
was said to have received it, the mes
sage read: "When you receive this
you had hotter make arrangements
to take care of. bodies."
As Mrs. Herdman said she sent it,
the last word was "daughters," in
stead of "bodies." Mrs. Herdman
said her two daughters had been mak
ing their home with her.
She was recently notified, the police
stated, that Omaha courts had do
nled her application for increased ali
mony. GETS HALF MILLION FOR
DEED HE'S FORGOTTEN
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. 8. John
Wagner, a moulder, was notified today
that he has been left an estate valued
at $500,000 by the will of Mrs. Otto
Burllngame, who' died recently at Buf
falo, N. Y., in return for his having
saved her from drowning at Rock
Island thirty years ago.
Wagner said he could not recall hav
ing saved anyone from drowning.
COKUSI Anna Laura Corum died
at the Sacred Heart hospital on Jan.
7th from acute ordema of the lungs
and abscesses. She was the daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Geppert of
Butte 'Falls, and was aged 28 years,
11 months, seven days. She was born
at Butte Falls, Jan. 30, 1892, and leaves
two daughters, Irene Green, aged 12
years, and Juanlta Corum, aged nine
years. Interment will be at Butte
Falls.
WOMAN IN CASE KISSES
AND DENIES THE
ST. LOUIS, Jan. S. Chicago's "mod
ern Enoch Arden" story was revealed
as a bit of fiction today. "Enoch",
known in everyday life as Paul Pierre,
Anther, a chemist who lived in a Chi
cago suburb, and "Mrs. Enoch," legally
Mrs. Philip Franzen, of Madison, Wis.,
were In Jail today.' Mrs. Franzen de
clared her husband had given her to
Anther.
Mrs. Franzen said the Arden story
was untrue. She admitted that she
never had been married to Auther, a
married man. whom her husband
charged had "stolen her at the iolnt of
a pistol." She and Anther also denied
the charge that he had forced Franzen
Consider Consumer
Plea of Sen. Thomas,
'Stick Him' Is Object
'
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8 A plea
for consideration fot the ultimate
consumer was made by Sonutor
fr Thomas, democrat, Colorado, to;
day before the senate finance
committee which Is holding hear-
ings on the house emergency tar-
iff bill designed to protect the
farmers.
4 "it strikes mo," said Senator
Thomas, "that some considera-
Hon ought to bo given the con-
sumer. Everybody comes here
appealing for help. Everybody is
in a bad fix, but the result Is al-
ways the same stick the con-
sumer." -J
DEFICIT LOOMS
LE
E
Figures Show ' $365,000,000
Less Than in 1919 Far
Short of Government Guar
antee for Six Months No
vember Figures Published.
WASHINGTON', Jan. 8 The rail
roads of the cowutry earned only
about $150,000,000 last year, or $3C5,
000,000 less than in 1919: according to
estimates prepared by H. P. Parmlee,
director of the bureau of railway eco
nomics made public today. Parmlee
estimates that in 1920 the carriers had
a gross revenue of $0,200,000,000 and
expenses amounted . to $5,570,000,000
leaving a gross income of $150,000,000.
Deductions of taxes and equipment
rentals amounted to $300,000,000, and
loft the net Income at $150,000,000.
This sum was far short of the govern
ment guarantee for the six months
period ending September 1.
Diiring'November, Mr. Parmlee said,
the revenue of the roads was $585,-
000,000 and expenses $505,000,000 leav
ing a gross revenue of $80,000,000. Net
operating income was placed at $59,
000,000.
HAVE PASSPORTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Present
regulations requiring all aliens enter
ing the United States to have pass
ports would remain In effect tint!!
March L 1922, under a bill introduced
today by Chairman Johnson, of the
house Immigration committee. The
law now In tffect becomes Inoperative
when peace is proclaimed.
SOVIET DELEGATES
BARRED FROM ITALY
LONDON, Jan. ". -Italy has refused
to permit G. S. Zinovleff, former bol
shevik governor of Petrograd, Madame
Angelica Balabanoff and M. Bukarlne
and other Russian soviet leaders, to
come to Italy as delegates of the third
Internationale and attend the Italian
socialist conference at Leghorn, Jan
uary 14, says a dispatch to the Times
from Milan.
BORROWED HUBBY
"ENOCH ARDEN" STQRY
to give them n check for $100 for the
expense of their "honeymoon.
Several days ago she is said to have
explained, Auther. an acquaintance,
came to her home In Madison and told
her husband of their mutual love and
asked him to allow Mrs. Franzen to
leave with him.
Franzen is said to have agreed and
when Auther stated he had no money,
gave him a check fir $100. She imme
diately packed her trunk and departed
with Auther after shaking hands with
Franzen, the police said she told them.
While the counle were enrouto to
'police headquarters in the patrol, Mrs.
ARNNGS
NET INCOM
I cording to the police. ,
U. S. RETAILERS
DEVISE SYSTEM
FEDERAL TAXES
National Retail Drygoods As
sociation Presents House
Committee With Complete
Schedule Poll Tax for
Lounge Hounds a Feature.
WASHINGTON, Jan. S. A com
prehensive program for revision of
the federal tax laws estimated to yield
annually tlie $4,000,000,000 whieh
Secretary Houston has said the treas
ury required, was filed today with the
house ways and means committee by
the tax committee of the National
Retail Rrygoods association.
Thu plan worked out contains seve
ral proposals not heretofore advanced
including the assessment of a federal
poll tax of $!i on each person over 21
years old who receives an indepen
dent income, estimated to yield $S0,
000,000 annually. Income tax exem
ptions, it is proposed, would be raised
from $1000 to $2000 for unmarried
persons and at from $2000 to $5000
for heads of families. All business
would be allowed an exemption of
$r,000. Other features carried in the
program, which was approved
through a referendum of the organi
zation's 2000 members, provide that:
Tax HuhImcsh rrol'lt-s.
Ineomu from salaries, wages, bon
uses and commissions should not be
taxed at so high a rate as income
from business and investments.
Income derived from, business,
whether individual, partnership or
corporate, should be taxed, on the
business itself and he subject to no
additional tax when distributed to ,
partners or stockholders.
All other incomes including profit
from the sales of capital assets should
be taxed at a higher rate than In
come from business and in a still
higher degree than income from man
ual or mentnl efforts.
There should be a tax on gross sales
of alt goods sufficient when added to
all other tuxes -proposed in the pro
gram and Including custom receipts
to aggregate the required $4,000,000,
000. The sales tax at one per cent
would yield $1,810,500,000 it was esti
mated.' '
Kxtinuitc lOxcess Tax.
The program would eliminate from
the present revenue act the excess
profits tux, surtaxes on individual!;,
taxes on transportation, insurance,
admissions, dues and on non-alcoholic
beverages and special and cupital
stock taxes, stamp taxes and certain
excise taxes.
Tho normal income rate would be
fixed at four per cent on the flrnt
$4,000 above tho exemption, while the
remainder would bo subjected to a
tax of eight per cent and no surtaxes
would be levied..
Income f.'nm business institutions
would bo taxed at ten per cent on
amounts above the exemption.
All other Incomes Including "un--earned"
or investment income and
profits would bear surtaxes ranging
from one per cent on Incomes from
$20,000 to $50,000 to six per cent on
incomes In excess of $500,000.
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LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8. New In
dictments charging F. Hay fsroves,
secretary of the democratic central
committee Ed and Ralph Groves, his
brothers, and Joseph Goldberg with
extortion In connection with alleged
violations of the prohibition laws,
were returned by the federal grand
Jury hero today.
These Indictments were returned, It
was said, because federal officials
feared possible flaws in hills returned,
against the four men several weeks
ago charging violation of the Volstead
act. but not through alleged extor
tion. Ralph Groves .formerly a prohibi
tion enforcement official here was
removed from that position some time
ago.
The Indictments alleged thut the
three Groves brothers and Goldberg
extorted sums approximating $3,700
for permits to withdraw whiskey and
wine from bonded warehouses.
T TO
RECLAIM THE WEST
LOS ANGEr.ES, Jan. 7. Plans for
placing the entire west back of a re
quest to congress for "an adequate ap
propriation" for reclamation were dis
cussed here today at a meeting of E.
E. Iilalne, representing Governor D.
W. Davis of Idaho, and H. W. Beard
of Sacramento, with the reclamation
committee of the Los Angeies chamber
of commerce,
Twice as Many Are
Treated in 1920 for
Alcoholism as 1919
NEW YORK, Jan. S.-r-Nearly
twice, as many men as women
were treated 111 the city's hospi
tals for alcoholism during the
last four months of 1920 as during
the same period of 1919 accord
ing to statistics made public to
day in a letter from Bird S. Color,
commissioner of public welfare,
to Mayor Hylan. During the 1919
period mentioned. 0S2 cases were
treated in the municipal institu
tions, as nguinst 11111 cases for
the last four months of 1920.
JAPS OUSTED BY
I
OF
BROWNSVILLE, Texas. Jan. 8.
Tension in the lowler Rio Grande val
ley over the arrival! of prospective Jap
anese colonists appeared cased today
as a result of the promise by two Jap
anese families at ijlarlingcn to return
to California.
Members of tho American Legion
post at Harlingen pledged their aid in
recovery of $10,000 which the Orien
tals said they contracted and paid
partly in cash to Z. Yauiata for farm
ing property near Ilarllngon. Yamata
Is a Japanese resident of Los AngoleB.
SAN BENITO, Texas, Jan. 8. The
directorate of the San llenlto district
Chamber of Commerce at a mooting
last night adopted a resolution author
izing the sending to Austin noxt week
of a representative to "impress upon
state officials the determination of the
people of the lower Rio Grande valley
to have protection against Japanese
colonization.
!E
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KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Jan. 8. The
body of O. V. DodKi, viee-proHUlVnt of
the Midland Life Insurance company,
with a bullet wound through, tho head
wub found today In tho driveway at
his home here. The body waa clad in
a nightshirt," an overcoat and Iiouhc
slippers. .
A small revolver, unfired, was
found In the driveway and near the
body lay a .38 caliber revolver with
one cartridge discharged. The
larger revolver did not belong to
Dodge, members of his family said.
Members of the family said they
believed Mr. Dodge heard noise of
prowlors during tho night, dressed
hurriedly and went out to Investigate
and was murdered. The small re
volver they said belonged to Mr.
Dodge. The hammer on It was
drawn back ready to fire.
Mr. Dodgo" was director of the
Traders' National bank, and secretary
of the l-.ucky Tiger Combination Clold
Mining company.
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F END LET ON, Ore., Jan. 8. The
eounty grand jury which Investigated
charges that inhuman treatment was
hi flU-ted on prisoners in connection
with the killing of Sheriff Til Taylor
here last J uly, exonerated the sher
iffs office in the jury's report made
public here today.
LOS ANOELKS. Jan. 8. The truce
Ik1 t ween the Itlng Kong and the Hop
Sing Chinese tongs, following the out
brenk of war last week when two
momhers of the former society were
killed here by an alleged member of
the latter, was extender! today until
midnight, police say they were In
formed. An extension of the armistice was
granted, the police said, after the Hlng
Kong members had served notice
they would claim tho liven of four
members of the Hop Sing tong In re
prisal for the killing of the two Iling
Kong men.
The Chinatown police squad was In
creased today.
TEXANS REOUES
DANIELS PUIS
MUFFLER UPON
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Ordered to Keep Silent on Ex
periences Canadian Town
Ready for Welcome Spec
ial Phones to Families With
Special Train to Toronto.
WASHINGTON', Jan. 8. Orders of
the navy department to the three navy
airmen now making their way back
from the Canadian wilds not lo make
public any account of their flight and
subsequent experiences until their of
ficial report has been submitted will
slund, Secretary Daniels said today,
despite the appeals from newspapers
and magazines which have- reached
him. Tho official account, lie added,
would be made public as soon as It
was received.
"1 do not think it would be fair to
let some bis newspapers get a 'scoop'
on such story, just because it can af
ford to send a correspondent up Into
Cunada and offer a big sum for it."
Mr. Daniels said one paper had
authorized the representative it sent
north to meet '.he balloonlsts to offer
I hem $1(1,000 for a signed exclusive
article by one or all three."
COCHRANE, Out., Jan. 8. KXpec
tancy thut tho three woatlior-buffetod
naval balloonlsts from llockaway, N
Y., would emerge before nightfall from
tho snowy wilderness that has enfold
ed them since they dropped to earth
December 14 near the Moose Factory
trading station, pervaded tills outpost
of civilization with thu break of dawn
today.
Plans have been completed lo accord
the adventurers n royal welcome upon
their arrival.
Sheafs of telegrams of congratula
Hon are waiting hero for them and
special telephone connections havaJ
been arranged so Hint they may inline
dlately report to Secretary Daniels at
Washington and talk to their wives at
Rock a way.
A special train is waiting to take
them to Toronto whore receptions arc
planned
OF
DAVENPORT, la., Jan. 8. With
ono I. W. W. agitator in jail and a
half dozen more reported at work In
the city, Mayor C. I Harewald, who
several daya ago created a sensation
here by announcing IiIh realgnation
as a member of the HoelallHt party,
today iHHued an order to tho police to
rid the town of radicals and ubg riot
guna if necessary.
The man under arrest, Cllenn jBcott
of Council Itluffa, la., wan arrested
at the -socialist headquarters here yes
terday. Ho admitted, the police say,
that he was one of a crew sent here
to spread I. W. W. propaganda.
"Load up tho riot guns for Imme
diate use and give them a reception
with hot lead," was tho mayor's
order to tho chief.
"We don't want any 'reds' here and
we will go the limit to keep them out.
livery radical Ih insane. Ho hou)d
lie confined In an Insane asylum as
lie is a menace to society,"
DEPT. OF JUSTICE TO
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. Investiga
tion of the cases of all persons now
serving sentences for violation of the
espionage act, Including that of Eu
gene V. Debs, to determine whether
the facta warrant recommendations
for pardon, has been started, It was
stated today, at the department of
justice.
Officials said the examination in
Debs' case had not proceeded far
enough to determine whether any rec
ommendation would be made. Presi
dent Wilson's determination not to
grant a pardon to Debs has been made
clear by White House officials who say
the president feels that it would lower
tho moralo of the people In the event
of another war.
Brazil Bar Exports
RIO JANKIRO, Jan. 6. President
Pessaoa has signed a decree prohibit
ing exK)nuuon tor an imiciumu pui-i
lull of gold, silver, copper and other
metals.
I AVATORS
Oregon Bank Blown;
Robbers Are Scared
'Away by Cashier
MOLALLA, Ore., Jan. S. Rob
bers blew oft the doors of tho
safe of the Molalla State bank at
11:30 tills morning but were fright
ened away before they could ob
tain any loot. When tho find
blast was heard George Taylor,
editor of tho Molalla Pioneer, who
lives next door to the bank, tele
phoned to W. W. Aberhart. cash
ier of the bank, who rushed from
his home- and readied the bank
In time to see two men running
away. The robbers fled after fir
ing a second blast, which broke
the Inner door of tho safe. A
K)Sse of citizens was immediate
ly assembled and began search
of tho surrounding country.
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J. .J. .
CROATS REVOLT
ITALIAN RULE
IRIESIEJEPORI
Veglia Proclaims Republic
D'Annunzio to Remain in
Fiume and Write Book
May Run Rome Newspaper
Guards Slow to Disarm.
LONDON, Jan. 3. The population
of tho 1 sluml of Veglia haH revolted
against the Italian government troops
and proclaimed a Croatian republic,
says a t'enrtal News dispatch from
Homo today. Three soldiers were
killed hi the uprising.
TTUEST, .Jan. 7. Gabrlelo d'An
nun'lo, it-is alleged, intends to remain
in Kiume. Tills statement Is based
mainly on reports that he has sent
to Venice for a large wardrobe of
civilian clothes and has reo.ulHlttoned
ono of the largest villas in Fiume,
While moHt of the legionnaires are
leaving, according to program, the
poet's company guards are proving
troublesome, being unwilling to sur
render their arms.
LONDON, Jan. -7. Tho London
Rome correspondent reports that Ga
bi'lclo d'Annunzio proposes to stay In
Flume until he has completed a his
tory untitled "Tho Klvo Days of
Kluino." When tho work Is finished,
it is safd bo will go to Homo, where
he may found a newspaper.
PUYALLUP INDIAN DEAD
AT AGE OF 110 YEARS
: TACOMA, Jan. 8. Charles Sotlcnm,
member of the Puyullup Indian tribe
died today at tho ago of 110. He was
a cousin of Chief Soattle after whom
the city of Seattle was mimed. Sotlcnm
was one of tho "head men" of the
Ptiyallup tribe.
OIL REDUCED 10 $5.75
PITTSBURG, Jan. 8. Thi i rice of
Pennsylvania crude oil, on which is
based the prlco of other crudii oils In
this country, was toduy cut from S'i.10
a barrel to $5.70 a barrel. Th.ls is
tho first reduction In crudo oil tor a
number of years nnd is brought about
tho principal purchasing agencies
said, by a decreased deninnd.
AMERICAN FLEE! IS ONLY
BRITAIN'S BUT
WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Information
now In possession Ot the American
government on the relative strength
of the three principal naval powers,
believed to be complete, shows the
present naval strength of this country
lo be about half that ot Great Britain,
while more than double tho seapower
of Japan.' In the first line major ships,
Including battleships and battle cruis
ers tho British navy January 1, 1921,
this Information shows, numbered 32
vcssohi of 811,050 tons while the Unit
ed States possessed sixteen vessels of
435,750 tbns and Japan ten vessels ot
288,320 tons.
Whilo capital Bhlps under construc
tion for the American navy. Including
twelve dreaduaug.hu and six battle
F
AMR DI N
RISH
CHAPLAIN
PUT JN TRIAL
Court Martial of Lord Mayor
MacSwiney's Chaplain Pro
motes Sensation in Dublin
Documents Damaging to
Priest Are Read.
DUNLIN, Jan. 8. The statements
"likely to cause disaffection to his
majesty" In documents alleged to have
been written by Father Dominic,
clinplaln to the late Lord Mayor Mae
Swlney of Cork, or to have been in
possession of Father Dominic, were
read at the opening here today of his
trial by a field general court martial. '
lie was chaplain of the republican
guard and spiritual adviser to the lato .
lord mayor during his confinement and
at tho time of his death in Brixton
prison from a hunger strike.
The charges against Father Dominie
are based on certain passages in a
note book and in a letter and it was
declared in advance of the trial that
the accused priest would maintain that
the passages In the noto book were
dictated to him by Lord Mayor Mac
Swlnoy in the presence of the Brixton
prison authorities.
Father Dominic refused to recognize
the court but. reserved tho right to
cross-examino witnesses and to make a
statement after the close of the pro
ceedings. The court entered a plea ot
not guilty for him.
The letter on which the first charge
against Father Dominic Is based Is al
leged to have been written by him No
vember 26 to a friend. This letter
touches on the activities of the mili
tant Seiners, execrates the ' crown
forces and refers to the recent tragic
Sunday In Dublin when fourteen Brit
ish court martial officers wore assas
sinated, as a "terrible, hut wonderful
uay. , . . -r-'-T-i! .
Tho lettor asserts that "the boys got
tho leaders of the B and T (black and !
tan) reprisals," and goes on to say
that tho Croke park shooting which
followed the killing of the auxiliary of
ficers was "ordered as a reprisal by '
MacRcady, Tudor and the remnant ot
the reprisal committee." (General Sir
Nevll MacReady is military comman
der of Ireland and General H. M.
Tudor Is commander of the black and
tans, or auxiliary forces).
The letter also declared that "It was '
decided too, to assassinate 1 Larry
O'Noil (Lord mayor of Dublin) that
night." -
The second charge Is based on' the
memorandum alleged to have been
found In Father Dominic's room at the
Capuchin friary in Dublin. It was
headed: "Ireland an invaded nation,"
and began: "All the inhabitants : of
every nation unjustly Invaded are
bound to resist the invoder. And the
nation Is considered to be at war with
the invader." '
The reading of the documents create
ed a sensation in the court room.' '
ENOCH ARDEN' WIFE IS
WILLING TO FORGIVE ALL
: :,.
MILWAUKEE, Wis., Jan. , 8. Mrs.
Ellen Harvey Telegas Auther, wife of
Paul Pierre Auther, , arrested In St.'
Louis with Mrs. Phjllp Franzen,. of
Madison, Wis., said today she waa
willing to forgive her husband and that
she could even "love him again."
"When he Is brought back," said the
wife who was left penniless by the
husband who called himself a scion ot
"apanish grandees," "I will Call on
him in jail, I will treat him kindly. If
ho will be a good husband, I could even
love aim again."
HALF GREAT v
DOUBLE FLEET OF JAPAN
cruisers, to be completed In 192S will
virtually offset the British preponder
ance In this class of vessels, the In
formation shows that the American
fleet still will be greatly Inferior In
types of vessels regarded by naval of
ficers as of the first Importance In
naval strength. These types include
notably destroyer leaders, cruisers and
light cruisers and cruising submarines,
Altho with completion of the author
ized building programs of the two
countries tho American navy will have
only six battle cruisers as compared
with twelve for that of Japan, it will
more than maintain a 100 per eent su
periority by virtue of ita greater num
ber of battleships and supplemental
types of war craft