Medf The Weather Maximum yesterday ...50 Minimum today i. 31 Rain 1.07 8now f.A In. Predictions Probable rain or snow to night and Tuesday. Dally Fifteenth Tear. Weekly Fiftieth Year. MEDFORD, OUHCiOX, MONDAY, PKBRUAKY 14, 1921 NO. 278 NE Bill MAY BE Senator Thomas Introduces Resolution to Have Commit tee Report to 1923 Session, Making Investigation Mean while 50 Bills Out of 678 Signed by Governor. SALEM, Oro., Feb. 14. House bill 158 by Sheldon to repent an obsolete section regarding location of mining claims wag 'indefinitely postponed by the senate by adoption of an adverse report of the mining committee. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 14. Because of the nearness of the end of the legis lative session and the short time re maining for aotion on the subject of reapportionment of' representative and senatorial districts, Beqator Thomas today introduced a Joint res olution to have the special reappor tionment commltteo continue to in vestliiate In the next two years and report to the session of 1923. Should the Thomas bill prevail, the committee would be instructed to have a bill prepared for the 1923 ses sion and to present It during the first week " of that session. SALEM, Ore., Fob. 14. The sen ate today passed a houso bill to pro vent false advertising. It was intro duced at the request of the Portland Ad club. SALEM, Ore., Fob. 14. To expe dite the business of the senate in an effort to adjourn at tho end of thlB week, President Ititner announced thin morning that senate rule 27 will bn enforced. This provenls any senator except tho author of a bill ot speak on any measure on final passage for moi'Orthan five minutes ;or Any mem ber except the author to speak on a resolution more than threo minutes. Any member, howevor, may walvo his time In favor, of another member. SALEM,' Ore., Feb. 14. A senate bill by Bell, providing for tho regu lating of the retail sale of garments 'ahd cloth by requiring tho merchant to show in writing the amount of the various kinds of material in the cloth - was killed in the senate by indefinite postponeiircnt today. . The' Hlndman house bill relating to abandonment of or failure to support a iwlfe or. minor child was killed in th.. sepato by indefinlto postpone ment. . 50 Bills Signed. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 14. Fifty measures passed by the legislature had -been signed by Governor Ben W. OloOlt when the legislature this morning began the lost week of its forty-day session. Thirty-one of the . bills originated in the house and 19 in the' senate. . '.Upto the hour of adjournment Sat urday afternoon, a total ot 337 bills had been Introduced in the senate, while 341 measures had found their way to the clerk of the house. This makes a total of 678 bills as against ah -. aggregate of approximately 1150 measures introduced during the bien nial ' session ot the lawmakers held -ttvd ycarS ago. . It the legislature does not dispose ot the. business before it this week, members said holdover sessions would be run into next week. Legislators would receive no pay for the time over the constitutional 40-day session. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 14. Represen tative Hlndman of Multnomah today introduced a bill amending tho code relating to teachers' certificates bo that -graduates of standard colleges andrunlyersltles now entitled to teach only in men schools will be entitled to teach in all schools of the state. . OGDEN, Utah, Feb. 14. Ftvo hun dred men are affected by an order posted at the Southern Pacific shops hefe today, closing the shops tonight until February 23. ' JOE JACKSON AND E CHICAGO, Feb. 14. Formal re pudiations of alleged grand Jury con fessions' of crooked basebalPplaylng we're filed In the criminal court here today, on behalf of Claude Williams and' Joe Jackson. Chicago American league players Indicted on charges of conspiracy to throw the 1919 world's series. The petition filed today on behalf of Williams, Jackson and George (Buck) Weaver, a teammate, declares that none of the three ever mar"e ad missions charged against the first two and deny that they ever threw ball -games or conspired to do so. Weaver THROWN Scandinavian Bank Of Fargo Is Closed By Bank Examiner BISMARCK, X. D., Feb. 14.4 Inability to satisfy its liabilities to tho Bank of North Dakota caused the closing today of the Scandinavian-American Bank of Fargo, it wus announced by O. E. Loflhus, state bunk exam iner. The Institution had been men tioned frequently in the Invostl gutlou by a, committee of the house of the North Dakota legis lature of a recent audit ot tho Bank of North Dakota. In October, 1918, the bank was ordered closed by the state banking board wus was reopen ed by the state Bupreme court a short time later. The supreme court ruled that the bank was solvent. R. R. LABOR BOARD CHICAGO, Feb.. 14. The United States railroad labor board today re fused the application of employes of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic railroad to throw out the dlsputo over wages on the plea that it was with out the jurisdiction of tho board. Tho railroad's defense of Us proposed re duction of wages, which was ordered held up by the board recently, was inability to meet operating expenses, of which the employes payroll con stitutes 71 per cent. CHICAGO, Feb. 14. Recent re ductions in the wages of maintenance of way men and changes In the work ing conditions of train dispatchers as announced by tho Brio railroad were suspended by the federal railroad la bor board today. The board an nounced that no reductions in wages or changes in working conditions could become ; effective except by agreements between tho road and its employes until the board has an op portunity to pass upon the case. The hearing was set for February 23. Train dispatchers' representatives also charged that the road had order ed them to work seven days a week. Previously they had a six day week. DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 14. Belief that the hearing into wage reductions of maintenance of way men, an nounced today by the federal railway labor board in Chicago would serve as a test case for maintenance men on all railways of the country, was ex pressed here today, by E. F. Grable, president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers. Ho said that the St. Louis and Southwestern railway has suspended recently announced wage reductions to maintenance men, pending the out come of tho hearing into the Erie railway wage. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE SALEM, Ore., Feb. 14 The Lebanon Electric Light and Water company has filed with the public service commis sion an application to Increase its ser vice rates. SALEM, Ore., Feb. 14. The public service commission will be represent ed today at a bearing at HarriBburg to Inquire into tho derailment of two pas senger coaches on Southern Pacific train No. 18. The ca.s were overturn ed, but no one seriously injured. PORTLAND, Feb. 14 Soft snow and heavy rain were accompaniments of a storm which swept over the Oregon and southwest Washington coast dis tricts yesterday. In Portland the snow fell continually after noon. Astoria reported two inches of snow early in the day. WILLIAMS NOW THROWI did not appear before the grand Jury and has from the first denied taking part In the alleged conspiracy. GREENVILLE, 8. C. Feb. 14. Joe Jackson, former Chicago While Sox outfielder, may have to pay up wards of 11200 income tax and pen alty on the 15000 he Is said to have received during the world's series of 1919, according to a statement today by Attorney James J. Price, who has been retained as counsel for Jachson. Jackson corned tho money was re ceived as a gift. It is said a decision will be given soo'n by treasury officials. LANDIS 13 IMPEACHED IN SPEECH Federal Judge Impeached by Representative Welty, Dem ocrat, From Ohio, Who Soon Retires Five Charges Are Filed Senator Dial Will Follow Suit. CHICAGO, Feb. 14. Judge Kenasaw M. Landls, when shown dispatches from Washington telling of his Im peachment: by l Representative Welti' of Ohio, in . Uio house of representa tives, read carefully the charges out lined.' As' trie jurist perused the dis putches he smiled occasionally and then handed the dispatches back say ing that he was thankful for having had the opportunity of reading them but he had uo comment to make at this time. "in the meantime, let these hoys lather themselves good," tho judge said with a broad smile. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Federal Judge Kenasaw Mountain Landis of Chicago was Impeached in the house of representatives today by Represen tative Welty, democrat, Ohio, who JUDGE K, M. LANDIS Whose Impeachment Is Demanded by Two Congressmen. charged him with "high crimes and misdemeanors"' In connection with his acceptance of tlio position of supreme arbiter of TjaseWll-at a salary ot $42,- 500 a vear. Should t!ieliouo"' decide to institute proceedings against Judge Landis on the basis -of .Mr. '"Welly's charges, a formal trial before the bar of the house would be held and a decision rendered. Mr. Welty did not introduce a resold tlon proposing impeachment as is the usual proceedure in such matters. In stead he arose to "a question of high personal privilege," and announced he "Impeached" the judge. Without debate the Welty charges. on Mr. Wclty's motion, were referred to the judiciary committee for invest! gation and report. There were a few scattering noes. WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Represen tative Welty, of Ohio, refused today to grant a request of Senator Dial, of South Carolina, that he include in his proposed Impeachment proceedings against Federal 'Judge Landis the statement attributed to the judge that officials ot an Ottawa,- Illinois, bank were responsible for an embezzlement by a clerk of the bank because they paid the clerk only $90 a month. .- Five Charges Impeachment was proposed by Mr. Welty on five specific charges as fol lows: ' "First: For neglecting his official duties for another gainful occupation not connected therewith. "Second: For using his office as dis trict judge of the United States to set tle disputes which might come into his court as provided by the laws of the United States. "Third: For lobbying before legis latures to procure the passage of state laws to prevent gambling in baseball, instead of discharging his duties as district Judge of the United States. "Fourth: For accepting tho position as chief arbiter of the disputes in base ball associations at a salary of $42,500 (Continued cn Page Two) Waiting for Coming Of Christ Leads to Denver Bread Line DENVER, Colo., Feb. 14. Joshua (Jehovah) Skyes, head of the cult known as the House of David, failed to appear in tho Juvenile court here today to an swer charges of contributing to the delinquency and dependence ot children. It was suggested he might have gone to San Francisco to surrender preparatory to begin ning a penitentiary sentence of two years on charges ot violat ing tho espionage act. Tho charges which were to come up today particularly re feried to Sykos regulations that men and women members of the cult of which ho is head refrain from working for seven months preparatory to the coming of Christ. A number ot his flock obeyed, according to the police and their neglected children were forced to secure food thrown out 'by Denver housewives. A BR! WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. M. S. Johnson, a juror in the case of David W. Sullivan, a local broker, against John T. Davis, of 'West Virginia, for $500,000 damages for the alleged alienating of Mrs. Sullivan'B affec tions, was arrested In the district supremo court today on a chargo of having offered to accopt a bribe of $55,000 from tho defendant to vote for dismissal. Tho court declared a mistrial of the damage suit. ELIZABETH, N. J., Feb. 14. Throe hundred ship carpenters, blacksmiths and caulkers at the Moore plant of tho Bethlehem Ship building corporation here struck to day In protest against a wage reduc tion of 10 per cent, which became effective In the corporation's plants at Quincy, Mas., Baltimore and Wil mington, Del. 11 TO ENTER POLITICS TORONTO, Ont., Feb. 14 Employes of the Canadian National railways, the government ByBtem, will not be per mitted lo continue in the service and accept nominations from any political party, either federal or provincial, ac cording to a ruling by D. B. Hunna, president, made public here today. ' This decision followed consideration by tho president and directors of a report by a board of conciliation in the case of three employes who accepted nominations and were discharged. An exception has been granted In the case of these men, who will be re-Instated. SPARKS FROM TODAY'S WIRE MILWAUKEE, Wis., Feb. 14. Den ny Leonard, lightweight champion to day was offered $20,000 by Tom An drews, local promoter, to meet Kltohie .Mitchell of Milwaukee hero in March. OKLAHOMA CITY, Okln., Feb. 14 Tbomns 14. Ferguson, territorial governor und prominent republican leader in Okluhoma during the duys before statehood, died early today at a local hospital. . PORT ANGELES. Wash., Feb. 14 The plant of the Port Angeles Daily Herald was wrecked by fire of unde termined origin today. The extent of the damago has not been ascertained. WICHITA. Kas., Feb. 14. Augusta, Knn., where a mob Inst night threat ened the police station with the al leged intention of lynching an officer who was said to have wounded Charles Formen, an oil fields Worker, probably fatally, was quiet today. ATHENS, Feb. 14. Strikes -on tramways and in railway electric power stations have been declared off following the action of King Con stantino In receiving deputations and intervening in favor of the strikers. ABANDON All i HOPE FINDINti iPILfll ALIVE Officers of Eighth Army Corps Certain Aviator Pearson Met Death in Flight From El Paso to San Antonio Motor Was Missing Over Pecos Valley Search Continues. SAN ANTONIO, Texas? Fob. 14. Belief that Lieutenant Alexander Pear son, Jr., missing since Thursday, met death on bis attempted flight from El Paso to San Antonio was generally ox- pressed today by officers at head quarters of the eighth army corps area who are directing a search of the entire west Texas borderland. Air planes and several parties of cowboys are taking part. Up to three o'clock this forenoon no report of finding the aviator had been received. His course has been traced beyond Saragosa in Reeves county and Fort Stockton, in Pecos county und both places he was headed toward San An tonlo. Speculation now centers on whether Pearson, with his motor "missing" was able to get across tho Pecos valley which, divided by the Pocos river flowing in a (loop gorgo, is flanked on either side by rocks and crags, present ing a certain denth to any aviator forced to seek a landing on lis dun gerous ' rocks. Beyond tlls strip of "bad land" lies tho plains whoro he might havo safely got hla ship down without Injury. Major Leads Hunt EL PASO, Texus, Feb. 14. Major Leo J. Heffernnn, commander of avia tion nt Fort llllss, took the air this morning for Sanderson, Toxas, where he is to direct tho search for Lieuten ant Poarson' who hns been lost since Thursday. Major Hoffcrnnn's first move will be to organize flying expeditions to the Big Bend district in Chlhunhua and Into counties futtlier cast of those searched during tho last threo days, it was announced at aviation headquar ters. Officers at Fort Bliss, from Briga dier General II. L. llowzo, commander of Fort Bliss, to the lieutenants con ducting the search, bcllevo that when Lieutenant Pearson is found ho will be dead. Water from his engine could have kept him alive only a day or so, they believe and If he had found suc cor of some kind thoy believe ho would have been able to got to a telephone or telegraph before now to tell ot his trouble. MUST PAY PIPER . SAN 'FRANCISCO, 'Feb. 14. A de cision directing the Oregon Ellers Music house of Portland to turn over Its assets, valued at $45,000 to II. W. Sitton, trustee for Eilers 'Music houso, bankrupt, was handed down today by tho United Stntes circuit court of appeals here. Tho doclBlon afflrmod a district court Judgment. The Oregon Eilers company hod held that It did not hnvo to surren der Its assets as It was not a part of the Eilers company. The courts held that It was sub sidiary. T WASHINGTON, Feb. 14 The house voted down today, 124 to 30, an amendment to the naval appro priation hill which would have pre vented the expenditure of any pnrt of tho $90,000,000 carried in tho measure for continuing naval con struction until the president called an international disarmament con ference. I.llierly Bonds. NEW YORK, Feb. 144. Liberty bonds closed: , 3 14 's 91.20. FlrBt 4's RG.80 bid; second 4's 88.70. First 4 Vi's 87.30; second 4 '4's 86.80; third 4 Vs. 90.14; fourth 4V4's 87.18. Victory 3'a 97.66; Victory 4's 97.22. Population Center Is Moved 9.8 Miles West by California WASIHA'CTON, Feb. 14 4. The center of population as dis closed by the 1920 census is lo cated in the extreme southeast corner of Owen county, Indluna, 8.3 miles southeast ot tho town of tho town of Spencer, the cen sus bureau announced today. During tho lust decado the center of population continued to movo westward, advancing 9.X miles in that direction und about one-fifth of a mile north from llloomingtoii, Ind., where It was located by the census of 1910. Tho bureau attributed tho westward movement In tho lust decade, principally to the In 'creaso of moro than 1,000,000 In the population of tho state of California. PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 14. The tin employment situation In Portland has become so acute that there are now more than 2000 bread winners jobless aud penniless. The Portland city council and Multnomah county com missioners have authorized Portlnnd Post No. 1 of tho American Lesion to take tho situation in hand in order that a more serious condition may bo avert ed. To prevent unemployment men and women coming to Portland, where only suffering and enforced return would bo their lot, tho unemployment com mission of Portland Post No. 1 of tho American Legion is enlisting tho co operation of Legion posts and tho press throughout Oregon and adjoin ing states In warning the unemployed to stay out of Portland until conditions improve. "Employment will be provided for most of the unemployed Portland fam ily men within 30 days, but the city cannot provide either work or finan cial aid for outsiders until conditions Improve In the spring," according to the announcement of Charles B. Rock er, chairman of the unemployment commission. CHICAGO, Fob. 14 One of tho alleged ring lenders of a band of swindlers blamed by police for the disappoarance of C. C. Dukes, a bank er of Milan, Ga., four months ago, and the loss to thein vlctilms ot $2, 500,000 was identified here today as Noal McDouglasB, under arrest on suspicion of having dofrauded many Chicago women of valuable Jewelry. While held under the Chicago charges, Atlanta police are said to have identified him as one ot a band of confidence men, numbering at times nearly a hundrod. An elaborately equipped club was maintained by the band, police re ports said, In which victims were en tertained while plans were laid to swlndlo them. NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Edward Costello, motorman on a Lorn! iHland local railroad train that collided last night with an express trnln in Brook lyn, Injuring moro than sixty persons, fifteen seriously, was held today, charged with felonious nHsault. HOPE PEACE NEAR CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 13. (By tho Associated Press) Hope that al lied delegates would enter the Near Eastern conference to be held In Lon don next week with a compromising spirit was expressed here today by Abdul Mcdjld Effendi, heir presump tive to the Turkish throne. Only by such an attitude would It be possible to establish peace in the Near East, and ho said it might be too late to insure an end to hostilities. If the Turkish nationalists have made any miliary agreements with the Russian bolshevlkl. Ho Indicated that Turkey was awaiting with interest tho develop FORGET WAR ANIMOSITIES HARDING Al Outline of President-elect's Inaugural Given Out Re turn to Peace and Recon struction Urged Unsnack elling of Business and End of Government Meddling. ST. AUGUSTINK, Fla.. Feb. 14. A plea that the nation forget the ani mosities and partisanship of the after war period nnd put its shoulder un Htintingly to tho wheel of re construc tion is expected to form the keynote of Warren G, Harding's message when ho comes into tho presidency. Although tho inaugural address still is far from complete, it was learned today that considerable had been done on it and that the subjects it is to cover virtually had been selected. It is understood it will be brief. One uf tho outstanding features is expected to be an nppeal for confi dence In the nation's business stabil ity, linked with assunlnce "that tho ad ministration will keep away from meddling methods In its relations with tho business world. Detailed statement of a taxation policy, however. Is to be reserved until congress has been called into special session, probably In April. For Peace Association It is believed Mr. Harding's address will touch very briefly on the question of an International peace association and 'will tersely pledge the Incoming administration to uso its best effort to secure a penco agreement compatible with American aspirations. There is expected also to bd a word of friend ship, for Mexico and the rest of Latin America. Mr. Harding now is devoting little time to tho actual wording of the doc ument nnd most of the real work of putting his ldens in language prob-v ably will not be done until next week. He hns a heavy appointment list dur ing tho next fow days and by Satur day will have, hoard the advice of several prominent party leaders 'in cluding Charles Evans Hughes, gene rally understood to be the prospective secretary of state. Among those who had appoint- ' ments today was Thomas T. Lamont, a partner in tho Morgan Banking com pany who helped frame the financial section of the treaty of Versailles. 2 NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Tho Stand-, ard OH company of New York today reduced tho price of gasoline two centa a gallon, making tho wholesale price 28 cents. riTTSBURO, Fob. 14. Purchasing agencies hero today announced fur ther rpduftlone In the price of crudo oil. ' The grade known as Corning waa cut 45 cents a barrel to $2.64, while Qabelt was cut 60 cents to 2.46. 1 ST TYPHUS DEATH SINGE '92. IN N. Y. NEW YORK. Feb. 14. While Health Commissioner Copeland today wnu ronnwlnp hfa nrntontn In Wnah. Ington against the Increasing number of Infested Immigrants arriving at this port, tho health department recorded tho first death In this city from truo typhus since 1892. BY ALLIES ONLY EAST, SAYS ABDUL ment of the Near Eastern policies of President-elect Harding. ; "What Is most needed at the Near Eastern conference In London,' he de clared, "Is common sense and mode ration.' . PARIS. Feb. 14. Revision of the Sevres treaty between the allies and Turkey Is being opposed by every means at hl3 disposal by former Pre mier Venlzelos of Greece, he declares In an Interview in the Petit Parlslen. M. Ven 1 ne 1 os takes occasion to deny recent reports that his fight against any-alteration of the Sevres pact ts evidence that he has entered Into re lations with King Constantino of Greece.