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The Weather
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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.
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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.
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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.