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WiFJWfiiiri ! The Weather Maximum yesterday ...68 Minimum today 35 Predictions Unsettled weather. 4U Oally Sixteenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-First Yr. MEDFORD, OKKGOX, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1921 NO. 19(5 FRENCH AIM FOR PARLEY GIVEN OUT Premier Briand Arrives in New York and Presents 4 Points of French Policy Reduc tion of Armaments On Sea Preferable to Reduction On the Land. Get Good Will and You Will Get Peace, Says Marshal Foch CHICAGO, Nov. 7. Two short fr paragraph:) in Marshal Foch's speech in Chicago epitomizing tho peace message of a war lead- er were prominently commented on today. "Peace we shall have it soon ! on the same condition that we got war. We must fight for it in the S moral sphere as we did in tho physical sphere. Peace has been promised from the first night of Christianity only to men of good will. " Good will must lie in the hot- 5 torn of the heart; without it, it is only a sham peace." ION ASK LEO TO ANSWER . WA ARRESTS Ml NEW YORK, Nov. 7 Aristide Iiriand, premier of Franco and head of the, French delegation landed hero to day from the steamship LnFayette. He was accompanied by former Pre mier Rene Vlvluni, a companion of Marshal Joffre during his visit here in 1917 and Albert Sarraut, French sen ator and minister of the colonies. France is ready to join in every en deavor to avert new wars, "provided she has nothing to fear for her own security, which remains one of the most solid guarantees of the peace of the world," said Premier Briand in a messago to the American people upon his arrival. "Both our countries only endeavor to lead the men and peoples of good will to peaceful and fruitful work to reduce more and more the risks of war," the premier declared. "Today the world, which is in such need of safety and rest, wants not only sooth ing words, but realities." Given Rousing Welcome A crowd gave the premier and his party a rousing welcome as they step ped ashore from the steamship. "On setting foot on tho soil of tho great American republic," said tho pre I MASTER. 101 FOR COMPLICITY Wow Believe Hara's Death Re sult of Conspiracy On Part of Political Group Diffi culty Is Experienced in Get ting New Premier. TOKIO, Nov. 7. (By the Associat ed I'ress) Ligoro Hnsaamimoto, as sistant station master uf the Ossaka railroad station where Premier Tak- nshi Mara was assassinated Friday night haH been arrested, charged with complicity in the crime. About twenty other employes at the station ,wero released, after being questioned. Hyc-hl Nakoka, the assassin, insists, the police say that he had no accom pliees. The police believe, however mler's message, "my first thought goes that the statesman's death was back to those who generously came tql'rought about through a conspiracy, Secy of War Weeks Requests Mew Legion Commander to Assist in Obtaining Facts Concerning Alleged Outrage in France Honor of Service at Stake. Premier Briand Arrives New York mingle their blood with that of tho sol diers of France, hack to those fighters whom tho United States sent over to us as the most precious thing they had, back to those magnificent lilgh souled youths with heroic hearts who fell for right and for liberty with a smile, to the land that has piously en tombed them. To their families France now sends me as a near relative. I am coming to assure them that the recollection of those heroes is deeply graven in the' heart of every French man. . ' "Tho statue that, at tho entrance of New York raises right above the har bor her light-sprcftding nrm has its replica in Paris on the, banks of the Seine. Identical, jjorn of the same hands, almost of the same mold, these two statues, though, standing thou sands of miles from each other, point out the close relatinshlp which exists between the two peoples, the aspira tions they have in common, the like ness of their role, their equal love of justice, their similar will on the path of progress." France' 4 Points Premier Briand, who said he would jeserve formal comment on the confer ence until he had seen President Har ding, comes with the purpose of assist ing during the first twelve days of the conference in determining the princi ples upon which subsequent details and results will rest. Tho French people and the chamber gave him a free hand. He will enter the confer ence with general policies clear in Ills own mind and in the minds of other members of the delegation. These Include: - First, the French government's obli gations to the League of Nations do not preclude France from joining oth er powers inside or outside tho league in limiting armaments or settling ,. other questions that the league con siders as within its jurisdiction. Secondly, French policy Is identical with ,that of the United States towards equal commercial opportunities in China. Third, the restriction of sea nrma- Thls belief Is strengthened by tho fact, that a well-dressed, unidentified man was seen hurrying from tho station at the moment Nakoka thrust his sword into the premier's breast. The authorities are of the opinion that the youth's statement that he alone conceived the crime was made in an effort to shield his co-conspir- iltors. Nakoka was in hiding on the station platform when the premier and a number of other leaders of the Selyu- kai party arrived . to take the 7:30 train for Kioto, where a meeting was to have been held. As the premier, chatting with ills companions, passed through the gate leading to the sta tion platform Nakoka leaped from his hiding place and plunged a short sword into M. Hara's left breast, at tho same timet exclaiming "the country's enemy." Marquis Matsultntn. lord keeper of the privy seal, following a conference at tho palace yesterday with Marquis Saionji, left for tho villa of Field Mar shal Prince Yamngata, in Odawara, to confer with tho prince, who is ill. Prince Yamagata is one of the elder statesmen and a .member of the mili tary council of the empire. No an nouncement as to re-construction of the cabinet is expected until Marquis Matsukata's return. Marquis Saionji is most prominently mentioned for the premiership, but it is doubtful if he would accept. Vis count Makino is also being consider ed for the post. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. . The American Legion was asked y the war department today to lend its assist- ance in obtaining all facts relating to tho charges made by Senator Watson, of Georgia, that soldiers wero fre quently shot and hanged without court martial, during tho war. Secre tary Weeks addressed his appeal to Hanford MacNider, commander of the American Legion. After quoting the senator's charges the secretary said: "The foregoing statement coming so long after the commission of the alleged crimes, constitutes a reflec tion upon the entire personnel of tho American expeditionary force. I con sider the public entitled to all the facts which It Is within tho power of my office to produce. If there pos sibly exists any basis for such an al legation, the responsible porsons should beur tho odium. Otherwise definite refutation is desirable." Moro Telegrams Introduce! Senator Watson Interjected Into senate debato on the tax bill today more telegrams, letters and newspa per articles which ho said supported his 'charges, A telegram from a Lansing, Mich., soldier, said tho writer saw two "YankB hung without trial," nnothor letter, Senator Watson said, "shows how men wore shot down because they , fell exhausted from long marches." The meeting scheduled today, of the special committee appointed to investigate Senator Watson's charges was postponod for a day or two be cause of the senator's attendance on the tax bill. hi rv t i n f y I'l"'" 13? na "Vivian Accuruing to reports from France, the delegates .to represent the French government in the Disarmament Conference, to open on November 11 in Washington, have Leon named as follows: Premier ISrland, Philip iioithe lot, lleno Vivian! and Ambassador Jusseranil. A M DAY PROCLAMATION (Continued on page eight.) LEAVES FOR EXILE BUDAPEST, Nov. 7. Former Em peror Charles of Austria-Hungary and his wife, last reported to be at Galatz, Rumania, awaiting the British cruiser Cardiff to carry them to exile on the Island of Madeira, were believed today to have passed out of the Danube into the Black sea on their way to the Bos-phorus. Tho national assembly of Hungary at a special session yesterday enacted into law a bill dethroning CharleB and outing the entire Hapsburg dynasty BIG BUSINESS IN IN GERMANY TRY TO CAPTURE CONTROL OF THE GOV'T MASON CITY, la., Nov. 7. Han ford (Jack) MacNider, national American Legion commander, homo; for a day of quiet and rest, found a band and. 1,000 howling townspeople when ho stepped from a train this morning He was taken to his home at tho head of a long parade. Legion headquarters will remain in Indianapolis, .MacNider suld. 5 Soldiers IlehMiscd LEAVENWORTH. Kas., Nov. 7. Fivo former American soldiers, con victed in Coblenz, Germany, by a court martlul of tho murder of Cap tain Gilbert Lancefield of the Brit ish army today left the federal pris on hero, pardoned by tho president. From tho federal prison the five men wero taken to the United State dis ciplinary barracks on the Fort Leav enworth military reservation, where they were re-enlisted In tho army, given honorable discharges and hack pay from the time of their arrest in Germany. The men are James A, O'Dcll, Com anche, Okla.; Hoy P. Trueblood, Omaha, Neb.; Georgo Van Gilder, To ledo, Ohio; Carl J. Bryan, McConnell, Texas, and J. B. Richardson, Denton, Texas. In recognition of the request by President Hurtling tlint the tuition rentier suitable tribule on Armistice titty tn America's ''unknown soldier dctid," Mayor ('. K. (Inles bus issued a proc lamation requesting nil citizens to cense Ibeir activities at hiyh noon and give themselves lo solemn reflection for n period of Two" hliiifites. Body" of? l! unidentified American soldier,' who fell in battle in France, will be buried in Arlington national cem etery at noon, November lth, with ceremonies symbolizing the homage of the nation to nil of those American soldiers who lie in unidentified graves in France. Buglers posted on the tops of several of Bedford's business blocks will blow taps at the time specified and all activities con nected with the Armistice day program will cease during that period. , WHEREAS, on next Friday at 12 o'clock, noon, at the nn lional cemetery, Arlington, Virginia, there will he held tho funer al ceremony for our unknown dead of the late war, one body of mi unknown American boy, killed in France during the great war, having been selected as representing the entire number of un known dead now buried on foreign soil. Whereas, this ceremony : will be natiou-wiile and should have the recognition of all American citizens NOW, THEREFORE, out of rcspeftt for those who have made the supreme sacrifice for us, and who cannot receive the individ ual honor due them, I, C, E. Gates, mayor of the city of Medford, do request that at twelve o'clock noon, on Friday,AnnisticeDay, at the sound of the city fire whistle, every citizen, wherever you may be, stop and stand in silent mediation for two minutes in recognition of our honored dead. (Signed) C. E. fiATKS, Mayor. L BERLIN. Nov. 7. (By the Asso ciated Press) The League of Ger man Industrialists has voted to come to the financial aid of tho govern ment by placing nt Its disposal the foreign credits of the league's mem bers" which It Is estimated will yield 1. 000.000,000 marks. A resolution to this affect adopted after seven hours nf stormy debate participated In by Hugo Sttnnes, the financier, and lr. Alfred Hueenbore. director of the Krupp works, sets forth the follow ing conditions: Enterprises In tne hands of the state nnd public bodies to be managed In such a manner that they cease to be a drain upon the public treasury. Freedom of the country's economic life from any restrictions that hinderH its development including the eight hour day. Financial writers express the opin ion that the Kvernment will be un iblc to agree to the stipulated condi- ns. LONDON, Nov. 7. (By the Asso ciated Ftcbs) In conformity with the appeal of the Archbishop of Can terbury, prayers were offered yester day in all the Anglican churches throughout Oreat Uritaln Imploring divine blessings on the Washington armament conference. The same pro cedure was followed in the non-con formist churches. Cardinal Hourne's appeal for the same purpose ulso was effective in the Knglisn Koman Catholic churclws. In all the Jewish synagogues, spec ial prayers will be offered next Sat urday for the succei-s of the confer ence. Even Imam Mustapha Khan, religious head of the Moslem commu nity in England, whose mosque is at Woking, in Surrey, will pray to the almighty In next Friday's sermon to u-uifle the counsellors of the nations represented ut Wuahlngtun. SAN FUANX-IKCO, Nov. 7. The trlul of ItoHt'oe (Fatty) Arbuckle for manslaughter, growing out of the death of Miss Virginia Kappe, was continued today until November 14. by consent of both aides. The court announced that tho trial positively would begin on the fourteenth. The trial had been set for today Gavin Mc.ab, Arbutkle'H chief coun sel, appearing in court for the first time in tin case, said Armistice day and a local election made a week's conl inuence advisable, although he was ready to proceed today If neces sary. The district attorney said that as both sides had agreed on a con tinuance he had no witnesses on hand today. Arbuckle was In court, accompa nied by hi wife. There was no crowd present, but the Woman's Vigi lant committee, had representatives on hand, as In the preliminary hear ing of tho Arbuckle case. McNab announced to the court that he Intended to interview -witnesses for neither side, and asserted n witness he had talked to last week had been called before the grand Jury later to testify as to perjury proceedings. Nine high s-'hools in Jackson coun ty those at Ashland, Ilutte Falls, Central Point, Cold Hill. Jacksonville, (Medford, I'hoenlx, Kogue Klver and Talent have courses of study of such ,htgh grade and taught with such ef ficiency that they nre accredited by the University of Oregon. TWO PORTLAND UN KILLED Another Kansas Mine Blown Up; Indiana Strike Called Off BANDITS liEI riTTSHfltd. Kas.. Nov. 7. The small mine of the Burgess Coal company, n mllo south of Mulberry, was completely wreck ed by two small explosions early today. The tipple was destroy- od and tho mouth of the stopo caved In by tho explosions. Mo tors and other electrical ma chinery wero ruined by the ex plosions. Eight men comprlso tho company, all of them minors. T Ell HE HAUTE, Intl., Nov. 7. ltuportB received tills mornltiK nt headquarters of district No. 11, I'nlted Minn Workers of America, indicate that without exception tho miners of tho district have followed tho In structions sent out Saturday by President John llessler and re turned to work. SOLDIER fill S GERTAIN STATES SENATOR E Massachusetts Solon in Op posing Simmons Amend ment Declares He Wants Payment to Be Real Pay ment, Not a Mere Pretense j WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. Another joffort to wrlto tho soldiers bonus bill ! into tho tax revision measure fallod i today, tho sennto rejecting to 29 ! the Simmons amendment proponing to ! pny tho bonus out of the Interest on the foreign debt. Six republicans supported the Sim mons amendment and one democrat, Myers.lontana, voted ngnlnst It. The republicans were Capper, Johnson, Kenyon, Ladd, UiFoIlctto tintl Norrls. A BIG HAUL IN PORTLAND Liberty Movie Theatre Robbed of Between $7000 and $10, 000 Cash Treasurer and Girl Ushers Bound By 3 Masked Men Police Up in the Air. . . PORTLAND, Oro., Nov 7. Three masked men this morning hold up and bound tho treasurer of tho Lib erty theatre, a motion picture house, two Klrl ushers and a man who wus in tho theater, nnd escaped with be tween $7,000 nnd $10,000 cash, the Saturday night and Sunday receipts, according to a report to tho police. Police were unuhle to find any trace of the robbers who ' were thought to have escaped In an auto mobile after leaving the theater through tho back door. it. 13. Charles, treasurer, said ho was opening tho safe whon the rob bors entered. Ho described them as fairly well dressed. Henry Harney, an employe, was slugged by tho hold up men but not seriously hurt. Myrtle Eorlies, Elsie Rotramel, Barney and Churlos woro securely bound. Harnoy managed to initio .Miss llot ramel's feoUnud site klckod over the telophono and notified the, police. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 7. Mrs Charles Spencer of Llnnton, a sub urb of Portland, mother of sevon small children, died nt a hospital last night of a f rat-lured skull suffered when she'wus run down by an unl dentlfled motorist on tho Linnton road Saturduy night. Authorities have been unable to find traco of til s driver. Mrs. Luolla E. Wright, 51, mother of I'red W. Wright, was Instantly killed whon she and her husband weto struck by an automobile yesterday afternoon near Tigrad. The machine, according to reports to officers, was driven by S. T. Whito, a farmer of LnEayotto. White followed tho body Into Portland and did everything pos sible under the circumstances. Wright .said thut throo automo biles, traveling toward Portland, ap proached them as Ihey walked toward Tigard, Mrs. Wright on the gravel beside the pavement, whllo ho walk ed on the pavement. WTilte ap proached from the rear with dimmed lights and when he turned out to pass tho three machines he knocked Mr. and Mrs. Wright down. WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. Senator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, today in urging in tho sennto accep tance of IiIh nmendment to tho tnx re vision 1)111 to provide for payment of tho soldier bonUH out of the Interest on tho foreign debt, said he believed that was tho intention of President Harding with respect to tho bonus. Thin view nlso was taken by Senator McCumber of North Dakota, ono of those In charge of tho tax bill, I Senator Lodgo of Massachusetts, tho republican leader, took tho posi tion that the bonus should not bo con tingent upon so uncertain a proposi tion. "Whenever wo pay the bonus, as wo undoubtedly shall." said Senator Lodge, "1 want tho payment to bo a real payment. This proposition, under tho pretenso of giving a bonus, gives only an uncertainty. No ono can tell when we will beKln to get the interest on tho credits given to the foreign countries. We certainly are not going to use force to collect It." ' Senator Kenyon, rcpuhlienn, Iowa, announcing Saturday, he would sup port the Iteed amendment or any other reasonable plan for a soldiers' bonus, said those in the senate who advocated a bonus were regarded as demagogues, those who tried to do anything for the farmers wero re garded as demagogues, and that those who tried to do anything for labor wore regnrded as tleningogucs. "The way not to be a demagogue," he added, "is to vote to take the tax off golf balls, f u rn nnd e'xceHS profits. Do that and you immediately become a great statesman." YEARS TO LIFE TWIN FALLS, Idaho, Nov. 7, In tho presenco of a crowdod court room, rLytla Meyer Southard, convict ed poisoner of Edward V. Meyer, her fourth husband, nnd ehnrged col laterally with tho murder of three previous husbands and a brothor-ln-law, was sentenced this morning to a term in the Idaho state penitentiary of from ten years to life Imprison ment. Tho defendant stood up; fixed her oye upon tho bunoh. nnd received the sentence without a tromor. Notice 'of appeal was filed by her attorneys, but a stay of execution of sentence was not asked and it Is con sidered likely that n commitment will follow in n few dnys. Mrs. Southard has packed up all her belongings nbout the county jail and according to her attorneys has expressed a wish to begin sorving her suntenco at once. Under Idaho law, tho duration of Indetermlnato sentences Is largely In the hands of the state pardon board. Mrs. Southard may or may not bo given credit for good bohavlor, Sho ' may bo released upon sorving her minimum term or sho may romafn In prison for the remainder of her natu ral life. On tho other hand, action cutting tho term to less than ten yonrs Is within the discretion of tho pardon board. Mrs. Southard ' appeared in court alono except for her attorneys. Hor husband left for San Francisco last night to resume his position as a petty officer In tho nnvy. ,Kxcept for tho addition of a blnck hat tho de fendant had mado no change in oior costume. In nppenrance sho was pale but not notllceably nervous. A square mllo of tho earth's surface receives heat In six hours from tho sun equivalent to combustion of 2000 tons of coal. EUGENE, Ore., Nov. 7. Adoption of a code of ethics for Oregon news papers Is ono of the Important matters to bo considered at tho fourth annual Orogon Newspaper conference, which is to bo held at the University of Ore gone school of Journalism here Jan. 12 to 14. New Mexico has no law requiring automobile headlights and requires only rear license plates. CHIEFS TO PLACE COUP BIER OF UNKNOWN SOLDIER WASHINGTON, Nov. 7. Four American Indian chiefs, each a trllAil hero, will pny to tho unknown dead nt Arlington next Friday tho highest honors known to their race by plac ing upon the casket a coup stick nnd war bonnet. Plenty Coos, of tho Crows; Lono Wolf, of the Klowns. nnd Am oh Ited Owl nnd Strnnger Dorso of the Sioux, were chosen to confer the decoration by Commissioner of Indian Affnlrs Purke, hecause of their prominence In tho history of tho west. Each is a high chief In his tribe nnd Jins fought Amoricnn soldiers. They will bo dressed in full warrior re- Tho coup sticlc, pronounced "koo," U several feet long, nnd was carried by warriors who considered it a brave deed to touch nn enomy during a fight. When a warrior did so, ho cut a notch In the stick or attached to It nn eagle feather. Tho war bonnet wns regarded by tho warrior as the most Important ar ticle of his regnlla and only proved hravos wero allowed to wear one. The long plumo was mado from eaglb feathers nnd each feather represented a particular doed. Consent of the trlbo had to bo obtained to make a war bonnet nnd tho making was an occasion for much ceremony.
