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Newspaper Page Textnn-B The Weather Maximum yesterday. i0 Minimum today 22! i Predictions Fair. Daily sixteenth Tear. Weekly Flfty-Flrat law. MEDFOKD, OREGOX, SATUKDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1921 NO. 230 fi ri t. rj ra m ivt rt 1 JtiUD U J2j S BY SOVIET Mystery Trail Leads From New York East Side to Eu ropean Radical Centers Lindenfeld Decoy for Secret Servce Men Seeks Big Re ward J. P. Morgan Sought Moscow Reds Fathered Plot Arrests Scheduled Expect Full Confession. KNEW YORK, Deo. 17. Rumors ot a now radical plot to blow up the .Vow York Stock Exchango were in circulation in Wall street today fol lowing news of the arrest of Wolfe I-lndcnfeld in Warsay In connection with the Wall street bomb explosion September 1G, 1920. It was reported a number of brok ers had received lotters warning them the exchange would be demolished by next Monday. Police said no word of such threats had been received, but admitted spe cial guards had ben ordered placed about the Stock Exchange and other buildings which might bo target for u new radical attack. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (tiy Asso ciated Press.) The arrest in Warsaw of Wolfe Lindenfeld will clear up tho entira mystory of tho Wail street ox plosion of Septeinbor l(i, 11)20, it was stated positively' today by William J. Hums, head of the department of jus tice's bureau of investigation. Lindenfeld, whose arrest was report ed to the department by the Associat ed Press was described by Mr. Hums as the key to tho solution of tho mys tery and "the only man that wo know in tho world that knows all about it." Mr. Burns declared that Lindenfeld himself was not implicated in the ex plosion, but was bo cIobo to tho radical 'lmpnts who wore its perpetrators that he knew all about it. The third Internationale, .Mr. Duma snld, was tho moving spirit bohind tho plot. Officials exiwct Lindenfeld to put In a claim for tho $50,000 reward offerod In New York for Information leading to the solution of tho bomb mystery. Lindenfeld, according to Mr. Hums went abroad originally on behalf of the justico department to obtain informa tion which would lead to tho arrest of I hose responsible for tbo explosion When no reports were received from hiiu, Mr. Hums said, Silvester C'os grovo, one of tho department's agents, wna sent over to find out why Linden feld was not sending tho information promised and the arrest followed. Radicals In Europe as well as in the United States, Mr. Hums asserted, were under surveillance by the depart ment for suspected connection with tho explosion and if the information given by Lindenfeld proves to be ns expected arrests are in Immediate prospect. Lindenfeld,, Mr. Hums explained was tho representative in New York before his departure for abroad of radical Polish papers and also was one of the representatives in America of Lenine and the third Internationale. Ho was recommended to the Hums detective agency ns tho man who knew most about tho Wall street explosion and. (Continued on page six.) RAW F A FURNISHED GOLF, "SUMY MftGHME NEW YORK. Dec. 17. Illy tho Associated Pres.") Rival steamship lines are competing for passengers in the post war travel revival, us sharply i hotels fight for guests. A Hritisli line recently annnuured a "veranda cnl'e" for second cl.i;s Wi.ss.Migers and promptly an Ameri can line began supplying menu cards f'r Ihc third i lass. Incidentally the old fashioned word ' "ti-erage" no longer is beard in ship Ping offices. In practically all the l-'Tser ship, the third class today I.1 '' luxurious as the first class :." veur, fl"0. H ermit Found Dead, Slain By Wanderer, He Gave Shelter PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 17. Crammed Into a potato bin with a butcher knife beneath It the body of John Arthur O'Conner, inhabi tant of a lonely cabin on Iluyden Island, was found this morning by Deputy Sheriff E. E. Pert. Officers believe that he may have been slain by a wanderer to whom he gavo shelter last week. Apparently ho had been struck with an axe, then his throat had been slashed and the body placed In tho potato biu. O'Conner had been missing since last Saturday afternoon about fivo o'clock when ho was last seen by John Holder who operates the station house on tho island. WORLD'S BiGGEST I' GOES OFF TH Ledoux, Who Sold Human Slaves, Wants Leading Na tions Arrested for Traffick ing in Stolen Goods Car ries Umbrella and Candle. . WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Urbuijj I.edoux, erstwhile unemployment auc tioneer aud arms conference pickel- eer, appeared today at a Washington precinct police station, and asked for n warrant for the arrest of the "four signers" of tho new acific treaty, al leging they were guilty of "traffick ing in stolen goods." The stolen goods, he describod ns "various plece3 of land, citlos, ports and villages" in Siberia, Manchuria, Korea, China, India, Indo China, Sy ria, Mesopotamia and tho Philippine j Isluuds, "taken forcibly without any rights, human or dlvino, and In con travention of all laws," by Japan, I Great Uritaln, franco and tho United Stales. The action, Ledoux explain ed, was taken under tho old common law. Ledoux, who us usual, carried his lHblo, umbrella and lighted candle, was referred by police to tho district attorney. AIRSHIP ROMA HAS ENGINETROUBLE WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Plans to bring America's largest airship, the Roma, from Langley Field, Va., to Washington today on her first cruising flight were abandoned early today, after receipt by the army air service of word that the engines of tho big craft had developed some minor trou ble that made the flight inadvisable. The Noted Dead P.UIIS, ic. 17. Music lovers tu dn v mourmMl th death in AIkhts, Afrirji, ycsu-rdny of Charles Canillle Saint Kaens, ayed fili, noted French miiideJan and com poser. FOR OCEAN TRAVEL, ", LADY BARBER Hut competition also is keen in the first clai-s saloon. Innovations re cently announced by various lines in clude: A eai. tain's I.mUi- Willi me children. j .V screened and bunkered deck to serve us a golf course. ! Cabin to cabin telephone service, i A minimum department store, j A bureau for engaging taxis by wireless. I An eleetrii "shimmy machine" re Iplaeirrg the promenade- as a weight I reducer. ! A woman I'.nte.r for bobbed heads. NEW ORY DELAY DENIED TO BERMIANYS DEBT ecu ciidtcdoipc OLL OUUILMUUL Allies Want Information On How Much Can Be Paid Surprise That No Definite Statement Made Call At tention to Dereliction. 'PARIS, Dec. 17. (lly tho Asao- ciatod Press.) Tho allied repara tions commission haa refused to con sider tiormany'a request Yor an ex tension of time on her January and February reparation payments until tho German government tells Just w hat she can pay on these install ments and gives other information demanded. This developed when the text of tho commission's note to the Berlin government was made public today. Tho reply expresses surprise that Gormany failed to tell exactly what foreign exchange Bho would bo able to deliver, what delays Bho desired and what guarantees Bho would offer meanwhile. Until these details are furnished It will bo impossible to consider tho request of tho Gorman government, the nolo declares. Tho commission expresses regret that Germany had not replied to its previous queries as to what action sho proposed taking in regard to tho commission's suggestions for bal ancing tho budget. Tho German gov ernment was taken to task In the nolo for this situation. The text of the nolo reads: '.'Tho reparations commission has received a leltnr from the ehunenllnrl dated December 11 announcing that! ino German government was uuanio to pay in their entirety tho install ments duo, tinder tho scnedulo of pay ments on January 15 and February 15 next, and requesting tho repara tions commission to extend the time limit for tho payment of theso Install ments. "Tho commission can but express Its surprise that tho chancellor's let ter contains no definite statement as to lite currencies which the German government will bo ablo to pay on each of tho above dates; as to the length of tho extension requested for tho payment of tho balance, or ua to the Bocurity to bo offered meantime. "Unless aud until tho commiision receives definite information on these points it will ho impoBsiblo to give consideration to or even examine, tho request of tho German govornment. "Tho reparations commission re grets to note that tho chancellor's letter makes no allusion to tho meas ures ho had adoptod or proposes to adopt In compliance with tlio views expressed by tho commission in lis verbal statement of November 13 and its letter of December 3, 1112 1. Tho commission recommends this letter to tho purtiihilar attention of the chancellor." ML! VERDICT IN SUIT PROVIIJENC-B. R, I., Doc. 17. A verdict for $1 ,803,36 1.05 was award ed the plaintiff last night in the suit of the New Irdia Quicksilver Mining company of California against tho Uritish-American Manufacturing company of New York in tho United Slates diBlrict court here. The New Idria company, alleged that tho lirit-Ish-Aiuerlcttu company had entered into a contract for the purchaso of about 11,000 flasks of quicksilver, but hud failed to fulfill the agree ment. OIL COMPANY MILWAUKEE, VIb., Doc. 1 7. The state railroad eommiw-ion at Madison. "Win., through tlurticld Cunrlght. is sued a statement today seuinjf forth that it 'iH investigating the Disabled Veteran's Oil and (las eonipany, hav ing headfiuarters at Aberdeen, K. D., and reported to own wells in Mon tana. The head of tho company, ac cording to Mr. Cunriffht, is an of ficial of a funitorium at Waukesha, SCHWARTZ doubts F SOVIET SPENT njin&m in ni m Munmnrwi SALEM, Ore., Dec. 17. M. Alex ander Schwartz, dclegato to the third Internationale in Moscow from the American Federation of l.abor, who was imprisoned anil sentenced to lie shot by soviet authorities ou tho last day of tho Moscow conference, but who escaped after spending six mouths in u Russian prison, said to duy.that ho thought if. uulikoly that ,tho third Internationale had financed tho New York bomb plot to tho ex tent of $30,000 or any other amount. "I know that tile soviet govern ment has spont millions of dollars In tho United States with tho aim of overthrowing the government," Mr. Schwartz said, "but the money lias been spent entirely for propaganda purposes so far as I am ablo to de termine." Mr. Schwartz who reported on con ditions as ho found thera in soviet Russia to congress after his oscnpo from prison and return to America last spring is horo on a lecture tour. BRUTALITY CHARGE CHICAGO, Dec. 17 Thomas Mott Osburn, former warden of King Sing penitentiary, In an address here last niKHt, declared tho Missouri state penitentiary at Jefferson City to be ;i tllHgra.ce. Oaboitn told of hhr visit to Joffer Hon City dust sprint,'- Ho said that yvhilo there, he saw dozens of men, who had thrust thumbs or fore.fimier;j into machinery and cut them off bo- ciiuhu they could not stand tho Hteudy drive of tho foremen. Ho said thusc men wero put In tho "cooler" over Sunday for some misdemeanor com mitted during the week and after a diet of bread nil water, were returned to work on Monday for the fornnan of the shops to "squeeze all they could out of them for another week." IUUA, Dec. 17. (Uy tho Associat ed' Press) Mollie Hteimer, Jacob Abrams, Simon 1-uchowsky, and Sam uel Lipman, deported from tho Unit ed Ktates ufter being pardoned for seditious uctivitics, huvu entered so viet Itussia, huving obtained the necessary vises. They left the Unit ed States tho latter part of Novem ber for Li bun. Emma, Goldman and Alexander Herkmun aro still here. They are without German visas or permission to go to any other country and their permit to slay in Letvia expires to morrow. Miss Goldman was confined to hor bed by illness today. Alexander Shapiro, another Ameri can anarchist, who hiuj left Jlussla, is also here. OMAHA, Neb., Doc. 17. Use of what police termed "stink bombs" on street cars going to and from Omaha's packing house district, whero meat cutters and others are on strike, was reported by police to day. Tho "bombs" wero described as being made of Kmall sacks of a substance which, when trampled upon, causes a bad odor in tho imme diate vicinity. Stranihyl Ship Flouted. SAN FRANCISCO, Doc. 17. The Greek steamer I'otiH, bound from As toria, Ore., to the United Kingdom with a load of irain, went ashore off tho coast of Limerick, Ireland, but was refloated later leaking badly, ac cording to a message received today by tho marine department of the Chamber of Cominercn here. Walt St root tu!i NEW YORK, Dec. 1( Gain ex ceeded Iohm's in the Ptock market to day hut lack of public interest was indicated in the honltant tone cf tumlard issues. Sains njiproxfinM t"l $90,000 eharcs. MISSOURI PRISON FINAL DECISION BY SINN FEIN ON TREATY WED Dail Eireann Continues Its Secret Sessions DeValera Wants New Treaty Sub mitted in Place of One Rati- . tied By British. DUI1LIN, Dec. 17. (. By the Asso ciated lrisw Final decision on tho Irish peace treaty by the. Dull Eir eann can be expected on Wednesday, but not before, according to informa tion obtained from authoritative Minn Fein circles. A public. session will be held Mon day for formal presentation of a nu lionfor ratification, but it is. expected that the debate will continue until Wednesday at least. The members continued their secret discussions to day. LONDON. Dec. 17. (By the Asso elated Tress) With ratification of the Irish peace treaty completed in the imperial parliament, all eyes were turned today on Dublin, where the Dail Eireann continued its delibera tions. The concensus of opinion of the Irish correspondents of tho morn ing newspapers Ah that yesterday's discussions in tho Dail added strength to tho supporters of the treaty, ul 't hough it is recognized that tho op position continued to bo formidable. Some writers think tho treaty ad herents are winning and point out that the statement issued in Dublin last night, calling for a public ses sion of the Dail on Monday Is signed by both Kiimonn DeVulera and Ar thur Griffith, instoad of by DeVulera alone. Tho codicils to tho treaty which Mr. DeValoni is reported to have pro j pared amount, it is said, to substi- iiiuuii vi ii. new u Liny iui uiui. nun under consideration. TARIFF ON SILK IS TO WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. Kllk manufacturers In the United States received a tariff protection of $200, 000,000 In 1910, which translated into prices in tho retail stores, amounted to a tax of $100,000,000 on tho con; Hiiming public, H. E. Miles, of Ra cine, Wis., chairman of tho fair tar iff leaguo, declared today before the senate finance committee. Protesting against tho increased duties, which tho silk manufacturers have asked for Mr, MIlen said the present tariff duties constituted a vir tual embargo on silks that come, in competition with the, kinds inado In tho United states. FLEE E FRAN'KFOHT, Ky., Dec. 17. Hud Nolilu anil Iworelutlvns, Heirher and Soldier Noblo,' wore aoiiKlit today by mate KUurdBiuen and deputy Hliorlffn as a reBtilt of their encupo from a cuvo where tho suardmnoa had ho slegd tho trio Thursday. Hud and Herelier Noblo wero declared to bo wounded. Kale Ilernher, kou of Hud Noblo, who with tlio other two had taken refuge In tho cavo after an attack on tho Hreathltt county Jail hint Satur day, was arrested last niKht. Tho guardsmen then learned that tho trio had ecajed from tho cave. 2 JOBS, 2 WIVES, SAN KliANCIKCO, I)oc. 17. Mrs. Mrtry Vt'ninrich was Kr.'intcd a di vorce todny when she testified that lliM- huHlmml wna supporting nnother woman who nlno parsed as his wife, and wns employed in both an Iron works and a dairy in order to corn enough money to maintain both fami lies. Tho other woman. Sirs. Weln rlrh testified, lived in the sa'mc blork with her. Draft Men, Money And Supplies If War Comes Again WASHINGTON, Dee. 17. Sec- rotary of War Weeks Is In favor of the mobilization of men, money and niauiifacturies undor con- scriptlon law In the event of fu- turn war. Such a course, tlio war socro- ! tary declared in an address last nltdit at tlio second annual ro- union of tho war industries board, would preclude profiteering and slacker lists. "I would conscript every per- son in tbo United States from 18 fr to til) years of nso should a future fr war prevail," said Mr. Weoks. Ho describod tho draft law of tho world war as "ono very great I pleco of lefilslatlon carried on almost .perfectly." 1922 STATE TAX, SPECIAUE1S $9,376,289.1 1 to Be Raised By Taxation Schools, Education and Roads to Be Benefitted Reduction of 1921 Assessment. SALEM, Ore., Dee. 17.-J-Approxi-nmtoly J 117,000 will bo trimmed from financial needs of ho state depart ments and instltutlu.is of OrcKon in ,1922, as compared witli tbo demands made on the tax purse durtni; the. present year, according to Frank K. Jjovell, stato tax commissioner, who today nnirounced that tho totul amount which must bo raised by tax ation for state purposes duriui; 11)22 is $0,370,280.1 1. Special designated levies will pro vidu 15,777,751.70 of the total need ed and the balance must be raised by Kcncrnl taxes to meet the legis lative appropriations of $3, riB'J, 537.35 for tho year. Tbo itoms of expenso which will bo met by specified levies aro us fol lows: , Stato nmicullunil coIIcko, nddl tional maintenance, 090,980. University of Oregon, additional maintenance $52-1,085. Oregon Normal school, nddltlone.l ninlntonanco $62,284. Soldier.-' educational aid fund, $408,321. Public elementary schools $2,041,- C08. Hlato market rnnds $1,020,80 1. FATTY'S ACCUSER IS El riUCSNO, fill., Dec. 17. Mrs. Humblna Maudo Dolmont nloaded guilty at Miidcria to a chargo of big amy and today was sentencod by Su perior Judgo Stanley Murray to one year's Imprisonment. Tho judgo then granted probation. Mrs. Dclmout, who swore to the complaint which charged Koscoo (Fatty) Arbuckle with manslaughter in connection with tho death of Vir ginia ltappe, admitted in tliu Madura court that sho had not seen rod a di vorce from .lohn Hoppor when she was marriod to Cassius Woods. WIRELESS PERFECTED THRU MOUNTAINS MOSCOW, Dec. 17. (Uy Associated Press.) Discovery of a method where by wireless messages may be sent to a definite receiving station without the danger of being picked up by other stations Is claimed in nn nnnounco ment by the official press bureau. iV Ukrainian electrical engineer named Chayko is resiHinslblo for tho illscoven'. It is stated that, Uy means' of a slniplo apparatus, ho straightens out and gToups what nro termed the CLIPS $117,000 ny SOLVE Warmth of Reception Granted Expected to Modify French Views Secrecy Shrouds Debates Little Prospect of Agreement No Data On French Building Plans. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. (By tho Associated Press) Tbo naval com mittee of fifteen of the arms confer enco rosumed consideration today of tlio l'Ycuch and Italian naval ratio jn-oblem, but with little prospect that the day would show any material re sults in tho way of advancement toward an agreement among tho five powers on relative naval strength and reduction In fleets In harmony with that already reuehed by tho "big three," naval countries. The committee again wan en trenched behind its rule of sllenco adopted yesterday. No furthor light was avallablo on tbo French project to build ten 35,000-ton capital ships. In spite of tho secrecy rulo of tho commltleo it was known that presen tation of tho French caso continued today. In tills connection M. Sarraut head of tho French delegation, in tho absence of Premier lirland and M. Vivian), intimated last night (hue Franco would seek to have the so crecy ban of tho committee lifted in order that a corroct view of, .tliQjio? nitloit taken by her ' delegation ''on navar sircngui mignt Do givon to tne nubile; . ; It-is generally understood'fhat $f.; tho two French delegates - now in - WiLMliliiL'tnti. Inelc full iinu-np t,v mnrl.- val proposals Franco lias presented in tlio. cominitl'. Whether additional Instructions llavo been received froni Premier Brlaud has not been dis closed. Some officials hero count upon tho effect in Franco tho roturn of Mar shal Foch from the United States Is apt to have because of tbo extraordi nary warmth of tho reception tho great French soldier received all over tho United States during -his visit liuro. Tho American group In tho com mitter of fifteen have not reached tho point of formulating counter pro posals as to French and Italian naval ratios, it is understood. ' - "' M. Sarraut, head of tho French del egation In tho absonco of Premier Urlant was said by tho British spokes men, to have boon tho principal speaker durlnir tho thrnn hour nnsslnn the committoo held today. When ho concluded tho naval couiniltteo ad journed until Monday. Tho mooting apparently did de velop, howovcr, a cloaror understand ing In Hrltish circles as to Just whut ratio Franco desired. It was esti mated In Hrltish quarters that the ton year capital ship building pro gram previously outlined by thn French would result in a tonnago ra tio for Franco in 1931 at the end of the naval building holiday of 2. 75 us compared to Japan's placo In tho tri angular 0-5-3 ugremeut. It was as serted that the French projected building would not begin until 1!)25 and that us the naval hollduy would end presumably in 1931, additional ships built after that date could bo classed as replacement construction. In estimating hor naval needs ou tho basis of her colonial possession, the Hrltish spokesman said: "1 suppose tho French fool that thoy ure entitled to theorolicul recog nition anyway." (Continued on oage six.) THAT WILL GO AND LOCATE METALS "locked power lines" of tho magnetic field into parallel linos. These rays, he says, can penetrate mountains, thereby avoiding tho necessity ot high antennae. It is also asserted that tho discovery will enable tho location from the sur faco of motal deposits in tho earth and will be of service to medical and other sciences. :. Chayko is continuing his cxperll nicnts for tno BClence department of tho Ukrainian government, 1