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"'"mm IEDFORD M mum The Weather Maximum ystrday 4Vt Minimum today 20' Rain 19 Predictions Rain tomorrow. A. I)illlV HlK ti-titl It Year. Wii-kl) l'INy-1 Iml Yi-nr, MKDFOHH, OKKCIOX, SATTUDAV, .7 ANUAUY 28, 1922 NO. 2ftl juL A WASHINGTON BLOCKADED BUZZARD National Capital Cut Off From Rest of World By Worst Blizzard Since 1899 All Trains Stalled and Street .Cars Stepped Wrecked Automobiles Block Street. ABIll'ltY I'AHK, N. J . Jnn. 2. A carrier plRmtn, which wa re leased tn Madison fhuar Garden Nw York City, yesterday lx.nr Inn a note l Mr Warren U. Harding, wan found In himt.r yard Unlay, exhausted by the cold, Colonel Frank llayward, hu fotind tin 1)lrl. plan to start It on lu Journey ( Washington during the ility. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2S. The fall of anow In Washington appeared to grow heavier If that were possible, u round no-n, Attendant- In both house of con gress waa amall. Huffli lent senate member reached thn cupltil lira quorum wulls when the hmtaii convened there were scarcely more than fifty of the more than 4 member present. Tho ann ate agricultural committee wai com pelledlo abandon a ached n led hearlnit when witnesses fajted to arrive. Forty-nine senators, a bare work InK majority, fought their way through anow drift to the capltol. Senator Simmon of North Carolina. leader In the democratic fight on the allied debt refunding bill, waa snow bound In hla suburban homo, report ing drlfta a deep at fifteen foot. Puau r Johnson, republican. Call ferula, who Uvea Jut outside the dls- rlct In Maryland, fought hla way through. WASHINGTON. Jan. 2H-TI.0 slates rm.Hlsln the middle Atlantic section tmlay vere burled and wore being fur - a. llll'l Mill HHI 1111,111, ,',' ,1. . ' " lull slnco the long remembered bit- lard of Fpbruary, 1SH9. The storm, which bcnu w ith almost i iinpreredenteil fall of snow lu tho I Carollnnn and Virginia, was creeping lip the coast, leaving burled cities, ntmt. known to the police nnd IVtec In. illai'iiiiteil trollev service live Herueiuit Ciito. iiohIiik IIS the and a general susiicnulon of business and social activities In It wake. It had reached the edge of New Kiik land early today, although Its center rmalnnd off the Virginia capes, weather bureau reiorts showori and forecasts were for snow today and to- night u Ion if the coast from New York H1,ot ,.r diendale, which Lambert north. althoiiRh not heavy as that m,n had selected ns tho place to de over the middle Atlantlo section. ! rail the limited. Conditions at Norfolk appealed to The derail waa spiked to the track be the worst, with a galo of 6 niile and 1-ambcrta.m and Cato begnn to having put a part of tho.buslness sec- run ss tho limited approached. When I. ,.f the cy under water and crip- Jjn Fn T pled Hlllpplng. ' H1,(,l, nm, itmM.-Mtn. believing hlm- ' " self betrayed, turned on Sergeant WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Washing- (.at0 bis revolver, ton waa cut off from the outside world I .;uto droiied to tho ground and tiMlny an fnr aa traniiHirtatlou wuh rnn-Inther detectives stationed In the sur rwnwl, by ouo of the heuvlest snow rounding brush opened fire. Ijihi storms In the history of tho capital. . bertson fell-to the sldo of tho em- Orflelal. nt n,n union ntutlmi short. Ibankmctit with four bullets in his ly before nine o'clock reported that no passenger trains had left Wi.shli.gKm . ,, , since mldnlglit nnd with tho snow con- tlnulng, prospects of getting any trulns out was salt! to be poor. Three tvnlns hnd arrived since midnight, two from New York long overdue, and ono Ilalllinore and Ohio express from Cln- clnnatl. - ..,;. (Continued on page six.) THEY SNUBBED WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (Hy tho Associated Pross) Denial, flat and categorical, was mado today by offic ials at tho stnto department and Whlto llouso that either Hocretury HARDING AND HUGHES Hughes or President Harding hud nkeii hy the French foreign office ever refused to receive Ambassador lot an article in tho Morning Post of JuHsernnd of Franco as reported in ( London reproduced hero, alleging the London Morning Post. that both President Harding and Hoc- OfflctalH woro positive ln their t rotary of Htato Hughes hud refused statements that tho French ambuBsa- ito receive Ambassador Jussorand. dor had boon received whonover he Official and political circles were I. nd Indicated a deslro to seo the pros-jmiich surprised nt tho article nnd ident or nocretury of state niid fur- the foreign office regards It as ou tlier declared that as M. Jussornnd tlrely lacking in plausibility, but had been held In highest osteon, hero Premier Polncnre has usked Ambus throughout his long period of service, 'sudor Jussernnd to clear up the re- Pioneer Stage Driver in Southern Oregon Dies, Forest Grove FOIIKHT !l(OVn. Ore., Jan. 2X. Jolm II. McNamar, who figured In thrlllliiK adventure ui driver of stage couch" In California and Nevada and who raiiut to Orcii n with hla father from Iowa when ten yar old and foil iih t Indians at the ago of 4 111, I ilrad here, ai;d 7 4. Oh Or liber 24. 1 HT C, whllo 4 4 driving a sliigo containing three 4 punsoiiKr, tin was hold up on a 4 4 road out of Redding, Calif., and 4 after surrendering to a Ion "an- 4 4 (Ht an Iron box containing $I,- 4 Hud, he loft tho stage around the 4 4 firm turn In Urn road and went 4 back and k 111ml thn bundlt, re- 4 covering the money. 4 In 1'J0 ho established tho 4 forest GroVB-Tlllamook stagn linn, and for many year waa 4 4 pilot of a four horsn coach over 4 tlio Wilson river route. 4 4 CENTRALIA RED ACT Walter Lambcrtson, Wanted By Police in Connection I wun Armistice uay uuuaye Fails in Attempt to Wreck S. P. Limited Near L. A. ANtU'.l.FH. Jan. :. Waller F UiiiilM-i'tiKin, HWierled rndlrnl unit .,.1,1 i,v the iioilro to be wanted In , ViililnkMeii tn eonneeilim w ,", '(llMMdere that muifced the firt Ar- mlHiU o day parade at C'enlralla, Wn., wan In a aeiioua condition at tho re n lMiiK honpltol here this niornlnu tho result of four bullet wounds he NiiNinlned Inm iilahl when pulUo dr- ,.., iiv. rrn.ir.il..,l vthnl they ueriureu ,.. , ljim. I t . .. , """"" shore line limited train No. iS, bound .... , from tvin rranciseq ui i.ue I and rob the bnmsiiite enr of a lt0,000 eiiiiHlKiimeiit of money. Fur weeks, according to the police. iJinibertson had been luylng his plans ,,, wreik the train. Ills actions be- Wild lititcbiniin" was Introduced to Ijiiutiertsun who hired the detective to drive him to the scene of the at tempted wreck. In tho meantime, it was snld, the trnln dispatcher nt Oxnnrd hnd been titNtructed to have thu enislneer on s ,,.,,, ., .,.,, h. Uiiroached the body Just ns tho limited, with Its hun- VT,11 stop within five feet o L,lmb(.,H0I, W111, ,)Ul,.prt passengers drew to a f tho derail. in tho bug- gago cur. the derail was removed, nnd .,. ..... ,.(.ecdod to Los Angolea. I officials of tho (Southern Pacific Vnld this morning Uimbertson hnd been employed by tho railroad ns a I switchman from 117 until 1921. 'when he was discharged for alleged activities In connection with a strike. T E should bo published with any expec tation that anyone would believe it. Denial of tho report also was made by tho French embassy officials. PAItlH. Jan. 28.-(lly tho' Assoclat - ed Press) Official notice has been CAUGHT IN WREEKMB I BAN DENY REPOR AMBASSADOR S RAND ANGLO-CHINA WAR 1001$ IN FAR EASI British Marines Ready to Land at Hankow and Resist At tempt of Genl. Wu Pei-Fu to Seize Salt Customs Pekin Cabinet Falls Wu Threat ens Establish Dictatorship- F EKING, Jan. :8 (Hy the Asao clated Froaa.) Brltlah marlnoa are hcltiK held to readlneaa to land at JIanliow to protect the aalt adminis tration ffflce axalnat aoizure by the force of (Mineral Wu Tel-Fu, who are aald to be under ordera to occupy It lliukow la a treaty port tn the province of llujieh. General Wo la In upei-tor Reneral of that province and waa reported In a Peking dlapatch on January 22 tn have aclied tho aalt revenue there. FF.KIN'fl, Jan. 28. ( Hy the Asso ciated Free.) Liang Bhlh Yl has tendered hi resignation as premier. lr. W. W. Yen, the foreign minister, who has been acting as premier dur- I Ing the absence from Peking of Liang s'lh Yl, la understood to have refua- ct la accept the premiership on the, rcuim m u J4nng Shih Yl. who has held the premiership of the Peking govern meui only siucn J)ecember 2fi, last, waa reported la several dispatches lately as on tho verge of resigning as the rcnutl of the opposition of Gener a! Wu I'el-Fu, one of the,strongest i military lesders In China General Wo on January 15 aent an ultimatum demanding the resignation. of I.luttg and hi rabluet, and it was reported that bo was forming a third Kovernmcnt. with headquarters in NbiirIiir. General Wu is credited with Pr. Yen for the premiership. PITTSlU'RG Jan 28 Walter Joyce and Orcn Graeme. Pittsburg . , , ... . ... men arrested yesterday after the lirst National hank of Crafton had PITTSBURG BANK YEGGS ARRESTED uenn roDueu ana naroiu moss, assist- treaty wnch hnl) beci) coniI,lctoa by nnt cashier, had ben killed, were to- tj,e drafting committee except the day Identified by bank employes aa fortlflcationa section which has been two of tho party of bandllea who com- drawn up, but awaits approval by the mil ted the crime. Graemo was Japanese government, pointed out by Frank King, Janitor1 The experts studying tho Chinese of the bank, as tho man who shot Eastern railway question were under jjob(j .stood to have decided to creutij a new ' ... ,.j. 'lntor-allled group or board which Se en pcr.on. taken yesterday af-.oulJ have authorUy t0 emlo)f th, tor the bnk robber, had escaped Kuard (0. Ul6 tMtoalt who woul(1 from a party of city detectives who Chinese. had intercepted them on the north xho Chinese delegates are under side were lined up in central police t0od to have objeectcd to this ar statlon with a number of other prig- rangement. The Japanese raised no oners. Kmployea of the bank who objections, it was said, to the new witnesses the robbery, looked them project of financial management, nr nnd Jnvps was nicked out hv . which would operate in connection five of them ns one of the robber. King, however, was the only man to say ho decognized Graeme. F IDE NEW YORK, Jan. 28. Jacqueline Lobuudy, daughter of tho lata Jacques Lebaudy, self-styled "emperor of tho Hahara." has been married ln Purls to Roger Budreau. It was learned hero through an announcement by Ernest H. Bufforn, administrator of the estate of tho young woman's father, Lebnudy, an eccentric figure, was shot nnd killed by his wife three yours ago when ho attacked her and her daughter at tho family home in Long Island. Mndtimo Lebaudy was tried and acquitted. ' s Officials of , ou"1 VfMUCMS UI Umatilla Face Probe rENllLETON, OrtV, Jan. 28. Sixty witnesses are to be examined by tho Umatilla county grand jury, In i7vTiZ i..u,ri;iBf'"'rt'" for th0 cok beginning Ion here investigating methods of. I, ,, , ROBS county officials. SUorlft Housor snld today ho did not think the examlnn- Hon would bo complotod until ncxt,n Washington and Oregon; tempera- Stillman May Seek t ' V t 1 - i M , J -.-il..r - . . ' " ' t j ' 4 v.- - .1 '1 if. 'I , f 14, - "A r - - It i iwioigu lu imi luut Ja.uta a. Miliiiian and Mrs. Florence Ifed8 have left thla country nnd are en route to Paris. According to re- porta, the bankor may sock a rapid-fire wife, Mrs. Anne V. Stfllniau. CHINA'S OBETi AGAIN POSTPONES ARMS CONFEieC WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. (By An objection the by Associated Press) iChlna to tho proposed forjn of con- 'trot of the military guard of the Chi nese Eastern railway, one of the sub jects of a discusxlon ln the Wanhlng ton conference has resulted In tho reference of the question to a new hon-teehnleal committee. This com mittee arranged to meet late today to discusa the matter, which has been in tho hnnda of a committee of ex- Iperts. I I Co-incident with this development ,n wl,at continued today to appear as h concludln. arm, confor- ence discussions, it was learned that work t on ,he tranB,atlon ,mo Krvnch of t!lo nnvai with tho directors of the Chinese Eastern company, who include both Chinese and Kusslnnti. Cardinal Mercier En Route to Conclave, Is Stricken With Tu" PARIS, Jan. 2.S. Cardinal Mer- clor, prUnnte of llelgiuiu, has stopped off nt Milan on his way to Rome to attend the conclave of the sncred college and Is said ! to be Buffering from an attack of influenza, says a 1 lavas dispatch from Rome today. - PARIS, Jan. 28. A Homo dis- patch to tho 1 lavas ngency says the opening of the conclave to eloct a successor to Popo Hone' diet would bo delayed 21 hours in order to give time for nil the cardinals to arrive. The conclave originally was get for February 2. Occasional Ilnln. "WASHINGTON. Jan. 28.- -Weather Pacific states Unsettled occasional ralna In California and snow and rain are below normal, Divorce in Paris , '-rr'"'w nm m r -Ml i 1 f'P'm ft divorce in French courts from bis E SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 28. Mra. Katherlne Fox of Chicago, the lat witness yesterday, resumed her pros ecution rebuttal testimony today in the second trial of a charge of man slaughter against Roscoe C. (Fatty) Arbuckle.. Mrs. Fox was called tn un effort to refute the defense evi dence that Miss Kappe died as the result of a long standing hladder complaint and not as the result of an alleged attack by Arbuckle. Mrs. Fox testified that she had known Miss Rappe for a number of years and nover knew the actress In be ill. Mrs. Kate Hardebeck, house keeper for Miss Kappe In Los Ange les, also testified to acquaintance with Miss Rappe tor a number of cars. "Her health always appeared to bo very good," Mrs. Hardebeck said. "However, on one occasion she was treated in Chicago for what she said was nervousness." Mlns Helen Hansen, a Los Angeles motion picture actress, testified to taking long walks with Miss Rappe "I never saw her III," she said. 17 L WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. Abolition of pulque, tho natloual drink of Mexico is planned by President Obregon, ac cording to a report to the commerce department today Trom Consular Cor nelius Ferris at Moxico City. President Obregon, ho said, has ap pointed a committee to study the pro position of abolishing the Maguay plant from which pulque Is derived. Seventy-fivo per cent of the deaths registered In Mexico City, Dr. Ferris declared, and throughout the central j section ot tno country wnere puique is principally used, are said to be caused by the drink, which is indulged In by nion, women and children. Oregon Will Extend Public Nurse Work PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28. Tho state, board ot health announced to day it is perfecting plans for exten sion of work through its bureau ot public nursing in connection with ma ternity and infant welfare under the recently enacted Sheppard-Tower law. At the last special session ot the state legislature an initial appropria tion of $10,000 was obtained to match a todoral appropriation avail able for the state of $10,000 this com ing year, under the federal law. . OJrN: 4isM WITNESSES DENY AP WAS M IN POOR HEALTH MEXICO'S NATIONA DRINK UNDER BAN Grandpa Jim Murray i 107 Years Old, Near End of Funeral Gate NE WYORK, Jan. 2. For 4 4 fifty yeara "Grandna" Jimmy 4 Murray, atood at the gate of 4 4 Trinity cemetery, 155th. atreet, 4 and Amaterdam avenue and 4 watched funerals enter. He waa 4 r,4 years old when he began his 4 Ions vlKll and today he, too, at 4 the age of 107, was seemingly in 4 the abadow of the gate be bad 4 opened bo many times. 4 Yaaterday there was an un- 4 usually heavy trafifc through 4 the cemetery gate and the aged 4 4 man waa forced to hurry to and 4 4 from nearly all day. Just before 4 4 sight came, he collapsed. He 4 4 waa hurried to lleelevne bos- 4 4 pita,!, hut physicians today held 4 4 out little hope for his recovery. 4 44444 4444 ASK FEDL AID LAKE HIGHWAY . . COmmiSSIOn State Highway DeSiQnateS 2816 MileS Of Roads for Federal Aid- I CreSCent City and Klamath Roads Also Included. PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 28- FOR ID CRATER state highway commission today de-.sucd. ' signed 1176 miles of primary high- Two companies of troops probably S war aad JSifl julle of secondary wln 8rrive n Nebraska City lata to road, to recSlV tT 1' ThV' n1 e others tonight or arly , . tomorrow, according to the ajovorncr, eommbwion placed on the senior road ,.ho that ,t app(.are(I B .. of list the Pacific highway, the Dalles- hxvlemnem an,i disorder now In prev California highway (Fremont trail), alent ln xehramka. Citi." nd that the Columbia river highway, with tho old Oregon trail extension and that part of the Oregon-Washington high - way from Pendleton to tho Wash ington state line near Walla Walla. The secondary road list consists of the West Side highway from Pert- strike sympathizers took part at Ne land to Junction City as well as the braska City, where packing plant following highways: Roosevelt, Ochocho, Klamath Fallj- T .baHaiF U'llt.malla v1Uv.C1ai,- ' " ' '-"' ence, LaGrande-Lnterprise, Coos Bay - Roseburg, Grants Pass-Crescent City. Medford-Crater Lake, McKenzie, John Day and that part of the Oregon-Washington highway from Wil lows to Pendleton. The commission decided to leave the Wallowa cutoff out of the list until after making an inspection of the route next week. WASHINGTON, Jan. 28. The re quest of the Bolivian government for representation in the forthcoming treaty of Ancon conferences in Wash ington between Peru and Chile ha been refused with regret by President Harding. In his reply which was made public today by the state department, Mr. Harding says the matter ot Bolivia's participation in the conference iij a matter for the "exclusive considera tion of the two governments con cerned," and that under the circum stances he was precluded from accept ing the initiative recently taken by the Bolivian government Pasco Bridge Saved WALLA WALLA. Jan. 2S. The slight drop in temperature at Pasco yesterday afternoon and last night temporarily removed the threatened menace to the bridges there from the Ice jam in the Columbia. HARDING REJECTS BOLIVIA S OPFER 9 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PLAYERS NVOLVEO TAYLORVILLE. 111., Jan. 28. (By the Associated Press.) Churges that the nine Illinois foot ball players who were barred from varsity athletics by the university athletic council yesterday tor partici pating in a Beml-profegsional foot ball game here November 27 were hired and that a large amount ot money was bet on tho game were par tially verified today by Dick Simp son, manuger ot theTaylorville team. COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 28. Pro fessionalism among athletes on west-, ern conference tenuis probably will 1 mini DECLARED N NEBRASKA Five Companies Called to Nebraska City Strike Dis trictState of Lawlessness and Disorder Exists Says Governor Strike Breakers Attacked By Union Men. LINCOLN', Neb.. Jan. 2. Five I companies of Nebraska ' National Guard troops under command of Lieutenant Colonel Douglas of the thirteenth Nebraska, infantry will pro ceed at once to Nebraska City in rV ponee to an appeal from the c-tunty I sheriff, county attorney and mayor for military protection, arising from alleged disorders growing out of the packing house strike in that city. Martial law Is declared to lie In ef fect In all territory comprising and including Four-Mile precinct. Otoe county. Including Nebraska City and 'all Its sub-divisions, under the prop lamaUon of Governor McKlvle. is- a ftsii Annfap&nrai faSlo mnpnini .with Adjutant General Paul of the Iixeorasitit -auonai uuara. All of the companies ordorod out are units of the - 134th regiment. Lieutenant Colonel Douglas fit Osce- legislature, now in session here, was ordered by the governor to takj com mand of the strike zone. Orders for -The cntrainment already have , been Is- f situation seemed beyond control of local authorities. - 1 OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 211 .A seniral fight last Wednesday night In which alleged strike-breakers, strikers, snd employes are on strike, resulted in the request that state troops be sent to take charge of the situation, nccoid- jng to Sheriff E. ,H. Fischer of Ne- jh rak. f,.,,, braska City. Since the fight no further trouble had occurred, tho sheriff declared, but the business men at Nebraska City felt that more men than available Jooally should be on hand to cope with any situation that might develop. Pittock Heirs Are Given $18,000 Cash PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 28.. Heirs of the late Henry Pittock were today ordered by Circuit Judge Taze well to be paid $18,000 each by O. S. Price, executor. Payment will ' be atade under a provision ot the will which directs tha heirs are to receive $500 a month. The payments have been belt! up tor three years wbtie the estate was in process of settlement. Fred - L. Pittock, Kate P. Hebard, Louise Gautenbeln, Susan Emory and Caro line P. Leadbetter are the children who will receive the payments. The Daily Bank Robbery WEST HOBOKEN. N. J., Jan. 28. Three automobile bandits today held up a messenger from the North. Hud son National bank and escaped with $20,000 and shot Detective Charles Harm, who was guarding the messen ger. , f L bo thoroughly discussed at the next meet In June at Iowa City, Iowa, of the big ten, according to Professor T. E. French, president of the ath letic association at Ohio State uni versity and president of the western conference. Professor French said tho action Of tho University of Illinois In declar ing star athletes Ineligible because they played in, a semi-professional football' game undoubtedly would cause the question of professional imn (o be discussed at the Juno meet ing unless a special meeting of the board Is called In the meant I mo. OOTBALL SCANDA