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The Weather
Maximum ystrday 4Vt
Minimum today 20'
Rain 19
Predictions
Rain tomorrow.
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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
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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.
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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