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'una Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Marlmum yestsrday..., 3a Minimum today..,. 2f.t Predictions Rain. iUMlUJMJJJlLJl .-J. - IJJ1..J.'.. tally Hlatetmth Year. S i f k I y I I f I y 1 1 at V i u r. MED FOR!), ORKCON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1022 NO. 266 TREMENDOUS QUAKE FELT, NO DAMAGE Most Severe Shock Since San Francisco Disaster Is Re corded by Seismographs in Various Parts of Country Experts Believe Center in Pacific, Off Oregon. CAMniUlx'.K, Maaa.. Jan. 31, Tbo nartbquak rarcrdml In all pari tt lbs Called Statea (inlay probably occurred under the Pacific ocean off the roant cf Washington cr Oregon. It waa Mid after thorough reckoning at thn Harvard unlveralty today. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 31 An earth tremor was fell litre early lo ilay. Tb oscillation wa faint and continued for aevrral aeconda. No damage waa donn. FPOKANK. Jan. 31. Earthquake ahorka. emanating. It waa reckoned, from a point 700 mllea arutheaat nfvr.n permitm. according to tt final thla city, war' recorded by the slea- and offlrlnl Ut li-uud today by the moiraph at (iontaxa unlveralty to- iiiatrb-t of Columbia authuritli-a lout day. They atarted at 5:19 a. m. and ,,,r lvr ( , ,.iaia Saturday continued until ":0f It was stated. ' rttai ltf , under n burden of snow of the with heaviest shocks at from 0:11 to , Knickerbocker theater roof. Aty l:H, nddltlun t the llat. It waa anld. j would result from the fatal termlnn- FKATTI.K. Jan. 31.- - A pronounced "'" Injuries sustained by other vie- -I I. .I.- n..I...Mu .... i era! tbouaand mile in a aouthorly dl rertlun from Brattle, waa recorded on thn aoUmoKraph at the Vnlver.lty ' ,,, ,;,,, J, buml ot it, dead Woahlnxton here today, The record 1o(y oi.itirt of Columbiana puahed began at 5:Jl a. m., reached Ms max-(n,.r MvciiKiitl'n of the Kiilek.-r-Imum at 5:!J and ended at t:2J a. to-krr dlaier and the aonutit m m. So violent waa the dlaturbanca rxi-tod to take mtlon on the reolu at the iualmum that the nerdlea of lion of Hunator Capper, republlran. the aeUmoitraph wera lifted from th Kanaoa. propcwlnw an Independent In recordltm drum for aeveral tnlnutea . qulry by that b..d I A rreidutloti for the aame purpna- A8II1NOTON. Jan. 31. An u h lt, ,,rr. ntatlve Mondell. re- rarthuake of Kreat lutenalty. proba- u,,,.,in ,.na.r. hna announced tht bly 200 to 2.600 mllea acuth of holiy WnuM , nmhorlie an Inquiry. Waahlmcton. waa reRlatered early to- ,inmjig o,,. outt-ome of tlioeo by day at the Ouorietown aolamonrnph- ,Ht( Uuihoritl-a. Iral obaervatory. The quake began A r-hrrk 'f the death Hut by tho at about K:;5 a. m. and ton mlnutea police tmlny ehowrd that the final later Ihe tremort had becrme a total, oulalde the expected deatha of pronounced a to throw tho n((lator- Inlured. of which there nre now i... .n tt .1... ....1- three, probably would bo reduced to In needlea off he ac.le. Thn quake . ., , rrRlatrrad m ' (f f uU( UJ the aeUmoitraph cf the weather bu- 6J .,,,.,, , huBlll(ai, today, with reau. offlclala of which deacrlbed It dnIPn sported In critical condition aa "uionatrnua." The Kev, Krnncla 1:- (i Bhuimhneaay. aecond nieilHtant Tondorf, director Cf the CeorRetown H't mauler aencral, althouRh Includ- aeiauicxraphlcnl obaervatory and one -d oinotiK theae, waa aald mill to be of the foremoat earthquake authcrl- ahowlna Improvement today, tie of the world, aatd the quake waa I In addition in an exhnuatlve Invea- "enormoua," both maclilnea wore atlll Uaallon of the dlanater beliiR preaaud reRiaterlns the nuaka at ten o'clock. ' Il,""r' i of Columbia roinmla- . alonera tho federal grand Jury which NICW YORK. Jan. 31. fioolo- data in .ew iora sooainR to loraio tna eannquaao wnicn loaay ananer- fml ,n tl ,.ff0rt to fix the blame, ed solamogruphi In varlona porta of T, rnroner'a Jury, a Iho InveatlKntlna the I'nlted Btatoa, eatlmated that the tho caimo of tho dentha had reuueated ahock originated along the weat coaat the war depurtiiient today to naetgn of flotith Araorlca ' aomewhoro bo- army rnglneera to mnke a atudy of twoen the'l'anama canal lone and e atru. turo of Mho motion picture Ecuador. DENVER. Jan. 31The aelmo-' graph at Re.la college hero today reglatcred the most severe qunko re- corded In the Inst fifteen years, cording to Father Fceatall. Tho quake started at 6:20 a. m. and con- tlnuod without nbatoment tititll 7:30, the maximum lnlenHlty being record-iF. cd between 0:30 a. m. and 6:40 a. m., nt which time the tremor was ao se vere that the rocordlnk noedlo was forcod off the drum ot tho Inatru ment. , . ' The dlaturbance was declared by Kuthor Forestall to bo about 1,500 mllea south of Denver. The shock waa ovm greater thmi that roglaterod bore at tho tliiiu of the Snn Franclaco earthquako. (Continued on iiage alx.) AFTER SHOOTING HOSTON, Jan. 31. BIMy patrolmen armed with riot guns, battled more tliau an hour early today ugalnHt Renny Murray, a negro, who bnrrlcnd ed In hlH homo In the, south end, shot end sorloiiHly woundod two pntrolnieu, u nogroHs and a negro, and But flro to a bod In which un hifant lay. Murray Bttrrondorod uninjured when a.dozun pollcemon broke down tho door of tho llOIIHO, Tho trouble began when Murray ejoctod Mrs. . William , Jackaou, a BOSTON NEGRO SURRENDERS Woman Bandit Fells Widow, Crabs $240 From Hose, Escapes . NKW YORK. Jnn 31. A worn- an bandit yesterday entered a butcher l. felled Mr. Rebecca lli'll, tlm widowed proprietor with tlm butt of a revolver, took $-40 from Mm. Hull staking and Cacapod. Mra, Hell waa found uncon- acloua an hour after the holdup, DEATH LIST IN E REDUCED TU 97 Official Report On Knicker bocker Theatre Disaster Is Issued By District Columbia Authorities Some On In jured List Still in Danger. WASHINGTON. Jan. Jl. Ninety I"1". IknUi !Jt llwlurl. WAHIIINUTt N. Jan. Jl While 'vlHllnd tho arena of tl ocaliiHtrophc ii a tho flrat atcp In Ita InveidlKutlun, Wu rcndy 0(lny () cn f,rHt wlt. theatre. Ileductlona hi the death list, which " , ' MOVE S Hmllw,;on of ,.,Kht RmpB f(ir whll.h h po1(,0 ,lnvo ,)((,n unnb,0 ,0 Una nc-l,1My nddreaMee. They nre: V. M. walah. Mra. M. E. Waiah, Wr, and Mr. KuhmoII Maine, Albert linker, I'aiiiua liniby W. M. Crawford and If. Hall. In addition to theao Mlaa tlertrudu Taylor of Wuahlngton waa found to bnvo been reported dead by error, nnd Ernealo Nutlello, who waa killed, waa found to have been Hated again oa Erneat Martello. Theao ten r'.lmlnntlona would reduce tho total to HB. England Challenge Again. LONDON, Jnn. 31. (1y the Asso ciated l'reaa) Tho lawn tennis naao elation announced this afternoon that the Hritiah lalea had challenged America for tho Duvla cup. I 4. TWO SERIOUSLY negrosB tenant, and fired Hovoral shuts nt her. rntitdmen Dalton and Mc Hhano attempted to enter tho house and McBhano wag allot lu tho atomiich. Another bullet woundod Dalton In the cheek. Mrs. JackHon'a huaband, holding Mr baby In hln arms, was shot twlco by Murray. The child fell on a bed and Murray aot fire to it, Jackson said Tho Infant waa ruahod to a hospital suffering from burns. Mra. Julia. Scott, a neighbor, was Hti'tick In llio huud by n bullot. . UNHUR RAPPE DUE TO INJURY San Francisco Physician De nies III Health Cause of Tragedy in Arbuckle Case If Drink Could Cause Fits, Country Would Have Gone Dry Long Ago BAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 31.-Dr Itufua RlRdon, Ban Francisco phyilclan cave tiroaecullon rebuttul teatlmony today In the aecond trial of a man atatichter charue axaloat Uoacoe C I Fatty) Arbuckle that bladder all menta or the nature cauilDR the do&th of Mlaa Vlrxlnla Itniii nilxbt nt iiecvanarily be related to vlalblo evl dencea of lllneaa ahown by Mlaa RapM. Tho charge aKAlnat ArburVIe grew nut of the death of Mlaa Rappe through bladder rupture. The proaecu lion contenda that the rupture waa rauaed by force. The defenao clalma that It waa the climax of a chronic condition. Defenae teatlmony held that the chronic condition evidenced Itaolf In falntlnn and byaterla at certain p?r loda when Mlaa Kappa partook of In toxicating liquor. "Drinking could not have produced auch evldencca." I)r. RiKdnn teatlfled. "otherwlae we would have had prohibi tion long aito bcrauae of the preva lence of chronic bladder complaints." FORGES AHEAD IN E FOR VATICAN ROME, Jan. SI. (Hy Associated I'rem ) Interest In the church of a Ing na the lime draws near for assem bling ot tllo sacred conclave and ninny nttrmpta to flud an Indication ot the result are being made. Cardinal LauituU, secretary of the congregation ot tho propaganda, al though rend to tho purple only laat year la understood to bo favored by at least thirty of tho cardinal. The name of Cardinal Kattl. arch bishop of Milan, mentioned previously aa favored by the "peace" group, hoad ed by Cardinal Qasparrl, la not beard no often now and the section headed by Cardinal Merry Del Val, which had been credited with favoring Cardinal Maffi, archbishop of IMsa, ia reported aa ready for a compromise before bal loting begins. Suffocated By Heat In Refrigerator Car BFOKANE, Jan. 31. William Mul lor, aged atwut 21, waa suffocated by tho charcoal heater on a refrigerator car, hla body being found after tho car reached Spokane today from the south Receipts found In hla pockets indicate that hla home la in Spirit Lake, Idaho. He had apparently climbed in the car to come to Spokane, entering through a hatch In the top which ho closed after him. Tho ztnc-lln&d compartment waa empty except for tho heater and tho body. Would Be Rescuer of Woman In On Deal i TACOMA, Waah., Jan. 31. John Bechtold confeaaed today he assisted In the 'robbery ot Mrs. Hazol Greon last woek, aa ho was escorting her homo from the grocery store whero sho Is cashier. When two holdup men auddcnly appeared, Uechtold ap parently put up a valiant battle, but Mrs. Green waa relieved of $149. In his confession, according to the police Uochtold lnvolvod 'Pearl, Fred and D. R. Roberts, nil ot whom are under arrest. lVrliap Thin Waa tho Quake. SAN FRANCISCO, Jun. 31. Explo sion ot n bomb early today shattered tho windows of a tenement houso oc cupied . by eight Italian families on Telegraph hill hore. No one wns In jured, l'oltro said a flro ot myste rious origin threatened the houso two weeks ago. CARDINAL LAURENT Banker s Wile, Child, Chauffeur and $1,000 Gone A nation-w ide Bean-It haa been start-' peared from the borne of Mr. Bull at ed by Iho police of New Jersey and : Rldgewood, N. J. On December 31 New York for Mr.. Aubrry H. Hull.jMrf- ull drew 00O from tho bank , r , .land, tosetber with her daughter, left ...ir uauK,.-r. r...,r. uu n-ip Coata, a chauffeur, who have dlsap-1 OMAHA. Jan. 31. Largo crowds of former packing house workers gath ered at employment ofMcea In the packing plant district seeking re employment according to reports from Ithat section today, followins the call ing off of the strike in the Omaha dis trict. A considerable percentage of tho men had to be turned away, but ac cording to C. R. Orchard, a member of the packers' publicity committee, they will be taken back In accordan6e with whatever demand for their services Is made as a result of conditions. Two hundrod former employes were put to work last week, he said, and there were prospects that Increased business would necessitate further addition to packing plant forces. Commenting on the termination of the strike in Omaha, Jacob H. Davis, president of district council No. S of tho Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen'a union eaid: "The packing house workers of Omaha have received a temporary set back, but the spirit displayed through out the eight weeks of struggle and sacrifice will encourago workers in all lines ot Industry by ita show of soli darity." Davis added that it waa tip to tho packers by their future treatment of employes to say whether there will be a aecond strike. According to Davis, a conference of international butcher workmen Heads waa held in Chicago last week, when it waa agreed that atrlkera in each city where a strike was. in progress should have power to terminate it. Guilty Contributing To Delinquency Wife CHICAGO, Jun. 31. Found guilty of a charge of contributing to the delin quency of his wifo, Emmallno Reavis,' a god 10, Gullermo Plana, 23 years old, Filipino law student at Depau univer sity yesterday waa sentenced to one year In tho house ot correction. Plana and tho girl had eloped. Counsel for Plana contended there la uo law whereby a man could be found guilty of contributing: to the de linquency of his wife. Famous Sculptor Dead STAMFORD. Conn., Jan. 31. Solon II. Rorglum, an artist ot nation-wide renown aud head of a school of sculp ture hero is dead. Ho waa born on Docembcr 2:', 1S68 In Ogden, Vtah, and waa a brother of Gutzon Itorglum, him self a noted sculptor. His five colos sal busts of Civil war generals which are In tho Vlckaburg national park, aud his statue. "The Pioneer," exhibit ed at tho Sail Frauc.lsco exposition in 1915, were among hla best known works, OMAHA STRIKERS MAN WHO STOLE QUIT. MEN BOSH HAM AGREES TD TO REGAIN JOBS l&R A'jkvey H- Bull jv ciaufktir. jM-jaJpk Costs, lht.,r nom8. Co8t U the g0 of wealthy family at Rldsewood. STERILIZATION YAKIMA. Wash., Jan. 31. John Hill, reservation beet laborer, was to day sentenced to from six months to 13 years In the penitentiary when he pleaded guilty to stealing some bama from a Toppenlsh store because he had been unable to find work and his wife and five children were starving. H1U is a Russian peasant, ot poor education, and at 40 is the father of five cbl!dren born during nine years of married life. The court suggest ed that he submit to an operation to insure himself against again becom ing a father of children, whom he could not support. The court ex plained the operation in detail and Hill expressed his entire willingness to undergo It at the expense of thel county. The court then nuanended, Hill's sentence and gave directions for having the operation performed. Recently an habitual criminal was sentenced to Imprisonment and steril ization, but Hill's case is a precedent tor its kind. BE TRIED FIRST WACKEGAN", 111., Jan. 31. (By the Associated Press.) Circuit Judge Edwards today granted a tAo tlon for separate trials ot Governor Len Small and Vernon Curtis, Grant Park banker, charged with conspir acy to embezzle state funds. The court overruled the motion filed by the governor and granted a similar motion filed In behalf of Mr. Curtis, the decision having the ef fect of putting the governor on trial first. Judge Edwards called for the gov ernor's plea and Charlea C. Leforgoe, speaking for Mr. Small, pleaded "not guilty." - The state agreed to accept a plea by counsel for Mr. Curtis, and Mr. Leforge entered the same plea. Mr. Curtla is contlued iu hla home by quarantine. IE BLOWS UP, 4 DEAD PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 31. Four miners wcro killed, two were injured seriously and two are missing as a result of an explosion In the Layman Cnlloway coal mine at Laymnn, Ky., 20 mlloa from here, lart night, accord ing to reports received here today. Bo far as has boon determined only the night crow of eight to ten men wiia in tho mine at tho time' of the explosion. ; GOV KENTUCKY N Only Man to Answer Edison's Questionaire Wins Sister-in-Law NEW YORK. Jan. 21. Wbea Thomaa A. Edlaon, formulated bla famoua and much-abuaed questionnaire laat aprlng he had no idea that the only man who would anawer it correctly would win bla way Into the Edlaon fam- ily. but eoch la the caae. Samuel A. llalaey ot Newark, N. jr., will tonight marry Mlaa Charlotte W. Hawking, s later-itv law of Charlea Edlaon. son of the inventor. Mr. llalaey, who la now man- axer of an Eduvon concern in tbla city, was one of the flrat to get the famoua queatlonnaira iaaued laat year. He answered it cor- rectly and advanced to tho poat of chief of the personnel staff, where he met X lag Hawking, who waa doing welfare work In the plant PRES'T PLEASED OF SHANTUNG Chief Executive Confirms Be port That An Agreement Between China and Japan Has Been Reached End of Conference Believed Near. WASH ING JON. Jan. 31. (By the Associated Preea.) Much gratifica tion that the. Shantung controversy had been settled waa expressed at the White House, where officials said President Harding felt that the agreement reached waa one ot the important accomplishments of the Washington negotiations. The White House comment was the first official expressison confirming formally that the Japanese and Chi nese had reached a complete accord although it had been generally in dicated that they were virtually in agreement. WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. (By the Associated Press.) Virtual aettle- ment by the Japanese and Chinese of the long debated Shantung ques tion and final agreement on tho text of the five-power naval limitation treaty brought the Washington con ference very near to the conclusion of ,,g labors today, with some of the delegate expecting to be on their homeward journeys possibly by the end of the week. Prediction that the last details of the plan for restoration to China ot Shantung province would be settled at today's meeting waa made by Dr. Koo ot the Chinese delegation, fol lowing an agreement reached last night between the Japanese and Chi nese covering all principles required as a basis for disposal ot the Tsing Tao-Tstnan railroad question. " The basts ot settlement ia understood to have been the compromise plan sup ported by President Harding. Meantime the naval committee of the whole was meeting today to give final approval to the text of the naval treaty aa completed yesterday by agreement in the naval committee ot fifteen on the Pacific fortifications article. The treaty tomorrow will be au nounced to the world at a plenary session of the conference. The Far Eastern committee prob ably will be called In session today to clear the collateral iaauea now re maining in, that field which, with Shantung, it was expected would take but a few days. It was the expecta- OF FEDERAL JUDGE BY WASHINGTON, Jan. 31. Senator Kenyoa of Iowa announced today he m !.,..' .,i would accept the nomination aa fed- eral Judge for the eighth circuit ten - dered to him by President Harding aud sent to the senate. The senate aoon after receiving the nomination confirmed It in open exec- utlve session, an honor only rarely paid to nominees. ; The Iowa senator, who is one of the leaders of the senate and chairman of the agriculture bloc of that body In a formal statement issued upon receipt of hjs nomination by tho sonato, ex - M SOLUTION SENATOR KENYON 1IDIATE BONUS Bill DEMANDED Ex-Service Men Before House Committee Declare Five OP' tion Bill Satisfactory Sen ator Simmons Withdraws His Measure On Request Refunding Bill Changed. WASHIN'GTON. Jan. 31. Imme diate passage of a soldier bonus leg islation was urged today at a hair ing before the house ways and means committee by representatives of war veterans' organizations. An estimate that If a bonus Dill were enacted 50 per cent of the war veterans would take it in preference to insurance, vocational and home aid., and land settlement option was made by Daniel T. Steck, Ottuntwa, Iowa. legislative representative ot the American Legion. If a bonus ia au thorized, the committee was told, the American Legion expects to launch an intensive campaign to "educate" former service men aa to the most de sirable provision, with a view to hav ing a great number take advantage ot optiona other than cash. Mr. Steck declared the passage ot an adjuated compensation bill, car rying five options Incorporated in the measure approved by the house dur ing the last congress, would "perma nently" satisfy able-bodied war vet erans. WASHINGTON. Jan. 31. A pro vision in the allied debt refunding bill which would have given the pro posed debt commission authority "to adjust and settle all clalma the Uni ted States baa or hereafter may have against any foreign government waa stricken out today by the senate. -. Previously an amendment by Sen ator Simmons, democrat, North Carolina, which would provide that Interest payments could not be post poned, for more than three years' without the consent of congress was rejected 41 to 27. Senator Simmons offered his sol diers' bonus amendment but later withdrew it at the request of. Sena tor Norris, republican, Nebraska, who asked that consideration be deferred until after the senate had acted on bis substitute bill proposing to au thorize the secretary of the treasury to refund the foreign debt under conditions and terms laid down by the existing Liberty Loans act. Los Angeles Man Will Run Science Monitor BOSTON. Jan. 31. The Christian Monitor today announced the election by the directors of the mother church ot Charles E. Jarvls, formerly of Los Angeles. Cal., as business manager of the Christian Science Publishing soci ety. He succeeds John R. Watts. Mr, Jarvls has been clerk ot the mother church for four years. , , r. tion of officials that another plen ary session would be called tomor row afternoon following that for the naval announcement to permit for mal ratification ot the dozen or more resolutions relating to China which have received committee approval only. The fortifications article, which has been holding up completion ot the naval pact for several weeks was settled yesterday by an agreement under which the fortifications status quo in the Pacific la to include the American Aleutian islands, a part of Alaska, as well as the Bonln island group ot Japan. PRESIDENT HARDIHG 'pressed appreciation of the president' action, which he said would enable him to achieve his ambition "to serve the federal bench .. , j Sollator Kenyon after the conflrma- tion said he would be unable to leave Washington to take up hla new duties short of a week or ten days, He expected, he added, to examine ! senatorial precedents to determine whether after the confirmation he may vote. The co-operative marketing bill, scheduled to tako the next place on tho calendar of business, Is one In I which ho Is vitally Interested, Mr, i Kenyon said. OWA APPOINTED