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' lib, Tft fit The Weather Prediction Fair Maximum yesterday 55 Minimum today 51 Precipitation 22 vVeather Year 'Ago Maximum 68 Minimum 49 n ri (? "irnth Year. Weokly Fifty-Second Teu. , MEDFORD, OU'EOOX, THURSDAY, OOTOBKli 12, 1922 NO. 174 4 ULU LINER AF E PACIFI C PASSENGERS 'T1KF TO THF I I II II. W MIL. LIFE BOATS a Nearly 300 People Adrift On Open Sea As Blazing 'City , of Honolulu' Is Abandoned Ships Rushed to Rescue Sea, Reported Calm ? v long Wait for Rescue. kSAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. (By tfie Associated Press.) The passen gers and crew of tho liner City of Honolulu, burning at sea and aban doned at 10:10 o'clock this morning are facing 14 hours in open boats be fore the first ship dashing to their rescue can reach them. The army transport Thomas Is ex pected to beat the Matson Navigation company's vessel Enterprise in the race to the castaways. The Thomas, according to wireless messages from her commander, should reach the scene of tho disaster at 1 o'clock to morrow morning. Karller advices this morning stat ed that the Knterprlse turning from her course from . Honolulu to the mainland would reach the side of the sftricken ship between noon and 1 o'clock this afternoon. A later mes sage from tho Knterprlse, said how ever, that when she' started her race a 5:30 o'clock this morning she was 242 miles from the City of Honolulu. Her speed ordinarily is ten miles an hour, but her owners boltcved she would crowd on all steam and better that mark in the emergency. The last message received here from the City oC Honolulu was at 10:10 o'clock this morning when her passengers ns well as officers and crew took to the boats. There were 70 passengers aboard, 04 of them saloon and 12 third class. Itohrny'H Ynclit Near 13. h. Poheny's yacht Caslana was believed by shipping men here to be within a hundred miles of the City or Honolulu when that vessel took firo today. Ship ronorts received Inst night Indicated such a position 'for the yacht Port officials said thoy were Bure tho yacht had gone to tho Jfcone and that Its last reported posi tion made it almost certain to be the first to arrive. Hen Is Calm Haports of the weather on tho renn lane down which the abandon ed vessel was running on her way to her home port were that' the sea was smooth nnd the wind moderate. I.nst Mresntco Hwelvptl A mshv.ugo'to the Radio Corpora inn of America from the United States army transport Thomas re ported early this morning In the nrlehhorhood of tho Citv of Honollii, said that the Thomas also was pro- W'ng at full speed to tho help of iha burning vessel. The message from the Thomas said she expected to reach the sceno of the disaster at 1 o'clock tomorrow morning. The Thomas Is reported to have iieen about 200 miles from the City if Honolulu when she turned south in her daRh to the rescue at S o'clock his morning. , Tho Inst mcssaso received frtim tho ship sent ly tlio wire less operator Just before ho aban. rtonnrt his key. siild: V K "Captain anil gang leaving hl. . Goodbye to you all." Tlio three rmlio operators aboard the City of Honolulu wet AV. 1". Ikrtl. H. II. Hancork and M. C. K uiulcr. . . (Continued on paee eight) FRANCE UNABLE TO PAY ANY OF HER WAR DEBTS FOR NEXT FOUR YEARS PAItIS, Oct. 12. France will be unable to meet any part of her debts for the next four years, ns all avail able receipts for that period must be Unvoted to re-construction of the de vastated regions, according to the Tris Hp th highe 'ris Herald, which nuotm one or ighest authorities of the French ministry of finance. The government, adds the nowd Pnnrr. la doing Its utmost to find a m-w formula for the settlement of Indian Acquitted On Charge Killing U. S. Dry Official DALLAS, Ore., Oct. 12. Philip Warren, Grande Ronde Indian, was today found not guilty of the murder of Grover Todd, federal prohibition agent, who with Glenn Prieo, another prohibition agent. was Bhot to deatli at New Grande Konde September 3. Doubt as to whether Todd had been killed by a bullet fired by Warren or by a stray bullet fired by other agents caused the ver- diet of acquittal, It was nn- uounced. Warren will be tried again on the indictment charging first degree murder in the case of Price, It was announced. ITCH HAS A Inventor . of Oregon System Files Plan at Salem Which Would Entirely Change the State GovtAbolish Sen ate, Elect 1 Representatives By Occupation. PORTLAND, Oro.. Oct. 12. The plan of state government would be entirely changed, and a representa tive body chosen each four, years from among different occupations, would have full control, if a plan proponed by the Peoples' Power league, including adherents of, the stato grange, the Farm Bureau, the State Federation of Labor and some businessmen, is adopted by the voters. An Initiative measure, proposing a change In the constitution to bo voted on in 1924, was filed -yestorday with the secretary of state at Salem. It had been planned to have the meas ure before the people at tho coming election, but sufficient signatures were not obtained In time, according to YV. S. U'Uen, secretary of the peoples' power league. Among provisions of the proposed nmendment the voters registered in each occupation or classification of occupations having one sixtieth of all the registered legal voters in the state who are registered in that occupa tion or classification of occupations. The legislative assembly would consist of a house' of representatives of sixty members. The full term of office would be four years. Repre sentative's would be subject to recall and the legislative assembly subject to recall or dissolution. Abolish State Senate. The state sennte and tho office of state senator, would be abolished. Th legislative assembly, under the anicndment, would elect the gov ernor. He also could be recalled by the legislative assembly. . The amendmen'. was signed by C. R. Spence. president of the Peoples' Power league of Oregon and other officials of the organization. They Include O. K. Hartwig, vice-president; W. K. Kimsey. treasurer, and W. S. U'Uen, secretary. Spence Is president of the state grange and Hartwig is president of tho State Federation of Labor. "Occupations would bo classified according to the number of register ed voters in each," said U'lten. ex plaining the plan. "Kach would be entitled to representation, according to the proportion its .membership bears to the whole. Lawyers, for ln- (Continued cm Page Two) the European debt and rpa ration tangle and will probably submit a de tailed scheme drawn up by M. Poin care when 1he Inter-allied financial congress meets at Brussels. The plans call for a revision of the total of (lerniany's Indebted n-us on a basis of nrtual reparations, only th charges for pensions, war nllowancos and the like being wiped frmn the slate. This would reduce the Fiffuli claim by nearly twenty-five for i enl. NEW PLAN FOWuf OREGON BD' REPUDIATES United States Has Largest Bombing Plane MaJ. Gen. Mason Patrick, chief of the air service of the U. S. army, was an Interested spectator at Mit chell Field. Mineola, 1. I., on Sept. 1st, at the tests and tryout of tho new Klnnt hombliiK plane 1'Tlio Owl." This machine is driven by three iiowcrful Liberty motors at a sliced nf luii miles an hour, and carries two four thousand pound bombs. Tlio latest word in bombing- planes, this Riant machine Is pictured in com parlson with an ordinary flight plane. WIN IN JERSEY MURDER , StrtlKKVIIlJVN.'J., Oct.MS. (Ily tho Associated ress.) Itaymontl Mchnoiilcr this after noon repudiated Iho allcsctl con- ossion in which ho acctiscil Clif ford Ilnjra, 10, of (ho murder of tlio Hcv. ICdivnrd AV. Hall and Jb-s. KK-Jinor U. Mills. It was unofficially announced tlmt Hiiycs probably would ho re leased beforo night. SOMERVILLE,, N. J., Oct. 12. Raymond Schneider, detained as a material witness in the Hall-Mills murder case, today collapsed In the Somerset county jail. A physician who worked over him nearly half nn hour beforo ho was revived, stated that he was suffering from a Bovere nervous breakdown after the grilling to which he had 1ieen subjected. ft was Schneider's accusation that Cltrford Hayes had slain the Rev. Ed ward Wheeler Hall and Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills in mistake for an other couple that led to Halls' arrest on a murder charge Schneider In his repudiation, de clared that neither he or Hayes had anything to do with tho murders. Ho had accused Hayes, he said, out of revenge because ho had been in formed that Hayes had mado state ments accusim; him of knowing something nbout the slayings. "I lied nlyiut Hayes," his-statement said, "because ho nnd Pearl liahmcr in statements to the Middlesex coun ty authorities, lied about mo when they said I was on tho Phillips farm on the night of the murder. I thought they were trying to. got mo into trouble and have iue accused of the murders. "After I had been In the jail here for a while I began to think nbout the trouble I started by telling those lies about Hayes and my conscience began to bother me. When 1 saw Clifford's family come here to see him yesterday my heart went out to them and I thought of my .own mother. From that time on I Just wanted to tell the truth and make things right." rVEW BRUNSWICK. X. J., Oct. 12. New Jersey officials investigating the murder of September 14 of the Rev. Edward Wheeler Hall, rector of the Episcopal church of St. John, the evangelist, and his choir leader, Mrs. Eleanor Reinhardt Mills, sought to day to Identify a potato knife found some distance from tl.4 spot where the slain bodies were discovered, and turned over to the local police yester day. Detectives considered It possible that Ihe knife was the one used In slashiriR Mrs. Mills' throat. Apdi,i(':iily the mystery was just as far ir',-.M JlutIon today as before the arrest of Ollfford Hayes, a youth held or tli s'ltemcnt of. Raymond Sch neider, w.io reported the finding of the l.odict two days after the rector ?nd Mrs Jills disappeared. Sclinei l jr charges that Hayes shot ihe pair, thinking them Nicholas Ball mer and 1:1s daughter Pearl, both of whom are being hold In jail. Schneider also Is under arrest as it material witness. BANDIT HOLDS UP PASSENGERS ON CALIF. LIMITED Lone Negro' Relieves. 68 .Chicago-Bound Passengers of Cash and Jewels Hold-Up! Occurs in City Limits of Kansas City, Mo. CHICAGO, Oct. 12. (By the Asso ciated Press) Gallantry of tho men passengers when n negro onndit in vaded tho Santa Fc railroad's Cali fornia limited train in Knnsas City last night was revealed today when the train reached Chicago. Mrs. 8. P. Sweet of Detroit, the only woman in tho car where the robber appear ed, told how six men had gone to her aid when tho negro entered. The robbery took place within tho city limits of Kansas City and Bhortly after tho train hnd pulled out of tho station. Ho evidently climbed Into tho vestibule ns tho train waa leav ing the station, nnd robbed only the passengers In tho third car from tho rear. : Ho escaped with only about $200. Mrs. Bweet told how the men had prntected her. i was walking toward the obser vation platform while the porter was making up my birth," she said. "I heard a cry, 'drop your bag,' I didn't see anyone and didn't pay any at tention. A negro with a revolver ap peared in tho doorway. Tho revolver looked as if it were a mile long. I dropped the bag. "The six men in tho car Jumped up ns the negro yelled 'bands up.' tho men surrounded mo nnd threw out their' pocketbooks. They crushed me back toward tho wall and atood between me nnd the negro. ' It was all over In a few minutes. The rob ber did not go Into the other cars, but jumped off the train." CHICAGO, Oct. 12. Sixty-eight Chicago-bound passengers in sleep ing curs wero robbed of their Jewels and money by a negro bandit who boarded the Santa Fe California limited train out of Kansas City, Mo late last night, according to official railroad reports here early today. The train is due In Chicago at 10 a. m., today. The bandit, his face covered by a handkerchief mask, boarded one of the sleeping cars as the train pulled out of the Kansas station, the report aid. He went through two cars, ordered passengers out of their berths and seats robbing all of them. Kings and necklaces were torn from women. The negro swung off the train ten blocks from the station and disap peared in the darkness of the rail road yards before any of the trnin crew except twrt frightened porters wero aware of the holdup. KANSAS CITY, Mo. Oct. 12-i-Pollce today were searching for a negro who late last night held up two Pullman cars of Santa Fe train number four, the California limited, soon after it pulled out of the Knlon station here and robbed the passengers of an un determined amount of cash and Jewelry. The negro boarded the rear Just as the train left the station, and com- (Continued on page eight) Ft MARTIN PLANE E AT MT. CLEMENS MOUCT CLEMENS, Mich., Oct. 12 Averaging 105.1, miles over, the 240 mile triangular course, Lieutenant Erid H. Nelson of Mount Clair, N. J., driving a Martin, transport won the Detroit News nerial mall trophy race hero this afternoon. Lieutenant Harold H. Harris of Chi cago . averaged 135 miles an hour In winning the Detroit aviation country club trophy race. He piloted the Honeymoon Express. MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Oct. 12. Two races, one for large multi-motor bomb or mall carrying airplanes and the other for light commercial craft, today ushered in tho three days air racing meet at Selfridge Field. The meet closes Saturday with the national air classic, tho Pulitzer trophy race. More than 100 plancH, Including the best fighting machines of the urmy and navy, aerial mail curriers and ex perimental craft, wero here to compete in tlio previous events. Included In the entries was ono piano built ns far batk as 1U18 and which still holds a record, ns well as the latest speed creations of tho largor laboratories. Army entrants woro In the majority In the opening days ruces. Four Mar tin bombers and one Martin transport, each having two 400-horsepowcr Lib erty motors were the starters In the mitltimotor plane race for the air mail trophy, offered by the Detroit Nows. All these ships are after the same gen eral design, except that the transport Is fitted out to carry twelve passen gers Instead of a load of oxploHlves. The bombers were to fly ton times around a 24-inlle triangular course, most of which is over Lake St. Clair. The three pylons must be turned at an altitude of less than 300 feet and on the last leg of each lap, a balloon anchored at an altitude of 2000 feet must be hurdled. The lighter plane raco, for the De troit aviation country club trophy was tinder the same rules that governed the bombers. Two single motor army machines and four commercial planes piloted by civilians were entered. It brought Into competition a wide range of motive power, the Curtis entry being driven by a 160-horsepower Cur tis C-6 motor, while the army planes carried Liberty 12 s of 200 horsepower. Two of the machines mounted 200 horsepower Hlspani Suiza motors. FINE GOAST PLAYERS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 12. Man ager William EsBick of the Vernon club was fined $50 and suspended for three playing days today by President W. H. McCarthy of the Pacific Coast league, while Pitcher Tom Hughes of the Los Angeles team was fined $25 and given a like suspension. 'Penal ties for both were Imposed because of their alleged abusive language toward Umpire McOraw In the Ver-non-Los Angeles game yesterday. WINS RAC Permit U. S. Ships To Take On Booze Again Up to Oct. 14 WASHINGTON, Oct. 12. In order to promulgate tentative reg ulations for enforcement of Attor now General Dauglierty's bono dry prohibition ruling, the bureau of internal revenue announced to day American ships which volun tarily had surrendered their stocks of liquor In Amoiicnn ports would be permitted to tnke such stocks aboard again, provided they are stilling prior to October 14. , DISLIKED BY Atlanta Capitalist Chides His Former Fiancee for Giving Publicity to Private Affair Mrs. De Bouchel in Reply Makes Public Copy of Let ter Requesting Information. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 12. Mrs. Nnezlma DoUouchel mado public to day a copy of a letter she said she had written to Asa G. Candler, Sr., At lanta capitalist, before she came horo, demanding to know the names of the persons she said he told hor had re flected on hor and which caused ter mination of tholr engagement. The letter was mado public through Harry Gamble, attorney for Mrs. DeOouchcl, at the same time he announced ho had changed his or iginal plan to accompany his client to New Orleans today. He Bald he would remain for at loast a day longer. The leltor, which Mrs. Do Bouchel said was her final ono to Mr. Cand ler and was dated September-28, callod on Mr. Candler to divulge the namos of tho men who he said cast reflections on her character. No statement came from Mr. Cand ler today. ATLANTA, On., Oct. 12. Firm 111 hor intention to "bring the kind of legal action against Asa 0. Candler, which will proporly mako him vindi cate her. namo," Mrs. Onczluit- Oe Bouchol of Now Orleans, whose en gagement to the Atlanta capitalist recently was terminated, today was completing preparations to return, with hor attorney to her home In Louisiana. 'Harry Gamble, IN'ow Orleans attor ney representing Mrs. DoBouchel, In timated that he may return to Atlanta In connection with legal proceedings against Candler, whom the Louisiana divorcee alleged In statcpients had broken his engagement to marry her because of information reflecting on her character. Other ' than a statoment Issued through his attorneys that ho regret ted that Mrs. DeBouchel had sought publicity of a private affair and that Information in his possession made a marriage with the divorcee Impossi ble, Candler has refused to discuss tho termination of tho engagement for publication. PUBLICITY IS MAN WHO STEALS BARNEY OLDFIELD'S RACING CAR MEETS DEATH IN SMASH NEW YORK, Oct. 12. Ono man was killed and two others Berlously Injured today when a racing car, claimed by Uarnoy Oldfleld to "have been stolen from him, Bklddcd Into a 'curb while speeding along River side drive, and swerved headlong Into a tree. Joseph Degnon of Ne wYork cata pulted Into the tree and was Instantly killed, Ednr O'Donnel and Edward McKee,' both chauffeurs, were dug from tne wreckage and taken to a hospital to be booked later on rhnigps of homicide. GREEK ARMY EXPECTED ID QUIT THRACE Military Men Mutter, But People Flee and no Organ ized Resistance to Turks Is Expected Massacre Is Generally Expected in Spite of Allied Promises. PARIS, Oct. 12 (By Associated Press.) Greece has decided to sign the Mudanla armistice con vention and evacuate Thrace, ac cording to the conditions stipulat ed in that document, the French foreign office was onicially in formed today. ADKIAXOPLE, Oct. 12. (By tho AsHoeiuted Press) News of tlio con clusion of tho nrmistico at Muilanla was received quietly hero as a lurgu part ot tho population already re Karded ro-ontry of the rTurks Into eastern Thrace as inevitable. , Talk of resistance is mainly confined to tho army. Withdrawal of funds from the banks and liquidation of assets has boon In progress for several days and will undoubtedly be accelerated by the knowledge that the Turkish civil authorities would be in chargo forty-five days nftor the armistlco takes uffftot, ., A '." ' . J. Mure than a thousand families lmvo loft Adrlunoplo for Greece with in tho last week and the city is filled with refugees from tho villages to tho westward.- Tho people are leaving as rapidly as possible, considering the lack of transportation facilities; caused by tho fact that many horses and wagons have been requisitioned by tho army. Despito tho presence of tho allied mission sent from Constantinople, tho Christian population seems un willing to believe that the allies can carry out their plans for protection and that a massacre is feared by many. The majority of tho civilians aro armed, but it Is hoped tho allied de tachment can prevent so r Ions hostili ties until tho Turkish gendarmerie is fully Installed. Tho Greek army officials still maintain their attitude of resistance, and their position has been somewhat reinforced )y tho civilian movement for an "autonomous Thrace." but tho continued exudus westward Indicates this movement has no overwhelming popular support. ATHICNS, Oct. 13. (By tho Asso ciated ProHs) A royal decree pub lished in thtt official ga'etto recog nizes as valid tho marriage of the lato King Alexander and Madame Aspasa Kemnos. lly virtue of the decree King Alex ander's child, Alexandra Sophie, has no rights to tho throne, but becomes the legal heir of tho deceased king nnd Is entitled to an appanage, or al lowance for maintenance. THE ELECTRIC CHI RALEIGH, N. C, Oct. 12. In tho presence of tho nineteen-year-old whito girl he was convicted of at--tacking, Melver Burnett, a negro was electrocuted today at the stato peni tentiary here. Throughout his trial ho had maintulned his innocence, but as the -Jailers strapped him to the i chair today, ho mumbled a .confes sion. A fourth occupant, said by tho po lice to have been identified as James O'Dowd, a mechanic, leaped before the crash and escaped as the police arrived. The speedometer of the machine had stopped at 70 miles. A California drivers' license mado out to Oldfleld and bearing his sig nature and photograph, enabled the police to establish ownership of the wrecked machine. Oldfleld later was found at a New York hotel, having come here to see the world's series, ho said. 1