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The Weather 'diction - Fair ximum yesterday 55 nimum today 24 vVeather Year 'Ago Maximum 62 Minimum 31 XO. 200 HAM E ontenh year. t- . 'ifty-taeconid Year. MEDFORD, OHEGOX, MONDAY. XOVKMHKW W2 DO Says Yellpw Paint, JAPS LOSE L Also Green, Cures Shell Shock Cases W M III OF OUI IN II, S f WA tfui Loss of Life and (party On South Ameri i Coast As Result of rthcjuake and Tidal Wave Details Meagre, All Wires wn Relief Starts. TIAGO, ChHo, Nov. 13. (Di ssociated Press) Relief forces . the thousands made- homeless e.nthiiuakes throughout Chile Saturday morning and the IS waves which followed the . i were being: mobilized today, eath toll probably will be at .000 and the property loss will to the millions, as several towns amost entirely wiped out and damage to huildlng.s and eom- ntion lines and particularly along" the 1400 miles of coast ?d by the huge wavts, has re extent of the casualties, prop amnge and distress has not been d yet except In a general way. ny communication , lines, both hd and under water were put operation. 500 Killed nt Vnllcnnr. hundred persons were report ed at Vallenar and In the dls-. surrounding the city. As Co- 0 100 aro known to be dend. ikmage from the succession of shocks was heaviest in the nor provinces of- Antofagasta, Ata ?in.d Cociuimbo. All along the Bhips were swept ashore, pound iinst the rocks or left high and jAt many small ports wharves juays were destroyed. 1 tidal waves Which followed hrthquakes, Indicated a gigan sturbance' beneath tho Pacific, waters first were drawn away jshore far below the low tide j and then they came rushing in a great wave which some fers said was fifty meters in l. At Aniofagasta this was re I five times, until the city was led almost to ruins and the en- ipulatton fled to the hills. Tremors were Terrific-, tremors were so severe thut of the seismographs were put operation. The total duration e shocks was three hours and I minutes and the estimated ro il 200 kilometers in a direction lersal to the Andes. The meteor .1 institute announced that the shock coincided with the poss f a sun spot over the central linn of the solar body. The sun made its npeparance on Novem i and was the largest observed rear. i Valparaiso it was pointed out ear Admiral Martin, director of ivy mctcorloglcal service, that ;irthquake came just ns the con- ons of -Mercury and Jupiter and ino and the sun were appronch nd he declared this was signifi- Kntlrc t'lty Hiwtroycd. frOKAOASTA, Chile, Nov. 13. ritv of Copiapo was destroyed the port of ("alders was greatly - jged by the tidal waves of Sat f. The waters cut off all the Ife power and the poulace be I panicky as the city grew dark. 1st of tho commercial section of tpo was carried away by the rs and tho port of Chnndaral was loved, according to reports. ' i i'rv kind .of communication lead ; Sinto Antofagasta was broken 4 rtj and there Is no news fTom the r V)f Cociuimbo, severely hit by the rbances. leial re-opening of-the telegraph to the north is bringing in addi "V details of the catastrophe cen- at Atacania province. The in- town of'Vallenar is In ruins with lead and about 600 injured. In llapse of the prison twelve in i were killed and others injured. entire population is without food equate medical assistance. Coqulmbo where 100 were killed, tremors were continuing yester- (Continued on PagA six.) ,055,075 FINE ON FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES UPHELD BY STATE COURT IKSON, Miss., Nov. 13. The Mis pi supreme court today affirmed jcislon in tk3 Hinds county chan court imposing fines and penal mounting to JS, 055,075 on the fire ince companies formerly operat- - i the state, charged with vlolat le anti-trust law by conspiring to ; )1 rates, i affirmation carries with it the lenalties imposed by the lower About 130 insurance companies ATLANTIC CITY, N J., Nov. 13. The use of paint In helping shell shocked soldiers to regain their health was the subject of a paper prepared by S. T. llallingor of New York, for the annual con- vention of the National Paint, Oil nnd Varnish association here to- clay. According to the paper a young soldier, a mental wreck, regained his health rapWIy in a room fin- ished In primrose yellow. Dark ! colors produced molaneholin, red had a temporary stimulating ef- ! feet followed by a nervous re- action, bine caused apparent calm green resulted in happiness ani' ! vitality and yellow caused amla- bility. . PREPARNG TO- 0NC0L0.RIVER Epoch-Making Agreement In U. S. Irrigation History Ex pected to Result From Meet ing, rat Santa Fe Hoover Represents President. - SANTA FE, N. M., Nov.' 13. (By Associated Press.) Members of the Colorado river commission expect to write a compact for the allotment of the waters of the Colorado river at the meeting now underway in Santa Fe, It wag indicated today. The commis sion which held Its first formal session last Satuf-day already has before it a number of concrete suggestions as to the form the pact should take and members believe that before the con ference here breaks up an agreement will be written. The sessions of the commission are executive. After it has been written, the com pact will be signed by Herbert Hoover chairman of the commission, as repre sentative of the president of the Unit ed States and by each of the state commissioners on behalf of the seven states within the river's basin Colo rado, Wyoming, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah and California. When approved uy congress and by the, seven state legislatures involved tho compact will dispose forever of all controversy over the equitable appor tionment of the water supply of the Colorado river. The treaty making powers of the states frequently have been availed of in matters respecting inter-state boun daries, fisheries and other like sub jects, but this is the first instance in American history where several states are attempting to make an equitable apportionment of tho benefits to be de rived from the uses of the waters of an inter-state stream prior to the de velopment of conflict respecting estab lished uses and before the construction of large enterprises which might give rise to Inter-state conflict. The Colorado river is the tlilrd lar gest river in America. Its average dis charge nnnually for the last twenty years has been about 17,400,000 acre feet, enough water to cover 17,400,000 acres one foot deep. Of the annual discharge about 15,000,000 acre feet goes to waste, as it flows into the Gulf of California, unused. Within the basin of the great river millions of acres of waste land are idle, awaiting the coming of the -ater. Proper development of storage dams would aid the work of getting water on the land, engineers declare. Such dams also would create .millions of horsepower and would remove the peril of floods Ui the Imperial, Coa chella and Palo Verde valleys of south ern California. are involved, the heaviest penalty against any company being $195,S75. State Revenue Agent S. V. Robert son filed the suit nearly a year ago. The companies against whom the su preme court dismissed charges were the Columbia National Fire Insurance company; Continental Insurance com pany; Union Insurance Society of Can ton. St. Paul Marino Fire and Insur ance company and the Fidelity Phoe nix Insurance company. 111 COMPACT 1 1 1 1 . , Scene of Valpariso, Center of Earthquake Disaster IliC; :J 17: ' . ...... T 111 I i KUS AND OF MY DEAR MARIA DEAD N PARIS Bellamy Storer, U. S. Diplo mat, Whose Wife Had Let ter Writing Contest With Late President Roosevelt, Passes Away in Paris. PAIUS, Nov. 13. (By tho Asso ciated I'ross) Itellumy Storer, died lust night in a hotel here where he wnH staying with Mrs. Storer. NEW YORK, Nov. 13. Bellamy Storer, who died in Paris. yesterday, was American ambassador to Austria in 1DO2-0G and before that had been minister to llelyium and Spain. Ho represented the first Ohio district in tho Blind and 53rd congresses. He was born in Cincinnati August 28, 1847 and was graduated from Harvard college in 1S67. He entered tho law two years later and was as sistant United States attorney o the southern district of Ohio. Mr. Storer's death recalls the dip lomatic sensation of a decado and a half ago when ho was summarily re moved as ambassador at Vienna by the then President Koosevelt. It was Mr. Storer's wife, who was Maria Longworth of Cincinnati, about whom revolved tho strife incidental to the dismissal. She was tho "My Dear Maria" in the remarkable series of letters written by the lato presi dent and published by Mrs. Storer In defense of her contention that her hunhnnd's removal had been an in justice. It was she too, who charged the president with responsibility for the complications which caused her hus band's removal. Mr. Koosevelt, in defense of his ac tion, accused Mrs. Storer with having delved too deeply in affairs of state and with seriously involving the United States with the Vatican in Koine nnd with the governments of France, Spnin and Austria-Hungary. The Storers and the Koosevelts hud been Intimate jfriends for many rears. Mrs. atorer, -Aunt of Nicholas Long worth, Mv.. Koosovelt's son-in-law, was Godmother to Kermit Koosevelt and Mr. Storer had sowed in con gress when Mr. Koosevelt Was a mem ber of the civil service commission. CINCINNATI, Nov. 13. Hellamy Storer, attorney nnd former diplomat of Cincinnati, died in Earis, Prance, last niBlit, according to a "cablegranfl received here today. . The cablegram was received by Phil lip Hlnkle of the Central Trust com pany who was in charge of part of the Storer estate here. The circumstances of the death of Mr. Storer were not stated, but it ia known that he had been in ill health for a year. This Should Be a Lesson for Boys YAKIMA, Wash., Nov. 13. "Un cle -Tom" Fife, aged 71, and resident for over half a century in the moun tain district at Goose prairie, about 50 miles from Vaklma, died Sunday as a result of shooting himself when he was pestered beyond endurance by neighborhood boys because he was partialy paralyzed and could not speak" clearly. In accordance with his wish he will be burled on the prairie and wearing his army uni form, which he saved for years for that purpose. He tried in vain to get accepted for service in the world war. But a few weeks before his death he deede ten acres of his land nt Goose Prairie to tho Boy Scouts of Yakima as a summer playground. Five Bolsheviki Admit Murdering Over 100 People .MOSCOW, Nov. 13. Five men arrested by the Moscow police have admitted murdering 10? men, women and children, their motive being robbery. In one instance, 18 persons attondlnt; u hfrthduy party were killed. An other time, an entire family of eight were murdered nnd In another case the robbers took the lives of four or five persons, at the same time so that no wit ness was left to tell tho tale of the horror. - .The crimes were committed in various parts of Russia in a per iod covering more than a year. E IS RAGING IN TEXAS HOUSTON, Texas, Nov. 13. The most, disastrous fire in the 21 yenrs" history of Oulf coast oil fields now Is. raging In tho Humble sector, 17 miles northwest of House. ' Three-quarters of a million barrels of oil are en dangered. At 4:30 p. m., yesterday during a terrific downpour of rain, lightning struck tank No. 21 of the Oulf Pipe line company, transportation subsid iary of the Gulf Oil corporation. A column of flames shot skyward 200 feet followed by a dense cloud of black smoke and a report that shook houses and rattled window panes all over the Humble townslte. At 2:45 a. m., Monday tank No. 22, adjoining tank No, 21, on the north, caught 'fire nnd is burning fiercely. The flames, fanned by tho wind, now threaten tanks 11 and 8, nnd even tho big pump station itself. If tho wind holds, nothing can save .the gulf tank farm with the further probability that the Sun company tanks on tho opposite side of the road from the Oulf tanks will Ignite. Over a mil lion barrels are in storago in the Sun company tanks. Tank No. 21. first fired, has a ca pacity of fpR4,000 barrels nnd held over 275,000 barrels and was practi cally full of oil. Tanks numbers 8 and 11 are about 150.000 barrels ca pacity and are now full of oil. Tank No. 21 is the largest earthen oil storage tank in Texas. All the tanks In the Gulf tank farm nt Hum ble In the path of tho flames are earthern reservoirs. , The value of the 750,000 barrels of oil now burning Is estimated nt $1, 000,000 or more. One man was in jured. FOUR PEOPLE D!E N HOTEL FIRE AMORY, Miss., Xov. 13. Pour per sons were burned to death In a fire which destroyed the "T. P. A." hotel here early today. The dead are: C. F. Altflde, Evansville, Intl.; T. J. Marshall, Memphis; Jack Bolden, ad dress not learned, and C. W. Prultt, a railroad news agent. The fire is believed to have been caused by the explosion of an oil stove at the foot of a stairway. Hunger IllotM In Germany. HKHUX, Nov. 1.1. Advices from Cologne report hat rioting which be gan Friday in the suburb of Kalk, spread Saturday and Sunday to the suburbs of Kue'lhcini nnd Khrenfrid. Shop windows wore ftmnsh'od and the mob stoned the police, shouting "Hunger, hunger." .V.icny arrests were made. R. R. EXTENSIONS OREGON ASKED OF COMMISSION WASIIIXOTOX. Nov. l:!. An order requiring railroads operating in Ore gon to build several hundred miles of new line within that state was sought today from the Interstate commerce commission in a complaint filed by the state public service commission.' The new railroad lines are neces sary, the state authorities alleged, to develop some 22,500 square miles of territory, to open up large timber tracts and give the Block industry proper transportation facilities, in addition, the state contended that the present facilities impose undue bur dens on shippers because freight ship ments have to be consigned over cir cuitous routes and that the military Interests if the tJnlted States require a north and south lino of railroad just east of the Cascades. The construction jirnpoRcd would In clude a line from Oak ltidge. a ter- ' minal of the Southern Pacific, east ward to Crane, a terminal of the Oregon-Washington Railroad and Naviga tion company. A second lino crossing this should run from llend, a terminal of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railroad to Kirk, a Southern Pacific terminal. Tho state also asked for sevornl branches reaching out from tho main stems. No estimates were made as to tho distances involved or tho cost of construction. The roads which would be required to participate In the new construction are tho Central Pacific, Southern Pacific, Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation company, Oregon Short IJne railroad, Oregon Trunk 'railroad and Deschutes railroad company. Decisions of U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON Railroads- and other corporations aro not responsi ble for dumages caused by their elec trically charged wircB over public bridges, the supremo court decided today In a caso brought by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rull. road company. WASHINGTON Municipal ordin ances authorizing hoards of health to enforco vaccination against small pox and tako other precautions to prevent epidemics are valid, tho su premo court held today In a case brought by Itosalyn Sucht against school officials in San Antonio, Texas. Washington A farmer can recover from an insurance company damages for losses suffered to his crops after ho has paid an Initial insurance prem ium but before the policy has been issued, the supremo court held today In a case coming from North Dakota. Washington Tho criminal jurisdic tion of the United States extends to offenses ngainBt Its laws committed by all persons upon the high seas the supreme court held today in a caso brought by the United States against Raymond H. Bowman. The case was regarded by government counsel as affecting the enforcement of Impor tant phases of many statutes, includ ing national prohibition. Washington The supreme court to day announced it would not review a case brought by the Cudahy Packing company of Nebraska against Mary Ann Parramore and tho Industrial commission of Utah, involving tho question of whether employers can be compelled to provide compensation for injuries to employes incurred while on the way to work. 4 BELOW ZERO MONTANA. SNOW IN MOUNTAINS SPOKANK, Nov. 13. Relief from the first snowstorm of (ho winter in the Rocky mountain slates which re sulted In snow averaging from 10 inches to two feet in some districts and sent the mercury clown to four below zero at Hillings, Mont., and Lander, Wyo., was promised by the district weather forecaster today. Snow fell during tho la3t 21 hours In northeastern Arizona, southwest ern Colorado unci over the entire Rockj mountain slope and the 'plains states, according to tho weather bu reau. Plainvlew, Colorado; Denver nnd Salt Lake reported two feet of snow, the heaviest of tho region out side of the Isolated mountain passes. The mercury wont to zero nt Lead- vllle, Colo., and Yellowstone Park Othor temperatures reported were: Cheyenne 10 above; Goodland, Kus., 12 above; Denver 4 above; Grand Junction 2t above and Durango, Colo., 2-t above. ' TAC'OMA. Nnv. 13. Pollco today gavu Mrs. Stanley Green credit for capturing a burglar who entered a local spurting goods store early Sun day morning. Airs. Green, clerk In the offleo of a messenger company, heard the burglar prying open n window of the store. Slut went Into the alley nnd kept guard with her re volver until police came cend cap tured tho man, who proved to bo H. Lclnan, 32, who police sny served a term for robbing a Jewelry store several years ngn. llat-d l-'rost In rot'tlnnd. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 13. Portland and vicinity experienced the second frnt of tho seUHon early today. Tho official minimum temperature was 34, tbotigb unofl'leial reports in dicated that In places freezing tem peratures were recorded, Tho day became warm as soon as early mists cleared away. A Chilly Meeting. SPOKANE, Nov. IS. Sessions of tho seventh nnnunl convention of the Pacific Ice Cream Manufacturer's as sociation opened here today with n luncheon. The afternoon progrum in cluded a number of addresses. Another Aviator Killed HARTFORD, Conn., Nov. 13. Lieu tenant John Illnney, army flier from Mitchell Field, Long Island, was in stantly killed yestorday when his plane struck a tree and crashed to the ground. AUTOS STALLED ANO BY OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 13. A snow storm In western Nebraska which be gan lust Saturday night delaying rail road traffic still continued In that section today, moving eastward, the United States weather bureau here re ported. ' Prediction was made that It would rain or Bnow In eastern Nebraska by tonight. , SIOUX FALLS, ,S. D., Nov. 13. Eastern South Dakota today was ex periencing Its first snow of the year. Wire communication viaa Interrupted at various points. SUP, Highest Tribunal Declares Nip ponese Can't Be Natural ized Decision Upholds in Principle California's Alien Land Laws Four More Cases Still to Be Decided. WASHINGTON, Nov. 13. Jap nneso are not eligible for naturaliza tion in tho United Stnles, it was held today by tho supremo court. In its finding the court disposed of two cases, one brought from Hawaii by Tako Ozawa, against the United States nnd the other brought by Talcujl Yumasita unci Charles Hlo Koko against tho secretary of state of Washington. In tlie latter caso both Japanese hud been naturalized by a court of tho state of Washington, but were re fused incorporation ns a real eBtate firm on the ground that their natur alization had been Illegal. Tho low er federal courts denied naturaliza tion In both cases, hut the ninth cir cuit court of nppeals, in considering the Ozawa case suspended Us decis ion and asked the supreme court for Instructions ns to whether Japanese aro eligible for citizenship under the naturalization laws. Tho question largely turned upon whether section 2160 of the revised statutes, restricting naturalization to "Free white presons," and those of African descent are still in force. Alien Law Upheld SAN FRANCISCO, Nov.' 13. The fato of all California's anti-land leg-' tslation reBted on today's decision of the United States supreme court de nying naturalization to Japanese, it was stated today by Attorney Gen eral U. S. Webb. "Had the court decided that Jap anese could be naturalized, nil of our alien land legislation would have fal len, for (hero Is no way in which we could huvo classified naturalized -Japanese, under such legislation," Webb said. Arguments on four separate ac tions to test tho constitutionality of tho nntl-ullen land laws of Califor nia aro on tho United States supreme court calendar for November 27. Claims .lap n White Man HONOLULU, Nov. 13. (Uy tho Associated Press.) The legal attack of Tako Ozawa, Japanese salesman for a largo wholesalo firm bore on tho American citizenship wall, which was launched In the Hawaii courts several venrs aim. Is said to have drawn financial support from the Japanese) colony in the effort to make it a deciding test case. Among other contentions Ozawa advanced the claim - that ho Is "white," and In an effort to prove his point he traced the history of tho Japanese nation back for several thousand years to the Ainu tribe. lie Included In his argument the asser tion that Solicitor General James M. Reck had exprossed the belief that this particular portion of the Japan ese race had the distinct mark of tho Cnucasion. Tho court stated that the ques tions bofore It were; "1 Is tho naturalization act of June 29, 1906, limited by the pro visions of section 2169 of the re vlsted statutes of the United States? "2 If so limited is the appellant eli gible for naturalization under that section?" The court answered the first of . these questions In the affirmative (Continued on Page slx.l TRAINS DELAYED T CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, Nov. 13. Continued rain today prevented hun dreds of motorists from going to North Liberty to get their automobiles which were stored there Inst night after they had become "mired" in the mud, re turning from the Iowa-Minnesota foot ball game at Iowa City. It was Bald today that practically a thousand cars wore stalled between here and Iowa City and Iowa City and Davenport and on other roads leading In all directions from Iowa Cfty. Women nnd children woro forced to go without food from noon Suturday until yesterday morn