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. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1922 .
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Fatty Redemmed,' to Be Given
Chance for ,. Come-Back
. Starts Work After New
Years Approved By Hays
Has Learned His Lesson.
INDIANAPOLIS, Dec. SO. Motion
pictures -showing Itoscoe (Fatty)
Arbucklo will not bo permitted to be
shown In Indianapolis, according to
tho statement issuod this afternoon
by Mayor Lew Shank.
LOS ANG ELKS, -'Dec. 20. Iloscoo
C- (Fatty) Arbucklc may return to
motion picturo work forthwith. Will
H. Hays, chalrmaii of the motion pic
tures industries said today Arbucklc
mlgut have his chitnce . to "come
bnck."
Joseph Schneck, producer, said:
"Jloseoo will go to work for me.
I am glad to help give him his
chance.". -
. Jesse. E. Lasky, vice-president of
Famous Playors-Lttsky corporation
said:.'
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"We ore sure Arbiickle will provo
worthy of the trust. ' No thought has
been given to tiro matter of releas
ing the pictures already made and
wo hove no plans in this connection."
Itoscoe Arbucklc said;
"I want to sny that 1 am very grate
ful to nil those who are holping mo
and I will prove myself worthy of
their faith In niu." ..
A statemont of tho case given out
from tho headquarters of Mr. Hays
said:
. "Koacoo' E. Arbucklc is to have
another chance to go to work and
make good if ho can. After the first
of tlie year ho will bo lvcn this new
opportunity. ' -
"He has gone straight since he- was
barred from the filmB last April and
ho has pledged his word that he will
keep on going straight. : His conduct
has satisfied Will H. Hays, adviser
to the motion picture Industry;
Joseph M. Schenck, who will employ
him, and tho Paramount company,
representor by Jesse L. Lnsky, which
concern formerly' "distributed 'he
comedies in which the fat fun-muker
appeared.
"Announcement that therj will bo
no objection to Arbuckle's roti.ru to
work was inado today by Mr. Hays
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NEW YORK, Doc. 20. The spirit of
O. Henry (William Bidney Porter)
visited the scenes depicted in so many
of bis short stories last night to wish
the "has beens" tnd "down and outers"
a merry Christmas. kAt toe request of
O. Henry's daughter, Mrs.. Margaret
Cesare, 150, received recently by her
foita magazine story about her father,
was distributed to the derelicts and
strays assembled In downtown parks
and lodging houses.
George Vander Wydn. an old friend
of O. Henry's, passed out the money
from Mrs. Cesare.. He went first to
RETURN
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High Nabobs Called
On to Quit Booze
While Denouncing It
"WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.
t'All tho high officials of the
federal and state governments
were called upon today by Rep-
rcsentative ttjpshaw, deirjcrat
of Georgia, in a speech In the
house to sacredly declare "that
they will not themselves build
up a bootlegger's barbarous bus-
iness by drinking illicit liquor,
at the same time thoy are deny-
ing the privilege to tho poor
devils among the masses."
RALEIGH. X. C, Dec. 20.
Resignations of four instructors
at North Carolina State College
of Agriculture and Engineering
here have been requested as a
result of charges that they
made "home brew" In , their
' rooms, Dr. W. C. Rlddtck, pres-
ident, announced today. "
U.S. LOAN 10 PAY
GERMANY'S DEBT
HELD UNLIKELY
Morgan Chief Favors 'Enough
to Get Over the Hill' Teu
tons Must Realize Obliga
tions and Deflate Sees
Wide Sympathy for France.
' NEW YORK, Dec. 20. An address
by Thomas W. Lamonl, of J. P. Mor
gan and company, before the council of
foreign relations last night In which
he discussed prospects of a loan to
Germany was regarded today as one of
the most significant stntoiuonts yet
made on tho question.
Tho American people liavo no inten
tion 'of making a loan to Germany, he
said, because she is not in any irasltion
at tho present time "to inspire our
people with confidence to buy its
bonds."
Mr. Lamont stated conditions tinder
which he believed a German loan
might bo floated in tills country at
some future time, not a large loan, but
enough to enable Germany to "get over
the hill."
These conditions wore, he said, the
settlement of the reparations problem
and the fixing of a definite sum so that
Germany would be aware of her obli
gatlon. "Following of the fixation of
tills sum," he continued, "Germany
must set out on a period of deflation.
There may possibly come with that a
scheme of the allies for the supervi
sion of such deflation, including the
administration of Germany's customs.
"Even if a loan is advanced," he said
i doubt if Germany will be lent a sum
sufficient to discharge her reparations
debt."
Mr. Lamont denied that the state de
partment had sent the German ambas
sador to confer with Mr. Morgan here
recently. He further expressed his
opinion that the people of tills country
have the utmost sympathy for France
and that they would bo glad to lend
money to her "on a largo scale."
IEER
Madison Square. It was bitter cold
and the park was desertod. A TO year
old messenger boy, his faco as bluo as
his uniform, hurried past.
"Merry Christmas from O. Henry,"
said Vandor Wyde.
"Thanks," said the messenger, grab
bing the dollar bill and hurrying on.
Most of the money went to "guests"
at the Olive Tree Inn and guests at
the Washington house on Second ave
nue were given similar greetings. One
dollar went to a "cop" on duty In
Bryant park. O. Henry wrote much
about New York cops and liked them.
HERRIN CANNIBAL
HORRORS RETOLD
BY 3 SURVIVORS
Witnesses Testify and Identify
Defendants As Participants
In Atrocities White Flag
Ignored Brutality Beyond
Belief Cited.
MARION, 111., Dec. 20. (By tho
Associated Press.) With tho scars
of bullet and ltnifo wounds on their
bodies, three survivors of the Horrin
mine slaylngB testified today at the
trial of five men for murder of 20
non-union men last June. Thoy were
Joseph O'Rrourke, Williams Cairus
and Robert Officer.
MARION, 111., Dec. 20. (By tho
Associated Press.) Robort Officer,
University of Pennsylvania graduate
and survivor of the Horrin riots in
which. 20 non-union men were killed,
today faced another period on the
witness stand, subject to additional
cross examination by attornoys de
fending five men on trial for murder
in connection with the slaylngs.
Officer, employed as a bookkeeper
at the strip mine where the princi
pal riot occurrd, was on the stand
most of yestorday, describing the
mob's attack on the mine. He told
of tlie surrender of the mine defend
ers and tho subsequent death of 14
of the 48 men when they wore lined
up before "a barbed wiro fence and
fired upon.
Three other survivors were in
court and tho state tins announced
they will testify upon completion of
the cross examination of Officer, they
are Joseph O'Rourko, William Cams
and Bernard Jones, all of whom were
guards at the mine.
The trial will be recessed over the
holidays from December 23 to Jan
uary 2, the court announced yester
day. Cairns testified that after tho de
fenders of the mine surrendered
under a white ting, tho prisoners were
marched out of the pit with their
arms abovo their heads.
"After tho march started somo
men took me, back to tho mine to
lK)lnt out where wo had kept the
arms. They let mo look in my locker
for some keepsakes I prized highly
and then wa rejoined tho mob with
out finding guns."
Tho witness then pointed out Otis
Clurk as one of. the men he bad seen
with C. K. McDowell, superintendent
of the mine, and declared Clurk had
a gun in his hand.
"Then wo marched on and I heard
someone shout, Hugh Willis is com
ing.'" the-witness continued.' Willis
is an official -of tho miners' union.
"We marched on until we came
to a barbed wire fence with four or
five strands and someono shouted,
'all mon with guns lino up to tho
right,' nnd someone else shouted,
now you fellows run,' nnd tho firing
started.
"I tried to climb through the
fence, but fell with a load of buck
shot in my body A rifle bullet grazed
my scalp. "While I was lying there
I sow a blond covered wounded man
leaning against a tree. A big man
with a gun ciimc up nnd said to the
wounded man. -'You great big- ,
can't we kill you?' and ho fired into
his body."
Tho witness then pointed to Peter
Hiller, one of the defendants, as the
man who fired the shot.
"Then I saw another man fire a
Rhot ipto tho body of John Shoe
maker, assistant superintendent of
tho mino ns he lay wounded on the
ground," tho witness continued.
"Three men with guns ramo up to
Shoemaker and one said: 'Here's
that machine gunner.' nnd put
ting a gun to his hoad, blew It off."
Cairns suid that a crowd had then
found ho was ullvc nnd subjected him
to" ajl kinds of abuso for nn hour
when Sheriff Thaxton of Williamson
county came up with some other men
and removed him to a hospital. Tho
witness said 'he was onb of tho mine
guards.
IMS 3 MORE
SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 20 Three
more deaths from sleeping sickness,
bringing the total deaths ascribed to
the disease in this city in the last
two weeks, were reported to the
health office today,
Before Grand Jury
War Frauds Probe
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BAKER -
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Newton
D. Baker, secretary of war in President
Wilson's war time cabinet, appeared
today before the special grand jury
which is Investigating war frauds.
The purpose for which Mr. Baker
went before the grand jury was not
revealed but is known that recently
the investigation has centered about
alleged irregularities in the building of
amy cantonments. Several civil suits
to recover millions of dollars from con
tracts already havd been filed and de
partment of justice officials have an
nounced that criminal action also
would be sought.
Several other former officials of the
government have been before the jury
which yesterday questioned Bernard
M. Baruch, who was chairman of the
war industries board.
STILL DEBATING ON
BEST WAY FARiVIER
CAN GET CREDIT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20 The senate
banking committee decided today It
would be Inadvisable to curtail its
hearings on various rural credits bills.
Some members hadMioped the taking
of testimony would bo comidoted to
day. No announcement was made,
however, as to how long tho hearings
would continue or as to when the com
mittee would begin tho dratting of a
composite bill.
In the session toc&y rurm Loan
Commissioner Lobdell said the farm
loan bank objected to having loans
entrusted to thorn. He suggoBtcd that
federal rcsorve system probably would
be better able to handle that form of
credit.
Passage of the Borah bill to amend
the farm loans act by diverting the
dividends of joint stock land banks
above six per cent into the federal
treasury was urged by R. C. Mllllkln,
statistician of the rural credint comnii
tee of the Pure ured Livestock associ
ation. Joint stock land banks should not bo
permitted, he said, to Issue tax exempt
securities, and advertisements of bond
houses were filed by 111 in to sustain his
contention Hint sucli banks are paying
twelvo per cent dividends and aro of
fering their stock at a premium of
from $20 to $10 a share because of
their tax exemption privileges. ,
JURY Dl
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MADERA. Cul., Doc. 20. By stlp
itiutinn nf counsel Judtre Murray at.
two o'clock this aftornoon docldod to
discharge the Jury In tho murder trial
of (leorgo H. Harlow after 22 hours
of deliberation had failed to reach a
verdict. District Attorney Itulley will
bring tho defendant to trial again, It
was reported.
Hnrlow slew his wife, a former
resident of Rogue River, following a
qunrrcl. ,
Auto ("rauli 1'ntal.
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, Dec. 20.
Three men and ono woman wero in
ntnntty killed here today when a
street car struck an automobile car
rying workers to the Texan company
plant. A fifth occupant of the auto
mobile wns nllghtlyi Injured.
DELUGE OP BILLS
10 BLOCK VOTE
ON SHIP SUBS DY
Progressive Bloc Favors Direct
Election of Presidents No
Action Till After. Holidays On
Suspending Tax Exemption
On Securities.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. Fulllo
efforts were made again In the son
alo today by supporters of tho ad
ministration shipping bill to bring to
a vote tho question of whether that
measure should remuln before the
senate or be displaced by the Nurris
agriculture financing measure.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 20. While
forces supporting the administration
shipping bill nnd Norris agriculture
financing measuro continued today
their Ktrugglo for dominancu in the
senate, - the administration shipping
program was subjected to another in
direct attuck in tho form of bills
present by Senators McKellnr of Ten
nessee and King of Utah, democrats.
Senator AlucKcllur struck ,:t the
vitnls of tho shipping bill with an
amendment . proposing elimination of
tho entlro government aid section.
Abolition of the shipping board and
tho transfer of its functions to the
department of commerce was . pro
posed in tho bill Introduced by pro
gressive bloc for a constitutional
amendment for direct election of
presidents.
-WASHINGTON. Den. 20.- House
republican leaders decided today to
postpone further consideration of tho
Green resolution for tho nmendmont
to tho constitution prohibiting issu
ance of tax exempt securities, urged
by President Harding nnd Secretary
Mellon of tho treasury.
' After a conference of leaders It
Was announced that further conside
ration of tho measuro "would go over
until nfter the holidays because of
the absence of a large number of
house members.
Representative Garner, Texas, rank
ing democrat of tho ways and moans
committee, who led tho fight against
the resolution, declared that "it was
licked." .
Mr. Garner nnd those with him In
tho fight wero In tho chamber pro
pared to go on with It when notified
that tho measure had been put aside.
Republican leaders, It was sold,
wore disconcerted by tho opposition
In their own ranks and opponents had
asserted that as tho proposnl needed
a two-thirds vote, it could not be put
through.
Pete Sopoff, aged about 25 accord
ing to the local police was found on
tho Jackson street bridge about 2:30
this afternoon in a wcakoned condl
tion from a gunshot wound In his
head. He is believed by tho police to
liavo shot himself although this is not
conclusively known.
D. E. Phlpps who lives near the
bridge hoard the man's cry for holp
and'callod Chief Timothy who arrived
in about tlireo minutes and found the
man leaning on tho rail of tho bridge
at the oast end. He wbb vory weak
and could say nothing oxcopt, "Get my
partner at the Nash llutol room 35, I'm
all In."
At the hotel it was found that J.
Turlan and Pcto Magi Iff lind rcglBtorod
with tho Injured man.
Ton minutes boforo tho shooting tile
mnn purchased a large Jar of apple
butter and two bars of candy from J,
W. Jacobs at tho Bungalow storo
Nothing was found of either of tho
purchases whon tho pulico arrived.
An automatic pistol of German
make and about .32 callbro was found
lying besido tho man when Chiof
Timothy arrived. It had an ompty
shall In tho chamber.
Sopoff was rushed to tho Sacred
Heart Hospital whore ho Is in the
caro of Dr. Holt, county physician.
DUBLIN, Dec. 20. (By Associated
Press). Jamos Dwyor, who was seem
tary of the peace committee appointed
by the second Doll Klreann to arrango
a true between the free stators and the
party of Eamon DeValera, was shot
dneri today in his shop at Rnthmlnes,
Female Impersonator
Shot While Robbing
Bank With Pals
DYER, Ind., Dec. 20. (By
tho Associated Press.) Three
4' Imndlta this afternoon held up 4
the First National ' bank of
Dyer and escaped with $5,000.
Ono bandit, who was dressed
as a woman, was shot by John
Keilmau, a grocer, and np-
parentl mortally wounded.
His companions throw him Into
their automobilo and fled, west
on the Lincoln highway.
T TELLS i
TALE OF TAYLOR
JURDERPLOI
Toledo Police Hold John Mara
zino for Sanity and Probe
Talks of Hounding By Dope
Ring Used Woman's Out-
; fit for Disguise. ;
TOLKUd, Ohio, Deo. 20. Polled
today nre holding John Marazlno,
2'i, for examination both oh to his
Mnlty and bin tUory that ho knowd
who murdered William Deymond Tuy
lor, motion . picturo 'director in Hol
lywood, Oil., a year ngn.
Mu ru?! no waa arrested yesterday
after ho had entered a dwelling
house and asked to ho hidden, de
claring that he was marUod for asnas
fdnatlon nnd was driven out of Cali
fornia by members of a ."dopo ring"
who knew that ho knew who killed
Taylor.
"Several members of a dope ring
are responsible for Taylor's death,"
the prisoner told police. 'Their
agents have followed mo all tho way
from California into Ohio and I am
marked for death," ho assertod.
A suitense tho prisoner carried was
filled with women's - upparcl which
Marazlno said had been used to dis
gulso himself to escapo his pursuers.
Police aro In communication with
California authorities In their Inves
tigation of Marazino's story.
T.OS ANGELES, Dec. 20. Im
provement was reported early today
In tho condition of Wallace ReJd,
motion picturo star whoso recent
brook down, accprding to relatives,
followed his breaking nwny from the
Uso of drugs nnd liquor.
Tho latest report Issued from his
bedsldo In a Hollywood Hanltaritim,
stntod his temperature nnd respira
tion wore normal and his pulse down
to ,100.
ESPEE GETS HAUL
WASHINGTON, Hoc. SO. A . final
settlement of claims growing out of
government operation of the Southern
Pacific railway system has been com
pleted, it was announced today t by
Director General Davis and tho rail
road administration. 'Tho corpora
tion and its subsidiaries received
from tho government a total of
250,000 covering nil outstanding' ac
counts Including thos,o n fining from
tho guarnntee against losses In earn
ings during tho six months ufter fed
eral control terminated.
FIRST EREAK BILL FOR
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SAL1C.M, Oro., Doc. 20. A new ster
ilization bill to roplaco tho law which
waa doclarod unconstitutional by the
circuit court here a to wmontltH ago
has been prepared and will be Intro
duced in the legislature at Its noxt
sosslon.
The new bill, which wag prepared at
the request of the stato eugenics board
provldea that the superintendents of
the various state Institutions or the
board of health may fllo a formal com
SUSPEC
TROOPS SENT
FANNED
PARISH FEUD
Mer Rouge, La., Turmoil Fol
lowing Masked Action Last
August, Blamed On Old
Factional Fight Business
and Social Jealousies Help
Leading Men Involved.
MONROE. La., Dec. 20. Tho cele
brated Mcr Itouge kidnaping ' case
which, for four months has ineffee-.
tunlly taxed all of tho legal machinery
ot the statu of Louisianu in its effort
to solve, nnd muved forward another
chapter yesterday when National
Ciuard troops wero ordered to move
to Iiastrop. La., near Mer. Itouge, '
originated, according to wcli-lnforni-cd
observers,' ns a result of a' feud
between .rival factions of Morehouse
parish,
Although tlvp Ku Klux.Klan or
gnttlzutiona . of . Louisiana, Arkoiisas
nnd Mississippi have been more, or
less charged with bolng involved In
tho mysterious disappearance of Ma
jor Watt Daniels and Thomas Flot
cher Itichards, citizens of Mor Itouge,
following the kidnaping of these anu
thrco other Mor Rouge citizens on
August 24, .tho .conaonvativo. citizens-.
beilovo Hho mysterious can (oNMirch"
doper tint it nlleged Ku Klux Klun ttnl-'
niosily.. It is believed to be more or
less racial, and rivals in 'many' re
spects; (the celcbratod feuds of tho'
Cumberland mountains of Kentucky,
Tennessee rind Virginia.-
Tho fondal fight was snld to havo
been browing for a quarter of a cen
tury, involving some of (he leading
families ot Mer Rouge and J other
parts of Morehouse parish. A climax
was reached on August 24 wlien'J.
L. Daniels, 70, former prominent Mer
Rouge merchant; Watt Daniels,'! his
son; Thomas F. Richards; Watt Davenport,-
scion of a loading Louisiana ,
family. , and W. C. Andrew, a. plantor,
wero kidnaped by 40 or S0: masked
mon on ..their way front Hastrop to
their respective homes In Mcr Kouge,
Neither Daniels nor Andrew .wero
nblo to Identify a slng'lo person in
the crowd, nor could they glvo any
information in regard to ' Daniels'
son, Wutt, and Richards. Daniels de
clared he recognized Arkansas and
Mississippi automobilo license tugs.
Following tho fullure of Morohouso
parish nnd district court officials to
solve tho myBtery, Governor Parker
announced his determination to use
all tho power of tho stato in tho case.
After a big highway celebration
and festival at Bastrop on August 24 -
tho five victims of hooded riders.
started homo in two automobiles.
Whon they, wero midway between
Bastrop and Mer Rouge, the; hooded
men galloped up on horseback or ap
peared on the highways In automo- r
biles and seized them. . '
Watt Davenport was relcascd!wlth
In an hour after ho was taken and the
rumor becamo ourront that ; the
masked men were "mistaken as; to
his Identity." ' V ,' .' ' '
Searchors for 24 hours tried to find
tlie men .who were kldnapod: tttttf thu
clay following tho nffalr the ' Kldor
Daniels and Andrew found their? way
back to their homes at Mcr Rou'ti
in a serious, condition.' Thoy declared
they had been soverely beaten. For
several weeks Daniels was in a pre
carious condition becuuso of hi Inju
ries, which In his caso were augment
ed by old ago. ... '
r'or tho lust three months , dtci- '
lives and other ln-otigaturs.; have
boon searching for tho missing oodles .
of Richards and Watt Daniels. l!n-
(Continued on page eight) f
NEX TiLEGISL ATUREjg
plaint against any porson who, In their
judgment. Is In need ot such an opora- .
tion for the protection of society.
In case tho person against whom the
complaint Is fllod refuses to snbtnit to
tho oporation, he or she may bo sum
moned Into court for hearing. Should
the court find that the operation is Jus
tified, he may order it performed, ,
The new act differs from the. old
sterilization statute in that the parsoh
complained against may demand
trial in court. - ; .- ,
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