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, MEDFOED, OltEapX, . THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1922
NO. 2H7
SES BORAH RESOLU
M
M
BUNE
HARD NG
OPPO
PRESIDENT
WORKING ON
OWN PLAN
Chief Executive in Open Letter
Explains Why the Borah
Resolution Not Desirable
Would Embarrass Him in
Negotiations Already Con
ducting for Conference.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ,20. Presi
dent Harding asked the senate today
not to adopt Senator Borah's propos
al for a new International economic
conference, saying In a letter to Re
publican Leader Lodge that formal
congressional action on the subject
now would embarrass him in negotia
tions he already is conducting look
ing to such a conference.
The president's letter was sent to
Senator Lodge for presentation dur
ing the senate's second day of debate
on the Borah proposal, which is em
bodied in an amendment to the naval
appropriation bill.
The president acted directly to
block senate action after he had con
sulted with Secretary Hughes and
after Senator Lodge had visited the
White House and had reported on the
pi ogress made in the . determined
fight already being waged against
the Borah amendment by administra
tion leaders In the senate.
. The letter slated that while the
senate wight properly "advise" ia re
gard to international obligations, its
action on the Borah plan might give
"false "Impressions", -to European
powers. v
Trying to Ho Helpful
The administration, the president
said, was trying to be helpful in the
Kuropean situation, which had been
given "most thorough and thought
ful consideration for many months.'"
. Without disclosing details of
what he is doing, the president sug
gested tnnt congress might be helpful
by freeing the hands ; of the allied
debt commission. He also declared
that the reparations question was the
foundation of Kuropean difficulties.
. As to further armament limita
tions negotiations also provided for
in the Borah plan. President Harding
warned against what; might be "A
gesture of promise to the world which
cannot be fulfilled until the nations
directly concerned express their read
iness to cc-operate to such an end."
Tho Letter in Full
The president's letter follows:
'My Dear Senator Lodge: '
"Replying to your inquiry relative
to the proposed amendment to the
pending naval bill, authorizing and
requesting the president to call an
economic conference to deal with
conditions in the war torn nations of
, Europe, I, write to say that I know
of no prohibition against such an ex
pression on the'part of congress, but
1 do frankly question the desirability
of such an expressison. I think it is
underlsnble because of false Impres
sions which may bo conveyed thereby
to Europe and even more undesirable
because of the wrong impressison it
might convey to our own people.
"On the face of things it Is equiva
lent to saying that the executive
branch of the government which is
charged with tho conduct of foreign
relations, Is not fully . allvo to a
world situation which Is of deep con
cern to the United States. ,
"As a matter of (act the European
situation has been given most thor
ough and thoughtful consideration
for many months. Without question-
( Continued cm Page Twol.
Two Oakland Men
Attempt to Climb
Mt. Shasta Jan'y. 1
SAN FRANCISCO .Dec. 28 An
attempt to make the first winter
climb ot Mount Shasta will be
made New Year's day by Charles
K. Warner and Leonard Tluitcher
of Oakland. Shasta is 1 1,102 feet
high, and has five residual
glaciers.
The men expect to leave Slsson,
Cal., today for Horse Camp, at an
altitude of 8000 feet. Equipped
with snowshoes, they will attempt
to climb from Horse Camp - at
midnight, December 31 and hope
to reach the summit within twelve
hours. This climb of 8,123 feet Is
very steep.
EX-PRESIDENT
WIL
ON HONORED
66TH
B RTHDAY
Delegation' From Woodrow
Wilson Foundation Visits
i Home of Ex-President
$900,000 Raised for Fund
Senate Takes Action.
WASHINGTON, Doc. 28. Formor
President Wilson, planning a quiet
observance of the occasion at his S
street home, wua'Tecciving congratu
lations today on. his 66th birthday.
Tho only scheduled event of the day
for the former president wus tho visit
of a delegation fronj .the -Woodrow
Wilson foundation at three o'clock to
extend birthday greetings and inform
him of tho progress made by the
foundation in raising the ono million
doilnr fund to be used in perpetuat
ing the ideals enunciated by him
tvhllo he was president. It wns an-
'
KX-PKKSIDENT WILSON
wlioHj; OHth birthday was celebrated
today.
notinced at tho meeting of the foun
dation's i board of trustees In New
York yesterday that J800.000 of the
amount had been contributed with
another $100,000 expected.
Hamilton Holt of New York, execu
tive director of the foundation, and
Mrs. Kate Trenholm Abrams, vice
chairman of the District of Columbia
branch of the organization, headed
the delegation of six members ap
pointed to all on Mr. Wilson. No
special demonstration had been plan
ned by the delegation, it wns said.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28. Without
debate and ' with a chorus of ayes
from democratic senators and silence
from most of tho republican side, the
senate today adopted a resolution of
fered by Senator Harris, democrat,
Georgia, expressing "the pleasure and
Joy of tho senate" upon tho recovery
toward health of Former President
Wilson.
MOLLY FULLER, TOTALLY BLIND, STAGES
A COME!
NEW YORK, Dec. 28. Molly Fuller
came back to the stage last night. The
audience In a Brooklyn theater laugh
ed at the lines she .had and listened
appreciatively while she sang or
Broadway. No one knew that Molly
came back to the stage totally blind.
Molly Fuller first became known
more than a score of years Ago as a
' member of henry E. Dixie's compnny
in Adonis. Later with her husband
as Ilnllen and Fuller the plnyed vaude
ville circuits over tho country for 23
years.
Friends found her last week In a
hotol room Just off Broadway, penni
less, alone and blind. They arranged
an act, provided a setting and obtained
engagements for the former Broadway
favorite. Tho parties arranged to con
ceal her blindness.
"I thought I never would act again,"
Miss Fuller said. "But next week
we're going back to Broadway. Jt
seems too good to be truo."
Two Irate Women With Subpoenas
Stalking The Fair Ganna Walska
W 1 i 1
Kl'&stw Vim k -
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f t J I . -WarA.c
-.Jr 1 'tors. CAtflft rmei-'
5 NEW YORK Alonf? with the usual flSt'k of fvien.ls with flowers and newspapermen with cameras,
the beauteous Ganna Walska. now Mrs. Harold P. McCormick, will have to .lodge a string of bill-collectors
S m!.men wlien she steps off the boat from France this week. .,,.,, ,
8ml APnXr awsuTt, this time to collect $3,000 in attorney's fees, lrns been brought by. C tarwe M argoles
Baricht. attorney, 170 Browlway, for two suits ugaipsj. managers which she brought to t.nu 1 only to have
Madame Wnlska wire from Paris (on the eve. pf her Wedding to McCormick) la let tHenl go.
Mrs 'Walska McCormick also faces a suit for $200,000 brought by Madame Melifts, a nother opera
singer! ! for the less of a concert tour when her manager broke an exclusive contract with her to sign up
as Madame Walska's impresario instead.
ARE RESUMED IN
DUBLIN, Dec. 2S. (By tho Asso
ciated Press.) The first . bomb at
tack in Dublin for some time took
place in Aungler street today when
a misslc was thrown at a military car
in which several officers wore riding.
The bomb burst behind the car and
the officers, none of whom was in
jured, fired at a man standing on a
nearby street corner,, shooting him
through the mouth. The wounded
man ran Into a Carmelite church
where he was captured.
A woman was injured by the flying
bomb splinters.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
' AUSTIN, Minn, Dec. 28. Clarenco
Hamblen of Ceylon, Minn., arrested
in Stockton, Cal., on a chargo of
arson, has confessed that ho poisoned
his wifu in her sick bed nt their homo
at Ceylon on October 9, according to
a statement Issued today by Sheriff
W, S. Carver. Tho alleged confession,
tho sheriff said, was tnudu In the
county jail here last night.
t
MILLER, S. D., Dec, 28 A. J. Fer
guson was in jail horo today awaiting
a hearing on a charge of slaying his
wife, who was found dead In her bed
Christmas morning. Ferguson was
arrested late yesterday and sent to
Jail in default ot $10,000 bund.
DUBLIN, Dec. 28. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Tho Irish Bulletin
today prints a statement from Eamon
DeValera replying to the recent criti
cism of his attitude by President
Cosgrado. Tho republican leader
says:
"Tho present government of the
republic is acting as the emergency
trllatpn nf thn ffnvprnmpnt and it is
prepared to surrender its authority'
the moment the rightful parliament
of the nation namely, the second
Dall is allowed to meet and the su
preme court of the republic Is allow
ed to determine the legal and consti
tutional differences which both stilus
row are trying to solve by force."'
ORANGE, N. J., Dec. 28. William
Enttles, a negro, was held iwlthout
bail early today In connection with
the killing yesterday of Mrs. Eleanor
L. Ilrlgham. wife of Charles Hrigham,
a New York business man. Mrs.
Rrlgbam's body was discovered late
Inst night in a preserve closet in her
homo. She had been choked to
death. "
The negro wns identified by Mar
garet Itrlgham, the dead woman's
daughter, as a former employe at the
Rrigham - home. Battles denied any
knowledge of tho crime.
MALTA, Dec. 28. (By Associated
Press). As the result of unsatisfac
tory reports from Lausanne It is said
the ships of the British Mediterranean
fleet which arrived here on December
23 for a three weeks' visit have receiv
ed orders to return to the Near East.
Naval authorities were reticent to
day but it Is believed Admiral DcRock
commander in chief, was prepared to
leave this afternoon with all available
ships.
BERLIN A committee of six Ger
mans was named to assist the Carnegie
foundation In the preparation of an
"economic and social history of the
world war."
L '
HEAD HONORED
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28. Tho
general assembly of the Oregon State
Teachers' association convention to
day was addressed by Superintendent
W. C. Wood ot California and Dr. A.
E. Wlnshlp of Boston, editor of nn
educational Journal. Rev. W. S. Gil
bert, representing tho American Le
gion and C. A. Iloward of Mnrshfield,
retiring president, also spoke.
Announcement was mndo today of
the election Into yesterday of C. W.
Agcr of Bend as president: A. C.
Htrnnge, Astoria, vice-president; H.
E. in low, Pendleton, Susanna II. Car
ter Jacksonville, and .h S. Lan
ders, Monmouth, members of the
executive commtltoc.
Plans wero being mndo today for
the establishment of a placement bu
reau by tho association to rcplaco
commercial teachers' agencies.
321 KIM K.t), lOS ANGKLKS
BY AUTO DIKING YEAR
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 28. Three
hundred and twenty-one persons
were killed In traffic accidents In Los
Angeles during the year 1022 and
638 -were Injured, according to ft re
port by the police stntistlclnn. Last
year the death toll was 268,
Robber Makes Oregon
Merchant So Angry
Knocks Him Cuckoo
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28.
!- J. D. Kelly, hardware mcr-,
chant of Sylvan, near here, be-
came so lingered last .night
when ono of two robbers who
had help up his sister and him-
v self attempted to seize a cash
' box which his sister carried,
-t- that ha smote his sller's assail- 4
ant on tho jaw. The blow
knocked the robber down and
ho dropped tho weapon which
4- Kelly promptly seized. Cover-
i- lug the prostrate outlaw, Kelly
forced him to surrender. Tho
second wotild-bo robber fled.
Tho cnplured robber wns
surrendered to tho Bheiiff. lie
gave his nanio ns Roy Walters. !
20.
ASTORIA
F RE
IS
LAID TO FIREBUG,
ARRESTS
LOOM
THINK TERMS OE
DEBT TOO HARD
LONDON, Dec. 28. In all news
paiior comment on the Baldwin finan
cial mission to Uio United States hope
is expressed that the terms fixed by
the American congress for repayment
of the British, debt may he mollified.
Thoy are universally regarded here as
excessively onerous and in some quar
ters are described as such as Great
Britain would not dream of trying to
exact from a debtor.
The period of redemption Is particu
larly condemned and Otto II. Kahn's
suggestion for a 47 year term Is
thought far more reasonable than 25
years set by congress.
The chief hope here for modification
is bnsed upon Amerlcnn bankers, who
it Is trusted may be able to influence
congress and American public opinion
In effecting easier terms.. Some of the
newspapers understand that the Amer
ican funding commission will not be
llmfte'cl by congressional stipulations
and expect that discussion will result
In an easier deal for Great Britain.
Commentators complain that any im
partial committee of bankers would
agree that 25 years Is an unreasonably
short period.
TED THYE THROWS
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 28. Ted
Thye, Portland middleweight, defeat
ed Al Knrasick, Russian wrestler, In
two out of threo falls horo last night.
Bnsnntn Singh, welterweight, won
a wrestling bout from Kid Ireland,
obtaining a fall in nine minutes Of a
schedulod thirty minute contest.
In a mixed wrestling and boxing
bout, Jlmmlo Anderson, wrestler,
easily defeated Danny Ncedham,
boxer, capturing two falls In quick
succession. Ncedham wns able to
land but a few Ineffective blows be
fore being seized and pinned to tho
mat. ,
Yeggs Got $3000.
NEW YORK, Deo 28. Robbers
enrly today blew open the safo of
tho Harlem office of the New York
Edison compnny nnd escaped With
$300(1 after gagging tho night watchman.
Cut Phone Wires Give Clue,
and Fire Marshals Investi
gate Suspects Under Sur
veillance i-Keep Probe Se
cret Evidence Offered.
ASTORIA, Dec. 28. That the fire
which wiped out the business district
of Astoria December 8 , was of In
cendiary origin and that clews have
been found which will lend ot arrests
wns tho Information given out hero
today following an investigation by
deputies from tho state ftro marshal's
office.
The information upon which the
flro ninrshnl's deputies have boon
working, has been . In their hands
since after the fire, but owing to tho
need for secrecy while clews were
being developed, tho Invstigatlon was
carried on under cover, it was said.
Early on the morning of the fire, K.
N. Bussing, field superintendent of the
Astoria water department, was nwak
ened and when lie was Informed of the
seriousness ot the conflagration went
to the telephone to order the cutting
off of water service from all of the
rcsidenco districts in order to allow
a concentration of the water pressure
in the fire area. He found his wires
had been cut, so his efforts to connect
with the water department were futile.
Bussing thereupon discovered that
his house had been entered and the
telephone wires . severed Inside his
dwelling. He found an open window
through which entry had been made
and other, clews which may lead to the
arrest of the man who cut the connec
tions. Bussing gave his information to the
state fire marshal's office the next day
nnd special Investlgntors have since
been at work on the case. Suspects
are now under surveillance, but no
arrests hnve boon made.
APPLE PRICES HIGHER
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Prices for
fruits and vegetables generally do
rllned during the week ending Satur
day, the United 8tatos bureau of mar
kets reported today although the mar
ket continued steady. The holiday
season brought Increased prices to the
apple market Best stocks Jumped
from $4.25 to 84.76 to to a barrel.
CONFESSION
IR ROUG
INV
E
E 45
Ex-Mayor Designated As the
Leader of Ku Klux Klan,
Loses Legal Fight To
Face Murder Charge
Identity of Mob Known
Open Hearings January 5
BASTROP, La., Dec. 28. (By the
Associated Press.) The confessions,
involving 45 citizens of Morehouse
parish in the kidnaping and murder
last August of Walt Daniels and
Thomas RichardB, whose bodies were
recovered last week from Lake La
Fourche, have been made, it was
learned here today on the highest au
thority. The signed confessions were taken
to New Orleans by agents of the de
partment of Justice who , obtained
them, it, was stated, on the promise
of immunity.' .
Practically every man named in
the confession is under surveillance
and their arrests are merely awaiting
word from state authorities.
BASTROP, La., Dec. 2 8.-. chief
interest in tho Morhouse kidnaping
caso was shifted today to New Or
leans where Governor Parker was
scheduled to hold a conference with
Attorney Generul Coco and Special
Prosdcutbr'Sllair'AdamsT appointed
by the governor to ABsist the attor
ney general's office in presenting the
state's case at the opening hearing
to be held here Janunry B.
A warrant for tho arrest of Dr. B.
M. McKoin, held in Baltimore at the
requcBt of Governor Parker, was is
sued here yeBterday on Instructions
from Attorney General Coco.
Advices from Baton Rouge Btated
that requisition papers would be Is
sued as soon as the warrant was re
ceived thero.
The masked mob which kidnaped
Daniels nnd Richards was composed
of about 75 men, according to one
of the investigators, and It was said
the Identity of practically every mem
ber of the mob was known to the au
thorities. .
BALTIMORE, Md.," Dec. 28. Dr.
B. M. McKoin, formor mayor of Mer
Rouge, La., today lost his fight for
immediate release on habeas corpus
proceedings. ' Ho was remanded
"without prejudice" 'to give the
Louisiana authorities opportunity to
present tholr case.
Dr. McKoin was arrested Tuesday
at the request of Governor Parker of
Louisiana, who accused him of mur
der In connection with the Morehouse
parish kidnaping last August.
Threo Judges of the Baltimore su
premo bench sitting In city court de
nied Dr. McKoin the right to ball.
A dispatch from ' Attorney Gen
eral Coco of Louisiana to State's At
torney Leach, stated that Dr. McKoin
formally had been charged with the
murder of Watt Daniels and Thomas
Richards. The' dispatch added that
a deputy sheriff was on his way here
with the necessary papers.
Many telegrams, some of them hav
ing passed between Governor Parker
and Governor Ritchie of Maryland,
wero read during the habeas corpus
proceedings. In one Dr. McKoin was
designated as a lender of the Kn
Klux Klaln.
Telegrams from noted physicians
of the south and businessmen of
Louisiana were read attesting the
good reputation of Dr. McKoin.
The telegram declaring Dr. Mc-
( Continued on Page six.)
ERICANS FIND PRICELESS JEWELS
IN TOMB OF KING, DEAD 3000 YEARS
LUXOR, Egypt, Doc. 2 8. Somo of
tho priceless treasures found in the
tomb of King Tutankhamen saw day
light for tho first tlmo In moro than
3,000 years yestorduy when Howard
Carter and Arthur Mace, excavators
of the Metropolitan museum of art
of New York removed their find to
King Setl, a hulf mile away. One ot
the objects thus transferred was a
magnificent Inlaid box upon which
waB depicted King Tutankhamen and
his queen at a Hon hunt. The box
contained the queen's robes and Jew
elry, Including a large black amber
necklace,
An alabaster vase containing a sub
stance believed to be balm for the
dead similar to that mentioned In the.'
Ulblo, also was removed to the Sett
tomb, where all the treasures will be
subjected to a furthor preserving pro
cess. ' '' ,
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