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MEDFORD, OKKCiOX, TliriJSDAY, JANUARY 1, 19-':
NO. 212
ERS-.CONFE
MCE BREAKS
IPfEII
UP
s
BRITISH DELEGATES QUIT
WHEN FRANCE REFUSES
TO MODIFY ULTIMATUM
After Hours of Bickering, Poincare Delivers Virtual Ultimatum
. Demanding that England Either Accept or Reject French
Terms Against Germany 'An Amicable Rupture' British
Relegation Claims France Goes Ahead Without England,
;; But With Italian and Belgian Support Germany's Perfidy
in Alleged Peace Move Pointed Out to President Harding By
. Poincare Through Ambassador Jusserand.
- PARIS, Jan. 4. The ullicU
reparations conference hero
broke op shortly before seven
o'efock this evening. '
"It Is an amicable rupture,"
Raid a member of tho British
delegation, as he was leaving
the conference. "Wo ni"o going
homo tomorrow nmLnR.
Franco goes ahead without us."
. IItIS, Jan. -1. (By tho As
SociateU- Press.) At today's
acs!-'loii of tho jti-emiers' con
ferrnco which adjourned at -1:40
o'ciwk for on hour, I'lvinier
I'oincaro cf Fiance read what,
amounted to u virtual ultiiiuituin
to tho Jtritish, to say yes or no
to tlto tYcnch reparations proo
sltlon or else discontinue tho
conference, according to a Brit
Ish iloU'Kate, .
Shortly before tho time for
the seeond session"' of- tho day,
. the; Italian delegation deposited
fiosh propositions in a final nt
tempt to savo tho confeivnco
from a breakdown. .
PAHJS, Jan. '4. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A report that a
Br'tlsh courier carrying dispatches
from Premier Bonar Law to London
had been killed In the crash of an
airplane this afternoon proved to bej
i untrue. The secrotary of the Brit-1
J lsh delegation announced that it wasj
J decided at tho last- moment not to!
send ail air courier. The report arose1
through an exaggerated version of.
the forced landlnir nt a machine near'
LoBnunret. In which It Is now stated.
J no one was hurt.
I Prime Minister Bonar Law, Mur
I tul8 Delia Torretta and Premier
I'oiuraro sposo in lurn uunnK wie
first part of the afternoon meeting.
At 4:30 o'clock the r.rltish premier
banded the conference B written
memorandum, which ho requested
f , iho conferees to examine.
f The British delegation thou left
In order to permit tho other dole
I gates to examine the memorandum
9 Informally. , .-..'-I
Tjie British delegation members
H declared they were astounded by the
i tone' adopted by M. Poincare In his
' remarks during the session, which
j was hold In secret as are all the pres
cnt series of meetings. The French
J promler spoke In a sharp, peremp
tory maimer as tie ueiivcrea me siaic
mont'they said, but Prime Minister
Bonar Law, In response to the anx
ious queries of tjie correspondents
asking, "Is it all off?" replied:
".No. we are coming back."
It was loarned that the British
memorandum comprised further ex
planation of the British reparations
i plana. ' During the recess and after
reaching his hotel, Mr. Bonar Law
talked with members of tho Brltsh
govornmont In London over tho telephone-
.' "
' Premier Law Stands Pat
I'Arus, Jan. 1 my mu
clated Press.) Primo Minister Bo
nar Law Is determ'nod to make no
radical change in tho British repara
tions plan or further modify the
DIRECTOR OF LICK UNIVERSITY NAMED
PRESIDENT OBSERVATORY OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4. Dr. W. 1
W. Campbell, director of Lick obser-
vatory. Mount Hamilton, Cnl.. was
trwinv itnrinimnnaK- nnmpri iirpnlflent
of the I'nlvcrslty of California by the I
university board of regents at a meet-1
Ing here today. He succeeds Dr.
David Prescott Barrows at the end
of the present college semester.
British policy in this respect, it was
definitely stated at the headquarters
of the British delegation today. It
had been suggested that Premier Mil
lerand might make a last minute ef
fort to induce Great Britaiu to accept
the French plan.
The British delegates met Mr.
Bonar Law this morning In what was
said to ho a final effort to seo if it
wore possible to reconcilo tho French
and British plans and prevent a
breakdown of the conference this af
ternoon. The meeting resulted in
tho conclusion that the two Ideas
were so far apart as to makn conces
sions sufficient to bring the divergent
views together an impossibility.
Italy Backs Kin 11 Co
PARIS, Jan. 4, (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Today's session of
the reparations' conference opened at
3:35 p. m. It was delayed by the late
arrival of the Italians who had. been
waiting for a reply to a telegram
scut to Premier Mussolini. Tho reply
Instructed the Italian delegation to
reject the Uritlsh'roparatlons plan.
Tho British delegates who wero
aware. of tho inquiry sent to Premier
Mussolini, averred that if the Italians
. opposed the British plan the delega
tion would leave Paris.
At 4:30 o'clock the conference re
cessed until 5:30 p. in.
Jusserand Sees Hughes
PARIS, Jan. 4. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Premier Poincare
sent a cable mossago today to Ambas
sador Jusserand In Washington ask
ing him to see Secretary- of State
Hughes in connection with the state
ment made to the Associated Press
yesterday by Baron Rosenborg, the
German foreign minister, 011 the
German truce proposal, which Pre
mier Poincaro contends showed that
tho principal object of the non-war
pact proposed by Germany was to ob
tain the evacuation of the Rhlncland
without the payment of reparations.
Premier Polncare's message askod
Ambassador Jusserand, in taking up
tho Rosenberg statement with Secre
tary Hughes to make the following
observations:
First That the object Germany
bad In view In maklng.tho proposi
tion was manifestly as admitted by
Baron Rosenberg to get the French
to evacuato the left bank of the
Rhine before the Germans had ful
filled their reparations obligations.
Second That It Is absurd to pro
tend that before entering tho League
of Nations Germany Is not subject to
all the clauses of the treaty of Ver
sailles that bear Germany's signature
and that she is free today to attack
Franco.
Third That the proposition for
non-oggrcsslon aiyilnst France, Italy
and Great Britain would leave Ger
many free to attack the smaller allies
of France, notably Poland and
Czocho-Slovakla, and even neutrals,
such as Denmark, to recover posses
sion of territory Inhabited by Danes
and Poles and to begin again to' pre
pare her hegemony over Kurope.
"We know very well right 'now,"
says the premier's cahlo message,
( Continued on 'Page Thre
The regents agreed to a proposal
by Mr. Omipbi-ll that he remain as
(111 color of the Lick observatory an a
"dollar a vear" man. He will take
office July 1, when Dr. Harrows will
become a professor of political
science.
Dr. Campbell's name was the only
one considered hy the regents today.
DEATH PENALTY FOR
is
Yes, If For Men," Feminists Assert
NIiTf vnwTt If n wnmnn
Having won equal rights, she must accept equal responsibility and pay the same penalty for her muv
aecds. as a man.
So believes Miss Fannie Hurst, feminist and writer, in upholding the Engltah court which sentenced
Mrs. Edith Thompson and her lover, Frederick Bywdter, to hang for killing Mrs. Thompson's husband
"No one, either man or woman, should be hanged," says Miss Hurst. "Hanging is barbarous. But
if the death penalty is exacted, the woman should pay side by side with the man. Theoretically a woman
is less responsible than a man. but actually this is not so."
W. L. George, English feminist and novelist, agrees in decrying the death penalty, but insists leak
eccc to women is dangerous and unjust.
Z
TODAY
BEFORESUP.CT.
Distinguished Lawyers Engage
in Verbal Conflict Over the
Daugherty Ruling Ex
Atty- General Wickersham
Represents Foreign Ships-
- WASHINGTON, .Jan. 4. Tho ten
casca brouKht by foruign steumuhip
companion and tho two brought by
American operators to content the
conatruetion placed by Attorney
General JJnugherty upon tho prohibi
tion amendment nnd enforcement
act, were up for oral argument in the
supremo court today. Under the
ruling, foreign ships will bo prohibit
ed from entering' American waters
with intoxicating liquors In their sea
stores and American ships will be
prohibited from having such liquor
aboard at any place. Tho case came
before the court on appeal from a de
cision by Federal Judge Hand In New
York, upholding the attorney general.
The argument will continue tomor
row with a' notable array of counsel.
Including former Attorney General
Wicltersham for tho foreign steam
ship companies.
The government Is represented by
Solicitor General Heck. Assistant At
torney General Mabel W. Wlllebrandt
and Special Assistant Wheat.
Prohibition Imw Dcrimtl.
Expressing the belief that "tho use
of liquor did more than any one other
thing to debnuch and degrade our
manhood and womanhood," the gov
ernment attorneys Insist that It was
the purpose of tho prohibition amend
ment to make tho United tSntcs abso
lutely dry. They also argue Hint this
has been recognized by the supreme
court In recent decisions under which
foreign vessels were prohibited from
trans-shipping liquor in American
ports and foreign liquor shipments In
bond wero forbidden across tho Unit
ed States.
Counsel on both sides admit Dial
congress can prohibit foreign steam
ships from bringing intoxicating
liquor Into American ports, but Mr.
Wickersham asserts that had con
gress intended to bar liquor from the
sea stores of foreign vessels, it would
hove been explicit to that effect as
It was in excluding" smoking opium.
All ships, foreign nnd American,
tho government insists, huve been
forbidden to bring wines and Intoxi
cating liquors - into this country as
part of their cargoes. There being
no legal distinction between cargo and
sea stores, the government argues. It
follow that congress did not intend
to exempt sea stores from the ope
ration of the prohibition laws.
If a Ship Territory.
In the American steamship coses,
(Continued on Pag Three)
BOO
E ON SHIPS
ARGUED
ilances. she must oav the Diper.
W. P. G. Hardin to
N Quit Federal Reserve
, r WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. Tho name
of W. ! Jhirdins Iiuh boen oliinl
nntccl from IIiohu now under consitle
ration for appointment to tho Kov-
. P. G. Harding.
ernor.shlp of the fedora! reserve board'
It wa said today by a high official
of the treasury It was said that Mr.
Hording, former board .governor,
would enter private business.
FACULTY SHATTERS
STANFORD ELEVEN
STAN''Oltl) UNIVEUSITV, C'al.,
Jan. i. Tho faculty of Stanford uni
versity litorally tore a hole through
tho Stanford foolhull ltriu far more
Impressive than any inado hy a grid
Iron opponent, when It suspended
nine plRskln stars for scholarship de
ficiencies. aceordliiK to announce
ment hy tho university registrar to
day. Three track men also folt the
faculty axe. IClRhty-flvo wore sus
pended all told, and Homo of them
will have to stay out for a year.
The foothall men, five In tho reg
ular varsity nnd four In the freshmen
squad, will bo Incllnilile to compote
next fall.
Turkey Cnllx Troop.
LONDON, Jan. 4. The Turkish
government has Issued a decree call
ing to the colors all able bodied men
In the liberated regions, according to
an Exchange Telegraph dispatch
from t'onstantlnnple.
WOMEN?
. u ii i ( J
WARRANTS FOR
PHI OFFICER'S
PAY PROTESTED
County Treasurer Declares
There Are No Funds to Pay
' for Special Dry Enforce
ment in December Total
Is Over $1200.
Warrants drawn for prohibition
enforcement in Jackson county, dur
ing December, payable today, nnd
totalling $1232.1 1 tho highest of
tho year will bo "protested" by
County Treasurer Walkor, according
to a statemont by that official this
morning, who said:
"Thoro is no tnonoy In the Prohi
bition Enforcement fund, us there
was no levy made for that purpose,
so tho enforcement warrants have
boen paid out of the current expense
fund. Now that is dry, or will b
by night. Thoro is only ubout $1400
in it, and a payday upon us. As there
are no funds avallablo for payments,
there Is nothing to do, but protest
them, which means that they will
draw six per cent Interest, until they
aro redeemed."
Tho protested warrants aro to the
following persons and firms:
D. M. I.owo, $202.(18; J. II. Log
Kltt, $147.21; llort U Moses, $4 4;
W. C. Lcover, $11. HO; Warner, Wort
man and tloro, $12.11; Modford Ser
vice Station, $91.1)0: Standard Oil,
$142.42; Elmer Simmons, $.18.31; O.
C. Hoggs, $4:1.!15.
Tho county clerk's record show
that tho warrant mado out to Mr.
Hoggs was turned over to Prohibi
tion Enforcement Officer 8. I). San-
defer. Klmer Simmons Is tho man
Indicted for a violation of tho prohi
bition law last spring, and when ho
skipped It was charged that ho had
been "tipped off" by Shcrirf Terrlll.
Ho was afterwards brought hack
from California, and his arrival at
the county Jail, was inarkod by quite
a hubbub.
Prohibition enforcement for the
year of 1922, cost Jackson county
$8,246.1 1, according to items In tho
warrant book of tho county clork
marked "Prohibition Enforcement."
These figures do not represent tho
correct amount as It would tako an
expert accountant, to root out the
amounts drawn from tho current ex
pense fund.
The rocolpts lo tha Prohibition En
forcement fund, from Justlco court
fines, for the year totalled $8741.85,
(Continued on 'Page Three)
SCORES DIE WHEN CROWDED
BRIDGE NEAR
CRASHES INTO COWLITZ RIVER
Suspension Bridge at Kelso, Washington, 50 Miles From Port
land, Crowded With Automobiles and Pedestrians Suddenly
Collapses When Cable Breaks Over 30 People Missing,
But Only One Body Identified Thrilling Escapes and
Rescues Recited Flooded Waters of River Add to Perils
Little Lumber Town Shrouded in Gloom As Toll of Dis
aster Grows. ' i-i.'Y r
KELSO, Wash., Jan. 4. When the
old suspension bridge over tho Cow
litz river collapsed at 5 o'clock last
night and plunged an unknown number
of persons to thoir death, it turued
this ordinarily quiet little lumbering
town into a griof 'maddened and wide
ly excited community. Today rela
tives of the missing were still bosleg
ing every possible source of Informa
tion whilo scarchors combed the banks
of tho stream.
The exact death toll may not be
known for several days ns the swollen
waters of the Cowlitz nnd the Colum
bia, Into which it flows about two
mllos below this city may swirl the
bodies of the victims many miles be
fore thoy aro recovered. Kurly today
none of the (lend had been recovered
but there was a rush of frantic rela
tives seeking some word of lost loveil
ones, and a constantly growing list of
missing persons.
10 Automobiles on Bridge
From fifty to one hundred pedes
trians, one truck and at least ten
passenger automobiles were on the
bridge when It 'feUV Air incuiuploto
check showed that at loust eight per
sons were missing.
Thoso known lo bo missing were:
Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Huntington, pio
neer rcsldonts of Kelso.
Lloyd Huntington, proprietor of tho
stage lino to Mount Solo. He Is mar
ried. lien Ilarr, of Woodland, commissioner-elect
of Cowlitz county. Ho is
marrlod.
John Godfrey, 22, an employe of tho
Long-Bell Lumber company.
Ralph Chamberlain, employe of
Wostlake Construction company.
Hurley Mllland, Woodland mechanic.
Injured, probably fatally:
Harry Kirk, an employe of tho Long
Iloll Lumber company, badly crushed
shoulder.
Loss seriously injured:
W. M. Sullivan, a Long-Dell employe,
broken leg.
T. A. Wakefield, proprietor of a
butcher shop at Kulumn, Injured about
the head.. ,
Charles Stroud, a Long-Bell employe.
Alfred EvanB of Kelso, married.
Allnn Penal, 13, Kelso youth.
William Havy, driver of the Stan
dard OH company, broken leg.
Many Rescued
Tho old bridge connects east and
west Kelso. It wns crowded with traf
fic when a cable support buckled and
tho brldgo throw trucks, automobllos
nnd wugons and their passengers into
tho torrent, swollen by recent floods.
Many leaped to safety while others
wore Bwimmlng In tho water when
picked up by tho steamer Cowlitz and
other boats. Just how many bodies
will be found among the wreckage of
tho old brldgo could not be determined.
Though tho oast tower of tho old
bridge toppled heavily against the
steol work of tho now bridge, tho lat
ter waa but Blightly injured. Most ot
tho wreckage lodged against a west
plor and It was upon this unstable
footing that somo of the survivors
found safety. Ovorturnod and twisted
upon tho heap ot debris rest two auto
mobiles. Tho rlvor steamer Pomona,
lured by tho faint hopo that some
miracle might hnvo spared unothor
life, breasted the current several times
NYACK, N. Y., Jan. 4. .Miss Evan
Harrows Fontaine, dancor, and her
mother, ' faco indictment for perjury
In connection with the dancer's $1,
000,000 breach of promlso suit
against Cornelius Vandcrbllt Whit
ney, son of Harry Payne Whitney.
Justice Tompkins of the slate su
preme court, In sustaining charges of
fraud mado by witnesses and vacat
ing the annulment of the dancer's
PORTLAND.
ORE
last night and played her soarchllght
upon tho tangled mass, the bow of
the boat almost touching the timbers.
Anchor Ropes Broke
Tho three anchor ropes at the east
approach of the old bridge, which
were believed to have beeu broken
first, precipitating the west span and
the draw Into tho water, showed no
dofect upon cursory examination. Wit
nesses saw the free cable racing
through the top of the east tower and
an instant Inter the swaying falI'6T tho
west suspension span and the Jack
knife draw. .
Among tho others who wero caught
on tho bridge as tho towers-began to
crumblo and the planking itself sway
ed perilously under foot for the final
drop into tho muddy waters, was A, B.
Littlo, truck driver for tho Long-Hell
company. Little was coming from the
east approach of the brldgo and was
about to cross out onto this span when
ho saw his peril. Ho threw his ma-,
chine into reverse gear and backed
oft into safety for himself and compan
ions. '
. Miraculous Escapes-' ' .' ;'.'"
Mrs. J. A. Zlegler, whose hushahd is
superintendent of the county farm, was
on her way homo across the river
nroot. With many others she Joinod In ,
the mad dash for solid ground and
reached It. Men ten feet behind her
wont down with the wreckage, she
said. From a point out on the middle
of tho span, J. J. LeFleur, police officer
on duty, along with William Braack, '
brldgo tender, rushed to the west span ,
and to solid ground while planking
dropped behind him. His coihpahlon, '
Urnack, likewise made bis way to JJia
bank.
Milo Allen of .velso was regretting
the loss of a span of fine draft horses'. '
Although on tho oast span of tho
brldgo, he was unable to turn about
and went down with his horses and his
dray. Somehow ho escaped tho thrash
ing hours ot the animals and swam to
a mass of wrockago whence he was
pulled up to tho now brldgo.
"I was on the new bridge," said
J. V. Hamilton, engineer in charge of
construction for tho lxmg-Iiell Lum
ber company, when I heard a snapping
sound nnd ran out. The broken cablo
was then crashing through the top of
the oast tower. In a twinkling the
west suspension span went down in a
heavy Bwlrl of foam. At the drag of
tho river on tills wreckage, the towers
cracked, swayed and fell with a crash,
and the Jackknlfe span tumbled into
the river. There was a mass of falling
cars and struggling people.
"I saw no swimmers, though 1 ran
to the farther end of the new bridge.
Six or sevon men had scrambled from
the river and wero marooned on tho
wreckage of the span draw, ' Of the
cars that went down with tho bridge,
but four wore to bo seen, smashed and
stranded on the timbors.
"Somo will say that tho height of
tho river nnd tho log Jam that had
accumulated ugainst it weakened the
structure and caused it to collapse. I
cannot agree with this for only a fow
days ago I Inspected tho piers and
thoy woro not weakened. It was the
cablo, which broko for some unknown
reason, possibly at the Impact of a
hoavy Jar." ' 1
(Uonlinuud on fage Three)'
E
marriage to Storllng Adulr of Waco,
Texas, ordered the district attornoy
of Hockland county to take all rec
ords In tho suit before the grand Jury
with a view to Indicting the dancer
and her' mother. Ho also recom
mended that tho New York Bar as
sociation Investigate the practices ot
Charles Firestone of New York and
Mount Vernon, attoney of record for
the dancer when she obtained her an
nulment of marriage in July, 1920.