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The Weather
Prediction Rain
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Minimum today 29
Precipitation 05
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Dally Seventeenth Year.
Aurkly Klfty-siecund Year.
MEDFORD, OKKGOX, MONDAY, JANUARY l!2, 192:1
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ENGLAND IS
AFRAID WAR
WILL COME
British Leaders Alarmed By
Developments in Ruhr See
Great Britain Drawn Into
Conflict Against Her Will-
Russia Also Expects Out
Break of Hostilities.
LONDON, Jan. 22. (By the As
sociated Press) Tho critical sltun
tlon In tho Ruhr in n subject of inurli
anxious comment in the morning
newspapers which regard the oulluuk
lis ho dangerous that It Ik impera
tive some way of relieving the dead
lock he found.
Fear in expressed in some quarters
that Cirent liritain will be forced into
some form of active Intervention
against her will. Home circles also
are fearful that If France pursues
the present line of poliey, she will he
obliged to increase her forces greatly
in the occupied district, with tho re
sult that Germany may follow with
military action which would mean
war.
Strikes of miners in the Ruhr val
ley, called yesterday by the labor con
ference at Essen, were in progress at
the various pits throughout the val
lty today.
The strikes, complete or partial,
were in the privately controlled
workings whose directors were ar
rested by the French last week.
Withdrawal of the occupying
troops from the state' owned mine
properties that had been seized was
followed by resumption of mining in
these workings, although on a scale
reported somewhat reduced.
While no news of a general rail-
road strike order has appeared, Duos
seldorfiidviccs report only about ten
per cent of the trains running, and
these manned by French crows.
Tho banking situation seems to
hnvo been eased somewhat by the re
opening of the Duesneldorf branch of
the Ueichsbank. Tho Essen branch
and the private banks of that city re
mained closod. I
.It was announced from Mayenc"
that the court martial trial of Fritz
Thyssen and1 the other industrial
magnates arrested, would he held
Wednesday, with the proceedings
completed in one day.
Hevivnl of the talk of proclaiming
a Ilhlnelnnd republic, which would
form a buffer state between France
nnd Germany, met with editorial
comment from Home that such a
move would not be tolerated by Ger
many's creditor nations.
Germany took a further step In
abstaining from Versailles treaty co
operation with Fiance by withdraw
ing her member from the mixed
F.ranco-Gcrman arbitration tribunal
in Paris.
France again delayed presentation
of her new reparations settlement
plan. This, it was believed, was due
to tho continued uncertainty of the
J'.ermnn situation brought about by
the Ruhr occupation.
Germanv officially denied the re
ports that she was contemplating the
renewal of compulsory military ser
vice. No disorders were reported from
nny point In the Ruhr valley today.
MOSCOW, Jan. 22. (Ry the Asso
ciated Prow) Although Russia lias
reduced her nctivo nrmy to 600.000
men, she has not shut her eyes to
possible mifituiy danger nnd it is
understood that tho government , lias
taken a number of measures to create
nt the necessary moment n force
able to repulse any attack, writes M.
Steckloff, editor of Izvcstla. Ho ex
presses tho opinion that there art
more war possibilities In the Euro
pean situation today thnn in 1914.
lie revives tho theory of the old
quarrel between America nnd Japan
nnd finds thnt tno commercial nv.-.uv
(Continued on Page Six)
AMBASSADOR
DENIES DIFFERENCES WITH HUGHES
AVASIHNOTON. Jan. 22. Secre
tary Hunhes received today' a copy of
a radiogram sent hy Ambassador
Harvey to the North American lle
vlew, denying published reports that
he nnd tho secretary are not In no
cord on Important questions of for
eiftn policy.
The messnue sent In response to n
nuorv was transmitted from the
steamer on which Mr. Harvey Is re
turning to his post.
The umlmssadiirs message said:
"A radio dispntch conveys to me
Information thnt reports have been
75 Indictments
Expected By State
In Bastrop Hearing
BATON ROUGE, l a Ian
Attorney General A. V. Coco who
was called from Hastrop to the
capital to confer with Governor
John .M. Parker on tho More-
house situation, declared last
night as he was leaving on his
return to Hastrop to resume the
open hearing into hooded hand
activities In Morehouse parish.
that 25 to Kft arrests with 75 to
100 IndictnientB would be the
outcome of testimony presented
the state's investigation.
Following the conference with
the govornor, Mr. Coco an-
nounced that thirty more wlt
! nesses will be heard, and ho ex-
pected the hearing would come
to an end next Thursday.
4.
OFFERS BILL ON
Jackson Co- Senator Would
Exempt Payments of Inheri
tance Tax On All Bequests
for Benefit of Oregon Mu
nicipalities. SALEM, Ore., Jan. 22. The house
today passed the Woodward bill re
quiring school districts of 10,000 or
mnro population to provide special
Instruction for students classified as
exceptional.
Tho senate today passed. Senator
Eddy's bill providing that tho stuto
highway commission need not ap
prove the plans and specifications of
county courts for bridges, unlesB the
cost exceeds $35,000. This figure was
reduced from 50,000 by unanimous
consent of the senate. At present
this limit is only $2500.
Provisions of a bill passed by the
senate a few days ago exempting
from the Inheritance tax the estate
of the late Judge Bernard Daly of
I.akeview because it was left for tho
education of needy boys and girls of
that .county, would lie made general
in their application by a hill intro
duced today by Senator Dunn of
Jackson county. The Dunn hill would
exempt payment of tho inheritance
tax bequests left for tho benefit of
municipalities.
8 A LE M. O ip Jan. 22 . W. E.
Crews of M Ml ford who has been ap
pointed by Governor Pierco ns stnte
eorporntion commlnfliner. RiUd to
day that Georgo Codding ot Med ford
probably will bo named by htm nH
his asuistant. Codclinj? at least will
accent a position in tho office.
SALEM. Ore., Jan. 22. Governor
Walter M. Pioree today Issued a
statement declaring thnt while no
legislation toward tax reduction had
been accomplished in two weeks of
the present session, he was confident
that tho present week would see pro
gress toward fulfillment of pledges
upon which ho nnd tho legislators
"though for the most part oh dif
ferent tickets, hnd been elected."
Tho governor advocated nn In
come tax along lines of tho federal
law, nnd urged that legislation aimed
at consolidation of departments nnd
abolition of boards nnd commissions
be accomplished, saying that under
the present law tho governor's hands
are tied "by this board and that com
mission," and until ho hnd a free
hand the governor Is given no op
portunity to establish a less v costly
government.
lie reiterated recommendations
that the public service nnd industrial
accident commissions be mnde self
supporting through contributions
from the industries with which they
enmo in contact nnd forecast intro
duction of measures giving tho Ptate
tax commission authority over county
assessors.
m
published to the effect that sharp dis
agreement with respect to foreign
policies exist between Secretary
Hughes and myself nnd that I Indi
cated such division of opinion while
In the I'nlted States.
"I wish to deny in my nnme nny
such statements or intimations. They
are absolutely false. 1 am In full nnd
complete accord with Secretary
Hughes and 1 have not uttered a
word thnt could hy the wildest
stretch of the tmnglnntlon be con
strued 1o the contrary."
A similar denial wn authorized by
Secretarv. Hughes.
SENATOR
HM
NHERITANCES
Grandpa" New Title j
i.i.
King George As Stork HoVers
tzz king ceoROE I fTmnJtW Wt- fQk. tW """Wl
' c' H p.t'4liP ' i ' ill
' LONDON KiiiR George and Queen look exceedingly renal and resplendent here in crown and
ffrniincTrobes of state, it is safe to say both will play roles much more to their liking soon, when they
become simply "Grandpa" and "Grandma" to a child expected to be born to Princess Mary
v
The child of Princess Mary and Lord Lasccllcs will b; the first grandchild of the English royal
pair. The four brothers of Princess Mary, arc all unmarried. The eldest, the Prince of Wales, is 28,
and the youngest, Prince George, 20. Princess Mary is 3" years old'and her husband 40.
The child can have no royal pretensions, since its mother signed away all claims to accession
vrjicn she married Lasccllcs. If a boy, it will become on his death the seventh Earl pf Harcwood., .
IRISH IRREGULAR
STAFF CAPTURED,
THREE EXECUTED
DUBLIN', Jan. 22. By tho Asso
ciated prest.) Tho staff of the first
southern division of the irregular
military forces, together with oil its
records for tho last six months has
heen captured by the column of na
tional troops operating from Ma
croom, county Cork.
BELFAST, Jan. 22. Tho Dunkirk
correspondent of tho Exchange Tele
graph reports that three men, resi
dents, were executed today. Official
confirmation was lacking. The dis
patch says that the men were cap
tured in county Monaghan three
weeks ago after the destruction of a
bridge.
A notice of the executions, posted
on a door in Bridge street, Dundalk.
reads:
"Please pray for the repose of the
soul of James Melln, 20, who was
executed In the Dundalk Jail this
m6rnlng."
Tho free state headquarters in
Dundalk this afternoon confirmed
tho reports of the executions and an
nounced that In addition to Molla,
tho men executed were Thomas Lenon
and Joseph Ferguson. All were of
Dundalk. s These executions brought
tho total In the last Blxty days to 4 8.
FEDERAL OFFICE
T'Ol'.TLANM), Ore.. Jan. 22. Miller
E. MeOilchrlst of Salem has neen
nominated bv Federal District Attor
ney John S. Coke ns assistant United j
States district attorney, nnd Thomas i
H. Mngulre. assistant under Coke's'.
predecessor, hns been recommended
to tho position of chief assistant, a
place made vacant by tho resignation
of John C. Veatch last November.
MeOilchrlst has been In tho office
of tho attorney general In Salem for
sonic lime. .
Ex-U. S. Ambassador
' to China Reported
Dying in Shanghai
SHANGHAI, Jan. 22. (Hy the As
sociated Press) Dr. i'aul S. Keiiisoh,
former Cnited States minister to
Cliina, is believed to be dying from
broncho-pneumonia, which set In ns
a complication to encephalitis. He
is unconscious. Dr. Helnsch cnnie
here from tho interior of China some
time ago, suffering from a complete
breakdown.
FIVE BURNED TO
DEATH, 4 KILLED
PITTSHUUO, Jan. 22. Five persons
were burned to death In a fire which
destroyed tho Duties hotel in Home
stead near hero today. The loss was
(15.000.
The dead are: Mrs. John Winnie;
her twin sons, six years, and her
daughter Catherine, 13 and Thomas
Dnvles, hotel proprietor.
PlTTSnrrtO, Pa., Jan. 22. Four
men are known to have lost their lives
in the collapse of an old house In
Twenty-fifth street here today.
Waiting,
L
CHICAGO, Jan. 22. Selection of a
Jury wns begun today to try Daniel
Hayes, head of the Daniel Hayes com
pany of Idaho, and seventeen other
defendants charged with conspiracy to
use the malls to defraud In the sale of
western land.
Two or three days may be required
to completo tho Jury, It was believed
today.
Hayes and his co-defendants, it is
eburged, by tho government, circu
lated tho Daniel Hayes company liter
ature through tho malls In Belling
small parcels of land in Madera and
Merced counties, Cal., to purchasers
in many states.
It wns charged that tho land was
misrepresented as fit for cultivation,
when, the government prosecutors
charge, only a part of It was ready
for cultivation and the greater part
was not Irrigated.
HEAT, TWO OEAD
1 ; .!)'.
SACRAMENTO,. Cal , Jan.! 22.
Two men are dead and Boven others
are slowly recovering from poisoning
caused by drinking n concoction ob
tained from a patent "ennned heat"
containing1 parafina and wood aco
hol. William Smith, laborer, and an
unidentified man died Saturday
night. Tho other polBoned men are
recovering.
Hcfiamttnn Plan Postponed.
PARIS, Jan. 22. (!ly tho Asso
ciated Press) Presentation of the
new French plan for a fiermnn rep
aration settlement wb-h It had been
announced would be given to tho
members of tho repnrnllons commis
sion today, has again been delayed.
It 'Is expected now the plan will not
lie ready ui.til tho end of this week.
Girl Anarchist in
Paris Kills Reporter
Then Shoots Herself
PARIS, Jan. 22. ( Ily tho
Associated Press.) Gcrmnluo
Horlhon, 20 year old woman an-
nrchlst. entered the offices of
the royalist newspaper I, 'Action
! rancalB today and fired two
revolver shots, killing Marina
Plateau, onn of tho reporters of
tho paper, sho then turned (he
weapon on herself and was lak-
en to the hospital with u wound
In tho breast.
Witness Claims Victims of
Outrages Played Poker On
Night of Alleged Attack
Keys Found Near Lake Are
Introduced By State.
BASTROP. I.a.. Jan. 22. Tho al
leged aTtempt to nssaslnate Dr. li. .M.
McKoin, former mayor of Mer Ttougo
which Is believed to hnvo prompted
tho kidnaping and killing of Watt
Daniel and T. . K. ltlehnrd, was
brought up at today's session of tho
open henring conducted by tho stnto
into tho activities of masked men In
Morehouse parish, particularly into
tho murder of Daniel and Kichard.
C. W. Wagsdale, tho first witness,
testified ho was In n. poker game at
the homo of J. L. Daniel at Mer
ltougo tho' night Dr. McKoin is said
to have been tired upon from am
bush. Watt Daniel, J l. Dunlol.T.
F." Hlchard. W. C. Andrews, Tom
Dell and a man, named Hleks w-ero
tho other plnyers.
"After I left tho gamo I went to n
restaurant," snid Wagsdalo, "after
which I went to my home. .On my
way I heard two shots.' I did not pay
any attention to It. I was going away
that night, so I left homo and walked
down to tho restaurant again to wait
for the train. I Joined Watt Daniel,
Hlchard, V. C. Daniel nnd others In
tho restaurant. 1 did not hear of nny
attempt to kill Dr. McKoin until I
renched Ilonito the next day."
It had been testified thnt when
Wutt Daniel, his father, "Lon" Dav
enport, ltlehnrd nnd Andrews were
kidnaped by masked men on August
24 near Hastrop their captors ques
tioned nil but Davenport about tho
attempt to nssassinate Dr. McKoin.
J. L. Daniel nnd Andrew were flog
ged, nnd with Davenport later were
released. Watt Daniel nnd Hlchard
wero never seen ngaln until their
mutllnted bodies wero discovered in
Lnkn LaFouroho 25 miles from here
on December 22.
Thero wero only two witnesses In
court nt ten o'clock when tho henr
ing was resumed. Italn has mado
the highways almost Impassable.
8. J. Dennett, 40, general manager
of the Southern Carbon company
plant nt Spyker, was the next witness.
"How long wnp Harold Teeger-
strom In your employ?" Dennett wns
asked.
"About four years, both a Dnmp
kln nnd Spyker. Ho was employed
us timekeeper," he nnswered.
Teegerstrom disappeared tho night
of December 29, a few dnys heforo
tho hearing opened. Two days later
he appeared at tho homo of Henry
Jones near Bastrop. Jones testified
Teegerstrom Informed him It wns
best for him to leave because fede
ral agents wero "hounding" him con
cerning certain evidence nnd he be
lieved If ho should contlnuo to re
mnln In tho vicinity they would Im
plicate him In the kidnaping ense.
Keys Identified
"Do you remember someone re
porting to you he had disappeared "
Bennett was asked.,
"Yes, tho matter wad reported to
me by Dean Ashcraft after I made
Inquiry ns to where 'Teeg' was. I
(Continued on Page six )
gov
'. PIERCE'S TAX
TO COME UP AT
, ..BALEM, Ore.. Jan. 22. With nlno
bills slated for third reading In the
house and one In the senate, the
legislature began Its third week to
day. Measures before the' house In
cluded tho Woodward hills providing
for a department of research nnd
guidance In the public schools nnd
for tho segregation of educationally
exceptional children.
Whatever tax reduction measures
CSovernor Walter M. Pierce may have
under consideration were looked for
this week.
!oth houses will adjourn Wedes
day for the annual visit of all mem
bers to tho Oregon Agricultural col-
ASSASSINATION
STORY. BASTROP
UK DOUBTED
CALIFORNIA
SHAKEN BY
EARTHQUAKE
Red Bluff and Other Towns in
Sacramento Valley Visited
By Tremblor Gas Tank at
Willows, Springs Leak
Clocks Stop, Plaster Falls
No Extensive Damage.
SACRAMENTO, Cnl., Jan.. 22. An
earthquake which lasted for several
seconds, shook Sacramento nnd
towns In the Sacramento valley early
this morning. At Sacramento, ac
cording to N. R. Taylor, metereolo
glst of tho United States weather
bureau, tho trembler stopped tho
clocks In tho weather bureau office.
A report received here said the shock
damaged a gas tank nt "Willows. The
quake was felt in Sneramento be
tween 1:0B a. ni.. nnd l:0tt n. m.
Meteorologist Taylor stated that ho
bad reports from Chico, Red Bluff,
Ueddlng and Willows, all In the nor
thern Sacramento valley, that tho
earthquake was felt there. The "Wil
lows report said a gas tank sprung a
leak during the shocks.
The clocks in tho Sacramento
weather bureau office stopped at
1:08 o. m., and Taylor said his re
ports Indicated other clockB in the
upper valley also wero stopped by the
quake.
RED DIAJFF. Cal.. Jan. 22. An
earthquake which was estimated to
hnvo continued for two minutes, oc
curred hero somo tlmo botwoen 1.07
n. m., nnd 1:10 a. in., today. It
caused doors -and windows to rattle
and cracked plaster In n number of
homes, but no material damage wns
-reported. Tho local weather-v bureau '
observer believed the tremors moved
from east to west.
EUREKA, Cal., Jan. 22. A severe
earthqunko was folt here at 1 n. m.
today.
' 0IIICO, Cal., Jan. 22. An earth
quake estimated to have been of ten
secondg tluration was felt hore a few
minutes nftor 1 a. m. As far as known
no damage was done.
T1ERKELEY, Cal., Jan. 22. The
noodle of tho University of California
1 seismograph was thrown orf Its drum
I while recording ifn earth shock begin
ning nt 1:05 a. in.. It was announced
today by Professor John Ilnwulda of
the university geological department.
Spokane Also Shocked
SPOKANB, Jan. 22. Earth shocks
starting nt 1:05 a, m. nnd continuing
until 2:18 a. m with the heaviest
tremors nt 1:08 a. m. were recorded
on the Gonznga university seismo
graph today. The disturbance, de
scribed as "quite severe" was esti
mated to be 100 miles distant, in the
direction of California.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 22. An earthquako
described as "of very spvnrA" IntAnaitv
I beginning at 3:0!) a. m. today and last
' ing until 4:20, was recorded nn the
j seismograph at 8t. Louis university.
I Six distinct shocks were recorded, It
i was said. The disturbance was esti
mated to have been 1800 miles south
, east of St. Louis.
SISSON, Cal., Jan. 22. This town
was severely shaken by an earth
quake at 1:04 a. m. today, windows
and doors being rattled and citizens
awakened. The shocks seemed, to
travel from south to north. . .
8AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 22. A
landslide at Scotia, 20 miles south of
Eureka, Cal., caused either by a
storm or the sharp earthquake which
visited the Eureka region early to
day was reported to the united States
(Continued on Pag six. I
REDUCTION BILL
SALEM THIS WEEK
lego nt Corvallls. A similar excursion
to the University of Oregon mny take
place on Wcdnesdny of next week.
Ten bills covering the program of
the state committee on tax Investi
gation were distributed) today In
pamphlet form among members of
tho legislature, but had not been
formally Introduced. Although Gov
ernor Pierce was a member of the
committee which wns appointed by
Governor Olcott following tho session
nf 1!I21 and In compliance with an
net of thnt session, it la reported thnt
Pierco Is not in full agreement with
tho other menvhers of the committee
on some ot tho bills.