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T I fit? , rPTTPTri?. ebfokb Mail Tribune The Weather Prediction. ...Prob. rain, snow Maximum yesterday 36 Minimum today 30.5 Weather Year XW Maximum 49 Minimum 32 Precipitation 09 Oally SovenUentb Tear. "ekly Flfty.fceounU Year. , MEDFORD, OREGON,' TUESDAY, JANUARY '-:, 192:) NO. 258 E England Proposes to Leave Dispute Washington State May Put $5 Tax On All Bachelors Witnesses and Evidence Klan Hearing E To League Nations M PHON PIER MPLICATES Telephone Operator at Bas il trop Testifies Capt. Skip f with Told Her Not to Send or Receive Messages From Mer Rouge Missing ' Wit ness Heard From. HASTROP. La., Jan. 23. (By the Associated Press) Miss Liilinn Weil niann, a telephone 'operator In tho Bastrop exchange of the Cumberland Telcphono company, ' testifying thin afternoon at tho Morohouso hearing declared Captain J. K. Sklpwith, ex ulted cyclops of tho Morohnrso Ku Klux Klan, called upon her nfter she had gone on duty one evening and j requested that she not send or re-! celve any messages between Bastrop and Mer Itouge. Assistant Attorney Ocneral Ounln, who was conducting tho examination, asked if it was not the night of Au gust 24. the date unon whirh Wull Daniel and T. P. Itichard were kid-' naped. Miss Wcilmnnn insisted she "did not resember. BASTROP, La., Jan. 23. (By the Associated Press) Clarence Teegor strom. brother of Harold Teeger stromi missing timekeeper nt the Southern Carbon company at Spyker who disappeared December 29 nnd for whom tho state has been search ing In connection with its investiga tion into activities of masked men in Morehouse parish, took the stand to day at the opening hearing here. "Do you know where your brother Harold Is?" he was asked. "I do not," he replied. "When did you last hear from him?" "I received a letter January 20." "'Where Is the letter?" "I destroyed it." Teegerstrom was eiven .the letter by Dean Ashcratt, nri employe of the' Southern Carbon compnny at Spyker i which he snld Superintendent S. J., iienneii nan munu in mo company's mail box. The envelope bore a two cent stamp, but no postmarks. Harold's letter, Teegerstrom testi fied, declared ho was safe and sound and in comfortablo quarters and he would bo ready to return about the 20th when tho state wanted him and would "testify for Mr. Jeff." . "Mr. Jeff," he understood to be T. J. Burnett, former Morehouse par ish deputy sheriff und employe o( the Carbon compnny and now at liberty under $5000 bail. Beunett was ar rested last monlh on a murder charge In connection with tho kidnaping of Watt. Daniel nnd T. F. Richard near Bnstrnp, whose bodies were found In Lake LaFourchc December 22. GALVESTON, Texas, Jon. 23. Subsisting for eleven dnys on beer, three men, half dead from exhaus tion, exposure nnd hunger, wcro picked up by the Morgan line steam-' er Kl Occidente, 225 miles off the Carolina coast on January 18, nceord- ing to Captain K. S. Campbell, mas ter of the steamer, on his arriyal here. ' CHICAGO, Jan. 23. Twelve armed liquor thieves raided n West Ran dolph building early today, hound nnd gngged a watchman nnd a news boy, drilled through a vault and stole 600 cases of whiskey, according to police reports. FEAR 7 RUSSIAN IN CIA SEA. MANILA, Jan. 23. (By the Asso ciated Press) Fear is expressed here that seven Russian refugee ships with more than 500 persons aboird have been lost In the Chlnn sen, en route from Shanghai to the Philip pines ns part of Admiral Stark's fleet of Vladivostok exiles,, flvo ships of which are anchored near here. The missing vessels have not been heard from since January 10. Admiral Stark Is with the ships which have found tempornry haven In Bolinno cove, but his white fleet of homeless Hlhcrians have no place on earth to land permanently. Push ed onwnrd. first from Korea, then from Chlnn, It was given permission only to linger a while in the Philip pines. Plans may he worked out, how ever, for the refugees to remain In the Philippines. They could bo ad LAUSANNE, Jan. 23. (By tho Associated Press.) Mar- ciuls Curzon, speaking for Great Britain formally propos ed to the Turkish delegation at the Near East conference to day that the dispute over tho Mosul oil district be roferred to the League of Nations for decision. The Turks promised to glvo their answer to the pro- posal tonight. 3 MEN KILLED SPOKANE, Jan. 23. Three uni dentified miners were killed and 30 were overcomo by gas when fire broke out early this morning in tho 14 00 foot level of tho Morning mine of the Federal Mining and Smelting company at Mullan, Idaho, seven miles from Waliuce. The thirty men who wcro overcome were hoisted from the 2,000 foot level through the fire zone to safe ty, and at nooi. were reported to have recovered. The fire was still burn ing In the west end of tho 14 00 foot level today, but mine officials said dampness there would prevent much ppread of the flames. All the men in the mine when the fire was discovered, have been ac counted for, mine officials said. A report from the Wallace Press Times this afternoon said the body of Walter Leo Lynch, of Mullan, and a man -partially identified as Ed ward Deich had been recovered and that a third man was missing. John Anderson was in it hospital at Mullan, suffering from effects of BUS, This renort said that Lynch 1 and Anderson went down into the j 1400 foot level when, tho fire was dis covered there to warn men nt work on that level and were overcome by gas. INENI LONDON, Jan. 23. (By the Asso cintcd Press) An appeal for funds for a permanent memorlnl to the late Walter Hlnos Page, former Ameri can ambassador to Great Britain, will bo issued soon over tho signatures of Prime Minister Bonar Low, the Enrl of Balfour, Herbert H. Asquith. David Llnyd Cleorgo and Lord Grey the British ministers with whom the ambassador was brought into closest contact. The form tho memorial Is to tako will be dependent upon the amount of the contributions. U. S. MEAT EXPORTS SHOW HEAVY DROP WASHINGTON, Jan. 23. Value of exports of meats from the United Stntes In 1922 totaled $34,819,343 as compared with $150,878,243 in 1021. it was estimated today by tho coin merco department. Dairy products exported In 1922 were valued at $24. 9011,495, compared with $44,145,749 in 1921. while exports in 1922 of grain and grain products nmounted to $515,913,077, compnred with $758, 397.520 In 1921. IN MINE FIRE NEAR SPOKANE REFUGEE SHIPS LOST mitted under the immigration laws, but tho question of nbsorblng them in business on tho islands presents n difficult problem. A majority of the Russfnn colony are sailors and It hus been suggested they could be ab sorbed easily if sent to the United Stntes. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Jon. 23. Dan Sutherland, delegate in congress from Alaska, has been asked by busi ness men nnd others hero to request that the government permit the ex iled Siberians under Admirnl Slnrk. now In the Philippine Islnnds to set tle In the Interior of Alaska. Fifteen million acres of land are availnble, it was stated. Many of the present resi dents of the section nre descendants of the Russians who founded settle ments prior to the American pur chase of the territory. French Prepare to Cut Off Ruhr District From Food Supply British Clash With French Germany Refuses to Guarantee Safety French Envoy at Munich. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS The coal miners' stiiko in tho Ruhr valley, ordered in opposition to the Franco-Belgian attempt to collect reparations by forceful means, seems far from complete. . Duesseldorf reported a majority of the Ruhr miners still working at noon today', on tho other hand Berlin claims 165,000 men have gone on strike in the Thysscn and Stinnes workB in thq Ruhr. Paris announces new and drastic measures to be taken it German re sistance in tho Ruhr continues. These measures call for total isola tion of the valley, complete control of tho mines, railways and public utilities, and the introduction of new currency to meet the money strin gency caused, by German's withhold ing cash. Bearing out tho forecast a Dort mund message says French troops already are guarding all exits from the Ruhr, ready to execute the isola tion policy if there is a general strike or rioting. Conflicts between the British and the French ovor arrests and expul sions by the latter in the Cologne area, a British bridgehead sector, was avoided by Instructions from London to the British military autnorities not to interfere, although not to co- operate. Fritz Thyssen and the five Ger mnn industrial magnatos arrested with him In the Ruhr will be tried tomorrow by the Mayence court mar tial, the proceedings having been postponed from today. "Starve Tnien Out" DUESSELDORF, Jan. 23. (Dy tho Associated Press.) Tho Ruhr see-saw halted momentarily today while Germans and French waited for news from JIayence where Fritz Thyssen and other Industrialists go on trial before a court martial charged with refusing to oboy the or der of the control commission. French headquarters believed that coirviction and Imprisonment of the magnates, might mean the calling of a general strike throughout the Ruhr. , The French wore ready to reply to a genoral' strike with tho complete Isolation of the Ruhr and tho Rhine lend from the rest of Germany. The control commission, it was said, will bend every effort toward getting coal out of tho basin and shipping It to Prance, where It is already needed, leaving Germany to operate the rail roads and feed tho miners and the population, "If Berlin wants the Rmhr to starve, it's her own business, one official of French headquarters told tho newspaper correspondents last evening. If anyone starves in the Ruhr It will not be the French. The Germans have chosen their battle field; we will fight them to a finish." General Denvignes expressed the opinion that the Ruhr valley was the scene of tho battle of the war. "If we win this." ho said, "we shall'have peace for B0 or 100 years. If wo lose all our sacrifices of mo,n and money during the war will have gone for naught." f The French have seized approxi mately 200,000 tons of coal In the Ruhr nnd declare an extension of the miners' strike would not prevent one fourth of the basin's normal output going to France. I-MHWo Will Act LONDON, Jan. 23. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) The possibility that the League of Nations will endeavor to end the Btralned situation in the Ruhr Is again discussed by a section of the press today. It la declared that HJalmar Brantlng, the Swedish representative on the league coun cil, will certainly raise tho question of the Ruhr at the meeting of that body In Paris on January 29. BRUSSELS, Jan. 23. (By tho As sociated Press.) Several shots were fired today at an American liaison officer attached to Belgian head quarters at Alx La Chapelle, accord ing to a dispatch to Libre Bclglque. The officer was not hit. (Continued on Page ilx.) 1 Howard B. Warren, one of the at torncys in tho case Is holding up one of the black masks used by the Klansnien on their terrorizing trips. In sert from left fo right ElizabotS Burin nnd Thclma Dado both of whom are Important witnesses in the hearing. Miss Dado is a niece of Watt Daniels. WIDELY KNOWN OFFER BILL 10 NEWSPAPER MAN SAVE ROOSEVELT DIESIN CHICAGO HIGHWAY BONDS CHICAGO, Jan. 23. Addison C. Thomas, who a quarter of a century ago was one of tho most widely known newspaper men in tho United States died at a hospital here today. The cause of bis death was a stem ach ailment. Air. Thomas, who was born July 14, 1851, was for a long time superintendent of the Central Division of the Associated .Press with headquarters in Chicago. . In developing tho present exten sive leased wire system of the As sociated Press, Mr. Thomas played an important role and Tor a number of years was superintendent of this leased wlro system Hq was a prac tlcal telegrapher. In Chicago in the eighties he first demonstrated the possibility . of tho use of the typewriter by operators In receiving telegraph news direct from tho Morse, sounder. This increased tho carrying capacity of circuits and Immediately added greatly to the volume of news distributed to tho newspnpers of tho country. The introduction of the typewriter was brought, about only nfter end less experimenting by Mr. Thomas and long after others had declared tho Idea Impracllcnbln. The device known ns tiie cycl'o groph, a duplicating machine used by the Assoclnted Press, was one of his inventions. It was tho first machine to feed ink from the inside of a cylinder, n principle now adopted in mimengrnphing. Ilurinl w'll be nt Denver beside the grave of a brother. IN NEAR EAST I.Al'SANXK, ..lan. 23. (By the AsHorlaKtl Press) Marquis Ciirzon, British foreign soorouiry told the Near Kant eonriwiico this evening that the refusal of Turkey to submit the dispute over tho Mosul oil district to the Lcuguo of Nations had fronted n situation of extreme, gravity. It was ho grave, lie added, as to In volve tho possibility of u renewal" of warfai'c. The Daily Bank Robbery SHERIDAN, Ore., Jan. 23. Rob bers who forced entrance through the front door of tho First National bank hero early today, drilled the outer door of the safe and escaped with Liberty bonds and some cur rency which they found In thirty safe dclioslt boxes. Bunk officials today were unable to give an estimate of tho loss. Three men with an automobile, who were seen by a woman at 1:30 cutting the telcphono calilo on Norlh Bridge street are suspected of having committed tho robbery. WAR LOOMS AGAIN I ' SALEM, Ore., Jan. 23. A bill aimed to save for tho state tho $2, 500,000 bonds approved by the vot ers a few years ago for tho Roose velt coast highway, was introduced today bearing tho names of Sena tors Eddy, Hall, Maglardy, Fisk, Johnson, Staples and Mrs. Kinney, and Representatives Jones, Beiinott, Hurst, Mott, Wheeler, Pierce, Fletcher and Watson. Tho bill would permit tho governor to sell, whenovor necessary undor tho provisions of tho act, $2,500,000 of state bonds and that tho state high way commission may, whenever the United States government shall ap propriate money to tho construction of tho Roosevelt highway or any part of it, match federal funds from this $2,500,000. Representative L.. N. Blowers of Hood Rlvor today Introduced a hill to rcgulnle tho salo, use and posses sion of pistols and revolvers, In creasing penalties for commission of crimes whilo carrying such weap ons, providing penalties for snlo of fire arms to minors and to unnatural ized persons and persons convlctod of felonies. Responsible citizens re quiring weapons would be obliged to sign a description of firearms pur chased. MAYOR ARRESTED AS OAIty," Ind., Jan. 23. Work of rounding up members of nn alleged Lake county liquor ring which result ed In tho arrest of several local and county officials. Including Mayor lloswell Johnson of this city, was being continued today by federal of ficers. Capiases for tho arrest of 76 persons alleged to be members of the ring, which lndlctmentB returned by tho federal court at lndlnnnpolls charge, npernted under protection of I-nko county officials, have been Is sued. : Daily Report on the Crime W ave ItED OAK. Iowa, Jan. 23. Albert Olrodl, 23, a butter nnd egg buyer of Omaha, was found slain In his auto mobile near hero last night. It ap pears that lie was killed by n blow over tho head with a club. Mrs, fll radl, his wife, Informed tho Omaha police that her husband hud about $200 In his possession when he left home Monday. TOLEDO, Wash.. Jan. 23. Horace Hendricks of Centrnlln, Wash., sus pected of slaying Mark Crowder, a taxi driver of Heattle, near Sumner, Wash., shot nnd killed himself with a revolver in -a restaurant hero last nlglit. QI.YMPIA, Wash., Jan. 23. A poll tax of $5 a year would bo Imposed upon all bachelors in tho state between the ages of 25 and CO according to a bill Introduced this morning In the lowor house by Charles Heigh ten of King county. This tax would roplaco the old poll tax which was repealed at tho last eluctlou by vote on an initiative measure. It provides that all male resi dents of tho stale not heads of families shall pay a lax of $5 a year Into the county treasurer. BLACK MASKED IN GUILTY OF TRESTLE CRIME UTTI.R lUX'K. Ark., Jan. 23. CltarKcs .by striktTH on tin MiHuourl ami North ArkanwiH railroad that during tho recent dlHordors nt Har rison they were forced, by threats of violence on tho pnrt of tho "citizens' committee," either tt promise to re turn to work or areo to leave the railroad's territory were supple mented by testimony of officials of Harrison and Boone county In the inquiry now beinsr eonducted into the disorders by the state legislature's committee. John A. Hewitt, one of tho wit nesses testifyinK at last niKht's hear ing', declared that three men wear ing "black masks' entered the no tary club rooms at Harrison nnd trok E. C. Oregor from his temporary prison. Gregor's body was lnt'M found hanging from a trestle. The mention of masks created a tlr In tho committee, room. J. H. Davis of Heber Springs, who said he was a. former brakemun on the. M.,ttnd 2. A. railroad, told of culling on tho "citi7eiis' committee" at Harrison. 'They asked me If I was 100 per cent." ho told the committee. "1 told them I was. They, told me that if I withdrew from my union strlk? benefit nnd thus made myself a real citizen, 1 would bo allowed to re main. I signed up." IIAlUtl.HO.V Ark., Jan. 23. Con ditions nlonB tho Missouri and North Arkansas railroad wero tnoro firmly In tho prlp of citizens, openly op posed (o sti'lkliiK workmen on that road, following tho resignation here last night of J. Jj. Cluto, mayor, Oeorgo Mluicus, city alderman, and William Parr, city marshnl, and en dorsement of tho work of the "citi zens' committee" here by a mass meeting held last night nt Eureka Springs. Armed volunteers . con tinued to patrol the streets and the roads leading into Hnrrison. ' TAX FOR ONE SERVANT MOSCOW Russia's tax on luxur ies has been extended to include ser vnnts. Ily recent decree a tax of 4(0 mil lion rubles a year was levied upon nil families having ono servant, nnd 500 million rubles for each additional maid or butlrr In the house. At tho present rate of exchange 100.000, 000 rubles Is the equivalent of $3. . Tile minimum wage for servants in Moscow today, by a ruling of tho cen tral Irado union, Is 200 million per month. All servnnts must bo so curcd through a government labor bureau, and failure to register each household worker, or endenvors to avoid paying the servants' tax, Is punishable by Imprisonment nnd fine. SCORNS THE MODERN KU KLUX KLAN NEW YORK, Jan. 23. Thomas Dixon, author of tho Clansman, vig orously condemned tho modern Ku Klux Klan In an address lust night and declared It had stolen tho livery of the original organisation. Ho was ono of several speakers at a meeting called by tho Amerlenn Unty league to discuss ways and means for com batting the hnpded organization. He said that when tho modern klan was organized a few years ago he declined nn invitation to Join, warning tho organizers that "If they dared to uso the' disguise in a secret oath-hound order today, with the courts of law working under a civil ized government, tho end was sure riot, nnnrchy, bloodshed and martial law." "We liavo alrendy reached the rlol and bloodshed," ho said, "nnd unless OPPOSED 10 Chief Executive Reported Not Satisfied With Either Con solidation Measure Senate Passes Labor Lien On Or chards Anti-Alien Land Bill Appears. SALB.Yf, Ore., .Inn. 23. Passage by congress of n'"truth In fabrlcks" 1111 requiring that manufacturers of woolen goods label them to show tho exact percentage of puro virgin wool contained in tho goods Is urged in n Joint memorial adopted today by the slate senate. The memorial was in troduced by Senator Peter Zimmer man of Yamhill. The house today passed the bill Introduced by Representative K. J. Klrkwood of Portland, making the first sale or possession of narcotics I in violation of the state laws a fel ony. Tho senate today accepted the In vitation of the University1 of Ore gon nnd the Eugene Chamber of Commerce to visit the university Wednesday, January 31. A bill to prohibit any court or ' judge from dismissing suits without giving the counsel on respective Bides thirty days notice passed the. senate today. Senator Eddy's bill to Include pet sons who perform labor In an or chard among those who have tho privilege of lien on the crop passed, the senate today. ' Any person who has wounded or killed another person through mis taking the victim for a deer or other nilmal,'.wotild be perpetually barred, from receiving" a. hunting license under the provisions of a bill Intro duced by Representative S. P. Pierce of Curry county.1" A corollary bill to the antl-allen land holding bill pending In the leg islature lias been Introduced by Rep--rcsontative E. F. Bnlley of Junction City, one of the authors of the antt allen land bill, which would require . thnt county assessors list all Ineligi ble aliens who own, lease or operate real proporty. SALEM, Ore.. Jan. 23. Neither of tho so-called consolidation bills proposed to date Is entirely satlsfac- i tory to Oovemor W. M. Pierce, he In dicated before tho opening of a pub lic hearing on the Hall and Johnson Carkln bills last night. In a statement he urged legisla tive action toward consolidation of tho Btate departments. He also urg ed passage of an Income tax measure similar to the federal law and reit erated other recommondatlons In his message. Numerous tax bills appeared yes terday In addition to ten recommend ed by the state tax Investigation com mittee, several measures relating to taxation were introduced by the sen nto committee on taxation. Kxpcet 1'. S. nudget to Ik Balanced. WASHINGTON. Jan. 23. High treasury officials expressed renewed hope that tho government budget for this fiscal year womu do pracucn.. balanced by Juno 30. lnn.non sIh 1'nemployed. OENEVA, Jun. 27 Tho Swiss gov ernment, It Is nnnouneed, Is sending a mission to Cnnnda to Investigate tho possibility of finding work thorn for the Swiss unemployed. There are now 100,000 out of work In Swit zerland. OF tho thing Is throttled promptly we are In sight of martial law," , The original klan was founded ns a weapon against a corrupt and In tolerable tvrannv bv tho braveBt and noblest men of the south, he said, but tho proscription of tho negro -: races by tho modern klnn Is Inhuman. "The klan assault upon the for eigner Is tho nemo of stupidity and : Inhumanity,' he said. "Wo are all : foreigners except tho few Indians we ! hnvo not killed. "Our fathers blazed the way through tho wilderness for the trem bling feot of liberty. They built a beacon on these shores, flashing Us rnys of hope to all the oppressed of the earth. Shall we. their sent, meet the hlimblo nilmlarnnt nf todnv with n mnsk and dagger and push him ' back Into hell? If this Is 108 per cent Americanism 1, for one. spit on It."