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, 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
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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."