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MEDFOBD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1923
NO. 269
REFUSE
GN. WA
0
E
TURKS
TO
FEARE
NEAR EAST
CONFERENCE
COLLAPSES
Ismet Pasha Refuses to Sign
Treaty,' British Leave for
Home Efforts to Prevent
War Continue Lord Cur
zon Condemned By London
Mail.
lX)M)OX, Fib. 5 (By the
Associated lIrcss.) lAril Cur
son, tho secretary for foreign
nf fairs, who conducted tho Near
Kast negotiations at Lausanne
for tho liritlsli government, re
turned hero today. Ho culled a
meeting of tho cabinet to con
sider tho Latisnnno proceedings.
LAl'SAXN'E, Feb. 5. Hy
tho Associated I'rcss.) Former
IVemler Venizelos of Greece in
n statement to tho Associated
Tress this evening said:
"If Turkey will conio to some
Independent arrangement with
Ureeco concerning mutual rep
arations, or agree to its submis
sion to some form of arbitration
then tiroeco will consider the
statu of war terminated."
"All other matters with Tur
fcojf aro settled," ho continued,
"Inu if Turkey insists on repara
tions from (Jrceeo w ithout reim
bursing us for tho damago caus
ed to moro than a inillon Greeks
driven from Asia Minor, then
Greeeo must consider tho wur
mn on. It is for Turkey ' to
say."
LAUSANNE, Feb. 3. (Dy the As
sociated Press. J The collapse of the
Near Kast conference after weeks of
deliberation that had been liberally
interspersed with crises, led tho dele
gations of the powcre to wonder
whether tsmet Pasha, in refusing to
sign. the treaty was trusting to those :
"Incalculable forces" whose presence
' tlie allied statesmen have felt.
.. Humors of a military alliance be
tween Turkey and Htissiu, emphatic
ally denied in cnnfeiyuco circles n
short time ago have been revived and
there are admittedly other disturb
ing elements.
Ismet informed the correspondents
that until he received a formal no
tification to the contrary he would
consider the negotiations as still in
progress. It was pointed out that
the Mudania armistice was to be ef
fecllvo until the completion of tho
conference called to settlo a Turk
ish peaco and somo Importance was
nttm-bod to lsmot's statement.
,Tha Turkish spokesman declared
that the nationalist representatives
did not sign tho treaty because it
strangled Turkey economically. Spe
cifically, the Turks refused to accept
the capitulation and economic
clauses of the document as presented
by ihn allies, declaring that they
cotlld not agree to be bound by the
contracts and concesions of the
TorhlPr regime.
Turks Hoi for Compromise
- Tito formal Turkish reply suggest
ed that Inasmuch as tho two factions
were In agreement on eighty per cent
Of tho questions, these clauses be
stgnod. It maintained that . the
Turks should be allowed to give fur
ther consideration to the problems
coritalnod in a recognition of the obli
gation ot the Ottoman empire but de-
(Continued on tmee It.
mm LOST BY FREEZE IN TEXAS.
. STRAWBERRY CROP IS WIPED OUT
OALVBSTON, Texas, Feb. 5
Kstimntes of the loss resulting to
Galveston county ns a result of to
day's, frccsw ranged upwards of !,
ooo.ftfift. nocordlnir to reports from
various pnrts of the county received)
In the office of the uaivesion ju
tinn. The heaviest to appears to have
been sustained by the cattle Industry, I
estimates of the number Killed ny me
freejc running up to twenty per cent.
.Mainland -temperatures of de
crees were reported at several points,
with much damage to tender vege
table crops, nudcling peach, pear
ami fig trees received a severe set
Centenarian Cures
"Flu" By Visiting and
Refusing to Worry
Al'KOKA, III., Feb. 3.
Henry Chaliand, a retired farm
er, who has just celebrated his
1 00th birthday, credits his re
covery from an attack of in
fluenza to "visiting."
They told me it was my last
sicknoas," he said, "but I did
not feel that way about it. 80 I
had them get out the automo
bile aud I began a round of v(s
its. in no time I was all right
because 1 got away from myself,
in getting away from yourself
you simply forget your ills. It's
no use worrying about them be
cause they grow on worries.
Worry la a fertile soil for bad
health crops."
Sir. Chailand is hale and
hearty. He has ten living child
ren, thirty grand children and
33 great grand children.
DEFAULTING N.Y.
SIOCK BROKER
ARRESTEDINLA
LOS A XGKLKS, Feb. S. Austin
il. MontnomfiT, Jr., former New
York stock broker "was arrested ' hy
county nd -fcdcrul officers here for
Nw York authorities on chunks of
siyrk fnmds Hggrouatinjj moro than
13,000,000. Officers uimounrint? the
arrest, aiihX Montgomery admitted" his
identity and said he would waive ex
tradition and return at once to New
York to face the indictments.
aiontffoniery, the officers aid, has
been living since January 3 5, last, in
an exclusive residential dfHtrirt under
the name of Marshall. "With him
were his wife, three children and a
secretary.
The specific charge under which
he was held wan usIk the United
Kinies mails to defraud, the com
plaint .wing made ty Mrs. D. J. Cal
lahan of Wilmington, Dei. The au
thorities here were informed that
Montgomery was president "of the
Community Finance company with
headquarters in New York, but ope
ratinB principally in Hoston. The
company failed last Heptemher.
NKW YOHK, Feb. B. Austin H.
Montgomery, Jr., former Mock
broker, arrested in Ios Angeles to
day was one of ten men Interested in
tho community finance company,
who were indk't by the federal jury
on charges of "defrauding investors In
a blind pool operation.
Montgomery, upon announcement
of his indictment, was alleged to
have fled to Europe taking with him
6G0,000. Ho later was reported i
Mexico City. His father. Indicted in
the same case, has been released in
$10,000 ball, after, a plea of not
PICE OF WALES IS
GIVEN AIR COMMAND
I.ONHON. Jim.- The 1'rinre ot
Wales has been appointed Group
Captain of the Koyni .Air Force by
ceiiimiind of the kiiiK. The prince,
in addition to his various orders and
medals, is u captain in the royal navy
and a colonel in the army.
Officially he is designated his
Hoynl Highness, Edward Albeit
Christ inn George Andrew Vatriek
THivid, 1'rlme of Wales and Duke of
Cornwall, K. O.: K. T.: a. C. H. I,;
O. C. M. C; G. C. I. E.; G. C. V. O;
!. II. K. M. r.
back and the strawberry crop, which
wn9 ronorled to be tho largest i
several years, has been practically
wiped out.
WAHHINGTOK. Feb. 5. A slight
t.-..nL the rnlrt wave is due late
today and tomorrow over the Ohio
valley and taka region to New lors
and New Eglnnd, acrordiK to the
weather bureau, which prenicu
slowly rising temperatures, accompa
nied by snow.
Tho cold snap centered at hue
lliver. Ont where o temperature o(
fifty degrees below wro was reported
tmlny.
BADEN ZONE
IS OCCUPIED
6Y FRENCH
Germans Lose Control of East
Bank of Rhine Because of
Interference With Trains
Strikes Are Extended, How
ever Little Change Re
ported.
l)V KSSK LDO HVt Feb. 5. illy the
Associated Tress New orders from
Berlin to tho railroads in tho ithine
and the Kuhr had tho effect today of
stiffening tho strike against the
French and dispelled the hopes of &
settlement that have been prevalent
the fast few days
Hy individual interviews and dis
tribution of money, by promises and
by warnings, the German govern
ment is declared hero to be doing
tho utmost to encourage tho resin
tanco which had begun to weaken
among the local functionaries and
state employes.
There has been no fresh extension
of the strike, but instead of improv
ing, as the French had hoped, the
situation remains unchanged.
The cordon of the valley to pre
vent coal shipments to unoccupied
Germany remains unbroken.
Jferr fcJarter director of tho West
hello stab mines and a commercial
director of tho SUnms interests is
among tho latest functionaries ex
pelled frutiy. (ha Iluht.
UESHELPQXlF,,FoK t.Ub the
Associated"' Press)- The French oc
cupation has been extended to Ap
penwir, and Offtisburg, two towns in
linden, presumably a a penalty for
German interference with interna
tional train service between Paris and
Prague.
Dl" ESS EI DO I IF, Feb. 4. (By the
Associated rrw' Although inter
national trains were being dispatched
regularly, eoa! strikes continued in
the Kuhr.
Agents of the Berlin government
were reported to he attempting to
revivify - the strike hy promises of
cash bonUH, called "indemnity of fi
delity to the reich," to the strikers
who remain out.
Tho mine pit heads were greatly
eongeKted, owing to the shortage of
empty ears, and eon! was being plied
in every conceivable spot.
Tho French started free sotip
kitcheiiK In tho iiuhr for children
only, but at Heme plans were being
made to feed adults.
JnSKMX. Feb. 4. (iiy the Asso
ciated l'rt-ss) Control of the rail
roads skirting the left bank of the
Khiite was thought by German au
thorities to he the object of French
oeeupation of Offenburg and Appen
weir, imUtAX, Feb. 4. (By the Asso
ciated Press) Frederick Btampfrt
editor of Yoerwaerts, said in an in
terview that Americans have a wholly
imperfect conception of the tremen
dous impression areated by PresS-
dont Wilson's pre-armistieo speeches
on the rank and file of German work
ing men and that these people cannot
grasp why America, which struck a.
decisive blow against Imperial mon
archy, "can complacently look on as
the young German republic is being
made tho victim of the gravest in
justice." BOMB THROWN AT
PREMIER IN SOFIA
80KIA. Kub. 5. (By tho Asso
ciated I'rcssl A bomb was thrown
in thn direction of Premier Htam
boulsky whiln ho was seated In a twin
at the National theater last niqht
with threw o( bin ministers. No one
was Injured by the explosion. Ths
bumb thrower, whose identity is said
to be known to the authorities,
escaped.
NTRODUGE Mi
lt K. BILL 101
DKS MOINES. Feb. 5. The
Ku Klus Klon would be outlawed In
Iowa. Its members would be subject
to jail sentences and would not bt
neimitted to hold any civil service
job in the state; soHHUntr for mem
bership in the klan would lie punish
able by Jaii terms, and alt klan oaths
and contracts would be invalidated
under the terms ot a bill introduced
titday in the Iowa house and senate.
i he rresident Back at His Desk )
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4.
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S XT V F IT-
zm y-m
Ski-! r j. ft inn
The Hrestiirnt returned to hia di'sk and tho tilu ot work which had
accumulated during his illness from the, grippe on January 25. Ho was
taken ill about a woek previous and hud remained Sn his room under
orders of tho Vhito House physician, Ilric-Gon. O. E. Sawyer.
FLORIDA SHIVERS
AND FREEZES AS
BUZZARD BLOWS
CHiCAtiO, Vi'b, 5. White the
northwest and central west hadre
l!ef today from the cold wave that
sent the mercury down to new low
icveia for the season, tho southern
states were suffering from the cold-
cat weather in several years.
Passing of the wave over the
northwest was followed by a sen
oral reaction temperatures sought
higher levels and tho northwest wind
on which tho wave rode became quiet.
But Its departure carried unusual
cold to the south as tar as the north
and central portions of Florida where
freezing temperatures or frost were
forecaso for tonight and tomorrow
morning.
Vicksbnrg, Miss., was covered with
snow and sloet today to a depth of
seven inches and street car service
and telephone communication was
greatly demoralized us a result.
Louisiana end Arkansas were al
most an unbroken blanket of snow
and sleet In the northeastern and
southern sections respectively. The
mercury dropped to twenty degrees
above zero in some districts.
None of the southern states was to
bo sliKhted by the cold wave, H ap
peared from the forecaster's report.
weather reports indicated the
breakup of the cnid wave, before its
approach at the eastern seaboard
states.
In California suntmlno yesterday
routed (ho fear of citrus growers
that their crops would ba ruined by
frost although today's forecast pre
dicted light is heavy froats in the
interior.
Today, the forecasters said, was
to bring forth rising temperatures in
too upper Mississippi vailoy west
ward lo tho Rocky Mountains, with a
like, reaction starting tomorrow In
tho Ohio valley anil tho cast suif
states.
HOUSTON. Tesas, Feb. 5. ice
covered the galf coast like a blanket
today with tho coldest weather in
four years, but Utile damago was
causud. Citrna fruit and truck in the
iower Itio (irando vaiiey, where grave
fears wore felt escaped virtually un
scatheii, it was announced. Ther
mometers in tlta valley went barely
below tho freorJiiR point. Growers
took precautions by lighting smudge
pots and other fires.
Oolftr Srfngs Surrender
MLNNKAPOLia Feb. 6, Befriend
d by Sheriff Earle Itrowa of Hoime
pin county by the gift of a dollar, s
man who said he was Herbert Hovd,
asd that he was wasted in Fort tr&gaa
ak. for burglary, "returned this
favor" by surrendering to tee sherKf
hm todf7 sb ftmir lster
Mm,:
S SPREADING TO
BRITISH ISLES
society known ua the OrdT at ih
Crusader, which seems to blend with
Sn sntiijuc rliuai ?rti points at re-
semblance to the Ea Klax Klan and
the Fascist of Italjr la springing up
in KngJuitd
According to b member of tfse
ordfrr it was founded two ytarn iige.
ltiring the last two months it has
hwn rondMeting m iftititive ttm
laia for mpnsiemltiit and while it
rpfunn to divaiga tise number f its
members, it claims to have them in
very action of Clrtat flrftain,
Tho avowed ljt of the sofW?
is io irig hark the spirit of the Cry
sitder to rv&ryday lifr,
McetingK of the order ore held ir
hind ciopd dom-s. Oh ceremostei
ocrasions tho metnhvrs are drewK'tJ in
a striking mrb. Officers wsr c rim-
sun robes with s, large white er
on the ltft fsMUd other mombom
adopt a bt.k sown with a whitfl
mtrplioe over Ui on tho brfast of
whirh i a red cross.
Homo tit the emblems of the order
nre suggestive of a different pur
ijoso, however. In the rltua! a sword
is carried lo symbolize "serylcff
swurR ore worn to represent 'ghir-
&iry" and 'lottity" Ik txiresei by
csrrving banners.
The literature of the order states
that it aims at forming "in every
ward of each town and tit every large
village a ceitelavo of crutsaders com
mmd of real leathers of public opin
ion in the locality Ijiler on the
intend "to g't crusaders into Parlia
ment, on county and local eouneife
in the churehrs and out of them,"
Tho initiation of candidates, as re
gnrdu time, jhsec and rermony
s'Jom ty resembles the Ku Klux Kian
When each candiiat is inltlUd
he is cxneeted to nmUs a donation s
two pounds or more there being no
limit, to be used by the officials as
they seo fit,
LOCATE EARTHQUAKE
IN PACIFIC OCEAN
CLKVKf.AXR, Pelfc 6. l,oraUtt of
ihe itisaiitic earthquake which thro
needles from ssigmogrtiiiha In thi
coontry and threw mountainous titiai
waves 8K3ist tho Hawaiian Islands
on Saturday wa fixed by Kathor
Diiesbach of St, Ignatius college today
at isroaiiii)atoIy 170 desreea wert
longitude ami 36 decrees north lati
tude, mliiway Ijetween the Hawaiian
and Aleutian Island in tho Pacific
ocean.
His calculation, based on observa
tion of the tidal waves, would plave
tho convulsion atom 1300 miles north
went of Honolulu, A the map ihtma
no islands there, ha believes it poiwi
Ma that some were hoisted up by the
sob-l'sclflo rrtn)Ult.
In; mil u i
Given Soviet Job to 1
Get U, S. Settlers
MOSCOW, Feb. 5. Xew and
non-Jolitical Jobs have been
found for William 1). Haywood
and Ludwig Martens, former
soviet represeatatives in the
United States, Since Haywood's
resignation front the Kuzbas
colony he has nndertaken to en-
courage Americans to settle on
the land and establish an effi-
cient agricuHoral system.
Martins is at the head of the
patent department and has pre-
seated a plan to permit employes
to profit indlviilnally. Uudtsr
tho oid soviet system ail patents
belonged to the government,
.
S BLOW-UP
SAFE IN PACIFIC
FRUITC0.0FFICE
The safe in the office of the Pacifte
Fruit and Predate company's local
branch warehouse was Mown witta
open last night and about $10 to
cash was obtained by the cracksmen
wUo made tlr getaway without
leaving any Bbs!atiai ciows for the
sheriff's office sad (writes to foiiow,
It is bfliivod by Manager BiHings
that the robbers wtrs bnbnea as sev
oral were suriy larking about the
plant yesterday and as thero aro at
tho . present tinsc, a liuml5r of vs
gfaltis ! iho city, enroBie north on
ilisi seasons! piiRriinago.
Tho safe was eomnlclely wrecked
and allhoiigh tho crack around tho
edgo of tha doer was filled with
"roup" in a professinnal manner it
iss believed that the job was ddno by
amalonrs, for had they been pro
f cantons, they wouiil havo taekiad
noiiiillfff wnrlh srhiie accriiiiie to
J Sheriff Terrili,
The roblwry took jrtace somelimo
aitor niidnlght last night and tho
thieves gained entrance to the build
ing Iiy tearing the lock from the
main doors.
I !epaty I D, Foracrook was ou the
job this morning with his finger prist
apjaraisi and evsrylhinR in the of
fice waa given a eSoso examination for
iho toli-talo marks,
A box of'dates was opened and a
number of packages of the- tooth
some dainties were taken by ihe
thieves before (' departed from
the secene of their depredations.
VIOLENCE ATTENDS
CANADA ELEOTWN
SIGNTREAL, Feb. 5. Rioting, thaft,
assault and fraud rttooiiej! the Mon
treal balloiioft today is the provincial
general elections. At noon time thirty
persons charged with vsriosns offenses
were in Jaii and a number of others
were in hospitals.
Fifteen men said to havs taken part
in a riot ia tho Bt, Lawrence division
during which Antonio Taret, waa aeri
oasiy ininreil, his ballot bosea stoic
and tho polling place demolished, were
Jailed.
Destruction of the polHns place
ondod voting ftsr-tho day in tho di
vision. Adoipa h'Areheae, oipoitios Candi
das ia Mercer, rasjsed the arrest of
twelve men ho said carried tis of
dosd men they Intended to inspersoo
sta In tho voting.
w
TEN KILLED BY TIDAL WAVE IN
HONOLULU PROreRTY DAMAt
IIONOIA'l.f, Feb. 5. illy tho As
sociated 1'rens. ) InhabHanis of thu
city and bay of lliio, island of Hawaii,
cont'naod today lo take stock of the
resaii of tidal ! which swept
Iho district Saturday aft(BOon with
sn estimated loss of ten or twelve
lives and property danisgo undeter
mined, but placed at $ 160,008 in the
city alone.
Tho tidal wave followed a severe
earthquake which tho observatory
al Kiiauea reported to osve occurred:
HAIL QUITS
EFFORT FOR
larshfield Senator in a Huff
Withdraws Name From Any
Further Connection With
Governor's Program of Con
solidation Flays Oppo
nents Compulsory School
Biff As Cause of Action.
BAi.KJl. Ore., Feh. 5. Senator
Charles liail, ta a letter read tmlsy
to tiw senate by Prertdent Jay Vp
ton, vxsrvsscd wliiiagness to wtth
drsw his hiii far consolidation of
maift tieisariment dectaring Jt was
' 'Tv idain," that he was to be pun
Ssiui fur his suspect of the cmonS
sory -hanl Wil at tis last election
ami !- usb I rtfssI to bare my
Owsck to the laches of the party whip
i the haath sC seme of those at
tininine to tSicmseives up .-
h'advra of the republican party In
Oregsn.
Hail's lister, which was sent frosss
Marjdifiebl, wher he had been called
hy the death of his father-in-iaw,
"I have . thcffore concluded tiwt
sssy daiy as a citics. does not jwrrtsrft
, B to suffer this aeadiot-k. to continuo
j s iofti? as it ran he broken by tiw
J ajcall iweiifh-c or withdrawing By
i nansa frwin further connection witH
tSovernor Heree's consoiidatios pro- ?
raio, ' - . - ..."
j A nea cmimiMnU&n bill, intended
I hr lis nroiieneoSg to he a snbstttoie
for the liait bill assii three others
- Jins psijar today for inlrodws
ison this week. It ijroposes a cshi
net form of iKjvemment with tiw
' governor, secretary of Mate, statft
is trcasarer, a bank commissioner and
San indostrbii aechisnt asnmlsswr,
eotnp&siriK the eahinet. The pobiis
J eerviee commission would have threo
I memlwrK, as at pr-wnt, hot they
wouhl 1 aijpsintiij fey the governar
insicsd of eiceiivc, Various, stats
brars and tmreaMs weald be aboS-
(shed. -
Senator C. W. Bills ot Bams ha
prcisared an amessdsnent to the anti
saloon league's prohibition enforce
ment hill, excepting iighi wines, and
ier froin the Mil's provision that asy
kiod of aieoitoiie ihjr or appar
atus for making, it nwsy be seixed and
ricsSriyti.
The BlUs amendment woald havo
ihe hiii aily eniy to dissilied liciuer,
Itepwa-ntirtive T. T. Bennett ot
Marshfield tooay $trsneeU a reso
iuthm for a cooasitationai amend
ment requiring that special memsfimm
of ihe legislature he eesfined entirety
to the anbject jsassdi in the gov
ernor's isrociansatioa calling the ses
sion, Clovernor W, " ' iiecee today ?i k : - -cd
the bill reoiring iabUnR of wai
nuta and fiibeHa grown in Oregon.
Colonsnas Bay Hit
SALEM, Ore,, Feb, S. Tha Ore
gon house of representative tody
passed a bill Introdaced by C .
Ijcwia of Portia nil, striking Colnrahua
day from the list of siais holiday,
There were 18 dissenting vote.
The bouse passed the biil by Mrs.
C. B. Simmons of Portland, which rus
Bseves the present exemption clause
in the women's jury bill and reqnlre
ail women to serve except as exeased
by the judge. Under the present tow
women empanelled may be excuses;
from jury service ia tiscy so desire.
The bill by Representative B, V,
Kecney of EagcBo, in(raJuce4 wttfc
special reference to a rttaatloa at Bs
Sene, bat which it was charged wtU
piare practically every hospli&i In tho
stale on tho tax rolls, passed the
honaa today,
fJebaie on Senator B, L, Eddy htt-
fCoBtinited m i'sge Six)
from 200 lo SM nils away la aa
nnkaewn direction.
Persons living Is (oyer IHlo, ft?
In a rerarreneo of tho llilal wi i
moved lo higher BroBBd with M their
poitMsialons yesterday.
The following Message was recall
ed here today from tha htand tft
Oaam:
"Tha aelsntogmplt recorded a very
slight earthquake shock at 10:43 a,
m, Saturday, Tho re was no tlstal
wave. Conditions normal,
y