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The Weather
Prediction Rain
Maximum yesterday .44.5
Minimum today 22
Weather Year Ago
Maximum 50
Minimum 22
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MEDFORD, OREGOX, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 1923
NO. 277
Now Mabel Njrmand
Wears Wedding Ring
Denies She's Married
Portland Jail Used
French Soldiers Use Bayonets in Ruhr Riots
By Counterfeiters
As Operation Base
AND
IN GRIP OF
STORM
Portland Partially Snowbound
By Blizzard Cold Wave
Spreading, Florida Alone
Exempt Zero Weather in
Northwest and Middlewest
Hard Hit.
PORTLAND. Oro. Feb. 14. Port
land was partially snowbound this
morning us tho result of a blizzard
which continued about 24 hours. The
fltorm reached Its height lust night
and had abated this morning. Drifts
two to five feet high Impeded truffle
but the street curs were gradually
resuming service on such lines as had
been blocked. Railroads reported
trains moving. Tho minimum tem
perature early today was fourteen
above.
ELLENSBURO, Wash.. Feb. I I
The worst blizzard of tho year was
raging In the Cascade mountains west
of here today. Telegraph lines be
tween Seattle and Ellensburg were
down and transcontinental train ser
vice delayed.
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
passenger train No. 1$, eastbound,
from Seattle, was stalled at Garcia,
just west of the Cascade summit. Thej
mountain stretch of the road which
is electrified, was temporarily out
of commlssison as the result of proB
trated trolley, powor and feoder
lines.
Northern Pacific passenger train
if, I Nov 334,, eastbound, was delayed
' 4 four hours by the heavy snow: In the
last three days, according to reports
here, six feet of snow have fallen in
the foothills. K
The minimum tomperrfture record
ed here last night was one degree
below zero. High winds continued
today.
OMAHA, Neb., Feb. 14. The cold
wave which began In the Missouri
valley last night today brought sub
zero temperatures, with eight below
reported at Sioux City, Iowa, and
three below at Omnha. Valentine
wus tho coldest point in Nebraska
with ten below.
Prediction for colder weather for
eastern Nebraska tonight was made
by the United Slates weather bureau.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. Cold,
weather will spread all over tho sec
tions east of the Mississippi river ex
cept southern Florida by late tomor
row, according to weather bureau
forecast which says the cold snap will
continue the remainder of tho week.
The weather bureau referred to
ibe cold wave in the west as "severe"
hut made no prediction as to its dur
ation. ' .
SPOKANE, Feb. 14. A blanket of
snow thnt covered the state of Wash
ington ana oxtended as far Boulb as
Salem, Ore., was being Increased In
. most parts of the state today. The
heaviest fall was reported from west
ern Washington cities, Aberdoen re
porting twenty Inches, Olympla two
feet and Uolllngham six inches.
At Aberdeen drifts had stalled mo
tr and stret car traffic. Local
traffic at Kverett was suspended hut
trains were moving, although' rail
road wires were down. Street cars
were tied up at Olympla and inter-
urban stages wero tlndlug hard go
ing. Meanwhile near zero tempera
tures prevailed over the state. At
Walla Walla, where four Inches of
snow during tho night brought the
tall to 17 Inches, the minimum was
lour above. At Wnnntehee and ink
'?ma It was three above with a light
snow falling. Everett and Aberdeen
reported fifteen above and Belling
ham eleven above. Olympla reported
thirty above and Salem, Oro., nine
teen above.
The minimum tempcraturo here
(Continued on cage eight)
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. A reso
lution declorlng It to be the sense
r-f the senate that war should be
"outlawed as an Institution or means
for tho settlement of International
i controversies,',' and proposing croa-ktlon-
and adoption of a code of Intcr
f national Inw and an International
NEW YORK, Fob. 14. Ma-
bel Normand, moving picture
star, dented today that she was
married, but declined to explain
her diamond studdod wedding
ring.
Sho arrlvod last night on the
steamship Ualtlc after several
months abroad. Thore was gos-
sin among the passengers that
she hud been married last Do-
comber in London.
WILL BE SEIZED
Berlin Rumor Fabrication
Gold Marks to Stabilize Ex
change Severe Penalty for
Sabotage and Tampering
With Wires.
PARIS, Feb. 14. (By tho Asso
ciated Press.) France has no Inten
t'.on of occupying Hamburg, it was
officially announced today by the for
eign office.
The report that such nn intention
existed, published in the German
press, giving even the name of the
French admiral entrusted with the
operation was an entire fabrication,
it was declared.
PARIS, Feb. 14. (By tho Asso
ciated Press. )-The. German govern
ment has asked the Reiehsbank to
throw 3fi0, 000, 000 gold marks on
the market In order to stabilize ex
change, says a Havas dispatch from
Berlin today, and the governors of
the bank, convinced of the futility of
the proposal, have resigned. Tho
govern.i.J;nt, adds the message, Is
persisting in Its demand.
PARIS, Feb. 14 (By the Asso
ciated PresB.) The French govern
ment has decided to propose In the
chamber of deputies a decrease of
cne-hnlf of one per cent in the inter
est rate of the national defense bonds.
A bill to this effect has been depos
ited with the finance commission of
the chamber.
PARIS, Feb. 14. (By the Asso
ciated PreBS.) The French federa
tion of labor authorities, at a fully
attended meeting-today decided the
federation would not take part In the
coal strike threatened for Friday 'by
the communist group of minors, 35,-
000 strong. It was stated the fed
eration's decision was taken after
promises had been made by the gov
ernment to obtain an equitable solu
tion of the wuge question.
GELSENKIRCHEN, Feb. 14. It
Is reported In French circles that se
vere sanctions are to be imposed In
consequence of acts of sabotage
which have caused an Interference In
telegraph and telephone communica
tlon with Paris.
Similar penalties will bo affected
at. Bochum because the German nu
thorltles have refused to permit the
French to requisition motor cars. A
threat to murder the chaufeurs if the
automobiles are taken over has been
reported to tho occupation officers,
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PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 14. The
wholesalo price of sugar jumped
11.23 a sack here today. Best cane
wag quoted at $9.25 per hundred
pounds by local jobbers. This was
the largest single advance here since
war time.
court, was Introduced today by Sena
tor Borah, republican, Idaho.
Tho resolution declared that every
nation should bo "encouraged by sol
emn agremeent or treaty to bind It
self In indict and punish Its own In
ternational war breeders or Instiga
tors nnd war profiteers."
INCH DIMM
REPORT HAMBUG
Uf1
Those soldiora in Dortmund, being inserted by General llnortnr. are on
by Germans In which bayonots wero resorted In on one occasion.
DAK f AS SWEP
T
BY COLO WAVE,
Blizzard Piles Drifts On Tracks
Stalling Trains Known
Deaths, 4- High Winds
Halt Relief All, Railroad
Service at Standstill. ,.
ST. PAt'L, Minn., Feb. 14. Train
service was vlrtunlly tied up by snow
today in Minnesota, tho Dakotas,
Wisconsin, Saskatchewan and Wis
consin. Tho storm Is tho worst this
section has experienced in a quartor
century. Onlcs piled fine snow into
huge drifts which stalled trains on all
roads except thoso leading to the
east and south.
CIoho on tho heels of the blizzard
camo a severo cold wave,, with tem
peratures well below zero. At St.
Paul early today It was 20 below.
This cold weather is expected to con
tinue to hamper trains after the
wIikIh die down.
Four known deaths wero report
ed. Four children of a family named
Gibbs perished when their farm
home, 12 miles northeast of Pino City,
Minn., was burned lato last night.
Mrs. Gibbs and a fifth child are In a
serious condition.
Little effort was made yesterday or
Inst night to send out snow plows to
clear some, railways, ns tho thin
snow would blow book quickly by the
winds, which reached 50 lnllcs or
more in most sections of Minnesota,
North and South Dakota and west
ern Wisconsin.
Several passenger trains wero re
ported stalled In drifts and many
were held nt division points until tbc I
weather clears up. All westbound j
trains nut of the twin cities were an
nulled yesterday. Eastbound trains
to Chicago were snld to bo muking,
slow progress.
On the Great Northern not a wheel
turned late yesterday and Inst night
on the trnnR-continentnl lino between
here nnd Wllliston. N. D., officials
considering traffic unsafe, under ex
isting conditions.
Many efforts were made to core
for passengers on stalled trains.
Early today thirty section hands
were shoveling snow In an endenvor
to enable n relief train to reach five
carlnads of livestock stalled In drifts
four miles up from Itivcr Falls, Wis.,
on the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapo
lis and Omaha railroad.
EFFECT OF STRIKE ON
CMC RIGHTS PROBED
WASHINGTON. Feb. 14. An In
vestigation to determine whether
civic rights of American citizens
hnve been nbrldgod or denied dur
ing labor controversies In tho coal
Industry nnd whether breaches of,
civil or criminal inw have been In-i
volved. with a purpose of fixing re-j
sponslbillty was begun todny by the
federal coul commission. Former
Vice-president Marshall, one of the
commission members, was detailed to
make tho preliminary examination.!
MARSEILLES, Feb. 14. Smyrna
harbor Is thoroughly Inld with mines,
which extend out to sen for a con-j
slderable distance, according to the
rnptaln of n stenmer which nrrlvr-d
here this morning. '
WORST 25 YEARS
W4j
RUSH VOTE ON
Senate Leaders Urge Night
Session in Drive for Action
Lodge Pleads for Gener
ous Terms and to Let Pos
terity Pay.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 14. A drive
for a vote before adjournment tonight
on the British debt funding bill was
undertaken by senate ieaders who
reiterated their Intention to hold a
night session If necessary. . ?
Discussion was opened today by
Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, re
publican floor leader and chairman of
the foreign relations committee. In a
brief speech in support of the funding
agreement. "
Tho British-American agreement,
he said, was of utmost Importance, "a
great substantial fact."
"It Is of value to both countries,"
he said, "and or value to the world.
We start with tho proposition, of
course, that there will bo no cancella
tion of the foreign debt. But the Unit
ed States has no desire to exact
usurious interost or to make hard
terms, but wo are disposed to hold
thoso debts and settle them on most
reasonable nnd generous tonus."
Referring to the large Interest pay
ments due from Great Britain, Sen
ator Lodge added:
"We gain by this settlement a very
large amount of the money. The ma
turity I know Is long, but it is proper
to place on posterity n largo share of
the debts of the war."
Except for the plan for congression
al approval of future funding propo
sals, tho bill would bo limited to ac
ceptance of tho British funding agree
ment. '
Acceptance of tho Robinson amend
ment was said to have been ugred
upon in conferences today between
Senator Smoot, republican, Utah, in
charge of the bill and other leaders.
The plan was said to be acceptable to
several senators who had been plan
ning to fight the measure.
Other negotiations In progress by
senate lenders looked to avoiding the
sossioh planned for tonight by u
unanimous consent agroement for a
vote on tho bill lato today or tomor
row. E
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TAOOMA, Feb. 14. Tlicro will be
no state action on the case of Captain
Robert Rosenhluth, under Indictment
In federal court here for the murder
of Major Alexander P. Cronkhlte at
Camp Lewis In October, 1918, Prose
cuting Attorney J. W. Hidden an
nounced, following the announcement
from New York yesterday that re
moval proceedings had been dis
missed. Seldcn snld he was through with
the Rosenhluth case unless something
develops about which he knows nitti
Ing.
DEBT LENIENCY
TO GT. BRITAIN
the alert following recent rioting
Measure for Cabinet Form Is
Backed By Hall Forces
Governor and Senate Favor
Another Compromise To,
. Create Five, Departments.
SALEM, Ore., Fob. 14. Tho com
promise stnto government consollda-'
tlon bill, prepared by Representative
J. 'H. Carkln of Medford, which was
intended to replace tho Hall and tho
Johnson-Carkln bills, passed the
bouse today with but one dissenting
vote.
, Passage of this bill, which provides
a cabinet form of government, trans
fers the sceno of tho controversy
over consolidation plans from tho
house to tho senate and complicates
the situation created by tho agree
ment yesterday by Governor W. M.
I'lerco and 17 senators over another
compromise bill. Houso nnd senato
leaders said tho outeomo was prob
lematical. The forces In sympathy with Sen
ntor Charles Hall In the senato wore
said to ho In favor of tho bill which
passed the house today.
The Carkln bill creates flvo depart
ments, agriculture, business control,
lnbor, public welfnro nnd public
works, each presided over by a sec
retary to be appointed by tho gov
ernor. Tile executive would set the sec
retaries' suluriCH but could not ex
ceed a maximum set in the bill. The
Secretaries in turn would fix tho com
pensation of tho various bureau
heads over which they havo Juris
diction.. The senate todny passed the bill
Introduced by Senator H. If. Brown of
Gervais and Peter Zimmerman of
Vanillin, designed to prevent adulter
ation of milk products by tho uso of
manufactured ingredlends.
The senate today killed Represen
tative L. M. Graham's bill providing
for re-Issuance of highway bonds for
construction of prlmnry mnrket
rouds.
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IN FIRE. RUINS
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NEW YORK, Fell. 14 A fortune
In gems, gold and silver, estimated At
e.flOO.OOO and upwards, Llay burled
today In the safes In tho smouldering
wreckage of n six-story offlre build
ing destroyed by fire in Maiden Lnno,
the Jewel center of tho World.
More than sixty Jewelers and sil
versmiths occupied tho building.
When the walls and floors collapsed
the safes were sent tumbling Into the
deep rellnr. FTxpcrts snld that the
valuables undoubtedly would be
found Intact,
riiincHo Fight.
HANCOW, China, Feb. 14. (By
tho Associated Press.) Hostilities
are reported on tho border of Szech
wan provlnco above t'atung between
Szechwaneso nnd troops of General
Wu Pel Fu, the north China leader.
Martial law has been deralred at
Irhang on the Yangfsc river In this
(llupeh) province,
CARKIN BILL BY
HOUSE MIXES UP
CONSOLIDATION
PORTLAND, Oro., Feb. 14.
Activities of counterfeiters who
hnve been "raising" notos in the
corridors of the Multnomah coun-
ty jail and passing the spurious
currency from the Jail, are under
Investigation by government
authorities, according to revela-
Hons muda by sercet service
operatives. Two l bills, raised
to the V' denomination, both of
which were found In tho posses-
slonof prisoners aro In the hands
of the authorities.
Sidelines of Science Also Are
Listed Also Counties to
Combine On Road Bonding
Majority Vote Bill Passes
Tax Measures Killed.
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 14. For the
admitted purpose of permitting the
completion of tho Roosevelt const
military highway from Astoria to the
California lhio at an earlier dato than
tho state highway commission can
hopo to flnnnco it, a bill was pro
pared yesterday by the Joint ronds
and highways committee.
Under tho bill ndvuntago would be
taken by the coast counties ot tho net
of it Hi which permits several dis
tricts to combing for road purposes
and issue bonds on tho property In
cluded in tho district.
A bill which its sponsors say will
produce $1,000,000 a year through
tho levying of a 15 per cent tax on
tho Incomes from all motion plcturo
films, secret processes, patents, royal
ties and formulas used, rented leased
or sold In tho state also was reported.
A bill which would requlro that tho
art mil consideration involved in
tho transfer of any real property
named In tho dcod filed with tho
county recorder or county clerk was
defeated by the hoifso.
The senato pnssed Representative
R. J. Ezell's houso bill requiring
county courts nnd commissioners to
have a majority voto of tho people
before tho selection of slteB and con
struction of court houses.
The houso yestcrdny killed three
tax' investigating commission - bills,
thoso giving superior powors to the
state tax commission to empower uni
form assessments: , providing for
showing true consideration in all
deeds nnd requiring inheritance taxes
to go into tho Irreduelblo school fund.
Two were pnssed, ono to establish In
all counties of tho slate a tax su
pervising nnd conservation commis
sion such ns now exists In Multnomah
county and ono to provido for a now
method of assessing nnd taxing cut
over timber lands.
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Evincing
belief that rum pirates wero active
at sen, customs and prohibition of
ficials today broudenst a genornl
alarm for a steam trawler which was
reported to have robbed tho auxiliary
schooner, 1'. .1. McLaughlin of nearly
$350,000 worth of liquor oft the Jer
sey coast Sunday night.
SPONSOR TAX ON
MOVIES. FINANCE
COSI HIGHWAYS
JEWELS OF CZAR WORTH MILLIONS
NOT FOUND IN SAILOR'S GRAVE
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Nono of
tho Russian rrown Jewels was found
when tho coffin of Senmnn John
Jones, burled In a Rrooklyn ccmo
tery, was disinterred today by the
government. ,
Tho exhumation had, been ordorcd
In scttta the question of whether
$1,000,000 worth of gems once belong
ing to Czar Nicholas had been smug
gled into the I'nlted States In 1920 on
the army transiiort Kdellyn. It had
been reported that the smugglers had
concealed the Jewels In the coffin of
Jones who died at Gibraltar while tho
transport was on its way from Vladivostok.
F
PETITIONS
False Affidavits, Fraud and
Threats Against Signers
Trees Along Highway Pro
tectedNo Licenses for
Hunters Who Kill for Deer
Heads 1927 Fair Up
SALKM. Oro., Feb. 14. Tho sen
ato today, after debate, passed Sen
ator S. M. Garland's bill providing
penalties for fraud In circulating
Initiative, referendum and recall pe
titions or in making false affidavits
or threats to Intimidate persons into
signing petitions.
The senate defeated Representa
tive Louis Kuehn's bill providing tor
signing Initiative petitions at the of
fice of the county clerk instead of in
tho bunds of circulators.
Other house bills which died In
tho senate are one making It unlaw
ful to cut or Injure trees on a public
highway without permission from tho
Btate highway department and. one
providing that game licenses shall
not be Issued to persons who at any
time while hunting have killed or In
jured a human being.
The house has adopted the Gor
don resolution to make the governor,
secretary) of state and Btate treas
urer parties with Portland city of
ficials in a corporation to be formed
Tor purposes of holding a world's
fair in Portland in 1927.
The senale adopted the report of
tho Judiciary ' committee recommend
ing passage of the anti-alien land
bill, which already has passed the
house.
The houso rejected the senate bill
already requiring the governor to
name two dirt farmers o nthe state
gamo commission and Senator A. J.
Johnson's resolution calling tor a 10
per cent cut In salaries of all state
officers and employes whose com
pensation is not fixed by law.
Two . constitutional amendments
proposed by Senator J. C. Smith, one
tor repeal of the six per cent tax
limitation amendment and the other
proposing repeal of the educational
mlllage taxes have been killed by
tho Benate.
Senator W. H. Strayer's resolution
proposing a constitutional- amend
ment to repeal obsolete constitutional
provisions covering salaries of state
officers was adopted by the senate.
LEAPS 100 POINTS
NEW YORK, Feb. 14. After nd
vanci'H of 28 to 72 points at tho open
ing of tho raw sugar futures market
today, prices broke 100- points -.the L
maximum fluctuations 'allowed - In
one day's trading by the exchange.
Yesterday's' spectacular ndvanco of .
100 points had left- many buying
around tho ring. Today theso ordors
wero executed, causing nn advance, '
May and' July selling as high as $6.40.
After tho execution, however, thoro
was heavy liquidation and prices
tumbled ono cent a pound In tho
first hour's trading.
nCESSELDORF Flvo hundred
telephone girls refused to work In tho
same room with a French operator
and tho city was without telephone
service
Nowspaper men were barred from
the cemetery during the disinterment.
Tho casket was held in the ground
until a company of soldiers had ar
rived from Fort Hamilton and had -been
stationed around tho grounds.
Grave diggers then carried tho cas
ket to the mortunry, where the shrou 1
was removed. Nearly three-quarters
of an hour wns spent In examining tho
body, the clothing and the lining of
the coffin.
In the presence of army officer
and officials of the treasury depart
ment, the body was removed from the
casket to permit complete examina
tion. Then it wns lifted buck Into tho '
coffin and replaced In the ground.
FREEDOM
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