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Newspaper Page TextX Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Prediction Rain or snow Maximum yesterday 43 Minimum today 33 Preolpitation Trace Weather Year Ago Maximum 5? Minimum 37 Dully Seventeenth Tear, t'eekly Fltty-tSeoorid Vear. MEDFOKD, OK EG OX, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1G, 1923 XO. 279 OS ANGELES MAN MURDERED Mysterious Death of Earl Rem ington, Amateur Aviator and Famous Electrical Expert Stirs California Society Body Found By Negro Cook. LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16. Earl Remington, aviator and. electrical en gineer was shot to death shortly be fore midnight In the yard of his home In one of the most exclusive residen tial sections of Los Angeles. Circum stances surrounding the slaying and motive for it proved mystifying to the police today. A large portfolio indicated Iteming ton attempted to save his life from the attack. There wero two bullet holes through it showing the victim had held it over his chest, but it tailed to deflect the bullets which penetrat ed his heart and stomach. No attempt was made to rob the bouse or loot the body. The body was found early today by Charity Dawson, a negro cook employed by the Rem ingtons. The body was beside Rem ington's machine; indicating the slay ing occurred as he stepped from his automobile. ' ' The death wounds were inflicted by J ....... .-.,...1 I..r Un police later in the Investigation. One of the charges tore over the edge of the portfolio and into his heart, and ilie second went-through the lower part of it into his stomach. Nationally Known Remington was- nationally- known as a bank designer and electrical engi neer, having been elected vice presi dent of the International Electric Pro tective association last year. Aviation was his sporting diversion and he was adept at stunt flying. Dur ing the war he organized and became general manager of the California Aviation company, located here. His electrical enginering achieve ments were mainly in the line of pro tective and safety electrical devices for banks. Mrs. Earlo Remington, active social ly and prominently identified with benefit work for disabled war veter ans, was asleep in the residence at the time of the slaying. She did not learn of it until several hours after it occurred, police announced. The first hour of investigation by police detectives failed to divulge clews to a motive for the slaying. FROZEN TO DEATH v " . OMAHA, Fob. 18. Miss Kathryn Lucaswacac, 30, head nurse nt a hos pital ut Shenandoah, Iowa, was found frpzen to death in an open au tomobile two mllea from Shenendoah by a posse of farmers, according to n special dispatch received here. Charles McMahon, 23, who said he went motoring with her InBt night, said they fell asleep, and was held for a coroner's inquest this nfter- Ll'XOR. Egypt. Feb. 10. (By the Associated Press.) Tho sarcopha gus of tho Pharaoh Tuntenkhamun was found when the Inner chambor of his tomb was opened by the cm minent archaeologists this after noon. . Many articles of furniture also were In the mortuary chamber. LONDON, Feb. 16. Although tl formal opening of the Inner char her of King Tutenkhamun's ton has been fixed for next Sunda. when tho queen of the BolRlnns, th Egyptian ministers. Commlsilone Allenby nnd the other notables wl present, several correspondents o SARCOPHAGUS OF KfNG TUNTEKHAriUN FOUND; BELGIAN QUEEN TO VIEW II Creole Beauty Files Suit for $500,000 Against Cola King ATLANTA, Oa., Feb. 16. A suit against Asa O. Cundler, Sr., will be filed here tomorrow on behalf of . Mrs. Onezlma Do lloucholle, his former flonco, according to a story appearing today in the Atlanta Journal. The Journal which gives as authority for. the story dis patches received from New Or leans, did not give any details of the proposed suit. It was understood however, . that it would be filed some timo tomor row und that the amount nsked would bo $ri00,000. 4 Mrs. Dellouchelle, who is a resident of New Orleans, said in a statement, some, months ago that Mr. Candler broko off their engagement to bo married. GASOLINE TAX SALEM. Ore, Feb. 16. The house yesterday passed house bill 313, plne ing an additional one cent tax on gasoline, making a total of three cents tax. . .The V-arkln consolidation bill, passed by the house Wednesday, wns recnlled from tho senate for amend ment. v . Tho senate passed senate bill 205, the Pierce-West bill for consolida tion .of state offices. The house killed Watson's hill 10 prohibit com mercial fishing In the Columbia river cast of tho Sandy. SALEM, Ore, Fell. 16. Tho house sustained the veto, of Governor W. M. Pierce -of. the bill exempting from in heritance tax the (1,000,000 Bernard Duly estnto of Lake county, which was left as a fund for education of needy students of Lake county. Tho senate yesterday passed this measure over tho veto. Speaker K. K. Kubli of the house today called attention to the fact that 135 bills romnin to he disposed of by the house nnd predicted the session would run over nt least two days next week. The session legally ends tonight. The sennte compromise state gov ernment hill reached tho house today and encountered two groups opposed to it. Tho outeomo early this after noon was problematical, said leaders. In senate circles a compromise in- como tax hill to tnke the placo of seven pending measures was pro posed. The senate killed Senntor Charles Hall's bills to eliminate the contract doctor and hospital systems, which employers nro allowed under the workmen's compensation act. Hall declared the measures would bo Inl tinted. Tho house passed a joint resolution carrying out a suggestion of former Oovernor Pen W. Olcott in his fnrc well message that subjects consider ed at a special session of tho leglsla tore he limited to those contained in tho governor's call. A constitutional amendment to that effect was pro posed in the resolution. The senate passed the house bill establishing the eight-hour day in the lumber Industry. noon, the dispatch said. The tem perature last night was said to have been ten below zero. McMahon said he could hardly move when he woke up this morning and went for help. MINNEWAUKE.N. D Feb. 16. The body of Mrs. C. B. Erickson, wife of a farmer near Muddock, was found late yesterday a mile from home, where she froze to death in Tues day's blizzard. Loxor say that a liole will be pierced today in the wall of the chamber. This aperature will be sufficiently large, it is Bald, to enable the exca vators tn view tho contents. It is Intimated that the result of this peep Into the resting place of the n" -v -ill bo communicated only i a . 1 few. ' ;si crowd of visitors and men had assembled early i . ning In anticipation of the Ileforo the work was -.'.. presslons of the seals on y were taken for the em loiogists, James II. Breast - nn Gardiner. PASSES HOUSE, SESSION DRAGS FATE OF STORM TOSSED SHIPS IS STILUVIYSTERY No Word From Tuscan Prince and No Trace of Vessel Italian Steamer in Atlantic in Distress Is Not Found By Searchers. SEATTLE, Feb. 10. Fate of the British freight steamer Tuscan Prince and her crow of 43 men was unknown today, more than 24 hours after a faint wireless message that the ves sel was sinking sent half a dozen roscuo vessels scurrying out to sea off tho Washington and British Col umbia coasts to hor aid. During yesterday and last night no further word had been received and .today shipping men here ex pressed the fear that she had foun dered In the heavy gale that swept tho north Pacific early yesterday. A report early Inst night that the shin had struck a ledge near LBte van Point, Vancouver Island, nnd the crew had been rescued, was un confirmed. During tho night other similar reports were received, but when traced down proved erroneous Coast guard cutters today wero seeking to learn the identity of a vessel reported last night to have sent up flares off the west coast of Vancouver Island. It was at first thought the vessel was the steel freighter Canadian Volunteer, but early today the Canadian Volunteer reported "OK" by wireless. The crew of the wrecked steamor Santa Rita, ashore near Clo-Oose, Vancouver Island, was expected to reach Victoria today on the steamer Princess Manuinna. A message received by the naval radio station here from the salvago steamer iAlgarlne said heavy seas were breaking over the Santa Rita and that it was impossible to ap proach her. Other reports said the Santa Rita, a ' wooden vessel, was breaking up rapidly.' The sea wart reported rough off the entrance to the strait of Juan do Fuca today. NORFOLK. Vn.. Feb. 16. The schooner Freindshlp, lumber laden out of Norfolk for Xew England ports, wns found by the coast guard cutter Manning at noon today barely afloat. The eulter reported by wire less that heavy scans wero running, but that it was hoped the crew of seven could be taken off. vfav vnnK. Fnh. in. Efforts of coast guard headquarters to get in touch with tho Itnlianp stenmshi MnMnan!atn i-nnni-terl KOft ITlllCH Off the Virgina coaBt yesterday bad been .Itl.n..t malllt n nnnn tOftflV. The steamship Carplake, New Orleans for Havre, picked up me distress can oi iha Tr,nantain nnH went, to her as sistance but was unable to locato her. AUTO COLLISION An automobile accident this morn ing In which no ono was Injured, oc curred when! Ermel Ingram, an em ploye of the California Oregon Power company, wns backing his Chevrolet bug out onto the street from Its place of pnrklng in front of the power com pany offlco on West Main street, and the car was struck by a touring car driven by Miss Mnrgnrot Van Scoyoc, a hlKh school student. Men who witnessed tho accident claim Miss Van Hcoyoo was to blame for tho collision and somo claim that she wns driving very fast. Others assort that sho wns only going rea sonably fnst, thnt she could not get out of tho street car groove when Ingram backed his rr oijt unex pectedly, and thut Ingrnm 'was un nble to notice the other car so closely approaching bocnuso of his low sent in tho bug. - '..- Tho Ingrnm car was badly wrecked Its left rear wheel being torn off nnd demolished und tho fender badly dented. Tho touring car had Its right hand running board torrt looso and suffered minor scratches. . U .S. ARMY LIEUTENANT IS KILLED IN MANILA MANILA. Feb. IB. (By the As sociated Press.) Lieutenant Harri son F. Shields, nuartermaster corns was killed today when the motorcy cle he was riding as a dispatch bear er In army maneuvers at Camp Rtot senburg struck a concrete culvert, overturning. Hit widow Is enroutn to San Francisco aboard the trans port Thomas. Shields enlisted as a private In California In 1908. ON MAIN STREET IRISH BRI Governor Appoints Pollman of Baker On Highway Com'm, SALEM, Ore.. Feb. 16. Ap- polntment of William Pollman of Maker ns a member of tho stnto highway commission was announced by Governor Pierce, to fill the place of W. D. Par- rait, formerly of lloppner, who resigned recently becauso his removal to Portland made hlin ineligible longer to represent eastern Oregon on the commls- slon. DEBT PAYMENT IS BY LAFOLLETTE WASHINGTON, Feb. 16. Tho final day of debate on the British debt opened with an attack upon the bill by Senntor LnFolletto, republican, Wis consin, who urged that the terms of the present law he maintained. Ob jecting to the three and three, und n half interest payments and 65 years maturity, he said no agreements should bo accepted lower than those chargeable on Liberty bonds. He charged both Great Britain and France with imperialism and politics and declared Great Britain's colonies now are being charged five percent on loans from the London govern ment. "The Benator from Utah (Mr. Smoot manager of the funding bill) has as sured us that it 1b good business to fund this loan for 62 years on a per cent basis," said Senator LnFol- lette. "If this is good business why wouldn't It be better business to loan to American farmers for 3 per cent for 62 years? . "As I have listcned-io the defense of this proimsed settlement, I have sometimes thought tho chancellor of the British exchequer was speaking, so eloquently and with so much feel ing does he (Senator Smoot) present the case for the British empire. "He has painted a sad picture of the heavy taxes which the British people have to pay, but he has not told us what part of those taxes go to maintenance of the greatest navy in the world; what part represents the cost of keeping in subjection the peo ples of India nnd Egypt;- what part will be spent for the struggle of the Irish people for genuine indepen dence; what part went to Greece for pulling the chestnuts In the Near East out of tho fire; what pnrt is now be ing spent in the struggle of British capitalists and tho British government to monopolize the oil of the world." Propaganda of British and Amer ican financiers has been active be hind the bill, Senator LaFollette said, attacking especially the provision al lowing Great Britain to use the Lib erty bonds in payment. He said this would tend to depreciate American securities, IE GROOM FIGHT FOR LIVES IN CAVE LONDON, Feb. 16. (By the Asso ciated Press) Bitter fighting is In progress in AriKna mountains of county Cavan, where Oenernl Bofln, their lender, nnd his brldo are spend ing their honeymoon in a cave from which the bridegroom directs the operations of tho rebel hand against tho free stnte troops, says nn Evening News dispatch from Belfast today. - Tho free staters are gradually clos ing In on llnfln nnd his followers. Tho Irregulars nrc known to have lost two men killed nnd seventeen wound ed, while 16 of llofln's men, attempt ing to fight their way through, wero captured and taken to Hllgo. Although the free stnto troops are using airplanes and searching tho mountains with shrapnel from the howitzers they are handicapped by the mohlilty of Bnfin's band and the effective cover it is nblo to command. The Irregulars nro using machine guns and hnvo placed them so ns to defend Important points from the final assault. Tho correspondent, expresses the opinion thnt It is unlikely tho IrreKM-' Inrs will be starved out. They may. he adds, hold on for weeks In the cave nnd tunnels. It Is said the free staters nro determined to tnke the rebels, alive or dead. Hofln Is thirty years old. Ho was In charge of n flying column against tho British before the truce, holding the rank of n brigndler. Ills bride refused to lenvc him nnd they set up housekeeping In the cave, which Is well stocked with looted provisions. CONDEMNED POLES ATTACKED BY LITHUANIAN REBEL FORCES Scores Wounded in Clashes Near Warsaw League of Nations Grants Sovereignty Over Disputed Memel Dis trict to Lithuania. WARSAW. Feb. 16. Clashes be tween Polish troops nnd Lltuhnninn (rreKUlars have occurred nt several places durini! tho occunntlon of the noutrul zone alloted to Poland by the council of umlmssudors. TwHlva Pnlitili soldiers worn wound ed, while tho Lithuanians left several wounded on tho field before they wero forced to retreat. No loss of 11 in Is renorted. Tho greater part of tho soutnorn aroa nnd an Important section of the center zone given to Poland is now under Pol sh administration. The Lithuanians are still resisting the oc cupation of the remainder of the area. PAIHS. Feb. 16. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) Sovereignty over the Memel district, tho Baltic area de tached from Germany during and since the war under Inter-allied Ju risdiction, was granted Lithuania by the council of the League of Nations today. Tho Memel territory was Invaded early In January by Lithuanian Ir regulars and a government was set up under M. Slmonaltls, loader in the Insurgent movement. Demands for the withdrawal of this armed force and its executives were mndo by the council of ambassadors upon Lith uania. The council was officially Inform ed, today that tho revolutionary gov ernment of Slmonaltls had with drawn nnd that another government presided over by M. Qaillus and rec ognized by the allied authorities, had been installed. Tho council thereupon decided to allot the soorelgnty of Memel to Lith uania.' BRITISH FLEET CALLS ON GEN! MANILA. Feb. 16. (By the As sociated Press.) Admiral 8lr Ar thur Leveson, commander of the British naval stution In China, arriv ed hero today aboard the British flagship Hawkins, accompanied by half a dozen other British warships. It is understood that Admiral Leve son bears a letter from King George to Governor General Leonard Wood thanking him for the honors accord ed the late Itoar Admiral John S. DutnarcBq, , ox-commander of the British Australian fleet, who died In Manila last July and was given a mil itary funeral. Hoar Admiral K. A. Anderson, commander of the Ameri can Asiatic fleet tendered Admiral Leveson a dinner aboard the flagship Huron and the distinguished visitor will be tho dinner guest of Genoral Wood tomorrow. The Brltibh war ships will remain in Mnnila a week. Enlisted men of the Vnlted States navy have prepared a program of entertainment for the British jackles. LI RESCUED AT SEA NKW YORK, 1'eh. 10, l p, 111.) Her bridge n miniature. Irobcirg nnd her forward di-k covered Willi Ions of Ice, the steamer Mount Carroll arrlvrd ; from llanibui-g toibiy, five) day lute, with a story of a long bat lie with the storm. Pnrt of tho delay wns duo to the fart Hint the Mount Carroll nltnred her roursn through III" raging muh to go to tho nld of nn Injured seanioii aboard tho steamship 'Winona lust. Tues day. Tho seaman, .lames L. Linn of Ijigle Point, Ore., was transferred o a small boat. Ho fn found suffering from nn Infection of tho stub of n finger which had been rut off In tho Winona's machinery Treotel by the ship's doctor, he wns well on the road to recovery today. Irish Irregulars . Blow Up Free State Buildings in ' Dublin IH'IILIN, Feb. 16. (ily Asso- elated Press). Tho land com- mission offices and tho govern- ment stationery offlco in Dubjin wero blown up this evening. DUBLIN, Feb. 16. (Ily Asso- elated Press). Tho offices of tho womens' organization supporting tho free state government, loent- od In Kutlnnd square, wero wrecked by tho explosion of a mluo today. Tho offices of tho comotory committee adjoining wore badly damaged. ESSEN, Feb. 16. (By Associated Press). Two French soldlors were wounded hero last night by German security polico who interfered in a cafe nltercutlon. The tension, which already was high, has been increased by tho shooting and today the French moved tanks Into tho city. The Incident aroso from the soldiers demanding drinks in the cafe and be ing met with a refusal by a waiter. A row was started, the security police appeared and, the French claim, fired the first shot A guard of French soldlors has boen placed In the EsBeu branch of tho Relchsbank, but this is explained as a measure to protect tho supply of electric current to the Kelserhof hotel the French headquarters whiclt is fed through tho bank's transmitters. Boveral cases of attempted sabotage wero reported from various parts of the Ruhr. One instance resulted in .the death of a German railway worker who was shot by a sentry ns ha tried to enter a roundhouse held by occupy ing forces. Owing to tho increased sabotage, more sovern measures nro contemplat ed by the French. They have arrested eight postofflco tolegraph employes. Two assistant burgomasters at Heme also wore arrested. ESSEN, Fob. 16. (By Associated Pross). Tho French court martial, at Hredonry, trying various Gorman of ficials on chnrgoB of resisting tho oc cupying fyirces, today sentenced Oher Burgomaster Havonstoln of Oborhau sen to threo yonrs Imprisonment and Dlroctor Buszmnnn of tho Rhoinish Westplmlinn electric works to pay a flno of five million marks. BERLIN, Feb. 16. According to a telegram from Duisburg, the gover nor, recorder nnd inspector of the local prison were tried yesterday by the Belgian military court for refusing to accept prisoners arrested by the Belgians. Each was sentenced to six months Imprisonment and fined 00,000 marks. Officials will bo expelled from the occupied territory when released. Upon receipt of the verdict the pris on staff went on strike and the pris oners wero removed to Duesseldorf, BERLIN, Feb. 16. Chancellor Cuno today told the Ruhr relief fund com mlttoo that about three billion marks had been subscribed for rellot work, besides several hundred million marks in foreign currency. The Daily Bank Robbery HONOLULU. Feb. 15. (By the Associated PresB.) Throo masked bandits held up W. J. Janssen, man ager of a branch of tho Bank of Hawaii today, hurling ammonia at his driver, hut JanBBen fired, routing tho robbers and saving $10,000 which he was bringing into Honolulu. MOSCOW, Feb. 10. (By tho As sociated Press.) Leon Trotzky Is preparing a plan for the rehabilita tion of Russia's Iron and steel and mining industries. The plan will be submitted lo tho congress of tho communist party next month. It Is principally designed tn bring about quick resumption or the manufacture of peneo tlmo ma chinery hut the war minister, In com mon with I ho other soviet leaders, has shown by his writings that hn ac cepts tho theory that any nation's RUHR VIOLENCE INCREASES, Tl SOLDIERS SHOT BONAR LAW REFUSES 10 AID FRANCE British Premier Reported to Have Refused Transporta tion for French in British Zone; But Agrees to Yield Control in Small Section French Leave London. LONDON. Feb. 16. (By the As sociated Press) Prime Minister Bonnr Law. nt tho conferences with the French which ended today, is reported to havo refused transporta tion facilities for the French occupa tional forces throughout tho British zone at Cologne. Ho Is understood to havo offered, however, to transfer a small soction of the zone to com plete tho French control. - LONDON, Feb. 16. (By tho Asso ciated Press) Tho conferences in Downing street between British cabi net members nnd a French .mission regarding control of transportation in the British zone in tho Rhlneland ended this afternoon. The French mission headed by M. Letrocqucr, minister of public works, will leave, for home tonight. Secrecy is maintained In British of ficial circles regarding the discus sions. LONDON, Feb. 16. (By tho Asso. clnted Press) Tho hesitancy .of the British government to permit tho French to occupy trains through Co logne which would virtually sanction the Ruhr occupation, Is believed here to constltuto a stumbling block In tho conversations between t the French .mission, and-the British' cablno mom- , hers. ' f M. Letrocqucr, the French mlnlstefr of public works nnd Oenernl Payot, who enmo to London yesterday to see whether tho transportation of Ruhr coat might not bo facilitated by sending It through tho Calogno nren, remained overnight for further dis cussions. Germans Active. LONDON, Feb. 16. (By the As sociated Press) German agents, the Telegrnph says, havo been extraordi narily netlvo In London recently In their efforts to estimate tho possi bility of- Ilrltlsh Mediation In tho Ruhr. Soundings havo been made In various nnd divers directions, tho newspaper asserts, nddlng that tho results obtained nil point towards a demand thnt Oermnny must give full nssurnnco that GunrantceB will bo forthcoming from the Industrial mag nates before n suggestion of media tion could be entertained. . Tho view, It Is said, is held equally In circles opposed to mediation and thnso willing to discuss. Tho articlo adds that Berlin hns been fully In formed of the situntlon nnd - that "possibly In a few days developments may bo expected to prove to tho world that tho German government feols itself strong enough to obtain tho necessnry guarantees from the ' magnates. ..: -, . , Tho Telegraph represents ono pro-, nouncedly pacifist strata of public opinion ns believing England could not help Germany. . , EHHEN, Feb. 16. (By tho 'Asso ciated Press) The completo taking over of tho railway administration In Essen by the occupying authorities within tho next few days Is expocted In Gorman quarters. The Franco Belgian officials thus would assume full technical control of all tho rail way traffic In tho Ruhr. Holxiken Steamer Burns. IIOUOKEN, N. J., Feb. 16. The 2000 ton steamer Ragua of the At lantic Fruit line, which was being converted into an oil burner at her pier here, was practically destroy- , ed by fire today. The vossol was empty and no one wns Injured. RED ARMY FOR PEACE FOR DECADES success In war depends upon Its metal output. . "Tho red army is not tho necessity merely of a, year or five years," ha writes, "for tho revolutionary move ment and tho epoch of Imperialistic wars will continue, not for months and -not for years, but for dorados, embracing the world aftor short hronthlng spaces with new and heav ier sickening spasms." During these breathing spells, he Indicated, the red army ehnuld hro- . pare seriously and permanently.