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MEDFORD, OIJEGOX, SATURDAY, FEBKUAKY 21, 1023
NO. 28G
Weekly J-
-Fifty-Second Year.
PRESIDENT A
U , S
&AND0NS.
SOLAT
E
FOR PLACE IN
LEAGUE C'T.
Harding Springs Sensation By
Sending Special Message to
Senate Requesting U. S.
Participation in Court of In
ternational Relations Under
League of Nations.
WASHINGTON', Feb. 21. Presi
dent Harding asked the senate today
to authorize American membership
in the permanent court of interna
tional Justice organized under aus
pices of the League of Nations.
Such a membership, as the presi
dent requested, however, would be
conditioned on several "reserva
tions,"' including one declaring that
no "legal relation on the part of the
United States to the League of Na
tions, is involved."
Mr. Harding acted on the recom
mendation of Secretary Hughes who
advised that with the reservations
stipulated this government could
safely and practicably enter the
court without deviating from Its pol
icies. In a measure asking for senate au
thority to act, the president pointed
' out that the United Biates bad had a
conspicuous part In the original con-j
coptlon of the court and added that
"our deliberate public opinioh of to-!
day is overwhelmingly In favor pi our
full participation and the attending
obligations of maintenance."
"Such action," the president con
tinued, "would add; to our own con
sciousness of participation in the for
tunate advancement of international
relationship and remind the world
anew that we are ready for our prop
er part In further peace and adding
to stability In world affairs."
In addition to the disclaimer of
any legal connection with the league,
the reservations suggested by the
president would permit the United
States to tako a full part in the se
lection of justlcos of the court; would
provide that congress detcrmlno what
part of the expense of the court this I
government would bear; and would
prevent amendment of the court reg
ulations without consent of tho Uni
ted States. '
DUNN MEASURE
ASKS
SALEM," Ore., Feu. 24. The veto
of senate bill 50, introduced by Sen
ator G. W. Dunn of Ashland, to ex
empt from tho state inheritance tax
all property bequeathed for charit
able purposes, was announced today
by Governor W. M. Pierce.
The Dunn bill was relied upon to
effect the same purpose as a vetoed
bill, which expressly exempted from
inheritance tax tho $1,000,000 Ber
nard Daly estate of Lakoview, set
aside for educating needy students
of Lake county. It also contemplat
ed some local exemptions in Jackson
county.
Tho governor stated that although
p., the motives which prompted such
legislation were laudable it was un
sound in principle.
ECOMMI
PUTS MA3KE0
TACOMA, Feb. 24. County officers
here were concerned today with dis
covering whether tragedy or comedy
was tho motif in nn alleged masked
abduction Wednesday night noar Mid
lnnrl Mfwinu'hllA. five nun wcrO held
ln Jail on complaint of a "vigilance
committee" of forty residents of Mid
i land who said the prisoners had kld
)iRied Emmet Urightman, 36. bound
faind Ragged him and thrown him into
merican lako from which he escaped
Sarently none the worse.
Jury Soaks Doctor
$20,000 for Kissing
A Hospital Nurse
CHICAGO, Feb. 24. Misa
Mathilda Denkhardt, formerly a
student nurse, was awarded
$20,000 foe a kiss In a verdict
rendered in court last night and
opened today. This is $5,000
short of the amount she asked
against Dr. Justin L. Mitchell,
staff physician in the hospital in
which she was a nurse.
NEW PARTY TO
MINNEAPOLIS, Feb. 24. A. C.
Townley, founder and former presi
dent and directing genius of tho na
tional non-partisan league is the head
of a new nation-wido non-political
farm movement, launched by' a group
of 75 farmers from twelve states ,at
a meeting here last night, according
to an announcement today by leaders
of the movement.
According to the announcement,
the purpose fit the new organization,
which Is named the National Produc
ers' Alliance,, is the stabilization of
farm product prices through volun
tary, co-operative control of the acre
age and dissemination of price and
market information and advice.
Articles of the association adopt
ed provide for an Initiation fee oT
$4 and thereafter quarterly dues of
$1 per member. Half of the fees go
to local precinct unit and half to
the national office.
SALEM TO HAVE A
NEW BERRY PLANT
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 24. As one of
the first Btcps in the rebuilding of
the loganberry Industry In Salem, the
Northwest Canning Company an
nounced today that they would begin
immediate construction of a $100,000
fruit packing plant here.
The plant will be operated in con
nection with tho Northwest Fruit
Products company, a loganberry fruit
juice concern, and will bo ready for
processing fruit this spring.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
rKTERSHURO. Va., Fob. 24. Six
marked bandit a forced an entrance
into the Kewnrd Trunk and Hag fno-
tory here early today, bound and
ffanprd the watchman, broke open the
vault and encaped with ten thousand
dollar.
CHICAGO. Feb. 21. Henry C
Hart, a New York diamond Salesman,
who gave bin aridrefm as 87 Nnsnu
street, reported to tho police today
that ho had been robbed by two
armed men of $25,000 worth of dia
monds In a downtown building1.
CAMBRIDGE. Ohio, Feb. 24. A
bandit thin afternoon held up and
robbed Harry Moss and John Lnn-
nlnff of between $20,000 and $25,000
of payroll money belonging to the
Akron Coal company. Tho bandit
escaped after nhooting Moss In the
left ohoulder.
BAND BEHIND BARS
Brightman and the indignant citi
zens wero quoted by the police as
charging that he narrowly escaped
with his life. No motlvo was advanced
by thorn.
The prisoners, as represented by
W. K. King, declared that Ilrlghtman
who had been hanging around their
logging ramp, needed a bath and that
this rito was duly administered with
out, however, subjecting the man to
danger ?T Injury.
TOWNLEY HEADS
BOOST FARMERS
E
Rep. Gallivan Charges Dry
Senator Was Too Drunk to
Answer Roll Call Oppo
nents to Repeal of 18th
Amendment Likened to Fol
lowers of Tutankhamen
Opposition Fails.
'WASHINGTON', Feb. 23. The
house was thrown into an uproar to
day after Representative Gallivan,
democrat, Massachusetts, In another
assault on the prohibition enforce
ment act had declared that recently
a "dry member" of the senate had
become "too drunk to answer a roll
call,' and hnd "to be restrained by
two of his colleagues from getting
on tho floor."
Representative Blanton, democrat,
Texas, sought to object, on tho ground
that Mr. Gallivan was transgressing
the rules of tho house in thus refer
ring to a senator, but he was shut
off by a wave of applause and insis
tent demands for "tho regular order"
which was the remainder of Mr. Gal
livan's address,
Tho Texas member stood his
ground, however, and Mr. Gallivan
retorted that while ho could not
under tho rules, of tho house, criticize
tho loKislatlvo acts' of a senator he
wan not, talking about a legislative
act.' Mr.'lilanton was insistent and
Mr. Gallivan reminded him that Rep
resentative Upshnw, democrat, Geor
gia, a "dry" leader, recently had as
sailed "half tho members of con
gress" In relation to alleged viola
tions of tho Volstead act. ,
"If the language with reference to
the drunken senator, who is a frlcrid
of my friend from Texas, hurts his
feelings," Mr. Gallivan ' shouted,
above tho uproar, "I will withdraw
my remarks."
"Ho Is not n friend of mine," re
plied Mr. Blanton, who insisted that
Mr. Gallivan's words bo taken down
so tho houso could pass on whether
they were In order.
Representative McArthur, republi
can, Oregon, who was presiding,
ruled that Mr. Blanton was within his
rights in making this demand, but
the incident was closed with the
withdrawal of his remarks by Mr.
'Gallivan.
i With invective and sarcasm, Mr.
Gallivan kept tho house in good
humor throughout tho hour ho was
on his feet. Ho declared that thotte
who said it was disloyal and lawless
to agitate for repeal of the law be
longed "to tho tribe of tho Pharaoh
whoso tomb hatt Just been opened at
Luxor after 3000 years," and remark
ed that this statement wan directed
particularly at "my good friend.
Wayne B. Wheeler who sits behind
tho clock in tho center nlslo of yon
der gallery."
FORD FAILS TO GET
DETROIT, Mich., Feb. 24. Michi
gan democrats failed to endorse
Henry Ford for the 1924 presidential
race hut will give the manufacturer
thoir support "when tho proper
time comes," according to Charles
Klmmerle, of Cassopolls, leader of
the faction that urged the endorse
ment beforo the party's stato con
vention hero yesterday.
The rank and filo of the party In
Michigan are for Ford, Klmmerle,
declared.
Falling of an out and out endorse
ment, the Ford adherents put through
a resolution lauding him for his "tre
mendous influenco for good upon the
industrial, economic and political af
fairs of tho nation.".
I IS LEI
PORTLAND, Ore., JFch. V4.
Award of a contract for erection hero
of n Hhrlners hospital for crippled
children for 1175.00ft wns nnnounrcd
todny. Changes In original plnns were
mndo to bring the contract for con
struction and equipment within' tho
tltift.OOO allotted. Hub-contracts were
NIO UPROAR
being let today. 1
Prince Christopher of Greece and ;
Lady Sara Wilson at Palm Beach
' ' '
: rl i if f h t t jJi'liiliiiUi Id
Photo is tho first to show Princo Christopher, of Greece at Palm
Beach. The husband of the former Mrs. Leeds is seen riding in a wheel
chair with Ijidy 'iSara Wilson along tho Lake Trail.
'S
UNEARTHED CITY
LONDON', Feb. 24. Drlck walls
believed to havo been erected 36 cen
turies before tho Christian era, have
been discovered among the ruins re
cently unearthed at Ur, . tho Shal
dean city, according to a Bagdad dis
patch to tho Times.
Tho correspondent quotes C. L.
Wooley, loader of tho oxpedltlon as
saying tho ruins comprise the temple
of the moon god and his consort, part
of which were brought to light in
191S. Tho discoveries in that year
uncovered tho bachelor quarters of
tho god, while tho ruins now found
are bellovcd to b.ave boen his harem.
A fragment of a. stono vase has
been dug out, upon which is a rep
resentation of the moon and his god
dess receiving tho adoration of wor
shippers. Tho carving is believed to
havo been done 2,000 years beforo
Christ.
Tho excavators also dlscovorcd In
the Inner room of the temple some
Jewelry of tho period of Nobuchard
nozzar, who rebuilt the shrine In the
sixth century, li. C, carefully pre
serving tho original plnn.
Many alabaster vases end Inscrib
ed door sockets havo been found.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
SEATTLE, Feb. 24. Robbers
sometime last night blew open tho
vault of the First .National bank of
Redmond, Wash., east of here, and
escaped with an undetermined
amount in cash and securities, Sher
irf Matt Starwich wag notified to
day. Fivo men, believed to bo the robbers
wero seen running up a street at Red
mond early this morning, according to
reports. Tho robbery was discovered
shortly beforo eight o'clock when a.
customer, looking through n window,
discovered the open vault door and
notified C. A. Shinntrom, cnshler.
Posses wero organized by Sheriff
Starwich and Seattle police wore noti
fied to be on the lookout for tho men.
Officers of the bank said they could
make no definite estimate of the
amount taken until a careful Investi
gation but that It must rench "several
thousand dollnrs."
The Noted Dead
DAYTONA. Flo., Feb. 24. Tho body
of Dr. Robert Stuart McArthur of New
York, president of tho Hupllst World
Alliance, who died late last night at
his winter pastorate nt Diiyt'ona Beach
Is expected to be sent to New York
(or burial, following services hero.
EX ,
PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Feb. 21.
Charlemagne Tower, former United
States ambassador to Gormany, dlod
in a hospital here today from pneu
monia. Mr. Tower, who also had beeri min
ister to Austria-Hungary nnd ambas-
sndor to Russia before he was appoint
ed to tho diplomatic post at Ilerlln,
died at 8:05 a. m. He was taken to
the hospital on Fobruary 9. Mrs
Tower and other members were nt tho
bedsldo at the end.
Mr. Tower, who was 75 years old,
wae not only prominent as a diplomat
and financier In his active days, but
was widely known in society here and
abroad.
- Charlcmagno Tower was ono of the
most popular diplomatic figures In the
brilliant court llfo of Ilerlin during
the six years he served as American
ambassador to Germany by appoint
ment of President Roosevelt. His dip
lomatic career begnn In 1897, when he
was named by President McKlnley as
envoy extraordinary nnd minister
plenipotentiary of the United States
to Austria-Hungary. Two years later
ho was advanced to ambassadorial
rank nnd sent to Russia, nnd from
there went to Berlin In 1902.
Flcklo as Emperor William wttB
known to bo with his good graces, Mr.
Tower managed to remain in favor for
tho entire six years of his diplomatic
stay In Berlin and wns even tho Inno
cent cause of an embarrassing Inter-
national caper when he s retired In
1908. Tho emperor said nt a dinner
thnt ho was "very angry with Presi
dent Roosovelt" for accoptlng Mr.
Tower's resignation and whllo tho re
mark was intended merely to ompha-
slzo tho regard he had for tho retiring
ambassador, it was Immediately con
strued as a slur on David Jayne Hill,
tho famous American historian and
diplomat, who was named to succeed
Mr. Tower.
A descendant from John Towor,
who left his EngllHh homo In 1671 to
scttlo In America, Charlomagne Tow
er was born in Philadelphia, April 7,
1818.
In 1888 ho married Miss Helen
Smith of Oakland, Cnl., and they bad
three sons.
Suvernl universities, loth here and
abroad, honored Mr. Tower with de
grees. THREATEN TO BURN UP
VICTORIA, B. ?., Feb. 24 To
lice today were maintaining a careful
watch over St. Andrews Catholic CR'
thedral nnd the bishop's palace as a
result of an anonymous throat to
burn (ho buildings received in s let'
' tor moiled from Portland, Ore,
Mother Mistaken in
Son, Discovers Three
With Similar Scars
SPOKANE, Fob. 24. That sho
was mistaken in believing Cecil
Ijcnlghon was hor son, Cecil llrlt-
tain, is expressed in a lottor writ-
ton to tho Spokesman Review by
Mrs. G. 11. Hums, formerly Mrs.
R. L. Brlttan, from hor homo at
Soap Lake, '
Mrs. lliirns says in her letter
that site has soon threo boys In
the-post six months, all with the
same Bears as those by which she
Identified Lenlglien as her boh
six months ago.
Cecil Brlttan was kidnaped
from his parents noar Wulla
Walla when only fivo years old.
B-H. Y: BROKERS
" ARE ARRESTED
BY N. Y. POLICE
NEW YORK, Feb. 24. "Nicky"
Arnsteln, recently convicted in Wash
ington in connection with a $5,000,
000 bond )ot after figuring in many
Now York episodes of high flnnncc,
was out on ball toilny after his latest
arrest last night with E. M. Fuller,
bankrupt broker, nnd four other men
on charges of grand larceny.
, No charges woro pluccd against
tbrco women arrested with. thorn and
later rolenHed. Tho six men. re
leased on $2,500 bnll each, owed tholtr
arrest to tho discovery in tho possus
sliiiy of, ono of their number of in
travollng; bng filled with miscel
laneous securities which, tho police
said, they wero unable to explain.
Investigation wns being mndo of
an alleged brokerage business, which
the six, according to tho police, in
tended to open In Cleveland with cus
tomers to bo drawn from tho middle
went.
Though tho Bpeclflc charge against
Arnsteln and his companions tho most
widely known of whom Is E. M.. Ful
ler, bend of tho defunct brokerage
house of E. M, Fuller nnd company,
which fafled for several millions Inst
year, Is grand larceny, tho police ap
parently woro settling on another
phaso of tho Inquiry. Thnt relates
to a travollng bng found In nn apart
ment In un uptown hotel by 8. Milton
Hmnll, tho "boy broker." Tho bag, in
which woro numerous certificates and
bonds, was claimed by Jack Allen
of Now York, who though not de
tained by tho police, said that it
thero was anything- lllegltlmnto In tho
bag tho police had plantod It thoro.
Arnsteln, husband of Fanny llryco,
actress, now Is out on bail waiting ac
tion on nn appeal from a conviction
In tho Washington, D. C, courts for
taking securities for sulo.
P.F.E.
SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. 24. The
Pacific Fruit Express was so adverse
ly affected by tho strlko of railroad
shopmen Inst year that it "virtually
lost control of Its equipment," O. M.
Secrlst, vice president and general
manager of tho company, testified
horo today in an Inquiry by Attorney
General Daugherty to dotonnlne the
monetary and other damagos caused
by tho strike.
"In 1922 there were 40,990 cars of
fruit loaded in California nnd Indicat
ed loss of 10,331 cars on account of
tho slow movement," Socrlst said.
E
STATE INSURANCE COMMISSIONER
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 24. Governor
W. M. Plorce has announced the ap
pointment of Will II. Moore of Port
land as stato Insurance commissioner
to succeed A. C. Harbour, the appoint
ment Is effective March 1. Moore was
for four years collector of customs
undor tho Wilson administration and
prior to that tlmo wns for 20 years a
resident ot Pendleton.
SALEM, Oro., Feb. 24. The legisla
tive session just closed cost $1,646.80
less than the session ot 1921, accord
ing lo figures In tho ..secretary of
stato's office, theso figures applying
FRENCH SEIZE
12 BILLION
BERLIN m'KS
Troops Board Train Near Ruhr
Border and Confiscate Ship
ment From Reichsbank
Use of Black Troops Denied
More Strikes Called in
Mining Districts.
BERLIN, Feb. 24. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) French forces have
boarded the Berlin-Cologne express
near Hengsley and confiscated a con
signment of twelve billion marks and
plates belonging to the Reichsbank, it
was announced here today.
Hengsley is 30 miles northeast of
Duesseldorf and seven miles south
of Dortmund on the edge ot the Ruhr
occupied area.
DUESSELDORF, Feb. 24 (By
the Associated Press.) Report!
from Gorman sources that blac1;
troops of the Seventh colonial regi
ment had been sent recently to Kup
fordroh, Velbert and Woerden are
officially denied by the French. ; It
was alleged that thoso soldiers were
being quartered in private dwellings
and that colonial patrols had appear
ed on the stroeta in these towns. ,
StepB to forestall sabotage by rait
way workers have been Instructed by
the Gorman government to hinder the
French'and Belgians by cutting oft
the gas, wator and electric facilities.
With Ruhr customs houses In the
possession of the allies the occupa
tion authorities are finding new dif
ficulties in the Rhlneland. The pos
tal, telophone and telegraph work
ers at Mayence are on strike and
consequently thoro Is no communica
tion Into or out ot the city, .
Statistics made public by the Ger
mans show that nine civilians have
been shot dead and thirteen seriously
wounded since the occupation began.
Arrests and deportations total sev
eral hundred. '
PARIS, Feb. 24. By the Asso
ciated Press.) Efforts are being
made to settle by a compromise the
strike of 70,000 coal miners in the
Sarro valley. The strikers, some ot
Whom belong to the German com
munist federation' of labor, have ask
ed an Increase of seven francs a day.
They have been offered three franca.
The situation In the Moselle basin,
Involving 30,000 miners, remained
unchanged. . . .
ERAKE8BORO, Ky Feb. 24.
Roy Scbultz, 35, a miner, was dead
todny tho victim of a dream. Schults
wns sleeping on top of a loaded coal
enr yesterday when ho dreamed ho
was In tho path of nn approaching
locomotive Ho rolled from the top
of tho car and struck on tho bottom
of a mlno pit, 76 foot deep. Injuries
cnused by the fall resulted In his
death In n hospital nt Owensboro.
L
, to tho members themselves and the
'clerks and stenographers. The ses
' sion just ended cost $59,115.20 and
tho session ot 1921 (60,761.
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 24. H. 3.
Ovorturf, member ot the state legisla
ture and a former member ot the
Deschutes county hoard ot state bonus
appraisers, appeared at the United
State's marshal's office todny and ac
coptod service on a warrant charging
him with usq of tho malls to promote
a fraud against the Oregon bonus. law.
Ovorturf gave bond In the sum ot
$2000.