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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1923
NO. 289
WAR AGAIN
. BREAKS OUT
LITHUANIA
Lithuanians Break Truce and
Attack Polish Troops in
' Neutral Zone Warsaw
Claims Invaders Are Driven
Back French Disarm Ger
man Police.
WARSAW, Feb. 28. (Dy the As
sociated Press.) Reports from the
neutral zone state that the Llthu.iu
j bins yesterday broko tho truco agreed
upon between tho Polish authorities
and representatives of the Lithuan
ian forces. Lithuanian bands are re
proted to have resumed their attacks
against the Polish troops entering the
territory assigned to Poland.
A dispatch from Warsaw on Feb
ruary 26 said that representatives of
the Polish and Lithuanian) govern
ments had agreed upon a suspension
of hostilities pending discussions for
the elimination of the neutral zone.
PARIS, Feb. 28. A Warsaw dis
patch to the 1 lavas agency confirms
that the Lithuanians have again at
. tacked Polish advance guards. The
collisions occurred at two points and
In each case the. attackers wero
driven back. Their losses were not
known. :
CONSTANTINOPLE, 'Feb. 28. !
(By the Associated Press.) The!
grand national assembly can hardly
reach a vote on the alleged peace
proposals before next Monday, nc-1
. cording to advices from Angora to-
I The 'assembly " was addressed' at
length yesterday by lsmet Pasha,:
foreign minister and the head of thej
Turkish delegation at tho Lausanno .
conference and Mustapha Kemal j
Pnsha, the nationalist leader. To-',
day the experts who attended the;
Lausanne conferenco wero being
heard.
DUESSELDORF, Feb. 28. (By;
tho Associated Press.) French,
troops today forcibly entered the
barracks of the German security po-
lice at Bochmn and disarmed tho po-1
licemen, according to a dispatch re
celved here.
STANLEY FIELD FILES
A SUII FOR DIVORCE
CHICAGO, Feb. 28. Stanley
Field, ' millionaire capitalist and
"nephew of the Into Marshall Field,
merchant prince, filed suit for dl
volce in the circuit court today,
charging his wife, Sara Carroll Field,
with desertion.
Field charges that they were mar
ried April 17, 1900, and that his wife
deserted him January 3, 1921.
The Fields have two' children,
Katherlne, who was married to a
nephew of Admiral Hugh Rodman,
and Miss Daphne. Mrs. Field Is said
to he In Palm Beach, Fla.
Mr. Field Is a director of tho Chi-1
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road, and several banks.
CLARKSBURG. W. Va., Feb. 28.
Antonio Musol, who on December 0
last reported tn the police thnt ho had
boon flogged by a band of masked
men five miles from the city, nwnko
today to find a coffin on his front
porch. Pinned to It wns a bit of
pnpor on which had boon written
"yon nro noxt."
C. W. M'KNIGHT NAMED REGISTER LAND
ffiCE, VALE; TOWNER REPLACES REILY
.VOTOX. FVb- 28. fflornro
r. of lotvn. for yearn a re
trader In the limine, van
i today to nurcrcd K. Mont
(ovprnor of Porto I tiro. Al
timo the prentoVnt nnmod
. Monde)!, ropublirnn, floor
the present house to ue
Dnvl nn director of the war
orporuUon.
Coue Slogan Used
As Suicide Epitaph
By Everett Woman
EVERETT, Wash., Feb. 28.
Loaving this sentence as final
message: "Day by day, In ev-
ery wny, I'm getting better and
better," Miss Frances Keller,- a
telegraph operator aged 50, was
found doad in her apartment
here inte yesterday with gas
flowing from two open jets.
She had been in ill health for
some time and friends said had
grown despondent. Miss Kel-
ler's mother resides in Denvor.
WET ADVOCATE
IS DEFEATED IN
V
CHICAGO, Feb. 28. Arthur C.
Lueder, postmaster, will be the re
publican party's standard bearer
against Judge William E. Dever, dem
ocrat, in tho mayorallty election In
April. Lueder was an easy winner
in yesterday's primary over three op
ponents, with a plurality of 54,144
over Edward R. Litsinger, his nearest
opponent. Judge Dever was unop
posed.
Arthur M. ' Millard, president of
the Masonic Bureau of Service, poll
ed 51,054 votes for the republican
nomination and Bernard Barasa, mu
nicipal judge, who ran on a plutform
favoring return of beer and light
wines, 16,690 votes.
William A' Cunea, socialist candl
dato for mayor, was unopposed.
City council scats from thirty
wards were filled, while candidates
in twenty wards failed, of inajorl
tics and the two-highest in each in
stancd will contest at tho April elec
tion.
. Fdr tho frlst time the aldor-
mantc contests were along non-par
tisan lines, inaugurated with the fifty
ward re-districting measure which
also changed the representation from
one alderman from each district.
However the races for representation
In the city governing body were said
to have been contested along the old
party affiliations and politicians de
clared the results indicated further
disintegration of the waning support
of Mayor William Halo Thompson.
Miss Winifred Mason Huck, elect
ed last night to complete the term of
her father, William K. Mason, deceas
ed, as congressman at largo from
Illinois was defeated in her effort to
retain a 'seat after noxt Monday,
She ran fop the . republican nomina
tion to fill the unexpired term of the
lote James R. Mann, who was repre
sentative from the second Illinois
district. Mrs. Huck polled 12,744
votes, running second in a six corner
ed race to Morton D. Hull, former
state senator, who was nominated
with 17,842 votes.
ENGLISH DEBT BILL
AVASHINGTON, Feb. 28. Presl
dent Harding today signed the Brit
ish debt funding bill.
Immediately afterward treasury
officials began to wind up details of
the negotiations with Great Britain
and to put them Into form for car
rying Into effect the refunding terms
agreed upon.
A. Rowe-Dutton, the British treas
ury representative, was advised of the
W'iilto House action and made an
appointment to see I'nder Secretary
Gilbert of the treasury, who is draft
ing the formal Indenture embodying
tho agreement.
Later In tho week, tho American
debt funding commission will finally
ratify the Indenture and Sir Auckland
Geddes, tho British ambassador,
probably will sign it.
DniKht Davln of Missouri, n di
rector of the war finance corporation,
wan nominated to be nuRistnnt nee ro
tary of war In tho place of J. May
hew WninwriRht, who leaven office
March 4 to become n member of tho
next coiikiw.
foiiKiew W. McKnlpht vnn nomi
nated tn be register Of the land of
fire at Vnle, Ores
CHICAGO PRIM
SIGNED BY HARDING
RENO
E
IN BOOZE NET
U. S. Prohi Agents, Posing As
Members of Divorce Colony,
Make Big Haul in Nevada
City Pretty Girls Are
Taken In.
RENO, Nev., Feb. 28. How fedo
ral prohibition enforcement agents
posed In Reno for six weeks as mem
bers of the local divorce colony apil
as momU'ra of such colony obtuined
entry Into co-cnllod exclusive boot
legging establishments and bought
liquor freely, wns exposed horo last
night and today with tho arrest of
six men said to ho mnnugers of the
establishments nnd the raiding lust
night of Reno road houses to which
only those properly vouched for could
obtain admittance.
Reno attorneys, who nre said to
havo been members of one sociul
club, were visited by the secret ngonts
who told stories of unhappy homos
and arranged for divorces when they
had lived in Nevada tho required six
months. Thoy exhibited letters from
girls nnd showed the pictures of these
girls, intimating that as soon ns thoy
obtained their decrees, tho girls were
to become their wives.
The attorneys, convinced that tho
agents were legitimate members of
the divorce colony. Introduced them
about town. They gave them letters
to road house managers, vouching for
their trustworthiness in connection
with liquor sales. They aro even said
to have introduced them to young
women who enjoyed gay parties nnd
the young women look for subpoenas
to bo served on thorn when tho cases
of those arrested last night come up
for trial.
Today it was reported in tho United
Stntes attorney's office that further
arrests wore likely.'
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CHICAGO, Feb. 28. Rodolph Vol
ontlno, screen actor, divorced -from
Jean Acker, nlso of tho silent drama
a year and enjoined from acting for
others than tho Famous riayers
Lasky corporation, not only is to stnrt
a dancing tour within a few weeks,
but is to remarry his present wlfo,
Winifred Hudnut to whom ho was
married in Mexican, Lower Califor
nia, nfter his divorce. Miss Acker is
appearing at a downtown theater and
Valentino and his second wlfo at a
North Side restaurant and cabaret.
Tho third marriago of tho screen
sheik Is to tnko placo at his hotel
noxt. Wedncsdny afternoon, provided
confirmation is received from Los
Angeles of the nhsoluio effect of the
divorce decree granted there.
It wns disclosed today that -Valentino's
new tour contract calls for
$000 a week and fifty per cent of
the profits. Valentino, was under
contract to . tho Famous Players
Lanky organization at a salary of
$1250 a week which ho thought too
small and sought to escape tho con
tract, and was enjoined by tho New
York courts.
EAST ST. LOUIS, 111., Fob. 28. In
terest in the local political situation
today turned to the local municipal
election to be held in April following
the primary yesterday In which three
candidates alleged to havo been sup
ported by the Ku Klux Klnn were
nominated as city commissioners and
two other supposed klan candidates
wero defeated.
The Rev. William R. Evans, Ralph
Cook nnd August M. Eggmann are
threo victorious candidates said to
have been indorsed by tho klan.
E
AT BOTTOM OF ME
BELLINOHAM, Wash., Feb. 28.
Radiophone messages wero received
in tho Lelllngham conl mines at a
depth of 400 feet below tho surfnee
by members of the Northwest Wash
ington Radio club, who conducted
experiments here lost night. Two
receiving stations were set up in the
mlno about !i0 feet apart and opera
tors of both reported satisfactory re
ceiving results. ,
COLONY CAUGHT
KKAl'TIKl'Ii GRAND Vl OIITFTt
OF LATH MARSHALL l'IKLD
TO WKD IN . LONDON
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'4 m
New portrait. Just received from
Tondon. of Miss Owendolin Marshall
Field, grandaunhter of tho famous
Chicago merchant prince, whoso mar
Huge to Lieut. Archibald C'has. Kd
monstone wilt take place in London
in April. The .wedding reception
probably will be at the home of Lord
and Lady Beatty. as Lady Beatty Is
an aunt of Miss Field. Miss Field Ih
an heiress to more than half a mil
lion dollars.
T
TO TAKE POLITICS
WASHINGTON, Feb. 28. rostmns
ter General Work recommended to
President HardinB;',.oday , that, selec
tion of postmasters should no longer
be considered a political perquisite of J
senators and representatives, but
should be vested in the postofflce do-,
partment alone.
At the same timo tho postmastoo,
general, who retires on March 4 to 1
become secretary of the Interior, rec-
ommended that present - regulations 1
requiring examination of candidates
for postmaster by civil service com
mission be also abandoned.
"The postofflce is a strictly busi
ness organization," said 'Dr. ' Work,
"and it ought to be aided in putting
tne rignt man in the right plnce, an
any private business concern would
endeavor to do for its own advance
ment and not be handicapped either
by political considerations or by tho
restrictions retained in tho present
law requiring examination by civil
service commission which does not
even give civil service status."
43 OLGOTT VOTERS,
ONLY 31 VOTES
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 28. Three
more voters, making a total of 43, who
said they cast ballots for Governor II.
W. Olcott for tho republican nomina
tion for governor at precinct 201 in
the May primaries, were called to the
stand today by the state In the trial of
W. H. Emrlck, chairman of the night
counting board, In an effort to prove
him guilty of neglect of duty.
Members of tho election board also
wore called In an effort to explain
why the tally sheet showed 31 votes
for Olcott, while the recounts Bhowed
49 votes had been cast for him.
The Noted Dead '
LOB ANOELES Joseph II. Bur
ton, former I'nltod Htfttes senator
from Kansas, died last night.
HARTFORD, Conn. Henry Jen
nings, former grnnd esteemed loyal
knight of tho grand lodge of Elks,
died horo Inst night.
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 28. Captain
Jaiuos Hontflnn, millionaire mining
operator of Calumet, Mich., died at
bis winter home here yesterday, agoil
"8 years, lie was born In Scotland
and ratne to America at an early ago.
He was onn of the founder of tho
Cnluniot and Arliona Minimi coinnanv
nnd vice-president of it at the timo on
his denth.
Poisoner Adjudged Insane.
LONDON, Feb. 28. Walter Ta
tarn, horticulturist of Hn!lmm. r
rested for sending poisoned candy to
Sir William Horwood, head of Scot
land Yard, was found insane by a
Jury today. Tho judge ordered him
confined In. an institution.
mi r
UUUi u
SUICID PACT
George Baldwin, Well Known
N. Y. Actor, and Mrs. Ann
Schlessinger of San Fran
cisco Take Poison With
Fatal Results.
MANILA. Fob. 28. (Dy tho As
sociated Press) Mis. Ann M. Schlos
slnger, a. stenographer, aged 47, and
Goorgo Baldwin, an actor, known in
Now York nnd San Francisco, carried
out a suicido pact by taking poison
at a hotel horo today, according to
tho police, who blamed despondency.
ltaldwln came to Manila In Jnnu
ary. He wns understood to havo boon
out of work for some lime.
Mrs.-Ht'hlessingor several years ngo
came from Han Francisco, where her
husband still resides.
I SAN FRANCISCO, Fob. 28. Coo.
Baldwin is well known here nnd in
New York, as both on actor and
author of the plays "You'd Be Sur
prised," and "La, Iji, Luolle." He
played an engagement nt tho Winter
(larden nnd In a Broadway theater in
M York.
A search of all nvallnblo records
bore failed to dlscloso any informa
tion regarding Mrs. Schlessinger.
OF EUROPE VOTED
HUTCHINSON, Kns.. Wb ' f 2 8.
Universal enfranchisement of women
would moan pormnnent World poaco,
In tho opinion of Airs. W. Y. Morgnn,
recently named as a delegate to tho
International s'uffrago conference in
Rome. Italy, .May 10-18. Mrs. Mor
gan is tho wife of tho editor of tho
Hutchinson News, who Is a former
lieutenant governor of Kansas.
"Thoro is do doubt in my mind
that the enfranchisement of women
In Europe would end wnr In Europe,"
said Mrs. Morgnn.
"France, denied tho privllogo of
suffrngo for women, apparently Is
about to bo plunged Into nnothor war
when tho voto of tho women them
selves would havo prevented It. I
hopo and bollovo that everlasting
poaco will como to tho world when
women nre given tho opportunity to
do their share in managing tho gov
ernments of tho world.
"Tho Italian women nro in the
throes of a campaign for suffrage.
This is one of tho reasons why the
meeting of tho International Women's
Suffrngo Alllnnco Is to be there this
yonr."
The Rome conferenco In tho first
of Its kind sinco tho wnr. Each coun
try participating, regardless of size,
is entitled to twelve delegates. Mrs.
Morgan wns selected by the National
1. ennui) of Women Voters.
Mrs. Morgnn plans to loavo the
United States tho latter part of April.
After attending tho conference nt
Romo sho will travel In other parts
of Europe. Sho has ma do several
voyages to Europe in tho last twelve
years with her husband when ho has
written books of Europenn travel,
SALE.f, Ore., Feb. 28. A. J.
Kronberg and F. J. Walker of Mount
Angel, nenr here, proprietors of a
gar a bo that was burned there Novem
ber 8, last, yesterday confossod to
officers of the state tiro marshal's
department, according to District At
torney John Carson, that they set the
flro thomselves to collect 10,000 In
suranco. They were bound over to
the gi'uud Jury. -
Congressman Hawley
Selects Medford Lad
, For Naval Academy
Frederick F. Agens, nephew of
Mrs. C. M. Kldd, who has been mak
ing his home with Mr. nnd Mrs. C. M.
Kldd for romo time, and taking a
post groduato courso In tho Medford
high school, hns been appointed to
the naval academy nt Annapolis.
Mr. Agnes formerly took -the men
tal examinations for this ncademy nnd
passed with high honors. Ho hns
MANII A Pfll
SHUFFLE OFF IN
II GARAGE MEN
CONFESS 10 ARSON
not been advised as yet when to re
jwrt.
State Finance Bill
Vetoed By Governor
Legality Is Doubted
SALEM, Ore., Fob. 2S. Gov-
ernor Pierce yesterday vetoed a
bill passed by the recent legls-
laturo proposing to creato a
stato finance commission, "to
provide limitations on the pow-
ors of municipal and qunsl-mu-
nlclpal corporations of tho state
to tssuo bonds and other cvl-
donees of indebtedness. )
Tho governor doclnred such
a measure would bo unjust in-
torferenco with purely local at-
fail's and expressed doubt of its
constitutionality.
ESSEN, Feb. 28. (By tho Asso
ciated Press) Prince Frederich Wil-
holm von Llppe, German nationalist
agitator, was arrested here today by
tho French authorities. It is charged
he has boon stirring up agitation
against tho Franco-Belgian troops Inj
tho Ruhr.
Tho prlnco wns an active factor In I
tho German faction for the retention
of upper Silesia. Papers found In his
room, the French declare, show thn
he was 'a member of the secret order
of tho Swastika and tho notorious
Consul reactionary organization. .
Tho nationalists havo boon unusu
ally active, holding protest meetings,
sprending propaganda nmong tho
strikers nnd urging tho calling of
other strikes.
It is reported from German sources
that Karl Radek, chief of publicity
for the Russian soviet government,
has boon prohibited by tho intor-nl-lifd
lrlgh rnmmisalon til Coblcuzrouv
entering tho occupied area. Tho
Ruhr Echo, tho communist organ,
hns been suspended by order of tho
French. r
Tho Bolglnns havo seized HS0.000,.
000 marks at Dulsburg, which
amount they cllam wns intended for
use as a strike fund, Tho French
made a like seizure of 200,000,000
marks at Kupforderch.
COLOGNE, Feb. 28. (By tho As
sociated Press) An offlclnl Inquiry
is proceeding here to ascertain tho le
gality of tho British claim to part of
the funds seized horo Inst week. Tho
money nnd tho plates aro being hold
undor senl until tho question is set
tled between Great Britain nnd tho
occupation allies.
ER
E
ARDMORE, Okla., Feb. 28. The
trials of eleven leading cltlzons for
murder In connection with tho kill
ing of Joe Carroll, the night of De
cember IS, 1921, came to a sudden
end hero this afternoon when Dis
trict Judge W. F. Freeman dismissed
tho caso pending agaltiBt ten of tho
men nfter the Jury to hear the case
had beon impaneled. The eleventh
man, Jeff Smith, had been acquitted
a few minutes previously.
The dismissal was on the motion
of John L. Hodge, county attorney,
who declared tho state did not have
sufficient evidence to go to trial. He
said the strongest caso had been
against Smith and that it would bo
useless to prosecuto tho tohers.
Man Burned to Death.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 2S. Ono
man was burned tn denth and six
were injured in a fire which swopt
tho Philadelphia rifle club, formorly
Schuetzon park, early todny.
U.S.
10
E MEET!
CLEVELAND, Feb. 28. (By Associ
ated Press). Announcement that tho
National Education association hns
called a world conference on educa
tion for the promotion of International
peace and tho mutual understanding
ot nations and peoples furnished the
principal topic ot conversation nniong
thousands of delegates attending the
annual convention of the department
ot superintendence and affiliated or
ganizations ot tho association today.
Tho conferenco will be held in San
Francisco and Oakland, Calif., June
BWEIZES
1 60,000.000 MS
FROM GERMANS
KLAN QUERY
By
THECOiT
Judge Thomas Rules That
Membership in Ku Klux Klan
Not Valid Query for Jurors
in Bray Trial Case One of
Riot Selection of Jury Is
Proceeding Slowly.
Membership In tho Invisible Em
pire of the Ku Klux Klan, flared to
the foro today at the very outset of
tho opening of the trial of Jouett P.
Uray, minister and chiropractor,
charged with Howard A. Hill, or
chardlst, and Jesse F. Hittson, form
er Medl'ord police chief and 16 John
Doe, defendants, with riot, assault
with a deadly weapon and extortion.
In connection with the alleged kid
napping and hanging, March 17,
1922, of Joseph F. Hale, capitalist
and piano dealer.
Mrs. Mary E. Lozter, housekeeper
and past middle age, a resident of
Medford, for many years, was called
as a prospective Juror, and was asked
by Assistant Attorney General Lllje
qvlst: "Are any of tho members of your
family, a member of the organiza
tion known as the Ku Klux Klan."
Attorneys for the defense leaped
to their feet, with objections as the
venire woman answorod, "not."
In the ensuing legal exchange As
sistant Attorney LUJeqvist, upholding
the materiality of the question con
tended thnt the "state . expects to
provo" that the crime with which
tho defendants are charged was pur
posed, propogandaed and carried out
ryxjmimbTra of.ihe Kn Klux Klan act
ing under orders of high officials of
the klan, as part of thoir program,
and In the regalia used by the klan."
Dofense counsel contended that the
quory wag Immaterial, and the coun
sel for both Bides, went Into cham
bers session with tho court, for a
discussion of the issue before pros
pective Jurors.
Caso Ono of Riot
"This caso Is one alleging Hot, and
not .ono, at this stage of the proceed
ings affecting the klan, and it makes
no difference what they had on,"
said the court In ruling on the ma
teriality of the state's query before
going Into chambers, for further ar
gument on the point. After a in
minutes discussion, the court left its
previous ruling unchanged, and the
questioning ot the prospective Juror
proceedod.
The ruling of the court on the
klan membership phase, aparently
blocks the way for the possible Injec
tion of tho klan issue during the se
lection of the jury. It also fore
stalls the asking of similar questions
by the defense. The membership In
the klan may be brought out how
ever In the testimony. The state
counsel asked general questions cov
ering practically the game ground,
ag that Involved In the overruled
query. -
Upon continuance of the examina- -tlon
of jurors, Mrs. Lozier was asked
If she had any Idea or belief that the
orderly functions of the law had been
broken down, or it she approved ot
lawlessness, under the pretense ot
law enforcement. She replied she
d!d not.
Tho trial opened with the state
represented by Attorney General Lll
Joqvlst and District Attorney Rawlos
Moore, and Walter Wlnslow ot Salem,
nnd Attorneys Boggs, Canaday and
Flaogol ot Medford, representing the
defense.
J. O. Lore Excused
James O. Love, a farmer residing
In the Central Point district wag tho
first talesman examined, and after
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F.
28 to July 2. A Joint world contorence
on child health also will 'be held.
Attendance ot 1000 delegates from
cities, universities nnd ; professional
organizations of educators, represent
ing moro thnn 400,000,000 school chil
dren In fifty nntlons of Europe, Asia
nnd North and South America, hag
been assured. It was announced. An
other 1000 exchnnge professors will
sit with tho dologatos of their respec
tive countries and act ag interpreters.
This morning's session ot the con
vention was devoted to addresses and
discussions of the curriculum ot the
schools.
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