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Medford Mail Tribune
Dally Eighteenth Tear.
Weekly Fifty-Third Year.
MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1923
WHO
SUPPORT Of
' PRESIDENT
L. of N. Voters Urged By Reso
lution to Back Harding Plan
for World Court Outlaw
ing of War Proposed Seek
Middle Ground at Iowa
Convention.
DES MOINES, Iowa, April 12.
(By the Associated Press.) A reso
lution asking the National League of
Women Voters to Bupport President
Harding's proposed participation by
'(ho United States in the permanent
court of International justice was in
troduced today at the convention by
Miss Ruth Morgan, chairman ot the
international affairs department.
The Morgan resolution will be act
ed 'upon Saturday. Conferences were
arranged and It was reported League
of Nations supporters will Introduce
a resolution to counteract that pre
sented by Miss Morgan.
The resolution Introduced by Miss
Morgan in part yeard:
"That we pledge our active sup
port to the proposal of the president
and secrtary of state for participa
tion by the United States in the per
manent court of international jus
tice, believing this to be the first
step leading toward the outlawry ot
ir.
"That since fuller and more far-
reaching co-operation is necessary to
prevent war, we urge upon our gov
ernment the calling of an lnterna-
Hnnnl pnnfpronen tn pnnqlHor further
I Is'tps to eliminate causes of war and
Rto abolish war itself by association
Inwlth other nations for maintenance
frf abiding .peace."
The League of Nations element at
the conference expressed the opinion
liat the resolution does not go far
feuough In the effort to present war.
Another resolution expected to be
introduced out of order today Is one
drafted at a conference yesterday
proposing that the league go on rec-
prd calling upon congress to enact a
uinimum wage amendment to the
constitution to correct the situation
rought about by the supreme court
x'ecision of Monday " declnring the
resent laws unconstitutional.
A multittrde of recommendations
tanging from International co-opera-
jticn to prevent i' to pinMemx or
jpr.-ely local conce.'i, wrj to be act-
leu upon by the convention today
The recommendations im contain
d in the rlan of woi'-c and eommlt-
ilpn programs for the com.;ng year and
have been vised by ntate leng'J" and
the national executive committee.
A measure of Iniornntionnl coopor
tion to prevent war will ur?o (ho de-
VPlnnmont nC mntlinrln ivhlph will hpln
socuro democratic control ot in-
iurnational affnini urn! democratic
control of International nfaflrs and
democratic control of economic and
commercial policies.
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HIDING, JULY 4
PORTLAND, Ore., April 12. Presi
dent Harding today was formally In
vited by Oovornor W. M. Plerco and
by tho Portland chamber of commerce
to spend the Fourth of July In Port
land and to deliver an Independence
day oration. The Invitations were In
spired by reports from United States
Scnntnr McNary thnt President Hard
ing plans leaving Washington on his
tlnAinn nnnoi .I., atllfr Timn 91 RTIft
I dat his tentative Itinerary would
i place him in Portland about July 4.
CONFEDERATE REUNION SPLIT UP BY KLAN
it
NEW ORLEANS, La , April 12.
Amid shuts ot "don't railroad this
election through against the rules,"
the election of officers for tho Sons
of Confederate Veterans scheduled
for this morning was postponed until
the afternoon session. The delegates
were reported sharply divided over
the klan Issue. The klan and anti
klan factions each - were reported
sponsoring tickets.
Adjnlnnt In Chief lllnlon of Colo
Another Dancing Fool
Breaks World Record
Continuous Stepping
CLEVELAND, Arrll 12.
MIsb Helene Mayer, 21, Cleve
land department store sales
woman, today established a new
continuous dancing record ot
52 hours and' 1C minutes, break
ing the previous record of 50
hours and two minutes, made by
Miss Alma Cummlngs at New
York last Monday. Miss Mayer
started dancing at 9:35 a. m.
Tuesday and quito at 1:51 p.
m. today.
CLEVELAND, April 12. Miss
Helene Mayer, 23, at noon today
had established a new record of
continuous dancing of 50 hours
and 25 minutes and was Btill
dancing. She said she expected
to continue dunning until 4 p. m.
Starting at 9:35 a. m. Tuesday,
she equalled the record of 50
hours and two minutes establish
ed in New York last Monday by
Miss Alma Cummings at 11:37
a. m. and at noon was 23 mintes
ahead of the record. She had
danced with six male partners up
to noon.
Expect to Go Through With
Agreement in Spite of Row
in Parliament Finns Ap
prove of Refund Treasury
Department Ready to Act,
WASHINGTON. April 12. The
treasury expects no special difficul
ty In formal promulgation of the debt
funding agreement with the British
government despite the differences
which have arisen between the gov
ernment and parliament.
Secretary Mellon Bald today that
he looked for no change in the per
sonnel of the British cabinet which
would interfere with the agroment
which alroady had been executed but
not finally signed. He appeared also
to regard the agreement as one to
which the Eritlsll government al
ready is committed, regardless of any
personal chango which may take
place.
The secretary explained that the
formal draft on tho indenture which
constitutes the terms of the agree
ment had been forwarded to London
by mail and added that the usual de
lays would be encountered in its pas-
sago through government channels
before Us return tj the British em
bassy here.
The treasury was advised officially
today of the action of tho Finnish
parliament in approving the bill for
funding that country's debt to the
United States, thus making It possi
ble to carry out the debt commis
sion's suggestion that tho Finnish set
tlement be allowed to become opera
tive on a tentative basis pending rati
fication by congress.
Onnestors Escape ProlHMl.
ATHENS, Oa., April 12. Twenty
three . witnesses have been called to
appenr before tho federal grand jury
hero today for nn investigation of the
cscnpo of Gerald Chnpman, the New
York mall bandit, from St. Mary's
hospital last Wednesday night.
German Debt Grows.
DERLIN. April 12. Germany's
floating dobt In discounted treasury
bills at tho end of March wns six
trillion, six hundred billion mark
representing nn Increase of eight
hundred billion marks during the
last ten days of the month.
"OF
rado said to be the leader of the
antl-klan faction, moved the election
to be postponed until a larger mem
bership was present and all other
businesc disposed of.
Supporters of William McDonald
Lee, commander In chief, said to com
pose the klan faction, demanded an
immediate election. After the vole
the election was postponed until the
afternoon, the delegates adjourning
to a((pnd the memorial exercises nt
thn conft'dcrnto memorial hall.
SEE NO OBSTACLE
10 SIGNING OF
DEBT AGREEMENT
French Soldiers Run German Locomotive
A recent photo showing soldiers of the Corps of Engineers or me French Army, manning and guarding a Gor
man locomotive in the Ruhr district during tho strike of German rail men.
TOTS I
ILL AS REPORTED
LONDON, April 12. (By tho As
sociated Press) A Router dispatch
from Cairo today declares there is no
truth In tho report that Howard Car
ter the Amerlcun Egyptologist, co-
discoverer with the late Lord Carnar
von of the tomb of Tutankhamen,
has been ill. Mr. Carter, It assertR,
shortly will return from Cairo to
Luxor.
An Exchange Telegraph measago
from Luxor last evening said Mr.
Carter had been stricken by illness
there and that Lady Carnarvon 1"
ei-rsequenco had postponed her trip
to England with her husband's body.
NEW YORK. April 12. The sud
den illness In Egypt of Howard Car
ter, co-discoverer with tho late Earl
of Carnarvon of the tomb of Tutan
khumen, corroborates the belief that
there oxists an elemental Lplrlt in tho
tombs which takes revenue, upon
those who open them, Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle said today. Ho said
Mr. Carter's Illness was very much
more than a strange coincidence,
coming so closely after the death of
the Earl of Carnarvon from nn in
sect's bita.
"It may bo very well to record this
as tho bite of an insect or some othel
Illness," he said, "but tho fact re
mains that many men who have
entered these tombs have come to
death.
8 HR. DAY LAW-'
NO! EFFECTIVE
SALEXT, Ore., April 12. An act
or the 1923 legislature establishing
the eight hour day for the lumber
Industry In Oregon will not bocomo
effective. A proviso in the measure
was that it would become effectlvo
only if Washington, Idaho and Cali
fornia enacted similar legislation.
C. H. Gram, stato labor commis
sioner has received letters from the
labor departments of Washington
and California saying that no law of
Oils kind was onacted In these states.
Mo has not yet heard from Idaho.
Had the other states passed similar
bills the: effective date In Oregon
would bo May 14.
FOR MURDER
SALT LAKB CITY, April 12.
Mariner and John M. Browning, Jr.,
of Ogden were charged with first do-
gree murder In complaints Issued by
the Salt Lako county attorney short
ly after one o'clock this afternoon.
Tho Drownings are held In the coun
ty Jail here charged with having shot
and killed Benjamin F. Ballantyne
l.n rr l '
City Worker Quit
EVERETT, Wash., April 12. Twenty-two
outside employes ot the munic
ipal water department quit work late
yesterday upon doclsion of the city
commissioners to postpone Indefinite
ly their request for Incrcnsed.wages.
They announce they have not struck;
that they have resigned nnd will seek
oilier employment.
Ll Or GRAVITY
MODIFIED BY
NEW DISCOVERY
Photos Taken Last Septem
ber Confirm Einstein In
stead of Sir Newton All
Very Plain to the Average
Citizen.
.SAN. JOSE, Cal.; April 12. Tho
world today la In possession of a new
prlnclplo In physics which modifies
tho law "6f gravitation as announced
by Sir Isaac Newton In 1687, If thn
confirmation of the Einstein theory
of relativity announced at Lick ob-
servatory. near here last night by Dr
W. W. Campbell noted astronomer,
Is not upset by some future discovory.
Dr. Campbell, director o,f tho ob
servatory and president elect of tho
University ot California, announced
ho had confirmed tho thoory as a re-
suit of calculations based on photo
graphs of tho sun taken by him and
corps of assistants during a total
ocllpse at Wallal on tho northwest
coast of Australia. September 21, last.
For tho first time in 25 years on
the date ot tho observation, tho day
was clear. Twelve photographers
brought back to tho observatory
turned out to be satisfactory and af
forded exeollent bases of measure
ment. Dr. Campbell said. ,
Among tho photographers were
somo tnkon of stars apparently right
at the sun's rim at tho- tlmo of total
eclipse. These stars woro known by
other -than photographic methods of
measurement to be farther from the
rim than they appeared to bo. Tho
result is that the prediction of I'ro
fessor Albert Einstein, Swiss scientist,
that undor Idcnl conditions It would
bo discovered that tho sun deflected
tho rays of stars passing near It by
ono and seventy-five hundredths sor
onds of arc, has borne out, appar
ently. Professor Einstein's theory, ac
cording to Dr. Campbell and other
western scientists Is, however, much
more complex thnn a mere hypothe
sis thnt light is bent In passing large
celestial bodies. Tho theory In its
larger proportions Involves a nidival
chango In attltudo toward tho nnturo
of tho universe at least by scien
tists. One of tho elements of tho
theory la that light Is a substanco and
horauno of that Is attracted by
gravity.
Homo of tho Interpreters of tho
theory also maintain that by virtue
of the same quality that makes It
subject to tho pull of gravity. It hos
a repelling power bocauso of Us
weight.
- WASHINGTON, April 12. Scien
tists at the bureau of standards cn
gnged In. checking up the Einstein
theory of relativity by physical ex
periments, have adduced further evi
dence tending to show Its correct
ness.
The demonstration Involved ,tho
testing ot the weight of Topaz and
diamond crystals under different
placlngs In relation to tho axis of the
earth
Dr. Paul IT. Heyl, In charge of tho
experiment, used Bcales so dollcato
that they are ablo to detect a weight
difference ot one part in a million of
even tho small precious 'stones.
According to the older theories of
gravity a topaz or a diamond crystal
might be expected to vary In weight
when tho direction of Its axis was
changed from a position vertical to
(he axis of the earth to a position
horizontal to that axis. The Einstein
theory, which has challenged the
Newtonian theory of gravitation In
some respects, leads to an expecta
tion that tho crystals would not vary
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SALEM, April 12. Predicting that
Dr. R. E. Loo Stelner, superintendent,
and Dr. L. F. Griffith, assistant su
perintendent of tho state hospital for
the insane here, would be removed
from office "within tho next 40
days," C. C. Starr, recognized as an
organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, has
been soliciting membership In the se
cret organization among the assist
ants and employes of the Institution
during the past week
membership in the Klnn as a requl -
, ... v..- - - -
site to future employment at the stato
hospital, It Is said that he Intimatod
that nreference in the reorganization
ot tho institution staff, would be
given to klansmcn and urged those
now upon the hospital payroll to af
filiate with the hooded organization
immediately.
Approached yesterday for-verifica
tion of Starr's reported activities
among the employes ot his Institu
tion, Dr. Stelner declared that he had
met Starr in the hospital Monday.
"Starr was pointed out to mo yes
terday ns he was entering the hos
pital as the man who had been or
ganizing for the klan among, my as
sistants, Dr. Stelnor declared.
"Three of my assistants had come to
me during tho past few days with re
ports of Starr's activities.
"When Starr was pointed out to
me, I approached him, made myself
known to him and asked him why ho
had not secured my permission be
fore beginning his operations In the
Institution. I assured him that I had
no quarrel with the klan nor Its
members and that he would have had
no difficulty In securing permission
to oporato In the hospital bo long as
Ills mission was legitimate."
HENRY 'DRAFTED' TO
IN 1924
OMAHA, Neb., April 12. Peti
tions bearing more than 1800 names
requesting that tho namo of Henry
Kord bo placed on tho Nebraska pri
mary ballot next year as progressive
party candidate for president of tho
United Slates woro filed with tho sec
retary of stato late yesterday.
Similar petitions, It was announced
will bo filed In Idaho Hnturday, and
others nro being circulated In Kan
sas, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana,
South Dakota, Colorad'o and other
states.
Itoy M. Horrop, president of tho
American Economic longuo charter
ed nt Hartford, Conn., which Is cir
culating tho Ford petitions, said tho
league had not consulntcd Mr. Ford,
but had "druftcd him."
"Wo havo had no communication
with him, nor connection, yet I am
satisfied that when Mr. Ford realizes
how tho American pooplo need him
nnd want him, he will not decline the
candidacy," Mr. Harrnp said.
8ugar Advances
SAN FRANCISCO, April 12. Tho
price of sugar will- bo advanced 15
cents a hundred pounds hore tomor
row, according to announcement by
local refiners. Tho new price of cane
sugar will be $9.60 and of beet sugar
$9.40.
Ir. weight under any conditions. So
far Dr. Heyl In his weighing has been
unable to find any ot thn weight dif
ferences which tho Newtonian expln
rntlon of gravitation would Imply.
oac d -Li: lt-ij
For Beholding Dance
Of The Seven Veils
.
4 NEW YORK, April 12. Three
4 hundred men, members and
guests ot the twentieth assembly
district republican club in Brook-
lyn found one narrow door that
led to a vacant lot and a back
4 fence too small to escape when 4
the police raided their room early
today to stop an exhibition dance
by five women.
Two hundred and forty-five
mon and the five women were
taken to jail. 1
The raid was Instigated by a
minister who received an invita-
tlon to the stag party.
The "dance of the seven veils,
In which one ot Uio dancers dls-
carded the veils one by one, and 4
the "Little Egypt dance," were
4 roundly applauded according to 4
4- detectives.
Twenty patrol wagons took tho
4 prlsonors to nine police stations. 4
4
GRANT OF OIL
FIELDSTOU.S.A.
BRITISH OPPOSE
Concessions in Anatolia io BeX 'wlth'
PrOteSteO WnOle bUDjeCl
.
tO Come UP at LaUSanne
No
Details of Plan Made
Public.
LONDON, April 12. (By the As
sociated Press.) -Great Britain pur-
! '"
. . ., i... rr-.t-bici.
; against the granting by the Turkish j
nationalists of certain concessions lni
' Anatolia In thn American interests
headed by Rear Admral Colby M.m'mbcr. of
ChoBtor,- If these concessions are
found to embrace tho Mosul oil fields,
It was declared here today.
It Is generaly believed In London
that In Its present form, the Chester
agreoment with the Turks differs ma
terially from the original Turco
Amorlcan convention although no ex
act detailB have been received from
Constantinople.
In view of the official protest al
ready mado by France against theso
commitments to Americans as being
In contravention of the Franco
Turkish railway and ports agreement
of 1914, It Is considered certain the
whole BUbJoct'wIll be aired at the aTP
proanhlng peace conference In Lau
sanne
How far tho Washington govern
ment can dlscreotly idontify itaelf
with tho projoct Is- rogarded hore as
problematical, inasmuch as the An
gora government's action In award
ing those concessions to Amorlcans
aftor they are allegod to have been
given previously, at least In part, to
othor countries, undoubtedly will
raise Issues calling for Judicial or
even International settlement.
r'l Allen Jtctlrrs.
WASHINOTON, April 12. Mnjor
Ooncrnl Henry T. Allen, former com
mander of tho American army of oc
oupatlon in Germany, held his Inst
"rovlow" today. Tomorrow ha con
cludes 45 years of nctivo , sorvico,
reaches tho ago ot 64 and Is auto
matically retired. All troops station
ed In the district ot Washington wcro
called out by Brigadier Gonornl
Brindholtx for tho review today.
SUNDAY SCHOOL NOW THING OF PAST
' RELIGIOUS QUARRELS ALSO IN DISCARD
OMAHA, Nob., April 12. (By tho
Associated Press) Tho Sunday
school has outlived Its usefulness
and Is without a future after more
thnn 100 years of Christian service,
Hov. Dr. William E. Gardner, execu
tive socrotary of the department of
religious education of tho Protestant
Episcopal church said In an address
today opening tho annual conference
of oducallonal Icadora ot tho denomi
nation. Boys and girls growing up todny
will not carry on the religious quar
rels of tho past, they are looking at
religion from a new nnglo, llov. Dr.
Gardner said. In religious education,
he added, tho primary question Is not
ono of lloman Catholics, Jows or
Protestants, but the real question is
"can you convince boys and glrla to
dny there Is a personal God; that he
has laws, spiritual nnd physical,
which express relationship; thnt
these nre Invlnelblo Inws that cannot
b tampered with,"
FREE STATERS
IN PURSUIT
Tipperary Mountains Scoured
for Irish Leaders Who Fled
Mary MacSwiriey Re
ported Under Arrest After
Struggle Another Leader
Dies of Wounds.
DUBLIN, April 12. Six columns
of free state troops under General
Prout are scouring the mountains in
Tipperary for Eamon DeValora, Dan
Breen and the other republican ad
herents who escaped the national
troops when Liam Lynch wns
wounded and captured Wednesday.
This operation is the best organized
effort yet made to capture DoVaiera.
The djKtrlcjt Is mountainous and
llttlo information regarding the
movement is trickling through.
It Is reported that Breen is likely
to succeed Liu in Lynch as head of
the Irregulars In the south although
General Frank Aiken, a daring lr-
, regular from Louth, also is mention
ed for the post.
Thomas Keating, one of the south
ern irregular leaders, died today from
the Dungarvan hospital.
party of Irregulars
Coolnnsmear near Dungarvan, coun-
j ty Wutorford. The Irregulars refused
i surrender and were fired upon,
Keating receiving a mortal wound.
He wns ono ot tno n,ost t tn
BELFAST, April 12. (By the As
sociated Press) It is stated on good
authority here that Miss Mnry Mac
Bwlney, on her way to. the funeral of
Liam Lynch, at Clonmel, was arrest
ed by.frop atnte troops, being taken
from n train after a struggle.
it is siaiea niso mat uouni nun-
koU Mrg o.Cal0Khnni vldow of th0
nt0 iorj mayor of Limerick, and the
brother of Liam Lynch, who is a
tne unrisitan uromera
order, wore arrested at the same time
; and place, but that Lynch lntor was
released.
LONDON, April 12. (By the As
sociated Press) It is reported in
Clonmel that Count Plunkett, Coun
tess Marklevisz, Miss Mary MacSwl
ncy and tho late Liam Lynch's
brother, were captured by Irish na
tional troops in Tipperary today, says
an Exchange dispatch from Dublin
TRIAL DISAGREES
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., April 12
The Jury which tried J. W. Siemens
nnd J. W. slomons, Jr., on charges of
misapplication of funds of the First
Stato and Savings bank, was dis
charged this afternoon after having
.i 1 1 1 . t no i. ret... .......
1 ported ,t wM unnhlo'to agre0J, Jlana.
Ing nine for conviction and threo for
acquittal. i
The court Immediately took up the
trial of a misdemeanor ; charge
against the two Siemens' and Mar
shall Hooper, a former officer of tho
bank.
Tho Ttcrt Demon.
COUNCIL BLUFFS, la., April 12.
Mrs. Simon Mcllrow ,34, wns burned
to donth today and her husband who
wns trying to rescue her, died nt tho
hnspltul sevoral hours later as tho re
sult of burns received. . Two childron
esenped.
Speaking of the Sunday school.
Rev. Dr. Gardner declared that "wo)
need frankly to recognize that It hnil
no future bocauso it Is doomed to
grow weaker In Us appeal ; to -tho
rising generation." f ,
"1 do not mean there will bo: less
religious Instruction for children In'
the futuro; on tho contrary, there
will bo moro nnd of a moro thorough
and systematic charactor than Is pos
sible under present Sunday school
limitations. But ns an educational
Institution tho church school meeting
Is losing the confidence of leaders
and parents. All kinds of families
havo ceased to plaeo emphasis on
children being members of a Sunday
school.
"Week dny Is the tlmo for religious
Instruction, when the child Is in a re
ceptive mood. Effoctlve teachers
can be obtained, who will not teach
on Sunday. Unless we wish con
tinued losses of confidence, wo should
give our best attention to plnns for
week day religious Instruction."
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