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IL TRIBUNE
Dally Eighteenth Tear.
MEDFORD,' OREGON, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1923
Wkly Fll
fifty-Third Year.
NO. 197
TAX LE
BY. TWENTY VOTES
Mai
MEDFORD
INCOME
mim
INCOMETAX
LEADING BY
ClOSE VOTE
With Over 100 Precincts Miss
ing, Measure Leads By Over
100 Votes Final Result
May Not Be Known Until
Official Count Jackson Co.
for Measure By 65 Votes.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8.
Returns from 1075 of tlio state's
1767 precincts tabulated ut 2:S0
today Riivo on the income lux
referendum: For tlio tax 5U,IMHI;
against 50,979, majority for tlio
tax 20.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8. He
turns, official and unofficial,- from
all but 113 of tho state's 17G7 pre
cincts, compiled at one o'clock gave:
For income tax 56,804; against 6G,GSG.
a majority in favor of the measure
of 118.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8. The
proposed Income tax voted on at a
referendum Tuesday had a majority
of 2G9 in Its favor, according to re
turns tabulated at eleven o'clock to
day. The figures stood:
For tax 66,054"; against C5.795.
Previous compilations had been
gradually cutting down an unfavor
able majority of .about ten thousand,
which was indicated on returns early
"Wednesday when Multnomah county's
.adverse majority offsot up-state re
turns. PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8. The
majority ugalnst the proposal for a
stato income tax was reduced to 111
by refurnB from Tuesday's referendum
election tabulated early today. With
unofficial returns complete from 20
of the 36 counties, and a few small
precincts missing from the others, the
count stood:
For income tax, 65,496; against 65,.
C07.
Tlio Jackson County Result.
Complete unofficial returns on the
Income tax election from all DC Jack
son county precincta show tho meas
ure carrlfd by the narrow margin of
66 votes, the count bolng:
Yes ' 1560
No ; 1495
The country precincts voted heavily
for the meusure, while apathy ruled
the day in the cities, less than 15 per
cent of the vote being cast In this
city.
AVlmer voted full strength. Yes 5G;
No 1. Foots Creek, Lake Creek, West
Phoenix, Sterling, Qrchard Home,
Flounce Rock, Climax? and all eleven
Medford precincts voted against the
bill. One Ashland precinct returned
a majority against the bill and one
broke even.
County Clerk Florey Bald that the
official count would start as soon as
all the ballot boxes were on hand,
and would be finished in a day. It
would not be surprising If the official
figures changed the result, as In get
ting returns over the telephone there
,1s always liability of error.
Voto By Precinct
Yes.
Ashland Boulevard ....... 32
Ashland, East Central ..,... 32
No.
47
27
32
' 41
14
10
16
62
7
8
6
' 5
19
39
11
6
3
Ashland, West Central....,
Ashland, Oak
32
27
4G
Nrth Ashland
JJast Ashland 33
Southeast Ashland ., 61
Northwest Ashland 67
Antioch .. 14
Applegato 64
Barron ..... 18
Bellevlew 28
Butte Palls 20
So. Central Point 65
No. Central Point 63
Climax 1
Derby . 7
'Continued on Page Six)
IN SOUTH SEAS WITHOUT
SEATTLE, Nov. 8. Inhabitants of
Pitcalrn, one of the smallest and most
romantic Islands of the south Pacific
ocean, have run out'of postage stamps
and money.
A letter enroute from Pitcalrn to
an Inland United States city arrived at
the Seattle postoffice yesterday with
out postage. It had been routed via
New Zealand and on the envelope the
New Zealand postmaster had scrawled
Klamath County
Postmaster Arrested
On Charge Stealing
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 8.
Edward Uyers, postmaster at
Olene, Klamath county, Oregon,
who was arrested yesterday at
Gerber, Cal., on a charge of nils-
J appropriating $2000 in ""postal
funds was brought here today to
4 face a. United States commls-
Bioner. It is believed that he will
be returned to Portland for
trial.
L
I
E
Steel Magnate Gave Money to
Myrtle Hays for 20 Years to
Prevent Publicity and Avoid
Misconstruction By the Pub-
i; i : -ms
NEW YORK, Nov. 8. It was to
prevent publicity "on matters on
which the public Is apt to put the
wrong construction, " that Charles M.
Schwab lent money over a period of
twenty years to Mrs. Myrtle B. Hayes,
he testified yesterday at a hearing
held to determine his liability for
payment of notes to which Mrs. Hayes
Is charged with, forging his name. -. ,
Revelation of the loans came sev
eral months ago when a hotel project
at Brookllne, Mass., In which .Mrs.
Hayes was interested, BUddely col
lapsed because Mr. Schwab would not
honor the notes under contention. The
hearing was part of the legal action
William G. Tobcy, builder ot the hotel
instigated to recover money he lost
when the notes were paid.
, In 1902, Mr. Schwab said, he lent
Mrs. Hayes, then Miss Myrtle Bow-
man, $2000 and subsequently he made
oiner loans to ner under tnreats or
exposure of the first loan.
"I was told that unless I aided her
with further money," he said, "there
would be publicity and comment that
probably would be unfavorable.
No man likes publicity on matters
"which the public is apt to put the
I wrong construction.
I "Nearly all my misfortunes in life
have come from acts of kindness to
others," he added.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
PITTSBURG, Kas., Nov. 8. C. H.
Marshall, cashier of the Farmers and
Miners State bank of Crestline, re
belled when three bank robbers, who
had scooped up between 12000 and
3000 in a holdup soon after noon to
day, ordered him into the vault. He
grabbed a revolver and fired. The
bandits became confused, dropped the.
satchel Into which they had put the
money and ran. entering a motor
car they escaped.
OGDEN, Kas., Nov. 8. Holding
the townsmen at bay for two hours
early today, bandits blew the safe of
the Ogden State bank and escaped
with an unknown amount of cash,
Liberty' bonds and other valuables.
The robbers numbered from 8 to 10
men. Before the robbery all tele
phone and telegraph wires leading
into the town were cut. The robbers
I got $2000 in cash and securities to an
unKnown amount.
Italians Dcrcat Tribesmen n
TRIPOLI. Nov. . The Italian
troops in Tripoli have mflicted anoth
er defeat upon the rebellious tribes
men in at sharp attack near Nalut.
The natives lost 100 killed while the
Italian casualties were only two dead
and thirteen wounded, all native
soldiers.
TO
a note that he was "franking" the
letter because "Pltcairn residents
have neither stnmps or money to buy
them with." The letter was sent on
to Its destination from here.
A mere dot on the map of the Pa
cific ocean, Pltcairn was first colon
ized !n 1790 by mutineers of the Brit
ish ship Bounty. The island is 4 M
miles long.
In 1915 Its population was given as
119 men and 94 women.
SCHWAB LOANED
MONEY TO
W TONGU
ISSUES DEFI
II) l(, WIZARD
Emperor Simmons Challenges
Wizard Evans to Come Into
Open and Give Public Facts
About the Murder of Klans
man W. Coburn No
Time to Hide Says Emperor.
ATLANTA, Ga., Nov. 8. William
Joseph Simmons, -emperor of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan today
issued a statement, challenging Dr.
If. W. Kvans, imperial wizard of the
organization , to "come out into the
open and give the public the facts," in
connection with the shooting to death
of Captain William S. Coburn by
Philip K. Fox, publicity agent of the
klan, here Monday afternoon.
"If I had been Imperial wlard of
the Ku Klux Klan and my publicity
director had committed such a fla
grant and outrageous . murder,"
Colonel Simmons stated, "you can bet
your last dollar that I would hot be
in hiding in some other city away
from headquarters, where" I
could not see representatives of the
press and klansmen of the nation who
are justly entitled to any information
available on the subject and would bo
attempting to prove beyond a doubt
whatever that I had no - connection
with the murder and that neither my
associates or myself had In any way
inspired this deecWoi the part of 1 Mr.
Fox, who is publicity director for Mr.
Evans.
"I am astonished that Dr. Evans
remains in hiding at a critical time
like this and that newspapermen and
klansmen are unable to find any re
sponsible head at the palace head
quarters willing to meet those entitled
to information on this." ,
Dr. Fred B. Johnson of San Antonio
chief of staff to Emperor Simmons,
who returned with the emperor early
today from Birmingham, also issued
a signed statement.
He explained his sudden departure
from Atlanta Tuesday night after he
had sworn out peace warrants for Dr.
Evans, Brown Harwood, H. K. Ram
sey, and T. J. McKlnnon, klan offic
ials, by saying "I had what I con
sidered a reliable tip that certain
parties were taking the midnight
train for Birmingham with the
avowed intention of getting the
colonel out of tho way via tho murder
route."
LI
OF FEDl. EXPENSE
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. President
Coolldge is insisting that reductions
ordered by President Harding in the
expenditures of the federal govern
ment shall stand in spite of the pro
tests of cabinet officers whose quotas
have bene pared down by the budget
bureau.
The budget for next year, now near
lng completion, is expected to follow
out strictly Mr. Harding's stipulation
that the total, exclusive of postal op
erations and public debt transactions
shall not exceed $1,700,000,000. For the
current year the total Is $1,826,000,000.
. Department heads who have taken
their protests to the . White -House
have been told by Mr. Coolldge that
the 126,000,000 reduction is regarded
by him as absolutely obligatory in the
interests of economy and that ' all
branches of the federal government
mus tcuot their fiscal ' garments ac
cording to the cloth.
I
SALEM PRISONER ON
TRANSFER, ESCAPES
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 8. Albert Pres
ton, alias Zeplck Saunders, alleged
foiger, escaped from an officer from
Folsom prison while being returned
to Folsom from Salem, It became
known here today. The news was
contained In a letter from the Folsom
warden to the United States National
bank hero, through which Preston
was alleged to have put forged checks
aggregating nearly 3000. ''
She'll Help Mary and Doug
Deny Rumor of Quarrel Over
."Other Woman;" In Court Suit
; ypdJ
ABOVF'MIS EVELYN BRENT. I-AIRHANKH' LKAlilNG
M AN : .'BELOW. DOUG AND MARY LAUGHING DOWN
WOM
HUMORS OK A SPAT
LOS ANGELES "OiiarrclcdJ Docs it took as if We had?"
This was the nurrv retort of Douirlas and Marv Fairbanks, kinff
and oiircn respectively of the American cinema world, to rumors that
they had auarrcled over another woman.
Furthermore, tlicv ordered their attorneys. O'Brien. Mahvinsky
"audi Driscoll. to bring suit tor libel against the Srrmilan I magazine,
which rcr.entlv orintcd I he report that Fairh.mk and Mir Picklord
had auarrcled over a woman, inferential))' . Mis Evelyn Brent. , Fair
banks' leading woman. .
Miss Brent will loin with the Fairbanks' in tlie-suil'OrHinir
to her husband. B F Fincm'aiL
U. S. RAILROADS
10 SPEND
1
NEW YORK, Nov. 8. (By the As
sociated Press.) Forecasting for 1924
another ierlod of such record break
ing freight .traffic as tho United
States has experienced in the year
Just passing, two national organiza
tions of executives of the foremost
railroads today adopted an ambitious
program of financial And physical ex
pansion in the next twelve months.
Tho program, drawn by the board
oC directors of the American Railway
Association, representing 240 roads,
was approved by the full membership
In session at the Yale club and later
by heads of the 194 class one roads
which comprise the Association of
Railway Executives.
It contemplates the aggregate ex
pendlture, exclusive of what appro
priations may be confined in tho 1924
budgets, of $243,804,000 already au
thorized for new locomotives, cars and
equipments. This would bring total
capital expenditures of class one rail
roads since 1922 to 11,732,516.836 a
high precedent In the history ot Amer
ican transportation for any similar
period.
Although the program did not spec
ify the total capital expenditure for
1924 that might be written In the
budgets of individual roads, it express
ed satisfaction with the results of the
billion and a half dollar plan for ex
pansion embarked uimn last spring.
The goals set then had been nearly at
tained; many traffic records had been
smashed to carry the freight ot. an
era of industrial prosperity; much new
equipment had been acquired and old
equipment restored to service; car
shortages had been few; traffic con
gestions rare, and embargoes almost
eliminated.
Crude Oil Reduced.
FINDLAY, Ohio, Nor. 8. The Ohio
Oil company today reduced tho prices
of Illinois and Princeton crude to $1.22
a barrel, a cut of 25 cents.
SUM
24
F
BY DEPT. AGRIC.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Prollmln
ary estimates of this year's harvests,
announced today by the department
of agriculture, placed the corn crop at
3,029,192,000 busnels, compared with
a forecast of 3,021,454,000 bushels a
month ago and a crop of 2,890,712,000
bushels last year.
Other crops were estimated as fol
lows! .
Wheat, 781,737,000 bushels; oats 1,
302,43.000 bushels; barley 199,251,000
biiHhels; rye 64,774,000 bushels; buck
wheat 14,511,000 bushels', Potatoes
416,722,000 bushels; syeet potatoes
97,429,000 bushels; hay 102,914,000
tons;' tobacco 1,436,738,000 pounds;
flax Beed 19,343,000 bushels.
Peaches 45,555,000 bushels
Pears 13,356,000 bushels. ' ,
Apples 193,855,000 bushels.,
Sugar beets 6,667,000 tons. .
Grain sorghums 103,506, bushels.
Cranberries 619,000 barrels.
Beans 14,936,000 bushels.
Onions 16,694.000 bushels.
Cabbage 821,000 tons.
Clover seed 1,121,000 bushels..'
Hops 17,028,000 pounds.
The price Index of all crops on No
vember 1 was 21.2 per cent more than
a year ago and 23.8 per cent less than
the average , of the preceding five
yars.
The production Index is about 6 per
cent less than lost year's aggregate
production and the same an the aver
ago of the preceding five years.
' . 8hrlner In Mexico.
MEXICO CITY, Nov. 8. A delega
tion ot fifty Shriners from the United
States headed by Vernon Hinckle ot
Indianapolis, H. Hutchinson and Wil
liam Davis of Portland, Ore., and R.
G. Cory of New York, has arrived
here. -
Nine Killed) In Genoa
'OJ3NOA, Italy, Nov. . Nine per
sons were killed and nine Wounded by
nn -explosion of cordite today in Fort
Montegnano.
Allied Ambassadors
Tell Crown Prince He
Can't Leave Doorn
PARIS, Nov. 8. (Ily Assocl-
nted Press). Tho allied counsel
of ambassadors decided today to
roquost the Dutch government
not to allow former Crown
Prince Frederick William to
leave Dutch territory, whore ho
has been in exile since the war
and also to sdk tho Gorman gov
't' ernment not to allow him to
r enter Germany as ho Is on tho
list of persons charged with war
crimes whose arrest Is sought by
tho allied governments.
GETS II L
Exalted Cyclops of Ku Klux!
Klan Fined $10 and Costs
for. Carrying Firearms On
Premises of Another May
Appeal.
BASTROP, La., Nov. 8. (By tho As
sociated Press.) Judge' Fred M.
Odom today fined Captain J. K. Sklp-
wlth, exalted cyclops ot the More
house Ku Klux Klnn W ft Mt-Tntnul.
Benton Pratt and Marvin Pickett $10
and costs. They were convicted Mon
day of carrying firearms on the pre
mises or another.
BASTROP, La., Nov. 8. (By the As
sociated Press.) Judge Fred M.
Odom, today overruled tlio motion of
the defense in tho Morehouse misde
meanor triala that he recuse or dis
qualify himself. The defense gave no
tice that it would apply to the supreme
court for writs of prohibition and cer
tiorari. The offense had charged that
the court was biased and prejudiced
The fine was the limit and the court
said' that in 'default of payment tho
term In jail would be five days. The
court said the only reason -it did not
send them to work on tho roads was
because It had been shown the raid in
the course of which the offense oc
curred was with tho permission ot
Sheriff Carpenter.
Judge Odom asked the defendants if
tlioy had anything to say before he
passed sentence.
"Well, Judge," replied Captain
Sklpwlth, "if I'd say anything it
wouldn't do any good, you wouldn't
believe me."
"That goes for me, too," said Mcin
tosh. After passing sentence Judge
Odom adjourned court Indefinitely, so
far as the misdemeanor caseB are con
cerned. PORTLAND, Oro.Nov. 8. Return
to work was being considered today
by the 120 striking electrical workers
of tho Northwestern electric company
following tho action late yesterday of
the company in accepting mediation
by the state board of conciliation. Tho
company waived tho condition it had
imposed of requiring the board to In
vestigate wages of ull electrical work
ers in the district, to which tho Port
land Railroad, Light and Power com
pany objected.
CAPSKIPniffl
FOR GUN TOT NG
IMPERIAL VALLEY HAS EPIDEMIC
OF EARTHQUAKES; WINDOWS BROKEN
CALEXICO, Cal., Nov. 8. Residents
of Imperial valley today wore select
ing safo resting places for their glass
ware and other breakable belongings
after experiencing two earthquakes In
the. apace of fifty hours with no defi
nite assurance that this week's sup
ply of temblors was exhausted.
Plate glass windows which were
broken In last Monday's quake were
still unrepaired when a temblor rocked
PARIS TELLS
10
Dictatorship Will Not Be Toler
ated Poincare Warns As Ba
varian Fascisti . Announce
March On Berlin Hughes
and Coolidge Still Studying
the Situation.
PARIS, Nov. 8. the As
sociated Pit-Hs) Tlio French
government has Instructed Its
nmlm.HKmlor In Berlin to Inform
the C.erman government ' that
Framu would not tolerate, tlio
CNIabllxlimciit of a dictatorial
gm-ornincnt In Germany.
The notion of the French govern
ment apparently has reference to the
recently reported demands from the
nationalistio factions in Bavaria for
the establishment of a nationalist
dictatorship for Germany. ,
The regime to the establishment of
which France is opposed, is a reac
tionary military dictatorship, agitat
ion for which has been uncommonly
active in Germany for the last tew
weeks.
It also comes on the hells of a. re
port through London that the Bavar
ian irregulars under Adolph Hitler,
who. favor tho establishment of such
a dictatorship, have decided to march
on Berlin tomorrow.., .- j
' LONDON, Nov. 8. Tho Berlin
roiTCNpondent of tho Exclutngo
Telegraph forwards a telegram
from Munich which says that the
- Bavarian Irregulars liave decided
to march on Berlin tomorrow.
BERLIN, Nov.! 8. Premier Poin
care. replying to tho recent German
protest ngnipst the attitude of the
French general, Metze In the palatin
ate, Informed Berlin that the French
government was entirely unconcern
ed with preparations for separatist
action In either the palatinate or the
Rhine 'prov'nc'e.
A semi-official statement announc
ing receipt of the reply says that It
evnded answering the complaint
against Gentirul DeMetz.
PARIS, Nov. 8. The occupation
authorities ' have decided upon the
creation ot a bank ot Issue In the
Rhlnolund, tho capitnl for which Is
bolng subscribed by German, Dutch,
ItrltiHh, Belgian and French finan
ciers, snya L'Bclalr. Tho object of the
new bunk is to facilitate trade which
has been paralyzed by the fluctua
tions of tho currency.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8. Beyond
tho fact that direct conversations be
tweon tho Washington and Paris gov
ernments are continuing, there was
no indication here today as to what
progess Is being made In the effort
to clear tho way for an agreement ori
the scope of the proposed expert in
quiry into the reparations question.
A detailed explanation of the
French position has been laid before
officials here. After receiving this In
a halt hour conference with Ambas
sador Jusserand late yesterday, Sec
retary Hughes went directly to the
White House to report developments
to President Coolldge.
Death Toll of
the Automobile
i
1RONTON, Ohio, Nov. - 8. Three
persona wore killed and two Injured
this afternoon when a Chesapeake
and Ohio train hit a motor bus at a
crossing near Russell, Ky., accord
ing to word renchlng here. The dead
are mnngled so badly identification
Is Impossible. The driver of the bus.
which seated 86, escaped uninjured,
it was said. The bus was en route
from lronton to Ashland. Ky.
Calexico late yesterday, the tremors
traveling In a northwest by southeast
direction and continued 29 minutes. ,
Cracka opened in various buildings
Monday were widened; window dis
plays in several stores were toppled
Into a heap and a small blaze was
started by the snapping asunder of
oiectrio power lines. As in Monday's
earthquake, however, no one was in
jured. Property damage, according to
merchants and others, was negligible,'
PLAN