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Newspaper Page TextI'nivoisKr r n ui ury .-it y - ". Xb The Weather Prediction IXaln Maximum yesterduy .. 54 Minimuui today 36.5 EBFOKB Weather Year Ao MBUNE Maximum . IS5 Minimum 27 Dally Eighteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREGON", MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1923 NO. 200 waejtiy -Fifty-Third Tear. Mai I CALIFORNIA I 1$ UPHELD U. S. Supreme Court Declares Japanese Land Law in Cali fornia Is Constitutional Clearly Within the Power of State to Control Alien Own ership. : . ' WASHINGTON. Nov. 12 The alien land laws of California and Washing ton prohibiting aliens inoligiblo to citi zenship from- owning or leasing land, were declared valid and constitutional today by the supreme court... Justice Butler asserted it was clear ly within the power of a state to pro hibit aliens who had not declared their purpose to become citizens, or who cannot become citizens from owning land. lie also held that such legisla tion was not repugnant to the agree ment made by this government with Japan. Justice Butler delivered tho opinion which held that tho question was one ontitled to be considered under tho equity power of the supremo court anil bo disposed of on its merits. Justices McReynolds and Brandies took the position that the, cases re garding tho leasing of land to Japan ese should have been dismissed on tho ground that no pusticibalo question was presented. Justice Sutherland took no part In either of the two cases covered by the decision. Two cases In which the court de livered its opinion wore brought, one by W. L. Portcrfied and, Y. Mizuno against state, officials of California, and the other by Franco Terrace, his wifo and N. Natatsuka against state officials of Washington. Tho decis ion doos not cover two other cases pending, Involving tho right of aliens to own stock in a land owning corpor ation and the contract rights of aliens in crops produced on leased land. I. C. C. Is Upheld WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The in-tor-stato commorco commission order prohibiting railroads from collecting a penally charge of ten dollars per car per day on lumber and forest products held for reconslgnmont was sustained by the supreme court tday in a case brought by the Edward IIinc3 Yellow Tine trustees. ' - WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Tho pe riod in life Insurance policies after which they become Incontestable on the ground of fraud legally begins to run from tho date on which tho pot icy was issued, even though tiiat date ante dated tho original application. The supreme court so held today in a case brought by the Mutual Life In surance company of Now York against the Ilurni Packing company of Iowa. KING OF GREECE TO E ATHENS, Nov. 12. Khg Georsro will comply with a request by the military reparation faction that ho leave Greece for a brief period pend ing tho clearins of the situation. It Is understood ho wilt cither appoint a ijfRent or ask tho govornmont to con stitute a regency. Archbishop Is Killed LONDON, Nov. 22 Monslgnor An dre OH, archbishop of Recnnti and Joreto, Italy, was killed by a fall into a dried well In tho courtyard of his palace, says a Romo dispatch to tho Dally Mail. ADOLF HIILER, LUDENDORFF S AIDE IS : CAPTURED; RED BERLIN, Nov. 12. Adolph Hitler, leader of tho recent Munich revolt, was arrested today near lake Staff el, south Bavaria. He offered no resis tance. - BERLIN. Nov. 12. According to advices from Blunich today Dr. Von Kahr, Bavarian dictator, has issued an order dissolving the communist party in Bavaria and forbidding pub lication of socialist newspapers. The dissolution of putsch organizations by Bandoti Astrologer to Be Sentenced to Death Tomorrow COQUILI,E, Ore., Nov. 12. Sentence of death is to be pro- nounced tomorrow afternoon upon Arthur Covoll, Bandon, as- trologlst, who was convicted late Saturday of first degree murder for having Inspired his 16-year-old nephew Alton Covell, to kill tho boy's Btopmother, Mrs. Ebba Covoll. According to Luke May, Soattlo criminologist, who deciphered notes of the astrologer, Covell planned the murder nt the exact minute when Jupiter, his own patron, would be in tho ascendon- cy and tho sun adverse to Vonus, the doad woman's patron. Alton Covell's trial has not yet 4 boon set. PREVENT A CUT IN UNTAXES Secy, of Treasury Says Fed eral Taxes Can Be Reduced Next Year if Soldiers Bonus Is Not Made Law Large Reductions Advised WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Federal tax revision under a program apply ing reductions to tho entire range of personal incomes and estimated to cut tho nation's tax bill next year by $323,000,000, will bo recommended to congress by Secretary MellonI ' Outlining his proposed program In a letter to Acting Chairman Green of tho house ways a,nd means committee published today, Secretary Mellon do clarcd that "contingent on tho non-1 passage of a soldiers' bonus bill there ; should bo for this year and tho next ' four or flvo years a revenue surplus above ordinary budget expenditures, including the fixed debt charges, of something more than $300,000,000.'' This, he said, gives a reasonable mar gin for tax revision and reduction. I A soldiers' bonus measure, tho sec- ; rotary asserted, not only would post pone tax reduction " for many years ; to come," but would mean an increase rather than a decrease In taxes. The treasury, he said, adheres to tho "theory that the country would prefer a substantial reduction of taxation to the increased taxes that would neces sarily follow from a soldiers' bonus." In tho tax revision, which he sug gested be made effective next January 1, Mr. Mellon recommended that taxes on earned incomes be reduced 25 per cent and the rato of normal taxes on Incomes from four per cent and eight per cent to threo and six per cent, respectively. Ho proposed that the surtax rates be reduced by commenc ing application at $10,000 Instead of $6000 and scaling them progressively up wards to 2 5 per cent on incomes of $100,000. Proposed changes in tho earned in come and normal tax rates would mean a loss of rovenuo, tho secretary estimated, of $197,000,000, tho saving to the taxpayers falling largely in the lower income brackets. The proposed scaling down on the sur-tax rates, ho predicted, would in the long run mean higher rather than lower revenues from this source, because of tho stim ulus It would give productive business by tho-.dlvcrsion of capital from tax exempt Investments. Important among proposed revis ions which would provide taxation In creases were limitation of tho deduc tion from gross Income for Interest paid during the year and for losses not 1 of a business character to the amount of the sum of these Items ex ceeds tax exempt income of tho tax payors. Grain Exports Decrease. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Grain ex ports from the United States last week were 1,696,000 bushels, compared with 1,147,000 bushels the week before. PARTY IS DISSOLVED the relchswchr is In full swing, U is said. Adolph Hitler who escaped from the state authorities after his recent unsuccessful attempt to seize the gov ernment, stayed yesterday in the cot tage of a peasant at Rosenheim about thirty miles southeast of Munich. Hitler was not wounded In the fight fngt but Injured his shoulder in fall Ing. Reports that followers of Captain Ehrhardt are co-operating with Hitler ate unfounded. BONUS WOULD FOOLS Will FAIL SAYS W. WILSON Ex-President in Second Speech in 24 Hours Declares Tri umph of His Principles Are Certain Has Seen Fools Resist Providence Before WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. A re affirmation of faith in tho ultimate triumph of the principles for ..which ho has stood was spoken by Woodrow Wilson to a throng of friends and ad mirers on an Armistice day pilgrim age yostorday to his home here. An added word whicii ho said ho could not "refrain from saying," the former president's declaration, an adjolndor to the brief address ho had Just concluded, came impressively, after ho had silenced the strains of a hymn a band had commenced at tho end of his last sentence, "I am not ono of those," ho do' clared, "that have tho least anxiety about tho triumph of the principles I have stood for. "I have seen fools resist Providence before and I have seen their destruc Hon as will corno upon these again- utter destruction and contempt. That we shall prevail is as Bure as that God reigns." Thousands Cheer Ex-Prcsldcnt A cheering throng of thousands packed tho stroet and all nearby va cant space whon Mr. Wilson appoarod on tho portico of his S strcot resi dence to deliver his second address in loss than twenty-four hours and tho third he has mado since leaving the White House. A little bent with his four years of Illness, ho stood with bared head, after waving a response to the out burst of applause which greeted him, while Senator Carter Glass of Virginia delivered,. tho, address ou behalf of tho visitors. Although faltering a llttlo onco or twice, Mr. Wilson stood unassisted beside Senator Glass while ho deliv ered tho first portion of his address. In which he gave to tho men ot whom ho was "nroud in remember" ho had boon commander In chief, tho credit of making tho armistlco pos sible. Predicting a new turn in tho na tion's foreign policy, Senator Galss, in bis address declared, "we shall soon bo compelled to put aside tho covert and foeblo civilities of an 'official ob server' to reveal our Identity as a nation which moans openly to tako Its part and glvo directions to things that involve tho security and happiness of all mankind." I?. -i hla placo of retirement licre, "Wood- row Wilson declared Saturday night in a message to the American people that tho "sullen and selfish Isolation" to which tho United States withdrew after tho world war, is "deeply Ignoble because manifestly cowardly and dis honorable." Tho former president ffssertod that demoralizing circumstances," which America might have controlled, have gone from bad to worso, until now, as if to furnish "a sort of sinister cli max," Franco and Italy "have mado waHtepapcr of tho treaty of Ver sailles." Tho affairs of the world can bo sot straight, Mr. Wilson continued, only by tho firmest and most determined exhibition of tho will to lead and make tho right prevail. Ho added that happily "the preesnt situation" in tho world affords tho United Slates an nnnnet nltv tn 'VntrtnVA ttlA tlllMl." This was tho flret tlmo in manjt months that. Mr. Wilson had lirokon his sllenco on international affairs. Ho spoke into a mlcrophono In tho study of his homo and tho ndtlress was broadcasted to every station of the country by two of tho most pow erful radiophone stations in tho oast, one In Washington and tho other In New York. As tho address camo through a "loud speaker" in tho Washington of fice of tho telephone company where newspaper correspondents were as sembled, tho enunciation was not over clear at times and tho voice seemed a little husky. It apepared that he placed particular emphasis on what ho declared was tho "deeply Ignoble" and "manifestly cowardly and dishonorable" position of America after tho war. WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Woodrow Wilson, addressing tho American peo' plo directly Saturday night for the first time since he left the White House, declared America's attitude af ter the world war was "deeply Igno ble, cowardly and dishonorable." France and Italy, Mr. WilBon also declared In a discussion of world af fairs, have made "waste paper of the treaty of Versailles." The former president said the only way In which the United States could show Its true appreciation of the sig nificance of Armistice day was by resolving to put self Interest away and tn formulate and act upon the highest Ideals of International policy. (Continued on Page Six) Ex-President Wilson Delivers Two Speeches in Twenty Four Hours r . j v v . -v Iffy -fe ; I -I ACQVK:. KORMKK PKKSIDENT WILSON IN SPEAKING I-OKM BEI-OW.. UHCEIVING' VISIVOKS LAST AKMISTICE HAY mssasm: mi mm Above la the latest photograph taken of ex-President Wlson who sur prised the poople of the country Saturday night and Sunday by two speecea vigorously assailing the foreign policies of the present administration. Be low shows tho scene at Mr. Wilson'o when-he also addrised o few friends, ments of a political or controversial TO GAIN HEALTH TOKIO, Nov. 12. By Associated Press.) Broken In health, Li Yuan Hung, former president of China, twice ousted by militarists, has ar rived at Nagasaki and Is proceeding to Beppu hot springs in southwestern Japan to recuperate, according to ad vices received hero. Ex-President L.o, commander of tho! land forces of tho revolution which overthrew the Mnnrhu dynnsty, hn been living n retirement in Tien Tsln i since his spectacular flight from Pek ing, June 1 last, when militarists issu ed a final warning that tho capital would be Invaded unless the president left. , Ho first became president In 1916,1 being deposed thereafter by a similar coup- In 1922, In response to a nation wide- demand ho returned to Peking and the presidency in tho effort to reunite tho country, although ho de clared In a manifesto that It was his inclination to stay until death in Tien Tsln, his home. Hampered by finan cial difficulties, ho waged a losing fight during his administration against the provincial military systems, foes of tho Peking government and cubl net dissensions. Tho retirement of LI to Japan ap parently ends his opposition to the election of Tsao Kun as president. Whon Tsao Kun was elected on Octo ber fi by parliament at Peking, former President Li was among those who charged the election was tho result of bribery. Recently It was announced that LI contemplated going to Japan for a rest. The announcement was -mado shortly af tec a visit with 31 by Tan Hhang-Mlng, & protege of Tsao's. Opponents of Tsao are charging that Ll has been bought off. E WIN SHIP STRIKE TOKIO, Nov. 12. (By Associated Press). Tho strlko of seamen em ployed by tho Nippon Yuson Kaisha which -tied up more than a dozen of tho company's ship" last week, vir tually has ended, according to advlcec received here from Kobe. The com pany Is said to have acceded to the demands of the seamen wHi were Joined by some members of the en gine room crews and Juntor officers. The strikers are to be compensated for the thirty per cent reduction In sailing allowances, announced early last week, which precipitated the strike, the advice atote, a residence in Washington a year ago but oarofully avoided any state nature. SPOKANE HIGH TO PLAY TOLEDO !N PLACE OF WALLA W. SPOKANE, Wash., Nov. 12. rer mli;alson for the football loam of Lewis and Clark high school of this city to play Scott high school of To ledo, Ohio, next Saturday for the na tional lntorscholastlc football cham pionship was granted by ' the city school board In a specially called moot ing early- today, and the team will lravo tonight for Toledo, It was an nounced. The Invitation from tho Tolodo school was received after I. owls and ('lurk had defeated the Walla Walla high school Saturday by a scoro of 21 to 0. . Prior to thlB game, Walla Walla had accepted an Invitation to ropro sent the west at Toledo. LowIh and Clark has won overy gamo played this season, its opponents having been eastern Washington and northern Idaho schools. It has yet to play North Central high school of this city which It moots Thanksgiving day. EAT MORE WHEAT IS THE OF CHICAGO, Nov. 12. The produc tlon commltteo of the whont council ot the tlnltcd stnra met here today to consider means that may be used to so rceulate tho production of wheat that It may he generally profitable Jlcsldcs promitlnjr an eat moro wheat" campaign,- tho commltteo pro poses to consider Improved means for growing the product, grading and regulation of production, according tn an announcement from tho whent council office Corvallis Man Injured in R. R. Wreck in Iowa MAnsHAf.I.TOWN, Iowa, Nov. 13. Klvo persons wore Injured early to day when four cars of Chicago (Ireat Western passenger tram wero derail ed near hero. Tho moro seriously Injured wero occupants of tho rear sleeper which turned over on Its sido. A defective rail caused tho accident. Mrs. Andlo Pandolfo, 8t. Louis; Otto Hoppo, Htlllwator, Minn.; W. J Oilmore, Corvallis, Ore., and S. John son, porter, Minneapolis, wero In jured. Awards of $3,000,000 to U. S. Claimants Against Germany WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. Awards of nioro than $3,000,000 to American claimants against Gormany were announced today by tho mixed claims comniis- sion. The largest awards were In favor of the Western Electric company, $1,585,0S(, tho Pitts- burg Plato Glass company, $090,- 000 and tho Toxas company $547,- 845. PREST SIMS FIRST MESSAGE 10 THE PEOPLE Mr. Coolidge Begins First Im portant Task After Weeks of Conference and Careful In vestigation - Foreign Pol icies Not Paramount. WASHINGTON. Nov. 12. rrosl dent Coolldgo began actual work to day on his mosHngo to congress, and upun tho results of his efforts, even his closest friends acknowledge, will depend to n considerable degroo his political future Mr. Coolldgo Is known to realizo as much as do his friends the import ance of his first message and his first pronouncement of pedicles, and for that reuson he expects to dovoto him self assiduously to working upon tho document during tho threo weeks that intervene boforo tho convening of con gress. -( By figfcomeut with his socro- taiy. C. Unscom slump, the executive will limit Ills dally appointments to only tpOHo of necessity and let noth ing intorero with his work upon tno mossago. Conferred Threo Months. The groundwork nocessary to tho drafting of the mossago already has boon done. Six days a woek for throo months, Mr. Coolldgo 1ms been con ferring wllh officials and private citi zens respecting tho problems beforo tho government. Ho tins talked with exports. In international affairs, with railroad executives and railroad em ployes, farmers, labor loaders, bank ers, odltors, politicians, and with just plain, ordinary citizens. In nearly every enso the one who conforred with the- president had tho namo exporl enco he presented his vlows and then wns closely questioned by the' chief executive. Th result Is that Mr. Cool ldgo has absorbed a lot of informa tion on a lot of subjects. With this Information at hand ho sat down today to write tho message. Tho irlnclpal subjects to be treated In tho messago have become fairly well known to thoso who havo follow ed the course of tho president's mind and tho nature of his conferences dur ing the past three months. They embrace agricultural relief, taxation, transportation, merchant marine, government expenditures, im migration, reclamation and Interna tional nffairs, Including the world court and the recently negotiated con ventions with Mexico. Threo Main Issues. Threo subjects would seem ot this :tlmo likely to receive major consid eration They are agricultural relief, taxation nnd transportation. With rospoct to asslstnnco to tho farmors, tho executive Is expected by somo to uigo legislation to promote co-opcrn-tlvo marketing and to ask creation of nn agency or authorization for an ex isting ngency to sell American farm products abroad. Tho executive's tax proposals most probably will -follow the outllno ot .thoso announced by the roasury do partment with such minor modifica tions ns rtcpubllcun leaders bcliovo aro advisablo. In tho matter of transportation tho president has received much advlco relative to consolidation of railroads and may tirgo legislation to that end. It Is reasonable to expect ho will not glvo any measuro of approval to tho proposal that congress by Us own ac tion rcduco freight rates on farm pro- (Continued on Pago Hlx) RULE OUT EVEN MENTION OF KLANIN I OF OKLAHOMA CITV. Okla., Nov. 12. (Hy Associated Press)., Tho first attempt to Inject tho Ku Klux Klan lssuo Into tho lmpoachmont trial of Oovornor J. C. Walton failed today whon tho sonate court by an oral vote, refused to permit a witness to answer a quostlon that boro directly on the governor's opposition to tho organiza tion. Homer D. Martin, who testified he had guarded the executive's residence REFUSE TO E Chancellor Stresemann De clares Return of Crown Prince a Matter for Ger many to Decide Paris Calls Emergency Confer ence at Once. DERLIN, Nov. 12. Speaking at Halle yesterday, Chancellor Strese mann said the return of the crown prince, whom he characterized as "not the worst of Germans," to his Gorman home could not be rofused. The de cision was purely a matter of Inter nal policy and one which the German poople could not allow to be takon from their hands. Referring to the Munich revolt the chancellor said Gormany would have had to suffer a long time for the dam age that would have resulted had Hit ler becomo arbiter of Germany's fate. Tho chancellor remarked that the be haviour ot Gonoral I.udendorff In the affair was highly regrettable London 8ees Trouble LONDON, Nov. 12. Tho return of Frodorick William to Germany has caused much speculation as to wheth er more Is behind the Incident than would be Implied merely by a consid eration of his personal insignificance.- Some commentators argue that 'his personality has llttlo to do with tho situation. Tho Morning Post says he Is neither an heroic nor.an, hqnorablo figure, but that history shows a small person Is sometimes used to launch a great enterprise and that It Is impos sible to disassociate' hla return from tho outbreak in Munich. Tho Dally Chronicle thinks his pres ence In Gormany must Immediately create a foctiBlng point for monarchist plots. ' No ono attaches much Importance to tho undertaking ot the prince or the German govornmont that he will ab stain from modeling In politics, and there Is a protty general assumption that his roturn means a bid for the throno. ' The Dally Telegraph's diplomatic ex pert says Chancellor Stresemann en gineered the return of Frederick Wil liam. Stresemann, the article says, persuaded his colleagues that the safe ty of the present regime In the relch lay Id splitting the ranks of the mon archists. t ... William In Sllesa would neutralize Rupprccht In Bavaria. Kaiser Is Consulted. THE HAGUE, Nov. 12. (By the As sociated Press.) Dr. Kan, an official of tho ministry of tho Interior, loft for Doom today for a conference with formor Emperor William. PARIS, Nov. 12. (Hy tho Associat ed Press. A Gorman nolo replying to the protest of the council of ambassa dors against the return to Gormany of ex-Crown Prince Frodorick William was received here today. The note is understood to bo of an unsatisfactory nature .to the allies and the members of tho ambassadors' council wore hur rlodly notified to convene this after noon for its consideration. It Is understood tho Gorman note takos the stand that Frederick Wil liam possesses tho same rights as other German citizens and that the German government has no reproach to make against him. Prince at Oels OELS, Sllosla, Nov. 12. (By the As sociated Press.) At 11 o'clock this morning Oels was patiently awaiting the arrival of ox-Crown Prince Wil liam but was still without advices as (Continued on Pago Six) at night on occasions during the last 18 months, had told tho court the governor's life had boon threatened.' "Wasn't that about the tlmo Mr. Walton, as mayor, issued a proclama tion directed against tho klan?" do fonno counsel asked. - The prosecution objected and Tom Anglln, president of the senate moved that the reference to the klan be stricken from the record. The court supported hla action by an oral vote.