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MEDFORD, OREGON", MONDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1923
NO. 200
waejtiy
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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.
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Ex-President Wilson Delivers Two
Speeches in Twenty Four Hours
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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.