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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1923
Kly Fifty-Third Year.
NO. 213
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KLAN
2ND TIME
1 Dr. Evans Files Second .Libel
Suit for $50,000 Damages
Against Klan Founder
Portland Klan in Open Wan
fare Against Grand Dragon
Gifford.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark.. Nov. 27. Al
leging that William J. Simmons, em
peror of the Ku Klux Klan, In Ilia an
swer to the $100,000 libel suit filed
against him several months ago by
Dr. H. W. Evans, Imperial wizard of
the klan, had made charges which in
themselves amounted to libel. Dr.
Evans late today through his attor
ney, filed Bult In Pulaski county for an
additional $50,000 damages.
Klan Fight In Portland
PORTLAND, Nov. 27. With the
Gifford faction of the Oregon Federa
tion of Patriotic societies possessed of
the corporate name and seal of that
organization; with the outstate klan
leaders reported to be In revolt against
Orand Dragon P. C. Gifford; with
leaders of the federated societies In
sisting that "there will be no armistice
between us and the klan until it Is
purged of Gifford and Glffordlsm;"
with W. C. Elford, who for some time
past has acted as secretary of the patri
otic societies, openly charging Gifford
with being a tool of the public utility
corporations 'and attempting to control
state politics in their . interest, and
with Major Luther I. Powell, primary
organizer of the klan In Oregon, estab
lishing a omagaslne which he frankly
states has been put under the Hban"
pf Gifford for no known reason, as
Powell suggests, "unless he Is afraid
of the truth" with all these develop
ments coming within a week, It looks
like the dove of peace Is roosting pret
ty far out on the end of. the limb so
far as these organizations are con
cerned. . . . ,
Crews Is Attacked
Following these circumstances some
what in the stated order, it Is Inter-.
esting to note that the present posses
sion of the corporate name and seal of
the federated societies bv the Gifford
people ma yprove to be an empty vic
tory after all. Lawyers f'lem'lv t" the
Elford segment of the oreanlzatl'-n. In
sist -that Cornorntlon Commissioner
Crews stubbed his lgnl t8 when he
swept the old articles and seal Into
the waste basket to accept the new
articles offered on behalf of the Perry
faction.
There Is a provision In the law, they
point out, which states that the arti
cles of Incorporation of any corpora
tion, as filed with the corporation
commissioner, or with the county
clerk, are evidence of such corpora
tion. They also Insist that even In. the
face of an adverse decision in the cir
cuit court, the corporation commission
er possessed no legal authority by his
own ukase to wipe a corporation off
the state records,, and giye its name
and seal to a new one.
Be that as it may, the federation
leaders Insist that, no matter who has
the seal and corporate name, the fight
against Gifford still will go on, and, as
an earnest of this Intent, Elford comes
forward with & detailed statement, in
which he baldly charges Gifford with
"organizing with the Idea of getting
absolute control of the state."
He charges that Gifford announced
that "It the Masons, Odd Fellows,
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AUTOMOBILE BANDITS KILL ANOTHER
LOS ANGELES MAN IN COLD BLOOD
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27. Follow
ing four holdups in the south part of
the city last night in which the ban
dits fatally shot Charles A. Chapman,
an autoist, deputy sheriffs arrested
early today three men who are
charged with the crime and are also
believed by postoffice Inspectors to be
the men who robbed the Ttrlumpho,
Ventura county, postoffice, the night
of November 18.
The trio gave their names as Jack
Fordinan, I. R. Robertory and Harold
Field, all of Los Angeles.
LOB ANGELES, Nov. 27. Charles
A. Chapman, 26, an insurance sales
man, was shot and killed early this
morning by a trio of automobile ban
dits after they had stopped his car
Portland Is Flooded
With Turkeys, Price
Up to Purchasers
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27.
Never before at holiday Benson
has such a deluge of turkeys pour-
ed Into Portland as during the
past few days when thousands of
I birds have been sniped to whole-
sale dealers who have put forth
every effort to keep them mov-
Ing. The usual shipping outlet
enjoyed by the Portland firms
was early found to be cut off, as
other markets were also trying
to ship turkeys elsewhere.
Prices are demoralized. Today
it was a buyer's market, with no
argument about the price. A re-
tall dealer could buy one or a 4
thousand birds anywhere from
4- 2D to 29 cents a pound.
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"WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. Senator
Cummins of Iowa today agreed to de
fer to the Judgment of republican
leaders of the senate as to whether
he shall retain both or either of his
present places as president pro tern
of the senate and chairmun of the
interstate commerce committee.
After a conference with Senator
Cummins, Senator. Lodge of .Massa
chusetts, the republican leader, said
he expected the Iowa leader to be
continued In both positions despite
the objections which have been raised '
by other members.
The conference between Senators
Lodge and Cummins followed a meet
ing of several majority leaders at
which the whole senate organization
situation- was canvassed. It had been
hoped by several of them that Mr.
Cummins voluntarily - .would retire
from tjie presidency and agree to re
tnin the committee chutrmanshlp
which would go, if vacated by him, to
Senator LnFollet.e of AVlsconsin, a
leader of the progressive bloc.
After tile conference Senator Cum
mins would say only that he had
nothing to relinquish, that the ques
tion of the committee chairmanship
as well us that of president pro tem
pore was for the senate to decide. Re
publican leaders concede that there
are not enough votes In sight to de
feat him for the presidency. Whether
the republican progressives will make
a fight on him ns conimltteo chnlr
ninn remains to ho developed.
Death Toll of
the, Automobile
El.LENHHURO, Wash., Nov. 27.
Howard Ashley, single, aged 28, Ens
ton, was killed und Amos Elklns, mar
ried, aged 30 of Easton was prob
ably fatally Injured when a light car
driven by Ashley went off the grade
seven miles west of Enston near the
Doughnut Inn on Snoqualmfe pass
hlghwoy, presumably about 4:30 this
morning. The car went down over a
forty foot embankment and was not
discovered until six hours later.
COLFAX, Wash., Nov. 27 Herbert
Bittle, six year old son pf Mr. arid
Mrs. Matthew Bittle of Hay, western
Whitman county died in a hospital
here from injuries he received when
he was run over by an automobile
while playing In the street.
' School Teacher Disappears,
SEATTLE, Nov. 27. Seattle police
today were preparing to broadcast pho
tographs of Miss Neil Austin, 23, a
public school teacher, who dropped
out of sight Sunday night after she
had left her home to sing in a church
choir. The girl and her sister Leila
Austin, lived together.
and forced him and a woman com
panion out of the machine. Accord
ing to the woman, the bandits flag
ged their machine and as they stop
ped, compelled them to leave the car.
They then searched Chapman. He
offered no resistance, she said, but on
finishing the robbery they Inflicted
the fatal wound. Chapman died an
hour later In a receiving hospital. '
Less than an hour after the killing
police officers and postal Inspectors
who .were working on another case,
arrested an asserted member ofTthe
gang. Two other men are being held
In connection with the crime. Their
names are being withheld by the of
ficers. According to the police, the trio had
robbed at least three other autoists
before stopping Chapman. I
CUMIN
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KEEP BOTH
AVOID
RUC
WOOD'S VETO
OVERRIDDEN
BY NATIVES
Philippine Legislature By a
Unanimous Vote. Passes
Tax Bill Vetoed By Governor-GeneralEntire
Mat
ter Now Up to President
Coolidge for Decision.
MANILA, Nov. 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The bill remitting pen
alties on delinquent land tax vetoed
by Governor General Wood was unani
mously passed over the veto today by
the Philippine legislature: The bill
now goes to Washington lor President
Coolidge's consideration.
This Is the first instance since the
organization of the Philippine legis
lature of a passage of a bill over the
veto of the governor general to be
sent to Washington for the president's
consideration.
The senate was the first body to
pass the bill over the veto. It took ac
tion this morning. 'The house of rep
resentatives acted tonight.
Governor Wood vetoed the tax bill
Saturday before leaving for Java. The
bill proposes to remit all penalties for
the non-payment of the land tax tor
the calendar year 1923. The bill had
been vetoed by Woods at the last ses
sion of the legislature. . ,
The real .purpose of the legislature's
action today, it is agreed, is not so
much to achieve a remission Of penal
ties for non-payment of the land tax as
to check up to President Coolidge the
status of the governor general of the
islands with regard to Internal affairs.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. President
Coolidge's position on the Philippine
Independence question Is based on the
belief that the United States should
withdraw from the Islands as soon as
it considers the people there capable
of self government. The president
feels excellent progress is being made.
Coollflgo to Back Wood
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. Indica
tions at the White House and war de
partment today were that President
Coolidge, acting, in agreement with
Secretary Weeks would uphold the
action of Governor General Wood of
the Philippines in vetoing the tax bill
which today was passed over his veto.
The action of the Philippines legisla
ture in over-riding the veto automati
cally brings It. under the organic act
up to the president for final decision.
President Coolidge has upon several
occasions expressed his confidence in
the administration of Governor Gen
eral Wood and recently through Sec
retary Weeks, assured him of his
hearty support. .
The statement of the president's
position was obtained today In con
nection with the arrival in the United
States of a new Philippine mission
seeking Independence for the Islands.
It conforms to that expressed a year
ago to a Philippines mission, by Presi
dent Harding.
The president believes the United
States should keep faith with the
promise made in the Jones net of
ultimate independence for the Philip
pines and that while the time possibly
has not come for execution of that
promise, encouraging steps have been
made toward the goal.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27. The
state highway commission today an
nounced Its decision to accept the rec
ommendation of the Klamath county
court that a highway between Klam
ath Falls and Lakevlew be routed
through Dairy, Bonanza, Beatty and
Bly. Location; df the route of this
highway was been under consideration
for the past three years. Representa
tives of Klamath and Lake counties
were present to bear the commission's
announcement.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
MOUNT VERNON, Wash., Nov. 27
Daniel Elliott, who gave his age as
18 was arrested late last night on a
charge of holding up -a pool hall at
Anacortes at midnight and relieving
the proprietor and four other persons
of $20.90 in cash and two gold
watches. A revolver with nil cham
bers filled and a belt of cartridges
were frjnd on his person, according
to the officers.
Youngest And Prettiest of
Hohenzollerns, Born After
War, Is Named "Heartache"
V s isiC! )
V f i fl i iifnrrirfflnm ilfiamif s
FRAULEIN BERENSDORF WITH HER PAINTING OF
THE 5-YEAR-OLD HEARTACHE HOLLENZOLLERN.
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BERLIN The youngest and incidentally, the prettiest, of the
,Hohenzollern family, now once more attempting to climb into the
saddle in Germany, is shown to be a typical little German Iraulein
by a portrait of her recently painted bv Annie Bercasdoxft, thoi
celebrated Berlin artist.
Young "Miss HohenzoIIern" is the daughter of former Prince
Oscar and his wife, the Countess Bassewitz, and is a grand-daughter
of the ex-kaiser, and curiously enough, bears'' the name Herzekide,.
or Heartache, having been so named because she was born during
the revolutidn at the close of' the war.
STATE INCOME
TAX EXPENSES
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27. The
record book showing the income tax
expenditures of the state Income tax
league, waB thrown open to Inspec
tion of the Stato Grange today.
Presiding Circuit Judge Evans had
said he would hand down his decision
today on Cyril G. Brownell's motion
for an injunction to prevent enforce
ment of the order that the Grange be
allowed to inspect tho books. Brown
ell, who Is president and secretary of
the league, appeared In court witli
one bound record.
As none of the Grange officials were
In court Judge Evans postponed his
decision until 2 p. m. but announced It
would be against Brownell. The court
took charge of the book with instruc
tions that the Grange officials should
be allowed to sea It at any time. It
sliows that expenses of the league
were $14,334.49 and contributions $14,-
335.52, which checks with the state
ment filed with the secretary of state.
SAVED FROM THE ,
LP.
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27. Re
ceivership and foreclosure sale of tho
Oregon Electric railway whose earn
Ings have been below operating ex
penses, again have been averted by
determination of the Great Northorn
and Northern Pacific, owners of ail
the common stock, to pay the semi
annual interest due November 1 on
the $3,000,000 of outstanding five per
cent first mortgage bonds. 81 x months
ago advantage was taken of almost
the full sixty days grace before de
fault could be dec lured for failure to
pay the bond interest. Authority has
been received by W. f. Turner, presi
dent of the Spokane, Portland and
Seattle railway, holding corporation
of the Oregon Electric railway, from
St. Paul headquarters of tho Great
Northern and Northern Pacific to an
nounce that the $50,000 In bond inter
est due November 1 would be paid
without further delay.
THROWN OPEN GANG ARRESTED
FOURTH
HER
OF JAIL BREAK
Harry Zangley, ngo 10 years, lost
of the nuartet of county jail nrls-
I oners, who escaped on the mbrnltig
' of October 14th by knocking a hole In
j the roof of the ImHtile, was cuptured
Monday by department of Justice
; ugi'iits near. Albany, Oregon, accord
i lug to advices received by tho sheriff's
' office.
Zangley Was held on a charge of
; breaking into tho Economy Groce
turla. ' i
angley is also held on a federul
charge of auto stealing and Is known
as "The Runt." ileforo his local, tilt
witli tho law It is nlleged he cached
i a stolen cur near Albany and when
' he broke Jail, separated from his two
companions and went to Portland,
thence to Seattle. Returning to Port
land after a week or ten days, he pro
ceeded to Albany and when he went
to got his hidden car, was ar
rested, i
Eugene Kidder and Robert Bull,
who fled with Kangley and were sen
tenced to ten years in stute prison,
were taken to Salem Saturday by
Sheriff Terrill and delivered to the
state authorities. At the penitentiary
gate, after a docile trip tho pair broke
out into a denunciation of Sheriff
Terrlll, und began their now life bit
terly. Young Norrls, tho fourth member
of the Jullhrcuklng expedition, was re
turned o custody by a relative and is
now on parole from an eight year
sentence.
Archie Eddy of Ashland, charged
with stealing an automobile fronv the
streets of HIh home town, was annre.
bended at Redding, CoJIf., last week
and brought back, lie was given a
hearing In tho Juvenile court ut Jack
sonville Monday afternoon and sen
tenced to the reform school until he
reached 21 years of age. . ,
GOVKltXOK PIKKCK AKD RAM
KOIKIt VISIT l'KNDLETON
PENDLETON, Ore., Nov. 27. Gov.
ernor Walter M. Pierce and Sam A.
Kozcr, secretary of slate, arrived In
Pendleton this morning to formally
accept the new wing of the Oregon
state hospital here recently completed.
Governor Pierce and Mr. Kozcr con
stitute the state bonrd of acceptance.
Alaska Pioneer Diet.
. SEATTLE, Nov. 27. Funoral rltos
were to be held here this afternoon
for Richard Fleming, born In Inland
OS years ago. who narticlnalAd In tho
first Klondike gold rush and In a gold
rusn rrom Nome to Dawson. He was
the first flfc) chief of flkagwav. Mb
lived here the last twenty years. He
died Sunday. .
Opponents of Klan
Win Big Victory
Oklahoma Senate
OKLAHOMA CITY. Nov. 27
(By Associated Press). The state
senate today adopted a clause In
tho bill to regulate secret orilors
mnklng It a misdemeanor to
wear a mask. The action was
greeted by proponents of the
klan legislation as the grcatost 4
concession .made thus far by the 4
V group opposing strict regulatory
lawB. Tho vote was 24 to 13.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla.,
Nov. 27. (By Associated Press)
Rebuked by their leuders for al-
leged insincerity In their consld-
erntion of nntl-Ku Klux KInn
measures, members of both
houses of the state logislaturo
went into Besslon today to renew
discussion of the proposed legls-
lntlon with Its opponents holding
the whip hand.
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STATE SUPREME
YC
SALEM. Ore., Nov. 27. Tho state
highway commission has the power
to designate and adopt a route for a
state highwny and condemn the right
of way necessary for that road, the
suprome court ruled this morning In
pUBslngz upon the appeal of Malcolm
A. Moody from the decision of the
Wasco circuit oourt which held that
the condemnation of his land by the
stato highway commission was legal.
SALIC M, Ore., Nov. , 27. Tho su
preme court this morning uphold the
charges of "unprofessional conduct"
preferred QKalnnt Morris A. Goldstein,
Portland attorney, by the Multnomah
County liar association and ordored
that Goldstein be barred from fur
ther practice of law in the state, as
recommended by Circuit Judge Harry
H. Holt, who acted us referee In the
cuse,
Tho court also refused to extend the
torn porn ry permit to practice Issued
to Charles W. Garland, another Port
land attorney, and ordered the permit
revoked.
SALEM, Ore., Nov. 27. Tho valid
ity of tho Jordan valley IrrlKutlon dis
trict, held to bo llleKul because of de
fects In the technical organization of
tho district In nn opinion rendered by
the court last week, was sustulnod in
a correctod opinion handed down by
tho supreme court this morning.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
CHICAGO. Nov. 27. (By Associat
ed Preiw). Bandits held up the Hard
ware Htate bank at Lovtngton, 111.,
today and escape'd with $8000 In cur
rency, the Illinois Bankers association
offlcluls hore were Informed.
LOS ANGELES, Nov. 27. Three
bandits held up the brunch of the Pa
cific Southwest bunk at Seventh and
Valencia streets today and escaped
In an automobile with J2200 according
to the police.
In their haste to escape the robbers
overlooked several thousand dollars
In they drawers beneath the tellor'B
desk.
MOBIEU, Ore., Nov. 27. Two un
masked bandits this afternoon held up
and robbed tho Moslor Valioy bank at
this place of botwecn &00 and J00O.
The bandits walked Into the bank and
after binding T. B. Kellogg, cashier,
with ropes, locked him In a vault and
escaped with all the cash In the outer
part of the bank.
NO PAPER THANKSGIVING
Following Its usual custom
there will be no Issue of the
Mall Tribune on ; Thanksgiving,
Thursday, November 29th. Ad-
vertlsers desiring space In Frl-
day's paper are requested to have
their copy In this office Wednes-
day evening. .
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PASTOR'S WIFE SAYS
NEW YORK, -Nov. 27. A 120 a
week working girl should spend 22
per cent of her Income, or $228.80 a
year for her wardrobe, which should
include lots of silk stockings, but no
fur coats, according to an exhibit art
ranged by the Plymouth church insti
tute of Brooklyn. ,
There are wardrobes for S20. 835
and $60 a week salaries, complete
from underwear to coats, from shoes
to handkerchiefs. No fur coats are
COURT UPHOLDS
HIGHWA
DM
RED ATTACK
UPON BERLIN
DUETONIGHT
German Communists Rounded
Up On Report That Moscow
Has Ordered Uprising
New Premier Abandons Ef
fort to Form Cabinet Ger
many Now Without Govt.
BRIU.IN, Nov. ST. (By the
AsHonlutPd Prosb I.arfte crowds
ansvmblixl this nruirnoon In the
square tainting upon the former
emperor's palace und came Into
ronrili't with tho police who used
their firearms. Tho demonstra
tion took pluco tlcwptto measure
by tho Mllce to prevent threat
ened communist disorders.
BERLIN. Nov. 27. Several promi
nent Berlin communists were arrested
today as a precaution' following cir
culation of a report which came to
the hands of the authorities that
Moscow had called upon the Berlin
communists to undertake "bloody
provocations" this evening."
' 137RLIN, Nov. 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press) Dr. Henrlch Albert,
who at President Ebert's request, has
been endeavoring to form a ministry
abandoned the effort today because
of his inability to find sufficient
reichstag support for a cabinet under
his chancellorship..
President Ebert thereupon . began
negotiations with the leaders of the
bourgeois parties for the formation of
a five-party bloc unincluslve of the
socialists. Up to this afternoon none
of the parties had proposed a candi
date for tho chancellorship.
An alternative suggestion, which
apparently was. relegated' to the rear
for the time being at least, In favor
of the five party attempt, was an ef
fort to form a bourgeois cabinet com
posed of representatives of the Ger
man nationalists, centrists and Ger
man peoples parties. Such a cabinet
would have to reckon with the oppo
sition of the socialists and ihe com-
' munlsts and at most with the neu
trality of the democrats, while the
center party made Its collaboration
subject to two conditions, first that
the government must be along con
stitutional lines and second, that the
treaty of Versailles must bo regarded
as binding.
' Lack of agreement among the par
ties on these conditions was held to
bo the sticking point.
A candidate for tho post of chan-.
eollor in such a bourgeois cabinet was
Dr. . Jarres, minister of the interior
in the Ktresemann cabinet,
LONDON, Nov. 27. Dr. Helnrlch
Albert has relinquished the task of
forming a ministry for th German
relch, says an agency dispatch from
Berlin.
Germany thus Is still without a gov
erijment after on Intervul of four,
days since the resignation of the
Strosemann ministry, which, however,
is still nominally functioning ad In
terim. Dr. Albert's lack of success was at
tributed to ' the decision of all the
political parties In the reichstag to
oppose a non-partisan cabinet.
Senator McNary Called
To Meeting By Lodge
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27. Upon his
return to the capltol today Senator
Lodge called a number of republican
leaders Into conference. They includ
ed Senators Watson of Indiana, who
communicated to Senator Cummins
yesterday the preference of some lead
ers that he retain only the commerce
chairmanship; Curtis of Kansas, the
republican whip; Brandegee of Con
nective, chairman of the committee
on committees; Moses of New Hamp
shire, who had been mentioned In con
nection with the office of president
pro tempore: McNary, of Oregon, a
member of the committee on commit
tees and McCormlck of Illinois.
GIRL EARNING '
A WEEK CAN WEAR SILK HOSE
Included but even the $20 budget pro
vides' a fur collared winter coat, a
sport coat, three dresses, a skirt, a
sweater, blouses and three hats. When
one gets to $50. a suit Is Included and
the underwear Is silk.
The exhibit, which was originated
by Mrs. Newell Dwlght Hlllls, wife of
the pastor of the church, was plannod
with the modern business girl strictly
In mind. The silk stocking allowance
la especially large.