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Pally Eighteenth Tear,
MEDFORD, OKEGON, MONDAY, DECEMBER . 3, 1923
weekly niiy-TDira
Year.
NO. 217
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PROGRESSIVE
BLOC HOIDS
IIP ELECTION
Speaker Gillette Fails to Get
Majority and House Is With
out Speaker Democrats
Organized in House and
V Senate Prepare to Aid the
G. 0. P. Insurgent Move.
WASHINGTON, Doe. 3. The new
congress began. Its first session today
and before it was an hour old the
house was In the throes of a spectacu
lar fight over the election of a
speaker.
The little progressive bloc, made up
of followers of Senator LaFollette of
Wisconsin, refused to support Speaker
Gillett for reelection and precipitated
a deadlock blocking all other busi
ness. Mr, Olllett had the support of the
republican organization but his
strength fell short of the majority
over all necessary to elect. The dem
ocrat voted solidly for Representa
tive Garrett of Tennessee and the bulk
of the progressive bloc went to Repre
sentative Cooper of Wisconsin.
Compromise negotiations to permit
of an election within a day or two;
were expected by the republican
chiefs but as the voting wont oil
there were no Indications of capitula
tion .to the progressive bloc demand
for concessions in committee assign-,
ments and changes in the house rules.
On the senate side things went
much more smoothly. By pre-arrange-ment
a truce . was . declared In the
fight over senate reorganization and
after a scBsion of three-quarters of an
hour adjournment was taken until tox
morrow out of respect- to senators
who have died during the nine
months recess.
The first bullot In the llouse speak
ership fight. Speaker Gillett received
1996 votes to 195 for Representative
Garrett and 17 for Representative
Cooper. Representative Madden, Ill
inois, was given five votes.
The seventeen who voted for Coop
er were: Beck, Browne, Frear, Lam
pert, Nelson, Peasiey. Schaefer, Sch
neider and Voight. air of Wisconsin;
Clague, Davis, Keller and Knutxnn,
republican of Minnesota: Kvnle. Inde
pendent of Minnesota: Gefild, farmer
labor, Minnesota: Lneuunlln, repub
lican, New York and Sinclair, republi
can. New Mexico
The five who voted for Madden were
King, Michaelson and Reid, Illinois,
and James anil Woodruff, Michigan,
all republicans.
Madden voted for Gillett. Berser, so
cialist, Wisconsin, voted present, as
did Gillett, Garrett and Cooper.
Gillett who was fen short of a ma
jority on the first ballot when 415
votes were cast, lacked 1 1 votes on the
Becond on which the total vote was
41L-. -
On the third ballot Garrett went into
the lead, receiving 196 votes as
airalnst 195 for Gillett; 17 for Cooper
and 5 for Madden.'
A fourth ballot Immediately began.
Vote Is Abandoned
On motion of Representative Long
worth who declared It was evident the
house could not agree on the election
of a speaker today adjournment was
taken until tomorrow noon.
Although he swung back into the
lead on the fourth ballot, Gillett lack
ed 11 votes of having-a majority.
Democrats continued to vote solidly
for Garrett while Cooper still had the
support of the original 17 and Madden
of the five who had voted for him from
the first.
Berger, Cooper and Garrett contin
ued to vote present.
WASHINGTON', Dec. 3. The pro
gressive bloc in congress today made
good its threat to throw the house
(Continued on Page Eight) i
ORRtNGTON IF
LADY T0RR1NGT0N IF
PARLI
LONDON, Dec. 3. Lady Torrlng
ton, liberal candidate in Buckingham
shire has found time-to tell the people
how she intends to dress when she
goes to parliament, if she does go.
"I intend ro wear my best clothes,
she said, "I will put on My fur coat
and my pearls. I don't believe In a
woman politician wearing a dull lit
tle dress with a Quakerish collar. All
Chinese Elected to
Highest Office in
, U. S. Lodge Masons
-
HONOLULU, Deo. 3. (By As-
sociated Proas). For the flint
time in history a fullblooded
Chinese has been elected to the
highest office in an American
lodge of Master MasonB with the
elevation 'of Apau Paul. Lowe, a
civil engineer of Wailuku, island
of Maul, to the post of worshlp-
ful master of Maui lodge, No.
472. He is a graduate of the
University of Illinois and of Stan
di ford university. He is a 82nd de-
gree Mason and is a member of
J Aloha templo.
.
All FRANCE IN
DEATHJOF BOY
Did 14 Year Old Leon Daudet
Kill Himself Or Was He
Murdered By Anarchists? Is
Question Agitating Parisian
Politicians.
PARIS. Deo. 3. (By Associated
Press). Not in many years has Paris
had a sensation comparable with that
afforded by the death of fourteen
year old Philippe Daudet, who died in
a hospital several days aco from the
effects of wounds received in a taxi
cab. Newspapers or a week ago said
that the buy had committed suicide
but Leon Daudet, the leader of the
royalist movement in France and
father of Philippe, is of the opinion
that his son was murdered 'by "an
atrocious" plot and has aked the
prosecutor to act on an article printed
in Libertrae, the anarchist paper, in
which a visit of Philippe to the news
paper office wart described.
Leon Daudet Was told by the pro
curator general that the boy's suicide
had been established beyond a pos
sible doubt and that it would be im
possible for the judicial authorities to
do anything further unless he made a
charge against some definite or in
definite person or could make a
charge of corrupting a minor or of
some criminal libel against Ubertrae.
He further agreed to prefer charges.
KxpluiiHtioiiH Asked
Among the incidents requiring clar
ification today were where the boy
spent the two days .that elapsed be
tween his disappearance from home
November 20 and his visit to the
Libertrae office November 22. George
Vidai, editor, who wrote the article
describing the -arrival of Philippe at
his office on November 22 has been
extensively Interviewed. The news
paper story asserted that the lad de
scribed himself as an anarchist but
retused to give any name except
Philippe, handed Vidal a letter which
was to be used in case anything hap
pened to him.
The editor opened the communica
tion after he had learned of tlie mys
terious taxicab suicide and found that
it was written to Mme. Daudet. In
the letter Philippe spoke of his secret
adherence to the anarchist cause as
serting "now my cause summons me.
I believe it is my duty to do what I
am doing."
What Occurred in Office
L'Action Francaise, admitting that
the communication Is in Philippe's
handwriting suggests that It may
have been written under duress and
demands to know what occurred in
the offices of Libertrae when the boy
was there. Tho royalist publication
says the death of the boy was an act
of vengeance for Germaine Berthon,
the young woman anarchist who
killed Marius Plateau, of the staff of
L'Action last November. '
Vidal told the interviewers that he
was alarmed at the extravagant lan
guage used by Philippe when he visit
ed Libertrae and that the lad seemed
unbalanced.
In the light of subsequent events
Vidal said to Le Matin, he was con
vinced Philippe planned to kill his
own father but when his excitement
wore off he was so overcome with
horror at the idea that he could have
entertained such a thought that ho
committed suicide.
ELECTED 10
L
that sort of thing Is humbug. Every
body knows I live In a large house
and keep men servants and motor
,., ti is sheer hvnocrlsy to pretend
you have nothing when you display
things In your own noma nnu wne.i
you make social appearances."
Tht. u-flfi nienrlv a. libc at Lady As-
"tor who It is recalled, set the fashion
for a demure nnd unobtrusive style of
dress in the commons.
TURMOIL
OVER
S PARDONED
E
President Grants Executive
Clemency to Comptroller
Craig of New York, Sentenc
ed to Jail for Contempt of
Court Public Necessity Is
On v Cause. I
WASHINGTON, Bee. 3. Executive
clemency was granted today by Prenl
dent CooltdKe to Comptroller Craig
of New York, sentenced to jail for
contempt of court.
A remission of sentence was gront
ed by the president on the recom
mendation of Attorney General
DauRherty. At the same time the
president expressed in a statement to
be made public later the condemna
tion of the comptroller's conduct in
criticizing the federal courts in New
York.
Mr. Coolidge's action was based
solely on the public necessity of
keeping Craig at his post as comp
troller. NEW YORK, Dec. 3. News of
President Coolidge's pardon of Comp
troller Craig caused quite a sensation
in this city where the case had as
sumed unusual political importance.
The case has already resulted In the
death of one man, Craig's aide Henry
Smith succumbing to heart attack
when the news of his chief's arrest
was announced, nnd it has been gen
erally predicted that if the comptrol
ler went to jail he would ride from
there to tho mayor's chair in City
Hall.
Application for a presidential par
don for Craig was made by Senator
Copeland, although Craig has refused
to take-such a step himself.
The sentence was imposed after
Craig wrQte to a public service com
missioner that Judge Mayer had de
nied the city access to -information
about tho Brooklyn Rapid Transit
company, which was then in receiver
ship. Craig had asked that he be
appointed co-receiver because the
company uses subways financed' by
the city. Tho court appointed as re
ceiver LIndley M. Garrison, formerly
secretary of war. The receivership
ended some time prior to the recent
decision of the supreme court uphold
ing Craig's sentence in a divided
opinion.
Much criticism as to the powers of
judges and discussion about the rights
of free speech developed fr.om tho
case and the possibility of it being an
issue in tho coming national cam
paign was even considered.
FEEBLEMINDED
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Salem, Ore., Dec. 3. The arrest of
Minnie lluusman, 18, an Inmate of the
state school for feeble minded and two
unnamed men believed to have been
from the Institution yesterday will be
responsible for her disappearance
I asked by Dr. J. N. Smith, superlntond-
ent of the school, he announced this
morning.
I Yeterdny, when the Hausman girl
failed to make' an appearance it was
discovered that a dummy had been
placed in her bed and that she had es
caped. The two men, Dr. Smith Bald, ap
I pearcd at he school for the first time
last Saturday and represented them
selves to be relatives of the girl.
hiltsTaWt
kills himself
YREKA, Cal., Dec. 3. Charles
Brown, station agent for the Southern
Pacific company at Hilt, near the
Oregon line, shot and killed himself
with a rifle yesterday after suffering
for some time from ill henlth. He
leaves a widow and two children.
Death Toll of
the Automobile
8AN FRANCISCO, Dec. 3 Edward
j Dewltt Taylor, son of the late Dr.
rjawara Koneson Taylor, rormer
mayor of San Francisco, today faces a
: rhnr.ti nf mnntilnllcrhtnr In pnnnApMnn
I with the death of three-year-old Dor
fothy Ingraham yesterday after she
was struck by his automobile. Taylor
told a policeman he did not see the
child in the path o( his car.
Moving Sidewalk, In Three
Speeds, To Replace Shuttle
Trains In Crowded Manhattan
GEORGE WcANENY'rANDrCOMMISSIONJ.lNSJ,ECTING
THE NEW.MOVING.SIDEWALKJJEVICE.
NEW YORK Crowded 'Manhattan, finding three tiers of traffic
elevated, surface and subwav insufficient to handle the rush-hour
.jams, is about resort to moving sidewalks.
George McAnenv, chief of the transit commission.' 'consider
ing adoption of the moving sidewalk shown above, in miniature form,
in olace of the Fortv-second Strcft shuttle.
The sidewalk, moving in three sections" and at varying speeds,
it is believed would cure the insufferably crowded conditions in
cVoss-town traffic between Times Square nnd Grand Central station,
and prevent unnecessarily long walks to and from trains.
MEDFORD YOUTH
KILLS HIMSELF
I
Suffering from overwork and over
study, Curl Meier, ngo 22 years, well
known and well liked, took his own
life Sunday morning about 3 o'clock
at the home of his parents In the Sun
set Park district, west of Medford.
Acute melancholy was given bb the
icause of tho act. A 30-30 rifle was
used in tho commlstilon of the deed,
a bullet being fired into tho head.
About a month ngo, tho young
man's henlth began to fail nnd on
an auto trip to California, he met with
an accident resulting in an injury to
his head.
Cityl was a graduate of tho Oak
drove grammar school and attended
the Medford high school for two
yearfi. Ho wan born In Germany,
June . 6, 1901, and lived in Illinois
until 13 years of age, when he moved
to Medford. He was employed by the
Trowbridge nnd Mills foundry on
North Central avenue, and was known
as a highly efficient workman.
He leuves to mourn his passing be
sides hifl father nnd mother, three
sisters, Mary, Kllzabeth, and Helen,
and four brothers, Fritz, William,
Ernest and Hans.
Funeral services will he held from
the Perl Funeral home, Wednesday
at tvf.i o'clock. Interment in the
Medford cemetery.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 3. G. W. Pot
ter ,cashier of the Southern Pacific
railway station at Sherman, a suburb,
awaited the opening of the bank at
that place at 7:50 this morning when
two unidentified men drove up in an
automobile, commanded Potter to toss
to them four bags containing approxi
mately 34,000 in cash and currency
and drove away toward Beverly.
Officers immediately took up the
search for the robbers.
Kansas Wheat Decrease, 1924.
TOPEKA, Dec. 3. A decrease In
the Kansas wlntor wheat acreage of
86,410 acres or 17. 10 per cent as com
pared with that sowed a, year ago. In
shown In a report issued today by the
state board of agriculture.
WTH RIFLESHu
JUDGE REFUSES
10 WITHDRAW IN
WALTON'S TRIAL
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 3.-
(By the Associated Press.) District
Judge George W. Clark, refused today
to disqualify himself In tho trial of J.
C. Walton, formor governor, charged
in lndlctmonts with diverting state
funds nnd preventing a meeting of the
state legislature, and counsel for Wal
ton announced that mundamus nctfon
would be brought at once In tho state
criminal court of appeals to force
Judge Clark from'tlie bench.
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. 3.
(Ily the Associated. Press.) A motion
to disqualify District Judge George W.
Clark, beforo whom lndlctmonts wore
returned recently by a grand Jury
against J. C. Walton, formor govornor,
was filed by counsel for Walton when
ho appeared for arraignment today.
The motion would bar Judge Clark
from any participation In the enso.
Walton also filed an application for
a change of venue.
Tho formor executive Is charged
In five counts with diverting publlo
funds through having his formor per
sonal cliaffeur T. II. Edwards, placed
on the payroll of the state health de
partment. He Is charged In one In
dictment with preveutlng a meeting of
tuo state legislature. Doth accusa
tlons constitute felonies.
, A motion to quash was filed by at
tornoys for Edwards,
2 BOY ESCAPES AT
SALEM ROB HOUSE
SALEM, Ore., Doc. 3. Officials of
the State Training School for Hoys are
today making every effort to capture
Young Harry Cooper, 16, and Charles
Paullln, 16, who made their escape
from the Institution yesterday and, ac
cording to the authorities are believed
te have burglarized the home of Mrs.
8. C. Wllsey, five miles south of here,
from which they stole a gun, some
jewelry and clothing.
Oklahoma Citizens
Form Organization
To Oust K. Klux Klan
OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec.
3. A call to anti-klun organlza-
tlons in Oklahoma to meet In
, Oklahoma City December 8 to r
form a state wide body went out
from the capital today. An at-
tempt will be made at that time
to amalgamate more than thirty
organizations claiming a mem-
bership of 00,000, R. R. Stevens,
head of a committee named two
woeks ago to affect the amalga-
motion, announced Sunday.
'The orguulzutioh is not for tlie
purpose of furthering the plans
of any Individual. It has not
sect, no raco and no creed; we
want to put the khin out of ex-
Istence in tho state," Stevens
said.
DEATH LIST IN
137 Bodies Recovered From
Bergaino Valley andjhous-j
ands Are Homeless 50,
Square Miles Flooded
Cold Delays Relief Work.
HEUC1AMO, Italy, Den. 3. (By As
s'ociuted Pross). One hundred thirty-seven-
bodies have beon recovered
early today from tho Bergamo valley .
country, 600 of whose inhabitants nre
believed to have been drowrfad when
tho groat dlko Impounding the waters J
of Clluno lake collapsed Saturday. j
Troops and civilian ruscuo parties
worked throughout the nlght"in the
mud and water seeking the' victims
over an area of fifty square miles and
trying to give nld to thousands mado
homeless. King Victor Emmanuel Is
expected today.
Hundreds of homes Including the
entire villages of Dezzo, Coma and
Uuoggio were wiped out by tho ten
million cubic yards of wator that
swept from tho artificial glacial lake.
Tho flood was stoppod nt Lako Izo,
flftoeii miles away.
Tho countryside near Darfo has
becomo a vast lake.
Tho . torrential rains of tho past
week made the prossure against the
dike greater than the four mile wall
could withstand and although the
masonry was 85 yards thick, the dlko
went out, the water sweeping all be
fore It.
i A cold wave has mado relief work
arduous.
E.
5 DEAD 1 DYING
ROCK ISLAND, III., Dec. 3. Using'
gasoline to start a fire In a stove last ,
night reunited in un explosion and
the death of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Ford
ham and their baby and Mrs. Ralph
Kooster nnd her baby. Koestor, who
was burned, is not oxpected to live.
Tho homo waB destroyed. ,
Rugrno Kdltor 1lc-nppnlntcI
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 3. Charles
Fisher, publisher of Eugene, today
wiis re-appointed a regent at the Uni
versity of Oregon by dovornor Pierce.
Lead Price Advanced
NEW YORK, Dec. 3. The Amer
ican Smelting and Refining company
today advanced the prlco of lead from
0.85 to 7.00 cents per pound.
ITALIAN V
MAY REACH 800
WHITE HOUSE IS DECLARED UNSAFE
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3 Tho Whlto
House has been declared unsafe, con
ditions there are such as to require
that Immediate remedial measures be
taken to prevent a possible cnlmlty.
These disclosures were mado to
day by Major General tensing H.
Beach, chief of engineers of the army
in his annual report to the secretary
of war. Congress is asked for $400,-
000 for the work of constructing the
Interior portion of tho famous build
ing to make It secure.
1 "A preliminary study of the situa
tion In the interior upper portion of
STATE CM
SPEND CASH
AS SEES FIT
U. S. Supreme Court Rules
That Money Derived From
Forest Reserve Sales Need
Not Be Disbursed for Public
Roads and Public Schools
Money Belongs to State.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 3. Federal
forest reserve moneys appropriated by
congress, paid to the states and by
them distributed to the counties, need
not be disbursed by the counties
equally for publlo road and publlo
school purposes, the supreme court
held today in a case brought by King
county, Washington, against the Seat
tle school district number one.
The county contended that it was
vested with) discretion n tUei djis
burBement of the money, but the fed
eral district court did not take that
view and Its decision was affirmed by
tlie ninth circuit court of appeals .
This wus reversed today.
In its decision today the supreme
court held that money derived from
forest reserves belongs absolutely to
the Btates when turned over to them.
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3 Reviews
were donied by the supreme court to
day in caseB involving the following
questions:
Whether under the Chinese exolu
slou act an American citizen born of
Chinese parents in , this country can "
bring into the country, an adopted son, '
a Chinese, who would he otherwise
excluded. The point was raised In a
case brought from San Frnnolsco by
Kwock Sell Lum.
WASHINGTON, Dec.... 3.-rThe su
preme court todny reaffirmed Hi pre
vious decision In the Pennsylvania,
Ohio and West Virginia case holding
invalid a West Virginia law restricting
gas supplies to adjoining states.
T
LONG VIEW, Wash., Deo. 3.
Paulina Clark, aged two and her two
months old baby broth, children of
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Clark, were burn- .
od to death here this morning in the '
tent house occupied by their parents
in a fire started from an overheated
stove while the mother was absent
few minutes.
Clark, tho children's father, Is a
blacksmith In tho employ of the
Long Bell Lumber company. He and
his family reside In a tent in the old .
auto park. The children wore In bed
when the tent burned. The blaze
spread so quickly that there was no
opportunity to rescue them'. Mrs.
Clark had stepped into a neighbor's
tent, leaving a fire in the stove to
heat water for tho family washing.
She stayed only five minutes, she said
Casualties of the
Air Service
SAN DIEGO, Cnl.. Dec. 3 Lleuten
ant F. M. Byers, Chief Machinists'
Mate W. B. Jackson and Chief Ma
chinists' Mute T. E. Entwhlstle, all at.
tached to the aircraft squadrons, were ;
killed today when two navy airplanes
collided in mid-air over San Diego
harbor.
10 MAKE REPAIRS
the executive mansion has indicated i
a condition which renders the building
unsafe both from the standpoint of ,
security In the structural features and i
the fire Wizard present," said Major
General Beach, i "The conditions are t
such as to require that Immediate -romedtai
measures be taken to pre
vent a possible calamity. These con
ditions have been called to the atten- v
Hon of the president and his authority
for the Inclusion of the Items submit
ted here with ($400,000) has been re- .
quested. While such approval has j
not been secured, the item is tenta- '
tlvely Includod herein, .