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I'iiIvi - M ,ii y M Mail Tribune The Weather Prediction llulu tonight Probably fair Saturday. Maximum yesterday 58 Minimum today 30 Precipitation 47 EDFORD Weather Year Ago Maximum 40 Minimum 32 ft Ur BlKhteenth Tear. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1923 NO. 221 eekly Fifty-Third Ymlt. BEATEN BY Although i Returned to Power, Baldwin Government Meets Political Defeat in English Elections, Losing Its Major ity Lloyd George and As-, quith Re-elected. - LONDON, Dec.' 7. (By Associated PresB.) With 601 seats out of 616 ac counted for up to 9 p. m., the standing of the parties was: Conservatives 258. t! Labor party 185. Liberals 148 Other parties 10. The situation now is one of the roost complex that has ever occurred In British politics. It Is generally beliov ed Premier Baldwin will continue to conduct - the government - until he meets with defeat in the commons. Since It will be Impossible for him to put through the protection measures which formed the only purpose of his campaign, he probably will' Invite de feat as the most graceful way out of his position by proposing any motion In the house which the laborites and radicals oppose. The government would thus be over thrown, and the king, according to custom, would, summon J. Ramsay MacDonald, as leader of the' official opposition party, to form a cabinet. LONDON, Dec. 7. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The conservative ma jority over all the parties In the houae of commons, was definitely wiped out at yesterday's general election With , 584 seats of the total of 615 accounted for at 4 o'clock thin' after noon, the following could be definitely stated: s' The conservatives will have a ma jority over any other party In the house of commons but will lack a ma jority over all the other parties. Therefore Prime Minister Baldwin's government stands practically de feated, because It would be Impotent In the face of the combined opposition. The standing of the parties this af ternoon at 3:30 o'clock with 518 of the total of 615 seats accounted for was: Conservatives 222. Labor 158. Liberals 128. Independents 9. , Nationalists f. ' ThiB showed a continued relatively greater growth In the number of la borites and liberals returned than of conservatives. Labor Beats Liberals . ' The laborites were definitely assur ed tonight of being returned as the opposition In the commons as the lib erals could not overtake them even If they won all the remaining seats. The greatest number of seats the laborites ever held before was 144. The Countess of Warwick was badly defeated for parliament in the War wick and Leamington division of War wick where she had made a pictures que campaign as the .labor party on tiu'ate. The conni'ts was at the bot tom of the poil with 4015 votes o.ily . against the successful candidate. Op tain -A. Edln,1 conservative, with lo. SS7, and George Nichols, liberal, with -1134.: Mrs. Maw-el Phlllpson, conserva tive, retained her seat for the Ujt 9 wick oil-Tweed oivlstoni of Derwic't- 0 i Tweed but by a smaller mJjo:i'.y than at the last election. Liberals Gain the first rrftrrs recet.e'1 fnm the Sng'lah counes, which generally 'Vuoaking ara roi.se vatlvo, gav? the In---:. Is tfurthe- hopes, as the rfr .ortca a llberd gain In the Basing Bt'ike division of Hampshire ovir the conservatives Lo had held the seat 1 lev.tenant Commander R. T. 11. Watcher. llbei.il. defeated Sir Ai-Mtir li.Mook, conwnatlve, by a majority of 548. . iTHER OVERJOYED SON EVEN THO HE COMMITTED CRIME : 8UPERIOR, Wis.. Deo. 7. (Br the Associated Press.) Despite the fact that her sen, Edward J. Sailstad, Is held In a Napa, Cal., Jail, pending his Teturn here on a charge of arson, com mitted three years ago, Mrs. Augusta Sailstad is glad that he has been found and will Boon be borne. - Since the discovery of charred hu man bones In a cottage near Lake Nebagaraon, Douglas county, three Oregon Constable Found Guilty of Taking Wet Bribe ROSEBURO, Ore., Dec. 7. Fred C. Schulte, former consta- ble and deputy sheriff at Reeds- port. Ore., was found guilty yes- terday of accepting a bride from B. C. Roberts, confessed bootleg- ger, who entered a plea of guilty to a charge of giving a bribe and who was the Btate's main wit- ness la the case. " L'Echo de Paris Thinks Cool idge Sounds More Like Pas tor Than Statesman Lon don Times Sees Po'icy of Greater Aloofness. PARIS, Dec. 7. President Cool ldge's mesBage is described by Portl nax in L'Echo de Paris as "an out line of American policy exclusively di rected toward attaining her own par ticular ends, In spite of the fine sounding ihraH()n which to our ears smack rather of the pulpit than the rostrum." . . "America, as It natural," Pertinax addB, "intends to defend her own In terests exclusively, indeed she dis avows other preoccupation. If she concedes us the same right, our pol icy In reparations and national secu rity can be followed out without en countering any obstacle from her." ' ' LONDON, Dec, 7. President Cool tdge's message tho- Times says. Is marked by a clearness or statement on many Important subjects that has not always distinguished the com munications of his predecessors. "It is an emphatic, profession of the family creed of the president's party," says the Times, "chiefly re markable for the precision where with It re-n'fflrms the dogma of aloof ness from tne cniei questions mat ais- tract the 'old world. Referring to Mr. Coolldge'a remarks I about tho League of Nations, the haps come when the league will find full favor In American eyes with the permanent court." Hard Fight Foreseen. WASHINGTON, Dei. 7. President Coulidge's first annual message to congress has served to clear the at mosphere tit the capltol so far as the administration's legislative program is concerned. The president and congress appear to he us one on the desirability of tax reduction, hut the administration's program as embodied In a preliminary draft hill, sent to the house yesterday by Secretary Mellon differs in mate rial aspects from the proposals In this direction announced recently by the republican Insurgents in the house. Other subjects treated by Mr. Cool ldge which leaders generally say will furnish stubborn contests In con gress Include the soldiers' bonus: American adherence to the world court with reservations; amendments to the transportation act; relief for agriculture in general and the wheat growers in particular and the unti lynching ' legislation.' Bills embodying several of the rec. ommendutlons of president Coolidge already have been Introduced and others will be presented luter. Congress was in recess today until next Monday out ' of respect to the memory of President Harding.' Democrats of the house were called in a party caucus to select their mem bers of the ways and means commit tee, who In turn will make assign ments of democrats to other commit tees. Representative Oreen of Iowa, prospective chairman of the " house ways and means committee,-hopes to have that committee organized early next week so as to take up tax re vision promptly. He said the prelim, inary draft bill furnished by Secre tary Mellon would be used as a basis for discussion. AT years ago, said to have been those of Sailstad, who had occupied the cot tage, the mother refused to believe he had died. During the Intervening years Bite says she bad maintained a constant search for ber son, without success. 1n her telegram to him after his ar rest she pledged her allegiance to him, regardless of what he-Is said to have confessed to Napa police. U. S. MESSAGE RIDICULED BY PAttiS JOURNAL REVOLUTION IN 'MEXICO BREAKS OUT Serious Uprising vin Vera Cruz Spreads Over the Country President Obregon Called Back From Retreat De clared Rebellion Will Crushed By Iron Hand. Be VERA CRUZ, Dec. 7. (By the Associated Press) Troops in the en tire maritime zone have joined the in surgent movement against President Obregon and General Culles, accord ing to reports received at an early hour this morning. The rebellion Is now said to embraco the whole of the Huastloa nil region. Loyal troops from Mexico City It Is reported were in contact last night with insurgent forces. The railway lines between the capitul and this city have been cut. Leaders of the movement, includ ing Adnlfo de la Huerta, General Guadaloupe Sanchez, chief of mill tary operations in this district and Jorge Prloto Laurens, are preparing to set up a provisional government here and plnn to elect one of their number ns provisional president. Ha fael Suburan Capmany Is reported to be slated for the post. Tho leaders of the revolt have of fered guarantees and employment to the people und have given assurances that trade will be protected. Many land owners, It was announc ed,' have Joined the rebels, hoping thereby to regain the properties they lost under the law compelling land holders to share their estates with their tenants. Plans Carefully Iiald, Plans for the movement, it up .... ,,..a ni-vHtnlll?ari nt ft meetlne 1 held late Wednesday night at the ! home of Gonoral Sanchez. This meet- ' Ing was attended by Severn! generals and naval chiefs who after tele- I graphing President Obregon that they had resolved "to assume the de fense of the Institutions offended so seriously" by the federal government, ousted all federal office holders, re- ' nlactmr them with sympathizers. They also named General Edunrdo Loyo as I provisional governor of Vera Cruz. . Throughout yesterday und last night came news of similar move ments nt Tamaulipas, Chihuahua, Ban Luis Potosl, Mlchoacan, Jalisco, 81- naloa. Sonora and Tolucu. Manifestos have been Issued by both De La Huerta and Prleto Lau rens, setting forth their reasons for renudlatlne the Obregon regime. . General Berlanga Is said to be the only commander in the . maritime zone who refused to join tne move metlt. From the message sent to Presi dent Obregon by the instigators of the movement here on Wednesday night, l't appears that, the purpose of the movement is to prevent federal Interference with the affairs of the stuteTl. The message mentioned "the anar chy and lack of discipline fomented in the army from the highest official ranks." "Rebels Will Bo Crushed." MEXICO CITY, Dec. 7. (By the Associated Press) The country will be pacified; the rebellion will be put down with an iron hand, said Presl- rlnnt llrcanrt iinnn firrlnlnE last evening from Celaya, where he has been convalescing rrom his recent in ness. This was the only comment the nmdilaiii urnnlri mnlcm in rpnnrtu that General Sanchez and Adolfo de la Huerta had undertaken a movement against his government. Vpfiernl nfflf-ials anted DrOmptfy last evening upon receipt of advices that tne movement was spreading. Three long columns of federal troops under General Amaro were ordered from Tamplco to meet General San chez, while other government forces were instructed to converge at Esper anza in order to assist in' attacking Sanchez. Other troops were concen trated in the state of Tlaxcala. Official quarters deny that there hnct tnen en outbreak In the state of Ooxaca. They also profess to have received nff wor dot revoim in am-'i-aoacan. Chihuahua or San Luis Po- Advices from Puebla state that fighting occurred at Cordova when a part of the garrison there refused to join the Banchez-Huerta movement. Death Toll of the Automobile WALLA WALLA. Dec. 7. Hymen Cohn, treasurer of the Elks lodge of Spokane, is dead and his wife Is in a hoRttttnl horn rrlOUHlv Inlured BH a result of an automobile accident near Dixie shortly after noon today. De tails of how the accident occurred ar. tint kunwn. Passersbv 'saw the overturned ear and brought Mr. and Mrs. Cohn to this city, the former dying on the way here. Pretty, 21, And Heiress To $500,000, Schoolma'am Will Go Right On .Teaching! V w- - :W'X. ' MISS ELIZABETH WURTHMAN.NV JERSEY" CITY -Twenty-one, an only child, ' alid heiress ,i $soo,ooo! : . ' This is the dazzling position ih which Miss Elizabeth Rosalie Wurthmaim a week ago tt quiet, unpretentious little, schoolma'am finds herself today. "I'm just lucky, that's, all," was her comment ' when informed that Louis Lehmeyer, hermit, who died in pauper's ward on Wei ' fare Island, left her a fortune. She will finish teaching school this vear. then travel around the world. Will she marry? "Oh, no I" said Miss Wurthmann, hut ..,Hhe winj.ed. ;,'f, h,-.v ' '-:-''i. 4.,.,. .'- - : ' i w FRIGHTFUL TALE OF CAE -TOLD BY Two Pasadena Lads, H Years Old, Tell of Barbarous Slay ing of Five Year Old Play mate Will Be Examined As to Sanity. PASADENA, Cal., Deo. 7. Two 14 year old boys were held In the city Jail today In connection with the slaying of a five year old playmate, whom, according to an alleged confes sion obVlned by the police Inst night, they wounded with a .22 caliber pis tol, beat Into Insensibility with a brick and then left to die In an abandoned factory. The alleged' slayers, Wllllum For rester and Paul Dadcler. both pupils In a school for abnormal children, ex plained the death of five year old Ar thur Martinez substantially as 'fol lows, police said: ' They were enacting "wild west" scenes In the abandoned factory, flourishing in their ploy a .22 caliber pistol. The pistol went off; Arthur was wounded. In their panic the boys beat him into Insensibility to still his cries, then tied him to a post with bits of wire. Late yesterday they return ed to release hlrt) with a threat not to tell anyone how-he had been treat ed. They found him dead. Once more they fled the scene, this time they encountered a man near the factory und to him they said they had Just found a boy's body within. In the Investigation which followed they at first denied knowledge of the slay" Ing then ended- by relating all of the details calmly and frankly, according to officers. Pending examination by alienists, no formal charges were fiied against the boys. Wire Report On Foreign Money NEW YORK, Dec 7- Foreign ex changes broke sharply at the open ing of today's market' on British elec tion, returns. Demnnd sterling broke nearly four cents to $4.36 end French francs slumped 10 Vt points to 6.32 cent's. Other continental exchanges yielded In sympathy. LONDON, Dec. 7. (By the Aaso- MERE NOVEMBER SHORT Y I The offlciul report for tho month of November in Medford and y'dnlty shows that that month In comparison with Novembers of recent years wus a comparatively nice one, with a marked Bhorlago of rain. Usually this lis a rainy month with much disagree able weather, hut this year the most of that sort of weather came In Sep tember and October. The November rainfall Was .87 of an inch, .42 of which fell on the 14th. There were eight days with .01. Inch or moro of precipitation, 11 days were clear, four partly cloudy and 16 cloudy. Nine duyB had fog,' and there were frosts on seven mornings, but there were no so-called killing frosts. For five years post other Novem bers have had the following rainfalls! 1922, 1.36 tn.; H2 1, .3.54 In.; 1920, 4.27 in.; 1911), 1.87 in.; 1918, 2.89 tn. There were no thunder stormB, hall or'slect during that month. The monthly summary of tempera tures follows: Mean maximum, B6.86; mean mini mum, 33.70; mean, 46.28; maximum, 08 on the 4th, and 10th; minimum 20, on the 18th and 27th; greatest dally range, 38. The official government Bummary Is, In part, as follows: , Date Max. Min. Pro." 1 48 81 . . . Clear 2 68 39 .08 Cloudy 3 60 . 30 ., Clear 4. . . '. 68 81 . . Clear 6 67 30 .... Clear C 66 28 .. Clear 7 .63 28 . . Clear 8 61 29 ..' Pt. Cldy 9 62 29 .. Clear 10 61-. 27 .'. Clear 11 64 32 T Cloudy 12 69 36 . . Cloudy 13. ....66 44 .02 Cloudy 14 .63 43 .42 Cloudy 15... . 63 40 . . Pt. Cldy 16 68 33 .. Pt. Cldy 17 62 27 .. Clear 18...' 65 30 .. Cloudy 19 64 -84 . . Cloudy 20 58 40 .. Cloudy 21 55 24 .. Cloudy 22 61 34 - .01 Cloudy 23 60 41 .01 Cloudy 24 60 48 .03 Cloudy 26 63 29 . .. . ' Cloudy 26 60 27 . . Clear 27 .63 ' 26 .. Pt. Cldy 28. 46 29 T Cloudy 29 48 41 .26 Cloudy 30 48 39 .04 Cloudy elated Press) The stock.exchange to. day Indicated that It was disappointed with the election. Home rails sold off 1 to 2 points and corresponding declines were noted in Industrials, oil shares, mining stocks and foreign se curities. . Bergdoll Kidnaper Gets Light Sentencel Accomplice Freed MOSBACH. Baden, Dec. 7. 4 (By thil Associated Press.) A i sentence of eighteen months' im- 4 prlsonment was Imposed upon 4 4 Corliss Hooven Orlffls of Hainll- 4 4 ton, Ohio, for the part he played 4 4 In the attempted kidnapping of 4 4 Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, Anier- 4 4 lean draft evador at Eberbach 4 4 last August. Karl Sperber of 4 4 Paris was sentonced to fifteen 4 4 months and the Russian pilnce, 4 4 Faust Gagarin, to five months. 4 4 Eugene Victor Nelson of Chicago, 4 4 the fourth defendant, was set 4 4 free. 4 4 TAX REDUCTION Secy, of Treasury in Annual Report Shows How Federal Taxes Can Be Reduced and , Prosperity Be Given Im petus. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Secretary Mellon, In his annual report trans mitted to congress today, described treasury operations under which the nation's debt had been reduced $613, 674,343 In the fiscal year 1923, and again urged a sharp reduction in tax ation based on rigid eoonotny . and barring "authorisations for new and unexpected expenditures." The report contained a copy of Mr. Motion's let ter to Acting Chairman Oreen. of the house ways, and means committee, In which the secretary said "a soldiers' bonus would postpone tux reduction pot for one but for many years to come." To the usual review of official activities under his direction, Mr. Mel lon attached additional argument for the general reduction In Income taxes which he has urgod. He particularly stressed the adyantago which he has predicted would come from cutting the surtax ratoa upon large incomes to a maximum of 25 percent, on tho ground that It would actually increase I government Income, as well as indi rectly benefit the public at large by reducing. burdens on productive oper ation. , Debt Reduced 4 nillloii The government, "firmly establish ed on tho baslB of balancing Its budget each year," Mr. Mellon said, brought the national debt, once at a figure of over $26,000,000,000, down to a total of $22,082,209,000 on October 81. The record, he said, was one - brought about "only by the most rigid econ omy and the. application of business principles to the government's fi nance." On the present basis of taxa tion and expenditure, he cited an estimated treasury surplus next July of about $329,000,000, and a possible surplus In the year after of $396,000, 000. i ; "High taxation," the report contin ued, "even If levied upon an economic basis, affects the prosperity of . the countrq, because In Its ultimate anal ysls the burden of all taxes rests only In part upon the Individual or propar j ty taxed. It Is borne by the ultimato j consumer. High taxation means a I high price level and high cost of liv ing. It can safely be said that reduc tion in the Income tax reduces ex penses hot only of the 7,000,000 In come tax payers but of the entire 1110,000,000 people of the United States." Increase Tax Income As to the reduction in the surtax rate, Mr. Mellon said Unit the history of taxation thruout the world Indicat ed that "moans have always been found by tho Ingenuity of the citizen to to avoid taxes Inherently' exces sive." It was significant, he said, that the largo Incomes reported for taxa tion were decreasing In number each year, those over $300,000 being 246, In 11921 as compared with 895 the year ' before. The estates of the wealthy. he pointed out, were flowing Into tax exemnt securities. The treasury act- 'unrv Inn fntitlnnnri. eHl Imntefl fhRt the FEAR "MISSING GIRL" SUBJECTED TO SEATTLE, Dec. 7. Fear Is felt for the lire of Miss Nell Austin, Seattle school teacher, who Is In a hospital In Vancouver, B.. C, where she was found after vanishing here November 26, according to advices received to day from Vancouver. , Dr. II. C. Powell, under whose care Miss Austin Is, was quoted as saying that further questioning of her to un ravel the mystery created by her dec- MELLON V DETAILS OF HIS DEATH LIST COAST GALE 16 Steamer Sinks in Rosario Strait With Loss of 15 Lives Other Casualties Along Sound Storm Continues in Portland and . Along the Coast of Oregon. SEATTLE, Dec. 7. One of fifteen men who lost their lives wheij the Puget Bound steameV T. W. Lake was wrecked in a storm in Rosario strait botween the San Juan Islands and Anacortcs, Wash., yesterday and who wore a medal indicating that he "Had rendered heroic service tn the World War, was Joseph I. Larsen of Seattle, chief engineer of the vessel, It was be lieved here today. The list of the dead as completed today was:. Captain E. E. Mason, master of the Lake, Tacoma. - ' ; Swen O. Uddenberg, Seattle, first officer. Joseph I. Larsen, Seattle, chief en gineer. E. E. Fields, Tacoma, purser. Lars Drupplng, Seattle, assistant engineer. E. V. Abbott, Tacoma, cook. Al Mason, Tacoma, quartermaster. W. Bunks, Tacoma, quartermaster. Charles Pearson, Ueorge Ehrt, and William Carson, ull of Tacoma, steve dores. A. Skinner, J. Dunn, H. Sklllam and Oeorge Corblnn, all of Tacoma, deck hands. , ,, . . , , . . ,' : The storm which destroyed the Lake and her crew was declared tne worst In tv.enty, years In . the San Juims. Theories of what caused the disaster,, dlff-nrcd, among marine men here. . Some held that a eargo q'f lime which the Lake had taken aboard at Roche Harbor, Wash., had beoome, wet and burned the boat or caused her seams to rip. Wreckage found show ed no Indication of burning. , , , . . Tlnwkoope'r Killed. The other death was that of Thos. E. Phlppa, 32, timekeeper at the Whatcom Falls Mill company, Bel lingham. He was repairing the en trance gate when It suddenly opened , and struck him on the head, Instantly Killing mm. Hundreds of telephones Were re ported hut of commission In Belling ham, Evorett, Aberdeen and Hoqulam. Street car service was held up a Short time In Seattle early yesterday. At Everett the high tension electrio Wires leading into the city were blown down and 'the city had to depend on the aiixtlifry steam plant for light and eleflt,rlc power yesterday. " Three feet of snow was reported to ' have fallen In the Cascades. ; 'With the exception of . the ' one Shipwreck, coastal navigation was unhampered. .PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 7. Dam age wrought by the , storm yesterday, . which swept tho north Pacific coast . and the western portions of Oregon and Washington continued .to grow today as further reports were being received from the districts visited. Towns near the coast.: had their streets .flooded with tidewaters, wire communication, with - many districts was Interrupted and ramshackle buildings were blown down. Warren ton, Oregon, and Aberdeen and Ho qulam reported tidal floods and other Oregon, towns also were believed to have suffered. Trains were being re ported behind time at several points. While, the wind had abated early today, rain was continuing to fall and more Was f orecast. ' " reduction' of the surtax to the 26 per cent maximum., agalnts a present maximum ranging up to 50 per cent, would actually Increase by 1916 the amounts the government receives, the lesser rate being more than compen sated tor by the additional volume of tax paid. .. Mr. Mellon advocated also the re duction of federal taxation on estates after death on the ground that this tax, was taken "not out of Income but out of capital," with cumulative con fiscatory effect. ' WILL DIE IF laratlon that Bhe was kidnapped, while the Seattle police have taken the stand that she went away after dlssenr slon with her sister, would probably prove fatal. The patient was put In a quiet ward and all visitors barred. ' Dr. Powell expressed the hope that Miss Austin, who he said was suffer ing from something like shell shock, might never recall In detail her exper iences from the time she disappeared. MORE QUESTIONING
