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Newspaper Page TextThe Weather Prediction ..Fair Maximum yesterday 43 Minimum today 30 Precipitation US Snow IH In. MEDFORD M AIL TRIBUNE Weather Year A.go Maximum 44 Minimum 24 6 ally Eighteenth Tear, eekly tty-Thlrd Ye MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1923 NO. 222 Yeu. 1 in m GRIP Of WAR ONCE AGAIN Thousand of Federal Troops On March to Put Down Up rising in Vera Cruz Some Leaders Join Obregon, and Others Rebel Forces Cen sorship Clamped Down. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. The Mexican government has stopped all code tele graphic mesaugea to and from Mexico tj via Oalveaton and has Imposed a strict censorship on'all plain language mes sages because of the ' revolutionary $ troubles, the Western Union Tele 11 graph company and the All-America 'i Cables announced today. MEXICO CITT, Dec. 8. General Plutarco Calles has renounced his candidacy for the presidency and has offered his services to President Ob regon against the insurgent forces in Vera Cruz and Jalisco. The president has accented the offer and named General Calles us head of the federal opposition to the De La Huerta-San- chez rebels. Twenty-eight thousand fedoral sol diers, It la suid, are converging upon the Vera Cruz revolutionary zone. They are under command of Generals Joaquin Amaro, Juan Andrew Alama- zun and Fuesto Topete. President Obregon has Issued a manifesto to the people calling on them for support aguinst the military coup, branding it as a conspiracy against the common people on the part of reactionary conservatives. General Enrique Estrada, chief ot military operations in ' Jalisco, who has Joined the revolt, ts sulil to have thousands of followers, '' - .. t . General Kstruda Revolts. SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 8. General Estrada has revolted against the Ob regon government with four regi ments at Guudulajara city, accord ing to a telegram received by Consul General A. Lubbert of this city from the acting secretary of foreign rela tions at Mexico City. . , The telegram stated that Goneral Flgueroa has surrendered In the slate of Guerrero. He had been in revolt. M ATA MO ROS, Mexico, Doc. 8. Colonel Gulllermo F. Itosus, military commander in the Matuinoros district who placed this city under martial law last night and anauitu'd control ot the local.. government. Issued an order at noon today closing all tuitions In definitely. No reason was given for the order. - - NEW., .ORLEANS. Dec. 8. The Mexican navy supporting the Iluerta revolt ugulnst the government con sists of only one vessel, the Zarago.uu, which was condemned as unseaworthy a year ago. It was stated toduy By ArXuro M. Ellas, Mexicun consul gen eral. Washington Given Report. WASHINGTON, Dec 8. Official dispatches from Mexico today gave further glimpses of the revolutionary movement against President Obregon, but failed to present anything like a complete picture of what actually is taking place. Reports from Charge Summerlln at Mexico City said federal- troops were being entrained at the capital for the Vera Cruz area. Mr. Summerlln also said the dissatisfaction with the Ob regon government still waa confined largely to Vera Cruz state. Messages from Amertcun consular . offcers in Vera Cruz indicate that "aosolute order and tranquility" pre vailed there and that the revolution ary leaders were according full pro. tectlon to foreigners as well as tnklng steps to suppress any possible move ment by bolshevik elements. Revolutionary forces were report ed to be moving from Vera Cruz for Jalapa. Railroad approaches to Vera Cruz, the dispatches said, have been destroyed at Ataluz on the Mexican railroad and at Perote on the Inter- Oceanic line. The gunboat Bravo sailed yesterday from Vera. Cruz for Tuxpam. - The American consul at (Continued on Page Six) $134,000,000 ELECTRIC MILES LONG DENIED - WASHINGTON. Dee. 8 The Staley system of electrified railways waa de nied permission by the Inter-state commerce commission today to build a 1200 mile line from ft point on the - Gulf of California, in Mexico, thru the states of Arizona, New Mexico, Colo rado and Utah. The estimated cost of constructing and equipping such a road, the commission - concluded, would be about $114,000,000. The Astoria Liquor Raid Leads to Arrest of Eight Dry Violators ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. , 8. Eight persons were under arrest here today as a result of raids last night by State Prohibition Agent George L. Cleaver and seven of his deputies who came here yesterday. The evidence was gathered here In October and since the first of the' present month, according to the officers. George Neuner, special state prosecutor. Is expected to proso- 4- cute the cases. CHICAGO, Dec. 8. David Ladd Rockwell of Ravenna, Ohio, chairman of the W. a. McAdoo campaign com mittee, declared today that president Coolidge, republican preference nomi nee in the recent South Dakota pri mary, was named on a Hiram John son platform. "It Is Interesting to compare Mr. Cooltdge's messuge to congress wilh the South Dakota platform he must run uporr- In that state," the statement said, "and to remember that if by January 1 he does not sign a declara tion of ndherence to the latter, the secretary of Btate of South Dakota Is by law forbidden to allow his name to go on a South Dakota primary bal. lot." PIERRE, S. D., Dec. 8. President Cooltdge's acceptanco of the South Dnkota endorsement of the republican party does not require thuj he approve the platform adopted if a ruling made by,, the attorney general of the state In l'J20 still holds good, It Is said here. ' The point of the president's require ment as to platform approval was brought tip when It was noticed that his message differed in several re spects from the principles drawn" up by the South Dakota republicans. In the 1S20 ruling, the attorney general held that It was necessary for an endorsed presidential candidate to agree that. he would qualify for the office If elected, but ruled that plat form pledges did not apply. CHICAGO. Doc. 6. (By the Asso Mated proas) The executlvo commit tee of the American Farm Bureau Federation today voted to accept the resignation of J. W. Coverdnlo of Iowa, secretary of the federation. "It's not a resignation. It's a (lis charge," said Mr. Coverdale later, de- daring his ousting was a "Saplro- Lowden" move in effort to muke For mer Oovernor (..rank O. Lowden of Illinois, president of the federation. and in connection with national poll tlwh The Coverdale arratr occurred like a bombshell in the meeting of the executive committee meeting, prelim Inary to the federation's annual con ventlon, opening Monday. It was put through quietly and is said to have been based on a verbal statement of Mr. Coverdale when he took office a year ago. He was quoted as having said in accepting the office that any time his resignation was wanted "It Is on the table." Mr. Saplro scouted the Idea that there was a movement on foot to dominate the federation In the inter est of Mr. Lowden, Mr. Lowdcn's co operative wheat marketing advisory committee or of Mr. Lowden's poli tical aspirations. 'I have the highest respect for Mr. CoverdaIe"hs a gentleman, but he Is a reactionary In respect to everything progressive In agriculture and agrl cultural economics," he said. ROAD, 1200 RIGHT TO BUILD applicant claimed to have stock sub scriptions payable which would pro vide $40,000,000 for the enterprise, the decision said, "but was unwilling to disclose for record the Identity. of these subscribers." Estimates nt earning capacity, It was added, "did not indicate that such a line would be operated independent ly at a profit," and present rail ser vice was held to be of adequate pro portions in that territory. MADQO FORCES START ATTACK UPON COOLiDGF RESIGNATION FARM BUREAU OFFICIAL CAUSES SENSATION I OF .Tl fill BER IS Belated Reports From Olympia Peninsula Indicate Recent Storm As Bad As One Two Years Ago Wires All Down Roads Blocked Every where With Trees. OLYMPIA, Wash., Doc. 8. A wind storm In the Olympic national forest perhaps as bovme as that which sn-ept the peninsula on Janu-ir;' :"J, 1-21, Is fonrr.l i-.rre by forest division officials frun meager reports reach ing the ofri"'j fi"in the district. A telegram from E. P. Ross, assist ant supervisor of forestry, now at Port Angeles, to Fred E. Pape, received here this morning reads: "Severe storm west end. Reports say equally severe as storm of 1921. Roads all blocked with trees." . First reports of the storm In the for est, which is thought to have raged De cember 5 and C, reached here this morning, and Mr. Pape has telegraph ed for more details. Little addjtlonal information could be learned at the headquarters of the Olympic national forest hero. A letter from Charlos Morgenroth, district ranger at Port Angeles, writ ten last night and received here this morning reports that all the wires west of Lake Crescent are down and that trees are blocking the roads lead ing to the storm region. - " Occupants of the telephone ex change at Port Angeles barely escap ed with their lives, Mr. Morgenroth reports, wnen four mammoth trees crnnhed on the building. Mr. Morgen roth will make an Investigation of the destruction today, his letter advised. PORT ANGELES. Wash., Dec. 8. Reports reahed hero today of a wind storm that swept the Olympic penin sula Wednesday and that recalled a tempest of 1921 In fury and destruc tion. The Olympic highway each of thin city was blocked until last night by hundreds of trees ranging up to three feet In diameter that were blown across it. Gangs of men with saws opened the road I'or traffic but It was expected to be two weeks before the roads would bo cleared of limbs and other debris. ASTORIA, Ore., Dec. 8 A flag polo, popularly known here as the highest iu the world, a stripped fir-tree 220 feet high on the top of Coxcomb hill, an eminence overlooking this -city, burned through and fell last night af ter having been struck by lightning. 8AX.T LAKE CITY, Dec. 8. The shadow of punishment for firBt degree murder which for the last nine months has been hanging over the heads of John Browning, son of John M. Browning, famous firearms Inven tor, and Marrlner A. Browning, the inventor's nephew, was lifted last night, when after but one hour and twenty minutes deliberation the Jury returned a verdict of not guilty. Only one ballot was taken. The Browning cousins were tried on a first degree murder charge for the slaying of Benjamin F. Ballantyne, husband of John Browning's sister, last April 9. The actual slaying was done by Marrlner A. Browning, ac cording to the defense testimony in the trial. Marrlner fifed the fatal shot to pre vent Ballantyne from keeping his oath to kill John Browning, the de fense maintained. The defense claim ed in court that Ballantyne was mor tally wounded while he had a gun In his hand and was "drawing down" to shoot John Browning, who aUto had a drawn gun but was calling for hla brother-in-law to desist and was mak ing no effort to use his firearm. The trouble occurred when John Browning came from his home In Ogden to effect a money settlement and arrange for the separation of Mr. and Mrs. Ballantyne. After every thing was apparently settled. Ballan tyne, according to the defense, had taken his wife from the Browning car and shoved her Into the house. She appealed to John, who followed. FEARED GUN INVENTOR'S SON ACQUITTED MURDER CHARGE Nellie Revell, Up Again, Publishes Book Written on Chest During Hospital Sta MISS REVELL AT HER DESK: INSET, IRVIN S. COBB NEW YORK Here is the "world's gamcst woman," Nellie Revcll. famous newspaper woman and actress, reading proof on her new book. "Right Off The Chest." with Irvin S. Cobb, who wrote the foreword to lt. Miss itevell's book was written with a pad on her chest during . her four years' stay iu a hospital with a fractured - spine. Her courage and optimism during . her hospital imprisonment, from which it was thought she Would never be released made her beloved to a country-wide circle of friends. George H. Doran. the publisher, will put out Miss Revell's book at cost as a tribute to her courage. , . , , ... ; , 2 KILLED IN FIGHT OVER BOAT OF !GE n CHICAGO, Doc. 8. Two men wuro shot dead and a police offieor wan wounded late last night in the fash ionable Rendezvous cafe after a wait er refused to supply a boat of cracked Ice to John Sheeny, also known as George Thomas, who Tired the shots and who may die of wounds received in a pistol fight with two officers. Henry Bing, tho employe who re fused the ice, and Leopold Guth, steward of the cafe were, killed. The officer received a flesh wound when Sheeny resisted their attempts to ar rest him. Hundreds of diners and dancers, attending the formal opening of a new Japanese room of the cafe, were in adjoining ballroom and were thrown into a panic. Police reserves were summoned to restore order when pa trons stormed doors and windows in attempts to leave. NI'LEAY SCHOONER . PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 8. The gas schooner Tram went ashore at Port Orford Thursday and Is breaking up, according to word received by the owners, the MacLeay estate of Wed derburn, Ore. None of the crew of three was lost. The Tramp was on route to Coos Bay with tan bark. She was manned by Captain Knight of Goldbeach, and Monte Morten, Marshfield, engineer, and Ed Prince of Wedderburn. Owner Killed By Fumes From Auto Repairing in Garage SAN FRANCJI8CO, Dec. 8. Benjamin J. Baum, wholesale candy manufacturer wasasphyx- lated from the gaB fumes from his car last night while he was repairing it in the garage of his home. Baum was found In the garage today by his wife. . The engine of the car was still run- nlng. 15 Below In Wyoming. LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec. 8. The tem perature today at Altamont In the western part of the state was 15 below zero, with four below at Evanston. At Lamamie it was 19 above, X' !8 WOMEN WILL TAKE SEATS IN H. T LONDON. Dec. 8. (By Associated Press.) Tho spot light of attention that used to bo focused upon Lady Astor aB she sat in tho house of com monsone little woman In the midst of 600 big, little and middle sized mon will have to diffuse lis boams to all sections of the chamber when parlia ment convones for thero will be eight women to answer the, roll, three con servatives three laboritOB and two liberals. Lady Astor talked her Plymouth constituents Into sending her back to Westminster this week and so did tho two other women who sat In the late parliament, Mrs. Margaret Wlntrlng ham. llboral, and MrB. Margaret Phllipson, conservative. - Five other women won in fights with male oppo nents. Twenty-six of their slstors were beaten but considering tho total number of candidates ' for tho IOC seats, the women who stood for par liament fared little worse proportion ately than the men. No longer will Lady Aslor be the only "Noblo Lady" among the com moners In tho house. Two other peer esses won their way to Westminster this week the Duchess of Athol), the first woman to be stmt to parliament from Scotland and Iidy Torrington, who like Iady Astor Is witty and viva cious, but who, unlike the member from Kutton division of Plymouth, says she 1b going to wear the best clothes she has when she enters the house of commonB. The Virginia-born lady alwayB satisfied herself by ap pearing in her seat in a plain frock. The threo women who will sit with tho opposition of tho labor benches are all converU to the labor cause. Miss Husnn Ijawronce Joined the labor ranks In l!t22 as tho result of distress she had seen in her investigations of living and working conditions among the poorer clnsses. Miss Dorothea Jewson, most promi nent in tho labor movement, is the daughter of a wealthy farmer and a graduate of Gurton college, Cam bridge. To acquaint herself with the Joys and sorrows of domestic servants she filled the post of chambermaid in a largo London hotel, i Miss Margaret Bondfleld In win ning the sent for Northampton de feated the former - cabinet minister, C. A. McCurdy. liberal. Hhe was the first member of the trades union con gress of whose general council she ts chairman. Man Out of Prison Arrested. TACOMA, Dec. 8. John W. Bren nan was arrested at Stellacoom by federal officers today as he stepped ashore from the McNeil Island peni tentiary launch after completing a two year sentence for forging money or ders. The arrest was made on a war rant from Ban Francisco charging a similar offense. Klamath Mexicans Confess to Murder Of Aged Co-worker KLAMATH FALLS. Ore., Doc. 8. Under gruelling examination today by Sheriff Low, Pablo Mon- tez, Alfonzo Roygoia and Domas- clo Cadeno, confessed the murder of J. R. Follz, aged employe of the Algoma box factory, whose body was found In Klamath Lake Tuesday evening by a train crew, the Bherlff announced. The trio planned the killing, ac- cording to the reported confes- slon, when they learned Follz was 4- planning to walk from Algoma to Klamath Falls, carrying $360. They wont ahead of him and pre- pared an ambush. Felii was beat- en to death, his money taken and 4 bis body, weighted with steel 4 rails, was thrown Into the lake. 4 2 MEDFORD GIRL RUNAWAYS tt FOUND OAKLAND OAKLAND, Cal., Dec. 8. Pauline Shuoy and Mildred Bovor, both 16 and giving their home address as Med ford, Ore., woro nrrestod hero yester day as alleged rjunaways. Pauline carried a 44 caliber revolver which she said wns for protection. The girls said they left Medford four days ago and kindly autolsts had picked them up on the rond. donating- meals and sleeping accommodations. They de clared they startod with 2.60 capital.! Modford authorities have been noti-r fled. , I Miss Bhuey, daughter of Mr.' and Mrs. Jnmes Rhucy, 27 Tripp Btreet and Miss Bover, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Bever of 84 Narregan stroet, disap peared several days ago and since thon local authorities bavo been enr doavoring to'dotermlne their Where abouts, Neither family cared to make any statomcnt regarding tho matter today. Both girls aro said to have enjoyed good reputations and It 1b believed they ran away merely ns a lark and so they could sue something of the country. The Daily Bank Robbery LOS ANC1EL108, Dec. 8. Deputy sheriff's left the sheriff's office at at noon today -with William Bled soe, bank moKsonger for the First Na tional Bank of Huntington Park, an nouncing that Bledsoe was loading them to the hiding place' of the -16,-000 that he had reported as having been stolen from him yesterday. FOSTOniA, Ohio, Dec. 8. A woman -bandit today entered the Ohio Savings and Lot.n company shortly after 8 a. m., today and pointed a re volver at employee, forcing Cashier Carl Smith to turn ovor to her $1300 after which she escaped. LOS ANOICI.ES, Doc. 8. Aftor several hours of questioning. William Bledsoll, 23. bank messenger of the National bank at Huntington Park, rlermvain r 890$ N . .N . .N..66 rentnlned unshaken today In his story that he had boen kidnaped by two men yesterday taken to the country, held prisoner nnd -15,000 which he had In his possession at the tlmo, taken fro mhim. A brother, Joel Bledsoll, Is also being held by the of ficers as a matcrinl witness. The messenger was found walking toward this city on a road near Downoy, twelve miles from here. Colonel Forbes Very III. BOSTON, Dec. 8. Colonel Charles R. Forbes, former head of the veter ans' bureau, who Is seriously III, was resting more comfortably today, bis sister, Mrs. Harry Judkins, said. Mrs. Judklns said he was suffering from Angina pectoris, and that be had been 111 since his arrival at his home No vember 25. ills Illness, she said, dated from a trip to the Pacific coast last summer. JAP-GUILTY OF MURDER OF SOCIALIST FAMILY. GETS 10 YEARS IN PRISON TOKIO, Dec. 8. (By Associated Press). Captain Masahlko Amakasu, gendarmerie officer was found guilty of the slaying on September 16 ot fiaknye Osugi, socialist leader, and his wife and child, and sentenced to ten years Imprisonment today after ' a military trial which attracted wide spread attention In Japan. Sergeant Mori, convicted ot acting as Captain Amakasu's accomplice was sentenced to three years In prison. Three other soldiers, also accused ot ENG. LABOR REFUSES 10 FORM GOV'T British Labor Party Also in Mi nority, Unable to Form Cab inet English Politics in the Worst Muddle in Years No Liberal-Labor Coalition Possible. LONDON, Dec. 8. Edgerton Wake, chief agent of the labor party, offi cially announced today that there would be no liberal labor coalition. LONDON, Doc. 8. (By the Asso ciated Press.) What Prime Minister Baldwin will do now, that his party has no majority . over the combined laborltes and liberal opposition, and how the administration ot the country will bo carried on, are cognate ques tions to which the public, the press, the politicians and bis majesty's minis ters aro trying to find satisfactory answers. Since the premier returned to Lon don from the scene of his personal local triumph at Bewdley, he has kept silent and none of the leaders ot the conservative party has made a public statement " 1 One of the favorite guesses and the Dally Express states It as a tact Is that Mr. Baldwin will resign both the prime ministership and the leadership of the conservatives. But such action would not settle the problem of how to carry on the government, as It ts cbvlous that his successor to which ever iiarty he might belong, could not command a sufficient majority ot his own-followers In the house of com mons to enable him to conduct the ad ministration. A suggestion for solution of the problem 1b that the leaders of all par ties might be called in council to ex amine the poslblllty of making a tem porary arrangement for conducting the government until the appropriate mo ment comes for another election. The belief grows that should King Cleorge Invito the laborltes, as the sec ond strongest' party In the house, to form a ministry, they would refuse, preferring to wait until they could . command a strong enough following In tho country to enforce their own policy without having to consider the will of the other parties. The political statisticians, figuring In the total votes cast In the election, arrive at different results, but moat of them come to approximately the fol lowing round numbers: Conserva tives 5,350,000: laborltes 4,450,000; liberals 4,230,000; Independents 220, 000. ANOTHER BOOZE NEW YORK, Dec. 8. The Dutch i schooner Zeehond, believed by federal authorities to belong to "Mannle" 'Kessler, "king of the bootleggers," to day was seized off Fire Island with $200,000 forth of assorted liquors. A Tew hours later Kessler and his part ner, Morris Sweetwood, decided, to take their medicine and withdrew their appeal from a conviction ot wholesale bootlegging which carried with It a sentence of two years in At lanta and a fine of $10,000. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., Dec. 8. Coast guards today reported that dur ing the night rum runners from At lantic City and the vicinity completed one of the most successful landings 1 the rum fleet ever made south ot the 1 highlands. I complicity a in the slaylnga, Were acquitted. Osugi had been deported to France I because ot his radical activities and I returned to Japan shortly before he was slain. Amakasu admitted he 1 killed the Osugls by strangling them 'to death after he had arrested them i and taken them to a gendarmerie sta tion. He declared he had committed the murders in his capacity as a cltl : zon. because the socialist's principles and his actions were detrimental to j the peace ot society during the chaotic I times which followed the earthquake.