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MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1923
NO. 222
Yeu.
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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
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$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.