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MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1923
NO. 225
DOWNFALL
' Ivt NEAR
Mexican President Leaves
Capital 'Never to Return Is
? Rebel Claim De La Huerta
Declares He, Has Assumed
; Comfhand of Govt. Rebel
Triumph Reported.
, NEW YORK, Doc. 12. Albert MaJ!
carenas, Mexican, consul general In
New York City, announced today that
he had received a telegram purport
ing to come from Adolfo De La 'Hu-
Jerta, rebel leader, Informing him that
ho had assumed command of the
government. The consul said he dls-
' regarded tho message, which directed
him to take orders from Do La Hu-
, erta. - .
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 12. The
Mexican- steamer Conhulla, which Is
anchored In the port of Manzanlllo,
Mexicq, has been seized by rebel
forces, according to a messago re
ceived today by the marine depart
ment of tho chamber of commerce
here.
SAN ANTONIO, Texns, Dec. 12.
Large' bodies of armed men from all
sections of tho state of Vera Cruz
are. -Joining General Guadalupe San
chez In - his march on Mexico City,
according to private advices received
by the Light today from Vera. Cruz.
The advance troops of General San
chez have 'reached Peroto on tho
inter-oceanic, a station on tho Puebla
state line. Tho outposts of this same
column havo reached Esperanza and
Oriental.. .
X' -V ''- Rebels Swoop Coast.
V'NOGALEZ, Ariz.. Dec. 12. Tho
revolutionary movement ori'.'the, west
cousf of Mexico lias attained groat
proportions, according to advices re
ceived -here today and has spread to
Maiatlan, sinaloa, where tho garri
son has divided.
The 27th reglmont of Mazatlan re
volted nnd disarmed the 17th regi
ment under tho command of Colonel
Recca. Flores, according to reports,
which were verified by travelers who
arrived today from Mazatlan. The
disarmament was accoplishcd with
out bloodshed.
A report that several revolutionary
generals were exocuted following a
skirmish in stnlloa is being inves
tigated here.
VERA CRUZ. Dec. 12. Revolu
tionary headquarters here annonnceH
that rebel forces under command of
General Si Iv In no Garcia" have defeated
and dispersed the loyal troopa which
were defending CoutotUipan, a town
on the border of the states of Vera
Cruz and Puebla. Joe Maria San
chez former governor of Ruebla, who
was at the head of the Obregon
forces is being pursued by tho rebels.
The statement also asserts that the
government of the Htnte of Collma has
been overthrown, while all troops in
Sonora and Sinaloa have joined tho
revolutionary movement.
"The troopa of General atrada,"
continues the statement, "have begun
their advance toward LaPledad. Mieh
oacan, where It Is expected tho first
major combat with the Obregon
forces will take place. ,
"Coast towns In Mlchoacan have
recognized tho revolutionary move
ment. Several squadrons belonging to
the 65th federal regiment, which
,-were In garrison at Coalooman, havo
joined the revolt,, as have the forces
in Agulllllla.
Obregon Ixavos Capital.
"Persons reaching Esperanza, Pu
eblo, from Mexico City brought word
of President Obregon's departure
from the capltoKat ten o'clock yes
terday morning, ostensibly to review
'troops at Qucrtaro, but It Is believed
here that the president will not re
turn. "A messajre from General Angel
Flores, a presidential candidate, an
nounces his adhesion to, the. rebel
movement and says he Is moving his
troops in 8inaloa.to assist General
Estrada. In the latter'8 advance on
Mexico City.
Continued on Page Six)
MEDFORD LEADS STATE IN RECORD
BREAKING CAR TOURIST TRAVEL 1923
SALEM. Ore., Dec. 12. Registra
tion of motor vehicles from other
states while in Oregon between May
24 and November 30, 1923, aggregat
ed 39, OSS, according to a statement
prepared here today by 8am A. Kozer
secretary of state. -
"Assuming that there were t per
sons in each car." continued the state
ment, "the number of non-residents
visiting Oregon during the registra
tion period totalled 120,000. Adding
to this number those persons who ar
Mystery Surrounds
Death By Gunshot
Of Polk Co. Farmer
,
SALEM, Ore., Dec. 12. Mys-
tory surrounds the death of
Frank Brobst, Polk county
farmer, whose body waa found at
the entrance to the; machinery
shed on his farm near Perrydale
yesterday by his wife with his
shotgun lying across his foot.
Neighbors wore called at once
and It was supposed that Brobst
had died of heart failure, but with
the arrival of Coroner C. W. Hen-
kle and Mrs. Brobst's brother,
Conra SA.raffrin, Jonner adju-1
tant gcnoral of -the Oregon Na-
tlonal Guard, it was discovered
that he had been shot through the
upper left broast. One empty.
slioll was found in the shotgun.
1
Cleveland 10
10
G. 0. P. Committee Also Aban
dons Plan to Limit Southern
Representation 1 110 Del-
. egates Next Year Compared
to 984 in 1920.
"vVASHlNGTOX, Dec. 12. The re
publican national convention of 1924
will asaemblo in Cloveland on June 10
and its dolegate strength wilt bo ap
portioned virtually on the old time
basis of full representation for the
south as well as the north.
A carefully drafted plan to curtail
the voting power of those southern
states which belong to the democratic
sniid eouth waa overturned .today by
tho national committee.
In 1921 the reapportionment pro
gram had been given tho approval of
tho committee and tho reversal was
voted today over tho protests of those
who declared a resonsideration would
be Interpreted by the country as an
effort to Increase tho delegate
strength of states likely to cast their
The committee also decided to rec
ommend to the 192-4 convention that
women be given an equal status with
men as committee members and that
one man and ono woman from each
state be choHon to serve on a basis of
parity as national committeemen.
Tho selection of Cleveland as the
convention city had been virtually
certain since a preference fo it was
expressed by the managers of the
Coolidge campaign. Chicago, pre
viously considered a likely choice had
withdrawn when the desires of tho
Coolidge men berame known, and
only nominal efforts were made on
behalf of Ijes Moines and of San
Francisfo tho home city of Senator
Hiram Johnson.
On the vote Cloveland received 39,
San FranclHco 10 and Dos Moines 1.
The votes Co:'. San Francisjo came
from California, Colorado, Idaho. Ne
vada. New .Jersey, Oregon, Utah,
Washington, Wisconsin and Hawaii.
New Mexico voted for Des Moines.
Tho delegate apportionment plan
finally adopted today provides for a
total of 1110 delegates In next year's
convention compared with 984 in
1920, tho Increases largely going to
northern states under a provision that
each state carried by Harding In tho
1920 election shall have three extra
delegates at large.
Tho reapportionment basis of 1063
delegates for 1924 adopted under
orderH of the last convention after a
long standing complaint in the voting
of southern delegations was recon
sidered upon motion of Charles D.
Hllles, New Yorfk committeeman
over the vigorous protest of Senator
Howell of Nebraska,, chairman of a
sub-committee that had Inquired Into
the subject.
Senator. Howell warned the com
mittee that its action would be "light
ing the trail that may lead to a pow
der mill."
The reform of the southern repre
sentation had been attempted for
twenty years. Senator Howell said,
and the proposal to upset the re-apportionment,
he declared, was back
ward. rived In the state by rail and water,
those who came by motor prior to tho
registration period and those who
failed to register, It is safe to assume
that between 400,000 and 500,000 non
residents spent at least a few days In
this commonwealth during the year
1923."
Of those who came In by motor cars
the greatest number of registrations
was made at the Medford station.
Portlnnd was second, Ashland third
and Salem fourth.
CONVEN
OPEN
JUNE
PRESIDENTS
NOTE FLAYED
BY M'ADOO
Coqlidge's Message Termed
'Counsel of Dormancy By
Wilson's Son-in-Law in Ad
dress Before Women's Dem
ocratic ClulTof Los Angeles
Claims Tax Cut Own Idea
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 12 President
Cnolidgo's message to congress was
labelled a "counsel of dormancy," and
his opposition to a bonus for ov
scrvico men characterized as a sum
mary dismissal of "Just claims for
consideration," in an address by Wil
liam Gibbs McAdoo beforo tho Demo
cratic luncheon club and Women's
domocratlo league hero today.
Tho former director goneral of .rail
roads derided the president's proposal
for a voluntary consolidation of these
systems of transportation as a "seven
year itch for reduced freight nnd pas
senger rates with no assuranco of re
lief at tho trial." Telling his hearers
that "what is needed is not seven
years of delay but action."
"The president's message," said Mr.
McAdoo in part. "Is largely a counsel
of dormancy. Nowhero is there tho
stimulating call of progress. The
world is in commotion and vital do
mestic problems press upon us for
solution but no effective program is
offered for the alleviation or correc
tion of domestic ills nor Is encourage
ment given for Invigorating interna
tional relations which will open world
markets for our surplus products,
tend to promote economic stability or
encourage peace and tranquility bo
tween nations. '
"The most affirmative part of the
president's message Is the recommen
dation of tax reduction. The whole
country favors tax reduction. Tho
democratic party 'has stood consistent-'
ly for it since tho signing of tho arm
istice and should co-operate without
regard to partisan considerations in
any honest effort to ease the burden
of taxation. This effort- should bo
directed not alone to a reduction in
tho gross sum of. taxation, but to an
equitable distribution. Tho presi
dent's endorsement of tho proposal to
put a lighter tax on earned incomes,
namely those produced by tho sweat
of the brow and tho toil of the brain,
than upon unearned incomes, namely
those which como from investments,
is commendable.
Democrats Started the Idea
"This proposition was first made
by the democratic secretary of the
treasury in 1919 and was offered in
1921 as an'amendment to the revenue
bill by Senator Harris of Georgia. It
was defeated by a vote of 36 republi
cans to 21 democrats -on the ground,
as stated by Senator Penrose, then
chairman of the flnanco committee
of the senate that:
"'The question of earned and un
earned Incomes was most exhaustively
considered by the committee, by tho
senate and by tho treasury depart
ment and tho opinion waa nearly
unanimous that any such provision is
impossible of administration.'
"What has produced this extraordi
nary reversal of opinion on tho part
of tho treasury department and the
administration? If this provision was
nearly impossible of administration
in 1921, why is it possible of adminis
tration in 1923?
Bonus Is Favored
"The president opposes any in
creoso in the pa of the soldiers who
fought the war to victory. Altho a
great reduction in tho tax burden can
be made and the reasonable compen
sation proposed for tho sailors and
soldiers can be provided nt the same
time, the president is determined that
Justice shall not be done to tho war
veterans. .Their Just claims for con
sideration are summarily dismissed,
but the president Is strong for tho
maintenance of the Fordncy-McCum-ber
tariff bill, which gives favored
trusts, monopolies and combinations
In restraint of trade a subsidy esti
mated at more than three billions of
dollars per annum, or twice as much
as it will take to pa the soldiers'
bonus In cash. Fork privilege every
thing; for the dofonders of the coun
try nothing.
Botrayal of Trust
"The president declares that no
more important duty rests on the gov
ernment than, the adequate care of
sick and disabled veterans and yet
thore Is no word of reprehension for
the graftors who havo disgraced the
veterans' bureau and have stolen or
misappropriated funds which were set
aside to take care of the men and wo
men who suffered the loss of health
and became permanently disabled In
teh service of the nation. A meaner
botrayal of a sacred trust than this
could not have been committed. The
veterans' bureau has been made politi
cal spoil and the helpless and suffer
ing heroes of the nation have paid the
price. Is It not time to do justice to
all of our soldiers, whether they are
unfortunate enough to be in or fortu
nate enough to be out of the hospitals?
"The president offers yno construc-
(Contlnued on Page Six)
Men Vainer Than Women?
. Titled Beauty Says They
Primp. More Than Wives Do
'
IPHAi )4M$L THAN II
NEW YORK Ladv Diana Duff-Cooper, beautiful daUKhtcr of
the Dnkc and Duchess of Rutland, who hurled it in the teeth of
Englishmen that thev were vainer than their women, is here to
rehearse the leading role of The Madonna in Max Rciuhardt's pro
duction of "The Miracle."
The titled English Rctress. who displeased Queen Mary by tan
going in spite of the royal edict against the dance., has been acting
in motion-pictures for some time.
She was to liavc visited America at the close of the war, but
during the Victory celebration in London fell through a skylight
while 'cheering' the 'troops, and broke her 'hip. '
IS
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WASHINGTON. Dec. 12. Although
there wns a break in the ranks of the
supporters of Senator LaFollotte of
Wisconsin, tho republican Insurgent
leader, tho spnate remained In dead
lock today on the first ballot for the
election of a chairman of the Inter
state enmmerco comniitloo.
Senator ' Cummins, republican,
Iowa, nnd Smith, democrat, , South
Carolina, wero tied nt forty votes
each, while LaFollotto received three
votes. Senators Hrookhnrt, Iowa, and
Frazier, North Dakota, republicans,
and Shlpstond and Johnson, farmer
Inhor,1 Minnesota, voted for Smith, but
thore also was a break In tho demo
cratic ranks with Senator Hnico of
Maryland votinz for Cummins.
On the second ballot Smith fell only
one, short of olectton, receiving 41
votes to 39 for Cummins and two for
La Follotto.
On tho third ballot the vote was:
Smith 41; Cummins 40 and LaFolIetto
two.
After tho third ballot adjournment
was takon until noon Saturday but bal
loting will not bo resumed until next
Monday.
L.
New City Election
Law May Put Oregon
City Without Govt.
OREGON CITY, Ore., Doc. 12.
Oregon City may be without any legal
form of government for noarly a year
If an opinion rohdorod by City Attor
ney William E. Stone is valid. Last
month Citizens of Oregon City "voted
to change tho form of government
from councllmanic to the commission
form and legislated the present mayor
and council out of ofl'ico with the end
of the year.
An election to name throe city com
missioners was called for Decombor
Is, the commissioners to tako ovor the
government January 1. City Attornoy
Stone today announced a ruling that
the OregorNlaw provides that munici
pal officials may be elected only at
regular state elections and that there
fore the December 18 election will bo
invalid and no commissioners may be
elected until the November, 1924, regu
lar election.'
ANOTHER
OA
WASTED BYDEAD
K N SENATE
LUMBER SIZES
AT
WASHINGTON, Dec. 13. Stand
ards which may bo adopted through
out tho (country for sizes, varieties
and grades of lumber were consider
ed at a conference of manufacturers,
users and distributors of that pro
duct called nt the commerce depart
ment today by secretary Hoover. Tho
(liHcuaaion was based upon a report
from a committee iiubmltted after a
study of the problem during the last
year.
All of tho seHHlon wua behind cloned
doors. Severn! points of dlfforonce
In tho committee recommondatlons
have been noted, particularly one
In which the forest products labora
tory of tho agriculture dopnrtmcnt
hnH participated over tho question or
tho thickness to he iiRHiRned to "Inch"
boards.
The centroli commltteo majority
havo favored making an "inch" board
actually 28-32 of an Inch thick, whllo
the committee Iwih proposed 25-32 of
an Inch. Secretary Wallace, how
eyor, said that tho laboratory recopi
mendatlon' would bo WltlKfrawn If
the lumber industry could udnpt as
a whole any standing for the .dimen
sion, particularly in view of the bene
fits to bo'attalned generally from the
following of one course.
NAME ROSEBURG
TO SUP. GT
8ALBM. Ore., Dec. 12. Appoint
ment of O. P. Coshow of llosoliurg as
a member of the state supreme court
to succeod L. T. Harris resigned, was
announced' by Governor Pierce last
night.
sAl.EM, Ore., Dec. 12 Resignation
of J. W. Bell, district Judgo of depart
ment number ono, Multnomah county
was announced today by Governor
Pierce, who said he had not yot oho
sen a successor. Judge Bell has been
on tho bench of Multnomah county
since 1908.
MARRIED WOMAN" KriCIDKS '
OVKIl A IX)VK AFFAIR
SAN PEDRO, Cal., Dec. 12. Mrs.
Dorothy McDonald, 21. of Seattle died
here today from tho effecta of u
dnjught of poison which she drank last
night. Police say she was despondent
over a love affair.
$500 Left to Poodle
Dog By Mrs. Reisner
Of Eugene, Oregon
EUGENE. Ore.. Dec. 12. Five
hundred dollars was set aside by
Mrs. Clomentlne Reisner, who
died at her home jn this city a
few dnys ago. for the care of her
poodle dog during Its lire time,
! according to her will, admitted to
probate.
In her will Mrs. Reisner states
t that the "animal huR almost been
a mombor of the family."
DEPUTY GUILTY
OF IT BRIBE
Sentences Will Be Pronounced
Friday On Three Defendants
in Roseljurg Case Coveil
Trial at Marshfield Starts
Hunt Bank Bandits.
ROSEI1URO. Ore., Doc. 12. Son
toncos will be pronounced Friday upon
three defendants in the Keedsport ruin
bribory cases which have been trlod
here. Jack Connelly, former RoodB
port deputy shoriff, wnH convicted late
yesterday at Ills second trial of accept
ing a bribe of $200. The Jury disa
greed hi tho first trial. Fred Schtilte
had previously been convicted on the
same charge, and II, O. Roberts plead
ed guilty to (giving a bribe.
COQTJHjLE, Ore, Dec. 12. Alton
Covoll; 1(1, today faced a charge of first
degree murder in the circuit court be
fore Judge John C. Kendall. It is al
leged that on September 3 he killed
his Btep-mother, Mrs. Ehab Covell at
the family home near llandon. Tho
boy's uncle, Arthur Covoll, an astrolo
ger and a cripple, was found guilty of
Instigating the crime and Influencing
tho boy to commit the murdor and Is
under sentence to hang.
DUtrlct Attorney Fisher Is proscut
Ing the case and Qrant Corby of Co-
qulllo Is defending. The examination
of jurors began this morning.
LODI. Cal., Deo. 12. Mrs. Alex A
Kelts, whose husband Is sentenced to
bo hnnged at Folsom prison January
!,' asserted today that Kels was In
sane. . She demanded that a test be
made to determine his mental condl
Hon.- . -
Had his arrest and trial not "been
kept from her, she could have given
testimony that would havo convinced
the Jury that he was montuly unbal
anced, she declared.
FLORENCE, Ore., Dec. 12. Posses
today wore scouring the .wooded region
north of hero In the Mercer land dis
trict for tracos of tho three bandits
who yeBtorday robbed the Lane Coun
ty State nnd Savings bank here of
Lnhout $6000 after locking Vice Presl
dent Ilorgman and two farmers in the
bank vault The bandits were fol
lowed by posses yesterday until tracks
wero loHt In tho darkness.
U. S. Farm Federation
Settles- Differences
CHICAGO. Dec. 12. (By Associat
ed Press). O. B. Bradfute of Xenla.
Ohio, late today was elected prosldent
of the American Farm Bureau feder
ation, aftor a plea for. harmony by
J. A. Cornwall of Vermont, which was
taken to mean that the co-operatlvo
marketing dispute which marked tho
opening of the convention had been
smoothed over.
COURT MUSI DECIDE
HAIR IS HEAD
SEATTLE, Dec. 13. Whether the
bobbing of a woman's hair comes
under tho head of Darberlng or
whether it belongs to the art along
with eyebrow plucking, eyelash tint
ing, mud 'baths nnd tho like, Is a
nuestlon Judge C. C. Dalton has to
docldo.
The state of Washington law re
quires that persons engaged In har
boring procure a license, but there Is
nothing in the statutes that defines
whether bobbed hair is a head dross
or a hair cut.
ANOTHER OREGON
WOMAN IS
INDICTED IN
K. Mill
Mrs. Margaret Weaver, Ac
cessory in Slaying of Klans
man Coburn 'You Big Fat
Baby, Haven't Nerve to j(iJ!
Anyone,' Said She to Slayer
of Attorney.
; ATLANTA, Ga Dec. 12. Mrs. Mar
garet Weaver has been Indicted as an
accessory before the fact !n the slay
ing of Captain W. S. Coburn by Phillip
K. Fox, solicitor general Boykln's of
fice announced today. Evidence has.
been obtained to warrant similar In
dictments against several other per
sons whose names were not disclosed,
It was added.
According to the solicitor's office.
Mrs. Weaver Is alleged to have been in
company with Fox several days pre
ceding the shooting until a few mln
uteB before Fox entered Coburn's of
fice. ' She was under BUrvellance for
some time after the Bhootlng but has
not been arrested. The solicitor's of
fice said her home Is In Columbus,
Ohio. The Indictment against Mrs.
Weaver was roturned last Friday. " ;
The prosecution also announced that
indictments charging accessory . after
the fact would be sought i ..'...,
With the Indictment of Mrs. -Weaver,
the state announced it had established
the whereabouts of Fox 1mm the Sat
urday preceding the shooting until' he
went to the Ansley hotel and register
ed on Monday,. November 5. This had
remained a mystery until the informa
tion obtained from Mrs. Weaver, said
he. tvas In her company; during the
time, the prosecution said. ' r
According to the prosecution, Mrs.
Weaver has) admitted that she told
Fox: t . .. . . .. v..
"Why, you big fat baby, you. haven't
got' the nerve to kill anyone." '
To this Fox replied, -it la alleged b'y
the solicitor's office: ;. ' ', '
"I'll Bhow you." - :";
The solicitor's office says that Mrs.
Weaver's father Is engaged In news
paper work in Cleveland. Ohio, : She
was questioned in Nashville, Tenn.,
about ton days ago but was not arrest
ed. ' . '. ; v, '
Mrs. Weaver, the state charges as a
basis for the indictment, knew, that
Fox Intended . to Bhoot Captain Co
burn. ' , . r
ATLANTA, Oa., Dec. 12.---8even
Jurors were selected ' at ' the morning
session of the trial of Philip E. Fox.
former publicity director of the Ku
Klux Klun, charged with the murder
of William 8. Coburn, counsel for the
Simmons faction of the Man..'-,'..,
Mrs. Kox sat in a chair next to, her
husband -
Klan leaders from all sections of
the country were said to be seated In
the courtroom. Members of the Im
perial forces of the klan , were not
present when court convened. Dr.
Hiram W. Evans, . Imperial ' wizard,
was said to havo been summoned as
a witness.
Dragons, kleagles and major i of
ficials of the klnn are to be witnesses
for tho prosecution. , ; '
3 FROZEN TO DEATH . :
: N.
' CLOVIS. N. M., Deo. 12. Two boys
and an unidentified negro were frose'n
to death In the storm which 'visited
I this section Monday and Tuesday. The
I boys were sons of Joe Centred, a
I rancher living eighteen miles south-'
jwest of Frlona, Texas. -: ' '
!' Two sheepmen were lost ' In' the . '
snowstorm and searching parties have"1 '!
fnot found them. -
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IF BOBBED
'- -! 1 1
BRESS OR HAIR CUT
Harry Sworkman, . .me,rnber of. the
bdard of barber examiners'' and In
spector of the ' license departtfient,
haled into court William- Hoffman,
secretary of the Seattle Hah-dressers"
association, and charged htm with
having on "October 2 cut thi hair
of Anna Homlta tor hlfe and rard"
and without a barber's license. . -.-
Judge Dalton has taken the ease
under advisement, but has . failed,
thus far, in finding ft' a,titqUy
decision. , , ...( t
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