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SffiDFORP MATE TRIBUTE, MEDFOUD,: (OREGON, .WEDXESIMY, DECEMBER. 12, 1923
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GUILTY OF THEFT
"When Jloy W. Snider wont to tho
police station Monduy morning to ro
ll ort thut his car was stolen, - beforo
he -got out of the room ho was him
self placed tinder arrest on tho churijo
of stealing a tire and rim, to which
cMrge he .iloarli( K'Hlty in Justice
Taylor's court todny! and wag fined
$3$ and costs. ;'H1h wife spent the day
In 'efforts to raise -money to pay the
finb and obtain his release. Snider,
Svhoso homo is mainly in Ashland, re
cently returned to this vicinity .from
a logging camp at Chlloquin.
. Several days ago R. E. Smithpetcr
reported to tho notice that a tire and
rim had been stolen from him. Late
Sunday night Patrolman Georffo
Prescott noticed a' car parked In the
business district, while presumably its
owner had fione In to lunch at a res
taurant, and thought ho recognized on
tho car tho tiro nnd rim that had
been reported stolen. He thereupon
took tho car to Kittson's garage with
the intention of having a close scru
tiny of Its owher if ho showed up.
'Next morning while Patrolman
r?escott and Chief of Police Adams
Were tnlklng in the. police station of
fice Snider came there and reported
that his suto had been stolen. The
officers got busy at once with quvn
tlons with tho result, It Is claimed,
that Sntder confensed to having pur
loined tho tiro and tire rim. His ar
rest followed. I
OF
LOCAL DEVELOPMENT
The Forum luncheon of tho Hertford
Chamber of Commerce at the Medford
Hotel today opened with the introduc
tion of A. E. Cranston, of Portland,
who li looking for a site for a box fac
tory, Andrew Miller, field secretary of
the Oregon State Bankers association,
and W. H. Crawford, head of the new
industrial department of the Califor
nia Oregon Power company.
E. Gore and William Warner spoke
of the D. O. K. K. band and asked tho
support of tho Chamber of Commerce
and the citizens of Medford at the con
cert which they are giving In tho near
futuro.
W. H. Crawford was tho principal
speaker. Aftor passing printed maps
to Illustrate his talk, he said that Med
ford held an Important and central po
sition in the Great Midland Empire of
the Pacific coast. "God gives every
bird his food, but he docB not ffirow It
In the nest" Medford has this loca-
tlon and It Is up to her cltizons to show
tlio outside world the advantages of
settling and invostlng In this part of
the country. '
Andrew Miller spoke next and after
complimenting Mr. Crawford as a man
of vision and power he told of the fa
vorable Impression Medford had made
on him In his many visits here.
1
IJig Fire Kt-liriirctariy, N. Y.
' SCHENECTADY, N. Y., Dec. 12.
Fire said to have started in the Bos
ton Department store threatened the
business section hero, today. Virtually
all of tho fire apparatus In tho city
was called out and early reports indi
cated that persons were trapped In
some of tho flaming stores.
Gnu 0mmi to 111 nose Officials
PEKING. China. China is over
stocked with officials, and 10.000
such employes of the government are
slated for dismissal under the new
regime, according to tho Asiatic News
Agency. Many men of Inferior quali
fications today hold governmental pa
sit ions, and as a result competent
employes are not getting their sal
aries. .
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 12. Propos
als for completing new railroad con
struction In Oregon necessary to re
move timber from the Malheur na
ptional forest In Oregon were filed to
day with the Inter-state commerce
commission by the Malheur Railroad
company. The corporation) proposes
to build a sixty-mile line from Burns
to Seneca.
A previous application from the Oregon-Washington
Railroad and Naviga
tion company has been before the com
mission for some tlmo. The O. W. R.
& N. proposes to extend one branch as
far as Burns. When the connection is
made at Burns with the Malheur line
the national forests will have contact
with through line railroads.
COAST LEAGUE MEETS
WITH NEW LEADER
freight and passenger rates, with no
assurance of relief at tho end of the
tual.
'.'The secretary of commerce has
just Issued his report In which ho also
, urges consolidations of the railroads
io proauce cneaper and more efficient
transportation. He also confesses that
the Escb-Curamlns bill is a failure and
demands that Its difficulties be over
come by additional laws which will
provide for the use of terminals and
other railroad facilities in common;
for more definite control over car ser
vice or for the common use of our
equipment to meet successfully sia-
CHICAGO, Dec. 12. (By tho Asso
clatod Press.) Directors of the Pacif
ic coast league assembled In their an
nual mooting today under the presi
dency of Hurry A. Williams of Los An
geles for the first time and President
Williams reported that his reception
seemed to him very cordial.
The three pro-McCarthy clubs, Sac
ramento, Vernon and San Francisco,
wore represented by their regular di
rectors, Lewis Moreing, William Es
slck and Charles Graham, and they all
extended Williams their congratula
tions and best wishes.
A committee of H. W. Ijine of Salt
Lake City, J. Cal Ewing of Oakland
and Moreing, was chosen to enter Into
a draft discussion with a committee of
the American association.
The Noted Dead
PROVIDENCE. R. I., Doc. 12. John
R. Rathom, editor of the Providence
Journal and Evening Bulletin died at I
hlB home here yesterday. He was 56
ycanl, old and had been editor and
gonoral manager of the two papers for
twelve years. In August, 1922, ho un
derwent an operation, aftor which he I
never regained his health.
Mr. Rathom formerly served as re
porter on the Seattle Post Intelli
gencer nnd the Victoria Dally Colonist,
editor of tho Dally Astorian at Asto
ria and tolograph editor of the Port
land Orogonian, was staff correspond
ent of the San Francisco Chronicle
during the war with Spain and in tho
Boer war served again ns a corres
pondent.
dowxfamj op oihikgon near
(Continued From Page One)
"General Guillermo Castillo Tapla
nnd Carlos DouiiiiRiioz, each in com
mand of a detachment, have gone to
reinfnrco tho garrison In Puerto Mex
ico and to oi-Ranlzo military opera
tions In tho south.
"A telegram from General Matus
In the state of Sonora Informs the
revolutionary movement that he Ik
Joining tho rebel cuuso with a band
of Yaiiul Indians."
Revolutionary headquarters in Vera
Cruz Inst night reported the receipt of
a wlrelesa message nnnounchtg that
the garriMon at Tampleo had Joined
tho revolt, hut newspaper dispatches
from that rlty said the entire nil re
gion from Tnmplro to Tuxpnm was
peaceful nnd that there wero no
rebels In tho district.
I'HKSIOKNT'S NOTE YKI
(Continued From Page One)
tlve thought on the railroad problem.
perhaps the most Important domostic
problem confronting tho nation. He
generalizes somewhat vaguely about
the vuluo of consolidations nnd sug
gests thnt tho railroads be glvon au
thority to voluntarily consolidate. Ho
saya that consolidation appears to be
the only feasible method for tho main
tenance of an adequate system of
transportation and that the farmers
must bo assisted by tho reorganlza
tlon of tho freight rate structuro
which could reduce charges on his pro
duction. To make these offectlve,
there ought to be railroad consolidations!'
In other words the present exces
sive freight and passenger rates can
not bo reduced to the farmers or to
the people of tho country, by the presl
dent's own confession, except through
railroad consolidation, which he urges
shall be 'voluntary.' Tho big rail
roads are unwilling to consolidate be
cause thoy do not want to absorb the
weaker roads. Proposals emanate
(torn tho administration that seven
years be allowed tho railroads to ef
fect theso voluntary consolidations, at
the end of which, they may bo com
pelled to consolidate If thoy have not
already done so.
No Relief for Farmers
If reduced rates depend upon vol
unlnry consolidations, as stated by the
president, and It seven years arc at
lowed before we are to know whether
or not the railroads will consolidate.
what promise of relief Is there f.ir
the farmers particular and for the
people of tho country as a whole, from
the present excessive cost of railroad
transportation? The president offers
merely a soven year itch tor reduced
sonal demands and dealings; for tho
equalization of car Interchange and
the standardization and maintenance
of equipment.
McAdoo Started Reforms
"Every one of these reforms was In
augurated under my administration
.13 director general of railroads In
1918. Every one of these reforms 1
urged that cong.-es.i should maintain
and preserve. Every one of these re
forms was thrown away by the Esch
Cummins act, which restored every un
economical . and wasteful practice
which federal control had abolished.
The late President Harding said in a
speech at Dos Molncs, October 7,
1S20: - ..
'"The Esch-Cummlns railroad bill Is
the most progressive measure and the
most constructive act of federal legis
lation enacted In a decate.'
"And yet, more than three years
thereafter the administration Is forced
to confess that the bill is a failure and
that additional railroad legislation is
necessary. - s-
"Grave losses have been sustained
by the public as a result of this unfor
tunate piece of legislation. Does such
leadership Inspire confidence? Are
we safe In re-Intrusting to republican
leadership tho solution or this vital
problem when Its self-confessed, full
are has proven so costly to the Amer
ican people?
"What Is neded is not seven years
delay but action!'
"These reforms should b brought
about Immediately. - .
"Until the railroad systems of
America are placed on a solid basis
with facilities co-ordinated and waste--rnl
amendltures and inefficient meth
ods eliminated, with reasonable profits
for all, exorbitant profits for none, we
shall not establish a firm foundation
for genuine prosperity.
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