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MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1923
-kly Fifty-Third
lur,
ATTEMPTTD
Kill CROWN
Japan in Uproar Over At
tempted Assassination of
Prince Hirohito Shot Fired
From Cane Gun Through
Window of Automobile
Fear Anti-Socialist Move.
TOKIO, Dec. 27. (By Associateil
Presa). A youth dressed ns a laborer
was arrested by police today shortly
after he had tired at Prince Regent
Hirohito, In an attempted assassina
tion. The youth Is twenty years old.
Police believe he is Insane. The shoot
ing has aroused intense excitement
and feeling is running high through
out the city.
The attack occurred while the
prince regent was on his way to a ses
sion of the diet. The assailant used a
"cane gun" In firing at the automo
bile. The windows of the machine
were smashed and the bullet narrow
ly missed the head of the' prince re
gent. He continued on hla way to the
meeting of the diet, but took refuge
in the upper house of the diet, com
posed of peers. Later he returned to
the imperial palace, undor heavy
guard.
Authorities are conducting a rigid
investigation of the attempt on the
prince regent's life. They are of the
opinion that others may be implicated
in a plot to assassinate Hirohito.
AUlo Is Injured
Viscount Tnmemori Iriye, member
of the house of peers and chief cham
berlain to the prince regent, who was
accompanying him In the automobile,
was slightly Injured when he was cut
by broken glass.
When Hirohito appeared in the
upper house of the diet, there was no
Indication apparent, that . anything
'untoward had occurred. The prince
regent read a speech to the members
of the house in a calm voice and then
retired. Visitors at the session were
not allowed to leave the building until
the regent had departed on his way
back to the imperial palace.
None of those present at the session
which he addressed were aware of the
shooting. When news of the attempt
ed assassination became known they
expressed the highest admiration for
the manner in which he had conduct
ed himself.
Another youth, who was with the
assailant of the prince regent this
morning was arrested Inter.
Following the attack, it was learned
that the prince regent has been
under heavy guard recently, owing to
rumors which have been in circula
tion here that Koreans were conspir
ing to assassinate him. Owing to the
almost unprecedented feeling which
Is running high here, and conflicting
reports which are extant, police, have
threatened to suppress newspapers
publishing news of the incident until
an official statement has been re
ceived. Assailant Is Mauled
The prince's assailant was badly
mauled by the crowd which caught
him before the police reached tho
spot. The crowd turned him over i:
the officers.
He was identified some hours after
his arrest as Daisuke Namba, 27 years
of age and the son of a minor poli
tician. He formerly was a student at
Waaeda university but was driven by
force of circumstances to take up
work as a laborer. In this occupation
he became Interested in communism.
Namba denied he had any accom
plices and told the police his action
was committed In the hope that It
would lead to a social revolution.
A stream of callers began flowing
to the regent's palace as soon as word
of the attack got about, all of them
seeking to express their congratula
tions to the prince on his escape. One
of the first to arrive and be received
was Charge d'Affalres Caffery of the
American embassy.
Prince Regent Hirohito has been
In the public eye In Japan consider-
ably during recent months as a result
of his work in directing reconstruc-
tlon following uie eannquaite uuu
plans for his wedding on February 6
Continuei1 on Pane Eight)
ERNOR-GENERAL
BILL DEPRIVING HIM
MANILA, Dec. 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press) Governor General
Leonard Wood vetoed a bill today,
passed by the legislature, providing
for an appropriation of 50,000 for
extending relief. In cases of urgent
necessity, for persons who are desti
tute or afflicted as the result of ca
lamities. The bill in identical with
a measure vetoed nearly a year ago.
The governor general pointed out.
In affixing his veto to the bill,' that
under Its provisions, the secretary of
the Interior would have discretionary
Eight Below Havre,
Montana; 2 Below
Yellowstone Park
HELENA, Mont., Dec. 27.
With Havre registering eight be-
low today it was the coldest
place in the United States from
. which daily weather reports are
4 received here. The streak of
winter originating in Canada by
this morning had. extended along
the east slope of the Rocky
Mountains as far south as Wy-
omlng. It was two below at
4 Yellowstone Park and the same 4
temporature was ' recorded at
Sheridan, Wyo.
4 A rise in temperature is pre- 4
dieted for tomorrow.
1 7 PATIENTS IN
Fire Trap in Chicago Hospital
for Insane Goes Up in
Smoke Scores Saved in
Spite of Panic Many In
sane Patients at Large-
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Discovery of
one additional body In the ruins of
the frame annex called the "death
house" which burned last night at the
Chicago state hospital for the Insane
at Dunning, Increased the known
dead to eighteen toduy. Only six of
the bodies have been identified. The
list of unaccounted for, including the
twelve unidentified bodies, now
stands at twenty-two.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Formal in- j
quiry into the fire which last night
destroyed the frame death house at I
the Dunning state hospital for the
Insane will be Inaugurated todny by j
Judge C. H. Jenklnf of Springfield, ;
director of the department of public t
welfare, aocordlng to hospital atten-
dants. Three other Inquiries by city j
and county officials ayso were sched
uled to begin today.
Hours of informal investigation !
have failed to disclose the probable
cause of the blaze.
CHICAGO, Dec. 27. Seventeen
persons were killed last night when a
swiftly spreading fire of unascertained
origin destroyed an old wooden pavil
ion known as the "death house," at
the state hospital for the Insane at
Dunning on the northwestern edge of
Chicago. Fourteen of the dead are
known to have been patients in vari
ous stages of insanity. Three others
were E. J. Caraker and his wife, at
tendants, and Lowell, their eight year
old son.
Only one patient has been Identi
fied. The bodies of the others were
burned badly.
About 35 of the patients, including'
several of a violent type broke away
in the excitement of herding more
than 500 inmates from (he danger
none. Several were lakeit back to the ,
institution after i hard struggles with,
the police.
A dozen supposedly dangerous pa
tients were reported still nt . large
early today. 1 I
It was one of the worst Institutional
fires In Illinois history. The building,
witnesses said, seemed to go up in one
great burst of flame. It was given
the name "death house." when it was
the property of Cook county because
of its flimsy construction. It houses
approximately 600 patients suffering
with the milder forms of insanity.
The institution houses approximate
ly 3500 patients and the shriek of the
fire alarm threw them Into a frenzy.
Attendants battled to drive them back
from doors and windows and to quiet
them, while the flames consumed the
wooden structure. The cries of the
charges led past the buildings hous
ing the more dangerous patients ex
cited them all the more and for an
hour the scene was truly one of bed
lam. It was thought at first that all
persons had been taken alive from the
burned building and it was only when
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control over the expenditure of the
fund. This provision, the governor
general considers contrary to the
Jones law (the organic act of the
Islands) which gives the governor i
general supervision and control over
all executive departments of the Insu
lar government.
It is understood that the bill will
be brought up In the legislature again
in the hope of obtaining its passage
over the governor general's veto after
which It will be sent to President.
Coolidge for his approval or veto.
INSANE AS
LI
VICTIMS OF FIRE
PE
1
TO PRECEDE
On Eve of Final Offensive,
Move for Peace Is Started
By General Flores, Candi
date for President Obre
gon Is Reported Ready to
Crush Rebels If Move Fails.
MEXICO CITY, Deo. 2G. (Via Laro-
do Junction, by the Associated Press.)
Upon the eve of federal offensives
agaliiBt the rebellious forces com
manded by Generals Enrique Rstrada
and Manuel DIeguez in the slate of
Jalisco and Generals Fortunato May-
cottee and Castro In the state of Oax
aca, reports are again In circulation of
a peace move. The reports say the
author of the new effort toward peace
Is General Angol Flores, governor of
Sinaloa, a presidential candidate.
According to unconfirmed reports
which are given prominence In the Ex
celsior, Judge Manuel Tellez, heading
a commission from Sinaloa, lias ar
rived In Mexico City iwlth the Florez
peace proposal. After conferring with
General Estrada at Gaudalajara, Judge
Telelz Is reported to have been in
wireless communication with General
Maycotte and with De La Huerta,
leader of the rveolt at Vera Cruz. De
tails of the reported peace proposal
could not be learned.
It is stated, however, that Judge Tel
lez conferred with President Obregon
before the latter departed yesterday
for Irapuato to direct the offensive on
the Jalisco front.
The campaign In Jalisco, which is
Intended to overcome the forces head
ed by Hsffada and Dlequez, according
to semi-official Information available
at the war department, has been per
fected here for some. time. Troop
movements already are under way.
It was stated that the offensive,
which was first "Intended to begin
about the middle of the month, has
been delayed, first for the purpose
of driving out the followers of May
cotte and Castro from Puebla, which
was accomplished Saturday, and sec
ond, to enable disiiosal of federal col
umns In a strategic line In front of the
forces of Estrada and DIeguez to pre-1
vent their escaie from Guadalajara
into the Jalisco mountains and thereby
prolong the conflict into difficult
guerilla warefare. I
Rebels Routed I
According to a war department an
nouncement troops undor General
cardenas yesterday routod a reb
el band of Diegues - followers
near Onzman with a loss of
2b killed. The announment add
ed that an airplane Bquadron un
der Captain Rafael Ponce de Leon
bombarded revolutionary encamp
ments Sunday and Monday near Ocot-.
Ian. A vanguard of Amaro's division
under Jose Gonzalo Cobar already has
come In contact with the Estrada
forces at Ocotlan. Estrada has moved
his headquarters to Sayalua. The con
tingent moving against Maycotte and
Castro forces Is scheduled to begin
soon as repairs In the railroad leading
to Ovaca are completed, y
It is announced that the city of Es
peranza Is being held by General PA
dro Gonzalez with 800 rebels, and that
Generals Maycotte and Castro are driv
ing the fugitives from Puebla. In ad
dition there' are reinforcements from
Oxaca and other points. The total
force is said to not exceed one thou
sand effectives.
The movement involves two thou
sand federals under General Juan An
drew Almazan which have reached
Tepecaca, where a rebel detachment
was routed and a column of 1500 men
concentrated at San Marcos under
General Lopez. ,
The rebels are also being menaced
by the operations of General Freder-
ico Harbosa, who Is threatening csper
anza from the fastnesses of the moun
tains near Zongollca. Armed agrar
ian bands composed of ex-soldlers ana
hardy mountalneeraj also are being
organized near Cordoba for the pur
pose of attacking the-rebels.
Death Toll of
the Automobile
SEATTLE. Dec. 27. N. P. Tubbs,
72 years old. caretaker of ponies in
Woodland park, was the 48th person
to die in this city this year from auto
mobile accidents. He was struck on
his way to work today. He and his
wife came here in July iron, Hierung,
111. '" -'
Whiskers Singed When He
Snatched a Smoke, Stor,e .
Santa Wins Compensation
SANTA" AUGUST KALTHA RECEIVING JUDGMENT.
FROM CHIEF JUSTICE SAMUEL B WILSON
ST PAUL No cigarettes' lor Santas?
It's the warning oi August Kaltha. daparum-nt store santa Claus.
August has learned Ins lesson
Last year while giving an imitation o( the robust old saint,
Kaltha lit a "fag" lu while away a dull nioinvut. His v.ig and flow
ing beard were ignited, and Kaltha himsell badly burned.
The Minnesota Industrial Commission denied him compensa
tion. Iiut Tl)tl State Supreme Court has just de'cired him entitled
tu it. as having been injured "in line ol duty "
SECRETARY FALL
WASHINGTON, Doc. 27. A do
lailed statement of the roal etttute and
cattle investments of former Secre
tary Albert B. Fall, filed today with
the senate public lands committee,
declared a $100,000 loan advanced to
Mr. E. It. McLean, the Washington
publisher, enabled him to purchase
additional ranch holdings in recont
years in New Mexico.
'The source of the funds with which
the former secretary enlarged his
New Mexico establishment had been
sought by the committee as a result
of testimony given by previous wit
nesses In the senate Inquiry into the
leasing of.the Teapot Dome oil reserve
to Harry P. Sinclair while Mr. Fall
was at the head of the interior de
partment. The statement filed by the former
secretary, who was prevented by ill
ness from responding In person to the
committee's invitation, dealt also with
various other subjects which have
been touched upon during the hear
ings. The $100,000 advanced by Mr. Mc
Lean, the statement said, was secured
by Mr. Fall's personal note and was
loaned for purchase of the Harris
ranch, adjoining that of the secretary.
Tho loan was for three years, at the
end of which time tho publisher was
to lyive the right either to call the
loan or to enter Into a co-partnership
with Mr. Fall In which the latter was
to put up lands or other assets to an
equal value. The statement placed
the present book value of the Fall
property in New Mexico at $600,000.
Explaining references of witnesses
to large sums of cash presented In
payment for the Harris property, Mr.
Fall said he expected It to be a "cash
deal," and therefore took the entire
sum when he met tho owners to con
summate the purchase.
Mr. Fall said he never had ap
proached Mr. Sinclair and Edward L.
j juiivuy ivv u. limit, uuvuui-o ui uinui
assistance.
I Referring to a shipment of blooded
' oillU hi. nn Kif M- Oln.lnlr Ml
Fall said he had Insisted that the live
stock be paid for at full market.value.
Mr. Sinclair's visit to Three It Ivors,
N. M., prior to the leasing of the
Wyoming reserve, was a pure coinci
dence, the former secretary declared.
' Practically all his holdings in New
Mexico were acquired before 1 906,
Mr. Fall said, and comprised at least
forty separate parcels of land. The
varied composition of the whole area
was given by the secretary as one of
the causes of his troubles regarding
' taxes. The officials of Otero county,
he said, attempted to assess him on
the full value of the whole tract as
("Improved land," as well as on the
value or improvements.
, His opposition to thin assessment.
(Continued on Page Eight)
GIVES DETAILS
OF RANCH DEAL
! BURGLAR SAWS
F
. E. J. Curry alias Flak, a man who
was undor arrest hero on the charge
of having broken into a clothing es
tablishment at Albany, Ore., last Bun
day night and taken from $300 to
jr.00 worth of goods, with which he
fled to Modford and was arrested here
Tuesday by Chief of Police Adams and
Deputy Sheriff George Alden, sawed
the lock off his cell door at the city
prison some time last night and walk
ed out of the building to fredom.
Ills absence was discovered early
this morning when an officer went to'
take him out to a restaurant In time to
turn him over to Sheriff Richards of
I. Inn county who had planned td take
him back to Albany on the early morn
ing train. No trace has been found
of the erstwhile prisoner, who Is
thought to bo a professional criminal.
Sheriff Richards did not wait, but
loft on the train for Albany, taking
with him the main part of the loot
obtained In Sunday night's burglary
and recovered by the police In this
city.
It seems that Curry made a small
file out of the spring In his choap
watch, and as he Is a small sized man
easily put his hand and forearm
through the cell bars around to tho
cell lock and by hours of sawing man
aged to saw out the lock. Then he de
liberately walked out of the prison, as
the one entrance to the corridor opens .
onto the street anil Is never locked In-!
side because prisoners are not kept In
the corridor. ' . I
According to Curry's own story told
to Chief Adams, the latter says, fol
lowing his arrest, he committed' the
burglary at Albany Inst Sunday night i
by breaking a skylight and Iottlng a
rope ladder down through It into the
store. Thus he worked at his leisure
and carried out several suits' of
clothes, fine underwear, an overcoat,
scarfs, ties, shoes and suit (Jsses.
This plunder he packed Into stilt cases,'
and then donning a new suit and a $65
overcoat he boarded the southbound
train, which stops at Albany about 4
a, m., and came to Medford, the train
reaching here about 3:30 o'clock
Monday afternoon.
Curry then went to the Hotel Med
ford where he registered as from Alas
ka, and on Tuesday he sold two of the
suits to a local second hand dealer
and trlcl to sell others on the street
so cheaply that a roport of It reached
Chief of Police Adams. . The latter of
ficer started a quiet Investigation and
HIS WAY OUT 0
MEDFORD
A
Propose Barring All
Japanese Immigrants
From United States
WASHINGTON. Dee. 27. Ar-
gument In favor of barring Japan-
ess from the United States was
made today at a hearing before
the house Immigration committee
by Representative Miller, republi-
can, Washington, who declared
that the immigration laws Bhould
place Japanese on the same basis
with the Chinese. Admission of
Japanese, he snid, Is having the
result on the Pacific coast of in-
creasing racial friction which
might lead to an "unpleasant
situation of natloual scope."
ABANDON HOPE
Paris Admits Dirigible "Dix
mude" Lost, But Still Have,
Hope for Crew No News
for Six Days Fear Ship
Crashed in African Desert.
PARIS Dec. 27. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Tho loss of the dlgl
gible Dlxmude Is now reluctantly ad
mitted, although hope for the safety
of her crew of fifty officers and men
has not yet been relinquished.
It Is considered oertnln that the
Dlxmude tell on the desort somewhere
between Hlskra and Toggourt, south
ern Algeria, during the gale that pre
vented her from crossing the dull of
Qabes and returning to France.
Inasmuch as no message", whatso
ever has been received from the Dix-,
mude slnco early on the morning of
December 21, It Is Inferred here that
her fall must have been violent,
wrecking her wireless apparatus.
Even assuming such a crash, It does
not necessarily follow that the ship's
crew perished, tor '.ho Dlxmude was
well provided with parachutes and
some of her men, It Is pointed out must '
have escaped. These could have ob
tained food and water from the wreck
ago. Search for the dirigible off tho coast
of Tunis, Trliwll and Malta has proved
fruitless, but the navy Is continuing
Its effortB. The ministry of marine
announced today that tho Dlxmude has
not been heard from or seen since
December 21. She gave her position
as approximately sixty miles north of
Touggourt, or about 90 miles south of
Biskra, heading for Algiers, on the
Mediterranean, by way of Bu Saada
and Aumale, on the north side of the
Atlas mountains. Her speed was giv
en as seventy kilometers an hour and
she asked for a weather report In tho
vicinity of the Atlas range.
The ministry announcement adds
that the Dlxmude was Instructed not
to attempt to make for France across
tho Mediterranean, whore a gale was
blowing.
Last Minute
Bulletins
WA8HINOTON, Dec. 27. Edward
P. Fiirley, chairman of tho. shipping
hoard, announced after n conference
today with president CooUiIko that he
had requested the executive to with
draw hla nomination as a commie
Htoner of the bourd which Is before
tho senate and that upon Its with
drawal ho would reslffn an chairman
of the board which office he fills by
recess appointment.
Mr. Farley indicated that tho pres
ident would accede to his request for
withdrawal of his nomination, upon
which an adverse report recently was
voted by tho senate commerce com
mlttee. Tho chairman said his formal
resignation would bo sent to tho pres
ident within a few days. I
FRENCH AIRSHIP;
STILL NO NEWS
BOOTLEGGERS BLAMED FOR ATTACK ON
HANCOCK, Md., Dec. 27 Bootleg
gers and moonshiners todny were de
clnrodj by authorities to have com
posed a band of ten men that storm
ed the Methodist church at , Black ,
Hoad. about sixty miles from here i
Christmas night, damaging the edi
fice and beating up four members of
tho congregation, Including two wom
en, The lnvaderg entered after break
NO. 237 mf:
pi or 1
UluBANU IS
KIAN PLEAi
E. Y. Clarke, Former High&
Mogul in Klan, Offers Presi-5:
dent Coolidge Aid in Reform- p
ing Organization Admits 1
Klan Going Down Hill -1
Original Ideas Abandoned.
WASHINGTON, Doc. ' 27. E. Y.
Clarke, formerly high In the councils
of the Ku Klux Klan, wrote President
Coolidge today offurlng to co-operate
with the executive In ending ,the
netlvlteia of an element which Is con
verting the klan Into an organization
vastly different from that planned by
its founders.
Clarke also announced his intention
to issue a proclamation to klansmen,
"calling the better element either to
take hold and remedy the existing
ovlls," or to disband the organization.
The president was told by Clarke
that there had been "a steady with
drawal" from the klan Itself or from
participation In Its active operating
control and that he had "voluntarily
severed his aotlve official connection"
with the organization more than a
year ago.
Various charges were made in the
letter against the activities of the
organization, in disregard to . the
"high ideals, principles and purposes,"
for which it was formed, and these
activities Clarke characterized as "a
keen disappointment to me."
"I am perfoctly willing," the letter
said, "to assume the moral responsi
bility which Is rightly mine as having
been chiefly instrumental In the
building of the klan. In Justice to
myself and the hundreds of thousands
of high grade men who have . been
drawn into the klan because of Its
declaration of ldcnB and principles. I
cannot, and will not rest passive .and
silent and. sit Idly by In .the. face;,p
such conditions." : : - .
Clnrke said In his letter that the
development . of the klan as mapped
out was to have been "through scien
tific educational . propaganda inside
the lodge room and through . the
establishment of great educational
universities In different parts of the
nation and through the building of
magnificent hospitals." .
The trend recently, he said, had
been In an entlroly, different direc
tion. TO PROBE WOOD'S
WAHHINOTON, Dec. 27 Tho Htock
market operations of Lieutenant
Osborne C, Wood, served today to
bring out a general statement of the
attitude taken by Secretary Weeks
toward tho investments of army offi
cers. Mr. Weeks : holds . that' officers
should be required to avoid specula
tive enterprises on a scale that would
mark the transactions as "Imprudent"
In view of the means of the officers
concerned. It-was in line with the
policy that the suggestion was con
veyed to Lieutenant Woods ' four
months ago that his speculative ven
tures in Wall street should be termi
nated. .(''
Lieutenant Wood's operations prac
tically ceased at that time, it was said
today at the war department, his sub
sequent transactions being In connec
tion with the closing of operations in
which he was already engaged.
. A congressional investigation Into
Lieutenant Wood's operations prob
ably will be asked for by Representa
tive Fear, republican, Wisconsin, who
har a resolution pending for a gen
eral Inquiry Into the administration
of Governor General Wood In the
Philippines. Representative Frear
said today he considered his resolu
tion, If favorably acted upon, would
permit the Investigating committee
to go Into such cases as that of Lieu
tenant Wood. ' - f
ing windows. Once Inside they began
to break up church fixtures.
Two members of the congregation
were attacked when they attempted
to interfere. When their wives went
to their assistance, the assailants
turned upon thorn and beat them. The "
members of the church have aided :
authorities In breaking up stills and
apprehending bootleggere, "
STOCK
a,