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MEDFORD. OREGOX, MONDAY, JANUARY 7, 1924
NO. 245
Fifty-Third Tear.
PEACE
RD
TE
IS ANNOUNCED
'' ' I " " '
AWARDED
BOK'S PRIZE
$50,000 Paid to Unknown
Author of Plan 1469 $50,
000 More to Be Paid if Pro
gram Is Approved By Ameri
can People Plan Endorses
League of Nations-
NEW YORK, Jan. 7. The people
of the United States bet' In voting to
day on the proposal to have their gov
ernment adopt the program selected
by the Americun Peace Award as
"the best practicable plan by which
the United States may co-operate
with other nations to uchleve und pre
serve the peace of the world."
The program Is the one selected by
the Jury of award from 22,105 plans
subrnltted from 22 countries in the
contest for the $10"0,000 offered by
Edward W. llok. for the most practi
cal means for the United States to co
'operate with the other'natlons in tho
preservation of peace.
The name of the author will not be
revealed until the people have fin
ished voting upon it, eurly In Febru
ary. He already has received $60,000,
half of the prize and will receive the
balance if the program Is approved.
The plan was numbered 146.
Mr. Bok's letter regarding the
award follows:
To the Public:
With deep satisfaction I present ',r
the consideration and vote . of the
American people ther. plan selected.'"by
the jury as entitled to the American
Peace Award under the conditions.
The award brought forth 22.166
plans. Since many of them were tho
composite work of organizations, uni-I
verslties. etc.. a single plan often
represented the views of hundreds or
thousands of individuals. There were
also received several hundred thou
sand of letters which, while they did
not submit plans, suggested in almost
each instance a solution of the pence
problem.
The Jury had therefore before it
an index of the true feeling and uclg
ment of hundreds of thousands of
Allieritan citizens. The plans came
from every group in American lite.
Some were obviously from lire-long
students of history nnd International
law. Some were from persons who
have studied little, hut who hnve
tnemselves seen and felt the horror
of war or who are even now living
out Its tragedy.
.should Outlaw War
However unlike, they almost all
express or imply the same conviction:
Thut this Is the time for the nations
of the earth to admit frankly that
war is'a crime and thus withdraw the
legal and moral sanction too long per
mitted to it as a method of settling
international disputes. Thousands of
plana show a deep aspiration to have
the United States take the lead in a
common agreement to brand war In
imi-u tMithnn nlltlnw" I
verv truth nn "outlaw.1
The plans show a realization mm
no adequate defense against this situ
ation has thus far been devised; and
that no international law has been
developed to control It. They point
out that security of life nnd property
is dependent upon the abolition of
war and the cessation of the manufac
ture of the munitions of war.
Some of the plans labor with tho
problem of changing the hearts of
men and disposing them toward peace
and good will; some labor to find a
practicable means of dealing with the
economic causes of war; some labor
with adjusting racial animosities, with
producing a finer conception of na
tionalism, etc., etc.
Stop Making Munitions
Through the plans as a whole run
these dominant currents:
'Continued on Paae 8lx
LOS ANGELES "CONEY ISLAND" BURNS
10 GROUNO; LOSS
nr-EAV PARK. Cat.. Jan
7.
Ocean Park's amusement zone, dedi
ratert to the task of thrilling beach
throngs, pleasure bent, was a mass
of smouldering ruins after yesterday s
crowd of almost 100.000 were given
the unpremeditated thrill of a mil
lion dollar fire.
Three pleasure piers, a large roller
coaster, two theaters and scores of
small concessions were destroyed in
the blaze, which, breaking out about
9-30 a. m., spread rapidly until. In
the five hours a dozen fire depart
ments battled to subdue it. It had
virtually annihilated the concession
Hi.iriri onlv a seaward breeze.
carrying the flame 'away from the
President Coolidge
Declares Embargo
Against LaHuerta
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (By
the Associated PresB.) The
United States has declared an
arms embargo to prevent pur-
chase of war materlula in this
.country by the Mexican revolu-
tionlsts.
A proclamation putting the cm-
bargo into effoct was signed late
today by President Coolidge.
EX-MEDFORDITES
FOUND DEAD IN
LONG BEACH. CAL.
Mr. and Mrs. John C. Signor
Commit Suicide in Small
Room By Inhaling Gas
Formerly Conducted Imple
ment House in This City.
ROSEBURG, Ore., Jan. 7. Accord
ing to word received here today from
Long Beach, Cal., Mr. and Mrs. John
C. Signor, formerly of Roseburg and
Medford, were found dead In bed in
a small room. Death was caused by
escaping gas from a jet In the room.
The letter states that tho couple had
been dead several days when found.
ai(r.m nAUilimtail fin lniTllomillt
house here and in Medford until after
,1. .,. .U. l.n m nnnirht In the
Ji.n(in nmi forced into !
bankruptcy. He entered the insur-1
,.,, i,.iUiniB nnd moved from Rose-
burg to Long Beach.
I
The John C. Signor company was nero at tins mumem. wuuu we me al
located on North Fir street, and was'ed to give recognition, not to a people
in charge of Thomas I. Temple, as or a country, but to a government an
ninnagor Signor was not well known active and Insidious enemy working
in this city, making hut few business , under our riag against all the beliefs
trl"s here About a year ago the local . and Institutions which Americans hold
ostnblishment was closed, and Temple
and family left on a year's auto trip
to the east and middle, west, and are
due back in this city In the spring.
ROSEBURG RATES
ROSEBURG, Ore.. Jan. 7. The
rniifnrnia-Oreiron Power company
nnnmlnd todav that It has applied
tQ tne pumlc gervlce commission for
innnnaA ln llhttnir find nower
rules for the Umpnua division. . Tho
new rate schedules, which become
effective on February 1. is the samo
as that now in use in the other divis
ions of the company, and is an in
crease of from three-fourths to one
per cent over the old rate. Light resi
dential consumers will benefit, but
heavy residential consumers will ex
perience an increase In rates.
Commercial lighting rates are to be
raised, but the power rate will be de
creased. Oregon Boy Is lllonorttl.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. A college
by
bureau has been established here
... 1. 1 1 n,1nnnl nnmniltl,, flH
! ASKS RAISE
the first step ln a plan to organize re-! demonstrated without any further in
mihilenn college clubs all over the'qulry."
country.
John Hamlin ot uregun
In charge of the work,.
NEARLY A
I business district, saved the city from
.nnil n, i,a 1Q19 nnnflnltrntlon.
when 4 large part of Its business zone
was reduced to ruins.
Police today Investigated rumors
that the blaze was of incendiary
origin, but It was a generally accepted
ihpnrv that an overheated stove in
one of the cafe concessions was re
sponsible. One of the officials of the Santa
Monica Bay Insurance Agents associa
tion estimated the loss nt from $750.
000 to $1,000,000, $100,000 of which
was covered by insurance. Pier
owners announced they would re
build their ruined structures "Imme
diately." .
IS OPPOSED
Senator' Lodge in Long Ad
dress Gives Reasons for Op
posing U. S. Recognition of
RussiaClaims Evidence of
Plot to Overthrow U. S. A. Is
Indisputable.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. The admin
istration's policy of noa-recognltion of
tllo present soviet government ot Rus
sla was supported vigorously today in
the senate by Senator Lodge of Massa-
chusetts. the republican leader and
chairman of the foreign relations com
mittee. Quoting extensively from public rec
ords and documents to show the Inter
locking of the soviet government and
tho communist Internationale. Sen-
tor Lodge also brought additional evi
dence to the- support of Socretary
Hughes' contention that offlclalB of
the soviet government are a party
through the communist Internationale
to revolutionary propaganda in the
United States aimed at the overthrow
of the American government.
"In my judgment," said Sonator
Lodgo, In summarizing Ills argument,
"It in no time to give the soviet gov
ernmont of Russia tho official recog
nition and approval of' the United
States and Invito official representa
tives to come among us and under the
diplomatic shield seek to .break up our
luuui uigniiK.ui.iuuD, .u.
'can 'aWB nn' freedom nnd kindle the
name in nui ami u,o.0.
O'"- country.
Obsta prlnclplis,' Is an ancient and
wise rule, never more needed than
i , . ., , .
most precious.
Reading a carefully prepared ad
dress of upwards of 30,000 words. Sen
ator Lodge announced that his argu
ment contained no "secret or anony
mous reports of any kind," nnd that
he addressed himself solely to the
proposition contlncd in the resolution
of Senator Borah, republican, Idaho,
that the senate declare in favor of the
recognition of the present soviet gov
ernment. Evldonce was presented to show
that tho same group of men, chief
among them Lenine, Trotzky, Zlno-
viev. Bukharln, Kalinin and Kamenev,
.,.! the Russian government and
, predominating role In the con-
. - . ..
gresscs and conferences of the com
munist Internationale.
Following in detail the makeup of
the four branches of the Russian gov
ernment, Senator Lodge offered a table
to show that the high official ot the
Russian communist party, the Russian
soviet republic, the Russian federa
tion of soviet republicans and the In
ternationale practically are one and
the same.
Interlocking Directorates
Here was declared to be a system of
"interlocking directorates" which
would be accented at once by any
court or any jury in tins coumij un
-rnese interlocking uiiduwibwd
constitute the real government of Rus
sia," he said. "All power is theirs. In
the presence of these facts it is to my
mind, absurd to Bay that the Russian
soviet republic really governs RuBsla.
That is merely one of the divisions
and not the moBt important,
"It furnishes, however, a convenient
opportunity to say that thingswhich
are done and controlled by the other
and dominant branches of the govern
ment are not done by the government
of Russia. Everything that has been
done by anyone of the three branches
o." the Russian government the feder
ation of soviet republics, the Russian
v.p. rBnubiic and
the communist
I party an( tne greatest of these is the
communist party has been done by
the government of Russia. There Is no
escaping that fact.
"I think I have shown who the men
are who control all of these organlza
tlons and who will control all Russia
and who are the real government of
Russia. Their names are practically
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High Rents Drive New
v YorkVCliff Dwellers
' ' TorShocking Congestion
ABOVE: A TYPICAL "STREET'' IN. THE TENEMENT
DISTRICT. .
. - . NBW- YGRK Shacking- ondiioi-in tetieinrirf IvouScs such' a
the above, where families of eight and ten crowd htfq three rooms,
and lighting and sanitary conditions arc unspeakable, must be cor
rected, according to Governor Al1 Smith..
High -rents cause this unbelievable congestion, the report of
the State Commission on Housing and Regional Planning showed.
Tenants must pay from fifty to three hundred per cent higher than
they did three years u?o, though wages have only slightly increased.
Living standards are lowered to a level with the dark ages, and
serious menace to city threatens if relief is not given, the commission
declared.
T
SALEM. Ore., Jan. 7. Whether a
large number, of counties and other
municipalities In Orogon aro going to
be without valid tax levies for 1924,
due to failure to comply with the state
budget law under the assumption thut
the county tax supervising and con
servation commission act was valid,
is a question that depends on an opin
ion of the attorney general, now
pending, and possibly upon a later
opinion of tho state supreme court.
The commission act was recently de
clared by tho supreme court to , be
void in so far as It applied to all
counties outside of Multnomah.
The , budget act requires the tax
levying body of each municipality
other than counties to publish its
budget estimates, call a public meet
ing, levy the tax and submit It to the
county assessor and the county trea
surer prior to December 1.
Counties are not required to levy
their taxes until the December ses
sion of the county court.
In tho case of Tichenor vs. Portland
the supremo-court hold that because;
of the tax supervising and conserva
tion act of 1921, that affected only
Multnomah county it was not neces
sary for the city of Portland to corn-
ply with the budget law, since ull
necessary data was ln the hands of
the commission. Hecause of the en
actment of a similar commission law
for nil the counties by the legislature
of 1923, which was an amendment of
the 1921 act, many counties and other
municipalities assumed, In the light of
tho supreme court's opinion, that they
did not havo to comply with tho
budget law and did not do so. Now
that the supreme court has held tho
act of 1923 void because of defective
title, many municipal authorities are
alarmed lest they be without their tax
levies.
Requests for nn opinion have
reached the attorney general from
several sources.
Those municipalities that compiled
with the budget act regardless of tho
commission act are safe though their
complying with tho budget act may
have been unnecessary.
Weed Ciuw Dismissed.
TREKA. Cal., Jan. 7. Tho case of
Joseph Chenis of Weed, Cal., who was
charged with murder in connection
with the shooting of James Ilrndy of
Seattle was dismissed here today be
cause of lack of evldente.
MAN
AXES
OREGON
MAYBE
DECLARED
VOID
j r 'fl
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 7. With a de
clared program of opposition to "mob
rule, Intolerance, racial discrimination
and un-Anierlcnn practices of any
kind," nnd to "condemn all activities
that bring class, religious, or racial
discrimination or prejudice," the Na
tional Fortress of Minute Men and
Women of America filed Incorpora
tion articles with the corporation de
partment here today. -
The offh-ers named in the articles
are William Mart, preldont; W. H.
Mason, secretary, and T. W, White,
treasurer.
While all of these officers are resi
dents of Klamath Falls, headquarters
arc to bo maintained ln Portland.
Oregon News
Brief
in
ROSKIIUKO, Ore., Jan. 7. Earl Ben
edict, lineman for the Copco company
of this city was badly Injured ut noon
today when a telephone Kile which lie
was climbing fell to the ground, pin
ning him beneath. Ho was rushed to
hospital and the extent of his Inju
ries Is not known.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 7. A Joint con
ference between members of the Ore
gon public service commission and the
hoard of public works of the state of
Washington Is to be held January 28
in Portland, It was announced here to
day. The session Is to he held with
rolatiijn to rules and regulations gov
erning tho operation of railroad track
scales.
Recently In Informal hearing on tho
subject was held at Olympla. Tom K.
Campbell, represented the Oregon com
mission. SALEM, Ore., Jan. ". A certificate
of convenience and necessity for the
Oregon-Washington Railroad and
Navigation company, for the construc
tion ot a railroad extending from
Crane to Burns today was requested
of the Interstate commerce commis
sion at Washington by Governor
Pierce. Tho rnllrood, It was explained,
already la tinder construction but Is
suance of the certificate was delayed
pending receipt' ot word from Oregon
authorities.
Severe Earthquake
Startles Pendleton;
No Damage Reported
PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 7.
Pendloton wus visited by a sharp
earthquake about '6:20 yesterduy
morning, awakening many of its
citizens from slumber. Three
shocks were reported from Walla
Walla while Weston reported a
severe tremblor occurring ut the J
same t lino us that In Pendleton.
No duinago waa reported.
FORBES
WITH
GRAF!
John F. Ryan, in
Report tO
Senate Committee, Declares n
Proof Against Ex-Director
of Veteran Bureau Makes
His Guilt Certain.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 7. (Hy the As-1
soclatod Proas ) Charges that Charles
R. Forbes, as director of tho veterans' ,
bureau "was a leading actor In an es-'
tnblishod conspiracy to defraud
conspiracy to defraud the
government." are made by John F.
O'Ryan of Now York, general counsel.
In his report to the senile veterans':
committee.
"In developing thl sinqulry," Qen-j
oral O'Ryan said, "It has been conclu-i
sively established by tho testimony of
witnesses, by documentary evidence,!
and by the corroborative effects of'
numoious tell-tale circumstances that
were brought out. mat fraud and cor-
riiption existed In the bureau."
Artor summarizing evidence as to
hospital contracts and other operation
of the bureau O'Ryan declared that i
"further Investigation by the depart
ment of justice, following leads iluvol
ooed bv this Investigation should fur
nish other Instances of corrupt trans
actions negotiated byt Forbes and oth-,
ers In the bureau." ' j
One conspiracy to which Forbes was
charged by O'Ryan with being a parti
was "that development, having for Its
objoct tho award by the director t
favored contractors of contracts fol
tho construction ot hospitals."
Others named as parties were C. B.
Hurley of Tacoma, Wash.; J. W.
Thompson, a St. Louis contractor; tho
late James W. Back of Chicago, and
Ellas H. Mortimer of Philadelphia, the
chief wltnesB against Forbes.
' With roference to Forbes" defense
at the houBn hearings that the con
tracts were handled by the navy and
war departments, O'Ryan said Forbes'
policy was to attain the objocts of the
conspiracy, but, so far as jioBslble to
shift responsibility to the war and
navy departments, whlchevor depart
ment was charged with the develop
ment of the plunB.
"This was accomplished," the re
port continued, "by Insisting upon the
right to sign tho contract, but to re
fer to the responsibility for what was
doneTts the responsibility of the other
department. This eflort was apparent
In his explanation, while on the stand
the chicanery of Forbes, showed his
dotormlnutloit to see that the Pontine
company got the contract In accord
ance with liIB agreement wiia tne
other conspirators and at the same
time to havo the record appear that he
(Continued nn Page Sl
IN
SPOKANE, Jan. 7. Word was
awaited here today of efforts of Miss
Nell Shlpman, motion picture actress,
to "mush" hor way from Coolln,
Idaho, through deep snow to her mo
tion picture camp at the head of
Priest lake ln northern Idaho, and to
bring her husband, Bert Van Tuyle, to
Coolln by dog toam. He Is In a serious
condition from gangrene resulting
from frozen feet, suffered two years
ago.
' 11 las Shlpman came down the lake
to Coolln last week by launch and con
RYAN CHARGES
BUREAU
STATE DRY
poucy is
CRITICIZED
Oregon Sheriffs, Gathered in
Portland, Condemn Methods
of State Prohi Officers
Sheriff Terrill and Coos Bay
Sheriff Lead in Condemna
tion of Meddlesome Tactics.
PORTLAND, Oro Jnn. 7, The
state prohibition department was
criticized by shorlffs In attendance
here at- a throe-day "school" for of
ficers In the federal prohibition head
quarters at the customs house, sher-
1 IffB minbn nf "miuivfnnt" methmla of
the state prohibition agents and "their
general iiit'iiicienry ana meuoieauiiio-
ess.
Sheriff C. E. Terrill of Jackson
r08"';
te men have thrown &
I monkey wrench into everything I
huvo trlod to do."
Speaking ot efforts to curb tho
liquor traffic, he wild: "The onlv way
(o do is to keep pounding away at It,
with the co-operation of other au
thorities, hut not the state officers."
sheriff is. O. Klllneson of Coos
county said: "So far as the state of-
llt'era are concerns, nayen j B-
! ten along very wen. 'iney nave seni
. 1wn wlthm lia.uftW nhn..t it-
rter we have learned that thev liuvo
come .back and wttd that wo won all
raacols.
we haven t losj a liquor case
in three years."
SALEM, Ore., . Jan. 7. Governor
Pierce this afternoon took a hand in
the nffnlrs of Tillamook county.
The governor announced he will
ask tho attornov areneral to hams a
special prosecutor to take charge of
the Tillamook county grand Jury. He
will investigate county expenditures.
Whether or not George Neuner,
1 who llHH mny apIal cases
for the governor, Is- to be numed, Is
not known. The special prosecutor
will temporarily succeed T. XI. Goyne,
district attorney.
Daily Report on
the Crime Wave
JAMESTOWN, N. D., Jan. 7. Hav
ing confessed to authorities that he
killed two men four months ago "be
cause they "kidded him," Jonoph Ber-
gcr, farm hand ot Richardson, woa
brought here today to go over the
scene ot the crime wltti officers.
ATHENS, Texas, Jan. 7. Virgil A.
llarrlnon, 15 yeurs old, Is ln custody
charged with wrecking a Texas and
New Orleans railway passenger train
January 4 at Eastwood, Texas, ln
which Engineer 11. F. Aldis was killed.
NEW YORK, Jan. .7. Three ban
dits today forced entrance Into the
Seventh avenue apartment of Mr. and.
Mrs. Louis R. Richmond, took Jewels
valued at J 10,000 and escaped. ,
JOHNSTON CITY, 111., Jan. 7.
Federal prohibition agents for the
second time within two weeks visited
Wllllnms county and with the aid of
speciully deputized citizens made 66
urrests and seized large quantities of
whiskey, home brew and wine.
SAN FRANCISCO, .Jan. 7. Two
unmasked bundlts held up Edward
Browell, a doorman for the Orpheum
theater here, on one of the theater
stairways today and escaped with a
bag containing approximately $7000
in coin and currency, which Browell
was taking to a bank. '
"REAL" T
tinued by stage to Spokane where she
made arrangements to bring her hus
band to a hospital here. .
Upon her return to Coolln, which
sho reached only after a BDow plow
had opened the way for the stage, she
found her launch frozen in.
Accompanied by hor nine-year-old
son and an employe of the camp, she
set out Saturday through tho woods
for her camp. ;
Miss Shipman's motion plnture zoo,
located at the camp. Includes a team
ot "huskies."