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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 1924
NO. 248
1'iilii'iMly Library
M
TO CALLFOR
County Judges Assembled in
Salem Ask Governor to Call
. Special Session to Iron Out
Tax Muddle Some Coun-
ties Unable to Get Use of
Money for Roadsj
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 10. County
Judges and commissioners of Oregon
. opening their annual convention hero
this morning were asked to requesst
Governor Pierce to call a special
session of the legislature to straight
en out the tax tangle caused by the
decision of the supreme court hold
ing the tax supervising and conserva
tion act illegal.
The proposal was made by W. L.
Fullerton, county commissioner of
Columbia county after R. C. VonLche,
commissioner of Benton county, had
asked for information as to how his
county was to get the use of its mar
ket road fund which brings the total
levy above the six per cent statutory
limit. . The supreme court, Mr. Von
Leho pointed out, has declared that
such a market road levy is unconsti
tutional, despite the fact that the
market rouds act, passed by the peo
ple, specifically exempts It from the
operation of the six per cent limita
tion law. .
Up until noori when the delegates
adjourned to attend a luncheon in
their honor at the state training
school for girls, no action had been
tnken on the proposal to ask for a
special session. . This afternoon the
visiting officials will make a tour of
inspection through the grounds and
buildings of the state training school
for boys and will bo the guests of thut
institution for dinner.
Officials from nineteen xountiek
harl registered at rtmvcntion head
quarters this morning -and it: Is ex
pected that delegates from most of
the other counties will arrivo for to-
morrow's sessions of' the convention,
which will continue through until
Saturday night. .
GIBBONS TO FIGHT
NEW YORK, Jan. 10. (By Associ
ated PrRH) Jack Denipney, world's
heavyweight champion, and Tommy
Oibbons of St. Paul, will fight a re
turn title match in New York, prob
ably early in June-A Promoter Tex
Kickard announced today after a con
ference with Eddie Kane, Gibbons
manager.
Kickard came to a definite agree
ment with Kane after an hour's con
ference at Madison Square. Jack
Kearns, manager of the champion,
has not yet signed articloa with Kick
ard but several days ago ho assured
the promoters there would bo no
hitch in arrangements If Gibbons was
signed.
STEEL PLANT WRECKED
ninm mtii r iu . t -in Thi
concrete steel company plant was
partly demolished a . dozen nomes
were damaged and much property loss
was caused by high, winds which
struck the south side of the city at
four o'clock this afternoon. Tho
storm assumed the intensity of a cy
clone In several sections. Trees were
felled and wires were split.
Wilson Refuses Comment.
NE W YORK. Jan. 10. Former
President Woodrow Wilson will not
comment on the Bok peace plan 'his
secretary told the New York Times.
KLAN ORDERED TO STOP LIQUOR RAIDS;
UNGLE SAM
1 MARION, 111.. Jan. 10. The series
of spectacular liquor raids In William
son county by members of the Ku
Ktux Klan under the leadership of 8.
Glenn Young,- former prohibition en
forcement officer and federally depu
tized citizens which resulted In the
calling out of companies of the Illinois
National Guard by request of Sheriff
' George L. Galligan, are at an end, as
far aa participation of local citizens ts
concerned.
"Society" Bootlegger
Portland Fined $500;
Gets 6 Months Jail
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10.
Despite tho insistent demands of
his attorneys, that a directed
verdict be ordered in the case of
Walter B. Brown, alleged "soci-
ety bootlegger," Municipal Judge
Ekwall last night ruled the case
should go to the Jury, and, when
that body found him guilty in
five minutes, Ekwall sentenced
him to six months In Jail and im-
posed a fine of $500. A notice
of appeal was given, with bail
4 sot at 1500.
Wm. J. Sidis, Who Could Read
and Write at Two, Now Re
fuses to Do Any Work That
Requires Thinking Also'
Arrested As Radical-
NEW YORK, Jan. 10. William J.
Sidis, son of the lato Dr. Boris Sidis,
internationally known psychopath
ologlst, who knew six languages and
passed college entrance examinations
when ho was eight years old and
entered Harvard university at eleven,
is at 26, a $23 a week statistical clerk
in a New York business office, it be
came known today, according to the
New York Tribune.
Young Sidis became known as a
boy prddigy in 1909, when in short
trousers, he delivered a lecture on tho
fourth dimonsion before a Harvard
professor and instructors of ' mathe
matics 'and freely and ubly answered
all their questions on the subject.
At two he could read and write; at j
seven he passed anatomical examina
tions of the Harvard medical school; i
the next year he passed entrance ex
aminations of the Massachusetts In
stitute of Technology. At ten ho!
entered Tufts college; at eleven, Har-j
vard, from which he was graduated'
in 1915 at tho age of 16.
After two years of graduate work,
he" became an instructor in mathe
matics at Rice institute, Houston,
Texas.
Ho was next heard from in Bos-i
ton, where in 1919 he was arrested
after a socialist gathering, charged
with rioting, and sentenced to eight
een months in the house of correction.
He appealed and defaulted, two war
rants being issued for his arrest.
About six months ago friends of;
young Sidis found employment fori
him here. They had difficulty in
doing so for he insisted -on doing'
work which did not require thinking-
1923 DRY FINES,
STATE OF OREGON
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 10. Tines as
sessed by the state prohibition de
partment from March 15 to December
31. 1A23, aggregated $101,3-14.94, ac
cording to a report to Governor
Pierce by George L Cleaver, state
prohibition - commissioner. Liquor
seized and destroyed amounted to
4873 gallons. Other statistics in the
report are:
Number of arrests, 530; stills seiz
ed and destroyed, 36; automobiles
confiscated, 24; days In jail sen
tences, 20,049.
These results, the report says, in
clude work done by the head office
and some state agents working under
direction of the commissioner.
"We have 29 cases awaiting trial,"
the report adds, "and have convicted
five county officers of various crimes
in connection with violations of tne
prohibition law."
TO HANDLE THE JOB
An order delivered to Young and
other officials of the klan yesterday
prohibited any further activities
against manufacturers or sellers of
liquor except as the raids might be
conducted by federal officers.
Young was arrested yesterday with
five warrant served against him
charging larceny, assault with a dead
ly weapon and assault and battery.
His trial was set for January 24.
BOY PRODIGY IN I
HARVARD IS NOW
OBSCURE CLERK
OVER $100,000 IN
ASK STATE
TO
LAKE ROAD
State Highway Commission Is
. Requested; By Jackson Co.
to Surface 9 Miles of Crater
Lake Highway Outside of
U. S. Forest Reserve Little
U. S. Aid Available.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 10. Tho
state highway commission, with only
(373,665 In' state funds available (or
new road work this year can expect
little help from the federal govern
ment, according to statements today
to the commission by Charles Pursell
district engineer for the United States
bureau of public roads, and George
Cecildistrict forester. Of $1,300,000
in federal post road funds for Oregon
and (383,000 forest service highway
money, all but about (73,000 has al
ready been pledged, they said.
The government officials and state
highway commissioners today agreed
to put on the forestry map the road
from Uklali, north of Albee, in Uma
tilla county. No federal money can
be spent on this road this year, how
ever. It was also agreed that the
state will make a survey for a road
up Salmon river In Tillamook county.
The commission accepted a gift of
Marcus Mayer of Mosier of 200 acres
at Rowena Loops for a state park. The
land will be known officially as Mayer
Park. '
The state agreed to Improve the
Pilot Rock-Pendleton road near Mac-
Kay creek. - Two and a half miles of
the road is In very bad condition and
needs fixing at once.
Jackson county requested' the state
commisslson to surface this year the
last nine miles of the highway from
Medford to Crater Lake, this section
being outside the forest reserve. :
The exact figures for the state high-
m.r nnmmdinlnn'o .1,11,1 tlfnPfl irlvail tfl.
day by Secretary Engineer Roy A.j
Klein as follows:
Total estimated income from 1924
(12,743,665; funds obligated (9,907,-
000: sum available (2,773,665; estimate
coat of preferred.projects to which the
commission) is obligated .(2,400,000;
balance available for other projects
(373,665..
The highway commission signed the
agreement with the Southern Pacific
to build the overhead crossing at
Blodgett, on the NewportCorvallis
road.
Formal request was made by the
state highway commissioners to the
federal government for aid In building
the Harrisburg and Albany brldgo over
the Willamette river. The govern
ment was also requested to help pave
the highway from Harrisburg to Junc
tion City and that, road from Albany
to Corvallls.
SLAYS CHILDREN,
KILLS HIMSELF
SACRAMENTO, Cal., Jan. 10. S.
Kawashima, 38, a Japanese who re
cently came to Sacramento from Ne
vada, fatally stabbed his two children
as they lay In bed this morning, prob
ably fatally cut his wife and then
hanged himself by Jumping from the
rear porch of his home with a rope
around his neck. The children, Hisa
ko, a girl, aged 3, and a boy Sholchi,
aged 14 months, died a fow minutes
later at the emergency hospital.
Wawashlma's wife was cut and stab
bed In many places while struggling
with her husband to save the children,
and is not expected to live.
According to other Japanese, Kaw
ashima, who had been In the United
States for twenty years, was insane
and had brooded over the possibility
of being deported. .
Mrs. Kawashima died at the emer
gency hospital three and a half hours
after the tragedy.
nia- Cut Iiimbcr Reported.
SEATTLE. Jan. 10. One hundred
and twenty-eight mills in Washington
and Oregon reported to the West
CoaH Lumbermen's aimoclatlon that
last -week they cut 60,170,473 feet ol
lumber: sold 17.186,763 and Jhlpped
70.980,037 It was announced here today.
Basil Zaharoff, Europe's
"Mystery Man," Offered
Premiership Of Greece?
k, V i
BASIL ZAHAROFF. IN , ONE OF THE RARE PHOTO
GRAPHS EVER TAKEN OF HIM.
PARIS The premiership ot Greece has been offered Basil
Zaharoff, Europe's "mystery man" ol enormous wealth, according
to rumors which piave reached this city. So credited was the efory
that it found publication in Intransigcant. ' '
Zaharoff, about" whom nothing1 is -known even to hit closest
friends, is immensely rich, but he guards his personality ad even
his origin from the public by means of a guardianship rigid as
that which tvirrounds many members of royalty.
11 BURNED TO
DEATH; 3 HURT
LA GRANDE. Ore., Jan. 10. Two
lives wore lOBt and three persons were
Injured In a lire at Jonoph, Ore., In
Wallowa county last night. Tho dead
are Mrs. G. M .Tucker and grandson.
Grant Tucker, aged four years. Tho
injured are G. M. Tucker, Mrs. Don
Tucker, his sister-in-law, and a baby
niece of Tucker. They are painfully
but nof seriously, burnod.
The firo, according to a dispatch
received hero today, was caused by an
explosion in a stove which threw
flames all nvor the house. Tucker res
cued a young niece. I
Fire fighters arrived aftor Tucker
had escaped with his niece and aftor
Hester Tucker, uninjured, had escap
ed from the building.
Whon the flro was burned out the
charred roinaiiiK of Grant nnd Mrs.
Tucker were found in the bedroom.
Mrs. Tucker's body wns 'on the floor
beside tho boy's bed with urms out
stretched toward him. Tho houso
burnod rapidly, becoming a seething
furuace before the woman and boy
could be rescued. '
Mr. Tuckor had replenished tho
heating stove with wood and a half
bucket of coal dust. Tho explosion f ol-,
lowed. Igniting the house'. His wife
rushed to him nnd ho told her to get
the grandson while he rescued his
niece.
LATEST OCEAN STUNT
NEW YORK. Jan. 10 A seagoing
brewery aboard the steamship Albert
Ballln of the Hamburg-American lines
Is the latest device In adding to the
Interest of easthound Atlantic travel,
It was learned today.
The plant Is In operation only on
east bound voyagos as German-made
beer Is taken aboard for each western
trip. The brewery Is put to work. di
rectly the ship Is outside United
States terlrtorlal waters.
Newspaper reporters found " the
plant, confined behind barred and pad
locked doors In tho ship's laundry.
OREGON
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ASSASSINATED
8PEYER, Bavarian Palatlnato, Jan.
Jo. (By tho Associated PrcsH) Horr
Hefntz tho scpuratlst lcadisr, presi
dent of the autonomous govornmont
of tho palatlnato, was assassinated
here last night.
loiter five persons woro killed in
collisions btveon the separatists,
whoso headquarters are hero and the
populace of the city.
BERLIN, Jan. 10. Tho Frankfur
ter Keltung, reporting tho assassina
tion at Hpoycr of Hcrr llolntz, presi
dent of the autonomous government of
tho Ithonish palatinate, says that
three other separatist loaders were
shot dead' In a Hpeyor hotel. Hovoral
persons woro woundod. Tho shoot
ings were' the" work of a band of
armed men. '
A mewmge from Frnnkfort gives
the names of tho four separatist lead
ers It anys.wcro shot and killed -In
addition to I'reHlrtent llolntz. They
were .llerren, lleorbis, Wolssoand,
Welsl and Kushcllor.
ESCAPE ACCIDENT
EUREKA, Cal., Jan. 10. Oas from
tho exhaust of an automobile engine
killed Miss Fegrl Hcbas and ovoreame
porhupB fatally, bor brother, Albort
HeluiH, n?ar Oarborvllle today aftor
tho two, together with an unldontlfled
man, had escaped Injury when tho
car plunged Into tho Eeel rlvor.
When tho enr left tho road and
fell Into shallow water In tho river,
the companion of the brother and sis
ter was thrown clear. Ascertaining
that they were not hurt, ho ran for
help. Helms and his sister could not
freo themselves. The engine of tho
car still was running, and when help
arrived, the girl was found dead and
her brother unconscious.
Sebas was taken to a hospital,
where his condition was pronounced
critical.
GERMAN L
AD
SEPARATISTS
Bootlegger Takes
Orders, Also Dollar;
But Booze Missing
REDLANDS, Cal., Jan. 10. Po-
lice today are looking for tho In- 4
stallment bootlegger who called
at certain Redlands homes lur-
lng the past fow dnys taking or-
t ders for wines and boer and ask-
lng only a dollar down with each
order, thp rest to be paid on easy
terms. His customers complain-
that the bevorages were never de-
Hvered.
Mrs- Carpi Bourne Declares
Ex-Senator of Oregon Has
Deserted Her Alimony Is
Demanded Suit Filed in
Alabama.
i
MOBILE, Ahi., Jan. 10. Mrs. Carol
li. Bourno, filed suit In the superior
court here yesterday for a divorce and
alimony from ex-Senator Johnnthan L.
Bourne of Oregon, who hns a home in
(his county, it became known. Volun
tary abandonment Is glvon as the
grounds for the separation.
Tho complaint, filed by Mrs. Bourne,
ts very brief, stating that the wealthy
ex-Oregon senator voluntarily left her
more than a year ago.
8enator Bourne came to Mobile and
purchased largo tracts of land In the
R'uitliorn part of tho county near
Theodore, and established thB 'Carol
plantation, devoted to the growing of
oranges, livestock nnd nutB. The
plantation was named for his brldo,
who wns a widow, Mrs. Carol II.
Sporry. .
Tho Bonntor, whon he married Mrs.
Sperry, was 03 yoars of ago, and Mrs.
Bourno gave her ago as 48. Tho wed
ding was apparently a happy nne.i
Tho court will pass on tho bill for
divorce some tlmo this month.
PEACE JURY TO
READ ALL ISS.
NEW YORK, J(n. 10. Formal ac
'tlon fop a court order to compel tho
Bok pcaco award Jury to rend all of
the 22,000 planH Huhmltted by contoft
tanttt may he started In a few days,
according to Frank Hendrick, a New
York attorney.
Mr. Hendrick whoso office has be
come a center for contestants who
RRflort their plans wcro not considered
fairly, wild concerted action nilpht bo
taken by tho dtHMLtlHfiod contestants.
. 101 fli u Root, chairman of tho jury of
awards will answer tho attacks and
criticisms which hnvo been made, It
was announced todny by Miss Esther
Everett Lnpe, secrotary of tho policy
committee.
1 Tho contestants claim that the com
mittee to comply with the conditions
should have ready every word of
every plan, submitted before making
tho award.
Army Promotions Made.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10. Army
nominations sent to tho sonato today,
by President Coolldge Include Briga
dier General Fred W. Sladon, superin
tendent at West Point, to be major
general, and Colonels Samuel D. Rook
enhach antl Frank Parker to be briga
dier gonerals.
THE DALLES, Ore., Jan. lO.r
Judgo H'onry V. Koycs, of Whoolor
county, must servo twenty days In
Jail, Circuit Judgo Wilson ruled yes
torduy. Tho Wheolor county official
pleaded guilty to possession and was
sentenced to a flno of $250 and 20
days In Jail by Justlco of tho Poace
Allen. Tho Jail torm, howovor, was
put off until January 8 so that Judgo
Koyes could hold a term of court and
spend the holidays with his family.
WIFE, SENATOR
BOURNE, SUES
FOR A DIVORCE
BRIM 0"
BOAT SUNK,
CREW LOST
Submarine L-24 Sinks ' With
30 Men Aboard After Col
lision With Dreadnaught
"Resolution" Off Portland
Hill Accident Occurs Dur
ing Naval Maneuvers. '
LONDON, Jan. 10. (By the'.-Assor
elated Press.) An admiralty" message
says the British submarine L-24 has
been lost off Portland, Englnnd, in a
collision. It is feared the entire crew
perished.
The L-24, which Is reported to have
had thirty men aboard, sank aftor a
collision with the dreadnaught Resolu
tion off Portland Hill, a rocky prom
ontory on the Island of Portland, ex
tending into the English channel. It
Is unofficially reported that the sub
marine waB rammed by the dread
naught Official announcement that the L24
had sunk, "It Is feared, with the loss
of all hands," was made by the ad
miralty thin afternoon. The announce
ment said the disaster occurred while
the submarine was maneuvering off
Portland. Every effort Is being made
to locate the wreck.
The L-24 was one of the latest type
comploted In 1919.
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JALISCO REBELS
EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 10. Qnriornl
Francisco Serrano, minister of war of
Mexico, has ordered a general .ad
vance on the Jalisco front against tho
rebel forces, wireless advices from .
Mexico City today stated. The fed
erals have been proceeding slowly be
cause of an attempt by rebels to trap
them near Guadalajara, but today a
smashing attack upon the revolution
ary troops was delivered. . .
Genorals Pedro Oabay and Eugenlo
Martinez, commanding federal forces
on tho Vera Cruz and Morelos fronts
respectively, also began a general for
ward movement against rebel posi
tions today, the wireless reports stat
ed. Oeneral Juan Andres Alomazan, In
command of federal forces In front of
Tehuacan, Is engaged in a fierce
battlo with the robots.
8AN FRANCISCO, Jan. 10 The
Mexican forces headed by President
Obrogon at Irapuato expect to engage
tho robol forces undor General Estra
da at any moment, while the rebels
are making desperute attempts to cut
all communications between .Mexico
City and the west coast to forestall a
loyalist attack on Vera Cruz, J. O.
Zortucho, Mexican consul 'general
here, was officially Informed today. '
Sablnas, In tho- stato of' Coahulla, .
has been ro-takon by the loyalist
forces under Gonoral Borez, the mes
sngo continued. : '
:;r
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ATHENS. Jan. 10. (By Associated ;
Press), Ooneral G. Danglis, chairman
of the Vonlzellst purty, ' will, be ,thr
new Oreek premier. He was appoint
ed to the task of forming a cabinet to-
day. Former Premier Venlsetos wtU
be tho foreign minister.
E
T GOTO
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OF
Tho ruling yesterday was based on
tho contention that Justice of tho
Peace Allen did not Impose 'a, sus
pended sentence, but continued it to
start at a definite time and place.
Judge Koyes at no time has been In
the custody ot tho sheriff, although
he paid the flno. For the past' two
days he has been out under writ of
hahens corpus obtained by friends. J v
Attorneys for Koyes announced ln
tontlon to appeal to the ' suprome
court. Bond wns plnced nt B00. ,