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MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1924
NO. 24f
VET BONUS
Governor Pierce Urges Radical
Changes, .in', Oregon. Tax
SystemWould Cut State
' Bonus in Two, Boost Insur
ance Fees, Corporation Tax,
and Add Timber Tax.
SALEM, Ore., Jan. 11. r"There can
be no ' big reform In assessment and
taxation In this state until we modify
or change the mlllage levies," declared
Governor Pierce today In an address to
the county Judges and commissioners
here. He then outlined to the judges
what he thinks must now be done to
save the state from xuln and destruc
tion because of taxes.
Here is the program!
Increase license fees. : 1
Increase corporation taxes.
Increase Insurance fees.'
' Let the soldiers' bonus contlnuue to
function but cut' It from, a one mill
basis to a one-half mill basis or lower.
Modify the mlllage tax laws to leave
the elomentary school tax and smaller
mlllages, but permit tho tax commis
sion to arrange the levies so that the
money for such mlllage taxes be raised
from indirect sources rather than
. through direct taxation on property.
Put a severance lax on timber, as
before advocated, but announcing a
plan for Its division, one-fourth to the!
county where the timber Is" cut, ono-t
fourth to a plan of reforestation, one-l
fourth to the Irreducible . school , fund 1
and the baiance to the state treasury
to relieve the state taxes and relieve
the burden imposed by the mlllage
taxes, to be distributed by the tax,
commission In payment of the mlllage;
STATE EXP. LEAGUE
PENDLETON. Ore., Jan. 11. At a.
meeting last night of, the Umatilla
County Farm Bureau and managers
of tho Fendleton Commercial assocl
tlon, It was derided to form an Ore
gon export commission. league, slinl
lur to that already formed in Wash
ington known aH tho Washington Ex
port Commission league, to boost the
export commission plan for tho sta
billation of wheat values, variously
known as tho American wheat grow
ers' plan and the Wallace plan.
A meeting Is scheduled for Janu
ary 19 at which time prominent farm
ers from oastern Oregon and repre
sentatives of the various commercial
organizations will meet. Members of
the Washington body will be hero at
that time to explain tho workings and
plnns of their body. It was furthor
decided nt the meeting last night to
fight the proposals coming before
congress to abolish the federal farm
loan banks and to do away with the
exemption on farm loan money.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
KANSAS CITT, Mo., Jan. 11. Sev
eral negroes hold up a teller of tho
Main Street bank at tho door of the
bnnk shortly before noon today and
escaped with $44,500, I
WIFE OF MAN INVOLVED IN PUTNAM
MADISON, Conn., Jan. 11. Ells
worth Basso tt, houso painter, chauf
feur and orange grower, has failed In
his first effort to become reconciled
.to his wife, basketball player and
postal clerk, from whom ho became
estranged when ho went to work for
Nina Wilcox Putnam Sanderson,
novelist, whose unsuccessful efforts to
obtain a divorce in Rhode Island aro
being investigated by the attorney
general of that state.
Basset t. summoned by Mrs. Sander
son from her Florida orange grove,
which he. had been managing, was
Ignored by his wife as he called last
night at me postofflce' where she was
Oregon Postmaster
Pleads Guilty; to
Be Given a Chance
.
PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 11.
Edward E. Byers. 62, accused in
4 federal court hero of embezzling
$1500 while servlngeas postmas-
tor at Olene, Ore., today changed 4
his pica from not guilty to guilty
and was allowed sixty days free-
dom to return to his homo to
arrange for restitution to . tho
government.
Assistant District ' Attorney
Allan Bynon said ho was con-
vlnced Byers took the money
unwittingly and through ignor-
anco and was certain that if
Byers was allowed to go to his
homo with a postofflce Inspector
ho could hypothecate property
necessary to raise the $1500.
after making the settlement
Byers Is to return to receive the
judgment of the court.
G. 0. P. Regulars Win in Party
Caucus Over Soldier Bonus
Advocates Latter to Carry
Fight to Floor of House
Amendments Fail.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11. Instruc
tions have been given the house ways
and means committee to report the
tax bill on or before February 11. Af
ter that date it Is to take up the sol
diers' bonus legislation to determine
whether an adjusted compensation bill
should be roportod.
This program was decided upon last
night at a conference of house repub
licans who refused, however, to pledge
themselves to the passage at this ses
sion of congress of either tax or bonus
legislation. ,
At the outset of the meeting, which
was behind closed doors, Representa
tive Longworth, party leader, propos
ed that the ways and means commlt
teo he instructed to continue consid
eration of the tax bill "to the exclu
sion of all other general legislative
propositions," with a view to making
a report by February 11, after which
time It should proceed with considera
tion of bonus legislation. 1
Two amendments were offered to
the Longworth resolution and both
were rejocted.
Ponrpsontatlve Falrchlld of New
York proposed a stipulation that a
bonus bill bo reported "as soon as pos
sible." This proposal was rejected
100 to 87. The other amendment of
fered by Representative Fish of New
York, a war votoran, fixed February
25 as the latest date for a report on
bonus legislation. On a roll call the
amendment lost 109 to 87.
The Longworth resolution then was
adopted by viva voce vote, but the sol
dier bloc made one more effort to in
sure favorable action on the bonus.
Mr. Fish proposed that the conference
record Itself in favor of enactment at
this session of congress of both a
"reasonable" tax reduction bill and a
bonus measure. On motion of Repre
sentative Lehlbach of Now Jersey,
however, this proposal was tabled, 97
to 94.
Routed in the conference, members
of the former service men's group do
clared they would take their fight to
the floor of the house and would at
tempt to have the ways and means
committee discharged from consider
ation of the bonus bill. This, they
pointed out, would bring about a rec-
fContlnued on Pag Slx
working. Ho went straight to tho
postoffico after visiting Mrs. Sander
son In Now York and resigning his
Job. He explained his resignation was
due to unfortunate publicity which
has been given him and Mrs. Sanrer
son. i The novelist had telegraphed him to
go home and arrange his domestic
affairs.
He told townspeople that Mrs.
Bassett was mistaken In her views of
his relations with the novelist. Mrs.
Bassett has said that Mrs. Sanderson
asked her to get a divorce and it has
been safd by her lawyers that she con
templates no legal proceedings of any
TAX REDUCTION
WINS RIGHT-OF-WAY
IN HOUSE
( kind involving her Husband,
LYNCHING OF
DRY OFFICER
THREATENED
Shooting of Two Men By Spec
ial Dry Officer in Aberdeen,
Washington, Enrages Citi
zens Official' Transferred
Under Heavy Guard to Mon
tesano Jail Reports Differ.
ABERDEEN, Wash., Jan. 11. In or
der to avoid possible lynching by a
crowd of angry citizens of Special Of
ficer Wilbur Holllngsworth following
the shooting last night of two men in
an alleged liquor raid by the special
officer and two constables on a local
pool hall, Holllngsworth was taken by
the local authorities under armed
guard to the Montesano Jail, east of
this city.
During the raid Mike Cavmarie,
proprietor of the pool hall was wound
ed and August Koskl of Hoqnlam, was
shot In the hand. Constables A. O.
Hopkins nnd D. O. Dugan, who assist
ed in the raid, declared that the shoot
ing was done by Holllngsworth..'
While the three were searching tho
place for supposed liquor, according
to a report made by Constable Dugan
to Chief of Police George Dean, Cav
marie is alleged to have attempted to
strike Holllngsworth, who drew his
gun and fired.
According to eye witnesses in the
hall at the time of the raid It was de
clared that Holllngsworth slapped a
search warrant on the table and start
ed shooting. .
Cavmarie was rushed to the hospital
where physicians stated he had beon
shot In the stomach.
Shortly after the shooting the resi
dents of the .city lormed in groups, and
marched toward the local Jail. Fears
for the safety of Holllngsworth led to
taking him under guard to Montesano.
OUT BY DECISION
HELENA, Mont, Jan. 11. AM
general appropriations made by the
last Montana legislature were held in
valid today by the state supreme
court on the grounds that Governor
Dixon, In attempting to reduce the
amounts on a percentage basis, was
without authority and his signing of
the bill with qualifications was a nul
lity. . The invalidity of thousands of
dollars worth of state warrants Is
established by the decision.
Governor Dixon stating he had not
had time to digest the decision, de
clined to comment upon It at- this
time and has not decided whether a
special session of the legislature wilt
bo necessary. State offlclnls, aro
agreed however,, that Montana will
not repudiate its Just obligations,
although tho way out remains to be
decided on. j
It Is said upwards of a million dol
lars worth of tho invalid warrants
have been issued.
VICTIM OF STABBING
EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 11. Ralph
Lammers of Cottage Grove Is dead aB
a result of a stabbing affray last
night. Whitney Palmer is In jail
facing a murder charge. Uoth boys
are seventeen years old.
It hi alleged that the two boys and
another got Into an argument In a
pool hall.
FOR RATE DECREASE
WASHINGTON. Jan. II. Senator
Smith of South Carolina, the newly
elected democratic chairman of the
senate Inter-state commerce commit
tee, declared In a statement today that
all Interested should cooperate to pro
vide relief from the burden of exces
sive high freight rates, nnd that this
applied with especial emphasis "to
the Intolerable burden imposed under
present ratea on agriculture."
riarry K. Thaw Seeking
Freedom, Philadelphia
Hears;
HARRY. K. THAW; EVELYN NESB1T THAW
' PH ILADELPHI A February 1 will sec Harry K. Thaw, slayer
of Stanford White, and former hvuJiand of Evelyn Ncsbil. released
from Kirkbride Asylum," where he has been confined since 1917. a
free man, a report here says.
'. Though Ex-.ludgc James Cay Gordon, counsel for the Thaw
family, denied such a move ' was contemplated, it 'was reported that
: plans instigated by Thaw himself arc under way to have him de
dared sane, that no oppositioi-"tH5nH4be-mado by his mother, -Mary
Copley Thaw, or by the trustee of the Thaw estate.
Evelyn Ncsbil. for whom he shot White, with her- son, Russell
Ttsw, 14, i; running a cale at Atlantic City.
RIND WRECKED
"U-B0AT"IN 30
PORTLAND. Englund, Jan. 11. (By
the Associated Press.) An object be
lieved to bo the British submarine
L-24, which met disaster off this coast
yesterday In a collision with the
drcadnaught Resolution, has been lo
cated off the coast at thirty fathoms,
according to officials. A heavy sea
was running and it was Impossible for
divers to Investigate.
LONDON, Jan. 11. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The British submarine
L-24, rammed by- tho droadnaught
Resolution yesterday, ds lying thirty
fathoms deep about eleven miles south
of Portland Hill, according to the lat
est reports from Weymouth. There Is
nothing to Indicate that her crew of
43 men have not perished.
All the men were below when the
boat left Portland for the maneuvers,
In which she was to tako part, as the
weathor was heavy. Until further In
vestigation has been made, it iB Impos
sible to tell how the disaster happen
ed. However, the latest report says
the L-24 rose beneath the drcadnaught
and struck the latters bow.
Last night was unusually dark and
despite numerous searchlights little
counld be done until daylight, but the
salvage craft kept bUBy while special
boats equipped with hydrophonos tried
vainly to catch any sound that might
be made by the Imprisoned men.
Hope for the crow's safety has not
been entirely abandoned, yet most ex
perts think It will be miraculous If
the men aro rescued.
It was reported but not confirmed
that the submarine K-12, badly dam
aged In a collision with the K-2, at tho
scene of the L-24 disaster, has sunk in
shallow water. "
Death Toll of ;
the Automobile
EVERETT, Wash., Jan. 11. A heavy
truck containing members of the
Cougar Animal Shows company of
Seattle, and a number of trained ani
mals went off a high bank on a hill
near Arlington this morning and
Charles Simpson of Seattle was killed.
Roy Richards is In a serious condition
suffering from broken ribs and possi
bly Internal Injuries.
FATHOIViS WATER
Lawyers Deny it
1 COAST INDIANS TO
HOLD BIG MASS
i MEETING, ROSEBURG
ROSKBUUG, Ore., Jan. 11. A call
was issued for a meeting in Roseburg,
on January 26, of representatives of
all of tho western Oregon Indian
tribes, embraced in the alleged treaty
of 1855, under the terms of which the
Indians are claiming from the United
States government the sum of $12,
500,000 payment for lands lying west
of the Cascade mountains between
the Rogue and Columbia rivers.
The tribes concerned aro tho Tllla
mouks, Hi uh laws, Umpquas, Coqulllos.
Totootoneys, dittoes. Rogues, Clallas,
Tyeos, and OUapooias, with their
many associated tribes and bands.
Tho meeting Is expected to bring
together Indians from all parts of the
state to meet with representatives Of
the Federated Women's Clubs of Ore
gon, California and Washington, who
have become Interested In the efforts
of tho Indians to recover the amount
claimed to be duo them for lands ced
ed to the government.
Through the efforts of women in
California Indians of that state havo
secured money on virtually similar
claims. It Is stated. The treaty under
which claims aro being mado was
ratified In 1865 and has been brought
to tho attention of tho government
and Is now under official considera
tion. '
The Indians claim the agreement to
pay for tho lands taken from them
was not fulfilled.
CHICAGO TOO FOXY
FOR IZZY EINSTEIN.
DISGUISES SOLVED
CHICAGO, Jan. 11. Tho presence
hero of Izzy Einstein, government
liquor agent extraordinary has no ter
rors for Chicago's saloons, cafes and
soft drink parlors, , proprietors of
which are confident they can detect
his famous' disguises.
Cafo and saloonmen have hirod de
tectives who havo been (railing Izzy
for weeks and carefully tubulating
and reporting his various roles, the
story goes.
They said Izay donned disguise No.
37 last night. Half an hour after the
prohibition agent registered at a
hotel, an apparent opera songstress
came down the elevator and pi qui red
of bellboys where she might obtain
liquor. . ,
"Hhe" was Izzy. they said.
"Tomorrow night he'll probably be
done up like a poor but honest coal
heaver," an Informant said. "Rut It's
all the same to us, he won't get by."
May Move Court to
Bedside of Film Star
Td Secure Evidence
.
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 11.
When Horace A. Greer, chauf-
four for Mabel Normand, film
actress, appeared In court for
arraignment today on a charge of
having shot Courtland S. Dines,
New Years night, and there was
nothing definite to show when
either Miss Normand, recently
operated on for appendicitis, or
Dines, would be able to testify,
Justice J. Waltor Hanby dochired
that he did not want any needloss
delay and If necessary would
move his court to the hospital
bedsides of these two material
witnesses.
I. N. Day, Former State Sena
otr, Urges County Judges to
Work for Repeal of Recall
and Modification of the
Initiative-
8ALEM, Ore., I Jan. 1 1. Illume forj
tho Injection ofVoligious Issues IntOj
Oregon politics during tho past two
years, and for the abuses which arlso
out of tho recall act were placed upon
tho primary election system and upon 1
tho Initiative by I. N. Day- of Port- '
land, former stato senator and rhnlr
mun of tho stato tux Investigating
committee of two yours ago, In an
address before tho annunl convention'
of Oregon county Judges and commls-1
sloners horo this-morning.
Declaring thut ho would not. if he
could, Intorfero with tho oporutlon of
tho initiative and referendum, which
ho considered us tho greatest instru
ment over devised to increaso popular
Intorest and participation in govern
ment, except to throw addltlonnl safe-,
guards around Its oporutlon, Mr, Day
urged tho convention to go on record
us favoring additional restrictions
around circulation of Initiative pe
titions and a return to the party con
vention system of nominating candi
dates for office to augment rather
than supplant the primary system.
Mr. Day declared himself for party
responsibility as the "greatest safe
guard against tho abuses of faction
alism," In the operation of a demo
cratic form of government and recom
mended county party conventions to
framo declarations of principles and
ondorso candidates, without denying
to any person or group of persons tho
right to placo tho names of candidates
for nomination ort election bultots.
Creation of such a dual system, he
said would properly safeguard tho
primary against factional control. )
Tho recall Mr. Dny described us
being the "pro-eminent mlatuko," in
American political reforms. In prin
ciple, ho declared, It Is inconsistent
with a republican form of govern
ment, asserted it served only tho pur
pose orf factions seeking to further
personal ends and satisfying personal
grudges.
Citing tho recall movoment against
Governor I'lorco, Mr. Day doscrlbed
It us an instunce of tho manner In
which the recall may be used to co
oii c a public offllcul, In his adminls
tartion of governmental affuirs nnd
urgod a return to the system of Im
pcuchmcnt. -
IMfirlmt to Ila Cujidldntc.
HARKIHBima, I'a.. Jun. 11. Gov
ernor Plnohot announced he will boj
a candidate for delegate at large to
tho - republican nutlonal convention
next Juno. . (
OREGON SYSTEM
IS BLAMED FUR
RELIGIOUS FUSS
LADY ASTOR TO TAKE OFF HFR HAT ,
IN PARLIAMENT IN SPITE OF PROTESTS'
LONDON, Jan. 11. (By Associated
Pross). Tho earnest speeches - that
occupied tho womon members of the
house of commons at the dinnor glvon
In their honor last night were enllv
onod by an exchango of vlows on the
question of whether womon aro to
contlnuo wearing tholr hats In tho
house, as Lady Astor and her two first
collcaguos havo dono, or go bare
headed. The new labor womon membors de
parted from this precedent on the
first day of the session and last even
ing gained a recruit when the Duch
ess of Atholl said, "It Is my ambition
to be allowed to do my work In the
house of commons with uncovered
head."
Ludy Astor luterjoctod:
EX-CHIEF OF
KU WIS
KICKED OUT
Wnv J. Simmons, Ex-Emperor,
and Edward Young' Clarke,
Ex-Giant Are Expelled From
Order By Wizard Evans
Transfer Headquarters ', to
Washington Denied.,:
WASHINGTON, Jan.. U.-r-lt. C. Mc
Cull, imperial representatives of the Ku
KIux Klan in Washington, today con
firmed a report that William J, Sim
mons, Imperial emperor, and Edward
Young Clarke, Imperial giant, had
been expelled from the order but de
nied that the klnn had moved head
quarters from Atlanta to Washington.
ATLANTA, da., Jan. 11. The At
lanta Journal today is publishing what
it terms as "generally credited report"
that William Joseph Simmons, impe
rial emperor of the Ku Klux Klan and
Edward Young Clarke, Imperial giant,
have been "expelled from the klan for
their opposition to the regime headed
by Dr. Hiram Wesley Evans. Imperial
wizard."
"The banishment order was iBsued
from the palace of the plan. , It was
Btateil by Dr. EvanB' supporters," de
clared the newspaper. "On the other
hand It was charged by friends of Col
onel Simmons and Mr. Clarke that the
order came from Washington and that
the Imperial headquarters have been
reinoved to .that city , and .. that--Dr.
Evans and hlB family, have taken up
their resldonce there. These charges
were denied by Dr. Evans' friends."
SEATTLE. Jan. 11. Au Initiative
bill filed Tuesday at Olympla propos
ing to abolish private schools in Wash
ington was formally Indorsed here yes
terday by the cabinet of the grand
dragon of the Ku Klux Klan for the
stato, John A. Jeffrey, grand dragon
announced today. . ,
Mr. Jeffroy protested that the bill
was not designed, to put : military
schoolB and. academies out of commis
sion. "Theae do not want children till they
are fifteen or over," he Bald, "and by
that time they should be able to com
plete their eight public school grades."
In the campaign next fall the klan
will not proffer candidates Of Its own
selection for any office, city or state,
Jeffrey declared. , .
SAYS INCOMETAX
T
KAI.ICM. Oro., Jan. 11. That the
stato of Orogon will bo tho loser thru
loss of inheritance taxes from estates
drlvon out of the slate, and
through tho removal of Industries to
other states by reason of the recently
onacted state Income tax was . the
prediction mado by C. C. Chapman,
editor of tho Oregon Voter. In an ad
dress before tho annual convention of
county Judges and commissioners
here this afternoon..
Mr. Chapman plead for a broader
and more Intelligent consideration of
the tax problem in Oregon and care
ful consideration of all probable ef
fects beforo steps were taken to enact
soverance, gross income .or other
taxes bearing down upon the-lndusn
tries and capital. ' ' ..-, (- n..
"I discovered whon I first ohtorod
the house that had I gone without
my hat I wpuld have Bhocked most of
the members much as If the Lady
Oodlva had appeared and I thought I
wouldn't glvo them more than they
could stand, so I kept my hat on.
Once I actually did go through the
lobby hatloss and several .members
came to me and said 'pray don't do it
again. . .....
"I mean not to wear a hat hence
forward when I can keep my hair In
order." ' , " . '
One of the ancient customs of the
house is that when a member raises a .
point of order he must don his hat.
Lady Torrlngton wanted to know It
the women would have to keep their
hats under the seats against such an
emergency.. . . 1