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Newspaper Page TextUulvcrslty library J2. xb Med M The Weather Prediction Fair Mitxlmunr yesterday 40 Minimum today 32.5 Precipitation 03 ford AIL TRIBUNE Weather Year Ao Maximum .- 38 Minimum 31.8 Pally Eighteenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Third Taar. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1924 ' NO. 251 HELL MARIA DAWES GETS HI Head of American Delegation Tells Europe This Is No Time to Mince Words First Help Germany to Get Well So She Can Pay Politicians Told to Keep Out. PARIS. Jan. 14. (By tho Asso ciated Press) With Brigadier Gene ral Charles O. Dawes presiding, lead ing businessmen and financiers of the United States, Great Britain and franco, Belgium and Italy, sitting as a board of directors and creditors, began to examine tho assets and lia bilities of Germany, their nations' debtor, with a view to saving some thing from the ruins of the most stupendous bankruptcy in the history of the world. "Strictly business nnd no politics," was the motto under which these rep resentative men of the leading na tions of the old and new worlds as sembled. "The success of this committee," said General Dawes, in opening the meeting, "depends chiefly whether in the public -mind and conscience of the allies and of. the world, there is an adequate conception of the great dis aster which faces each ally and Eu rope unless common sense is en throned king." ; Oeneral Dawes discussed the value of unity of command In war to show the bad effects of present conditions. "We had come to know," he said, I "In common with the citizens of all nations, that at lenBt that lack . of, power to agree upon a .common "'-i their. representative, according to. men tud ' and common, --attention had .j,,,- have, been here for a yeek' at ' brought all Europe to" a most critical 'ten(j(nif th'e trftil. The recall petitions and dangerous situation. Tnis is no.wlll be ln circulatlon throughout the lime to mince woras. ,,. MIMtaiy I Laritln. The first meeting was absolutely lacking in any of the military dlspluy nnd nls constituents have been agi which marked the conferences at Spn, tIltng tno recall question ever since, San Remo and Genoa. Not a single accor(inB to llwaco residents, soldier was in evidence. I -Attorneys for the state have per- Louls Barthou, president of the sunae(j them to delay their action un- reparatlons commission, delivered the ti after Sinclair's trial, and now that address ofwelcome. "We do not ex'a verdict of guilty has been returned, fect from you," he said, "the un- the circuiatlon of recall petitions will looked miracle of the solution of the stort immediately, reparation problem, but we hope with present indications are that o sincere confidence that your compe- n,,,,,,. wm ue among those anxious tency und authority will concentrate tQ ,,n lnD BeM (lf senator Sinclair, If to hasten the result toward which we js lei.uIti. He is H, W. MucPhall, are bending our efforts." president of the Willapa Harbor State European credit, uenerni m aid. suffered a shock as the world had: seen Germany's economic life eb bing "because," he added, "the world realized that If the German people lose their chance for work, Germany loses her capacity to pay the repara tions wlilth ore so great an element In Euroneah solvency. Let us first help Germany to get well. ' Free From Politics. 1 General Dpwes spoke of the com mittee as "practical men free from political pressure," who realized that the house is afire, propose to flnd( some water to put It out, without fur-1 ther use of muthematlcs Involving thej fourth dimension. . General Dawes praisea ine n-pum-. LTfrlillffi.,!!;i said that the committee was not asked to determine the legality of the Ruhr occupation or "the political effect of this or that act of common sense." I The committee for the moment, he aid, wan less - concorneu wun uei- manv's canacitv to pay, "than with manys capacuy iu the present capacity and courage oi .hi. Ln,mm. m ct." I this committee to act. "We Sliall Know" He reminded the committee that he could speak neither for the American government nor for the American peo-' pie. "But as an individual, f'" shame and humiliation the outpour- inn of the American nationalistic demagogues who undertake to lecture Europe in order to, lift themselves into some petty office or to maintain their political popularity." He said he did. not know .whether a common sense reparation concep tion existed but added: "But we shall know. To this know ledge of whether this conception ex ist, the result of our work and the action of the reparation commission thereon will perhaps be the final con tribution." ' (Continued on Page Six) PLAN TO SELL DRY FRUITS ONLY SALEM. Ore., Jan. 14. The special committee on re-organization of the Oregon Growers Co-operative associa tion is meeting here today with the association's ' attorney to prepare drafts of tentative plans for the re organization of -the association as an exclusive selling; agency for dried f fults. According to M. J. Newhouse, as 2 Hood River Boys Drowned, When Ice On Columbia Breaks HOOD RIVER, Ore., Jan. 14. Two boys were drowned and three others, bent on rescue, were endangered by plunging through thin Ice while on a skating party Sunday on a Columbia rjver slough. v Glenn, 12, son of Dr. and MrB. V. R. Abraham, and Richard, 11, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. H. Bayl- done, aro the victims. Arch and Cad Williams, Bona of Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Williams, narrowly escaped while trying to rescue the boys, nnd Paul Kelr, son of Mr. and Mrs. A.(S. Keir, broke through the ice while aiding to drag the Williams boy to shore. . 4. 4. 4- STATE SFNATOR GUILTY; RECALL E Percy L. Sinclair, llwaco Banker, Found Guilty of Complicity in Bank Failure- Many Candidates After His Seat in State Senate. CHHHALIS. Jan. 14.: Citizens of Pacific and Wahiakum counties will this week decide if State Senator Percy L. Sinclair, convicted here Sat- ur,lny ln connection with the failure , hl .,,, nt llwl,m. i3 entitled to retaln hi,, sent in th0 legislature as senator's district today, it was said senator Sinclair moved to Seattle - ,,nrn flp. the failure of the bunk bank Gf Raymond. Others mentioned as possible candi dates are D. Walter Williams of ll waco, son of County Commissioner L. D. Williams; Harry E. ChrlstlanBon of Senvlew, former county commls' loner; Fred B. Normnn of Raymond, former slate representative and Mar tin Welch of Raymond. L PENDLETON, Ore. Jan. 14. Mrs. Kegina Safely, who was brought here last week from Portland to answer to n bad check charge has been released front custody and charges gainst her naye been wm,drawn. The money she obtained through the worthless checks has been returned to the persons so , of defrauded and upon the request of these merchants the district attorney moved that the charges against Mrs. Safely be dropped. The money for the ,,, ,, , hoilovoit in have been 'furnished by Pendleton people though . . ,otiiv '"- "i " '""""J " " ' guarded secret. Passing of the Early Pioneer PENDLETON. Ore.. Jan. 14. Rev. David Edgar George, a pioneer preacher of Umatilla county. 82 years old died this morning in Milton as the culmination of a long Illness. sistant genernl manager of the asso elation, sentiment among the fruit growers of the state, as evidenced at district meetings held during the past few weeks, la predominantly for the proposed type of organization. The problem now to be settled,. Mr. New house says. Is whether the re-organ Ized association shall be extended to STARTED FORGER RELEASED take in the entire northwest. . By Vote of 288 to 177 Farm Bloc and Democrats Defeat G. 0. P- Regulars' Effort to Restrict Amendments On Revenue and Tariff Bills Probe Diploma Scandal. WASHINGTON. Jan. 14. Demo crats and republican insurgents, com bining against the republican house leaders today won the first round of a rules revision fight by mustering a majority for repeal of the Underwood rule, which restricts amendments from the floor when revenue and tariff bills are under consideration. The domocrats and Insurgents cast 208 votes against 177 cast in support of the republican organization. In the very midst of its efforts to quiet- those irrepressible twins, taxa tion and bonus, congress had to give attention today to various distur bances in other parts of the legisla tive household. In the senate things were a little quieter although all sorts of political dynamite was lugged into the cham ber in the course of tho day's ram bling debate. Senator McKellar re vived the Muscle Shoals row In a speech, charging that the Alabama power company was largely . British owned and Democratic Loader Robin son, delivered a party pronuncemento on railroad legislation.. A cash-an-carry bonus plan was proposed by. Senator Bui-sum. ... With the Russian, Toapot Dome nnd Mayfleld Investigating commit tees sharpening up their dissecting instruments, Senator Copeland, who is a physician, got a sub-committee to gether and made plans for a thorough probing of tho diploma mill ttcupdul. Teapot Dome Scandal . WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. Charac terizing the lease of the Teapot Dome naval oil reserve as "the worst scan dal ever perpetrated against the gov-r ernmcnt," Senator Heflin, democrat. Alabama, told the senate today there isn't going to be a white wash" of the matter. 'Two or three of the gentlemen have made millions, yes, hundreds of millions out of this, the richest oil re serve in the country," Senator Heflin declared. "I would vote to cancel the denl and make Mr. Sinclair and thoso associated with him pay back to the government every cent : they have made out of it." MISSING OREGON CITY OREGON CITY, Ore.. .Jan. 14. Relatives of Nettle Patterson. Willam ette' girl missing for the past teti doya. or two weeks, and for whom federal as well as county officers have been searching, have received a postcaru from the girl, mailed from Long Beach, Cal. The card bears the message mat she is well and happy, but gives no ex- planatlon of her reasons for going awn'- Tho girl dropped from sight hero hero after going to the West Linn union high school as usual one morning. T. roiiTLANP, ore., jan. 14. firing his opening gun as a campaign man- ager . m Oregon tor senator i-iiram Johnson, T. B. Neuhausen, In a state ment today attacked President Cool Idge'B attitude on tax reduction. Michigan City Is Cleaned Up By Cops And Ku KlttX Klan ' MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich.. Jan. 14. The Macomb county pall to- day was filled after a drive against alleged bootleggers, gamblers, and keepers of disor- derly houses yesterday, follow- ing, it is said, a secret, invasion of the county by agents of the Ku Klux Klan. While city and state 'police were taking prisoners to the jail, 1500 members of the klan 4 gathered in the First Presbyte- rlan church and held ceremonies, Including the burning of the fiery cross. ' . Last Man To See Daudet's Son Alive Says Youthful Zealot Suicide For Girl ABOVE: ' Ml.LK. CEKMAINE ' BERTHON; INSET, MAKIOUS PLATEAU. v . I ,.' .. 1 - , .. ,...'.-..,. '. . . - ,- PARIS Admiration for Germain" Berthon, 'murderess ' of tho Royalist, Plateau, caused Philippe Daudet, 15-ycar-old son of Leon Daudet, editor of the Royalist paper L' Action Francaise, to, commit suicide in a taxicab just as he was passing St. Lozarc prison where the girl was confined, so police believe."' Leon Daudet refused to intervene to save Ihe girl whom his son called "the one woman I shall ever love." Daudet's charge that Anarchists influenced his son to kill himself, in order to wound Daudet,, were denied ly Georges Vidal, editor of La Libertaire, who revealed the boy's infatuation for Mile. Berthon. He was the last to talk with Philippe. By a curious freak of chance Mile. Was acq' '''i '. FAILIIO FIND OREGON CITY, Oro., Jan. 14. Clackamas county deputy sheriffs re turned empty handed this morning from an all night hunt for seven pris oners who escaped from tho county jail Sunday evening. Not even a foot print of the fugitives was found. The seven men who got away were: Ed MIchels, arrested 24 hours prevl- ously, charged with shooting stock and 1 stealing a walnut stree. Klanse. snrvini: a veer's term for : liquor law violation. Ernest Small, alleged baggage thief, recently returned from San Francisco for arraignment and trial. Robert Spooner, serving out a year and $3,000 fine for liquor violation. John Rohner, awaiting trial for al leged violation of the liquor laws. E. Kridbaum, awaiting trial on a similar charge. Albnrt .T Hmvn. bold for erand iurv inVoR,iiratlnn nn a chareo of non-sun- . Nine other prisoners were In the jail at the time of the escape. Of these eight refused to join the fugitives. The ninth, a woman, mother-in-law of Ed MIchels, was locked up In the women's quarters and could not get away. The break occurred at 8:30 Sunday evening when the courthouse In the basement of which the jail is situated was fully lighted and while scores of people were passing by the front of the building. ' Janitor Hamilton was on an upper floor of the building at the .time doing Janitor work Hamilton had made his hourly rounds of the Jail In the basement at 8 o'clock and reported nothing wrong. The prisoners bad not beon locked up for the night but were in tho exercise corridor. An hour later, when depu- ;tles cafne-in toilock them up for the night, the escape had been completed. Possibility of outside aid Is seen In the fact that the- men used a twenty pound steel-wrench, of the kind used In bridge work to effect their release. With this wrench they pri'ed up one of the steel frame windows on the south side of the building, and then ANY PRISONERS IN JAIUBREAK Oregon News in Brief ' SALEM. Ore.. Jan. 14. O. P. Co show of Roseburg took tho oath of offico ns justice of the supreme court at eleven o'clock this morning to suc ceed Justice Lawrence T. Harris of Eugono, who is retiring, to practice law In that city. '- PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 14. Rob bers blew tho safe of tho, Portland Oamasrus Milk company In the build ing on Cornoll road and "Everett street early this morning and escaped with approximately S1000 in cash, and checks of undetermined amount. HOOD RIVER, Ore., Jan. 14. Ash ley, 17 year old son of Dr. W. M, Post, is recovering from the Bhock of a dy namite explosion yesterday that neces sitated amputation of his right hand. Young Post and companions found a stock of explosive with a short fuse attached near the O.-W. R. R. and N. tracks. PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14 Thrown beneath the wheels of on Inbound Southern Pacific electric train he at tempted to board at Hefter station on tho Forest Orovo line yesterday, Otis V-. Helms, 19 year old Bcaverton youth, sustained such serious Injuries that ho died last night at a hospital here. Ho was the son of Oliver V. Helms, nr., -a rancher of the Beaver ton vicinity.- PORTLAND, Ore., Jnn. . 14. Abe Meier, president of a Portland mer- chnndlHo establishment. Is reported to be seriously 111 ln Ban Francisco. Meier became. Ill Friday after, hp had gono to 8an Francisco for a com bined outing and business trip. . t( ' T ' . Daily Report on, the Crime Wave NEWARK, N. J.. Jan. 14. Eight or ten bandits today broke Into the warehouse of tho Pierce, Butler and Pierce company, bound and gaged the negro watchman and oscaped with two truck loads of bonded whiskey valuod at 60,000. PEKING Sun Pao-Chl is the first Chinese premier In many . months chosen In accordnncewlth constitu tional requirements. with the other end of the device, twisted In two one of the steel bars across the window. This gave them a chance to crawl from the corridor. Mrs. Amos Willits And Son Receive $7,567.70 From State SALEM Ore., Jan. 14. Mrs. Alice French Willits of Medford, widow of Amos R. Willits, bust- ness man of that city and volun- teer member of the fire depart- ment, who recently lost his life while fighting a lira, will receive compensation from the state un- der the state workmen's com pen- sation act, the state accident commission announced today. The fire occurred Deceriiber 20. it Is Bald that many cities and towns of the state are now carry- Ing state accident insurance on their firemen and policemen. 4- The amount set aside to provide for Mrs. Willits and her son is 7,567.70: . FATE OF SCHOOL BILL UP TO U. S T Principal Point to Be Decided Is Whether Court Has Juris diction Before the Law Goes Into Effect Much Interest in Result- PORTLAND, Ore., Jan. 14. In Junction proceedings brought by the Hill Military academy of Portland In un effort'to knock out Oregon's com pulsory public school law,' which wair adopted by referendum at the general election In liii. will be before three federal judges, Gilbert, Wolverton and Bean here tomorrow, when the mo tlon of Wullaco McCummant, attor ney for state law enforcement offic ials, to dlsmlsB tho case wlll.be argued. The . ease 1h expocted to go to the United States supreme court which ever sides wins the preliminary skir mish. The military academy haa asked tho Injunction on grounds that the luw will wreck its grammar school department. In a manner thut amounts to confiscation, and that It therefore violates the "due process" clause of the fourteenth constitutional amend ment and is void. The chief point which will be brought to issue now, attorneys pre dict, Is whether the court can hear tho case before the law goeB into ef fect two years hence. ' If the Judges should hold that a law . which has not become operative cannot be considered as either con stitutional or unconstitutional they expected to dismiss the Injunction suit. , " . ' In that event, tho dofense will win Its point, as there will he nothing for the acudemy to do except wait either for the law to go Into effect or for a supreme court decision on an ap peal. The academy's big point In the present argument Is that the case should come up -on Its merits now. because the law Is already on the statute books and because its effect has already fallen upon the schools na the shadow of a coming event. 10 T STATE AT T! BALEM, Ore., Jnn. 14. Attorney Clenorul Van Winkle today announc ed1 the appointment of Oeorgo Neuner of Roseburg as attorney, and O. Ed Ross of Balem. as accountant, to rep resent the state In nn Investigation of expenditures by Tillamook county of ficials. . , Mr. Van Winkle In making the ap pointments, acted at the request 'of Governor pierce, who was asked to .make . an investigation by the Tilla mook count ygi-ii nd Jury. . RETURN FISH TO ROSEBURG, Ore., Jnn. 14.-r-Two deputy state fish wardens who came ! A I Tnnlnn.l n "1 1," TV...V. "" "" -"' las county anglers, were today requir- ed to return to U F. Langenberg, a local fisherman, his fishing equipment nnd four salmon w.ilch they took from him yesterday. The wardens arrested Mr. Langenberg for having four sal- G01IR TUESDAY I mon In his possession and took away MURDER 13 By Distant Kinsman of Abraham Lincoln Confesses He Killed Wife After She Had -Shot Her Brother Claims Wife Unfaithful Glad Strain Is Over. , ... AURORA, 111., Jan. 14. Warren J. Lincoln, lawyer,, horticulturist and distant kinsman of Abraham Lincoln, confessed Inst night that he killed his wife, Llna, dismembered her body and burned It January 10, 11)23, along with that of her brother, Byron Shoup, whom, he maintained, had been shot to death by Mrs. Lincoln. Lincoln disappeared from his homo April 80 last and his wife and Shoup were suspected of his muraer. -ine lawyer-horticulturist suddenly re-appeared on June 10, explaining his ab sence by charging Mrs. Lincoln and Shoup kidnaped him, only to disap pear again four months later, when whispers of suspicion that he possibly had slain his wife and brother-in-law reached him. A fortnight ago the Au rora police told the Associated Press that they were searching for Lincoln to question him about disappearance of his wife and 8houp, and, when he applied tor a position in Chicago last Thursday, learned of his address thru tho firm with which he sought em ployment. Arrested Saturday and confronted with charges that he had dono away with the brother and sister, Lincoln eonfessedi concluding with "I'm glad to get' that load off my soul." . . ftoiiutwuH AftiM CanfcoMlon. - -y j . ' Lincoln collapsed ns' he uttered the last words of his confession and the police loft a' part of hut story unre lated. , , . - ' . VI suspected my wife of being Un true to me." Lincoln said arter tne detailed confession hnd been made, and he was returned to his ; cell. "Many times she tried to poison me. I Haw the man with whom she had been associating leave my house. That started the final quarrel. "I saw fire .gleam irom nur vyva. She fired three times at Byron who had upbraided her for being unfaith ful to me and trying to Kin me. mm bullet struck him Iri tho head. He fell, and I grabbed a poker. First. I knocked the gun from her hand; Then 1 swung Tor her head. She fell dead. I cut up their bodies and burned" them the next-night."' - Ho admlttod insertion 'of "personal" advertisements In newspapers sign ing them "Linn"' his wife's name.-ad-mltted authorship of letteni to hlB' wlfe'a relatives asking and receiving money from them In Mrs. Lincoln's name and confessed signing Shoup'a name to a check' on an Aurora bank where Shoup had a large account. In each Instance of advertising and letter writing Wneoin is said to have used a typewriter with a green ribbon,' and It was through that means that the police were aided In fastening the slaying of Mrs. Lincoln on him. ' Deputy 8herlff8 of Kane and Imogen counties now know why they were un able to get service upon Mrs. Lena Lincoln and her brother Byron Shoup after Warren J. Lincoln had tiled sultB against them. ' . Last March he'entered a divorce bill at Geneva charging Mrs. Lincoln with cruelty. Kane county deputy sheriffs bearing notices of suits, searched in vain for her. When they appealed to Lincoln for assistance, he would say: "I have no idea where aha is. She went away after we quarreled." ' ' Then last summer he filed a $10,000 damage suit against Shoup at Lincoln, 111., the Logan county seat. HlB brother-in-law was charged with assault, but deputies were unable to get service on hiAi. . ,. .:'"" ' Another Alliance Proposed. CHICAGO, Jan. 14. A national farmer-manufacturer alliance is con templated by sponsors of a two-day convefitron opened here today with representatives from these two ele ments of the nation's industries pres ent. ' -' ' - TO ROSEBURG ANGLER the fish and all of his tackle.' He pro cured an attorney this morning and was preparing to start aotlon against them when they appeared at the jus tice court-to make a charge , against him. The wardens were- advised that the law limiting a fisherman to three salmon applied only to the Willamette river,' and they were directed by the court to return the confiscated prop erty. ,v '. ...... ... .. .