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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.
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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
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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 .
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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.
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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 '. ...... ... .. .