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rRDFORDi MATT; TRTBTTNTC. MTCDFOTCD, OT?EfiONT, MONDAY. .TANUAKY 21. 1924 DOOMED TO DIE MRS. KILEN WAS SAVED BY CHINK PEKINO, Jan. 21. (By tho Asso ciated Press) Further details of the kidnaping by Chinese bandits of Mrs, Jullna Kllon, an American missionary, received hero following her release after two weeks In captivity,, reveal that the bandits at one time decided to kill her to throw off nursuit, and designated an executioner. Her life was saved however, by the arguments of an aged member of the gang after preparations were made for slaying her, according to Major John Ma gruder, military attache of the Amer ican legation, who has returned from Honun provlnco where he had gone, to spur on Chinese officials in measures to bring about her release. , Hurd-preBBcd by government troops pursuing them, the bandits decided they would Bet rid of the "foreign devil," -who was responsible for the close pursuit. - Mrs. Kilcn-wan taken to a ravine, which Bhe' described as a "beautiful spot," where she was to bo slain: Her executioner already had been dcsig nated. "1 was not nfrnid, however, because I ' did not believe (lod would allow trio to die thus," Mis. Kllcn iu quoted , as saying. Noticing a hesitancy, and disputing among the bandits, Mrs. Kllcn asked . the aged man, who was one of her captors, why they wished to kill her. She. told him sho wns not afraid to die, but thut it would bo usolcss for them to kill her. The old bandltwcnt hack to his companions and )iarangu cd them, declaring: "This good woman has done noth lng to deserve killing. I refuse." , Mrs. Kilen then walked back to the cumn and the bandits nlmost linmo dlutely resumed their flight, with the troops at their heels. Eventually, thoro appeared among the bandltB a "gentleman," dressed In silks," who appeared to be bargaining with them, and shortly ufterwurds Mrs. Kilen was told .that she was free. Later sho was escorted to Wu Chow. Mrs. Kilen snld that she had been well treated by the bandits, except that she had been subjected 'to con stunt scrutiny owing to the curiosity , of her captorH and was forced to en dure endless comments and criticism of her. features and her pet-son. whlvh were ' almost unenilm-nhic, but to which she nccuvtomod herself nnd Ignored. - At night she wns forced to sleep on the ' floor among her custodians who never permitted her to go out of their sight. .Often nfter only two hours' sleep, sho wns aroused, compelled to mount a horse itnd continue the flight with the bandits, she said. 'Mrs. Kilen uppoat-cd to he unaf fected by her experiences upon her arrival ut Loyang, where she was met by a brother who also Is a missionary. EVERYONE LIKES PARIS, Jan. 81. (fly the Asso ciated Press) The second commlttoe of exports, organized by the repara tion commission for the purposo of finding Oer'inan cnpital abroad and determining menus for its return to the ruleh met for tho first timo today In tho Hotel Astoriu. The session was confined to an ex change of addresses between Louis Uarthou, president of the reparation commission, who presided, nnd Megl nald Mckennn, former chancellor of ithe British exchequer, who will pre side over tho committee. M. Ilarthou (ipcclnlly thanked Henry M. ltohinson of l.ou Angeles, the unofficial American member of the committee, who, ho sold, had travel lod half way nround tho world to tuke part In the deliberations. -GOVERNOR PIERCE TO AID IN RELEASE OF BGRGDOLL'S CAPTOR , i . SALEM, Ore, Jan. 21. Governor Pierce today promised any possible as sistance from his office to bring about tho roloase from a German prison of Uoutonant Corliss Grlffls, who Is held for attempting the capture of Grovur Hergdoll, American Blacker. The gov ernor's promise was made to the Chi cago committee which Is In charge ot the undertaking. , Outlining the movomont In America to feed millions of hungry German children, ythe committee asks lu Its communication to Governor Pierce and other governors: "Will not the Ger man government reciprocate by show ing mercy to Lieutenant Grlfris and solace at least one American mother?" Wt IT MlLLIOHjAKS UStO YtAKLV VapoRud Oregon News in Brief SALEM, Ore Jan. 21. Governor Pierce this morning announced a meet ing of the state emergency board would probably be called within the next two weeks to consider the prob lem of financing the reconstruction of the Industrial plants at the state peni tentiary, which were destroyed by fire Inat fall. Emergency board meetings are at the call of the secretary of state. PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 21. The annual rabbit drive staged by the Pendleton Rod and Gun club In the west end of Umatilla county yester day netted 20,000 Jacks, according to R. D. Sayers and John L. Vaughan, captains of the drive. Many women were numbered among the shooters this year. PENDETON. Ore., Jan. 21. AUma tllla export commission league was permanently formed this morning to further In this vicinity the Interests of the state league formed Saturday. L. L. Rogers of Pendleton Is president of the county league, noth state and county leagues will back the Wallace plan of wheat marketing as set forth in the McNary-Hauglien bill now be fore congress. PENDLETON, Ore., Jan. 21. Fan cho Stubblefield, Eddie Lavin and Dob Llnsnef were each given a $100 fine and sentenced to six months In tho county jail in tho circuit court here thlB morning. Thoy were found guil ty of possessing illegally, a still In their trlul last week. The Noted Dead NEW ORLEANS, La., Jan. ,21. General Lee Christmns, noted soldier of fortune, died here toduy after a long illness. Christmns was a general In tho armies of five Central American re publics ut one time, for In those days, by courtesy, a general In ono repub lic was of equal rank In another. Tho largest forco ever under his commune! numbered 14,000 men, while at other times ho wns conduct ing war with a handful. On one oc casion ho ordered his machine gun regiment to attack the whole of an opposing force. The "regiment" und us "commander' consisted solely or Guy Molony, bosom friend of Christ mas and later superintendent of the New Orleans-' police department. It was tho boast of Christmns that ho had served as many governments as years ho had fought and he fought off nnd on nearly 20 years. Ho wus wounded seven times, four times in one engagement and three times In separate fghts, and he oscuped scores of attempts at assassination. HAVES PLEADS FOR TOLERANCE (Continued From Page One) history, the speaker pointed out that the newspaper men have had "fifteen or twenty generations," to establish standards of business practice, and u codo of newspaper ethics. "You," he Bald, "who aro tho custo dians of tho prlntctl word In America, havo arrived nt your present position ot stability as tho fruit of six centuries of development. From tho Gutenberg lllble to the newspnper nnd magazine of today Is Indeed a long and slow pro- cession of Invention and development through wooden blocks, metal type and hand composition to mnchlno com position; through hand power and flat bed to rotary presses; from malls to air males; from no telegraph to wire less. "All of these processes which are essontnl parts of your business, linve come to you ns the Blow nnd ordorly development of six centuries of pro gress, with frequently a century laps ing from step to step. "Your standard of ethics, the rela tionship of your papers to tho public, your sense of what enn bo done nnd what must not be dono, your respon sibilities for the expression nnd guid ance ofypubllc opinion all this has come olout with, the easo of an In herited fortune you received It from your predecessors from your ances tors, so to spouk, In the trade as a gift, a bequest. Nothing From Past "Wo, In contrast with yon. have nothing from the past. We must make all tlicBe things nnd achieve all these things for ourselves. The men who first took up this new thing aro still alive. The pioneers of our Institution are the men who are still In the bus iness. We ure at this moment In the very midst ot achieving those stand ards of our relation to each other and to the public nnd our responsibilities to the world. "No story for tho screen will ever be written more dramatic than the screen," he continued. "Twenty-five years ago tho motion picture wns n mere Idea. Its groatcst progress has hicn In the last five years and this is the same period during which It is conceded that there has been no such progress lu any other form of art or form of expression. When the dra matic art was a thousand years old, the plnyers were bedded in barns and said their lines In stable yards. When the art of drawing was thousands of years old. Its crudity was still primi tive. "All this Is In no sense by way or alibi. Tho motion picture is coming through on the hlghwny which lends to better pictures, but t express whar I know from my experience ot tho last few months that this Is not the Job of one group It Is the multitude's Job and In tho doing of It there is work for nil, for you as dol'inltely us for the MEXICAN TROOPS COOLIDG COMPLETE TRIP 3 STATES EL PASO, Texas, Jan. 21. A spec ial train carrying approximately 1500 Mexican federal troops passed thru 'El I'aso today at 6:45 a. m. and was , Immediately routed to Juarez, Spec ial guards of United Htates troops und Kl Paso police accompanied the train through the lower part of the city. I The troops came from western Mexico by way of Naco, Ariz., and will be sent to the interior of Mexico. Major Earl Landreth, United States army intelligence officer, in the Kl Paso district, was ill charge of tho truln from Columbus, N. M., to El I'aso, a distance of 73 miles. A spec ial guard of twenty soldiers accom panied the military officer to the bor der town and brought the train to Kl Paso. The precautions there were due to reports that a band of ebel raldorH had appeared near l'ulomns several miles below Columbus on the Mexican sldo of tho International boundary with tho Intention of attack ing the train. REPORT CONSOLIDATION PAC'iriC A-I ASSOCIATED NEW YORK, Jan. 21. Consolida tion .of the Associated Oil company with the Pacific Oil company which owns 51 per cent ot the former's slo'.k Is being planned, nccordlng to reports In the financial district. Pacific Oil, It Is understood, will Increase Its cap italization to cover tho minority hold ings of Associated Oil. ROOSEVELT Ql'ITS OIL CO. (Continued From rage One) burg told him had been made by Sin clair to a foreman on Mr. Fall's ranch. Mr. Whttlbutg advised him, he de clared, that he had the cancelled chocks In this transaction. Mr. Roosevelt said ho had met Mr. Whulburg In llnltimoro this morning nnd told him of his plans to appear today before tho committee. Ho out lined to him what ho intended to sny, nnd doclnred that thero could be no discrepancy in his recollection of their conversation. Roosevelt Story Denied. Following Mr. Roosevelt immedi ately on the stand. Mr. Whulburg de- I nled that he hud told Mr. Roosevelt -thut the foreman of Mr. Fall's ranch I had been pnld (118,000. Ho said that ' what he had said was that the fore man of the ranch had been given six :or eight bend of cattle. ' Whulburg also denied thnt ho had 'nny knowledge of any money ut any tlmo passing from Sinclair to l-nll. Tho witness snid hiH reason for ad vising Mr. .Roosevelt to resign was bo cause of Mr. Roosevelt's connection with the Russian branch of tho Sln clulr corporation. A few dayH before Mr. Sinclair sailed for Europe, Mr. Whulburg told tho cummittoe, Sinclair had given him Instructions to bring to his residence nil tho checkbooks und other account books, Including tho Hyva corpora tion which helped market the stock for the Tenpot Dome .syndicate. All these books, Whulburg suld, had been turned ami to Sinclair und he wns unaware ns to what hud become of them. rilKSIDUNT STANDS PAT (Continued From Page One) Illic Surplus Assured. Mr. Coflldgo asserted, and General t,ord amplified tho statement that for the first timo since the "business or uunlziitlon" of tho government was formed by President HnrdlnK. It was able to meet with no deficit indicated for tho year. Tho surplus for tho cur rent fiscal year, he said, promises to exceed :100,000,000 und ho attributed this satisfactory showing 'o tho Joint efforts of the legislative and execu tive branches of the government to keep expensos to n minimum. tlcncrul Lord revealed that only four agencies out of 43 In the govern ment originally asked for appropria tions for the next fiscal year, smaller thnn those under which they are now operating. Those wero the Inter-state commerce commission, the Interior deportment, the veterans bureau and tho shipping board. Tho budget bu reau went to work on tho requests of the others ho related, nnd when Its Job wns done tho estimates for ap propriations of the 39 other agencies had been pared down "so the total for all was J!iS, 000.000 less than the sum which President Harding last Juno set ns a maximum. , In the field of expenditures he men tioned important curtailment In trans portation, elephone nnd telegraph costa which never-the-lesa amounted to II 81. too. 000 In the Inst fiscal year. He also cited the adoption of stand ard forms for government lenses, uni fication of government purchases under ono agency, standardisation of specifications for materia nnd equip ment nnd the co-ordination of various activities as measures likely to re sult In the saving of many millions to tho treasury. Wrapping paper, cut to nt any site taper holder, from white print paper. t this office at prices much below the -egular wrapping paper price. Call at ince or phone 7f. tf iTAISLEjTS , Every3 Hours" BREAKS THAT COLD Hill's Cascara Bromide Quinine will break your cold in one day. Taken promptly it prevents colds, la grippe and pneumonia. Demand red box bearing Mr. Hill's portrait. All druggists. - , Price 30c. THRU QUIN1NE IE TELLS WETS HE'S FOR :EI WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. A request from delegates to the face-the-facts convention of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment for modi fication of the prohibition laws was met by President Coolidge with a dec laration that he "stood for law en forcement." Treading on the heels of the anti saloon league's meeting In time and on Its toes In the spirit, the "face-the-facts" conference sponsored by the Association Against the Prohibition amendment got under way here today with speakers hurling verbal volleys at the VolBtead act and the league. "Double enforcement of the eigh teenth amendment by tho state and federal courts constitutes 'Intolerable persecution,' and has been so charac terized by Judges on the bench," de clared Austen G. Fox, president of the .Moderation League of New York. "The legislature of tho state of New York saw it and in 1923 removed the cause by repealing Its enforcement act. "The Anti-Saloon league's determin ation is not merely to enforce the Volstead law," Mr. Fox asserted, "but to decry every great principle that stands In the way of tyrannical pro cedure and tyrannical procedure be gets revolt." "What shall It be, amendment or re volt?" he asked, declaring "we stand for prompt amendment." STILL A MYSTERY : KLAMATH FALIS, Ore., Jan. 21 The coroner's jtfty JSaturday night found thirt J. E. Brntton, former dep uty sheriff,' was slain by a person or persons unknown. Mrs. Brntton claimed the Hluycr fired one shot at her before fleeing. The shot which killed her husband struck just behind the rlRhtj-oar. Dr. Frank -Menne of Portland held on the stand that the death was due to auleirie. According to t"'o wld.w, she wns awakened by the fatal nfcnt and went to the door of heivi'pom. .Her husband, sleeping in the next room, had been shot nnd the intruder then fired at her, she said. ''' It wns slated a the investigation that tho nnHallant pawed over some Jewelry in the room, but took nothing?. The shooting was done with Uratton's own .2S cnlllior automatic pistol. ENFORC IN THIS is no confusing short-time offer. It's not a 10 months' subscription proposition. We offer a FULL YEAR'S SUBSCRIPTION 366 days of news at a cost of less than 2c a day. The Journal is the only Oregon metropolitan paper that has championed the cause of the American farmer. It is the only newspaper in the state publishing a FULL LEASED WIRE DAILY MARKET REPORT. The Journal MARKET PAGE is recognized as the most complete and, authentic in Oregon. 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