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.
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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.
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