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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1924
NO. 270
HALF HOLIDAY IN
EGON PROCLAIMED
NE
OR
i
WEDNESDAY
A HOLIDAY
IN OREGON
Governor Pierce Declares To
morrow a Legal Holiday in
Honor of Late President Wil
son Plans for Funeral in
Washington, D. C. Are Per
fected. -
SALEM, Ore., Feb., 6. Governor
Pierce today announced a proclama
tion declaring "Wednesday afternoon
of this week a legal holiday in Oregon
out of respect to the late ex-President
Woodrow Wilson, whose funeral will
be held tomorrow at Washington, D.
C. This will have the effect of closing
all public offices, banks, schools, etc.,
during the afternoon. The proclama
tion follows:
"Whereas, the funeral services for
Woodrow Wilson are to be held at the
national capital on the afternoon of
Wednesday, February the sixth, 1924:
"Whereas, memorial sorvlces at
which the peoples of his country are
to do our late president homage are to
he held throughout the state of Ore
gon and the United States of America;
"Whereas, Woodrow Wilson . was
our war president and one of the
greatest Americans;
"Now, therefore, I,' Walter M.
Pierce, governor of Oregon, do hereby
proclaim the afternoon of Wednesday,
February the sixth, 19.24, a half holi
day In order thatl.the people of the
state of Oregon may do honor to tho
memory of our fallen leader."
The governor supplemented his
proclamation by o, request to the
schools of the state to observe a me
morial to the late president with ser
vices at their respective buildings. The
statement said:
"While Wednesday afternoon, Feb
ruary 6, 1924, has been declared a
legal half holiday in the state of Ore
gon, it is obviously impossible for all
of the school children of the state to ,
gain access to the , public meetings I
that will be held In honor of the
memory of America's war president.
.'It is, therefore, my earnest request
that provisions be made for a fitting
memorial service at the various public
schools of the state where the school
children may go to pay their last re- '
spectB to the man who led our nation
through the most perilous days of Its
existence." j
"Tommy" Wilson Remembered
COLUMBIA, S. C, Feb. 6. Tommy
Wilson's relatives and friends today
sent to Washington their tribute to ,
the memory of Woodrow Wilson a
blanket of gray moss and magnoltt
leaves from a tree that once sheltered
the play or a local scnooi uoy wnu
long afterwards became a national
figure.
The blanket, fashioned with tender
care to cover that once obscure boy In
his last exalted sleep, was taken to tho
capital, scene of his triumphs and
death by Miss Katherlne Woodrow of
Rock Hill, a cousin, nnd Colonel
George McMaster of Columbia. Into
Its weaving went many cherished
1 memories of the time when
Tommy's" father, the Rev. J. R. Wil
son, was a professor In tho Columbia
theological seminary and preached In
the First Presbyterian church In the
grounds of which, Beveral years ago,
he laid the body of his sister, Mrs.
George Howe, beside those of his par
ents. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 6 The jury
In the DeBouchel-Candler $500,000
breach of promise suit today returned
a verdict In favor of Asa Candler, Sr.,
the defendant.
LOS ANGELES CATS
COCO COLA KING
WINS DECISION
STRINGS OF BELLS 10 WARN BIRDS
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 5. Passage of
an ordinance requiring the 60,000 or
more cats Inhabiting Los Angeles
homes and alleys to wear strings of
bells about their necks to warn birds
of the approach of their natural ene
mies was urged in a letter received by
Councilman Fred C. Wheeler from Mrs.
Charles P. Hubbard add made public
by trie councilman last night.
Emil Coue Arrives ,
in Los Angeles and
Many Claim Cures
LO SANGELES, Fob. 6. Emll
Coue, exponent of conscious auto-
suggestion, arrived here today for
a series of lectures on the phil-
osophy embodied in his much dls-
cussed and repeated formula:
"Every day, in every way, I am
getting better and better." That
4 the formula bad not lost its
strength nor M. Coue bis cffec-
tiveness was vouched for by a
dozen persons who announced
from the platform after hiB in-
ltial lecture and demonstrations
today that they had been relieved
of . sundry ailments, Including
neuritis, partial paraysla and
rheumatism.
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TRAIN CRUSHES
CHICAGO STREET
CAR; 2 KILLED
Crowded Street Car Smashed
By Train at Kedzie Ave., and
49th Street Scores Injured
Many Fatally Crews Are
Arrested.
CHICAGO, Feb. 5. Two men were
killed and a score or more passengers
were injured today when a crowded
street car was struck by a freight
train on the Indiana Harbor belt rail
way at Kedzlo avenue and 4Dth stVeet
on the southwest side.
The dead:
William Hebel, street car passenger.
Undentlfied man, street car pas
senger. A dozen injured, eleven men, and
one woman, were taken to a hospital
and eight others less seriously hurt,
were taken to the Crane company's
emergency hospital.
Police and firemen reported that
the railway crossing gates were up
and that the conductor of the street
car said his car was so crowded with
early morning rush hour passengers
that he was unable to get off to ob
serve the tracks.
The car, according to the police,
started forward over the sleet covered
tracks as the train bore down upon it.
Seeing a crash imminent the motor
man threw on all his power, but It
was insufficient, the heavy train strik
ing the enr squarely, crushing It and
dragging it 75 feet or more as pas
sengers were hurled through the air
and dropped about like - so many
bricks in a building collapse.
Every police ambulance on . the
south sit was rushed to the scene
and fire apparatus was called out.
Firemen jacked up part of the
wreckage in order to extricate many
of the injured. Hebel and the other
dead man were lifeless when removed
from the wreckage.
The injured, a number of whom
were seriously, some fatally hurt, were
nearly all workers on their way to
places of employment and to the
downtown district.
The freight train was bound for the
stockyards and carried mixed freight.
Charles Dewltt, conductor and Her
man Schenk, motorman of the car;
Otto Rock, Hammond, Ind., engineer;
Chester Hayes, Hammond, Ind., con
ductor; Louis T. Boyer, Hammond,
Ind., switchman, and Charles Mioch,
Chicago, towerman for the Grand
trunk railroad, over whose tracks the
train was proceeding, were all taken
Into custody for questioning by the
nollce.
Conductor Dewltt told the ponce
that he did not see the train and gave
the motorman a signal to go ahead.
Mioch. the towerman, said he saw the
train but not until the car started for
ward and was unable to warn the car.
Twenty-five of the passengers were
unconscious when picked up. A num
ber of others riding on the rear plat
form escaped injury by jumping
MAY HAVE TO WEAR
Relating how one day she saw eight
cats stalking mocking birds through
her back yard, and pointing out that
in one home on her street no less than
23 kittens were born laBt year, Mrs.
Hubbard's letter begged the council
men to work for the correction of this
"alarming situation confronting the
mocking birds,"
DEATH TOLL
OF BUZZARD
MOUNTING
Millions in Property Damage
and Scores of Lives Lost in
East and Middle West As
Result of One of the Worst
Snow Storms in Recent
History.
MILWAUKEE, Wis-, Feb. 5.
Three persons are dead, a dozen
injured and property damage esti
mated at $1,000,000 Is the result
of the most paralyzing snowstorm
In 40 years, which began yester
day at noon and continued through
out the night
John Greltls, 40, Joseph Doyle
52, and Carl Anderson, 32, died
during the night from exhaustion
caused by battles with the bliz
zard In an attempt to reach their
homes. Many pthera fought the
elements during the night after
street cars and taxlcabs had given
up the battle, while hundred
crowded the downtown hotels, not
attempting to leave the business
district.
Three Dead In Michigan
NEW YORK, Feb. 5. Weather that
today ran the gamut from mild tem
peratures In sections -of lower Michi
gan to drirted snowa further north,
and sleeted streets, wires and rails,
brought a total of at least throe dead,
damage that is roughly estimated nt
upwards of a million dollars and de
moralized traffic and communication
in many places.
Motor and rail traffic was made haz
ardous throughout lower Michican by
the sleet that made the entire section
a virtual sea of Ice.
Virgil McLean of Fline, was killed
early today when the auto he was driv
ing was struck by a train at that
place. An ice coated windshield that
dimmed his view is blamed.
Victor Compton, 60, was probably
fatally injured at Fline, when he was
run down by a truck.
Icy rails that prevented an lnterur-
ban car from stopping In time, caused
the death of Mrs. Esther Wilson, 45,
and Mrs. Doris Ruhn, 40, late last
night nt a grade crossing near
Ypsilantl. Their auto was demolished
and the women were klled instantly
Rain and sleet driven by a high wind
caused considerable discomfort In
New York City and reports from op
state indicated the storm was in
creasing. , "
nt-nr a nn Vah R The central anj i
middle western states from Minnesota
tn Tcian nr dlcelnc themselves out
of snow drifts today after one of the
worst blizzards In years, wnicn ilea r.u
raiimnd tmffln nnd wrought havoc
with communication with estimatel of
losses of several million dollars. V"
cago Is almost Isolated.
rta chinnen office of the AsfcOCIat-
ed Press, the largest news relay point
in the world, was compeuea w
radio to broadcast the news for liorn-
ing papers that filtered in over reuno,
about circuits. '
Ordinarily the hub for wires Carry
ing Aianllatcil Press dtSDBtChSS to
xt, vr.,i Vttw Orleans. San Fran
cisco and northwest points, unicxgo re
ceived outside news alter a wwo ut
tour was made to pass around sections
where communications were severed.
The wires were so routed to leea vir
qiiv avorv Amnrlcan city to de Pa
cific coast and back again Wore
touching Chicago. Starting a "New
od through Wash-
r -i
Ineton. Atlanta. New urieaM
i in ifonnio r. iv. Ok anonu v,nr
ra. ..j at Paul before their bur
den of news was finally landed In Chi
cago. San Francisco and oiner ra
tine coast points also were served
from this route.
Di.iiun Snowbound
Pollef trains, many of then sum
moned by radio when ordinary com
munication failed, are endeavtnn i
i flvhl trains
reacn passengers auu ...-
which are snow hound at various
points In Minnesota and Wisconsin.
most of the italled
trains were enabled to obtain shel
ter for the night at towns ana iuu
nninia where they wen m-
rooned. One train at Waupaca, Wis.,
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Lillian Gish May Marry
Husband of Woman Who Was
Social Patron At Newport
MISS G1SH AND MRS. DUELL IN 'FRIENDLY POSK
BEFORE THE.RIRT APPEARED IN TH E JJUKU&S M ATR N
MONIAL LUTE;- INSET. C. H. DUELL, '
NEW YORK.-Whcn the C.Hi Duells, of Newport, first bios-''
somcd oul as movie magnates, with. Lillian Gish as their star, Mrs
Duell was the social mentor and patron ol the actress, whom she
chaperoned al Newport in an attempt to effect her entrance into
society.
Now Mrs. "Duel! has been granted a Paris divorce, and Mr
Buell is expected to marry Miss Gish. Both the star' and her em
ployer arc in Italy where they may open. a moving-picture studio.
Mr. Duell comes of an old New York family; he is a cousin of
Elihu Root, a son ol the late Judge Charles H. Duell, and a Yale
grad-iatc He was a close friend of the late President Roosevelt
and managed his campaign tour in 1912.
PORTLAND
MILK
vw
DECLARED
PRICE SLASHED
PORTLAND, Ore., Fob. 5. War
between' tbe Associated Creameries,
recently organized and a number of
dairies here, has resulted In a reduc
tion In the price of milk to groceries
of 7 cents a quart, compared with a
price of 12 cents a quart before the
first slash was made a few weeks ago.
The retail price has been cut to 11
cents a quart when paid in advance.
The first clash came after the Asso
ciated Creameries came Into existence.
Milk prices to the grocers were re
duced from 12 to 11 cents, according
to K. C. Eldrl(;o, manager and prin
cipal organizer of the Associated
Creameries.
The dairies then cut prices to the
grocers and restaurants to 10 cents
and finally, on February 1, to 8&
cents, with gallons at 30 cents.
Then Eldrldge states, he cut his
price to 7 cents.
The Daily
Bank Robbery
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 6. The
Eureka valley branch of the Bank of
Italy at Seventeenth and Castro
streets was entered by three young
bandits todny and robbed of approx
imately $0000 In coin and currency
after four employes of the bank had
been locked In the vault and another
In a closet. The bandits escaped In
an automobile.
The three men entered the bank
with drawn pistols and demanded all
of tho money In sight. They were re
fused. They then herded the three
men clerks and one woman clerk Into
the vault and locked the janitor in a
closet. The Janitor broke from tho
closet after a few minutes and called
the nollce. The others were llberat
ed from the vault. The bandits
scooped up approximately )G000, but
they overlooked a large quantity of
silver.
FRESNO. Cal.. Feb. 6. Two un
masked men held up the 'First State
bank of Clovii, eleven miles from
Ex-College Professor
Is Declared Winner
Of Bok Peace Prize
-.
PHILADELPHIA. ' Feb. 6.
Charles Herbert Levermore of
New York, Btudent of Interna-
tlonal relations, writer and form-
er college professor . was an-
nounced as the winner of the
$100,000 prize offered by Edward
Bok for the best plan to preserve
peace among the nations of the
world.
Levermore was announced as
the winner by John Davis of the
policy committee of the Amerl-
can peace award. Davis also pre-
sented him with $50,000, halt of
Bok's prize, and the remainder 't
will be given only if the plan Is
accepted by congress.
Levermore'8 plan was number
14G9 In a total of 22,105 re-
celved.
The Noted Dead
WASHINGTON, Feb. 5. Rear Ad
mlral Selfrldge, retired, died at bis
home here today of heart disease.' He
would have passed his 88th birthday
Wednesday. '
Admiral Selfrldge and his father,
who bore the same name and attain
ed the same rank, served the navy for
106 years, the elder enlisting in J818
The younger man achieved fame In
the Civil war.
here, locked Cashier Thomas Howl-
son In the vault and escaped In nn
automobile with a sum estimated at
$25,000 today. .. .
Officials of the sheriff's office were
Immediately notified and posses began
searching for the robbers.
Assistant Cashloc Emory Rayhurn,
returning from lunch released Howl-
son.
DES MOINES, la., Feb. 0. Bandtts
held up and robbed the university
State bank here this afternoon and
escaped in an automobile with ap
proximately $4000 in cash. The rob
bery occurred after the bank had
closed for the day, bull while em
ployes were still nt their books. En
trance was gained through a back
door.
Huerta and Staff
Flee By Steamer
From Vera Cruz
NEW YORK. Feb. 6. Adolfo
De La Huerta, leader of the
Mexican revolution and his stuff
have left Vera Cruz on a steam-
er for an unknown destination,
f according to information recelv-
ed here this afternoon from a re-
liable quarter. The rebel troops,
advices stated, were evacuating
the city.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6 Evac-
uation of Vera Cruz by the De
La Huerta insurr ectlontsts
ngalnBt the Obregon government 4
4 was 'reported today In consular 4
advices received by the Btate
department.
Physicians Fear Iwo or Three
More Will Die 'As Result of
Eating Home Canned Beans
All But One at Dinner
Stricken.
ALBANY,, Ore., Feb. 5. Mrs.
Relnhold Qorber, who up to to
day had shown little effect of pole- '
onlng which caused the death of
ignt persons who ate dinner to
gather Saturday, was today taken
seriously III and physicians at
noon roported her dying. Her
three year old granddaughter,
Margaret Qerblg, who has been
seriously Hi from poisoning, was
reported near death at noon to
day. This lea'ves only 'one mem-,
ber of the party of twelve at the
dinner not in danger, a two year
old boy.
ALBANY, Ore, Fob. 6. Tho death
of Esther Oerblg, thirteen months old
toduy brought the number of dead
from eating poisonous food at a fam
ily reunion dinner Haturday to eight.
Tho child's father, Paul aerblg, was In
a critical condition, and phystclanB did
not expect him to live through the
day. HotullnuH In home preserved
beans was believed by investigators
to have caused the poisoning.
Margaret Qerblg, aged, three, who
was this morning believed out of dan
ger, suffered a relapse today and her
condition was so serious physicians
doubted she could recover.
At present only Mrs. Relnhold Oor
ber the, chleld's grandmother, and two
year old Horst Kuehling, whose par
ents died yesterday, and who 1b be
lieved to have escaped eating any of
the poisoned food are not ill.
The death list Included Mrs. Paul
Onrbig, aged 34; llda Qerblg, 10;
Mnrle Oerblg, 7; Qottried Ruehllng;
Mrs. Ootfrled Ruehllng; Werner
Yunker, 10; Relnhold Qerber and
Esther Oerblg
' Slato Holidays Dtvlared.
SANTA FE, N. M., Feb. 6. Gov
ernor Hlnkle today directed all state
offices, banks and business houses to
close tomorrow out of respect to
Woodrow Wilson.
. PHOENIX, Ariz., Feb. 6. A proc
lamation declaring tomorrow a pub
lic holiday in Arizona, as a tribute .to
the late Woodrow Wilson was Issued
today by Governor Hunt of Arizona.
Pass Dry Enforcement Bill.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6. The hoiiBB
today approved a section of tho treas
ury appropriation bill which would
provide $10,629,770 for prohibition en
forcement In the United States during
the coming fiBcal year.
ITALY SHEDS
ME 1
FROM HDMECAN
BEANS
ALBANY
NEWSPAPER COMMENT IS BITTER
nOMB, .Feb. U. (By the Associat
ed PresB) Scant eulogy appears In
the newspapers for Woodrow Wilson.
Most of the journals recall the va
riance of his views with those of the
Italian. The fascist organ, Impero,
ends a long editorial article as fol
lows: "On the tomb of Wilson we Bhed
no tears nor place s. flower, One can
forgive, but not forgot,"
. The Epoca says the former presi
dent believed In abstract formulas,
REVOLUTION
IN MEDICINE
IS FORSEEN
Dr. William Mayo Predicts
Great Upheaval in Medical
Science As Result of Dis
coveries of Minute Organ
isms X-Ray Great Factor
in Discoveries.
TACOMA, Feb. 5. An immense up-.
hcaval In the accepted medical doc
trines Is coming In the near future as
a result of the study of minute "or
ganlzatlons,M invisible even, under the
microscope, according to Dr. William
J. Mayo, member of the Mayo
brothers clinic at Rochester, Minn.,
and one of the most famous surgeons
In the country. Dr. Mayo spoke be
fore the Klwanls club at noon.
"Medical science Is on the verge of
some marvelous discoveries in bio
physics," said Dr. Mayo. "We have
studied nearly all that can be seen
with tho eye and through the micros
cope and are Just beginning to under
stand the action of the minute or
ganizations which are beyond, the
range of sight. The effect of these
organizations on the kidneys, 'liver'
and' Bpleen and on human digestion'
and human 'life In' general are
of the most Importance. We have1
barely begun to realize just how large
a, part they play. In lite, as-our knowledge-grows
we will see an Immense
upheaval In the doctrines ye have
held for years." ' '
Dr. Mayo explained how; with the
aid of the X-ray the smallest organ
isms, too small to be seen or to be af
fected by gravitation, can be Btudled
and analyzed. He has devoted con
siderable lime of late years to the
study of these minute organisms.
"The field for research along these
linos 1b immense," he said. . "We are
Just) beginning to realize how -vast It,
is and how much can be explained by'
tlie action of the atom, the electron
and other minute bodies."
Dr. Mayo Is accompanied by Dr.
Franklin H. Martin of Chicago, di
rector general of tho American cot
lego of BurgeonB. They are on - their
way to Australia to make a study of
tropical diseases. - . . ,
ANOTHER 2 CENTS
PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 5. Gaso
line went up another two cents J,oday,
bringing the price here to 23 cents.
Including three cents state 'fax. ...
The price of .gasoline In Medford,
went to 26 cents this forenoon, in
cluding war tax and distillate to 23
cents. It is rumored here by some
that the threatened closing of the
Teapot Dome fields and the capping
of smaller wells In California, which
lowers the production, are the causa
of this raise In price, but the prevail
ing opinion Is the raise merely marks
the opening -of tourist travel ' and
greater demand for gasoline. The
Union Oil company did not raise Its
price In Medford, but Is expected to
do so In a few days.
Klamath Men Get Life.
KLAMATH FALLS. Ore.,,Feb. 5.
Damaclo Cadena and Alfonso Raygozo,
hnva haen .AntanrAf! tn Hfn Imnrlinn.
I nient after pleading guilty to the
'charge of killing Jose R. Felix, De-
cember 4. They changed their plea
irom not guuiy 10 guiuy or muruer in
the second degree.
NO TEARS FOR WILSON.
rather than . national realities, "and
died in solitude."
IlMonda alone In Its editorial gives
t touch of reverence for the dead
statesman. "Today, on his deathbed,'"
It says, "we wish to remember htm
as the faithful interpreter of the gen
erous sentiments of the American
people. He hastened the defeat of
German Imperialism and secured vlc
tory for those principles of humanity
and democracy for which all free men
suffer hardships and endure untold
dangers," - 1 -."'