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MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1924
NO. 272
LLOYD. GE
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REPUDIATES
L'OYDGEORGE
Labor Premier Expresses Re
gret for Lloyd George's
Claim of Secret Agreement
Between Clemenceau and
Woodrpw Wilson Clemen
ceau Defies Lloyd George.
LONDON, Feb. 7. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) A grave view Is held
In British government circles regard
lug the situation precipitated by form
er Prime Minister Lloyd George's alle
gation of a compact uotween Woodrow
Wilson and Georges Clemenceau over
the occupation of the Ilhineland, It
was authoritatively stated today.
The relations between Premier Poin
care and Prime Minister MacDonald
have become cordial, it is declared,
and the disclosure was made today
that they had arrived at some import
ant arrangements with the Bavarian
palatinate over the separatist move
ment in which there has been friction
between Franco . and Great Britain.
Mr. Lloyd George's statement, there
fore, caused something akin to con
sternation in government quarters as
' It was felt to haVe". placed Mr. Mac
Donald In a difficult position. ; In view
of this Lord Crewe, British ambas
sador at Paris, has been instructed to
Interview M. Polncare and give a per
sonal explanation of the situation so as
to remove any wrong impression.
Lloyd George's Statement
LONDON. Feb. 7. (My the Asso
ciated Press.) With reference to an
Interview with former Premier Lloyd
George published by the New York
World and republished in a sensa
tional way by the London Evening
Standard last night, the foreign office
lias Issued the following statement:
"An Interview Is stated to have been
given by Mr. Lloyd Georgo to an Amer
ican newspaper, in ' the course of
which he Is made to ernrss himself
with indignation regarding his discov
ery In central official documents re
cently forwarded to him of evidence
that -during his absence in London,
President Wilson and M. Clemenceau
"had signed at the peace conference in
Paris, a 'secret compact' regarding
military occupation of the Rhineland."
The Interview continues:
' 'I have always been attacked by
many people in England as the viliian
of that piece. I have just received the
document from the foreign office. The
French now wish to publish the agree
ment botween Wilson and Clemenceau
and desiro me to agree. It Is a little
late to ask my consent; I have never
seen the documents before," " :
The statement proceeds!
"These assertions should be read
In conjunction with the following
facts: The foreign office ha3 been
notiHed that the French foreign office
Intends to prepare a yellow (blue)
book concerning! certain documents
connected with the drafting of articles
428 to 431 of the treaty of Versailles.
The consent of his majesty's govern
ment to the publication of these docu
ments is necessary in view of the
agreement reached by the peace con
ference under which th official records
of the proceedings of the conference
were not to be published.
fPontlniiArt on Fce Klsrht)
BE USEFUL TO HUMANITY AND LIVE IN
RICHMOND, Va., Feb. 7. A plan to
make Montlcello, Thomas Jefferson's
home near Charlottesville, Va., a mem
orial that will "embody active and con-,
tlnuous service for the preservation
and spread of American ideals," has
been worked out by the Thomas Jef
ferson Memorial foundation which Is
conducting a nation wide campaign for
funds. !
The plan calls for the selection each
year of three American citizens ad
judged to have rendered the greatest
service to humanity In science, educa-j
Big Pinochle Hand
Causes Death of S. P.
Flagman at Berkeley
BERKELEY, Cal.. Feb. 7.
The excitement of holding a big
4 hand in a game of pinochle is bo-
lleved to have caused the death
of Jacob Allman, a flagman for
the Southern Pacific Railroad
company in a pool hall here yes
's terday. lie collapsed suddenly
at the card table from an attack
of heart disease and died before
reaching a hospital to which he
was rushed.
RESTING PLACE
Present Plans Contemplate
Tomb in Washington Cathe
dral, But Mrs. Wilson Unde
cided Virginia and Prince
ton Present Claims.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. Wrapped
In the Rlory of death, Woodrow Wil
son has found sanctuary under the
towering arches of the Washington
cathedral acclaimed by his country
men and ttte world. ,
, Hg.-wus laid to his eternal rest In
the silent vault with only? the solemn,
simple rites olj religious service, as
whm his wish, often spoken to the sor
rowing widow who today sought
to take up life's burdens with an
aching sense of loss in her heart.
, Before her still is the task of de
ciding where shall be the final rest
ing place of her honored husband.
For months, probably, he will lie In
the vault to which hewas committed
yesterday, just as night came slowly
over the nation's capital; but a
greater memorial will one .day be
reared for him to show the honor in
which men held him.
The dead war president had given
thought to the place where he would
rest in death and it will be within the
District of Columbia that his ultimate
tomb will be set. That has already
been decided by Mrs. Wilson in ac
cordance with his wishes, although
the place where the tomb shall be
erected Is still to be elected.
Above the vault where lies the cas
ket that contains his body, the ca
thedral structure has reached a point
in building where the transepts north
and south are next to be constructed.
The north transept, by tradition in
JOngland and the United States, is
Hie transept of statesmen, where those
may lie who gave great .service to
their countrymen In the civil .walks
of nutionul. life. Plans have been
formed for the building of an ade
quate, memorial to Woodrow Wilson
In that transept of the cathedral be
neath which he now nests. It would
be placed Just where the massive nor
thern wall of the nave and the west
ern bulk of the transept will join.
Tomb In Guthedral.
As the plan now runs, the tomb
would be built Into the wall of the
cathedrnl itself and the casket so
tenderly placed yesterday In the
chapel vault would be sealed within
Its stone enclosure forever.
Within the transept on the main
floor of the cathedral, a fitting mem
orial would be set as the inner face of
the tomb.
Mrs. Wilson has not as yet assented
this idea of the plan. She had
agreed with her husband that since
he lived for eight long yeara in Wash
ington as president and came from
the White House to make his home
in the city, it 1b natural he Bhould be
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tion and government, who will be des
ignated "guests of the nation." They
will be entitled to occupy Montlcello
each for a period of three months as
tho central figure in an educational
program of national scope, directed
by the foundation in cooperation with
influential agencies for public enlight
enment In all the states of the union.
Edward F. Albee, chairman of the
foundation, in making public the plan,
said the selections would be made each
year on April 13, the birthday of Jef
ferson, by a proposed Montlcello board
of regents.
WILSON'S FINAL
MAY BE CHURCH
SECT FAIL
Attorneys for Government Per
suade Committee to Drop
Further Questioning Unless
Ex-Secretary Will Waive
Immunity Insistence Might
Make Action Impossible.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Further
efforts to question Albert F. Fall, in
the senate oil investigation wore
abandoned today by the oil commit
tee. Tho decision .was. reached upon ad
vice of the special government coun
sel In the oil cases, Silns F. Strawn
and Atlea Pomereno. They recom
mended against permitting Mr. Fall
to testify unless he waived immunity.
After considering the recommenda
tion of counsel for an hour the com
mittee adopted this motion by Sena
tor Walsh, democrat, Montana:
"The witness, Albert B. Fall, having
refused to answer any questions that
might be put to mm touching the mat
ters under Investigation by the com
mittee on the ground that his evidence
might tend to incriminate him, and
the committee being advised by coun-
sol that the statute providing that a
witness Bhould not be excused from
testifying before a congressional com
mittee on such ground being lesB
broad in its scope than the constitu
tlonal guaranty, so that proceedings
for contempt or by indictment against
the witness for contumacy would prob
abaly fail, and that if the witness pro
ceeded to testify before the commit
tee under protest he might gain Im
munity from prosecution and the com
mittee being advised by the attorney
for the witness that his purpose to
stand on his constitutional rights is
irrevocable, I move that the subpoena
Issued for the witness, Albert n. Fall,
be . vacated and that ho be released
from further attendance on the com
mittee." .
Senator Reed asserted that the "sln;
nous trail of bribery" had been found
to reach the government offices and
now should be "extended to the peni
tentiary." "We are about to determine," he
said, "whether cabinet officers are Im
mune from the law which governs the
common people of the country. All
officers who have betrayed their trusts
must be brought to the bar of the
courts. All officers who havo per
mitted the country to be plundered
while they slept at their posts must
be removed.; Every man who has for
fees or favor, employed the influence
which he gained through the generos
ity of the public to seduce the serv
ants, must bo exposed and condemn
ed." Asserting that Immediately after
taking office Fall has begun "setting
the stage for one of the most gigantic
steals of history," Senator Reed said
that on April 7, 1922, "Sinclair In the
role of miner burglar carried away
the Teapot Dome." '
. "April 25th, Doheny, playing the
star part, strolled across the stage,
boasting that his loot exceeded $100,
000.000," the senatbr continued. "The
play was ended; the curtain was rung
down. The oil circuit season was clos
ed. The actors retired; Sinclair to
the race track; Doheny to his Califor
nia habitat and Fall prepared to re
turn to innocent pastoral pursuits."
Referring to Fall's refusal to testify,
the senator declared that "he who
dare Hot speak lest he shall prove him
self a' criminal," stands self condemn
ed. " '
"Nor is Dofieny In a happier plight, 1
he continued. "Entangled in the
meshes of his own words, tripped and
trnpped by admitted facts, he lies
floundering. Slnclnlm manifestly pre
fers the companionship of bright
eyed Paris to 'the stony faces of the
senate committee. .
"The crimd stands confessed. So
far as Fall, Doheny and Sinclair are
concerned, guilt has been found by a
substantially unanimous vote in both
branches of congress. That derision
is barked by the universal verdict of
110,000,000 people.
Doheny Reduces Figures.
WASHINGTON. Feb. 7. E. L.
Doheny. the California oil operator,
has notified tho senate oil committee
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TIGHTENED
Doug, J r.s Mother Gives
Up Second Hubby To Devote
Life To Son's Movie Career
MR. AND MRS. EVANS AND DOUG. JR.. DEFORETHE
VOUTH'S CINEMA AMBITIONS BROKE UP THE FAMILY,
LOS ANGELES Between her husband and her son. Mrs. Fames
fc-vans, Jr. made the age-old decision of mother. She has parted
from her husband, whom she married after her divorce from Douglas
Fairbanks! in order to devote her life to her boy, Douglas Fairbanks
Jr.. who has begun a career in the movies. "
. WaS a co"fMct between art nd business." said Mrs. Evans.
"Mr. Evans is a business nfan My lite and hopes are all bound
up in my mi."
BOY LAUGHS ON
EVE OF DEATH,
CARSON CITY, Nev., Feb. 7. (By
Associated Ptohh),
Gee Jon, ChlnuHO
Thomas KuhhgII,
tong 'slayer and
American born Mexican youth, con
victed of killing hi Indian sweetheart
were Interviewed by newspapermen
today as the hours of their last day
drew them toward the stroke of ten
o'clock tomorrow morning when the
two condemned men will be put to
death In the first execution by lethal
gas.
The Chinese tonKman, reclining on
his bunk, arose and came to the door
of his cell. Ho Indicated that ho did
not understand the questions put to
him and declined tho warden's prof-'
fer of an interpreter. Gee Jon said
he could not eat or sleep and ho did
not want to discuss lethal gas.
Russell, the young Mexican, In an
adjacent cell, met the correspondents
smilingly and chatted freely, lie 're
peated his contention that he did not
kill the Indian girt, but that she was
slain by, her mother, who testified
that he was the slayer.
Asked whether he dreaded the now
form of execution, Russell said: "No
more than any other way."
X wouldn't choose any of them,
he added with a litugh, "and if 1 h.id
to choose, I wouldn't know which to
take. But 1 am not afraid. I did not
commit this murder. I am leaving
this world so why should I lie?"
Russell was reading a pruyer book
when the interviewers arrived. He
had magazines on his table. His de
meanor was cheerful, he seemed to
have a faint hope that a lust minute
reprieve might save him.
'Perhaps," he mused, "the old
squaw, my girl's mother, will come
here and tell the truth."
This was the first time the con
demned men had been seen by out
siders, excepting their counsel in the
manyt months that they have been
under the death watch while their
cases were carried to various courts
of appeal.
FLU KP1DKMIC IS KNGI,A!:
37 DIE IN ONE WEEK
IX)NDOiV, Feb. 7. There Is no sign
as yet of the abatement of the epi
demic of Influenza vmcn la sweeping
LETHAL CHAMBER
. - s 4 1
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 7. William A,
(Hilly) Sunday will not conduct a se
ries of revival meetings In Salem as
planned by a majqrity of local
churches, in a letter which he direct
ed to the chairman of a committee,
which urged him to appear here, he
Intimated he is nut coming because of
the divided sentiment.
PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 7. A
Umatilla county "Coolldge1 for presi
dent" club was formed here yester
day afternoon with H.' E. Hall of
Pendleton as president. - Senator Ike
Patterson, slulo manager of the Cool
ldge campaign reports that the senti
ment for Coolidge In Umatilla county
is very strong.
PENDLETON, Ore., Feb. 7. Pen
dleton slipped another notch In tho
Umatilla county basketball league
last night by dropping a slow game,
3(1 to Hi to Helix, the league leaders.
At Adams, pilot Rock secured a SEU
25 victory over Adams.
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 7. Soventv
flvo businessmen representing Salem,
Eugene, Albany, CorvalMs, Junction
City, and Springfield, indorsed tho
proposed pipe line from Clear Lake,
to Valley cities as far north as Salem
at a meeting hero. The proposed
plan calls for about, 179 miles of pipe
line with an estimated cost of between
$5,000,000 and $7,000,000.
It is said that the project would
provide a sufficient supply of ' water
for 600.000 persons for the next thirty
years. : :
E'P
DEAD, LONDON HOTEL
LONDON, Feb. 7. Mme. Sorgu, the
fumouH continental syndicalist, was
found dead in bed in a London hotel
today. Khe wan here as a correspon
dent for a Belgian newspaper. Reeking
Interview with Premier Macdonald,
Mr. Lloyd George and other notnbleB.
Mme Sorgu wnit the daughter of the
French philosopher, Durand Dogroa,
and her grandfather was the Russian
general, Kripkof. In the course of
her career, she has been described as
"Europe's most dangerous woman,
the stormy petrel, and 'Mme Trouble" "
over the United Kingdom. The deaths
reported from Influenza last - week
numbered 307.
Wealthy Clubman
Shoots Visitor of
The Early Morning
NEWTON, Mass., Feb. 7. An
exchange of shots between Lewia
F. Curtis, wealthy clubman and
sportsman, and a man believed to
be Roy G. Vance of Haverhill In
the sun porch of Curtis' home In
the fushlonnble Chestnut Hill
district early today sent botli,
men to hospitals. Curtis suffer-
ed only a slight wound in the
arm but Vance was found to be
in a crltlcnl condition.
JAPAN PLEADS
FOR CHANGE IN
U. S. ATTITUDE
Foreign Minister Matsiu in Ex
clusive Statement to Asso
ciated Press, Pleads for Fair
Play Asks Only for Treat
ment Accorded Others.
TOKIO, Feb. 7. (By the Associat
ed Press.) Viewing with apparent
anxiety the "increasing restrictions
Upon. Japanese, residents in the United
States and, the proposal now before
congress for further exclusion of Jap
anese," Foreign Minister K. Matsult,
In an exclusive statement to the Asso
ciated Press toduy appealed to the
United States to heed Japan's cher
ished desire "to be treated on the
same footing with other independent
nations."
Defending Japan's attitude toward
the question as "conciliatory and well
meaning," tho statement expresses
readiness to discuss anew tho prob
lem of restrictions and exclusion.
Tho foreign minister's statement
follows: i
"Naturally, Japanese are disturbed
over the increasing restrictions upon
the Japanese residents by the United
States and the proposals now berore
congress for further exclusion of Jap
anese. The discriminatory and seem
ingly relentless opposition of some
Americans to the presence of compar
paratlvely few of our people Is diffi
cult for us to understand and hard to
reconcile, either with our sense of
proper dignity or with the apprecia
tion of fine principles, for which
Americans generally stand.
"Being particularly anxious for
American good will wo have gone far
lu many matters to meet the Ameri
can viewpoint. Sentiment apart, we
fully realize that an accord and under
standing with the United States would
bo of Incalculable anvantage to Jap-
nn. Our continued development anu
security to a large measure depend
upon tho maintenance of good rela
tions with America as well as with oth
er nations. This is not merely a tem
porary ueuu, uut an mi uo jwooiuin
see, Japan's need far in the future. Wc
live by our overseas trade, In which
tho United States Is our greatost cus-,
tomer and onr chief source of supplies.
Request Not Unreasonable
'In the wisdom of a policy of close
understanding and cooperation, all
Janan concurs. Jupan was overwhelm
ingly gratified and moreover, touched
deeply and endurlngly by the sympa
thy and extensive generosity your pen-
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WiFP flFNIR SHF M WAVWARfl
llll L. ULIIII-U VJIIL. UIIUI IIMI (IIIIIU
HUSBAND AND
PULi,i:AN, WasH., Fob. 7. Denial
that she hi'd anything to do with tho
slaying Inst night of Miss Kate Hurter,
26, or the shuotlng of her husband,
Lawrence Stackman, 85, was reiterat
ed today by Mrs. Stackman.
"I don't see why he Insists 1 did It,
after he promised to go straight and
now that he Is dying, she was quoted
as Baying.
Mrs. Stackman was held by the
police for questioning, but no charge
has been filed agnlnst her.
Stackman was taken today to Col
fax, the county seat of this county,
where he was questioned by the
sheriff.
SABY DYING
AS FUNERAL
OF 11 HELD
Two Year Old Baby Only Sur
vivor of 12 Stricken Three
Sets of Pall Bearers and 3
- Ministers Take Part in Un
usual Services in Willam
ette Valley.
ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 7. At one
o'clock this afternoon the First
Presbyterian church was paoked
to overflowing when the funeral
services were held. Floral offer
ings were piled high upon the plat
form which bore the ten caskets.
One tiny coffin Is already pre
pared for Horst Ruehllng, so cer
tain are the attendants that his
fight for life is hopeless.
ALBANY, Ore., Fob. 7. Horst .
Ruehllng, aged two, only survivor
of u family party of twelve poi- .
Honed by food eaten at a dinner
Kutunlny wnn todny stricken wltli
symptoms of Uio malady which
already has caused eleven deaths,
Dr. Frederick I. Strieker, Htitte
health officer rushed to tho home '
of lOrnest Roitz, six miles east of -hero
this morning on receiving
news of tho child's Illness, tpitcml-v
' lug to ndmlutster serum to cmni
ternct botiilintiH poisoning- but ho .
wild ho fenred the serum hod ai 1
rived too Into and thut the child
would not survive. .
ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 7. Ten cas
kets, containing the eleven bodies of
the Reinhold Qerber and Paul Qerblg
families, two of the Ruehllng family,
and one of the family of Otto Yunker,
were placed today In the First Pres-
uyiemin unurvn nuro lur luiiernt iwi-
vico this afternoon over f the victims
of poisonoUB food eaten at a family
reunion dinner Inst Saturday. One of
the caskets contained the body of
Mrs. Paul Clorbig and her 13-months
old daughter Esther.
Three sets of pall bearers were
selected from among members of the
congregation with which the Qerbers
and Oerhigs have been associated
since coming to Linn county, more
than thirty years ago.
The Rev. H. C. Messerll of Albany,
Rev. H. W. Gross of Salem Lutheran
church, Rev. E. J. Propst of Corvallls,
Rev. C. Schulonberg of Lebanon, and
Mayor P. A. Young of Albnay, were
chosen to assist In conducting - the
services, which are being held In the
First Presbyterian church because It
has the inrgest seating capacity of any
church in Albany.
In accordance with the wishes of
Mrs. Reinhold Oerber, the Qerber and
Oerblg families will be burled In one
long trench In a plot In , Riverside
cemetery, with floor, walls and roof
Immediately above the caskets In con
crete. The Ruehlings go to another
plot, and Hans Yunker to his family's
burial ground.
A deputy of the state health office
was here last night to get samples of
tissue and organs of thevlctims for a
more thorough study of the malady
which caused the deaths of the eleven
victims and which has been ascribed
by local Investigators to botullnus In
homo preserved beans.
Casualties of the
Air Service
LYONS, France, Feb. 7. Two mili
tary alrplnnes, piloted at a height of
3000 feet while maneuvering yester
day, crashed In flames. Both pilots
were futully Injured.
KILLED SWEETHEART
Miss Hnrter's body was found In her
home with Stackman, badly wounded,
by the girl's mother whet) she re
turned last night from a picture show.
Stackman had three bullet wounds in
his breast and physicians did not ex
pect him to live long.
Mrs. Stackman arrived here yester
day from Lewinton, Idaho, and was
quoted as having said she came to
warn Mrs. Harter about her daughter
keeping company with Stackman, who
la a railroad engineer. ,
Mrs. Stackman was found asleep In
her hotel room last night, and deputy
Biiuriikn were uiiuriiivu lllul BIIV anil
nnt lnft thA hllililinff.