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fV Medford Mail Tm The Weather I'mliirtlon Cloudy Maximum jesionlily 40 Minimum today 24 Weather Year Ago Maximum . .' 44 Minimum ;io IftUb; Hlnrtecnth Tear. TWELVE PAGES MEDFORD. OREflOX. FRIDAY, JANUARY Hi. 1VT NO. 253 BUNE Bill HART'S im WOES TOLD COURT Mr.s. Wm. S. Hart, Wife of f Movie Star, Relates Events in Married Life Which Led to Collapse of Romance ; Promised $203,000 for Self and Baby. LOS ANGELES, (Jul., Jan. 10. Winifred- Westovcr Hurt took t'no wit ness stand in court here'today in hor suit to break . the separation agree ment with her husband, William S. (Bill) Hart, film' star, and told for the first time the lnsido story of their domestic troubles, . Between .fits -.of crylntr while her husband looked on stoically and her! baby boy froliacd in his nurse's lap nearby, the former screen actress told of llart's frequent demands that she get a diyorce from him and lier re peated refusals on her baby's account. They were married, she said, in De cember, 1821, and nil went well until May Day, 1022, when, following a dis agreement between her and Hart's sister. Mary, ho told hor: "if that's the kind ot stuff you arc going to Villi I don't want you in the house.' Hor husband added, sho testified that ho had $400,000, and that lie would create n trust fund of $103,000 to provide an income for herself and another $100,000 to take care of the expected child. Mrs. Hart retorted that sho did not believe in divorce, she said, and that she would not handicap her child by starting him in life with divorced parents. Then, sho testified, mil' dramati cally declared: "1 owo nothing to posterity." . . . Several times, sho continued, her husband urged her to go to Reno'. and obtain a divorce, "but she refused, and their relations bocamo so strained that at times he denied ' her their home. On such occasions, sho said, she went to her mother's. Mrs; Hart- Is attempting to break .that provision of the trust fund set tlement which bars her from return ing: to tile screen. The examination developed that Mrs. Hart and her mother were with out funds when she married Hart, although she was before the camera almost dally. The first present to the bride on the marriage .dale from the so-called "two-gun man" of the films, was n $5,000 check. Another for $7000 fol lowed n few days later. Tho defense counsel sought to dis credit Mrs. Hart's assertion that sho was turned out of tho Hart house hold "without funds." TAKES GOLF LEAD SAX KiiA.VCISCO, Jan lfi.-Mac-donahl Smith of the Lakeville polf club, Cireatneuk, J,. I., dofending his title in the California open golf cham pionship, advanced to the lead at the end 'of the third round today when ho had a 75 for a total 32 strokes for tho 54 holes. Willie Hunter, former British amateur champion, now of Los Angeles was second, making tho inormug rounu in lor tolul or 234. Al Espinosa of Chicago, the Mis Houri open champion, shoi a 75 for 2U5 for, third place. . CHICAGO, Jan. 16.- Publication of a picture of her divorced husband in a Loa Angeles" newspaper has ended a search Mrs. Florence Kerr, Chicago, haa made for 30 years for her daugh ter, Dorothy, now Mrs. George M. Hctrich of Los Angeles. The child, then five years old. was temporarily awarded to the father af ter tho divorce thirty years ago. Father and mother separated and trace of the child was lost by Mrs. Keli. Mrs. Kerr will go to Los Angeles at once for a reunion with her former husband and daughter. I'AHIS. Jan. 1G. Hoboed hair and j over bright complexions, hard hats and barbaric Jewelry appear to be on the decline, and cigarettes and slang ainonir the femlnlno smart fet are less BOBBED HI AND ROUGED CHEEKS GOING OUT IN PARIS. BRIGHT US (II IN ini...iiv inrtiiiiert In than In pastiSleeves for evenine dress are also season. Such are the. conclusions m a male observer reached after attend ing numerous Paris social fum-tions. Color is pluying a much greater part THIS IS LOni) SILVlfHTOX, j WINNER OP EVERY I'RIZE AT PACIFIC COAST SHOW This champion stiver gray, own ed by Miss Klafc Jacobson of San Krancisco. recently t won every prize for which he competed. In addition Lord Silverlon is credited with having the largest eyes of any rat on the west coast. E Sydney S. Barker, R. F. D. Wo. 2; Punctures , Bubble of Matrimonial Bureau at Hol lywood Received Picture of Enid Bennett. Los Angeles, Jnn. 1(. Sydney S. Barker, Med ford fruit grower wan witness nalnsL KruesL IS. Swartu, who was convicted in federal court yester day of using mails to defraud. Hwurlz is alleged to have obtained money from bachelors in matrimonial bureau fraud and to have sent Marker a photograph of lCnid Bennett, film actress. Sidneys. Barker, mentioned in Los Angeles dispatches as a witness in a fedoral case wherein Ernest E. Suvii'! wjih rnn v(ef rrl rif nf ni- 11m mails to defraud in connection with a I matrimonial bureau, .said this after noon over telephone that this was "the .secrond time I have been mixed up with Kwindlers usini; the mails, and lost no money either time." Barker waid Jiis first appearance was in connection with tho Talmadge eawo a year ny.o In I'oi'tland. i "If you have to put something in the paper,"' said Barker over the telephone, "just say that I was instru mental 'in puncturing iho bubble at Hol! wood. At si on as 1 received one of their letters I was skeptical, and Koi. in touch with the authorities. Kurther than that I do not care to say auvl himr cxtMr,f lt;il I lost no nionev " Mi. IJ'K-kec lives on K.- '. 3. No. 2, UIHl 1ft iL W UIIMVIT. FFAR ATI ANTIC Fl IFR LOST IN S. A, JUNGLE NEW YORK, J;in. Tho local station of tho Hadio Cluli of America was today awaiting a report as to t tie whereabouts of Walter Minton, pilot of tho na,vy N"C-4 on the pioneer air plane trip across tljo Atlantic, who lias been reported mfssliiK from the Ilea Vista base of the Alexander Hamilton IUce expedition in the Amazon river basin. Hinton and Captain A. VV Stevens of the United States left the base In a hydroplane several days at?o for u two-day reconnaisance trip over the jungle but have not returned. Mnrslif'Hd Hoy Drowned. MAUKHKIEMJ, Ore., Jun. 16. Oliver Traill, aijocl 10. fell off a liB ruft and wus drowned In the (.'o qnllle river near Myrtlo Totut late yesterday. In Paris fushlun than at any time since the armistice. ,Iilack dresses have be come less popular and light colors have,been steadily on the increase. The short skirt has had a new lense of life, but is slightly fuller In the back more popular and the bare arm is no longer considered essential for ele gance in dress. The bare back Is also less common. v LOCAL RANCHER PUIS MARRIAG GRAFTER I PEN CHANGES IN IRRIGATION' LAW URGED Important Measures Are Offered in Salem- to Make Radical Changes in Present Procedure Would 'Place Managers in Charge of De funct Districts. STATEHOUSE, SALEM, Jan. 1 tl. Among Irrigation hills that aro to bo offered at this session of tho legisla ture it now appears that three will loom uppermost. One Would enable irrigation districts to refund their bonded indebtedness, one would provide for the sale of water rights, and another provides for the appointment of a manager for dis tricts that are In default In payment of interest of principal on bonds. , The measures have all been drawn in tentative form. Tho ono referring to water rights provides that the hoard of directors of an irrigation district may apply to the state engi neer to determine tho quantity of sur plus water in the district for possible) sale. Ho would lie required to make his findings and report back to the board. The refunding bill provides that the board of directors of any Irrigation district may issue negotiable coupon bonds,' to he denominated refunding bonds,' for the purpose of refunding any or ail of the bonded indebtedness of the district. Whether refunding bonds would "bo Issued would be determined by special election of the voters of the district or at the regular election of district officers. The rate of Interest on the bonds could not exceed 6 per cent, according to tho bill, and the maturity date could not be moro than 40 years from date of issuance, but the first installment! shall be payable in not more than ten years from date of bonds. For tho payment of tho refunding bonds and Interest on them. It is pro-, I vided that "each acre of irrigablo land m tne district snail ue assesseu ann be required to pay the samo amount as every othor acre of Irrigable land therein, and all lands In and the prop erty of the district shall be liable for the payment thereof." In the measure providing for the appointment of a manager of any dis trict in default of any payment of principal or interest on its bonds it is provided that the circuit court shall appoint tho manager and shall ter nvlnale tho powers and duties of the officers of flic district, also providing for the appointment of their succes sors. In case of default the bond hahlor or bondholders owning nt least 25 per cent of the bonds will be empowered. io bring. suit for the appointment' of a manager. If the suit of the plaintiff were upheld the court would appoint the manager and he could operate under the supervision of the court. L'pon request if tiie holders of fifty per cent of the principal amount of outstanding bonds, the court would be required to. terminate the regime of l he manager and transfer it to direc tors to be appointed by the court. LAKEVIEW LIQUUK VIOLATOR GIVEN "6-MONTHS, JAIL POKTIANIJ. Ore., Jan. Hi. Dick Williams of Ijaknview will have six months in Jail to think over a lecture Federal Judge Ueun delivered with his sentence today. Williams had pleaded guilty to a lluuor violation charge. Yesterday he was acquitted by a. jury on a charge of stealing an automobile. "You have been a consistent -and persistent violator of the laws of this country, particularly the prohibition laws," declared the judge. "You have manufactured and sold lbiuor. As soon as apprehended and released In one case, you have gone to another. Now the lbjuor laws are a part of the law's of the country and in my mind are here to stay." Carl McKeo, indicted Jointly with Williams on the liquor law violation charge pleaded not guilty and was ucqultlcd by a Jury this motnlng. WAIt lXCKKAKKD I'. S. DKH'P. 7 TIMES IX TUN YUAItS WASHINCTON. Jan. 16 The pub lic debt of tho United States, ini lud- nng that of the federal government and all of Its subdivisions multiplicn nearly seven times between 1912 and 1922. It was shown today In census bureau figures. At the end of De cember, 1922. the total was $30,845.- 626.00(1, while at the same period In 1912. it was but 14,850,460,000. 1 Secrefpf. Color photography Believed Found by Maude Adams i Yazxffl,! n wyeft JCC-J&mm Discovery of a means of photographing objects and scenes in their exact natural colors and shades, is the result of scientific cx-1 pcriments conducted by Maude Adams, famous actress, since her retirement from the stage, it is indicated. The Maude Adams com pany has been! organized with a capital of $3,r00,000 to produce photoplays, and the rights to film Kipling's "Kim" in India in natural to! or a uitotc(l. SECT OF AGRIC. WASHINGTON, Jan. Hi. President Coolidiro has tendored Iho post of secretary of agriculture to Secretary Hoover, but fllr. Hoover replied that lie decided lo remain ntlho commerce department. With Hie president's approval Mr. Hoover today Issued this statement: . "In view of the press reports. It seems to mu desirable to stale that tho president did mo the honor to suggest that I consider transfer lo the post of secretary of agriculture. "He expressed his belief that the present need of that department W'as an administration in which emphasis should be given to tho solution of the fanner's marketing problem. "To this I fully asree. Nevertheless, I fool that in the future, as In the past, the greatest contribution that I could make to Iho improvement of the farmer's position lay in tho advance ment of measures that make for tho reduction of costs in our whole distri bution system and in helping to bring' about improvement and stability In tho general industrial and commercial situation, both t homo ami abroad. "Tho farmer's problem Is u problem of the nation us a whole. "I deeply appreciate) tho confidence which the president has shown in me hut I have told him that I believe it would bo to the best Interest for me to decide against the suggestion, which I have done.'' Movies Condemned for Trying to Break Doufti U. i. Prohi Law WASHINGTON. Jan. if,. Charges that the liquor Interests are using the moving iilctures to break down the prohibition amendment were made In an address today by Dr. p. Ixslgh CVdvIn of New York before.' tho na tional picture conference. Motion plcturo films, he ald, not only make the prohibition amendment look ridiculous, but portray tho con- gumption of liquor as alluring, Tllvers 111 II Is Parsed. : WASHINGTON, Jan. 15. Ky a standing vote of 179 to 6 the house today passej tho $39,000,000 rivers an4 harbors bill. The -measure, as sent to the sen ate, would authorize this expenditure for Improvements on 35 project, ' In- eluding Oregon. 74.000 for HJiiHiaw river, HOOVER REFUSES APPU N MtNl Or State Legislature Items for Today SALEM, Ore., Jan. 11!. Citizens of Shuniko and vicinity have petitioned the public service commission to In vestigate tho action of tho Oregon Washington Railroad and Navigation company in establishing a trl-weekly train service on its' line to Shnniko in pined) of tho former dally service. They want tho dally service restored. STAT10 IlOUSlJ, SALKM. Jan. 1 (! "Will Moore, state InHiiranco com missioner, Is anxious to get rid of hundreds of old records and docu ments in Ills office Hint are of no rurther use to the state, but to do so.; It will be necessary to have authorllyl from the legislature. lie will have a I. Ill introduced to that effect. Jfe says it Is necessary lo get room for new stuff. SAl.K.M. Ore., Jan. 1(1. Tho San in in irrigation controversy was threshed out at a hearing before State Engineer Khea Kiipcr yesterday and last night and the engineer, who has 'the. 'task of making a decision as lo wlfcther a permit lo appropriate water shill be granted Henry C. Por ter and others against the protest ot two reclamation corporations, has taken the case under udvlseniejit. DIOND, Ore, Jan. Hi. Following a wagon trail for three miles, losing it and getting It ugain, deputies finally located a largo still seven miles farther out. With tho exception of one person, all made a go'od getaway. This ono person was chased by George Stokoe, deputy sheriff, when tho fugitive took refugo behind n tree. After consiileraUlo search on the part of the deputy sheriff with threats of what ho "Would do, hoj said. If the persons did not come from behind the tree, tt was discovered it was a woman behind the tree. Sho was dressed In a man s outing suit and could run with much speed, the deputy Insisted. Sho Is Mrs. Loisvlne Duval. Alex Duvnl, her husband, was arrested at tho ranch before tho raid ing party went In search of tha still. Duval is a brother of William Duval. arrested tho night before charged with possession of llqtmr following a raid on his home in Ilnnd. It is thought by officers that the brother In town was co-operating with the still-owner in the salo of the Illicit liquor. IogWoturc Adjourn Till Monday STATE HOUSE, Halem, Jan. 15. The legislature adjourned nt noon to day until Monday at eleven o'clock. , 35 People in Movie Theatre Gassed, But All qf Them Recover OMAHA, Nob., Jan. Hi. AccorditiK to ii belated report reaching Omaha this noun from C'rolon. Neb., 00 miles north of here, thirty chlldron and five adults were passed at the Star theater there last evening when someone stuffed tho exhaust pipe loading from the Kasoline engine in the theater building. All of the victims dropped to the floor, the report stated, but this mor ning were reported as recovering. OR ft FACES Dorothy Ellingson Still the Life of the Party, Shows llo Re morse Outraged Brother Spurns Her ' Advances , Father Heart Broken. KAN KRANCISCO, Jan. Hi. Mrs. Anna lClllngson, whose opposition to tho wild night life of her daughter Dorothy, JC yetirs oid, was ended with a bullet by the girl last Tuesday, was buried todayJ In the city Jail tho girl awaited thu law's action. Sho made no request to titleiid her mother's funeral. Tho girl's father, Joseph Klllngson, and her brother Karl, accompanied tho body to tho gravoi District Attorney Ilrady Is consider ing a plan to call in alienists to de termine tho girl's mental comUtlon before taking measures to prosecute her. Tho federal prohibition office is endeavoring to leant whero tho gin and wlno came from nt tho various parties, both public and private, that the girl attended. Sho admits having gono on a drinking party on Tuesday night at the home of Davo Stein, after having killed hor mother.. Tho tale of all of her adventures of tho night be gins and ends' with liquor, illegally gotten mid consumed. SAN KRANCISCO, Jan. 16. Pleas ure loving Dorothy lOllingson, Hi year old confessed slayer of her mother, 'Mrs. Anna Ellingson, maintained to day the smiling, yot Inscrutablp mask of Indifference that has character, ized her attltudo since Ifl'r arrest early yesterday morning. Tho girl was charged with murder. Emerging from twelve hours of, pitiless questioning today tho girl was still "the llfo of the party," Just as she had been a short tlmo after the murder when Sho danced at the apart ment of a fi'lend while her "fnothor lay In their homo shot dead during a flare of anger. In a written stutcNnent Dorothy has admitted shooting her mother last Tuesday after Iho latter had up braided her for her continued incur sions of the city's night life and hoi apparent desire for "Jazz parllen," to tiie preclusion of everything clso. The "sixteen year old principal In tno unprecedented matricide wan taken Into custody at four o'clock yostorday morning in an obsouro rooming bouso in this city while po lice of every city In tho statu wore conducting tt feverish search. Im mediately after the shooting, sho told tho police, sho had packed a few bo longlngs, taken whatever money sho bad found In tho bouse and boarding a Bisect car, rodo a few blocks and entered a rooming house. Thure, she said, she had engaged a room tor two weeks, telling tho landlady she had Just arrived from Ijos Angeles, "rrienil" fJlves Tip. Her apprchonslnn was made pos sible when she docldcd to call a friend and finding him not thero hail left it telephone number to bo called. "Hob" Worth, a musician, for whom tho number was left, notified the police on Ills return and tracing back on thu call, tho authorities found tho girl. At first denying complicity in tho act, and blaming It upon another, Dorothy suddenly confessed and in a self-composed manner laid baro all details of tho slaying, how hor mothiw had remonstrated with her for the lato hours sho had boen kcoplng, how In a fit of tempur. sho had fired the fatal shot. Tho body was discovered by Earl Klllngsnn, brother of tho slayer, when tContlnued on Page Five) BEND, Ore., Ja'n. 16. Pheasants In an automobile driven by a youth of about eighteen years, were the begin ning of a long trail which led Hhoiiff 8. 10. Roberts to the locution of a still on the Pleasant Ridge road late yes terday. Tho youth, Vernon Jones, was stop ped fry Clnrenoe A. Adams.' deputy sheriff, who Is also deputy game war MPRISONMENT JAZZ MAD G!R GUI TIMBER AT ONCE IS OREGON PLEA Coast Conference Called By ; Governor Pierce, Meets in Portland Ask for $20, 000,000 From Govt, for Harbors Speakers Urge Timber Be Cut. POUTl,AND, Ore., Jan. 16 Repre sentatives of fifteen port districts in Oregon met hero today ut tho call of . Governor Pierce, together with repre- " sentatlves of Washington and Calif or- . nla. to draft resolutions asking con gress lo spend $20.0110.1100 In port de velopment on the Pacific const. George Rhodes of fcian Eranelsoo nnd W. II. Peters of Grays Harbor woro appointed by their governors. In addition to asking tho legista-', lures of coast states to memorialize congress for $20,000,000 to Improve coast harbors to a depth of thirty feet the conferenco delegates sought to start a movement for a conservation . policy which would provldo for out- -ting of tho western forests at once . under a system of adequate reforesta tion instead of holding ripe timber in reserve unlll It deteriorates to a com plete loss. ' . Another movement discussed was that the federal government bo re- . quired to pay taxes upon timber in tho national forests on tho sumo basis ns taxes uro required on privately owned timber, so as to relieve the burden ot taxation in counties ' in ' which the bulk of the taxable , pro perty Is locked up in government re- , serves. t p '. ' Governor Pierce said that harbors . could be made by building Jetties' at , Nehalem, Tillamook, Yuqulna, ' Slus- - law and Unipo.ua. V.. It. Peters of Grays Harbor, rer-. ' roscntng Washington, declared that . monev spent in improving Grays Har bor would eliminate loss of $200,000 ' annually now caused by vessels being bar bound. In tho time that it takes -lo get out tho 45 billion feet-of- timber tributary to Grays Harbor, the saving -in having adequate harbor facilities would amount to $22,000,000, a sum , sufficient to Improve all Iho smaller harbors of tho coast, he said. " George It. Rhodes, representing tho . governor of California, pledged his services In- behalf of tho movement , and predicted that the legislature of California' would memorialize -congress In lino with tho recommendation -of tho conferenco. He pointed out that Del Norto county, California, is 70 per cent na tional forests that pay no taxes and the full burden of taxation falls upon - the remaining 22 per cent. t Ktnto Sojiator John Mngladry am plified rho conservation Idea-' that others had touched npon, "Tho wny ta realizo on, our forests . and actually conserve them," be de elnrcd, "is to cut them no,w us fast as you em and reforest. "Tho deterioration of our forests in . the past twenty years Is Inconceiv able. v Notwithstanding tho propa- , gunda of tho pseudo-conserv.Uionlst, wo will loso tho bulk of our timber resources through their rotting In the forests if wo do not cut them at once , and use it. This Is tho oaso in tho ... Cascades evon more than on the coast. "There Is not a cruise that was- , made In our old forests thirty years ago that will stand up today, so great has been their deterioration." ... ,'; BIG RUM FLEET IS LYING OFF FRISCO SAN FRANCISCO, 'Jan. III. Offi cers of ships arriving here during the past few days roport tho presence of a motorshlp accompanied by a dozen small craft, all presumed to bo rum runners, in the vicinity of tho Faral lone islands, about 26 miles duo west of Han Francisco.- . Latest information regarding Jho flotilla was brought in by Captain W. 'A. Hasklns, master of tho tanker; F. H. Ruck, who reported yesterday see ing It. Ho said that the craft ranged In sl.o from fishing launches to largo trawlers besides tho niotorsbip. den. Adams was Interested in the pheasants. but inquired what was In a suttcaso in the car. Tho boy suid tho suitcase was empty but Adams opened It and found it filled with bottles ot liquor. 1 Tho boy finally gavo the Informa tion which led sheriff's officers to search tho ranch which, Is located about eleven miles from Bend. i 1 v '