i TheVeather Prediction CJoiurally FnJr Maximum ycrterday 53 Wealhtfryear A$ Maximum r:. 2 (llnliutun today 36.S Minimum iiuG I'revluluition Trace USUI BlMtMatb Trw. ' "imw Tw. MEDFORD. OREGON TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 19fl.' 0. 280 ' FORNDRW Ashland measure "Passes Sen ate and Is Now Up to Gov ernor for Signature Dunn 0 Leads in Fight Only Three Votes . Opposed Pierce Wins Fish Battle. . : 8TATE HOUSE, SALRM, Ore,., Feb. 24. The attempt ofa tyoup -in the house to shear the governor of ip 7MlnUve power on the Uuh commis sion ended In failare yesterday after noon when the house by a vote of 31 to'27 adopted tfie minority reporf ot the, judiciary committue cnllftig for Indefinite postponement of the Mil. " 'The governor will veto-the bill and there 1h nothing to be 'gained .hy cdn tlpuhig this wrangle, declared Rep resentative Graham, of Forest Grove, Oyer the protest of tobacco dealers who 'wre heard by the ways and means committee last might the com mittee reported out favorably a bill to tax tobacco in aU forlfns. . 0 fees 'paid by .motor busses operat ing on the Oregon highways tire In creased from about. $27, M l to $197. 211 and fees paid by' trucks from 928,721 to 9147,330 under the bus bill, a houw -measure that passed the senate late yesterday. ' , With .only threV negative votes) house bill number 87, which provides, tor the re-establishment ..of whe Ash land normal schoo.1," passed the senate lute yesterday. Those voting against the bill WeVe Strayer, Taylor and Zlni 411 er man. . . . The bill ws pnert 'after several members, led byRltner, had made' a . determined effort, to have it re-committed so that the referendum olause mif))t Im attached.. t Dnnn MfPm ffcMtle ' . Senator Dunn led off with a rfeech In favor of the" bifl, pointing tit the. need for, an Additional normal school both geographically ami education ally. . " ' " A 'fight put" up by.Renators Joseph and Eddy Monday, caused bouse Mllt . 405, by .Representative Pierce, to be rfe-referred to the fisheries committee .of the senate when it came up for final passage. The measure is a code bill and a mo jig tnher .things author- izes the employment tiird licensing of alien 'fishermen at the jnouth of the Columbia i-iver and changes the fish ing seuson in various streanis. , J . Shoemaker Assailed JSdtly discovered that a changewas made In the Umpnua river season. He assailed the committee for not con sulting litm -about that feature of the bill and charged .that the 'cornmittee had listened to one voice, that of Carl p. Bljoomakei'j asserting that Shoe maker was a czar who "insisted that bis voice should btf the law. o Senator1 Staples, chairman-of the committee, said the Umpqua fisher men had been heard and .that Shoe maker did not appear. y ' A Senator RItner moved that the bill be re-referred so that Kddy might be heard. The senate passed fcho duckbill 259, I which increases the. salaries of the I secretary of state, the, state treasurer and the attorney general. The two former ore Increased "from 4fH0 to I64U0 eaehtmd tho hitter from $4500 to $ffl00. ' . . . v o . POSTAL PAY BILL IS AGREED UPON WASHINGTON. Feb. 24. A postn! pay and Pate increase bill in substan tially the form as that passed by the houseo was agreed to today by con ferees on the senate apd house meas ures. 0 5 The only important modification In the house pleasure was made in the second class rates, the conferees ac mpptlng some of the lower rates in this class carried in the senate bill. In the form agreed to by the con ferees, the bill would increase poaftul salaries as of January 1 this year, and the orate increases would become ef-I fectlve nfttt April IS. 13 YEAR OLD SCHOOL BOf AIM ' SILVER-TONGUED NEW YORK, Feb. 24. A thirteen year old patriotic boy orator has come,' forth to nnswer a nilver tonBierilo'i l.othik who recently thrJln-iT' a I.iln memorial meeting in .Mndlaon Bifjare Oarden. - At a flag rally Tn arneftie hall last nicht lieiram Htern. son of a Mount Vernon school teacher, won applause by denouncing Morris Bpector as "a O . Rogue &9v to B Built; C. antL O. o Road Will Opmnt . GRANTS PASS, Ore.. Feb. 24. -Arrangements hov been com- pleted for ttie building of 0 the California and Oregon Coast rail- road trestle over Rogue ftver, H. D. Norton and O. S. Blanchard annqunceck today upon itlieir re- turn from .Portland. The wntk is being, done undtn the receivershin annointed last 4 week by Judje C. M. Thomas. W The financing has ugen arranged. Thereto to.be a general revi- slon of rates Intended to put the road on a layig basis." FEE RATE TRUCKSPASSED In Face of Opposition By Rood and Highways Committee, House Passes' Bill Raising Bus Tax Power Bill (s Killed. . STATE HOUSE, SAIJBM,.''Ore., Feb. 84.-Jn the face ,of opponitioa' from the houne roads and highways com mittee, -the .Jouse today 'by a vote of 34 .to 23, voted to concur, in senate amsndnlert.ts to bouse- bill 413 'levy ing n high fee rata, on busses and trucks operated as common carriers. Tho stnute raised the "millnge i-ate of -three einhths of a oent a mile perl passenger sent on busses and per ton enpucfty on .trucks to three-iunrters ef a- mjll on busses and one jnlli on Ttvucts: rh senate also amende tho law so as to exclude, all peddlers trucks, oil truckH, grocery and bakery trucks and Others vanning butside of corporate citie from provisions 'of houne bill 413 raising their 'Vates. Senator Joseph's joint resolution number 5. proposing a constitutional amendment, authorizing the state to engage in hyH'o-elef ttical develop ment, was killed in the senate today. 1 Joseph's joint resolution Mtfnber 10, providing for a change In the re call provision of the- state" constitu tion was adopfted. The Jofeeph amendment provides that lit recall elections no candidates for the office shall .be voted oh and in event the official ht recalled his successor would be appointed, by the appoin tive power. Only Senutors Dunn and Tftylor voted against the resolution. . Carfchi'Bill KHk-fl. Representative HurlburtV Jolflt resolution' providing for a, constitu tional aniendment whereby the legis lature could curb the pover, of the governor to grant paroJe and pardons wiw Indefinitely postponed. : . Oregon i nof to, get a divided ses sion of the -legislature or Increased pay fof members of, the legislature, the senate today killing by,, indefi nite postponement house Joint reso lutions 18 end K, providing respec tively, for those nWndment's to the constitution n House joint resolution sixteen pra 0vfding for consolidation in state gov ernment was indefinitely postponed. ' Other measures killed "by indefi nite postponement in theBehato in cluded: m i H. B. 355. Carkln Avowing np jienl to board of control from tax levies mide by counties and munici pal corporations. S. B. 252, (substitute for S. B. 62) Regulating automobile mechanics. The house today passed house "bill filO permitting railways to acquire water rights fop necessary operating purposes, 'she bill Is a substitute for house bill 152. passed but vetoed by the governor as he deemed it Inimi cal to the. interests o land and water owners of the state. The former bitf gave the railroads wtde water nowers. The amenrfU bill, which is said to be satisfactory to thegoveror. .spe"cl- fiqs that n more than 10 cubic feet of water'per second may Wj acquired ly condemnatfonoproccedlngs. (House bill 41C providing for a clas sification of denuded lands for refor estation was passed yesterday after noon by the house with 16 dissenting votes. The measure was voted down last week, but ordered reconsidered BOY BOLSHEVIK traitor,' .his advocacy of commit- nlsm at tire Ienine meeting. The boys are the same age. Itetram recited an American creed whbh the ntidlenr-'e repeated after htm with fervQ. After he had concluded his speech messages f praise from radio listen-j( ers arrived at the station from which the flag program was broadcast. HIGH BUSSES AND YGUTJG WOOD IS ACCUSED OF FORGERY Son of General Wood BobSoUfi ' at Biarritz Undor Clouj!- Warrant for Arrest to Be Sworn ' Out Friends Will Come tooRescue.Says Ex Stock Broker, PAR1H, Feb. 24. A dispatch to the Ilavas News nen(V. from lllarrltz this evening states that a formal oom- platnt had been lodged" with the Riar ritz police anlnst Osborne C. Wood,.! nn- fif Governor General Wood of the Philippines, in connection with the alleged Issuance of a worthless check. It was adAed that tho complaint would be transmitted to police depart mental headquarters at Bayonne to night and that it was expected a war rant would, be: issued there tomorrow or Thursday. BIARRITZ, France, Fb. !4. Os bornti C. Wood, who turned up at San Sebastian Spain, recently nttor a stop here on his way from, Paris where his unexplained departure last week had mystified his friends for h, time, is making tin effort frvm San Sebastian to arm n kg some flnanoiul matters which -his friends hereay have given him temporary annoyance but which they report' the ex-army officer as hoping to adjust shortly. Air. Wood, they sajd. came 'to the j frontier near here Saturday and had a talk with a person who went there from Uiarrltz and whom he asked to 1 tell those Interested that he was ex pecting funds from America to sfet himself solidly on his feet again CRESCENT CITY GRANTS PASS, Ore., Feb. 24. A path thirty feet wide through the bus iness district in Crescent City, Cal., was swept yesterday when a small cyclone hit the town, according to de tails recVWed here today. Seven buildings were damaged with a total loss pluced today at about $110,000. The cyclone came in off -Battery Point at ten o'clock nnd ripped off roofs of business houses "as it went along, also taking some residences off their foundations. The air was full of falling shingles and debris. " Residents of the city state that the shupe of the twister wax plainly visible. 1 u o After passing over the city t start ed up Into the mountains and upiHar- td to be golng'-up into the air. It did not strike the ground at all during its rapid trip through the coast city. moving aLnng at a height soma feet above the-enrthp The0 buildings suffering (the worst rlnmuge0 were the warehouse of the tlocK company, me Aiasonic nan, trie Alpine restaurant, Cutting's carpenter shop, the llobba Wall tore? Endert's Aheattr, the 'grain warehouse. Several residences were damaged. 0 The roof was taken off the theater building. No person wns Injured. 'Oregon Supreme Court Decfsions SALEM, Ore., Feb. 24. Eleven de cisions were hancted down today by the . supreme court. Most of them were aujieals from. Multnomah and Clackamas counties. Among cases from otheP counties were: ) State of Oregon ex ! .1. E. Johnson kversus Circuit cout or uescnutes county; original proceeding In cman damiif to compel court to ftill in Judg from jiome other court; petition and writ dismissed in opinion by Justice Burnett. . KOior V. Anderson et al, appellant versus N. E. Harjt et al, appeal from Clatsop county; appeal froM an order dissolving a temporary Injunction, ap peal dismissed in opinion by Justift Ilean. U O. Mills, appellant, versus O. Williams, appeal from Klamath county; suit to cancel deed; opinion by Justice Coshftv; Judge D. V. Kuy kendall reversed. TheNoted Dea STOCKHOLM, Feb. 24. HJnlmar Tlrnating. former premier, did Hhort Iv after noon tmluv. Ilr.ujtlng was one of the most promlnenr socialists Kurone and held his Dost durirf 'the critical period of war and recoil structlon. tf 9 STORm DAMAGE TOTALS $20,000 Nebraska Exhibits Mrs. Ross Home; Q.aiffls Wyoming Governor as Own ieif. ui jp; If k&3$ "... f f; w f .-x $r-s ), s Nil p-LZ i Although Wonmif; considers its jrovenior, Mrs. Nellie Taylor: Rossas completely its own, Nebraska rjnims tier, toot' She "lived in this house in Omaha for IS, years, and it wns here in 1!02, Hint she wns married to her late husband. Mrs, Ross is shown as sjie appeared in I'.IOO and as she is today. BEER HALL Night Riders Accused of Hurl ing Bomb in Saloon H. P. Clark Has Narrow-Escape r From Death Letters Sign- ed K. (. K. Received Sheet Found On Ground. . TACOMA, Wash.i Feb. 24. A ter rific explosion, set off at 2:30 o'clock this morning by a number? of men be lieved to have been member ,pf a vig ilance co i-nm.it tee organized to combat liquor soiling Jn Huston, wrecked0 the building occupledby H. -P. Clark ugd ciidan;red the life of Clark. , a Flames brok out Immediately af ter the explosion nnd destroyed Ac house. Clark, was trapped fr a few tVibmehls by th flre.obut made his exe capo from the burning building by crawling ovrQthn wVeckage. 0 The charge, which exploded with a sound similar to that of black powder but Without the usual fumes, was plac ed under Clark's two story frame building m Huston, directly beneath the phiee where Clark 4ay In lft-do o The entire front part of the build ing was wrecked. While large patPhei, of plaster and similiters , of twinted lumber showered about hn, Clark rushed toward the rear door to make nls escape, but he was cut off by the flames resulting from the blast. Pick ing up & revolver which was In the room ho then made his way over tho wreckage to tie front of the building. "When he reached the open air, he saw several men running about 100 feet awfcy. He fired one bullet at them I before they disappeared around the Icorner of a building. f f AVhin standing outside the building, nir where the explosives had been placed, Clark saw a large white sheet lying on the ground. He believes that the sheet Rid i been lout by one of the men in tho flight, and ho thinks that all the dynamiters wore white cover ings to cereal their features. Clark told the police that he had been running what was known as a "beer Joint." He said however, that he had received no warning to stop and ha0rio known eneOes tt"d has heard of no threats against him. Police were attempting to connect the bombing of Clark's building to a warning note received Sunday even ing by It. J. O'Connor, tfho operates a pool h.UJ a short distance from the place wTflch Clark ran. Agree on Ule of Pme Treaty. WAS tfji' ( T ON , Feb. 21. A tenta tive agi cement was reached In the senate to dispose of the Isle of Pines treaty wltb Cuba in the special senate session to be held after March 4. BLOWN UP 1 TACOMA MILLIONAIRE'S SON BLINDED BY IRATE WIFE HOLLYVOpb, Cal.. Feb. 24. Mrs. Darby, Day today was unconscious t the Hollywood hospital from tho ef fects of poitton self-administered, her sister said,' following the throwing of acid on the face of her husband, Dar4y Day; Jr... at Ueverly Hills yes terday. Her chances for rocovery are very poor, hospital nurses said.' o Day. son of the president of the Underwriters of America', today was at the home of his mother in Beverly IIIUs with his face scared with acid, but his condition ws decky-ed'ty Jilfl mother to bo "satisfactory."' The acid throwing jind poison dose yesterday followed a meeting of he couple which Mrs. Day's sister sutd she believed wall for the purpose ' affecting a reconciliation. CHICAOO, Feb. 4. Uarby A. Day, Sr., father of Dafby Day, who 1b threatened wfth blindness at Holly wood, fal., as th result of " his wife having throwtv, rfcltf in his taco, has called an airplane. Into service In his rush to Je at his son bedside. He wj(ll go fcy airplane tooKansas Cily, Mo., where he hopes to1 connect with a fust western train and con tinue bis journey o thfl criaJft by rail. BIG BUTTE BILL- FOR CITY WATER RALEM. tvh. 24. Tho scn.llo hOB :iNsfd tneHO blllH: di. B. 264, rt'KulntlnK use of spot IlKhis and heudlightH on motor veh icles. . ' , Jl. B! 459, by Douglas delegation Providing for cloning of certuin estuary known as Rainbow bay. II. II. 80, (Tiordon Appropriating mney for W. C T. U. furm home near.Corvallls. Among bills signed by . Governor I'lerce are: JI. B. 300. by committee on Judic iary Granting to the city of JMftlford authsVIty to uso the wutcrs of the i)lg Hutto creek. ( . K. B. 92. by Kltner-To permit Irri gation districts .under contract the United Htates to cancel assesjt menls levied to pay charges. 8. B. 778, by Upton To require nd juslment of water claims under the Carey act. BOISE, Idaho, Fob. 24. By the narrow margin of ono vote the .house of representatives of tho legislature today failed to pass tho antl-ullen land bill designed, according to its framers, to prohibit the leasing of land to Japanese farmers up to De cenibvr 31, lirjx. The vole was 29 for pntwie an(ftO agninnt. There was mllli debate on the measure, parttrfa.'' a to what pos sible effect passage would have on Japanese-American relations. GOVERNOR SIGNS Woman Elected As a Director of 22 Railroad in U. S. A. o WASHINGTON, Feb. 24. Ae woman 'today was given permlH- jfr (don by the lnter-stato commerce , commlNslon id act as a director 4 on the board of 24 ratliads. She Is Hefen Luetic Welsh? nft- slfltant secretary of tho El Paso f and Southwestern. The commis- I filori held it would not be against f the public Interest if she ebould be at the same time aUlrcctor of the Southern Pacific, Oregon and Callfornal. the Central Pacific and whole series of subsidiary f f corporations of. the Southern Pa-- f el fie. system. This In the first time the cm- 4 mlsHlon has passed on any Rlml- lr application from a woman. SEVERE QUAKE CABLEJBROKEN Worst Earthquake in History of Territory Does Extensive Damage, But No Lives Lost Seward End of U. S. Cable to Yaldez Severed. ANCHORAGE, Alaska, Feb. 24. (By the Asso6iated Press) Towns along 468 (mlles of the Alaska rail road were rocked yesterday by one of the most severe earthquakes ever ROCKS ALASKA experienced by Aiaswin ionpera. c-evennB to hnve exhibited marked Im cording to reports received last night provoment The physicians In nttond and toilay. chhnfteys were wreched, ance ,ieW a conference nt loVclack water pipes were ronen an a ward-to-Valdez cable cut In two by (he tremors. , ' , Two distinct shocks Wfre lei t here, the second being tljo hardest. They were' accotnp'ftnleA by deep rumble!. Dishes were broktm is .homes and pa tiets in the locl hipltuj thrown, from- tholr beds. .Tho public school was dlsmlvsed. Clocks woro stopped at Curry, near here. . . o , At Seward,, 114 miles southeast of Anchoruge, at ne terminus of the Alaska railroad, chltimeys of resi cleccB were Wrecked and wator ft'lpes were broken. . Residents scurried Into the streets for safety. The largest damage was' the "break-, ing of the Baward end 'of the Unit ed Staten signal corps' cubic tfcr Valaes, 200 miles noitheest of Seward, ur the northorn end of 1'rlnce Willoini'sound. Midway between Seward "and Anchorage the Alaska railroad's waer tanks at Mwrrulne wore'damagod by tho tremors. At tho other termlnurt of the rall ,road, Fairbanks, no damago was re-' ported, although offfce bullding nd bomes woro rocked. . . - . ; The .tremors laBted from a halH minute at Beward to a minute at Fairbanks. PANTAGES MN'GR HELD UP, BANDIT PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 24. John J. Johnson, manager of Vantages theater hero- was held up and "sapped" by a man when Johnson entered flie theater office shortly he- Uore noon today with asu.ck contain ing 9tuuu ip cash. Johnson was accosted ns ho was leaving his office for tho bank. - The robhif had concealed himself ' in the darkened theater. When Johnson at tempted to protest he was struck on the head. He cried to the Janitor, who ran to a cigar stand and inform ed Johnson's sn and two other Ttnen of ehe holdup. Seizing a revolver Claude Johnson ruHhed into the thea tet and wlthrfhe aid of tho two others held the robber until the police ar rived. The rofiber gave the name of Jack Brown, and said ho came from .Seattle. ' COUPLE ARRESTED FOB DESEGRATINS MAR1PORA, Cal., eb. 24. Ray, mond D.OIIkwood ajd his wife, Jes sie, approached tho superior court here today to go on trial on a charge of dcnQratlng humat graves. . The charges are the result of a raid y deputy sheriffs on tho Mountain view road house near here, said to be operated by Hllkwood. A sack, con taining charred bones, beads, arrow heads and other articles was seized, the charg-i said. DEATH OF FILM STAR o IS HEME Reported Death of Gloria Swanson in Paris Is Oe- dared False Star Still Sa- .'.riously 111 -However Re port of Death' Made By N. Y. . Film Official. PAWS, Pnb. 24. Tile 'condition ot (Hoi-la. Swnuson, American moviiiB liiutuio uctrtms, who lias beefi 111 Jii couseiiuence of un opuratlon por forined lust week, was declareil tliw 1 nnrt announced they, would not again visit thefr patient uatll U o'clock to- morrayf tnornlag. . r.,- '.PARfS, Fb. 24, :40' p.'.''m,(B , Assojclated Press.) Gloria Swansea, ' the? film star, .who underwent an op-'. I oration .here 4at week, passed a bet- tor ;iilght, her husband told fvlends this, afternoon. He' added, hnwevei that the doctors did not vet consider her out of danger. Her hbsjand, th , Afarquls De Lji Falah? Do fjaCouuray, , i in conjfttint attendance tAt bed- . side. ,. ' '"' iloria Swurtsoii . NEW YORK. Feb. 24. As erron5 eotis report that Gloria Hwanson, mo tion piojtureactreus, had dlod in Paris today, was uncreAitcd in NeAv Yrk this morning. . A nlap je-enting h4mlf as sec retary" of Adofph Zukor, president of tMe Famous Players Lasky corpora tloji Informed tjie Associated. Press that a cablegram had bien received announcing, her death, ftt noon. ugne Zukor, "treasurer of the cor poration, however, Jlatly 'denied the story, and satd that the actrfrss was Improving. , , The supported secretary said he had -been Instructed by AUIph Zukor. whomc ho represetfted11 as being with0 him In' the offices of tlJe Famoua ' IMayer's Lossy corporarfloq to laform ,lho Xssoofatcd Pxess andoth0 news- papers of the death of tho actress. The cablegram, oh said, Mated Miss Swanson hadt died at noon and was ' signed uy.tneppnysj.eianmttttenop.nce. He promlsHl to furnish tli text of tj?e cablegram, but when tho Zukor' of fices were called a few moments later and this wns requested, It wastiiscov- ered that tbe srorJwas false, s Zukor wus abroad and that no aable gram had been , received at the. cor poration's offices announcing t the death. A cablegram p wan received from Paris, however, saying that Miss 9 Swanson was Improving and tjiat it was hoped ?-he would sail for Amerlan March 18. e Daily Report on the Crime Wave. 'LOS ANGWLES, Feb. 24. The sher iffa office today announced tha it was reported from the offices ot the Julian Oil & Petroleum conuiany tliat its Cashier. Ben Wetmoro. liad been yield up and robbed of $14,00 onlhe xiuriHJr uouievuru, ueiweou uaruunu and LiOR Angeles. - , CALIF. The material (Alleged to have boon tfgfen from thu Mariposa Indian bur ial grounds near tho Mountalnvlew resort. Chief Joe Howard of the Mariposa Indian tribe, brought the charges. He believes that rewards olfered by mu seum and numismatists for old Hpan Ish und 'nllfnrnla coins, said to bo burled with some ot the later chief tains was the motive, A