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MEDFORD. OREflON.' FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 192;-)
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10 UDOULLIL
Veteran Naval Commander
Gives Sensational Testi
mony Before Congress Com
mittee Praises M itchell,
J But Does Not Favor His
"" Plan of Separate Air Service
, WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Rear
Admiral William 8. Sims, retired, to
day vigorously opposed before the
house aircraft committee the crea
tion of a unified nlr service as urged
by Brigadier General Mitchell .assist
ant army air chief.
The admiral endorsed the building
up of a powerful air force by the
United States, however, and declared
tlio airplane "will play a predominant
part" In the next war.
Couple the airplane with the sub
marine, the udmlral said, and an
enemy .fleet, cannot .exist "unless
steaming a zig-zag course at full
speed."
"If a fleet comes up against ours
with more airplane carriers and can
command the air, 1 don't see how we
can win," he added. "If there is any
thing I know about in the navy. It
is srunflre. and after mukin? all cal
culations. t is a piece of good luckj
If an anti-aircraft gunner hits an
airplane.
. "You'll fire the guns, of course,
and the noise will relieve tho ten
. sfun." ..... . .....i. -...
In opposing' a unified air 'service,
Admlrui' Islins sulci that Ihe navy
noeded naval officers familiar with
navy tuctfes, operating its aircraft.
"The air force from the shoro out,"
he Bald, "must bo commanded by the
navy, and I think with the submarine
and aircraft properly developed .net
necoBsarily excessively, we can , pro
tect ourselves from an enemy coming
across the sea."
Asked for his opinion of the recent
report of the special navy board
which held that the battleship re
mains the first lino defense, tho ad
miral replied: "1 wasn't much im
pressed with tho report. The Way
after It was Issued the secretary of
tho navy issued a statement heartily
approving it, but tlio opinion ot the
' secrotnry on a highly technical mat
ter like this doesn't amount to much.
"The findings of tho board were
Just what a lot of people thought
they would be."
The Ruck hone Is Broken
The recent bombing tests on tho
battleship Washington, tho admiral
added, likewise did not Impress him.
For Bomo unknown reason, ho said,
tho distance at which depth charges
were exploded had been kept secret.
"Would our navy he in first class
condition for battle if we put on
blisters and elevated tho guns?"
asked Representative I'erkins, repub
lican, New Jersey. .
"I don't think so." answered the
admiral, adding that depth charges
like those used against the Washing
ton "probably would huvo blown tho
blisters off."
"As I understand tho special
hnnrd'a report," asked Porkins, "the
battleship remains tho backbone of
tho navy, Is that right?"
"Yes, It Is; but It is broken," an
swered Admiral Kims.
Tho witness predicted that "tho
capital ship of tho future will bo an
airplano carrier."
Questioned about navy administra
tion in general, he charged that the
naval officers in high positions are
not 4n sympathy with tho naval war
college. Secretary Daniels permitted
himself to be surrounded by officers
who iiad not attended tho college, he
said, and Secretaries Denby and Wil
bur continued with the name officers.
f Continued on Par Rtr)
D. ROCKEFELLER JR. IMITATES
WILL ROGER'S AND
NEW YOItK. Feb. 27. John D.
Rockefeller, Jr., financier, philanthro
pist and Bible class teacher, has blos
somed out as a wit.
Presiding at a dinner of Brown al
umni last night, he told story after
story, some of them pretty old. and
ftnitated Will Hodge, even to ges
( ure and drawl.
Telling how Kodgers had expressed
a desire to mQt Rockefeller. Sr., the
speaker quoted ttieomein as fol
lows: o
"The old guy Is the one I want to
Three D'Autremont
Suspects Released
By O'Connell's Order
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 27.
(Spocliil) Dan O'Coimoll, chief
Hpcciul nwent of tlio southern
Pacific, has Bent a message from
Esperanza, Mexico, saying ho la
convinced that the three sua-
pectB held there nro not the
D'Autrenionl brothers. Tlio three
men lmvo been releasod.
A
IS
CIGARETTE TAX
Date Set for September 8
and Legislature Also Pro
vides for Popular Vote On
9 Other Measures Adopted
During Session.
SALEM, Ore., Feb. 27. If tho ref
erendum it invoked against any of
the revenue producing measures en
acted by the legislature, including the
cigarette and tobacco tax, a tax on
gross earnings of .corporations and
the provision that self-supporting
state commissions shall pay teri per
cent of their revenues into the state
general fund, the election will be held
September 8 und at tho same time
nino measures adopted by the legis
lature for reference to the pcoplo will
be voted on. This was provided for
In a bill passed at tho close of the
IcgiHlativo uoHsiun last night.
Some of tho legislators anticipat
ed that Interests opposed to the taxes
Imposed by tho legislature would
seek to have thorn repealed at a ref
erendum election so provision was
made to have the nine measures
which are to be referred to vhe
people passed upon at the same time.
The measures which would bo act
ed upon arei
Senate Joint resolution No. 5, by
Dennis Amending legislation inhib
iting levying of income or inheritance
taxes until 1940.
House Joint resolution No. 5, by
Buchanan rroviding that, if vacan
cies .occur In tho office of United
States senator or any elective office
of state, district, county or precinct,
they shall be filled at the next gen
eral election, provided such vacancy
occurs more than twenty days prior
to any general election.
House joint resolution No. 8, by
Woodward Repealing section 86,
article 1, of state constitution, pro
viding fine or imprisonment for any
person who shall bring into the state
or harbor any negro or mulatto.
House joint resolution 19, by coin
mltteo on resolutions Authorizing
issue of bondH by Clackamas county
for refunding purposes.
Senato Joint .resolution No. 16, by
Johnson Providing for appointment
of a commission to make investiga
tion in relation to methods of assess
ment and taxation.
Senato Joint resolution No. 18, by
Hall Amending constitution to per
mit Curry county to vote on a fund
ing bond issue.
House bill No. 215, by Bates pro
viding for western Oregon normal
school at Seaside.
Houso joint resolution No, 2, by
tho Multnomah delegation Author
izing Portland school district to levy
$900,000 above six per cent tax limi
tation, beginning with 1926.
Houso joint resolution No. 3, by
Collier Permitting Klamath county
to issue bonds for refunding ' pur
poses. Tho eastern Oregon normal school
bill was excepted from the provisions
of tho special election bill, because
Senator Kttncr desired that this
should not be voted on until the gen
eral election of 1926.
TELLS HELLUVA STORY
meet He Just made the money.
Thais easy, but he turned the hard
part over to thin guy here, saying:
'You can work. I'm goig south torn
piay goir. '
In closing Mr. Roiefeller told the
story of the Inmate of an asylnm or
the in.KHncjvho turned over afot of
boiling whpV on fj.'itors standing un
der a window.
"W1"'" aaked lne doctor, "did you
do tTTat."
"Well,"' replied the Inmate, "if you're
going to be an idiot you might on well
be a hell of an Idiot."
REFERENDUM
EXPECTED
LOCAL BILL
KILLED AS
BEtLRINuS
Senate Kills Jackson Co. Pri
mary Measure Just Before
Coffee Is Served Motor
Bus Taxes Raised Armory
Bills Rushed in, Will Be Ve
toed Says Governor.
SALEM, Ore.. Feb. ' h. Oregon's
thirty-third legislature, which has been
In session 46 days, adjourned at 10:50
last night. Some of the members Im
mediately started for their homes:
others were leaving today. Songs,
stunts and story telling marked the
closing of the session, and after the
final gavel fell the members enjoyed
a social session when wives of the
senators served coffee and cake.
The last day was marked by a deal
between senate and house resulting In
the passage of measures to increase
the license tax upon automobile buses
and trucks and to raise the license
tax on peddlers' trucks running into
the country five miles or more Beyond
city boundaries. The house finally
agreed to senate amendments to the
former measures, house bill 413, which
sharply raised the figures over those
in the bill as it passed the house. '
The senate in turn agreed to pasB
house bill 21, the peddlers' bill, as the
house had amended it.
oth these .measures then wont, to
the governor.
Assailed by Butlor, Joseph, Garland
and other senate members, the Jack
Hon county plan, which was substituted
for the original Jackson county pre-
primary election bill, went down to
defeat in the Benato yesterday by a
voto of 19 to 11. The measure pro
vided for a pre-prlmary assembly of
precinct committeemen or the political
parties, the assembly to recommend
to the voters its choice ot the primary
candidates.
Senator Dunn of Jackson county ex
plained the measure and it was im
mediately attacked, by Joseph, Tooze,
Klepper and Zimmerman.
Senator Kddy spoke in favor of the
bill, declaring it was a step toward
party restoration and party honesty.
Armory Bills to Get Axe,
Governor Pierce today announced
that as fast as they reach him all
armory bills passed by the legislature
will be vetoed by him.
"One to the failure of the legisla
ture," he said, "to provide sufficient
revenue, I shall be obliged to veto all
armory bills passed at the last session
I cannot approve appropriations which
exceed available revenue."
The entire armory program .was dis
approved by tile joint ways and means
committee, efforts having been made
to get new armories at Cottage Grove,
Forest Grove, La Grande, Astoria and
Portland, and also an additional appro
priation for the armory at Sllverton.
Yesterday the armory bills began to
pour In independently of the ways and
means committee. The first to come
was Magladry's senate bill No. 2GY,
providing for an armory at Cottage
Grove, and after a hard fight by Mag
ladry and his friends it failed to pass.
Later In the day the Forest Grove
armory bill came along and passed.
Senator Dennis, who had promised to
drop an armory bill for La Grande If
none of the others was pushed, then
brought up his La Grande armory bill
and it passed also. Passage of these
two bills created sympathy for Mag-
ladry and Cottage Grove, so on motion
of Senator Kddy, Magladry's bill was
reconsidered and passed.
Colonel W. G. D. Morcer, who for
many years has been sergeant-at-arms
of the state senate and for the last
aevcral hchhIohh Its chaplain also, la
maue permanent chaplain by a resolu
tion introduced yesterday by Presi
dent Moser and passed.
Speaker Burdick announced the ap
pointment of R. H. Capler, Portland;
E. G. HateB, Seasiue, and J. H. Drlscoll.
Klamath Falls, as 'his appointees on
the commission named to study re
forestatlon and make recommendations
for laws on the same to the next
legislature. .
Ashby D. Dickinson of Portland was
today appointed by Governor Pierce as
the additional, circuit court judge for
Multnomah county. The appointment
Is under senate bill No. 81 of the
session of 1923, which was passed by
the legislature yesterday over the
veto of the governor.
Among measures passed by the
senate in the closing session were:
S. J. M. 8. Hale Mnmnralizlnz con
gress to enact legislation which will
permit the United HtHtes government
to remit a percentage of the federal
Income tax to each of .the several
states. ,
H. D. 347, Hunter Authorizing
state forester to suspend logging and
sawmill operations In time of drought.
Throws Bombshell in Naval Board
ADH1KAL
Over O00 People Killed By
Wind Storm That Sweeps
England and France
Charlemange's Oak, 500
Years Old, Crashes Down.
PARIS, Feb. 27. "Charlemagne's
oak," five centurUs old and one of
tho largest and most ancient trees in
the forest of Fontalnebleau, fell a
victim of yesterday's violent storm.
The gale continued today and, ac
cording to the weatherman, the end Is
not In eight.
The fate of the famous oak was but
one Item In a long tale of trees up
rooted and houses unroofed' in all
parts of the country.
A tragedy occurred near IaRo
chelle where only four men out of a
crew of eighteen were rescued from
tho stranded Spanish steamship Crls-tlna-Rueda.
Heven members of the life saving
corps vero drowned when their boaat
capsized while trying to reach the
Htoamer on Wednesday.'
HULL, England, Feb. 27. (By As
sociated Press.) Eighty-two men are
belloved to have been lost In tho
fierco gales which have spent the
Icelandic fishing grounds tho . last
four days.
Fourteen men went down with the
Hull steam trawlor Scapa Flow. Hlx
Hull fishermen and twenty-four Ice
landers were lost In the fishery
steamer Marshal Robertson, and
news has reached here that tho Ice
landic steamer Lelferhepar is lout
with forty hands, all Icelanders. .
8ARRKDOUIIO. France, Feb. 27.
Seven persons were killed and fiftoen
injured here yesterday when tho
workshop in which they were em
ployed wo crushed-by a wall blown
over by a high wind. .'.
.The Noted Dead
NEvf YORK, Feb. 27.-The body
of Colonel Robert C. dowry, former
president gnd general manager of the
Western l.nlon Telegraph company
who died last night in his private ear
on which he wc returning rom Palm
tseacn, win oe iaKcn to umuna lor
burial.
Colonel dowry who was 86 iPid
been suffing from a cold td car
complications and was coming to his
home In Tarrytown, N. Y., when his
condition hpcimjf serious. A physic
ian was called loard the train at
Philadelphia and another was called
at Elfr-abeth. N. J. Death came us
the train was entering the Hudson
rivpr'tunnel that leads Into the Penn
sylvania station, -
DESTRUGTN AND
DEATH IN WAKE
OF HURRICANE
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W 5. SIMS
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STOKES TESTIFIES
IT
CHICAGO, Fob. 27. Mrs. Arthur
Miller of Denver, mother of MrB.
Helen lCllwood Stokes, on the Btand
In tho conspiracy case against her
daughter s husband, late today identi
fied a picture of her daughter In pa
jamas astride a man s shoulders.
The man, Mrs. Miller said, was
William Meyer of St. Louis. Meyer
is oxpected to testify Monday. Ad
journment until Monday cut short Mrs.
Minors testimony.
CHICAGO, Feb. 27. (By tho Asso
ciated Press.) How detectives shad
owed detectives in connection with
the contested divorce suit of W. E. D.
Stokes, Now York millionaire, was re
lated today in the Stokes conspiracy
trial. Stokes and three others are
charged with conspiring to defame his
estranged wife, Mrs. Helen Kllwood
Stokes of Denver.
Edward W. Allz. bead of a Chicago
detective agency, formerly retained by
Stokes to obtain evidence against Mrs.
Stokes, was cross-examined. Altz, the
state contends, was also commissioned
to watch the movements in Chicago of
detoctives and counsel employed by
Mrs. Stokes and by Hal Blllig, named
by Stokes as co-respondent in his suit
for divorce.
Li
TEAPOT DECISION
CIIEVENNE. Wyo Feb. 27. Trial
of tho government's suit for annul
ment of tho Teapot Dome naval oil
reserve lease by the Mammoth Oil
company will proceed on March 0,
next. Judge T. It lake Kennedy of tho
United Htates district court decided to
day In overruling the government's pe
tition for a continuance.
T
JAP LAND LAW
KAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 27. Tho
state supreme court In a decision to
day held that tho treaty of 191be
tween th United Htates and Japan la
still in force and Uiat undor It Japan-
cue residents In Callforffi ai-an lease
land In the state for icaldentiufeind
commercial purposes.
Gloria's Condition Improves.
PARIS, Ffk 27. Gloria Swanson,
who Is a Tiatitnit In a clinic at Auteufl,
rec$gr1ri'3 fro$ji a recent operation,
passed an excellent night, It was re
ported this morning. The film stars
temperaturo has return to normal.
Prince of Wales
Pays Dues in Time
To Keep Union Card
NKV" YORK. Feb. 27. Tho
New York Pressmen's union was 4
spared the painful necessity of
4 suspending Us star member, the
Prince of Wales, when a cheek I
for $7, representing two mouths' 4
4 dues was received from him to-
day.
4 The rules of tho union pro-
4 vide for the suspension of any 4
4 member who falls to pay his dues t
4 every two months.- On Saturday 4
thlH period of grace for tho
4 prince would have expired and 4
4 had he not paid he would havo 4-
4 been barred from plying tho 4
4 trade In any union press room 4
here. When Wales was made a 4
4 member of the union last summer 4
4 hit paid his dues In advance to 4
4 January 1.
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Sculptor's Speech Against Ku
Klux Klan in Atlanta, Ga.,
Given As Cause for His Dis
charge As Sculptor at Stone
Mountain.
NEW YORK, Fob. 27. Sculptors
of New York appeared today to bo
divided Into two camps In thelriopln
lons of events connected with Qutzon
Rorglum's dismissal ns sculptor of tho
atone Mountain memorial. '
William J, Huhimmn. a sculptor of
note, said that a movement was being
organized among Korgl urn's friends
and fellow artists to assuro adoquato
protection of his Interests.
"If Borglurn never does another
stroko of work on Stono mountain,
ho has already to his credit some'hlng
greater than tho Kgyptfan pyramids,"
suld Mr. Robinson. 'But his friends
wilt see that things are put right and
stop this crucifixion of gcujus by a
group of little two-by-four men. I
was in Atlanta recenllyand talked to
many people, so 1 know the Insido of
this affair.
"This Is largely a Ku Klux Klan
matter. Antl-Klan talk In Atlanta is
perhaps not the most tactful thing in
tho world, but Borglurn was never a
man for tact."
Tho view of tho other camp was
expressed by Augustus Lukeman who
said he considered Borglum'a conduot
"unmanly and undignified," and that
It "brought a reproach on tho art of
sculpture."
ATLANTA. Ga., Feb. 27. A de
mnnd for the appointment of a com
mitted of sculptors to pass on the
work done upon the Htono Mountain
memorial and conduct an audit of the
affairs of the Stone Mountain Confed
erate Monumental association today
was before Holllns Randolph, presi
dent of tho association, after the pas
sage of a resolution by tho Atlanta
chupter, Urilted Daughters of the
Confederacy.
Tho resolution was a letter from
the Georgia division of the organiza
tion, urging him to submit the differ
ence between tho association and
Outzon Borglurn, sculptor of the me
morial, to tho Heroes of tho Confed
eracy, for arbitration.
Meantime tho search for Borglurn
and Jesso Tuckor, former superinten
dent of work at tho mountain, is be
ing mado over a half dozen states.
Thoy are sought on warrants charging
malicious mischief for tho alleged de
struction by them of models for con
tinuing thq work of tho memorial,
following tho discharge of Borglurn as
sculptor of tho monument.
KLAN IS BLAMED
FOR ATTACK ON
BORGLUM'SWORK
CHICAGO CO-EOS THINK KNUT ROCKNE A
JOCKEY AND PREST. ELLIOT A COLYUMNIST
C5MCAGO, Feb. 27 Knute Rokn8,
football coach at Notro Daroe uni
versity, was called a "Norwegian
novolist," a "violin player, a "Scan
dinavian jockey," and "a member of
tho League of Nations, In test
nlunn T. n ITnfvnruitV fit CV it' a On pn
- m
cds who were asked to Identivy prom
inent men. beventy per cent ans
wered correctly.
Charb-s Evans Hughes was believ
ed to b: vlro-prenldfnt of the I'nlted
Kfttes by one of tho Incorrect 25 per
cent.
Benito Musofril, fasclstl premier
of Italy, waa described as a "bolshe-
vlftt statesman' and an "Irish radi
cal."
J,
BULL mAY
BE
England Aroused Over Hostili
ties in Arabia, and Near
East Will Protect Britain's
Protege, Emir Abdullah
Turks Claim Recapture of
Important Strongholds.
IXINDON, Feb. 27. The roportpil
Invasion of Trans-Jorrtanln by 10.000
Wahaht tribesmen Htill lacka confirm
ation and thua Tar there has been a
tendoncy to regard It us at least ex
aggerated. For Instance, it Is thought
tmprobablo that Sultan lbn Saond
would he able to assemblo 10.000 war
riors and Turkey not more than halt
that number. It Is suggested if a now
invasion has occurred the British may
take a hand In behalf of their protege,
the Emir Abdullah, who Is a son of
formor King Hussein of the Hcdjaz,
lbn Saoud's old enemy, and a brother
of King Felsul of Irak and the Emir
All, the present nominal ruler of tho
Hedjaz.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 27. Tho
TurklHh military operations ugatnst
the rebels under Sheik Suid In Kurdi
stan will. It Is reported, be directed
by General Ismet Pasha or Kemal
Eddla Pasha. The government has
ordered a partial mobilization in Ana
tolia, calling up reservists In the vil
ayets bordering on the robol area.
' A circular issued by the insurgents
appeals to tho population In the fol
lowing words: '
"Your caliph awaits you. No Mo
ham mod an (hiii Is possible without thn
calplgate. The present government is
opposed to religion."
The Kurdish rebels are reported to
have proclaimed Prince Sellm, son of
the former Sultan Abdul llamid, as
king of Kurdistan. Prince Sellm may
be the caliph referred to in tho cir
cular issued by tho Insurgents.
CONSTANTINOPLE, Feb. 27. The
Anatolian agency hero Issued a state
ment today saying the rebellious Kur
dish forces had been repulsed and
that Turkish government troops had
recaptured Kharput and the town of
Klazlz, recently taken by the robcls.
JAPAN RETALIATES
FOR U. S. EXCLUSION
LONDON, Feb. 27. Thn Japanese
government again has submitted to
the diet the alien land law of 1!10,
which has never been promulgated,
says a dispatch to Reutor'B frm To
kio. The present bill, tho mossago
states, amends the law to permit tho
right of land ownership to any resi
dent alien except nationals of thoso
countries not granting similar rights
to Japan.
U, S Women's Shoes
Too Small for Armenia
WASHINGTON, Feb. 27. Ameri
can womon wero asked todny not to
give their old shoes to tho Near Eiist
relief because they are too smull.
' This dollcate compliment was paid
by H. C- Jaquith, director of tho
American refugoo work In Franco at
a meeting of tho Ncur Kant relief.
Adam Smith, founder of the mod
ern system of economics, was Identi
fied as an "attorney for W. K. D.
Stoker" and as "ono of the Smith
brothers, cotgh drop kltgs."
T)ne of the girls- called Charlcn
Eliot, presidont emeritus of Harvard,
"a column conductor for a Chicago
newspaper."
Another thought Professor A. A.
Mil-hue limn, distinguished itMtrnnn
mer Hnd discoverer of the star Betel
guese, was "a famous track star."
Feodor Challapin, the famous Rus
s&n opera singer, ' was thought; to
Me the nlcknamo for Charles . Chap-
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