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ml Tribune The Weather Prediction Fair Maximum yesterday M Minimum toduy 51 Weather Year Ago Maximum ..104 Miiilmiini :.)..6U U u MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, JUNK 30, 192") Ball; Twentieth Tin, WwUy Firtjthlrd Yr. NO. RfiP" o MEBflORD M -r , " . ' .CALIFORNIA DEATH LIST m m m m m m 9 Bodies Recovered From Ruins and Property Loss Is 1 Placed at Between 20 andj 25 Millions More Bodies, Mnu Da Cm in rl PitMi Oninit' ma) dc ruunu diviu oyuii Rises Triumphantly. SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Juno 30. (A. P.) A re-check today of the losses due to yesterday's earthquake Indicated the death list as nine, this number of bodies having been found; the Injured list at thirty and properly loss between J20,000,UUO and SL'S.ullcl. 000. E. A. McDonough, secretary of the chamber uf commerce, in estimating the property loss at the meeting to day, stated that figure. SANTA. BARBARA, Cal., June 30. (A. P.) Herrado Charis, Mexican, of Santa Barbara, filed nt the Cottage IIUHpilUl lUMuy lluill llljuiinn iru'itru in tne earinquaKe, i ms nriiigs mu known list of dead to nine. The total of bodies recovered this morning from the ruins stood at eight at noon. Thy were: . Mrs. Charles 12. Perkins, Burling ton, lown. Bertram B. Hancock, Los Angeles. Dr. James C. Angle, Santa Barbara. William Proctor, Santu Barbara. Merced Leon, Santa Barbaru. Fenthios Stoiio, Santa Barbara. Marinina Mienestlde, Santa Bar- bara. John Shea, gardener, St. Anthony's college. Services for Mrs. Perkins will be held here today. The body will be sent to Rosedule cemetery, Los An- geles, whore It will be cremated. Business Men Meet I .Dr. lt.ex.wuld -.Drown, -president' of the chamber of commerce, and Her- bert Nunn, city manager, signed the telegrams on authority of the Joint meeting. Dr. Brown presided over the meet ing. "We have Suffered a real catas- trophe," ho said. Unrthquukes have almost annihilated our business dls- REDUCED trlct. During the war such cities as section ana its trains are Deing re this is today were seen by the scores, routed over Northern PaclMc and "Policing and Red Cross canteen Client Northern tracks, work has been taken care of. Our Although the property loss at Man problems now are rehabilitation and mattan. Three Forks and Logan still re-construction. We must meet them, is estimated at $500,000, some of the The chamber of commerce, city coun- partially wrecked buildings can be cil and clearing house association us salvaged, it Is said, outstanding leadors of the communl- I ty, can take care of the re-construction. The two basic problems are re construction of the business and com mercial districts and the financing of the re-construction. "It Is n wonderful opportunity to build the type of a city we have been talking and dreaming of for years. "We have had very limited control. Wo need a constructing engineer to assure the building of the best und finest city possible." The twenty-two Intent business leaders meeting on the top floor of the city hall were so tense when a heavy quake shivered the building the only one. who nudlbly registered it was the girl stenographer. State street, the main artery of the torn and twisted business district, presented a oesoiuie "iNwrni. threw Into bold relief the optimism of the men and women who owned the wrecked stores. i In front of one shop Iny what was left of a small automobile. Blocks of stone weighing 400 or 600 pounds each had crushhed It flat and In their fnll had ground out the life of William Proctor, window cleaner, . who had Just driven up to his early, NEW YORK, June 80. The elos morning Job when the first temblor ing was 8trong. An active demand came. for the steel shares which advanced - Across the way stood a five-ton orl lo two points featured the late truck, one of the burly giants of the trading. S. S. Kresge Jumped 25 highway, shattered under a similar points to 240. avalanche of sloop, brick and mor- Removal of uncertainty regarding tar. I the extent of the California . eartl In the crumpled ruins of the ex- quake damage und the growing con clusive Hotel Arlington, the Mecca of victlori that high call money rates world travelers for years, the fall of were only temporary paved the way tank containing 00,000 gallons of for another sharp advance, in prices water had swept to their deaths Mrs. in today's stock market. Charles E. Perkins, aged millionaire Revlvnl of pool activity, particular widow of Burlington. Iowa, and Ber- ly in the motor, rubber, food and pub tram B. Hancock, son of 1. Allen He utility shares featured the days . (trading. Total sales approximated (Continued on Page Eight) 1,260 000 shares. CASTLE ROCK AND SANTA BARBARA LIGHT HOUSE SWEPT AWAY BY QUAKE SANTA BARBAUA, June 30. (A. P.) Castle Rock, a shore line sentinel of Santa Barbara Beach that wus Just as fnmillar to residents and visi tors as the old mission, was swept to the ocean bottom by yesterday's earthquake. Following the first temb lor a slide Burned over the rocky liinnacle and carried it out beneigjh the waves. Today the onlv flair that flew throughout the earthquake chaos, the Millionaire Homes in Montmcito Shaken, But No Om Injured ' SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 30. (A. P.) Montecito, show place of millionaires country homes, was cracked by the earthquake which damaged a large numbi of mansions The George Owen Knappman- sion was damaged to the extent of $25,000. The Frederick F. Peabody home sustained $15,000 damage. The home of W. H. Cowles of Spokane was damaged to Uie ex- tent of $10,000. The Bliss place, Hillings and Mitchell homes, were more r less shaken up. No one was injured at Monte- clto. ' QUAKE I BOZKMAN, Wont., June 30. Southwestern Montana continued to keep its earthquake eye open today with the receipt of news late last night that shocks still were being felt neur the, scene of the disturbances of Saturday night and Sunday. The Gallatin river valley stirred restlessly all day yesterday and dis tinct shocks were felt here at 10:30 and 11:35 o'clock last night. Last night's shocks drove people from their beds and many spent the remn.nder of the night out of doors. , Dozens of shocks have been felt be tween Bozeman and Three Forks, one of the three towns which suffered the most, since Saturday night. A shock at 3:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon top pled over the weakened walls of a school building nt Manhattan, which was partially wrecked Saturday night, I The shifting of the earth's surface .yesterday were felt at Orent Falls. Helena, Billings, Logan, Three Forks and Mnfthntlnn, but only nominal , damage was done. Seven hundred men are at work clearing miles of Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Pnul railroad tracks in Sixteen Mile canyon near Lombard which was burled by avalanches resulting from quakes, 'frame over tne Ainwauuec lint still Is impossible through that TO BRIDE'S PROPERTY SALEM, Ore.. June 30. William Edward Moses of Jofferson, Ore., who lust Sunday was married to Jos Turner, prominent Salem teacher of music, agreed with his. bride to - a unique marriage contract, official records revealed her today. The con tract was signed by the two December 24 last und by its terms Moses wolves all rights to interest In the bride's property, which the law otherwise would allow him. The marriage took )lace here Sunday nftemoon at the Fiml Mothodlilt church, ami wnR one of the most faahlonn,i0 Wcddlngs here In years. Wall Street Report SHOCKS CON IN IN MONTANA Stars and Stripes atop the American Legion building, dipped its glisten ing fold to the forces of reconstruc tion. I The Legion citadel, condemned as dangerous, was razed by the fire de partment, hm to the last Old Glory waved from Its gaunt staff, and set tled slowly to earth amid the dust of (crumbling walls. I The Santa Barbara light house also fell In ruins. I PI UPONSFM ELECp Bill Supreme Court Declares Gov ernor Had Right to Veto Legislature Measure So rJo( Special Election Will Be Held in September. SALEM, Ore., June 30. Oregon will not have a special election in September. This was settled by the supreme court today In a verbal opin ion in the case of L. L. Swan ugtlnsl Secretury of State Kozer, an original proceeding In mandamus to compel Kozer to call a special election not withstanding Governor Pierce's veto of the special election Mil of the IS 2 5 legislature. With possibly one exception the court was a unit In the opinion and the written decree will come down a week from today. The reason for a veil ml opinion was to moot the neces Ity for quick action because of vari ous state duties that would be imme diately necessary should tte election have been called, such as certifica tions to county officers anil the filing of arguments for voters' pamphlets. Chief Justice McBride said there was a possibility that one Justice would dissent hut that all the other six were decided in their opinion that the gov ernor had a constitutional right to veto the special election bill Inasmuch as it was a simple legislative act with no legal status different from any other legislative act. The special election act was passed by the legislature and provided that the election be called In event the referendum were invoked against any of the revenue producing acts of the legislature, in which event all meas ures referred to the people by the legislature itself also would bo voted on except the eastern Oregon normal school bill. The referendum was in voked on he tobacco tax bill, the bus bill and the tithing bill, but the gov ernor had vetoed the special election act so that operation .of all these meaeurcB is now held up pending the general election In November, 196. The governor was charged with having vetoed the bill for thereason that he wanted the Dennis u'csolution, proposing an inhibition against in come and inheritance taxes In Oregon for fifteen years, and a state Income tax bill both to go before the people in November, 1926, so that he could set them over against each other as a gubernatorial campaign issue. The governor is strongly opposed to the Dennis resolution and as strongly in favor of a state income tax act. Had the special election been called the Dennis resolution would have been before the people the coming Septem ber. PRESIDENT LEAVES F FATHER RECOVERS PLYMOUTH, Vt, Juno 30. (A. P.) President Coolidge left here today for Swampsscott, MaBS., assured that his aged father virtually had recov ered from an attack of illness. Travel ing by motor, he was expected to reach his destination about 7 P. M. Accompanied by Mrs. Coolidge, the president planned to make the entire trip by automobile. He left here at 11:17, eastern standard time, and ex pected In seven hours to reach the summer White House which he left hurriedly Sunday on receipt of word that his father'B condition was crltlca Dr. James F. Coupal. the president's physician, remained here to attend r,lnnn1 nnnlttlir until all rinnfrar nf a relapse is passed. He assured the I president, however, that his father I was making a remarkable recovery, in view ot nis age anu weaaenea neuri, and that there was little likelihood of a relapse. ', .' Visiting the sick, room before his departure, the ' president found his father, who submitted to an operation Sunday, sitting up and in excellent spirits. The 80-year-old patient in sisted that he would be all right again in a day or two and told his' son and daughter-in-law not to worry about him. ' ' John, son of the president, and Mrs. Coolidge remained here to be with his grandfather and do the chores around the place. Before leaving the president took a last look at the shingles he was stacking and gave him some instructions about work he thought should be done. Before making their departure the president and Mrs. Coolidge visited the cemetery where their younger son, Calvin, was buried just a year ago. American Is Befooled WIMBLED, England. June 30 (A. P.) America's last hope In the nintrlpu nt the all-Eneland tennis 'championships, was eliminated today when John Hennessy, of Indianapolis, (was defeated by Henry Cochet, third ranking plnyer of France, 7-9, 4-6, 6-1, 6-3, 6-0. RCE UPHELD Mountmm Ttiovss! j t. A l Upc A mammoth lake Is forming i the Teton range In western Wyoming, where a mountain of rocks, moving at an Incredible, speed, toppled Into the Or oh Ventre rivep and damming up the waters. Photo shows the scene (X) of the extraordi nary occurrence. Tremendous Avalanche Is Ex pected in Wyoming As Re sult , of Earthquakes New Lake Covers 5000 Acres and Is 500 Feet Deep. JACKSON, Wyo., June 30.- (A. P.) The north end of Chief mountain is creeping slowly down, upon the Gros Ventre river valley and crumb ling as it goes. Moving down upon the river on a front of several miles at a rate of speed that is almost perceptible, forest rangers and ranchers declare, it will create a great basin if it blockB the canyon through which the river runs. They believe that the section of the great mountain was jarred loose by the earthquake shocks which were felt here Saturday, and that the result will be an avalanche greater than that which occurred last Tuesday, when a Bection of Sheep mountain, at a point below Chief mountain, fell into the river and caused it to form a lake. When the, expected avalanche oc curs It will dam the river to such a height that once the basin is filled the stream will find a new outlet. Below the Sheep mountain dam the river is dry and all Irrigation opera tions are at a standstill. The lake formed by last week's avalanche already covers 6000 acres, and the piling up of boulders and earth around the sides of this newly formed basin has created cliffs hundreds of feet high. The lake at that point which was 120 feet deep shortly after the slide, now is 500 feet deep, residents say. Eagle Point Woman Commits Suicide At Salem Hospital SALEM, Ore., June 80. Mrs. Mary Derrick, committed to the hosnltal here from Eagle Point, Jnckson county, committed sui- clde at the hospital last night by hanging herself by a sheet stretched over a pipe in the bath room. She had made several previous attempts at suicide before being committed to the Institution here. She leaves a husband and four children, Notice to Adversers. There will be no issue of this paper Saturday, July 4. Friday will be market day, as the stores will close on Saturday. The ads usually run on Friday will be run this week on Thurs- day and copy should be In this v office by tomorrow, Wednesday, at 3 P. M. There will be the regular issue of the Sun on July 5. - MOUNTAIN IS MOVING SLOWLY TOWARD RIVER Hill 10 hW ANMVOLUTO Bill Sunday to Take the Stump in Favor of Prohibiting - o aching of Evolution in Public Schools Debafcs Are Arranged. SLK.M.- Ore., June 30. A replicn of the Tennessee untl-evolullon bill which has stirred the country thru the Scopes case will be Initiated in Oregon. Washington nnd California to lie pushed by the electorate of those three states, according to Pr. K. A. t'anlrell who han been debating Dr. W. U. lliley In C'nllfurnia, Ore gon and Wushlngton on the (iues- tlon of teaching evolution in the schools. Dr. Culltrell takes the side aauinst the fundamentalists. Me is here, arranging for debates In tlu near future with !. ltlley at Salem and Kugene. Dr. t'antrell deelnres that the first big gun In the battle lo put over the anti-eviilulion bill In the three coast stutes will be fired In September, when the Itev. William A. Sunday evancellst. opens with a series of meetings in Portland nnd asserts that Sunday's opening guns will bo fol lowed by a barrage throughout the three states by such Bpenkers n William Jennings Bryan, Dr. W. B, ltlley nnd others. While the Tennessee bill was passed bv the legislature of that state. Dr. Cantrell says that In tho three const states the effort bo made to put over tho bill before any legislature will hnve a iTiunce to con vene and tnke the fight directly to the people. Dr. Cantrell Inst night telegraphed Dr. ltlley at Seattle asking that a date be definitely set for the debates In ' Salem nnd Eugene- and states that the debate hero probahly will be on July 8 nnd nt Kugene on jui 9. j.J , '; - . ; SECY. WILBUR TO VISIT OREGON ON' TRIP TO PANAMA CHICAGO, Juno 30. (A. P.) Cur-ttM-D. Wilbur, Hecrotury of l he nnvy, Htopped lioro toduy route to Sun FranciHco to "pay lity reHpectB to Churles O. Dawen, the vice president, und innpect-the GriMit bukea naval trulninK stutlon. The secretury will continue hla vacation It ip to Califor nia tonight. The aecretary ellHpluyud keen inter est! In the luteal reportH from the Cali fornia eurthquake zone and cxpreaned relief when Informed the luteat death list totalled nln. He ild the navy department na turally would do all poaflihle to relieve the altuation. Secretary Wilbur lived in the affected zone 30 years. He will Join the cruiae of the Unit ed Stutea mldahlpmen at Hun FranciH co July 12 and go to Aatorla, Ore., with them. Krom Sun Diego, Cal., ho will leuve on the trunaport Henderaon July T with Heveral membera of the houae naval committee for a vlalt to Panama nnd posalbly Haiti, reaching Hampton Koada Auguat 17. Secretary Wilbur telegraphed to I'ortlund, Ore., regretn' that ho could not be there July 3 for the preaenta tion to the Btato of the hiatorlc bnUle ahlp Oregon und uhhu ranee that he would be there on July Zl. IS Ti SAN FRANCISCfi, June 30. (A. P.) The Southern Pacific company an nounced today that full and regular train service had been resumed thru the Santa Barbara region, track re pairs having been completed during the night. I Jut eight miles of the company's tracks were out and the area of actual damage was much shorter than that. Automobile traffic between 8an Francisco and .os Angeles Is being diverted to keep tourists out of Santa Barbara in order that the work of clearing streets may be expedited and no additional burden be placed t.n the food supply. 300 Bead Hlfriniis Counted RABAT, French Morocco, June 80. (A. P.) Three hundred Rlfflnn dead were counted on the field after the offensive against the French that ended Saturday In the upper Leben valley. It la announced. The French troops on Sunday scoud the district Ujl cleared out the enemy. O Shepherd Cleared of Alb Charges; Will Case Only Remains CHICAGO. June 30. William D. Shepherd was freedOduy of all criminal chnrges in connec- I tion with the death of his mil llonaire foster son. when the grand Jury returned a "no bill" on the death of Mrs. Emma Nelson MrClintork. There remains for disposition the will contest In which Isa- belle Pope. "Billy" Mcl'Iintoek's fiancee, and several cousins of the youth are disputing the 4 right of Shepherd to the Jl.- 000,000 estate. ' ' WET DECISION SAL13M, Ore., June 3D. Th pres ence of Juatice il. il. Holt on the Oregon BUpreme court bench resulted in the court toduy reversing Ita for mer opinion of January 2. written by former Justice M. L. 1'ipcs. and up holding the wer court for Hen ton county for conviction of K. A. Mc Dunlel on u churge of poaaeaaiug in toxicating liquor. The case la consid ered crucial. The right of search nnd seizure prior to arrest and to uxe of evidence so obtained were mainly involved In the case. , The court holds that Oie officers, from personal knowledge through the senses of sight lind smell hud the right to draw the reasonable infer ence that the defendant hud intoxi cating liquor in his possession and that he was attempting to diivo an automobile while In a drunken condi tion. Without doubt. It Is held, he was committing a crime In their pres ence, for which they hud tho legal right to make urrest without a war rant; ' S.F.T0 SAN FRANCISCO, June 30. (A. P.) Through Pullman service be tween Hun Francisco und Klamath Falls, Ore., without change, was established today by the Southern Pacific company. Up to this - date passengers to and from Klamath Falls changed ut Weed. i Northbound, tho sleeper will be changed from the Hun Francisco Portland train at Weed and will be taken in Klamath Falls by a feeder truln. Houthbound, the feeder will bring the Pullman Into Weed and It will be picked up by th southbound Portland-Sun Francisco train. BEND LUMBER MILLS PRODUCE TURPENTINE BEND, Ore,, June 30. The first sawmill by-products plant to be used In the western pine Industry is being I constructed by the Shevlin-Hlxon company and will be ready for use within a few months, according to I mill officials. Turpentine and various other nine 'oIIh will be produced by a "destruc tive dlstlllathe" process. The presont plant will be merely a fJrst unit und will bo constructed so that additional units may be udded Inter until the plant Is big enough to handle all of the waste from sawdust to edgings and slabs. f'biin h Harmony Vrgod SEATTL13, June 30. (A. P.) Be fore 3000 persons In the First Church here, Hev. Cllntori Wunder of Roches ter, N. Y., today opened the national meeting of the ;$irthern Baptist con vention wlfh a prer for peace with in the church. He warned ngnlnst "sinister movements masquerading as American nnd Chrlstlun." IS REVERSED BY SUPREME COURT SANTA BARBARA APPEALS FOR SANTA HARnAHA, Cnl., June 30. (A. P.) Santa Uarliara today, through Its clearing house association, issued an appeal to the nation (or a $2,000,000 earthquake fund anil to bankers and clearing houses of the country for a (20,000,000 loan reconstruction fund. Acceptance of offrs of aid from Ran Frnnclsco and Los Angeles was toted by a representative gathering ot the city council, chamber of coin-O 6H0ULS PLY inumn 111 : I ITU i r 1 1 1 i I Iff II I IU 111 QUAKE ZONE Looters Busy During Night in Ruined City Catholic Church Robbed of Altar Ves selsLos Angeles Rushes 200 Police and U. S. A. Ma rines Are Landed. ! - ? SANTA BARBARA, Cal., June 30.V A. P.) Looters piled their nefarious trade among the earthquake ruins oj Santa Barbara during the night unJ numerous reports of their depreda-l tlons came from officers. National! guardsmen and naval reservists who threw a network of patrols over the MtiHiiicxti uisiricL uuring ine uars. hours. . t Ciuudalupo Catholic church wns said to huve been one of the princi pal sufferers. Here, the police report sit Id. the nltar vessels of gold and 1N ver were stolen. V f VJ Two supposed thieves wereiiAiR prlsed in tho ruins of the Arlington hotel, but they managed to evade ur rest. Other minor cases of theft also were reported, Including pilfering from the shops along the waterfront. The night and early morning were marked by two severe temblors which again rocked the city at 1:22 and 4:3 n. m. The first of these brought down one of the remaining chimneys of the Arlington hotel and also com- pleted the wrecking of a couple-of small brick buildings which had been badly damaged In the quake of Mon-i day morning. As the hotel chimney came crashing down where wrecking crews were clearing the debris, the squads of searchers sought safety in flight, hut returned to their labor al most before the dust of the smash. Uad cleared away. , nvo ihhiich iiocovcrea Before dawn-they had ' recovered two bodies for which they were searching, those of Mrs. Charles E. Perkins, 83 year old millionaire widow of Burlington, Iowa, nnd Bertram B. Hancock, 21 year old son of O, Allen Hancock, wealthy realtor of Los An geles. During the night upwards of 200 uniformed police arrived from - Los Angeles to aid the local militia tn par trollng tho streets, which were closely cordoned from sunset to sunrise. Short)" after 4 o'clock the battleshiw Arkansas, Captain Frank Lyon com mundlng, dropped anchor In -. Xho harbor and began landing ' short patrols of bluejackets to aid in malnj tatning order. i.,.-. Other assistance also came from Los Angeles, including a tralnload - of supplies, several trucks of fire- -apparatus and a powerful electric gen erator and portuble lights from the Famous Players-Loaky studio at Hol lywood which was used to illuminate the ruins which were being combed for bodies of possible victims. IT. K. Miiriimu T4imlel The landing of the force from tho U. U. 8. Arkansas was a signal for the re-orgunlzation of the guards about the quake-numbed city. Thirty-five members of the ship's company oume' ashore at daybreak, among- them a land radio outfit In command of Radio Gunner O. 8. Denton, who Im mediately established a plant for com- , muntcatlon between the shore forces ( und Captain Frank Lyons, command- . lng the battleship. ' ', Naval officers estimated that a battalion of bluejackets would te ashore and in major command o the guard duty before noon. Jhey 'will be under command of Lieutenant Commander H, B. Samion. : 'Chief of Police Desgrandchnmn of Santa Barbara, announced that1 the police nnd sheriff's forces of Santa Barbara and Los Angeles combined numbering about 450 men would h re-orgnnlzed for more efficient guard duty at once. At daylight a unit of Red Cro.a nurses nnd rehabilitation experts ar rived from San Francisco undet, the direction of J. W. Rlchnrdson. relief organizer, nnd Dorothy Ledyarde, di rector of nursing activities IntHhf Puclfic division of the Red Cross. I UN I ('runs At Work Announcements Were made that a meeting of all Red Cross workers In . i fPnnMniil f Pan Fts-hM 22 s TO REBUILD CITY merce and clearing house associations. Structural englyers were asked for Immediately. The following telegram was sent to the chamberpot commerce of Los ,An geles and San Franc!co: "Accept your otter of assistance. Send us today three or five gupeftor structural engineers to act in advisory capacity to city government In an Im mediate survey for reconstruction of Santa Barbara,"