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0 o MEBFQISB - MAlL':TRiBUNE' The Weather Prediction : Fif r Mailmum yestelday Ha Minimum today 6a-n Weather Ygar Ago Maximum l Mlmmum 47 medfordt QRpnoy, .Tiiunsn.Y, juirno, fr)2 NO. Ill WfHy Kilty t.flrlli Vn SOUTHWEST STATES FEEL No Damage Frcfm Early Morn ing Quivers of Low Intensity Five Kansas Cities Feel Denver. SANTA DARBAUA, Cul July SO ,A. P.) Santa Barbara and vicinity Experienced a sharp earthquake -lit 1:C0 o'clock tlilH morning followed by a lighter one a few hours later. There was no damage and most persons slept through the jolts. KANSAS CITY". Mo.. July 30. (A. p.) Earth tremors of moderate in -tensile were felt In Kansas. Oklahoma, Now Mexico and Texan today, hut no property damage has been reported, irhe quakes occurred between 6 and ;1G a. m. Reports from Kansas stated that the shocks were felt In five cities. Lenven worth experienced two distinct tre mors, about fifteen minutes apart. Wichita. Medicine Lodge and Ashland also felt the shock. Enid. Okla.. citizens were awakened hy the temblor. Cities in northwest ern Oklnhoma reported nn enrlh dis turbance. Amnrillo and surrounding towns in the Panhandle of Texas reported tre 'mors lnstlng thirty -seconds, Buildings were swayed noticeably but no dam age was reported. 1 . At Leavenwortli, sirs, uacoma Ryan, who recently Teturned from California, declared the second shock ' had the effect of rattling the bed In j her room. I Thn HAiamnfrAnh ntr tha University 1 of Kansas" at Lawrence, recorded earthquake tremors of low' Intensity beginning nt. 4:09:20 o'clock and last- lng .throe.,-mlntltes- ami ton: seconds. Professsor C. J. Posey, the observer, Raid- the intensity was greatest in an i rMat -Went dh-ecflnn nnd .csiltnntetf lhAt' the center of disturbance was nioro west than south of here. The seis mograph was less distinct lllnn thnt ninde by the recent Montana earth quake. , DENVER, Colo., July 30. (A. P.) A henvy earthquake shock lasting . three minutes wns recorded on the peismogrnph at Regis college here , early today. Father Armnnd Forstall, In charge, estimated the center of the disturbance to be about 300 miles south of Denver. "A very severe shock is Indlenlcd." ' declared Father Forstall, "Ihe needle of the Instrument jumped hnlf an Inch, showing the disturbance wns of great intensity." VENTURA. Calif.. JUly 30 (A. P.) Two slight earth tremors were felt here early today. The first was noted nt 1:30 n. in. and the second between . 4:30 and f a. m. No damage was done. . . i AUJITRQUERQUE, N. M.. July 30. (A. P.) Earth tremors severe enough to 'rattle dishes nnd shake jwlndows and doors were felt nt Cln lls. N. M.. ot G:l this morning. The inors also were felt at Turumcarl nnd Roswell. N. M., nnd nt Dalhnrt and Childress, Texas. . MBETIAU Kan.. July 30. (A. P.) A sliirht earthquake tremor occurred here at 6:15 o'clock thip mornlnR. The tremor lasted about three mlnutea nnd was sufficiently ntrong to rattle win daws and diHhes and move heavy fur niture slightly. :T' WTCHITA. lOiR.JMly 80. (A. P.) An earth tremor of very low Inten sity wns felt here aholtt 0:13 a. m, to day. 0 4 v : ' OKLAHOMA CITV, Okla.,July 30. (A. P.) Scores of person here as serted they felt a alight' earth tremor early today. They snld the quake nst ed about thirty seconds. AMARTLLO, Texas. July 30 (A. P.) An earth tremor of nearly 30 sec onds duration shook marlllo and surrounding towns early today. The shock was registered here at 6:12 a; m.. buildings swayed noticeably, hut no damage had been reported. Re ports from New Mexico nnd Okla homa towns near the. Texas lines In r aicniea me tremor exicnusu those states. -, 1 into TREMBLERS KLAN KtBAGLE-PRFACHER WHO RAN OFF WITH GIRL AND-SKOOO FACES TRENTON, N. J Jtly 80 (A. TO Mrs. R. Carl Zlegler, wife of the Methodist minister and banished kleagle of the KuKlux Klan, who was arrested recently In Kl Paso with Miss Margaret Roberta of Trenton, to day filed suit for divorce, alleging In fidelity. ' ,' The court ruested Mrs. Zlegler to 'IHe an -affidavit stating there had Th- no collusion between herself and her husband In the suit. This action Detour On Highway Near Oakland, Ore., Due to Road Work SALEM. Ore.. July 30. The state hlRhwny commission an- 4 nounces that construction work on the Pacific highway Just north of Oakland, Douglas county, makes it necessary that the highway be closed to tnrf- fie during wnrkHig hours, from 7:30 a. m. to 6:3a p. m.. -for about three weeks. A detour has been provided around the 4 construction over wluit U known 4( r locany us uie torn nui ur i.uuu- t, rich road. All traffic will bo allowed to use the timln high- way after working hours. ' LA FOLLETTE JR. TO ENTER RACE FORMNAIE Statement On Candidacy Later Decision to Seek Seat Father Filled, Made After Conference With Leaders of Wisconsin Politics. MADISON, Wis., July 30. (A. P.) Robert M ijiFollette, Jr., will K the seat in the United States senate made vacant by the death ot his father. He announced his candi-f dacy here today and said he would Issue "a. complete statement" later.l The announcement said: "I am a candidate for United States ennlor.i , n a short tlmo r shall Issue a com - j'plete statement." . The- announcement followed enn - fercnees with Wisconsin political traders ana came a lew unys untM the senator's widow announced she would not seek the seat mauo va cant by her husband. V The governor will call a special election at a "time most convenient to the largest number of voters." Mrs. LaFollette will devote her time to completing her nusnanu s; autlblogrnphy and to editorlnl work 0n the magazine which he founded )(re Roveral years ago. -v-he special election probably will ,e held In September or October) after the harvest season so as to; permit n large farmer vote. Former Oovernor Francis F. Mc Oovern and Roy J1. Wilcox, former state senator from Ejiu Claire, al ready have declared for the race In the republican primary. John . M Work, Milwaukee, will be the so cialist candidate. Tl NOT SAVE BOY SAN QUETTN, Calif., July 30 (A. P.) Charles Grate, 22, will he hang- at tho Rlate penitentiary here to morrow unless Governor Richardson Intervenes. The goverrtor has indi cated that he will not act. Craig and an accomplice, Jack Bak er, robbed the hank of Tehama county at Red Bluff, Calif., July 10, 1924. As they fled they shot nnd killed Samuel Hermnnson, a forest ranger, who at tempted to capture them. Buker pleaded guilty and was sentenced t life imprisonment. Craig fought his case vand was convicted. Craig's mother, who enme from Kansas City in an effort to save hliu from the gallows, bade him goodbye at the prison yesterday. Film Cowboys Hurt. HOLLYWOOD. Calif., July 30 (A. P.) Three cowboy motion picture ac tors today were under treatment for serious injuries- received near Chats worth, north of here, yesterday when they fell beneath the hoofs of gallop ing horses during the filming of a western thriller. Two of them, Harry Woods and W. T. Sherman, were probiitily fntnlly Ihurt. was taken because of her announce ment yesterday tha she would obtain a divorce to save Zlegler and Miss Roberts fron prosecution under the Mnnn act. United States Marshals hold war rants for the arrest of the couple on charges o conspiring to violate the Mann act and Klcgler also Is held In fina ball at Redhank. N. J., .on charges of embezzling $1000 In klan funds. TEXT BOOK VetO By GOV. PiefCe biameO ... scnooi book commission 10 Untangle Snarl Competi tive Bids Nettle Publishers, and New Row Opens. SAI.EM. Ore., July 30 (A. P.) fiovernor Waller M. Pierce has called a session of the slate textbook com mission In Salem next Monday, to con sider the matter of letting contracts for books. Oovernor Pierce vetoed a bill pass ed by the 1925 legislature empower ing the state board of education to enter Into contracts with publishers at the best posslhle price, which were to be no higher than prices in any other state. Publishers have refused 'to renew contracts at the old figures apt the governor wants new contracts let by competitive bids. Formerly all the textbooks used in Oregon schools were changed or re newed every six years but because of the burden this placed nn school pa trons a law was enacted in 1W23 which provided that one-third should be changed every two years. Under the old law all the books would 1iave been subject to chnnge June l, tnis Under the , act one -third tlvo June , ,hiB year, leaving the con(ra(.g on the other two-thirds to explre at ,ne da,e, But the law of 1923 also provided ,., ,.a ,..,., tnr. KnnuM . nn. . . contlnue However, lhe publishers refuse to continue at Iq, oui prices that have prevailed, tor 1 - , last six yearB..- '' " " ' Htato Superintendent Churchill, as a result ha, a bill Introduced at the 1925 session which would have auth orized the stato board of education to enter iito contracts with the publish ers nt the heat possible piicos which. untie., the prevailing form of con (tract, would hove been no higher than tn. charged In any other state. This mn passed the legislature but was vo ; toed' uv tne governor on grounds thnt 't would be a "surrender to the book trust." . The governdr took the stand that the hoard of education could hold the , Ushers to their old contracts. Although without a contract cover ing the future the state school super intendent has been up against tne ne cesslty of arranging the course of study as usual and this is now being published. Because of the absence of legislative authority he wrote each of the iiublishers doing business in Ore gon for the lowest figures at which they would have contracted in uregon and on that basis arranged the course of study. The governor. In a letter to the members of the textbook commission, calling them to Salem next Monday, now asks for competitive bidding. If hooks are adopted different from the course of study ns arranged a serious tangle will result for Stato supertn tendent Churchill says It will he Im possible to get newly adopted books by the tlmo schools open in sepiem- ber. n his letter to the commissioners, Oovernor Pierce refers to the publish ers' letters to Buperlntendent Church ill as "a gentlemen's agreement." He savs: In whatever light we mtgni view such 'a gentlemen's agreement, It Is surely the part of good business for Oregon to make Its own contracts tor textbooks rather than to accept arbi trary highef terms bargained for In some other state. With these con tracts expired, It leaves our state open for any publisher to sell his textbooks and thus Interfere with stnte uniform ity In our schools. "The publisher! whoso iiooks nave been used have enjoyed a lucrative contract fornix years. They now ask that we continue their books at an arbitrary increase In price under some sort of a gentlemen's agree ment. If . our school patrons must pay more for their books It Is only fnlr and right that the prices they must pay should be fixed In open and competitive bidding before the legally authorized commission of the state of Oregon. We should not submit to nn arbitrary Increase In price nor substitute for a contract a 'gentle men's agreement' which has no legnl nor binding effect. 1 FIGHT SUIT TAMPA, Fla.. Ju- 30. (A. P.) Osborn C. Wood, former army of ficer and son of Major Oeneral Leon ard Wood, governor general of -the Philippines today stated he did not Intend to contest tte divorce suit filed by hie ' wife . In k'ilmlnAon, Del, , ' DIVORCE GENERAL'S SON NOT, President's Son, Amateur Carpenter', Helps Grandfather Shingle the Barn John Coolitfge, only child of the president and his wife, is at Plymouth, Vt., helping his grandfather shingle a barn, before jolt ing his parents at the summer White House at Swampscott. Hr is seen at . work. COLOR ENTERS Film Stars Not in Court and " Crowd Dwindles-APolice ln- former in Plot Prepared to Shoot Fairbanks if He In terfered. : ; y LOS ANOELUS, July 3ft (A. P. Yesterday's colornut scenes In the trial of three men accused of plottlpg to kidnap Alary Pickford, film star, changed today lo the dull drab of legal testimony. 1 There wns no craning of crowded necks to see the actress and her hus-i bund, Douglas Fairbanks, both of whom testified yesterday and only a fair-sized gathering of spectators heard John J. 1 1 111. deputy district at torney, give his evidence. . Hill, who conducted the grand Jury Investigation of the chnrges against Adrian Wood, Claude llolcomb and L. Stephens, said that Wood nnd llol comb both waived their rights nmt asked to be permitted to tell their stories to the county grand Jury. . Hill then 'recounted what he. said was the gist of Wood's testimony be fore the grand Jury that Louis fleck, said to be the police Informer In the plot, with Stephens, nppronched Wood to enlist his support In a kidnaping plot. The first prospective victim dis cussed wns a grandson of K. T. Do lieny. Sr., oil magnate; the next was Jackie Coogan, juvenile film actor, and the plans eventually settled on Mary Pickford. Wood, nccordlng to Hill, said he bought a pistol and It was decided that if Fairbanks Interfered In the kldnnplng of his wife he was to be "put out of the way." HOOD RIVER. July 30. A break TRIALOFIVIARY'S 3 KIDNAPPERS . . "5 N! in tne main canni oi ine system u, tiregg, ninmerry, ttussell unci Itllel, the Hood River Irrigation district gevereld. has carried a great volume of. red j shot soil Into Hood River and the X-' '' National strenm was muddler yesterday thanf At Chicago . R. H. R. any old lime resident had ever seert New York 4 13 I It. Fishing In the river below the'chlcago t 10 1 break, one of the worst In the hls- tory of locnl Irrigation, was spoiled for the time. The place where the ravein occurred was on a precipitous hillside. Crews of men were rushed to re pair Ihe break and it was thought that service in the district, whlrh covers tho Oak flrnve section, will be restored tomorrow. Anglo-Jap Treaty. LONDON, July 30 A. P.) Baron Hayashl," Japanese ambassador and Foreign Secretativ Chamberlain to day signed a new Anglo-Japanese treaty regarding trade and naviga tion. ImiiI Price I'p NF.W YORK, July 30 (A. P.) Thc American Smelting and Refining com pany today advanced the price of len from 1.20 to 3.30 ' cents per pound. I 1 . Ore July SO Upon ure., juiy , ne. upuii SALEM, being . Informed , today that he " under indictment In Klamath Falls, AVIIllam S.- I,eveiiBstate prohibition - commlssolner, exressed complete surprise, said he could not imagine what ; it was for and Immediately called up Acting District Atlornoy Iones! Mr Information Jones In- Jones for inroi matlon, Jones In formed LevenS . tnnt the Indictment was for larceny In a house, but would' give no further details. After the conversation with Jones, Levons at once surmised that the charge was larceny of a gun. - .went. .with the sheriff of Klnm- nth county, the deputy district "'- torney, Mr; McBrlde and some po- lice officer," said Levens, "to a house where a Mexican and two women were living, to ma ko a search for liquor. The Mexican hnd a gun. j HSKeu.mm ii ne were un flmcn can citizen and when he replied that he wns not I told him that he had no right to. havo the gun. .He also said it was not Ills property. I told him that-if he owned the gun i would not take It. He also said It wns not his property. He told me to take It along because It was broke and. would not work, ' The gun was an old Luger nnd Is in my grip at my apartment." ', f American : At New York Si. Louis N.ew , York Oaston and Margrave; Hcnang. It. II, n, At Boston ' ' R. H. V Cleveland t.:..V.. .' 7 Id 0 Boston ;. 8 H 1 Buckeye and Myatt; Kuhiilzcr and Plelnlch. At Philadelphia ' R. II, E. Detroit 0 10 A Philadelphia 0 III ' A Whltehlll, Wills and Bnsaler, Wood all: Cray and Cochrane. At Washington II. II. E. Chicago 11 18 1' Washington .-. 110 1 Thurston and Crouse: Coveleskla. - Scott and dowdy; Alexnnder, Jones and Hnrtnotl. At Plltsliurgh- R. II. 15. Boston '..x... ft 1 1 2 Pittsburgh 1 II I (lenewlrh end ' fliiison; Aldrldge, Sheehan and Smith. I ; At' Cincinnati-"- R. If. R. Philadelphia 2 Ii 2 Clnrinnatl . 12 0 Mitchell, Knight and Wilson; Rlxey and llargrave. Ksnrtn Wins Affnln. . BASEBALL SCORES YONKER8, N, Y., July 30. (A, tomohlle appeared on the market are P.) Earle Hande rode Sarazen to the occasion today for a quiet celebra vlrlory In tha Fleetwlng handicap, Hon at Dearborn, Mich., In whlch'only $3000 added, which was ihe closing llery ford and his Immediate family feature at the Empire ' City track are participating. toriffy. Lucky Play was second and atyday Henry Ford is 02 years of Worthmore ' third. Harnzen's time age, his step light and elastic, his face for' the . six furlongs event was tanned and the usiul exhuberauce 1:01 1-8. m which has marked his years, evident Outbreak of Culture In Louisiana Fails To Preturb Marshall EHOS, l.n., July nt). iA. P.) A. I. Davis, town marsbul, sold today il" -omplalnts had been made and that he knew nothing of reports circulated I yesterday that a number of women had applied tar and feathers to Miss May Slinms, 21, and had ordered her to leave town. r The reports were that the af- fair occurred in a lumber yard. - PAUSE AN HOUR OF 'COMMONER' Gov. Pierce Issues Proclama tion Calling On All Business , 1 1 it. p p- 1 g I tO Halt Uliring FUnerai 0I Departed Leader High I Tribute Paid Memory. I SALEM, Ore., July .10. In a procla-1 Rl HONOR matlon Issued by Governor Pierce to- reverent crowds had gathered to pay day the people of Oregon are re-1 ,rlh,u'f, 'Vne ro,mmoner quested, during the funeril hour of " While they waited, another group William J. Bryan tomorrow, to lay nart "led before his bier and looked aside their busluess attain . antl Join . upon his serene features aa ha lay in appropriate commemoration of Ills f,,r a llule tlme ln nn undertaking life. The proclamation follows: , parlor In another part of the city. "Bryan 1b deud. The great com- Special details of police were plao. j moner Is gone. Our nation has lost "bout the church to divert traf- a great statesman. The oumuion peopto hve lost their , great leader. r ... .. .. ,--, ,.. tory delight and Instruct the countless thousands who listened to his stirring addresses. - - - - r r "Mis iiia amnna us ror over .iu years was one of Inspiration antl ,.,,.,,, ,,, ,, , ,hi,,,i blemish and his achievements for the betterment of his fellowinen have UBeu surpassed by no statesman In H)(( mm(i tha crownng pont ot hB nfe's efforts, In a vctorOU8 defense of the fulth of h Is fathers , . t i fittng that our citizens sltotiltl pnuBe t0 conHrter thB w,m,orfu life, ot jh)B great , an( llnt0 )n honor- h n,emory, i, therefore, request all our citizens to luy aside their ImihI- nasg affu(ra ,,irnK the hour of Ills llnerni. from a to 4 P. M . on Friday. July 31, 1925. and Join in uiiproiiriate commemoration of the life of tills great citizen.1 DALLAS, Ore., July 80 (A. P.) Ezera Hart and William Rlddell, Jr., county commissioners, will be re quired lo refund to the county mileage collected during 1023 and the first three months of 1924. nccordtng to a decision made by Judge Rumsey here this morning. The sums will amount 'of $723 In the case of Hart and 1780 .2 0 2 111 the case of Klddell, . 9 10 2 I 'Judge Rumsey ruled thut the 'com Toyt and mliuiloners were not required to per I dem for the sumo period, which would have amounted to some stilio for Rlddell and 11105 for Hart. 100 ARAB LOOTERS DIE AFTER RAID riAfiriAD. Mftsnnotaniln. Julv 80. IA. P 1 A hundred Arahs havo been Killed by Persian government troops whlrh attacked the tmlace of the sheik nf M.ihnmnmnli nt Knllnhleh. where a band of Arabs established them- .selves July 24, after storming the town and looting Its bazaars. Six per- sons were killed. The scene of the trouble Is nt Ihe head of the Persian gulf near tho M--" '- - frontier. IS 62. AND 22 YEARS OLD: , DETROIT, Mich., July 30 (A. P.) The 6pd anniversary of his birth and Ihe 22nd year since the first Ford au- REVERENCE OF CAPITOL TO BRYAN Funeral Train Reaches Wash ington and Throngs Pass Casket Military Touch to Last Rites Final Services Tomorrow Burial in Ar lington. ' . WASHINGTON, July 30. (A. P.) ' At the chancel where many times he sought Ood's guidance in his pub- j lie service, William Jennings Bryan received a parting benediction today 1 from the people of the national capi tal. . Drought here from Tennessee, where be died Sunday, his body was taken just before noon to the New York Avenue Presbyterian church t He in state until noon tomorrow. ' Then after a short religious service. u win ie entombed at Arlington with military honors. TTV, worship, nestled in a triangle .where New York avenue meets H. street In 1 ho heart of the downtown district " on ' uide the continued- slow i n'CM'n' thar tramped' In at the ,. I door nnd nnst the silent flsure at the altar. Half of the top of the i casket had been removed and an 1 l Atnerlcan lag- draped-the-TemalnrtCT""""! r mo lnuwii mrtLn t- ; ' morrow this flag was to be the only , emblem 'of his service to. his eoun- y. but" filtfns approved by his 'widow" during the morning Insured that a military touch would he given to his . a,.tunl ,)UrlIl in remembrance of the days when he wore the uniform as a colonel of volunteers during the I Spanish war. Dismounted artillerymen and a military band will meet the funeral procession as It enters Arlington cemetery, nnd soldier regular) will lower his body Into the grave while a bugler sounds a aoldler'i farewell, But there will be no -farewell rifle volley and he will make 1 the last Journey from church to cemetery as tne ordinary citizen does and not upon the lumbering caisson pre scribed for those who claim full military honors. , , Secretary Kellogg sent word to the family today that he and the three as sistant secretaries of the state depart ment, at the head of which the com moner served for two years, would at tend the funeral. , Charles W. Bryan, the dead man's brother, and perhaps his Closest don fldnnt during his long years of no- litlcal battle, came, to the church at noon to look upon his features for the first time since deuth. With well- , eyeH tn urother atood for a mo ment beside the silent form and then passed on. .; , ' With his wife, the former Nebraska governor nnf vice presidential nom inee had Just reached Washington from home. They were accompanied to the church by Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, the commoner's daughter.; . The line of men and women that hnd formed to the north of the church began to pass through the east en trance as soon as the doors were thrown open. It moved down the long Isle to the chancel, back agani to the main entrance and down a winding stairway to 'make Its exit from a door on New York avenue. . The first to pass by the body was Senator Ashurst of Arizona, one of those selected as nn honorary pall bearer. While the long procession was pass- Inn- l. u,,. .. ,h. i.. ,. '. visited Mrs. Bryan at her hotel and nnnarf ti.i ,h, h..ni, ... . ... .... i. , .... . irlty. He said he would preach no Vrmon but would deliver a few brief I remarks, I The service will begin n 3 o'clock 1 in thc afternoon, eastern standard I ' (Continued on Page mt HIS PRODUCT CELEBRATE QUIETLY In those few who have galhed his presence. This anniversary day apparently haa cnuaed Mr, Ford little concern. Asked If he had plans for a birthday party be smiled. As to his health Mr, Ford replied that he never felt better or healthier. r - ' "You know I never think of dimin ishing (lays, " he added. "I'm living In today, not yesterday or tomorrow. Yesterday has been taken cere of and tomorrow will take care ot Itself,"'