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O o The Weather o Forecast; Tonight mill TiiOMgrV unsettled with ruin. M adorn to temperature. EDPOftD 1 Temperature Vy MxhiM yesterday 55 Jouesl this inornlti 37 Precipitation. To " p. in, yesterday Trace To 5 m. in. today OH V. i Twenty-Fifth Yx&r MED FORD, OKMXiOX. .MONDAY, MAN I'AK Y i. ISKil. No. .'283 M i AIL "TRIBUTE Today By Arthur Brisbane His Birthday in Heaven. Trouble in Europe. Fighting in Asia. New Car Psychology. Copyright King Feature! 8ynd Inc. Marshal Joffre, dead Satur day, is 7'J yours old today. It must bi! pleasant to spend your 7Uh birthday in heaven, know ing that your troubles are end ed, forever. When they ask Jffre, "Win, arc you?" he will answer: "1 won the battle of the Hanie." That battle prevented what might have been a quick defeat for the allies. Joffre wjll be welcome anions those that have served their country well. His death reminds you that the greatest of all wars was a war of old men Joffre, Koch, Clciiienccau, Lloyd George, the great Hindenburg. The y juiig men fought and died; the old men won the victories with their brains." Foreign countries send news of trouble. Welsh miners ask the labor government to solve their problem, a difficult one. At former wages the mine own ers could make no money, and therefore do not cure whether mines are open or shut. All that the worker can get is part "f the profit on his ivork. San, perhaps, but true. It is his business to see that there is a profit left after he is paid. Fighting, as always, in Asia. This time Burmese are fight-J Tng Chinese in Kangoon, known to most of us thronugh Kip ling's poem. The fighters are using stones and iron bars. It would be a different story if they had modern killing ma chinery. It takes the highest civiliza tion to show how to kill scien tifically, at wholesale. If another big "white " war conies, you will see real killing. with civilians murdered in hun dreds of thousands, by poison gas and bnjnhs from airplanes striking at economic centers. Good news conies witb the start of the automobile show season in New Yolk. Ford re opens full blast. The indutsry, as a whole, plans an output, of -1 ,500,01 10 cars in compared with .'!,- 500,000 in 1!K10. Chevrolet will contribute 1, 000,000 units to the output, icompared with !)00,000 in 1 !):!(). Our depression Is aecuratoly do scribed as "largely a matter of psy chology." (Continued on Page Four) illc what IdK t-ily lias urrcdctl Felix I'eittrnet'lil, (.cue ill Sutlto an1 lnlo Panllii-til. Tell(lnkley Rot tlml Hln fer Hie n lekershmii re$Hrt an' lias rented his corner room fer a tire hop. Abe Martin UNION IN ASK VOICE Petition to Mayor Wilson Elect Asks Appointment of Councilman From Labor Ranks in First Ward -Meeting on Radio. It became known today that the proceeding of the city council meeting tomorrow night, when Mayor A. W. IMpcs ami the old council go out of office, and Mayor-Klect K. M. Wilson and the new council take over the reigns of city government, will be broad cast over KM HI), especially the inauguration address and appoint ments of the. new mayor, and the rotiring addresH of Mayor 1'lpen. The council meetH at 8 p. in. ami the broadcast will be from 9 to 10. It also became known today that Mayor-Klect Wilson, who it is said had practically completed his council committees, had just re ceived information that the Cen tral Labor Union of the city was circulating a petition to have the now mayor appoint a candidate from that body to succeed Mr. Wilson as councilman of the first ward. Allcti Itiiiimretl If this is true this belated an nouncement may prove embarrass ing to Mr. Wilson, whose council manic seat becomes vacant when he lakes over the office of mayor, as some weeks ago he declared he would appoint as his councilmanic successor the man whom the ma jority of the citizens of tho first ward should select. It is under stood that last week the mayor elect was informed that this con sensus favored appointment of W. W. Allen. The story further sues that Mr. Wilson thereupon accepted this as final and went ahead completing tho personnel of his committees as he Jelt certain! that his , ap pointment of Mr. Allen when an nounced at Tuesday night's council moeting would be confirmed un animously by the new council. Should another appointment in place of Mr. Allen possibly be made, he would have to back up again and remake his council committee slate. Hummed Appoint inentM It is understood that the new mayor, who has quite a number of appointments to mako will reap point Police Chief McCrcdie and I'M re Chief Klllott. Among the new appointments will be two to the city water commission, caused by the recent resignation of Karl C. Claddis, and the fact that A. I. Hill no longer cares to serve. He will also mako several appoint menls to tho city planning com mission, due to vacancies, terms expiring and the fact that Georgr Porter and W. W. Allen, new eouncllmcn-elcct. will automatical ly cease their membership In the planning commission, on becoming councilmeu. However, chief interest in to morrow night's council meeting centers in the make-up of Mayor KIcct Wilson's council committee chairmanships. Mr. Wilson will not make known the identity of his appointeeH. nor make-up of council committees, until tomor row night's meeting. Meeker Hinted According to rumor, Councilman Clarence A. Meeker who was re elected, is to be named as chair man of the finance committee and acting mayor; Councilman Joseph O. Grey, holdover member, named chairman of the street and roads committee, and P. M. Kershaw another held over member, ai chairman of the public safety com mitlee, which will have super vision of the police and fire de partments. These are the three most important committee chair manships. (;I:i;N'uIU;. Krance. .In. r UVi Alpine aviilonrhi'ii near here took a toll of 11 livi-M over the we k-end. Six Kri'iM'hnien died as tln-y w fi v enquired In an Ah aH at the rroneo-Itnliun frontier not far from I'.rium on when a r-.wllde eNtimuted at 2.r to 3" feet liili era.lud down upon J them. i Nenr .MoutlerM four younv -frs frm I'arls Hnlnh'ld In at tempting to tlinib to Croix D-'? Freltes I'H feet hifib. Jon en and Ilobnt Midy v(5'" raiinrht In an avaianehe. J extrleated himwelf, but hla friend ! wa hurled under nviny feet f IN UN ELEVEN SKIIERS MEET DEATH IN ALPINE SNOWS Ojregon Convict Asks Return As Lean Days Pinch SAKM. Ore., Jan. .", ll'i A convict uti parole from the Oregon penitentiary writes 4 Superintendent Meyers that 4 due to economic conditions, unemployment ami u hard winter ho is u Mii-ilcn on his relatives, and he wants his parole, revoked so he enn ko bark to prison. Meyers pro- dllceil tile letter at Hie meet- iiiK of t lie state board of ! control today and sUKKestcd that it lie referred to Ciov- ernor Norbliul. - ORDER QUIZ Will Soon Appoint Special Prosecutor to Handle - Case is Word Petitions Bring Pressure Com mittee Works on Case. P (JUTLAND, Or.. Jan. 5. (P) overnor Norblad told newspaper men hero today ho will soon ap point a. special prosecutor to han dle tho Duhack shooting case in Jackson county. Kverett Dahack was shot to death. His body waH found after raid on u still in which shots were fired. 'etitions signed by southern Oregon people have declared shooting by the raiding officers was unwarranted. An Investigat ing committee appointed by the governor is working on the case. Norblad said he. has bean told Dahack was not criminally impli cated in the operation of the still which figured in tho mitt. He was told, he said, that while the raiders declared they fired but two shots, a fusilade of many shots were heard during the raid. Members of the raiding party declared tho shots they fired could not have reached tho point wheru Dahack's body was found. !I WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. (JP) The packers consent decree was modi fied t of lay In an opinion handed down by Justice Jennings; Hiiiley in the District of Columbia supreme court. Armour & Company and Swift & Company, howevor, wcro not given the right to engage In retail merchandising. Under the consent decree en tered into in l!il!0 tho five leading groups of packers were, forced to confine themselves almost wholly to meat packing. F SAN KHAXCISCO. Col., Jim. G. (A3) A hIIkIU uHrtlHtmikc wan felt hei-u and at peninsula pnlntH fit 1:43 a. in. today. No damage was reported. NKVV YORK, .Inn. 5. 0V) Death thretitM by an anonymous letter writer believed to bo a disappoint ed Inventor have led police to a Hfjfn n KUard for Owen V. YunB. ehalrman of the board of the fJenenil i;iectrie company und tho Radio Corpoiutlon of America. I'oliee ConimiHMioner Mutrooney paid today n punrd ban attended Mr. Younff here the pant month. SEXTON ML -PIONEER DIES ON HOME FARM It ANTS I'ASH. Ore.. Jan. &. yVt Funeral erviee were held here lAy for Akhmien L). Sexton, 71, who died the farm where he nun horn. Sexton mountain after his fHthcr. wan named rounder Ilc. MoNMOl'TII. III.. Jan. :,.!. Mr A P lintrhlnxnn n.p ( ln i a Irownlee. one of th foundem of hi sorority in l(ffi7, died I Beta N WD 0 ON 1 loday. BIG. FIVE IN RAIL M'lk. Associated Frets iJio(i Menials of labor once, glanU of the rails now, they are the big five In the proposed consolidation of eastern roads into four systems Wil liam Wallace Atterbury (upper left) of the Pennsylvania, Daniel Willard (upper right) of the Baltimore and Ohio, Patrick Edward Crowley (cen ter) of the New York Central, and O. P. (lower left) and M. J. Van Swerlngen of the Nickel Plate. RRITflNS MR! IRNITHRFF VIP.T1 M S "CUV'DDIMPIICClAIITn Ml CI) ADO, oni rmnuLooiHuiu miouni o -- SISTER OF fflPlLA MEt "S Louise, Princess Royal, Passes in Sleep Noted As Most Democratic and Unassuming. LONDON, Jan. fi. (fl1) All Ilrl lain today mourned ono of tho most democratic of its royal family, princess royal, nicknamed "her royal shyness," who died In her sleep yesterday of heart di sease. King George at Sandringham was notified of her death, the lord chamberlain immediately ordering a period of four weeks full mourn ing for tho British court ami two additional weeks of half mourning. The princess royal, who was the eldest sister of the king, was till years old, a year and eight uionlhs younger than her imperial brother. Knew Jtoiniiuro Although shy and resentful of tho ostentation which accompanies the royal family site knew both romance and adventure during her life. Tho romance came at the age of VI when she married the Kurl of Kife, a Hrilon of excellent lineage but not of royal blrlh, against the wishes of her grand mother Queen Victoria. Her father, later to become Kd ward VII, and her mother up proved, and Queen Victoria, who hud favored tho German prince lings as husbands for Hrilish prin cesses, eventually was won over by liOtilsc's tearful pleadings. Shortly after their marriage In 18S1I her husband wiih nuido Duko of Fife. DECLINE TO PASS ON WASHINGTON. Jan. fi. (P) The supreme court today declined ' tn pass on tho validity of the Inw tinner wntrii nie rauio commission operates. Chicago Wife Applauds Moving Picture Gunplay As Gang Kills Husband CMIA:0. .Ian (,f, Mrs Harry Sllvendeln sat In a moving plrtur theater laft night, applaud iuK the Konplay depleted In a talk Inif picture, while outside, In the rear if tin; imiiditm. n-ni nuiieiM were ''iK ued to kill her 22 y O old husband. Hllversteln was the son of a Wpft Hide denujttle liolltlrfan and an employeMf the eity bulldliiK. ! tuestloned by poller. Robert I fw s. who was al wnrKnn in , rear.f ihe toiler, said he Qud i threV iots ooiy a few feet away near the back door of the building. MERGER PLANS Skid Into Street Car Fatal For Two Men-Woman Dies When Two Machines in Collision. I'CJUTI.ANIJ, Die., Jim. Ti. (It Two mm nml one. woman were killed nml two ullior jieraunH In jured in automobile nceUlents here yesterday. I'erry A. Piper, 10, and William Weiss, 311, both of rortland were killed when the automobile 111 which they were rldlliK Skidded Into a street ear 111 the residential district. Mrs. Mary Callahan, 3'J. Itlelimond, Wis.. visltliiK relatives here, died of a fractured skull re ceived In n collision of two aiiln- mnlillea last IllKllt, while she WHS helm; taken to I he depot lo depart j for her h Miss Mai'Karet Callahan. 3K, her sister-in-law. lied llluff. Oil., and .1. H. Callahan brother of Miss lallahan, receiveil serious Injuries. I'iper is survived by his widow. Ho had been connected with a I'orllanil tire firm for the past elKbt years. Weiss, a World war veteran, is survived by his widow and two sous. ASTORIA. Ore., Jan. 3. (l'l Amos W. Dixon, 40, of Heaslde, was killed and three others were slightly Injured ill nil automobile accident ut Seaside yesterday. OKLAHOMA CITV. Jan. fi--(I'i rire In Ihe oil field at the sutilh edi;e of Oklahouoi City was be lieved under i-onlrol Ibis after noon after IkiiIIImb derrick floors or three oil wells, anil spreadlim lo one of n batlery of oil filled tanks. ' As he threw open the door he saw Silversteln stagger a few feet and then eollapse. John Jersky told pulive, he saw automobile speed away Hfter the shots had been fired. Mr. and Mrs. Hllversteln leTl the borne of Ms parenlH earlier during the night to g I" lht theater, When they apprnaehyat the play house, however, SllveWein plead -ed that ho had some work to do, so his wife wept in alone. Later pnlli-P said Kllvnisletn wns the victim of a grudge fight In whh h Morris Rapport was his foe Ilapport was ordered arrested. OKLAHOMA OIL FIRE 1 8TH AMENDMENT M flVIF nnWRflY PUT Ui COWL is CONSTITUTIONAL So pn Z CALL STATE OFFICERS IN FUND PROBE Kay, Hoss and Auditor Be lieved Before Grand Jury in Marion County to Testify Lupcr Laxity Leads to Action, Hint. SAI.KM. Ore., Jan. oVil'ii eonfirmed rumors that lh M.irinn county grand jury lias laum-heri and is prostculing a ear.-hin- in quiry indi alleged tax methods hi the handling of state funds were given some color here today by the appearance before the grand jurors of T. It. Kay, state treasurer; Mai Moss, secretary of state, and OttOj Kuban, auditor in the office nf the secretary of .state, who is credited Willi having uncovered shortages in the funds of the office of the state engineer which last fall re sulted in tlie resignation of Kheaj uper. Super's resignation was accepted by the suite reclamation commis sion after he had. it was announc ed, made restitution of s-Mimcthin-.; over ?4 3lMt, declared to have been, the amount of interest earned on trust funds In the custody of the engineer and placed In private sav ings account in banks. No steps bad been taken to g behind the action of the reclama tion commission In accepting res titution of the money and l.uper's resignation until last Kriday when Circuit Judge j. II. McMahan gave oral instructions to the grand jury to Investigate the whole matter and report its findings to him. PORTLAND. Ore., Jan. 15. (A1) Julius I,. Meier, governor-elect, to day announced Miss Henlrlce Wal ton lias been appointed his private socielnry. MIhs Wnllon was private secretary lo the lale (lov. I. 1.. Patterson. Miss Wallop became secretary In (iovernor I'allersoii afler Hal 10. I loss reslKiied the post lo take up the dalles or seerelary or slale. Prior to that llmo Miss Walton was secrolary ot tho stalo depart mem of education, which Klin held for three years, until Hlio enlored tho Kovornor'a ol'flco as nsHlstanl secretary, In which capacity she served until Hosh' resignation. MANIlTA, P. I., Jan. Ii. (P) He ports IoiiIkIiI Indicated at least persons wore killed and f0 were mlssliiK "s a result or a recent ly phoon In Ilia eunlrul Philippine Islands. Many HsIiIhk bonis were sunk. It was feared death tolls would be considerably Increased. Property dnniHKe on Iyto island was more than JWio.ilim and about Srjil.nnii on Obu Island. NKW YOUK. Jan. !.-() - Tlfe I'. S. circuit court of appeals to day held the 1kth amendment tva-i coiiHlllulionally iidnpled. II made lis riilliiK In n doclslou unanimous ly iirflnulnK the conviction of Uinls K. Thlbnult nf Wldsor, VI., accused of possessluK and sellliiR two plni.i of whiskey. SAI.KM, die.. Jan. &. fI't The public service commission was to da v Informed that the interstate commerce commission has ordered an extension of the date on which .i.n.ulriKill.iri .if the (Ir.oTin el.ntu. slate railroad lino should belP from January 1 lo April I . The son for tho order Ih Q:il the ciiHi Is in litlgiitioit. Add Itmid orkcr IIILLHItolto, Ore., Jan. Ii. A't WashlnKton county today addeil 'ZU men to Its road work crews be tween lllllsboro and Forest tlrove, bringing the total of men em ployed on emergency relief work t" Blxty EXTEND BUILDING IE on mm. m Decorateo c Xing f r? y t.v I x Axxoctntett l'rca t'holo Thfl work of Mrs. Minn. Kall mann Raud, Pittsburgh, Pa., in de velopment of Swedish and Nor wegian sinners was recognized by award of a geld medal from the Kinq of Nfr.?v. TEST FAVORED Governor-elect to Ask Leg islation Requiring Phy sical and Mental Exam for License. PoKTIjANI), .Inn. 5 (!') !ov -ernor-elect Julius I,. Meier will take comilzanro of the driver .li:ehse issue In his address ; to ''the stalo legislature, ho said yoster day. Knacttuent of a driver's license law reiluirliiR" both phy sical and mental teats and de- sinned to reduce tho number of ai-cJdenls und promote traffic safely will bo r lllliielldeil by him. In his staleiueul Meier outlined his views and pointed to tin' ' nstoumllui; record of Injuries and liilalllles'' as a reason for Im- ineillale action. Stales where slip liar laws have been In effect over u period of years show favorablo.accldenl records to those without sileh examinations, be said. demonstratluK the efficiency of the tests In removing from the highway those mentally or phy sically until to operalo molor ve hicles. Plan Knilol'tctl "ICxpeit tesllinony. national and local, stroimly endorses this plan," .Meier said. "There alo loday hundreds of persons operatltiK molor vehicles In Ibis slato who are mentally or physically unfit or olherwiso deficient In ability to operate a motor vehicle', prop erly. The toll of lives taken by auto iiiildenls Is luereasliiK and this problem must bo vigorously dealt with and at once. It will be mv recolilinenelnllon lo the legislature that, such a law be enacted wllh a 1 11 1 ii in ii in of le lay." Hovel nor-eleet Meier will de liver his addriw before a Joint session of the house and senate iinnieillati'lv after the legislature Is uri;unlzod next Monday. MKXH'n CITY. Jan. r,.- M'J Art Acord, who for years was u fore inoMt movie actor In cowboy roles, has g"no lo break broncos In the Kreat beyond. A dlsjialch lo KxcelHlor front t'hlbu.ihua City muhI that Aeord. Hiirretiilei Iiik finally to melancholy swallowed poison In bis hotel there yesterday morning and died shortly arterward In a hospital. He told the physicians who at tended him what ho had done and that ho wanted to die. KffortH of the hospital ntiendants to resusci tate him were unavailing. Acord :im a champion hroneo buster befnro entering tho movies. In the latter part of 19y ho came In conflict wllh polieo and finally wus arrested on charges; of rubbery and llijuor possession. The robbery charge were dropped and ho later left for Mi'Xl'o where ho said that ho would "start all over again." St, Helens- m. Qlefvnn fcihlp company received rontruct for re pairing C. H. IJgbthouso tender llealher, at cost of J35.Q00. AUTO DRIVERS N HER NOTE I I II IL, V I W W IN 110 CITY mm HEAVY RAIN OVER STATE Gale in Increasing Violence Willamette and Col- umbia Valleys Wires Prostrated Ships Buck Heavy Seas Off Coast. Wind blew at u ra t e of ( mih'S per hour in Med ford last evening at the height of a wind storm that had bcMin In tho afternoon. The gale caused some d uniage and blew down several trees in Med ford, some falling against electric wires which caus ed a cessation of electrical serv ice for ;tU minutes or so in Med I'ord's business section. Street light suffered mainly from the storm, but the truuhlo was speedily repaired, J. C. Thompson, division superintendent for the California Oregon Power company, said this afternoon. I ;;i in was falling in Medfoid this afternoon and some snow fell in Ashland, with a heavy miiow reported in the Siskiyou and Urecnspring mountains. POItTI.AND. Ore., Jan. 0. (II A liiKh wind lirouKht death threats lo at least six persons hero today. Kivo persons narrowly escaped electrocution when nine poles carrylni; a 57.000 volt line and a 1 1 .0(10 volt, were carried down by Hie nlorm at Mast Htark street. 13. C. Thorsen, drlvinft down tho street with his sister, stoppeu nis car between two poles as they fell. One polo grazed his machine, the S7.000 volt lino fell across tho top of tho ear and grounded two foot in front of It. After wuitlliR for Ihe wires to ceaso motion tho Thorsens climbed out of tholr pre carious position. Abo Hoaenblooni, Carl Porco and Charles Vlcoro were BtandinB at a fllliiiR station when tho nine, poles blew down uround . them. They escaped Injury,,-' Mrs. , Anna Hcruton of Wostport wus pinned under . a temporary wooden wall, ton foot hlR-h, which collapsed under the wind In the downtown district. Pedestrians and polieo hud difficulty in lifting tho 20-foot section. II or left leg was Injured. POIITIANIJ, Ore., Jan. C (fl5) A pronounced Htorm. the center of which was about 200 miles off tho Columbia river month, wus report ed by tho weather bureau today lo ho moving slowly toward slioro. Plowing through hcuvy seas off tho Oregon coast, tho steamer Kmnm Alexander contended with a 60 milo wind, while off the Washing ton coast the Dorothy Alexundeij reported a M-milo blow. Winds were Increasing rapidly In tho Willamette valley and down tho Columbia. Knin was gonerttl ulong tho Ore gon const. Power Wlrei Down Many Oregon Clly business houses and homes were without power or light for sovernl hours today when tho 67,000 volt line from Kstacnda was carried down by tho wind. Tho Oregon Kloctrle was moving Us trains with diffi culty us lino nftcr lino went down under tho high winds ruglng down tho Wlllametto valley. In Portland tho tolephono at Central Police Btatlon was register ing about ono trouble call a nilll- (Contlnued on Page 8, Story 1) WILL ROGERS UKVKIMiY IIIU.S, Cat., .Ian. 5. The other tluy I snid tlmt Tom Iifiinont of J. I'. Morgan it Co. had issued one oC those "coclio.yod pmlictions." Just lot it wire from liim tiolltitit (.showing (hut even tho 'rich mid) siiyink' that il wasn't him Unit, "pretliclfd," it was . I wo -. oilier liumonts. He' said lltut'. he wouldn't, jirediet (tood lime., even for Morjinn; tlntt the w.V -il, looked Koekrfellcr nnd Ford would he on the "dolo'lu-rorn .Inly 4th." Talk about Noire Dame and Alaliainii, but (he (ireatost foot bnll player of all liine passed away Salurtlay. "I'apa" Jof fre, slopped his opponents m the one-yard line nml threw 'em for a lO-yenr loss. tf&UL Art ' jmmrn ii ili (Copyright John K. D.llo Co.) snow. 0 o