The Winslow mail., 1924-01-11
AN EPITOME OF
LATE LIVE NEWS
CONDENSED REC ORD OF THE
PROGRESS OF EVENTS AT
HOME AND ABROAD
FROM ALL SOURCES
SAYINGS, NGS, ACHIEVE
MENTS, SUFFERINGS, HOPES,
AND FEARS OF MANKIND
WESTERN


alter, with an estimated loss of $780,
900, caused the death of Amos H. Will
lett, 30, prominent Medford business
man, and grave injuries to Roy Ell
lott, Medford fire chief
The coroner's jury at Santa Bar
bara, Calf, in the case of Mai. Geo.
w. Fishback and his wife, who were
killed when their automobile was
struck by train few days ago, re
turned verdict that death was due
to an unavoidable accident. Major
Fishback was retired from the regu-
lar army and at one time was one Of
the owners of the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Two lOggers, Jack Baxter and J. L.
Goeden, employees of the Herman
Marquardt Lumber Company of Hot
Springs, Mont, were killed almost in
stantly when on an icy hill they lost
control of the truck, log laden, while
trying to shift gears. The men
jumped to the ground on the lower
side of the truck when the car rolled
over. They were caught beneath q
900 feet Of logs.
Three convicted oil land operators
received prison sentences in the Fed
eral District Court at Los Angeles.
Martin J. Cullen and r. G. Dennison
were given six years each in Mcneil
Island federal prison and Thomas V.
King two years. They were convicted
of misuse of the mails in the sale of
reputed worthless oil lands in Ante
lope valley under the name of the
Great Angeles Oil and Land Corpora
tion.
Tod Morgan, claimant to the coast
featherweight championship, and
frankie Britt of Tacoma drew in six
rounds at Tacoma. Len Malody,
Laramie, Wyo., feather, defeated
Sammy Gordon of Portland in a six
round match. Ray Tingley, Tacoma
welterweight, won the verdict over
frankie Heslock of Bremerton; Jimmy
Smith, Tacoma BANTAM defeated Billy
Quilter of Seattle, and Stanley Wills,
Portland welter, technically Knocked
out Swede Anderson of Tacoma in the
fourth round, in four-round bouts.
WASHINGTON
Argument in favor of barring Japan
ese from the United States was made
at a hearing before the House imm-
grafton committee by Representative
Miller, Republican, Washington, who
declared that the immigration laws
should place Japanese on the same
Il
anese, he said, is having the result on
the Pacific coast of increasing racial
friction which might lead to an ''un-
pleasant situation of national scope"
The War Department army orders
announce that Capt Merle G. Leonard,
coast artillery corps has been relieved
from treatment at Walter Reed hos
pital and will report at Denver for
duty with the organized reserves of
the Eighth corps area. He will be at
tached to headquarters of the One
Hundred and Third division. Capt.
Robert A. Blair, quartermaster corps,
now at Fitzsimmons hospital, Denver,
will report to an army retiring board
for examination.
A formal call was issued at Wash
ington for the fifth annual convention
of the National League of Women
Voters, which is to meet in Buffalo,
April "a The convention signals the
opening of an intensive nationwide
campaign "to get out the vote" for the
1924 election. League officials expect
avoru ctatn tO hn roDrpSpntpd
A demand for reform within the
Ku Klux Klan was made in Washing
ton by E. Y. Clarke, formerly high in
the councils of the organization, and
was met by statement from Milton
Elrod, director of the department of
publication and education of the Klan,
that Clarke for months had been at
tempting to destroy" the order Mr.
Clarke made known his position
through a letter to President Coolidge
offering to cooperate with the execu-
tive in ending the activities of 'an
element" which he said is converting
the khan into an organization far diff
ferent from that planned by it's found
ers, and through announcement of his
intention to call "the better element"
either to take hold and remedy the
existing evils or disband the organi-
zation.
Information so far received has not
convinced President Coolidge that q
separate department of mines should
be created to take over the work now
done by the Department of the In
terior's Bureau of Mines and GeoIog-
ical Survey The President believes
however, that the work of the Bureau
of Mines should be extended and made
more efficient.
Seventy-five men have returned to
work in the Milwaukee shops at Deer
Lodge, Mont, after a layoff of ten
days. They are employed chiefly in
the car repair department.