The Dolores star., 1924-01-11
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Fire of undetermined origin at
Medford. Ore. destroyed the Page the
ater, with an estimated loss Of $780,
400, caused the death Of Amos II. vii
ie!t, 50, 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. Fishhack and his wife who were
KILLED when their automobile was
SiGck by a train IA few days ago. re-
tufhed a verdict that death was due
I" an unavoidable Incident. Major
ftshback was retired from the regu-
tsr army and at one time was one of
the owners of the st. Louis Post-Dis-
patch.
Two loSgers, Jack Baxter and ]. 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 We're caught beneath -
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 Il. c. Dennison
were given six years each in Mcneil
Island federal prison and Thomas V
King two years. They were convicted
"f misuse of the mails in the sale of
reputed worthless oil lands in Ante
iope valley under the name of the
Great Angeles OIL and Land Corpora
tiun.
Tod Morgan, claimant to the coast
fentherweight championship. and
frankie Britt of Tacoma drew in six
rounds ut Tacoma. Len AInlody,
Laramie. WyO.. feather. defeated
Sammy Gordon of Portland in 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 Swcde Anderson of Tacoma in the
fourth round, in fOur-round bouts.
WASHINGTON
Argument in favor Of barring Japan
ese frnn: the uuited States was made
at hearing before the House immi-
grafton committee by Representative
Miller. Republican, Washington. who
declared that the. immigration laws
should place japanese on the same
busis with Chinese. Admission OF Jap
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 c. Leonard
coast artillery corps, has been relieved
from treatment mt Walter Reed hos
pitaI 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 24 The convention signals the
opening of an intensive nationwide
campaign ''to get out the vote" for the
1924 election. League officials expect
every state to be represented.
A demand for reform" within the
Ku Kiux Klan was made in Washing
ton by f. Y. Clarke, formerly high in
the councils of the organization, and
was met by a 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 Il 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 its found
ers, and through announcement of his
intention to call "the better element
either to take hold and remedy the
existing evils or dsband the organi-
zation.
Information so far received has not
convinced President Coolidge that n
separate department of mines should
be created to take over the work now
done by the Department of the In
~"rior's Bureau of Mines and Geolog-
al 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
xvnrly in tba NiIunul-ao cbnne of nnor