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_ Weather Forecast —. day, probably snow; not much im temperatyre. REPARATI e Unsettled weather tonight ana Fr!- change BRITISH PREMIER REFUSES TO _ NCESSIONS NECESSAR ONS M ’ Anger of Turks SUB CHASERS RIDGE COLLAPS ENDS ———————$— ___,—, FINAL . EDITION SEARCH IS MADE FOR BODIES CARRIED OFF LSS “4 1 MAKE ¢0 y HUNT PLANEBBY SWIRLING RIVER | ‘ 1 TO CONTINUATION OF MEETING wr itt sang | adron of four submarine chasers| ° of the moraulto fet attached "3 the Unknown Number of People Swept to Tragic Fate After Be- j is e . . naval academy is today scouring tha! . 6 § = French Still Obdurate in Determination watery o€ Chesapeake. bay iand | the} ing Plunged Into Stream by Collapse of Bridge Under == , to Secure Adoption of Latest Plan and army proving station at ‘Aberdeen, Heavy Traffic at Kelso, Wash., Yesterday ; Hopes for Agreement Slum CNCIN KURDISTAN Rulure of the crasity rec he: ‘ E P se Maid P . é rr UI centination or to report ato her KELSO, Wash., Jan. 4.—(By The Associated Press.)—Search of the wreckage of the collapsed t aZARiS, Jan m. 4-—(By thu ropes pened: pe tere Tae oda fer cays Ney ment at (Washington fo ca on oft Cowlitz river bridge began at daylight this morning, and efforts were being made to determine thé 0 number of lives lost when the span collapsed at 5 o'clock last evening, carrying vehicles and 4 inst tute a search. Who the pilot of . Hie f shortly before seven 0’ this | what smounted to vicinal nities the plane is, or whether it carried| Pedestrians to the swirling torrent of the flodded river. : evening. is bic: Bn “3 Fl ha rich cual_ssnoeably at 1a4.| RY passengers was not stated. One severely injured man, George C. McDonald, of Vancouver, Wash., died early today at a = member of the British delegation | tion or else discontinue the confer | . ‘They say that he is giving too much. It with difficulty that) hospital here, was the first definitely casualty. In addition to the one known dead, thirty persons ‘as he was leaving the conference. | ence, according to n British dele- (the assembly was prevented from voting h'm down. In the meant ee q were reported missing and nine per- W. P. Croake, Kelso, old suspension bridge over the Co: by eel a agg tar wel tell Rigg <3 th Dardanell pit ig en “and Js Hatten gid be has in war to the| ;Sons were in hospitals, more or less! Puck, Kelso. litz river collapsed at 5. o'clock pre mepeding. -Nrance:gues ahead, with: |: .Ghedya: betes, the cies. for (he | oles 2—The ‘Turks are determined not to give up thelr elaims eriously injured. Allen Chisholm, and two chiléren,! night and ‘ 5% eat: es” second session of the day, the Ital- to Mosul without o fight. The British, who have @ small force there, made The best available information early | y4j55, ight and plunged an unknown num- \ {an delegation deposited fresh prop- | Mosul thelr pirot point at Lausanne. The Turks, are pepent te have the| today gave the following as unac:| "Si ; va ber of persons to their death, it turn- PARIS, Jan. 4—(By The As: ositions in a final attempt to save | te ategic advan here. 3—Hrit'sh subjects in Constant are warned counted for: gig. » employe of the Tong-| oa this ordinarily quiet little luinbeg- elated Press.)—At today’s session of ‘ the conference from s breakdown.’/1, be ready to ‘on twenty-four hours’ notice. The Greeks in western ———- Ben Barr, commissioner-elect of| Bell Lumber company was in a hos PARIS, Jan. 4.—(By The Associated Press.)—Collapse of the reparations conference perhaps this afternoon was generally fore- cast today. - Experts sat up half the distribution among the delegates night preparing the memorandum for but, according to the Excxelsior, in view in making the proposition was the note was only an answer to Premier Poincare’s objections to the eae, advancing at the same Thrace are also MIAN preparing to renew the war. ASSAILANTS OF HUNTED KANSAS CITY, Kan., Jan. 4.—Er- win Rudolph Bergddfi, draft evader. must remain in-the military prison nt Leavenworth, Kan,, where he 's serv- ing a four-year sentence, Judge John C. Pollock of the Kansas federal court ruled today. Judge Po‘lock sustained: a motion of the government to dis- miss a petition for a writ of habeas corpus brought in Bergdoll’s behalf, — Woodland. J. C. Ferguson, retiring county com- missioner, Lew Huntington, farmer, his wife and daughter. Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Huntington, line to Mount Solo, | John Godfrey, 22, employe of Long-| pital ina critical condition. The less seriously injured were: W. M. Sullivan, employe of Long- Bell company, Kelso hospital. Thomas. A. Wakefield, proprietor of butcher shop ot Kalama, head injured, Kelso hospital. Charles Stround, Long-Bell ploye. em-| ing town into a grief maddened ara wildly excited community, Today rel- atives of the missing were still bé sieging every possible source of infors mation while searchers combed the banks of the stream. The exact death toll may not b: known for several days as the swollen waters of the Cowlitz and the Colum- | bia, into which it flows about two sal yr ber company, Allen’ Pernell, 13, Long-Bell em- s " ifestly as admitted by Baron Von Bell Lumbe i | miles below this city, may swirl the sor time fresh British objection the mani ea * « Ralph Chamberlain, employe of | ploye, Kelso hospital. bodl. vic k } French Pro osaly, Tiers Jean Borc|ate the tote bank of the kine betore| _ MEMPHIS, Tenn. Jan. 4.—A police dragnet over the city and DAUGHTER OF | wes'taxe construction compare. | HS. Roswalt, broken arm, Kelso| fore they ace voceearentny Miles be- He Sess satised “ee pec ra eee the Germans had fulfilled their repar-/ suburbs has been spread for two negroes, one of whom seized a Pad Milland, Woodland me: | hospital. Early today none of the dead had ime ; . : chante, 4 eessions necessary to rake possible | a ee a eae it is_abaurd to pre-| White woman as she alighted from a street car near the city Tue, BAN. KER DEAD O'S. sects, wrtee ot Keto. re Ralee ken Deprs recovered? ut there wesialfus >| 9 ‘ussion. “te o } . 2 ~ °. ic ore yes, se takes 8h: Sein opine waa that| tend that before entering the Ieague| day night, dragged her to a ravine nearby cut, beat and attack di — Sere ot) Cte OCW? | WMD ainey, Matra ioc cBinudgea lwone Orilon tocar oe soothe rh the seeting this afternoon would re-|of nations Germany is not mublect t0/ her during hours in which he held her prisoner. The other negro| 1 say, Ee okie Sai cal coed thats dabates Oil company, broken leg. tantly growing list of missing per- | £8 + inthe Proakdown of ths nOwOlD | oe igs that bea? Germany's algnature| held up Mrs. Thelma Cunningham; a widow and her fiancee,|press.)—Miss ‘Hope Harjes, daughter|. Seven persons In touring’ car. ‘Ihe gasoline launch Myrtle search. | %0P8. ig tions)and the end of the long series | sailles wa didi i Sts Mts, Hh pi "8" lot H.W. Harjea; of. Morgan, Harjea|” Machine filled .with- women and@/e0 the river all night-but,found no} Fronmr€0-to 100° pedestrians, one ez of conferences which have sought un. aarp rae en pt eree aged - prs ee py he ian falled| ‘The two attacks occurred within’aland company, the Paris branch of 3.| children. jlodies, ‘Phe launch. -vieted- ell the! truck and at least ten passenger auto. = sucess (Dy aur eg sBurcpe's| TAled—That this , Proposition for| ts ouch an ieder 40 hale the automio-| mile of each other, south of the cliy|P, Morgan and company, ‘haa -beeri|” Serlousty injured: detifes. inspecting them by the-@i@ of; mobiles were on the bridge when It | cy years to sineinbtes out Burepe's) | -aggression against France, Italy| png, a Syn pats fife: thtke:evots; one|in. the outskirts. of one of: the ‘Memv| killed “th n hunting accident atthe Bob Titland, Saeamis: moonlight, fn. ‘Art tnodmplete tNck showed th ic targle. od . : if y ” Vy. E. Philo, no. % rt | that at eight perso: - SCqrhare cras however, still an. tnelin: (Continued on Page Seven) ~ of which wounded! Mra. Cunningham, | phis parks, ‘ Harjes country. place. W.E. James OW, &. by cia wael ine! ng Were miss. he ation amoms aensenen etree ot - 7 ererh came, jumped into a bat and TORRENT CARRIES Orr in similar conferences to hope, : saved (hree persons whose nanics are, PEOPLE AND AUTOS. obi i Delieve, that some eleventh Haug Leaial i - Unknown to him. he -old bridge connects’ east and rt ; : 8 east an tion might be found to ge dleeg Whee 6 “ i William, T. Havy, driver ofan oll! west Kelso. It was crowded. with ture. The foreign editor of company truck, who was hurled into recalled today that there, was once | such a deadlock between Lloyd Howie and Briand over the Silesian question and that the\ same Marquis Torretta, who is sitting as Ita®’s representative in the present cohrence, found a way out of the dilemma by inducing the parties to refer the cases to the league of na- tions. It was pointea out that the bourse did not seem to believe that a break-; iVanderbilt Whitney, son of Harry 3 3 Justice Tompkins of the state supreme court in sustaining charges of fraud made by Whitney and vacating the annulment of was imminent and that the mar- rae firm throughout yesterday’s session. There was plenty of activity in foreign exchange, with very slight modfification of rates. Sterling rose moderately. Little justification for an optimistic FOR PERJURY NYACK, N. Y., Jan. 4.—Miss the dancer's $1,000,000 breach TWO NEW BUSSES GIVEN HEART BALM SUIT TO BE HELD , JURY IS CALLED Evan Burrowes Fontaine, dancer, and her mother, face indictment for perjury in connection with | of promise suit against Cornelius | Payne Whitney. the dancer's marriage to Sterling Adair of Waco, Texas, ordered the! district attorney of Rock Island cour.-| practices of Charles Firestone of New Ohio Will Ban Arbuckle Films COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 4.—Ohio motion picture theatres will not be Permitted to exhibit new Roscoe department announced. FOR BOOZE PRIVILEGE Supreme Court Hea Decision Barring Touching at A WASHINGTON, Jan. 4.—Te: rs Arguments Upon} Liguor on Ships merican Ports cases brought by foreign steam- the stream with the collapse of the bridge, ‘sald: : “I stayed on the truek until the wa-| ter started to come up over /me. Then I. crawied out and started to swim upstream. ‘The current, though, was| too much for tie, and I was thrown! back down the river. “The bridge, in turning over, made @ complete circle, so that it crashed! down where I was and I found my self under it. The current was so strong that it washed me out from under the bridge and I landed on top of the wrecage near the new bridge. Then I crawled up onto one of the cables of the new span and stayet) until a boat came along and picked! age about fifteen minutes. traffic when a cable support buckled and the bridge threw. trucks, auts- mobiles and wagons and their pas- sengers into the torrent, swollen by recent floods. Many leaped to safety, while others were swimming in the water when picked up by the steamer Cowlitz and other boats. Just how many bodles will be found artong the wreckage of the old bridge could not be determined, Though the east tower of the old bridge toppled heavily against. thé steel work of the new, bridge, thé latter was but slightly injured. Most of the wreckage lodged against a west pier of the new bridge and it was upon this unstable footing that some of the survivors found safety. Over ty to take all records in the suit be-| (ratty) Arbuckle films, Vernon H. ' ; 5 3 me up. turned and twisted on the heap of view was generally held and it was Tre the grand jury with a view to in-| Riegel, state director of education | Ship companies and the two British American operators to contest} “Ail told, T rues I was in the water! debr's rest. two automobiter The thought that the Ee Pater siiaye readte dicting the dancer and her mother. | and head of tho state film censorship! the construction placed by Attorney General Daugherty upon the |five or ten minutes and on the wreck-|river steamer Pomona, lured by the might be put by France hands of Marshal Foch, who, after January 15, would proceed to execute judgment on the defaulting debtor. A suggestion that the terms of the French plan be submitted to Germany THREE ITY STEETS Cc York Bar association investigate the practices of Charles Firetone of New) York and Mount Vernon, attorney of “It Arbuckle pictures are presented Obio they will be rejected,” Riegel record for the dancer when she ob- tained her annulment of ee said. would revive in the memory of the “She exhibition of his pictures! |prohibition enforcement act will their sea stor: and American ships be up for oral argument in the to the division ‘of film censorship of/supreme court today. Under the ruling, foreign ships will be Pro- hibited from entering American waters with intoxicating liquors in nized by the supreme court in recent “I think there were 75 or 100 per- Sons on the bridge and a long string of autos when the cable buckled and the crash came.” Edgar Payne, local news carrier, on | | faint hope that some miracle might have spared another life, breasted the current several times last night and played her searchlight upon the tangled mass. the bow of the beat almost touching the timbers. j vessels brid, t the time of the disast y of an ultimatum previous mm the justice in July 1920. deplorable . event with} Will be prohibited from having such| decisions under Which foreign vessels|the bridge at the time of the disaster,| ‘The three anchor ropes at the east & Ee anuan in the Ruhr found little] ‘The two White Motor busses operat: | f°’ suation ee ate LS a name is associaaed,” he; Hauor aboard at any place. ‘The case| were prohibited from trans-shipping|was carred into the water, but. he appreach of the old bridge which were ed by the Casper Motor Bus line will said. ‘Arbuckle was to a very great | came before the court on appeal from| intoxicating liquor in American poras.| grabbed a plece of wreckage and lift-| believed to have been broke firs; bn have an exclusive a ek grea l MORRELL SEIZED extent the idol of the children and 1|® decision by Federal Judge Hand in/and foreign liquor shipments in bond) ed ‘intmself again to the floor of the! precipitating the went span and the South Center an ni FE (CH SEE RUSE | om sure he can no longer qualify as, New York upholding the attorney gen- were forbidden across United States span which was just becoming tnun. FREN‘ hile other busses now oper- erelt 4 draw,.showed no sign of defect upon streets, while other bus : a eral. erritory. lated. cursory examination, They were of “\,. IN- GERMAN FROFOSAL ating on these streets will have to aba BROVIN SRPDES Ioereeaeee ‘The argument will continue tomor-| Counsel for both sides admit that| Racing back up the incline—for the|1% inches thickness and apparently ‘* PARIS, Jan. 4.—(By the Associated) vacate the territory and run only row with a notable array of counsel| We can prohibit foreign ships from/|floor of the bridge at that time ex-|sound. That it was this breakage, Press.)—Premier Poincare sent 4|giong avenues where there are no Canal -Record &, Bar bringing intoxicating liquor imtw/)tended on a slant to the water—he! how » Which {initiated the wreci cable message today to Ambassador | ‘metropolitan’ busses, according to including former Attorney General American ports, but Mr, Wickers%im | said he stumbled upon a woman pin-! seemed borne out by the accounts 6f Jusserand in Washington asking. him) action taken at an executive meeting} | Morrell, proprietor of the Half. Wickersham for the foreign asserts that, had congress intended to see Secretary of State Hughes in connection with the st-tement made to The Associated Press yesterday by Baron Von Rosenberg, the German foreign minister on the German truce proposal which Premier Poincare con- tends showed that the principa: .»- ject of the non-war pact pro, sed by Germany was to obtain the evacua- of the Rhineland without the payment of the city council last night. ‘The Casper Bus line is to have three more large busses in Casper by the middle of the month. A tle-up somewhere prevented the arrival of these on time. As scon as they arrive they will be placed on the routes for which they were intended. gel eshisdcs “ea a way House on the Salt Creek-Casper highway, who has been in difficulties with the sheriff's office on previous ocersions, was arrested Wednesday evening by Deputies Hibbard and Irving. It is said that Morrell had a jug of moonshine in his possession “when apprehended. ‘The exact nature of the charge to Lowered Again PANAMA, Jan, 4.—The passage of 7 ships through the Panama canal in the calendar year 1922, established ® new high record. In 1921, the best Previous year, 2,814 vessels used the waterway. steam: | ship compantes, Reld J.. Carr, George | A. Ellis and Frederick H. Stokes for | the United American lines and John M. Woolsey, Cletus Keating, J. Park- er Kirlin and Ira A. Campbell for the International Mercantile Marine com- Pany. The government is represented by Solicitor General Beck, Assistant to bar liquor from the sea stores of foreign vessels it would have been ex- plicit to that effect as it was in ex- cluding smoking opium. ‘The construction urged by the gov- ernment, if enforced, contends would result in the search of all foreign ships upon reaching American ports and the confiscation of those vessels ned. down by a heavy board. Stop. ping a moment, he :ifted the board aided the victim and saved her life four witnesses, all of whom heard istinctly the snapping sound, saw the freed cable racing through the top of and his ‘own, Dan Shehan tossed from the bridge} with his brother-in-law, Bob .Titland,| had the experience of secing the iat-| ter rise twice to the surface and then| Qisappear from view as ces of wreckhge separated’ the men. Both the east tower and an instant laté® the swaying fall of the west suspen- sion span and the jack knife draw. Among the others who were caught on the bridge as the towers began to crumble and the planking itselt swayed perilously under foot’ for the ‘The tolls collected in 1922, aggre-| Attorney General Mabel W.. Wille: h ren vas| Were employes of a realty company.’ na! drop into the muddy waters, was of reparations. Late He Bit ea an Capac NE Bee dete ear ede ot| gitted $12,573,407 no that for ‘the first | brandt and Special Aasiatant ‘Wheat. found. Tt would elon hee ergucn|Titiand’s wie, two email children,| A: B. Little, truck driver for the Premier Poincare’s message asked Boa daha Na al faa MPI: | peoaeoutitevnttoeneys tite mortitage time since the opening the canal, the| Expressing the belief “that the Use] oblige the kovernmene to stop the sup.|™Mother, father and sister reside in eee ReREDy. Little was com- Jer enatarg matement with Becre:|Wwho retired from office Monday, will| The prosecution will be intiuenced by | ™antNy Average exceuded £2,000,000| of ayor did more than any one think ty ¢ wings and liquors to the foreign |TA°O™- Urldge and was about to crosm out the Rosenberg state 2 ‘4 t ai j ; ; , ebeiee tees : ella ‘ y t tary Hughes, to make the following |not return to Cody, which was his] Witt (enti claws children, sety| ships was approximately 12,085,000, |and womanhood,” the government at- Shine Toreod, inte Aterheed ee | STREAMS SEARCHED on his span when he saw his peril: observations: card wars red eagporer Oe "|thiee and five years respectively: It) ,Th® cargo carried approximated| torneys insist that tt was the purpore| Vong be forfelted if Iluer was frena| TODAY FOR BODIES. He threw his machine into reverse First—That the object Germany had but will practice in Cheyenne. ts alleged that when Morrell wan ar-|1%700,000 tons. The previous high| of the prohibition amendment to make + KELSO, Wash,, Jan, 4—When. the SCORES ESCAPE_ TENEMENT FIRE NEW YOR, Jan. 4.—Six per- sons bad narrow escapes from death ‘ were aroused by Miss Agnes Car- ney who ran through the halls with rested he was on the verge of D. T.'s from a prolonged debauch and that his children had had nothing to eat for two days. ANTI TREATY ‘ LEADERS IN water mark for tonnage was 11,435,- 821 and for c1 go 11,599,214. KLAN INVOLVED | IN INDIANA ROW the United States absolutely dry. They also argue that this hag been recog- aboard. MONDELL'S CHANGES FOR CABINET APPOINTMENT BY PRESENT LOOK BRIGHT ILLING (Continued on Page Fight.) BLAMED ON MINE GUARDS : ; | MARION, Ill, Jan, 4.—(By the ~ want to have any trouble’ and two ta of warning. | o >ress.)—T' - id they d - and more than a hundred others | "2 Yunn. his wife and four ERIN CONFER) .c1194s cry, tna., san. 4— | nation last Monday. ORC) hee aid eakaiiesdedd REE ost ip apraciiogs ic, scantily clad were driven into the | cnijdren were trapped by smoke Ku Klux Klan charges against “My discharge was caused by the | cimyENNE, Wyo, Jan, 4,—Pri| {Ted {7 th® Herrin riots came from “The-rorowd: then moved’ towark snow-covered streets early today | and fire in their fourth floor apart: : Mourice Bowen, city manager, | fact that I refused to Join the Klan,” | 0 oe Washington ta} Dron mangun at the ‘Lester! ‘tie ming and am they were’ aavano: during a fire which damaged sev- | ment. Firemen reached them over Arthur Snyder, a member of the | Sullivan said. « “strip” mine, according to Grover | ing they were fired upon from the er buildings on Green- | the roof of tho adjoining building BELFAST, Jan. 4.—(Fy the Asso-| city commission and David Miller, “The climax came when I refused |that Congressman Frank W. Mondell,| icelly, a witnéns for the defense to- | mince the shots coming from a gun. Sits te song ty threatened for a | and carried them down the fire es- |clated Press.'—A ‘meeting of anti-|-city engineer, were pending before | to Permit « parade of masked Klans- |whose term will expire March 4, has| day'at the trial of five men charged | concealed bet.ind a bush on top of tne hg psa’ is editive Blot: cape to safety. Genonees deatera ras held in Dub- the Michigan City commission to- men through Michigan City. «4, {88 excellent chance to’ be appointed} With murder in connection with the | the mine dump ting in a two-story double One hundred horses and mules in | lin today, says a Dubli: despatch to] day. All three were named as mem- Conditions in Michigan City | secretary of the Interior to mu 1| Tots. “Then I saw Jordy Hendersbn, vor Jed by a paper box | two atabies which caught fire were |the Belfast Telegraph. ‘Tho place of| bers of the organization in an aft} | have become almost unbearable for | 2 Kelly,’ miner, said he-was n t st of three union miners Kill. bec Komen feet quicly to | driven into the street. The fire oc: {meeting was kept necret. It 1s re-| davit presented to the commission | persons not affiliated with the kian, |Albert B. Fall, whose res'gnation will| the ining the day the rioting atane ed-that day,-fall. It was not ‘untit Speer the ery ities All of the | curred during a hea snowstorm, | ported Eamon De Valera attended, ac-| ye: day by Arthur-M. Sullivan, | Night Captain Thomas Grunt and | become effective March 4. If appoint-| ‘ard paw a crowd moving toward the | er Henderson was killed that the meatal econ one family on the | making difficult the work of ths |companied by several of his closest| former chief of police, who demand: | four or five members of the police |ad he will be Wyoming's firs cas mine, somé of whom. had guns. | .firss shots were fired on the mine.” top floor of a four-story structure | tzmmen. supporters. ed reasons for his requested resig- | force have already resigned.” | member, - “I heard some one say: ‘We don't | erp te quit,’ Kelly testified, -- + Tot POnRETS OS STEERS La id 2 L abana —_ STATE PRESSE WISE A AI TE LI SAE