The Idaho Statesman from Boise, Idaho • 1

POSITION IN IDAHO IS NOT DUPLICATED BY ANY OTHER NEWSPAPER IN ANY FIELD if Fifty-Ninth Year No 138 BOISE IDAHO TUESDAY MORNING JANUARY2 1923 Price Five Cents THE NATION GREETS BODGE GIVES OATH TO NE1 STATE OFFICERS Discover Cabin in Which Mrs Phillips Lived Four Days LOS ANGELES (A) Discovery of cabin In a lonely canon near Los Angeles" where Mrs Clara Phillips "hammer murderer" who escaped from the Los Angeles county jail December 5 concealed herself for at least four days" after the jail break was announced at the office Monday night The statement was made that Armour Phillips husband of the convicted murderer was known to have "purchased food' at a grocery near the cabin for four days after his escape "and that another man whose identity has not been learned delivered the food at the cabin YOUII Spike Hoardings Enjoy Quiet Holiday At White House WASHINGTON (JP) Itwas a quiet New day for the president and Mrs Harding The White House doorkeepers were kept busy receiving cards of diplomats and officials and many boxes of flowers were received from friends wlfo recollected Mrs convalescence from her recent Illness The chief social event of tho day however was the diplomatlo breakfast given by Secretary of State and Mrs Hughes at the -Pan-American Union In accordance with custom this was a state affair with the diplomatic guests appearing in their brilliant uni- forms YOUR DEFENSE READY Chicago Spends $6000000 For New Year Feast CHICAGO (P) Chicago spent 'v $6000000 ushering In the new year according to figures pre- pared Monday night based on returns 'seven of the largest hotels and six of the leading cafes The seven biggest loop hotels reported that 11600 merrymakers spent $281200 speeding the parting year and welcoming the newcomer In the six cafes 20500 revelers parted with $307500 for the same purpose There are more than 400 hotels and 500 cafes In the city: The hotel and cafe men esti- mated that' one-fifth of the city's population made merry Sunday night The expenditure per guest ranged from $8 to $15 in most of the downtown hotels The threat of prohibition agents to call for the hotel and cafe table reservation lists and summon all merrymakers before the federal grand jury to tell what they knew about how prohibition did or did not work New Year's eve met with varying response Monday Some hotelkeepers said they would not give up their Hats until they consulted their attorneys Others said they were perfectly willing to comply if asked as soon as they had checked the books to show which reservations actually were used Drive YOUR gplhe- Faille of Conference to Agree May Bring Direct Action by France Moratorium Terms Big Question PARIS (By the Associated Press) The prime ministers of France Great Britain and Belgium together with the Marquis Della Torretta representing the Italian premier will go into conference Tuesday which is regarded as the final effort of the allies to reach a collective settlement of the reparation question There was a sober and even anxious spirit in allied circles Monday night in face of the probability that if the conference fails separate and direct action by France will follow The meeting is a continuation of last month's premiers' conference in London which was called to examine whether any practical results could come from a general economic congress in Brussels The main questions to be decided are first whether a moratorium can be granted to Germany and second upon what terms Views Differ EFFORT FOR it FIRE Last Canvass for Rail Fund Subscription Awaits Starting Signal Wednesday Morning Two Teams Named The Anal canvass of the city for subscriptions to the main line trust and right of way funds will begin promptly at 9:30 Wednesday morning when the two teams headed by Fred Mann and Brook over as- semble at the chamber of commerce to receive Instructions for the work by which it is hoped 1400000 necessary to complete the terms of contract with the Oregon Short Line Railway i company for bringing the main line to Boise will be raised The men composing the two teams are making sacrifice of time in volunteering for this task for at this season thejr are particularly busy and they wish to urge upon those who will be solicited the need of giving the canvassers prompt attention when- they Committeemen Notified The chairmen of the two sblidting Seek of pralsal work of land involved in the right of way Mr Pierce says that the appraisers are meeting with much encourage- STIRS OFFICERS Witness in Morehouse Case Is Seized by Mob Believed to Have Escaped BASTROP La (By the Associated Press) After a day of exhaustive in- vestlgatlon Sheriff Carpenter of Morehouse Monday night announced he believed that Harold Teegestrom MARION 111 (By the Associated With nearly 400 witnesses for enforcement agents killed the defense waiting to be called to the a11 the joy that m6ht have been It stand attorneys for the five defend- onIy the tucked-away places ants charged with murder In connec- unmolested tlon with the Herrin riots of June ss 1 or tn a11 better known and France and Great Britain are sharp- even the smaller places of the Broad ly divided in policy The French in- 2 for the resumption of theeax- way d8trIct Prohibition enforcement elst upon seizing the Productive re- lnga Tuesday morning souroee of Gerxnany on the left bank When court adJo5rned over the of the Rhine and in the Ruhr valley hollday8 on December 28 the proseas guarantees that when the mora- cutjon had rested its case after lntro-torlum terminates Germany will re- ductlon of the testimony of only 89 witnesses a formal motion to take the ident Af lllerand in replying to the cage from the Jury and return a ver-New Year good wishes of the diplo- d4ct of not sullJty had been overruled matlc corps Monday made it clear by judgre Hartwell and the testl-that France stands upon her concep- of witnesses for the defense tlon of Justice and her rights under had been compieted the treaty of Versailles farmer8 and one unlon mlner great white way who caught agents and policemen watched for the tilting of flasks and bottles In some 1000 resorts the enforcement agertt-worked There were only 129 prohibition law arrests in -70 by federal agents and 59 by the police About 200 gallons of liquor were taken from 41 establishments Most of those arrested were released on ball Monday pending grand Jury action Fines 19-year-old timekeeper at the Carbon committees also request that all mem-plant at Spyker La who was kid- bers report promptly Wednesday naped Friday night was alive and had morning fled from this section through fear The finance committee was In ses-From reports of the incident pleceri slon Monday having matters under together it seemed 16 unidentified consideration that will enable the two persons appeared at the "bunk 25-men teams to expedite their work called the youth to the door Pierce chairman of the right seized and placed him in one of the of way committee announced Monday automobiles waiting outside and that Ed Straus had been added to the drove off into the woods Whether personnel of the committee the men were masked has not been Hundreds View Ceremony of Induction in Legislative Chamber Idaho Comes Under Regime of Moore NEW STATE OFFICERS William XL Supreme court Justice CL CL Governor CL lieutenant gov- A Jeter -Secretary of state EL State auditor State treasurer A Attorney general mim Elizabeth Russum Superintendent of public instruction Stewart Inspector of mines With all the pomp and ceremony due the occasion Idaho's new state officers were formally inaugurated into office Monday noon The ceremonies took place in the chamber of the house of representatives in the capitol before a crowd of people esti mated at more than 1000 Long before 13 o'clock the floor of the house of representatives the gallery and balcony surrounding the chamber on the fourth floor were crowded with Mends of the state officers who came to see the IUce Unavoidably Absent Through the sudden illness of his wife John Rice retiring chief justice of the supreme court was forced to absent himself and Alfred Budge the new head of the supreme court presided and administered all oaths Promptly at 19:16 o'clock the crowd on the house floor parted and the procession led by MaJ Harry Lewis adjutant general entered the clumber The officers assembled In" the governor's office The order in which the procession entered the chamber is as follows: Justices Budge Charles McCarthy Robert Dunn William A-Lee and William Lee of the supreme court Governor Davis and CL Moore governor-elect Baldridge lieutenant governor-elect A Jeter secretary of state-elect Gallet state auditor who has been re-elected: Banks state treasurer who has been re-elected Roy Black attorney general and A Conner attorney general-elect Miss Ethel Redffeld state superintendent of public instruction and Elizabeth Russum euperin- tendent -elect and Stewart Campbell Inspector of mines who has been reelected Justice Budge Presides Justice Budge took the speaker's chair and the other four justices were seated behind the rostrum The re- mninlng state officials were seated in a crescent facing the members of the court Before the opening of the exercises the Rev Jesse Baird of the First Presbyterian church asked an invocation Following the ceremonies the Rev A Glendinning of the First Methodist church gave the benediction William Lee newly-elected Justice of the supreme court was the first to receive the oath of office He was introduced by Justice McCarthy and Justice Budge administered the oath learned What occurred in the woods has not been disclosed but Teegestrem managed to escape from his captors and reached the home of Henry Jones 1 ued Mr Pierce and some of the mem-sawmill man Sunday and excitedly here will be in constant attendance asked him' for $40 with which to de- others will be engagid in the ap7 Right Way The right of way offices in the Idaho building will be open each day from now until the drive ends contln- PROVES FATAL Rogers of blackfoot Instantly Killed When Car Turns Over (Special Dispatch) BURLEY Rogers of Blaek- foot was Instantly killed Sunday night when the automobile in which he was riding skidded on the icy road and turned turtle on the Pacific high- way 16 miles east of here Mr Rogers who was driving the automobile was pinned it whenit turned over Stevenson riding in the same car received several bruises but it is thought was not seriously injured The body of Mr Rogers was taken in charge by the Elks' lodge here and sent to Blackfoot for burial YOUR PRANK COSTS LIFE Farmer Kills Lad for His Home TO Four Hundred Witnesses Will Take Stand in Herrin Murder Hearing compoelng the Jury spent the Chrlst- holidays in a dormitory on the tOD oor 0f the tall where four of the defendants Peter Hiller Jon r-r naghi Otio cSark and Bert GmS were confined The fifth defendant jSStaTLTduSSiMl uberty because of Illness in hie family Indictments against 72 individuals were returned by the grand Jury which investigated the riots which culminated in the shooting of the non-union workers at the Lester strifiT mine Forty-eight of these Indictments charged murder and the others various offenses ranging from assault to conspiracy The five defendants In the present trial 'were selected by agreement between state and the defense' YOUR DALLAS WAS WET DALLAS Tex (A) This was the wettest New Year's in Dallas since enactment of the Volstead law according to Cleve Wood city Jailer Seventy-five persons arrested Sunday and Sunday night charged with being intoxicated faced Judge Crawford in the municipal court Monday morning A dozen of these also were charged with discharging firearms and otherwise disturbing the peace YOUR IT 1 i 011V2 XjLCQIUITCS Tl Old Zion Plant From Outsiders part for an unannounced destination Tooth Borrows Money Jones said he let him have the sum and Teegestrom departed Hement in the matter of obtaining op told Jones he had been taken to the tions woods but did not say what had hap- 1 pened Jones reached Bastrop Monday and the occurrence to the sheriff Teegestrom was to have testified in the open hearing and trials in con-4 nectiori with the Morehouse kidnap-! Sng and murders While considered' an important state witness Burnett former deputy sheriff in Jail here on a murder charge declared he could "Complete peace can be estab- he declared only on the basis of the treaties and through respect for the rights acquired and the obligations I The British government thoroughly disapproves stern methods of penalties and desires to work out a plan under which Germany would be allowed a (Continued on Page Two) YOUR Spike New York Celebration Minus Liquor Chicago Residents Undisturbed in Merrymaking Prohibition Officers Active NEW YORK (JP) New Yorkers who daneed and drank away the old year Monday paid the divers terms dictated by the fiddler It was a "cold gray dawn' for everybody with downpour of rain and a whistling wind And there were not a few persons despite the laws and all that who awakened with aching heads and "dark brown" tastes in their mouths Others greeted the day with sour faces and creaky Joints caused by hours spent on the none too comfortable bunks of jails They had been too reckless In' the display of pocket flasks Even though there were drinkers In tho dazzling establishments along thn of $10 and up were Imposed on a few drinkers who pleaded guilty Some of the cabaret manager? while not bold enough to dispense liquor from their stores If they had any provided as best they could for the protection of their flask-toting patrons Tho ruse of one Ingenious manager was effective for a spell The Jazz band played one piece to numerous encores and during the chorus thus lights were dimmed The enforcement agents finally got suspicious and arrested two men a the lights flared up CHICAGO HAS ITS FUN CHICAGO -Chicago welcomed the advent of 1923 In characteristic manner celebrations running from church services and home wateh parties to liquor larks and all night frolics Revelers virtually were undisturbed by federal prohibition enforcement agents None of the prominent downtown cafes and hotels and fashionable outlying places were disturbed A few arrests were made according to reports and some of the minor places of entertainment visited bjr'tho govemm ent officers "Future new year's eve revels will be great or small by comparison with the one which sent the 1922 caleolar year Into the trash basket said a summary printed in one morning newspaper Seven squads of federal prohibition enforcement officers were on duty ANGELS IIAVE NOISY TIME LOS ANGELES (JP) After a New eve said to be perhaps the featured wcw rears aa round los Angeles comparatively deserted Several hundred Angelesans went There was noise aplenty Sunday night augmented by screeching sirens (Continued on Page Two) being served at one of the tables one of the officers attempted to place one of the guests under arrest Then someone threw a chair excitement followed and a shot was Women became hysterical and the barrage of utensils and tableware was directed at the officers who retreated and left the hotel QUeBts from nearby hotels hearing of the hurried to the Chase which is the most fashionable in the city and several hundred persons were gathered about tho entranco awaiting developments Nations Said he went to the hotel previous to the attempted search and asked for Chase Ullman the proprietor Ullman was out at the time so he handed a blanket warrant giving (Continued on Page Two) MESQUITE Tex (JP) Celebrating Co-Operative Marketing Feder- here Sunday night cost the life of 16 -year-old Winfield Knox With two youthful companions Knox was playing the old game on the Hall home The noise awakened Hall who said he called out and receiving no reply fired one shot through DUBLIN (By the Associated Press) the door killing the lad Hall who CHICAGO (By the Associated under which the Irish said he believed someone was break- press) The newest of the national republicans were set forth Monday by Monday After an inquest Monday fostered by the American FarmBu-1 under which the Irish saia ne oeiievea someone was oreaa- Free State would make peace with the ing into the house was prostrated mnublleanfi warn mt MAnAsv kv'Mondav After an inauest Monday Preps) The newest of the national co-operative marketing institutions -n 1 Michael Cosgmve head of the Free State A meeting of former officers of Tipperary brigade of the Irish Hall was liberated on $1500 ball to await the action of the Dallas county grand Jury Drive YOUR Rau federation is scheduled to open for business in 140 market centers (Tuesday It Is the -Federated Fruit (and Vegetable Growers Inc The new AOC EVP! 1 1 marketing company entirely grower-Hnc UAUUUULUjowne(1 and contj-oUe 11 sell all WRITINGS ZION 111 (A) Wilbur Glenn Vol-lva overseer of Zion announced Monday that he had purchased the old printing and publlablng plant unTiirtotLTrohibmonU i noisiest in the city's history but by what dry officials termed remarkably few for violation NEW YORK (P) An autopsy verdict that 8 -year-old Ine Stoebe was killed by a bullet from Following the taking of the oath by a jg caliber pistol as she celebrated Justice Lee the chamber rang with New eve in her Brooklyn home applause and this was repeated after Monday resulted In the dropping of each of the new state officers took homicide charges against three men American moved from domination of the 11 -square-mile community which complete John Alexander Dowle founded the oath Davis Introduces Successor and retention of against a fourth TV All four living in houses from which Catherine might have been shot ad-tive spoke of the qualifications poe- raItted they had "shot the New Year sessed by Moore the new Xover- jn With weapons of varying bore nor to administer the affairs the Then they waited for the autopsy to state He then Introduced Mr Moore ebow Which was to be tried BTOAPEBT UP)-Th Walt Whitman Karl Marx and Niko- Lenine have been excluded from of destructive tendency One nun- or aesirucuve tendency 2 to central Europe and the United States have also been de barred The list includes all papers umuowB evi NeMiaSl 1 Half the Vienna newspapers and many from neighboring states are on the YOUlt Woman Is Held On Charge of Murder BEAUMONT Tex (P)--Mrs llan Knox charged with the znuraer of her husband Hiram Knox million- aire lumberman on the night of No- i vember 25 will be given a preliminary hearing Wednesday morning at Hemp- hill before Justice of the Peace l'ratt The publishing plant has been In the hands of outsiders since Zion went Ro8ea waa In progreS8 Log Beachf intothe hands of a receiver following where the Pike and Sliver Spray pier health I amusement thoroughfares offered only one of varied diversions Venice where the the original Zion industries left In the coming of 1923 was celebrated of outsiders is the lace factory day Sunday and Monday and various which has been operated since the re-! other suburbs which afforded enter-ceivership by Marshall Field A Co' of talnment of various kinds from ee Chicago oliva announced he would try to repurchase it also The operation of the former publishing plant which was converted Into an electrical supply factory by aA A CtM WM UOI1V1UU lei IIV4 UJT IUQ outsiders caused rioting several years crowd of holiday revelers San I Francisco has witnessed in many years ago The trouble started when the visiting their little -Pasadena where the annual Tournament of (Continued on Page Two) Driw YOUR Spikes MONTGOMERY MINISTERS ADOPT NEW RESOLUTIONS MONTGOMERY Ala (A) Montgomery ministers went on record Monday in a New resolution not to perform any marriage ceremony where either of the persons seeking wedlock had a divorced husband or wife except In cases where divorce was granted on scriptural grounds Drive YOUR Autopsy Verdict Holds Man For Death of Child The lot fell to Michael Galmbalso the sole known wlelder of a 88 caliber weapon YOUR PAY FEES IN WHEAT BUDAPEST The trustees of the University of Budapest have requested the government to require the students to pay their fees in wheat or falling that in currency fixed according to the wheat market The government has promised to consider a decree to this effect Governors Enforcement "The majesty and dignity of the law must be upheld at any he said In his address "While I am governor all laws so far as within my power shall be faithfully enforced whether they meet with my approval or He added that in making appointments to offices he would consider as "one of the requisite qualifications a high regard for the sacredness of law and the reputation for the observance "A great multiplicity of new and untried said Governor Hinkle "has led to tax enforcement and a lessening of respect for law and order Laws' whehter good or bad are made to be obeyed and should be enforced Insofar as it is in the hands of my administration this shall be He also emphasized the neces- sity of economy in conducting the state government Governor Moore made no address republican army held In Thurles Saturday passed a resolution calling for a peace conference and forwarded a copy to Cosgrave who replied: Before you go further with your el earl clearly "The basis for peace must be: nt treat (AnIrleh tlon explicit or implied of any part treaty) shall stand without abroga- i of lt- I Parliament Only Power i "That the parliament established under-the treaty and the constitution shall be the sole and sovereign authority within the Jurisdiction assigned to it in those instruments "That there shall be ho armed force or military organization and ho carrying of arms or war material except such as the same authority shall authorize permit "That there shall be no claim on the part of any person or persons com- ing under the -proposed peace to ex- erclse powers of government or to act so as to threat or endanger life lib- erty property or livelihood without or contrary to the same authority and that there shall be no Interference with elections "Without these fundamental conditions any so-called peace can only be a false peace endangering the whole future of Ireland and removing hope of national unity" Drive YOUR BUYS TIMBER HOLDINGS Subsidiary of Ford Company Makes Extensive Purchase in 3Iichigan' IRON MOUNTAIN Mich (JP) Announcement was made here Mon religious pickets around the building and the two factions clashed electrical workers- violated anti-smoking laws Vollva retaliated by been marketing co-operative assoda- tlo product for tB 1X A Fruit Exchange which' has Rule manager of the North American Fruit Exchange Is retained as man- aer for the derated organization Some of the markets in which op- New York Chicago Philadelphia Pittsburg Boston Cleveland and St Louis Formed for Exchanges "Membership in the Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers is Intended to be mainly associations or exchanges" according to Brad- fute newly elected president of the American Farm Bureau federation iQQjy co-operative associations will be admitted Large Individual grow- er8 wbo gbp jn iota and who are gQ located that they can oon- venlently work through an assocla- tjonf may j0jn the federated directly and market through it but will have may vote primarily a organization and of small they organize standardize in full car impracticable for the organization to market for isolated small growers as YOUR MEMORIZES TESTAMENT CHICAGO (JP) The Rev Henry Halley a minister of the Disci- plines of Christ denomination has memorized the entire new testament and much of the old following the manner in which the Druids of old England perpetuated the texts of their faith after many years of study This was learned Sunday when the Rev Hally attended several churches and occupied -the pulpits not by preaching to the congregations but telling them stories from the bible in the words of the prophets and apostles Dry Officers Are Routed in Attempt to Break Up Party ST LOUIS (By the Associated i entered the hostelry Observing liquor The widow was arrested Monday at noon as she returned to her home at Hemphill from Beaumont where she had spent the holidays with friends She -was placed in a cell in the Sabine county jail at Hemphill "There will be other said thejr products and 'ship District Attorney Adams Mon-lota It would be lmpn no vote Only associations federated will be carlot distribution cannot handle the product isolated growers unless so that they can properly to the presiding officer and the oath was taken This procedure was repeated for each of the state officers who were escorted by the retiring officers Where the present official was reelected to the office there was no Introduction before the administering of the oath The form "of oath taken by all the state officials with the exception of mine inspector is as follows: (Continued on Page Two) New Western Stress Law DENVER Colo (A) Two of the four men inaugurated as governors of Rocky mountain states Monday stressed law enforcement in their inaugural addresses one made no address and the fourth after asking cooperation of the people of the state for peace and prosperity expressed confidence that the expenses of state government would be reduced The governors inaugurated were Charles Moore of Idaho4 George Hunt of Arizona James Hinkle of New Mexico and William Roes of Wyoming Moore is a Republican and the other three are Democrats Governor Hunt who was elected first governor when that state was admitted to the Union in 1912 said he was sure the incoming administration would be able to cut the cost of government in Arizona Governor Ross made a direct appeal to the people of the state for enforce- 1 uent of the prohibition laws Police Monday were investigating the riot which took place at the exclusive Hotel Chase here Monday morning when merrymakers celebrating the New Year resented the intrusion of prohibition enforcement fired Witnesses said they were un-and police searching for able to tell "who fired the shot officers' day by Kingeford vice presl-1 a bullet wound through his head It dent of the Michigan Iron Land appeared at first he committed sui-Timber Co a subsidiary of the Ford cide Ten days afterward however Motor company that the deal involv- i Judge Pratt acting as coroner re- day night Hiram Knox was one of the wealth- ies men in thp lumber business having inherited an estate worth nearly $10000000 The Knoxes were widely known for their liberality On the morning of November 26 Knox was found dead In his bed with turned a verdict of murder but did not fix the crime on anyone Since that time rumors have been numerous and during the past week or 10 days it appeared no arrest' would be made But Sheriff Alford 1 as the last act of his administration turned the key in the lock of the county Jail after placing Mrs Knox behind the bars Friends of 'Mrs Knox said Monday that bail of any amount could be furnished for her liquor i The dry sleuths and police were driven from the dining hall un- der a steady hail of chairs plates and ware A riot 11 brought sev- eral patrol loads of police Two shots were fired One struck John Pazdera vice president of the i pany He was shot below the knee as fie was dancing with his wife George Bode Jr was struck in the foot Mrs Robinson was Injured in the scuffle Gus Nations chiet federal dry law officer in St Louis with a half dozen agents and a squad of police J1 ing the purchase of the timber holdings of the Stearns Culver Lumber Co which has been pe'ndlng for several days has been completed The plant is capable of cutting 25000000 feet of lumber a year Mr' Kingsford said that the men employed in the Stearns-Cuiver mill receive the Ford minimum wage The deal includes 20000 acres of timber land and 15000000 feet of manufactured lumber 9.