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A ! - n . i i r 6 'Crown-Willamette Team . Beaten in Second EJimi- ' :. nation' for Championship ; ' Wit'Barr on. ferond' a iWcklf Fingle by ,-Blddy" Bishop won, 2- to 1 ' score th3 : second etimina Hon gsme for tho Salem Senators agalnstT- the- Crown-Wilianritte team when Him: two fwet' Sunday at Oxford park. e, entire, game . was . 1 0 Of pet c?nt rasebiU j wfth brilliant playing on both aides, i! BWdyV who , occupied ; the moandi foe , Salem, succeeded nj hoMlng the visitors' down, until the smh Inning when Cole reach id 'first on an error.; Mndd sacri ficed and , put Cole on ; ' second. , Moore vUh ' a clean '' double r to right center -brought Cole 'home and tied" the score;; . ! H The first , score for the locals ' wan niade wbt ''Husky" McKen ha singled, stole second and reach ed third on Relnliard's ! grounder io ;Mdore He was brought In by Del" Baker whs singled to right field. " w- ' i ('' ' The deciding score was made pn " the ! seventh Inning" when "T Mar .beat out grounder to, Jd sd advanced to secona u -.Hflen ItlnhoD singled! and Barr acoredi SALEM-i T AD.B.3P0.i';E. Retnkart, If. I Kecfie," lb. .. 4 Raker1, . ..L . 2 . 1 fayes. rf . X . '.'4 . Nelson, lb.j. -4 , Parr. cf...!.;;S Miller, bs. J. . 2 . ntshoD. D..L .-S .0 -ROW&-WILIJlMETTF- , ! ' All. M. ru. !. r Judd., VtlJ. . 410-A2 TO SKSrthes.irf.M2t'0 "(KH i n to io Moore, 2b. r HlttenhouseU 4i Ubke, 3b. ... 4 Jones, cf. . . v. 4 Sbalton, lb.. f4 . Kracke. .'..'. 4 3 1 1 0 0 Tlf 1 1 . 1 1 11 0 0 0 0 0 Cole. p:..... 3 Stone, rf.. ; .' 1 o o ; o ooo King '.J. ,;fl '0.i .0 0 0 i -'hi;- .'- 23-i '7-24 d a: 10 Batted tor Kracke la "nint hi. Summary; Two base , hit' j Moore.. Stolen bases Moore, Mc Kenna; : Miller,' JJl3nop.- , Sacrlfft-e lilts-Stcphens. 1 Baker; ' lliUer. Struck! out By Bishop. t;n by Cole, 8. -HI by pitched ball; Baker;1 Reinhart.1 ' Passed ball Kratke. Xl Left" 5n bases-U3rowiii .Willamette."' 7; Salem; "T. Earned funs-USalem t. Umpire Davla. Titoe'xjf kame lr8B."AT- y , ..,;-, i . . ... , i i .'s: j y ROY; GARDNER IsCAPES FROW .McNEIL'S i ISLAND l , (Continued from page J.) p advices from 'McNeil Island state that the break of Gardner and his. til-- J ) ! ' i t - . : V - '0,t! ; - " t - ft .'SBansflui 0 jo; 1 1.0: jo 0 1 :1 2 SO 0 1 9 I 0 0 '' 10 1 1 0 0 0 13 0.1 Jl ii o a o '. 1 ; 2 0 r 0 4 io , , ! . . , . . . - ii t i v - -. ' Xi.: v. -i .; .. ' .'' ' J, " :"L?N birth SpDosing that, beginning: tomorrow, all the newspapers are discontinued. What a hi i rore tls public would make. "News! News! We most have news or we will be no bet 1 " ! ter off Uian'the anclenti.', 'Alt right,' suppose we give them news but cat out the ad- -,Tertiseracntfc,, Then we would discover that politics the doings of society, notices of fires, accidents, ?iadeaUK, ican3als sports, the activities of the police and criminals add little or nothing to the real comfort and happiness of this gre atest age in the world's history. What genii are they that have crowded the last 'fifty years' with so much of advan tage to humans? They are legion in nam ber, but not least among them is Adver- tlsinsr. . I, '. . : 1 ,Our 4ay is the greatest time the world ' has seen because we have more to be happy -fT f with better things greater variety, greater" comforts gathered together from the North," - v . - ' m' f r -r ' c ' " t: - East, West and South for our choosing and I , . selection. Look about you. This is the day . of better food, better homes, better clothing, . better babies, better health, better business. : 6 And advertising ' makes these better things possible. - t . . i -.. . - THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON companions occurred at 10 ;20 . a. nu ..this . morning. , t The convicts have been given a holiday:'for La bor day and about. 25ft of t bom were watching a baseball game be tween two prison teams. , Gardner, Impyn and Bogart bad contrived to' seat themselves (o- getber at the extreme rear of the crowd of spectators. They had evi dently made careful preparatfons for the attempt and timed their movements to the second. They waited, until a tense point had been reached in the ball game and then ' saddenly bolted. Gardner was the fleetest of the three and reached the barbed wire several yards in advance of his compan ions. He had stolen a pair of pliers frqml the ..prison i tpol ," atop jind whipping these from bis pocket he used them soi. quickly that he bad cut an opening through the fence feelora his escape was Jiotked, the prison orficlals stated. ' 4 ; f 2uards Open Fire y i r Impyn anS Bogart,' however, had scarcely got away from the crowd before the' guards saw them. In an ; instant pandemonium - reigned. Half a dozen guards opened fire 'on fugatlves while the officers di Tected their attention to keeping In check the prisoners, many of whom, seeing the gap In the fence, started to surge toward it. Impyn and Bogart fell. at the very threshold of liberty but Card-1 ner wormed bis way through , the: hole in the fence and sprinted for the woods', braving a fnsilade of bullets' from the guards' guns. . It Is, only a short distance from the baseball field to the woods and jfJardner quickly disappeared. SAN" FRANCISCO. Sept. 5. ''If .Roy Gardner has escaped from McNeil Island," said United States Marshal James . B. Holohan - to night,, when informed of the ban dit'! v get-away, , "he pas accom plished what has been done only twice before, in the history of the penitentiary." Holohan said he did not un derstand how a man could escape from "the Island Without outside assistance,: as the ' surrounding waters are rough and ' full of treacherous currents. ; I t.rr -i" - -, M'ARTHUR COMMENTS . :on:big:measures (Continued from.jiage 1) slder the revenue 'bill ttrst? It may become a law by - the first of November. , , Nufsice Tuxes ABollsled "This revenue bill will be one of the-'most welcome' measures the nation, ever saw. It will abol ish a-ordeof the nuisance taxes that tend to make "men swear at their .wives and throw stones at their grandmothers. The people have been very; patient in stand ing thesef measures as long' as they have."! The new bill . will wipe them off the. earth like bad dreams. fTher "excess profits-tax, any mftny other measures that have strangled . defelopment, ' will go. The Wartied jinan on ' a sal ary, with a family to support. Is to have, a, pro pet exemption that makes it possible for him to feel that he is not' penalized 'for hav ing a family and being good, thrifty American citizens. This measure Is more urgent even than 1 'if ni , s is the instrument that l - r ast the tariff r raeaeure, and .will, take precedence. ' - : : j f '. V l i Budget Bill . I Com , 'Tbe -budget J bill. fcyachronlz ingi and? conioliditing many of thei I govern niental J departments and iwee&iog out 1 mossy laby rinth of TootlSh red tipe1 In exec utive service, ought to save a quarter pf a billion dollars a ygarv.and. make the! government Beem ten billions better because it looks efficient. The one great cry has been, not so much the actual cost of government, but that it is Ineffective and waste ful. Thfs t ni ls' aimed to take up the slack, .like a Pullman car coupler in place of the old man killing link couplings on tho freight trains a few years ago. It looks like a reel thoroughbred, this bill to trim ft the age-old excrescences of official methods and expenditure, and It ought to be a wonderfully popular meas ure. The 'Sweet bill to consoli date all the relief and rehabili tation and other post-war mili tary activities under one respon sible beading, promises, to be of value. This does not, however, af fect 'the Civil war or the Spanish American matters, as it now stands. Disarmament In Prospect "The world is looking to the Harding administration for some definite action on the disarma ment. Especially if the disar mament congress Is able to reach some favorable conclusion that will In future warrant, it" will be a great step toward peace and prosperity The agricultural re lief bill, that allows the appro priation of $."00,000,000 for farm and livestock relier, and for the financing of American goods in foreign markets, is now. an ac complished fact. The money is already In the field, working for the people of Oregon. These are of the most outstanding meas ures actually, put. into .operation by thff preeBnt! congress." ? MeXary and liawley Praised Congressman vMc Arthur "speaks htgkfy jof! Senator Charles Mc Nary's work on the agricultural IjilL t JJla amendments and his painstaking work have made the bill a possibility, and insured its acceptance. He was a member of the; Joint agricultural committee, and had a commending place to make the measure a success. He is a fast-growing, commanding figure in the national capitol, says his compatriot of the lower house. Congressman Hawley, too, as chairman of the' sab-committee that pactically made the new tar iff bill, has the heartiest endorse ment of Mr. McArthur. Mr. Haw ley stands alongside of Chairman Fordney, whose name the tariff bill bears, as a national "figure in tariff Information and legislation: S'nnott's Itecord Good , And "Nick" SInnott, congress man from The Dalles, chairman of the public lands commission, has the distinction of having had tnore bills adopted from his com mittee than any other committee In the present congress. Vast irrigation and reclamation projects, that ' other 'Congresses have only nibbled at, are in a fair way to become living realities under the' Impetus of the present congress,' as a' part of a national development ' plan ? that means w est South i I ! I Advertising is the IJEWS of all the looms, of all the furnaces, of all the laboratories, of all the shops, of all the stores, of all the world and all working for yon. ' 'Because of .advertising; luxuries and ne cessities that once cost a king's ransom are yours at little prices; Advertising pits mer chant against merchant, artisan against ar tisan, producer against producer, for jour benefit, forcing out the best there is in ev ery thing and telling the world about it. . i..-. . ' i - . - - j - . .. . - . - 4 ' v-. . .'.-- " :. rv. - ''" :' . '-"-'' s -'i ' - -. -- ' Read advertising. Keep abreast of today. ' ' .' ' . .',. Ad vertisinij furnishes you with facts and op- , portunities that you would know.. ti 1. ' .4 M 1 ,. ageiess prosperity lor i be wnote nation, t says Mr. McArthur. ' "Everv tuan.ia America is get ting a show for his white alley," is the MeArthurian comment on the presidential "SiiBatian. "The president isn't merely talking 'ta people,' be's .living -..-.it. Every kind of life in America i rri-;. leged to have a hearing with him; vve naye naa noining like his cos-, mopolitan attention to the whoie etaple for many years.' Whatever is done from the White. house Is done after hearing the whole rtory. Wf certainly have a presi dent of, for and by the people." McArthur Amendment Progre . ': I '. ips ' Congressman McArthnr has bad one hearing before the committer on elections on his constitutional amendment to establish January as the time for the beginning and end ; of the national year. The presidential term and the term of congress would begin and end at that time, colsely following the November, elect.on. He is prom ised another bearing, and the measure, bids fair to meet a gen eral acceptance. A fair estimate of. the value rf this change this year is that it would have been worth a billion, or ten billion, dollars to America to have chang ed at once from the old to the new, following the election last November. The new tariff bill, the revenue bill, the army and navy bill, al most every one of these important national measures could have been passed and put out of ' the way before the coming of winter with its unemployment, its un certainty, its distress. The meas ure has come to be almost a na tional necessity, and It is believ ed that, whatever have been the facts of previous measures for the same import, this time it is on the straight road to passage. GRAND R0NDE IS . ...BOOMING, rSAYS HOLT (Continued from page 1.) , Spauldlng-Mlaml Logging com pany is of interest from the fact that shopmenls of logs will be made to the Spaulding mills at Newberg and Salem. The company owns Its own railroad of nine miles to connect with the Southern Pacific at Wlllamina,. , The larges holding also assures for years to come a supply of logs for the Oregon Puly & Paper com pany's mill at Salem, when the lo cal supply shall have become ex hausted. Private Holdings Heavy In addition to the 30,000 acres of heavy timber purchased by the Spaulding-Miami Iumter com prny, there -h- about ".in equal amount of private holdlngsyfn the mountains adjacent, whh'k will of necessity become tributary to this country in shipping. BRENXAN WINNER . ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 5. Bill Brennan of Chicago, knocked oat "Digger" Brown cf Australia in the first round of a scheduled 1,0 round heavyweight bout tonight. The men sparrsd about a minute and then Brennan ended it with a smash to the jaw. Gratitude 13 the virtue of beau tiful souls, also of. political bud gets. i 1 : v. 'otherwise never " 1 a.- I-. HOURS ITT Organizers Accused By Har . ry Olmstead of Starting Trouble In South G0MPERS ; IS RIDICULED Coercive Policy of Labor Or ganizations is Lambasted By Operator WASHINGTON, Sept, 5. Unit ed Mine Workers officials are charged with responsibility "for the Invasion of Logan county and proposed invasion of Mingo coun ty by armed miners," in a state ment issued, tonight by Harry Olmstead, chairman of the opera tors' association of the William sou field. The statement was de clared to be in answer to that of Samuel Gompers, which Mr. Olm stead described as hypocritical and in many instances false and misleading. Mine guards and private de tectives are not employed by op erators in the Williamson field, Mr. Olmstead said, adding that Mr. Gompers "aad 'deliberately misrepresented conditions." The charge of Mr. Gompers that the uprising had been caused by the failure of the operators to put into effect the award of the gov ernment wage board was charac terized as "another falsehood." " No Objection, Claim . The mine operators were under no obligatlon'to do so," the state ment said, "they having no con nection with the coal fields cov ered by that award. "Nevertheless, the Increases al lowed by the United States gov ernment were adopted In this field promptly after the amount of in crease had been fixed. It has never before been alleged that the strike was due to wage adjust ments or any causes other than to compel recognition of the United Mine Workers' organization. "Coal is measured rather than weighed in this field. The men have never asked to have the sys tem changed. Outlaws Illametl "Mr. Gompers malces himselt Hdleulous to Vest Virginians when he .makes his plea about the miners protesting against lawless ness, insofar, at least as he refers to the United Mine Workers. The miners are generally law abiding. Every disorder that has occurred In, the mining fields of West Vir ginia has been occasioned by the thugs and -outlaws of the United Mine Workers' organization who came to compel unionization of these fields." "The invasion of Logan county and the threatened invasion of Mingo eounty was threatened by the -United Mine Workers' organ ization in the Williamson field as early as April and May, 1920. Officers Not Needed "In the counties of Logan and Mingo, West Virginia, and Pike county, Kentucky, having an ag gregate area of 1,633 square miles, there were not employed as many of 100 peace officers prior to the invasion by the or ganization of the? United Mine Workers. "They were not needed. , "Not any of these peace offi cers were Baldwin-Felts employes but included only regularly chos en deputy sheriffs and constables and other officials. Coercive Methods Hit. ; "When the United' Mine Work ers of America was formed in 1890,' it was recognized as a law ful organization and continued as such until 1898,. when they en tered into a conspiracy with the central competitive field to con trol the bituminous coal market of the United States. Since -1912, it has been the policy of the United Mine Work ers to compel, hy the use of force in every conceivable way, all per sons engaged In the mining indus try, to join the union and it has likewise been its policy to destroy all business of nonunion opera tors, the end of which would mean subjection of the coal industry of the United States to such, unjust and unlawful demands as it might desire to put into- force." SHERIFF STSRMER Man Who Claims To Be Mo tion Picture Star In Cus tody of Officers J. Richard Balliet,. or Jacques Balliet, self-styled Lasky motion picture performer and acquain tance of Douglas Fairbanks, came to grief . yesterday when his col lection of bank checks and his "protectograph" came " into the possession of Deputy Sheriff Lee Morelock. It might be added that Balliet himself, accompanied his bad paper producing outfit, and is being held in ; the eounty jail awaiting A the 'arrival of Sheriff Stanner of Rosebnrg. Balliet who claims that he had passed only one bad check in Rosebnrg. had told Salem friends that he was expecting to receive J 4 00 which he claimed was in a Portland bank. Despite this " fi nancial security : Balliet had bor rowed 5 from' his Salem land lord and - also allowed his board bill to lag behind; it was tscer tained. . " ' Officer! . tfcronghont the state have been searching for Balliet for several weeks, it is said, and when BALLIET HELO FDR TUESDAY MORNING. arrested by Depaty Sheriff Mow. lot k. the ? prisouer espre&Hl sur prise at being apprehended. Suei iff Bower's offk-e U making ef forts to ascertain whether. Balliet had circulated any forged checks upon Salem merchants. The check protective device found in Balllet's possession is one of the most reliable makes. According to the prisoner, the ma chine was purchased by him sev eral weeks ago. 80 Per Cent Service Men Will Rock Back To Land Marion county ex-service men who intend to take advantage of the soldiers' bonus and loan law tre going per cent stmng'fo- a return to the land, according to Dr. 11. K. Fiound. commander of the Salem American lejrion post. To those who are interested in the working; out of -the law, the ract that bo few are likely to claim' the cash bonus. Is regarded as a very satisfactory showiuK- While no report is as yet avail able from the office of the World war veterans" state aid commis sion as to how Oregon ex-service men are In general disposed to yards the law, veterans here ex press the opinion that the Marlon county average of only 10 per cent asking for the cash bonus, will hold rood throughout the state. Reissbeck Makes Another Get-away From. Officers Where does Oliver Heissbeck go when he makes his escape from Salem officers? This is the ques tion local residents are asking In connection with Reissbeck'a sec ond get-away from Salem cops within a, period cf two weelta time. Saturday night the police re ceived information that Oliver, whose name several times during the past years has graced the lo cal blotter, was creating a dis turbance at a local confectionery. Officer White responded to the call and took Reissbeck into cus tody. While on. the way to the police station, the prisoner man aged to wrench away from the pa trolman and duickly disappeared. Two weeks ago, Reissbeck, while intoxicated, according to complaints filed at the police sta tion, made a hurried get-away from Officer Troy Branson.' At that time Reisa'ieck and a com panion left a half-quart bottle of lemon extract in their hurry to escape the hand of the law. Chief of Polica Moffitt has an nounced that he will prefer charg es of disorderly conduct against Reissbeck. McMinnville Club Calls Booster Rally Tonight The campaign of the McMinn ville Commercial club for mem bers Is progressing in fine shape, according to B. O. Garrett, who has been with the Salem Commer cial club, and' wno was recently elected manager of the McMinn ville Commercial club. The club has had about 180 members, and already with the campaign well under way, there has been an increase of 140. To night the club will hold a big booster meeting. Before the cam paign Is over, it Is the IntenUon of the McMinnville Commercial club to secure a budget of 6000 a year, Mr. Garrett said. Visitors Draw First Blood In Sunday Clash By Shut-1 out Score 4-0 SHERIDA5T, Or., Sept. 5. (Special to The Statesman.) The Sherwood Tigers drew first blood In their two-game series with the Sheridan nine, by taking yesterday's clash on the local grounds by a 4-to-0 score. May ers, hurling j for the visitors, pitched a thrpe-hit game, and this coupled with! good support, earn ed a shut-out. Young of Sherwood scored the first and winning run. when, he poked one of "Kewpie" Clow's slants over tie fence for a hom er in the neeond innine. The Tigers pushed two more runs over in the j seventh, and closea the scoring in the eighth with an edded counter. The locals threat ened In several frames, but could not connect iwlth Young s orrer ings in the pinches. "Chick" Baker, brother of Del Baker of the Portland Beavers, and also a catcher with the Salem Senators, was knocked uncon scious for about 10 minutes In the first inning, when etruck by a pitched ball. The game was stopped for 'half an hour, but Raker recovered In time to catch the last inning for Sherwood. Sheridan, Tholder of the Yam hitt county Ititle tor this year will make ; a desperate effort to retrieve the ! loss of yesterday, when they tangle again this af ternoon witbi the Tigers. The score-i R E- Sherwood , i 3 Sheridan . . j.......... 0 3 1 Batteries: ISherwood Myers, Parrot and i Baker. Sheridan Clow and Wlrf. White Robin Appears At SilvertonjTo Be Mounted SILVERTbN. O.. Sept. b. I X Special tol rne Statesman) A large flock of robins flew Into Sil-rnrton vefttet (lav. and -, among them was a) white robin. The htrri w. chit J. fl Schlarior who wiU.'.hav it mounted- and sent ; to the ' Audubon society f at Portland. 1 White robins are fare ag to feel very jnacn of t car toslty and ' excite . much Interest among students or birds. ' ' SHERWOOD TEAM m hi SEPTEMBER, 6, 1921 CHFJRIIS'TO - DIS King Bing Sends. Urgent In vitation And Says Session ; is Important CherHans are expected all lo report ! this evening at the Com mercial club for the first meeting of the fall season.- King Blng Knowland has sent "Cherrian Feed aid Get-together: ' . Regular- September meeting and feed will he heia Tuesoay pvpnine - September 6. at 6 O' clock. Commercial club. ' Your plate has been ordered and asses sed - to your account. .merwn ment by talent .you kaven't heard before. Important buslhesa re e&rdine state fair." r Not only will state fair- business come before Cherrians at thia first meeting of the 'seaaon, but there will be discussed matters of im portance regarding" plans foi the coming fall and winter; And then. Kin Bin Knowland promises something unique In the way of entertainment, besides me regulation Cherrian banquet. With bo much business to come before the organ itatltn, preparations have been made for 'A 100 ; per cent attendance. . HliSTIlE Officers Hayden and Birtch et Win In Ball Park; Row Despite Heavy Odds . What promised to be a simple "drunk and disorderly" arrest, ended In a small sized riot Sunday afternoon when Officer Millet Hayden attempted to arrest W. C, Mass, of. Oregon City, who, police claim, had imbibed too much of the liquid that makes mice.cbafce cats. , The incident , occurred during the afternoon baseball game at Oxford - park. Officer W. W. BIrtchet came to" the aid Of Hay. den when Earnest .Mass,. Jr., and w.,u. .iao9re, aiso oi .uregon; uinr, 'showed battle in an effort to thwart the arrest. W. 'C. Mass was. brought to the foot of the grandstand by . Hayden when a spectator attempted to Interf erte. This resulted In a pair of smashed glasses for the spectator, but af forded" temporary liberty tor 'Mass who escaped and was concealed In another portion of the stand,' a gray cap being used by him as -a camouflage It was reported, f In the meantime; Officer Brit chet aided by Chief of Ponce Mof fitt, Mayor Halvorsen, and others, bad started Earnest Mass Jr., and W. C. Moore on the route to the city bastile. W .C. Mass, despite his attempt ed concealment, was located by Hayden and soon joined his erst while defenders. Later in the aft ernoon, the trio deposited $50 each as a token of their reappear ance in police court Tuesday aft ernoon. Milford, Me., In Danger From Raging Forest Fires BANGOR Sept. 5. Back fires were being built and trenches dug over a wide area by a force of several hundred men tonight in an -effort to savo the village Of Milford and other settlements along the Penobscot river, threat ened by a: foresc- fire'. 11 - Fifteen thousand acres of meadow and woodland had. been burned over tonight. There is no adequite water supply with which, to fight the flames. f 28 National Guardsmen Almost Burn To Death . r .' -. " " ' SOLANA, Minn., Sept. 5. Trapped In "a . blaze of brush and second growth timber in the fire zone about f ivs miles south of White Pine, 2 8 national guards men narrowly escaped incinera tion tonight. .Their escape was made' possible t:y the quick ac tion of H. C. Wbber, forest su pervisor, and Ranger Perry SwedbergVwho led them to safety. With the- Teer.Bg of th ewlnd the back fir end the onrushlng firelines met, encircling the fire fighters. OFFICIH 4r Parents of Wurtzburger Said To Live In Or Near Oblong, Illinois ' 1 Letters found among the ef fect of Andrew Wurtzbarger, who met his death at the hands of his wife at Chemawa Sunday, give the only clue as to the name of his daughter by- his first mar riage. . - - One letter mentioned the. name of Mabel Wurtzbarger of route 5, Vancouver. Wash., while another mentioned a . Mabel Collard of Camas, Wash. As the girt Is known tor be living with ner moth er, who is now. married again, it ; Is jhoughj -that her mother has married ' a man' named. Col lard. Coroner. Lloyd Rigdon last PghfijspaicJieci;,i telegrams to both addresses, with the hope of getting fn touch with' the rM: Late yesterday a man wo CUSS F I RELATIVES Ktiltdrak:inni&MLTiAd "who claimed 4hat f .was m ifriend of Wurtxnarger. traiiea ma coroner and told ,bim Uikt the dead man's mother and father live la or aear Oblong. 111. U4 eaid that! it would be possible to! get in touch with the family by Wiring the) officials of the First National fcaak t Ob long, who' wer acting as trustees for the family , ' L r A telegrams was dispatched 'to that city, asking for more lnfor- mttion s to the whereabouts of Wnrtibarger'a -relatltes. Mayor And8 0ther$ ; , IndictetJ At ptzgeraid , FITZGERALD. Ga.. Sept. . 5 Mayor J. L. Plttman of Fitzger ald and. 18. other men rere in dicted today by t special grand Jury on a blanket charge of -la-lerfering withi eniployes'f of the AtlanU. Birmingham Atlantic railroad. n; f& : -, . -? -j .-if: The charge Was the osteoma of troubles incident to the recent strike on the rallrosdj during which a' freight train' was -wrecked when It struck a quantity of explosives on the tracks near Cor dele. ",'' j ! j . Boy's Head Strikes Po!a As He Rides In tar, Bead - --7 i' : - '. WALLACE, Idaho. Sept' 5. A. P." McRae, Jr., IS- years old. of Mullan, f Idi., died hCTe this afternoon as ail result of injuries received when Ihis head struck a telephone pole Iwhile n was rid ing In an automobile with a Mul lan baseball team which was. to play a Labor ay game here. fhs accident 'took place at a j barrow point on the road. While len lug Out to wave at s passing car, McRae's head struck the pole, hla companions said. He wa: ber of the tcara. : :i a mem- Dr. R. N. Ayison Takes Charge At Forest Grove "' 1 " t-j-'i:.': Dr.' R. N. AvlBon, who resigned the pastorate of the First Metho dist church of Salem a year ago, after having. held the position for 10 ' years, and who "was assigned to Et. Panl's cUurch In Spokatie, was been, transferred ;fromths latter place to the. charge at For est Grove.' Or. .) ! v . 7 ' ' Dr. Avlson Is .' succeeded ' at Spokane by ' Rev. Frank L We mett, who for two years has been pastor of Centenary and Centen-ary-Wllbnr : M4tbndist churches1 la Portland. - P " Dr. Arlson was succeeded I In Satein by Rev. Blaine E. Klrkpat- rick. Importer Barely, Afloat As She 'Approaches Port SAN FRANCISCO. Septf 6.4 ' The waterlogged f steamert Cana dian 'Importer, which Is 1 being towed to this porl by Ihe tug Sea Lion, has a 33 f degree list, is drawing more than 40 feet of wa ter and is in. danger of capsizing, according to radio ' 'messages re ceived by the nsVaU wireless hers tonight. t ". . A second tug, he Sea Monarch will reach her toniorrow and is ex pected to place a second Ihawser aboard, which it lis believed will steady the disabled craft,, jr. 'First' Information ias to the cause of the mishap to the' Cana dian Importer became known here today. The steamer sprung aleak shortly after leaving Vancouver on August 13. Her engine room was quickly flooded. 'putting her radio oat of commlslson. The Tea sel settled - ontll Her decks were awash, when " the1 lumber I cargo shifted, giving her1 a heavy list to starboard, -; if-jet-: Labor Leaden Contrasts Conditions Tdday" VVitfj ' Those-of Yeirs Ago ;v BALTIMORE, Mr.. Sept 6. When the American? people elected . the' present national administra tion they gnt exactly what they de cided they wanted, Samuel Gemp- . era told a lkrge crowd at a Labor day celebration? herfe. j . v - B"efore that election," he said. "I issued a statement in. which I stated the issues that were In volved, so far as labor, was con cerned, and I said that ihe people would get. what they .voted for. They made their, choice between the , candidates and parties and they have got what . they decided Upon. . .'I, -:-.''' , "A year ago today there was ;arcely a handful of men in this country out of employment, -, Nw there are more tljan tiya million out of work- Wha will you blame? Will yen blame tho shadowy' fn. definite thing of whtch you kndw nothing, or wUl yo hold respon sible those who are In commer cial. Industrial and! political con trol of our eountryl?" '.iv- Mr. Gompers declared that cot a single bill, so fa as he knew, had been introduced In tke pres ent eongress for th benefit of the XTkl Iope Uh4t not a single thfng had beeif dons' to protect the workers Ift theiri constltntlcaial' rlghtS. . ' j. is Mf. Gompers charged that the coinmerclal and inaustrlal ' inter ests kre tryfng to set np an indus trUl autocracy and in this con nection arraigned! the United States Chamber of Commerce. He assailed the open shop move ment and the general reduction of wages. : V 'Theres aVeati "deal printed that yoa can't believe." "There Is,'! assented rncle r M Bottletop, "especially on bottl ITEOFWIE -1 !