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1 A czxcmjkTiov ATtnr fr Jane, 1923 . Sunday nijr 5928 Daily sad Sunday 651 a ivtm tot six monfhs ending Jun 80. 1922 ' Sunday nlr . 582 Daily and Sunday 6434 nr tex crrr or ulxjoc ad lwfcT im XarWa and Polk Oaatias r Kaarljf vrrbdy nana . The Oregon Statesman THE HOMX rEWUATSm - -t. 1 t 'it SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SALEM. OREGON, TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 18, 1922 PRICE:FIVE CENTS IL MEETING ITS TO FOUR PERSONS FALL OPERATORS OF ALMOST ENDS IN HELP GROWERS WHEN POLICE OPEN FIRE ON STRIKERS ES APPEAL' 71- FREE-FOR-ALL ROW S TO PRESIDENT iiK : ' K- .-...-.: - COUNC HUBBY CHEERS WIFE HELD ON GRAVE CHARGE DC IN i Five Demands Presented Bv Strikers tn Have Cnnstri- eratiOn 'Of Personnel Of Railroad Labor Board. FIREMEN AND OILERS TAKING STRIKE BALLOT Disturbances Cause Forces of Federal Officers to Pa- !! Potlmnrf Yoi4e I -a CHICAGO, July 17. Peace ne- gotlatlona;; halted oyer the .week- endwerejesumed by memberaof chat.wIth nlm and that the doc the .United States .railroad tabor tor had 4en,ed that he wM drunk board today la an effort to bring th. n,ht . 11PaMftn ,, that about an early settlement of the railway shopmen strike. :W. IT. Finlev. nrealdent of the I . -www w w m I Chicago and Northwestern, and I I :wG.Bierrr president ot the ChP r1 eago ahdAJton,fwere aomng the j.iwwirtumu luc Vi flee of the laor board fluringtne jli day' j for v conferences with . Ben Hooper .chairman of the" board, lJ while : Walter L. McMenlmen a labor member of the. board, met aereral high operatlnf executlvea. ew Hearing Called ' I While none of those present would make any statement re- farding the subjects discussed, it J was intimated some basis for an agreement on the five demands presented by B. M.' Jewell, leader of the shopmen, to Mr. Hooper at I a conference between the two Jast the last council meeting," Dr. An week'was sought as a preliminary drews cried, taking the noor and to the calllnr, of a new formal hearing or all parties before the Jabor board."- The fhre demands of the shoo- men weri announced as the res - loratlon of all aeniqrity rights to strikers. Immediate eaUblishment f a national adlnttment board to that the men may obtain Qluck- er action on local grieyances than Is possible throukh the labor board, the abolishment ot outside contracting by the: roads, the res- torattoa of certain rules and work- Ing agreements and a return i to the seal of. wages in effect be- fore the cut ordered by the labor board' for July 1 became effective simultaneously. . v M Early Peace Predicted ! , ' the negotUtioM on these; Issues l was seen in' the statement last night; of R. A. Hennlng. general chairman of the federated shop ft crafts of the northwest, that only the refusal of the eastern roads . to reinstate striking workers with their full - seniority rights, was - preventing a settlement as far as . ' tbe- roads of the northwest were w-k . concerned.: ,t . 'i Uy -if- Hopes for an early peace also - were -based on the attitude of E. I F. Grable, president of , the main' tenance of way employes who ar rived in Chicago from his head quarters at Detroit tonight for t conferences with members of the ) labor board to get support to jre- i vent carriers from refusing main- J tenance men to do strikers' work. While some thousands ot j the maintenance men were reported Jrom various sections of the coun- r Kin.l1. XT V j - now iuik, as usiius ' joined the strike ot the shopmen. H Mr. arable asserted that such walkouts were entirely unauthor- ; lzeo) and that no strike orders t would be Issued, at least nntll after a meeting of the grand lodge j ot his organization In Detroit on rriday. I ; Strikers' Banks Grow i r Some additions to the ranks of i the strikers ln various sections at so were . reported among the 1 tlerks, freight-handlers ilremeh 1 andvollers, but railway executives i Glared that the defections had been more than. made up by the : uamoers or shopmen wnoreiurneo ij to work 0n the last 'day allowed i them on many roads to protect 1 J their seniority rights. V, v Meanwhile strike disturbances i continued.. to spread, the, forces from the Mathis farm about four f f rederai marshals -protecting- the miles, south of town shortly be v, movement nf thA matta and fnteri fm-A 11 o'clock. He made the ! tt traffic was increased and t more federal '. tainnrttana -arainnt , Picketing were granted. At Bloomlnrton th. . nnmW Of Shots wr. ,-a ... rorkr , . . ' driven aw.i - J.-... !jrtlt0 preTent the; clearing of the tracks, i (Coatloued on past 6) ihe lie was passed back "11 Ung ot co"ncl1 last mgnt when Mayor ucuic jnuivurseii uaueu upon me special investigating com mittee, appointed two weeks ago to look into charges of dis crimination on the part of Chief of Police Mof f ltt and the police, department, and when special committee reported that he had nothing to report. The "special investigation was the culmination of charges made by Mr. Vandervort two weeks ago, in which he de clared that the police department had arrested a prominent doctor in a drunken condition, ",T;i"-?Jr T u A3C "" unicera nau holding him down. In miking bis report to the ImftVOr Inst Til pl.t Mr Vinitennrt et atari ' thnt hori cmna n Iho dortnr'n : hftm nri a . rriHi he flad-n one vno would swear that the doctor was imoii- w a.Mv aaww wa Wiug V la. V a to police headqesrters. , ln Handcuff, .., ha learnedf howeVer he declared, "that the man was put In handcufr4 and was thrown ln. to a cell, but it was no doubt t h . . f -..-.,-- Inn int.n, with h. nnumn who brotlgnt hlm jn just a friendly struggle. "I suggest that the doctor, who Is here! In the council chambers, something himself," he ex- plained nodding his head ln the direction of Dr. A. R. Andrews, "Then you admit, do you, that I am the man to whom you refer- red in your slanderous remarks at stepping in the direction of the table a which Mr. Vandervort K" ated. "You jknow what I mean, and I don't admit anything," the fiery alderman cried,, leaning forward 5 cnatr, - . words Become Heated "I demand to know if It was myself to whom you referred at the "asti council meeting when you a prominent doctor was drunk and thrown into irons. the doctor persisted. "I demand that you j answer me like a man. .7 wer min' 1 wou,d answer you, but you are not a man.? Mr. Vandervort replied. heatedly. l.' V.kL V" . Dy ; word from the mayor., J' Aill,roWB VA hftTe bpen extended the floor here' to make your statement; please confine yourself U the case," Mayor Hal- vorsen requested. 'I thinifc I am entitled to satis faction in - this matter," the doc tor replied, glaring at Alderman Vandervort "if it's satisfaction you want, you can get It outside the council chambers."! the other replied The . hanfcers-on in. the conncu (Continued on page 6) DMAIKWSHOT IIFluHT WITH UNIDENTIFIED THIEF Dr. A. R, Andrews, veterinar ian, 420 South Commercial street, was shot through the left hand at 11:30 last night when, he drove his automobile into his combina tion barn and garage and discov ered ft a ranger about to escape with two horses. .'.Uo until an early hour tnis 1 1' hi . noiiee had been un- able to Ket any trace of the mys- I terious stranger, who escaped ai tr firlne the shot. . r- According to the story told the police by Dr. Andrews he receiv- a a. telenhone call, presumably drive out to the rancf. but upon I hi arrival there he ws Informed that no telephone call had been sent to hint by any person on the Iram-h. t " J " 4 Ltr.nrs on his way back to town. nificance ta it v . At it-ID be drove . iuiu uio barn at ; 420 South Commercial etreet 1 and ' noticed' that a horse was loose Un the stable. He got out of U car.and mr7: Wl and forth with great abandon Chairman Vandervort of the put him in handcuffs and iaieTYnii m in ueeu cuinpeueu to bane parr, in GET BUSY AND PICK BERRIES; IDLE SCORED No Excuse for Jobless at Pres ent Time, Declares Asso ciated Charities "The Associated Charities will be glad to steer anybody needing help, up against some of the good jobs that are clamoring for oeo ple la the berry fieldr," is the statement of Dr. Henry E. Morris, secretary and director of the Char, ities organizations that did so much for the out-of-lucks, last wlnt'ir. "I'd bate to believe that any of those we helped when they were down and out, were refusing to work this summer, now that there Is such demand for pickers to save the crops,"-continued Dr. Morris. "We aimed to investigate every case, and spent our money care fully so as to care for as many people as possible. It seems to be , reported that some of those who were helped, are now refusing the work that is offered. If there are such, we hope to know who they are-. A vast deal of pitiful suffering was relieved last win ter, by the Charities organization and no one could but rejoice at being a part of mo fine a social service. But everybody who can work a single lick, ought to be not only helping himself but help. ing the community that has saved his life, now when the loganberry crop Is In such desperate condi tion for labor. "If anybody who has ever had any Aescoiated Charities help, or now nants help, If he'll call phone 239. we ll try to find him a job that is better than all the charity in the world." "RKTT HELD OX NEW JOB SEATTLB Wash.. July 17. "Red" Held, veteran Pacific Coast baseball umpire, who worked with the Western International League until it went on the rocks recent ly, has obtained a-place on the staff of the Western League. Jake Crother, the other Western International umpire, has gone to his home in Oakland, CaL into the arms ot the stranger - who had the revolver in his hand Andrews grappled with the man In an effort to protect himself, but the man stepped back and pulled the trigger. Apparently Andrews staggered back, and the mysterious stranger, thinking he had killed or at least seriously injured the other, fled through a rear door and disappeared toward the mill pond. George: Andrews, brother of the wounded man, sleeping in his cari in the building, heard the shot and rushed to the side of the vterinary. Seeing that the latter 'was not seriously Injured be called the police, then started in pursuit of the stranger, but the latter' had gotten away in the darkness. Dr. Andrews was unable to give iany description ot the assail ant owing to the darkness in the building The bullet passed entirely through the palm ot his hand, fracturing a bone. He was given emergency treatment by Dr. O. E prime, last night and an X-ray will be made of the wounded hand today." Mrs. Clara Phillips Appar ently Unaffected by Ver dict Returned by Grand Jury at Los Angeles. HUSBAND VISITS JAIL UNDER ARMED GUARDS Inquest Verdict Based Chief ly on Testimony ot com panion on Joy Ride LOS ANGELES, July 17, Mrs, Clara Phillipa and her husband, A. L. Phillips, clasped each other in a long embrace at the Los An geles county jail late today s hours after a coroner's jury had nronounced the woman respons - ble for the death of Mrs. Alberta Meade ws, ; her fancitd rival in Phillips affections. It vras the first meeting of the husband and wife since last Thursday morning when they se parated at a railroad station, the woman taking a train for El Pa-. so, Texas. Later that day Phil- Hps notified the sheriff's office that his wife had confessed to him that she lured Mrs. Meadows to a lonely spot in the outskirts of tho city and after accusing her of intimacy Vith Phillips, beat her to death with a hammer. Arrested at Tucson Mrs Phillips was arrested at Tucson, Ariz., and brought to Los Angeles yesterday. As soon as she arrived she begged to see her husband but under jail rules could not do so until today. Phillips came to the jail with Alfred F. McDonald and S. W. Thompson retained for the de fense of his wife. She later was summoned' from the matron's de partment and met her husband in the Jailer's office in the presence ot the attorneys, jailer and sev eral newspapermen. Phillips caught her about the waist and she threw her arms about his neck. Their lips met and thus they stood for nearly a minute. It they spoke to each other, t.heir tones did not carry to the others ln the room. Verdict is Popular The inquest verdict wa3 based chiefly upon testimony of Mrs Peggy Caffee that, she accompan- ed Mrs. Meadows and Mrs. Phil lips on- the drive last Wednesday whica terminated in the tragedy She declared that Mrs; Phillips accused Mrs. Meadows of accept ing as,' gifts from Phillips a set of tirerj.for her automobile and a wrist watch. Mrs. Meadows de clared this was not true and Mrs. rnilltps responded with blows with a hammer she had drawn from under her cape. Mrs. Caffee testified. Later in the day the First Na tional bank, where Mrs. Meadows was t i-aployed, gave to the district attorney's office a statement that the tires and watch hari Ymati bou?hi by Mrs. Meadows with money she bad received in settle ment of a claim against a street railway company for the death of her husband 11 months ago. Clifford Brown Ships 75,000 Pounds of Mohair from Salem This Spring "Maybe you don't know Just how big business is going on right here in your own city, in the way of mohair." is the statement of Editor A. C. Gage ot the Angora Journal of Portland, perhaps the foremost goat journal in the Unit ed States. "Clifford Brown of Salem shipped 750.000 pounds, or 18 carloads, of mohair from this point' Inside of five weeks, this spring. The average annual pro duction . of mohair in Oregon is about 600.000 pounds; the fig ures this year show that much of last , year's crop must have been carried over for this year's sale The price last year was shame fully ' low, and it drove many breeders out of the business. This (Continued on page 6) I0L MARKET BEST IN YEARS Salem Stores to Close All Day Tomorrow so Em ployers and Employes Can Harvest Crop. SITUATION IN FIELDS REPORTED CRITICAL Growers Threatened With Loss Estimated at $300, 000 if Pickers Fail Recognising the grave situa tion of the loganberry industry ol the valley, where it is estimated that the growers - stand to lose from. $200,000 to $300,000 be cause they cannot get their ber ries picked, the Salem Business Men's league Monday afternoon agreed to close all stores in Sa lem tomorrow and go in a body to the berry fields to help har vest and save the crop. Growers who need pickers should send In their needs to the Commercial club, phone 302. and pickers will be allotted to them Employers and Help to Go As far as possible each store and business house will go as a unit, with the bosses and all the help, and make it a picnic oc casion. They will gather at the Commercial club at 5 o'clock. ready to hike for the fields. Employers, volunteers, farmers with or without berries, anybody and everybody who have cars, are urged to help. The situation is represented ' as critical from the growers' standpoint, and it the berries are lost, the money will never be spent in Salem, both for the present and for the future prosperity of the county, it is urged there be thousands of pick ers on hand for this crop-saving enterprise. Every grower who needs help should register his wants at once with the Commercial club, phone 302. Every one with a car can help move this army of industry- saving volunteers. Volunteers will be asked for for .Thursday and Friday also but at present only one day's com plete closing of the stores is con teiu plated. Mayor's Proclamation Whereas, the loganberry Indus try is an important industry for Salem and the surrounding ter ritory and contributes very large ly to the general prosperity of al Salem citizens and, Whereas, the loganberry crop is now at its height and the far mers are experiencing great dif ficulty in obtaining pickers harvest the crop and such an em ergency exists that unless imme diate action is taken great. fin ancial loss will result not only to the growers but to all citizen of Salem and vicinity, therefore. I hereby proclaim Wednesday, July 19th, 1922. as a legal holi day and that the same be observ ed as such by all citizens of Sa lem by going to the aid of the growers and assisting in saving the loganberry crop. Signed G. E. HALVORSEN. Mayor Sheriffs in Annual Session Pass Resolution Seeking Freedom of Kaiser WALLA WALLA. Wash.. July li. A resolution asking the parole of "William Hohenzollern. now confined," was the feature of. the afternoon session of the etate sheriff association, and was offered after J. Howard Shattuck, state parole officer, had entered into a fervid defense ot the state parole board members, and the action of Governor Hart in nam ing them, and. of the results of the parole system. Mr. Shattuck's address followed one by L. C Mays,- president of the Northwest peace oiricers' association, in which be ' recommended that no prisoner be paroled except upon the. recommendation of the sheriff of the county from which he was convicted. This, Shattuck de- ( Continued on page 6) PAROLE ASKED FOR E1PER0R WELLSBURG W. Va., July oners in custody, three in Wheeling hospitals. 15 in the Ohio countv jail there, and 25 in jail here, deputy sheriffs armed with 200 "John Doe" warrants charging murcier scouring the county a3 far as the Pennsylvania border, and a l&rge forte of state police and deputies guarding the striking mn ers tent colony at Cliftonville, where a battle between a sheriff's force and a large crowd of men today resulted in tho deaths of at least four men the j-it'.vition in Brooke county OREGON PROUD OF HIGHWAYS, SAYS SPEAKER Herbert Nunn, State Highway Engineer Tells Achieve ments of Commission Speaking briefly at the Com mercial Club luncheon Monday, Herbert Nunn, state highway en gineer, gave some interesting facts from the great department that builds the roads of Oregon. The state now has 600 "heavy pieces" of machinery from tne United States government, 300 of these being the big army trucks left over after the war came to an end. The other pieces are mis cellaneous machines that the high way department can use cater pillar tractors, hoists, etc.. These machines are brought in to the highway shops here in Salem for rebuilding and repairs; they have done a real factory job ot build ing new machines out of some of the disabled veterans that come in from the firing line of the highway. Last year enough of the trucks and other equipment were rented to contractors on state work to pay a rental of $128,000. The state payroll for the highway de partment in and Immediately around Salem has oeen approxi mately $10,000 a month. When Gordon Lee, the transportation expert from the U. S. Department of Commerce, visited the Oregon highway department Monday morning ana went -through the shops and the records, he stated that Oregon was one of the abso lute first states In the union in point of highway progress and ser vice, population and area and progress considered. SEEM IS TARGET OF SMOKE SCREEN Althoufh Fires Are Numerous Loss Has Been Light, Says Forester Sunday was the smokiest day that Salem has felt for two or three years past except Monday It wasn't altogether seen it was too thick to see very far. The actual fire damage done in the valley, however, is report ed by State Forester Elliott to be quite small. Most of the fires have been in slashings and logged over lands', and as it has been the ege-old habit in Oregon to consider it a benefit rather than a loss to see young trees slain the fires might almost be consid ered a public asset. A fire in the yard of the big Willamette Lum ber company at Dallas, came near being a disaster; they succeeded in confining it to some, stored lumber, and lost only about 100, 000 fett instead of the whole in dustr.v. The extreme dry weatb er makes the fire hazard an un msuai menace, but thua far luck has fivored the Valley mills and forests in the way of really bi fires. Moonshiner Gets 60 Days and Fine of $350 Billie Moore, arrested by Dep uty Sheriffs Smith and Barber at Silverton. Saturday, night when they found a moonshine still in operation on his place, was yes terday sentenced to pay a fine of 3o0 and to serve 60 days in the county jail. j tn-3 otitcers confiscated tw gallons of moonshine, toother with a wash-boiler still and 3(1 gallons of mash at the time of making the arrest. j 17 With forty-three pris and the wounding of others, was tense late tonight. The four bodies in the county morgue were mute testimony of the battle. Sheriff Duval, who led his little band of deputies aganst a large crowd of men. sad to have crossed from the union coal fields of Pennsylvania, was among the dead. The others are: Four Person Killed Francis Milich, Monnesen. Pa., Crooke. an unidentified man. With Sheriff Duval his men pressed battle aganst the attack ng force and drove them back from the mine, after the tipple had been fired aqd at least two of the participants had fallen, was his son Thomas. The latter saw his father shot down, the body later being found to contain marks of seven bullets, but con ttnued on with the defenders. iot long afterward, when the fight was over, he was made sheriff of Brooks county in his father's place, by a court order. watchers at the mine were waiting for the ruins of the tip- pie, burned in the attack, to cool before searching for bodies xt two men believed to be buried under the debris. Many Persons Injured Rumor persisted that the bod ies in the morgue by no means represented the total casualties of the ? fight, but none of the deputy sheriffs would confirm re ports that numbers of men -had been shot down and their bodies dragged through the woods by ineir companions. error in repeated announce ments at the sheriff's office dur ing the day that at least seven men had been killed and their bodies brought here, were ac counted for tonight by an offlcla who said that men now known to be wounded were at first re ported dead. Three wounded men of the at tacking force were in hospitals in Wheeling, and 15 others captur ed by deputies in the battle were In the Ohio county jail not far away. Twenty-five prisoners; tnree ot whom had been shot; were confined in the Wellsburg jail. Seven of this number had been taken in the woods around the Clifton mine late this after noon by state policemen who, it was reported tonight, were con tinuifig the search. Guards Are Employed. On the other side of the state line, four miles away, troopers Of the Pennsylvania state constabu lary were on guard, operating lo conjunction with the West Vlt ginla forces. Thomas H. Duval, who was in the fight with his father; but es caped unhurt, was elected sheriff by the county court, and among I his first duties, arranged with W.i S. Wilkin, prosecuting attorney, for a special grand jury to Investi gate the fight. He also filed charges of murder against J7 men who, he alleges, took part ln the battle. f Prosecuting Attorney Wilkin, reporting to Governor Morgan at Charleston tonight said the situ ation here was "deplorable." For the present, it was explained, ho call would be Kent for the nation al guard, as the authorities felt the situation was safe in the hands of Captain White, who has arrived in the county with a com pany ot state police. These mien immediately proceeded to Clifton ville. Irwin Moringo. the only deputy wounded, was said to be In a ser ious condition. i ITnglneers Quit Post NEW YORK. July 17. Rail road fetrike developments came fast in the New York district to day. ; Eight hundred mete including stationary engineers, firemen, oil ers and maintenance ot way em ployes, walked oat of power hous es and repair shops of eleven road. j' ' Sheriffs' . deputies of Bergen county. N. J armed with machine and not guns and rifles, began at (Continued on page C) Harding Tells Owners to Re turn to Their Mines and Resume Operations Workers Are Defiant; COAL RUNNING SHORT; , PUBLIC IS ALARMED Day and Night Sessions Fail to Brings operators to Arbitration Plan ' WASHINGTON, July 17. Bitu minous coal mine operators were "invited" by President Harding at the White House today "to return to your mine proper ties .and re- sumer' operations," after they had replied to the president's tender of arbitration for settling the na tional coal strike, J 1 ' With a collective offer to put their properties and, their service at the disposal of the government "ln this crisis," speaking as chair man of the group of operators aft- er the White House conference, . Fred M. Ogle said the employes would make the, attempt to re sume. - .... v , Workers Are Defiant Meanwhile, the miners -union through an adjournment sine die, of its controlling policy commit tee, made certain its refusal , to accept the arbitration proposal and many of Its officials ImmedU ately left Washington. The bi tuminous operators were likewise not a unit in accepting the gov ernment arbitration proposals hut the president said that ta large majoruyrof them by unqualified acceptance .had given him occa- sion to "express my own and the MMkllal. a t All Jfc . . - 1 i There were intlmatlona In offi ' clal circles that all the Implica tions ot the decision to ask that Ihd .V. I n V .... ... a "uiuci im uyeueu oaa oeen fully considered by the forern ment, and that there was a possi bility that the protection of trooDs and the American flag would be lurnished In districts where men were willing to work, falling suf- ncieni local safeguards. ' Coal Ilanninjr Short Employers generally held the view that some! coal production would result in union field In Pennsylvanit and Ohio. Jf nowhere else, even though executive Of the non-union mlnea !onth of the Ohio river reported today that output was being cut' off sharply through lack of transportation due to the railroad strike. , .... . .v . A day and a night of almost continuous sessions did not suf "ce to make the bituminous em Ployers a unit for acceptance of the detailed arbitration proposals of the government even 5 though anthracite operators las week had given quick acecpance. I On t a final vote .a general i letter, ac cepting the principle of the arbi tration and , making tender r of mine, the services, was: agreed upon and presented to the presl- Lawyer Accused of Violatin; Federal' Statute Target of U. S. Government. PORTLAND. July 17 Appeal by the United States ln the case against. Joseph .; Woerndle, for mer Austrian ionsul 'here In which the government soughjt can cellation of his citizenship on the ground that he loaned his papers to Hans Boehm, German cpy. was ordered in a message to District Attorney Humphreys todays from Assistant Attorney General J. M. Krtm. ; . The government lost the case in tho United States district court here on a finding thai the alleged offensj was committed before the United States entered the war.' - - Federal : . Judge ; Bean held Woercule should not be deprived of his citizenship. The ease will now go to the circuit court of ap peals at San Francisco. v ' WEATHER Tuesday Fair, MB TO FACE CUT OF iPPDlLS