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BMm CTSCDTATIOV Ararat for Jan. Xtfl Hunday only .. 592t Daily and Honday 5S18 vrr for ais mouths oodiag Jan 80. 1822 Huaday only ,. , 6836 DaUy and Sunday 6434 0ffi ta tbcb crrr or uuuaa lfarioa. aad rlk Caaatioa -, iarly rybody raada Th(r Oregon Statesman TOE XX0XB KtWSriPE mm SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR SAtEM, OREGON. WEDNESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 2, 1922 PRICE: FIVE CENTS TprnnY juTTUuv 1 Mm w TENSION IH AS KLAN QUIZ GOMES TO END All Testimony Submitted to Grand Jury in Ku Klux Klan Investigation in , Jacksonville. REPORTED THAT NAMES FURNISHED JURORS Report of Findings Expected Within Twenty-Four Hours Sleuths Testify MEDFORD. Or.. Auz. 1. At ter remaining In executive session all afternoon, the special grand Jury making ah InTestlgatlon of alleged Ktt Klux Klan activities In Jackson county, adjourned un- til tomorrow. , The Jury report pFir retnrvrom lunch the Jury ' began secret eon- sideraUon of the evidence Short- ly before S o'clock the bailiff was instructed to call ex-County Judge Touvelle, presumably for lnforma- tloa concerning Hank jJohnson, j one or the victims. i JACKSONVILLE, Or., Aug 1. I At ten minutes before 12 today I the last witness who will figure In the special grand Jury invest!- gating the Ku Klux Klan activl- from the secrecy of the court-1 ronm. ImtIix behind the mass of I testimony which will be the basis for the Jury's report the nature r vt,ih ..k. fuia Artln- I ' Completing its probe in Med- ernor Olcott which was rejected ford, the grand Jury, headed by pT the court on the ground that .Bswta Moore, assisting Deputy iT" TnThY West 22 Attorney General Ull?vi8t in the e contestani Inquiry, -came ;Ur Jacksonv He " Qf 4g lrreffularl. eanly this morning to examine the Jncluded the charges remaining witnesses. Practically 51 ballota nad been count all of those on the missing list erroneouBiy jor Governor 01 have appeared before the body, that geTen Danota cast for although Paul . Wright, wanted as Mp H n were rejected and that a witness, was out of the city this there were eight Republican bal- ' morning. , " tots cast by non-Republicans for Tension Is High Governor Olcott. It also was al- 'It was learned, however, that leged that there were five votes members of the grand Jury feel cast for Governor Olcott on Dem- confident that all testimony of Ocratlc ballots, that seven voters any consequence has been gleaned (had changed their party affiHa- from those who appeared in con- tions at the polls in bad faith, nectlon with the cases considered The recount of this precinct gave In the probe. Olcott a gain of one vote over Although outward calm pre- Mr'""; vail, both in Medford and Jack- M l c?" Gains . sonville, the tension actually felt1 In the East Gervais Precinct, cannot be concealed; rumors are where the contestant had alleged continually afloat regarding the Irregularities Governor Olcot testimony before the Jury, and of alned one vote and Mr. Hal lost V I . IZ.liZ Lti, one vote. In Salem precinct Nc that body . probable J..j j where the contestant charged One witness, rumor insisted. A . ,.,., ,r. .,, ,, m . j . had told the examiners of a field near Central Point where the first meeting of the klan was held la tnis pan oi me siaie, maintained that a list of SOS klaa members had been reported to tne grand Jury. fileuths Are Heard h Detectives Phillips and Tacka- t aim .niwir.ii hnfoTA tite lurr as witnesses in connection with artivltles In Portland, re- turned to the metropolis last .v i ' .. .. .. . A unique situation aaas inter- est to the probe in Jacksonville. ; Upstair, in the court house is tje grana jury. aownsiir w election board determining the Official count on Saturday's recall balloUnr, In which the klan issue was outeUndlng. Sheriff Terrlll, wno retained omce as a resui oi the election, today received a con - gratulatory message from pie Nelson, Clatsop county sheriff, who has been threatened with re - call proceedings. ; j the ballots showing few irregular ' Report of the Jury is expected ities and the majority, of these fa late this afternoon or tomorrow vorablo to Governor Olcott, at morning. Meanwhile, arguments! v over probable Indictments are the talk of the town. j Man Ar Hfi-d i County Judge George A. Card- T ... . nar w&h mnnr ln vlrnOasA. called before the body. j Two witnesses for whom isub- poenas have been Issued, but not rerved, are Joe J. McMahon, state traffic officer, and Paul Wright, a mining man. HcMahon is re- ported to be In the Willamette valley and Wright in the Abbott Butte country. Among the 'Witnesses before the (Continued on page t) 3 VOTES GAINED BY OLCOTT FIRST DAY OF BALLOT RECOUNT Governor Ben W. Olcott, named as contestee in the elec tion contest proceedings filed recently on behalf of Charles Hall, defeated candidate for the Republican nomination for governor at the primary contests last May, emerged with a net gain of three votes over counting of the ballots in Marion county. When the circuit court recessed last night the ballots in 20 the 49 Marion county precincts contested by the plam- uil in tne action naa oeen cuuineu, wime icvuuiuhik ui me ballots in 10 other precincts had been waived by the contest ant's attorneys. Counsel for Governor Olcott recounting of the vote3 in Marion county would be completed by tonight or Thursday. Probably the outstanding feat ure In iyesterday's recounting: of the ballots was the accuracy or the election boards in preparing their tally sheets. Mt Angel Vote Regular I the East Mt.Angel precinct ere; Governor Olcott received 2 " 0eB " aftinst " . tJzstfzsM GornoT olcott thJt 8ix ballot8 for Mf H&n were ejected, that j Republican ballots by n0niepubllcans were fast for M, olcott and that the votes tal- lled for Governor Olcott aggre- gated 14 in excess of the number of ballots cast. Further charges were made by the contestant that in this precinct there were .is votes for Governor Olcott on Democratic ballots and that 14 of the voters changed their party af- filiations at the polls in bad f fb. i. ne Thrown Out The recount in this precinct showed no irregularities, with the exception of one ballot for Gov- f,V llltf.UI.UUCS GoTernor olcott gaIned one Tote eacQ ,n Sa,em preclnct No; 4. wn lg lrreguiarities were al- i ieged, Mr. Hall and Mr. Olcott J j0Bt one Tote i saiem precinct No. 5, where 1 14 irregularities were charged I showed a loss of one vote for Mr Hall, while in Salem precinct No. I Mr Hall lost two votes and Governor Olcott one vote. A to of 23 irregularities was charged by the contestant in the I latter precinct. In Salem pre- Icinct No. 7 where the contesUnt alleged 31 lrreguiarltle8, Cover nor Oicott l08t one TOte. ju Agree "p-iM. in .M,h th t.llT SQeet4 of rtmary election agreed tne reguU ot the ro. COnnl included Chamooee. Horeb. I Englowood, Fairfield. West Ger- i Tai8. McKee, Mill City, Monitor, i Salem precinct No. 1, Salem pre I cinct No. 9 and Salem precinct I No. 10. 1 With the first day's recount of torneys for the contestee rave expressed the opinion that several of . the charges preferred by the contestant have been practically eliminated from consideration. I VAiliukilnii T.rVlllcT I - " These attorneys declared that the accuracy of the tally sheets of the election, when compared with the results of the first day's recount of the votes, had proved beyond a doubt that there was no foundation for the allegations of erroneous counting . The recount as far as Marion county is con cerned, has also showed that in no instances have any of Mr. (Continued on page ) Mr. Hall in the first days re said it was likely that the MOB BATTERS DOWN DOOR; LYNCH NEGRO 500 Men Take Prisoner from Jail and Hang Him from Pole in Heart of City HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Aug. 1. Battering Its way into the city Jail here today, a mob estimated to number about 500 men, forced a police guard to surrender Gil bert Harris, a negro, under ar rest in connection with the fatal wounding of Maurice Connelly Tnsurance Solicitor. ani Ta7ter hauling him on a truck through Central avenue, hanged him' to an electric light pole in Como Triangle near the center of the downtown .business district. I Harris protested that he was I norrespTrasible for Connelly's I death which was due to wounds I received In an encounter with a j burglar at his home last night. I The body was allowed, to hang for half an hour and then cut I down and taken to the Jail where an inquest was held. The verdict returned was that he had come to his death at the hands of un- knowi persons. STEEL POLES T Electric Light Company Pre pares for Further Exten sion Locally The electric light company has received a shipment of galvan ized Bteel pole extensions to use on the power line on. North Front street as far north as tho State school for tho Deaf, more than a mile- Extra line service is to be installed through the use of these extensions. The steel brackets are to be bolted upright to the top of the pole now in use, making the poles six feet higher and are built and braced so that three 60.000-volt lines can be carried parallel on a single cross arm, instead of in the inverted A-snape as tney are now tarrlA,l A fourth 11.000 vnit line for local service can be car- rled on the pole proper, gtying the pole line a wide range of car- rying capacity. Concrete Work Done Most of the concrete for the! new boiler room has been poured. and tha erection ot steel for the boiler house was .begun yester- day. crew of boUermen is working over the water tubes for the giant boilers, and concrete men are setting the forms for the last of the engine room foun- dations. The work has not gone quite s rapidly as had been ex- pected, but the tremendous job of removing the old foundations was something that could not be anticipated nor avoided. Now that destructlva part is done, and the new work will go forward with speed. Portland Man Dies from . injUneS in inreSner CONDON, Or., Aug. 1. W. H Colwell, 66, of Portland, died at a local hospital today as the re suit of injuries suffered when he was caught in the cylinder of a horse-drawn combine on the ranch of Frank Lewis at. Mlkka loab, 20 miles , from, Condon." SENATOR FACES DEFEAT IN Breckenridge Long is Lead ing by 2,855 Votes Over Incumbent in Missouri Election. ANTI-KLAN CANDIDATE LEADING IN OKLAHOMA J. C. Walton Farmer-Labor Leader, Has Safe Margin Over K. K. K. Choice ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2 (By the As sociated Press) Senator James A. Reed took the lead from llreck- fnrlrlflfro I tn r in t Tloniorrat i r: !: u?i.ul stat? ax s o riocK tnis morning, .in ditional precincts from Kansas City and St. Ix)uls, the Reed strongholds, put the senator 7,505 ahead. Returns from 232 out of 8348 piecinets in the state gave Reed 182,780 and Long 125,105. ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2. Brecken ridge Ixrag is leading Senator James A. Reed in the race for the Democratic senatorial nomi nation by 2,855 votes, with more the state reporting Returns from 1,983 precincts out of 3,848 give Long 115,556 "d Reed 112,701, while Robert ! Young has 4,901. The figures include returns from 273 out of 389 precincts in Jackson county (Including Kan- sas City) and 147 out of 618 in St. Louis. Breckenridee Tnir riArlai-Ari shortly before midnieht he was confident h .h hon nnm!n but that the race was closer than he had anticipated. When a newspaper man sug gested it would be decided by 5000 to 8000 votes. Mr. Long said: 'I think I will win by more than that." St. Louis, with its 618 precincts remained unheard from at 11 o'clock, four hours after the polls closed, while only sixty-five of (Continued on page 2.) PRIMES KENT MINIMUM ON LOGANS IS PROPOSED BY LOCAL COMPANY "Start the 1923 loganberry crop for a minimum of 5 cents," is the slogan that Fred company, mtend3 to introduce for 1923. "The farmers last year and this year sold their berries below a fair cost of production plus even the slightest mar- gin of profit, said Mr. Drager "iney cant continue to "They can t continue to do this. They must have enough to make berry farming profitable, ... . ... . I ..... . ..! ,UttU1Ds raoney lo ine larmer u, bunk, for a permanent solution. What he wants most is a marxet for his stuff that will pay him a decent profit, Paying Price Imperative "We'll start the move to make a 5-cent minimum for logans, giv- ing him a market for his produce at a price that pays. We'll be as glad as he is if the price goes higher, but a 5-cent minimum ought to be established. "if the farmer can't get that he can't be expected to keep on in the business. He'll have to go into some other kind of crop that wm pay. Of course, no one firm could force such a price alone. but for the sake of the growers and the packers and the pickers. l ll uugUL lu uc Kaay iu ufcurc wu that basis, and simply refuse to it ought to be easy to agree on supply the market at a lower price. Berries will sell from the Willamette valley district at 5 - centa or better if we agree to make no sales on a lower price I basis." I Estimate Are Many - 1 Various kinds of estimates have I been made as to what la the low i on JURY FAILS TO REACH VERDICT Second Attempt to Convict Woman of Kennedy Mur der Fails After Four Days Deliberations. MAJORITY SAID TO BE FOR ACQUITTAL Panel of Five Men and Seven Women Discharged De fendant is Disappointed LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1. The Jury in the second trial of Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain for the murder of J; Belton Kennedy re ported today to Judge John W. Shenk it was unable to agree upon a verdict and was discharged. The jury on its final ballot showed a majority for acquittal. One juror later said the vote was 8 to 4 while another gave it as 9 to 3. Two members protested against being discharged when Judge John W. Shenk called them into court at 5 o'clock. Foreman M. O. Paddock said there was "not a chance for agreement." Jamea M. Rhoades, secretary of the Glendale chamber of commerce, who led the defense forces in the jury room and another juror rose to protest but the judge refused to hear them. Jury Oat 97 Honrs. , "I am convinced that no use ful purpose can be served by keep ing you in session! any longer." he declared. He referred to the fact they had been out 97 hours and said he believed that if a con scientious verdict could not be reached in that time it never would be. ' The jurors were thanked and discharged from fujrther service. Seven women and five men comprised the Jury. Rhoades and several other members of the jury complained both in court and out that fore man Paddock had refused to per mit a full discussion of the evi dence. "We were subjected to (Continued on page 6) Drager, of the Drager Fruit in time to make it operative est price that berries can be sold for any pay a reasonable profit. While some have held that noth ing short of 7 cents would pay, these are almost always the esti mates of the inferior grower or the grower with a small acreage who plans to make his berries pay his whole year's profit, though they occupy his time only a frac tion of the year. Many of the good growers believe that 5 cents will make a nice profit. Last year the average price was only a little better than 3 cents. Some berries sold down to 2 cents, and none above four cents This year, 4 cents was practical- ly the universal price. Few var iations occurred either way. Would Afford Irrigation Five cents, it is believed, would provide for supplementary Irriga tion for a dry season like 1922, and would make the berries real ly profitable. Some supplemen tary irrigation would prolong the season, increase the quality of the berries, check their all-in-a-bunch ripening, and make the berries enough larger to make the pick ing an attractive financial prop osition. "Five cents as a minimum for logans" ought to be a good slogan for the Willamette canners and handlers and growers. HARDING'S PLAN FOR STRIKE SETTLEMENT REFUSED BY ROAD HEADS; SITUATION IS SERIOUS ALL CHICAGO WALKS WHEN CARS STRIKE Street Car and Elevated Tie up Fails to Bother Throngs Autos Help CHICAGO, Aug. 1. With 25 000 street car and elevated road employes on strike, paralyzing all electric transportation for the third time in the city's history, all of Chicago motored or walked to day, assuming the appearance of a country fair or a holiday. While men and women, old and young, crowded the pavements and store corners, everything from baby's go-cart and grandpa's wheel chair to the latest thing in automobiles cvrowded the streets and moved the crowds with, amaz ing facility and with little incon venience. Autos Triumph It wag the automobile's great triumph, according to the traffic policemen, who expressed a grow ing wonder as the day wore on at the ease with which the motor fleets had met and apparently solved the tremendous problem of moving hundreds of thousands of persons to and from their work With the street cars out of the way and a system of one way traf fic signs installed through the ' loop," the police reported less than the, usual rongesttonl' Motors Carry Half Million It was estimated that more than 150,000 motor vehicles were brought into service and that with the help of the steam roads and 'shank's mare," they carried the 540,000 persons usually trans ported by the elevated roads and the 2,000.000 daily patrons of the surface lines. . No steps toward a settlement had been made by either side to night although the executives oi the roads indicated their willing ness to resume negotiations. Addlehart and Schurman Accused of Stealing Auto mobile Accessories With the arrest of Glenn Addle- hart, 21 years old, and Jack Schurman, 20, yesterday on char ges of grand larceny, the police believe they have in custody the two men who have stripped many automobiles of accessories in and around Salem during the past few weeks. Both men were bound over to the grand Jury yesterday when arraigned before G. E. Unruh, in justice court. Addlehart was arrested at o'clock yesterday morning near Commercial and State streets by Chief of Police Moffitt when the officer discovered two bottles of liquor in the man's possession. He was placed in the city Jail, but examination of his car is said to have divulged an alleged stolen motometer. Further investigation at the man's home yesterday morning uncovered two tires and other ac cessories said to have been stolen Schurman was then taken in custody at noon yesterday and is said to have made a confession to Chief Moffitt in which he Is al leged to have admitted that the two men had been carrying on their operations in Pallas. Jeffer son, Albany, Salem and Silverton for some time. It was their game to work these towns, stealing tires and other accessories and taking them to other places and dispos ing of them, the police say. Addlehart has refused to make any statement concerning the al Ieged thefts. He is said to have been in trouble with the police on one other occasion on a bad check charge. Both men are held in the coun BOUND OVER FOB LARCENY ty JaU. , WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. (By The Associated Press) President Harding had the rail strike problem back on his hands tonight as a result of the refusal of the railway exec utives, at their meet ing in New .York, to accept the admin istration settlement plan so far as the seniority issue is con cerned. There was no indication at the White House as to what move, if any, the government planned to make in the situation. It was considered probable that Mr. Harding would study carefully the text of the executives reply and that expected from the labor leaders meeting in Chicago, before reaching a decision. , The tone of the replies and the circumstances under which they were made, it was indicated at the White House, un doubtedly would guide Mr. Harding to some extent and there was another intimation that publicity could not always be helpful in the difficult and delicate negotiations- into which the administration has been drawn by the industrial situa tion. :. ,' -'; : ; SENIORITY IS : CHIEF ISSUE Executives Agree to First Two Proposals Return of Seniority Refused j NEW YORK. Aug. 1. (By tho Associated Press) The unani mous refusal of the American as sociation of railway executives (to accept President Harding's plan If or ttettlement ot the rail ahop cram strike was contained in tne following me33.ige, telegraphed ito the White House tonight: "Kesoived, (D That we ac cept the first recommendation of the president Teading as follows "First: Railway managers and workmen are to ajree to recog nize the validity of all decisions of the railroad labor board and to faithfully carry out such de cisions as contemplated by the law with the understanding that this is not intended to preclude any party to a controversy from proceeding by legal action to question the validity of any order of the board on the ground that jurisdiction and authority to make the order was not conferred by the statutes creating the board and defining its authority. Accept second lrooal (2) That we accept the sec ond proposal of the president, reading as follows: "Seccnd: The carriers will with. draw all Iawsaita growing out of the strike, and railroad labor board decisions which have been involved in the strike may be tak en in the exercise of recognized right3 by either party to the rail road labor board for re-hearing. with the understanding that the strike is first called off, and the representatives of the strikers pledge themselves and the strik ers against vlalence in any form against the men now at work and the property of the carriers, since otherwise it would be impossible to consider the dismissal of in Junctions and other legal meas ures necessary to protect such persons and property from the violence and intimidation of the character renorted in many lo calities since the strike was call ed. Seniority In Chief Issue "?) That it is impossible to agree to the first sentence of the third proposal of the president, the whole ot which reads as fol lows: "Third: All employes on strike to be returned to work and to their former positions with sen iority and other rights unimpair ed. The representatives of the carriers and the representatives of the organization especially agree that there, will be no dis crimination by either party again t the employes who did or did not strike. "The railroad executives and managers agree entirely with the president's statement in his let ter that it is wholly unthinkable that the railroad labor board can be made a useful agency of the government in maintaining indus trial peace in the railroad service unless employers and workers are both Trompt and unquestioning in their acceptance of its decis ions. I think It is more desira ble than I know how to express to have . established the unchal lenged authority of the railroad (Continued on page 6) From the government view point the railroad , strlk la re garded ,as immediately serious, only because of the existing stop page or coal production and there have been constant Intimations that the administration, would be disposed to force a quick settle ment of the railroad difficulties In order to cope I with the eoal shortage, even at the cost of re ectabiisbmcnt of the former con trol of the railways. ) Thousands Would be Lei Out V Cabinet members and associ ates of the president have, partly emphasised the contrast between, their view of the "seniority issue and that taken by the railroad ex ecutives : as : announced la publlo statements. Public statements oi lailroad heads that the gran tin of the strikers demands for a re turn of full seniority rights would necejl8iUU the dlwharge of scorei of thousands of efficient workert hired to take their places have been flatly denied in Informal discussions with newspaper cor respondents, said to be exagger ated and otherwise stamped as unreliable. It bus been further represented In government quar ter! that Such men as had been hired would not be generally ot a character and capacity which would make them suitable as per manent employes, i . T Men Would be Kupmn . That this was the president's view was further indicated by the proposals transmitted to tho union. snd the executive meetings that on the crucial point ot seniority; rights, the proposals would give. the strikers a more complete re habilitation In the service than win suggested In any of the un official summaries made public in. advance. The president's view ot the situation, it was said, was that the acquirement by the rail road world of the supremacy of the railroad men was the chief object of the government at the moment. New ' Legislation Possible The possibility that new legis lation would be sought In con gress ai a result of the strike test of the transportation act which would make the labor board's decisions binding and penalize violations of them by em ployes or employers, was suggest ed in official circles today, Chair man Hooper of the railroad la bor board, whs expected to argue for increases of the board's pow er before congressional" commit tees when the issue came up. The Interstate commerce commission has been in constant touch with the actual statu ot the strike through Its safety Inspection di vision which checks up on ' the sufficiency; of repairs given to lo comotives and rolling stock and through the continuous reports made ; to the commission by a cumber of men at work in all de partments of class 1 roads. ' Shopmen May Accept CHICAGO. Aug. 1. tBy the Associated Press.) " Acceptance of President Harding s railroad peace plan by the striking shop-' men was principally' assured, to night when the strikers policy committee of 90 adjourned until tomorrow when aetmite acuon u expected to be taken. The decision was learned from union leaders after a tour-hour session today. In which.; the pres ident's suggestions were fully dis cussed and explained to the committee