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SEVENTY-SECOND YEAR
SURRENDER TO
: : REEfflCES
Opposition Democrats De
cide Hot to Put Indepen
dent in Field and Support
Is Offered Victor, i
TEMPERANCE UFJION
SEEKS INVESTIGATION
With Brewster Representing
Drys,: Prohibition Likely :f
rv -To ; Be -Issue
- ST. LOUIS. Aug. 5- (By tbe
ABsociated Press ) 4 Poilowtaf
tat wide reports tbat, the' anti
Reed Democrats were considering
placing an independent . senator
ial candidate In the field , to op
pose United EUtes Senator James
A. Reed at the general election
next NoTember, i?tate Senator
Frank Farrla. one ol the most ar
dent . backers of Preckenrldge
Long, , who was Senator Heed;s
opponent for the nomination at
last ;, Tuesday's primary election,
tonight sent Mr. Reed telegram
assuring him .of his support, f .
. ' Opponents . Take MwUcine y ,
Following a conference 'of aitlp
Reed DemocraU , this', afternoon,
.it was said that no action woald
be taken td' pufiae the reported
moTement "to pat n Independent
Democrat" In the field In an ef
fort to defeat United States Sen
ator James A Reed tor re-election
at the Norember election.
' First information that N such a
morement was afoot was made
public by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
today, which stated Demo
crats hostile tp Reed Aad - Mid
half a dozen' conferences . siace
Reed's .nomination over precken
rldge Long was assured several
.' days .ago." vr :t . titH-.' :"
( ' Long Sfttlna Tight
Long denied to The Associated
Press that he had taken any part
In such a move. . At the same time
he' refused to make any comment
on the outcome of Tuesday's 'pri
mary, saying he was .j "sitting
tight," ? -f' t.i .
Virtually', complete returns
show show Reed's lead ever the
former third, assistant secretary
. fit state to be approximately 6000
votes. .V :: .:
The local branch of the, worn
ea's Temperance union, whlcb
fought Senator Reed's candidacy,
today asked State Attorney Gener
al Barrett to make a state-wide
larestlation of, the Democratic
senatorial primary, alleging that
some precinct officials had been
derelict in their duty. . Mr. Bar
rett assured the organization that
any indications of fraud would be
Investigated thoroughly.!
m . ' ' Republican Opponent Dry -
With R. R. Brewster of Kan
sas City,, the Republican candi
date, a dry, Indications are tbat
prohibition will be a principal' ts
- i sue In the JBrewster-Reed race,' as
Reed.; is a known wet, ' ! . ' :
TIDES WEATHER f vf
Washington and Oregon Sun
day fair; continued warm In the
interior.; 1 -"''.- ::,": if
; , POOli rOLLYAXNA ?
SHE'S JUST AN !
; IDIOT C11IU)! V.Vf ;
t .You can crash her on the
crock ' with a 80-lb. ! sledge
and she'll merely grin. .
v ." That's evidence, of course,
but the thing that; really
proves her crazy is that she
has no radio set and still
she's ? gloriously ' gladj,1 and
anybody who Is happy with-
: out a radio is Just naturally
nut, particularly .when
The Statesman is ..; giving
. away receiving seta in such
free-handed fashion. f ,
The - conditions really ,
make a set easier- to take
' than a vacation. . . f :
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$146 STOLEN FROM
tlLL AT DEEOt B
iUMOIOWK SATURDAY
Some one, believed to be a man wearing: a srey suit and
with an overcoat over his arm, stole $146 out of the till at
the Oregon Electric ticket office, in the Oregon building, at
5 olock p. m. yesterday. ; r-"v-'
; The ticket agent was called out of the office for a mo
ment, and during that time, the office till was rifled. A1 re
port was turned in by ? Special Agent Ryan of the Oregon
Electric force, that such a man had been seen reaching in
through the window. Apparently he made his get-away be
fore the alarm was given, or it was realized 'what he was
dofeg. - '
"The description is very meagre, so Inadequate as to be
a very slight clue to the identity of the thief. t
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Idaho Senator Incensed at
Refusal of Senate to
- Adopt Resolution -
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WASHIN3TON,.Aug. 5. Re
fused unanimous consent to' bring
up his resolution proposing an in
quiry , into . the material, interests.
if any, of Mnatorsand others in
the passaga-or defeat ot the tar
ift bill, Senator Gooding, Repub
lUan. Idaho, announced today' in
the ssrutte that unless be 4ull
get ' act?) he would demaid a
"personal Investigation." He said
there had been reflections on him
in the senate and various newspa
pers, and that be was entitled to
an' inquiry. , ; - - - r ; -; , -
Senator Gooding said he pro
duced wheat and" other agricul
tural products as well,: as wool!
and added- that he wanted to
know whether a senator produc
ing such -articles was entitled to
vtve.; ." ' r '
' f Earry Vote Hoped For
A final rote on the tariff before
September 1 la hoped for by Re
publican and Democratic leaders
under the operation of an unani
mous consent agreement entered
Into today by the senate. - While
the I agreement "fixes' no date for
a vote,' it provides ford sharp cur
tailment of debate and disposition
before next Saturday ' of :; al ,am
endments to the more Important
sections of the bill s.ill in con
troversy. . V-J -'., If - Cyi ' V . - ,
The agreement was entered In
to as a compromise and was ap
proved in the midst of debate on
the sugar schedule. . Opening that
debate,- Senator Harrison, , Demo
crat, Mississippi, renewed discus
sion of the letter to Major Gene
ral Crowder at Havana by Sena-
( Con tinned on page 6 )
ROTARY. AND ROTUND SPORTS
t IN DRAINING lJX)R JBIG MEET
M WITH M'MINNVILLAINS' CLUB
Grand, doings are brewing for'
tbe Salem-McMInnvflle Rotary
picnic next Wednesdar at Wheat
land Ferry landing 12 miles north
of Salem. -; 'h -The
Salera-McMlnnville ; clubs
will clash In all kinds of athletic
contests. Fred Thlelsen, chair
man, is planning a . big program.
He has sent challenges to Mc
Minnville for a rolleyball game,
playground , , baseball, -1 centipede
races and tug-of-war and horse
shoe pitching contests.' ';-? i
Tom Kay,.1 the old-time base
ball star, ; will captain the; base
bait team.? Playground ' ball-will
be .used.' t H..4 :'V
,The : tugot-war,' with 12 men
on side, will be one of the ex
citing events. Bill McGilchrist,
Jr., will captain tie alera team.
U Chapin Uses Bluleshoe
In the horseshoe pitching con
test Salem will be represented by
mam m
KENTUCKY 11
Early Returns Indicate That
Present . Congressmen
Will be Returned-
LOUISVILLE Ky."; Ang. 6. -Early
and scattering returns from
tle seventh, ninth and tenth on
gressidnal districts indicated that
he incumbents ; to . those districts
had.beeT 'noTnInated sby their re
spective parties in today's congres
sional primaries. '-,'
. Representative Langley, Repub
lican, was leading "Feea Whittak
ey. the "jailed jailer" . of Letcher
county, approximately 80 0, votes
on scattering returns from three
mountain counties, Letcher coun
ty, the home of Mr Whtttaker,
giving Mr. Langley a majority of
200 with . approximately one-half
of the preclncts-ln. ' .'
' ' Lead! of 10 to One Reported.
In, the seventh district Con
gressman' J,' Campbell CantrUl,
jfas polling a vote of 10 to 1 over
R. . Lee Murphy for the Demo
cratic nomination, returns from
two counties In the district giving
Mr. Cantrill a lead of 2,410. Fay
ette county alone giving him a
majority ot 1,512. ; xi ; I;
.' In the ninth district. Represen
tative W. J. Field was lead lag
H. C. Duffy and two other candi
dates by 263 votes in fourteen of
the 29 precincts in Breathitt coun
ty, while dispatches which did not
give definite returns, said tbat be
was leading in other counties.'
The :;vote ; today early reports
say, was very light and scattering
even in, the districts .where hard
fights were waged.
QUAKES FELT
EUREKA, Cal Aug. 6. Three
earth shocks were felt here to
night ' within a ; little : more than
two. hours.
Luther Chapin, champion mule-
shoe pitcher of Marlon county.
His .partner has not been chosen.
His only : request is that nei win
be allowed to pitch muleshoes, aL
be; is more ; used to handUng
mules. ''.
. In the , liars contest,; Charley
Knowland won hands down last
year, -and expects to take the palm
this : year with ease.-. - . ,
... In the centipede race, with 1 0
men straddling a pole, Salem lost
last year,; but r is -1 coming f; back
stronger than ever.! George Grif
fiths wjll captain the straddlera.-'
. Charley Bishop and Dan Lang
enberg have consented to .sing a.
duet; "Father's; - Confederate,
But He)Weara a Union SuiU'
Yleyhall Team" Selected;
Bobf Fanlhs wlltcaptainthe
volleyball j-. team. - There . are ; a
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SALEM, OREGON. SUNDAY
HARDING ID
JEWELL IKE
: ANOTHER IUE
Efforts to End Strike of
Railroad Shop Craftsmen
Resumed by Leaders
Conferences Held. "
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WORKERS CHEERFUL J
''FOLLOWING PARLEY
Deterioration of Railroad
Eauipment Presents it
New Difficulty
; WASHINGTON; Aug. (By
the Associated Press.) Negotia
tions Wend the strike ot railroad
shop craftsmen were resumed to-
day . by President Harding and B
M. -Jewell, president of the rail
road employes' department ot the
American Federation of Labors
..W.' U. 'Johnston, president of
the machinists, and J. ' P. Noonaii
head ot the ' electrical ..' workers'
brotherhood, who, left the White
House after an hour of confer
ence with the'chlef executive, ex
pecting . to be recalled on Mon
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, " Strike JjemOer Chertl -
It wis not disclosed whether
the president had communicated
again with railroad heads, whose
refusal, this, week to grant -bis
proposal to give returning strik
ers back seniority status, termin
ated the first settlement attempt.
But the strike leaders, in cheer
ful mood, said after .- the confer
ence that the proposals as origin
ally - outlined - by the president,
constituted ' their ' "irreducible
minimum in seeking honorable
settlement." f
Likewise' H. E. Wills. J. Vpnl
Stephens and Arthur J. 'Lovell,
representing respectively the en
gineers! trainmen and engiaemen
and -firemen, three of the , four
brotherhood organizations, - saw
the president at the instance of
national . chiefs of these orders
and of the switchmen union ana
presented . the possibility- that
grave prospect of further rail unf
settlements were In sight unless
the shop situation was straight
ened out.. - - ;i
: Kqnlpment Deteriorating; :.t
It was understood that while
they did not set up a possibility
of sympathetic strikes by their
membership, they1 declared that
the conditions of railroad equip
ment, - locomotives particularly,
on many roads, waa growing; to
be snch that train ; erews - might
refuse service. No public state
ment of their report was made!
other than that contained in the
message from!' - the brotherhoods'
officials under which they acted
in going to the White House, and
nothing was. given out officially.
They? made ft plain, y however,
that they made no request of the
president for 1 a , conference with
the brotherhood chiefs, v
( ,The tmeetlng between genefal
chairmen of shop workers on the
Southern - railway and operating
officials, set for today, was post
poned until -Monday.
No Connection With Move.
Officials of ; the : shop.nnions,
through informed concerning the
representations wade by , the
brotherhood representatives at the
White : House,-declared they had
no eonnection with the move. The
claims that locomotives and roll
ing stock were deteriorating bad
ly because of .the shops strike was
reported by the union chiefs and
held up by them as the Influence
which would determine the strike.
Mr. Jewell and - Mr. Johnston
called " upon Samuel Compere,
president ot the 'American eoer
atlon of' Labor. alter theWhite
House visit and some of the rep
resentatives of shopmen on strike
In eastern territory, were . called
Continued on page I)
MORNING, AUGUST G, 1922
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VET MINER,
HEREAFTER
FIFTY YEARS
First Visit to Salem in Half
Century Paid by A. C. Man
i r nittg, Gold Panner
A. C. Manning, aged 68 years,
born in Lane county and . who
grew to manhood in Benton counr
ky' near Monroe, came up to Sa-
tem Saturday, for his first visit
in a little more than SO years.
"I wouldn't have known the
place," he said, -which perhaps
ho one will doubt. .-,
I .- Mr. - Manning has been mining
in southern Oregon for more than
45 years. Ha is reputed! to be
one of the most skillful, gold
pan pers on the -coast. If the gold
Is there, he can certainly get it
Panning gold is a good deal like
runn'ng a race. Anybody can do
it, but an expert can do it much
bettor than a dub. There is hard
ly a, stream of southern Oregon,
;ver reputed or feared to contain
old that he has not tried. -,
Ha; is todny interested in some
promising quarto properties in
Josephine and Jackson - counties.
The cne in' Josephine, near Grants
ass. carries gold, platinum; and
iridium In the quarts. He has not
developed it far enough to tell ac
curately its extent, but ' he be
lieves it is t'ae one "big thing"
that' he has been hunting all hl3
life. ' .. " .-; ' 1
Mr. v Manning visited Salem ,a
half century ago, when his sister
4ra8 'living .near Sllverton. " .He
came np this : time as the guest
of W. IL McElroy, farmer in
charge Of tie Hospital farm.' with
Whom be has been associated in
some mining ventures tor several
years past, Mr McElroy, return
ing Saturday from the south. part
Of the state where - he had been
to see some , mining claims i In
which he . is . interested, brought
Mr.' Manning home with him.
1W0 ARRESTED.
E
W. H. Street of Route 5 Tak
en Bottles Are Cached
In Haymow
; j W. H. Street, lfvlng on route 5,
at the eastr edge of ' Salem, was
arrested; Saturday night by Chief
of Police Mof f itt charged with
selling Intoxicating liquors. On
Friday night the police raided bis
place, finding in the haymow of
his ham a large' number t riat
bottles of a kind they had been
gathering in from the, regular
eolaks: But they didn't find the
cache of "shine" itself. On Sat
urday, after Street had made a
sa
e, they took him in,
?At first he protested vehement-
ly
that : he was innocent, but on
being confronted by the evidence,
hej finally came clean with the
stiry. He; said that he had in
tended to stop the business, and
that this would W his last sale.
H4 put up $100 cash bond for his
appearance Monday In the muni
cipal court.
- The police have been looking
for. Street-. for a long time. He
w4s farming over In Polk county
before coming' to Salem. He had
been under suspicion, it was said,
but had been shrewd enough . to
keep out , of the clutches of the
law until last night. "
I Another arrest was made last
nij;ht of Walter Basster, at I4b
erly and Ferry streets, by Chief
Mcffitt and Officer George White.
Basster had been using some of
thd stuff, the officers say, and it
go ; him Into trouble.. He . aUIl
ha 1 a pint bottle ' besides what
be bad . imbibed, when arrested.
He claimed that he had bought
th i staff , from r'a. Corvallis manl
He is to have a hearing : in the
municipal court Monday at. 2
o'clock. .
UXIOXS mTTED
CINCINNATI. Aug. S Heads
of i four railroad unions : not on
strike were today Invited to par
ticipate in a conference to be ar
ranged with President Harding, .
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SIXTY PERSONS KILLED -AND
- SCORES INJURED WHEN TRAINS
. W;!SS0URI RAILROAD CISA!
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ST. LOUIS, Aug. 6 (By The Associated Press) Uore than sixty per
sons were kiUed and about 100 injured tonight when fast train Ho. 4 cf the Llz'
souri Pacific, en route from Tort Worth, Texas, crashed into the rear cl local pz
senger train No. 32 at Sulphur Springs, 26 miles south of h'erei'C-T: !
Font rear coaches of the local were1 telescoped by the fast train and went crc-'-ing.
down. into, a ravine 90 feet below the achsa tangled mass of iteel aid rr;:i
from which came the cries of the injured and the dying. :'" 'v-'
B. A. Butler, a claim agent of tlx Missouri Pacific; tcld a doctor cn ens cf C :
relief trains sent to the scene of the disaster that he estimated the 'dced ct zixij
or sbdy-three and the injured at least 100. )
. At midnight two train loads of: dead were on their way to this city, czrryir"
also a number of the injured who could be moved. ' . 1 ' i 1
Mr. Butler also told several of the relief physicians he had counted up to r.L?
night 37 dead. ' ' , '
A troop of Boy Scouts, who were reluming from their summer cczip cf rc;:
ton, Missouri, was one , of the coaches. Most of the Boy Scouts were from cr..;
located in the vicinity of the disaster, and a few from St Louis.
ISlEEEilT
Strength of Contract With
Association to Be Tested
in Bradley Case
; A tnlt of. much Importance as
affecting the legality of coopera
tive firm crop contracts, wai fil
ed Saturday in the circuit court.
It is one in which the Willam
ette Valley Flax Ar Hemp Growers
Cooperative association aski f-r
an injunction to . restrain A. EL
Bradley of Aumsville from difips
ing of the' flax h contracted t
deliver to the association, to out
aide buyers. ?-'-- ;
r Comtrmrt Is C3tl ,
It is recited In the complaint
that Bradley contracted to deliver
the produce froM 120 acres of
flax to the associutic n, on the reg
ular contract terms as agreed up
on by ell the signatories to thtli
cooperative contract. , He produc
ed aDout 100 tons' of flax this
year, which the complaint says he
has threshed and threatened to
aeu tu outer Dnyr. z ne a?j:t.'a4 r-i a . t
tion values the crpp r.t $3,003, andiAirplanc Flights Yesterday
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' mai ue ue uiaue legunjr iv
"vh ..I
ham In a recent car.e relating to
the delivery of terries, the deliv
ery oi produce on a cooperative
contract Is the essence and the
life vt the contract, and the flax
association feels tliat If the indus
try is to prosper - the deliveries
must be made according to con
tract. . -' :-.. . yr, l-
Large Quantity Coming'
The association is receiving a
large Quantity of. flax at the PJcfc
reall warehouse, that was milt
this summer en the site of the
old Rickreall mill. The building.
BO by 150 -feet In size and with
22-foot walls; has a solid concrete
floor, and is an ideal storehouse.
It has a capacity- for about; 400
tons loose flat, or 600 toss if
bound In bundles. ' This year,
most of the flax was too short to
be pulled and bound.- The -association
has one small warehouse
full -jf bound flax at Turner but
the Rickreall section did cot pro
duce much that could be haeatel
that .way. Close to100 ton has
already come ; into the Rickreall
warehouse. ' It; Is estimate 1 that
the f-.:r produce of thj Aums
villc. Timer a I .Rlckrtsll b ac
tions, v here the associat'en made
contracts, will not. be t: from
tons, worth app'r.xftnately
fU.OCO. -;
(Continued on page 6)
, The names of . the dead are not lenown and many are rr.i I
to have been so .badly mangled that identification wouli L
almost impossible. 1
Relief trains from bere, Poplar Bluff and Desoto wcro
sent' to the scene of the wreck icarryingall physicians nv:.i!
able from the towns and cities along-the route. The re!!;?
train from Poplar Bluff wa3 manned by union men now c ;
strike, who offered their, services when the report of th i
disaster reached that "town. :--A.'-- --- i
Because of the confusion and the debris, the relief wcr
was greatly hindered and only slowly could the injured
taken from the wreckage. Among Xhe first of the dead to
be taken from the demolished coaches were the Rev. V. O.
Renley of Desoto, Mo Miss Irene Moon of Frestus, Mo; and.
engineer tilenn. ry. f :.;y f -:. !-,-.. - ;y ',"";
,One of the coaches wai thrown into a creek which run.i
along the track. The coach, was completely demolished,
i s The fast train was en route from Fort Worth, Texas,
and the local from Poplar Bluff.
v According to the report ; of the conductor of the relief
train sent from here, the scene of the wreck "resembled a
battle field." ;K c--i:'f':r -'r.:
? 1 The engineer of the fast train, it was said; had received
an order as his. train passed through Rvierside, a flag sta
tion, several mile3 south of Sulphur Springs. - It was said ha
was reading the order when his train passed the block sig
nal and he inadvertently; overlooked -the signaL
FIRES ARE
SEEN 1 LIE
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; Timbered Areas
EUGENE, Ore.. Aug. 5. Thirty-one
forest fires were sighted
by Lieutenant Naughan, in west
ern . Lane county today and Carl
V. O. Glesby." supervisory warden
of the Western Lane Fire Patrol
association, in an airplane flight
over that section. V;
One of the new fires sighted
by them Is in the vicinity of Rom
an Nose mountain and it covers
400 . acres; another one In the
vicinity of Beecher rock : covers
19 acres.
Mazamas at Eugene Ready ,
for; Mount Climbing Trip
EUGENE, Ore, Aug. S.-A
large number of members ot the
Mazamas. mountain climbing club,
arrived in Eugene tonight from
Portland' and other parts of Ore
gon for their annual outing. They
will ascend the. Three Sisters
mountains,, 100 miles east of Eu
gene, each of which is more than
10,000 feet high, besides num
ber of other lofty peaks. In that
locality. Thirteen Eugene people
will join them - here tomorrow
morning. , Eightr-one . persons
have signed for the trip. - .-.
price: tive cs:rrs
An Associated Press correspon
dent found, a confused and hor-rbr-stricken
village looking; on Jn
dumb amaxpment as - the crts
came Up from the debris of Iho
coacbes, scattered along the trarlc
and piled up in the ravine about
60 feet below the tracks..., J
-. Doctors in shirtsleevesrailroad
men In their blue overalls, aided
by citizens from the small village,
made every . effort in extricating
the victims of. the disaster from
the wrecked coaches to give first
aid to those whom It would ben
efit. t
fknoe PMengr Drowned ,
Steel coaches of ' the express
special splintered the wooden
coachfcs ot the accommodation as
It plowed Its way through the
wooden coaches of the accommodation-
from the rear, dumping
passengers and debris over a
quarter of a mile area and tear
ing up the roadbed, twisting rails
Into & tangled mass. ,
Passengers m the coach which
rolled down the embankment into
the week were reported drowned
as they were pinned beneath the
wreckage.' v ;v' .;
Boy Scouts Work Hard
.A fewT Boy Scouts who miracu
lously escaped, rushed to the aid
of the Injured and worked franti
cally to assist their less fortunate
companions. ' ;;;.. ' .
; - The local ' was composed of sT
en coaches while the fast, train
consisted of 12. . r',.
--Scalding steam from the engine
of the flyer, which was , ditched,
escaped into the Wooden coaches
it had splintered, cooking victims
in the wrecked cars. Axes and
picks from the . emergency kits
aboard the flrer and from equip
ment of the Boy Scoots were put
to heroic, use by passengers who
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