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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 15, 1922)
Site CIRCULATION A?rtr for Jly. 1422 Hondjr only 02B latjr d Hudr 6633 Avr" for ix montbs ending Jaa 30, J 922 Huudaf only ......... 5828 filf anil feudT 5431 vs ran crrr or baxxm v KtrWa i4 hitk CoSis KrlT TrjW4y taaii The Oregon Statesman rmx noMs vkwstuxm SEVENTYSECOND YEAR SALEM, OREGON. TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 15. 1922 PRICE::: FIVE. CENTS rxn rwi ana H v I01 UMJ i 1 J .2 ! J : v it i ) J. . i STRIKE ISSUE AGAIN TAKEN TO PRESIDENT Another Attempt Will Be . Made to Approach. Rail : road Executives . With ) 1 Mediation Proposal. VT BASIS OF PARLEYS STILL KEPT HIDDEN Harding Determined to Give V Workers Same Consider- ation as Employers WASHINGTON, Aug. 14. (By I the Associated Press). Organixa- lions not on striae got taeuv at-1 tempts to mediate the strike ,o shopmen and other crarts in trans- portatlon service' back, . before President Harems toeay and at? ter a two and a half hour White House conference, declared they Intended ito reapproach rail, exec-5 utlves. i ,, .-.v,; w k. ssneppara, presiaent, oi the Order of IlaUway;f;oii4uctor ana spoxesmsn xor tne enure I group, declared. , on cleaving the White Houae the striking unions - -r . - - would leave J "their , case In the hands" of himself and his asso-1 elates,, wbile as to. tbe sporadic walkout of brotherhood memDamagk-, going with him to Weiser ... T.uua v . wj wuuu, he saidthe, presiden doesn't in. tend to make any isue . against , v Dm vbt Arranges Parley . . Mr. ShepparO.. ,llke , th other union official, refrained from specifically Jndlcatin what basis was being considered, for further wuiyiuuiiao aucuiiKi. tin luoci" lag with " the president was arj ranged by Secretary of 4 Labor navfe aria 11 hhIa uhlifd including those on strike. had been' In one of their general ex- it h.. hAn ..K ha an,aWUn.WnUUt - - - story ;;we; hare been discussing - - ""-V " "V nwww tne wnoie situation from top. to bottom and now we are going to look for somebody toglve us. help in our mediation attempts," Mr, Sheppard declared. VThat means bo mo rauroaa execuuves are uoi so tenacious of . their points as those we have seen. We shall talk over the matter of what ; might happen, with all the union officials tomorrow. "; ; , Pwiidmt is 'Fair We have, found the president determined to give the workers ttiat aamA AnDlflarotlAn mm t a Am- Dlovers.; We da not understand that he Is going to make further advances io tne executives. ' ... . -.'"r wainvoms oi omer ; ciasstts . is clear i 'All itAWflnfl pie have been 'marooned In the dASArt la iintpna fini. man km Uken every train into the termin - als and the passengers have been left at daces where railroadman live. ; ' . Fundamental Rlffhta nn "A11 our discussion now relates to the fundamental rights of men who are on strike The railroad ' lahnr - hnant fair as tha nnaltlnn thev are not entmiul tn rnmiHAr. ation.' Lots of lawyers hold with us that their rlxhts are onlv sus- pended. "We've made a basketful of nroDOsitions: I cant tell vou all of them."' .: Reverting to the nollcv of his own union, Mr. Sheppard said that "officers of our order are on their way to get men back at any points where walkouts t. are not Justified. 'Our orders are that : men are 1 to stay at work unless their lives are endangered " he added, and to make an honest effort to main- tain - transportation service ' with equipment that is safe." . ttropt iu reaK Bin , An announcement of a similar Attempt to Break Strike nature was made by W. G.; Lee, president ot .the Brotherhood at Railroad Trainmen, durine the day in. Cleveland. Representatives of the railroad managements . ? apparently were ele Examiner will publish to not Involved ' in the continued morrow. r, "union mediation efforts and Fair Miss Fontaine's announcement fax Harrison, president of the 'allowed a conference with her , Southern railway. Issued a state- mother, Mrs. Florence Fontaine, . ment. front the: roads' general now A Los Angeles, headquarters 4htft his company MiM Fontaine stated she had would,, now attempt to break the received information from her at strike by employing new - men. torneya they had filed at ara .. Acting apart from all other rail- toga Springs, N. Y.; her $1,0 00. roads, the. Southern, he said, had 00 damage action galnst Whit : ney alleging breach ot promise to ; Continued pa page 6). marry her, ' CAN ANYONE GO THIS MAN ONE BETTER? Humphrey Hereby Nominated for Story-Telling Section of Salem Arts League An amazing Btory of kidnaping and intimidation and robbery and starvation n everything is told by Ivan Humphrey, who says ha is back la Salera after an absence of almost a month. Humphrey says that he was working out in the Cunningham loganberry yards on July 16 when .somebody sneaked up on htm and flammed him . into ; insensibility with .a club, sandbag or, other, weapon. . When. no. .came to ne was in Salem, , in ; an auto with three men whom he came later to know as 'Slim' "Middle-Size" and ".Shorty" that's what, iney called themselves. They, took him to the Shafer harness, shop on commercial street and parked the car then; they, dragged him out. eacn of, the three wearing a biaca pye-nvaK;. and- a cowboy outfit. highl boots and all. They tootc him, to the Ladd & Bush bank and. told . him to go in and get his check" cashed he had a fruit cneck for $150 and they stood rosa the street and watched to that he didn't hold out on fllA - when he came out tney took 'nlm t0 the Oregon Electric gtion, where tbey waited tor Finally, they '.". a , tnr Port- an hnnr nr iwn. i got tneir car, muk - If; . 5 . v. Prisoner until Hn wearing their . then to- Payette, laano. . ai place! while they were Tclm. eluded l h... Ha knows where Slim I.. R,nrt- 6r :; Middle-Size bang J-t and will bTing them in to the ' auJthoritie; they are ready Jo issue the shifty kidnapers a I , - oal , for . HOI naviuis Di"u"1 i : - VT t the clty nan or the whole IKOSB OJ IM. My . .Ja- stolen . the governor r - 'aVe carried oft a lot of might, nave cr r r tTmnrev says that his father, ... .. v. Y.O.A vmn working. I . a .lt.r.ai a r 1 il LIC1U w " "Vvdldn't see the kid v hnk from ?PlnK-the father was utterly gone; perpa the ,-lJ.m Off. tOO. tO banaiiS' sprii.o for the . it unanimous i - Tha nnllre are Humphrey family. Tne poi Inquiring . iuriur Ing story, if in Planned Raid at mum ...... nfMRA lnglewooa Nignx dciu.u T.OS ANGELES, Aug. -. (raid at Inglewood on April 22 last U,ag planned at a meeting me uia-ht. before, following tne mi- i 7 . t-.ih tUUon ot s numoer u cording to testimony today 01 Rla v-R. Shamfbeau one of the I initiates at the trial of 36 alleged klansmen on felony charges grow in? ont of the raid, Shambeau. who Is motorcycle officer at Inglewood said about 1 25 or 30 were present at.the klan meeting and the subsequent pro- ceedlngs at which the raid was lnrs:a.nlxed. The initiation was conducted bv Nathan, A. Baker, Kleagle of the klan for Los An geles county and it was also uaser who gave directions for tne raia the officer testified. Baker was a defendant in the present trial I but was taken ill last week and a mlstrla was declared today as to I him Blood Test Insisted on by Evan Burrows Fontaine ljUa! Autua, Aug. I Evan Burrows Fontaine, dancer announced here today she would ask a court order to compel I rv.?i. -Cor- neliua Vanderbllt Whitney to sub mit to l comparison blood test In nep attempt.-to prove he Is the father lot . her 19-roonths-old son. I according to a story the Los Arr- FAMOUS PUBLISHER DEAD 7 t .. .11) LORD NORTHCLIFFE DESPERADO BY FATAL IDABEL, Okla., Au. 14. pected to prove fatal, saved hands of a mob today after a gunfight on the principal thor oughfare of Wright City, near here, in which he killed Sher iff Bud Felker, of McCurtain county and dangerously wound ed Christian Cleveland of Mountain View, both of whom were attempting to arrest him for killing two men near Wright City. The series of tragedies began late yesterday when lhomp- son, while intoxicated, it is said, shot and killed John An derson, foreman of a ranch 10 miles north of Wright City. Thompson' then started to Wright City and overtook Clif ford Pruett, 18. He shot the youth to death in a quarrel. f Cleveland, owner of a ranch ad- Joining the one where Anderson was killed, joined Sheriff Feiker and Deputy Sheriff. Richard Jones In a search for Thompson. They trailed him to Wright City this morning and met him on the main street. I Officers Shot. As . they drove to the curbing in Felker's automobile, they com-: manded Thompson to surrender. The latter brought a rifle Into PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 14. The Southern Pacific rail way has laid an embargo on shipment of livestock, fruit and all other perishable goods from Portland to important California points, it became known today. ; 'The embargo deadline was fixed at Gerber, which cuts off most of the cities in the southern 3tate that carry on a commerce with Portland and Southern Oregon towns. For all points south of Ger ber, N railroad officials an nounced only, dead freight is being accepted and even dead freight is being taken only subject to delay. : , Coming just at the opening of , the Southern Oregon or chard fruit-season 1 the v. bah threatens to hinder shipments to canneries. EMBARGO DECLARED BY THE S. P. j( Continued-pa- page-Cj. j p. ii j iiuuutjia mam rin"" ; - x- - vt - 31 m v '"Mi' '. .9 V 1 - it 1' mi ? s- -j SAVED ANGRY 10B WOUNDS Only his wounds, which are ex Clayton Thompson from the play and shot Cleveland between the shoulders. A second shot struck Feiker in the back of the head, killing him instantly and a third bored the sheriff between the shoulders. Thompson then sought refuge in a restaurant. Jones called upon him to surrender and when he did not obey the dep.uty shot him twicfi with a rifle. Then Thompson wa3 brought to jail here. Physicians say he can not snrvivo the night. NO PICKING OF HOPS IN- CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO, Aug. 14. Because the bottom has fallen out of the market, hops in northern California will not be picked this fall it was declared here today by prominent growers, and thousands of acres of hops will remain unpicked. Among the prominent growers to declare there was no market for the hops was W. E. Gerber, president of the Del Paso Hop company, who said that his company would pick only enough hops to fill contracts of several years standing. The loss will be large, Gerber said, al though neither he nor other I growers could give figures. Prohibition in this coun , try, the embargo placed oa ;American hops by England and the financial condition of Germany are the causes as , signed for the failure of the i market. THE "WKATHKB . ? Tuesday; - unsettled and. occas ionally- threatening -weather. WORLD FIGURE NUIALISM CROSSES OVER Death Comes to Viscount Northclitfe in London Powerful Place Held in British Empire. FUNERAL SERVICE IN WESTMINSTER ABBEY Outspoken Criticisms During War Brought English Officials to Time London, Aug. 14. VHeount Northcliffe. notoj British pub licist, died today. It was stated that the cause ol Lord Northcliffe's death was sup puration, or the production of pus within the haart, which was .fol lowed by acuto blood-poisoning. He will bq buried Thursday in the St., Mary e Bow ''cemetery, Finchley. The funeral service will be held in Westminster Ab bey. filans in Journalism. The death of no other unofficial person could have made a deeper impression in England than that ui iora -Normcmie. l ho news was not a surprise, as the bulle tins issued by the doctors for the last week plainly Indicated that the patient was dying. i Lord Northclitfe was by far the most noted figure in British jour nalism, and the first question on every one's lips was as to what effect his death will have on 'the poUcies of the Time and his other newspapers, which since the end of" the war 'have strongly opposed the Lloyd George administration and its principles, with a notable exception of its dealings with Ire land, which the Kortbcliffe press supported throughout. End Is Peaceful. News of Lord Northcliffe's death was given out by the doctors who have been attending him in this bulletin: "Viscount Northclitfe died at 10:12 o'clock. The end was per fectly peaceful." In America Northcliffe was known chiefly as a successful journalist and publisher, who came to the United States when the war was at its height to serve for a time as head of the British war mission in Washington. At home, however, ho was rec ognized as a man whose influence in public affairs was second to (Continued on page 6) COREY RESOLUTION WOULD REOPEN CASE e OF PHONE CHARGES H. H. Corey, member of yesterday introdped at a meeting of the commission a res olution that the commission hearing relative to the rates phone & lelegraph company The other two commissioners, T. M. Kerrigan and New ton McCoy have the resolution under advisement, and it doubtless will be adopted or According to Mr. Corey again the entire case of rates pany. Eighteen months have elapsed since the public service commis sion made the. order increasing the company's, rates," which be came effective March 1, 1921, and which led a year ago to a rehearing that occupied six weeks In .Salem an d in' Portland. Recall Was Result Refusal of the commission to lower the rates on the basis of the rehearing led . ultimately to the recall of Commissioner Fred A. Williams and Fred G. Buchtel on May 19 and the election of McCoy and Kerrigan in their places. . The commission last week, with Corey voting contrary, adopted a resolution by. Kerrigan, request ing the attorney general to with draw an answer to a suit filed In the circuit court In Portland by HALL'S ATTORNEYS WITHDRAW CASE FROM COURT; END C0I12ES ABRUPTLY MONDAY AFTERNOON . i m t t B . '.,V , - I i--Uaaaal aaMaV. . . MT1 Fins raw Thirteenth Conference of of National Leaders Breaks Down in London LONDON, Aug. 14. The 13th allied conference on German rep arations broke down today "agree ing to disagree" as the spokesmen for both France and Great Britain put it, there having been a com plete lack of unanimity on the important points discussed. From Us (commencement the conference seemed predestined to failure, according to the view ex pressed by close observers of the situation and these observers to night are of the opinion that the failure indicated utter incompati bility between the policies of Great Britain and France toward Ger many. To what extent the recent note of the Earl of Balfour contributed to today's results Is partly evi denced by the line of the 11th hour attempt by Slgnor Schan- er, the leading Italian delegate. at mediation with Premier Lloyd George at Chequers Court Sunday when the Italian foreign minister proposed that discussion of a mor atorium for Germany and co-related matters be adjourned until after the., various count ilea had carried our their "debt funding negotiations with the United States. Jackson Carter Killed By Southern Pacific Cars ROSEBURG. Or.. Aug. 14. Jackson Carter, 29, of Merlin, Or., was killed today when he was struck by a Southern Pacific locomotive at Rice Hill. The en gineer, L. L. Covert, says he did not eee Carter until the engine was almost upon him. XO STRIKE ORDER INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 14. No strike order for telegraphers of the Big Four railroad will be is sued by union officials, pending a hearing of the union's griev ances before the railroad labor board at Chicago, August 21. the public service commission, on its own motion call another and service of the Pacific Tele in Oregon. rejected today. the resolution would throw open charged by the telephone com Robert G. Duncan and others de manding that the rate increase order of the commission be set aside. Tnlg was a move to re duce the rates to their former level of prior to March L 1921, and the resolution is now in the hands of Attorney General Van Winkle awaiting his action. Date far Hearing Named The Corey resolution, if adopt ed, will call the new hearing in Portland on Tuesday, October 17, next. The resolution cites the popu lar disapproval of the present rates and the recall of -the for mer members; also the numerous complaints at the rates that have been received by the commission. It holds that sufficient grounds exist to "call the . new investiga- tion. Charles Hall'3 contest of the Republican nomination for governor won by Ben W. Olcott on May 19 waa abandoned at 3:20 o'clock yesterday afternoon. It was abruptly, taken out of court by W. S. U'Ren, head counsel for R. R, Coster, in whose name the proceedings were instituted in behalf of Hall. 1 ' .. "... :. . - :;. v.:;;;. Surrender by the Hall forces was based on two points. One was incorrect information, as admitted by U'Ren. which had been furnished Hall's attorneys by informants employed to check up the votes and the persons who voted in numerous precincts covering many counties of the state. f The other was a ruling of the court early yesterday that the attorneys should not question witnesses as to whom they voted for or what issues induced them to change their party affiliation unless the attorneys could first elicit prima' facio evidence that the elector in question had voted illegally or fraudulently. v - --: . .; ""The case Js not appealable to a higher court. dL TIE . : Agreement Reestablishing Wage Scale of April 1 is a Ready for Signing CLEVELAND, Aug. 14. (By the Associated Press.)- The soft coal strike was virtually broken tonight but prospects . were that the actual signing of an agree ment between the United TMine Workers and operators controlling an .annual output, et 60,000.000 tons, would be delayed until to morrow. The signing ot the contract will actually end the strike In part. Details All Accepted AH details of the agreement were accepted in principle by both miners and operators, and the actual 'draft of the contract was left to a - sub-committee, which continued Its work into the night. The actual signing of' the con tract. President John L. Lewis of the miners said, if is expected to follow a meeting tomorrow of the union's policy committee. Drafting of a wage scale was begun tonight at a closed confer ence of soft coal operators and miners here. - ' All essentials for the. contract were understood to have been ap proved. Most of the other con ferees, however, remained behind the closed doors ot the conference room, completion ot tne comraci during the night was predicted by those coming from the conference Contract Extends to, March The agreement, it was said. would provide for re-establish ment ot the wage scale that were effective last April 1, and the new contract would run until next Marc31. . It was also decided to establish a fact-finding committee of ad visory powers for . the purpose of dealing with future neotlatlons in the soft coal Industry. The com mittee would be chosen by miners and operators, with the personnel to be approved by the president, grope I Wide Operators controlling approxi mately 0. 000,000 tons annually production, were represented in the conference. Their mine were understood to be in central Penn sylvania, western Pennsylvania, Indiana. Illinois, northern West Vireinia and Michigan.. Under the decision- of the con ference, it was understood., tnat any soft coal operators anywhere m the country might become par ties to the agreement, the reopen ing of their mines to follow1 im mediately. Those operators, was said, might sign the agree ment as individuals or by state or district organization. Brock and Hilt Elected Delegates to Federation At a meeting of Capital Typo graphical union, No. 210, Sunday, Harry H. Hill and Arthur, Brock were elected delegate to repre sent that organization at the an nual convention of the State Fed eration of Labor which, will meet In Salem state fair week. n announcing to the court that the contest would be aban doned. .Attorney U'Ren said that an effort (probably would be made to make the laws more explicit in Inhibiting priests or other per. sons connected with churches from using- their i Influence- on voters other . than by publlo prints ! or speech. , 4 ; - v Goblin, Too. Says Bowerman Attorney Jay Bowerman, rep resenting -Olcott. countered this by declaring that the law should also explicitly, Inhibit kleagle, wizzards and goblins or other of- ficiala of-the Ku Klux Klan from Illegally using their influence up on the electorate. ' - . "Attempts have been made all through this contest,", said Bow erman. "to aiflJte It appear that tba Issue la between the Protest ant and th Catholic churches. It i nothing of the kind. Governor Olcott" is a Protestant and all ol his people were Protestants. The question' is simply one ot whc'.het the Ku KluX Klan shall be allow ed to run things in this state." . Costs To He Argued , The court said that the order would be entered abandoning the contest and Instructed the , attor neys to get together In Portland and agree on a date to argue ad justment of" costs and attorney fees before the court.; - The questioning ot witnesses during the day, the first to be called In the 'contest, failed to bring out any evidence of illegal or fraudulent voting. - ' " v Citlsens Wrongfully Accused Ex.imples of the erroneous In formation furnished Hall's attor neys, referred to by Mr. U'Ren appeared . when John A. Dttt?r and Theodore Hiberger of, Sub limity were called to the witness stand. Ditter, In reply to the first question asked, said he bad been a registered Republican for about six years. ., Hiberger said that he also had long . been a member of the Republican party. Both were Immediately dismiss ed from further' questioning. Thosa , witnesses were - among those accused of Illegally chang ing their registration from Dem ocratic to Republican. v U Two More Eliminated -Without calling them to .the . stand. Attorney John Coll lev, of coumtel for Hall, eliminated. Mrs. Josephine , Gerspacber and Peter , Degen from the list of challeng ed voters. , Mrs. Gerspacber. It was explained by Mr. Collier, was a widow whose husband had been a naturalized . cltixen of the Unit ed States. ''-- Mr. Degen,: who, the attorneys were tcld, was not a naturalized citizen, Mr. Collier explained was a member ot the Grand Army of the Republic with all the privi leges of citizenship. Farr Makes Km Laugh Only two other new witnesses were called in the afternoon. They were W. H. Farr" of Turner, who wore a Shnners emblem anl Mrs. Mary Faber ot St. PauL " Varr kept the court room In an uproar of laughter. "The election cleTk," said Farr. "tried to convince me that I was a Democrat .because I drova mules. . It took " me an howr to convince him I was not." , "Maybe he thought you were from Missouri," suggested Collier. "I am from Missouri," answer ed Farr,' "I lived there 10 years." Primary Xevr to Him -' "Tne poll books show that yon voted twice," Collier Informed Mr. Farr. " , . - "If they allowed me to vote twice they were crooked," retort ed the witness. He said It . was the first time (Continued on page C)