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THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM. OREGON TUESDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER 7, 1922 1 v ere, Tlfoeiee -aedl Everywhere SQUIRE EDGEGATE -a Flock of Consumers Sec a Chance to Get Even BY LOUIS RICHr Borleske and Squad Go to Seattle and Later to Utah and Nevada All First String Men Except Christie Are Out for Dummy Practice 2 WHITMAN TEfllUI U. OF W. HOPES TO ! ON LB TRIP HOLD BEARS DPI 1 I Sfc fc-X TOPC-BuTaZi? A 'A a U 1 V I rni Kjr - wvwatS All. TWOSE. FOOD fl i;; '.it I.; ' . a , WALIjA, WALLA. Wash., Nov. . Coach It. V. Borleske and 17 Whitman college football men will board the train at 11 o'clock tonight for Seattle, where they "Sri takei a boat tomorrow and start their long trip for games against tlve Universities of Ne vada and Utah. - Men who are making the trip are Hall, fall back; Tilton and Bartholomew, halves; Schroeder, quarter; Lackey and Holmes, end?; Captain Heritage and More lock, tackles; Lucht and Ratch ford, guards; Walther, center; t'arr, Boyd and C. Heritage, sub stitute linesmen; Walton, May and Bleakne, substitute backs. The team will work out on the University of Washington f ieM tomorrow and will take the boat for San Francisco tomorrow even ing. On Thursday they will again work out, this time onjthe Univer sity of California field. Friday afternoon will witness the final workout before, the game at Reno with the UntTeriity of Nevada on Armistice day. The following week the Mis clonarlea will meet tb,e University of Utah at Salt Lake City. Claud Norris, star fullback, dropped out of college today and was not taekn on the trip. Hall, who has been playing half, has fcmn shifted to rull with Barthol omew going in at half. ' The trip Is the ' longest ever taken by a Whitman college team. VOTE FOR Poulsen '.FOR 1 ' , City Recorder : v ! t Number 51 10n the Ballot ' " r' I have had four years experience as deputy and will appreciate your support (Paid Adv.) oar on your Winter Journey to CALIFORNIA Observation Cars with comfortable chairs, wide win I flow and broad rear platforms; through sleeping j Cars with latest travel luxuries; UnexceMed Dining I Car cuine. and picturesque scenery will add to the i pleasure of your journey. Through Standard Sleeping Cars , Via the Scenic Shasta Route San Francisco For LOW ROUND TRIP FARES, rleeping car reservations, train schedules, or picture books. In quire of agents, or communicate with ' . JOHN M. SCOTT General Passenger Agent, ."v "'.. Portland, Ore. SEATTLE. Nov. 6. Hard, smashing practice was noticed for Its absence in football practice at the University of Washington this afternoon. . Dummy scrimmage has taken its place for this week. Coach Enoch W. Bagshaw being of no mind to have any of his players sore when they come up against California Saturday. Everybody was out for practice today except Christie. Petrie, Grimm and Kuhn fully recovered from colds over Sunday, and Sherman, Bryan and Ziel, injured in the battle with Washington State college October 28, used their legs a3 If they had never baen bruised. The 61 to 0 victory of Califor nia over Pullman Saturday, com pared with the 16 to 13. win of Washington the week before, jar red the Purple and Gold fans con siderably at first. But tonight they are saying that California made !t only 14 to 0 when playing at Pullman, that her score against Washington and Jefferson at Pas adena on New Year's day was nothing to nothing and that this fall she made only 12 to 0 against the University of Southern Cali fornia at Lo3 Angeles. Orders for seats for the game are com'ng from a wide area, Today's sales totalled 500. PEI STATE WILL -REPRESENT EAST . - is; Navy Defeat. Held no Cause for Substitute in New Year's .Classic SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 6. Re ports that because of the navy's defeat of Penn State recelftly some other team would be substi tuted for the Nlttany Lions at the annual East-Wes football- elasstc at Pasadena New Year's day were denied by Leslie J. Ayers, secre tary of the Pacific coast confer ence today. . "There will be no substitution for Penn State even if the Lions lose every remaining game this season,' Dr. Ayers said. Commenting on another renc that Washington, and Jefferson would be invtted to play at Pasa dena he said: , , "Washington ' and Jefferson wonld not be considered in an; case." r The Pacific coast team to play in the Pasadena classic will b choaen by, a mail vote. of. the con ference members to be made pub- He early in December. BIGGEST VOTE IN YEARS LIKELY TODAY (Continued from page 1.) dldate for United States senator, believes he "has better than equal chance" he declared In a Service Counts TO and Los Angeles I I LINES I j statement issued today. "This has been a year of great surprises in politics," Mr. Pearson paid. "It is my firm belief that many more are in store and that California, with perhaps the larg est per centage of independent and progressive votes of any state in the union, will make po litical history tomorrow. II. OF C. TEAM Squad of Twenty-Five Play ers Ready for Fray With Washington Eleven BERKELEY. Cal . Nov. 6 The University of California football squad of 25 players, Coaches Smith and Rosenthal, Trainer Charles Volz and a stu dent manager, will leave tomor row night for Seattle . for the game with University of Wash ington Saturday. Besides two full teams of men, two. extra hacks and one end are being taken along. The squad will arrive in Port land Thursday morning, and will rema'n there as guest3 of the Multnomah Athletic club until the afternoon, when .the train Journey will be resumed. Seattle will be reached Thursday night. The return Journey will begin Sunday morning. The team ar riving back in Berkeley Monday evening. "I expect a hard battle, on ac count of the northern weather conditions, said Andy Smith, head coach today. "Also we will have a -hard fight because Wash ington's work in all seasons has been pointed toward the game with California Pan Pacific Commercial Congress Formally Closed HONOLULU, Nov. 6. The Pan-Pacific commercial congress was formally closed this after noon by Governor Wallace R. Farrington, following brief ad dresses by a number of delegates in which they pledged their sup port the aims and ideals of the Pan-Pacific union. The congress opened October 26. with delegates lrom practically every country bordering the Pacific in attend ance. BIG TACKLE IS Cogswell Campbell Declared tligiDle tor uame With Washington State EUGENE, Or.. Nov. 6. Cogs well Campbell, 315-pound tackle on the Oregon team who during the first of the season was de clared inel gible to play on ac count of alleged lack of credits has been declared eligible and -Ul nlay against Washington State college here November 11 it was announced today. uregon nad counted upon Lampbell as being one of the mainstays of the team this year, but at the conference meeting early in October he was barred out. However, at this meeting Professor H. C. Howe. Oreeon'i conference representative, was or- dered to make a complete re statement of the case and forward it to various conference colleges Final word was received today from Dr. Dnbach. president of the conference, that four of the sever instrtufons had voted in favor o camobell's eligibility. Although Campbell has not been out regu larljr all tall he is sa:d by t h" coaches to be in the pink of con dition. Oregon fans are jubilant over Campbell's reinstatement. With him in the line and with nearlv all the cripples well, thev feel mat the chances for an Oreson victory Saturday are exceed inrlv ibngnt. COMING NORTH IN OREGON LINE STATESMAN TO GIVE ELECTION RETURNS (Continued from page 1.) a m.'and close at 8 p. m. Legal voters who were not registered during the registration period can swear in their vote. A known resident and former voter who had merely failed to re register, needs two other known voters, to vouch for him. Election returns will be re ceived at The Statesman office, for city, county, state, nation. Returns will also be received at the governor's office, at the Elks' club, at the Democratic head quarters, and at the dance at the armory. Voting Place Namnl The voting p'.aces in the vari ous Salem precincts are: ' No. 1 United Brethren church. corner 17th and Nebraska. No. 2 First floor Bungalow church. Court and 17th. No. 3 Cameron's paint shop. 21st street, between Chemeketa and Center. No. 4 Swedish tabernacle, cor ner Mill and Fifteenth. No. 5 Richmond school. No. 6 Yew Park school. No. 7 Highland school. No. 8 Jason Lee church, cor ner Jefferson and Winter. No. 9 Baptist church, corner D and Cottage. No. 10 Garf'.eld school. No. 11 Court house. No. 12 Vick Bros, garage, 280 South High. No. . 1 3 F. Sherwood's dence, 787 Cross street. No. 14 J. A. Jefferson's resi dence, 1375 North Commercial street. No. 15 Hunt Bros, cannery, Division street. No. 16 City hall. No. 17 W.C.T.U. hall, Ferry and Commercial. i No. 18 Friends church, cej ner Washington and -Commercial streets. ... - FIFTY MINERS DIE IN GAS EXPLOSION (Continued from page 1.) hospital, rests a youth of 22. His nafie is Abe Craig. His coolness saved at least a dozen lives. "There isn't much to .tell," said Crap. "We went down at 7 o'clock and entered heading No. I on the left, a few minutes later there was a crash. 1 told the boys that meant a cave-in and we had better get out. There was a rush of gas. Luckinly. our door was open, or the explosion would have knocked it down. I slammed it. and about 25 of us waited to see what would happen. Miners Are Revived . "Outside there were yells and one of our gang shouted to tell them there was fresh air in our place. I opened the door and three or four men staggered in. The boys rushed out and dragged in others. We revived them. Then I looked out again. All f could see was bodies. All I could see was bodies. The after damp was rolling through the heading. I jumped inside and closed the door. There was noth ing to do but wait for rescuers. . Home Victims Pray "From 7:30 until about 2 o'clock we stayed in the chamber. Older men were getting faint. Young fellows were holding out pretty well. Nobody had very much to say. Some of the boys were praying. "Finally the afterdamp worked its way around and under the door. There was only one thing to do. I told them we would have to make a'run for it. We opened the door and ran down the head ing. It was a tough job. stumb ling over bodies and starting to choke. Some of the boys fell, but those of us who had any fight left kept on. "We ran into fallen rock be tween the seventh and ninth' head ing. That probably was where the explosion 'took place. Strong Men Got Out "I had a hunch that if we got to the sixth heading we would get fresh air, but you can beMeve me that the last hundred yards was something awful. Puffing Jnd strangling, we kept on. ahd finally I ran slap bang into the air. I was dizzy, but I screanted to the boys. Most of them who got to the sixth heading keeled over. "Then I heard men coming and knew they were rescuers. They got us out. Only the strong men made it. I am afraid all the older men lost their lives." Three times Craig stopped his story. Each time a silent form was brought in on a stretcher. Physicians said Craig and all oth ers in the hospital would recover. A- number, it was added, owed their lives to prompt treatment given by rescue parties under ground. Survivors Watch Entrance" Thirty pale and weary survivors from the mine, most of them young men, lay in a double row of cots in the miner's, hospital here tonight, anxiously watching the entrance to the mine. They were the known survivors of the 94 miners who went into the before the explosion, mine this morning a few minutes Their vigil began when the first eight were brought to the hospi tal. Tlve entrance of stretchers meant that another survivor had been dragged from an under ground sea of gas. llodies Are Scattered At 7:02 o'clock this morning the explosion occurred in the heart of the mine. As soon as miners from nearby pits could reach the mine the work of res cue bagan, and it was supplement ed later in the day by trained en gineers from the bureau of mines tft Pittsburgh and the rescue1 crews o fneighboring mines. The rescue men all told the same story as they came to the surface. They declared that bodies were scattered through the workings for more than 500 feet. Voices Are Heard At one point in the mine a heavy fall of slate from the roof had completely clogged the en try. Bac kof It rescuers declared they could ehar voices and they attacked it vigorously in the hope of finding some of, the entombed men alive, although they received no answer to repeated calls. Rescue forces were made up of skilled miners from Spangler and vicinity in charge of engineers from the United States bureau of mines and rescue crew of the Cambria Steel company which ar rived here early this afternoon. They worked unceasingly in short relays, bratticing the work ings so as to control the gas and admit the pure air from above. RmI Cross at Scene They gave no intimation as to when the work would be complet ed, but each relay, as it came to the surface, said they were mak ing progress. Other volunteers gathered the dead and injured which were scattered in the workings not far from the foot of the shaft. The dead were placed in a subterran ean room and the injured, swath ed blankets, were taken to the surface. There a first aid station had been established by Spangler physicians and the American Red Cross. The crowd, which assembled almost immediately after the ex plosion, continued to grow until at nightfall almost the entire pop ulaion of Spangler and of the surrounding mining villages had assembled. Linemen and electricians began to string wires and place lights at advantageous points, in ordor that the work might go on through the night. Families stank in Rain The drizzling rain which fe!l throughout the day, had no effect upon the crowd, which included the wives and children of many of the entombed miners. Some of them wept, but others stood in stolid silence closely watching the cage every time it came up the shaft and occasionally thinking they recognized the outlines of a familiar form. .They were so far away, however, and the bodies were so carefully covered that recognition was impassible. But it gave rise to the belief among the people that all of the closely wrapped forms were bodies of the dead and furthered reports that no less than 25 of the dead had been recovered. Mingling in the crowd were the ministers from all the churches of Spangler and a number from near by towns. Conspicuous were two Roman Catholic priests. Father James Paulding and Father J. D. Cochrane, who, wearing raincoats and rubber boots, sought to com fort weeping women. They were the first to reach the mine after the explosion, and in a short time were taken down the shaft to give absolution to five men near the bottom. Thriling Reorue Made Mike Whalen, a eageer, was working with his coupler, a lad named Cavendish, at the bottom of the shaft when the explosion occurred. Seizing the boy. Wnal en put him on his back ami jtrt ed hand over hand on a water pipe for the surface, when almott half way up someone at the top started the cage from the bott m, and waiting fois opportunity.1 Whalen jumped to the top of the cage and rode with the .boy :o safety. j J. J. Bourquin, in charge of the; bureau of mines force, took over the rescue work on his arrival here ths afternoon. The fan house,' which had been wrecked by the explosion, was quickly repair ed and the fans started to clear the workings of black damp. Mules were sent down on the cage to assist in the distribution of quantities of lumber used in the building of brattices. Injured Try to Help Many of the rescuers suffered from gas and numbers of them were brought to the surface where after receiving first aid. they in sisted on returning to .the work ings. Spangler lies in the Allegheny mountains in Cambria county town, and is the center of an im portant bituminous coal produc ing district. The Reilly mine was closed last summer by tb-e strike, but resumed operations early 'in September. Normally it employs about 150 en, but Monday is us ually what the miners term a slow day. -There are many American-born miners in the working force, numbers of whom were caught in the explosion. Helpful Organizations Formed at Association . Some of the finest cooperation is being fostered in the Y. M. C. A. organization work that anyone would wish to see. There are 'three young men's organizations, auxiliaries of the Y.t that hold regular meetings at the Y. Building. , The first of these is the Willamette Lead AGEI PRIEST DIES TORONTO, Nov. 6. Reverend Monsignor T. J. Sullivan, one of the oldest priests in Ontario, is dead. $2 Round Trip TO PORTIAND Every day to Saturday, November 11th inclusive Return Unlit Xov. 13th OREGON ELECTRIC RV. Account the Great Pacific International Live Stock Exposition Daily Trains Leave Salem 7:15. 9:45. 11:15 a.m., 1:40 4, 5:30 and 7:50 p.m. Reduced one way and round trip fares now in effect 'to many other points. J. W. Ritchie, agent SI! TO BE Oill BOARDS Schedule of 26 Gamfcs to Be Arranged by City League At Y.'M.'C. A. Basketball is to begin in earn est at the Salem Y.M.C.A. whoa the new Commercial league opens its schedule of 26 tames on Tuesday night, November 14. The leagutf is already a reality, though it has a few things yet to settle. One is the identity of the sixth team. Five teams are cer tain, according to the agreement at the organization meeting on Thursday night. The Hauler team will be captained by Ash by, former Salem high school and later Willamette star. The An derson & Brown team will be cap tained by Caldwell. The Uni'.ed States National bank team has not as yet selected a captain. Tl.e Mist land team will be led by Taste jay V ' V tobacco flv- j rs0x 1 chw : : 4A 4- Glenn Gregg, of last year's . tnous Yellowjackets, the Y Utra The Central Pharmacy will hut ' a team with Merle Petram and Desmond Daue as its pilots, and, the sixth team may be the Lmdga team with Russell . BonesteMe as captain. This last entry ii still problematical.' It will be 'definite ly decided Monday night when' all the players are to meet at the Y to give in their names and &'re on a schedule. If the Dodge team decides to postpone its- entry, there. Iran opening for some. other team,' to complete the required number of six teams. The full schedule Vui be for 28 games, two games a night on Tuesday and Friday night. This will end the wiv about the Christmas holidays. ' 5 S From the best players of the Commercial league, will probably . be selected the Yellow Jacket team that - will be the crack Y.M.O.A. challenge team for.iha year. ; , . : , . ' Leslie Spares, science teachei for Washington high !i;"jl and assistant athletic coach tor Wil lamette, and "Mike" Edwards of ( Willamette, will be the official referees. , '. Lioorrr ft Myers-Tobacco Co. J