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mm FIRST SECTION Pages 1 to 8 TWO SECTIONS 12 Pages ,5(t SEVENTY-THIRD YEAR SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY MOUNING, AUGUST 26. 1923 PRICE FIVE CENTS rn CD) ( CT1 ' lllLn L UW fflty HALF of u; s. com il'JH Mine Production Since April Has Established Record; Western States are AI most Independent ; ANTHRACITE PARLEY SLATED FOR MONDAY Gov. Pinchot's Invitation Ac cepted By, Both Opera tors and Miners NEW YORK, Aug. 23.- (By i the Associatd Press.) Thirty-two million tons of hard coal in do- - xnestic sizes will be in the bins of consumers or In storage await ing distribution by September 1, the date of the threatened' sus pension of mining the anthracite bureau of information estimated I today. ': . ." This figure represents, roughly '45 per cent of the 70.000,000 tons of fresh ; mined anthracite : con sumed by the 40 states, Canada and Mexico each year. It repre i sents 3 5 . per cent of a total an nual production of 90 million tons Including coal used at the mines, sold .to the government or to rail roads, or mined, by the Hudson Coal company, which does not - publish data on its business. Since- April 1 the mines hare . far exceeded , all records - for pro duction, according to the anthra cite . bureau. Since Jane 1. they - Lara averaged two million tons' a week or at the rate of . 104,000.- 000 tons a - year. : T3everal far- '" western states are almost Inde ' pendent of the Pennsylvania I mines. California does not use any of the product, nor do Colo rado and Idaho. .Montana uses only 600 tons a year;. Oregon 149 tons; Washington 30, and Wyo ming 20 tons. PARLEY SET MONDAY '. WASHINGTON, Aug. 25. Ex hibiting confidence that the open ing of the new anthracite parley - in Harrisburg. Pa., Monday, will marlr tha hrtnntnv nf the end of the present labor crisis In that industry, fuel agencies today de- , voted themselves almost entirely : to ; preparation of data which might . serve , to' strengthen, the position of (Governor Pinchot, who will, preside at the opening meeting. ' - Two statisticians of the United States coal commission who were closely Identified with the ex haustive survey made of the an thracite Industry by the commis sion, will attend the Harrisburg meeting, armed with Information on ' points, which were raised at the s earlier conference. Ia ad dition to these it Is undersipod that Mr. Pinchot will naveat hand an official , resume of the emergency program for procuring and distributing substitutes In the contingency that his mediatory ef forts prove unavailing. Prompt acceptance by both op erators and miners of Governor Pinchot's invitation to be present at : Harrisburg In order that the safety and welfare" of anthra cite consuming states might be protected, .was cited by officials l4tAMllnM wtA 441 ft their forecast of ultimate peace. Incendiary Fire Consumes Portland School Building ' PORTLAND, Aug 25. Fire, thought to have been of Incen- diery origin tonight destroyed the 1 8-rooin frame Glencoe school building Valued at $70,000. The blaze was one of the most spec tacular, seen in Portland and was -fought by the greater part of the Jire apparatus of the city. 1 - THE WEATHER OREGON: Sunday, fair; mod erate 4 northwesterly winds. LOCAL ' WEATHER (Saturday) Maximun temperature, 87.' Minimum, temperature, 55; Rainfall, feohe. " RiYer.f 1.1 foot.- Atmospt ere, clear. - T.'ind, northwest. : m m raw mm ; s: . , i Billy Fry, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar E. Fry, was almost instantly killed esterday about 2 p. m. when a 'harpoon"i hayfork fell on his head. The accident happened at the Fry farm, three miles from Salem on Ihe Oak, Grove road in Polk county. ' M i 3 . I With an older brother, the boy, was playing in the barn. They took; hold of the hayfork trip and It caused the fork to fall on the head of the smaller lad. 5 ' ... U '' The father, Oscar Fry, was seriously injured two years ago when he was the victim of-a collision with a Dallas train at the West Salem crossing. He was driving a truck load of hay when struck by the train. ' The boy's mother was Kate Wilson, a member of the Wil son family of Dallas. Besides the parents, the boy is sur vived by a brother, Herman, 15 years old. j : The funeral will be held Monday morning at 9:30 from the Rigdon Mortuary. , Rev. Ward Willis Long will be in chrage of the services and interment will! take place at the Dallas cemetery. f FLOATING DEBT IS E Reichbank Said Not Alone to Blame fori" German Financial Problem BERLIN. Ang. 25.. Dr. Ru dolph Havenstein appeared today before the central committee of the reichstag and .defended his policy as president of the reichs- bank at considerable length, con tending the bank was not b lam able for the continuously growing inflation. The' main cause for this inflation, he said, was the un checked increase in the floating debt which on August 1 aggregat ed 194,000,000,000 marks, of which 177,000,000,000 were In the reichsbank's coffers. This amount represented actual finan cial credits which , had to be re newed again and again, forming a decided factor in the increase , of bote circulation. " "."'- . ' Dr. ' Havenstein Is' reported to have announced a new program more in harmony with the prin ciples which the government laid down for the regulation of Ger many's future economic financial policy.'"' t 3 ' Thus far Dr. Havenstein's state- ment appears to have failed ' to put an end to mmors that his res ignation as ' bead of the relchs bank Is imminent. His reputed change in policy has caused much surprise, the more so as the gov ernment wes believed tdfcbe unan imous In desiring his retirement. FOB HIGH PRICES Speculators Not Only. Ones to Be Blamed Declares Farmer Manager OMAHAj Neb.. Aug. 25. Ben jamin C. Marsh, managing direct or of the Farmers National coun cil, here in the Interest: of per fecting organization of a state conference; for progressive politi cal action by the combined efforts of farmers,; ; labor organizations and the tmblie. In a statement to the Associated Press, in discuss ing the recent low, price of , wheat, which, lie said, speculators in the staple claimed was a surplus, de nied a surplus existed, said: "There Is no surplus of wheat as flat mod hv the wheat SDeCUlat- ors but an under-cohsumption due to low wages and too high prices for bread. ! ; - r "The bakers and - retailers of bread as well as miners," Mr. Marsh- said, "as well, as Che CbJcaro board of .trade, 4re fleecing the public. Bread can be retailed at a big profit - for eight cents and at a fair profit at cteveri eents a loaf .WOMAN IS INJURED SANTA BARBARA, Cal., Aug. 25. -Mrs. Paul Clagstone of Mills borough, Cal., was badly injured here today' when her automobile was wrecked by another car. Mr. Clagstone and their daughter es caped Injury. " ' S BIERS C S age s mm SQMISElilD m n WITH DRUGS Permission to Sleep in City Jail Given Man With: Several Names Bent with the ravages of "dope" broken in spirit and physiqnse, his arms a mass of infection as a re sult of using a safety-pin to punc ture his skin In order to inject the "shot" of morphine, a man occupied a cell at the city jail last night. Permission to sleep there was given him by the desk ser geant after he had been directed to the station by Officer Victor Friday night. He gave several names. j According to the man's story he formed the-habit while soldiering in the Philippines in 1902. Sev eral times' he has thrown away large quantities of "dope". in an effort to break himself of the hab it. But, he says, no man Is strong enough to overcome the practice. During the war he was in the mer chant marine. Here he said he was able to procure .Whatever am ount he needed, as the ships of ten touched - at foreign ports where there Were no bans Upon the drug. ; ;.:' So saturated is his system that while he admitted having often smoked "the pipe", he now re ceives no "kick" from this. Some thing stronger is needed. : At present, he says, ; the "snow" is hard to get at any price.; A dol lar is seeded to purchase sufficient tor three Mshots." It takes all a man (his own expression) can beg, steal or earn to keep even a few shots on hand, f No one knew of this habit of his, he stated, until the stringent laws governing the sale of drugs and narcotics had been passed. OIL BOAT SAILORS Eight Are Reported Mvster iously Missing During, k Past Three Weeks - SAN LUIS OBISPO, Cal., Aug. 25. Eight sailors have ' disap peared - from boats of the Union Oil company at . Port San Luis in the last three weeks. It was dis closed today when Lafe Todd, manager of the Producers' pipe line asked the sheriff's . office to make an investigation. In many cases the men " have left money and valuables behind, it - is de clared..) ' The ninth mysterious-case oc curred , . yesterday when " Frits Johnanson, sailor on the La Roche was found with a. broken back be neath a trestle over which the sailors have to walk to reach the wharf.. ? He is in k-serious condition.:,:;- ; :. xi'il' ' - Theories advanced are that the men become Intoxicated While' on short leave and f either: fall over- board and drowa or waader aw5!. GOBBLER HELD FOR EPISTLES TO DEAD GIRL Police Have Another Clew to Identity of Man Who Mur dered Youthful Colorado Springs Bride lunnccT majTiMiicrn IIIUUl-vJ UVII1 I IIIWL.U 7 OVER UNTIL MONDAY Young Husband of Girl Still Being Questioned f or t Further Facts I . DENVER, Colo., Aug. 25. "Jack" Fernandez, Demver cob bler, said to ba've been the author of letters found under the pillow of Mrs. Elsie Jorgenson SuttTe, 17-year-old " bride, fatally beaten in her bed at Colorado Springs last Thursday, was arrested here late today. ' , 1 Fernandez s held for Investi gation. Police prepared to ques tion him In miaection . with his alleged acquaintance with . Mrs. Suttle. net is 20 years old. . i - QUESTION HUSBAND I COLORADO SPRINGS, Cold., Aug. 25. Police this afternoon were engaged in questioning R. H. Suttle Jr., husband of the 17-year-old girl who was slain in her bed here Thursday morning, and Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Suttle Sr.", his parents; in: an -effort to bring to light further, facts Jn the myistef f pus crime. ' One pt the special investigators said to be employed by the dis trict attorn ey8-office is In Denver where "Jack" Fernandez, a cob bler, believed to be the author of five letters found under the dying girl's pillow, was placed under ar rest. Information obtained from Mrs. ; E. C. Lowe, the girl's r mo ther, and from Florence Mabley, a Denver girl frfemd of the vic tim, led to the identification of Fernandez as the alleged author of the aotes,- police said. Suspicions Aroused When Elsie returned recently from a visit to Denver she con tinually asked her husband to go J to Denver to live and they irad a slight argument' over that desire of her's,' the young husband said today.: It was also learned ; that young Suttle upon becoming sus picious that some one had been prowling around the bedroom window at night after his wife's return, loaded a shotgun t'o have on hand, but that he later dis covered that the shot fromr the shells in the gun had been re moved. 'Questioning of Mrs. E. C. Lowe, mother of the murdered girl, and also the stepfather, was resumed this morning and con tinued until noon. Later, how ever, ehe was released by the po lice. Mrs. Lowe is said (to have given much valuable Information concerning her dead daughter's boy friends before her marriage and since. -However, the district attorney's of flee would hot dis close the exact nature ; of the in formation gained. Blood Was Clotted A The jury for the inquest over the murdered girl was impaneled today by Coroner Howard Swan and . the jury visited tie body at 2 o'clock this afternoon. No tes timony was taken 'today and the inquest was continued over until Monday at a time to be set later. At the Monday session all evi dence deemed necessary by the district attorney will be taken. It was . also learned today that authorities are considering seri ously the fact that the blood found on the dying girl when dis covered was already considerably clotted, a ' condition , that would not come about,' say medical men. : until after nHore than .an ' hour, which is said to have beta the time, approximately, between the time the girl was last seen alive; and first discovered dying upon the bed by Mrs. Suttle Sr. EUGENE SIAN ARRESTED EUGENE, Or., Aug. 25. C. E. Sbelton, charged In a warrant is sued here several .weeks ago with larceny of an automobile was arr rested at Calhoun, Ky., today, ' RESCUE STORY OF SUBMARINE CREW RELATED Divers Drill Hole Through Hull and Discover Trapped ' Men Unconscious: . SAN PEDRO, Cal,, Aug. 23. Details of. the dramatic rescue of 3 8 officers and men aboard the submarine S-3 8 when she, settled Infl7 fathoms of Ice-choked water h "Chfghfk straits. July 19 last. were brought .here today by navy mine sweeper Ortolan, which re turned from Alaskan waters with the submarine tender Beaver, and the submarines S-3 1, S-3 2, S-3 6 and S-3 8. . - ' ' : . While 3 driving against heavy seas,' according to officers of the flotilla, the entire cap of one 6f the S-38's sea valves was torn off and the water rushed Into her motor4,, room amidships In such volume that all members of the crew, with the exception of three men on deck were trapped. in the after compartments. Quick re sponse by the Ortolan to, distress signals of those on deck enabled them to fasten a line to the bow of the submarine, already sinking rapidly by tfae stern" under the weight of 57 tons of water. This line held the. bow of the submarine out pf water, although Its stern rested on the ocean floor 102 feet below. Divers were sent down immediately and within four hours had cut a hole in the -38's hull through which air hose lines could be attached. Fourteen hours later enough air had been pumped in to bring the submarine to the surface. ,' : Rescue parties found the trap ped 'men; still eonscious,j though suffering from lack' of proper air. HOP PICKERS ARE REPORTED PLEHTY Bean Harvester Needed in Valley, However, Local Bureau Reports There seem to be about enough hoppickers to, go 'round, in, the Salem district at least the federal employment office at the YMCA has not! a great surplus, of caa over the number of workmen. But there is a shortage of beanpick- ers" . ! ' : ' " Beans are about as good as flax in the Willamette valley this season.1': They are 'money in the bank for the growers as well as the pickers. Pickers are able to make $4 or even more a day in the string bean fields. So keen is the shortage of help, that the local la bor bureau bad o send to Port land .for 75 more. pickers. The beans actually pay better than the hops, but the season may not be ing .work that a proud laborer quite so long, and it is more stoop sometimes finds objectionable. The weekly report shows that the bureau found jobs for 113 men and women. A number , of others were referred, and some of them doubtless were placed with out reporting." A considerable larger number of men registered than were plaeed -137 registra tions and only 99 placements. But with women, there were 14 new registrations, 14 were referred to Jobs,' and 14 ' were reported, back as placed Some of the. men ap parently ' wanted to know where the jobs were so that, they could duck 'em but the women wanted jobs for the money there is in them, and took the places offered them , in good faith. - T BER BATTERED Y HER S NOW IN Screams from 740 South Twenty-first street late last night ultimately resulted in the arrest of Verle Miller, 18, Who was lodged in' the city jail on a charge of assault and battery upon his own mother. - When the police arrived; the woman, who is said to be slight of stature, was bleeding around the ears as a result of her son having taken hold of them and shaken her. r" H Attracted by the agonizing sounds, a large crowd had gathered around the Miller residence, assuming the propor tions of a community meeting,' the police stated. Trouble is said to have been brewing for the past month. v The. arrest was made by Chief of " Police Birtchet and Officer. Edwards, . . . . . ' ' ; ' ; . ' ' ' ' : CABLE SHIPS Longest and fastest Subter ranean Connection Will Be 18th on Bottom of At- : lantic Ocean 65TH ANNIVERSARY RECENTLY OBSERVED Communication With Europe Necessitates Additional Starts Today IJtEW YORK, Aug. 25. The first step in the laying of the eighteenth cable across the At lantic was begun today," ten days after the sixty-fifth anniversary of the laying of the world's first cable. Clarence H. Mackay, president of the Postal Telegraph Commer cial Cable company, and a, group of distinguished engineers, direct ed the landing of the first deven miles of the new. cable from the cable ship Faraday, anchored off Far Rockaway, a nearby seashore resort. : The new cable will run under tne, Atlantic a total dis tance of 4600 miles, by way of Nova Scotia and the -Axores, and to Havre. France. It will be completed October 15. ; ' - . First Since 1910 The. new cabled will have a. ca pacity : of 1200 -letters a. minute, 6Q0 in either direction and at the same time. , Incorporating the latest scientific devices, It will be the longest and fastest eubterran ean connection in the world and the first trans-Atlantic cable to be put down since 1910. ' The cable ship will leave to morrow ; for Canso, S., paying the cable behind while steaming at eight miles an hour. Another cable ship, the Co Ionia, 'th'-a larg est cable ship in the world. Is en route to Canso whence she will lay : the Nova Scotia-Azores and the Azores-Havre , sections. - L SE Yukon Territory Will Have Drouth Unless Special Ruling Is Made VANCOUVER, B. C, Aug. 25 A plan to get liquor into Yukon territory facing adry winter be cause laws of the United States prohibit carrying intoxicating bev erages across the 20-mile strip of the 'Alaska pan-handle by using airplanes, is under consideration, it was learned today. ' The suggestion for the use of airplanes to 'move the , stock of 10,000 cases that has' been for months on wharves here awaiting some relenting by Uncle Sam, Is to' have come from politicians in the Yukon and in northern Brit ish. fColumbfla, where, the Atlin provincial liquoivstore' has a Sup ply for only two. months. - i CITY JAI1L IQIIOR TRiSFER US ON BOY ON E ; DEAD MLtixo mm mm wmmmmmcn Slain Pittsburgh Man's Identity Unknown Dui Wore White Robe; Stree'U Patrolled by OUU cers and Situation Well in Hand After Two Hours of Fighting PITTSBURGH, Pa., Aug. 26. One man Was killed, an other was probably fatally wounded and an unknown number of others were injured at midnight tonight when citizens cf Carnegie, a suburb, and robed members of the Ku Klux Klari clashed at the Glendale- bridge over Chartiers creek. Quiet had not been restored two hours later but all available deputy sheriffs, policemen and Allegheny rcounty ' detectives were patrolling, the streets. A motoreycle squad had been, sta tioned at the edge of the borough to, prevent, any further attempt by the klansmen to enter the town and officers ex pressed the belief that they, soon would have the situation in hand. ' - ', T HON ADVERTISE JUICE Proposal tointroduce Logan (Product Is Up to Port--land Chamber Warren Armington, proprietor of the Commercial Cider Works that has pressed. about 250 tons of loganberries for juice Ibis sea son, has made a format proposal to ' the Portland Chamber of Commerce to Introduce Oregon juice to the American people. He has outlined a plan to send ship ments of the juice, two carloads in all. to 22 state and district fairs through the Mississippi Yal ley and middle western states, with , free , distribution . of the sparkling Oregon product. The matter is now before the execu tive board of the Portland orga nization, to 'be proposed as a part of the $300,000 publicity pro gram.: The Commercial Cider works is growing Into real factory. It has secured control of thft adjoin ing warehouse, originally built by a concrete sewer pipe company. and is having It fitted up for a general , warehousing business. The Southern Pacific railroad is to put in a six-car siding to the plant, a 15-ton wagon scale is to be installed this week, , and the apple business Is to be derefoped to several times its present ex tent. The company Is putting in a cold storage plant, to care for loganberry and other fruit juices that the" company has made or will make as the fruits ripen. P. B. Robinson started Satur day afternoon for Minneapolis to drive by auto back to Milwaukee, and show loganberry products of all kinds, and the other goods put up by the Armington company in every city between here and Mil waukee. 'He carries only sample goods, and sells only by sample, for freight or other; shipment. This Is one of the most vigorous campaigns being put on this year, for the introduction of , any kind of Salem iruit proaucxs into new territory- Former Hospital Inmate Dies From Gunshot Wound SHERIDAN, Ore., Aug. 25. Theodore Grove Lock hart, 5 42, former Inmate of the state hospi tal at Salem, died at Chlco, Cal., early Tuesday from . effects of a bullet In; his back fired by Robert Jackson, caretaker at the home of Mrs. A. J. Sollars. Monday after noon, according to word received here. -" ' r . '; : Lockhart had been married three times, divorced twice owd had four children. He was em ployed as a ranch hand. ., His body arrived from Chlco yesterday. His widow is a resi dent of Oregon City and hie par ents at Willamlna. , Lockhart was en inmate of the state hospital from February Co October, 1?22. MAY AW ffiT-3 The man killed ' was wearies a white' robe, ' has .not been 'identi fied and , at .the .morgue ' It .was stated that there -was ,-nothiag c.i his (body to fndicate his identlt. It was, however 'covered with ta too .marks, he" most serious ia lured, was .Steve .arsolbeck- wto, his friends say, was " discharge J a few months ago from-the regular army after six 'years. of serice. He was a member of the party op posing the parade and was ! ct through the abdomen. Wlliiai i Williams, another ex-soldier e- i member of the opposing force, was .Picked up-and hurled it Chartier's creek. The robei klansman died. in the office cf I. B. Jones as he was plcing.hini on the operating rlabl,e to prele f r the bullet through his head. TLrt 3 other klansmen wearing robes ap peared later for treatment of min or iiUurtes. They left with the robei . hidden .under; their - coats, the physician said. Burgess Jc'. -j Conley stated early this mornir t that no permit had been issued ff the parade. -It was estimated ttat 10,000 klansmen had gathered ca the hills above Carnegie at ' marched In the parade. Several Are Jailed ,' The klansmen are being held in the Carnegie jail, having been ar rested yesterday, afternoon when they appeared in the streets cf Carnegie with pistols showing f rori holstrs, according to the police, and began directing automobiles carrying klansmen to the scene cf the meeting.. David Cabel, wLo claims to be the exalted cyclers of the East Liberty klan,. one ct those arrested, said he, tog' t! with nine other' klansmen, mm assigned to direct traffic for t! 3 meeting and said he had obtain. -1 permission to that end from S. 11. Gardner, district attorney of AU3 gheny . county. Cabel and two others of th. arrested wore army uniforms, t--ing veterans of the World war, they, said, while the other uori civilian clothes. Cabel in hi 3 c .1 this morning' said that Sam Rich, who was the acting grand dragoa of Pennsylvania, had arranged for the meeting and had assigned hi. i as traffic manager. j IDHFEETIH lit PEIIITEfJTIfJ,: Frank Shaffer Paid a Hidi Compliment to the Spirit 5 He Found There Frank Shaffer, philosopher e:. 1 fory teller at large for the wht! world, entertained the men at the Oregon state penitentiary last night. He gave them an ca tentainment that they thorousV.j enjoyed. ' Mr. Shaffer paid his audienc Very high compliment. He ei'1 he could feel tb!o spirit, o eu.'i an institution, and he never f :t as fine a spirit in any priaon r j he found last night in this cr-i,. He has entertained pri?on. an i ehces all over the United CL; t , and throughout the world, t: he said he had found la f 3 r.i a r them such a eplrlt of laharnu. and gloom that it was very 1: 1 for him to work; where it impossible for him to c'v tesf" ....