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FOURTY-FOURTH YEAR NO. 168.
SALEM, OREGON, MONDAY, JULY 17, 1922.
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lob Attacks Workers In
West Virginia; All
Kinds of Weapons Used
-Tipple Blown Up
Wheeling, W. V., July 17.
Sheriff H. H. Duvall and 12 other
i persons were killed and no less
than 25 others wounded in a fight
Ht the Standard mine of the Rich
land Coal company, two miles
from Welsburg this morning, ac
cording to a telephone message
from the correspondent of the
Wheeling News at Wellsburg. The
mine, which had been working on
n open shop basis, was reported
o have been attacked by a large
arty of men from over the Penn
Mvania line. After the fight
they burned the tipple.
Governor Morgan has "ordered
Sheriff Harry Clouse of Ohio
county to take charge of the situ
ation. State police and all Ohio
icounty deputies are en route to
the scene.
Burn. Tipple and Houses.
Sheriff Clouse before leaving tor
the mines said he hail been in
kormed that miners were involved
in the fight and tliat they had
Jburned the Richland tipple and
Hired houses at Cliftondale, a rain
ling village near by.
Nine of the men supposed to be
striking miners from Pennsyl
vania who attacked the mine have
been arrested ana three of them
who were injured have "been taken
to a local hospital.
The attacking party, said to
number several hundred, opened
fire on the mine guards and sher
(Continued on Page Five.)
TALK OF CLOSING
STORES TO "HARVEST
CROP OF BERRIES
Closing of all business houses
in order that the help might aid
in harvesting the loganberry crop
which is going to waste because of
lack of pickers, was proposed this
Boon by Elmer Daue at the lunch
eon of the Commercial club in the
Marion hotel this noon.
Over 25 per cent of the crop is
going to waste, it was pointed out
and it is believed that with the
business houses of the city closed
several hundred pickers can be ob
tained.
Mayor George E. Halvorsen as
serts that he is in favor of the
business men and city taking some
action to relieve the situation;
while Edward Schunke, president
of the business men's league, stat
ed that he had taken up the mat
ter with several uusiness men,
who were not in favor of the prop
osition and did not believe that
the stluation could be much re
lieved. i"
William Gilchrist, head of the
Phez farms, proposed that the
business houses close three half
days, the helping going to work
In the morning and the stores
pening in the afternoon. To pre
vent the store employes from not
appearing at the berry fields, all
employers would require their
employes to showing their picking
checks.
Mr. McGilchrist also proposed
that the employers and proprietors
of stores provide transportation
for the members of their sales
forces to reach the berry patches.,
On a motion put by Otto Hart
man, Mayor Halvorsen, presiding,
asked for those in favor of clos
ing stand, and It was decided that
the stores should close on the
Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
mornings.
Lists will be taken of all store
help wishing -to go to the yards
and will be given, the Commercial
club so that any one desiring pick
ers can place their application
there for help.
In discussing the matter an ap
peal to the entire community to
come to the aid of the berry grow
ers was made by Mr. Hartman and
Mr. McGilchrist, the former point
ing out that it meant something
like $250,000 to the community
to have the crop saved this year.
DIESIOOIOUEMBACK
MOUl
President Harding Plans
To Act Within a Day
Or Tj ? To End Coal
And j fil Strike.
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Chlcagt S fuly 17. (ByAssoci
ated Pre i Peace prospects in
the railn j strike were dimmed
today byi j addition of approxi
mately 11 iOO men to the forces
of the st srs.
Negotiations for a settlement
were temporarily at a standstill,
with no positive indication as to
the next move or its possible re
sult. By many it is believed that
the nation this week will meet the
major industrial crisis of its his
tory. Seventy-five thousand mainte
nance of ways workers in New
York switching area were sched
uled to leave their " posts this
morning in answer to a region
strike call. To this number were
added close to 10,000 oilers and
stationary firemen and engineers
throughout the country whose
strike call last week fixed this
morning as the hour for cessation
of work. Clerks and freight
handlers in various sections plan
ned to leave their work in groups
ranging from less than a hundred
upward.
Washington, July 17. (By As
sociated Press.) Intimation was
given in well informed govern
mental circles this afternoon that
the administration was preparing
to take drastic action within the
next 48 hours in the coal strike
situation.
The president was represented
as being of the opinion that Inas
much as the miners' representa
tives had refuseu (government ar
bitration and the bituminous op
erators were undecided on accept
ance of such a proposal that the
interest of the public demanded
immediate reopening of the mines
With this feeling it was said
the president was prepared to o-
rect the mine operators to reopen
their mines at once under protec
tion of federal troops and with an
American flag planted at the en
trance of every mine to be oper
ated. The operators would be ex
pected to comply immediately
with such an edict.
The president has in mind, it
was further reported, to pay, if
necessary, for a short time a royal
ty on such coal as would he mined
to meet the emergency.
Jf there are insufficient num
bers of non-union miners to op
erate the mines when re-opened
under government protection, it
was intimated that a call for vol
unteer miners would go out from
the government, officials believ
ing there are thousands of miners
who now are engaged in other
pursuits but who would respond tp
such a call.
BANKERS OPEN
PORTLAND MEET
Portland. July 17. First ses
sions of the twentieth annual con
vention of the American institute
of Banking opened here today and
the convention which has brought
more than 1000 delegates from an
parts of the country will continue
nntil Thursday witn a aay oil iu
morrow for a trip over the Colum
bia highway.
The delegates were formally
welcomed today by Mayor George
L. Baker, on benall oi me c.ij
and E. H. Sensenlcn oi roru
delivered greetings from the Am
erican Bankers' association. Car
ter E. Talman of Richmond, Va.,
vice president of the American
institute of Banking responded.
PrMltient Robert B. ixicks vi
Detroit presided and delivered his
annual report and secretary Rich
ard V. Hill, New York, made his
report j ct
Professor fcamunu n.
Ttrn .hln trtftt
the University oi a
Seattle, was on the program for
xn address on tne msiorj
iorthwest. i
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Governor Makes Public
Letter Showing Appeal
for Funds From Ku
Klux Klan Officials
Letters showing that the Ku
Klux Klan has "developed a pow
erful financial organization which
is raising a fund up to $50,000 or
more to be used in financing the
recount contest of Mr. Hall," have
been made public by Governor Ol
cott in a statement in which the
governor invites Hall "to make a
fair and square count of all of the
precincts of the state to determine
the exact result of the election
and to satisfy the people of the
state," instead of limiting the re
count to the few selected precincts
in which the contestant feels that
a recount might result to his ad
vantage. One of the letters wh-ich is made
public by the governor is signed
by T. A. Rogers, super-kleagle ot
the Knight ot the Ku Klux Klan,
realms of eastern Oregon-south-
eastern Washington. It Is dated
at Walla Walla. Washington, June
27, and calls attention of tne
klansmen to the fact that "at the
regular meeting on June 24 of the
Walla Walla provisional klan, it
was unanimously voted that this
klan shold contribute an amount
equal to $2 per member to assist
in financing a recount and such
other legal action as is necessary
in order that the will of the ma
jority of the people of Oregon may
prevail in the ecent primary
nominating recount."
Ask for $50,000.
The estimated cost of such a
recount the letter explains, is
placed at $50,000.
The letter from the super-
kleaele directs the klansmen to
"make checks payable either to
cash or to P. L. Wadley," and ad
monishes the reader to "destroy
this letter by fire upon reading
it."
Another letter made public by
the governor is signed by R. W
Sinclair, kligrapp of the Ku Klux
Klan, realm of Oregon and calls
upon the klansmen in his realm
for voluntary contributions of $2
per member to defray the expense
ot the recount Institutea Dy nan.
A third letter is signed by Hall
himself calling for contributions
to the recount fund which he esti
mates at $25,000.
These letters, the governor
ooints out, indicate that the in
fluences back of the primary re
suit contest are not confined to
Oreeron alone.
" The governor, in his statement
declares that "if I did not receive
the Dlurality of tne republican
votes cast for the governorship in
the recent primaries I do not want
the nomination," but insists tnai
"it is preposterous to assume that
if there were irregularities in all
nt the nrecincts designated Dy Air
Hall these irregularities would all
be to the detriment of Mr. Hall
and that no irregularities could
exist in the 1000 or more other
precincts not mentioned in tne pe
nnon." "Upon returning from a week's
highway inspection trip in the
nrt of the state I have
riven, for- the first time.
what analyze the
recount proceedings Instituted
eainst me bv Senator Hall ana
desire to present to the public the
otiMstlnn which exists," said Gov
ernor Olcott in a statement issued
today.
There has come into my pos
session within the past few days a
number of documents indicating
that the Ku Klux Klan has de-
inncH a nowerful financial or
ganization which is raising a fund
up to $50,000 or more 10 db usu
in financing ttje recount couieai
tor Mr. Hall. These documents in-
(Continued on page two)
SPEEDER IS ARRESTED HERE
J. W. Wood, of thls-city, was
taken into custoay ssaiuraay
night on a charge of speeding by
Motorcycle Patrolman Parrent.
Mr. Wood was required to furn
ish $$10 bail and was cited to ap
pear before Police Judge Ear!
Race this afternoon.
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How Mr.
"The Modern Ku Klux Klan"
Coroner's Jury Finds
Hammer Murderess Is
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Resposnsible for Crime
, Los Angeles, Cal., July 17.
The hammer murder of Mrs. Al
berta Meadows, 20-yearAold wid
ow, was charged to Mrs. Clara
Phillips today by a coroner's jury
following a brief, dramatic in
quest here today.
The verdict was that death was
due "to a fracture of the skull by
a' hammer blow at the hands of
Mrs. Clara Phillips in premedi
ated murder."
Following preliminary testi
mony establishing identity ot the
young slain widow, the inquest
plunged into the lurid drama. The
tense feeling enveloping tne in
quest room grew as the graphic
details of horror poured out as
Mrs. Peggie Cafee described the
death scene. It reached its climax
when the agitation ot Mrs. Caffee
developed to the breaking point
and testimony was halted when
she took some cold water aB a re
storative. "I don't like to talk about the
blood," she said, pale and trem
bling. She repeated the details as she
had given them to the grand Jury.
Meets Slain Woman.
She said the first time she
met Mrs. Meadows,' the victim,
was upon the day of the murder,
Debs Urges General
Strike Of Labor To
Aid Railroad Men
Chicago, July 17 -Eugene V.
Debs, leader of .the American rail
way union strike in 1894, today
issued a statemnt to the striking
railroad men and other unions
that the time has come for the
rank and file to unite and "strike
together, vote together and fight
togther."
"There has been some slight
disorder and a few scabs have
been hurt," Mr. Debs said. "This
has been the extnt of the violence
but it has been sufficient to
bring to the strikers what they
fought for in the late world war
The federal government announces
through the department of Justice
that it will stand no trifling on
the part of the strikers and that
if necessary armed force will be
employed at once for their sup
pression.
"The governors of seven states
have simultaneously announced
that they have the national
guard mobilized and ready to
move at command when the ex
Igencies of the situation demand
action.
"You will have no trouble in
guessing what kind of action is
thus meeant on the part of the
national governments which you
shouted for, voted for. Invested
your last dollar for, and cross
ed the Atlantic to fight and be
Fry Became a Kleagle of
This is the second installment of Mr. Fry's great book
setting forth the truth about the secret society that seeks to
dominate Oregon.
The book is an expose of the methods, purposes, obli
gations and operations of "The Invisible Empire of the
Knights of the Ku Klux Klan," including the history of the
original Ku Klux Klan of civil war and reconstruction days
and its modern imitation.
Mr. Fry is the author of the New York World expose
of the Ku Klux Klan, which brought about the Congression
al Investigation and won for the World the medal for the
most meritious service rendered by any newspaper during
the year. He is a former "kleagle" and reveals the sinister
secrets of the order from within.
The Capital Journal will print a chapter a day.
less than an hour before the slay
Ing. Her story began with the
day before, laBt Tuesday, when
she met Mrs. Phillips went shop
ping with her and saw the former
movie beauty purchase a cheap
hammer.
Tuesday afternoon, Mrs. Caffee
testified.' Mrs. Phillips told her
that she had been told her hus
band was going around with a girl
named Alberta and she believed
the, story because her husband
had been neglecting her.
It was then they met Mrs. Mea
dows, she said, it being her first
and only meeting with her. Mrs.
Phlllios requested that Mrs. Mea
dow drive her home, acceptance,
divergence from the route near
the point in the Montecito hills,
stopping on the hillside when Mrs.
Phillips asked Mrs. Meadows to
leave the car a moment, were re
cited by Mrs. Caffee. :
"She asked Alberta if Mr. Phil
lips did not give her the tires for
her automobile and a wrist
watch," Mrs. caffee testified.
"Mrs. Meadows denied this and
Clara (Mrs. Phillips) said:
' 'He certainly did,' and" with
that struck her with the hammer.
"Alberta started to run and
Clara chased her for half a block
and brought herfrack by the arm.
gassed and die for in the war
to make the world in general and
in America particular safe for
Democracy and Liberty.
"And now that the war is ov
er and Kalserlsm is dead and De.
mocracy and Liberty and on top
this Bame crowd, to a man, to
whom you rallied in such frenzy
ot enthusiasm, to compensate you
for your noble patriotism, is now
lined up against you in battle
array and ready to shoot you
down like dogs.
"It is true, Mr. Union Man,
that your craft r union leaders
with scarcely an exception stood
with the Wall Street profiteers
in howling for war and rushing
you ,the common herd, into the
trenches to be gassed, mutilated
and murdered while they remain
ed in the rear to receive the
plaudits of the plutocratic press
for their patriotism. But that
does not excuse you, for you
chose those leaders and were res
ponsible for them, and after all,
the' leaders are about as fit or
otherwise as the rank and rile
that elects them.
"If in the light of this situation
you do not realize the crying need
for unity, for solidarity on every
front, regardless of creed or col
or, you are Indeed in a pathetic
Continued on PageJ'iye.)
I thought they had made up, but
when they came to the car she hit
her again and the blood spurted
out and streamed down."
Storv of Murder.
R was at this point that Mrs.
Caffee broke down.
She resumed a few minutes
later, saying she stepped between
the two women and "Clara told me
to get out of the way."
"The blood made me sick and 1
went down the road," she testi
fied. "I looked back and saw
Clara strike her one blow while
Alberta was on the ground."
She testified that a few minutes
later the car reached her and Mrs.
Phillips was driving alone.
"She looked furious and said:
Don't you dare tell abot this.
Vou are in this as much as I.' "
Mrs. Phillips drove downtown
and left her, she said.
Two detectives testified follow
ing Mrs. Cafee. One of them pro
duced the broken handle of the
Instrument of murder, a stained
hammer handle.
There was an audible gasp
among spectators, and Genora Tre-
maine, younger sister of the slain
widow, sighed as she buried her
face in her hands to shut out sight
of the death weapon.
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Peking, July 17. (By Assoc!
ated Press.) A majority of the
Chinese newspapers consider that
a grave crisis has arisen as a re
sult of internal disorders. They
urge that parliament . assemble
promptly and that President LI
Yuan-Hung exercise drastic meas
ures to exterminate the militar
ists who are declared selfishly to
be fermenting trouble with a view
to making the Peking government
helpless to overthrow them.
Prominence Is given in . the
newspapers to reports from Che
kiang concerning the movement
for a southern confederacy com
prised of Cheklang, Fuklen and
Kwantung provinces to consoli
date the opponents of the Peking
government. Referring to Dr. Sun
Yat-Sen's refusal to leave Kwang-
tung, the war Detween rival mili
tarists of Szechwan the fighting
in Kiangsi and Changtso-Lin"s
reviving strength in Manchuria
the newspapers unanimously in
sist the crisis demands that Pres
ident Li Yuan-Hung act without
delay.
ADDITIONAL TARIFF ON
COTTON CLOTH PASSED
Washington, July 17. The 12
per cent addtiional tariff duty on
fancy woven cotton cloth was ap
proved today by the senate, 34 to
23 after an amendment by Sena
tor Lenroot to reduce it to 6 per
cent had been rejected 33 to 24.
GRAVE CRISIS
XiSTS IN CHINA
'MMm
MILES PLEDGE LOYALTY
AND FURNISH $1 000 BOND
TOEMPEROR NOT TO KLAN
Business of order all
liam J. Simmons and not in name of organization
Author tells how he became a member and his ex
periences as an organizer
First effort in a community is to get the mayor, the
sheriff, his deputies, and the police department so as to tie
the hands of constituted authority; telephone, telegraph and
railroad people are also sought.
By HENRY P. FRY,
(Copyright 1922 by Small, Maynard & Co.; Published by arrange,
ment with "author and publisher.)
CHAPTER II .
Joining the Ku Klux Klan .
My first intimate contract with the "Invisible Empire"
took place in upper East Tennessee, a section of ths.. United
States where one would least expect such a movement to take
a definite foothold. There is practically no racial friction
whatever in this section. The negro population is not
large, and the negroes themselves are orderly and well-behaved
people, industrious and well liked by the white peo
ple. A remarkable thing about East Tennessee is the scarci
ty of Jews. It is very doubtful if a careful search of the en
tire fifteen counties would
to fill a synagogue. There is likewise a paucity of foreign
population, for, with the exception of a few Greeks, the
foreign element seems strangely absent. It is also remark
able that in this section the Roman Catholic religion does not
seem to have been able to take root. While there is a small
Catholic Church in Johnson City, and one in Greenville that
is opened but once a year, the other places have few, if any.
Catholics in them. It is doubtful if one could find in all
America a group of people who appear to be more over
whelmingly Americans or more uniformly Protestant in
their rehegious views than
SERVE 60 DAYS
WITH $350 FINE
Billie Moore of Silverton, jwho
pleaded guilty in the Salem jus
tice court this morning to a charge
of manufacturing liquor, was sen
tenced to Judge G. E. Unruh to
serve 60 days In the county Jail
and to pay a fine ot $350.
Moore, who was asleep when a
raid was made on his place near
Silverton Saturday evening, was
taken into custody by Deputy
Sheriffs Walter Barber and Bert
Smith. They found In the house
a 30-gallon washboiler still, in
operation and about two and one
half gallons of liquor, they said.
Belfast, July 17. (By Associ
ated Press.) Reports reaching
here represent the city of Cork as
suffering grevlously at the hands
of the republican Insurgent forces.
who are said to be in absolute con
trol.
The port of Cork has been
closed, it Is said, ships not being
allowed to enter or leave,, business
premises have been seized and
their contents appropriated for
the republican troops, many
of whom are billeted with civil
ian inhabitants and several thous
and people are out of work.
Moreover there has been an out
break of robbery and destruction,
according to refugees arriving
here who have been Interviewed
by reporters for the BelfaBt Tele
graph.
AMU
the Klan
conducted in name of Wil
in Tennessee.
disclose enough Jewish neoole
the inhabitants of this section.;
In January, 1021, I was sfcnt by
a Chattanooga business house with
w-hich I had been connected for
some time, on an extended trip
through East Tennessee.
In February I arrived at Johnson
City ,intcnding to make that my
headquarters and visit the other
towns, which are easy of access.
Early dn March 1921, I noticed a
younjr man of pleasing personality
but I had never talked with him
until the morning of March 1(5, when
we were thrown together at the
breakfast table.
"What are you selling)" I asked,
taking it for granted that he was
a traveling salesman.
Ho looked at the Masonic em
blem I wore on my coat, smiled and
(Continued on page eight)
NORTHERN ROMANCE
COMING TO THIS CITY
An intensely interesting ro
mance of the great northwest will
be the feature attraction at the
Bllgh theatre on Tuesday, Wed
nesday, Thursday when, "The
Heart of the North" is given its
premiere in this city. Roy Stew
art, that sterling actor, and Miss
Louise Lovely the Australian
artist are featured.
Harry Revier, who has super
vised some of the moBt success
ful American photoplays, includ
ing "The Return of Tarzan" and
"The Son of Tarzan," directed the
picture. ,
Edward Dowling who wrote
"The Heart of the North" with
Roy Stewart in mind for the fea
ture role, is the author of many
successful photoplays, among
them "The Greatest Love," fea
turing Vera Gordon of "Humor
esque" fame.
Bamzen Leads Shooters
Glencoe, 111., July 17 Cene Sar-
azen or nttsourgn took tne ieaa
among the early finishers by shoot
ing 63, two under rRr in his after
noon round. This gave hha a final
72-holo total of 2SS.