JUL 2 7 1922
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ASKED FROM
state Railroad and Public
Utility Boards Called
Upon to Carry Out
Priority Orders.
f Washington, July 26 State rail
load and public utility commissions
j-ere culled upon today by the Inter
nals commerce-commission to give
live assistance in carrying out the
riority orders for the distribution
f coal.
The request of the commission,
hich followed closely upon the is-
iiance of the priority orders and
he declaration of a .national
raergney in the states east of the
ssissippi river, was made in tei-
grams dispatched to the regulatory
odieB of the various states by com-
nsUmer Aitchison, in charge of
ilie commissions car service divi-
Armistice Requested1
The commission desires to know
liether, "if local developments con-
lected with our general service or-
ferg require, we can rely on having
fctive assistance of your commis
I on," the telegram addressed to the
fates said. This possibility may in
volve survey, certification and
olicing of certain local needs un
r priority orders issued or to be
nsued. Emergency is most acute and
Squires best effort of all under
luimon plan if distress which will
(ume is to be mitigated."
Having joined in the fuel distri
ution plan thus prepared for, pro
ucing operators and railroad traf-
ic today awa I ;d the word from
resident Harding to sot in motion
he machinery for emergency con
trol. The president was expected by
dministration ofticials to formally
Istaiblish foundation for the scheme
ty appointment .of a presidential
ommittee of representatives from
he interstate commerce commission
nd the 4nments of commerce,
ustice and interior, with, secretary
jlloover as chairman.
EXPERTS DIFFER-
OVER CAUSE OF
Chicago, July 26. Americap
land Italian technical experts are
jln disagreement 588 to the most
jprobable cause of "the wreck of the
semi-rigid Italian 'built army dir
igible Roma, February 21 last
fnear Norfolk, Virginia, with the
iloss of 34 lives. The final report
of the investigating board, em
boy. the Italian as well as the
JAmerican conclusions, was made
public today with a statement
irorn Secretary Weeks declaring
there was no controversy between
JAmerican and Italian authorities
Involved. The report stresses the
statement that all the facts of the
disaster can never be known,
physical evidence that might have
I told the Btory was consumed in
(the flames. '
The American experts reached
J the conclusion that flattening of
J 'he upper surface of the metal
I nose cap on the bow of the great
(Basbag caused a downward pres
sure as the ship drove along at
I Probably 60 milts an hour. The
a thrust twas resisted by the
j "tern stabilizers' and stresses de
veloped which the evidence of one
J witness indicated caused a buck-
"US or the keel frames, putting
he rudder controls out of com
mission and leaving the huge craft
to Plunge downward with her
trew hep less to check the dive.
The Italian experts disagree
ith thla view. They believe that
the "recalling rudders" counter
Poising the movement of the "up
down" rudder control "probably
0Ter stressed"' and broke and this
' followed by the rupture of
1 'he rudder control cables,
j ''Undoubtedly," the report says,
1 th !os of lite In this accident
lould not have been so great it
j supporting medium had been
! "on-inflammable, non-explosive
such aa helium.
COMMISSIONS
ROMA'S
RECK
ADHERENTS
VICTORIOUS
Lenroot and Associates
Defeated in Effort to
Limit. Duties ..on.. Coal
And Carpet Tj
; Washington, . July g f-Repub
lican senators opj a tariff
rates proposed on J - so fades of
coal lost today In tj 2. St phase
of their fight to liu a ese rates
to an equivalent adi em of 60
per cent. . I
The senate, by aj ;j fof 43 to
22, rejected an a pent by
Senator Lenroot o( f consln to
provide for a minimum of 60 per
zent in the tariff on carpet tools.
Eight republicans supported the
Lenroot proposal and seven dem
ocrats voted against it. The re
publicans supoprting "were Borah,
Idaho; Cummins and Rawson,
Iowa; Kellogg and Nelson, Minne
sota; Lenrott, Wisconsin; McCor-
mick, Illinois, and Wadsworth,
New York. The democrats oppos
ing were Ashucst, Arizona; Brous-
sard and Ransdell, Louisana;
Jones, New Mexico; Kendrick,
Wyoming; Sheppard, Texas, and
Walsh, Montana.
FILE ARGUMENTS
The proposed interest rate
amendment to the constitution
would inhibit loans on many
classes of security and thousands
of mortgages on homes would be
foreclosed at maturity because of
property owners' inability to pro
cure new loans at the legal rate
allowed, according to a negative
argument, to be published in the
voters' pamphlet, which was filed
.with the secretary of state today.
The argument frowning on the
amendment was prepared by the
Portland Press club, the Portland
Association of Credit Men, the
Portland chamber of commerce,
the Associated Retail Credit Men
of Portland, the Progressive Bus
iness Men's' club, the Oregon
Technical council, , the Kiwanis
club, nd the East Side Business
Men's club.
The proposed income tax bill,
initiated by the state grange, also
is denounced in ; an argument
filed by this same group today.
Concerning the amendment the
argument contends that the law
of supply and demand controls
the value of money the same aa
of other commodities, with this
difference: that money .is the
most sensitive commodity with
which the business world has to
deal." The home owner and the
farmer would particularly suffer,
it is declared. Instead of helping
the class of people who need help
most. It would simply make it im
possible for them to borrow
money.
The amendment, the argument
insists, would especially militate
the grain, cattle, sheep and wool
men.
HALL'S ANSWER
T, 7 tn ii answer of Govern
or Ben W. Olcott in the Hall con
test suit for the repuoncan nomi
nation for governor in the re
cent primaries, was eipecieu
be filed by the Hall attorneys this
afternoon.
In a contest suit 24 hours is
the time limit for filing a reply
unless otherwise stipulated be
tween the parties. No such stipu
lation has been eniereu i
''it is expected that the reply
v. nnthinir more than a flat
denial of all the allegations con
tained in the Oicou
" . rt the hearing of
the case will be on Monday, it isj
11 J
oeneveu.
UPON FREAK BILLS
SCHEDUL
0 TODAY
(MHO
AID STRIKERS
40,000 Shopmen to Join
Men Out Peace in Rail
road Tie-up Seems Far
Off; Priority is Issue.
Chicago, July 26. (By Asso
ciated Press.) With the govern
ment assuming control of freight
traffic from midnight last night,
the eastern railroads continuing
their efforts to form new unions
of shopmen and indication from
Montreal that a walkout of 40,000
Canadian shopmen hadbeen au
thorized, peace in the railway
strike today seemed remote.
; On the other hand good will
was apparent' in the meeting being
held at Baltimore between offi
cials of the Baltimore & Ohio rail
road and representatives- of tae
shopmen which have been regard
ed as a possible precursor to other
individual settlement if success
ful. '
HSfi Further Spread Expected.
No further spread of the strike
was looked tor. Plans have been
perfected for delivering . mail by
motor truck at least once a day to
every community in upper Mlchl
gan. No-rth and ' South Dakota
and Minnesota.
Curtail of train service during
the last 24 hours was negligible.
The Pennsylvania railroad issued
a statement last night saying pas
senger and freight service had
been restored to normal on -that
road. . '
Denison, Texas, was placed un
der martini law at 5 o'clock this
morning by Governor Neff, who
ordered five companies of the
Texas national guard to duty
there.
Governor Stephens of California
in, a message to President Hard
ingy called attention to possible
shortage of refrigerator cars for
transporting fruit.
Seniority the Issue.
Two big western trunk lines
the Santa Fe and the Southern
Pacific, reporting today to the
United States railroad labor board
in supoprt of the roads contention
that the seniority question is the
big issue at stake in. the shop
crafts strike, declared they had
16,020 men at work who would be
affected by it.
These men, the roads said, have
been promised that they win De
protected in their seniority rights
over all men who may be employ
ed later, or who may return to
their Jobs.
The Santa Fe presented figures
to the board showing 6513 skilled
mechanics and 2869 shop laborers
were at work in its shops last
night.
The Southern Pacific report
shows that out of 1S.000 shopmen
employed June 30, 6268 did hot
walkout and that return of strik
ers and employment of new men
have brought the total employed
last night up to 6648.
STRIKERS CALL OUT
IPWOR
Mnslrneee Okla.. July 26. In
retaliation to the threat of the
Oklahoma coal operators associa
tion and the Southwestern Inter
state Coal Operators' association
to resume work at their mines un
der the open shop basis, the ex
ecutive board of district 21, uni
ted Mine Workers of America,
comprising the state of Oklahoma,
Arkansas Bnd Texas this after-
nooiv nassed a resolution calling
( ans-lnitri- firemen and pump
men who had been permitted to
work at the mines, since tne na
tional strike began April 1. These
mn wora allowed to remain at
wprk to keep the mines from
flooding.
Th bnard also approved Dis
trict President John Wilkinson's
strike call of last week against
mines supplying eoal to utUities.
It went on record as refusing to
permit these mines to resume op
erations in view of the govera
m.f. nrder nermitting railroads
to eixe coal in order to avoid a
shortage.
PUB
KERS
SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1922.
Clarke
"The Mddefn Ku Klux Klan"
: M ;
''If"
Grand Jury Summons
Mem hers Of Klan In
Probe Of Nigh t Riders
Medford, Or., July 26. Today
is "klan" day witB the Jackson
county grand Jury Investigating
the Ku Klan Klan here. Subpoe
nas have been issued for J. F.
Hittson, former Medford chief of
police; Joe McMahan, state trat
fic ,cop; Jack HemBtreet, former
member of :. the Medford police
force; M. B. Bunnell, who is said
to have filed the charges with the
klan court that led to the Hale
hanging; Dr. Jouett B. Bray, chl
ropractor, and Dwlght Vlmont
both of whom are said to have left
town since the grand Jury started
work; Robert. Hammond, tele
phone manager; Newton Borden,
democratic candidate for state
senator and reputed to be cyclops
of the local klan; Dr. McM. N.
Dow, William Offutt and others
not announced.
That Mayor C. B. Gates of Med
ford, often mentioned as an inde
pendent candidate for governor,
gave an impassioned plea in his
defense at a meeting of the Med
ford klan, when his suspension for
six months was demanded, was
part of the testimony given before
the special grand Jury yesterday
by Raymond Reter former mem
ber of the Ku Klux Klan, accord
ing to reliable reports today. May-j
New Principal is Hired
And Five Teachers Are
Chosen ByDirectors
A new principal and five addi
tional instructors were eleeted by
the Salem school board at its regular
meeting last nigh- and the resigna
tions of rive teachers were accept
ed.
On the recommendation of Sup
erintendent George Hag, the board
chose W. A. Davenport to serve as
principal of the Lincoln school. He
will receive a salary of $1400 a
year.
Marjory Oil'bert was chosen as
an English instructor in the Salem
high school; Glen W. Campbell was
elected to teach science in the high,
school; OHie May Chandler was
picked for a home economics in
structor in the junior high schools;
Eva Mas toe was hired as a grade
teacher, and Gertrude DeWitt was
eleeted as a grade teacher.
The four teachers who resigned
last night were Harry Savage, his-
ory instructor and debate coach;
Benlah Slade, an instructor in the
commercial department, Alieyn
Johnson, an English teacher and
June Van Winkle, also of the Eng
lish department.
At the suggestion of Mr. Hug
the board voted to place Miss Eu-
Creech aa head of the home
economics department in all of the
junior high schools. Mr. Hug spoke
highly of Miss Creech s work. In
her new position she will receive
$140 a month on a nine-month
b&sis.
The board last night voter! to
paint and tint the Garfield school
and E'Jjert Hutcheon was ehosfn
to perform the work, Tiie inside ot
S;Js Kept Mmn
and Mfs. Tyler G
The Capital Journal is running serially this book expos
ing" the workings of the Ku Klux Klan, its real aims and
purposes. It is written by Henry P. Fry, who wrote the
exposure of the Klan for the New York World that won that
newspaper the award for rendering the highest service to
the nation of any newspaper in America the past year.
In; previously published chapters, Mr. Fry told of join
ing the Klan under misapprehension, his experiences, and
hia discovery of the real motives of the promoters, which
was followed by his resignation. He then turned to an ex
pose of Klan propagation methods, which will be followed
by a description of the ritual etc.
Publication of the book has been interrupted for two
dt'tys to set forth the scandal that has broken out at Atlanta,
showing plainly that the organization i3 simply an appeal to
religious and racial prejudice for the enrichment of grafters.
It will be resumed tomorrow.
or Gates by special Cispensation
some time ago, was made an hon
orary member of the klan after
attending an initiation and ob
serving the ceremony.
Tt- Is also reported that the
names of the officers of the Med
fnrri Itlan were named, and sev
era! .- fiery speeches of members
were recited.
Art hni rtnrr the npero boot
black who was taken Into the hills
and strung up in March is on his
wy to Medford from Modesto to
appear before the grand Jury. He
left for California right after the
klansmen took the rope from
B rnu nil his neck and has nob been
back since nor would he return
until he was promised safe con
duct hv the prosecuting officers.
He will be met south of the Ore
gon line' and accompanied to Med
ford. It is expected that he will
reach Medford Friday or Satur
day. ,
Hank Johnson, who was noosed
hv the klan for alleged chicken
stealing, will go before the Jury
this afternoon or tomorrow.
Kelly a Witness.
When the grand Jury met yes
terday. Colonel B. E. Kelly, who
resigned the district attorneyship
of Jackson county to go overseas
the tmilding will be painted and
tinted, and a portion of the out
side will be painted.
Cuyler Von Patten, local contrac
tor, will have the plans for the
two new portable buildings, to be
used next fall, ready within a few
daysj it was announced.
The supplies committee last night
was authorized to purchase ten new
typewriters for the commercial fle
patmeat of the high school.
Today's Scores
American at Chicagrj
R. H. E.
Boston 3 8 8
Chicago 1 3 0
Quiun and Ruel; Robertson ano
Schalk. .
National at Brooklyn
Pittsburgh 0 2
Brooklyn 7 10 0
Glaxner and Jonnard; Reutber
ant Deberry, Hungling.
" American at Cleveland "
Philadelphia 0 7 0
Cleveland 2 1
Retig, Kckert and Perkins;
Uhle and O'Nell.
National at New York
St. IjouI 6 7 4
New York 10 20 C
Sherdell, Pfeffer, Barfott, Per
Mca and Alnsmith; Douglas, Ryan
ind Snyder.
and who is now a candidate for
circuit Judge, was called as the
first witness. Kelly resigned from
the American Legion of Medford
because It refused to adopt a reso
lution offered by him denouncing
the Ku Klux Klan. Subsequent
to this he received an .anonymous
letter signed "I Know All," one of
a series sent to various prominent
men of Medford, warning him to
quit his outspoken hostility to the
klan. Kelly laid this letter before
the grand Jury and gave other tes
timony relating to his knowledge
of the workings of the klan in
Jackson county.
James E. Edmiston, manager of
the Oregon Cooperative Fruit
(Continued on Page Five.)
READY TO TALK
TO ONION CHIEFS
Bridgeport, Ohio, July 26. An
nouncement, was made here today
by Charles J. Albasin, secretary of
the Pittsburg Vein Operators' as
lociation that the association now
stands ready to enter conferences
with officials of the United Mine
Workers either for the state of
Ohio or for the central competi
tive field with a view to terminat
ing the strike.
This is the , first definite an
nouncement by this association of
operators, which produce more
than one-third of the entire coal
output In Ohio, that it was willing
to enter conferences with the min
ers on this basis.
PLAINTIFFS FINISH
IN PHEZ CASE
That the market price for lo
ganberries during the years of
1919 and 1920 was 9 nd 13 cents
was brought out by the testimony
of witnesses in the 300,000
breach of contract suit brought
by the Phez company against the
members of the Salem Fruit union
now being heard in the circuit
court by Judges George G. Bing
ham and Percy Kelly.
The plaintiff was expected to
finish its clde of the case this af
ternoon, when the defendants will
take up the issue, of whether or
not there was any breach of con
tract In the failure of the grow
ers to deliver their berries to the
Phex company during the two
years.
The contract price of the ber
ries was Quoted at 2314 end 4
eents. Should the court decide
against the growers they will be
forced to pay the difference be
tween this price and the market
price.
OHIO OPERATORS
PRICE TWO CENTS
ab
(LIGIMPP BARES SCI01
IWMENTIWO
0 BODY
Wade exposes usurpation
perial Kleagle who is now Emperor pro-tern of Ku
Klux Klan and with Mrs. Tyler has become "sud
denly enormously wealthy from ill-gotten gairis
collected from the ranks of the Klansmen. Order
is used for personal aggrandizement.
Clarke Accused of Converting
Tribute Payers, Whose Money Enriches His Coffers, So
That He Has Reduced the Other members of the Klan to
Practical Serfdom Collecting Money From Every Officer
and Agent Who Is. Handling Money
Atlanta, Ga., July 26. (Special Correspondence) Sensa
tional disclosures regarding the management of the Ku
Klux Klan are made in. the. Fulton Superior court by L. D.
Wade, Imperial Kligrapp, in his reply to the application for
a restraining order preventing him from telling of the affairs
of the klan sought by Edward
Imperial Klaliff and Emperor
Plorh-o nnrl TVTra TflliVnhorVi
arrested in dishabille and fined for disorderly conduct in the
police court of Atlanta, are accused of having seized supreme
power of the klan and to be using the order "for their per
sonal aggrandizment," and "being in control of the funds
have become suddenly and enormously wealthy from ill
gotten gains collected from the ranks of the Klansmen."
Clarke is accused of having "gained complete control over
Emperor Simmons and has either kept him drunk or has
taken advantage of his drunken condition, and thereby pro
cured his own appointment as Imperial Wizard, pro tem, and
by virtue of this office and by virtue of the office of Imperial
Klaliff and Imperial Kleagle, controlling the selection of other
officers of the Imperial Kloneilium, which is he supremo
council of the order, punishing with immediate dismissal any
officers who opposes his will."
NO FIERY CROSS
LLU1NES NIGHT
FOR LOCAL KLUX
The Ku Klux meeting, so her
alded and acclaimed, for July 25,
in the "read and burn letter'"
from the Salem headquarters of
the organization, apparently
petered out last night.
No flaming cross lit up the
midnight skies. No hooded and
night gowned figures assembled
in weird ritualistic ceremonies
gatherings on Ferguson hill.
where the "dope" had it that the
coos-coos were to meet. Somebody
must have been scared out or
got their dates mixed.
Rumors were rife about the
city ' yesterday concerning the
meeting. Everybody was curious,
but not curious enough to ap
proach the hillock ' where the
naturalization" ceremonies of a
large number of "aleens" into the
invisible empire were supposed to
take place.
The "big surprise" promised in
the letter must have been ice
cream and cake served at the com
mittee meeting in a local lodge
hall, if any meeting was held at
all.
Needless to say, there were
many wbo were disappointed, for
the spectacle of a klan meeting
bid fair to give excitement to an
otherwise quiet evening.
Perhaps the prospect of being
hit 16 bucks each for the Hall re
count contest reduced the enthus
iasm of the klansmen and made
necessary a postponement of the
gathering until some future date.
Rights of way are being obtain
ed for tbe widening of the lie
Kenzie highway at O'Brien's TooBt,
at Deerhorn, and at other places
where it is to t improved.
THE WEATHER
Washington and Oregon: Tonight fair.
Thursday fair and warmer.
-Local: No rainfall: northerly winds;
part cloudy; max. 77; mln. 49; river,
minus 1.2 feet and stationary.
ON TRAINS A NO NKW8
STANIS FIVJ3 CENTS
Wealth
TRITE FffiS
of supreme power by Im
Order Into a Vast Body of
Young Clarke, Imperial Kleagle,
pro-tem of the Ku Klux Klan.
TVlpr. witVi wlinm V10 wna nnrn
sThe following copy of the of
ficial records gives Mr. Wades
answer in detail:
Knights of the Ku Klux KJan
vs. L, J. Wade,
No. 5320S Fulton Supreme Court
September Tcrm 1922 Injunction.
Now comes L. D. Wade, defend
ant in tbe above stated ease, and,
without waiving his pleas in abate
ment heretofore filed or either of
them, but specially insisting there
on, appears specially for the purpo.e
of answering the allegations of
plaintiff's petition, and thereupon
avers:
I
Defendant admits that he was
Imperial Kligrapp of the Ku Klux
Klan prior to and until the Bill
day of June, 1922, about which date
(Continued on page two)
JOHN N. SrKORE
OREGON PIONEER, DEAD
South Berjd, Wash., July 20 One
of the distinctive characters of the
old northwest is being buried here
today in the person of Judge John
Nathan Skidmore, wbo died at the
age of 89 years. He came from
Kentucky to Oregon 69 years ago,
and helped clear tho firs from the
present site of Portland. In the
Indian uprising of 1855 Mr. Skid
more joined the Oregon, mounted
volunteers and he engaged in a
number of battles during the war
fare. NEW HOSPITALS FOR
FORMER SERVICE MEN
Washington, July 26 Selection
of St. Cloud, Minnesota, as a site
for a new 1,000,000 hospital, for
service men with facilities for tf
tween 2C0 and 350 men was an
nounced today by Director Forbes
of the veterans bureau.
Decision to establish a (1,000,
000 hospital with facilities for 500
mental eases at Camp Custer, Mich
igan, instead of the Great Lkcs
naval training station ser Chicago,
also was announced by diretoe
Forbes.
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