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"J., STATE L1CSARY x'S 1922 ' CIRCULATION p4,ly average for July. 6924. Member Audit Bureau of Circulation. enlber Associated Press-Full leased wlre..rvice. . . V THE WEATHER OREGON: " Tonight and -Saturday showers. Gentle southerly winds. . " Local: Rainfall .75 inches; southerly winds; cloudy; max. 89. mtn. 57; river, minus 1JS feet and rising -.- ON. TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS flYTOURTH YEAR NO. 190, SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, 1 AUGUST 11, 1922. PRICE TWO CENTS iV 151 1 uuy Msm3 1 Tv"Tl Tl ii a n n AiPfPf n Ji I n In I Bin J VA IsJSI LJ Vrr- - Ii r.73 M VaJ s PA j Ll iza La : u u w "',. jIGRESSTO If HARDING IWTOACT Cummins Admits L-egis lation Under Way To Conptinn Seizure - of Ulna'''" Roads. Executives Deadlocked New York, Aug. 11. r(By Associated Press) Railway eiecutivea were reported late today to be deadlocked over President Harding's proposal to end the rail strike by tak ing back strikers and letting th railroad labor board settle che Question of their seniority. Wimhimrrnn. Aue. 11 Chairman CummurfoftB&vsenate interstate commerce committee conceded to day that legislation was under con sideration which would empower tie president to take over the rail roads it transportation became ser iously paralysed. Te legislation under considera tion y certain republican senators was sail to provide for a declara tion of an emerc-ency and for au thorization to the oresident to take wlaferer railroads were deemed ad visable. 'If the strike ia not settled and ft situation develops-that the Tail roads cannot operate," said- Sena- itor Cummins, "then there is noth ing left to be done but for the gov ernment to take' them over and op erate them." Chiefs In Session New York, Aug. 11 (By the As sociated Press) Heads of 148 American roads today appointed a committee to recommend a reply to ent HardinirV latestoroposal for settlement of the nation-wide rail strike. T. DeWitt Cuyle? head qf the As loeiation of . Railway .'Executives, was named ex-officip. head of the committee, with. Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific as ;chairman.'Thn mnmherahir was re ported to be approximately the name as that which rejected Mr. Harding's first proposal. "' . Committee Is Named It was not indicated bv those i leaving the ' conference ehamfcer bt would be the nature of the teply to the administration's Bug Mion that the matter of senior ity at which the executives had talked at their last meetinst here-" should be left to the railroad ward. JulillA Kri.ftal.T.tft rt 4liA Rnilth- tr Pacifie rnnlai-nVI Albert Thom. jseneral counsel to the "association Bailway Executives, on the com """ee. in addition- to Cuyler, lxv tt. Rmitli on,l TTr.itton'hnitt- the ommittee comprised: W. W. Atter- ""J-, vice-president of the Wnn Jhania; Hale Holden of -the Chi- "go, Burlington and Quincy; B 8. Markham of the Illinois Cen ,rl and W. R. Cole of the Nash rtft, Chattanooga, and St. Louis. BLE Clicago, Aug. 11 (By the Asso ted Press) Serious" threat t "affie by refusal of trainmen to xTe triT.. :. i.Miu E'Jard. renewed outbreaks of Valence resulting in several deaths we possibility of walkouts by sintiQ- . nr roads, Mnarked the progress of rail atrika i-nilrnad heails Ii ai ttnion leaders fathered for ; '"orerenceg today to separately con f , er President Harding's proposal ' settling the strike, ilembera of the bi? four tram portition brotherhoods, upon whom 'rain itov,... .,i r 'toriica by their chiefs to suspend rk if they eonsider strike con liiioa, a tie pregenee of soldiers terminals and junction points bearable." T- Osborn, ' Bales farmer of Waeonda, visiting friends to- STRIKE TROU PAST SPREADING ' ' ' 1 - ' HURL BOMBS IN SANTA FE SWARDS re 23 Bon Thrown Into I Works at San tio Deputy Burned. Railfl Bern! Mars San B r: dlno, Cal., Aug. 11. (By AiL . Ited Press.) Deputy United States Marshal Albertson was seriously burned today when a bomb exploded -in nis nanus early today shortly after the ex Dloslon of 23 bombs In the yards of the Atchison, Topeka and San ta Fe railway system here, which is Involved' In- the Btrike of rail way shopmen. Explosion of the bombs, start InK at 1:30 o'clock and continu Ine to 3:46. created terror In the vicinity-' of the shops,. Burling fragments several hundred ' feet but doine no damage other than tearing up earth. The bombs were of cast Iron pipe elbows filled with a white powder and according to Investigators were apparently thrown Into the Btock ade. Cut Off Eletstrio Supply. Filty officers were rushed to the scene but did not succeed In locating the point from which the bombs were thrown. Most of the hnmbs landed about 200 feet from the round house and there was no one In- the Immediate vicinity. The 17th bomb sent a fragment through the high voltage wires and cut off the electric lighting supply, plunging San Bernardino into darkness and adding to the (right of the Inhabitants. This was at 3 a. m., an hour and a halt after the first explosion. Metal fragments from the pipe casing of the bombs were Imbed ded an Inch In the stockade and some struck houses In the vicin ity of the yards. A large rock was hurled 200 feet by one of the explosions and fell near one of the company ' guards. ' . .'-''. The officers at daybreak round one unexploded bomb and were taking it to a chemist In an aut omobile for examination. Deputy U. S. Marshal Aioertson had the bomb in his hands and had open ed one end of it, revealing a white rVnMoi- mihst&nce. It ignited and exploded, severely burning his hands. He was rushed to me emergency hospital In the Santa Fe yards for treatment. " Scene of Disorder. 4" larsB number of metal frag ments of the bombs were gather ed by officers and newspaper men. San Bernardino has been tne scene of conslderaDie amuruer since the beginning ot the rail road shopmen's strike. At .one time state troops were retjuetted. Rioting occurred several occa sions. One fatality has oocurred to date, Roy E. Burton, a bania v. rH hnvinir been shot and killed In the railroad yards while onsfuty on the night of July 27. Sheriff. Walter A. Shay last week arrestedva, suspect in connecwuu with the shooting. Hon Bnrnardino is a divisional headquarters of the Santa Fe sys tem. - CABLE SEIZURE UPSET New York, Aug. 11. Foreign exchange and other business ae- pendent on cable aispaieu -tinned demoralized to- jUruB ..... hie coneeetlon caus- ed by the Irish Irregular seizure of the Commercial wu t Waterville and any s b i a . ." - . that of the Western Union at Val encia, on the erry Officials of the Commercial Ca ble company reporieu - still were unable messages whatever while jth. Wes tern Union dispatches were sub ject to delay of 10 hours. Messages sent by the French Atlantic Cable mPan A layed because of the added press of business on those lines. S BUSINESS - Eugene O'Brien- Movie Star Suiters Fracture. of Skull In Accident . Los Angeles, Cal., Aug. 11. Eugene O'Brien, motion picture actor, who suffered a possible fracture -of the skull and In ternal Injuries when he was run down by a ; motor truck last night, was reported resting easily at - Hollywood hospital today. Surgeons treating O'Brien's scalp found it necessary to shave off his curls. . Elevator Here Holds Operator Between Floors A taste of solitary confinement as administered In prisons was ex perlenced here this afternoon by Fred Dennison, elevator operat nr In the Salem Bank of Com merce building. As Dennison was headed downward toward the first floor his lift stopped be tween tJie first and second floors and refused to. go either up or down. Dennison -was confined In the cage for some time before other en nl oves of the bulldine were able to pull the elevator down to a point where he could be re leased. PEACE OFFICERS SAYSSANTAFE Chicago, 'Aug. 11. A. G. Wells, president ef the Santa Fe railroad declared today that the armed guards to Whom the broth erhood men In the west were ob jecting were mainly United States marshals, deputy sheriffs and other peace officers. "The Santa Fe company today wired chiefs of all the labor brotherhoods whose members are Involved In the present trouble that the men had gone on strike without grievances made known, or any cause, and asked that they return to work," Mr. Wells said. "Chiefs of the brotherhoods in volved to whom these telegrams were sent have replied that they have referred our messages to the local chairmen of the brotherhood organizations In Arizona and will advise the railroad as soon as ans wers are received . , "In the meantime and until the matter is adjusted, the passenger deoartment has instructed all agents in selling tickets to points west of Albuquerque to indorse the same subject to delay on .ac count of labor trouble." FOREST BLAZES Seattle, Wn., Aug. 11 Rain, which broke a drought of 75 days when it began falling here Wednesday : i.i r,.h&A a total of .63 of an inch at 8 o'clock tnia morn ing and was expected to continue. 7nrt fires were reported extin guished almost everywhere in west ern Washington, the precipitation being heaviest over Grays Harbor and the Olympic peninsum. toosh Island" hag .72 of an inch in 24-hours. Resumption of logging expected to be general and immed iate. gpokane, Wash., Aug. UUght rain in western Montana, northern Idaho and eastern Washington last tnday was reported to have halted forest fires and improv ed fruit and garden prospects anu to have interfered with harvesting and threshing only in a few in stances. . x- Half an inch or rain port, Washington, with the fall cen- tinuing, was of""- - moved the forest fire menace there for the present. The prec.p...- an inch and aa pui - - rliouse ditriet of nn re ported no . " CDl' U"' ARID GUARDS RAIN PUTS OUT z RAIL LABOR CHIEFS RDECt PEACE OFFER Brotherhood Heads Con fer With Striking Un ions to Turn Down President's Proposal. Washington, Aug. 11 (By the Associated Press) Chief officials of 17 railroad labor organizations went into joint session shortly after ten o'clock today to consider the response which would be mado by the seven strikine shop crafts unions to President Harding's lat est proposal of a basis for settling the railroad Btrike. Oficials of the seven striking rail road unions through B. M. Jewell their chairman, said the session would bC a long one. They had no thing to add to their previously given indications that .the shop union, intended to reject the prcs ident s proposal, which provides tor leavincr the seniority status or an strikers to adjustment by the rail road labor board after their TO turn to work. Brotherhood Chiefs Present Attending the meeting today, in sddltion to- Chairman Jewell, were Warren S, Btone, grand m chief, tn-otnernooa or liocomouve .engi neers; D. B. Robertson, president Brotherhood of Locomotive Fire nien and Enginemcn; L. E. Shep pard president Order of Railway Conofiictors; J. W. Kline, president Brotherhood of Blacksmiths; W. H. I Johnstctp, prosident Association of MAtilniats: J. A. Frank, president Brotherhood of Boilermakers; Jamos Burns, vice-president Sheet Metal Workers Alliance; James P. Noonan, president Brotherhood of Electrical Workers; Martin F. Hyan, president Brotherhood of Railway Carmen: T. V. Casn.cn, president Switchmen's Union; E. H. Fitzgerald, president Brotherhood of Railway and Steamship Clerks; E. J. Manion, president Order - of 1?J)ll Wft V TelecraDhers: E. F. Gr.v ble, president Maintenance of Way Employes; D. W. Helt, president Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen nd Oilers and W. N. Doak, vice- president Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen. -ine orgammiiuu train dispatchers was also expected to he represented at the session. Cabinit la Session President Harding and his cabinet went into session at exactly the same time the union leaders as sembled and the rail .strike was foremost In the cabinet discussions. Attorney General Daugherty, befor.; leaving the department of justice for the White House, sent telegrams to officials of the department in Arizona, New Mexico and Caiifor nia asking for reports on the walk outs of big four brotherhood mem bers of the Santa Fe in its western territory. He also carried into the cabinet meeting press dispatches tell ing of the walkout and other mem bers of the president's official fam ily went to the cabipet session prepared to report on various fea tures of the railroad strike.- SALEM YOUTH INJURED WHEN STRUCK BY AUTO Ralph Bailey, about 1 years ot age,, was knocked irim nis mcy cle and" injured yesterday by an nfomobila driven by A. Eugene infranca. of route 6. The acci dent occurred at the corner of Church and Court streets. naiiev whn suffered only min or cuts and bruises, was taken to a physician by Mr. Aurrance. Bailey's home is on south 12th street. King George Signs Ship Scrapping Treaty Die With Four Kalians London, Aug. 11. The rat ified copy of the Washington treaties was signed by King George. It Is now en route to Washington for the exchange of ratification. f- Ui7rt I Weds Mme At City Hall, Paris Paris, Aug. 11 (By the Associat ed Press) Harold F. McCormdek of Chicago and Mrs. Alexander Smith Cochran (Madame WalBka) were married today In the city hall of the sixteeutn ward here. Announcement of the marriage war made by the bride. Aftot the weddine Mr. and Mrs. MeCormick gave a luncheon at the Bit a hotel at which Mr. and Mrs. Dudley Field Malone were guests. Mr. M alone was counsel for Mme. Walska in the proceedings which rec ently resulted in the divorce be tween her and Mr. Cochran. Mr. MeCoruiiek and his bride, af ter the luncheon, loft for an auto-' mobile, tour. Their destination was not announced. Mr. and Mrs. Malone were the only witnesses at the marriage. Chicago, Aug. 11 "Mrs. Edith Rockefeller MeCormick will have no comment to make on Mr. Mc cormick's marriace." That telenhone mcssace. delivered hv Mrn 'Mc.Oormie.k'a aecretary. was the onlv statement forthcomlna tills morning when the Associated Press informed the former wife of the In SANTA FE ROUTE TIED UP BY STRIKE 0FBR0THEI T-n AnirRlfiH. Cal.. Aug. 11. 'Eastbound passenger service on Arrhlft.n. Tooeka and Santa Fe systems Is tied up and no through trains will leave Los Angeles un til the walkout situation of the big four brotherhoods in the Ari zona division, centering at Need les Cal., Is cleared up, It was an nounced early today by I. L. Hib bard general manager of the San ta Fe coast lines. "We do not want to send pass engers out to be held up In the desert," Hlbbard said. "There Is no change over night, although the walkout of the train men seems to be confined to the Ari zona division, with the California and other divisions not arrect ed." Conductors, firemen, engineers and trainmen refused to answer calls In the Arizona division last night, tying up trains unexpect edly, and their representatives here Indicated the matter reBieu with brotherhood officials In the east. The cause for . the failure to report for work was revealed with demands that guards De re moved from railroad property in towns lot tbB Aripono avvisiuu, particularly Needles. Conferences between represeni ativAo nf the big four brotherhood and Santa Fe officials extending to a lata hour last night were -not fruitful of results. President William Sproule of ia. conihem Pacific said today that trains were moving on sche- iii.io nn that system and mat ne did not expect the walkout to ex tend to It. - OF FRUIT PLANTS meeting ot the directors it .a of the Willamette valley districts of the Oregon Growers associa tion held at the association om ces last night Earl Pearcy was authorized by the board to have charge of the fresh and dried fruit packing plants in the Willamette valley. His duties ;will Include the buying of wood and supplies for afl the plants and dryers, and general supervision of the pack lag. The result of putting the supervision of the work Into the hands of one man will be to ob tain a more uniform and high grade pack. Mr. Pearcy will be directly responsible to the fresh and dried fruit departments. Th. directors of all the state districts of the association met to day at central office. There is a strong feeling of satisfaction among the members of ibe assoc iation In regard to the work be i.. ..mr.linhed among the erow- .M Th business methods used and the manner of handling the fruit has received the hearty ap proval of the directors. RHOODS PEARCY I N CHARGE Walska i i: i i ir """nn ternational Harvester head of the Inttpr's marriaze in Paris to Mme. Ganna Walska. the tipera singer, Mrs. MeCormick. daughter or John D. Rockefeller has declined to comment, since her divorce last winter, on either her former hus- (Continued on page four) ELASTICITY IN TARIFF URGED BYPRESIDDIT Washington, Aug. 11. By a vote of 67 to 4 the senate approv- ed an amendment to the finanee committee flexible tariff substi tute proposing that any changes in tariff made by the' president based on the "differences in cost of production" Instead of In "con ditions of competition." The four senators opposing the change warn Bnrsom. Gooding. McNary and Stanfield, members of the re publican agricultural tariff bloc. Washington, Aug. 11 President Harding in a letter today to Chair man McCumber of the finance com mittee read to the senate not only urged that a flexible tariff be pro vided for hut that tne tanir com mission be made the agency for in vestigation and recommendation for charges in tariff rates. The executive conferred first with Senator Odie of Nevada, a leader for the republican agricultural bloc, some members of which are opposed to the flexible plan In any form, and later saw Senator Prclinghuy scn, ropublican, New Jersey, spon sor of the "scientific" tariff plan. The executive wrote that . the varying conditions in the world made it essential that thoe be elas ticity in the tariff and aeciarea that the flexible plan proposed would be a "highly constructive and progressive step in retaining he good arid eliminating the abuses" in the' present system of tariff making. SHORTLINE WORKERS OUT AT POGATELLO Pocatello, Idaho, August 11 Switchmen and yard employes of the Oregon Short Line here have quit work in protest against the stationing of state eonstaouiary ns guards at the Pocatello railroad horm. A meeting of the brother- food. . DAVIS PRESIDENT OF BAR ASSOCIATION Ran Francisco. Aue. 11 John W. nvi. of West Virginia, former American ambassador to treat Rritjiin was eleeted president of the American Bar association at its annual convention here today. Frederick E. WadhamS of Albany V V. was elected treasurer and W. Thomas Kemp of Baltimore was named secretary. George C. Blower, memory and i.n.in..i efficiency expert, was the speaker at the weekly lunch eon of the Lions cluD at tne ma rion hotel today. He opened his talk with a demonstration ot mem ory. The subject ot his talk was ni.Hlness Efficiency." Two solos T,H.rt hy C. R. Muston accompanied on the piano by Mr. i ..f. Ai Follrlch presided at the meeting. Af sh lclH ACCUSED BY HALL OF FRAUD IN MAY PRIMARY ELECTION Sixty-four Women Among Violated Election Laws iorty-seven Kesiaenis Of Salem Included in List Specific Charges In Each Case Hearings to TVia Tinmpn nf 47 residents 162 Marion county persons, alleged by Charles Hall, primary . ..... iv ' i t f election conteetant. to have voted illegally on may xv, wmvu was made public here this afternoon. TVin lWerl illegal votiner Marion county precincts, Hall claims, and 12 of these pre cincts are in the city of Salem. ' ' The largest number of alleged- Illegal voters Is charged in easi . .11 Mt. Angel precinct where 40 per sons are named. ; . Among the1 prominent Marlon county residents accused la John F. Theodore B. Brentano, of St. Paul. Mr. Brentano has been a citizen of Oregon since 1862, Is justice ot the .peace tot the St. Paul district, and is well known as a hop man. About 64 ot the total accused in Marlon county are women. Six Charges, Possible. This afternoon In Portland at. torneys for Governor Olcott are to be served by Hall counsel with the enecltic charges to be preler- reil aarainst each ot tne accusea vbters. These may appear In any of the following forms: ' Fraudulent registration. No registration. Not a citizen. ofl the United States. Not a resident of Oregon for the required six months prior to the election. Not of legal age. ' The list of alleged voters as named by Hall Is as follows: List of Accused. St. Paul Christoperson Gund- erson; Albert Bocbsler, Mary Fa- ber, Jacob Sonner, Walter Mur phy and Robert C. Yonce. McKee Harvey Ballwcber, Louis Rieger Lata Nlbler. Scollard Elizabeth Hunt. East Gervais Arsta Jones, J. B. Susce.' West Gervais Asa Simmons, Louise Simmons, Josephine Nlb ler, Peter Lelek, Benjamin Jeld erks, Joseph B. Starvens, Frank Funkhauser. Fairfield -Lewis Dubois. Ar thur Dubois, Peter O. BraSBell, W. C. Forcler, Agnes Forcler, Julia Pierce. Salem No. 1 Sarah Lindsay, (Continued on Page Seven.) WESTERN STATES DEMAND COAL St. Paul, Minn., Aug. 11. (By the Associated Press.) Prepara tions for sending to Washington representatives from Iowa, Wis consin, Minnesota, North Dako n onH South Dakota, to be known as the northwest coal committee, to aid in speeding up coal ship ments to this section, were under way today following the confer ence ot governors ot these states here yesterday. Close on the heels of the confer ence came word from Washing ton that an Increase of 60.000 tons each week In the movement or Diiuminuu coat i mu buh- west bad been allowed. . New Livestock Company Capitalb-ed at tlOO.OOO the Oregon-California Livestock com pany with headquarters in J'ortland filed articles of Incorporation with the tate corporation department here Tuesday. The incorporators are Stephen C. M. Appleby, G. 31. Faber ana W. 11. Maguire. THIS COUPON AND FIVE CENTS will admit any child of 12 years or under to the Special CAPITAL JOURNAL MATINEE Showing Harry Myers in his greatest production "The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe." THE BLIGH THEATRE SATURDAY, AUGUST 11, 10 A. M. Those Alleged to Have bo held in aalem jyionaay. of Salem aDDear in the list of was scattered throughout ai ESPEE STRIKE San Francisco, Aug. 11. The removal of 60 objectionable , guards from the Southern Pacific company shops at Rosevllle and the dismissal of a smaller num ber at Tracy, Stockton, Sacramen to and other points, has averted a "threatening situation" on the company's system. It was announe ed today by L. L. Sanford, district chairman of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers here. "We served notice on the com pany that the menace of untrain ed and Inexperienced guards would have to be met," Sanford said, "and the dismissals at Rose vllle and other points was a re sult. The Southern Pacific tnru that action eased the situation greatly. The company Is also mak ing every effort to withdraw un safe equipment and put good or der equipment In its place. There Is no present prospect of- any withdrawal of brotherhood mra' bers on the system." REED ATTACKS FLEXIBLE TARIFF Washington, Aug. 11 Attacking the whole flcxi-Wo tariff plan in the seniflo today, Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri declared sena tors who voted for it would bo "traitors to and assassins of the greatest principles ingrained in Saxon government and Saxon lib erty." - Senator Peed declared the flex ible tariff provisions constitute an attempt to undermine the constitu tion, which provided that revenue measure -ahould originate in the house of representatives and that it was being put through at the lash of the whip of the "masters" who "had boasted that they would win the last election." RECORD PEAR CROP LEAVING MEDFORD Medford, Ore., Aug. 11. The largest pear crop In the history ot the Rogue river valley started to mnva tnrlav when three cars were shipped east, and from now until late fall there will be oauy suip menus. Soutl J rn - Pacific offic ials estimate the total pear crop at 1,150 cars, which la a fifty per cent Increase over the largest pre vious output. The Increase, ac cording to local- fruit experts, is due to Irrigation which was es tablished on a comprehensive scale this year for the first time. FS AIISI KtlYlUVALUr GUARDS AVOIDS