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Newspaper Page Text'Ho Hl Medford Mail Tribune The Weather Fair and wirmar Saturday. Maslmum .... 6 Minimum 32 Weather Year Ago Maximum Minimum , ...7 ...48 (mlly Kv!ii.iilh Yr. MEDFOttD, OH1XJOX, i FRIDAY, MAY 2(J, 1922 NO. 50 RARE RUTH RULED OUT As Result of Fracas With Um pire, Bambino Must Warm Bench AgainFinal De cision to Be Made After Full Investigation -Babe Near Nervous Breakdown. CHICAGO, May SO. Halm lluih wm fliMMl $'-H anil M'tiuiv ml from Ihe railiiity of tli Xrw York Amrrlrajt club Wan Jolinann, ifpiil.M,V uf Ilin Ainerl-' ran lrwgue, thU afirriii-vn. CHICAGO. May 26 I My Aaaoclated 1'reaa). llahe Huth of Ilia New York Yanknes today wan declared Ineligible la play until a complete Investigation liu been ninl ( Ilia argument with I'uiplr lllldehrand, which resulted In the home run king's being put nut f llin game ami then climbing lulu tin' Manila when he became offended at Ida booing of fnna. 'Itin decision waa handed down by President llan John. son of the American lagu t lit murn In. . ' Mr. Johnson aatil an Investigation would be made at once and thai n final decision would be made liy to morrow. Huth, however, will not be permitted U play today. "I have received only the report of I'mplrei Hlldebrand." aald Mr. John mm. "I have started gathering com plete evidence in the and expect tu baTt thla In my hand by tomorrow. In l ho ttieantlin tiaba Ruth will nut a pima r In tha lineup." Whlla Mr. Johnson madn no official statement concerning thr probabla " length (f 11 u( It's uiwnlnn . ....... . i . . . -t laarttwl mat tna American la.u enw j waa th opinion that a one-day auapcnaion wun an unuauaiiy ami nn . nddrnl would b ampla piinlabment for thn aluKKrr who baa Juat n-turned to tha nania after a 39 day auaiwnnlon by llaanball Commlaalnnar Iindla fur playlns poat.aeaaon Ramaa laat fall. Saba la Upaat Mr. Johnaon. It waa Inarned. baa r reived aeverul roports conrei nlnR Kuth lately, all uf them being l tha effect that iah haa become extremely ner- voua and anxloua over hla previous iinin nalon, llin long lead In home runa oliUlned by Kenneth WllllAin of the 81. Ixila Mrowna durlnx Kuth'a ab Hen en from lh Rama and tha Yankee, outflalder'a failure lo hit when ha did Ret bark Into pluy. Theao rondltlona, aceordlng to reporta received by Mr. Johnaon, have affected the mentul alti tude of Hal and plared him In auch a nondltlon that ho might, do and' aay thlnna In the heat of the game which bo would deeply rt grot few minute later and which he would not do under normal circumstance. It waa pointed out that Kuth'a pre vlotia auapenalon waa tho lnKnt ever given a player and that during the altigger'a nine yaara of experience, Mr. Johnaon had ocraaton to punlah htm only once, Ruth then wrote a letter apologizing for hla act. Mr. Johnaon today wired Vmplrea Kvuna and Nallln for their veralona of yesterday's affair. Umpire Reports Umpire Hlldobrand In hla report to h.r. Johnnon, aald tho decision at aoc ond was "not even cloae," and that Ituth threw dirt at liltn, the dirt a'trlk lug hla ahouldor. Ha made; no mention ol any dirt Rotting Into hla eyea. Hlldehrand'a rKrt follows: "In tho third Inning of today's same, at New York Ituth alngled to. center Held and triod to Htrotch the hit Into a double and was thrown out at sec ond base. "After I called him out ho proteated (Continued on iiaae air.) mi 1 DIG WAR TRENCHES BELFAST. DEATH LIST D1C LK AST, May 28. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) Since Saturday laat 28 deaths from vlnUmco huvo occur red In HolfuHt, Including six lust even ing and today. Tho body of a man waa discovered In the street today with a bullet through tho bruin. In East llolfttHt trenches were dug In, several streets, the Inhabitants fearing an nttuplc. During tho snip ing In the east end four.men wore ar rested and numerous housos In the district were smirched. The residence of Bully Wultcr, near Prosperity Special Of S. P. Locomotives Leaves for the West PHILADELPHIA, May 2. (Hy the Associated Press.) Flying pennant proclaiming It 4 the "Prosperity Special," tho largest and perhuD tha moat 4 remarkable, single train of lo- 4 4 romotivn liver hauled across the 4 country waa scheduled to leave Ilia l-.ddysloiiu plunt of the Iluld- 4 win Locomotive Work today fur East Hi. Louis. III. It consist 4 4 of 20 oil ImrnliiK engines r.f the 4 Konta I'd lvpe, each with Ita tundiir, nearly 100 feet long and 4 weighing 021,000 pound. Tim Iruln la iurl of nn order of rift locomotives of thla type 4iullt for thn Huuthern Pacific lines. All of them are ready for 4 delivery and the remainder will 4 bn forwarded ai rapidly an poa- 4 4 slble. 4 4 4 E Daughcrty in Letter to Sena tor Watson Denies He Ever Disclaimed Aid to Banker- Received $4000, Only Half Expenses. WASHINGTON, May 86. Attor ney Uenoral lauherty In a loiter lo Henator Wataon, rrpubllcan of In diana, read today In tba aenale at tl InliMr'a rmiMMMl rlnlrtM that hM told lhB lnt,nn .n'ator that ha bad not foiuiMllon with tha procuring of a pftrdon ..f rharlna W. Moran aa ataled b s,nmor valn in th aenato on Muy whpn S(.nillor Caraway. Uem oi ral of Arkatiaiia, opened bis attack on tho attorney uenerul. Mr. fauaherly aald h regretted II Senator Walaon bad misunderstood him. He wrote that be remembered the general dlacusaton of the Morse rare with the eoiiator and added: "I certainly did not make the state ment to you that 1 had no connection wllh thu Morae rase." Tho attorney general stated he had "no dlBpoilliou tu deny" hla con-nei-tlon with the case and added that he received 14.000 from Thomaa U. Felder. In connection with It, but that thla iuiii waa sufficient to pay only about half of tho expenses. Senator Caraway told Iho aenate there could be no question of misun derstanding; that Senator Watson either repeated wiiut waa told him or he hud misrepresented tho ufornoy goneral. Asserting that ha did not be'.leve there had been any misrepre sentation hy the Indiana eenator, Mr. Caraway suld another republican Hen- ator bad told him that the attorney general had made the same denial to him SALEM. Ore., May 20. A. 1.. Ia vltt haa benn appointed circuit judge for Klamath county, to succeed C. V. Stone, according to announcement madu by Coventor Olcolt this morn InK. Stono waa appointed to the JudKCHhtp upon tha realKnatlon of Circuit Judgo Ktiyketdull sovcrul montliH ago and agreed to servo only until tho primaries, Leuvltt la the republican nominee for the position. IN STREETS OF rtelfiiHt, of Captain Harry Mulholland. son of Lord Dunleath, who represents county Down .In thV Ulster parlia ment, was attacked today by raiders who engnged the guard, considerable firing followed. Fvontually tho po lice drove off tho annuitants. A 300 ton collier, owned by n Del fusi firm.' wna boarded at Dunkirk Inst night by a dozen armed men, who hold up tho captain and members of the crew while they smashed the, -compass nnd telegraph Instruments and threw a portion of th vessel's ma chinery ovorbourd, ATT Y GENERAL ADM IS ACTION IN MORSE CAS GOVERNOR NAMES ran JUDGE REACHES 28 - - ,1 II S I T U ATI 0 N ac,' ut Sorry He Threw Dust nCDinDADIX rN211-"" I I i I I lllllllll I II A -'.-' ..v...,:- . Ft -" trs.- L;."i- ' QAVQ P.OAMF ".-2 un u unn n i ih- Ex-American Minister De dares Unarmed Syrians Fired On By French Ma chine Guns U. S. Consul Hauls Oown Flag Until French Apologize. WASHINGTON, May 26. A r-aln lion dlrwtlnK Secretary lluKhoa In maka Immodlatn inquiry of llin French .ovrntnmt aa t tha corroctneaa of r'Mrta concrrnlnit Imposition of I twntr year afntnc tiMn CliarlHa K Craim by a Kranch military court at Oaiuaacua waa liilnxlui'wd today by Itoprtjanlnllva Habath, dimorrat, 1 1 11 not. IAKH, May 26. (Hy Aaaoclated I'rcaa), Tha Kn-nrh forolRn of floe hag nit knowli'dKO of thn reported convla tlon of Charlea It. Craap, former Amnr li-un mlnlnU-r to China by a French military murt In Iamarua on i liurKo uf InrlUna a riot, aa reported In pniaa dlNpatchca, It aa atat;d today PARIS. May 27 (Hy Aaaoclated Proas-. Charles R.' Crane aald today that an Incident bad occurred between the foiled States consul at Damascus Syria and the French military aides there before Mr. Crane's arrival, when the consul hauled down the American flag pending an apology from the French. "Wo have a true American aouthern er aa our consul at iHimascua, sir Crane aald. "Certain circumstance arbse before niy arrival there In which the American consul hauled down hla flag, took down his shield and refused to have any further relation with the French authorities until they apolo- glied. "Three or four daya went by and the French became very uneasy. A sort of an apology waa made which our consul refused to accept. Then a more formal one waa sent which he did ac cept and reaumed relatione." Objects to Franca Mr. Crane appeara recently to have expressed himself very plainly to the mandate commission of the League of Nations regarding the disturbed sltua tlon In Syria. The substance of hla declaration waa that the Syrians want ed first of all, complete Independence and falling that preferred that the I'nlted Statea take the mandate over the country. If the Americana were unwilling, be aald. the Syrians pre ferred Great Britain, but under no cir rumatancea wlahed to be under the French mandate. Mr. Crane points out that he waa in Syria solely aa a private cltlxen. He admits that tn the agitated atmosphere prevalent, there may have been aome feeling agalnat Mm, although he de clares that In neither Syria nor France tuts he met with anything but courteay from the French, He declares "he haa no Jntentlon of taking the matter up with the French foreign office. Troublea in Syria were provoked by "Injudicious talk" by Mr. Crane, foreign office officlala said, but up to the prosent they had no Informa tlon regarding formal condemnation. Mr. Crane aald he waa confident the report of hla conviction waa an error, In explaining hla visit to Syria, Mr. Crane aald: Fired en the People "My reception by the people of Da mascus was entirely friendly. They asked why their wishes, made known to the committee on mandutea tn Tur key three years ago, never had been heard from. They said that since thut time on account of aevere French eon worship they bad .not been ablo to make their voice haurd by the outside world., j Vi ;( ' "Whatever demonstration they made waa to pinke.me underatand that their foellngs against the French mandate wero stronger than ever. They hoped I could get their pieasago out. Follow lng a Street dcm6natratton. Mr. Crane said, "tho French chief ot police native who has been terrorising Da mascus ever Since the French occupied It, used machine guns on unarmed people and aome of-the lending men of Damaac'us ware sent to prison for long terms without trial. "All these incidents were foreseen and Indicated In the report on man dates and groat Injustice has been done both to the Syrians and to conser vative French people as well as to our own missionaries and educators, by tho suppreaslon of that report by our state department," Increase Shell Oil Stock. 150VH. Del., Muy 26. A ccrtlfl Antn wna ftl.wl'fit Ihfl MunrAtn l-v nf State's office tudny lncrenning the capital stock ot Vbo Shell VnlOn Oil corporation from $1,000,000,005 $1,020,000,000, lit . X li, ' 't-' WASHINGTON, May 26. Iiabe Ituth. home run king, said he was sorry and added that "It seems that a bull player la alf ays wrong," when Informed today tbul llan Johnson. PUBLIC 10 AID IN FILM UPLIFT PITTSBCUG, May 26. -A p!ea for the public to stand behind and help the motion picture producers In thoir efforta lo maintain a clean moral lone n film productiona was vclced here today by Will H. Hayea. president ot; ho Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, before an au-j dlence at Carnegie inatitute. Ho declared he waa entirely con vinced of the sincerity ot the staRe producers and distributors in the or- Will H. Hayes &. rv jf W ' Akl ia-m ganiuatlon and he pledged his hear era the best efforts of his office. "Whllo asking for your aid and co operation," ho said, "I would like to ask too, that you Judge us by our ac tual performance rather than by any promisee wo make. We are building this Industry for years to come for generations to come and though our progress may seem perhaps slow at tho beginning, the results we are con fident, will be certain and perma nent." . He stated that $$00,000,000 a year Is puld In movie admissions and that the producing industry alone repre sents an Investment ot $500,000,000, employing 50,000 persons, at annual salaries totaling $50,000,000. Liberty Bonds. NEW YORK, May 26 Liberty bonds closed: S Vb 911.96; rtast 4's 99.86; second 4's 99.78 bid; first 4's 99.92; second 4 U "s 99.92; third 4 U's 99.96; fourth 4Vs 99.94; Victory 4 'a 100.66; 3'S 100. MOSCOW. My 28. mtclntod Press) The (Hy the Hussinn As-ex- nmitlvn rnmm UlPA VinM HIi-Ar-tnri the I ennimissnr of war to draft plans for a material reduction In tho sovclt to. army, contingent upon the success of J The Hague conference. c-- Sk WILLHAVS ASKS ii C V v , 1 -1 s; s.f-- ".vftt.., I .'flip",' president of the American league, b dec'.ared him ineligible to play until an Investigation had been made of the duat throwing affair In yester day's game at New York. mtstss National At New York: Boston New York . R. II. 2 9 6 11 Batteries: Marquard. Miller, Lans- ling and O'Nell; J. Barnes and Snyder. H. E. Second game. Boston New York ...::.-. R. - 2 .10 7 0 15 1 Batteries: McQuillan, Watson and Gowdy; Nehf and Smith, Gavonl. I At Cincinnati. R. H. E. 1 1 Chicago . 5 10 : Cincinnati ... 2 6 Batteries: Cheeves and O'Farrell; Rlxey, Gillespie, Scholl and Wlngo. At Philadelphia. Brooklyn : . . Philadelphia Batteries: Ruether, R. -7 : 5 . E. 1 3 and Decatur Miller; Smith, Weinenter and Henllne Second' game: R-'H. E. Brooklyn 7 10 1 Philadelphia : 0 8 1 Batteriea: Vance and De berry; Ring and Peters. Second game:- Chicago . Cincinnati . . R. H. E X 4 2 10 i Hart net t Batteries: Aldridge and Keck and Wlngo. . American At Beston. ; ' R. H. E. Philadelphia .. 6 8 1 Boston .. 7 13 2 Hal tor lea: ROmmell, Moore, Sullivan Harris and Perkins. .' ' At Chicago. ' : R. H. E. Louis'... l 6 0 Chicago 2 8 1 Batteries: Bayne and Severeld; Schupp and Schalk. At Detroit. R. H. E. Cleveland .;....... 8 10 0 Detroit 3 12 3 Batteries: Morton and O'Neill; Ston er, Olsen, Cole and Baaaler, Woodall. At Washington. R. H. 3. New York 16 0 Washington . 3 10 , 2 Batteries: Shawkey , and Schang; Zachary and Gharrlty. - . i ... i , ) STATE INCREASING SALEM", Ore., Msy 16. -Reports from the' 279 banks In Oregon aa of May 6, which have just been compiled by Frank C. Bramwell, atate supe-In- tendent of banks, give a total ot $241,515,879 in deposits as agalnat $232,068,694 on March 10. Loans aggregated $168,993,183. an increase ot approximately $6,600,000 over outstanding loans on March 10, but money borrowed by banks shows a substantial deerc-ase. May Kui.-w Gas Tax SEATTLE, May 26. The atate tax on gasoline would be raised from one to. three cents a gallon under the tax program which is being placed In ft nal form for submission to Governor Louis V. Hart. ' BANK DEPOSITS IN Covernor Olcott Is Now 510 Ahead in The Official Count 444444444444444444 PORTLAND, Ore., May 28. 4 With official reporta lacking 4 from only three of Oregon's 36 4 counties, the vote cast for Gov- 4 ernor Ben W. Olcott and Charles 4 Hall for the republican nomina- 4 4 tlon for governor In the primary 4 4 a week ago stood today Olcott 4 43,020; Hall 42.510, a plurality 4 4 for Olcott-of 510. Thla tabula- 4 4 tlon Includes complete but nn- 4 4 official flgurea from Curry, Har- 4 4 ney and Wljeeler counties. 4 4 The name of Milton A. Miller, 4 4' ex-ollector of internal revenue 4 4 was written In for the demo- 4 4 cratlc nomination for atate 4 4 treasurer and reporta today in- 4 4 dlrated he had been nominated 4 4 to oppose O. P. Hoff, the re- 4 4 publican nominee. 4 4 444444444444444444 Colored Man Suspected of Murdering White Man and Assaulting Companion, Is Caught By Waco Constable Lynching Is Feared. WACO, Texas, May 26. A negro be lleved to have murdered Harrell Bol ton and assaulted . Mrs. Maggie Hays last night waa captured today about tifteen miles southeast ot Waco by Constable Leslie Itegal and ia in Jail. A crowd haa gathered about the jail. -The negro's name is Sank Johnson. WACO, Texas, May 26. A mob is in pursuit of a tegro who according to a statement to the police by Miss Mar garet Hayes, shot and killed her com panion, Harold Bolton and then at tacked her on a road near here late last night The negro is aald to have caught a freight train bound for Fort Worth. The negro, according to Miss Hayea' statement, stopped the couple while tbey were riding in an automobile and shot Bolton. He then carried her to a secluded spot in the woods, according to her statement, keeping her there for three hours. The negro tailed in an attempt to kill Misa Hayes, his gun snapping three times. Miss Hayea managed to rind her way back to Waco, where she reported the Incident to the authorities. Miss Hayea and Bolton both live in Waco. BY PEORIA, 111.. May 26. A cloud burst sweeping Mossville and Peoria thla afternoon washed out a large sec tion of the Rock Island tracks, a bridge on the Peoria-Chlcago railroad, a block ot stret pavement in this city and did thousands of dollars ot dam age through flooding ot basements. Truck gardens were destroyed and newly planted corn fields along the up-river road inundated. Several up-river cottages are threatened with destruction by a wall ot water which swept down out ot the fill in the Mossville section. So tar no loss of life has been reported. but it is feared many have had nar row escapes. NEGRO SUSPECT CAPTURED, MOB SIHDSJ1 PEORIA DELUGED CLOUDBURST T9 KILLED IN MINE AND CHEMICAL PLANT EXPLOSIONS. PA. AND ALABAMA SINNAMAHONINO, Tn., May 26 (By the Associated Press) Eight men were instantly killed and three others slightly lurt in a series of ex plosions which today blew to pieces three loading houses and another building ot the Graselll Chemical company plant bare. The cause of the explosions will probably never be determined as all the men in the building where the . powder first Ignited were killed. BIRMINGHAM, May 26. Eleven miners were killed lust -night In an explosion In Aemur mine No. 3, ac cording to reports recelvrtl today at JUDGE GARY OPPOSED TO BONUS NOW U. S. Steel President Urges ' Service Men to Withhold Demand Until the Financial Situation Is Better Also f Wants Tariff Taken Out of . Politics Sales Tax Imposed. NEW YORK, May 26. Prcsidei t ; Harding denied any Intention of mei',- , dllng in the steel buslnesa laat ween , . when he asked-40 representative lean ers in that Industry to investigate tl. practicability of eliminating , th. ' twelve hour day, Judge Elbert 1L, Gary said today in presenting his an nual address as president of th i ' American Iron and Steel institute. He discussed the White Mouse cot-, ferehce at length saying that th president waa relying - on the ste . men themselves to make "the adjust ment In working hours which publ! . sentiment now seem to denrand." . Mr. Gary said he thought a coo , mftteo of nine appointed by the In stitute to Investigate the industry : with a view to readjusting working hours would be necessary In order to -clearly represent every phase of the. i industry instead of the committee nl five previously appointed.. NEW YORK, May 26. Elbert V. Gary. In his address as president ut the American Iron and Steel Institute, JudgeE.K Gayj. in session at Hotel Commodore today, advocated that congress take the tar iff out ot politics; that it play n? fa vorites in its tendency to regulate things; that it substitute a sales tax for the Income tax; and that it for,- the soldiers' bonus until the nation is less severely burdened financially. Still an Optimist" Aa tor the business future of Amer ica, Mr. Gary declared, himself b.i "still an optimist." "In the. iron and, steel Industry," he said, the profits are not satlsta -tory. but few, it any, ought to be d- -ing business at at loss." "Pity the blind, deaf and fool Is ' pessimist of the United States," b abjured members ot the institution "We are carrying hitherto unheaM of financial burdens. To bear them gracefully and contentedly there muii. ue uui uuijr iui ue&rancc, eucourai; : - ment and assistance from every de partment of the government up to the limit of propriety and justice. Bit, by every individual a spirit ot pu -tlence, pluck, energy, generosity, loy alty and chartty fully up to his or her Intellgence." Tariff Xon-Polltkal Summarizing his remarks on tb tariff question, Judge Gary said: "Aa between parties the main dlf- (Continued on Page six.) the Birmingham station of the bu reau of mines. Eighty-two men wero working I the mlnte at tho time of the expl -sion, but all except the eleven who were killed escnped. Ten ot thu bodies have been recovered. " The explosion was attributed t mine gas. It caused little damagu to the mine. VIENNA. May 26. (By the Asso ciated Press) The death list fro.o the disaster In the munition factors in Blumennu near Vienna, wbldi blew up yesterday, was increased t 19 today. ,...--.