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Newspaper Page Textfar, 'St. The Weather Prediction: Fair and warmer Maximum yesterday 10S Minimum today jl 60 Weather Year A$tA Maximum 8b Minimum 40 Dally Seventeenth Year. K'evklj-Fltty-Second Tear. MEDFORD, ORUCIOX, MONDAY, JULY .'5, m XO. 88 Medford Mail Tribune 6 UNIONS OUTLAWED n nnAnn i BIJJUAKU U. S. Labor Board Declares Unions by Strike Action For feit All Rights Before Board c Men No Longer Employees of Railroads Urge Roads to Form New Associations. CHICAGO, July 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The six railway Bhop crafts unions which went on strike Saturday were outlawed by the Unit ed States' labor board today, v In a formal resolution the board declared that the unions, by their ac tion, forfeited all rights before the board as railway employes and that new organizations of shopmen taking the striking men's jobs should be formed to represent the shop em ployes In disputes before the board. The board requested employes re maining in the service and the car riers to take Hteps immediately to form new organizations for the pur pose of representing the shopmen be fore the board. The resolution formally declared that the striking shop workers re .no longer , employes of any railroad and therefore without the jurisdic tion of the board or subject to the ap plication of the transportation act. Although applying directly to the Bhopmen at this time, the board also said that if the maintenance of way men, signal men, stationary firemen and oilers and clerks joined they walkout, they would be relegated to the same position as the shopmen. Strikebreakers Upheld Letters will be addressed by the board to both carriers having men on strike and to the Bhopmen remain ing at work, advising them to form new "associations or organizations which would function in behalf of the employes before the board," and which would "be accorded the appllf cation and benefits of the outstand ing wage and rule decisions of the board." The board's pronounelamento ful ly seconded the statement of Chair man Ben W. Hooper Saturday that men remaining on the job should not be called "scabs" or be considered as "strike breakers." The resolution Bald Buch men wore "within their rights," and "have the moral as well as the legal right to engage in such service of the American public to avoid interrutlon of thdispensible railway transportation." - Such men are entitled, the resolu tion added "to the protection or every department and branch of the govern ment, state and national." Men fun Strlko CHICAGO, July 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Timothy Healy, pres ident of the stationary firemen and oilers, today dispatched telegrams to 150' of his local unions telling them the, men have "a perfect right to strike now," if they so desire. The messages were sent in answer to in quiries asking authority to join the syklng railway shopmen. Reports to Mr. Heay today said that "about half" of the firemen and oilers had already quit work. Nobody to Starve NEW. YORK, July1 3. Asserting "that nobody will starve and nobody will freeze," even though the strike of shop crafts unions should continue to October, the season of. heaviest traffic, officials of the American As sociation of Railway Executives to day announced they would maintain a ."hands off" policy, leaving each ; (Continued on Page 'even) PARTY BEATEN UP AND ROBBED IN FULL VIEW DINERS S. F. RESTAURANT SAN FRANCISCO,' July 3. While between' 75 and1 100: persons were dining in the Bimbo restaurant, in the foreign quarter of San Francisco last night two men wielding black Jacks, beat three men into uncon sciousness, heat ' and ' battered two other men and , knocked down two women. . The handits escaped in an auto mobile with three gold watches and 164 In cash taken from their victims. One of the victims, J. Barrett, is lo tartly injured that physicians at the county hospital hold out little hope for his recovery. The others Injured are Mr. and Mrs. Jessie I. Thompson and Mr. and Wife of American Killed by Bandits, U. S. Demands Action WASHINGTON, June 3. Mrs. Thomas Cheney, the Mexican- born wife of an American employ- ed by an American company op- erating In the Tamplco oil region, was killed by Mexican bandits June 29, when she recognized their leader, according to a report today to the state department from Consul Shaw at Tamplco. As Mrs. Cheney is an American citizen by marriage the depart- ment made immediate representa- tions to the Mexican government recommending that the murderer be apprehended and punished. The consul's message, dated June 30, said that about a dozen armed bandits, who claimed to be followers of Manuel Larrago, had appeared at Chocoy station about forty miles northwest at Tain- pico on the preceding day. They demanded a payment of 2000 pesos. Mrs. Cheney recognized the leader of the band and was 4- killed. HEAVY FIGHTING Machine Guns " Rattle, and Censor Hides Real News Free Staters Rout Insurgents Warriors Rooted Out of Main District With Armored Cars 11 Killed and 16 Wounded. LONDON, July 13. (2:15 p. m.). By Associated Press). No word regard ing the developments of the fighting in Dublin has reached London since the receipts of messages filed at 11 a. m. at which time the national troops were directing an intense machine gun fire against the positions .occupied by the republicans in Sackville street. The provisional government's military cen sorship is assumed to be the cause of tile delay. DUBLIN, July 3. The Stephens Green club, which had been held by the irregulars since Friday was cap tured by national army forces today. The irregulars had evacuated the posi tion. Heavy Flghtinfl On DUBLIN, July 3 The real assault on the positions held by the republi cans in Sackville street was begun at nine o'clock this morning and was still continuing nearly an hour later. The other areas held by the insur gents in various parts of this city were occupied by the free staters during the night. Heavy fighting is going on in Sack ville street which is swept by machine gun fire. The national army forces are operating from O'Connel bridge to the Parnell monument. The return fire of the insurgents Is feeble. The machine gunners are maintaining a devastating fire against the building where Eamon De Valera 13 believed to be holding out, following his flight from the Gres ham hotel. Despite the great danger from stray bullets a large crowd Is watching the fighting from a distance. Irregular! Weakening Details of the operations of the na tional corps, as revealed in the latest (Continued on Page Four) Mrs. W. A. Hunt, all of Oakland, and Peter Fazere and Joseph Cronln, both of San Francisco. The Thomp sons and the Hunts were dining at one table. Hunt arose and crossed the floor on some errnnd. ' As he passed a tnble at which two men were sitting, one of the strangcrR at tempted to seize a dlmnnd stickpin Hunt was wearing in his tic. The other bandit made a grab for Hunt's watch. Hunt resisted and .Thompson with the other two men. rushed to his assistance. Then the two bandits drew blackiacks. With three of the I men unconscious the two holdups seized the wntches and went through one of the victim's clothes, stealing a wallet containing $64. " CONTINUES DUBLIN STREETS Five Generations v !m MM Manila mat IMtm wm i rJzrLmm m mum .jr. A certain section of our country recently boasted of a family of five generations, nil living and in grind health. Now comes Lancaster county, in rennHylvunla, and puis forward the group shown In tile photo six generations. From left to right they are, Mrs. Elizabeth Hupp, great-great grandmother. X! of Kbcr nianstuwn; Mrs. F. Mue Guldar, grandmother, who Is holding Wilbur (i. Itoyar, 3 months old; Mrs. Sarah Miller, great-great-great: grandmother, of Nefl'sville, Pa., age 104: Mrs.' Kllie Zug, 04 of Lancaster, great grandmother: standing, Mrs. Huldu Royur. mother of Wilbur lioyer of Knst Petersburg, 1'n. I EN ROUTE WEST EN ROUTE WITH PRESIDENT HARDING TO, MARION, Ohio, Union town, Pa., July 3. In high hopes that by evening he would be in his home town for the first time since entering the White House, President Harding today started on another lap of his automobile journey to Marion. Refreshed by a night's rest at a hotel perched on a mountain top near here, the president and Mrs. Harding were up for an early get-away. They were anxious to arrive in Marion by night,: although the stiffest mileage schedule faced them since their depar ture from Washington. Approximately 250 miles of the route remained to be covered. In the event the tourists are unable to complete their trip by night, it was said they would stop for the night within striking distance of their des tination and complete the tour tomor row, morning in time for afternoon homecoming ceremonies in which the president and General Pershing and Charles G. Dawes, former budget bur eau director, both traveling with Mr. Harding, are to participate with other speakers. Today's route carried the president through bituminous coal fields in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Ohio where miners have been on strike for aeveral months. Since leaving Wash ington, Mr. Harding has made no pub lic comment on either the coal strike or railroad situation. M'CUMBER TELLS OF DEFEAT CAUSES WASHINGTON, July 3. Senator MeCumber, republican, ' North Da kota, in a letter made public by him today, ascribed his defeat for re nomlnatlon in the North Dakota primary to "the bt-partinan combina tion which had been made againta me on the one side and the non partisan organization, which so loy ally supported my opponent Senator MeCumber squssed his defeat and expressed appreciation for support given him in a letter to Jl. $4 Hughes of Fargo, one of his cam paign managers. BASEBALL SCORES , National At Pittsburg It. H. E. Chicago . -. 2 10 2 Pittsburg '. 6 8 0 Batteries: Stuelaud, Kaufman and O'Karrell; Yellowhorse und Gooch. At New York R. H. E. Brooklyn .v 4 14 1 Now York 9 14 3 Batteries: Grimes, Smith, Murray and Miller; Douglas and Smith. At Boston Philadelphia-Boston postponed, wet grounds. American At Chicago (14 innings) R. H. E. Detroit 7 13 3 Chicago 6 '8 2 Batteries: Pillette, Ehmke and BasBler; Schupp, Blnnkenshlp and Schalk. At Philadelphia . R. H. E. New York 12 17 0 Philadelphia 1 1 Batteries: Mays nnd Hoffmnn: Sulllvnn, Eckert, Holmnth and Perkins, Beaten by Pennsylvania Family of Six mm mm mm sr mm mm mm mm y 'Tjr IN COAL AT Neither Side Willing to Give An Inch So Conference Ad journs for Week Only Hope Solution Now Lies With Gov ernment. WASHINGTON, July 3. (By the Associated Press.) Deadlocked ovor a basis of negotiating a settlement of the bituminous coal strike, the conference of opc.TJVors and United Mine Workers officially accepted the suggestion of government representa tives today and adjourned until ncx; 'Monday. . WASHINGTON, July 3. Only n possible proposul by the administra tion appeured today to offer any prospect for a break in the deadlock faced by bituminous coal mine op erators and officials of the miners' union on meeting for their third joint session of the conference culled here by President Harding to devise means of settling the coal strike. Following the formal votes at their second meeting by which each side rejected the proposal of the others as to the basis for negotiations of new wage scales and later separate meet ings of the two groups at which each was said to have held firm in the position taken. No indications were given today of what suggestions the government might have to offer as a means of progress In the negotia tions. Following casting of ballots, tho joint meeting adjourned until 10 o'clock today. Secretaries Hoover and Davis, who attended yesterday's session Issued a joint announcement that tho opera tors' first vote culled for a central competitive field wage . conference with the miners, and the latter im mediately after recorded their oppo sition to the operators' proposal for Independent wage conferences in each diBtrict. Various other mines In strategic points throguhout the central coal field were also understood to bo se lected for Immediate operation. The old wage scale calls for a base wage of $7.f0 per day underground, while the mines that will onen are expected to offer to miners the 1917 scale, which has a base of about t a day underground. Both the union offi cials and operators Boem to be fully informed of each other's determina tion and the only doubt remaining concerned the government's propos al. Secretary of Labor Davis appeared still hopeful before the meeting and was again the chief source of the im pression that tho administration would intervene further before let ting the gathering full of accomplish ing a Btrlke settlement. NAVAL EVASION ' TOKIO, July; 3. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The admiralty today Issued a formal statement flatly de nying recent reports that Japan was evading the Washington naval treaty by increasing construction of auxil iary vessels. The statement, which outlined the tentative auxiliary program also an nounced that Port Arthur, taken REACH DEADLOCK MM WASH NGTQN M.ii ... MHlflU St BE A BIG AFFAIR I,A OUANmO, Ore., July 3. (Spe cial.) With the return from Port land roconxly, of Mr. WUltum Mlllbr, where hu conKiilted with tho Uruml Chancellor, Domain oC Oregon, Knights ol PythtiiH, the Grand Keeper of Het'ords and Seal, .Domain of Ore gon, the Secretary of Portland Tem ple D. O. K. K. and tho preHldent of the Portland Northwest Association of D. O. K. K. Temples, local commit tues in charge of the second annual convention to he held In La Grande Scptomher 1st and 2nd have spirited up on anangementH. . PrWe moneys for drill competitions nnd floats have been definitely fixed. The caHh prizes will be distributed aa follows: Hand:, Kirst prize, $200; second prize, $150. Drill Team: First prize, $100; sec ond prize, $100. Drum Corps: First prize, $100; second prize, $r0. Floats: Pest K. ot P. float, $!0; best Dokio float, $50. Friduy morning, September 1st r Registration of delegates and visitors at Y. M. C. A. Meeting nf delegates to Pacific North went Association of D. O. K. K. Temples. Friday nfter- noon Ceremonial, which is the only event of the convention that Is riot open to the public Also automobile ride for delegates nnd visitors. Fri day night Htunt night at baseball grounds, followed by Mnrdi Oras on up town streets. Saturday morning Competitive drills between drill teams of North west Dokio Temples at hall grounds. Meeting of official delegates. Sat urday afternoon Competitive con test between drum corps and bands In ball grounds. Saturday evening Mammouth parade followed by MardI firas. 7 DEAD, 75 T, E, ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 3. At least seven persons woro killed nnd about 75 other Injured, half of them seiiouHly, early today when a Camden-Atlantle City express train left tho rails at Wlnslow Junction, 37 mllea from here, und rolled down an embankment. Tho actual number of dead will not be known until the wreckage is thoroUKhly searched. There wero reports that nearly twenty pci-Hons were killed, but officials of tho Philadelphia nnd Reading, ' an nounced 'only five. '' " " '"" The train split a switch at the Cape .May cross-over nnd plunged perhaps forty feet down a steep embankment. The engine and five coaches wero piled up at tho bottom, a complete wrck. . ' ' : . The known dead: John T. Llne hnm, Philadelphia: Walter Weseott, Gloucester,' N. J., engineer; William T. ' Bouder, Atlantic City, fireman: Joseph Dllsuco, l'leasnntvlllo, N.- J.: Solomon Worth, Mays Land lag, N. J.; T. X. Bidden, I'ullmnn portor; Francis Corbctt, I'hilndelihla. from tho Russians In tho Kusso-Jap-anese war, would be abandoned as a naval port. LONDON, July 3. A dispatch from Kankow rocelved here today says: "Tho Japanese garrison, consist ing of a battalion with detachments of special troops evacuated Sunday. The troops have been maintained in recent years for the protection of for eign interests, tho same as the for eign garrison in Tien Tsln and Pe Xo Paper July -till. hollowing a long established custom there will be no issue of tho .Mall Tribune tomorrow, July 4th. A full account of the events of that day wll eh printed In the paper of Wednesday, ! July r.th. HUGE WINE DEAL, T. R. Petrotta, Sacramento, Riddled With Bullets, When Hand Extended in Greeting Suspect, in Jail Victim Once Before Attacked En dearing Letters Among Clues Found. CMlCAflO, July 3. Vincent Cur tain la held by police and two men are being sought for evidence in the slay ing of Thomas It. i'etrotta, Wucrn incnto, Cal., wine mcrcliant who was shot n dozen tinica last night as he met Curtalo to keep a buaincsH en gagement. Friends salil the two were to have closed an agreement fur the sale through Curtalo of 200,000 gal lons of wine owned by I'etrotta and associates. Kndeaiing letters nnd tho photo graph of a woman named "Hose" whose letters frequently mentioned Curtalo ndded another element to the mystery of the shooting. Four years ago I'etrotta wns found on the street hero shot In the bend and bndly wounded, but no explanation was ever obtained by the police. KffortH of police to connect tho Hlaylng of 'I'etrotta with that of Tony Curtalo, Vincent's brother, a month ago, also proved a failure. Vincent -ChLesL cousin of the slain man and an nttorney, said Curtalo and Petrotta were to have tnlked over plans for the formation nf a $2,000, 000 fruit Importing corporation at the meeting when Petrotta was shot. As Curtalo reached out to shake Petrot- ta's hand, tho slayer fired repeatedly into Petrotta's body nnd fled, one de flected bullet giving Curtalo a minor wound. Discovery today of a former wife of Thomas R. Petrotta, wealthy Sac ramento, Cal., wine merchant, who was shot and killed here last night, has led police to ascribe the slaying to vengeance on the part of relatives of the former wifo, it was learned at the inquest today. Clothing Propaganda WASHINGTON; July 3. Senator Smoot of Utuh, ranking republican on the sonnte finance committee told the senate today that propaganda which he said clothing manufacturers were circulating to the effect that the duties on wool in the pending tariff bill would Increase tho price ot suits of clothing by $1.75 was untrue. Sawmill Burns KAMLOOPS, 1). C, July 3 The Nor thern Construction company's sawmill oontalnlng about 2,500,000 feet of lum ber was destroyed by flro here yester day. Tho loss was estimated at $100, 000. i Cashier to Prison WOODLAND. Cal.. July 3. Floyd i'uttle, nsslstnnt cashier of the Hank of Yolo, who admitted a shortage of 41.00() in his accounts, pleaded guilty today to embezzlement and wns sen tenced to San Quentln prison. Ills term will be from 1 to 10 years. He was not represented by counsel PERRY, Iowa, July 3. Twenty laborers, brought from Chicago, pre sumably to work In the Chicago, Mll Waukoo and St. Paul shops woro stoned nnd chased out of town Sat urday night by a band of strike sym pathizers. There .were numerous fist fights between the Chicago laborers nnd local strike sympathizers. Severnl of tho laborers wero Injured. Ono of them was badly cut about tho face by flying glass. Windows in the pnsscnger coach on which tho men arrived from Chicago at 8:30 p. m. Saturday were stoned and broken. The sheriff and several deputies and locnl police officers wero ' on hand when .the train arrived and made ef forts to maintain order, but wero out numbered. ' According to Emmett Cnltahnn, chairman of tho local federated com mittee of the tslx shopmen's unions, tho disturbances wero caused by boys and by strike sympathizers. He Bald ROSE'AND PISTOL IN MYSTERY DEED RAILROAD STRIKE BREAKERS STONED AND CHASED OUT OF IOWA TOWN w FOREST FIRE Careless Camper Blamed, and More Danger Expected After Holiday Ban Matches From Woods Green Timber Me naced Rush Fighters to Check Flames. Ol.YMPIA, Wash., July 3. A forest fire situation as serious as any In the history of the state is now threatening virtually every county in the state, ac cording to State Forester Fred K. Pnpe today. Probably forty' or fifty new rires have started up over Sunday, ho s'ald, and practically nil tho old fires are reburnlng, many of them into green timber. It Is a miracle that no serious damngo Is reported from any particular place, It was said, but a con tinuation of tho present warm weather will put the blazes entirely out of con trol. Men are working now only to keep the fires from spreading into green timber. The first fires In the Olympic na tional forest of any consequence were reiiorted today by It. L. Fromme, fed eral supervisor here. One serious blaze 1b running Into green timber along the Duckabush river, burning out Boveral logging railroad bridges of the Webb Logging and Timber com- puny as well as one small camp and some equipment. Two other fires are on the Dosewol lops river but are burning Into old log ging works. Tho fires started yester day and campers are held responsible for two of them. Both state and fed eral officials report that for the first time this year campers are beginning to get careless nnd ninny of the blazes are found traceable to them. .''.' A serious situation Is expected to nrlse over the Fourth of July unless more cure Is taken and no fires are built in foreB except in authorized tourist camps. Permits for burning have all been suspended by tho state forester. TACOMA, July 3. All fire permits In western Washington stand iinmedl atefy cancelled and no new permits to build fire in the woods will be Issued for any purpose for the time being, It wns announced today by W. C. Vest, district fire warden. Mr. Vost an nounced that the state forestry depart ment has taken this action on account of the. forest fire hazard, which is growing daily worse. Reports from Kelso today said the situation in Cowlitz county Is the worst In twenty years. Numerous fires are burning there and the extremely dry condition of the woods has caused the gravest apprehension on the part of the Ostrandor Railway and Timber company, the Inman-Poulsen company, tho Long-Uell Lumber company,' the Eufula Lumber company and the Ham mond Lumber company. The Long-P.ell Lumber company yes terday sent an additional crew of sixty men Into the woods to fight the fire and lurgo pumping plants have been set up. Most of the loggers are out of the woods for tho Fourth ot July vacation and the danger 1b augmented by ab sence of experienced woodsmen to bat tle the flames. the striking shopmen did not engage in the fights. LA GRANDE, Ore., July 8. Twenty men arrived at La Clrando Sunday to work in the local shops ot tho Union Paclflo system In place ot the men who walked out Saturday, according to information gathered by the La Grande Observer. All fore men remained at work but 99 per cent of tho shopmen were out, ac cording to union leaders. C. F. Roberts, assistant division superintendent of the Oregon-Washington ltnllrond and Navigation com pany, a Union Pacific subsidiary, re ported that men were working today in the shops nt Relth, Ore., and that men wero going to Huntington to take strikers' places. - Tho strikers here protested last night against orders reported to have been issued by n special agent of tho Oregon-Washington Railroad and Navigation rom pany nsklng strikebreakers here to arm themselves.