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I'll 1 IT A t edford Mail Tmbun The Weather Prediction: Fair and warmer Maximum yesterday... 100 Minimum today 58.5 Weather Year Ago Maximum 92 Minimum 49 Dally Seventeenth Year. tVaekly Klfty-Second Tear. MEDFORD, OREGON, THURSDAY, JUTAr 1:1, 1922 NO. 96 M E NEXT MOVE RAIL STRIKE BY HARDING Unions Carry Case to White House 50,000 Motor Ve hicles May Handle Mails Jewell Places Blame On Railroads Violence Offic . tally Deplored. Tlio Strike Situation. President Jewell of the shopmen telegraphed an appeal to President Harding stating that the executive's proclamation of July 11 was based on "Incomplete information." Postmaster General Work Inform ed President Harding that fifty thousand motor vehicles could he mo bilized within 24 hours to move the mails. Railway and union officials and rail labor board members appar ently suspended peace activities tem porarily. ' It was announced that strike orders are being sent out to the clerks on the Chesapeake and Ohio. Baltimore and Ohio annulled eight trunk line passenger trains between Chicago and the east. WASHINGTON, July 13. (By the Associated Press) Post master Gen eral Work today prepared a letter to President Harding notifying the executive that a Burvey prepared by all departments of the government showed that a thoroughly organized fleet of 60,000 motor vehielee could hA mnhilfzed within 24 hours should the railway shopmen's strike further Interfere with the movement ot United States mails. CHICAGO, July 13. (By the As sociated Press) The .striking shop men carried their case to tho White House today, . The move marks a new phase ot the nation-wide suspension, now In its fourteenth day, and gave prom ise that the next step toward a set tlement might be in the form of ac tion by the president. 8uch action as was taken by the chief executive in the conl strike is suggested by the new move of the shop crafts leaders. WASHINGTON, July 13. The re sults of the survey were forwarded to the president as a matter of in formation, hut there was no official indication that the use of motor cars to carry mails was being seriously considered. ... The prevailing belief In Washing ton was that should the president's warning against interference with the mails be disregarded, stronger measures were contemplated, . The postmaster general planned to notify the president that a fleet of motor trucks could be set at work transporting the mails at short no tice and that the governors of the different states would be asked to ar range matters so that every state owned machine and government ve hicle would be placed at .the com mand of the postal authorities. There are eight co-ordlnators Iden tified with the bureau of tho budget in different parts of the country, and these federal officials may be asked to co-operate with the postal authori ties. So completely have arrange ments been perfected that postofflce department officials feel, they said, that the strike no longer can cause Annoyance so far as mall move ments are concerned. CHICAGO, July 13. B. M. Jewell, head of the railway employes depart ment of the American Federation of Labor today sent a telegram to , President Harding, replying to the president's proclamation on the strike situation and opening a new phase of the grievances of striking railway shopmen. The telegram which was signed by the six international" presidents of the railway shop crafts declared that ha .Hrilron, h.H WnlUeH Ollt hCCaUSC wages fixed by the labor board were in violation of tne provisions vi in transportation act and because of the viblation of the labor boards position by the railroads. . Union headquarters of the shop men issued a statement deploring the ,ann ,.oln-o In connection with the walkout and declaring that the organized, union strikers .were con ducting an "orderly,' well disciplined The Btatoment threw the blame for any lawlessness or Irresponsible per sona, aggravated by the presence of t.nnn, fa 1 1 i-sin ,1 "pimitipn" and Unit ed States marshals. The strikers sought the support of public duc tals and the press In preserving law and order, the statement said, con- flnitlntr "No violence, was the first and Is the standing order of -tne employes organization. The railroad rhanago ments have responded with armed guards, federal marshals carrying guns and injunctions, and the milltia ririoa anil machine guns. "The hands of our 400,000 men are empty. The work they are ready to do for a fair , wage Is denied them. but their hands are Clean, ine (Continued on page flX.J Elks Close Reunion With Great Parade, Cannon Marches ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., July 13. The fifty-eighth annual re- union of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks ended today with the Installation of newly elected officers and the usual -spectacular parade late this after- noon. Delegates from more than 1000 lodges, scores of bands, patrols and "hello Hills," In colorful cos- tuine will take part In the pa- geant. A number of members of congress' who are also members of the antlered herd ate expected to march, among them "Uncle Joe" Cannon. STATE HIGHWAY I Widely Scattered Rumor Is False More Road for Ore gon Caves Gov. Olcott Returns to ' Salem Party Leaves On Tour. Highway Commissioners R. A. Booth, chairman w. A. Barrall of Hep pner and J. B. Yeon, of Portland, ac companied by Roy Klein, secretary of the commission, Governor Ben. W. Olcott, John Kelly, representing the Oregonian, R. C. Johnson, of the Jour nal, H. C. Frye of the Telegram, and District Engineer K. M. Hndgman ar rived in Medford Wednesday evening from the Oregon caves, and spent the night In Medford. The commission left early this morning for Klamath Falls over the new Green Springs mountain road now under construction, which they, will inspect. The newspaper boys went to Crater Lake early today and will join the party at Klamath Falls and proceed through the eastern and northern partpf the state to view roads. Governor Olcott returned to Salem from Medford. The commission decided to construct 3 miles more on the road to the Ore gon caves between Robinson's corner and Kelly creek, to be graded and macadamized at a cost of (35,000. This will extend from the present newly graded road to connect with the coun ty road, which will make a good road to the caves. They decided to instruct the engi neer to furnish estimates for the estab lishment of a road from the Grants Pass-Crescent City road to KIrby and up the Applegate river. The report that Commissioners Booth and Yeon are going to resign is absolutely without foundation, much to the delight ot the people of the Btate. .o. EMPLOYEES ENDED LOS ANGELES, July 13. Donald G. Means, Indicted on charges . of fraud and extortion by a federal grand Jury In Oregon and arrested here Inst Tuesday night, has been dis charged after a hearing before a United States commissioner. Means was accused of having fraudulently obtained money from postal employes In the northwest, but he satisfied the commissioner he had only borrowed it and, in some cases, had already repaid it. Ho promised to repay all. Means formerly was a postofflce inspector and railway mall clerk. FINAL RATIFICATION J OF" YAP TREATY - WASHINGTON, July 13. Secretary Hughes for the United States and Sadao Saburlo, counsellor and charge of the Japanese embassy, today ex changed final retificatlons of the Yap treaty and the convention will be put Into effect Immediately. This treaty, signed during the arms conference, recognized on the part of the United States Japan's mandate over the Island of Yap and confirms to the Unit ed States full privileges of equality In the maintenance of wireless and cable stations on- the island. I BOARD VISIT WILL NO IN CP REFUSES LOWE PETITION BOOTLEGGERCAS J - ' ' " ' ,v Holds Petitions for Recall ... Candidate Do Not Comply With Law, and More of Recommendation Than a Nomination. Chaunccy Florey, county clerk, to day refused to uccept tne petitionn filed Wednesday, nominating L). M. Lowe, farmer und fair exliiht col lector, an A recall ' candidate against Sheriff C. E. Torrill, on the groundM "that they do not In any particular comply with: the la w being more of a recommendation than a nomina tion. The ! petittonn are ntill in my office, but I will not consider them. I supposed thnt on n recall election " said the county clerk, "that the nomi nation should be filed with tho recall, and I am jiow looking up tho legal end of this 'question. As it stands now wo have a recall, but no candi date. The law provides that a can didate run at a recall election, so the vacancy can be filled." The papers in behalf of Iowo were filed by Jack Schrader, a detective of Ashland, who now runs, or did run an agency known as the "Southern Oregon Identification Bureau." He is a finger print expert, and assfsted the sheriff's office In collecting evi dence in the first iUirk Evan's trial. He was accompanied by George Iver son, a local carpenter. . The threatened injunction against the county clerk to enjoin him from taking any steps towards holding the special election July 29th did not materialize, being still in course of construction. The application will be based principally upon the lack of specific charges against the sheriff. The county clerk said the report had gained circulation thnt he had sent out circulars and cards urging voters to- withdraw their names from the recall petitions. UX-- havftbftenr accused of sending out circulars In behalf of Sheriff Ter rili," said Mr. Florey. "The first I knew of It was when I received let ters condemning me for it, I had no connection with it whatsoever." . The letters and circulars referred to were mailed out by the Citizen's league. DEMOCRATS FAVOR H. TO BUY SHOALS WASHINGTON, July 13. Demo cratic members of the senate agricul ture committee completed plans to day for presentation to the commit tee at its meeting, tonight of a mo tion to report favorably tho offer of Henry Ford for purchase and lease of the government's property at Muscle Shoals,' Alabama. Such a mo tion, if pressed, would bring the first vote in the committee on' tho Ford proposal. u.f' .if ". It was not ;expected," however, by the senators thaW the -motion would be presented until .fter tho commit tee had concluded ,its, final examina tion of all bidders 'or their represen tatives who have submitted offers for Muscle Shoals development. It was learned -that J. W. Worthington chairman of the executive committee of tho Tennessee River Improvement) nssociatloa wouTd appear for Mr. Ford, and .acting upon instructions from' Detroit would inform tho com mittee thnt Mr. Ford's proposal can not be further modLfled. in any .essen tial detail by the committee with the makers npprova.1 or consent. Je"t v . r ay1 LONDON, July 1'3. (By Associated Press). The provisional Irish free state government's decision to concen trate its energies on overcoming the republicans and establishing order throughout the country before sum moning the new parliament Is taken to Indicate that military operations on a considerable scale are Impending. The republicans since their defeat In Dublin have strengthened their posi tion In the southwest and now are prepared to put up a big fight. They are reported to have taken a line from Waterford across the country to Lim erick as a defensive front, entrenching themselves In preparation for the. ex pected free state assault Meanwhile the national army is re . ported to be strengthening dally, re cruits constantly being sent to the var ious depots for Intensive training. IRISH REPUBLICANS HEPJDER, mmm 1 1 JUSTICE' BOUGH! FEDERAL GUARDS AND PAID FOR IN IE Pair Offered to Pay $2000 Per Month for Dismissal of Cases Trap Laid and Works Prohibition Agent, Involved. LOS ANOKI-.ES. July 13. I'nUed States district attorney- here an nounced today that J. 11. Johnson, ar rested yesterday with Morris Orsatti on li'oharge that the two lad at temptcij) tp bribe Hahold Dolley, 'pro hibition, agent, had confessed, his stat4jmnt fully corroborating Pol icy's story. Johijson.and Orsatti were arrested yestenhiy.' According to the state ment of the federal authorities, the two were taken into custody Just, after they had delivered $7f0 to Dolley in a room in a downtown hotel as pay ment for the dismissal of some fede ral bootlegging cases which had been dismissed a few .minutes earlier in the United States district court. The dismissal was nrranged by tho Unit ed States district court. The dis missal was arranged by the Unified States district attorney as a step to completing the rase against the sus pected men, and oday new charges were, filed in the cases and two of the defendants re-arrested. Doltey, the agent who accepted tho bribes, told S. F. Rutter, prohibition director for California that ho had been, offered $2000 monthly for his assistance and' that he had received in all $1700 in a series of payments since July 1. He reported tho situa tion as soon as. it arise, It was ex plained and his later activities were directed by the district attorney mnd the prohibition director. Orsatti is at liberty on , $25,000 bond. Johnson . arranged bond, but it was not completed and he was still in custody today when he made his statement. . LOSKESMS' MYSTERY ON TAP LOS ANGELES, July 13. Clues to the hammer wieldcr who beat a young woman to death late yesterday on a hill road In. the northern residence section of Los Angeles are being fer reted out today by the police. The murder, in which a woman believed to be about 25 years of age was brutally mutilated In being crushed to death by blows on the head by a hammer and a fifty pound rock, was committed with in an hour and a quarter of the discov ery of the body. : '; . ! Efforts to Identify two men are be ing, pushed today. A piece of paper and strlngi which apparently had been wrapped around a new hammer,' the murder instrument, the broken ham mer handle, tracks of a small car and Information that at leasty one person saw .the man believed to be the mur derer driving at a ast, reckless pace from the vicinity of the crime, ; are clueB in the hands of the officers.'' ' LOS ANGELES, July 13. Frank Webber, 40 shot his wire, Myrtle Web ber, 32, four times, in her room at a hotel here today and then turned the gun on himself, according to a report to the police. Occupants of the hotel found. Webber dead In the room and an attempt is being made at the emer gency hospital to save Mrs. Webber's life. " .-. i The couple are said to have been separated. Webber left a note giving details concerning the disposition ot his body and that of his wife. National Lcaeue. At Philadelphia: ' R.. H. "B. Detroit ........ 4 11 ' 2 Philadelphia 9 13 2 Khiuke and Manion; Hasty ' and Perkins. ' At Cincinnati: ! H. H. E. Brooklyn 4 11 1 Cincinnati 3 8. " 0 Vnnee, Smith and Deborry; Couch and Wlngo. ' American Lcaeue. At Boston: It, H. E. Cleveland 4 9 7.1 Boston ' 2. 6 2 L'hle. I.indxey and O'Neill; Collins, Quinn nnd Hue!. St. Louis-New York postponed. Rain. Cashier Locked Up. OMAHA. Neb.. July J3. A lone hnmlifc held up the Commorclal State Bank of Florence near here about noon tndny, locked the enshler In the vault and escaped with f 1600 in cash. BASEBALL SCORES OROVILLE Mob Pulls Workers Out of Bed, Pistol Battle Follows One Fatally Inured Master Mechanic, Object of Wrath, Escapes Guards Missing. O ROY t LUC. Cat.. July 13. Sixty Imported shop workers brought from Arizona and started lo work in the Western 1'acific railroad shops herq yesterday, early today werV dragged from their beds in their , sleeping tiuarters by automobile raiders, esti tim t (Hi to number from 50 to 75. nnd beaten severely. One man, Koadmas- ter Tom Wilkinson, was so badly beaten with clubs that the outcome of his Injuries is doubtful. The raiders, who arrived in Oro vllle in automobiles said to have numbered about a dozen, dispersed the suddenly awakened strikebreak ers, who fled in all directions, after which the attacking party descended in force on the roundhouse, where the guards were stationed. One re port says 200 shots were exchanged between the guards and tho rulders. but early today no reports of bullet injuries had been announced. In the roundhouse tho attackers nnd attacked fought in semi-darkness caused by the. shooting out of the lights and tho windows. Clubs were used freely and tho guards took many shots at their assailants, but finally they were overcome and also beaten. Eaiiv reports that four guards were missing and were believed to have been kidnaped could not be con firmed. - Wilkinson, the injured rondmastor. was caught In a small cabin near the roundhouse. . " T. A. Andrews, master mechanic of the Svestern Pacific shops at Sacra mento, who has been in charge here during the. strike, appeared to bo the special object of Jhe irato raiders. He' was In the roundhouse with the guards and saved himself ' at the point of a pistol, he said afterward. "Tho party would havo been i complete success If- wo had only got Atujrews," ono of the attackers Was quoted as saying. WHEN WAR SHELL WATERTOWN, N. Y., July 13. Police are searching'this city for artil lery shells retained as souvenirs of the world war, after the explosion of a three-inch shell resulting in the death of eight children. The big shell, be lieved to be a' "dud" picked up during the" war time targot practice of tho 104th field artillery on the Pino Plains range, near here, was used as a screen door, check on the rear imrch of the Edward G., Workman house. In the .Intense heat,, the T. N. T. charge ex panded, according to Madison barracks military officials, Snaking the shell liable to explosion nt reduced concus sion. It Is believed that one of the children playing croquet, struck the shell with a mallet or ball. Carpenters working nearby said they heard the children laughing at their game and then a terrific explosion. Hushing to the Workman yard they found the bodies badly mangled, cro quet balls and mallets blown to bits, the concrete of tire Workman homo crumbled to powder and a gray pall of concrete (lust settling over all. Fragments of clothing ,nnd flesh were suspended from trees and house tops for yards around and two automo bile tires placed near the shell on. the rear porcb.were found -on. a root 200 KM THE' HAGUE, Vhily 13. (By Associ ated Press).' "The non-Russian biid- commfssion on private property of the conference on Russian affairs unanim ously adopted today a resolution de claring that In the light of the views oxpresscd yesterday by the Russians concerning the restitution of foreign ers' property In Russia, It would "serve no useful purpose to continue the meetings with the Russian commis sion." LONDON, July 13. (Hy Associated Pfess). Prime Minister Lloyd George told, (he house of commons this after noon he was afraid a deadlock had oc curred at The Hague, but he had no Information that there had been a breakdown of tbe conference on Rus sian affultB. Gov. Olcott's Lawyer Debate Legal Points Hall's Recount Plea t- i- PORTLAND, Ore., July 13. Attorneys for (inventor Hen W. Olcott were in cession here this ufternoon to consider legal phases .f the petition filed in .Marion county on behalf of Charles Hall, candidate for the republican nomination for gov ernor at the state plrinary in -May contesting the nomination of Governor Olcott. Whether a technical legal reply is to be made or whether an attack shall be made on tho alleged facts set forth in the complaint was tho main tiuostion to bo decided. APPLE CROP, AND PLENTYOFSPUDS Oregon Estimate Placed at 1,451,000 Barrels U. S. Output at 10,000,000 Bar rels Potato Production Is Biggest Since 1917. CHICAGO, July 13. Immonso pro duction of apples and potatoes in the United States this season Is expected, according to a statement Issued here today by the federal-bureau of agricul tural economics. . The apple yield looked for exceeds by more than 10,000,000 barrels the crop gathered last year, 1'otatJ pro duction indicated Is the largest since the bumper crop of 1917. Predictions of the apple crop In the lending states ore: Washington 7,470000 . barrels; New York 5,651,000; California 1,023,000; Michigan 1,512,000; Virginia 1,622,000; Oregon 1,451,000. The total commer cial crop is estimated at 31,313,000 bar rels, compared with 21,204,000 barrels In 1921. An approach to half a billion bushels of potatoes Is the forecast of tho com ing crop, the actual 'estimated total be ing 428,007,000 . bushels, as against 346.823,000 bushels In 1921. The output of the five leading states In 1922 Is calculated as follows: Mlnnesotn 42,905,000 bushels; Mich igan 36,510,000 bushels; New York 34, 71,000; Wisconsin 34,538,000; Maine 25,676,000.' I LONDON, July 13. (By the Asso ciated Press) Tho Bank ot England today lowered its discount rata to three per cent, -a reduction of bnr half per cent from the. flKuro. estab lished on June 15. The reduction of the official mini mum furnished another of the pe riodical surprised which the Bank of Enluml has given the money market during tho past yeur. It was anticipated when the fede ral reserve hank rate In tho United States was lowered that the lower hank rnto here would follow, but hope for this vanished, with the tightening conditions in tho money market nnd tho collapse of mark ex change, as well as heavy borrowing by the government from tho Bank of England. . Tho government haj. slneo repaid Virtually all this indebtedness und ns tho foreign exchnngo situation is admittedly less strained, tle hank has given traders further help hy taking one-half of one per cent from tho minimum. The reduction nlso Is ex pected to stimulate the buying of government securities on the Block exchange. ' BATTLE NARCOTICS COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho, July 13 Police officials nnd sheriffs from all over the northwest were here to dny for tho Joint conference of the Northwest Association of Sheriffs and Police and the Idaho State Sheriffs' association. The meetings will con tinue threo days. Federal prohibition agents .from four states are on tho progrnm, which Includes discussion of narcotic and liquor evils, with special attention to steps taken for prevention ot crime. Addresses of welcome, and routine organization huslnexs occupied atten tions of the delegates during this morning's session. RECORDBREAKING ENTIRE LID IN GRIP OF GAS TRUST Standard Oil Divides Country Into 11 Marketing Districts, and What Court Tried to Abolish Flourishes Inter locking Companies Blamed for Situation- WASHINGTON, July 13. Assert ing that "monopolistic situation" with respect to gusoltno prevailed over the entire country due to the fact that Interlocking stock owner ships In the several Standard OH companies, "ha?e perpetuated the very monopolistic control which the courts sought to terminate," the fed eial trade com mission recommended, in a report to congress today the en actment of legislation prohibiting "common Btock ownership In corpora tions which have been members of a combination disolved under the Sher man law. Dealing specifically In the report with conditions In the gasoline trade In .Montana and adjacent states, where the aommlssion declared the crude petroleum producer and the gusoline consumer were "both at the mercy of the Standard through a mo nopolistic system created In 1910," the commission comes to the conclu sion that "concerns In other sections of the country are not radically dif ferent. . ' .'(., r - , 'j . "Today the entire country," the report asserted, is divided into-' eleven Standard gasoline marketing territories in which a standard mark eting company Is the dominating factor and In which there la no real competition botwoen the '.. various Standard units. This monopolistic situation is possible under the terms or the Standard Oil dissolution de cree by which the different Standard companies are for legal purposes sup posed to be strangers to each other, but there Is generally known to be an Interlocking Btock ownership in the different concerns which has con tinued the very monopolistic control which the courts sought to termin ate." . WASHINGTON FIRE . IN TIMBER AREA UNDER CONTROL OLYMPIA, Wash., July. 13. With tho return of warmer weather and no sign of ruin, fear was expressed today by State Forester Fred E. Pape that the forest fire situation -i Is again as suming serious proportions. While re ports received are satisfactory and In dicate that the fires for the most part are under control, a bad Wind, would send the forested areas of the entire state ablaze, Mr. Pape said. Two new fires were reported In thlB county but they are not particularly damaging, It was said. One was seven miles southeast of here and the other nine miles northeast of Olympla. The first fire was reported by a stute high way motorcycle patrolman.. Both are being taken care of by state fire war dens. . . , , . Almost 18 square miles in an area, of 400 square miles have been burned over In western Lewis county, C, B. Joy, chief warden of the Washington Forest Fire association, announced to day on his return from that district. Although the flames are under control at present, he said, the tires are attlt pressing and a slight wind would create havoc. Very little valuable tim ber ban been destroyed although - a great deal ot young growth has been burned over.- . , TACOMA, Wash., July 13. Harry Stelnholdt, 26, a member of the Na tional Guard now stationed at Mur ray, Wash., will read his bible. In Jail. He purchased it with a bogus check, according to the police. Stelnholdt, who was paroled from Monroe reformatory one yen r . ago, accrdlng to the police, will be return ed within a few days to complete his sentence. ' PURCHASES BIBLE ; WITH BOGUS CHECK: , . . .