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MEDFORD
i The Weather
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3 Maximum yesterday 99
I Minimum today 53
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Onlly Seventeenth Tear.
Wnfkly Kifty-Second Tear.
MEDFORD, ORKOOX, TUKSDAY, JULY IS, 1922
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Harding Requests Coal Opera
tors to Resume Operations
and if State Troops Can't
Maintain Order Federal
Troops Will Be Called Out-
Governors Told to Act.
WASHINGTON, July 18. President
Harding lute today will send simul
taneously telegrams directing the op
erators ef all bituminous mines shut
down because of strike conditions, to
resume operation at once and request
ing the governors of those states in
which the mines operate to furnish
such military protection as may be
' needed. If state troops find it impos
sible to cope with the situation federal
troops, it was understood, may eventu
ally be employed.
It was made plain at the war depart
ment that the National Guard would
be employed by the federal govern
ment to maintain order If the available
regulars were of insufficient numbers
or if governors refused to call out the
guard themselves. National Guard
troops could be used,,' It was added, in
other than their own states and in ef
fect the government has at its disposal
not only the regular army but the full
strength of the National Guard.
Must Maintain Order
It was made clearthat In the opinion
of war department officials, It is pri
marily the business of the state au
thorities to maintain order and that
the government's plans contemplate
using regular troops or National Guard
under federal orders only where the
slnte authorities fall to keep order.
It is expected that any mine opera
tor Intending to re-open his property
will communicate with the governor of
his state and Inform the executive as
to the time when his men have been
directed to begin work.
DENVER, Colo., July 18. State
troops now patrolling Colorado's nor
thern coal field will be withdrawn un
less coal operators rescind recent price
increases, Governor Oliver 11. Shoup
announced today.
WASHINGTON, July IS Prediction
was made by Samuel Gompers, presi
dent of the American Federation of
'Labor, that President Harding's Invlta-
tion tohe bituminous coal operators
to return to their properties and re
sumo operation would result in no ap
preciable increase in the production of
coal.
Mr. Gompers said coal could be had
in ample quantities "the-moment Jus
tice Is done."
COA
MIS
SIM WORK
OREGON CITY HAS
A $30,000 FIRE
OREGON CITY, Ore., July 18. Fire
which started early today in an unoc
cupied building in the older business
section, caused damage estimated at
$:!0,000. The Oregon City laundry's
plant, May and Washbtirne's garage
, with two automobiles, a restaurant, a
shoe shop and a residence and confec
tionery store were destroyed.
Yokohama Dork Fire.
SAX FRANCISCO. July 18. Fire
on the docks at Yokohama haH con
sumed part of the outgoing cargoes
of the P-rltlsh steamer Empress of
Asia, bound for Vancouver and the
President Grant, bound for Seattle,
according to a message rocolved to
day by the marine department of the
chamber of commerce. There waR
nothing in the message to Indicate
that -.the fire was controlled. ,
RELIGIOUS FANATIC FASTS 64 DAYS. AND
SAYS HE IS LIVING ON SPIRITUAL FOOD
STANTON, Ky., Julyi 18. William
Rire of Nada today was speeclfless in
a very weakened condition on the
sixty-fourth day of his voluntary fast.
Physicians who have examined Iiie
do not expect him to live much
longer if he continues to refuse sus
tenance. Illce said he intended to fast only
forty days to "purify his body as
Dollar Spent 27 Yrs.
Ago Returned to Its
Owner in Chehalis
CHEHALIS, Wash., July IS.
Mrs. Torrence Hagerman spent a
dollar in Lancaster, Mo., twenty
seven years ago.
She marked her initials on It
then and religiously scrutinized
every dollar that came Into her
possession since that time.
Her diligence was rewarded
when she was handed a dollar at
a Montcsano, Wash., store recent
ly. It was the same silver money
she parted with in Missouri twenty-seven
years ago.
OF
FIELD MARSHAL
Irish Assassins of Sir Henry
Wilson Sentenced to Death
26 Days After Deed Was
Committed Court Refuses
to Permit Statement.
LONDON, July 18. (By Associated
Press). Reginald Dunn and Josoph
O'Sulllvan were sentenced to death to
day for the murder of Field Marshal
Sir Henry Hughes Wilson, who was
shot in front of his home on Eaton
Place last month. The men were con
victed after trial in the old Dailey.
Thus 2G days from the date on which
the noted soldier was murdered, the
men who fired the fatal shots were
convicted and the death penalty im
posed on them. This constitutes a
record in England where murder trials
usually are completed more quickly
than in most countries.
The attorney general's case for the
prosecution required barely half an
hour to present.
Before opening the defense, Artemus
Jones of counsel for the prisoners,
asked that Dunn be allowed to make a
statement. The statement was handed
to the judge who declared It to be a
political manifesto, justifying the right
to kill', and that he, therefore, could
not be allow it to be read. The court
said that Dunn could give evidence If
he wished.
The defendants' counsel thereupon
asked the court for a short adjourn
ment . for consultation, which was
granted. When the attorneys returned
Mr. Jones announced- that the defen
dants took the view that owing to the
judge's refusal to permit Dunn's state
ment to be read, they no longer wished
to have legal representation. There
fore Jones stated that he had no alter
native but to withdraw from the case.
The Jury was out three minutes.
Asked Jf he had anything to say
why sentence of death should not be
pronounced, O'Sullivan rose and said
In a hiiBky voice:
"All I have done, my Lord, I have
done for Ireland and for Ireland I
am proud to die."
The Judge then passed the sentence
of death on Dunn. When he ended
with the words, "and may the Lord
have mercy on your soul," Dunn Bald
quietly, "he will, my Lord."
The judge then sentenced O'Sulli
van who at the conclusion cried:
"You may kill my body, my lord, but
my spirit you will never kill."
Asst. I". 8. Treasurer Quits
WASHINGTON, July 18. Elmer
Dover of Tacoma has tendered his
resignation as assistant secretary of
the treasury in chargo ot Internal
revenue and customs, it was offici
ally stated today at the White Housi.
Presldont Harding was said to
have been too busy to take up the
matter.
Christ did," but when the forty days
was up, he still continued the vigil,
! saying if he ate he would go to hell
and asserting that he was living on
spiritual food.
By his bedside, are biblp, a cross, a
fan, a trumpet and a likeness of
Christ. Hire has a wife and two
daughters, both of whom are mar
ried, who are at his bedside.
ARE
con
J. H. LEGGITT
AFFIDAVIT
IS
J. W. Antle, Well Known Citi
zen of Lake Creek, Declares
Affidavit Circulated By Re
, call Forces Absolutely False
Paid Liggett $8 for Per
mit to Hold Dance.
The Citizens' Committee for Jus
tice and Economy regrets the unscru
pulous methods that arc being report
ed to in an attempt to defame the
sheriff and accomplish his recall.
On the fifteenth, sixteenth and seven
teenth of this month those urging the
recall were busy circulating posters
purporting to contain the affidavit ol
J. H, Leggitt in which Leggitt is al
leged to have Bworn that in connec
tion with Sandifer,' Moses and
Schrader he made a search of the
premises of J. W. Antle, merchant at
I-ake Creek, for intoxicating liquor,
finding none. That at the time of the
search Antle told these parties that
a short time before the sheriff had
warned him that Sandifer was com
ing to raid him and to be careful and
that if ho didn't find anything
there he would plant it there. The
statement then continued, "Mr. Antle
is a well known citizen of the Lake
Creek district and is considered a
truthful man." Your committee
hereby publishes two separate affi-.
davits from this same, J. W. Antle,
which have been handed in' to your
committee, the originals of which will
remnin on file in The Tribune office
for inspection for three days. The
affidavits are as follows:
Paid Iiocsltt $8.
"STATE OF OREGON,
"COUNTY OF JACKSON: ss.
"I, J. W. Antle, of Lake Creek,
Oregon, being first duly sworn, de
pose and say that on the third day of
July, 1922, S. B. Sandifer. 1 L.
Moses, R. J. Schrader and J. HLeg-
gitt called at i.iy place at Lake Creek,
Oregon and stated they came to
search my place for intoxicating
liquor. They never hnlf searched the
place and If there had been liquor on
the place I do not believe they would
have found it. I further depose and
say that I made application for a per
mit for a dance hall at Lake Creek
and S. B. Sandifer told me in re
gard to the dance hall permit that
it was being held up, but that the
county court would do anything he
told them to and that if I would pay
J. H. Leggitt eight dollars that he,
Sandifer, would see that the dance
was held and that J. H. Leggitt would
appear and be present at the dance.
I further state that I paid the said
sum of eight dollars to J. H, Leg
gitt and that on July 4, 1922. J. H.
Leggett did stay at Lake Creek dur
ing the dance.
"J. W. ANTLE.
"Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 17th day of July, 1922.
"M. T. EDWARDS,
"Notary Public for Oregon.
"My commission expires Nov. 9,
1023."
(N. P. Seal of
M. T. Edwards).
Leggitt Affidavit False.
"STATE OF OREGON,
"COUNTY OF JACKSON: ss.
"I, J. W. Antic, of Lake Creek,
Oregon, being first duly sworn, de
pose and say that I never had the
conversation with S. B. Sandifer, B.
L. Moses, R. J. Schrader and J. H.
Leggett, sworn to in the affidavit of
J. H. Leggitt published in the circular
which was distributed about Medford,
Oregon, headed 'Going Some, and
that I never told the above parties re
ferred to that Sheriff-Terrilt tipped
me off that my place was going to
be searched and I' further swear that
Sheriff Terrill never tipped me off
in regard to said raid, and that the
affidavit of J. H. Leggitt is false.
"J. W. ANTLE,
"Subscribed and sworn to before
me this 17th day of July, 1922.
v "M. T. EDWARDS,
"Notary Public for Oregon.
"My commission expires Nov. 9,
1923."
(X. P. Seal of
M. T. EDWARDS).
No such charge nor any Intimation
thereof Is contained In the recall pe
tition. Your committee has learned
through reliable, sources furnished
In numerous instances by affidavits,
that this is but a sample of the mis
statements peddled to the voters by
the circulators of the recall petition.
The constitution providing for the re
call offers the sheriff an opportunity
to make a defense not only before
the people, but upon the ballot. This
dirty politics prevents a defense be
cause nobody knows what charges
arc being whispered by this bunch,
whose object seems to be to defeat
the sheriff by unfair and unknown
means rather than by openly charg
lng in the petition for recall the
(Continued on page six)
DENIED
Taft Receives Degree at. Oxford
mrmn cut
11
Smilingly on their way to Oxford to receive degrees, former Presi
dent Tuft of tho United Slates (right) and Lord liirkenhead, are shown
above. Taftenjoycd his stay In England and has sailed fur home.
NON-UNION IN
ARE FLOGGED BY
IBS IN TEXAS
v FORT WORTH, Texas, July IS.
Four men, all 'under the age of 25
years, employed as non-union workers
at the local Frisco shops, were seized
by a mob of approximately WO men at
11 o'clock last nignt while at a local
dance hall, taken six mllea out on the
Cleburne road and flogged, according
to reports made to the police early this
morning by the men.
ST. PAUL, Minn., July 18. Striking
railroad shopmen were enjoined by the
United States district court In St. Paul
today from interfering with the opera
tion of trains of the Grout Northern
Railroad company and from maintain
ing picket lines near and about tho
company's property, with the excep
tion of specific limitations of the court.
PHILADELPHIA, July 18. Tho
Pennsylvania railroad announced to
day that a wage agreement has been
negotiated between representatives of
the shopmen still employed by the
company and representatives of the
management, affecting moro than 40,
000 men.
SIOUX CITY, July 18 The Chicago,
St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha line's
passenger train due hero from Minne
aolis at 8:50 o'clock this morning
bearing nine non-union shopmen was
stopped by Mayor W. M. Short, Public
Safety Commissioner T. L. Tnggort
and a squad of policemen and ordered
to proceed .to tho station without stop
ping at the Omaha shops to unload
them.
The mnyr said he took this nctlon
because he feared to allow tho men to
enter tho shops, several hundred strik
ing shopmen having congregated in
the shops district, apparently awaiting
their arrival. There was no violence
The non-union men were taken to
strike headquarters.
FULTON AND TAIT MAY
OPEN UP MILWAUKEE
PORTLAND, Ore., July 1 8. Fred
Fulton nnd Hill Tate, heavyweights,
will meet In a ton round boxing
bout arranged by tho Mllwaukle box
ing commission, August 4, re-opening
the Mllwaukle arena, which has been
clo3ed for several .months, according
to announcement by Frank Kendall,
matchmaker of the .Mllwaukle boxing
commission.
Albany Man Is Injured
WALLA WALLA, Wash., July 18.
Henry McCune of Albany, Ore., work
ing here on an oil boring derrick, lost
tho major part of his right hand last
night when It became caught In the
cable sixty feet from the ground.
The Weather.
Tonight and Wednesday . fair;
moderate westerly winds.
PRINCIPAL
WIDOW MURDER
IS
, LOS AXC.ELES. July 18. Mrs.
Clara I'liillips, charged by Indictment
with tho murder hero last Wednes
day of Mrs. Alberta Trcmaine Mead
ows was arraigned today by District
Attorney Woolwlne today before
Judge Frederick W. Houser of the
superior court and her attorneys
aHked time, to plead. They wero
granted until Thursday morning.
Mrs. Phillips was entirely com
posed. Her faco was set and expres
sionless. LOS ANGELES, July 11, Provis
ions for handling a largo crowd wero
made by officials at tho arraignment
today of Mrs. Clara YhlllipB on tho
grand Jury indictment charging her
with tho murder of MrH. Alberta
Meadows, "J0-ycar-old widow who
was beaten to death with a hammor.
Ten o'clock this morning and tho
courtroom of Judgo Frederick Hou
ser wero tho time-and place fixed for
the arraignment, which, it was ex
pected, would consume comparatively
little time.
No advance announcement was
made by Mrs. I'hlllips' attorneys as
to what procedure they had mapped
out for their 2:i-year-old client and
so it wuh nut known whether she
would enter a plea today or take ad
vantage of all provisions of legal do
lay iir tho matter.
They already have stated her de
fense will be Insanity but that they
would not decldo between temporary
and permanent dcrangefnent until
after they had completed a survey of
Mrs. Phillips' entlro life.
Yesterday, after tho inquest, which
ended In a coroner's Jury charging
Mrs. 1'hltlipH with the murder of Mrs.
Meadows, tho defendant was permit
ted to see her husband. A'. L. I'hlllips.
Thoy fell into each other's arms nnd
kissed many timea. It was their first
meeting since last Thursday morning
when Mrs. I'hlllips departed for El
I'aso, Texas, only to be taken Into
custody at Tucson, Ariz.
AT
LONDON, July 18. (lly Associated
Press). A wedding, second only In In
terest to the nuptials of Princess Mary
and Viscount Lascelles, took place this
afternoon in St. Margaret's, Westmins
ter, when Kngland's richest heiress,
Miss KdwJna Ashley, grand (laughter
of Sir Krncst Cassels and god ilnugli
ter of King Edward VII., married a
scion of Kuropean royalty, a cousin of
king Ueorge and the closest friend and
companion of the Prince of Wales, who
was the best man at today's ceremony.
Purse Fishing Enjoined
PORTLAND, Ore., July 17. A tern
porary Injunction was granted this
afternoon by Federal Judge R. 8. Hean
against the Oregon fish warden ro
straining him from Interfering with
the operations of Washington purse
seine fishermen who operate outside
the three mile limit off the Columbia
river.
ARRAIGNED
Claim Murderers of
Minister Rathenau
Committed Suicide
-
I11CUUX, July IS. (By the
Associated Press.) A- Hermann
Fischer and Kdwlu Kern who -5
for many days havo been pur-
sued by the Gorman pollco as
the assassins of Foreign Minis-
ter Hatbenau, committed suicide 2
today, according to a dispatch fr
from Hallo.
Tho two men shot themsolvcs,
the dispatch said as thoy were
. about to bo captured in thb tur-
rot of Sua lock castle, near Bad
Koesen, whither they had been
traced by tho police.
1
KILLSFiREWIEN
Warehouse Blown Up in
Greenwich Village, Scatter
ing Death and Confusion
Through Artist Quarter
Panic Follows Many Hurt.
NEW YORK, July 18. (P.y tho
Associated Press) Working fever
ishly to check tho flames sweeping a
warehouse in the heart of Green
wich village, firemen today wero
unable to pierce tho thick clonk of
mysterious black smoke which com
pletely shrouded tho building and
wero forced to a blind battle with
the destructive conflagration.
Tho fire started with nn explosion
about 8 a. m. Several mor.e followed,
ny noon the casualty list stood at
two dead, nearly thirty injured und
throe missing. Tho toll was taken
chiefly from the ranks ot tho fire and
police departments. Tho veteran fire
chief "Smoky Joe" Martin, pro
nounced tho blaze one of tho worst he
had known during his long years of
service
Pungont black smoko drove nenrly
200 families from their homes nnd
forced tho police to withdraw the
fire lanes four blocks from each side
of tho building.
NEW YORK, July 18. A series of
explosions in a six-story warehouse
at 10 Jano street today shattered
windows for blocks around. Women
and children fleeing from nearby
tenomonts woro hurled to the pave
ment by tho forco of tho blasts. Five
firo alarms woro turnod In and am
bulances took many to hospitals.
Falling debris killed Klre Lieu
tenant J. J. Schoppmoyer and In
jured throe other firemen.
Police and flromon carried many
frightened women and children out
ot neighboring Greenwich clllage
tenements.
The warohouso is occupied by tho
Manufacturers Transit Company.
More than an hour ufter the first
blast occurred Intermittent explo
sions occurred within tho warohouso
filling Greenwich villago with fumes
and smoko which forced hundreds of
people to abandon their lodgings.
Klvo fire alarms had brought to tho
sreno tho grontost array of firo ap
paratus turned out in years. .
The Noted Dead
NEW YORK, July 18. Charles R.
Miller, for forty yoars editor of tho
Now York Times died hero today aftpr
an illness of Bcvcral months. Ho was
73 years old.
BIG-EXPLOSION
NEW YORK CITY
JOHN d:s granddaughter to open op
MILLINERY SHOP IN CHICAGO THIS FALL
NEW YORK, July 18. A millinery
shop will be opened In Chicago noxt
fall by Miss Muriel McCormlck, daugh
ter of Harold F. McCormlck and grand
daughter of John II. Ilockefeller. Miss
McCormlck confirmed the report that
she was going to enter business after
being told that Chicago had heard she
was going to open such an establish
ment there.
Although heiress to two 'fortunes,
Miss McCormlck, who has been a
DECISION IN
LEGION CASE
OVERRULED
Judge Rand of Oregon Su
preme Court Rules That Ap
praisers Decisions Are Only
Advisory Ex-Service Men
Lose Out Statutory Direc
tion Not Explicit Enough.
SALEM, Ore., July 18. That tho
"appraisement by tho appraisers la
merely advisory in character and not
binding on the commission" was the
decision handed down by Judge John
H. Kami, of the supreme court in
handing down his opinion of the suit
brought by the American Legion post
hero against tho world war veterans
stato aid commission to determine
whether that body can loan less than
tho appraised valuation of tho prop
erty offered as security by tho ex-ser-vico
man applying for tho loan.
In handing down its opinion the
court reverses the decision of the
circuit court which upheld the ex
service men, by issuing the writ of
mandamus asked for in the suit.
"Tho theory upon which the writ
was issued," says Judgo Rand, in his
opinion, "was that tho appraisers and
not tho commission, wore tho- final
judges of tho valuo of the property
and that In absence of fraud their ap
praisement was . "binding upon tho
commission. With, -this-, theory we
cannot agree. In the absence of
somo statutory? direction indicating
that such was the intent of the legis
lature that appraisers appointed by,
answerable to, and removable at tho
pleasure of commission, should havo
the power to override the judgment
of the commission upon so Import
ant a question as thlsvdoes not seem
to us to be a fair construction to bo
placed upon tho act. as there was no
allegation in the writ of bad faith or
abuse of discretion by tho commis
sion, or that the commission was act
ing beyond its powers, and as a man
damus will not He to control tho dis
cretion of the commission while act
ing within Its authorized powors, the
demurrer should have been sustained.
"For these reasons, tho order ap
pealed from must bo reversed.
American iAMigtie.
W. L. PC.
Kt. Louis SO . 3D .681
New York .40 . 39 .56T
Detroit ..45 41 .523
Chicago ! 4S 42 .617
.At Philadelphia: ' II; H. B.
Cleveland 10 ' 3
Philadelphia .' . .3 -4 1
, Morton nnd O'Nell: -Hasty; Ogden
and Perkins.- f -A ! r ' p
At New York:: ,' t R' B.
Chicago : VriO 4
Now York 14 ' 20 1
Itlankcnshlp, Schupp, Courtney and
Hcbalk, Ynryan; Shawkoy and
Solmng. Hoffman.
At Hoston: R. H. E.
Detroit ' 5 0 2
Hoston 6 11 3
Dauss, Oldham, Ktoner, Olson and
Woodall; Russell, Pcnnock and Ruol.
Kt. Louis-Washington postponed,
rain.
National Ivcnguc.
At Cincinnati: R. H. E.
Hoston 3 5 2
Cincinnati ...9 14 1
Oosihger and Gibson;. Klxcy and
Ifargravo. ,
At Chicago: ' ' R.' H.'e'. ,
Philadelphia . . .3 8,,. 1'
Chicago . . . . 11 12.,.,, 1.
Singleton, Tttng and reters; ,Atd,-,
ridge and O'Farroll. ! ' ,,,iMV,.
Brooklyn-Pittsburg postponed; wet :
grounds.
guest of Mrs. James A. Stillman, said
she war. going to become a business
woman because she loved style crea
tion. She first becama attracted to
the art during the designing ot her cos
tume for the presentation the
French play I Passant, in Chicago In
which she made her stage debut in the
part of the boy lover. Miss McCormlck
will return to Chicago In a few daya to
perfect her plnns for the opening or
her Bhop.
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