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MEDFORD, ORlXiOX, SATURDAY, JULY
V.V22
NO. 101
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ASSESSING
KLANSH
FIFTEEN PER
Salem Members of K. K. Are
Asked to Dig Up for Recount
and Burn etters After Read
ing Them American Lib
erty On Altar Catholic Ruler
in Italy, Is Claim.
SALEM, Ore., July 52. Salem
members of the Ku Klllx Kian are
being assessed $15 each to help fi
nance the proposed recount of votes
east in the May primary election pe
titioned for in Hie interest of Charles
Hall, according to a circular letter
sent Ulansmen with instructions to
"read and then burn." a copy of
which was given out today at Gov
ernor Olcott's office..
The appeal declares that Hall is the
"true and legal republican nominee,"
and that the disclosures to be made, t
"will shake the very foundations of i
the institution which has ruled in 1
Oregon and would now offer Ameri- j
can liberty on the altar of the Catho
lic ruler in far-off Italy."
"Many thousands of dollars will he
needed," states the appeal, "and
every klansman is called to raise per
sonally at least J 15 so that this
county will be able to meet the quota
required. This amount can be
raised by direct donations as many of
the klansmcn have already done, or
by soliciting contributions from
friends and friends of the cause. Re
member your obligation and give the
klan your best effort now, Hemem
ber our power Is In secrecy. Head
the contents of this letter, then burn
it."
A GEN'L OBLIGATION
OLYMPIA, Wash., July 22. The
decision of tho supreme court yester
day which held that irrigation dis
trict bonds in this stato are a general
obligation, insures the security and
reliability of such bonds and will he
a valuable assistance to all districts
and the state in finding a better mar
ket and better prices for securities,
according to D. A. Scott, director of
conservation and development oday.
The decision was an affirmation
of the 'Stevens cwunty superior court
finding in the action brought by the
bondholders of the Columbia irriga
tion district of that county against
the district and the county commis
sioners. DECREE OF ALLIES
SOFIA, July 21. (By the Asso
elated Press.) Bulgaria is awaiting
whatever action the reparations com
mission may take on her refusal to
accept the demand made by the com
mission for the signing of a conven
tion acceedlng control of Bulgaria's
finances, taxes and revenues In re
turn for the postponement of repara
tions for three years.
The delay accorded by the commis
sion expires tonight.
RrI Cross Convention Oct, 0.
WASHINGTON, July 22. The an
nual convention of the American
Red Cross will be held in Washington
October 9, 10. nnd U, with President
Harding delivering the opening ad
dress, it was announced today at
headquarters here.
LOS ANGELES DEPUTY
MEDFORD WITH
LOS ANGELES. July 22. Ray
mond I. Turncy, deputy district at
torney, who has hnd charge of the
investigation of Ku Klux Klan ac
tivities here, left today for Medford.
Oregon nt the request of state offic
ials there, carrying with him much
documentary evidence of Klan activ
ities on the const. Mr. Turney ex
pected to confer with Ciovcrnor Ol
cott and others and to give them
such information as they might wish
from the records at his disposal.
Mother of Cornelius
Vanderbilt Whitney
Wants Recognition
LOS ANGELES, July 22.
Miss Eva llurrows Fontaine,
who has filed suit against Cor
nelius Vanderbilt Whitney,
charging breach of promise, is
staying at a hotel In Los Ange-
les. She said today that she did
not know suit had been brought
against Mr. Whitney until she
saw an account of the action in
the papers, but that such action
had been authorized. She said
! she sought recognition for her
son, now nineteen months old,
to whom she had given the name
of Cornelius Vanderbilt Whit-
ney, Jr.
L TARiFF
IS ASSAILED
Senator Walsh Opens Attack
On Fordney Bill Claims
One Item Wiil Cost Con
sumers $200,000,000 Is
Worse Than Payne-Aldrich.
WASHINGTON', July 22. The 33
cents a pound duty on scoured wool
proposed in the administration tariff
bill would enable wool producers to
make an average profit of 10 per
cent a year over a period of five
years, Senator Bursum, republican,
iew Mexico, declared today in the
senate at the opening of the debate
on the wool schedule.
Opening the democratic attack
Senator Walsh of Massachusetts de
clared !ho duty proposed was the
highest ever levied on raw wool and
said it could be shown that the cost
to the wool manufacturing industry
of the 33 cents a pound rate would
be $72,000,000 annually, which,
when paid by the consumer after
pyramiding, would be approximately
$200,000,000..
"That every efofrt should be made
to Improve tho condition of the wool
growers all agreed," Senator Walsh
said, "but the wool growers should
expect no more to be done for him by
the government through Indirect tax
ation than Ihoie engaged in any other
Industry. He should not expect the
great majority of the people to be
bnrdoned by taxation to a greater
extent than is the case of the present
time."
Senator Walsh argued also that the
rate of 33 cents per clean pound of
wool is fifty per cent higher than the
average rate in operation under the
Payne-Aldrlch law.
"The rate of 33 cents per clean
pound of wool Is at least 33 per cent
more, in some cases even higher than
that named in the lfouse bill.
"Tho bracket sliding scale of du
ties through which the rate of 33
cents per clean pound of wool is lev
ied, is objectionable because it Is
deceptive and cannot be administered
In Buch a way as to avoid litigation."
PRESIDENT'S ILLNESS
USED AS AN EXCUSE
I
MEXICO CITY, July 22. Owing
to the. illness of President Obregon
the wedding of Quortensia Calles.
daughter of the secretary of the in
terior to Fernando Torreblancn
President Obregon s private secre
tary, set for today, has been post
poned. President Obregon has not
been at the national palace since
Monday when he returned from a
week's vacation. His ailment, the
attending physicians say, is very
slight.
LEAVES FOR
KU KLUX EVIDENCE
The Los Angeles county officials
secured much evidence in a raid 'on
the office of William S. Coburn, for
mer grand goblin, which was made
Immediately ufter a raid at Ingle-
wood, in whic hone man was killed
and several wounded. The facts de
veloped from the documents seized
and from other sources, resulted in
the Indictment of 37 members of the
Inglewood klan on five felony counts
and these cases nre set for trial here
next week
WOO
BOURBONS
STRIKE FOR
Omaha Labor Men Call On
A. F' L. to Bring Full Power
of Labor to Bear Against
"Slavery Conditions Being
Imposed Upon Us" Little
Change in Situation.
OMAHA, Neb., July 22. Execu
lives of the Americun Federation 6f
Labor .were called upon in a resolu
tion adopted by the Central Labor
I'nion of Omaha last night to call
a national strilto at the earliest pos
sible dute "to bring the full power
of labor to bear in one grand national
protest against the slavery conditions
being imposed upon us.
CHICAGO, July 22. The threat
ened strike of 7,300 clerks on the
Chicago and iN'orthwestern railroad
has boen postponed, for the time he
Ins at least, uccording to reports
reaching the United States railroad
labor board this afternoon. The com
pnny is reported to have made some
concessions.
Kmlmi'go Declared
ST. PAUL, July 22. An embargo
on perishables and less than carload
freight shipments to points in Mon
tana or through that state and ac
ceptance of other freight subject to
delay was announced today by thej
Great iNorthern railroad. The order
Is effective immediately.
Officials of othor northwest lines
said embargoes within the -;iext fow
days may be necessary.
DANVILLE, 111.,, July 22. The
Chicago and linstern Illinois railroad,
effectivo at midnight tonight will
withdraw six passenger trains be
tween Danville and Chicago and Chi
cago and St. Louis.
SAX FRANCISCO, July 22. The
Pullman company, on its declaration
that its employes are walking out
throughout the country In sympathy
with the striking railroad shopmen
obtained a restraining order today in
the United States district court from
Judge Maurie T. Dooltns against in
terference with the operation of its
shops located in different parts of
tho United States.
Hooper StHs Harding
WASHINGTON, July 22. Chair
man Hooper of the railroad labor
board presented to President Hard
ing in a four Hour conference today
details of the rail strike situation
reporting on the controversy between
thq union workers and tho execu
tives from the inception to the pres
ent time.
Leaving the White Mouse after tho
conference tho labor board chairman
told newspapermen that "naturally
I do not feel at liberty to discuss de
tails of the conference," and declined
to state whether the president had in
mind any future conferences or glv
,ing any inkling as to what the admin
Istratlon program might be. He did
say. however, that he was returning
to Chicago.
CHICAGO, July 22 (By Associated
Press). The railroad strike entered
Its fourth week today with the an
nouncement from the clerks' union
headquarters that 18,000 additional of
fice employes in various sections had
voted to strike.
Apparently all peace negotiations
were at a standstill, with both sides
determined to hold firm to their orig
inal positions and the country at lurge
waiting in nervotiB expectancy and
hopefulness that something might hap
pen soon to settle the difficulty.
Meanwhile eight railroads have Is
sued cancellation orders for branch
line trains, swelling the number of an
nulments to well over 300. State troops
continued on railroad guard in eight
states. '
DETROIT, Mich., July 22. Strike of
0000 maintenance of way men on the
Michigan Central lines has been avert
ed by the signing today of a wage
agreement restoring the scale effective
before July 1, it was announced.
The agreement was signed by offic
ials of the railroad and of the union.
The eight hour day is re-established,
but the rate of pay for overtime labor
has not been fixed, this matter having
been left for further arbitration.
Form Company Unions
NEW YORK, July 22. Efforts by
eastern roads to bring about Individual
agreements with such men as have
taken the places of their striking shop-
(Continued on page sir.)
LABORASKED
Harold McCormick Arrives in
Paris; Denies He Is to Wed
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PARIS, July 22. Harold F. McCor-1
illicit on his arrival here today from
New York told the Associated l'ress
ho was in liurope for business and aino news of Mine. WnUkn uud that he
rest and that he had no intention of 'did not know whether he would go to
seeing Mrs. Alexander Smith Cochran
(Mine. Gauna Wniskuj whose engage
ment to tho American harvester mug-
IE
ALLIED DE
PARIS, July 22. (lly the Asso
ciated Press) (ierniany has for
mally accepted the demands of tho
allied committee on glmrantet-s which
were presented at ISeliin last Tues:
day. Jn a letter to the reparations
committee received today Chancellor
Wirth stated that Germany, after
profound deliberation had decided to
accept the conditions for the duration
of ,lho moratorium which tho Ger
man government assumed would
soon be granted.
LONDON. July 22. (fly the Asso
ciated Press) Uncertainty regarding
Italys attitude toward the Palestine
and Syria mandates may cause tho
council of the League of Nations,
which has been in session hero all
this week, to postpone decisive action
on the draft mandates until Its next
meeting in Septi-mber. tSuch action
would disappoint the Ilritish govern
ment, at whoso instance the present
extraordinary session of the council
was convened.
Tho council Is encouraged by tho
reported willingness of the repara
tions commission to suspend Its claim
against Austria for twenty years, it
is understood that tho eighteen gov
ernments involved have consented to
waive their indemnity and other de
mands on Austria until the country
regains her financial and economic
foothold. Austria thus will be free
to pledge her customs duties, her salt
monopoly and other assets as secu
rity for loans.
A stateme'nt issued by th.e Informa
tion department of the league today
said :
"We nre getting rather tired of
hearing that Austria is on the brink
of collapse. She has been on the
brink of collapse every few months
for the lust three years and she mny
live a long time In that state. The
danger is not really in financial col
lapse, but political troubles.
"The allies who must settle among
themselves some kind of policy which
will enable Austria to have a govern
ment strong enough to enforce econ
omy ruthlessly. Until this Is done,
Austrln will drift nearer and nearer
to bolshevik conditions and closer to
union with Germany. This combina
tion will menace the whole equilib
rium of Europe."
WENATCIIEE, Wash., July 22. A
history-making epoch in tho npple
Industry Is ushered in by the comple
tion of tho campaign to secure the
signature of the owners of 18.000
acres of orchard In tho Wenatchee
valley to the "Eat Wenatchee Apples"
advertising contract. Through the
united efforts of a band of growers,
shippers and business men, one of
tho most stupendous tasks ever at
tempted In the industry has been Buc
cesfully accomplished.
GERMANY Y
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ON GUARANTEES
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nato has been persistently reported
and denied.
i Mr. McCormick said ho had received
Berlin whilo In lOiirope.
Tlie cut above shows Mrs. Cochran
and Harold McCormick.
BASEBALL SCORES
American Ix'ague.
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St. Louis
New York
ChlrliMV
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Detroit 2 10 0
New York 6 1
Plllette and Wooilall; Shawltey,
Muriay and Kuhang.
At Philadelphia: H.
St. Louis 10
Philadelphia 1
Kolp and Severeld; Hasty,
YnrrlKon, Ogden and Perkins,
H. K.
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7 3
Harris,
Bruggy
At Boston:
Chicago
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R.
lioston
Courtney and Rchalk;
Kussell, Karr,
Pennock and Walters.
At Washington.
R.
Cloveland 2
Washington 4
Batteries: Malls and O'Nell
Mo-
grldge and Plcinlch.
National
Won.
New York "ill
St. Louis ifi
Lost.
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At Cincinnati
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Cincinnati 3
Batteries: Douglas, Ryan
Snyder; Rlxey and Hargravo.
and
At Pittsburg R. H. E.
Philadelphia 7 13 4
Pittsbnrn 8 11 0
Butteries: Meadows and llenllne;
Carlson, Hamilton and Gooch.
At Chicago R. IT, E.
Brooklyn 7 10 0
Chicago G 8 1
Batteries: Vance and DeBurry;
Jones; Chceves, Osborne and O'Kur
rell. 10 WED J.
NEW YORK, July 22. Miss Mara
lynn Miller, dancer und musical com
edy star, was on her way today to
l,os Angeles for her wedding on Au
gust 1 to Jack Pick Vrd, motion pic
ture actor, brother of Mary Pick-
ford. A member of her party stated
that the wedding .would tako place In
the home or Dougins I'Uirhunks and
that Miss Miller ufter her marriago
would continue her stage career. .
Detroit Nurses Lose
Jobs for Bobbed Hair
DETROIT, July (I. N. S.) "In
definitely suspended until your hair
grows long again."
That is the punishment meted out
to each of the five student nurses at
Province llospltul who had tho to
inerlty to bob their hair flapper
fashion In violation of the rules of
the hospital.
Among them nre Frnnces Crekn
and Miss Edna Martin of Buffalo.
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Irish Irregulars in
Retreat Make Last
Stand in Cork Area
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nrilLIX, July 22. (lly the As
sociated l'ress.) With both flanks
of the republican Insurgent
army broken, through yester-
day's capture of Wuterford and
Limerick, the irregular troops
! today were reported to bo ro-
treating in tho direction of !
Cork. They are believed to
number some thousands of men
sufficiently equipped with arms,
and artillery and they are ox-
pectcd to glvo tho national
army forces considerable trou-
bio In guerilla tactics, but It is
doubted It they make a deter-
mined stand heforo reaching
Cork. .
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CLAIM RECALL
Scattering of Anonymous Cir
culars Attacking Sheriff
May Lead to Criminal Ac
tion Advance Guard Ar
rives for Grand Jury.
The special session of tho grand
jury called to investlga'd tho night
I riding and masked ou'rag.'n in this
county lust spring w'il bogin its de
liberations at Jacksonville, in the
court house Monday mottling.
' ' Assislnnt, Attorney General LIUo
qvlst, who handled tho latter Hank
of Jacksonville failure cases, former
prosecutor of Coos county, and rec
ognized as ono of the leading lawyers
of the northwest, is expected to ar
rive Sunday and represent tho slate
or Oregon in the proceedings. 1 he
report that LUJeqvlst would not take
charge is apparently unfounded,
Raymond I. Turney, deputy dis
trict uttorney at Los Angeles, left
that city today, bearing with him
documentary evidence of Ku Klux
Klan activity throughout Oregon. He
will bo u witness before the grand
Jury.
Tom Word, department of Justlco
agent in charge of tho collecting of
evidence In this city and valley arriv-
1 cd today, with assistants.
Thoro wero no locul developments
today except tho week end scattering
of a circular, headed "Would Shoot
E. A. Klomlng." Elemlng is a well
known resident of Jacksonville, and
ono of the bondsmen in the Elmer
Blmonds case, also a member of the
last grand jury. An affidavit signed
by D. R. Hill, and sworn to before L.
B. Cameron, alleges tho sheriff
threatoned to shoot Fleming, while
efforts were under way to free Sim
onds on bond.
Another affidavit, sworn to by
Wilbur E. Jordan, .alleges the sher
iff was intoxicated at Kingsbury
Springs.
B. L. Moses, former county jail
er, and R. Jack Schrader, a detec
tive, who assisted In collecting evi
dence in the first Lark Evans trial
make affidavits relative to the W. F.
Antlo charges, denying the truth of
Antics affidavit.
The circular closes with tho alle-
gatlon that Terrlll does not believe in
piunioiiioii, linn uiu uuiuiiiauou uccep-
tance of D. M. Lowe.
It is claimed by tho antl-rocall
forces that tho circular is a viola-
tion of tho corrupt practices act, hav
Ing no namo or signature of organi -
zation attached, and therefore no re-
sponslbillty fixed an required by law.
LITERATURE IS
LAW VIOLATION
FAMILY KILLED IN TRAIN WRECK
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 22.
(By tho Associated Press.) Engi
neer C. II. Ring and four passen
gers, all members of one family, were
killed and several passengers In
jured early today when St. Lonls-San
Francisco railroad passenger trains
No. 2, Texas special, eastbotind, and
No. 9, Meteor, westbound, met in a
head-on collision two hundred yards
east of Lc-gan, Mo., whore number 2
was. waiting-on tho main line. The
dead are: Mr. and Mrs. Andrew
Hammer, Stotitland, Mo., and two
small sisters of Mrs. Hammer, and
Engineer Ring of Snpulpa, Okla.
Sail ON
mum
Real rVlovie Thriller Brought
Back By Royal Mounted Po
lice of Canada Young Seal
Hunter Kills Five in Sleep,
Then Kills Two Mounted
Police.
EDMONTON, Alta., July 22. Out
of tho frozen north a member of the
Royal Canadian mounted police has
just arrived with news of tho murder
of seven men by an Eskimo who ran
ainuclt on Ilerscbell island, four
months ago.
His victims were Constable Book
of tho mounted forces, G. Binder,
Hudson Bay factor, and five of his
tribesmen.
Tho Eskimo, a young seal hunter,
employed by Binder killed his five
comrades as they lay sleeping one
night last March. A mounted pollce-
mun trailed him, captured him and
brought him back to Herscholl is
land. Constable Boak was detailed lo
guard the Eskimo. One night as the
offlcor Blopt his prisoner seized his
rlflo and killed him. When Binder
threatened to cut off escape, the
Eskimo killed him, too.
Making his way hack to the tribe,
the murderer told his follows ho had
killed seven men and declared ho in
tended to "wipe out the rest of the
island. Twenty-four hours later
tho mounted police recaptured him.
RE
E
COP.VALLIS, Ore., July 22.
Elbert Iiede, editor of the Cottage
(liovo Sentinel, was today elected
president of the State Editorial nsso- -'
elation for a third time. Hal E. lfoss i
of the Oregon City Enterprise, was :
re-elected secretary. E. H. Potman
of tho Aibnny Herald is tho now vlce-(
president. Three pew members
chosen for the bonrd of directors!
were: Clyde M. MeJCay, Bend Press;!
J. D. Tomlison, Hood Itiver Olacler .
and Bert O, Bates, News Review,
Hoseburg. Resolutions adopted condemned
tho drugging of religious issues Into
Oregon politics, urged wider use of
Oregon' manufactured products and
endorsed tho movement to erect n
memorial to Homer Davenport, car
toonist. Paris Newspapers Give
Razz to Uncle Sam
PARIS, July 22. (I. N. S.) August,
Busch's protest to President I larding
rogurdlng the sale of Uquor on Ship-'
ping Board, passenger vessels! Interests
and amuses the French press.
"No passenger is going to tako an
American line if ho cannot find any
thing to quench his thirst but ice
water and lemonade," Bays ono para
grapher." . - ,
j "A transatlantic line on which one
caunoi get ma iimu uuuniuii id a uwi
line," predicts another.
"It is probable that the American
government will continue to serve
- . drinks on its ships," comments a third.
j"It will thereby justify the famous
maxim: 'Do as I say, but do not do as'
I do.' "
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., July 22.
Five persons were killed and several
injured at 4 o'clock this morning -when
eastbound Frisco passenger
train No. 2, Texas special, struck .
FriBco, passenger train No. 9, west
bound, in a head on colllslson at Lo
gan, Mo., about 25 miles west of
Springfield.
ST. LOUIS, July 22. The head-on
collision of Frisco trains at Logai.,
Mo., today, was due to apparent mis
construction of orders and failure -to
observe the signals by Englneor
Ring it was said at the road's gen-
ernl office here this morning. A
thorough investigation was promised, -