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The Weather Prediction Fair Maximum yesterday 86 Minimum today 50 Weather Year Ago Maximum 90 Minimum .'....48 Precipitation Trace Dally Seventeenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Second Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TUKSDAY, JULY 23, 1922 NO. 106 Ml Rail Strike Reaches Stage of j Violence Trains in Califor- . nia Fireri On and Strike Breakers in Iowa Attacked j Industries Are Closing I Down in E?st. , SAN BERNARDINO, , Cal., July 25 Firing pf. shots at a :truin bringing non-union shop workers to this city f hist night and nn attempt by a crowd of strike sympathizers to rush the train after it had stopped have brought sentiment hero to something near the pitch it attained ten days ago as a result of the search of a passenger train by armed men in Ca Jon pass, 25, miles east of here. When the train reached the sta tion half a mile from where the shots were fired two coaches were hurried by a switch engine to the foot of a viaduct which crosses tho tracks into the shop stockade. The crowd of strike sympathizers reached tho viaduct just as the last worker stopped onto it. Deputy marshals and police ordered the 'crowd off the railroad property. There were seve ral encounters before the property was cleared. . CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, July 25. Violence in the railway strike reoc curred here early today when ten men were taken off trains and man handled. A federal Injunction against inter ference with the railroads reached here this morning in the care of an aviator who landed ut Keystone and wnr forced to complete his "trip by automobile. Additional deputy fede ral marshals armed with shotguns and instructed to "shoot' to kill if noccssnry, went on duty on railroad property. Industries May Close. : CHICAGO, July 25. (By the As - soeiatcd Press) The railroad strike, combined with the coul strike, was being brought home to tho public to day through the announcements of leaders in several industries that unless a speedy settlement was reached closing of the plants with re sulting unemployment reducing of food and fuel supplies, and a ci'ip- pling of public utilities service would ! result. Steel plants, especially In the east, will be closed on a wholesale scalo If preaent conditions continue until August, according to the head of a large steel institution. Industrial coal was said to bo unobtainable at j any price in New York. In Chicago' lnirnnPo nf friim iTvPh tri"$1fi.2R n' ton in coal prices were nnnounced. A shortage of coal cars In bituminous fields has caused an appreciable de cline In production. ' Tho close relationship which the strikes were assuming was seen in a statement of H. B. Trumbower of the Wisconsin railroad commission, that If the coal strilte lasted an additional two weeks rail transportation in that state would be at a standstill. Official Washington has main tained silence on the rail situation, but it was confidently expected that President Harding would begin action to end the shopmen's strike during the week. In some quarters, it was believed that the next move might fomc through, the railroad labor ward. It was pointed out that the board had power to grant full recog nition to the, new shopmen's unions which forty .pastern railroads, under the leadership of L. F. Loree, east ern regional chairman of the Asso ciation of Railway Executives con templated forming. Hopes for immediate peace were centered in the meeting of officials of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad with representatives of the strikers. Success in settling differences on that road probably would mean that other roads would adopt a similar course. s JCmerjreiicy Plan to Start. WASHINGTON, Jaly 25 The gov ernment's emergency coal program (Continued on Page six.) RAINS STRIKERS BAVARIA DEFIES GERMAN GOVT 1 CIVIL WAR IS FEARED AS RESULT BERLIN, July 25. (By the Asso ciated Press) The Bavarian govern ment has issued a decroe intended to replace legislation recently passed by the relchstas for the defense of the republic. The decree omits the clauses in the relchstag enactment relative to the establishment of a Buccln! tribunal, the competence of the (lerman minister of the interior to prohibit meetings and suppress notions and tho competence of the central government to prohibit mem bers of the former ruling house now Bride of Six Months Shoots Husband Who Refuses to Complain YAKIMA, July 25 Henrietta Gantz, a bride of two months, shot liar husband, 28 years her senior, last night at their homo following a quarrel regarding tho woman's participation In a coming .celebration. Two bullets lodged 4 in tiro upper part of Gantz's body, but physicians say ho will re- cover. Mrs. Gantz was taken to the county jail where she explained to .officers that her husband had ! announced he would get a gun and kill her and "I heat him to the gun." When officers came In response to a riot call from neigh- fr'bors, to take Gantz, he declared he was not hurt and that lie and his wife were "just settling a little family difference." Louis D. Wade, Former Kli grapp, Files Charge Against Imperial Wizard Clarke and Mrs. Tyler Claims K. K. Members Are Mere Tribute Payers Graft Exposed., ATLANTA, Cla., July 25. Charges that Edward Young Clarke, Imperial Wizard, pro tern, and Airs. Elizabeth Tyler, his former associate in the propagation department, are feather ing their own nests to the extent of a great fortune; that the Knights of the Ku Klux KInn have become mere tribute payers, and that Clarko has either kept Colonel W. J. Simmons, Imperial Wizard, drunk or taken ad vantage of "his drunken condition," are set forth by Louis D. Wado, dis charged Kligrapp, in answer to a suit for injunction filed by tho Klan of ficers to prevent him from spread ing propaganda among members of the order detrimental to the officers. Wado says in his petition: "This defendant, as a loyal Klans man in common with thousands of others, feels outraged that persons so notorious as Clarke and Mrs. Tyler should be In absolute charge of the destinies of an order in whoso ranks there arc so many upright and noblo men whose characters arc above re proach. "Defendant charges that Clarke and Mrs. Tyler are using the Klan for their personal aggrandizement and, being In control of its funds have In come suddenly enormously wealthy from ill-gotten gains collected from tho ranks of Klu Klux men. Clarke has gained complete control over tho chief executive officer (William Joseph Simmons), and has either kept him drunk or has taken advan tage of his drunken condition and procured for himself the office of Imperial Wizard, pro tern, which al lows him to exercise supreme con trol over the entire organization." According to the answer, Clarke now is Imperial Wizard, pro tern., Imperial. Kleagle and Imperial Klal iff. By virtue of these titles, the answer alleges, Clarke controls tho selection of all officers of tho Klan. "Any member of the supreme coun cil who opposes Clarke's will is Im mediately dismissed," the answer charges. Mr. Wade's answer made the fur ther specific charges: "That Clarke has converted a great benevolent Organization into a vast body of tribute payers, whose money enriches his coffers, so that ho has reduced the other members of the klan to practical serfdom. "That Clarke collects from every (Continued on page sir. living abroad from entering Ger inuny. It also declines to allow non Bavarian police to take independent official action in Bavaria. The Deutsche Allgemeino Zcltung, commenting on Bavaria's action points out that the decree issued is the first case of public disobedience to the national government by a fede ral state. Bavaria, it adds, has enter ed upon a dangerous path which may lead to the disintegration of the na tion and civil war. A meeting of the cabinet was called for today to con sider the situation. IV GAME AWAY gates refuses borah offers Major Blake on Air LONDON, July 25. (By Associated Press). The airplane in which Major V. T. Blake, the British aviator is at tempting a round-the-world flight from England, crashed to the ground at Sibl, British Belunchistan near Quetta,- Sat urday, says an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Karachi today. 10 ENTER RACE Mayor Back From Vacation, " Declares Nothing Will In duce Himtb to Run Indepen dently This Fall May Run Four Years Hence. "I nover had a ' better nor more enjoyable vacation," said Mayor Gates who has returned from two weeks spent at Rocky Point, Pelican Bay. I have been to Rocky Point or Eagle Ridge tavern on vacations for years past, and never enjoyed better fishing. I throw all cares to the winds and went in for a period of complete enjoyment and relaxation just fishing, eating and sleeping." Asked as to his views on tho po litical situation and present grand jury investigation of affairs, the mayor replied: - "I know nothing about what has been going on here. or in the state, as while gone 1 received no mail, read no newspapers, had no 'phono mes sages and heard no news, nor did I care to. Complete change and rest was what I was after and that was what I got. "Since my return I have been busy catching up with my business affairs. I am through with politics and so an nounced before I left on my vacation, to my many political friends through out the state who had been urging mo to run as an Independent candldato for governor. , Nothing could induce me to enter tho present gubernatorial race. Perhaps four years from now I may view tho situation differently." BUSINESS JUST AS REVIVAL STARTED NEW YORK, July 25. A pessimis tic picture of business conditions re sulting from railroad, coal and tex tile strikes is painted with figures in cluded in the weekly review of indus trial conditions made public by the national industrial conference board, an employers' organization. . "A depressing effect on business generally is evident," the review said. "Altogether over two million persons are voluntarily idle through strikes and since the beginning of July 100, 000,000 man-hours of work have been lost each week. With the average wage of labor taken at fifty cents an hour, the wages alone since the first of the month has been in excess of $15,000,000 and is proceeding at the rate of over $8,000,000 a day. This, in effect, means a serious contraction in purchasing power which in turn may have its effect on future em ployment and general business con ditions." The conference board reports a slight increase in the cost of living since May 15 with a 24 per cent re cession from the peak reached in July, 1920. Intrepid Wins Race. MAKINAC ISLAND, Wis., July 25 Intrepid, the class H. sloop owned by Donald Prether of Chicago won the 16th annual yacht' race which starts at Chicago Saturday. FOR GOVERNOR Trip Around World Crashes in Beluchistan, Escapes Injury The aviator escaped injury but the under carriage of his plane was smash ed. V Air force mechanicians from Karachi havo been sent to assist in construct ing a new undercarriage for tho dam aged plane. Sibl is 300 miles from HIS SOLUTION E WASHINGTON, July . 25. Creation of a federal coal commission of three members appointed by the president to investigate the coal industry and rec ommend legislation to congress was proposed in a resolution introduced to. day by Chairman Dorah of the senate I labor committee. I Recommendations would be required from the commission "on tho advisa bility or necessity of nationalizing the coal, and the feasibility or necessity of governmental regulation and control of the coal industry. Other points on which recommenda tions are called for In the bill include: I "Standardizing the mines upon the .basis of their productive capacity' and regarding the closing down of mines which by reason of their natural limi tations fall below standard, j "Standardizing tho cost of living for mine workers and tho living conditions which must be supplied or afforded In order to surround the workmen with reasonable comforts; recognizing the psychological effect of such sugges tions In respect to efficiency. "Standardizing a basis of arriving at the overhead cost of producing the coal and delivering at the door of the consumer, recognizing In this compila tion that the standardized cost of liv ing to the miners must be first and irreducible. Item of expenses. "A report from the commission to be known as the 'United States coal com mission' would be required within nine months. Its findings would he made public only through reports to con gress." Senator Borah proposed that one of tho commission members ho appointed from a list of nominees by the National Coal association: another from a sim ilar list of the United Mine Workers and the third, representing the public to be appointed by the president and "in no wise interested in a business way with the coal industry." SHERIFF INDICTED BY YAKIMA, WaHh., July 25. Sheriff Pad H. Bear, who was some months ago indicted by the grand Jury but who was acquitted when tried on charges of larceny, announced today that he would seek re-election to his office and make the run on the record he had made during the past term. Other candidates for sheriff are already in' the field. Wanamakers Daughter Is Robbed of Jewels PARIS, July 25. (Ily Associated Press). Sirs. Guernle Munn, daughter of Rodman Wanamaker of New York has been robbed of a platinum bracelet 'set with gems valued at 250,000 francs, according to an announcement by Le Journal today. Several of the cleverest detectives of i-aris have been assigned to the case but so far they liavo devel oped no plausible clues. OF COAL STRIK Karachi and the continuation of the flight which Major Blake began from Croydon May 24, is likely to be delayed a week. The picture above shows Major Blake and his two companions on tho trip just before they hopped off from England, PEOPLE FLEE IN FROAPI.FIRE Riverside Apartments Scene of Wild Confusion When Laundry Next Door Burns Down Total Damage IS $12,000. A tiro which started at 2:30 this morning in tho storago shod for fuel In the rear of the American laundry on South Riversldo, completely de stroyed the laundry, lla equipment, a small carpenter shop north of tho laundry and badly damaged the Riv erside apartments one door south of tho laundry. The loss is estimated on all 'three buildings at about $12, 000. Tho exact status of the Insur ance on tho buildings has as yot not been learned, but it Is known that tho laundry and equipment and the small carpenter shop belonging to James Slorah woro covered with $7,200 In the nggrogalo and tho apartments owned by Hiram, Meader were cover ed with a $12,500 policy. Tho origin of the fire is not known, but It is believed it stnrtert In the fuel shod where a large quantity of shav ings used by tho laundry was stored. Tho entire laundry building was ablaze when the alarm was turned in and although the water pressure was better than it has been for some timo at a flro and the fire depart ment worked rapidly and efficiently there was no hopo of saving the laun dry. The apartment was greatly en dangered and the department did ex cellent work in preventing It from becoming a total loss. Two alarms wore blown and the volunteer fire fighters who were or ganized some months ago turned out In force (it once. Others manned tho small Chalmers truck and as they went out or the fire hall a third alarm was turned In. cBtween the regulars and ,the volunteers the blaze was kept from destroying the apart ments. The old Russ mill, north of the blazing laundry caught fire and threatened to cause a fire approach ing the proportions of a conflagra tion. Ray Mlksche, one of the Mon arch Seed and Feed company, owners of the mill, entered the building and extracted papers and other valuables from the safe, hut the fire fighters soon had the blaze on the south side of the mill extinguished, Finn In Night Clothes When the five regular members of the fire department arrived a large amount of screaming, running about In nightclothes and general confusion was in progress, but this disorderly state of affairs did not continue. Residents of tho apartments carried personal belongings into the street and a large amount of furniture was still standing in front of the building this morning, Chief Lawton estimates that there were 23 men fighting the fire before (t was put under control. 2550 feet of 2 V4 Inch hose was laid and 200 feet of 114 Inch. The opinion of tho chief Is that the fire would have ravished the whole neighborhood had (Continued on Page six.) NIGHT CLOTHES Olcott Asks Recount In Four Counties Not Covered By Opponent SALEM. Ore., July 25. De manding a recount in all counties throughout tho state carried by a majority for Hall in tHo May pri maries, and hearing similar charges of errors In counting votes ns well as a flagrant misuse of the direct primary, the answer of Governor lien W. Olcott to the petition of Hall for a recount of the republican vote nominating a governor was filed today by his attorneys, Jay Ilowerman of Port land and Roy P, Shields of Salem, with tho county clork. Results in eleven counties are left alono by both sides, but the re count of votes cast In the remain ing precincts of Multnomah, Clat sop, Marion and Umatilla coun ties left untouched by the Hall petition, Is demanded, in no place does the answer question tho good faith of the election hoards, as does the Hall petition. St. Louis Cardinals Make Gal lant Effort in Ninth, But Fail to Stave Defeat Giants Bat Doak From Box ., in fifth, Netting Total of Seven Runs. NEW YORK, July 25. The New York Giants and St. Louis Cards hook ed up today in tho first game of a five game series which will have an impor tant bearing on tho National league race. Tho Giants canio back from a Western trip in which they split oven on twenty games with their lead cut down to one point. A 20,000 crowd was out for the gume. Toney Easy for Cards i Toney was easy for the Cards in the first Inning, St. Louis starting off with three runs. Tho Giants scored one run In their half of tho second, when Young, first man up, hit a homo run into tho loft field bleachers. Kelly followed with an Inflold single, but Stengel hit into a double play, r'ournior to Lavan. The Giants batted out Doalt in their half of the fifth and took the lead with a hatting rally which yielded seven runs. After Stock doprlvod Snyder of a hit with a fine stop Toney walked and reached second on Bancroft's single to left. Rawllngs doubled over third, scoring Toney a'nd advancing Iiancroft to third. Frlsch bunted safely on a squeeze play, Bancroft scoring, Raw llngs moving up to third. Meusel drove In Rawllngs with a sacrifice fly to Flack. Young Binglod to right and when Flack fumbled the ball, Frlsch scored and Young made second. Stock fumbled Kelly's grounder, Young reaching third. Stengol followed with a double to right, a ball played poorly by Flack and both Young and Kelly scored. Snyder, up for tho second time singled to left, scoring Stengel. North then replaced Doak and struck out Toney. New York Wins St. Louis added a fourth run In the eighth. Flack singled and after Smith filed out Hornsby advanced Flack to third with a double to left. Mueller's (Continued on Page six.) GIANTS FIRST GAME BY ONE RUN STATE SUPREME COURT UPHOLDS CONVICTION OF ; SALEM, Ore., .July 25. Tho slate supreme court today upheld tho lower court In tho ease of Dr. It. M. Brumfield, Rowebuj-g dentist, i sen tenced to hang" for the murder on July 13, 1921, of Dennis Ilusxell. The opinion written by Justice McBride confirms the lower court. Dr. Brumfield, who had been prominent in social circles in Rose burg up to the time of tho murder of Russell. Is nbout 40 years old. He was formerly superintendent ' of schools of Owenaville. lnd.. was a graduate of the Indiana university and graduated In 1000 from tho Illi nois Dental college. UNITY NOT GRANTED TO ANY K, K, Rumor That Members Neck tie Party Had Been Granted Immunity, Turning State's Evidence Denied By Lilje qvist Net of Evidence De clared Tightening. ;' The Bpocial grand Jury continued today its investigation of the night riding outrages of Jackson county, and devoted all its timo to the hear ing of tostimony bearing upon the "necktie party" of which, J. F. Hale was the chief actor and victim. A score of witnesess were closeted with the lnquistorial bodyMonday. From their lips flowed the sworn story of the incident, from tho time Hale was decoyed by "strangers" from his home nbout nine o'clock, on the false plea that a sick relative at Marsh field, wanted him on tho phone, till he'roturnod from the auto trip. The evidence, it Is rumored, la dovetailing with tho records seized in the Los Angeles raid on the grand goblin's office. Tho witnesses Monday afternoon were J. F. Hale, who told of the de tails of the "necktie party," his son. Jay, who told of the stranger's knock at tho door, and the responso of his father, Miss Angle Halley, who told of telephone1 calls, and other mat tors. Hals Is said to have testified, to Incidents during the affair, the bending of a top rod In the auto for future identification, the fainting spell 'neath tho blankets, with which his head was covered, the seedng of a peculiarly Bhaped. ring on, the loft hand of one of, his tormentors, the fright of tho membors of the party, when they thought death hovered over him, the calling of doctors for medical assistance, when he was alono, and is alleged also to luiVe' identified the strangers. And there also came witnesses toll ing of alibis that exploded, of lettors, of how one reputed Klan member, on the morning after, . Bped from man to man, whispering and laughing, his actions arousing the suspicions of a police official, who took the nnmos of the people he visited, giv ing the department of Justice tho first duos, from which they spun tho pres ent mass of testimony. It Is also ru mored that the names of alloged members of tho "hanging party" wero given to the grand Jury, who drove tho autos, and who picked out tho spot for the "festivity," and who waited for their coming. Drs. E. B. Plckel and 13. W. Hoff man were witnesses this morning. Thoy attendod Halo after he was left at his home, and told his condition and Injuries. JOx-Klansnicii Testify Two witnesses woro called this morning, who were former members of the Ku Klux Klan, and who pub licly renounced allogianco to tho or ganization, whon "tho rough stuff started." They wore James E. Ed mlston and Kaymond Retor, and. It Is stated, will tell the grand Jury, ot what they saw and heard at "klon klaves" they attendod, Edmlstou was on tho stand most of the morn ing. Reter was scheduled for an early appearance. Both wero recip ients of warnings and lettors follow ing withdrawals. Other witnesses subpoenaed for to day wero W. H. Gore, president of the Modford National bank, John S. Orth, cashier ot the sume Institu tion, and Walter S. Gore. The nature of their testimony was not known, hut It was said to be In connection with an alleged threat carried by word of mouth. i -, .' (Continued on Page slx.1 OR. R. M. BRUMFIELD Dr. Brumfleld's appeal was taken on the grounds that tho trial had not been fair and that ho had been de prived .of many of his legal rights. This, tho decision denied in refusing a new trial. Russell was a laborer living alono In a cabin on tho outskirts of Rose burg. Evidence Introduced at the trial was that Dr. Brumfield murder ed him, took the body in his automo bile, disfigured it, put his own clothes upon It and then staged a wreck of the machine and an explo sion to make It appear that Brum ficld had been killed in an accident. Brumfield then fled to Canada, where ho was later captured.