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Newspaper Page TextI Medford mail Tribune The Weather Prediction Fair Maximum yesterday 92 Minimum ,today ...5i Weather Year Ago Maximum 98 Minimum' 50 Ofllly Seventeenth Tear. A'erkly Fitly-Second Tew. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 5, 1922 NO. 11G IN One of Worst Disasters in History Visit Swatow, 250 Miles North of Hong Kong Chinese Pirates Loot Vic tims Scores of Ships Are Wrecked. HONG KONG, Aug. 5. (By Associ ated Press). Wednesday night's ty phoon at Swatow, 250 miles north or here, was the worst In the history or that city. Dead bodies are floating amid the wreckage everywhere In the harbor. Nearly every house in the city was damaged. A flood following the wind drovo inhabitants from their homes. Telegraph lines between hero and Swatow are down, but details of the disaster were brought here today by steamer. The storm broke at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday night and gathered force until daybreak, when it subsided, leaving death and destruction in the "city and harbor. The death list Is placed at 6000. Hundreds of native craft along the waterfront were wrecked and their oc cupants drowned, while practically every house ashore felt the effect. of the terrific wind. Warehouses Destroyed 1 Several godowns, or warehouses were badly damaged and their stocks of merchandise wholly or partially ruined. Trees were torn up by the roots, telegraph poles were snapped pff, roofs were carried away and entire houses laid flat in the pathway of the storm. Native boats In the harbor 'vere picked up as the wind and the water linked forces and were carried far in shore. Coasting steamers dragged their anchors, some of them over dis tances of two miles, and were pitched on land, damaged. The lighthouses at the entrance of the harbor, despite their solid founda tions and sturdy construction, also show the scars of the typhoon. The water in the harbor rose rapidly until several feet deep in the shore line warehouses and as it continued up ward inhabitants of the houses left or retreated to their upper stories. HONG KONG, Aug. 6. (By Assoc! ated Press). Full reports of the disas trous typhoon which swept Swatow, 250 miles north of here, with estimated loss of 5000 lives and great property damage August 2, are awaited here, Foreign warehouses were 'demolished by the storm and their contents lost or extensively damaged.' ' Two British steamers were swept ashore and their cargoes and stocks will be loot for pi rates before they can be salvaged. PAY W. A. PAVLOSKI LOS ANGELES, Aug. 6. A judg ement for $220.42 against Ignace Jan Tadercwski, pianist and former pre mier of Poland, now said to be in Switzerland, has been obtained in township justice court here by W. A. Pnvloski. The amount involved was asked by Pavloski in payment for his labor in arranging for a loan of $120,000 on the Padercwskl estate at Paso Itobles, Cal. Mrs. Million Wins. SEABRIGHT, N. J., Aug. 6. Mrs. Molla B. Mnllory of New York won the woman's singles bowl In the Sea hrlght lawn tennis, and cricket club tournament today defeating Miss Les lie Bancroft of Newton. 6-1, 6-2. L RECORDS AT CLERMONT FERREAND, France, Aug. 5. (By Associated Press). Op- TYPHOON CHINESE SEA timism over the future of motorless p,ot tne Amerjcan piane. flying prevails at Camp Mouillard, a Swiss-designed stationary thlck where the "glider" contests under the winged monoplane remained in the air auspices of the first international ex-; for four minutes yesterday, covering perimental congress of motorless air- about a mile and three-quarters In a nlno win hoin tomorrow, to con-ihalf circle with a loss f altitude of tinue until Anenst 20. Fifteon of the motorless airplanes which are entered in the contests have arrived and some of the machines al- ready have made successful unofficial Bologna Sausage Is Fatal to Mother; Three Others Sick WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. a. Physicians attending George Barnhart and his two suns, who, with Mrs. Barnhart contracted an unusual case of ptomaine poisoning last Tuesday at their home in Starbuck, still have doubt as to their recovery. The poison has paralyzed their throats and made treatment dif- flcult. Mrs. Barnhart died as a result of the poison. Mr. Barn- hart is a merchant in Starbuck and well known In this section. The poison followed eating of bologna sausage, Mrs. Darn- hurt being first to feel the ef- fects. She was brought to the hospital here and immediately after Mr. Barnhart became ill and then the two young sons. Assist. Manager Bank of Cali fornia Leaves Prostrate Wife, Child and Shortage of $6000 Federal Agents in Pursuit. TACOMA, Aug. 5. Friendship for another woman, it was declared to day by officials working on the case, was the motive which caused Spencer Conrow, assistant manager of the Ta coma branch of the bank of Califor nia, to leave behind him a prostrated wife a child and a shortage f about $,000 in his accounts, and flee the city as a fugitive from justice. Agents of the department of Jus tice and the United States marshal were seeking today to apprehend Conrow on a federal warrant. The action was brought in federal court by reason of the Bank of California being a national bank. According to Manager G. H. Ral eigh of the bank, a complete check o Conrow's accounts has disclosed a shortage of $6,003.07. He did not have access to the bank's cash and h!3 peculations, which extended over a period of two years, were obtained through securities. It is believed at the bank that Conrow was contem- nlatlng flight before he was confront- ed with tjie charge of therts, for $1, 500 was found In his desk following his flight from the city Tuesday night. Conrow was receiving a sal ary of $450 a month and bonuses which brought it up to about $500 monthly, or $6,000 a year. 10 SAN FRANCISCO PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5. The fit .nntinirent of the Oregon Bar nuaoclntion's automobile enravnn to the San Francisco convention of the National Bar association, August v 10, 11. left early today. Tho caravan will pick up represen tatives of the different county asso ciations on its way south and will wait nt Redding for another train of machines from eastern Oregon which will come down through Klamath Falls and the central high ways. Three days will be taken to make the journey. The party is scheduled to arrive In San Francisco August 8. FRENCH FIELD MEET I flights. An American monoplane has been entered by the Aeronautical Engi- Edmund Allen will about 300 feet A flapper parasol ma- chine covered about 200 yards at an altitude averaging between 6 and 10 reet. It landed because the human motor gave out. BLlEfFllY FOR FLIGHT OF TACOMABANKER PUTi RAIL R. LABORBOARD General Belief Is President Has. Asked Strikers to Re turn to Work Leaving Sen iority Rights Up to Labor Board for Final Decision No New Developments. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. B. M. Jewell, head of the striking railroad shopmen, W. H. Johnston, president of the International Association of Machinists and James N. Noonan president of the Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, reopened nego tlntions today with President Hard ing in the railroad strike. The union leaders, after an hour's conference, left the White House un der restraint of a presidential re quest to maintain silence as to the matters under consideration hut all three expected to remain in Washing ton for at least a day or two. It was indicated that the issues In the strike had again been gone over, but whether President Hard lug and proposed that the strike leaiders send tho men back to work and leave the difficult seniority question to be dealt with by the rail road labor board, was not definitely determined, although it was suggest ed in connection with the suggestions. WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. Legisla ttve agents representing the engi neers, trainmen, firemen and engine men's brotherhoods of railroad work ers and tho Switchmen's union, after an hour's ,.. conference today with President Harding declared that nd arrangements had been made for a conference between the heads of their organizations and the president. WILKESBARUE, Pa., Aug. 5. Word was awaited today by W. D. Roberts, vice president of the United Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employes from President F. E. Gra- ble at Detroit, as to his proposal that a sympathetic strike be called to sup port the striking shopmen. Mr. Roberts announced last night that he and E. L. Enke, a member of the union executive board had wired their recommendation to Mr. Grable proposing such action. The vice president said he believed that all railroad organizations should come to the aid of the shopmen in view of the attitude adopted by man agers of "certain eastern railroadB" These managers, he believed, had joined managers In other regions in declining to restore seniority rights of striking shopmen and it was ap parent their determination was to break up the shop crafts organiza tion. Mr. Roberts and Mr. Enke hold jurisdiction on 28 eastern railroads from the New York, Ontario and western on the north to the Baltimore and Ohio on the south. Unions Refuse Proposal. RICHMOND. Va., Aug. 5, Mem bers of tho local shop crafts union, formerly employed by the Southern railway will not nccept the proposal of tho road that they return to work without prejudice to seniority rights. Decision to remain out was readied at a meeting last nljsht and B. M. Jewell, president of the shopmen's union has been so notified it was an nounced. CHICAGO, Aug. 6. New pence conferences were pending in Wash lngton today In connection with the six-weeks-old shop walkout witn strike threats from maintenance of way men and other workers and conference with President Harding concerning the situation was sought by the big four brotherhoods. Congress indirectly enme Into the negotiations, eastern railroads sent detachments of ,shop workers to the relief of roads in coal mining dls tricts in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky and outbreaks of violence were reported from new points. B. M. -Jewell, president of tho rail way employes department of the American ' Federation of Labor, the shop crafts leader was in Washington where he was summoned by I'rest dent Harding. Union chiefs here looked upon Mr. Jewell's presence at the capital as Indicative of further settlement parleys. Officials of tjjo Southern railroad and representatives of Its shopmen were la Washington to confer on a possible separate peace. William Roberts, vice-president of the maintenance men's union and K. L. Enke, member of the brotherhood executive board telegraphed, Presi dent E. F. Orable, recommending a sympathetic strike. Ship Perishable Fruit. A bill introduced in the United (Continued on Page six.) Something New in Doubles, to Be Miss Marie Gaus, and Captain Jaeger, of the Penn Ilnrgo club, Philadel phia, practicing for a mixed doubles event which, it is said, will probably be a challenge cup race In the Pe iple's ltomitta on the Schuylkill next year. HALLGAINS 1 VOTES IN PORTLAHD In 46 Precincts Net Gain for Defeated Candidate Seven Judge Declares Hall Must File Specific Charges Con- cerning Each Name in List of 300 Contested. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 5.-3:15 p.m. The recount at 2:15 this afternooh wiped out Hall's gains and the count for 55 out of 135 precincts gave Olcott a net gain of one vote. PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 6. A re count of 46 precincts In tho re-check of the republican primary vote for governor In 135 Multnomah county precincts shortly before noon today showed a net gain of 7 votes for Charles Hall, contestant, over Gov ernor B. W. Olcott. During tho morning count Hall lost! one vote. Losses and gains in tho Olcott vote cancelled one another. Circuit Judge Bingham announced that he would require attorneys for lllall to make specific charges con cerning each name on the list of 300 filed yesterday. Tho same require ments will apply to the Olcott forces when they file a similar list Monday. The recheck of precinct 2, however, precipitated an argument by counsel on an Issue of which the court reserv ed decision until later. On tho re check of this precinct, Olcott gained one vote. It developed, however, that the ballots were not numbered nor signed by the election officials, ndr was the ballot box sealed. In this precinct Hall received 81 votes and Olcott 40 votes. Two ballots were found to havo been defective und one wns spoiled. Only one ballot was thrown out, but It had been previously thrown out by the regulnr judges of election. This ballot wa weirdly marked the nnmes of all gubernatorial candidates being penciled out except those of Olcott and Bean. No cross was mark ed for either of these, however. There were no new developments today as a result of tho special grand Jury Investigation into the nlghtrid ing activities in Jackson county, the chief public interest centering In th John Doe indictments, the identity of those indicted and the charges against them Judge F. M. Calkins of the circuit court will leave the first, of tho week on his annual vacation, and there will ,be no court business for two weeks In the Mall Tribune Friday, It was stated that Mrs. Alpha Hartman had qualified as one of the bondsmen for Betr L. Moses. This was an error. Mrs. Hartman went on the bonds of J. Alexander Norrls. The bondsmen jfor Moses were S. E. Dunntngton and u. A. iNorrls. Rowing Mixed Rowed on Schuykill V 1 Fatty Arbuckle to Live in China for Indefinite Period LOS ANGELES, Aug. 5. Roscoo (Fatty) Arbucklo, mo tion picture comedian, has ap plied to federal orticials here for passports for himself and his secretary, Harry Brand, "for a business trip of indefinite length" to China, Japan and ! Korea. They plan to, sail from San Francisco August .16 on the i- Siberia Mum. EMBEZZLES $1400 TACOMA, Aug. 5. James Boland former secretary treasurer of .the lo cal lodge of tho United Brotherhood of Muintenance of Way Employes and Railway Shop Laborers, Is under ar rest hero today charged with embez zling $1,400 fro mthe union. The warrant for the arrest was sworn out by C. S. Taylor, traveling auditor of the brotherhood. Boland was put In the county jail hero and his hall set at $5,000. Mr. Taylor said that Boland oper ated by issuing cards to members of the union, pocketing the money and tearing up the duplicate receipts. Bo land declared his shortage resulted from tho fact thnir burglars stolo the funds from his home shortly before his term of offlco expired. FINAL TARIFF VOTE BEFORE END OF MONTH WASHINGTON, Aug, 5. A unnnl mous consent agreement which re. publicans and democratic leader hope will bring about a final vote on tho tariff bill certainly before th end of this month was entered Into today by tho senate, , Under the terms of tho agreement tho highly controversial sulijucts In the bill, such as sugur, potash, white arsenic, boots nnd shoes, tho flexlbl tariff nnd tho scientific tariff, would be disposed of beforo August 11. After that, 'remaining committee amendments and individual amend ments would be considered with de bate limited sharply. Hunt Idaho Slayer WALLACE, Idaho, Aug. 6. Deputy sheriffs today were searching the hills between St. Maries and Wallace for Joe Farrlrl, who, according to official reports, yesterday shot and killed Joe Marsden, cedar pole contractor at Her rick, following a dispute over wages due Farrlrl. At last reiwrts Farrlrl wag headed for the Big Creek mining country where he is familiar with the country. Tracey to Meet Flrpo BUENOS AIRES, Aug. 6. Louis Angel Flrpo, heavyweight champion of South America, Is to meet Jim Tracey, Australian champion, here on October 8, It was announced toduy by Jose Agustl, boxing promoter. The bout will be 15 rounds with six ounce gloves. Forest Fire Patrol Plane Crashes Near Eureka, Men Escape KUGICNE, Ore.. Aug. 5. Sergeant Fred Kelly, pilot, and Sergeant tiravelin, both attach- ed to tho army's forest patrol aviation base hern, wero unln- Jured when their plane was forced to laud 10 miles east of Eureka, f'al., at 5 o'clock yes- turday afternoon. The plane Is a complete wreck. Tho men were taking the plane to Mather Field for overhauling. The re- port first given at Eureka was that the plane carried civilians, one a Portland man on the way to San Frunciseo to attend u sick wife. LEAD NATIONAL N. ANTS REGAN LEAGUE CONIES! Y. Team SlailClhterS CubS!'ent on those payments to French , p i. . 19 tO 7, While LarOinalS o j d.. nu;n: o Are Swamped By Phillies 9 to 1 n.. ij....u., rno ttOgerS HOmSDy ueiS Xow 28th Homer. NEW YORK, Aug. 5. The National leaguo race today, defeating tho Cubs 11) to 7, while the St. Louis Cardinals lost to Philadelphia 9 to 1. At New York. R. H. E. Chicago 7 11 3 New York 1!) 27 1 latteries: Cheeves, Tteuland, JonoB, Morrison nnd O'Furroll, llartnett; J. Barnes, Jonnard, V. Barnes and Smith, Gaston. NEW YORK, Aug. 5. Rogers Horns- by's home run in the sixth inning of the Philadolphln-St. Louis league game today giving him a total of 28 for the, season, ties the record of Kenneth WIHIams, of the St. I-ouis Americans who also hns 28. At Philadelphia. R. H. E. St. Louis 19 3 Philadelphia 9 15 0 Batteries: Proffer, North, Dyof and Ainsmith, McCurdy; Ring and lien- line. At Brooklyn. R. H. E. Cincinnati 0 8 3 Brooklyn 5 11 0 Batterlos: I.tuiuo, Gillespie and Wln- go; Vnnce and Doberry. Second game. R. It. E. Cincinnati 2 8 i Brooklyn 3 11 1 Batteries: Bonohue and Hnrgravo: Cadore and Miller, Doberry. At Boston. R, H. E. Pittsburg 9 lfi Boston 1 3 B 2 Batteries: Morrison and Jonnard; Marqnard, Oeschger and Gowdy. American At Chicago. R. H. E. Washington 6 8 0 Chicago 2 6 2 Batterlos: Francis and Plclnlch; Fu ller, Davenport, Hodge nnd Schalk, Yaryan. At Cleveland R. H. E. New York 7 12 2 Cleveland l 5 1 Batterlos: Shawkey and Seining; Bagloy, Morton, Kcofo and O'Noll, L. Sewull. At Detroit R. It. E. Boston 8 15 1 DotroU 4 10 1 Batteries: Collins, Carr and Wal ters; Oldham, Ehmke, JohiiBon Moors and Woodall, Bassler. , FLEES F LEIPSIC, Aug. 5. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Professor Albert Ein stein, originator of the theory of rela tivity, has fled from Germany tem porarily because he was threatened with assassination by the same group which caused the murder of- Dr. Wal ter Rathenau, tho German foreign minister, according to a letter from Professor Einstein cancelling an en gagement to address a meeting here. Efforts to Induce the noted scien tist to return In view of the govern ment's success In coping1 with the situation are said to have so far prov ed unavailing. Considerable comment was caused in Geneva early this week by the ab PARIS MAKES FIRS! MOVE ON GERMANY Premier Poincare Notifies Ber lin First of Series of Meas ures Against Country for Non-Payment Reparations in Effect More Severe Measures Held in Reserve. PARIS, Aug. 5. (By Associated Press). Premior Poincare at noon to day notified the German embassy at Paris that the first of a series of mea sures to conserve French Interests against a lapse In Germany's pre-war dobt payments, would be put into effect Immediately. The notice follow ed the receipt of a note from Germany refusing to meet tho $2,000,000 install- citizens due August 15. , The rirst of the French measures consists of the immediate suspension of ,, payments to German nationals 1 "ems euniracie.i wun rTencnmeii before the war-both In France nnd Alsace-Lorraine. Tho offices In Paris and Strasbourg which were brought up to liquidate these debts were notified to cense operations nnd pay no more claims until further orders from tho Payments Suspended The Initial measure also Include' the suspension of nil further payments to I Germans for German property soques- iruieu in r ranee. '1 lie property iiu eludes estates, villas, art collections, etc. ' ' 11 The ugreement reached nt Baden under which Germans were being com. pensntod for the house furnishings, stocks, bonds nnd cash left In Als'ace and Lorraine also Is suspended. It wus explained nt the foreign of fice that these first measures taken are not penalties, In the strictest sense I of the word, but merely action to safe- guard the Frencli Interests which have been jeopardized by the Gorman re fusal to pay. If these measures fall to bring a satisfactory settlement, further and more severe measures, it was said, will be enforced. The nature of these Is withheld pending the effect of the present nctlon. ES ON LUMBER TO EAST WASHINGTON, Aug. 5. -Rates on lumber Tram California producing points to consuming territory around St. Paul, Minn., which, railroads sought to Increuso May 1, were order-1 ed held at present levels today by the interstate commerce commlsison. After investigating the new sched ules which trans-continental rail roads prepared to put Into effect and which Increased the lumber rates ohecrned from 60.5 cents per 100 ounds ti 73 cents per 100 pounds, o commission held today that tbe crouso was unreasonable. Hank Awrvra Increase, NEW YORK, Aug. 5. The actual condition of tho celarlng house bunks and trust companies for the week shows that they had $50,821, 010 in excess of legal requirements. This Is an lncreuse of $11,197,450 from last week. By sence of Dr. Einstein from the meet ing of the members of the Intellec tual committee of the league of na tions, to begin the work of organi zation. He had been designated to represent Germany but did not ap pcur. It was said he was unable to loave his work at the University of Berlin. Dlspatchos from Germany shortly after the Rathenau murder quoted police authorities there as ac cusing the notorious "consul" organ ization with having marked 12 lead ing politicians, editors and financiers of Jewish extraction for, assassina tion, including Dr.. Ruthenau, Theo dore Wolff, editor of the Berliner Tageblatt, and Max Warburg, "the Hamburg banker.