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MEDFORD, OREO OX, WEDNESDAY, AUOL'ST f), .1922
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' IN ILLINOIS
Switchmen On Chicago Joilet
Loop Strike in Protest
Against Use of Troops to
Preserve Order Brother
hood Leaders Endorse Ac
tion Situation Critical.
CINCINNATI, Aug. 9. (Dy Associ
ated Press). Clerks, freight handlers
and station men who ure not on strike
have been ordered to "stay away from
their usut.l places of employment when
ever their lives are endangered, either
by armed guards or defective railroad
equipment," the Brotherhood of Rail
way and Steamship Clerks, Freight
Handlers, Station and Express Em
ployes,' announced today in a state
ment to the Associated Press.
CENTRALIA, 111., Aug. 8 Steve
Gourley and L. O. Daggett, striking
shopmen, today were arrested after
Joe Walters, negro employe of the Illi
nois Central was killed when a volley
of Bhots were fired at him and five
other negroes near Womac while on
their way to work at the railroad yards
here. The negroes were fired on when
they failed to obey a command to halt,
It waB said.
Four other strikers were arrested
here yesterday .for discharging fire
arms. .
CLEVELAND, Aug. 9. President
Lea said he. had wired the represen
tative of the trainmen on the Elgin.
Joliet and Eastern last night that
whenever the members of the organl-l
.nlinn. h ,1 nn.ittn. Hint thn I
.i"7 Tned by iia
guards and their lives endangered of coal operators In southern Illinois
they had his permission to stay away today began setting their collieries in
fiom railroad company property. order to begin resumption of coal pro
President Robertson said he and duction.
President Stone had sent a joint mes-1
sage to their representatives at Jol- l"RRISBURG, 111., Aug. 9 Fires
iet to stay away from the railroad have been started in every Asoal mine
company property if their lives were in this section and mules are being
in danger through armed guards. ' lowered into the shaftB today.
President Robertson also said that Preparations are being made by
he had received a 'mesasge from his practically all operators in Williamson
representative at Terre Haute, Ind., county to resume mining and it is the
this morning that brotherhood men belief of both miners and operators. in
were being subjected to abuse by this gion that the coal strike will be
hundreds of armed soldiers, guard- settled within 48 hours.
ing railroad lines leading to strip
mWs In that territory and had re- CLEVELAND, Ohio, Aug. 9. (By
plied that if there was danger they Associated Press). Virtual decision
Bhould stay away. I was reached today by union leaders to
'conclude a settlement of the soft coal
RofiLw "bud order" Cars I strike with the operator's who have
SAiN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9. Rep-'gathered here for the peace confer
resentatlves of the "big four" rail- erfce. The operators also were expec-
road brotherhoods have been notified tant of an agreement, affecting practi
bv their national executives to refuse eally all mines in Ohio and scattered
to take out "bad order" cars and lo-
fccnmntivpa nnrt to nult work when
'your lives are endangered by inex-
neripnepci onrf enrnloaa armed rail-
road guards," L. L. Sanford, dis-
frie hoirm.n nf fho Rrnthprhood of
Locomotive Engineers, announced to-
day
L. S. Gordon, secretary of the Fed-
eratlon of Railway Employes of the .
Sntttan Panlffn naM thnt hp hftdi
nnHf.o,! hi. oYo,.i.ilvpa on
behalf of the strikers that the pro -
(Continued on page eight)
E
TRIES
E AT A
LONDON, Aug. 9. (By the Asso
elated Press.) As a result of
three hour conversation between
Premier Polncare - and Mr. Lloyd
George, the prime minister today. It
was decided to refer back to the
committee of experts Premier Poln
care's plan for control of German
finances with the request that the
points upon which the British and
French are not In agreement be re
examined. LONDON, Aug. 8. (By the Asso
ciated Press.)) The differences be
tween the French and British view
points over the German reparations
Problem which seem to be threaten
Ing the breaktiD of the allied con
ference, were discussed at length
over their breakfast this morning by
Cudahy Goes Into
Hospital After 90
Hours in Taxicab
CHICAGO, Aug. 9. John S.
Cudahy, son of the late John
Cudahy, pioneer Chicago pack-
er. today was at a hospital,
where it was said he would he
another wek. He was taken
there when he became ill while
I- en route to a fashionable hotel
after, according to Tony Plavin,
i taxicab chauffeur, ho had run
up a bill of $270 for 90 hours
riding. Plavin, who swore out
a police court warrant for
young Cudahy, charged also
that he had loaned Cudahy
Several months ago Mr. Cud-
ahy suddenly became ill on the
eve of his marriage at Los An-
geles to a young woman from
St. I.ouls, Mo. It then was an-
nounced by her parents that the
marriage had been postponed
indefinitely.
SETTLEMENT OF
Union Leaders Virtually De
cide to Conclude Settlement
With Coal Operators Fires
Started and Collieries Set in
Order Peace in 48 Hours
MARION, 111., Aug. 9. Hopeful that
today's conference of operators and
miners at Cleveland would effect a
f coaI strike- a nuniber
others in Illinois, Indiana and Pennsyl-
vanla.
Final decision on a settlement rests
with the union's policy committee and
its members have been informed that
President John L. Lewis had nssur-
ances from operators outside the four
! states of their willingness to reach an
agreement based on one negotiated at
the conference here.
SIOUX CITY, Iowa, Aug. 9. The
'Armour and Cudahy packing plants
(Continued on page eight)
TO
4-HOUR
T
- Prime Minister Lloyd George and
Premier Polncare.
This "diplomatic breakfast" which
lasted for four hours, was the out
standing feature of the early part of
thp con ference's third day. Premier
Polncare went directly from his ho
tel to. the French embassy where he
Met Mr. Lloyd George and the pre
miers later continued their conver
sations at the residence or viscount
Farquhar, where the members of the
niiipd delegations had luncn
Mr l.lnvd George agreed to the
French suggestion regarding the col
lection of 26 per cent of German ex
nnrts st her frontiers which would be
inio rpnaratlons funds. He also
agreed to the suggestion for tawing
over the state forests and mines in
German occupied territory.
STRIKE
CERTAIN
WORK RESUMED
KI K RAID
LOS ANGELES
IS RELATED
Details of Attack By Night
Riders Outlined By Matias
Elduayen, One. of the Vic
tims Armed Men Ordered
-I J'.- '
Hands Up Shooting Was
Heard in Distance.
LOS ANGELES, Aug. 9. An out
line Af the state's case was the first
thing on today's program in the trial
of 37 alleged members of the Ku
Klux Klan on charges growing out of
the Inglnwood ruld of April 22 lust.
The jury of eight men and four wo
men was finally selected yesterday
with unexpected speed.
The first witnesses were to be Fidel
and Mathias Elduayen, brothers, who,
with their families, were victims of
the inglewood raid, alleged to have
been conducted by a band of perhaps
2 DO masked and armed men.
Republicans Condemn K. K.s
Th. charges against the defend
ants are kidnapping, false imprison
ment and assault with attempt to
murder.
Details of the fatal raid were re
cited to the jury by Mutias Elduapen.
ono of the victims, called as a wit
ness for the state. He said he was
awakened from sleep jit his home in
Inglewood on the night of April 22.
There WttB-aTknoolt on the rear door
and three men entered, he said, arid
ordered "hands up," menacing him
with guns. One of the men wore a
handkerchief mask.
"Where is the still?" they demand
ed, according to IGdyuayen's testi
mony. He said there was no still but
they took him by the arm and led
him from the house toward the barn,
he said. Then he heard shooting in
the distance and one of the armed
men dropped to the ground and later,
went to the rear, Elduayen testified.
Hound with Hopes
"They took me to an automobllo
on the road and there were many au
tomobiles with license numbers cov
ered up with cloth," he testified.
Elduayen said he was bound with
ropes and placed In the front seat of
an' automobile. Then his .brothor.
Fidel, similarly bound, was placed in
the rear seat, and guarded by three
men. they were taken to the Ingle
wood police station. The captors, he
continued, talked with the jailer
there but he said he did not under
stand the, conversation.
They were then driven to RSdondo
Beach, about 12 miles away, then
back to the Inglewood station and
then to a point six miles from their
home, where they were released and
Warned "by one of. their captors in
Spanish not to tell anyone what had
occurred.
Elduayen could not identify the
three men who drove him to the sta
tion, although they were not masked
Three defendants stood up, but he
could not identify them with the raid
FOUT WORTH, Texas, Aug. 9.
Action on both the platform and
state ticket was opened harmonious
ly. The position of the platform
dealing with the Ku KIux Klan was
approved amid loud and prolonged
demonstration. It was set forth that
"we condemn the Ku Klux Klan and
similar organizations whose purpose
is to restrain by force, threats, intlm
idations or otherwise) the conduct
of our citizens in the full exercise
of freedom whether In matters of
politics, ' religion or occupation: or
that discrimination 't between loyal
Americans on the ' ground of re
gious belief or nationality."
The 'platform further declared
that the republican party "regards
with apprehension the activity of
any group that seeks to usurp, inter
fere with, or to lessen the full au
thority and power conferred by the
people upon their duly constituted
agencies of government.
LAKC.KST API'I.K C1MP X. V.
STATE Vim I'IFTKKN- YKARK
ROCHESTER, X. Y., Aug. 9
Fruit growers of western Xew York
who have the largest early apple
crop In fifteen years are becoming
alarmed over the railroad strike sit
uation, fearing lack of rolling stock
will seriously affect transportation.
The peach belt .In this section of tho
state Is also enjoying a bumper crop".
American Relief Administration '
Chief Returns From Russia
v iff I I fst
Colonel William N. Haskell, IT. S. A., with his wife mul their children
Mary and Wlllam, Jr., who arrived on the steamship Aquitiuila. WiOi
him came Edtfnr Itiekard, general director of the American UelleX Admin
istration and Walter jLyman Hrown, European director of tho American
Relief administration for a conference with Secretary -Hoover on tho fu
ture of the Itelief Administration's work. Colonel Haskell said tho fam
ine in the Volffa Valley was over and there had been no deaths from star
vation since April.
ALL BARTLETTS
-TO BE SOLD TO
-CALIF: CANNERS
At a meeting of the Oregon Grow
ers Cooperative Asociation last night
It was decided that rather than take
a chance on selling the Bartlett pears
In the east, all unsold Bartletts not
contracted for now will be canned
by the California Packing Corpora
tion Minder the Del Monte brand.
Number ones were originally sold at
$75 a ton, number twos at $10. The
Corporation plans to advance the cost
of production to the growers on de
livery of the pears. The Oregon
Growers' Cooperative Association
and the California Packing Corpora
tion will divide the profits of can
ning and selling the product. This
refers only to Bartletts and means
that because of the market and rail
strike situations the Oregon Grow
ers will send all Bartletts this year
to California canners. Picking of
the Bartletts genoraly will begin
August 21st, the packmg at Bard
well's Fruit company will begin
Monday, however.
HALL'S NET GAIN
ISTJOW 2 VOTES
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 9. A re
count of nine of the 17 Clatsop
county precincts at noon today gave
Governor B. VV. Olcott a gain of ono
vote over Charles Hall, contestant.
The Multnomah county re-check
gave Hall a lead of eight votes and
In -Marlon county Olcott led by five,
making the total gain for Hall of two
votes for the entire re-count so far.
- ENTRANCE -TO GORK
DUBLIN, Aug. 9. (By Associated
Press). A trans-Atlantic steamer ar
riving here today reported that upon
reaching Queenstown harbor yesterday
her officers were advise'd that a vessel
had been sunk across the narrowest
part of the river Lee, thus blocking
entrance to Cork City. ,
By this means, the Irregulars hold
Ing the city, it was said, (ought to pre
vent repetition of the provisional gov
ernment's coup In landing troops from
the sea at Tralee.
F GOT A
A
C
SPOKANE, Aug. 9. Calling of a fed
eral jury during the last pint of this
month or early In September will make
possible speedy trials for Sheriff
Thomas Barker of Ferry county, Wash
ington, and three other men. nt Repub
lic yesterday, on charges of conspiracy
to violate fedoral prohibition Inws.
One other man, Clyde Ledgorwood,
for whom a warrant was Issued on the
same charge, was still at liberty to
day. He saw himself pointed out to
the federal officials, it Is said, and took
to his heels. Officers oh both sides of
the Canadian line have been asked to
watch for him.
Tlie others arrested were Guy Dun-
gan, bank clerk; Dick Cook, warehouse
helper; and Roy Powers, automobile
driver. It is alleged by federal officers
who made tho. arrests that the men
arranged for transportation of liquor
across the Canadiun Hue and through
Ferry county with Spokane as the des
tination. The sheriff Ib charged with
receiving one dollar a case bribe
money for all Hauor conveyed through
the county. According to Charles Ben
nett, prosecuting attorney of Ferry
county, Sheriff Barker has not made a
single, arrest for violation of liquor
laws since he took office January 10,
1921. He added that every search war
rant for liquor issued by his office had
been returned by the sherirf with the
notation "nothing found."
Powers Is said to have confessed to
the charge against him. The investi
gation started when officers received
Information that two smugglers had
been "double-crossed" and beaten up,
and their whiskey taken away from
them.
SALEM RANCHER
SALEM, Ore, Aug. 0. John In-
inun, GO, who IiiHt nttfht shot and bb
riouHly wounded Charles Wltte, 38, at
the In man rnnch, five miles south
enst of Sfileni, thin morninff told of
ficers that ho shot to "protect" his
wlfo's flvo year old son who he said
he had believed, was to bo taken
awny by "Wltte and Mrs. Innmn,
Both Inmnn and his wife were to
day held without ball in the Marlon
county jail. Attending physicians
said that Wltte, who was shot just
above the collur bone, probably will
recover.
No specific charges had been filed
npalnat either Mr. or Mrs. Inman at
noon today.
DOLLAR
CASE
ANADA
BOOZE
Sacramento Woman
Claims Pack of 18
Dogs Killed Rancher
4
SACRAMENTO. Cal., Aug. 9.
A statement that Home of her
pack of IS dogs Jumped upon
and caused the death of A.
Dless at his homo near Ante-
t lope, north of Sacramento yes-
terday, was made to representa-
lives of District Attorney Hugh
It. llradford's ofifco hero today
by Mrs. Louis Delimit, who with
her husband, was brought to
Sacramento after Uelurdl had
reported the finding of Ilieso's
body on a cot ill the hitter's
home, according to Deputy ills-
! trict Attorney L. M. Shelley. ,
The woman, it was stated,
said that lllese struck ono of
her dogs with a club whereupon
some of the pack Jumped upon
him and caused Injuries which
Mini to his death a short time
later.
MOTHER FINDS
16 YEARS AGO
Mrs. R. L Brittan of Soap
Lake, Washington, Identi
fies Hotel Employee As Son
Kidnaped July 4th, 1906
-Grief Killed Husband.
SPOKANK. Auk. 9. Mrs. R. L. Brit
tan, proprietor of a general store at
Soap Lake, Wash., today Identified
Cecil LenlRhen, employed by a local
hotel, as the son. who was kidnaped
from her in the Dine Mountains near
Walla Walla sixteen years ago. Over
the long distance telephone Mrs. Brit
tan declared there could be no mistak
ing her Identification, which she estab
lished by scars on Lenlghens' Hp and
head, by n crooked finger, and by the
color of hiB hair and eyes.
Mrs. Brlttan's son, then five years
of age was kidnaped July 4, 1906. Her
husband died last July 4 partly as a
result, she said, of grief over the loss
of their. son whom they had sought
ever since.
Resemblance of Lenighen to a de
scription of the Brittan boy was noted
by G. W. Stark, a fellow employe of
the hotel where he worked, a few days
ago. Lenighen knows nothing of his
childhood history, parentage, real
name or the place of his birth.
Yakima Pioneer Dead
YAKIMA, Wash., Aug. 9. Frank H.
Shon, aged 96, who has been a resident
of the Yakima valley since 18G8, died
this aftornoon at the home of his son.
Shon operated the saw mill which
turned out the lumber used In the first
houses of Yakima and also operated
the first commercial orchard in the
valley.
Showers at Aberdeen
ARERDKKN, Wash., Aug. 9. A trace
fell here this morning and with the
official barometer reading 29.77, hopes
are high for further showers to relieve
the forest fire situation and to improve
crop prospects. The rain Is the first
since June 21.
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MOSCOW, Aug. 9. (Hy Associated
PresB). Thirty-one of the 34 social
revolutionists accused of high treuson
against the soviet government were
held under close guard here today fol
lowing their conviction and sentence
by the revolutionary tribunal. Four
teen of these are under sentence of
death and the remainder face prison
terms of from two to ten years.
The central executive committee up
held the sentence of twelve of those
whoso punishment was fixed as death
hut an Indefinite stay of execution has
been ordered on condition the social
revolutionary party cease Its counter
revolutionary activities.
The committee also agreed to re
quest the tribunal to grant pardons to
Semenoff, Lydla Konoplova and others
SON KIDNAPPED
HARDING AND
DRYS WIN IN
OHIO FIGHT
Wine, Beer and 'Roosevelt
Progressivism' Take Second
Place in President's Home
State Organized Labor Is
Also Beaten in Victory of
Senator Pomerene.
COLUMBUS, Ohio, AUff. 9. (By
the Associated PressV Candidates
favoring wine and beer and progres
sivism within tho republican party
went down to defeat In tho state-wldo
primary election in Ohio, according
to returns early today from more
than 4500 of the 7HU precincts in tho
state.
Tho nino-corncred fight for tho re
publican nomination for governor, in
which these issues wore paramount,
was won by a largo margin by Curmi
A. Thompson of Cleveland, who was
strongly supported by President
Harding's administration and by tho
anti-saloon league.
In nominating Thompson, Ohio
failed to join Indiana, Pennsylvania
and Iowa in a list of progressive vic
tories. The outcome was considered
by many as a vote of confidence In
1 'resident Harding, himself an
Ohloan.
A. Vic Donahey of Now Philadel
phia, who was thu democratic nomi
nee for governor two years ago, will
again lead his party state ticket In
November, thu returns Indicated. He
had moro than a two to onef lend nver
his nearest opponent on returns from
42!lf precincts. ' -
Poincrcno Wins.
Senator Atlee Pomerene of Can
ton, who was opposed both by or
ganized labor and by the anti-saloon
league, was renominated for tho
United States senate over former
Congressman John L. Lenta of Co
lumhus, who was' strongly endorsed
by the big railroad brotherhoods.
Congressman Simon D. Fess of Yel
low .Springs, former college president
and until recently chulrman of the
republican national congressional
committee, apparently had received
the republican nomination for sena
tor from a field of four contestants,
one of whom was former Senator
Charles Dick of Akron, author of the
Dick National Guard act.
Like Pomerene Fess was attacked
by organized labor but he had the
antl-saloon lengue's support.
Congressman Charles L. Knight of
Akron, who mnde a spectacular bill
board and newspaper campaign as a
"Roosevelt progressive," was running
second to Thompson for the republi
can gubernatorial nomination on
available returns this morning.
C. Homer Durand of Coshockton,
who declared for tho return of wine
or beer held third position. ,
Candidates for tho democratic,
nomination for governor were en
dorsed by the anti-saloon league. ,
REPRIEVE FOR WILSON'S
LONDON, Aug. 9. (By: Associated
Ppnanl A ronrinva wiia rnftiand hv
iioine oecreiury Qiiurib 10 juHepii
O'SullIvan and Reginald Dunn, sen
tenced to ho hanged tomorrow for the
nssasslnatlon of Field Marshal Sir
Henry Hughes Wilson.
INCLUDING THREE
TO DEATH BY. SOVIET
among thoso sentenced who turned In
formers during the trial.
Defiance of the court wan shown by
22 of the social revolutionists during
pronouncement of sentence which
came late on Monday, these defendants
refusing to stand up with the others.
This groom was ushered from the hall
by arnred soldiers and sentence was
then pronounced.
Included In those under sentence of
death are three women Miss Eugenie
M. Rattner, who was the party treas
urer and whose defiance of the prose
cution during the later stages of the
trial was most pronounced; Helen
Hanova and Lydla Kofloplovu, who In
turning Informer declared she was
chosen by the party to kill Premier
Lenlne.