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MAILTR 1EDF w earner i ear Maximum Minimum . 8b 48 Dn'v Seventeenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Second Tear. MEDFOKD, ORIXiON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 15)22 NO. 127 I'D A II II. DA A Pi uwr . The Weather Prediction Unsettled : Maximum yesterday 91 Minimum today 48 ORB NE 1UST SAYS MO LAWLESSNES Union Men Have Right to Or ganize and Non-Union Men Have Right to Work Teeth Must Be Put in Labor Board Law Natl. Coal Agency Is Requested. WASHINGTON, Aug. 18. (By Asso ciated Press). President Harding to- day told congress and the nation that he was resolved "to use all the power ot government to maintain transiorta. linn and sustain the right of men to work." Immediate legislation to establish temporarily a "national coal agency" I with necessary capital to purchase, sell and distribute coal also was urged by the executive. Stating that the Esch-Cummlns act in establishing the railroad labor board was inadequate, being with little or no power to enforce its decisions, the president recommended action to make the board's decisions "enforceable and effective against carriers and employes alike." ...... Other legislation recommendations were for "better protection of aliens and enforcement of their treaty rights" through a measure to give federal courts jurisdiction In protecting aliens. In discnssing-tiie coal situation the president referred to what he termed "the- shocking crime at Herrin, 111., which bo recently shamed, and horri fied the country,!' and added tho inci dent was "butchery of human boings wrought In madness." Other than the amendment to the Escb-Cummins law to make the rail road board's decisions enforceable, the president did. not recommend any legis lation to deal Immediately with the railroad strike. Restrain Profiteering lu asking for coal legislation, the president said that the administration had sought earnestly "to restrain pro fiteering and to secure the rightful dis tribution." of coal, but was without legal power to control prices. Right to Work The president, In an address to con gress in which he recommended speci fic legislation Sesired to cure the na tion's industrial Ills, declared with em phasis that the right of employers and employes alike to establish their meth ods of conducting business to choose their employment and to determine their relations with each other must be recognized "Government by law must and will be maintained," the president said, no matter what clouds may gather, no matter what storms may ensue, no matter what hardships may attend or what sacrifice may be necessary." Stating that sympathetic railroad strikes had developed and impaired inter-state traffic seriously, the presi dent said that trains deserted in the western desert had "revealed the cruelty and contempt for law on the part of some railway employes who have conspired to paralyze transporta tion." Lawlessness Denounced Asserting that the striking unions In some Instances had not held their forces to law observance, Mr. Harding- said: i "There is a state 'of lawlessness shocking to every conception of Amer-1 (Continued on page eight) 10 BROKE JAIL SIOUX FALLS, S. IX, Aug. 18. (By Hie Associated Press.) An all night search by posses formed of state, county and city officers and members of the local post of the American Legion had failed early to day to pick up the trail of four con victis who escaped late yesterday from the South Dakota penitentiary here, kidnaped Warden George T. JamiBOn and severely wounded Dep uty Warden Arthur Muchow. A tourist's car, standing near the prison walls was commandeered by the convicts who forced the warden to get into the machine with them. A guard on the wall who witnessed C MED LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES CELEBRATES 83RD BIRTHDAY Lieutenant General Nelson A. Miles is the sole surviving corps commander of tiie Civil War and doughtiest of In- ,n,in fighters of- a hull century ago. General and Mrs. Miles as is their cus- 'torn are summering on the shores of Massachusetts, : N DRY GRAFT STIRS SENATE ' CHICAGO. . Aug. lS.-Federal of fices here buzzzed today with rumors from Washington of . an impending congressional investigation of stories of alleged corruption of the prohi bition enforcement machinery which reached a climax when the. names of United States Senator William B. Mc Kinley and his -secretary, Chester Wllloughby, were drawn In, follow ing the dismissal of Joseph A. Ta tro, government intelligence agent. Tatro -denied the charges. Investi gation, it was said today, failed to implicate Senator McKinley, but In vestigators said a forged permit bearing the name of Charles A. Greg ory, federal prohibition commission er for Illinois, was disclosed. . The plot, which failed in the last moment, was said by government agonts to have tho ear marks of an "inside job." BOX FACTORY AT OORIS DESTROYED KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Aug. 18.- The box factory of the Associated Lumber and Iloxing company of Dorris, Cal., valued at $116,000 was burned last night. One half, million -feet of finished box shooks valued at $20,000 was also burned. AROUND WORLD FLIGHT LONDON, Aug. 18. Tho Central News says that Major W. T. Blake, tl,n Tfritlch nvltitnr. who fltnrterl to . d thc wol.1(l ln an airplane. Is 111 in Calcutta, having undergone an . operation for appendicitis. It Is added that Captain Norman McMll- 1 lan. Blake's pilot, will continue. Ihe 'world flight. AT SIOUX FALLS. S. D. the escape was unwilling to risk a shot at the convicts fearing a bullet might strike the warden. Fleeing north the eonvjets aban doned their stolen automobile at EI lis and appropriated another car. At Crooks, S. D., the warden was bound and placed In a country church, from which he. escaped an hour ater. Jamison upon his return here early today, said he had not been man handled by the convicts who even took steps for his comfort, prepar ing a rude bed on the floor of the church. He said they could not have traveled far, ,as the automobile was giving them trouble. 12 LIVES LOST FOREST FIRES 1 I Thousands of Men, Women and Children Hemmed in-By Flames Many Towns De stroyed Cities Crowded With Refugees. DULUTH, Minn., Aug. IS. (ISy tho Associated Press.) Thousands of men, women and children living lu towns and villages and isolated sec tions of l lie north country menaced by forest fires yesterday were remov ed to safety without a single casual ty, it was revealed today when a check showed that all of the persons reported missing last night were ac counted for. DULUTH, Minn., Aug. 18. (By the Associated Press.) Fears that the death toll from the forest fires raging In northern Minnesota would go beyond the reported total of 12, when additional advices are received today from tho flame swept area were expressed this morning by scores of refugees who are arriving here hourly from all sections of tho north woods. -While 400 Mlnesota National Guardsmen continued today the work of succoring the refugees, more than 2,000 forest rangers, settlers and others redoublod their efforts In fighting the flames. Cotton, Central Lakes and White Face have been destroyed. Only rain or a calm day can save a score of other towns. Terrific winds were the chief enemies of the fire fighters. The first ray of hope of prevent ing further serious loss was received at district headquarters of the state forest service shortly after midnight when rangers at Kelsey, BO miles north of hero, the center of the worst blazes, reported the situation much improved, with the wind sub siding and a heavy dew. Similar fires were reported early today In several sections, however. Mindful of the 1318 holocaust in northern MinnoBOta when more than 400 persons lost their lives, hundreds of persons abandoned their home3, livestock and everything they owned. Women and children rushed to safe ty, while most of the men remained behind to aid firefighters. Last night and today all main roads leading to Duluth, Evcleth and other northern villages were crowded with fleeing women and children. DUflLlN, Aug. 18. (By Associated Press). Rumors were extensively cir culated In Dublin today that Eamon DeValera, republican leader, was dead Countess Markievcz, former member of the Dail Elreann who has been closely associated, with Mr. DeValera In championing the republican cause when questioned said Mr. DeValera was suffering from a slight -chill but that his condition gave no caitse for anxiety. BASEBALL SCORES American Ijcogue. At Philadelphia: . K. 1 St. Louis 4 Philadelphia 8 Batteries: - Vangllder, Kolp Sovcrold; Nnylor and Perkins. 13. 4 0 and At Boston: It. H. E. Detroit 0 6 1 Boston 8 12 1 Batteries: Olson and Basslcr; Col lins and Chaplin. At New York. Chicago R. . 7 E. Now York - 8 9 Batteries: Blankenshlp, Davenport and Schalk; Hoyt, Bush and Schang. Ruth hit a home run in the tenth. - National At Pittsburg. , R. H. Boston - - G 11 P'Mfb'irs: 2 7 Batteries: Mille- and Oowdy; Coop er and Gooch. Cincinnati-Brooklyn game postponed, rain. NM 1 A DE VALERA NOW Plan to Shoot All Strike Demonstrants With a Rapid Camera I.OS ANGELES. Aug. 1 Federal forces are arranging to shoot all railroad strike do in on - strains in San Bernardino with a camera. This was an . non need here by Chief Deputy United States Marshal O. S Grcenwald In charge of the San Hernardino strike district. A rapid fire motion picture cam era. mounted on an automobile truck, will speed to strikers' parades and gatherings and reel all tho participants into federal record. Grcenwald explained that rioting, rock throwing and shooting has followed demon- strations so the rool record of demonstrations will pave the way for arrest of all demon- strains shown by the film to have rocks or weapons. 11 will also servo to Identify leaders. COOLIDGE SEES R. TACOMA, Aug. 18. The rail and coal strikes are indications of pros perity. They also indicate the restless state of tho public blind generally, which will become stable onco th'c strikers are back" at work, '-declared Clvin Coolldge, vice-president ot the United States, who with Mrs. Cool tdgo and their two sons, John and Calvin, Jr., visited Tacoma yosturduy. "There urc no strikes when condi tions aro bad." ho continued, "when there is general unemployment, men hang to their jobs. But when condi tions are good and other Jobs arc available, they will go out on strike. 'I believe the rail Btrike will be speedily settled. As is nlways the way in such controversies, each side must give up something. Compromise Is tho basis of settlement." Informed that many labor leaders construo tho railroad situation as an attack on organized labor, tho vice- president declared they were in error. "There is no national ntiucK on organized labor," ho stated. Some employers would liko to kill the union, just as some union men would like to abolish our present Industrial system and tako over everything for their own. Tho majority of employers, how ever, believe In organization or tneir employes, Just as tho average union man accepts the present system as the only one practical. Public opinion expresses the same attitude and would not tolerate aboli tion of tho unions any more than It would countenance tho overthrow of our Institutions." E IN MURDER, GUILTY F! NEW WESTMINSTER, B. C, Aug 18. Henry Green, a farmer of thc Douglas district today was dead from shotgun wounds and police officers along" tho International boundary' line were scouring the country for his alleged slayer, James Austin, an other farmer of the boundary settle ment. Tho shooting, according to police, waB tho result of a long feud between the two farmers which culminated in an argument yesterday. Witnesses said Austin got his shotgun and dis charged a load of shot into Green's breast. Chief of Police A. Matheson of Cloverdalo reported this morning that the fugitive was believed to be headed for Anacorteg whore he has relatives. Sheriff Rea of Skagit county was notified and ordered a lookout on roads leading to Anacorr tes. Sarazen Wins Title PITTSltURG. Aug. 18. (Uy Assocl atod Press). Eugene Sarazen of Pitts burg, national open golf champion, be came national professional champion also here this afternoon by winning the final match of the tournament from Emmet French of Youngstown, Ohio, 4 and 3. PROSPERITY RAIL I! OCCUPATION OF RUHR REGION IS AGAIN PROBABLE Paris Journal Declares Ger man District Will Be Occu pied in Forty-Eeight Hours if Berlin Defaults in Repa rations Payment. PA IMS. Aug. 18. vl-.y tho Asso ciated Press) Tho reparations com mi sts to n today cunt timed Its task of seeking a solution of the Franco (crman tanKle. nut a final decision is not expected for at least nwoek. A lai-Re section of French opinion criticizes the decision the commission is understood to have taken to send a delegation to Itcrlin. It is remarked that Oermany ex plained her position when she ap plied for a moratorium In J uly, in addition to which the commission has before it tho voluminous report of the allied guarantees committee. I,e Journal announces flatly that If Germany defaults in, her palments or the commission fall in its task and grants :i respite without sufficient guarantees, the occupation of tho Kuhr recoil will be ordered within IS hours. BY 16-YR. OLD GIRL FORKST HILLS, N. Y A UK. 18 Helen Wills, Hi years old, L'erkeley, Oil., defeated All's. iday Sutton Ltundv of Los Anodes in tho Kccond semi-final match of iho women's na tional singles championship today 0-4, li-H and tomorrow will meet Mrs, Molla 11. Mallory of New York In the finals. . PHILADELPHIA. Auff. 18. Aus tralia defeated Kpain ln tho Davis cup doubles tennis play hero today , G-.1, 6-4. Patterson and O Hara Wood, in winning from Alonzo nnd DeOomar in straight sets, showed far better driving, smashing nnd lobbing tactics and brought the team within one match of tho challenge rund by today's victory. NEW PAPER ILL SALEM, Ore., Aug. 18. Work on the third unit of tho Oregon Pulp and Paper company's plant in Salem which will give to this city the only bond paper mill on the Pacific coast and add in the neighborhood of 75 men to the payroll of the company's local plant was started yesterday. ' With tho completion of the new unit, which with Its onuipmont will repre sent an Investment of $300,000 and bring the total investment in the mill to approximately $2,000,000, actual commercial production of sulphite bond paper will commence on a large scale. VANISHING POINT NEW YORK, Aug. 18. German marks continued their downward plunge in price today, millions being available at local bunks and foreign exchange houses at prices around eight cents a hundred with no takers. This represents a reduction of more than a cent from tho price quoted at the close of the stock market yester day. The normal or pre-war price of the mark was 23.8 cents each. Phoenix Pastor Back Will Preach Sunday Joseph W. Angoll, pastor of the Phoenix church, returned on Wednes day from a month's stay with friends In Seattle and on Washon Island be tween Seattle and Tacoma, and Will preach on Sunday morning at 11 o'clock, on a subject of importance and interest just now. Special music also has' been arranged, and a large atten dance Is desired, both morning and evening. In tho evening the service will ho conducted by the young penplo at 7:15, with a short talk by the pastor. Bible school at 10 a. m., Dr. J. 11. Web Bter, supt. ARRIVES IN NEW YORK i. -1 i ,,, Capt. E. A. Yarrow ot Illnghampton, N. Y., has been decorated six times by Russian, Armenian ami Persian gov ernments during seven yours of war and relict work. With pay In rations of American corn grits, Yarrow, direc tor of Near East relief in Armenia and adjacent regions, inaugurated city street cleaning and Irrigation projocls; advanced seed wheat, to bo repaid at harvest; drafted mules nnd tractors in a program of agricultural rehabilita tion, besides supervising tho euro of 50,000 orphans and 100,000 refugees. HALL REFUSES JO SUPPORT OLCOTT IN PORTLAND, Aug. 18. Senator Hall declared 'in a public statement issued yesterday that lie is under no obliga tion to support Governor Olcott. In fact, he docs not recognize Olcott as the regular republican ' nominee, holding his certificate of nomination to have vesulted from democrats having changed their registration on eloctlon day. Whether he will nnnounce an Inde pendent candidacy ho does not stato. This is tho latest development ln tho bitter contest within tho republican party'over the gubernatorial nomina tion as the result of the religious con troversy Injected therein. Failing to establish himself as the republican nominee through a recount, Hall now issues a public statement, which, following in the wake of the statement issued on his behalf a week ago by tho Public Dofonse league, gives further substance to the current rumor that Hall has not yet ceased his fight to get Ills name upon the ballot. The purpose of Hull's stutemont, so it concludes, is "to advise friends and foes that my obligation to support tho nominee, assumed when I entered tho primaries, does not bind me to support nu alleged nominee when the certificate of nomination is secured by democrats changing regis tration on election day, contrary to tho spirit of the law and the intent of tho legislature." Genevieve Wtiwl Dies. T.OXDO.V, Aug. 18. (lly the Asso cliUed Press) (ienevicve Ward, fa mous American tragedienne, died of 'heart failure today at her homo ln Hampston. RESOLUTION AGAINST BY VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS SEATTLE, Aug. 1 S. Delegates to the 2.1rd national encampment cf tho Veterans of Foreign wars of tho United States went into their final buBlnoss sessfnn today anxious to clean up all pending matters so thatJ tomorrow, ttio limn day ot encamp ment, might be dovotcd to play and entertainment. Among resolutions adopted by tho convention wus one authorizing the adjutant general of the organization to toll-graph President Harding and congress asking that tho national ad Justed compensation bill be taken up and disposed of Immediately after thc tariff bill, now before the Bcnntc. Another resolution urged that tho birthday of U..S. Grant, April 27, lie made a national holiday. Congress and state legislatures were asked in a resolution unanimously adopted to pass laws making it illegal to kill BELIEVE II RAIL SHE IS IN SIGHT Brotherhood Chiefs Announce Basis for Settlement and Meeting Is Called Terms of Proposal Not Given Out Spirit of Co-operation Is Manifest. NEW YORK, A utf. 18 (By tho As sociated Press) Brotherhoud chiefs acting as mediators in the shopmen's strike, today laid a proposal for set tlement before tho committee representing- tho carriers. It was then de cided to call n meeting of the entire membership of tho' Association of Kailway Executives at a date not yet set, to consider the proposal. This was learned when tho confer ence between representaties of tho running trades and tho executives broke up shortly before p. m., after having been in session for two days. NEW YOlllC, Aug. 18. At 4:15 p. in., tho leader of onu of tho shop crafts, who would not permit - Ills namo to bo used, said after receiv ing a telephone message at lubor headquarters, that he belloved . tha strike soon would bo settled. ' Stono Still Smiles. X1SW YOltK, Aug. , JL8. (By the Associated Press)- Belief: ; trim" no definite agreement for settlement of . the shop crafts strike . would bo reached today was expressed by War ren S. Stone, head of the Brother hood of Locomotive Engineers shortly buforo one o'clock on leaving tho conference between brotherhood men and executives. After having attended tho session' for two hours, Mr. Stone left for tho uptown hotel whero shop crafts load ers aro quartered for a conference. He said ho did not expect to return beforo three o'clock. . . Mr. Stono said no definite ligree- ment had been reached so. far and ho believed tho conference w.ould have to be extended beyond today. "I'm still smiling,' he said to news paper men. "I suppose you boys will write n column about that smile. It took me thirty years to learn how to do It." Danger at Nevilles. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 18. The "chief danger point" rcmuinlng from the strike of members of tho big four In thc southwest is Noodles, Cal., according to declarations of railway offlclnls early today, and hopes woro expressed that tho troubles ''thero ' would be ended tonight. John Bannon, vleo-prepldent of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, , was expectod to reach Needles kite, . last night or early today to' boln con-"' fcrenco with local brotherhood of ficers and representatives of tho Santa Fo railroad. . Must 11c Scltlcil. NEW YORK, Aug. 18. Tho strlko of railway craft unions must be set tled hero, Warren S. Stono of tho llrotberhond of Railway Engineers, declared today as the committee of five rail brotherhoods finished seve ral informal conferences beforo meeting the rail executives to con tinue their work of mediation, :' (Continued on page oightl KU KLUX TABLED pigeons useful as messago carriers in time of war. Tho hottest fight ot the convention dovoloped over a resolution Intro duced by the California delegation proposing to. place the Votorans pt Foreign Wars on record as opposed to the Ku Klux Klan. The resolu tion was finally tabled after speak ers had declared that whatever the organization's feeling as ox pressed by Individual delegates, toward the Ulan unv nnlirtii tt ha tahan shnnltl he Initiated by stato or federal au thorities. Colonel Fllllnghast L. Huston ot New York, slated for election today as commander In chief to succeed Robert G. Woodside ot Pittsburg, was presented with a hugh bouquet of roses by the Portland. Ore., dele gation, when it was announced that Portland's candidate for the' office had withdrawn.