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MEDFOKD, ORIXiON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 18, 15)22
NO. 127
I'D A II II. DA A Pi
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. The Weather
Prediction Unsettled
: Maximum yesterday 91
Minimum today 48
ORB
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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.