Medford mail tribune., August 22, 1922, Page 1, Image 1

"7
The Weather
Fair; warmer Wednesday.
Maximum yesterday 70
Minimum today 56
5DP0
Weather ear Ago
Maximum 9?
MmEmom 5o
flally Seventeenth Year.
Weekly Fitly-Second Tear.
MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUGUST 22, 1922
XO, 130
Henry Fools Coal
Barons, Installs Oil
Burners in Factory
Accounts of Dying
Man in Honolulu
Ohio Newspaper Man and Bride, on Motorized
Honeymoon Trio Around World, Arrive in London
Are $500,000 Short
2 IN SiT
FOR DEER BY
"or KING
Two Members of Portland
. Hunting Party Shot Eajly
Sunday Morning in Sucker
Creek Section Both Are
Rushed to Hospital Not
Seriously Hurt. '
Tragedy would have" marked tho
opening of the deer season Sunday
but for the intercession of Luck, and,
as a result of "thought I saw a deer,"
Charles H. Mead .of Portland was
shot through tho fleshy part of the
right side, and R. A. Stewart, also of
Portland, sustained a superficial
wound in the left arm, one bullet in
juring both. Tho shot was fired
from a high powered rifle in the
hands of Charles (Dad) King, former
physical instructor in the Medford
Bchools, and now engaged in a similar
capacity at Roseburg, Ore.
The- accident occurred Sunday
morning about 8:30 o'clock, near the
foot of Greyback Mountain in the
Sucker Creek district, and in a heav
ily brushed section. ,
Mead and Stewart, with Tom M
Hart,. William J. Roope and Arthur
W. Barendrick. all business men of
Portland, and S. W. Ramp of Brooks,
Ore., formed a hunting partvthe
first deer hunting experience for some
of them and made camp at the Hart Z ' ' ,
cabin, the expedition having been,that "thirty-seven spikes were re-
planned for months. They left the,
Hart caMn Sunday morning for the
hunt. ,... f '
'. , Shot in Early MornlnK
When out from camp for-an hour,
a shot rang out. and Mead and Stew
art were wounded, tho pair walking
nlohg Stewart leading and Mead be
hind.. "Dad". King naturally badly
frightened emerged from the brush,
and explained that he had seen move
ments in" the woods, and fired.
King and the remainder of the party,
- nllntn(nnff fn -tin
.... u..co ..s 'hasty hatched up examination to place
wounded men, and securing medical, , ;,., - , ' - ... , ...
assistance.
They called Dr. Jarvls of Ashland,
who made the 35 miles by auto and
afoot through rough country, In sev
en hours, and high praise was be
stowed upon the physician for his
quickness and skilful aid, by the
hunters. Stewart, the more serious
ly hurt, was packed out to the auto,
taken to the hospital Sunday night.
whero examination showed the
,. .
.Mead f
wounds not to be alarming.
did not reach the hospital until late;
last night.
The wounded men and friends ex
pect to leave tonight, tho news of the
near tragedy being suppressed on ac
count of the fnmtlles of the wounded
men.
The bullet that brought injury to
Mead was freighted with death, f
had it been four Inches to one side
would hayo penetrated vital organs,
with fatal results.
accident are all prominent In a busi
ness and social way in tho Rose .City,
and It was their first experience and,
they now say their last in deer
hunting. "If we get shot again it
will be on city streets," said Mr.
Roope in telling of the accident.
Stwl Wuees Increased.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22. (By the
Associated PrcBs) The L'nltod
States Steel corporation announced
todny that the wage rate of day labor
n nit IIr mnntifRf turinar nlants would
be" increased 20 per cent September
1 and that other rates would be eqult-
ably adjusted.
MENTION K. K. K. BY WOOLWINE STARTS
11 AT . SACRAMENTO, POLICE CALLED
SACRAMENTO, CaU, Aug. 22.
Detectives and a patrol wagon
answered a riot call here last night
following disturbances at a political
meeting at which Thomas Lee Wool
wlne, district attorney of Ios Ange
les and a candidate for the demo
cratic nomination for governor of
California, was principal speaker.
The trouble started when Wool
wine started to tell of his activities
against the Ku Klux ,Klan in Los
Angeles. Scores in the crowd imme
diately began to hoot and catcall.
Later a man aroe in the audient-e
and called Woolwine a liar and seve
ral persons started toward the
speaker, but stopped when Council
man H. S. Klernan threatened the
man with, arrest. No arrests were
made.
DETROIT, Aug. 22. Owing to
the shortage of coat, the Ford
Motor company's Highland Park
plant has been equipped with oil
burners. It was announced today.
The change was mado without
loss of time to any of the 42,000
employes.
The Ford company, it is under-
stood, has placed orders for 12,-
000,000 gallons of fuel oil. Before
installing oil burners coke screen-
liips and other fuels were tried
out but found unsatisfactory.
CORONER'S JURY
BLAMES WRECK
mmm
Deliberate Homicide Is Verdict
at Gary," Indiana Strike
Leader Vigorously Denies
Charge and Blames Defec
tive Railroad Equipment.
GARY, lnd Aug. 22. Deliberate
homicide" was tho verdict of E. E.
if vans; ljaKe county coroner wno
been Investigating the wreck of the
iNew York-Chicago express tram wli ch
was derailed near here Sunday kill ng
s two members of the crew anft injuring
" . ' i uu-j
familiar with the use of a crowbar.
About forty, witnesses Including six
members pi the crew testified that the
wreck was not caused by defective
equipment.'' 'The coroner has said the
wreck was a deliberate! plot.
CHICAGO, Aug. 22. Declaring the
"real cause" of the Michigan Central
wreck at Gary, Ind., early Sunday "Was
clearly an unfit locomotive,". and char
acterizing the railroad's charged that
the wreck was due to "plotters as a
the blame for loss of life on the strik-
lngshopmen instead of on the railroad,
where it belongs," .7. F. McGrath, vice
president of the railway employes de-
partment of the American Federation
of Labor today said the wreck did not
difrer "a particle from wrecks reported
each day from various parts of the
country."
Investigation Denounced
Reports are based upon an Investiga-
tlon by company of f iclals . and armed,
, , . . i.
&UUIM8, lie &UIU. lltll Cait ttie pilUIIU
expect to get in the way of unbiased
reports from men who are hired to
fight the employes on strike? They
are not railroad men and therefore can- j
not be trusted to investigate an acci-
dent which involved the death of the
engine crew. An investigation of this
iriml ohmitil Havn haan ciimn nttor in an
,m)ftrtal of meciianicat experts,
, a, U)e derailment3 wWch nav6
,)een re)lorle(, to lls gnce the strlke
had occtH red at sixty miles an hour the
-'newspapers would nave had no room
for other, news. Such wrecks result! The search for the sight-seeing
directly from the deterioration of plane started Sunday after Miller
equipment which goes oil at an ever failed to return from what was to have
Increasing rate every day the strike been a flight over Fire Island light
lasts." (ship.
SIcGrath's statement came on the Airplanes, sub-chasers and other
heels of the verdict of the coroner's craft combed the waters outside the
jury which found that the engineer and harbor. The navy department Instruct
fireman of the wrecked express cameled the Atlantic fleet, which left Now
to their death "as a result of a plot, port yesterday on its way to Cuba, to
to wreck the train." I search for the machine.
It also followed an announcement by I Considerable mysterv was thrown
State's Attorney Crowe's office admit-
.ting failure to discover sabotage plots
I '
1 Continned on page eiehU
HA XXI B A L, Mo., Aug. 22. Ed
ward Elvers of Portland, Oregon, Is
expected to work against, the adop
tion of a resolution now before the
Missouri department of the American
Legion In session here calling on the
national convention to rescind action
taken last year which officially sanc
tioned the 'forty and eight," a wing
of the national body of which Elvers
is president.
The organization takes Its name
"Homme 40, et Chevaux 8," aftr
the inscription on French railway
cars.
A heated debate over the injection
of the Ku Klux Klan Into conven
tion matters is due to rorne before
the convention today.
To "Keep Smiling" and to see the wirldire the objectives of R. J. Jeffreys, an Ohio nesrsnatier man, and his
bride, formerly Miss Pauline Mayo, of Omaha. They expect to return to the state of presidents and corn about
1925. Their trip will carry them from Britain to the Continent, across France and Germany, and then across
Russia and Siberia. The photo shows them with their car at! ready for traveling (in boutton) anil with their
"limousine tent" pitched and portable stove up for cooking dinner.
SEAPLANE LOST
AT SEA FOUND,
CREMIED
Great Mystery Surrounds Ex
periences of Seaplane 'Am-
bassador' 3 Men Rescued
By Fishing Smack Refuse to
Talk to Reporters.
NEW YORK, Aug. 22 One of the
most elaborate searches ever devised
to locate a missing airplane was called
off early today when a fishing smack
arrived at Iong Beach, 40 miles from
here, bringing W. T. Miller, the pilot.
Harold Thompson, mechanician ami
the lone passenger of the seaplane
(Ambassador, 11,, that dropped from
sight Sunday morning. The fishing
smack attempted to tow the battered
h"Hc of the sky cruiser in which the
tK,.nH n,nn l,o r,v,,crh a naiua fttrUt fP
mvi uat, lu.jifc , t,v tin.,,.
,48 hours against the. winds and waves.
but finally had to abandon it to the
waters of the Atlantic,
Drawn and haggard from exposure,
with nothing to eat and only a little
water, the three men.refused to tell of
their adventures untii they had reeov-
v ,3 4 1 . .un...l l,i.
their experience. The identity of the
)assengert was not fearnedt tt beinK
,earBed he d,d not w(gh to cauge hfs
family any anxiety, as he was supposed
to have gone on a business trip.
about the experiences of the three men.
Major B. L. Smith, a former army
man and operating head of the com
pany which owned the Ambassador,
met Miller, Thompson and the passen
ger before going to his office this mor
ning. 1
It was then announced that Major
Smith would give oat a statement later
in the day but that none of the men
j who were on the seaplane would tell
their experiences to reporters.
KINSEY BROS, GIVEN
. A SEVERE TUSSLE
BOSTOX, Aug. 22. The Pacific
coast champions, Robert and Howard
Kinsey, survived the second round of
the national championship doubles
play today only after a five-set tus
sle with Willis Davis 'of San Fran
cisco and If. C. .Tonnson of Boston.
After losing thp first two sets J-e, 4-6
they carried the third along until
thesr won 12-10 and then ran out the
next two sets 6-2. 6-2.
The third set went 22 games before
the Kinseys ,were able to break the
navis-Jotinson winning streak.
j BASEBALL SCORES
American
At Philadelphia.
Detroit
I'hitadolphia
It. if.
6 11
4 S
Batteries: Dauss and Basster
and Perkins.
llavy
Second game. H. li. E.
Detroit 1? 1? 2
Philadelphia 3 9 7
Batteries: Plllette nri Woodalt;
N'nylor, Ketcham and Brusgy.
At Boston. n. II. E,
St. Iritis 9 It! 1
stn . t
I Batteries: Shocker and Severeitl;
i'cnmck ana waiters.
At New York. R.
Cleveland G
Xew York 2
Batteries: Uhle and O'Neill;
Murray and Schang.
H. E.
12 0
Bush,
At Washington,
R.
Chicago
ivashtngton 4
Batteries: Robertson, Hodge and
Schalk; Mogrldge and Gharrity.
Second game. H. H. E.
Chicago 3 6 2
Washington 0 5 2
Batteries: Mack and Schalk ; Fran
cis, Erickson and Gharrity.
National
At Chicago. It. if. E.
Brooklyn :. 5 11 1
Chicago 4 8 0
Batteries: Vance and Deimrry: Ald
rtdge, Osborne, Stttctand and Q'Farreli.
At PUlsburg.
Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Batteries: Meadows
.Morrison and Mattox.
R. H. E.
3 9 1
4 '10 0
licntine;
and
At Cincinnati. It. H. E.
Xew oYrk 7 la 0
Cincinnati 3 9 1
Batteries: McQuillan and Snyder;
Couch, Keck, Gillespie and Hargrava,
BELIEVE R. R, STRIKE
WILL BE SETTLE!
CLEVELAND, Aug. 22. (By the
Associated Press.) Warren S. Stone,
president of the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers and D. B. Rob
ertson, president of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Firemen and 'iiglne
men, are opftmfstfas regarding to
morrow's conference of railroad ex
ecutives and transportation brother
hood chiefs In New York in. an effort
to reach a settlement of the shop
men's strike.
, "I am optimistic regarding tomor
row's conference with the railroad
managers," said Mr. Stone late today.
"Soma way will have to be reached
to end the strike, f am hopeful of
reaching an agreement."
LINCOLN, Neb., Aug. 22. In a
statement here today Lieutenant
Governor Pelham A. Barrows de
clared he had consulted an attorney
for the purpose of bringing suit
against overnor S, R. MeKetvie to
recover $170 which he claims to be
due him as salary as acting governor
whiiij the chief executive was out f
the state.
DOWNFALL OF
Ml NOW
ACCEPTED FACT
Austrian Premier Abandons
Effort to Save Collapse and
Virtually Turns Country
Over to Allies League of
Nations May Be Appealed to
VIENNA, Aug. 22. (By the As
sociated Press.) Chancellor Seijsel'B
sudden visits to Prague, iBerffs and
Rome are Bald la watt informed cir
cles here to mean the determination
of the Austria! government to force
events and bring tha country's situa
tion to a precipitate head rather
than continue In a drifting policy.
it Is understood tho chancellor will
flatly inform the premiers of these
three countries that a collapse ts near
at hand, lie wilt point out tha dan
ger of this eventuality and ask the
premiers what action they ara pre
pared to undertake when the crash
comes; whether they wtlt interfere
and if so how,
Upon Chancellor Seipel's return to
Vienna he is expected to, convoke the
national assembly and lay the whole
situation before it. If the assembly
agrees with him that there ts no so
lution for the present crisis from
within, he ts expected to demand the
assembly's approval to appeal to the
League of Nations for the union of
Austria with Germany or for tha vol
untary partition of the country.
Should this program bo carried out,
it is believed in .the best Informed
foreign quarters hera that a most
serious situation would result as
most all of the openly discussed
plans for partitions have failed to
find an answer to the question of
what would become of Vienna,
'Precipitate action, regardless of
the central government by one or
more of the Austrian provinces In the
avent of a collapse is not unexpected,
and the Tyro! is regarded as a danger
spot in this connection Should a
secession movement develop the gov
ernment would ha utterly powerless
to use force, and It ts believed Chan
cellor Selpet also wtlt ask etther
Czeeho-Slovakitt, fiermany or Italy If
they ore prepared to do so;
Count Czernln today openly advo
cates tho immediate consummation
of a union wttn Italy, both economic
and political.
Bloodhounds On Trail
Of Escaped Convict
TACOMA, Aug. 21 Thirty men
and bloodhound from Seattle were
continuing the hunt for Frederick It.
Deflate, pseajicd convict, on Mi-Nell
Wand today. Warden Archer of the
federal prison this morning expressed
the opinion that the convict, who was
serving a two-year term for an auto
mobile theft in Seattle, was still on
the island and would be apprehended
smm.
HOXGLl'LF, T. If., Aug. 21.
Serious irregularities understood;
to amount to more than $fOO,OO0
ami to extend over a period of
several years have been found In
the accounts of John tSuild, seere-
tary of the shipping firm of Alex-
sutler and Baldwin, according to a
statement issued tonight by C. It, A
Hemeaway. treasurer and assis-
tant manager of the eompanr,
after a special aterttog of the
board of directors.
Uuitd is said t have been tut-
conscious the last two days with
heart trouble ami physicians be-
Have there is slight hope for his
recovery, it vs announced to-
night that he had signed over ait
personal property to the company
to make tip partially for the aiieg-
ett shortage.
LOVE TRIANGLE
JfK SOCIETY
SAN FRANCI1
Mrs. Edith Huntington Spreck
les Wakefield Offers Wife of
Affinity $100 a Ponth and
Home With Her, if Divorce
Is Granted.
SAN FRAXCtSCO, Aug. 22. What
seemed yesterday to be a solution of
the eternal trtangi far Mr. and Mrs,
Rodney Kettctrtck and Mrs. Edith tFunt
tngton Spreekles Wakefteld of Sits
KraHsiseo and Sausatito today did not
seem suite so likely to work out.
Mrs, Wakefield, who was the first
wife of the late Jack Spreckles, sod of
John D, Spreekies, Sr., Paelfle coast
capitalist, according to her published
admission made an offer of "$108
month for the rest of her Ufa," to Mrs,
Kendrlek if she would divorce Ken-
drtek, a newspaper artist, so that Sirs,
Wakefield could marry him. That is,
as soon as Mrs. Wakefield herself
secured a divorce.
The offer yesterday, t wag under
stood, probably would be aeeepted bnt
early today the artist's wife Intimated
she might take some legal action other
than divorce, and that at any rate she
would consult a attorney before doing
anything.
According to the versions of the us
usua! ease which alt of the persons
Involved give, Mr. and Mrs. Kestiriek
had separated. Mrs, Kendriek is ill
and has spent witch of her time t
sanitariums here. Mrs, Wakefield and
Kendrtck fell la love with each other
and Roatly agreed they would marry If
they eoutd get their freedom and that
Mrs. Kenilrlck and her baby count live
wftb them if she wished, or be "taken
care of."
Mrs. Rodney Kenetrfck, Sr., mother
of the artist sided with her son.
Mrs. Rodman Pelt, the artist's sister,
expressed a simitar view.
Mrs. Wakefield fs S, Kem!rk-k fs 88
and his wife fs 24, Mrs. Wakefield
has three children, the oldest of whom
ts IS. Sprockets wire their father, Mrs.
VVakeftetd was lieoueathetl S0.eua in
Jack Spreekels' witt.
Xmrberg Man IHes, Spokane,
STOKANB, Aug, Si, Dr. 8. W.
Gray of Newberg, re., died xuMenly
at the Union station here today en
route from Portland to Joffet. 111., to
visit a son, t.ewi V. firay. He was
aged Tt years. Physicians pronounc
ed death due to heart failure.
Seaplane Off for Haiti.
NASSAU, Bahama. Aug. 22. ftty
tho Associated Press Tile Ameri
can seaplane Sampate Correia, pilot
ed by Lieutenant Walter illnton, !ef
here for finttl today. It arrived here
yesterday afternoon on the way from
New York to Itlo,
0REGQN1ANS WHO WENTIT0!MEX!CANJ
. "PARADISE" AREJAIDED BY BANDIT!
A Li j ANY, Ore,, Aug. 22. O - e -
gonlans at Patita, on the isle of;
Palms, near the west coast c-f Mexico,
where a colony frem the Willamette
valley settled last spring, are being
guarded ! 45 Mexican soldiers sta
tfonett following bandit raids, ac
cording to a tetter written by Mrs.
Derrilt Austin to friends. The A as
sists are former .residents of Albany.
Alt the firearms belonging to this
family and others were taken by arm-
BY MANIAC
One Mm Bead and Another
Dying As Result of Shooting
On Columbia River Auto
Stage Query By Passen
ger Followed By Two Shots
Waits for Sheriff,
PO UTLASD, Ore., Aug. 21.
n. Widtng at Vancouver, B. C, who
was shot in the breast and; head last
night when Alvin R. Price of Kelso,
Wash., was kitted by shots Cred In
a Columbia river bus near Rainier,
Ore,, was reported today to fee some
better and bis recovery wsg expected.
George tteherio, a passenger, who
fired tha shots from a rear seat in the
bus was being belt! at SE, Helens a
a murder charge while officers were
to examine his mental condition.
An ImtBM was to be heW late to
day or tomorrow. t
Keberto at first maintained; he shot
the two men in self-defense andtater
told Sheriff Wellington of Columbia
county that the men bad insulted;
him. The prisoner admttted he had
been nn inmate ot the state hospital
of California. le said be was 29
years old and was bora is San Fran
cisco, He said he bad worked in a
mill at Westport, Wash,, and at
Aberdeen, "Wash. He refused! to eat
in Jait today.
POUTfjtNB. Ore., Aug.1 22. One
man wag kitted and another may die
as the result of the shots fired, tsst
night by George Reberia, a mill
worker at passengers, Astoria bound
on a Columbia river automobile stage
driven by Harold Gathea,
The dead man fa AtvEn It, Prlee,
employe ot the I'nlon Gif nwnpaBjr at
Kelso, Wash The wounded; man Is
tt. Wldfng, TT T Barrard street, Van
couver, -It. C. He has a fighting
chance for Hfe. ' - - -
Both men were sitting 'near the
front of the stage. Price in the
driver's seat and Widtng at the sec
ond scat. Reberto was In the third;
seat. Passengers said that without
warning Beheria fired a ballet into
the back (it Price's head.
.. When Widtng turned and - asked
"why did you do that?" Reberto shot
him twice, once fn the back of the
bead and once in the ieft side of the
chest near the collar bene, Heberio
ts believed to have beeorn suddniy in
sane. There were three other passengers
en the stage besides those Involved
tn the shooting, and the driver,
Oathes. They Jumped from the ma
chine to the road. Jteberto, saying hs
would not shoot anyone else, told
them he would wait for ttta sheriff
to get htm. He dangled a revolver its
his right hand,
None dared to disarm him until a
Portland-hound stage drew up, wnen
three of the passengers seized Reb
erto and relieved him of bts weapon.
Sheriff Welttaston took bis prisoner
to Rainier where he "was charged
with murder, - -
XKW YORK, A as. 22. Tha shop
crafts tHke entered another phstm
today when mil prerfrfetsta front
western states feesan to arrive for to
morrow's conference of th& Asa at" la
tum ot Ituttway Executives wben they
uiil vole their answer ta measures
praosett fey the big four brother
hooctit as a practical means of set
tHnff the sRtertty question and end
inn the strike
Thi wm mark tho third nation
eonf&renre within the month at
which the gr&hip-m of striker senior
ity h risen to block a sett&meitt
Early Arrivals would not comment
on the sJtuattrm. 1 -
sd hansttts, whs rmle hb three weeks
ao, and first were taken tor soldiers
by the colonists.
An American named Htit is report
ed to have bees shot dead recently by
a Mexican laborer, who was eapiarett
by soldiers and executed shortly af
ierwards at Eseainapa.
In spite of soldier projection of the
government, many Americans have
left or are now preparing to reSura
to the United States, tha tetter said.
CONFER AGAIN TO
END RAIL STRIKE