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prediction Fair
Maximum yesterday 95
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Weather Year Ago
Maximum
Minimum
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pnllv Seventeenth Year.
Weekly Fifty-Second Tear.
MEDFORD, ORKGOX, MONDAY, AUGUST 128, 1922
XO. 133
Mail Tribune
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SCORES ARE
LOST. CNF .
E FIRE
Hope Practically Abandoned
for 45 Men Imprisoned 4200
Feet Under Ground by Fire
in Argonant Mine Near San
; Francisco 3 Men Make
Thrilling Escape.
JACKSON, Cal., Aug. 28 At
9: 30 this morning Superintendent V.
S. Garbarini of the Argonaut mine
slated that (here were 4S men impris
oned below the 42 00 foot level in the
ni'ne in which fire began last night,
below the junction of the Mudoon
shaft and of the Kennedy shaft,
which lies at the 3900 foot level.
The fire was discovered at mid
night by Clarence Bradshaw, Steve
Pasallch aiid a skip tender, "who on
coming up for the lunch hour, en
countered a dense smoke und fierce
lyr-at at the 3,000 foot level. They
came to the top, spread the alarm and
rescue parties, equiped with gas
masks were sent down into the mine.
They found roaring flames and were
I'nable to reach the lower lei'els of
the mines.
The situation of the entombed man
was made worse when an air pipe
burst and the electric wiring went out
of commission, shutting off light and
communication.
HI IN
The flames are burning at the I w(th the soldIera- bonus," Senator Mc
4300, 4400 and 4o00 levels. I During jNary repu,)llcani Oregon, declared to-
liib morning nouis ouperiiueuueni
Garbarini succeeded in restoring the
air line to the 2700 foot level and
pipes were installed to carry Vater
down to he use3 in" a'n -effort to
tlnguish the burning timbers. Up to
that time, water was carried down in
skips.
The fire broke out just before
changing time of the underground
crews.
The mine rescue car of tho United
States bureau of mines is being rush
ed here from Grass Valley and is ex
pected to arrive at noon. A first aid !
crew is en route from Berkeley. The nient and the establishment of rural
Amador county Red Cross is on the homes to those who have served in the
scone with workers at the mouth of ! military and naval forces of the United
the mine and is rendering every pos-j states In the world-war, the Spanlsh
sible aid to the fighters. American war and the Philippine in-
Kscnpo Hocountort jsurrection.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 28. The! "it contemplates an ultimate expen
Sau Francisco' Call printed a state-1 diture for reclamation of arid, semi
ment obtained over the long distance arid, swamp and overflowed lands in
telephone from Clarence Bradshaw, I the United States, the sum of $350,000,
shlft boss at the Argonaut mine, in 1 000. The amendment does not super-
whlch the number of entombed men
ivas given as 43.
"There were 4 8 men in tho mine
and threo of us got out," Bradshaw
said. 'The foreman and I tried to
go down to the rest of the boys hut
It was no use. We could not got
through the flames.
"At 3000 feet it was just about' all , ing in excess of 915,000.000 acres. Under
we could stand. At that level there 'like conditions there' are over 20,000,
wore flames shootjng-into the shaft. 1 000 acres of land thirsty for water in
We had no smoke masks so we had. the inter-mountain states and in the
to take n chance holdine our noses
closed with one hand and clamping
the other over our months. We
- reached the surface at last and then
we had to go down again. It got worse
nnd worse. When we reached the
2S00 foot level we were forced back.
"Tim telenhono cables are broken
and we have no wav of communlcat-
ing with the entombed men."
r.oa Fruit Rate UDheld
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Rates tive. i ne ex-service men wno uesire
maintained by western railroads on, to cast their destiny in the open coun
siiirnr canned fruit, vegetables and ! try can find rural fields for the em-
y fresh and evaporated fruits from Call -
fornia and Utah to Nevada points were ana economic ins uini uuenu ine
held justified today by the interstate, crowding of cities can be partially
coinmcrco commission though fivo of j averted, as a happy and healthy bal
the eleven commissioners dissented ;ance between rural and urban life can
from the majority conclusion. ' be maintained."
NEW PLAN FOR WORLD PEACE. IS
OFFERED BY
GKEXOBLE, France, Aug. 28.
(Uy the Associated Press.) A new
plan for a "world association of
states," to link together the League
of Nations, the Pan American union
and those governments which are
members of neither, was submitted
today to the Institute of international
law at its meeting here by Professor
Alejandre Alvarez of Chile.
The plan was presented in the form
of a report drafted by Professor Al
varez for the 27th commission of the
Institute which approved It at an
executive session held In Paris.
The new association would be
William J. Bryan
Urges President to
Take Over Railroads
WASHINGTON-, Aug. 28.
Declaring the "compulsion is so
urgent" that no time should ho
lost, William J. Bryan, in a let
ten to Senator Walsh, democrat,
Massachusetts, advocated action
by congress giving the president
authority to take over tempor
arily the mines and the railroads
to put "an end to an intolerable
situation."
Mr. Bryan wrote that the gov
ernment was faced either with
the program of temporary con
trol of roads and mines or of
turning the industries over to
men who will enforce their per-
sonnl views.
Tlie latter course, he said,
would bo Indefensible.
.j.
Oregon Senator Pleads for Ex
penditure of $350,000,000
to Put Water on Arid Lands
and Drain Swamp Lands to
Aid Service Men.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 28. Congress
is given an opportunity "to do a grand
thfni? in emnii-A hullilincr in connection
day in the senate in urging his recla
mation amendment to that measure.
Calling attention that in every war
Mm irovornment had. provided as aid.
MIRY URGES
AMENDMENT TO
SOLDIERS BONUS
ex-i,n( fnr ,., veterans, he areued that
thBrB ...ns no ood reason for the aban-
donment of this national policy at this
time.
"This amendment is not novel in any
of its provisions," he said. ' "Its pur
pose and scope is to encourage the de
velopment of the agricultural re
sources of the United States through
federal and state co-operation giving
preference in the matter of employ
cede or displace the present reclama
tion law. That law will continue to
operate exclusively in its present field.
"Large areas of swamp lands, sub
ject to drainage and suitable to come
within the provisions or this amend
ment are located in practically every
state In the union, the total extent be-
arid portions of the Pacific coast
. states."
Senator McNary quoted from reports
of Secretary Fall and other federal of-
; ficials showing that thousands of vet-
erans desired lanu am anu auueu:
"A splendid opportunity is hereby
given to the congress to do grand
j things In empire building. Lands that
now pant for water can.be made fertile
and lands that are now burdened with
water can be made free and produc
: ployment of their energies. The social
superimposed upon the present league
and Pan American union and would
seek to encourage regional and con
tinental groups rather than attempt
to replace them entirely. It Is de
signed to meet the American objec
tions to the league or isauons, wnn
the primary purpose of eo-ordlnatlng
the states of the world not estab
lishlng a super-state.
GENEVA, Aug. 28. (By. tho As
soclated Press.) The Swiss dclega
tion to the League of Nations has
been Instructed to vote for the ad-
mission of Germany. to the league if
she applies.
ANOTHER BIG
RAIE STRIKE
THREATENED
400,000 Maintenance of Way
Men Demand Increase in
Wages and Time and Half
for Overtime Alton R. R.
Tied Up R. R. 'Executive
Deny Rights of Union.
CHICAGO, Aug. 28. (By the As
sociated Press.) Seniority ami new
organizations of tho railroad em
ployes were thrust forward by ten
eastern railroads- today before the
railroad labor board when the United
Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way
Employes and llnilroad Shop labor
ers began a hearing on pleas for an
increase in minimum wages from 23
to 48 cents an hour.
Tho seniority question, which has
been tho chief stumbling-block over
which efforts to end tho railway shop
men's strike have several times failed,
came to the front when John G. Wal
ber. representing eastern railroads.
questioned the right of the' United
Brotherhood to represent employes on
the ten roads named. In the same
way new organizations were injected
into tho proceedings when Mr. Wal
bcr declared that as a result of
strikes of maintenance men at points
on the ten lines, the maintenance
union could not represent the major
ity of track Yuen and shop laborers
on these roads.
CINCINNATI,. Aug. 28. Clerks and
dallnn pmiilnvpn nn tile Kl Paso and
Southwestern railroad and clerks on
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
rijillfoads have affected settlements
with the managements on the ques
tion of wngos and working conditions,
it was announced here today at the
Brotherhood of Railway and Steam
ship Clerks, Station and. Express Em
ployes. CAMAK, Ga., Aug. 28. Dan and
Baxley Latimore, brothers wero shot
and killed early today by W. A. Hall.
guard In tho Georgia railroad yards.
Hall surrendered to tho authorities
at Warrenton.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 28. (By the As
sociated Press.) Passenger and
freight service on tho western division
nf the rhlcniro and Alton railroad
was at a completo standstill today as
the result of the walkout of engineers.
firemen, conductors and switenmen
in protest against armed guads at
sinter. Mo., and Roodhouse, 111., it
was announced here today. The
walkout was not authorized Dy me
Dig Four Brotherhood.
-1(10. ,000 Men Involved
CHICAGO, Aug. 28. (Dy tho As
soclated Press.) Railway mainte
nance of way employes, comprising
approximately 400,1100 track wrokers
and crossing flagmen, whoso threat
ened strike with the shop crafts last
month was held In abeyunce pending
new wage hearings, placed tneir de
mands for Increased pay before the
United States railroad labor board
here today.
E. F. Grablo, president of the track
men who with W. L. McMonlmcn and
Chairmun Hooper of the labor board
was.. credited with holding the strike
In check when tho shopmen throw
down their tools, opened the hearing
by presenting the demand for a mini
mum of 48 cents an hour. The scale
provided by tho hoard's July 1 de
cision which slahsed $50,000,000 from
tho railroads' maintenance pay roll
ranged from 23 to 85 cents.
This. Mr. Grablo declared, was less
than a viivlng wage."
Tho maintenance employes based
their claims for higher wages on In
creases in the cost of living.
VON ELM BARRED AS
AN AMATEUR GOLFER
SOUTHAMPTON, 'N. Y., Aug. 28.
The United States Golf association
today refused to restore George Von
Elm of Salt Lake City to an amateur
status because of his arrangements
with a sporting goods firm and the
manner in which ho accepted pay
ment of expenses.
This decision will prevent his par
ticipation In the coming national
ameteur tourney at Brookline, Mass.
PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 28. Louis
Hergman, a cloak and suit dealer, was
found dead today in a wash room at
his place or business, his body suspend
ed by a rope about the neck. A -work
man repairing the roof discovered the
body through a skylight. Police were
unable to una any motive lor me bp
parent suicide, they said.
Children Saved From Death by
Snake Bite by Father's Quick Run
Tiitteii bv a rattlesnaUe while playing In their yard In Atlanta, tin.
Helen Trannnell, 2, and Dan Trammel!
of their father, call-ambulance driver
eeived a call that Dan had been bitten while picking flowers; rushed out
and Kot the bov and sped with him
another call had been received saying
following her brother's mishap, had
un tho snake, receiving the fangs in
other record run and broimht the
her brother. They are recovering from the venom.
COUNTY
IS
PUT OVER BIG
I
The Jackson county fair - was
boosted throughout northern Califor
nia Sunday by. the Crater's club cara
van to Copco. llornbrook, Montague,
and Yreka were visited by tho party
which consisted of 91 local citizens,
including a 31 piece brass band.
A minimum flow of oratory at all
towns visited was allowed.
The caravan, liberally supplied
with boosting paraphernalia left Med-
ford at 8 o'clock, or thereabouts, and
arrived at Horn-brook at 10. An im
promptu parade marched through
the liusiness block, and tho band
played two numbers. As this was
early Sunday morning, a small but
enthusiastic outpouring of ilorn
brookltes greeted the caravan.
The caravan then made haste to
Copco, site of the building of a hy
dro electrical plant by Wio California
Oregon Power company. Tho party
was escorted over the darn by Con
struction Manager Root, and tho en
gineering work proved a marvel to
many. It Is one of the largest con
struction feats under way In the
west at this time, and, while It does
not look It, has hustled Man to over
come the obstacles thrown In the way
by Nature. One or these was to fill
up a crack in tho lied of the Klamath
river with cement. Tho crack was
140 feet deep, and full or mud. Thi3
was necessary to secure a foundation.
After the trip nnd climb to the
dam, dinner was served by the llower
company, and It was a he-man meal,
cooked as rood should bo cooked. The
recipe tor the crust to the pie served
shouh'j be In every woman's cook
book. Roast beef, spaghetti an
gratln, potato salad, corn on tho cob(
pan gravy, beans, were the main
items on the bill of fare, and all ate
liko harvest hands. After the dinner
the caravan retired to the guest
house, whore a concert was ' ren
dered by the band. '
Bidding Copco adieu tho caravan
proceeded to Montaguo, wbero a pai
ade was staged under the direction of
John .L Huchtcr. Considering the
event took tho natives by surprise
Uiero was a good turn out, and Mayor
Charles E. Gates said a few words
A quick run was then made to
Yreka, where a banner stretched
across Main street, officially welcom
ed the Jackson county delegation. The
band and caravan marched up the
street, and a stand was made In fron
or tho Clarendon Hotel. Here the
chler oratorical rireworks or the day
were set orr, to a good attendance.
Mayor Gates, Judge W. M. Colvi
and If. L. Walther Invited Yreka
folks to come o the fair, and told
of the good feeling that had always
existed between Medford and Yreka.
The net result of the day was tho
promise of a large representation of
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1
BYCOPGO JAUN
5 were savod by tho prompt action
for the City Hospital. He
to tho hospital. When he got there
that littlo Helen, In the excitement
toddled out In the yard and picked
her hand. The father made an
baby to share tho operating table with
American
At New York
St. Louis '.
New York
natte'rlos: Shocker and
Shawkoy and Schang.
R.H. E
1 4 I
2 8, I
Severeid
At Philadelphia:
First game
Chicago
R. II.
. 5 11
Philadelphia 3 8
Batteries: Robertson and Schalk
Hasty and Perkins.
BOSTON, Aug. 2 8. Cleveland
Boston doubleheader postponed; rain
National
At Pittsburg R. II. E
Brooklyn 3 10
Pittsburg 4 10
Batteries: Vance and Doborry
Miller: Cooper and Schmidt: Eleven
innings were played.
LiTTLE ALCOHOL
GOOD FOR HEALTH
DOCTOR CLAIMS
LONDON, Aug. 28. Al! American
doctors uro roKurdotl by foreign med
ical men its more or Iohh expert con
cerning alcohol, both nt retfurdn the
connequencc of oinK without it nl-
totfether; over-indulKonce, and the
various HtfitfOH of inebriety botwixt
und between.
Therefore, the UHHcmbled doctors
at the meeting of tho Written Medical
AHsociation nt (Huhkow liHtened with
Breat interoHt to whut l-r. John T.
MucCurdy, of Cornell Medical Coi
k'tfe, had to ay about "alcohol In Its
relation to human t-covnomy."
Each one of us in varying degrees,
he said, has the same difficulty in
meeting tho world ns tho unfortu
nates who denionstnitp their Inca
pacity dramatically. Tho "normals'
drugged themselvcH with cheap fic
tion: theaters, and moving pictures;
above all t'hey forgot themselves In
social intercourse.
"When, however, a man Is tired or
oppressed with care," Dr. MacOurdy
went on, "how can he forget his ob
sessing anxieties sufficiently to be
come social. If ho be normal a small
amount of alcohol will give tho nec
essary relaxation. ' Conviviality Is
moro Important for the maintenance
of our mental ability nnd effective
noss than wo realize. Innumerable
people are happier nnd therefore
healthier because they indulge mod
eratcly In alcohol.
"Wc live In nn Imperfect world-
imperfect largely because we have
not yet gained the capacity to govern
our own instincts. Alcohol Is a
crutch that man has discovered to
help him. with this disability."
STOCKHOLM, Aug. 28. (Dy AssocI
ated Press). The "drya" seem to have
Inst the day In the Swedish prohibition
plebiscite, according to the latest pro
visional returns available. The figures
issued this morning are 274,442 and
40,531 against.
. State Officials
Awake; Massacre at
Herrin to Be Probed
MARION, 111., Aug. 28. (Ily As-
soclated Press). Vigorous Instruc-
lions for a thorough investigation
and indictment of all persons In-
volved, directly or indirectly with
the Herrin massacre, June 21 and 4
22 In which nineteen non-union
and three union men wore killed
were given by Circuit Judge Hart
well today to the special grand
jury called to Investigate the
mine war.
Tho Jury was convened and In
structed in the presence of Attor-
ney General Hnmdegeo of Illi
nois and Assistant Attorney Gen
eral Mlddlekauff, who has hgen
loaned by ihe government to as-
sist States Attorney Dolus Duty
In tho investigation and prosecu
tions which are expected to fol-
low.
.
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LAID AT REST
Unprecedented Scenes Mark
Funeral of Irish Hero
- , . .
Trembling Figure Of Dead
ManS Fiancee IS PathetlC
1
Spectacle ThOUSandS
Weep.'
,
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DU1JMN, Aug. 28.
( Dy the Asso -
elated Press.) Mlchnel Collins was
laiditt-TCHt today in Olasnevln, after
a demonstration of national grief such
h has seldom been seen In tho long
centuries of Ireland's troubled his
tory. Arthur Griffith was hurled with nil
tho honor duo a great lender
Colllns
wont to the grave amid tho tears of
a nation that worshipped him per
sonally as a gallant young patriot In
whom were combined all those traits
which Irishmen hold dear.
While Immense throngs filled the
great cathedral and lined Vho route
to 'Olasnevln, congregations gathered
In every city) town and hamlet
mourn his passing.
to
it was a military funeral. J'ollow
officers last night had" borno tho body
into tho cathedral, just nH Collins r
short fortnight ago had helped hear
the body of his colleague, Griffith.
They had stood guard all night and
were there this morning when tho
solemn requiem high mass was cele
brated before a multitude which
overflowed tho edifice Into tho streets.
lMty for Flnnc-ee.
Richard Muleahy, the new chief
tain to whom all Ireland now looks;
Ooneral O'Duffy, now chief of stafr,
and Genoral McKeon, "tho black
smith of Ballinalee" whoso' dash and
fire have awakened enthusiasm iiltiu
to that won by Collins himself, at
tended the funeral. Sisor Mary
Celestina came from her convent In
Kngland to, pray for her "bnby
brother." Beside her knelt Sean Col
lins, the genernl's brother. Hut It
wiih upon the trembling young wommt
nearby the eyes of alt fell most pity
ingly Kitty Killoran,, Collins fi
ancee. 1 In the gospel nave sat the mem
hers of tho cabinet, the Dull Klreann,
tho civil servants and members of
provincial corporations. On the
pistlo side were tho representative
an,l members of the- consular cu ps,
inciumnK tne American consul, ine
lord mayor of Dublin, distinguished
members of universities and learned
societies.
Streets Aro Parked.
Outside, lining the miles of Dublin
streets through .which the funeral
cortege Inter passed, thousands took
part spiritually In tho solemn mass
of requiem, many kneeling in praer
on tlie pavement at ihe fancied mo
ment of tho elevation of the sacred
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MICH
COLLINS
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SEVEN WOMEN CHLOROFORMED IN
SEATTLE HOTELS. ROBBED OF JEWELS
TACOMA, Aug. 28. Search was
being conducted by police hero today
ror two men who yesterday chloro
formed seven women In tholr hotel
rooms and robbed thorn of Jewelry
valued at .i,000. The men wore sail
ors' uniforms and operated in seven
separate hotels. In all cases they
rollowcd the women to their rooms,
rorcod entrance -bcroro the women
had lime to lock their doors, and then
rcbed their victims after chloro
forming them.
The police withheld the name of
all the women who were robbed, hut
R. RJrVRECK
One of 9 Railroad Shopmen
Arrested at Gary, Indiana,
Admits He and Fellows
Ditched Train Which Killed
Engineer and Fireman Ar
rests Are Made.
GARY, Intl., Aug. 28. Four of. nine
men duclared to bo under arrost in
connection with tho wrecking or a
Michigan Central express train here
on August 20, alleged they are striking
railroad shopmen and one of them to
day declared they had loosened a rail
which ditched the express train und
killed the engineer And fireman.
CHICAGO, Aug. 25. Nine mon are
In custody und four or them have been
Implicated In an alleged plot declared
to have been Inspired by radicals In
connection with tho wreck or a Michi
gan Central express train at Gary, lnd,
a -week ago. Further arrests aro ex
pected. LOS ANGELES, Aug. 28. Abraham
Sun Pedro today charged with criminal
syndicalism. According to. harbor dis-
uict police who made the arrest Simla
ndmltted ho was enlisting recruits Tor
the I. W. W. and boasted that ir he had
beon allowed to continue his opera-
Hons for two weeks he would have
signed up every Japanese worker at
the harbor. .
, Notes found on his person, together
with 1. W. W. propaganda and membor-
1 1 uwn nimwiiuu ue imu ueeu op-
uiiiuiiK .in . uuuver, ouu . LjUkb --juiu ;
Seattle, police said.
I. W. W. Men Busy ' .
' CHICAGO, Aug. 28. Five men allog- '
ed to be members of the L; W. W. were
being hold today In Gary, lnd., in con-
'nocrion with a plot supposedly Inspired
by emissaries of the. Russian Boviet
regime, which accomplished the wreck
of tho express train in which two men
wore killed at Gary on August 20.
OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 28. Two Chica
go, Ihirllngton and Qulnoy railroad
brakemen were held in jail at Alliance,
accused by Frank Curry, a railroad
'shoo emntnvn. nf tnlfine- him nut In nn
automobile and throwing him Into a
pool of wutort according to a special
dispatch received from Alliance. Curry
also declared he was beaten. ;
MEMPHIS, Tenn., Aug. 28. A sec
ond attempt to wreck a passenger
train In tho Memphis district was re
ported today by a section crew which
discovered IS spikes drawn from a rail
on the St. Louis nnd Sa'n Francisco
railroad near Capelville, a suburb
shortly bemre the fast Flotida-Cailfor-nfa
flier was clue to pass that point.
CUT TO 59.991
DALLAS, Texas, April 28. The lead
of Karl 11. Mayfleld, railroad commis
sioner In tho primary election Satur
day, ror democratic nominee tor Unlt-
i C( gtnte8 scnntor was reduced to
fj),!i!H by returns that came in today,
Mayfleld's opKnont Is tormor Gover
nor James li. Ferguson. Mayfleld Is
said to he the Ku Klux Klnn candldato.
Tho vote stood: MayHeld 282,04o';
Ferguson 222,052. .
Tho Elks are again at ease, as the,
dining room ot their chili opened today
with a chicken dinner, alter having
been closed two weeks while John,
Kudo, the stowurd, was on vacation. :
It becamo known that one or tho
victims was Mrs. 'Henry Bowilen, wli j
was robbed of $900 worth ot dia
monds In her room at the Donnelly
hotel. As she went to her room at
9:45 p, in. tho two men grasped het
forced her into the room and applied
chlorotorm. , .
The women will be taken to the
vessels ot the Pacltlo rlent now In the
harbor today In an effort to appre
hend their assailants, 'but the police
asert the robberies likely wore conj
mflted by criminals who dressed In
sullor uniforms to avoid detocilou. '