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The Weather Unsettled Weather. Maximum yesterday 95 Minimum today 50 D MAIL TRIBUI Weather Year Ago Maximum 92 Minimum 48 nallv Seventeenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-Second Tear. . MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, AUUUST 29, 1922 NO. 136 MEDFOR mm Bill to Be Introduced Tomor row Giving Harding Power to Take Over Railroads and Coal Mines Little New in Strike -Situation Labor Board in 'Session. WASHIiNGTO.N, Aug. 20. Presi dential authority to tuke over rail roads and coal mines will be propos ed In the house tomorrow by Repre sentative Johnson, republican, South Dakota, as an amendment to the ad ministration coal control bill. WALLA WALLA, Wash., Aug. 29. Caused by a wreck, probably a de railment of a freight train near the Oregon state line six miles south of here early today, Union Pacific train No.; 7S, the Pendleton-Spokane pas senger train Is being held up here. It 1r also reported the wrecking train of thiB district is derailed near Wal lulu. - Reports from Superintendent Kainm's office here late this morning slated the wreck occurred at 5:30 a. in; and that it was a minor one, that no one was Injured and that the long delay In clearing the track was due to the fact that the railroads are now operating under unusual conditions. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. "A very general let' down In the matter of in spection of engines by the carriers which gives cause for concern," was said in au inter-state cqmmdfce com mission report to the Senate toiay to have resulted from the strike of rail way .shopmen t. CHICAGO, Aug, 39. (By the As sociated Press.) The United States railroad labor board today denied the motion of W. Jett Lauck, labor sta tistician, that' the board Immediately define the principle of a living wage In the case of the maintenance of way employes who are seeking in creased minimum rates of pay. At the request of E. F. Arable, president of the maintenance organization the hearing then was adjourned until to morrow morning. Mr. tiralile announced that ho was telegraphing President Harding and Senator Cummins, one of the au - thors of the transportation act, at Washington) today, asking them to present to congress au amendment to the act which would make It manda tory on the labor board "to enunciate the principle of (ho- living wage." Brotherhoods Meet CLEVELAND, Aug. 29. One of tho subjects to be considered by heads of the "big five" brotherhoods of railroad employes unions which meet here today will be the proceed ings of the recent conferenc in New York with representatives of the railroads In tholr efforts to bring about a settlement of the shopmen's strike A complete review of these pro ceedings will be brought before the lumoreuce and a repuri upon il win be sent to tho members of tlfe sev eral brotherhoods. A second qquestlon . which it is Mated' will be considered is tho com pilation of the vote taken before the strike of the shonment went Into ef fete. This vote, brotherhood leaders claimed, will show that the majority of the men who remained at work 1 voted to strike, and therefore are not entitled to seniority rights over those who actually quit. (Continued on page eight) ;U VIENNA, Aug. 29. A sensational Incident occurred at yesterday's ses sion of the inter-parliamentary union lonference here when M. Treub of Holland, after reading a paper on In ternational free trade, denounced what he termed the chauvenistlc trade barreirs erected by the newly formed European stateB and present ed a resolution for the summoning of a world conference to abolish tar- . tffs. The British spokesman objected to the introduction of controversial po litical questions and threatened the withdrawal of the British delegation. He was strongly supported -by Con TO HAVE FINAL WORD IN AMERICAN-GERMAN WAR CLAIM DISPUTES Photograph of Justice William It. Day, of the supreme court, who will act as the final arbiter in all disputes arising from the settlement of war claims between the United States and Germany. According to a recpnt agreement between the two countries, each will appoint a claims commission. rheir duty will be to adjust satlsfactor- ily all claims growing out of the war. In case of disagreement Judge Day is to have the final word MM BILL IS PASSED BY BIG Land Reclamation ment to Bonus Amend- r:n n Dill UtiUi j Cnlirl Dlinn nf Ufootai.nl wuiiu uaumny ui coici ii Senators lUlprnrnhnr Pntc IVICbUlTlUcr rUlS Up Hard Fight Against It WASHINGTON, Aug. 29.-J-The McNary land reclamation- amend ment to the soldiers', bonus bill was approved today by the senate, 4 3 to 20. WASHINGTON, Aug. 29. Oppos ing the McNary land reclamation amendment to the soldiers' bonus bill, Senator McCumber, republican, North Dakota, In charge of the measure, 'old the , senate today that the' pro- lions and perhaps billions of dollars to the cost of the bonus porgram. "1 wonder if the senator believes we- can attach his amendment and bring this bill before tho president and have It signed?" asked Senator McCumber. "I think I cun say that the presi dent thinks more of this amendment than of tho other features of the bill," retorted Senator McNary. "If you want the president to sign the bill the surest guarantee Is to add this amendment." "I cannot imagine, if that be true, what all the objection of the presi dent and the secretary of the treas ury has been about," returned Sena tor McCumber. -"BoMi based objec- t'on to the bill as it then stood upon the cost to the government and the Interference: with the refunding of the "short time government obliga tions.' v Senator McCumber declared that when tho enemies of the bonus "come flocking" to tho support of the reclamation amendment, he was a bit "suspicious," adding that if it was desired to test the "good faith" of the supporters of the amendment. It had been put through as a separate bill. gressman Theodore E. Burton of tho American delegation, who said that while his group would not withdraw, in view of the importance of the con ference, yet they would remain silent spectators if debate on such ques tions were allowed. Then M. Buisson of the French delegation brought up the repara tions question, declaring that the (alk of a -breakdown in German cur rency was "all babble-." The presence of 79 Italian and 63 UtinffsHsn ri alofvn tfa r.lllRAn much i VOTE IN SENATE comment, as they far outnumbered tne upper pan oi ine state juiy i, iai. complete returns. The rigures show: the representatives of the other coun- EffortB were made to collect $105,090lAgainst prohibition 842,120; ror prohl ,res I insurance on the elder Albritton's life, bition 897,584. 5 SHOPMEN FACE TRIAL FOR MURDER Three of Five Reported tor Have Confessed Wrecking of Million Dollar Express- Also Planned to Ditch Twen tieth Century Limited More Arrests Expected. CHICAGO. Aug. 29. Five men are charged with murder today accused of wrecking the Million Dollar express on the Michigan Central near Gary, Ind., August 20, when two of the train crew were killed. Five others were held In connection with the wreck Investigation and at least two more were sought, according to the police. , Confessions from some of the prison era not only solved the wreck of the express but bared a plot to send the Twentieth Century limited, crack New York-Chicago train into the ditch near Elkhart, Ind., the police said The five who face murder charges are: Joseph Papourvitch, Charles Use lis, John Petrowski, Albino Alessio and James Pronetsh. All were said to be striking shopmen, Usells, Petrowski and Papourvitch are said to have confessed the wreck plot. The men wero employed in New York Central Shops. They named Alessio in their confessions and he ad mitted knowledge of the plot, accord ing to the police, but maintained that Uselis, Petrowski and Papourvitch were responsible for the wreck. Taken to the scene of the wreck Usells, the police said, re-enacted the work of thfl wreckers in pnlliTig spjkes and loosening the rails.' DANVILLE, 111.. Aug. 29. Four bombs were exploded at the shops of tll Chicago and Eastern railroad today but. lH.tln-ilainn.irn wnn rinnn. flno ov. ploded near the main entrance and the others at the rip tracks. About sixty windows in one of the shop buildings were shattered but no further damage was done. WASHINGTON'. Aug. 2!). United States Attorney Hlrum C. Todd, for the northern district of. New. York, will resign at onco and will ba named special assistant to the attorney gen eral to investigate alleged violation of law In connection with the stoppage of trains and other results of tho rail way strike In western states. REMAIN SIBERIA TOKIO, Aug. 28. (By the Asso dated. Press.) Tho deputation from Vladivostock, headed by Mayor Ad orevsky which caino to Toklo to ask Japan to postpone the lust period of Japanese evacuation of Siberia or to station warships at the port and either turn over the arms captured from the reds to General Dleterichs, the white commander, or to ship them back to Japan, has not been received officially by the government. The government avoided contact with the deputation on the eve of the confer ence with representatives of the Chita government nt Chang Chung Fu for which the Japanese delegates will leave August 30. The confer ence Is expected to open September 9. 3 MEN HELD IN PLOT BIRMINGHAM. Ala., Aug. 29. Earl Albritton was released last night under $5000 bonds for his appearance before a federal commission at a preliminary hearing in September in connection with the disappearance of his father. E. S. Albritton, Gadsden automobile dealer, two years ago when a rbport was circulated that the elder Albltton had been drowned. E. S. Albritton. wno was arrested near Tacoma, Wash., Beveral days ago, is held In bond In like sum for appear ance on the same date. Albert Alvare- do, an employe of Albritton, also Is under bond of $5000. Alvaredo and Earl Albritton are al leged to have reported that E. S. Albritton was drowned in a motor car Occident while the three were touring Mrs. Mallory Beats Miss Wills v in the Longwood Tennis Finals l-ONGWOOD. Mass., Aug. 29. Msr. Molla B. Jlallory, national wo men's chum plan, gained another de cision over Miss Helen Wills, the girl from Berkeley, Calif., today when she won the Longwood womon's singlos 3-6, 0-3, -7-5. LONGWOOD,. Mass., Aug. 29.- Mrs. Molla Mallory who also successfully defended her title us national women's tennis champion by defeating Miss Helen Wills, the sixteen year old California girl in straight sets at Forest Hills, is shown above on right with Miss WIIIb (loft) who made a gallant fight but was obviously nervous and was forced to t""J i the veteran player. THREE PORTLAND R. R. STRIKERS POUND GUILTY PORTLAND, Ore., Aug. 29. Fed eral Judge C, E. Wolvorton today found guilty and sentenced three of the fourteen alleged union shopmen accused of violating the court order limiting pickets at the shops of the Oregon-Wushinglon Railroad and Navigation company (Union Pacific system) and released the other 11 defendants. Robert Green and Goorge Shar niaiui were sentenced to 00 duys in jail and fined $100 each. Martin Chutuck was fined $-"0. The court allowed ten days' stay of execution iu which to prepare an appeal on a motion for a new trial, fixing bail at $1,000 for Greno and Sharmann and at $2." 0 for Chutuck. Throe of tho men wore not shown to have been served with Injunction papers. In the case of the eight others, tho court hold It had not been provod be yond a reasonable doubt that they were on tho picket line to -which the complaining company objected. "The testimony does jiot show clearly that the complainant was in jured by the action of the men out side the gate and therefore the plain tiff Is not entitled to any remedial damages," said the court. . FOR U S. FARMERS WASHINGTON. Aug. 29. Farmers of the country this fall will be able to save hundreds of thousands of dollars in clearing their land of stumps, in, drainage work and in other efforts re quiring blasting through the uso of picric acid salvaged from surplus war explosives which will be distributed by the Unfted States bureau of roads, it was announced today. The only cost to the farmers, who may obtain supplies of the explosives through any state agricultural college or agricultural state extension service, I will be a charge of six cents a pound for drying the acid and placing It in the cartridges and in addition. Vie small expense of transportation. Prohl Lose by 45,545 Votes STOCKHOLM, Aug. 29. A majority of 45,545 against prohibition is shown by the unofficial tabulation of the vote cast In Sunday's referendum through- out Sweden on what are believed lo be Mlss Helen Wills of Berkeley. Calif, won the first set from Mrs. Molla B Mallory, national women's cham pion, in the finul round of tlie wo men's Invitation tennis singles hore toduy, 0-3. Mrs. Mallory won the second set 0-3. Miss Wills was still pressing her opponent hard. .BASEBALL SCORES American. NEW YORK, Aug. 29. Babe Ruth batted out bin. 27th homo run of tho season today in "the fourth Inning of tho Now York .Yuhkoos' game against the Washington Anicrl cans. PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 29. Clar enco "Tlllio" Walker of tho Phlla dclphia Athletics knocked out his 32nd homo run of the season off Karr In the eighth Inning of tho game with Boston today. At Philadelphia: K. Boston ; . 5 Philadelphia ..6 Batteries: Karr and Roniniel and Perkins. H. E 12 16 Chaplin ' At Cleveland: R. IT. St. Louis .0 r 1 (."levolund . . . .3 ' 0 Batteries: Kolp. Vungilder and Sovcrcid; L'hlc, Edwards and O'Neill, At New York: R. Washington 1 Now York .3 Butteries: Johnson mid I Ghnrrlty; Jones and Kcliung. IT. E 10 lolnlch At Detroit It. II. Chicago 5 1 1 Detroit 3 7 Batteries: Icvoretto and Schalk Oldham, Oloson and Basslor. Nnlioiml League. First game: It. II. Brooklyn 3 4 Pittsburg 2 0 Battnrli'H: Heather anil Deberry Hamilton and Schmidt. Second game: It. Brooklyn 0 Pittsburg . C Batteries: f'udore and Adams and Gooclt. If. Ii 0 U Miller LETHBRIDGE, Alta., Aug. 29,-r Bandits who blew the safe of the Union bank at Formost, Alta., today, escaped with' $2 0,000 In -cash an $70,000 in negotiable securities, ac cording to Information received here. The robbers bound and gagged the clerks who were sleeping above the bank. Wires leading Into the town were cut and roads blocked. Five men were believed to have been the party. WINNIPEG, Aug. 29. Robbc blew open the safe of the bank Hamilton Branch at Klllarney yes terday and escaped In an automobll with $10,000 In cash. Thfc robbery was discovered four hours later. Hlgo KlJnncs In erfx? PARIS, Aug. 29. (By the Asso elated Press.) A report reached the reparations commislson this after noon that Hugo Stlnnes, German In dustrial and shipping magnate, had arrived in Paris. Confirmation was not obtainable late this afternoon. The Daily Bank Robbery Chilean Steamship Sinks Off S. A. Coast 222 People Drowned SANTIAGO, Chile. Aug. 29. (By Associated Press). The Cliil- enn steamship Hutu, 2200 tons. sunk today off the Chilean coast near Coqulmbo. All the pusscn- gors. numbering 150 and tholr crow of 72 were lost. NEW YORK, Aug. 29 Tho Rata, tho Chilean steamship which sank off Coqulmbo today was a coastwiso steamer, usually ! plying between Valparaiso nnd Arlca, according to information ! obtalnablo here. Agents for Cbil- 4 ean lines snlil she wns owned by tho Naclonalo do Vnpores, which does a coastal passenger and frolght trade. CAPPER WOULD Kansas Senator Comes Out Strong for. Soldiers' Bonus Nothing More Than a Square Deal for Boys. Who Did the Fighting. WASH1NGTON, Aug. 29. Announc-. PAY BONUS OF WAR PROFITS ing his support of the soldiers' bonus )u the Argonaut two years ago,-reus "nothing more than a square deal ' suiting fn the flooding of both mines, for the boys who did the fighting, Senator Capper, republican, Kansas, told the senate today that "the war profiteers, nnd peace profiteers awe a bonus to ( the soldiers of the world war. There is no better guarantee against militarism than to require the men who profit out of war to pay for it," he said. "Thoso who remained at home mudo enough hore in the United States to enable us to pay many times over the debt we owe -to tho men who fought our battles. Wall street wants to pay it with a sales tax, which would be paid largely by the farmers, the laboring people and others in the form of a tax on food and clothing and other necessities. Profiteering during the war pro duced one American millionaire for every three American soldiers killed In Franco. I would like to see the gov ernment recover tho hundreds of mil lions of dollars taken from tho treasury by tho crooks und gruftors who profi teered off tho government in war con tracts, and thon use that money to pay the soldiers' bonus. "I hen thore's anothor way we cun raise tho money. Let's go after the billions that the foreign governments owe us. Colloct the Interest promptly and pay It to our soldiers. There is no uso disguising the fact that our inter national bunkers want us to wipo out this foreign dobt. It will muko tholr foreign securities that much strongor. 'If we decline to cancel this dobt thoso governments probably will try to borrow moro money from us to pay ub what they owo. So fur as Vfim con cerned, I will never vote to cuncel one dollar of that debt and I will never voto to lend another dollur of govern ment funds to any foreign nation Thanks to Thick Head Anthony's Alive Today I.OH ANGELES, Cal.. Aug. 28. Anthony Slumli-k, 35, a painter, fell asleep with a 112 caliber revolver In his hund. lie was awakened by a loud report and at tho receiving hos pital, . whero surgeons removed tho bullet which had muehroorncd flat against his skull, he explained what happened. "I dreamed that I shot myself," he said, "and I guess I did." He will recover. IS GIVEN A WALLA WALLA, Wash.. Aug. 29 -Bcv. Bert Powell, pastor of tho South Methodist church here, was re appointed for tho ensuing year at tho conference which has Just closed at Milton, Ore,, and which was pro vided over by Bishop Dubose, Itev. C. A. Itexroad of Milton was ap pointed to C'orbin Park church In Spokane. A few other appointments made by Bishop 'Dubose arc as fol lows: Kenwood church in Spokane, Rnv. Sutton; Lewlston, Rov. Clibbs: Low ell Avenue, Butte, Rnv. Baxter; STILL FIGHT FOR LIVES OF 48 Hope of Rescuing Argonaut Miners Entombed Half Mile Below Earth's Surface Is Dwindling, But . Work Con tinues Rescuers -Work Frantically. JACKSON, Cul., Aug. 29. Vol umes of nauseating gus issuing from the burning depths of the Argonaut mine at Jackson through the Muldoou air shaft lod to the belief today that tho 47 men who wero imprisoned in the bowels of the earth at midnight Sunday night by a fire which cut off their oscape have all perished. Superintendent V. S. Gabarini and those who have come to his aid re fuse to abandon hope. It Is regarded ns barely possiblo that the miners Im prisoned in the 4300, 4400 and 4500 foot lovels of the deep gold mine may have succeeded In preventing the gas fumes from the flaming timbers from penetrating the underground cham bers where they were working. The attempt to cut through from the depths of tho Kennedy, the deep est gold mine in America, to the bot tom of the Argonaut has been aban donedAs hopelesB. These two mines formerly were connected, but follow- ing a disastrous fire which broke out the hanging up of both mines for a. MINERS long period nnd heavy damage suits brought by the respective mine own- era, the opening, was : ;clpsfi(l.Slx .',, hundred feet or bulkheadlng was put Is. James Spires, superintendent of -the Kennedy statos that It would be impossible to cut through this solid wJl In time toroach the Imprisoned mon while' they still live. The only hope of rescuing the men is through the main shaft, and that hope Is growing fainter every hour. JACKSON, Cat., Aug. 29. Held in the grim grip of despair as hour fol lowed hour in their vigil, families and fellow workers of the forty-eight min ers lihprlsoned since midnight Sunday nearly .a mile below the earth s surface in the Argonaut mlno today clung stub bornly to the shred of hope that their husbands, fathers and buddies still . live. Uuwn found tense groups still waiting. From the mouth of the pit came no sign of tho hell of flame and smoko and poisoned air that raged between the Imprisoned miners on tho levels below 4000 Toot and the workers who vainly struggled to reach them. , During the night men attempting In. mine "skips" to ride down through tho flaming levels woro dragged , back to tho surface, their faces blackened. They came to gasp eagorly for fresh air and tell of tho hopeless trip below. The trackB on which the skips run were waped with the heat, In sumo places even molted away. Flumes which started yesterday mor ning at the 3000 foot level today had worked up abovo the 2400 foot level. . Working Frantically A half mile below the earth's surface working frantically with drills and picks to break through a concroto bar rier which long has scaled tho shaft of the Argonaut from tho shaft of a neighboring jnlno, the Kennedy, other miners sought to make a possible chan nel of escape for the trapped comrades. It was a slim hope. Superintendent Virillo Gabarini suid everything hu manly possible was being done toward the rescue of the entombed mon-. He said workers expected to establish communications with the miners If any still live within eighteen hours. Until their bodies are brought out, the hope that some of the forty-eight still live ' ' ' I (Continued from page one) ; TO PORTLAND PASTORATE Bellcvuc church in Butte, Itov. Pen hall: Trinity church, Missoula, ltev, McPhoeters; North Side church, Mis- -soula, unsuppllcd; .Helena, Itev. Co burty: Helen, Itev. Ball; First church. Portland, Hev. - Harris: Richmond church, Portland, Rov. Jouctt P, Bruy; Medtord, Rev. Coy R. Sims. The bishop stated this conforenro ' was tho most prosperous and hopeful' ever held in the northwest. -. Ho Ih now on his way east to confer with the general boards and seek aid for development and enlnrglnii of the conference. ' ' i i. : ; .if. t-A V ..I
