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. 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-
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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
' ' '
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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. ' '
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