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MEDFORD, OUEGOX, SATURDAY, SKl'TKMUKll 2, 1922
NO. 140
Daily Seventeenth Tear.
Weeklv Fifty-Second Tear.
A GENERAL
SHE CALL
IS AGAIN UP
Bolsheviki "Cheka"
Executed 1,766,118
Persons to Get Power
Sam Gompers Declares Labor
Mind Is Inflamed De
mands From All Over the
Country for Nationwide
Walk-Out Leader Mainte
nance Way Men Collapses.
. WASHINGTON', Sept. 2. (By the
Associated Press.) Though the
American Federation of Labor has no
power to call strikes, according to Its
president, Samuel Gompers, Us ex
ecutive council next Saturday will be
asked to review appeals and demands
from "hundreds of local unions" for
the institution of a general strike to
support the fight of railroad unions
now on strike.
"Those appeals have come to me
from all over the country from those
who lmaglno that 1 have power or
that the federation has power to call
a general strike," Mr. Gompers said.
"They have been In the form of reso
lutions passed by trade union coun
cils or by local unions or editorials in
labor periodicals. The executive
council will bo asked to consider
them, although it cannot take action
to coll a strike."
The resolutions and demands, Mr.
Gompers declared, indicated a state of
mind In labor c'rcles more Inflamed
than ever before, and he considered
them important to that extent. It
was said most of them came to the
federation headquarters 'before the
federal court restraining older was is
' sued yesterday in Chicago.
LONDON, Sept. 2 A Riga dis-
imtch tn the Times savs that ac-
cording to official bolshevik fig-
ures the Cheka executed 1,700,118
persons before being renamed the
supremo political administration
last February.
The total includes 6775 profes-
sors and teachers; 8800 doctors;
355,250 other intellectuals; 1234
priests; 64.050 officers; 260.000
soldiers; 59,000 policemen; 12,950
land owners; 192,350 workmen;
815,100 peasants.
During the civil war the bolshe-
viki have bad more killed than all
Russia during the great war.
REVOLUTION
IN MEXICO
IS ON AGAIN
DENIES EFFORT
TO
Genl. Francisco Murgurio "to
Lead Conservative Forces
Against Mexican Govern
ment Repeal of Agrarian
Law and Anti-Bolsheviki
Program Endorsed.
BLACKMAIL
GEORGIA BANKER
Husband of Woman Alleged
Attacked in Stateroom By
Atlanta Millionaire Answers
Suit - for Cancellation
$20,500 Hush Money.
Union llcnil Collates
Chicago, Sept. 2. (fly tho Asso
ciated Press.) E. F. Grablo, presi
dent of the International Brother
hood of Maintenance of VVny Men, is
critically ill in a hotel hero, his wife
told a representative of tho Associat
ed Press today. He is suffering
from a nervous collapse.
Mrs. Grable was called from her
home In Detroit Wednesday night and
arriving Thursday found her hus
band in a critical condition. He had
been in a semi-stupor practically ever
since, she said, and suffering with a
high fever.
Chairman Hooper of tho railroad
labor board called on Mr.' Grable to
day, but no visitors were permitted to
see him.
Two nurses are In constant attend
ance and his physicians forbade any
attempt by anyone to talk about the
hearing of tho maintenance of way
nnlon before tho labor board, which
L has just closed. Absolute rest was
' ordered by 'his physician.
The strain of keeping 4 00,000
maintenance of way employes out of
the railroad strike whilo preparing to
present a petition for wage increases
to the labor board, Mrs. Grable said
wore him out, and worry over the
outcome of the labor board hearing
is, she believed, partly responsible for
his critical condition now.
Cnn ltuy Railroads
John Scott, secretary of tho rail
way employes department, met two
associates in conference at the feder
ated crafts headquarters here today
Mr. Scott declared Mr. .lewell had
left the city but refused to give hi
destination. The federal subpoenas
onrved nn Scott last night were left
nt the union headquarters.
"Wn'rn nr.l worrvinB about th'J ill
function." he said
Reports that a huge union details'
i ..., h nc. tn ho raised brought fi-cn
Rrnit thn remark that "we hai'
plenty of funds now, all we have to d
is stay away from the shopJ ana ins
strike will be won."
: "Some of these railroad i snr.n will
be for sale and then we ran buy
them up and opera.o tueni oiuselves,"
he added.
ATLANTA, On., Sept. 2. Clyde
Ilyfield local automobile dealer. de
nicd that any "effort was made to
blackmail Candler and there was no
fraud or duress practiced upon him,
an answer 'today to the suit filed
by Walter T. Candler, Atlanta banker,
for tho cancellation or a note tor
20,500 given by him to Byfleld fol
lowing an occurrence in Mrs. By
field's stateroom aboard the steam
shin BerellKaria on July 10 last.
Prior to filing tho suit ror cancel
lation of tho note, Hyfields nnswe
stated, tho banker, hlH brother, Asa
Candler, Jr., and a man named
Mclntvre. "made a demand on mm
for the note given by Walter
Candler disheveling his clothing 11
an effort to forcibly take it from
him."
The answer followed closely stato
monts iBsued by Ilyfield soon arter
filing of the suit by tho banker an
the subseouent suit for $100,000
against Candler by Mrs. Byfleld. He
denied Mr. Candler was drunk and
snirl he was in full possession of his
faculties when he entered tho state
room or Mrs. li.vuem.
There was no lank of memory on
the nart of Candler." the answer do
rlared "and ho did not accidentally
iret into thn stateroom of tho do
femlant's wife. He knew whore n
s going. Candler surreptitious
entered the room of the defendant'
wife."
It is alleged that Mrs. Ilyfield
srrenms attracted uyiicm io in
room.
No effort' was made to blackmail 1
Candler and there was no fraud
duress nracticed upon him." tin
answer continued. "Oik the contrar:
Candler admitted his guilt and
nrirPTitlv besought the defendant to
miike a settlement with him for til
assault Candler had mnilo upon hi
during the effort by defendant to
piect him from the room and nlso for
the humiliation and sorrow visited
unon him by Candler's conduct an
In compensation for the- loss to By
field's business which Candler
surcd him would occur as a result of
the plaintiff's rueful conduct."
SrliwrllrrlnVli Tc-eloil Heart.
WEXATCHEE, Wash., Sept. 2.
Louis Schwellerbach. Seattle attor
ney, was unanimously elected state
commander of the American Legion.
He is a former Spokane man and was
one of the leaders among tho stu
dents in the state university eight
years ngo. Ho was also a member of
the university debating team.
Family of Outcast Pitcher Defends Him
,. ..v..- ..::-vV'-'' M
Asks Removal of
Webster's Dictionary
It's Too Pro-British
HOSTO.W Sept. 2 Allogfng that
it contains matter "as British as
London bridge." Councilman
James A. (Jerry) Watson of Huston
has nsked the trustees of the
Boston public library to remove
from the shelves of that Institu-
tion tho latest edition of Web-
ster's dictionary.
The attack on tho dictionary Is
based on its definition of tho word
"constitution" which follows:
"The principal of fundamental
law which governs a state or other
organization bodies of men and
are embodied in written docu-
inputs or are implied in tho instl-
tutions and customs of the conn-
5 try or society."
In previous editions, specific
reference has been mndo to tho
constitution of tho United States.
CHURCH RULE
nu niunopt
llll 1 1 1 U 1 1 III
DENOUNCED
SAN ANTONIO. Texas, ept. 2
Recognition of property riglit3, radical
modification of articlo 27 of the Mex
ican constitution, and repeal of the
agrarian law, under which big ranches
ml estates of Mexico were confiscated
ere the important features of the
plan of Zaragoza, drafted at tho little
town of Zaragoza in the state of
Coahuila. Mexico, last Saturday by ..shuffii,, Phil" nnnclas. ex.nitcher of tho (limits with bis wife and daugh-
General Francisco Murguia and his torgj Mnry i,miso (i0ft) nd Eunice Loo Douglas. Ho has retained Edward
followers and wnicn is -expected 10 ue Lauterbaci, Yonkers attorney and unless Lnndis grants him a bearing no
signed by a half dozen or more rovolu- tnl.catens to (n0 a cvii suit against the New York National leaguo ball club.
tionary generals soon. A copy ot me
plan of Zaragoza reached San Antonio,
according to Ralph Trejo, a personal
friend of Murguia, by a friend of the
Murguia forces, and with it came the
claim that workmen in the mines of
parts of Mexico aro rapidly joining
Murguia's friends.
The plan of Zaragoza proclaims Gen
eral Murguia commander in chief of
both civil and military government of
Mexico, declares the government of
Obregon .and the governments of the
various states of the republic null and
void, declares that Murguia will re
main in command until a regular gov-
E
OF SAVING MINERS
i
JACKSON. Oil., Sept. 2. If tho
miners entombed in tho Argonaut
will in no case be a candidate for the mine are still alive r. d can survive
presidency and claims that any gover-. without food until tl rescue party,
i i. ..!.. p (( .hn1 burrowing in the deptns of tho Ken
nedy mine, reaeheBhTMn, they will
be saved. Indications this morning
were that, it would still bo a matter
BASEBALL SCORES
American
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2. Clarence
"Tillle" Walker of the Philadelphia
Athletics, hit his iliti'd homo run of the
season In the second Inning of the sec
ond game of tho doubleheador with
New York today. Shawkey was tho op
posing pitcher.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 2. The New
York Yankees took, tho first game of(
PEGGY MARSH'S
MAN NEAR DEATH
Percy Grant, Rector of N. Y.
Church of the Ascencion
Engaged to Mrs. Lydig,
Beautiful Divorcee, Declares
Canon Regarding Marriage
Is Invasion Civil Law.
F
ROM GUN SHO
I
"Buddie" Johnson Seriously
Wounded, Rushed From
Jack Clifford's Adirondak
Camp to Pittsburg for Oper
ation Claims Accidental.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Churchmen
wero silent today regarding the at
tack niado yesterday by tho Uov. Dr.
Percy Sticknoy Grant, rector of the
Church of the Ascension, on the
canon of the Episcopal church, which
prohibits re-marriage of either party
to a divorce except tho Innocent party
in a case where infidenity is charged.
Any comment would have to come
from high officials now gathered in
Portland, Ore., for the triennial con
vention of tho church, It was said by
tho secrotnry to Bishop William T.
Manning, who loft Now York recently
for tho Pacific coast.
In attacking tho canon, -Dr. Grant,
who Is engaged to Mrs. Rita Lydig,
divorcee-', prominent in New York so
ciety, anticipated conslderation'to be
given to tho general question of di
vorce at the convention! Mrs. Lydig
divorced her first two husbands; the
rirst for lnfldonity, tho socond for in
conipatahllity. In his attack Dr. Grant asserted
that tho church was invading civil
authority.
PITTSBURG, hopt. 2. A. M. "Mud
die" Johnson, husband of Peggy Marsh,
nor of a stato or leader of stato who
first recognizes Murguia within a per
iod ot throe months, will be proclaimed
the governor of that state. '
Respect for law and property rights
of some days, however, before the
relief crews, which have been fever
nra tho nntotanfllnir fpHtlirns of tlieiishly digging every llllliuto of the
Zirinm nlnti whlph tiikoa a stroiisr! night and day since last Tuesday
stand against the reds.
Besides declaring the government
null and void, the plan declares agree
ments with bankers and others and
with foreign governments are null and
void "because made by illegitimate
representatives ot the Mexican govern
ment which Is taken as referring to
agreements made with bankers in New
York by De La Huerta.
ia,iv'. .lniihiohnndnr with thn Phlla-l actress and professional dancer, who
doliibia Athletics 11 to G in a hard hit-, accidentally shot himself through tho
NEARLY 2 BILLION
SPENT ON WAR VETS
' Fair and Normal
WASHINGTON. Sept. 2. Weather
outlook for the week beginning Mon
day:
Pacific states Generally fair and
normal temperature, but with a proh
ability of occasional showers on the
north coast.
WASHINGTON, D. C, Sept. 2 More
than $1810,000,0111) has been ex
pended by tho government on behalf
of former service men through the
veterans' 'bureau, according to a
statement showing the bureau's ex
penditures to August 1. Of the total
approximately $314,419,000 was ex
pended for vocational training;
$31."), 473, 000 for insurance; $309,
619,000 for compensation; $301,-
130,000 for allotment; 0828,237,-
000 for allowances; $3.",093,000 for
marine and seamen's insurance;
$138,961,000 for medical and hos
pital service; $988,000 for hospital
afcilities and service and $.12,528,-
for administrative expenses. ,
The number of government Insur
ance policies in forco was reported
to be 570,r70 of the value of over
$1,194,000,000.
Former service men receiving
compensation numbered 174.364 and
en who received hospital treatment
totalled 292,283 while the medical
examination of 1,194,481 men has
been ordered.
morning are able to break through
into tho Argonaut. '
While ofNcinl predictions as to
whon the two mines will be Joined
are lacking, it was reported today
that those In charge of tho rescue
operations believo it may be four or
five days.
The discovery that fresh air was
trickling through into tho Kennedy
from the lower levels of tho Argo
naut brought new hopo to JackHon
yesterday. If tho trapped minors
remained in tho lower levels of the
Argonaut, where they wero working,
tbcv probably have fresh air. for the
fire which cut off their escape broke
out at tho 300A foot level of the main
shaft, moro than 1500 foot above
them, and evidently did not reach the
miners.
Little hope of rescue Is held now
among friends and relatives of the
imprisoned men. While attempts to
reopen the Argonaut mlno are being
left to competent hands in charge of
the situation, attention of Amaiior
county peoplo Is being turned today
to efforts to alleviate the suffering
of the families of tho entombed
men.
MARRIED FOR FIRS! Ill AT 74
CIVIL WAR VET. FATHER 7 CHILDREN
l!Ki;V01R Miss . Sept. 2. Married nor picnics where there were girls and
. . nnj grew up to be a typical oia oacneior,
me nrst time wuen it j" veteran said today. "Girls, some-
the second time when 78, after which how flllie( to attract me even after I
tho Rfnrk- brought nine babies to his was grown up."
., ! .ho ,,h r.r James Henry Uncle James, as he Is called at the
Turner, confederate veteran. 94 years home, admitted that he spent almost as
old. who is an Inmate of the Jefferson nine i " -
t, ' ,j: . k u--, school, hut he points out that he Joined
Mr Turner's second wife died two the church fourteen years ago when he
was u.
years ago.
"I never went to School a day In my
life; never went to parties nor dances
He was 25 years old when he "rode.
on a railroad train," the first time.
ting contost. The Athletics hit Mays
hard in the sixth and bo was relieved
by Jones who made a homo run In tho
ninth Inning with two on tho bases.
At Philadelphia. R. H. R
New York 11 1,4 2
Philadelphia . 0 10 C
Mntteries: Mays, Jones nnd Schang;
Naylor, llelmach and Perkins, Bruggo.
Socond game. R. H. 13.
New York 0 4 1
Philadelphia 6 10 1
Hatterles: Hawkey, - Murray and
Schang, Hoffman; Hasty and Perkins.
H.
4
At Cleveland. ' Tl.
Chicago : 0 4 0
Clovoland 2 9 0
Hatterles: Lovorctto and Schalk;
Doono and O'Neill.
At Detroit. It. H. R
St. Louis - 5 9 3
Detroit 4 8 0
Hatterles: Kolp, Prultt and Scverold
Oldham, Johnson and Uasslcr.
body Thursday night, is in a crltiual
'condition in the Cliamplaln Valloy hos
pital hero today after having boon con
voyed by boat and automobile from an
isolated camp In tho Adirondak moun
tains more than fifty miles away.
The movement of the wounded man
was mndo Imperative by tho nocesslty
for an immediate operation, performed
successfully UiBt night byvDr. R. S.
McDonald, but Johnson is not out of
danger.
The shooting occurred nt the camp
of Jack Clifford, former husband of
Evelyn Nesbitt Thaw, on Chateaugay
lako Thursday night as Mr. Johnson
was about to put away a rovolver he
bad been using In target practice, ac
cording to tho Btory obtalnod by hospi
tal authorities.
Mr. and Mrs. Johnson nnd her son,
on whose account she brought action
ror $100,000 against the Marshall Field
estate, had gone to Clifford's camphor
a vacation after completing a dancing
engagement In New York.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. The reli
gious ban on the re-marriage' of dl
vorcoes, a moot question among load
ers of the Protestant - Episcopal
church In the United StateB, was vig
orously reaffairmed 'by the synod of
tho Anglican church of the West lu
dlos, close relntlvo of the Episcopal
body, In a pastoral letter from tho
seven West Indies bishops made pub
lic hero today.
LE
At Washington. R. H. E.
Boston 3 5 1
Washington - 0 4 2
KattorleB: Ferguson and Ruel; Brill
hart, Erlckaon, Francis and Gbjirrlty.
Second game. Tl. H. E.
Boston 15 0
Washington 0 7 0
Batteries: Plorcey and Chaplin;
Johnson and Plclnlch.
AUSTRALIANS TURN
TABLES ON YANKS
FOREST HILLS. Sept. 2. Aus
tralia's Davis cup tennis team today
flung back tho American trophy de
fenders when they won the doubles
match in the third round of play at
the courts of the West Hide club here.
Oerald Patterson and Pat O'Hnra
Wood, olaylng remarkable team ten
nis, filmiilv swept through William
T. Tilden, II.,and Vincent Richards
in straight sets by scores of 6-4. 6-0,
The match took only fifty minutes.
COUNTRY CLUB. IBItOOKLINE.
Mass., Sept. 2. With about one
third of the 100 golfers of tho United
States and Great Britain through the
first day of medal play for. .qualifi
cation in tho national amateur cham
pionship tournament, Robert .
Gardner, of Chicago, twice title
holder and runner up Inst year, led
all the rest. His par card of 71 rep
resented golf of a fino order.
Close behind him wero the hither
to obscure Marcus A. Oreer of Phila
delphia, former Canadian, with
; Bobby Jones, Atlanta's young
star with 73; Jesse Hwcotzer, aie
student, and metropolitan champion.
tied with Jones: Chick Evans,, Jr., of
Chicago, champion two years ago. at
74: George T. Aulbacli, Boston loy,
who was scml-finallKt In the rocent
public links championship at Toledo.
and Georgo K. Rotan, the lexan,
were next with 75.
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 2. Alfred J.
Guyette, 78, whose desire to case his
conscience n his final hour confes
sion led to the arrest In Seattle of his
boh,, G. Dclbert Guyette, as the al
leged slayer of Joseph Brelnlng of
Minneapolis, died at the old soldiers
home here today. He died two days
after ho had unburdened himself.
NEW YORK, Sept. 2. Tho actual
condition of the clearing house banks
and trust companies for the week
shows thatfhey hold $26,163,190 in
CHICAGO. Sept. 2. One death at- exceHg 0f icgai requirements This
tributed tf the heat took place ncre ;g an ncrPal,e f J 1 9.126830 from last
today. Ttie government iiivrmuiMc- weejj
ter registered 86 degrees.
' National
At Boston.
Philadelphia .-.
Boston
Batteries: Huhhel nnd
Cooney nnd Gowdy.
It. H. E
2 0
, 3 12 i
'Henllne
E
Second game. Tl. H
Philadelphia 0 10 4
Ilostort 2 6 4
Batteries: Wclnert nnd Peters;
Braxtoi. McXumnra, Watson and
O'Ncil.
SANTA CLAUS GERMAN
IS
I
WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Santa
Clans Is joining tho profiteers, accord
ing to a report to the commerce depart
ment today from Borlln which advlBed
of mounting prices for German toys.
Christmas priceB cannot be forecast,
the report declared, but an Increase of
150 per cent In the price of German
toys to take effect in the fall has been
decided upon, with further increases
expectod. Militarism, the report added
has disappeared from the Gormnn toy
industry and tho nrmy corps of lend
soldiers formerly turned out by the
Nuremberg factories have been super
seded by tribes of American Indians.
At Chicago. Tl. II. E.
Cincinnati 17 21 i
Chicago 5 11 3
Batteries: Donohue and Wlngo;
Kauffman, Osborne, Stouland, Jonos
and O'Farroll. Wlrth.
At New York. II.
Brooklyn 4
New York 2
H.
8
6
Batteries: Ilucther and
Hill, J. Barnes and Snyder.
Dcborry;
Second gamo. R. H. E.
Brooklyn - 2 C 1
New York A 5 6 0
Batteries: Cadore. Schrleber and
Miller; Scott and Smith.
Pray for Strike End
ELDON, Iowa, Sept. 2. Beginning
tomorrow, the Congregational church
bell will be rung each day at 10 a. m.
at which .time all Christian peoplo
within hearing have been asked to
pause and Join In prayer for a "speedy
and just" settlement of the railroad
shopmen's strike, according to an
nouncement here today, '
P. A. Welch of Seattle, owner of the
Rogue River Valley Canal company,
left yesterday for business In Port
land.
Grant's View Opppsod
TORTLAND, Oro., Sept. 2. Bish
o)i of the Episcopal church today
mingled discussion of matters to
come before the goneral convention
here next weok with comment on
press dispatches carrying a state
ment by the Rev. Dr. Percy Sttckncy
Grant, rector of the Church of the
Ascension of New York City, on thn
divorce laws of the church.
Bishop William T. Manning of 'New
York, remarked: "I see Grant's bicn
breaking out again." He woull
make no further comment than to say
that Dr. Grant's position was well
understood in New York.
It is doubtful If the Episcopal con
vention wilt attempt to enact laws
laying a more rigid ban than now ex
ists In the church upon the ro-mar-rlago
ot divorced porsons, according
to Informal opinion of Bishop James
Wise of Kansas City, when questioned
regarding the declaration of the Rev.
Dr. Grant. It Is equally doubtful
in the opinion of Bishop Wiso, that
the convention will make more lib
eral conditions for divorced persons
who wish to ve-marry.
"At present the church permits re
marrlago after divorce, only to the
innocent party to whom divorce has
been granted on grounds of Infidel
ity," he said. "There is within the
church a group that favors making
still, moro rigid restrictions and for
blddnlg jemarirage of any divorced
person, regardless. In tho pant ten
years thiB group has shown consid
erable increase In strength, thought
It is not strong enough to enforce Its
position."
Worso Than Iloman Laws
Bishop Thomas Frank Uallor of
(Continued on Page slx.1
FORMER EVANGELIST CONVICTED FIRST
DEGREE MURDER BY L. ANGELES JURY
LOS ANGELES, Sept. 2. No an
nouncement had been niado early to
day whether a now trial would be
sought for Herbert Wilson who Inst
night was found guilty of the first de
gree murdor of Herbert It. Cox, shot
and killed In an attempted jail break
here April 9 laat.
The Jury recommended llfo Imprison
ment and the court Bet next Tuesday
as the time for passing sentence.
Wilson trembled ad turned pale
when the verdict was read and his
wife fainted, after giving way to weep
ing.
Wilson, a former evangelist, and Cox
had beenNirrested on a charge of mail ( to the sheriff.
robbery and were in the Los Angolog
county jail awaiting trial when they
and Eddie O'Brien, another alleged
mall robber, attempted to break out.
Sheriff's deputies frustrated the at
torn pt.
Cox, found wounded by the doputlos,
gasped, "Herb did It." and dlod. Wil
son attempted' to prove In court that
Cox killed himself because of the fail
ure of the jail break.
The state contended Wilson killed'
Cox because he believed the latter had
planned tn testify against Him In the
mail robbery case, and had also
"tipped" off the plan for the Jail break