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Teeklv Fifty-Second Iw,
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1922
NO. 147
Medford
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CONDITION OF
FIRST LADY
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novo
Operation Deferred, Owing to
I 'J Betterment and Outlook Is
i I Most Encouraging Since
i ; j Critical Stage President
I , Wearied By Long Vigil, Re
t laxes Patient Normal.
f WASHINGTON, SOit. 11. "Mrs.
Harding is distinctly and decidedly
bettor," Secrotury Denby said on leav
ing the White House tit 3:20 o'clock
this afternoon. The president's wife,
lie added, was continuing to improve
and while her condition still was re
garded as critical, the physicians in
attendance were hopeful that no opera
tion would be necessary.
5 WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Improve
meat In condition of Mrs. Harding
which began yesterday, continued thru--out
the night and the forenoon, and
physicians in attendance deferred the
ppcration which has been under consid
eration. f An official bulletin issued shortly
jufter ten o'clock today said the wife
fof the president had spent a less'rest
jlcss night, that complications were sub
siding and that generally her condi
tion, which became critical late last
week was improved. It alBO announced
the decision to defer nn operation.
1 The bulletin was supplemented by
. statements made by visitors to the
White- House, Secretary Wallace, who1
called shortly after eight o'clock, say
ing that Mrs. Harding had spent a
fairly restful night. Secretary Weeks,
; who called later, said he had been in-
formed that tho night had been the
best the patient had had since her
condition became alarming.
( The temperature of the patient at
,0:30 o'clock today as noted In the
bulletin was 99Vi, compared with 1001,6
at nine o'clock last night; her pulse!
was 90. as compared with 110 lasti
night, and her respiration was 30, as
1 compared with 30. These figures were
said by medical experts to be quite lu-
dicative of an Improvement.
I President Harding was reported to
i be greatly encouraged by the seeming
j improvement today.
4 WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Secretary
i Weeks who called at tho White House
announced that Mrs. Harding had
spent the best night in several nights
and that the slight improvement which
set in yesterday was continuing with
her temperature getting nearer normal.
Mr. Weeks indicated that decision as
to an operation, which was post)oned
yesterday after a consultation of phy
sicians had not as yet been reached
and said that Dr. Charles Mayo, tho
Rochester specialist, had told him last
night that developments would be
awaited.
Senator Med ill McCormick of Illinois
after talking with Socretary Christian,
told correspondents that reixirts of
Mrs. Harding's condition were more
oncouraglng than last night. ' Indica
tions, he said, pointed to an operation,
as Mrs. Harding's physical condition
was much more able to stand it.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Mrs. Har
ding spent a 'Tairly restful night," but
there was no marked change In her
'condition, Secretary Wallace was in
formed at the White House when he
called shortly after eight o'clock this
morning to make Inquiry.
For the first time in the four days of
Mrs. Harding's illness she was attend
ed last night by only one nurse. Dr.
Carl E. Sawyer remained on duty thru
out the night In the Bick room while
Dr. Charles Mayo and all of the other
doctors except Dr. John Finney, who
returned to Baltimore to spend the
night, slept at tho White House.
President Harding, wearied by the
long vigil which he has kept at the
bedside of his wife since the first
(Continued on Page six.)
FUNNY BUSINESS IN
SAI.KM. Ore., Sept. 11. During
the injunction proceedings brought
by S. S. Johnson and W. S. U'ften,
Portland attorneys, to restrain Sec-
retary of State Kozer from, placing
the proposed interest rate amend
ment measure on the November bal
lot, 'Paul Turner, a Portland notary
public, admitted on the stand this
morning that his signature and seal,
NAME ON ELECTION MEASURE ADMITTED
! Pauline Frederick Not
Bothered By Being
Left Out of Will
CHICAGO. Sept. 11. Informed
that sbo had been disinherited in
the wlh of her late father, Richard
C. Lihbey of Norwich, Conn.,
Paulino Frederick, stage and film
actress let the world know today
that she wasn't bothered by the
provisions of the will. "I didn't
know he had anything to leave to
anybody", she bald, "but I woudn't
take a penny of his money If he
had a billion dollars.
Miss Frederick characterized
her late father as a happy-go-
lucky spendthrift who didn't know
tho value of a dollar, adding: "I
guess I'm liko hiin in that re-
spect."
Deplore Injunction As Threat,
Bu Stand Pat Shopmen
Leaders Meet in Chicago to
Effect New Policy Heralded
As Peace Move.
ATI-ANTIC CITY, X. J., Sept. 11.
Tho shop crafts strike and de
mands for a general strike of all or
ganizations of the American Feder
at ion of Labor as a result of the in
junction obtained by Attorney Gen
eral Daugherty against the striking
shopmen were on the program - for
consideration when the executive
council of the federation resumed Its
conference today. Many members of
I ho council, although denouncing the
Injunction as a blow to the rail crafts
and a threat to all organized labor,
expressed their opposi'tion to a gen
eral strike.
CHICAGO, .Sept. 11. (By the As
sociated Press.) Leaders of the
striking railway shopmen were in
session this morning, In what was
heralded as a peace meeting intended
to effect a new policy for the shop
men. B. M. Jewell, head of the fed-
crated shop crafts, said there were
two courses of action to he consid
ered and that announcement of the
decision would como at the close of
the meeting of the general policy
committee of ninety members, prob
ably, tomorrow.
Mr. Jewell first went Into session
with tho officials of the six striking
shop crafts, known as the executive
council. At the close of that session,
the general policy committee was
scheduled to convene. Tho action to
be considered was closoly guarded
and Mr. Jewell refused to make
known any details of the program to
be placed before the union leaders.
The executive council, of which
Mr. Jewell Is a member, comprises
tho presidents of six striking shop
crafts.
The executive council adjourned
its session about 11:4j o'clock until
1 p. m. without any Immediate an
nouncement of what had been dis
cussed. At that hour the policy committee
had not gone into session.
Timothy Healy, president of the
International Brotherhood of Sta
tionary Firemen and Oilers, whose
organization also Is on strike, was a
late arrival at the council meeting.
Northwest Citizen Dies.
EVEItKTT. Wash., Sept. 11. John
T. McChcsney. president of the Ever
ett Improvement company and well
known citizen of the northwest, died
nt his home here last evening, aged
63 years. He Had been 111 for seve
ral months. Ho Is survived by his
wife and three children, Frank Mc
Chcsney of Everett, Mrs. Harry Pep
per Scott, Jr., of Wilmington. Del.,
and Mrs. Mulr Dufflfld of Detroit.
GETTING SEAL AND
certifying scores of signatures, had
been, placed oh the papers when ho
never seen the names.
Turner said he had simply In
scribed his name and seal on the
blank forms and had then turned
them over to other persons. He de
clared there had been an understand
ing that he wan to check over the
names but that he did not have the
chance.
LABOR OPPOSES
GENERAL STRIKE
TO 1 SHOPMEN
ANOTHER WEEK
ERE ENTOMBED
MINERS
FOUND
Rescuers Find Old Stope and
Strike Softer Rock Forma
tionsMake Better Time-
Hope to Save 80 Feet of
. Digging.
JACKSON, Cal., Sept. 11. It
take seven more days to reach
will
the
entombed minors In the Argonaut mine
via tho 3900 foot level of tho Kennedy
mine. It will take five more days via
the 3000 foot levtl, according to the un
official estimates given out this mor
ning by Fred L. Lowell, representative
of the state industrial accident com
mission and secretary of the executive
committee in charge of rescue prcpara
tions.
However, it Is admitted that Mr.
Lowell has given outside figures.
Jackson is expecting the time limit to
be cut materially during the next fen-
days.
Last evening the rescue crew on the
3900 foot level reached the face of the
hard rock barrier and tore into it with
their picks. They made ten feet ad
vance up to 11:30 o'clock last night
before the drills were called into play.
This morning at 7 o'clock, Lowell stat
ed that the first rounds of powder were
being placed for blasting. After the
shots are fired, some indications of the
rate of progress that can be expected
on the 3900 foot level will be gained.
From the face of the rock wall the men
on this level had 142 feet of hard stone
to go through and a 15 foot winze to
sink, making 157 feet of blasting and
digging before reaching the entombed
men.
The rock on the deeper level, how
ever, is not the hard green stone for
mation that the rescuers cut through
on the 3K00 foot level days ago. It Is
composed of quartz and slate and is
much softer than the green stone.
Therefore progress will undoubtedly be
much faster than was at first expected.
Secretary Lowell announced that the
rescue crews on the 3600 foot level
mad an advance of 45 feet between 7
a. ni. yesterday and 7 a. m. today. They
still have 120 feet of drift to clear and
75 feet of rock to go through on ja
raise before reaching the Argonaut.
This makes 201 feet of digging. This
time may be much reduced, however.
Today the rescuers in the 3600 foot
level encountered an old stope and last
night at midnight it was rciiorted that
they had advanced twenty feet beyond
the mouth of tho stope. Superinten-dcnt-V.
S. Garbarini went down into
the Kennedy last night and endeavored
to crawl up through the stope to ex
plore It, but was forced to desist, as
his movements brought down a shower
of loose earth and rock upon tho rescu
ers working today.
Today Superintendent Garbarini will
re-enter the mlno and while the rescu
ers aro changing shifts will endeavor
to explore the slope. It Is believed
that if the stope Is found open the
rescuers may be able to save eighty
feet of digging by using this passage.
Further encouragement is gained
from the statement that the workers
on the 3600 foot level encountered a
chute through which they are able to
shovel loose muck down Into the 3700
foot level, thus avoiding 300 feet of
wheelbarrow trundling and facilitating
the rapidity of the advance.
SEATTLE, Sept. 11. Clara Skarln
Wlnborn, charged with the murder
of Ferdinand Hochbrun. wealthy Se
attle realty dealer last October 13, ar
rived hero todny on the steamer H.
F. Alcxandor from Oakland, Cal.,
where sho was arrested last week.
A huge crowd gathered at the pier
as the steamer warped In. Mrs. Wln
born, composed and smiling, was
taken to an automobile and whisked
to the offlco of Prosecuting Attorney
Malcolm Douglas, where Mr. Doug
las and Shorlt'f Matt Starwlch ex
pected to go over with the prisoner
the confession which she was alleged
to have signed In Oakland last week
admitting that Bho killed Hochbrun
when he attempted to attack her.
Prosecutor Douglas said he would
move immediately for an early trial
of the case.
NEW YORK, Sept. 11. The miss
ing persons bureau today requested
the Washington police to look
through all the sanitariums in the
capital for Wallace McCutchcon. ac
tor and fdrmer husband of Pearl
White. McCutcheon, who was shell
shocked during the war, when he
was a major, disappeared from his
home here.
Likely Successor to Collins
r
Richard Mulcahy, former minister of defenso of the Irish Republic, Is men
tioned as a likely successor to Michael Collins, slain head of tho Irish. This
photo was taken recently, and shows Captain Daly, 1. H. A., receiving the
colors of the Irish Republican army from Richard Rulcuhy, upon the evacua
tion of Begger's Bush Barracks, Dublin, by British troops.
STEPS TAKEN TO
ESTABLISH FILM
INDUSTRY HERE
Company Being Formed With
Capital Stock of $25,000
Under Directon of John K.
Wells Crater Lake to Be
Motif.
Medford and Jackson county will
have a real live permanent muvlng
picturo Industry if present plans are
successfully carried out. The Cra
ter Luke Motion Picture corporation.
capitalized at $25,000, Ih Wcing form
ed by local business men Interested
in tho venture, and John K. Wells,
who has been In Medford the past
two weeks, leaves today fur Los
Angeles, where ho will start at once
getting together scenarios, camera
men, prominent principals ?tc, for
the first production, which, It is plan
ned, will bo staged with Crater Lake
as tho dramatic center.
Mr. Wells, who Is an experienced
moving picturo director, was origi
nally interested in Crater Lake, by
former Medfordilos now living in Los
Angeles, Including Howard Dudley,
Dr. J. F. Keddy Trevo Lumudcn,
Wes Green and others. These for
mer Medfordites who aro now and
always have been great boosters for
tho Rogue Iilver valley, declared this
an" Ideal spot for "shooting pictures,"
and urged Sir. Wells to conic here
and look It over, which ho did.
, After visiting Crater Lake and con
ferring with local business men, Mr.
Wells' enthusiasm were thoroUKhly
aroused and he is firmly convinced
that not only does the sun shine and
the scenic pos.sit(ilitlcn of Medford
insure fine pictures, but he is certain
such an industry will add matertally
to the commercial development of
the valley and return great dividends
to its investors. t
Mr. Wells' sincerity and thorough
knowledge of the moving picture
game, together with his willingness
to give his time freely toward pro
moting such an industry here, made
an excellent Impression, and from the
outset a number of well known Med
ford business men Joined him enthu
siastically in an effort to establish a
permanent unit here with Crater
Lake as the center of activity.
Mr. Wells Is a pioneer in tho mov
ing picture Industry having been on
the producing staff for Universal
many years and five years ago re
ceived his own company. His experl
lence covers short reel pictures sce
nics, serials and features for concerns
like Puralta, Huworth and Pathc and
he has been associated with such
well known moving picture stars, as
Herbert Rawlinson. Franklin Far
num, Irene Castle, Hessua Hayakawa.
Bryant Washburn and others. The
last two' years ho has been produc
ing In Australia and New Zealand
under contracts to E. J. Carroll and
Commonwealth Pictured of Sydney.
One decided advantage the local
company will secure, in the exhibit
ing end. will he Mr. Wells' close as
sociation with the Producers' Security
Corporation of New York City anil
Robertson Cole, which will give the
local company as dcflnte a market
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. II Babe
Ruth mude two homo runs, tils 30th
and 31st today, in tho game between
New York and Philadelphia. There was
no one on base in either Instance. Tho
first drive was made off Naylpr In tho
fifth inning and tho second off Schil
ling In tho eighth.
National
First game - ' '
At New- York: It. H. E.
Boston II 14 1
' Npw Vnrlr 7 1 1
Batteries: Marquurd, Cuoney and
O'Neil, Gowdyr J. Barnes, Ityan, V.
Barnes and Snyder.
Second game. R. It. K.
Boston .'......, 6 8 0
New York 7 11 1
Batteries: Watson, Hrazton, JIcNn
mara and Gowdy; Scott and Smith,
Snyder.
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 11. Babe
Jtuth made his :10th home run In the
fifth Inning of today's New York
Phllndclphia game. Naylor 1 was
pitchitiK.
At Philadelphia. R. II. 10.
Now York 9 1(1 0
Philadelphia 4 9.2
Batteries: Shawkey and Scliung,
Hoffman; Hasty; Naylor, Schilling,
Ketchaui and Perkins.
CflirCAOO. Kept. 1 I. Clovchuid
Chlcago game postponed, rain.
American
At Washington. II. II. 13.
Hoston 3 5 0
Washington : 12 17 1
Batteries: Piercoy, Karr and Ruel;
Brillhart, Johnson and Picinlch.
I
VISITED BY YEGGS
PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 1 1.
Some time during last night while
eight people were asleep in the house,
expert cracksmen jimmied a window
and entered the 2 2-room mansion of
F. J. Cobb, wealthy- lumberman on
.Montgomery drive, and, after taking
$3,000 worth of jewels, silver, fur
and silks, left the place in the Cobbs
$8,000 twin six sedan automobile
Pear Market News
Bartlett pears, tier box, Chicago,
J2.60'S2.75; New York $2.1042.40.
for their films as could possibly be
attained.
Kdlson Marshall, the- well known
author, George Hunt, manager of. the
Page theatre, Vernon Vawter, of the
Jackson county bank, Frank Farre.ll,
local attorney, and others were inter
ested from the start and have already
subscribed for stock In the new cor
poration. It Is generally recognized
that such an industry, aside from
the added payroll in the employment
of many local people, mean thous
ands of dollars of free advertising
for Crater Lake and for Medford and
will he about the best publicity stunt
ever pulled off In Southern Oregon.
4
REV. SASNETT RETAINED
SALKM, Ore., Sept. 11. The
following appointments were in-
4 eluded in tho list made public this
morning in tho closing session of
tho Oregon conference of tho
Methodist Episcopal church:
.Modford. J. R. Sasnett; Rose
burg. W. S. Gordon: Ashland,
S. J. Chancy; Grants Pass. Josoph
Knotts: Klamath Falls, F. L.
.Moore.
FIGHT FOR
OF
Washington Votes Tomorrow
.Senator Opposed for Vote
for Newberry Five Candi
dates in Field Farmer
Labor Party Enters.
SEATTLE. Sept. 1 1. Candidates
today were winding up tholr cam
paigns prior to tho state-wide prim
ary election tomorrow at which can
didates tor United Stutcs senator,
flvo congressional Beats, state legis
lative seats and county offices will
Ve nominated. Three parties, repub
lican, democratic and farmer-labor,
have tickets in the field.
The compalgn for the republican
nomination for United Stales senator
wus one of tho most bitter In the
alato's history. Senator Miles Poln
doxter first elected in 1910 is op
posed for the nomination by Mrs.
Francis C. Axtell ot Belltngham.
George B. Lamping, member of the
Roattlo port commission; Austin K.
Griffiths, Judge of tho Buportor court
of King county, George II. Stoven
son or Seattle and Lee Tittle of
Yakima. Mrs. Axtell was endorsed
by a conference of representatives of
so-called liberal groups, Including
tho railway men's political club, the
Washington state federation of labor,
and a number of women's and farm
er's organizations.
Attacks on Sennlor Polndexter's
record in congress, especially with
regard to his vote in favor of seating
Senator Truman H. Nowberry of
Michigan, featured the campaign.
in tho democratic primary, C. C.
1)111 of Spokane, former congressman,
Is opposed 'by Lyman Seoley of Boll
iugham and James Cleveland Long
street of Port Townsond, who con
ducted his cumpalgn from a bed In a
votornns' hospital In Colorado. ,
Tho representatives In congress
from thp five districts cf the stale
aro all candidates for tho republi
can nominal Ions In their respective
districts. Opposing John F. Miller,
Incumbent, In tho first district, are
Philip Tlndall, II. Alvlu Moore and
Thonjas Jofferson Casey, all of Seat
tle, and former Congrossnian James
W. Bryan of Bremerton.
Edgar Snyder of Seattlo Is unop
posed for tho democratic nomination.
In the second district Lludlny II.
Iladley, republican Incumbent Is con
testing the nomination with Nelson J.
Cralgue and Charles A. Turner of
Everett. "Mrs. Minerva K, Troy of
Port Angoles and Fred A. Cllse of
Mount Vernon, are tho democratic
aspirants and P. B. Tyler, farmer
labor candidate, Is unopposed for the
nomination.
ATHENS, Sept. 11. (By tho As
srclated Press. ) The" new Greek
cabinet, headed by M. Triantafillakos
was sworn in last night, the premier
taking the additional portfolios ot
war and navy. Tho ministry does
not Include a single member of the
purty of former Premier Venlzolos.
The promler announced that his
policy would be strictly to mulntain
order and to defend the national In
terests at the peace conference with
tho Turks.
BITTER PRIMARY
PO NDEXTER
PRIVATE STRIKE OF I. W. W. OFFICER AT
BUTTE PROVES SOMETHING OF A FIZZLE
BUTTE; Mont.,' Sopt. 11. A check
up at. tho various mines of the dis
trict today showed that about 100
men out of a day shift of 4,500 had
quit work presumably us a result of
tho strike called yesterday by the
Butte branch Metal Mine Workers In
dustrial Union No. 210. I. W. W.
Fewer than forty men were engaged
In picketing. i
The strike Is under the leadership
of Ed Hayes, secretary-treasurer of
the I. W. W. local who presided at
yesterday afternoon's meeting at I.
INJUNCTION
RAIL STRIKE
SUSTAINED
Attempt to Rush Action to Im
peach Daugherty Squashed
in House Father of Labor
, Board Wants it Abolished
ancf Disinterested Tribunal
to End Union Squabble.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11. Fodoral
Judge James 11. Wilkerson today de
nied tho motion of attorneys for tho
rail strike leaders that the govern
ment's bill for a temporary Injunc
tion be dismissed.
"1 am not prepared to decide at
this time that tho bill falls to set up
any grounds." tho court said.
Jjidge Wilkerson ordered the gov
ernment to proceed with its argu
ment for a new injunction to take
the place of the restraining order
granted two days ago and which ex
pires today. Blackburn Esterllnn.
solicitor general, then presented the
government's exhibits, including a
list of alleged unlawful acts and
depredations charged to the strikers.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. (By
the Associated Press.) Demand for
Impeachment of Attorney General
Daugherty for "high crimes and mis
demeanors" was made In the house
today by Representative Keller, re
publican, Minnesota, who sought Im
mediate action on a resolution" for an
Investigation. By an overwhelming
vote the hoiiBe, however, referred the
question to the Judiciary committee,
thus, in the opinion of leaders, dts-r -posing
of it finally. . -
WASHINGTON, Sept. 11. Aboli
tion of the railway labor board and
tho setting up In its place ot "a dis
interested tribunal" tor isettlemeut
of railway disputes was proposed In
a 'bill introduced today 'by Represen
tative Hock of Kansas, republican
member of the committee which,
framed the. transportation act cre
diting the board..
The Hoch bill, which would deal
Bolcly with railroads, proposes fair,
wages, with '.he element of hazard
and every other factor considered,
proper working and living conditions
and full protection of seniority and
other rights.
It also would encourage voluntary
settlement of disputes without resort
to tho board and would givo full
power of inquiry and determination
to tho board whoro disagreement
Ihroatens to disturb transportation.
The right of the Individual to quit
work and the right of collective bar
gaining would be recognized and tho
bill would put all posslblo protection
around the right of tho Individual
to work free of molestutton or intimi
dationa. HALL SILENT ON
RUNNING PLANS
PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 11. Sena
tor Charles Hall of Marshfield, defeat
ed candidate for republican primary
nomination for governor, has nothing ,
to say regarding his nomination as an,
independent candidate for that office
by an "assembly of electors" last Sat
urday. Hull, who is In Portland, says
ho is here on private business. It is
believed he will confer with political
advisers later in the day. Tomorrow Is
the last day on which nominations
made by an assembly of doctors can.
be filed with the secretary of state.
W. W. hall where resolutions woro
passed demanding wagos of $6 a
day, a six hour day, "better working
conditions" and the release ot po
litical prisoners throughout the coun
try. Hayes, Butto police officers stated,
has participated in labor contro
versies In Bisbee, San Francisco and
Centralis, Wash., and recently was,
In the coal strike In Wyoming. '
Two arrests have been made on
disturbance charges, one prisoner be
ing a picket and the miner accosted
by a picket, a fight resulting.