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Medford Mml Tribune The Weather Prediction ..Fair, not so cold Maximum yesterday .49 Minimum today 16.2 tir.-.i v . 1 vv earner i ear go Maximum 44 Minimum 31 Precipitation .40 8 now .'. 2.6 P;illv Seventeenth Year, tteekly Fifty-Second Soar. , MEDFORD, OKEUOX, FMDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 192:) NO. 273 ,1 15 KILLED ifHEW MEXICO. 50 IN BRITISH COL ill HORROR CAUSE Little Hope for Survivors Trapped Underground at Dawson, N. M., and Cumberland, B. C. Chinese Worker Escapes ! After Attempt to Rescue First Bodies Brought Out ' Blasts Rouse Little Towns Aid Rushed to Scene Cum berland Mine Scene of Disaster Last Summer Gas Fills All Tunnels Pair Saved By Miracle. DAWSON, N. M., Tob. rf. (Uy the ; Associated Proas.) Up to 2:45 o'clock I tuts afternoon eight bodies bad been recovered from Pbelps Dodgo corpora- j tlon mine N'o. 1, where 122 men were i entombed by an explosion yesterday. Two men have escaped froni the mine alive and 112 miners still are in the mine. All of the men within the mine, according to the belief of company officials, are dead. . " DAWSON. N. M., Feb. 9. (By tho Associated Press) Two miners of tho 'Z'i entombod yesterday in mine Nb: 1 here of the Phelps-Dodge cor poration came out alive today.- They walked out unassisted. As they neaicd the mouth of tho mine they, met a rescue party coming in. The men were Charles Candale and rilini Martinez, They were in tho fourth south tier of the property when . tho terrllle Mast conic. They. Immediately, put out the lights on their lumps with the Intention of saving these in mak ing their escape. This act undoubt cdly'saved their lives miners pointed out. as it eliminated tho chance of an explosion in their vicinity. Candalo and Martinez remained In the mine nil night, afraid to venture from the-tler where they were stand ing when the-explosion came. Today they decided to risk the dnngr of. possible gas and walked out 'of the mine. The escape of the pair caused re newed hope that other miners Inside were' alive. ' . I As the miners stepped from the' workings of the property a cheer rang out from the eager group of wntch ers at tho mine's mouth. DAWSON, N. M-, Feb. 9 Seven bodies of miners entombed in mine No. 1 of tho I'helps-Dodge corpora tion hero by an explosion yesterday afternoon.afternoon. have been re- covered and the 'company has an nounced that there Is "very little hope" of rescuing alive tho other 113 men who were In tho mine at tho time of the accident. Two bodies wero recovered a short distance Inside tho entrance.. The others were found n mile or more from tho mine portal. Identity of only' two bodies has been announced. As soon as the. entrance, which had Ovn blocked by the explosion, could lie cleared, exploration of the mine was begun under the direction of the manager and general superintendent. The first men reached were the motormnu and the nipper, who wore only a short distance Inside the mine. Doth were dead.- As ventilation was restored by con struction of temporary stoppings on cross cuts the rescuers proceeded Into tho mine. They encountered nu merous falls and considerable debris. At midnight, tile resruers hod Kono approximately a mlio underground, but they hud nut renched tha actual working places of tho miners. The rescue car of the Colorado Fuel and Iron company was duo to arrive hero early this morning to as sist the rescue organization maintain ed by the Phelps-Dodge corporation jhcrc. 4 A large number of people have neon congregating as near tho mlno entrance as they could get ever since (Continued on Pago Three) HUSBAND CALLED HER IB,: IE LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9 Failure to provide, brutality, refusal to work and dissipation of large sums of money she gave liini were four of the grounds 'on which Wanda Hawley. motion pic ture actress, asked a divorce from Allen Burton llawley in an uction filed here yesterday. Hnwlev alleged she not only QUEEN had to make her own living but had CUMBERLAND, 13. C, Feb. 9. The death toll In last night's explo sion in No. 4 mine of the Canadian collieries, Duusinuir, Ltd., two miles from here, was definitely placed at 14 white miners and twenty Chinese in a statement issued by lino officials hero this afternoon. Twenty-six bodies had been brousht to the sur face. Seven men, brought , to the mine mouth by rescue parties after heroic endeavors, were taken to a hospital, where they lay still unconscious but with a chance for life. Forty-one men were involved In the disaster and thero were 300 men on the night shift, which was on duly when the explosion occurred. CUMBERLAND, B. C, Fub. 9. Fifty-one coal miners lost their lives when firedamp exploded in the sec ond level of Mine No. 4 of tho Cana dian Collerics, (Dunsmulr) Limited, two miles from bore last night, it was estimated by mine officials when 21 bodies, bad been brought to tho sur fuco'this morning. CUMBERLAND, B. C. Fob. 9. At '4 o'clock this morning word was received hero that four men were alive In mine No. 4 of the Cunadian collieries' (Dunsmulr) two miles from bore. A Chinese In tbo hospital hero was the only other known survivor of an explosion of fire damp iu sto.pe num ber ono of the mine last night at S o'clock which Imprisoned T0 to CO moil of tho night shift who had-just gono to work. Tho known dead wero thirty. Tbo disaster was tho second to oc cur In mine No. 4 In six months, an explosion there August 30, 1922, took a loll of IS lives. The condition of the four survivors in tbo mine was considered very 'pre carious. They wero throe miles from tbo mouth of tho tunuol. A rescue crew with salvage apparatus was en deavoring to rovlvo them by artifi cial respiration. No hope was held of recovering the rest of the imprisoned men, as they wore entombed in sections filled with poisonous gas that folowed tho ex plosion. Practically all of tho deaths wero, attributed to nsph.Wla tlon. Many of thoso whoso bodies wero taken out had started to run up the sloping two mile tunnel 'to ward the surface and wero overtaken by nfterdam fumes. Doctors who were down in the mine with rescuo crows declared that ventilation was entirely cut off from the portion of the mine in which those accounted for wero supposed to be. The disaster has taken rank as one of the worst In tho history of mining on Vancouver Island. No explanation for the explosion was offered. It was stated that the mlno was equipped with safety de vices, and that most or the lighting and power were given by electricity. Two rescue parties worked in the mlno all night, and a third was be ing recruited. (Continued on Pago Six) IVORCE to make her husband's also: that he treated her with contempt; called her "a brainless fool," swore at her In the presence of others, criticized her per sonal oppearance In public, bruised and Injured her by dragging her from I an automobile and told her "It w as i nont of her business," when she asked abont reports that no was entertain ing! men and other women at their homo. KILLED BLACK ADMITS CRIME. Militia Guards Waco, Texas. Jail Following Confession By Negro of Brutal Assaults and Murders Innocent Man Killed for One Deed. WACO, Texas, Fob. 9. Local po lice and the Waco National Guards- mon wero being mobilized this after noon to defend tbo county pall, In event of an attempt mado to get Hoy Mitchell, negro, allegod confessor, to eight murders. Rumors of tho fprmlng of a mob reuched the authorities. WACO, Texas, Feb. 9. A series or crimes which have baffled offlcera here tor the past year, were clearod today by the alleged confession or Roy Mitchell,, negro, to having com mitted eight murders, three assaults to murder and a number of attacks on women from February 12, 1922 to .January 19, 1923, according to Sheriff Leslie Steagall and County. Attorney- C. S. Fnrmor. Tho slayings. said, to have been confessed to by Mitchell follows: Murder of W, II. Barker and his wife and Homer Turk at Concord, February 12, 1922. , Harrel Bolton, May 25, 1922. Grady Skipworth, November 20, 1922. ' .... W. E. Holt aud Mrs. Ethel Done camp, January 19, 1923. Three women woro assaulted -when their escorts wero killed, two of tho women having .been subjected to two assaults, according to tho alleged confession. Tha confosslon was made to tho sheriff and county prosecutor last night, put in writing and signed by Mitchell. " ' Two negroes wero tried and con victed for tho slaying of Mr. and Mrs. Barker and Turk, tho killing of whom Mitchell confessed. Ono of thoso ucgroos, Cooper JohnBon, was sentenced to death and the other, Ttennlo Young, life, imprisonment. Their casos are now on appeal. Another negro has boon killed for a crime to which Mitchell is said to havo confessed. When Harrel Bolton was killed his girl companion was assaulted. A negro was lator Identified by the young woman and was shot by the girl's father. A mob then burned his body. On May 17, 1922, Mitchell confess ed, ho shot a man nnd woman, whp wero' driving in Cameron park, but was frightened away and both recov ered. Early In January, 1923, he hold up a negro couple in South Waco, forced tho man to leave the car and driving to a secluded spot assaulted the woman. Mitchell's allegod statement that be killed Mr. and Mrs. Barker and Homer Turk, a boy, at Concord, was not put In writing, according to County Attorney Farmer, who said ho was Inclined to givo It littlo crcd once. Robbery waB tho motive for this crime, which was enacted at a littlo country store operated by the Barkers. F WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. Declar ing thero was no hope of obtaining the necessary votes so long as "ad herents of tho Ford proposal" oppos ed him. Senator Norris, republican Nebraska, today withdrew his amend ment to tho army bill appropriating two million dollars for completion of nltrato plant No. 1 at Muscle Shoals, Alabama. WARSAW, Fcg. 9. ( Dy the Asso elated Press.) The chief of the Rus sian church in Poland, the .Metropoli tan George, was assassinated last night by the JtusBlan Monk Bmarago. The assassin belonged to a group of the clergy which opposed the metro politain becauao of the hitter's pro Polish policies . I LYNCHING LOOMS N mmt 'Tiger Lady" Trailed to ' Lair in Chihuahua, Mexico CL.Y1SA HOUSTON, Texas, Feb. 9. Chief of Police Oaks of Los Angolos, Cal., was here today to take in custody "Littlo Phil" Alguin, wanted there to aniwer to a charge of slaying De fective Sergerit' John Fitzgerald In May, 1921.; "Little Phil" was brought, hero last night after bolng deported rrom Mexico. Ho will he returned to Los Angeles as soon as requisition papers arrivo from Sac ramento. '..-'. j . Interest in .' ''LJtlia : Thll" - shifted here, to tho.cbso of Clara Phillips, convicted as d' "hammer murderer" who made a sensational escapo from BRITISH WAR i DEBT REFUND BILL PASSED Now Goes to Senate for Fina Action Called Vital Other Nations to Settle On Same Basis Democrats Oppose 'Indecent Haste.' WASHINGTON, Fob. 9. The Brit ish debt settlement agreement was formally approved today by tho house by nn almost unuulmous vote. It now goes to the senate. Roprosentutlvo Burton, Ohio, a namibor of the American debt com mission, was given an ovation by his ropublican colleagues today when he appeared to ask for acceptance or tbo British settlement. Ho told tho house that no measure of such far-roachlng Importance had been presented to con gress "Blnco the days when our armle3 wero battling In the field." Reiterating that tbe debt should not bo-cancelled, Mr. Burton argued that "there should be, howovcr, some leni ency in terms." Ho expluincd that it bad been Impossible to fund the debts within the terms laid down by tho ex isting low and that the commission had undertaken therefore to make a "Just and cqultublu" settlement with Great Britain.. Replying tn questions of democratic members, Mr. Burton declared that in his judgmental would bo "entirely Im possible for England to pay higher rates of interest than provided for In the bill." The British settlement, he described as tho "high water mark," of the fund Ing of the debts and Representative llyrnck, democrat, Tennesoo, Inter rupted to remark that he thought the common peoplo would rejoice to know thut the United States could settle with the other nations on such terms as agreed to with Great Britain. Launching a fight for the opposition Representative Collier of Mississippi a democrat on tho ways and means committee, charged that the commit tee had rushed the settlement bill into tbe house "with moat Indecent haste" and without .obtaining any es sential Information as to why tho par ticular terms wero agreed upon. PHILLIl'K Los Angeles several months ago. She bas been reported as buing in various places In Mexico and Alguln was questioned as to what bo knew of her whoreabouts. "I understand she is In Chihuahua City; Mexico, but I did not see her," ho told Inqulrors. Loe Manning, United States immi gration officer, denied a report that , he would return to Mexico immedi ately to arrango for tho deportation of Clara Phillips. -: "I will leaver toulMlit for my head quarters at El Paso," said Manning, I "and until I got thero I don't know what I will do.'1 BY SEC, HUGHES Cabinet Leader Refuses to Reveal Confidential Matter to Foreign Committee Observer Sought for Repa tion Mess. WASHINGTON, Feb. 9. (By tho Associated Press.) Secretary Hughes today Bunt a letter to Chair man Lodge of tho sonnto forolgn re lations e.ommltteo virtually declining to appear before the commit too as requustcd by Senator Robinson, dem ocrat, Arkansas, In connection with the hitter's resolution for appoint ment of official American represen tatives on tho reparations commis sion. The secretary said no oral expla nations wero needed In view of tho voluminous information already sent to the committee in regard to tbe work of the unofficial America!) rep resentatives and that ho was not nt liberty to disclose confidential 'docu ments.'" ' Mr. Hughes udded that ho was not at liberty to add to the information given to tho committee unless an ad ditional request on so mo specific question should be forthcoming. - E TO J PORTLAND, Ore., Foh. 9. Thu caso of John l. Elbcrldge, on trlnl hern on tho charge of larceny end embezzlement, must go to the jury, Circuit Judgo Stuploton decided to day in overruling a motion by the defense to dismiss tho case after the state had rested. The state had Introduced evidence In connection with its charge that Ethnrldge as president of tho bond house of Morris Brothers. Inc., had embodied tiOO shares of stock, Kth erldge was to take the stand In bis own defense this afternoon. PLAN TO MEDDLE EUROPE EXPLOSIONS .1 . GOVERNOR ASKS S0L0NS T0 DO SOMETHING: RELIGIOUS ANUS BILL IS KILLED Action Urged On Income Tax and Consolidation Bills in Next Six Days Other Recommendations Made in Address to Joint Session Plea for Economy Made Lane County Solon's Anti-Catholic Measure Defeated Law for More Butterfat in Ice Cream Approved By Senate Last Minute Rush On. . SALEM, Ore., Feb. 9. Reminding the legislutura that only six days of tho session remain, Governor W. M. Pierce, addressing botli houses today, urged action on measures which he had recommended in his inaugural message. An Income tax was emphasized by tho governor nnd he reiterated his" ploa for a stato government consoli dation measure. Other recommenda tions were: Pnssago of bills to Increase fees of insurance companies and corpora tions; alterations of tho assessment laws with safeguards to prevent addi tions to tho state bonded debt result ing from an Increased assessment roll; closer control of the two so callod -self sustaining commissions; investigation of the matter of the state guamntouing Interest on Irrigation bonds; creation of a stuto market agont; a severance tax law; that su pervision of patrolling tho stuto high ways . bo taken from the Btnto treas urer 'uud given to the hlgbwuy com mission. Tlio governor concluded with n re newed plea for economy, and congrat ulated thu Joint ways and means com mittee on reductions already effected. SALEM, Oro., Feb. 9. Tho sonate today killed tho hill introduced by Roprcsontatlvo B. F. Koonoy of Eu gdne, which would place a tux on liter ary, benevolent, charltablo and scien tific institutions whon operated for compensation. The bill was opposed by representatives of hospitals, churches, tho Y. M. C. A.' and other Institutions. Keenoy, former assessor of Lano county, admitted that tho bill had been almod ut a Catholic hospital at Kugono. Senator Bruco Donnls of LaGrnnde. at a hearing last night said ho de plored dragging into tho legislature of religious animus which had character. Ized tho campalgu last fall. Tho sonate today passed Senator W. J, H. Clarks bill requiring n literacy tost for applicants" Tor registration to voto when ability of applicants to read or write English Is ill doubt. Tbo setiatu also passed tho bill in troduced by tho banking committee making Lincoln's birthday and Arm Is tlco day logal holidays. A compromise income tax bill ro suiting from conferoncos between Gov ernor Waltor M. IPorco nnd Rnpro sentatlvo Bennett, McMuban and t'nr- kln, wns Introduced In tho houso to day. The bill comblneB two bills In troduced by Cnrkin earlier In the ses sion, with a cbango In tho rate of tax and the Imposition of a flat four per cent tax on corporations. Tho senate hud passed tho house bill requiring registration of brands for milk bottles and prohibiting tho use pf containers by persons other than tho owner. Honators Zimmerman, Taylor and LuFollutto havo Introduced a Joint res olution providing that newspapermen bo admitted to all sessions of the ways and moans committee. Tho resolu tion grows out of tho action of. the majority members of the committee Tuosduy in barring the press from exocutlvo sessions. Tho sennto has defeated a bill re PARENTAL BLESS1NGIASKED BY GIRL ON NEW YORK, Feb. 9. Seeking par ental blessings on hur marrlugo to Reginald V. Vanderbllt pn Febru ary 7, Miss Gloria Morgan, has ca bled her father. Harry Hoys Morgan, American consul goncral nt Brussels, that she and Mr. Vanderbllt are en gaged. Mr. Vanderbllt, who Is 43 jars old, came Into an eBtato of $8,000,- stricting the use of pistols and re volvers to bona fide residents and to thorn only if permits have been obtained. SALEM,' Ore., Feb. 9. The house: bill increasing the butterfat content of ico cream from six to eight per cent and requiring that solids UBed in ico cream be not less than 20 per cent passed tho senate unanimously yes terday. ' ) Aftor a vain attempt to re-refer Rep resentative L. M. Graham's bill to pro-" vide for the re-Issuance of road bonds for the construction of market roads in the various- counties, the house passed the bill with only a handful of negative votes. .' V': The highway commission appenred heforo tbo Joint roads and highways committee during the noon recess and opposod tho bill, "-? ' .V Tho Benato passed a house Bill pro viding that licenses to -oporato' auto mobiles tuay be Issued to minora bo- , tweou 11 and 1(1 years old for the' pur- ' poso of transporting pupils to school, HOPES FOR PEACE F, DUUL1N, Feb- . (By tho Aso cln'tad Press) Hopes for a reconcili ation bctYeii the Irish . free stato govornmout' and at least un import ant republican element were brighter today In consequence of the develop liieuts that led Hichurd Mulcahy, tho minister of defense, to orrer amnesty "to all In arms Against tbo govern ment who will surrender their. -arm on or before March 18. . Tho Freeman's Journal says that OH n prisoners at IJinorlck have also asked "for the opportunity to press upon their leaders the futility of war of extermination." . The newspaper describes the. new developnienls.as a genuine Offorl for peace. ;, ' ,w ' The article concludes ns follows: "Nobody will any longer : have doubt ns to where the responsibility rests for tho continuance ' of' tbo struggle." .' i ' LONDON. Feb. 9. Mum Lynch; chief of tho republican forces, in re ply to the peneo proposals of - Mum Forbes, Informed him officially on behalf of "tho republican govern, ment and army command." that ' tho proposals could not be considered.. DUBLIN, Feb. 9. (By tbe Asso ciated Press) Tho proposal for sur render contained In Main . Deary's letter to Kamon DeValern and other lending Irregulars cannot bo con sidered, says an official communlquo issued by the republican boadquar- ' tors stuff on behalf of "tho republi can government," and Its army coun cil. . ' v ' . J E 000 when ho becumu of ago. Ho wbs marrtod in 1903 to .Miss Catbleen Gebhard Nlolson, who divorced blm sixteen years lutor, alleging deser tion. ' The daughter, Catbleen, was given to tho mother. . Mr. Vanderbllt. a noted sportsmau and polo player, Inherited also 000,000 by the will of his brotbor, the lute Alfred O. Vandorbllt.