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M M The.Weathcr Prediction: Showera, cooler Maximum yesterday 76 Minimum today .43 EDFORD AIL TRIBUNE Weather Year Ago Maximum H ........ 60 Minimum - 34 Precipitation ......24 Oally Eighteenth Tenr. Wsekly Klfty-Thlrd Year. , MEDEOKD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 192:) NO. 42 0 :1Si Frightful Tragedy Enacted in Texas Oil Field When Lake of Oil Bursts Into Flames Fire Visible for 50 Miles Rescue Work Is Found Dif ficult. ; ,lU MEXIA, Texns, May 10. Sixteen woro killed in tho firu at tho Hughes McKeo oil woll, according to infor mation received at tho headquarters here of the company owning the well today. , It was said at tho company office that tho death .list might be greater, but tho Hat of 1(1 was believed to be authentic. C. D. Davis of Mexia said tho loss to the owners of the well is estimated at $100,000. CORSICANA, Texas, May 10. (By Associated Press). Thirteen identi fied bodies and three skeletons smol dering in a lake of fire 300 feet across was the known toll of death from the explosion yesterday of he gusher of the J. K. Hughes Development com pany. The fire, still burning fiercely today, was visible for fifty miles, reports here said. The smoke extended eleven miles. I When the blast came, sixteen, it is known, of the fifty oild men in the two crews and a connecting gang, were sucked in by the sheet of flame. About 500 people, watching the work of the drilling crews, gave ac counts of the flareup. Some of the workmen were hurled flat on the ground; other tried to creep away from the spread of the fire. J. K. Hughes, head of the develop ment company Bald: "Some of the crew which was reliev ing the day crew at the well had Just come from Mexia a few hours before. Other members of this and a roust about crew working near tho well, were reported missing In the general confusion, and the personnel list makes it impossible to ascertain just how many are dead, uiiBsing and un accounted for." The groups venturing every now and then near tho pool of yellowisn liquid fire are not without a few wom en, drawn close with stricken faces, peering wide-eyed, only to retreat with covered faces and exclamations of horror. First aid work here Is hindered from the crowded traffic on the little more than cow trail serving as an automdffilo road lor the rescuing par ties. SOVIET DELEGATE IS LAl'KANXE, May 10. (By tho Associated Press.) M. Vor osky, tlio Russian soviet delc Satc to tlio Laiusanno pcaco con fcicncii, was assassinated to. night, nllt-Kodly by members of tlio Swiss fascist!. PARIS Herr Schlogctter lias been convicted of sabotage and sentenced In flonth 1... r, Vrdnnh COlirt martial Bitting nt Duesseldorf, according to n tlavnfl tlispaten. SHIP WRECKED ON UMATILLA REEF BREAKING UP: CREW FINALLY RESCUED SEATTLE, May 10. Roscucd by the tug Humaconna of Senttlo, twenty-six survivors of the doomed freighter Lake Gabhart, caught yes terday on Jagged rocks near Uma tilla reef were bound today for Seat tle. Three men .were left aboard tho Lake Gcbhart, which, according to wireless advices from the scene, will be a total loss. Captain Gus Swanaon, master, P. A. Wlckdahl, chief engineer, and a seaman remained aboard tho Lake Gobhart to aid In any further efforts made to save the vessel. Rescue craft were standing by ready to tako oft the men if the risk becamo too great. SEATTLE. May 10. A message re ceived here at nine o'clock this morn ing from the Lake Gehhart said: "Vessel breaking up forward. Useless to pull further." , Klvc cullers and tugs-were to have Ex-President Oregon Bank Pleads Guilty To Three Indictments TILLAMOOK, Oro., May 10. Frank A. Rowe. former presi- dent of the Nohalem Valley bank of Wheeler, Ore., pleaded gull- ty in court here yesterday to three Indictments, charging blni with embezzlement of funds from the bank, which was clos- Ked eighteen months ago by or- dcr of tho state bank examiner. Rowe was arrested In Port- land whoro ho has been rocently operating in the bond business. T LONDON, May 10. (By tho Associated Press) Tho execu tive of tlio British parliamentary labor party today sent a telegram to the lliissln soviet government, alluding to llio dispatch of tlio ltritisll warship Hnrelx-U to the Mtirman coast and begging- tlie soviet to refrain from any action tending to precipitate a resort to force pending further negotia tions on tho British ultimatum. LONDON. May 10. (By the Asso elated Press) The British warship Harebell, has been ordered to the Murman coast to prevent further so Viet interference with British vessels outside tho three-mile limit and to use force if necessary In performing this mission, the house of commons was informed today by the under sec- rotary for foreign affairs, Ronald McNeill. , The under secretary said the gov ernment understood that another English trawler, the Lord Astor, has been captured by a Russian gunboat while fishing ten miles off the Mur man coast. Tho British agent, in Moscow, ho added, had been instruct ed to enter a strong protest and de mand tho release of tho Lord Astor's crew. The agent 'was also Instruct ed to demand the tmmedinto uncon ditional relenso of the vessel and tho reparation of tho crew. Mr. McNeill's statement evoked loud cheers from the ministerial benches and cries from tho laborites of "more war." George Lonsbury, labor member for Poplar nddressing the ministerial ists, shouted "why don't you send a fleet to New York? You are a lot of cowards You .are afraid of America!" An agency dispatch yesterday tell ing of the seizure of the Lord Astor, said the Russians claimed tho trawler had been fishing within the Russian territorial limits. BY POSTAL STRIKE ANTWERP, May, 10. (By the Associated Press.) This city was al most completely isolated today by the strike of the postal, telegraph and telephone; employes and the railroad men which has tied up commerce and is apparently assuming grave propor tions. The transportation of coal and coke was stopped by the walkout and the steamship .eeland was forced to abandon her sailing for New York. attempted nt ten o'clock to pull the Lake Gebhnrt off the rocks near Uma tilla reef. The coast guard cutters Snohomish and Cahokla, with the Humaconna were standing by and an effort was to bo made some time this morning to pull the vessel from the rocks. The Gobhart was In a perilous position and the fear was expressed sho would be a total loss. The salvage steamer Algcrlne an.l the tug Sea Monarch were expected to reach the scene during the morning. SEATTLE, May 10. Twenty-tw members of the crew of the steamer Lake Gebhart, stranded on the rocks near Umatilla reef off the Washing ton coast were transferred at four o'clock this morning to the tug Huma conna. according to a wireless receiv ed here. Three men remained aboard the Lake Gebhart. , WAR ORDER ENGLAND SIR LABOR PRIES EXPECT All HOSTAGES TO BE Messages From Prisoners in Chinese Bandits' Camp Tell Friends Not to Worry- China Orders Troops to Cease Attacks So Foreigners May Be Saved. WASHINGTON. May 10 The at tack by Chinese troops on the bandits who captured Americans and other foreigners and wrecked the Peking express in Shantung has been ordered stopped by the Peking government. State department advices today from the American legation at Peking said the Peking authorities had ordered the Chinese troops to "desist from at tacks against bandits," and adopt "pacific means", which would insure the liberation of the prisoners without injury. v PORTLAND, Oro., May 10. The Oregonian last night received a cable gram from Miss Lillian Auld. Eugene girl reported captured by Chinese bandits, saying that sho had not been captured. Miss Auld said that she was in Peking. FEKING, May 10. Majors Roland Finger and Robert Allen, U. S. ., who were captured by Chinese bandits last Sunday, aro still held but their sons, Ronald, Jr., and Robert, Jr., have been released, according to official information. Major Pinger has not been wound ed, it is announced. Having a Fino Tlmo. . SHANGHAI, May 10. (By the As sociated Press) Alf the foreign cap tives hold by tho. Suchow bandits aro well,, "having a wonderful time," and expect to bo released soon, ac cording to written messages received from four of them by relief workers near Llnchong, which wero relayed hero today. Tho telegram received in Shanghai came to Henry Grensburger from his son. Victor, who is at Tsaochwang with relief parties who aro seeking to aid the captives, among whom Is Victor's brother, Emile. "Replying to messages sent into the bandit stronghold by the relief workers, came four written replies from as many prisoners, Emile Gens burgor, Fred Ellas, Edward Elias and Theodore Saphloro, saying that all wero well and having a wonderful time. They declared they expected to bo released soon and' admonished their friends not to worry. Tho relief workers' messnge to Shanghai stated that they woro en ramped two hours' march from the brigands' luir. In tho -party seeking to obtain tho release of tho captives are Lloyd Lehrbas, who wus captured by bandits near Suchow, but who escaped in a few hours and brought to tho outsido tho first story of tho affair, and Carl Crow, representing the American chanibcr of commerce of" shanghai and tho American Red Cross. Both theso organizations are sending supplies into tho hills buck of Llnchong for the captives. Boys Arc (Rolenwil. Success In the negotiations to ran som tho foreigners held enptivo by Chinese bandits fn tho mountain fast ness of Shantung was Indicated to day (Thursdny) when a dispatch from Pekinir announced the release of Ro land rinser, Jr., and Robert Allen,! Jr., sons of Majors Pinger and Allen, U. S. A. The officers were still held at latest official ndvlccfl this afternoon. A private message from Tsaoch wang received In Hhnnghal by tho Asia Development company, report ed that nil but one of the foreign captives had been released. Tho one still held was said to be Chevalier Muhko. an Italian attorney of Shang hai. A provlous report had said that tho brigands were holding Musso for $1,000,000 and that ho was criti cally 111. The bandits were believed to hold Musso as their most "valu able" prisoner. Advices received In Tsinanfu Indi cated that tho captives would bo re leased today. JJefnrc the dispatches reporting the surrender of tho captives began com ing in tho outlook was gloomy. Early in the day It was learned In Shang hai that J. B. Powell, nn American newspaper man, one of tho prisoners, had contrived to have smuggled out "dire consequences" unless the troops a nifssage saying the foreigners faced surrounding .the bandit strongholds were withdrawn. Latest reports from Peking Indicat ed that at least two women were among the captives Mrs, Sanderson, an American, and Miss K. F. Flem ing. Kngllsh. Previous statements that Mrs. L. A. Heaton of Berkeley. Cal. and her niece. Miss IJMian Auld of Eugene, Ore., were held, were dissipated to day when It was learned In Peking that they were not aboard the Khang- (Continued on pace Ight) ED LADY SMITH ASKED DAD. HE NO'D! SO SHE WILL NOT BECOME A MOVIE STAR I... , 1 $i; ' JtyT A-V IPS You won't see LADY ELEANOR SMITH in tho movlus unions ber father. LORD BIRKENHEAD, changes his mind. LONDON When a movlo magnate thrust a contract In front of Lady Eleanor Smith sho, like a dutiful daughter, asked dad He said no. And. being nothing less than Loid Hirkt-nhead. lord i hunctllm of the Dnttsli Umpire, he had his way. )dy Smith is an enihusuuMic CAXie tun. Shu ho cunstiMruble talent fur the utauc. LOCAL JEWELRY LOSS IS $2,500 A mysterious robbery, wherein the John W. Johnson Jewelry store was robbed of diamond rings valued at $2500, was perpetrated some time Wednesday night between tho hours of 10 o'clock and morning. Tho thief left not a clue, and was an expert safe manipulator. Tho eight rings wpro part of a win dow display, and at ten o'clock John son nut them in tho safe and locked tho door with tho combination. Whon ho opened tho safe this morning, the diamond rings nlono of all tho valu ables at hand woro missing. How tho thief gained cntranco to tho store Is puzzling. Nothing wns disturbed, and tho only theory ad vanced is that a pass key wns used to a lock generally supposed to be in vulnerable. As soon as tho loss was discovered, tho police nnd sheriff's offlco were notified, and Deputy Forncrook tonk photos of tho fingerprints on the snfo. Tho diamond .theft is partlully covered by inHtiranco. American CLEVELAND, May 10. J. C. Ed wards, Cleveland lefthand pitcher, strut-It out the hI'.'C Including Dnbc Ruth, In tho first inning ot today's game with the New York Americans. Witt, the first man up struck out when his third strike was called. Dugan missed the third strike on three pitched bulls. Ruth then struck out on a called strike and two swings. Edwards pitched out twelve bulls in the inning. At Cleveland: R. H. E. New York 13 19 2 Cleveland 4 S 3 Batteries: Pcnnock and Hoffmnn, Scbang; Edwards, Morton, Boono and OiNelll, L. Sowed. At Chlcngo: R. H. E. Boston 7 Jl 1 Chlcngo 9 14 3 1 latteries: Qulnn. O'Doul, Fullerton, Black, Murray and Plcinich; Faber and Schalk. DETROIT, May 10. Washington at Detroit postponed; cold. National At Philadelphia: St. l-iouls R. It. 7 14 E. 2 Philadelphia - 0 4 1 Batteries: Donk, Stuart and McCur day; Head, Meadows and Ilenllno. STORE ROBBED VERNON NEARLY DESTROYED BY GASOLINE FIRE LOS ANGKLES, May 10. All men reported missing when fire de stroyed tho plant of tho t Oorham plant nt noon had been accounted for at 1:30 p. m., It was announced by firemen. Two wero Injured nnd taken to tho Los Angeles receiving hospital. The firo wns declared to bo under control at this time. Tho firemen said it was caused, by a spark from nn electric torch used for sealing cans of gasoline. LOS ANGELES, May 10 Ono mnn was burned to death and soveral wero reported missing when firo swept through tho plant of tlio Oor ham Engineering enmpany, an oil concern at ;8tli street and Santa Fo avenuo in tho city of Vernon, adjoin inff Los Angeles today. Sevoral other employes of tho com pany were reported missing as firo inen of Los Angeles and Vernon bat tled to confine tho flames to tho Oor ham plnnt which covers a large trnct in a thickly built up factory dis trict. Tho damage wns reported to bo around $150,000 nt 1 2 : 4 S o'clock when firemen snld they believed they wero getting tho blazo under con trol. Kred Carvls, 22, who lost his llfo. was overcome by smoko whllo work ing in a shed near whoro tho firo broke out. Thrco other workmen tried to rescue him, but wero driven back by tlio flames. When tho wind turned the blazo nwity Carvls, char red body was recovered. ; A series of explosions which were heard for snv oral miles occurred, us tho firo rofu-hed tho drums of gasoline. Tlio entire plant of tho llorham company wns destroyed nnd tho flames spread to tho adjoining plant of tlio Pacific American Petroleum conipttny whero six 50,000-gallon tanks r-ontnining petroleum nnd by products, including gasollno, woro dO' stroyed. Tho ohnngo In tho wind was said by firemen to havo prevented a moro disastrous sprend. Tho cause of tho firo had not beon determined. Derlarn Big Dividend. NEW YORK, May 10 Directors of thn American Locomotive company today declared a quarterly dividend of $2.50 a shnre on common stock, an Increase of $1 per quarter, and rec ommondod putting the stock on a no-par basis, and issuing two shaes for ovory $100 share now outstand ing. At Boston: R. H. E. Cincinnati : 4 14 4 Boston 3 8 0 Batteries: Rlxey and Hargrave; Mc- Nnmara and O'Neill, Baptists for Prohi Enforcement Against Church Evangelists YAKIMA, Wash., May 10. Resolutions pledging the conven tion to co-oieratlon to the prohi bition cause and voicing approval of tho employment of traveling evangelists were passed by the North Idaho and Enst Washing ton convontlon of Ilaptists at their closing session today. Tho Ilaptists are pledged to resent all gibes and slurs, regarding tho prohibition law and to uld all law enforcement officers. Use of traveling evangelists was de- plored because of the fact that they take from tho field funds which should remain nt homo and because they frequently leave an unsettled condition. PRESIDENT 10 II AT LATER DATE WASHINGTON, May 10. Confer ences held by President Harding with some of his advisers within the past 24 hours have resulted In a re-ar- rangoment of tho executive's tenta tive spooking engagements on his western trip. Tho ro-nrranged list provides for addresses at St. Louis, Kansas City, Mo.; Hutchinson, Kas.; Denver, Salt Lake City, HoIbb, Idaho, Helona, Mont., and Seattle,- Wash , nnd or three addresses in California, prob ably one each at San Francisco, Los Angnlcs and San Diego. Tho program, as It now stands, contemplates that all of tho address es except those In California and probably one at Portland, Ore., shall be made by tho president on hlg trip to the coast. - - - Arrangements for the roturn nftor his visit to Alaska havo not boon de termined upon. Tho arrangements so far made were gone over by the presidont at a White House conference last night attended by Postmastor General New, Secrotary Hoover, John T. Adams, chairman of tho republican national committee; Senator Curtis of Kan sas, the republican whip of the sen ate; Assistant Secrotary Roosovolt of tho navy and Will H. Hays, former national republican chairman. The Itinerary still was said to be fl.ll.tnnl 1 nl.n....n fn. fl.n Mno n"; "vn7. . .-7 tm,. nrn..,!nt w MM .n hv ' flvod Juno 20 as the date on which lie will, leave Washington. 1 I After the visit to Salt Lako CHy, tho oxocutlvo, according to tho itin erary, will go to Yellowstono Park, whoro ho will spend two days before resuming tho trip, with the next speaking engagement at Bolso. Ho expects to sail for Alaska from Scat- tin, nnd on returning will land at Portland. The trip down the Pnolflc to San Dingo then would bo mado by train. Plans for the roturn trip aro to bo worked out In a few days. The presi dont conferred again totlny on tho matter with Secrotary Hoosovolt, WASHINGTON, May 10. A fraud order dnsigncd to curtail tho nil stock promotion activities of Dr. Frodorick A. Cook of north polo fame, was Is sued by the postofflce dopartmont. Tho order Is tho third of Its kind to be authorized In tho department's war on wildcat oil projects In the southwest. It directs thut all mall addressed to Dr. Cook as an offiinl of any of tho oil om panics In whlh ho Is .interested ho returnod to tho send er. Fi VST PORTLAND 10 FREE GIRL'S NAME IN DIVORCE NEW YORK, Mny 10. Tho nppel lnlo division of the supremo court to day denied Geraldlno Fnrrnr permis sion to strike from thn records of her dlvorco suit against Lou Tellegen all allusions to Miss Htclla Larrlmore, 19 yenr old actress, named as ono ot sov eral co-respondents. Hamuel Ilnternieyer, counsel for the diva, mado tho motion In order that Ileferoo Mnhnney might proceed Immediately with the dlvorco hear DR. WILLING DEFEATED III FIRU ROUND Portland Crack Golfer Finally Put Out in British Tourna ment After a Gallant F'ght Ouimet and Grant Only American Players Left in Play for Championship. DAKL, England, May 10. (By the Associated PresB.) Two Americans remained In the running for the Brit ish amatour golf championship at the completion of the fifth round this af ternoon. Thoy are Francis Ouimet of Boston, and Douglas Grant, Amer ican born, but for some yoarn a resi dent of London. Douglas Grant, American resident of London, dofeatod D. E. B. Soulby of Port Marnock, four and two. Francis Ouimet of Boston defeated C. Brothorton of Hansworth by one hole. ' SAN FRANCISCO. May 10. Doug las Grant, the American resident of London, who is playing In the British amateur golf championship at Deal, was bom In San Francisco. His father, John D. Grant, resides hero. Douglas Grant learned his golf here and hold many championships, among them the Pacific Northwest and tho California Btate, tho latter be ing won four years ago. Grant mar ried the daughter of a member of . parliament and has lived In England ; for ton years. Pr. Willing Defeated ' DEAL, England, May 10. (By the Associated Press.) Roger Welherod, the Oxford star', defeated Dr. O. K. Willing, Portland, Ore., in the fifth round of tho ilirltlsh amateur cham pionship hero today two up and one to play. ' Poor putting resulted In Dr. Will Ing's defeat by Wethored. While he was down as thoy started home, the doctor had sevoral opportunities on the way in to make a short putt for the hole but missed nearly all ot them. The cards: Wetherodi out....4 3 5 2 6 5 5 4 5 38 Willing, out 3 4 6 3 6 4 4 4 8 39 Wethored, in 6 5 6 4 3 4 4 6 Willing, in 5 6 6 4 2 6 6 6 DEAL. May 10. (By the Asrtciat- ed Press.) Dr. O. F. Willing of Port- Innu". O- toda wn h'B tc.h tho fourth round of the British Ama teur golf tournament, defeating R. W. Crummick of Lancashire two and ono. Francis Ouimot of Boston defeat ed John F. Neville of San Francisco two up. Goorgo V. Rotnn of Houston, Tex as, was defeated by W1. L. Hope ot Turnhury, thre and two. Douglns Grant, American resident of England, dofoatod Dr. H. D. Glllls I of Noklng, four and throe. The wind Boomed to bother Dr. Willing going out against Criimmack, and hlB game was not up to his stand ard although ho won, two and one. Thoy started the homeward route but tho Orogontan forged ahead on tho twelfth and retnlnod the advantago to tho end, finishing strong with a row ot fours. Tho cards: Willing, out 4 4 5 4 5 5 5 3 7 42 Cruinmnck, out..6 4 5 3 7 4 6 4 6 43 Willing, In 4 55654444 Crumtnack, In. ...5 4 6 6 4 6 4 4 Add to California Park WASHINGTON, May 10. An addi tion ot 5U2 acres has beon made to Plnnaclos National monument reserve In California undor proclamation signed by President Harding, j .' ( WILMINGTON. Del. "Whoovor dlsrnrrts tho virgin birth of Jesus Christ must first discard tho prophets and tho wholo testimony of the now testnmont," tho Itov. Thomas A. King snld last night. ' ings which wero held up when Miss Ijarrlmoro announced alio would seek a Jury trial to clear her name. Miss Lnrrlmora's right to Buch a trial stands as reeognliod last week by the appellate division. Tollegen. who has t.ot contested tho singer's suit so far, expressed his In dignation when tho young actress' name wns brought Into the case and announced that ho would do his best to clear hor name, ' -