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Wsekly Klfty-Thlrd Year.
, MEDEOKD, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 192:)
NO. 42
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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, ' -