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Newspaper Page Texto o O O Medfqrb Mail Tribune Th X7eath ProiUcHon Cloudy, probable mlu Muxinutm ycKtcrdny 73 Minimum today 50 Weath Year Ago Maximum Minimum . 78 lrtH'iitauun Truco OillT Twentieth Ttmr. sTcrttT KWMourth Yr. . 1 MEDFORT), ORKfiOX, SATURDAY." SHI'TF.MHElv 2ti, 1f)'-' NO. lfil SUBMARINE RARffliED; CREW IMPRISONED o 1 1 JFATE OF 34 IS Submarine Sinks After Crash . With Liner Off Boston Last Night Rescue Boats at Scene Hope for Survivors, Three Saved- NEWYonT, n. i.. sept. 20.--(A. The position of tho submarine (jft-Bl, sunk off Block Island last night (jn a collision with the stoamer City of Koine, was located today by rescue craft searching for the vessel, It was reported in a radio message to the Newport naval training station. There was no sign of life the message fcaid but crewa of the rescue ships were optimistic that some of the 34 men who went down with the submarine might be alive. A later message said that the 8-51 had been located by Lieutenant C. S. Hawkins, piloting a seaplane which hud been flying over the vicinity of the disaster. The submarine lies In 23 fathoms Of water. Commander Lewis D. Causey, exec utive officer of the torpedo station here, said that It "looks bad" for those aboard the S-Gl as air bubbles were coming to the surface. noSTOX. Sept. 2G. (A. P.) Thirty-four members of tho crew of the submarine H-51 lay Imprisoned at the bottom of the .Atlantic today after their vessel was rammed last night by j the steamer City of-Home of the Ocean Steamship company on her voyage from Savannah, Cia., to Bos ton. Three survivors were picked up by the steamer and U was a matter of conjecture as to whether the remain- I der were drowned or were alive in the under water vessel.. I While a fleet of rescue crnft from Newport, K. I., New York City unl 1 New London, Conn., the submarine's ' base, was rushing out to the point 20 mile.-j east of Block Island, where the disaster occurred, those on shore eagerly awaited news of tho crash. The City of Home was proceeding to Boston, and Cnptain Diuhl, her com mander, gave no details In his first terse message to officers of the com pany. She was due to reach Boston some time this afternoon and it was stated she might not arrive before 4 or 5 o'clock. Hope that the 34 men who went down with the S-51 might still be alive was increased when the destroy or Putnam, sent to the scene from tho naval training station at Newport, sent a wireless message, saying they hnd discovered whut apparently was a buoy made up of a bunch of life pre servers. Y Naval men at Newport expressed ed out of the sunken craft by mem bers of the crew who might be alive and wanted to give their position be neath the water. The men rescued by the City of Rome were Dewey Kile, M. S. Lira and A. Oier, nil members of the en gine room force, according to a mes sage received at the Boston navy yard. "Nothing else could be found," said the message, "An oil spot showed up where the S-51 went down." At New London, from where the S-51 sailed on September 2u for n practice cruise, naval officers said the fact that oil showed on the surface of the water did not necessarily indi cate that the craft was a total wreck. They said she might He at the bottom of the 125 feet of water with nil her hutches closed and many of the men In her alive. Ships being rushed to the aid of the submarine besides the Putnam In cluded a salvage ship with diving and hoisting npparatus from Newport; i'ueo submarines from Now York and tho submarine salvage ship Vulcan lrom New York. Efforts were being made to com municate with another salvage ship (Continued on page si. PLANT WIZARD OF SWEET SANTA ROSA, Cal., Sept. !. (A. P.) Three new plant creations, a new typo of sweet corn and now varieties of the aster0 and rose, have been created by Luther Burbank, plant scientist. , Th" corn specimen perfected by Ijr"nk is much more productive l:in any he has produced, he stated, ll la much sweeter, mom tender and ABOARD 10W Pasadena Society Girl Fooled By Psuedo Bend, Or., Millionaire PASADENA, Cal., Sept. 26. (a. p.) Hubert A. AVinthrop. who is said to have posed here as a millionaire and to have 4 become engaged to be married to a young woman prominent in Pasadena society, was ar- rested today by private detcc- Uvea on charges of felony and J grand larceny from Rend, Ore. Winthron is said to have con- 4 fessed to having a wife living at IJenson Hill, Mass. PRISON GUARD NEARJHBIH Lute Savage's Condition Criti cal, With Even Chance for Recovery Pneumonia and Wounds Endanger Life. SALEM, Ore., Sept. 26. Lute Sav age, state penitentiary guard who was wounded by the escaping convicts Murray, Kelly and Wlllos, on August 12, when two other guards were killed, was reported today by his phy sician to be In a critical condition, though with possibly an even chance for recovery. Savage was shot through the body, the ballet entering the ohdnmen under the' heart ' Although his wound was at first be lieved to be fatal, he made rapid progress toward recovery and about ten days ago was released from the hospital. He suffered slight relapse, however, and was again sent to the hospital, where bronchial pneumonia developed. This, the physician says, mav be attributed to his wound. About midnight .last night Savage's temperature suddenly arose in an alarming manner. He rallied later and his temperature dropped again. Savage was off duty at the time Murray, Kelly, Willos and" "Oregon" Jones made their break for liberty. The shot that wounded him was prob ably fired after guards J. M. Holman and John Sweeney and the convict, Oregon Jones, had been killed. SAFE AFTER GALES WASHINGTON. Sept. 26. (A. P.) The Mac.Miltnn Arctic ship Mow Uoin has put In at Jack Lane's bay north of Hopednle, Labrador, after the hardest battle of its enreer, hav ing braved storms every mile of its way from Greenland. NO ClflED L OF N. PERSONNEL ORNEVA, Sept. 2fi. (A. P.) The sixth assembly of the League of Na tions adjourned sine die at six o'clock this morning. The election of the six non-permanent members of the league council today resulted In no chnnge resulted in no change In the composition of that body. Belgium, llrazil, Spain, Sweden, Cstecho-Hlova-kla, and Uruguay continue as the non-permanent members. Clearing House Report. NKW YORK, Sept. 2S. The actual condition of clearing house banks and trust companies for the week shows excess reserve of 19.228,740. This In an Increase of $34,903,370 compared with Inst week when a deficit In re serve of $15,674,630 was reported. NEW TYPE , ASTER, AND ROSE tptilntnble nnd comes much enrller In the season. Burhnnk hns produced more than one hundred varieties of the ar. I nnd his Intest offering Is the In gest i of them nil. Iris also beautiful In I color, texture ant appearance. Details of the new type of rose nre . unnlnliln. other than It In one more variety, a bit different Ihun any pre viously produced, . SHOT BREAK M'MILLAN SHIP IS OF LINER WILL FACE PROBE Navy to Inquire Into Conduct Following Crash at Sea Left Wreck Scene No Sidelights On Submarine Is Claim. "WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. The steamship City of Rome should have remained on the spot unless urgently impelled to leave after ramming the submarine S-51 last night, Secretary Wilbur declared today. ' The conduct of the captain of the City of Rome, the secretary added, would be inquired Into in connection with the investigation which will be ordered and if it were found there had been any criminal act or negli gence on his part, action would be taken against him. BOSTON. Sept. 26. (A. P.) The submarine S-51, which was sunk in a colllsioin with the stenmer City of Rome off Block Island last night with 34 members of her crew aboard, was running without sidelights and was nearly into the ship before she was sighted, Captain Diehl of the City of Rome reported in a wireless message to the Charleston navy yard today. Captain Diehl's message read as follows: U. S. Submarine S-51 seen from sea. "- ,5Io side light" showing. Was nearly Into Bhip when side lights wera switched on. Hacked full rfpeed but submarine did not change. Struck forward conning tower. Hub marine sunk at once. Only three men saved. Being tnken care of. All pas senfgers and crew of Rome OK. Ship little dented." Captain Diehl's message was the first indication of how the nccldent happened nnd he has promised by wireless to give further details when the City of Rome reaches Boston at about two o'clock this afternoon. At Pittsburg: Washington & Lee 0, Pittsburg 28. At Chester, Pa.: Pennsylvania Mili tary college 39, Prospect Park (Pa.) Field club 0. At Syracuse: Syracuse 32, Hobart 0. At Philadelphia: Pennsylvania 32, Ursinus 0. At New York: Columbia 94, Haver ford 0. American. ' At Philadelphia Tlrst gnme: n. II. E. Cleveland .7 10 1 Philadelphia 2 11 8 Levison and McCrea; Itommcl, Hnrrlss and Cochrane At' lloston Klrst game: R. H. E. ChlinEo 8 13 0 Boston G 13 1 Edwards, ftlnpkenship and Grab- owski: Ehmke, Kuhr'and Htokes. Second game: H. H. E. Chicago 6 11 0 Boston . v.i.' 0 6 1 Lyons und Schulk; Wln'gflcld nnd Bischoff. At New York H. It. E. Detroit 1 11 0 New York . 3 9 0 Wells, Doyle and llnssler. Woodall; Shocker, Hoyt nnd Bengough. At Philadelphia. 2nd game It II. E. i'leveiana lu - z Philadelphia ' 0 4 1 Itenge and Myatt; Gray and Coch rane. At Washington n. II. E. St. Louis 0 11 1 Wnshlngton 7 11 1 (Hard, Vnngllder nnd Dixon: Thom ns; Kelley and Severeid. National. At Pittsburg First game: It. II. E. New York 4 0 1 Pittsburg S 6 1 Barnes nnd McMullen; Aldridge and Smith. Second gnme: n. II. E. New York .1 8 1 Pltts0irg ... 0 4 2 Fltzslmmons and Hnydcr, Dcvlne; Morrison, Hheehan and Goorh. At Cincinnati It. - H. ! "rooklyn 4 11 0 Cincinnati 1 8 1 Khrhnrilt nnd Taylor; Donohueand Htirgrnve. Uostua St, Louis, rain, SKIPPER FOOTBALL SCORES BASEBALL SCORES ATHLETIC FIELD FENCF PROTEST BEHHEjOARD Expect Settlement With Prop erty Owners to Be Reached Enclosed Field Necessary for Contests List bf Petitioners. A hitch hns nrlsen with regard to the proposed new athletic field en closure of the high school, a plot of about 2 acres directly west a block frorti' the old athletic; field, or Holly street baseball grounds as it has been commonly known, and which is now a large portion of the new high school site. This hitch is due to the fact that the residents of the streets adjacent to the new athletic field are opposed to the school board putting up the old athletic field eight foot high board fence to enclose the new athletic field, on the ground that It damages their properties. A city ordinance prohibits the erection of a board fence more than four feet high. The school board recognizes the fact that the high school athletic field must be enclosed because admission is charged for witnessing the games, and also because such grounds must be enclosed to enable teams to have secret practice. ' On the other hand, the protesting property owners who foel an Interest in high school activities, recounting this fact hope that they und the school board can get together, km some nmic- uble arrangement by "which a mt Ighlly-ncloime-cmtii( . had. - The school hoard at its meeting last night threshed over the matter In all Its phases and decided to tender the protestors a proposition for a more sightly enclosure. If the board and the property own ers affected cannot get together on a friendly solution, then the hoard must abandon the athletic field for a new location outside the city limits, which can be fenced In by a high . board fence. The situation Is a very emhnrras sing one as the new athletic field, the enclosure of which is now In dispute. was purchased or contracted for by the board from the city, former owner of the ground, for JlflOO, and the board already has spent 11200 on Improve ments on the field, Btich as grading and draining and getting It ready for enclosure. The old athletic field board fence was moved to the new field some time ago and lies there flnt on the ground ready for erection as soon as the dispute with the property owners is adjusted. In the meantime this fence cannot be put up. and hence this afternoon's football game on tho field was not enclosed. The following Is the signed protest or petition presented to the school board : We, the undersigned property own ers who will be directly affected to the detriment of our property values and our personal comfort, by the erecting of an unsightly and objec tionable fence around the athletic field on West Second street, hereby pledge ourselves to the support of an injunction to stop such erecting of such a board fence, and agree to share equally in the expense of such an Injunction. It Is agreed, however, to submit our wishes and demands to the school board for their Information prior to any drastic action on our part. M. C. Page. 316 North Peach street. Fred Punlln. 335 West Holly street. George W. Laldley, 613 West Sec ond street. Mrs. C. N. Bassett, 419 WeBt Second street. C. N. Bassett, 419 West Second street. a. n. street. Hedges, 413 West Second C. F. Olson-, 301 Peach street. Vern Van Dyke, 311 Peach street. Mrs. M. C. Page, 315 North Peach street. Inez Van Dyke, 311 North Peach street. , E. S. Hedberg, 219 North Peach street. Elsie N: Olson, 301 North Peach street. Louise E. Hedges, 413 West Second street. Mr. and .Mrs. c. E. Whltemnn, 513 West Second street. , Mr. nnd Mrs. B. W. Paul, 400 West Second street. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Senilis:. 405 West Second street. Mrs. George Laldley, 513 West Second street. I Mrs. A. Rwnrti. William SwarUt. Mrs. Fred Ptirdln, 335 "Wcat Holly street. Sliaiilili Victory. PAniH. Sept. 28. (A. P.) Ad1 vices received by the Exchange Tele graph agency here say rumors that the Spanish forces have captured I AJdlr, capital of Abd-EI-Krlm, lender of the Itlfflnn rebels, were circulated ill Madrid today, WAR DEBT AT Discuss Differences Over Tea cups Negotiations at a Standstill Over Week-End New French Offer Ex ' pected Monday. WASHINGTON'. Sept. 26. (A. P.) The American and French war debt negotiators have adopted a policy of discussing the differences over the teacups. With the formal negotiations at a standstill over the week-end. Secretary Mellon today accepted an invitation to lunch with M. Culllaux and others of the French commission at the French embnsBy. The function was arranged as the first of a serieB of dully iuncheons at which the principals in the negotia tions will seek the common ground of understanding they have not thus far discovered in the more formul exchanges of tho conference room. M. Culllaux apparently found the new method of negotiation more to his taste than the somewhat sharp passages through which the discus sions have passed since they began two days ago. He had made no effort last night to conceal his disappoint ment at the tenor of the American reply to hiB first proposal of settle ment lrttt toduy he seemed more cheerful. While the.. French have, .beoq ln formed that their offer ot an 1'nltlut payment of $26,000,000, with graduated increases over a long period, was wholly inadequate in the American view, the memorandum presented by Mr. Mellon was represented as not to be construed as In any way or sense a counter.proposul. Thus the wny Is left open for further settlement sug gestions from the French and it ap peared toduy that the next move rested with them. It wns the general expectation that Finance Minister Caillaux, the French commission chairmnn. will have a new offer to present, either today or Monday. The trend of tho negotiations so fnr has caused no lessening of the optimism either of Secretary Mellon or M. Caillaux as to reaching an ulti mate agreement. Despite the wido divergence of views between the two commissions, ft was recalled that the situation was almost paralleled at this stage by the differences which arose during the conversations on tho British funding settlement. Meanwhile, Chairman Borah of tho sennto foreign relations committee, has taken a new angle In pressing for a settlement of ,the French debt on the general basis of the British debt settlement. In 'requesting Secre taries Mellon and Hoover for full In formation concerning recent loans made In this country to European na tlons, Senntor Borah declared that If, as 'he had been informed, such loans were carrying Interest rates of 6 and 8 per cent, the foreign debtor nations can well meet the terms of tho Brit lull settlement. SPECIAL AIDE TO HEAR TRIAL IN HATE-TORN KELSO " KICIvSO, Vah., Hept. 26. Hlte ImuH, proHpeutlnff attorney for Cow lit 7. county, Kherirf Clark Htudehaker and Nat H. Hmith, mayor of Kolno, returned from Olympla hint niKht after a conference with (lovernor Roland H. Hartley nnd Attorney Gen eral Dunbar and announced that, at their requcHt, the nttorney general awtured the in that a Hpeclnl prowecu tor will he appointed at once to In vpHtigate the Thoman J. Dovcry mur der myHtery. "HecuUKC of the hltterneHH of, the political factlonH here we thouRht It ndvlHahte to ank the HtJite to appoint a Hpecial prosecutor who would he untrammeled by prejudice, frlendn and en em Ion In the effort' to run down the Dovery murder," Ironocut InK Attorney frnun mild. OLVMPIA, Wash., Sept. 20. (A. P.) Appointment of Assistant Attor ney (leneral K. O. Hharpo ns a special prosecutor In the case of murder of Thomus Dovery, Kelso editor, wns announced here ttfllny by Attorney General John H. Dunbar. Other than to state that he would go to Kelso Monday morning to com mence his Investigation Into the case, Mr. Hhnrpe suld ho had no sument to mukVi mm Land Office Business Wine Grapes; Dealers Afoul License Laws ronTLAND, Ore., Sept. 26. (A. P.) Six men are under nr- rent here hecmino they were Helling California wine grapes from a carload lot. Police tech- nlcally charged them with doing hiiHiiieHu w 1 1 h o u t a liven ho. When officers took the men Into cuntody a crowd of prospective iMitttnmui'H was waiting to obtain 4 grapes. IiHt year two entire truiulnadti of grapes were sold In this manner. T 10 FACE TRIAl Whitey Watson, Though State Fails to Identify Through , . , FailS tO Identify ThrOUgn Star Witness, Held to Grand llirv npfpnc.P ninime Mk- jury ueiense udims mis taken Identity- RAI.EM Sept. 50. (A! P.) .The ense of .the state .against Clyde' (Whitey) Watson, wno la held In the county Jail here under accusation of being one of a trio who robbed the bunk at. Aurora, Ore,, on October !. when-UiWHulerL roek. whet was in the bank ut the time falls -rcy Identify him. Wutson wus, however, bound over to tho grand Jury by Jus tice of the Peace Kmall with his bund fixed at 15000. Although Mrs. llruck failed to Identify Watson he wntf Identified by Miss Grace -Patch of Canby,.who was employed in an of fice ncross the street from the bank, and had a clear view of the robbers nnd who declared on the witness stand toduy that Watson was one of them. The state had expected the testi mony of Mrs. Brock to strengthen In stead of -weaken its case. The wit ness had not been given an oppor tunity prior to tho preliminary henr lng today to see the prisoner hut Miss Patch hud previously been allowed to seo him and hud identified him at Astoria after his arrest on the rob bery charge. Watson and his attorney declare that the small blond man, whom Miss Patch Identifies as Watson, was un doubtedly a man named Charles SUSPEC AURORA BANK HOLD UP Nygren, afterward killed by a poice wn" Partly submergod and approach officer at Buckley, Wush., while at- e1 he City of Rome diagonally from tempting a robbery at that place. .the starboard side. About half of the Other witnesses today were Louis passengers were In their staterooms, M. Iteeso and Vernon Hoy, both of but a number were on deck, whom were employed in a logging I C. H. Tlnkham of Medford and camp In Clatsop county with Wntsun I Miss Marie Roach of Orlando, N. B nnd who were held In Jail as suspects 1 two of the passengers, said that with him at Astoria. Both signed j none en board Baw the submarine statements that were somewhat dam- . as it approached, but expressed the aging to Watson. Neither .offered any-1 opinion that the lookout must have thing today that wus damaging to noticed it Just before the crash. A hlin relative to the Aurora robbery, E, NOT SELF-MADE. III., Sept. 26. Three coal HERRIN, miners were entombed and another severely Injured today in n gas ex plosion at mine No. 7 of the Consoli dated Coal company near here. Only alight hope was hold for bringing out the entombed men alive. HclHHIIICr C'4IKXCB. NOHTH BYDNEY, N. 8 Hept, 80. (A. P.) Cuntuln Joseph Vatcher of tho BB-ton schooner Inez O, ot Burgeo, Newfoundland and five sea- men were drowned Inst night when their vessel capsized about three miles off Llngun, while making for North Hydney for shelter. DIVORCE IS DENIED MICHIGAN SOLON : AND HIS WIFE IN A 11 SUIT ALPHNA, Mich., Bopt. 2C (A. P.) Frank D. Hcott, Mlchfjrnn cnngrRfi man, and Krina J a men Hcutt, litn wtt. were denied divorce In a decision bunded down today by Circuit Judge frank D. Kmerlrk. ConRrawman Hcott charged cruelty nnd mlRconritut, olleRfnfr that bin wife had been I "I 'IndlHcrnet" In her re- luUunu WUU three men Captain E E Bubbles On Surface Above Craft Chlorine Gas Feared Survivors Reach Boston, One in Serious- Condition From Exposure. BOSTON, 8cpt. 28. (A. P.) The City of Rome, carrying the three known survivors ot the submarine H-rl, which was rammed and sunk off Block island last night with 34 members of her crew on board, ar rived at the HooBalc tunnel docks Charleston at 3:30 o'clock this after- ' noon. The three survivors were the first taken from the Bhlp. They were able to walk but wre wrapped In blan- kets. They were sent Immediately to me uavai nospitai in cneisea. The men . suld they were In their hunks when the crash occurred and ,m,t tney happened to be near the l0onnlnB towe. Thev. thBV were floated out of the opening and Into the water. The survivors Bald they had little hope that any of the 34' men who wmu "n wltn the submarine would th . t. .. i one of the men wai In n nerlouii rondltlon when nicked ud bv the 0ty of Rome, passengers reported, he having been partly .overcame by the. .hinrina u . t,a nble wttt(!P , hl ,unga as , on(1 of the others. The third man, a good swlmmor, wae floating on his back and aside from being cold was In good condition. The men rescued were Alfred deler New Bedford, . Mass.; Dewey. Kile, Peoria, ' Miss., and Michael 8. Lira, Ht. Louis. It was Impossible to tell whether the men were seriously In jured as they were taken from the bont, as they were Immediately 1 rushed away to the hospital. I It was reported at the naval sta tion that the H-61 was located by an alrplano from which observers saw bubbles coming to the surface of the water. Tho H-l was anchored di rectly over the spot while the other crnft comprising the rescue fleet, stood by. ... . J passengers on the City of Home said that the night was clear when the collision occurred. The steamer was making from ten to twelve knots nnd the submarine, It was thought. few persons noticed a red light Just oeiore tne steamer struck. The first Intimation ot danger came with three blasts ot the ship's whistle, followed by a series of short toots. Then enme tho crash as the vessels struck. , The City of Rome, Tlnkhnm said, keeled over slightly as It it had run upon an obstruc tion. , , The searchlight of the Cltv of I Rome was out of commission, the I passengers said, but f I a r e were thrown up Immediately nnd a llfe- "oat wns launched. Those on deck heard cries for help, but there was no sign of the submarine which must have gone down. Tlnkham and others said he believed It was se riously damaged and perhaps split In two. Finishes Flight TOKIO. Bent. 20. C ommandar Francesco de Plnedo, Italian flvlaa ace, completed hissRome to Toklo flight this afternoon, arriving at the Kasumlgatira air station near here it ( 3: 62 o'clock. He was welcomed bf naval and military officials. , Wilbur Humner of tho army air ier vice; Harry Wyckoff, a Washington hotel clerk, and on unnamed mall ihe mat In Kurort.'. Mr. Hcott charged her husband gambled for hifi stakes and drank. The HcottH separated In December, 1022. The tnntlng of the Hcotts took plure In 19rt. - Ther are no chil- FADES NT!