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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21
AL|FORN|ANS
REFUSE TO SET
PRUNE PRICES

The prune market continues in
a slump by reason of the lack of
improvement in the rail strike SIT
uation and buyers are showing no
more activity today than for sew
eral weeks past.
Promises of some activity on the
part of buyers with the announce
ment of the opening prices of the
California association, slated for
today. went up in thin air when
the announcement failed for the
second time to show itself. II was
first scheduled to come out 10
days ago, but the sluggishness of
the eastern market and the in
ability Of the railroad to move
shipments caused it to be with
held.
What effect the continuance OF
the unsettled railroad situation
will have on the market for their
product IS worrying some of the
growers who have not the finan-
cial resources to carry their crop
over in case OF a long delayed
strengthening Of the market.
Few of the growers in this sec
tion of the valley sold their prunes
during the opening furry when
buyers were bidding on a 1o-cent
basis. Some OF the smaller crops
we're contracted to Gamers but
the bulk OF the pick this year re-
mains unsold.
II is reported that the opening |
prices will not now be
quoted until some improvement IS
shown IN the strike situation.
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AUTO Thief ESCAPES
FROM M'NEIL'S ISLAND

i'sueriek H. Delage, "a, sentenced
MA 80 May to two-year term for
ing automobiles in Seattle,
4peo his guards at the federal
r n on Mcneil Island this
~ Aihg. An armed posse was at
~ sent in pursuit and II the
/, nef Is not apprehended with
snort time the woods where
- thought to be hiding will be
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21
EIWAHIS CONVENTION
OPENS At OLYMPIA

Olympia, Wash, Aug. 21.-Ap-
proximately $50 delegates to the
Pacific northwest Rwsnis con-
vention had registered here early
today, but late arrivals are ex-
7ected to swell the total to 500 or
100.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21
TRAINING Of
100000 FOR
WAR FAVORED
President Harding Seeks
Citizen Soldiers to Pre-
serve Peace-Addresses
Camp Meade.

Washington, Aug. 21.-Presi-
dent Harding, in an address here
today to citizen soldiers from
Camp Meade, Maryland, declared
he favored military training for
more than 100000 civilians an
nually, not for any prospective
aggressive warfare, but to pre-
serve peace.
After reviewing the civilian
troops on the ellipse, adjacent to
the White House grounds, the
president called attention to the
fact that $4,000 civilians were af-
forded training this summer, com
pared with 1900 last year. The
president said the review had Civ
en- him new confidence, but added
that there was not thought in
Ameyica for armed warfare, the
nation being concerned only in
preserving peace of the world.
In the Camp Meade contingent
were 1000 young men, constitut-
ing infantry, medical, artillery
and cavalry units from the Dis
trict Of Columbia, Maryland, Della
ware and Pennsylvania, who have
been in training for three weeks.
Declaring that the boys had been
benefited by learning discipline,
the president asserted that "all
America might well benefit by
learning a little more impressive
ly the obligations of the citizen to
his country"
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ASKED
BY PRESIDENT
IN CONGRESS
Commission to be APP
pointed to Probe Coal
Production; Members
Draw $4,000 Pay.

Washington, Aug. 21.-A bill to
carry into effect President Hard
ings recommendations for
sweeping government investiga-
tion of the coal industry was in
troduced today by Chairman
Winslow of the house commerce
committe after a visit to the
White House.
The measure would create a
commission of nine members to be
known as the United States coal
commission to obtain information
regarding all questions and prob
lens connected with the coal in
dustry. No members OF congress
or any person who has any inter-
est in, or Is connected with the In
dustry would be eligible to serve
on the commission. The salary
of the commissioners would be
at the rate of $4,000 and the
commission would cease to exist
one year after the act took effect.
Duty Of Commission,
Specifically the bill would make
it the duty OF the commission ito
investigate and ascertain facts In
the coal industry as to ownership
OF coal mines, price of coal,
of employment, distribution, waste
of coal realized by owners or op-
orators of coal mines or by the
persons or corporations having to
do with the production, distribu-
tion or sale of coal and any other
facts in connection with
the coal industry generally and
the organizations and persons
connected with it,"
The commission would report to
the president and congress by
January l, 1928, its findings OF
fact and make such recommends
tions as in its judgment would
promote continuity Of production
and efficiency in mining and dis
tribution and maintain uninter-
rupted movement Vi coal in inter-
state commerce and safeguard the
interests Of workers, operators
and the public"
Half Million in Cost.
A half million dollars would be
for expenses of the
Coincidenta4ly with presenta-
ton of the bill in the house,
Borah of the senate La
Dor committee issued a call for a
of his committee tomor-
row to take up the presidents
for coal fact
finding commission. Senator Bor-
III hopes to get action on his own
bill, which the president has ap-
proved Ia the main, but which
liffers I'm some respects from the
measure. The senator to-
lay said he would propose amend
nents to meet suggestions by the
president.
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THIRD PARTY
7OCARRY OUT
KLAN IDEALS
Complete Ticket Likely to
be Named for Coming
Election by New Organ
izatiOn.
p By Harry N. Grain.

Politically the Ku Klux Klan in
Oregon will henceforth and on
ward be known under a new and
assumed name.
The progressive party, that in
surgent organization which has
80 handily been launched and
scuttled, re-launched and re-
scuttled a dozen times in as many
years and to serve as many causes,
has been officially ku kluxed. 1t
now appears in the role of pros
pective sponsor for:
The so-called compulsory
education bill, the key plank in
the klan's platform during the
primary campaign of last spring
2-The anti-alien land bill,
stolen from the American Legion
by the night-shirted gentry to
bolster up their primary platform.
3-The independent candidacy
for state treasurer of Fred L. Gif-
ford, exalted cyc;ops of the Ore
gon realm Knights of the Ku Klux
Klan.
Sponsored by Clifford.
Sponsorship Of the first two
was admitted by Clifford, himself,
during the Official "naturaliza-
ton of the progressives at the
Central Library hall in Portland,
Saturday afternoon. Characteris-
tic modesty and natural reserve,
together with the probable real
ization that even ku kluxed pro-
gressives might rebel at being de-
priyed of the privilege of formal
ly naming their own candidates
when in convention duly assem-
bled, restrained him from adding
that he had ambitions to handle
the states money and raise his
voice, as a member of the board
Continued on page eight)
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21

M. M. Crow was arrested last
night about IL o'clock by Chief
Moffitt and charged with attempt
ed criminal assault. He is said to
have accosted a woman near
south 18th and Oak streets. The
woman eluded him and went to
the depot and phoned to the po-
lice, who responded and placed
Crow under arrest. He was held
for investigation and this morn
ing was taken to the county jail.
He Will have hearing in the JUS
tice court tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21

Mr.. f. W. Durkey, OF Newport,
who has been III at local hospital
for some time. went home yester-
day.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21

At last a ray of hope. Horse ser
nm has been found better than
monkey glands for the senile. May
be with the serum a little morse
sense can be injected
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21
RUHR MINES
DEMANDEDAS
GUARANTEES
France Will Not Consent
to Grant Moratorium to
Germany Unless State
Mines are Securities.

Bar lie Due, France, Aug. 21.-
(By Associated Press France
will not consent to grant a mora
torium of any character to Ger
many unless the German state
mines of the Ruhr and the nation
al forests are placed in the hands
of the allies as a guarantee, and
no matter what happens France
will not depart from this policy
Such was the position of the
French government with regard
to the reparations question as out
lined by Premier Poincare at the
opening session of the general
council of the department of the
Meuse.
The premier disclaimed any de-
sire on the part of France to ruin
Germany under the guise of a
demand for productive guaran-
tees.
"The day Germany recognizes
loyalty her obligations toward
France and carries them out with
good grace declared M. Poin-
care, "we will not refuse to ex-
anime with her the best meth
ods of assuring the prompt and
regular enactment of the treaty of
Versailles"
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Presidents Address.

his ADDRESS IolloWS:
II could not allow the oppor-
tunity to pass without a word of
felicita tion and congratulation
You have afforded us this morn
ing, those who were in review and
those who carried on the review,
most impressive and reassuring
spectacle. You are citizens of a
republic wholly devoted to peace.
There is not thought in Amer
lea of armed warfare. There is
not design on the part of your
country to carry on an armed cam
paign in any direction.
I'VE are concerned only with
peace and the security of peace
and ! like to think that this great
republic, reducing Its regular
army in accordance with its ideals.
can have the assurance that comes
to it with such a spectacle as you
have given us this morning. /
congratulate you with all my
heart.
Profits Are Mutual.
'It is a fine thing for the young
Of America to turn from
the ordinary engagements of the
CONTINUED ON Page Five.)
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URGES
QUICK END Of
RAIL STRIKES
Idaho Senator Demands
Speed in Order to Save
Fruit Crops of Country
Threatens to Act.

Washington, Aug. 21.--Declar-
ing that the railroad strike was
becoming "intolerable," Senator
Borah, republican, Idaho, chair
man of the senate labor commit
tee, today urged both sides in the
strike to hasten solution be-
cause of the losses in moving
crops.
Senator Borah, in a telegram to
T. Dewitt Cuyler, chairman of
the Association of Railway Exec
utives, and in conference with
B. M. Jewell, leader OF the strik-
ing shopmen and william H.
Johnston, president OF the Inter
national Association of Machin-
lists, asserted the crop losses thru
lack of transportation were becom
ing serious.
Outlook Hopeful
Mr.. Jewell, who with Mr.. John
son, called on Senator Borah at
the latter's office, was said to
view the New York negotiations
as hopeful. He and the machin-
lists head, 1t was said, again pre-
sented to Senator Borah reports
as to deterioration OF railroad
equipment.
Senator Borah's telegram to
Mr.. Cuyler, the substance OF
which was repeated orally to Mr..
Jewell, follows:
May ! respectfully urge that
all who shall convene on Wednes-
day to consider ways of settling
the strike, that at this time thru
out fruit and potato regions of
the west there is a pronounced
shortage of cars and an utter ina
bility to move these perishable
products to the market?
Thousands of cars OF potatoes
and fruit are ready to move and
the most serious and widespread
loss and damage must soon fol-
low. II relief is not had at once
and cars furnished, the next
twenty days will witness the ruin
Of hundreds OF fruit and potato
raisers who must lose their entire
years work to say nothing OF the
Indirect loss to the people who
ought to have these products.
These things are doubtless IA
niliar to You, but you will pardon
ne in urging it again upon your
attention, The situation is fast
becoming intolerable and / felt it |
ny duty to accentuate these con-
litions to those who are to be in
attendance at this conference.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21

Cander Atlanta founder of the Coca Cola Com
the SOUTH announced his
Boucbele herself wealthy
take San Francisco at the end of
early September Beginning with only the formula
Gambler with his brothers, Bishop Warren Gambler
John Gambler of Georgia. have
mensey Gamblers is being sued for alleged
a end's
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CIRCULATION

Daily average for July, 1894.
Member Audit Bureau of Circulation.
Member Associated Press-Full leased
wire service.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-08-21
Only Ask Opportunity

Contrary to certain British
Spokesman" continued the head
of the French cabinet, I'VE are
neither Neros nor Bismarcks. We
are simply good people who
were brutally attacked and whose
native soil was ravaged. All we
ask is the opportunity to contfn-
ue in peace our daily tasks.
I'VE are greatly disposed to aid
other nations. in the effort to re-
store the world. We know the
world does not end at our from
tiers. We welcome a broad and
generous European policy. We
desire to remain allies
Of our allies and friends of our
friends. We ask nothing better
than to resume with our enemies |
Of yesterday pleasant and courte-
1us relations. But we wish to have |
our ruins repaired-and they |
will be-"
Ridicules Charges
Premier Poincare ridiculed re-
cent charges that France sought
to enslave the German people in
revenge for the devastation
wrought during the war.
IF, contrary to our desire, we
are forced to take independent
action without the approval Of
our allies" he continued, 1--WE
shall make no effort to retain in
definitely the guarantees which
we may take. We shall guard
.hese guarantees in the interest
If all and only until Germany
consents to meet her just obliga-
ions"
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THE WEATHER

OREGON: Tonight and Tuesday gem
orally fair; moderate winds.
Local: Rainfall. none; max. rs, min.
SO; clear; west winds; river minus 10
feet.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-03-16

ground and at the same time makes
a clean cut through the tap root 10
inches below the surface Of the
ground. The hole left by this OPP
Grafton is small as compared with
that resulting from blasting, and is
sufficiently deep to permit blowing.
Aside from clearing the cut-over
lands to permit farming operations,
the cutter provides a valuable prod
uct, The finished machines will be
provided with a hood and suction fan
and the pine chips will be baled and
shipped to turpentine stills. The
value of the by-product from an acre
of cut-over land has been estimated
at 500, but the cost of shipping a
stump, shattered and twisted by dyn-
amite is too costly to permit a profit
on this operation.
Reduced to chips. and baled, the
stumps can be transported at lower
rate and will be available both for
distilling and for the states paper
mills, it is said.
Advantages of the 'Hurd stump cut
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PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH NOTES

Last week an interesting and prof
table series of prayer services were
conducted by the men Of the church,
beginning Tuesday night and closing
Friday night, in. the interest of the
Presbyterian Progressive Program.
On Tuesday night Layman's As
ISOLATION was organized with the fol-
lowing officers: Chairman, A. A.
Overstreet; secretary. L. R. Mills,
treasurer; T. P. Blackwell. A goodly
number of men joined the association
and another meeting will be held at
the church next Sunday afternoon at
8 o'clock. Every man over II years
of age will be welcomed as a member
of the organization.
Last Sunday afternoon a commit
tee of eight men made an every-mem-
Der canvass of the congregation,
which was very successful and will
be amply sufficient to meet the bud
get for the coming year.
Next Sunday morning Rev. J. S.
Baird, D. D., of Memphis, Tenn, will
preach a sermon on Christian Edu-
cation" with special reference to the
proposed Memphis College, to which
the people of Memphis have offered
100000 and a splendid site within
the city limits. No subscription will
be asked for this caused Sunday.
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RAJAH RABoID ISSUES
CHALLENGE TO sra

|, Rajah RabOid will d,
to any man who can HYt 'ls
girl while I am looking i \, "
,,. Raja h, Raboid will appes,
Magic City Theater MarcS 10, s I
This is an OppOrtunitr =
strong man to pick up fi1 y ].
A barrel of fun; don't mi,. Y
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-03-16
GOES INTO BANKRUPTCY

Herman Fishbien, Of New Or
leans, who conducts a shoe store in
that city as we'll as The Quality Shoe
Store in Bogalusa, went into bank
ruptcy at New Orleans last Friday.
The stock in Bogalusa will be moved
to New Orleans and disposed of in
connection with the stock in that
city. There were few local creditors.
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-03-16
Machine Invented Which Is Claimed
Can Clear Two Acres Of Stump Land
Daily at Very Low Cost Of Operation

A shower Of dirt, tornado of fly
ing chips and a 8O-year-old stump
has vanished within less than a min
ute.
That is the way the Hurd stump
remover and cleaner operates. So
successful was a recent test Of the
machine in Livingston parish that
moving pictures of the operation will
be shown to Southern lumber in New
Orleans on March %.
Mr.. Hurd believes he has solved
the South's greatest problem, the re-
mOval of millions Of stumps on the
cut-over lands that have so far out
lasted stump pullers, dynamite and
numerous elaborate plans for their
destruction.
In Louisiana there are 100000
acres Of land studded with pine
stumps. Some of the stumps have
been there forty years and show no
signs of rotting. Estimating an av-
erage Of thirty stumps to the acre,
the Hurd stump cutter has a virgin
field of 27O,OOO,OOO stumps in Louisi-
ana to demolish. and probably almost
an equal number in Mississippi and
Texas.
Sylvester NJ. Hurd, New Orleans
well driller and inventor, believes he
has a machine that will clear the
stumps from his 17O-acre farm in
Livingston parish, near Springfield. |
Those stumps have been worrying
Mr.. Hurd for eight years. When he
acquired the farm he purchased
stump puller. The cable broke on
the second stump. The machine was
hauled out in front Of his home and
sold to the first passerby for what
it would bring.
Mr.. Hurd then tried dynamite.
Dynamite proved too temperamental.
Mr.. Hurd could vision the day when
a charge wouldn't wait to 90 off
while he was getting away to safe
distance.
Builds Thirty Machines
It was about that time that Mr..
Hurd decided he was going to clear
those stumps away. More than thirty
were built and discarded by
the inventor; $4,000 was spent on
the model. Mr.. Hurd believes he has
solved his problem, and the problem
Of thousands of other Southern land
owners. His stump cutter, patented
in 1919, was perfected in New Or
leans machine shops.
The first model is on the Hurd
farm near Springfield. It was tried
out recently and four stumps were
quickly demolished.
Minor defects may be uncovered
in the stump cutter, according to
hose backing the invention, but they
eel that the principle on which it op-
crates has been demonstrated as be-
ng correct.
The cutter head, which weighs 5000
POUNDS, has four arms studder with
eavy steel blades. At the end of
he arms are other knives which cut
nto othe ground. The continuance
an be attached to any tractor. Au-
omatic devices lower the cutting
cad into the ground near the stump
nd then advance it slowly as the
utting arms revolve at tremendous
1eed.
How Cutter Works
In the first demonstrations the ma
nine was successful where other
Jump cutters have failed. It demoI-
hes that part of the stump above
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ter, according to P. S. Scheidau, q
New Orleans real estate man and a
director of the company, are:
One-man control.
Economical operation.
Simplicity of construction.
A conservative estimate Of eight
stumps an hour is made for the ma
chine by Mr.. Scheidau. In the test,
one stump was demolished in fifty
seconds. The machine can clear two
acres Of land a day, estimating the
number of stumps at thirty to the
acre.
John H. Murphy is president OF
the Hurd Stump Cutting and Clear
ing Company.
Mr.. Hurd has patented three de.
vices, one of them the ''rear-view
mirror" for automobile drivers. The
first of these mirrors was made in
a New Orleans foundry.
Prior to coming to New Orleans
Mr.. Hurd was in Mexico. Shortly be-
fore the Diaz revolution he was Of
fered $4,000 for his oil leases there
but refused. In the revolution he
lost his leases and has chalked them
up as a total loss, although he has a
claim with the Mexican government.
A gentleman undertook to pur-
Oboco a yuoic For biC 1ryifo GCTIyb n Z
Bogalusa enterprise and American. (Bogalusa, La.) 1918-19??, 1922-03-16

A gentleman undertook to pur-
chase a waist for his wife. "What
bust?" inquired the saleslady.
"Why, l didn't hear anything"
-Everybody's.
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How Cutter Works

In the first demonstrations the ma
chine was successful where other
stump cutters have failed. It demol-
ishes that part of the stump above
Rockingham post-dispatch. [volume] (Rockingham, N.C.) 1917-1965, 1922-06-01
r. Z. MCDONALD

S,leriff Richmond County
Rockingham, N. c., May %, 1922.
Mr.. X. C. Gardner,
Hamlet, N. C.
Dear Sir:
Answering your enquiry will state
that when the railroad strike was
pending, | was called upon as sheriff
of the county by some of the Hamlet
citizens to organize a force to pre-.
serve order. / told them at that
time | did not think it necessary
and that ] felt sure there would be
no disturbances. \
/ was later requested by the rail-
road people to recommend a num-
Der of men to act as watchmen to.
protect and preserve the property
that would be abandoned and left
without protection or any one to
look after it, and my understanding
was that the railroad company
would pay the men for their SER
vices, or time, apd therefore asked
Mr.. Shores to go with Mr.. Robin
son and see ii he could secure some
good men for that purpose.
1t was my understanding that the
property needed some protection
from outside parties more than from
the employees Of the railroad com
.pany, as it was put up to us, and
there was no intention to carry out
amy fight against the railroad
workers,
Very truly yours,
RI. e. MCDONALD, Sheriff
Richmond County.
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THE WORKING PEOPLE ARE
ron A. h. STACK FOR JUDGE
political Adyertising.)
Hamlet, North Carolina,
Nav the 10th. 1922 !.

Hon. A. NJ. Stack,
Monroe, N. C.
Dear Sir:
1t is my pleasure to advise you
that at a Joint meeting Of represen-
tatives OF all the Labor Organiza-
.tions in Hamlet, N. G., held on Sat
urday night the 18th Of May, reso-
buttons endorsing your candidacy
for the Judgeship in the 18th Judi
cial District was unanimously pass
ed and our earnest support pledged
to the success Of your candidacy.
This action was based upon the
sincere belief Of the different organ
izations here that you stand abso-
lutely for the honest and unbiased
enforcement OF the laws Of North
Carolina, and that is all that we
snr any other citizen can ask. In
addition to that qualification we are
c0nyinced that you are eminently
qualified and fitted to serve the peo-
PIE OF this State in the capacity OF
a Judge.
There were present and participat-
ing members 81 the Order Of Rail-
way Conductors, Brotherhood Of Lo-
conceive Engineers, Brotherhood OF
Machmists, Brotherhood Of Railway
'rTrainIen, Brotherhood of Railway
Clerks Brotherhood Of Railway
Pipefitttrs, and Brotherhood Of Rail-
way Firemen.
With assurance Of our earnest
support, WI are,
Yours very truly,
3, D. FREEMAN, Sec.
! Approved: v. B. Carson, Chm.
Felix Cannon, Vice Chm