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4 DEMAND SOVIET RULE OR Will WRECK GOVT. Jtl.NTI.TXH FACTIONS IN UNITED STATES PLAN REVOLUTION i mj:ss given power APPEAL SENT TO Many Democrat and IliKhbrow lll aliovlk and !' IflNt. Hnid to Ho In Hympiitliy With Movement New York. Mar. 22. Political revolnUon which aim at "changes la tho structure of our government,' U planned through a uiovoment launched in an advertisement lu Os wald 0. Vlllard's. weekly. The n tlon. . It calls (or a natlonul couvon- tlon of loader of radical thotigh; Out of the oonfuroni-e it I purposed to create a national purty to content tlio control of tbe government lu the campaign of 1820. "UevoluUon or reconstruction?" the call la headed. Tbe elements directly appealod to or Included by association are those: 1. The non-partisan league; that la, Townloy'a movement, now a weep ing tbe middle and northwestern sec tlona of the country. 1. The new American labor par ty, branch of wlil.-Ji already have been formed in New York, Chicago, Seattle and other sections. S. The national party which rep resents, the "highbrow" clement, In cluding tho "(tarlor Bolsbevlka." . Tbe I. W. V. 5. The socialists. Although not directly named, the call la appareatly-deslgnod to touch leaaor groups. Somo of the tiamea are reminiscent of pacifism. It la rumored that if all these groups can be amalgamated then negotiations will be opened with tho democratic party, many of whose leaders are understood beforehand to be sympathetic. . The nation-wide propaganda de mands "recognition of the sovlot government of Huiwia by the United 8tates." SLEET AND SNOW TIE UP CENTRAL STATES Denver, Colo., Mar. 22. Sloet and buow In northern Colorado, Wyo ming and New Mexico yesterday ser iously In t erf erred with telegraph and telephone com m tin lea tlon and rail road schedules. The wires are down today. SLAVS MAY AO HOME New York, Mar. 22.i The execu tive oo mm It too of the second . all Ruselan colonial convention today announced the incorporation of the Svoboda steamship line, the purpose of which company would he to ohar ter or purchase steamers for the transportation of 1,000,000 Russian workers, bolshevik and others, to Russia. Democrats want to test popular vote Jefferson City, Mo,, Mar. 22. Fifty democratic members of the Missouri legislature have offered to resign if Senator James Reed would resign. They .then propose to run for Te-eloctlon as thoy suggest Sen ator Reed to do, to force a popular vote In the state on tho league of nations question. EDUCATED KILLED BYTHEWHOLESALE llolhlutvlkl DcUtiiiIiiwI to EiUrinJn to ' "ItiU'lIootuaT1 Class and Crush Liberty Omsk, Siberia, Mar. 22. Whole sale aatuisl nations were conducted by the Rod Guard In tho village of Trol- ky, near i'erni. when tho Bolsb. vlkl wore driven out of tho latter place by the Blborlaa army, say of ficials of the All-Russian govern mem. Prutilcally everybody known to bo educated or regarded as an Intellectual" was arrested and elth er sliot or stabbed to death. The victims Include a leading agrloultur 1st named 8ouvoroff. a woman nhv. alclan named Kafmykowa, a police ustloo, the aged .sister of a Driest. and an employe of the forestry ad ministration with his wife. Incidents of this kind are declar ed to be frequont throughout tbe districts occupied or evacuated br the Bolshevlkl. Admiral Kolchak. tho teiuKrary governor for the Omsk AII-KusHlan government, and othor leading officials point out that the uolahovlk movement has entire ly lost its original character and has degenerated Into wild license and cruelty, trying to exterminate all those who work with tholr brain as against thoso who labor with their hands, destroying ruthlessly every estlge of national order before dreaming of replacing It with any kind of system or organization. The general verdict In Siberia to day la that If humanity does ' not tamp out bolshevlsm, , bolshovism will crush humanity and everything that is sacred and peaceful in the world, for bolahevtsm Is regarded as an International danger and not alone a Russian danger. IHP OVER TIE SORAS Sacramento, Cal., Mar. .22. Army aviators In three DeHavlland air planes left .Mather Flold here today In an attempt to 'fly over the Sierra Nevada mountains to Reno, Nevada. The flight across the Sierras has never been accomplished. Reno, Nev Mar. 22. The, Sacra mento aviators have reached Carson City, having crossed the mountains without difficulty. ENORMOUS SUM To K(I,1SH SHIPOWNERS London, Mar. 22. While the monetary loss from the sinking of British ships during the war will never be accurately known, the gov ernment up to this tlmo has paid to British shopowners approximately (527,000,000. A few cases remain to bo settled. NEW JOSEPHINE HOTEL The Chamber of Commerce Mon day noon luncheon will be served at the Josephine hotel, Don't fall to hear the dobmte, "Shall the Chamber ot Commerce Keep the Tourist Auto Park," affirmative,' Clarence Wine trout and O. 3. Blanchard; negative, Jessie Johnston and Sam H. Baker. Linn Sabln will explain the work, and object of tho Junior commercial clubs. NO TRACK OF FUGITIVE Portland, Ore., Mar. 22. It has been reported to the police here that "Red" Ruport had visited a gtrl friend here yesterday. It was also reported that the Los Angeles police aire on the lookout for him, but the authorities have no definite clew as to hla whereabouts. , . ROTH GARRISON GIVEN 10 DAYS LEA SHERIFF PROVIDES BETTER QUARTERS AND REFUSES TO PLACE llElt IX JAIL DENY STORRS All INTERVIEW ITiMnxutlng Attorney Kays Girl Is Murderer, Not Martyr, ami He Bents Sheriffs Actions ' Seattle, Wash., Mar. 22. Ruth Garrison is held in the House of the Good Shepherd Instead of in the county jail on Sheriff Stringer's or ders, who said "she should not be put in with those old hags at the county Jail." Prosecuting Attorney Fred Crown said he would object with all his power to treating her differently from other women prisoner, and aid "she is a murderer and not a martyr and there is no sense In try ing to make her one." Mies Garrison was given a week in which to enter a plea. Dudley Storrs will be taken to Okanogan to face the charge of ab ducting Miss Garrison. He asked permission to see the girl but his re quest was denied. ARMY OFFICER ACCUSES ' AKEROF AIDING I. W. W. - -J Kansas City, Mo., Mar. 22. Per fection of a pacifist organization In such a clever manner that it has 'reached "the foundations of tbe most active department of the government the war department," was charged in an address today by Major Dick B. Foster, member of a courtmartial at Camp Funston, Kan., that tried 135 alleged conscientious objectors. He accused Secretary of War Ba ker with "intentionally or uninten tionally aiding and assisUng the I. W. W., international socialists and humanitarians In their urogram of blocking construction of the army by extending and perverting the acts of congress for the protection, comfort and solace of these obstructionists." TO IKE P BOOTH TELLS BANQUETERS OF HIGHWAY PROGRESS RUMORS 0 Not less than 40 Grants Pass cit izens attended the get-together meet ing nnd 'banquet at Medford last night, and report having spent a most Interesting and enjoyable even ing. The majority of them went In automobiles and experienced some very deep .mud on the way and as ithe affair lasted until the midnight hour many of them did not get home until after 2 o'clock. . F. S. Bramwell of this city ably presided as toastmoater ' and also made a very Interesting talk. Mayor Gates of Medford made a short ad dress of Welcome and several others were called upon for speeches, after which Hon. 'R. A. Booth of Eugene was Introduced as principal siaker of the evening. He spoke for abdut 45 minutes nnd was given the closest attention. He stated that the state of California had appropriated $400,- 000 for building a highway from Crescent City towards Grants Pass. In regard to the Pacific highway, Mr. Booth said that (most of the grading would be finished during the present' year, that some paving would be laid -within the next few months, and that by the end of next year the whole highway would in all probability be paved or macadam ized; that not less than (40,000,000 would be spent on Oregon roads In the hear future. EOS ANGELES MAYOR FACES INDICTMENT ACXT8ED OF ASKING FOB AND RECEIVING KlUDES FROM GAMBLERS AND RESORTS ASKS FOR A SPEEDY TRIAL FurnlMlies $10,000 liond and De clares That Whole Disturbance Is Political Frame-up Los Angeles, Cal., Mar. 22. Mayor Fredoilck T. Woodman was indicted here by the' grand jury to day for "asking for, receiving, and agreeing to receive a bribe" in con nection with gambling houses and blind pigs and Immoral resorts. He gave $10,000 hond and declared that the Indictment was a political job .to Influence the outcome of the mayoralty camnaien int .tnntimr Two negroes were indicted for giv ing the bribe. The mayor pleaded not guilty and his attorneys asked for a speedy trial to finish the matter np before the primary elections which are to be held on May 6. JAPANESE USING IRON HAND IN RULING KOREANS Philadelphia, Mar. 22. Ten thou sand Koreans have been killed and 45,000 arrested hy the Japanese within the last two day la the dam onstrations for Korean Independence. according .to a cablegram from Shanghai which has lust reached Tir Srngham Rhee. representative of the Korean national association to the peace conference, .who is now In this cfty. Japan has cut all wire communlca. tlon between Korea and the outer world. Couriers smuggled over the border Into China have cabled Dr. Rhee. BURLESON REMOVES McKAY New York, Mar. 22. Postmaster General Burleson today removed Clarence H. McKay, president of the Postal Telegraph and Cable com pany. F 1 In regard to Mr. Booth's resigna tion from the state highway commis sion It has been given out that he has reconsidered his resignation and will remain with the board. A report in circulation that in stilled enthusiasm into the boosters present, was that A. C. Ross, who passed through this city last Thurs day, was in San Francisco gathering material and would soon return here with a crew of surveyors to begin operations on a railroad between Grants Pass and Crescent City. The banquet prepared by the Med- ioto Doosiers was pronounced aw "splendid," while the Medford male quartette and others furnished pleas ing entertainment. Miss Genevieve Pattillo and James Uum of this city favored the banqueters with two duets, with Miss Berenice Quinlan at the piano, Miss Quinlan also play ing a ipiano selection and Mr. Uum singing a solo. Rev. Drake caught the closest attention from the au dience while he delivered a reading. - The statement that California has appropriated $400,000 for a wagon, road Heading toward this city from Del Norte county, and the rumor that Mr. Ross really means to con struct a railroad from Crescent City to Grants Pass is cause for genuine enthusiasm. ' ROAD TO COAST 'CIW General Pershing Lived to Lead Vic torious Army to Free Alsace Lorraine From Hans Greensburg, Pa,, Mar. . 22. Gen eral John J. Pershing fulfilled the wish of an ancestor that a member of the Pershing family should save Alsace-Lorraine, when he led the vic torious American armies against tbe Germans. This fact is disclosed by the Reverend Justus N. Pershing, a cousin of General Pershing, who has made public a leter written 1n Al sace Lorraine more than 200 years ago by Frederick Pershing, General Pershing's great-great grandfather. In this letter the general's ancestor expressed the hope that his son Prederick Pershing Jr., or his de scendants "would come back some day and redeem the fair lands of Al sace-Lorraine from oppression. According to the letter, the Per suings lived in the village of Kehe, in Alsace-Lorraine in 1744 and fought under Emperor Charles against the Magyars. Soon after that, when a law was passed that all able-bodied men between the ages of 16 and 60 must join the landwehr to protect their country from rav ages by the Austrians. Frederick Pershing Sr., sent his son to Amer ica. Frederick Pershing Jr., reach ed this country in 1749 and after marrying a Miss Wyant In Balti more, settled in Westmoreland coun try, Pennsylvania, where General Pershing's grandparents were born. HAWLEY RETURNS HOME Salem, Ore.. Jtar. 22. Represen tative Hawley has returned from Washington to study the needs of his district. 'S San Francisco,' Mar. 22. To be taken to the heart of a German fam ily which- had lost its own son in the war, to ait down daily to the dinner table with the father and mother, and fiancee of thel ost boy; to take his little sister in charge at nights to teach her a few words of EngHsh; and then to find that he was the man who killed the son and brother and fiance that was the tragic ex perience of Captain Joseph P. Sul livan, a San Francisco boy now serv ing with the army of occupation at Treves. The strange story is told in a let ter from Charles Phillips, San Fran cisco editor and newspaper man, now a Columbus secretary stationed at Ooblenz. A picture sent hy Cap tain Sullivan, showing himself seated at the family table at the Httle house in Treves has been received by his mother, and confirms Phil Hps' testimony. The father of the ,dead German soldier is postmaster at Treves. Identification was made . possible when the German housewife, en gaged in pressing one of Sullivan's suits, took from his pocket the Iden tification- tag of the man he had killed. She knew her own son's number, and it was the same as that on the tag. Captain Sullivan was leading his men In action in the St. Mlhiel sec tor, when duty forced him to kill the German enemy. . Operating - a few hundred yards away from him was a German, "77" that had picked off several soldiers to whom he hod been deeply attached. Sullivan pick ed up a :gun, sighted the sergeant, who was operating the "77", and shot the gunner down. Later, when the Americans advanced, he secured the tag and put it In his own pocket. The mother, father, fiancee and even the Htitle sister of the dead sol dier realize that he was performing only his dutythat they are victims not of the 'hate of the Americans, but only the grim Irony of war. . ANCESTOR'S WISH IS CARRIED OT HUNS PROTEST TO PROPOSED PEACE TERMS ASSERT GERMAN GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT SIGN TREATY GIVING POLES OUTLET CONDITIONS WORSE III RUSSIA Revolution Expected Shortly and Al lied Commanders Prepare to De fend Life and Property Copenhagen, Mar. 22. Berlin newspapers protest in strong terms against the reported proposal of the allied supreme war council to give Poland a corridor through Germany to the Baltic sea and declared that no German government would sign a peace treaty containing the condi tions as reported. The German pa pers threaten that no German dele gates will go to the conference. Vladivostok, Mar. 22. The ever growing uneasiness In Siberia is tak en by the allied officials as an indi cation that a revolution is to start shortly. The ultra reactionary parti la using repressive measures which arouse bitter feeling among the rad icals and peasants and serve to fan the flame already kindled. The allied commanders are prepar ing to defend life and property with out taking an active part in any po litical movement. . 4- SELECTING LANDING PLACES FOR PLANES ' Portland, Mar. 22. The aero committee of the local 4- Rose Festival association met last night to disignate landing V fields preparatory to the com- lng of government flyers to the . Portland carnival in June. It was decided that fields would be designated as Grants Pass, 4- Roseburg, Eugene and Salem -f Kincaid Field being used at f Eugene and the fair grounds at - Salem. -f GOVERNOR NAMES MEN FOR STATE FAIR BOARD Salem, Mar. 22. Governor Olcott has reappointed J. E. Reynolds, of La Grande, and W. H. Savage, ot Corvallis, members of the state fair . board for a term of four years. Their terms expired on 'March 14. Mr. Reynolds was recently elected chair man of the board. Other members of the hoard are J. D. Farrell, of Portland, M. L. Jones of Salem and A. C. Marsters, of Roseburg. . RATE CASE NOT TO BE SETTLED UNTIL APRIL Salem, Ore., Mar. 22. Public Ser vice Commissioner Hawley said to day that it is doubtful if the bom mission can l9sue an order relative to the Pacifio Telegraph and Tele phone company's increased rate case before the middle of April. Portland, Ore., Mar. . 22. Five Oregon aliens, three of them insane, left for New York on a train with a carload of others from California" and Washington for deportation to the countries from which they came. They were under charge of Immigra tion officials. : "