Medford Mail Tribune
Mi
SECOND
EDITION
WEATHER
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forty-fifth Yr.
Dully Trnth Teiir
HE ONLY
BASIS FOR PEACE
SAYS PRESIDENT
Wilson Speaks to New York Church
FederationSays America Stands
for the Right of Every People to
Determine Its Own Destiny and
Own Affairs.
NKW YOIUC, Jnn. 27. Tho pres
ident delivered tho first or his tlireo
addresses nt noon before the clerical
conforenco of tho New York fedor
ntlon of church, representing all de
nominations. Tno Hov. Nomlnh Iloynton, In an
nddresi of welcome snld:
"Wo simply want to put ourselves
by jour sldo ns you enter upon your
work of being tho spokesman for per
innnont peace for America and tho
world."
Tho president said ho appreciated
tho words of tho speaker "from tho
heart." Ho declared that lilt) efforts
for peaco had represented "tho spirit
of tho United States of America."
Ho said ho know that In their hcartB
tho pcoplo of tho United States
"wanted to keo tho bnlnnco oven."
.TJLstlco Only IIoaIs
"I can find no bants for praco but
Justice," ho added. "Tho greatest
force In this world Is character and
I bellovo that character can bo ex
pressed by tho act of a nation. This
Is expressed by tho attltudo of tho
people.
"A further foundation of peace Is
our Intcqial attltudo toward each
other. Wo havo boon' hospltablo to
all creeds and people Tho peaco of
America depends upon tbo attltudo
of tho different Tftces and. croeda
which mako up tho nation. I have
been much perturbed over ovldonccs
of religious feelings in this country.
I.lvo and lot llo Is n homely expres
sion, but It expresses what our attl
tudo should be.
"I always nccopt an Invitation to
n fight, but I hopo I conduct my fight
with Justlco and falrnots."
Neutrality Not Formal
Tho prcnldont declared that tho
neutrality of tho Unltod States has
not been a formal matter but that It
has been a mutter of conviction and
of tho heart.
Ho said that in his efforts for
' peace ho had been conscious of rep-
resontatinR thOsplrit of America (and
no prlvato convictions morely of his
own.
"America," ho added, "has always
stood resolutely and absolutely for
tho rlgfrl of ovory pcoplo to dctor
mlno Its own destiny and Its own af
fairs." Tho president Illustrated tho afll
tudo of tho United Stales toward
weaker nations by his Mexican poli
ty. FOLL OF DANGER
IIUISTOL, Kngland, Jan 27 The
labor congroM adopted by a vote of
1,710,000 against 360,000 a declara
tion opposing tho military sorvlco
bill, wh'lcb has beon passed by par
liament. A proposal to agitato for
Its repeal was dofoatod by 619,000
against 611,000,
A resolution protecting In tho
nanio of tho national labor party
against adoption of conscription In
any form was passed by tho labor con
gross today by a card voto of 1,716,
000 against 210,000.
Tho resolution follews:
"Hotolved, That this national labor
party protest emphatically agWiWl
tlio adoption or conscription In any
form as it Is against the spirit of
ttrltlsh democracy and full of danger
to tho liberties of the people."
"When tho delegate assembled to
day theu&tPthls resolution on
their tables und also ono on tho mil
itary sorvloeblll which wore design
ed to tako the place of numerous pro.
posals whlab havj beon made on
these subject.
The ether resolution plsvetf before
the oongross fellews:
O "ThU eonfereace declares lie op
position to the military bill at In
the evont oft becoming law, de
cides to agitata for Hs reucal."
BRITISH
LABOR
SAYS CONSCRIPTION
T ON
AON DEI IIIIS
GOLDEN STATE
Southern Part of State Stormbound
San Diego and Los Angeles Are
Flooded and Strong Gale Damages
Shipping Long Beach Submerged
Lowest Barometer at Frisco.
SAN DIEOO, Cnl., Jan. 27. Son
Diego was stormbound today for tlio
second timo within two weeks. With
the streets flooded with water for tho
first timo in years, mnny buildings
damaged by tho heavy rain and wind
mid nil telegraph mid tclcihono wires
lending frSui tho city down, San
Diego was Isolptcd except by w '.
jven iiiiu ULUUll trtlVVI.
The rnin began falling Into vcsler
ilny and was accompanied during tho
night by a wind which reached a vel
ocity of fifty-two miles an hour,
whipping up n heavy bca off hero nnd
damaging roofs of buildings in this
vicinity.
Many of the streets in the business
section were filled with wnter almost
from curb to curb. Basements of
htoros were flooded and tho water
was from ono to two feet deep on tbo
ground lloors of other structures.
Itccord Italnfnll
LONG URACIL Cnl.. Jan. 27.
Tlio heaviest rainfall ever recorded
hero during n twenty-four-hour ner-
loa registered a.;i3 inches early to
day nnd nil but n trnco of this
amount had fallen sinco 0 o'clock last
night.
As n result tho city's streets wcro
running ourb-high in places with wn
lur nnd the Jinsements of numerous
business places were filled, while out
lying -odious wore covered with wn
ter almost t&o snmo depth ns during
tbo high water n week ago.
iowcst Uni-onictct
RAX FHANCLSCO, Jan. 27.-Thc
United Slate weather barometer rog
islerod 20.05 just befoio noon today,
tho lowest on record for Snn Fran
oiseo since readings were recorded,
beginning in 1871. Last night it rcg-
niuii-ll .a.OU IIIUI II 18 sun going
1IOWI1.
ihe liurenu said tho remnrkoblo
pcrfonnnneo of tho barometer wus
caused by the iiitrnsitv of the storm.
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we cunier ot which was passing over
hore. Genornl flood wnrninffH Imvn
neen sent out nil oir southern Culi
fornia.
Continued rains nnd snow imwt?
telophono and telegraph iiQ-angenientgJ
in many pince west of tho M ss .
ippi rivor. Telogrnplf wires wero
routed from Kansas City to Dallas,
Tex., back up to Denver uud from
Denver to San Francisco. Flooded
streets wcro reported in Los AngoloH
w'ilh n rain mid wind storm general
ou-r southern California.
Snow nt Sacramento
HACHAJIENTO, &., Jnn. 27.
For tho second timo this month snow
con-red tho SaorumcDo valloy with
a coat of whiteness sovernl inohos
deep. Tho snowfall was followed by
a heavy rain nnd much of it has
melted.
AVALON, Cnl., Jan. 27. Portions
of Arnloii were flooded today as tho
ft.ult of u heavy wind nnd ruin storm
wined hits been sweeping Cntalino
island sinco yesterday afternoon.
Bend Jiao been unshed out at mnuv
nninln rp. ,, ., , . ,.'
iw...,i, 4 oiunn biiowou no inui-
cation ot abating today.
OF SEVERE BLIZZARD
DUItANOO, Colo., Jan. 27. Tho
blizzard wlueli began Tuesday in
southwestern Colorado continued to
day. Tho drifting snow threatened
railroad eommiinioation and endan
gered range eattle, according to ro
ImjM roeetved here.
Oovenunent weather bureau roe
onU show a snowfall hereof It
uiehee iu the but two weeb. The
twptWr fell rapidly today. At
CumbrW the win4 w reported blow
ing uty ail hb hour, piling the
iiow ui huge drifts, iu oiae cae
lHcut-i4e cet high,
aiEDFORD
MIAN
T
BY
Soldiers Who Swam Rio Grande and
Were Taken Prisoners Rescued by
Carranza Troops and Returned to
American Authorities Lured by
Promise of Drink of Mescal.
UHOWNSV1LLH, Texas, Jan. 27.
Privates William C. Wheeler and
Vlggo 1'oderson of Battery D., Fourth
Field Artillery U. S. A., kidnapped
yesterday by Mexican bandits and
token south from tho bordor, woro
rescued today by Carranza soldiers
and brought to Matamoros, crossing
A.
t! e International bridge Into tbo
Unltod States- U li o'clock. They
wcro turned over to American au
thorities. No word had been beard from tho
men sinco their crossing tho river.
A searching party was sent out from
Matamoras by Colonel J. II. Quln
tanllln, acting commandor ot tho bor
dor and at an early morning hour
and tbo Americans wcro found.
Docoywl by Mescal
Whocler and Pedorson snld thoy
wero decoyed to tho Mexican sldo by
tho promise of a drink of mescal by
a Mexican who appeared on tho bank
while thoy woro swimming. "Wheeler
said tho Mexican did not appear to
bo a soldier but when surrounded
by iDght Mexicans Inter somo dis
tance from tho bank they found their
captors wcro all soldiers'.
Tho Americans wero talton to Hlo
Uravo last night by their captoru,
bjild in Jail until midnight and put on
a train at 1 a. m. thin morning and
reached Mntatuoras at olght o'clock.
Thoy -wero takon before Colonel Quln-
tanllta whoro they wcro told that
Mexican civilians wero not authoriz
ed to arrest thorn and that tho Mex
ican Boldlcrn wcro also at fault. Hoth
men woro turned over to United
Htntes Consul Johnson nt Matamorao,
who delivered them to Fort Urown.
iJctitrruinl Anwtei!
Lloutenant John K. Mort, com
manding Dattory I) of tho Fourth
Flold artillery, with Second Llouten
ant Hernhrd It. Peyton and Albort
V. Wnldron, woro placed under ar
rest today by Captain "Walter S. Mc
Iirftom ot tho 28th infantry, and
charged with making an Incursion In
to Mexico with fourteen privates.
Thcfio soldiers swam tho Rio
flrando last night, under tbo protec
tion of gunflro from tho American
-sldo In attempting to mako a search
for Privates Wheeler and Pedcrson,
who wero kidnapped by Mexicans.
LEAPS TO DEATH
FROM A HOTEL
NBO YOIIK, Jan. 27. Police to
day identified tho body of a man who
died in a hospital shortly after jump
ing from tho third floor of nn up
town hotel as that of Nathan Pull
mnn, a retired Chicago instimnco
agent, who wus hoingQought on tho
chnrp-o of hnving murdered his wifo,
Mrs. Jlcboeca Pullman, nnd daughter,
Mrs. Gertrude Dusol, in a Uronx
apartment yosterday.
Pullman wus seen Ionviug tho
Bronx apartment about four hours
before, the bodies of his daughter and
Wifo wero found. Tlio bkulls of both
women hull been cnishutf with n smull
hatchet. Pullman wns bolievod to
have earned $5000 when ho loft tho
apartment. Police assume tho man
had inurdoted tho two women after
suddenly going insane. Several du-
jointed notes wero found on his body
PARLIAMENT TAKES
THREE WEEKS REST
LONDON, Jan. 27. Parliament
was prorogued until February 13 to
day. In the prorogatioiiJkingeGoorao
wild:
"We shall sot lay down our anus
Hitt.il we have indicated tho use
which carries with it the future of
vivUizaligu, ' .
OP
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KIDNAPPERS
OKEGON, TIintSDAY,
NATIONAL LEADERS
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Top (left to right), Dr. Crus Adler nnd llabbi Ku.u X llirseli. Hot
loin (left to right), Louis Murshnll iiiuIJuIiih HohciiwiiIiU They plan to
raise five million dolhira Thursdnj, Jununrj 27, lor tho relief of Jewish
sufferers of tho war. -.
WILSON REFUSES
TO CAMPAIGN FOR
EQUAL SUFFRAGE
XKW YOHlC Jan. 27.-Irosident
Wilson refused today to support tho
movement for nn amendment to tbo
ivuvrui ouiisuuiiion providing lor wo ,cu htnte today under tho proelnmn
mmi suffrage. IFo spoko briefly to (ton of President Wilson dosignating
200 members of tho aongrotfiiinnl this lis "Jewish relief day."
union for woman suffrage, tolling ! HundrMn of Jewish orjfanir.nlions
them ho felt tho suffrngo quostioij nro engngej jn tho collrotions nud
oiiuiim uu ui-HH wiui uy liiuiviuuai
siuies.
The president received tho miffftic.
ists nftor they had sent him n sorios
oi iioioh mm turn wuiloil lor him lor
more than an hour nt tho Waldorf
Astoria hotel, which lie made his
houdqunrlens on his arrival huro oarly
this morning from Wnshingtoii.
Kfforts made bv Jim. Heard, wifo
of n Columbia university iirofessor,
n a . . .. -
to crou-oxHiniiie tlio prenduut on hut
position, mei wiiu iiuiuiia lie re
fused courteously to reply to her
ouories.
Sir. Tiffany Dyer, Mr. Hnioro nnd
Mrs. Heard spoke before the presi
dent. They asked that while ho wm
working out his prinmrodiioiMi uro
gram he should rttiiiottiber that no
scheme of defense would bo adequate
which did nut im-lu.de the mobiliza
tion of women. While snoakimr in
tho middle west for national defonao
they usked that he also uth'oeate wo
man Sllftlllgr. o
JAP ULTlAiT
TO CHINA DENIED
I I A I
TOKIO, Jan. 27. The London '
H)rt that the Jiianese goxt-niment I
had delivered to the Chinese uunmtir'
in Tokio a note embodying srxen !-
mnnibj which wero inuluded in thi !
JnpanoiHi program of last spring, Was
said by tho foreign office today to
bu untrue.
WASHINGTON, Jan 27. Senate:
Potltlons bearing a million names
protesting against war munitions
shipments prosentod roeultotl in vlg
Ooub debate
DehatCWi Philippine inilopondonoo
bill roaumod.
Military eonuuitteo continued hear
ing on army hills.
Ifouse:
Admiral drlffln, eblef ef navy en
HlpoerlnK bnreau teetifled before
naval eommlttee.
General Wood told military com
mltteo army should be recruited to
full strength bofore a roservo is en-!so
rolled,
.LVNrAKY 27, 1916
IN JEWISH RELIEF DAY
F
RAISED BY NATION
NKW YOIJK, Jan. 27.-F.mds for
tho relief of Jewish unr suffeicni nro
being colleoted throughout the Unit-
ioaK w' n general responau,
PORTLAND, Or.. Jan. 27.-Tho
lonmpuign to rniso funds for tho ro-
I .. " . --..-
her oi distressed Jews in tho wur
'zones of Kuropo wus well underway
in Oregon tudny. Tlio collection of
cash ooiitributions begun in Portland
yesterday. The office of the Jewish
relief eoniinitteo, which is In ehargo
of tlio work, iiniinunecd ourly loduy
.that sovoral tlioiwHnd dollars alrendv
IiriI been rouctted ami Hint eheokH
nnd coins wore pouting iu from kII
iwirl of tho state. .Several indiud.
nal KonLrihtttiona of amounts as higl
s WOO were iveeivcd.
SAN MIANCIHCO. JH. S7.-Tho
first oollln'tivtr jijumJ, uat-ordiug tp
iocal authoiftics, eer inado by tho
Jewish jwople or l4lp,fnm other
rnvi met a-resjmtlso toly along- tlio
I'aeifio coast which stomw eould not
dampen. ,
Kan Francisco began the day sot
aMit by President Wilson's proehi
matioH with $200,000 already aub
seribed, mostly at a mass mooting
hist night. Fifty thousand dollwrs
lvinaiiied to he raised hire. Jlanv
purties und Wnelits were arranged,
and in Oakland, serosa tho bay, sov.
crul theaters gate their entire pro
reeili. BY
TILLAMOOK, dr., Jan. J7. Tho
sehouuer ltcnuut, whitdi wun u'lindun
ed jeMeiday by her erew uear L'up
lookout, today vua driftin', off
Garibaldi beach,- near here. Tlc
steamer Itoanoko, Astoria for Port
land, was standing by her, apjuireuc
ly in tb belief that tho ohoouer can
he towed tuto port. Tge life saving
erew here baa gone out to help get
a towliue aboard the vouch
The Iteiieat, with Captain J. It.
Mackenzie and a eruw of mvoo men,
left Port Ludlow, Wash., for Hono
lulu last Tuesduy with a oargo of
503,000 feet of mixed lumber and
fifty loug eedar poles. The erew wus
taken off yesteiday by the ateamer
Atnjnu after tho sehooner had been
badly battered by u gule that it
leeeined sho would ioundr,
FUNDS
FO
RELE
OFJEWISH REFUGEES
SPLITS IN BOTH
OLD PARTIES
FORECASTED
Prediction Marie That Bryan Will
Lend Democratic Bolt and Head
Prohibition Ticket, While lull
Moose and Elephant Will Each
Have Candidate. -
Hy OILSON OAHDNEK.
WASU1NQTON, Jnn. 27. Wilson,
Hrynn, HoohcvcU a ml JfcCall nil
candidates for tho presidency in tbo
11)10 election. What wotitd bo tliu
outcome f
At the lust election there were
three leading candidates; iu the com
ing election it is beginning to look
as if there might be four. That
Bryan intends to put pnuificiHiu, pro
hibition und tho ouc-tcrm plunk
Kqunrcly up to the democratic con
vention is growing more evident cv
cry day. Tho feud between Hrynn
and Wilson is increasing iu blttornosH
nnd tho breach is widening. In con
gress Hrjnn has already spoked tho
wheels of the president's prepared
Hess program nnd in the next conven
tion his friends hiiv ho can provo mi
oqu-1 obstructie minority. It ro
fjuircs i ' thirds of tho delegates in
a tjrtuocrritia contention to nnmo tho
caii(lWi!(.e.' If Hryun insists on hiu
prcscnOiirKc democruts nro likoly
lo seo n bolt sJiijimt to the progrcs
sivo Milit four venrx nfs, Jn that easo
the Hrynn following ouiiT'iiumo him
in uiu prouiuiiion party ciinuiuui".
llepiibllfnn Dlscmil
On tho republican side tho 1irT
mony moviincnt is not nt nil certain
to succeed. After talking with Heed
Hmoot, I am inclined to bcliovo tho
litllo group of Mnndput rcptiblicuij.i
wlio will control the convention nro
unalterably opposed to Itqosovclt.
i lie progrcssivo party leaders like
Perkins, on tho oilier hand, nro not
luvornblu toward any eonmromi.su,
They cprtninly would opposo nny suoh
oompromiso us iliirton, Weoks qr Jfcr
Cull.
Thoro h fl growing movement for
JfeCnll in the ranks of the regular
republicans. AruCall is mi ideal re
uutionary. Ho was oleutcd, however,
ns governor of Massachusetts oer
ulsh in tho reoont election becuuso
ho had the support of Bird, leading
I lie progressives. It was the liroirros-
sio vote, plus the regular standpnt
repuuiican vote, which onnbled Mo
Call to win. The fuut that tho issue
was a loeal uud religious one has huen
glossed over and would not bo em-
piiaaizifl tor nutioiial puniosoa. For
preaidential purj)0e, MoCull is
boosted as tho mini who onu got both
legular and progressive support.
Won't Want McCnll
Hoosovelt's followers will not no
ogpt MeCall. Thoy will undoubtedly
go ahead at Chiuflgu nnd nominato
Itoosovelt, mid unless the republicans
do tho some thoro will ho a repetition
of tho party division of four yours
ago. Thus the prospect is presonted
for a four-headed fight. In unuh u
race it is hard to predict tho out
come. The total vole east four yeurs
ago was 13,030,312. Of these ap
proximately one million were social
ist. Wilson got (liO.'I.OlO; Itoosovelt,
l,UI),507; Tuft, :1,181,030s Chafin,
prohibitionist, 207,028. On regular
form Hrjun would subtract enough
totos from Wilson lo defeat tho hit
ter and the raoo would he between
IloosovclKund MeCall. It is impos
sible, however, to dope such a presi
dential situation on any regular form.
All one I'ould.My is that uiivono
might win.
E
WASHINGTON. Jun 27 Aftor a
spirited dobato iu the senate today
1000 bundles of petitions urging an
Amorloun omburgo on war munitions
to Ituropoan belligerents and signed
by one million men ami women from
ovory stnto. woro roferrod to the for
eign relations committee as Senator
litono had usked, without a tote.
Tho potltlons, resulting from a
campaign of an organization of Amor.
Jean women flbr strict neutrality wpre
MUNITION
brought from Ilaltlmore, headquar- ttors, and oseaped with between 312,
tors of tho organization, 1 000 aud $15,000,
NO. 203
'S
Capture of Sections of French Lto
Claimed Active Flghtlnn In Prog
ress Along Entire Line Artillery
Duel at Ncuville Montenegrins
Surrendered Arabs Fight British.
BKHL1N, Jan. 27. Tho German
nttaclc on tho French positions near
Neuvillo was resumed yesterday, and
according to tho war offico state
ment of today between COO and COO
ynrds of the French lines wcro enp
tured. i i .
BKHL1N, Jan. 27. Kcporls from
France mid Plunders sny that n fa
vorable turn iu the weather had been
followed by active fighting on tho cn
tiro western front. Tho henviest
righting has been near Nicuport,
uorth of Yprcs, und In tho Argonno.
tiennnn patrolling parlies brought
word that German artillery had dono
effectivo work ngainst trenches o
tho allies near Nicuport. Tho enemy
artillery, it wus snid, was hardly Icsb
active than that of tho Germans. Ono
section of tho British fired 1700
shrapucl shells, 100 high explosive
shells nud tibout tho barao number of
bombs within twenty-four hours.
Tmichew Aro Captured
In another section near Neuvillo
tho GemimiH announced thoy had cap
tured tlireo lines of French trenches
nnd hnd held them against eight coun-ter-nttneks.
The GcrnintiB claim good progress
outh of Arms through work of snp-
nM"cs
V'lce. lb
iAXi.
"r!nl, lb.
4, coanut, lit.
6K,c
20c
"IIU1II ilm. 07
theAlfKTronrriig'arrflii "tfoons. "Has"
surrendered nt Dauilovorad, together
with several other Montenegrin gcu
omls. Anil I'lghtlng IttltUh
Tho Cologne Volks Zcitung pnb
lihliOH a dispatch from Cairo stating;
that tho British in Honthcrn Arabia
aro in a dangerous position ns u re
sult of fierce nttneks of Arabs nnd
Turks. It is stnlcd that tho British
casualties up to December 30 amount
ed to 13,000 killed and 20,000 sol
diers wounded,
Tho number of British troops now
at Aden is given us 20,000. Quoting
from tho Volks Zcilung, the Ov-erseus
News ngenoy says;
"A wounded British major declared
Hint at tho beginning of tho war the
Ilntish were iu possession of 250,000
squaro kilometers in southern nnd
southwestern Arabia, nil of which has
been lost. All tho Arab chiefs join
ed the Turks und arc now usiug suc
cessfully against the British tho
ii mis supplied them."
SEEK 10 BREAK
KL PASO, Texas, Jan 28. Tho
American Nutloual Lttestock associa
tion today adopted a resolution call
ing upon tho national congress aud
tho legislatures of tho various states
to onact laws to break up tho alleged
monopoly malntaliiod by packers up
on production and marketing bv
moans of owuorshlp of stockyards
and control ovor tunnerles and refrig
erator linos. Tho rosolutlon also
suggests that Imprisonment bo pro
scribed as minlshmciit for a viola.
Hon ot tho projiOHud laws lustead of
flues.
Other resolutions adopted urgo es
tablishment of u rural credits system
and calls for tho removal of restric
tions und tuxos upon production and
sale of oleomargarine.
Urlgadlur General Porshlng com
manding the border guards address
ed tlio congross upon preparedness.
R0BDERS LOOT CHICAGO
SUBURBAN BANK OF $4009
CHICAGO, Jun. 27.-Four armed
rubber, eiitorod tho Washington Park
N'atioiml bank at East Sixty-third
street today, thre'ateuod tho lives of
tho Ullsllier. clorkx nnd twnntv iAnns.
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