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Newspaper Page Text:ebforb Mail Tra Predictions Tonight mid Tomorrow, ltiiin. torly-nlKhlh Yur. ally TlilrtMiitU Tsar. MEDFORD, 0'RKflON", WEDNESDAY, FFAjRUAUY 12, 1919 NO.' 275 ARiWYANDMVYIsOMEftGUE'OF'WA The Weather Maximum yivdcrduy IU Mlnliliiiill todii)'..... Illl 1 BOTE PEACE WIL ED American and British Delegates to Peace Conference Accent Views of France for Creation of an Interna tional Army and Fleet to Enforce Rulings of Society of Nations and Prevent Attacks Bv Any One Na tionFrance Fears Germany. I'AttlS. Fob. 12. A French nenii official unto issue lifter tlifl meeting of tin- conference. couimisHioii on o nuclei v of niiliouH thix hiorniim nhvh: "It Is ri'inrti'i llint a ureal lcp was iiiikIo tnn'iiril nil nurccmcnt, the American mill llrili-li delegates hnv iue decided til mloiil tin1 view of France regarding the crcalinn of nn international ii nn v mill flri't." PA KIR. Keli. 12. The French irov. eminent fonmillv presented to the league of Nations romiuiHison Inst iiiulit illl article creating nil internn liimiil military force. The inl rtnlno tion of llii" nrlii'ln fur inclusion in tllO HOI'il'tV "f lllltioilH lllllli. I'losrh' follows the disclosure Jiv Premier ('kmicnccnit in liis recent interview with llii Associated Press nf Ids con vli'limi Unit the, League f NnlionH liuiHt In- supported liv tin' "delcrttiin iilinn of oni'h nation ciilcring into (lip iiarcenicnl to he willing In renounce its truilitinnul aloofness from other people mill willing lo employ Ihe tuition (tl strength outside its own country hnlli in timo of peneo ns well ns under tho pressure of wnr." Needed lo Keep Pence The contention of l,iin Bourgeois, who presented lhi nrtidcin uuestion. is tluit the inti'rniitioiiiil force pro poned must bo of sufficient propor tions lo prevent (Icruuiiiv or nnv oth er rnnnlrv from breaking the immiro. nf if the pence were hrokMi. lo re Ntorn it iiromntlv ugoinst bv t lie col lective powers. 4 M. Ilonrgeois. alluding lo the nppre lienninn existing in Franco ns regurds (Wrtruin.v. minted Unit lliero wns cntvo danger ennfrontinir Franco if nn intcrnntioiinl foreo wn imr eon Ntuntlv in In' in i: iinil organized for in slant net inn. The French view, he inilienleil, was tluit n society of nn lioim which iliil not inclmle 'n pormn nent collective force might ho u beau tifiil pxperiincnt, perhaps, hut nn ex perimcnt too great for n niition to risk unless it hud in addition ilclcn siv frontiers milTicicnl to meet n sudden shock. Itopicscntii French Cabinet H wiin easy for the British, on the other Hide of the chnnncl, mill with nn oniirmous niivv, or fur the Amen ciiiih. with the ncciin us their dofeii sivo frontier, ho argued, lo regard cnhnlv the working of n league which did not provide for an inleinntionul force. M, Bourgeois is nndcrslood to hnve compressed into his proposiliun the deeply considered convictiims of the French cabinet nnd uh militnrv and legal advisors. ED FOR STRi NHW YORK, Fob. 12. V. Evorltl Mncy, prouldont of tlio Nntlonnl Civic Kodorntlon, doclnrod In nn nddrona licforo tlio Nntlonnl Itotnll DryRonita HHBOclntlon todny tho labor situation In Sonttlo was Inrgnly tho fault of solflsh omployors who vlplntoil nil ordors of tho sblpbullilors labor nn- Jimtmonl boai'il and tho KmorKoncy Floot corporation by . paying wanes far In oxcchs of tho scalo autborlzort mid In a lesser monBiiro tho fault nf radical local londors who thought thonisolvea strong enniigh to defy tlio national officials of tliolr unions. ' Mir. Mnoy who hns Just hcon ap pointed an umpire In tho Now York strike controversy, nddod that "the -whole dovolopmont there was a very good Illustration of how dlsnrgnnl'.n- tlon can bo croatod by tho labor un Ions throwing ovor tliolr nntlonnl or. gnnlzntlon nnd tho omployors not tflnndlng by tliolr own orgaiilisiuioii. Ml Reds Renew Assaults on Allied Lines AiiniAxriKr.. Feb. n. div the AsHocinlcd I'rchH.) Bolshe vik I'nrccM have rcsuiucil tho of I'elihivc in llio reiiion nf Kreil iiinkri'iiL'ii. For a brief time hiHt iiiLbt the ItuUltcviki nci'unieil Hcvernl nllicil hlockliDiifcCf lifter peiietrntinu' the (own. hut thev were driven out bv llrilish nnd HtiHsinn counter nttnek. Tlio fiiihlinir eontiiitics Indav. E l.OXliOX, Fob. 12. While the press generally approves of Premier l.loyd-CoorKo'i labor pronrum, It falls lo nullify tho parliamentary la bor party, whlcb has prepared an amendment to tho roply to the speech from Ilia throno, regretting the absence of doflnlto proposals dealing with "tho present causes of Industrial unrest and for securing, as regards wages and working hours, conditions of labor which will ostub- Huh a higher standard of 11(0 and social well-being for the people." Tilt) labor slluutlnn roached a crisis today In conferences between the government and three great, unions representing nearly Ii00,oo0 work ers, tlio result of whaso domnnda Is awaited with keen Interest by the entire lubnn world. The unions are the Miners Kederatlon of ('.real Brit ain: National t'nlon of Hallway Men, and tho Nntlonnl Transport Workers' Federal Ion. Tho unions are acting together and It Is believed they hnve agreed on Joint action If dlssullsfied with tho result of the conferences. The railway men's domnnds In- cludo a 4K-hotir week and control of railways by representatives of the managements and workers. This Is considered a stop townrd nationalisa tion but nn altiiriiatlvo has been pre pared In tho form of a mission of la bor delegates and boards of directors. The minors want a six-hour day and a thirty percent Increase In wages, whllo tho transport workers demand 44-hnur week mid a wngo udvanco of 20 percent. E SAX FliAXCISCO, Feb. 12. A general iiicetiiiL- of the Onklnud Itoil- eniiuhciV 1'iiion. half nf whom lire out on Ktriko, lo consider further "Irike action, and un aniiuiinccd meet- ini; of the Oakland lelcpboiie Opera tors' union lo consider demands on tho employers, were tho oiilslaiuliiitr features promised for todnv in tho strike situiition in tho Sim Friincisco bav region. There wns no elinngo in the ceneinl strike conditions todnv A conseivnlivo estiniuto placed the total number of strikers nt "i.OOO in both San Francisco and Aliimciln count v. I.nhor lenders hero tnilnv said that tho delegation being sent hero bv the metal trades strikers in Seattle with tho announced intention nf gaining tho svinpnlhv of tho San Francisco hnv district iron workers lor their cnuso might ho given n hearing if thev could seciiro proper credentials. "Hint would rest wilh the organiza tion hefojro whom thev desiro to up pour," it wns announced, ALL SECRET TREATIES LONDON, Feb. 12, Huron Nob nki JiTu kino, head of tho .Inpanesu del egation nl (he pence, conference, has been inslrueted to disclose nil tho un published Iron lies between China nnd .Iiipnn, snvs a Kuuler dispatch from Tokio today. BOILER RED SUCCESS (N RUSSIA DUE Predomlnlatina Influences Are Bol shevist Propaganda in America Yiddish States Former Head of Methodist Church In Russia Jews From East Side Run Petroorad. WASIIIXflTOX. Feb. 12. Success of the llolshcvik movement in IIusHia was attributed to aid from the lower Fast Side of Xew York bv Kcv. 0. A'. Simons, former hend of llio Metho dist F.piscnpul church in HiiKsiu, tesli fving todnv nl the senate itidiciary Kiili-eoniniitlce'H iiuiuirv into lawless imitation in the I'nited States. The wiliicsK said the predominating influence on- llolsbcvist propngandu here was Yiddish, lie explained he was not in HViiipathv with miti-seinit- ic uiovemciits, nnd that in stating his views he meant to cast no reflection upon Jewish people in general. Jew I'ro-finrninn luimediatelv after the Kerenskv revolution in 1017. Dr. Simons tinid. sentiment ill Ilnssin trim pro-nllv but within a few months, when the Bolshevik movement developed, n strong pro-ticrmiin current developed witli more thnn hnlf the agitators Jews, including inanv from New York 1 he witness said n woman, n mem ber nf his church nnd a teacher in Sinolnev Institute, l'ctrogrnd. hend- uiiarlcrs of the Holshevists before they overthrew Kerenskv. frouiieiitlv saw German officers nt n council ta ble- with Itolshevik lenders. Dr.' Simons said he now was hav ing investigated n report coming to him on apparentlv good niitlioritv that the governing committee of the north ern eomimino in l'ctrogrnd in De cember. 1!1K, contained onlv IB true Hussions, 2(."i persons from Xew York and one American negro culling him self Professor (lordon. School of Sedition Dr. Simons snid he freneuntlv visit ed the Hand school of socinl science in New York to hnv its ' litature which ho described ns "some of tlip most seditious stuff I hnve ' over found." Me ndded thai 10 out of 20 persons at this school were Jews. The witness lold the committee tluit li'olshevist agitators ncrsistentlv followed him when he delivered lec tures in Russia nnd frcnuentlv dis tributed at the door pamphlets enti tled "Sevcnlv-six Questions and An swers" on Ilolshevism in Itussia, written bv Albert Itlivs Williams, one of Hie speakers at n recent meeting in Washington, which prompted the senate committee's new innuirv. A paragraph on religion of tho Bolshe vist svstem in this booklet was de scribed bv Dr. Simons ns un "inter esting fnirv tale." "Most real liolshevists hnve hatred for Kiiglaml and the nllies nnd af fect inn for Oerinanv." be added, al though mnnv displaved a tendency lo maintain friendly relations with the United States." WASHINGTON. Feb. 12. Tho Tlis hee dcportiition eases, resulting from the sending out. of Arizona in 10.17 under armed guards of 221 men lic ensed of nttempting to interfere with employes nf copper mines, reached the supremo court todnv. An appeal wns filed bv tho government from judgments dismissing indictments re turned ngainst 2.1 residents of Ari zona charged wilh niding in their de portation. FOR DEBTS OF ARMY WASHINGTON, Feb. ,12. Ap polutiiiont of "tho Unltod States liquidation commission wnr dopart mont," to liquidate, tho business nnd financial affairs of the Amorlcnn army In Kngland and France wns an nounced today by Socretnry Unkor. Edwin II, Pnrkor of Houston, Texas, Is chulraiuu. GOTHAM m Ebert Elected First President German Republic LATEST PHOTOGRAPH OF HUN HEAD coicrvDiru uy cqcdT "J SIX HOUR DAY LONDON". Feb. 12. The British government in replving todnv to the demands of the miners' federation for a six. hour duv nnd a .10 per cent in erenso ill wages, savs that in regard to the demand for a six hour dav. the government while it svmpathizes with the desire of the workers for nn improved standard of life, must, in considering the increases in the cost of production of trades whose products form a staple of other oc cupations, think nlso of the conse quences upon the general trade sit uation. The government proposes n repre sentative committee, on which the miners would he represented, to in nniro into this nuestion. The decision of the miners federa tion conference lo reject the govern ment's terms will, if followed bv a strike, which seems likclv with tho miners in their present mood, create an extremelv serious industrial sit uation, as the coal shortage is al ready embarrassing.- . . - . .- ' JEROME, Ariz.. Fob. 12. Scores of minors aro leaving tho Jerome dis trict as tho result of tho troubles fol lowing tho 75-cent wage cut an nounced Monday by tho copper com panies. ! Last night the radicals held sev eral moot lugs and tho bulk of the union men refrained from showing up for work, foni'iug a clash with the clement which the mine officials and police class ns I. W. W. members. Mine malingers stand by their statement that they will close the workings Indefinitely, or until the copper market becomes moro satis factory, unless enough miners to keep (he smelters going appear for work. BUTTE ANARCHISTS TO BF DEPORTED HELENA, tUont., Fob. 12. Fur: thor preaching of nnnrchistlc doc trines by aliens In Butte will result In Btops to deport them as undesir ables, It wns said horo today; by Charles K. Andrews, Inspector la charge of tho Unltod States Immigra tion office. ThlB was corroborated by United States District Attorney E. C. Dny. Federal authorities have boon studying the Butto industrial situation for some time, . i National Assembly Choses Moderate Socialist Leader. Former Berlin Tailor, as Chief Executive After . Adopting Provisional Constitution Given Honor Paid Royalty. , WEIMAR, Feb. 12 (By Associat ed Presp.) Pealing church bells an nounced to the people of Weimar at 4:15 o'clock this afternoon that the German folk for the first time in his tory bad chosen the head of their own state Krledrlch Ebert. former chancellor and socialist leader, appeared before the theatre twenty minutes later and received as president of . Germany those plaudits formerly marking the appearance of the monarch who once stigmatized the party to which presi- dent Kbert belongs ns being made up of men "unworthy to bear the name of German." Theatre Is Jammed Despite the certainty of Herr Eberfs election the theatre was. crowded this afternoon beyond any thing previously seen since the open ing of the national assembly. The gallery resembled the reichstag trib une In old days with men and women In gala attire jammed In every avail able Inch of space. The boxes and balconies also were crowded. A voting by ballot caused contusion as the delegates struggled along the narrow aisles, i Great crowds massed outside -during the ression waiting patiently In the cold for a chance to see the new president when he left the building, which he did Immedi ately after a very brief speech of ac ceptance. He smilingly acknowledged the ovation given him. Opposed by Conservatives The vote against him probably came from tho solid conservative block and a few of the old national liberals.- while the Independent so cialists and some others signified a lesser degree of disapproval by cast ing blank ballots. The lone vote for Phillpp Scheldemann caused mirth. The national assembly adjourned until Thursday. Tomorrow will be spent In preparing a program and definitely constituting a new cabinet. Dr. Edouard David, president of the national assembly, made during the day a dramatic address to Presi dent Ebert. Ho was repeatedly dis turbed by a woman independent so cialist, and the whole house In shout Ins disapproval of her actions drown ed the speaker's words at times. . HEAVY PENALTIES FOR PRISOM ESCAPES SAI.KM. Ore., Feb. 12. Because it was reported that there hiid.beon sev eral attempts bv prisoners to csenpe from the state penitentiary here, fol lowing the introduction of a bill in the house of the Oregon legislature. January 31, fixing heavv penalties for escaping or aiding others to escape from tho prison, the house suspended the rules toduv nnd passed tho meas ure at once. , The bill provides addi t'onal imprisonment of not to exceed 10 years as pennltv and was introd duced bv Sheldon of Medl'ord, nt the renuest of Warden Stevens of tho Penitentiary. It curries an emer senev clause. The senate missed todnv a bill pro viding that after tho first offense, no paroles shall be granted lo automo bile thieves. SEATTLE AGITATORS . SEATTLE, Feb. 12. Moro alien luhor agitators; I. W. W.'s and per sons ot alleged Bolshevik sympathies aro to be dopnrted from Seattle with in the near future, according to a statement today by Honry M. White, commissioner ot Immigration. Sev eral cases are hold up In the courts on habeas corpus proceedings, he said, nnd othor cases have boon de cided. Between ten and fifteen, nt least, , he said, would bo deported soon, ,' ' ' ' JELL1C0E SUMS F British Grand Fleet Short of Cruisers. Destroyers and. With Defenseless Bases First 1o and a Half Years of War Ships Inadeauatelv Arm ored in Comparison with Germans. I.0N7)0X. Feb. 12. The dangers to which the British grand fleet, short of cruisers, destroyers nnd with de fenseless bases, was exposed during the first two and one half years of the war owing to the (Jcrmnn use of submarines, mines nnd torpedoes, is described in a book written by Ad miral Viscount Jellicoe. former com mander of the fleet, nnd published to dav, covering the activities of l'JU- llllti. Admiral Jellicoe points out that the German high seas fleet possessed 88 destroyers, compared with 42 for the grand fleet nnd reveals that owing to the submarine menace the grand fleet in the fall of 1014 moved from Lough Swilly and onlv returned to the North sen when the anchorage in Scapn Flow became reasonublv safe. Margin ot Superiority Neither in October. 1914. nor in ifnv. 1910. Admiral Jellicoe savs. did the British mnrgin of superiority ius tifv him in disregarding the enemy's tnrncdo fire. .The situation (rriiilllitllv improved after ll'ltl. esiwcinllv ns the light - irniisrV; nnd destroyer' forces with the grand fleet increased stead ily niter the battle of Jutland, con siderably reducing the. danger of ex posure to successful torpedo attack, while the iitclusion of class K sub marines made it probable that the enemy would suffer more severely from submarine attack than the Brit- ish. liegnrding 1918. Admiral Jellicoe says : "The position was assured and we could afford to take risks which in 191G would have been most unwise, If the German fleet had come out to battle, a terrible punishment await ed them." Itattlc of Jutland One-third of the admiral's book ii devoted to the battle of Jittlnnd. In summing up the lessons of the bat tie. Admiral Jellicoe dwells upon the danger involved in leaving1 too much to chance in fleet action because our fleet wns the one nnd onlv factor vital to the existence of the empire. and indeed, to the allied causes. : "We had no reserve outside the buttle fleet which could in nnv way replace it in the event of disaster or even should its murgiu of superiority be eliminated." Admiral Jellicoe savs he knew that his ships were inadeauatelv protected with nnnor compared to the Gcr- mnn vessels of the battle cruiser type while the German fleet in the battle of Jutland was far better off in the number, of destroyers. In addition, the Geminns possessed "most effi cient armor pieroing shell." The admiral continues : Tells of Maneuver "When the bnttle fleets approached there was a difference of reckoning between the British battle fleet and the battle cruiser sciundron, duo to the cruisers having been engaged for scv oral bom's nnd having repeatedly nl tered their course. Hence,, instead of being encountered right ahead, the onemv appeared on the starboard bow." ... -i .... Instant action was necessary, the admiral says, nnd ho decided to do- ploy on tho port wing division, thus compelling the Germans to turn off to stnrhonrd to avoid being crossed, This maneuver, which hns been de scrincd ns masterly bv reviewers, threw the enemy into complete confti (Continued on Page Six.) - TACOJIA. Wash.. Feb. 12. In nn official statement issued Into this afternoon the Taeonni strike commit tee of tho Metnl Trades Council de clared that negotiations wero under way which thev believed opened the way for nn enrly settlement of the Tncomn shipyard strike.-. This is tho first official statement on n probable settlement oT the strike, issued by tlio strike couiiuitee, UP LESSONS 0 JUTLAND FIGHT ! 7000 ALLOTTED BY LEGISLATURE 0. A; C. STATION Southern Oregon Experiment Station Allotment Increased Full Budget Allowed Agricultural College Amount Allowed Is In Addition tot Federal and State Funds. ,' SALEM, Feb.- 12.-A total of S299.101.12, the full amount asked. -In the budget for the nlennliim of 1919-1920, was allowed Oragon Agri cultural college last in slit by tb ways and means commit :ui. There was &a dissent. The action 13 tenta tive but will probably stand. Tho amount allowed is In addition to . federal funds 'and continuing ntuta funds. The amcunt allowed ul)ove; the millao tux tor general mainten ance Is $157,506. , The amount of $28,000 allowed for experiment stations Is an increase,; making the total for that department $64,000. The additional - amounts are In the form of separate bills toat. have been introduced and will be re-, ported upon favorably by the com mittee. , - r - 1 The appropriations for the agri-, cultural college follow: : For resident Instruction: General , maintenance above millage tax. $157,566; . barracks building con-' struction, $15,000; engineering la boratory .building. $60,000., Total resident instruction, $232,566. . For extension service, for general extension, worit - co. uupncuie -leuerui funds available to Oregon under tho terms of the Smith-Lever act of con gress, $38,535.12.. For experiment station: Home sta tion experimental work . Increased from $15,000 to $25,000 per year,. $20,000; branch stations. Hood River county, appropriation Increased from . $3000 to $4000 annually, $2000;j Clatsop county annual appropriation Increased from $3000 to $4000, to $2000; Southern Oregon, annual ap propriation increased from $5000 to $7000. Total experiment stations, $28,000. IN SIBERIA 324 , WASHINGTON". Feb. 12. The ca blegram todnv from the honilrnuirtcrs of the Amreicnn expeditionary forces in France slave the total casualties in American forees in Siberia iid 'to February 9 ns 10 officers and 314 men killed, died of wounds and dis ease, wounded nnd missing in ac tion. . The total was divided ns follows : Killed in action, two officers. (10 men: died of wounds, one officer. 14 men; died of diseascv(i4 men: died of accident, five men; wounded se verely, two officers, 07 men: wounded slightly, three officers, 30 men: wounded, degree undetermined, two officers. 53 men; missing in action 31 men. These casualties are being publish ed individually in the regular castiul tv lists, the war department nnnouno- cd.'...- '"-'.-l.'' : :.. . '. "T!.-'.,-"7,i. CHINESE FALSIFIED TOKIO. Feb. 12. (Bv the Asso ciated Press.) Kijuro Shidehara, vice foreign minister of Jnpnn. speak ing today regarding the publication of, Chinese treaties with Japan snid the bitter had "simply called Chinn' attention to the established procedure according to which neither govern ment hns a right to publish confiden tial correspondence without previous ly consulting the other." It. Shido-, linra spoke for Viscount TJchidn; for eign minister, who is suffering from pneumonia. ' ,- "Japan litis no intention to inter fere with nnv demands or contentions which tho Chineso prefer to present to the peace conference," he said. "Accordingly, l'ckin nnd Paris re ports lo the contrary nro absolutely utruo, .