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KtGE SIX rEDFont) mail trtbtoe, MEDFORD OTi'fiflOtf, '-MONDAY; MARCTt 24, Ifllfl lWlROOPS ARRIVE SAFELY Fl Most of Home Comlna Troops, In cludlna 2.400 Wounded, of National Guard Reqiments Manchuria Brlnqs 4900 Soldiers and Battle ships Land Western Boys. NEW YORK. March 24. Fourteen thousand, six hundred troops of the American Expeditionary forces more than 2.400 of these- con valesninir from wounds and sick ness, "arirved here todav from ' France on the cruisers North Caro lina and x Montana and the steam ships Manchuria, Matsonia and Antigone. For the most' part the home coming soldiers were of former national euard units of Colo rado, Nevada, Arixonn. New Mexico. Cehfornia. Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. . .- The cruiser North Carolina arrived from Brest with 1,471 troops. Units included' the -139th aero snnadron throe officers and 168 men, and ens. ual companies numbers 970, Washing ton state, and 710. Nebraska.-. - The cruiser Montana, also from , Brest, brought 1,477 troops, including casual companies numbers 737 Texas, - and 738 California, and 732 New '. York. . - - -. The Manchuria arrived from St. Nazalre with 4490 troops.- Units in cluded the 36th, 89th. 142nd, 148th. 182nd and 341st aero '. squadrons; 373rd aero pursuit squadron; 336th aero supply squadron; supply and medical detachments and. companies A, B and C of the 312th field signal battalion and casual companies num ber 105. Washington (state). There were S3 officers and 973' sick and wounded. . - At Newport News ' NEWPORT NEWS". Vn.I March 24. The battleships Yermont. Connecti cut and New Hampshire 'and the transport Kroonland, bearing a total of 6,801 oficers and men. including parts of the old .Ohio and Texas na tional euard. arrived here todav from France. On the Kroonland. which sailed from St. Nazaire March 12 were 2943 officers and men .including the 132nd field nrtillerv complete, a part of the Texas guard, which will demobilize at , Camp Bowie. . " ' 40th Division Units . NEW YORK. March 24. More , than 2.400 troops of the 40th divis ion, comprising former national guard units of California, Nevada. Utah. Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico, arrived here today on the steamship Matsonia from Bordeaux. -The arrivals comprised 53 officers and 1518 men of the 160th infantry -field and staff, machine gun battalion,- headquarters company, supply company, medical detachment and companies A. B. C. D. E. F, G. H. I. K, L and M for 12 camps through out the country; and former detach ments of the 159th infantry, totalling 12 officers and 823 men for Camps Upton, Grant. Lewis nnd Sherman. Also on the Matsonia were seven officers and 416 men comprising six detachments of the 26th ingineers. for Camps Kearney. Pike. Devens. Grant. Lewis, and Mc.ade; and a number of casuals. Six officers and 171 men returned sick or wounded. ' ;: The steamship Antigone also from Bordeaux,- brought Jiome 2.814 troops of whom 102 officers and 2.323 men ' were sick or - wounded. The others were casuals including casual com pany number 52. Iowa, and a corn pan v of marines.' ,; - In addition to the Texas troops, the Kroonland brought home base hos pital unit number 43 : a detachment of the 48th coast artillery corps: casual companies from California and Iowa ; 2 ficasual officers : four civilians and 392 sick and wounded men. - GERMANY 10 STUDY PARIS. Mar. 24.-r-(By Associated -Press.) . Count von Brockdorf Ran . tzau, -Cerman foreign minister, has sent Carl Kautsky, one of the under secretaries In the foreign ministry, to Moscow to see the chiefs of the soviet government and furnish an accurate report on the situation which will allow the foreign minister to study methods as to bringing about of clo ser political and economic relations with the Russian Bolshevik govern ment, says a Zurich dispatch to tho Matin. WITH eOLSHEVJKI ' VIENNA, Mar. 24.-It is learned from the Ukraine that negotiations have begun between Ukraine and Russian Bolshevik delegates for. the settlement of differences. Bolshevik Leader Radowsky has arrived at Ukrainian headquarters, it Is reported. OM OVERSEAS HELPED HO E Elton Beeson of Talent, not only unknowingly aided Red Rupert, the Portland convict, to make sure his escape from the convict camp at Gold Hill last Monday, but slept with Red, still ignorant; of his Identity that night. - Beeson was about to ship a load of cattle to Gazelle, Cal., Monday morning, when Rupert, following his escape, approached htm and asked it he did not want help to care tor the cattle enroute. Beeson did. and so Rupert was hired and got aboard with Beeson and the cattle. They slept together in the hotel at Gazelle that night, and next afternoon Ru pert boarded a train to the south and to further liberty. Beeson did not learn unttl his re turn home of Rupert's escape and when he read his published descrip tion at once recognized the erstwhile cattle helper as Rupert, and so noti fied the authorities. The following dispatch from Salem tells of Red Rupert's escape, except the Medford part of It; Story of Kscapo . Clyde J. (Red) Rupert, who escap ed from the convict camp at Gold Hill Sunday, took a south bound train at Gazelle at 4 o'clock Tuesday morning, evidently bent on reaching the Mexican border or a South Amer ican port before he can be recaptured and made to answer to the federal In dictment which hangs over him as the result of his theft of a package of Liberty bonds while employed as watchman for the Northwestern Nat ional bank in Portland. - This is the information which has been obtained by Warden Stevens of the state penitentiary, who returned Thursday afternoon from the south ern part of the state, where a man hunt for Rupert has been on. . Warden Stevens, William Bryon; government secret service agent. Chief Special Agent Catonrl of the Southern Pacific and others who have been on Rupert's trail, have ob tained evidence which convinces them that an outside man was -waiting for Rupert with an automobile," when Rupert made his get-away Sunday evening, and carried the fleeing con vict toward the California boundary. Rupert stopped at Gazelle, 100 miles from Gold Hill and near the Califor nia line, where he was positively recognized, according to the informa tion obtained by Warden Stevens. . ; Bought Stove-Ptpe Hat At Gazelle he purchased a new suit. Boft black hat, a pair of second-hand overalls from the railroad fireman and a gray flannel shirt, and took train No. 15 Tuesday morning, going south. As it will be necessary for Rupert to obtain a passport to got tc Mexico or South America thru ordin ary channels, All avenues along that line are being closely .watched. It Is thought, however, he may endeavor to reach the Mexican border and then find a way to sneak into Mexico with out a passport. Warden Stevens Is convinced that the motive -behind Rupert's escape Is his desire to evade the federal charge hanging over him, as his minimum sentence under the state charge was up this month and he was eligible for parole. He made it known that ne did not want the parole board to rec ommend a parole for him at this time as he wanted to have the federal charge dismissed or satisfied in some way before he was released from the state prison. .- . . - NEW YORK, Mar. 24. A decided improvement was reported in the copper nfarket today. The buying movement which started Saturday continued and It was estimated at noon today that sales made since the beginning of business on .Saturday amounted to fully 35,000,000 pounds with some of the leading producers inclined to place the business at still higher figures. Quotations were gen erally 'higher, ranging from about 14 to 14 cents New York and 15 H to 15 cents for electrolytic delivered. - i. . . INCUBATOR FIRE DESTROYS HENNERY A fire which destroyed a - small poultry house at the home of D. E. Phlpps on North Riverside last night at 9:45 o'clock caused much excite ment In' that neighborhood. , The frame structure was set on fire thru an Incubator lamp and the building was a mass of flames when the fire was discovered. , The burning poultry house was only fifteen or twenty feet from the corner of the Phlpps dwelling and the intense heat set fire to the corner of the house, scorching It, but It was extinguished by the fitemen before any damage had been done. The poultry house was totally destroyed. With Medford trade la Medford made T Not for weeks has there been so much excitement crviitcd in Modford, the oiithnsiastiu and innocent cause of which wns Prof. It. Isaacs, Y. M. C. A. song lender at the Cnuin Lewis de mobilizations, and former instructor iu music of the Medford schools, who passed through the city Saturday at- ternoon with 300 soldiers bound from Camp Lewis to San Francisco to bo discharged. An timii. i cn K,f nr,, Hia trtiin nr. rived Sirs. F. W. Meiirs. us head ok the local Rod Cross chapter, receiv ed tho following message from Prof. Isaacs: "Five hundred so'nlicra on train 53." Would like the Red Cross to meet us at the train. Ask. editor of paper to send us 500 of latest edi tion. Tell the boys wo are coming." Not knowing but that tho soldiers' coming was something important Mrs. Menrs summoned as many Red Cross workers as possible to be at tho do- pot, and notified George Collins, the official local veil leader at soldiers' welcomes, of the telegram. The us uullv dignified wholesale grocer be came properly excited, and frantical ly but unsuccessfully tried to get out the high school band. Then, know ing it wns up to hiin to raise some kind of noise in lieu of a band, nnd in the. hone of getting a crowd out to the depot to welcome no one knew mst what, except that a lot of soldiers were coming he instructed Chief Lawton to blow the fire siren ns fran tically as he could, about 20 minutes before train time. Mr. Collins proved to bo one our best little hopers in the city, for no sooner had the siren' tore off a yard or so of discord, than people began to flock down town from all parts . of Medford. Everybody remembered that the siren was to blow that wnv when the 65th artillery boys came some, and naturally asoscinted the prolonged shireking of the whistle in some wav with soldiers. Many excit ed individuals thoaght the war had broken ont again. Naturally every body congregated at the depot. Well the train finally arrived with the proper multitude assembled to greet Prof. Isaacs nnd the soldiers. The several hundred astonished sol diers, as thev saw' the crowd, thought Medford a very hospitable citv and grinned Uieir appreciation, v Those from overseas, nnd those from home camps; had never encountred such an unlooked for welcome from a strange city as this. . Radiantlyi happy Prof. Isaacs stood by the platform of his car nnd greeted frichds, while hundreds of people mobbed the soldiers with Ques tions about their service in France, etc. Mnny of the soldiers who had not been outside of Camp Lewis dur ing the war. where a number of them served as clerks, had to politelv an swer "search me." In- the roar coaches of the train were said to be a small ' number of convalescent wounded overseas veterans. The train pulled out with the pro fessor waving and shouting farewells and with the requested papers. LONDON. March 24 The Cos sacks of the Orenburg, region have decided to supply Petrogrnd nnd Mos cow with foodstuffs in large quanti ties nnd "to observe loyally nil the decrees regarding food supplies," says a wireless report from Russia, This decision was made at a -for mal conference at which the delegntes agreed to recoganize Soviets in all lo calities and to take steps against any attempts at a counter revolution. An elaborate program for the "so cialist organization of agriculture" was lnid before the conference. .A sc ries of agricultural communes have been formed in tho various districts and provinces. The council of the people's commissaries, the report stated has assigned a credit of one billion rubles for the betterment of agriculture. : The peasants are to be trained in scientific farming. In order to supply the peasants with farming materials, the commissary has already orgunized construction and repair qhops. In addition meas ures have been taken for the sowing of 4.000.000 hectares of land not pre viouslv cultivated. ' ' RECUPERATION of the vital forces of the body, depleted in the struggle with acute disease, depends not upon super ficial stimulation but upon ade quate nourishment The body needs to be nourished back to strength and power. . SCOTTS EMULSION a pure, wholesome tonic-food, absolutely non-alcoholic, tones and strengthens by nourishing the whole system body, blood and nerves. Nourish your body II back to strength with Soott'B. JiJf ,- fjcott&Bowne, Bloomficld.N.I. .... j W-W ADVICE GIVEN TO '10 WASHINGTON, Mar, 2 1. Inter esting aldo lights on present day con ditions in. Belgium are given In nn official Dulglnir bulletin lDsued here, containing advice to repatriates and others going to Belgium, '"' .'' "The first commodity you must ab solutely take with you," says the bul letin, "is pationco and no small quan tity .either. Life Is by no means easy and cannot be easy till, luter, when the reconstruction of Belgium has ac tually begun.. ' ' . ';,- ' i ""Since there Is nt presont no wool or cotton nor garments of any kind, nor shoos exceptant fabulous prices, be careful to renew your wardrobe and to provide yourself with enough wool tor your bedding. ' "Ladles, do not torgct this Is a most valuable piece of advloo to carry thread, needles and pins. Also, since paper has reached an extraor dinary value in. Belgium, be sure to take boxes of writing paper, ' pens, ink and as much ordinary paper as your trunks will hold.. Yon will find you have saved about. 100 porcent on your stock. "As far as food and provisions aro concerned, do not hesitate to provide yoursolves with as much sugar as you can get. -Thore are some suburbs In Brussels where no sugar has hewn distributed for six weeks. As tor butter, it has disappeared since the government brought .the price, down to S.Cfl franks ($1.70). The, farmers prefer to sell milk rather than to save It for butter and as a consequence not a Blngle pound is displayed In the shop windows. Margarine does not even exist any more, so bring some of each. "Though Brazil sends us coffee It still costs 10 francs (12.00) a kilo. There Is no cocoa left at all, nor candy nor preserves, etc. Ham Is not so scarce, but very door." ... LA FOLLETTE FAMILY DYING FROM POISON SALEM, Ore.Mar. 24 Btate Sen ator Alex-M. LaFollctt- recolved a telephone message today from his son, Charles LaFollett of Cornelius, Washington county, to the offect that another son. Perry, and his wlfo and Bon, a young man of 20, were poison ed yesterday ' while eating Sunday dinner at the home of Charles LoFoU' lett. Mrs. Perrjr . LaFollett was thought to be dying, while her hus band and son wore In danger of death the senator was Informed. The family was accidentally pois oned in some unknown manner, ac cording to the messagerecelved. Sen ator LaFollett, who is 76- years of age, left here at once for Cornelius. 113,000 DEATHS IN ' i PARIS, Mar. 24. During Febru ary more than 113,000 persons, or about H percent of the entire popu lation, died in Petrograd, according to Russian police statistics received in Paris. , -i j American relief workers who left Moscow February 12 say deaths in that city early in February averaged 4000 daily. They say conditions there were similar to those In Petrograd where smallpox, typhus, 'starvation and the "hunger plague" were rag ing, unchecked. ,.r Coffins are no lon ger sold in Moscow, , but are only rented for use at funerals. ' x ,,,, .T M u XYVSSSSSt V" av? Sr3 MJBGoffee ; IN THE FIVE POUND SIZE The Most Economical Best ii Quality; ' Alto Packed in ? lb. and 1 lb. Cans EVERY CAN GUARANTEED RED GUARD KILL ALL 'INTELLECTUALS' OMSK, Slborln,(Correspomlonco ot Assoclutod Press.) Wholesale as siuluntlons wore conducted by , tho Red Guard la the .village of TroUky, near Perm, when tho Dolthuvlkt wore driven out of the latter plnco by the Siberian army, say officials- of the All-Kusslnn govern men t. Practically everybody known to be educated or regarded as nn "Intellectual" was nr reatod and either shot or stabbed to death. The victims Include a load ing agriculturist named Souvoroff, a woman physician named Knlmykowa, a police Justice, tho agod slater of- a priest, and an omployo of the forestry administration with his wlfo. ' Incidents of this kind are declared to be frequont thruout tho district" occupied or evacuated by the Uolsho vtkl. Admiral Kolohak, tho tempor ary governor for the Omsk All-Kus-elan government, and other leading officials, point out that the Bolshevik movomont has entirely lost Its orig inal diameter, and has degonoratod Into wild license and cruelty, trying to exterminate all those who work with tholr brain as against those who labor with their hands, destroying ruthlessly every ventlgo ot national ordor beforo dreaming ot replacing It with any kind ot system or organisa tion. . - . ' - .- The general verdict In Siberia to day Is that If humanity: does not stamp out Bolshevism, ' Bolshevism will crush humanity and everything that Is sacred and peaceful In tho world, for Bolshevism Is regarded as an International danger and not alone a Russian danger. . To check this danger of Bolshevik supremacy the All-Ruiulan - govern ment at ' Omsk has callod upon the othor political groupings and govern ments of Siberia and of tho torrltory conquered from the Bolshovlkl to unlto with It in a natloual attempt first to crush terrorism and then-to rebuild a lasting Russia. The Im pression exists hore thai tho Omsk garornmont Is the most serious and most solid effort to rohubllltute Rus sia, and that It tho spirit of the patri otism of tho pooplo Is aroused and Induced to rally round It, It wilt prove the nucleus of some great Rus sian. government in the future. II) I0NAL E CORVALLIS,- Ore., Mar. 24. Professor, Frank Shoppord, of the Oregon Agricultural college probably will bo appointed by the state board of vocational education, to take chargo of the work to be carried on In Oregon, mombers of the board in dicated here today. The late Gover nor Wlthycombo created a board of vocational education .last Novombor and the plan of this board for estab lishing and maintaining vocational education In the state has been ap proved by the federal board. The work Is expected to be taken Ut after May 29, when tho appropriation will be available COPENHAGEN", Mar. 24. The communists of Vienna held a meet ing of sympathy with the proletariat dictatorship In Hungary Sunday mor ning, according to a Vienna dispatch today. . The demonstration devolopctl into a manifestation against the en tente. There was no : disturbance, however, tho message declares. More Money Whenyou Buy TO DECIDE ROUTE OF PORTLAND, March 21, Propurn-toi-v to mnimlnir put its rmul program under the 10,000,000 bondinir not, members of the statu limhwuv com inixHion will make u lour of Inspection ot Wnxhiimton, Yamhill, Polk nml Henton ciiiiiitivs Huh week, it was learned todav. ComniisHionor Unotli hits already visited Klatuntli, Jack son and Lincoln pollution, and Com miHNiiiiier Tliniiipmm has iiivcstiirated the needs of Kiiatern Orecon countk'H. Coniderade controversy Iiuh ex isted for several veaw over proposed hmitx of links of the l'aeifiu hiuliwuv on the west aide ninl it is expected that the commission will now iri't to gether and iron them out. Klamath county is nskme; for the construction nf n paved hiuhwav from the California hue. and is said to be wilinv to raise $1,000,000 for the protect. HcsidcM beini.' interested in tho construction of I he Pacific high way to the California line the people of Medford demand that the Crater Luke hiuhwav bo built to Prospect, and expect trovcrnmeiit aid in its con st ruction, DOCTOR URGED AN OPERATION Instead I took Lydia E. Pink ham't Vegetable Compound and Was Cured. Baltimore, Md. "Nearly four years I suffered from organic troublos, ner vousness ana nesu aches and evory month would have to stay In bed most of tho timo. Treat ments: would relievo me for a time but my doctor was al ways urging me to Jinvo an operation. My sister asked mo to try Lydia E. Pink- h a m' Veiretable yff y Compound bof ore A.W ; . consenting to an V . U operation. J took A 1 five bottles of Hand 'J Hi I 11 hnt complexly cured mo and my work It a pleasure. I tell all my friends who have any troublo of this kind what Lydia E. Pinkham'a Vegetable Com pound has done for mo." Nku-ih B. Brittingiiam, 000 CalvortOT ltd., Balti more, Md. , It Is only natural for any woman to dread the thought of an operation. Bo many women have bean restored to health by this famous remedy, Lvdla E. Plnklism's Vegetable Compound, after an operation has been advised that it will pay any woman who sudors from such ailments to consider trying It bo fore submitting to such a trying ordool. Big Redmen Celebration All Redmen are requested to be -present at the Wigwam to wel come home our Redmen soldiers Degree of Pocahontas Invited .. . AR 2 5, 1 9 19 Weatonka Tribe O v c, - - ATTENTION Tomato Growers and Gardeners J3ig cropstof high quality pay handsoiric profits. , Average crops pay wages., ' 1 ; Experienced commercial growers everywhere tso . ' - fertilizer..' It brings tho profit. ' 'V, , , ', ' . ,' ., , There's no reason why you shouldn't grow for profit real profit. , (v ' . i ,. . Come in and get a copy of our booklet, "More ' Money From Tomatoes." Don't put it off, .Fertilizer shipments must bo mado in car lots and tho orders ' must come in promptly. ; ; . Ralph Waldo Elden : RUSS LIBERTY Last Times Tonight Ethel on in Woman's ons ToiU'llOS KOO(J lCHHOJIH tl) IfllH-M banns, Wives and Vunnum Mack Sennett Comedy Cupid's Day Off TOMORROW ONLY John Barrymore In lua Oront Comedy SiKiiicss The Man from. 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