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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
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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
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ADVICE GIVEN TO
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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. '
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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.
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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 .. .
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, Average crops pay wages., '
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. Come in and get a copy of our booklet, "More
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shipments must bo mado in car lots and tho orders '
must come in promptly. ; ; .
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