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Newspaper Page Textla The Weather Maximum yesterday 41 Minimum totbov ID Predictions Fair ami colder. Dally FourteehUi Ytar. ft'orty-nloUi Tear. MEDFORD, Olil-HiOX, FRIDAY, JANTAU'V ft, HH'O NO. 246 ma MEDFORD ?T" tSTTT o MAIL, l iCIJiUlW PKESIDENT ASKS PARTY IB HE MATY M OF 1 192 Onlv Satisfactory Settlement of Treaty Controversy Soltwn rrsfwwKm by the People Has No Objection to Senate Interpretations Which Merely Tell What the Treaty Means. But World Mist Knw Wlwtkw the Pact Is Accepted or Rejected It Can't Rewritten fc-yi In Statement at Jackson Day Dinner Ta4ts Issw VPi Ueir s4 Stands for Compromise ami InnwHUte HatifkMrw l-8itrir Lube Welcome's President's Stiflrwtin aa( EtedN-w Buck Km ml ( Treaty Debate In Seaate. . WASHINGTON, Jan. 9. President "Wilson's decision that the League of Nations issue should he placed before, the voters as a "solemn referendum," and William J. Bry an's contention that The democratic iart,y cannot go before the country on the question but should accept such com promises "as may be possible," are the twin surprises of the conclave of party chieftains which fould its climax in the annual Jackson day dinner. The president's message to the party, written from the sick room in the "White House made no mention of a third term for himself and no announcement of an impending re tirement to private life, as many had predicted it would. Mr. Bryan's speech, taking definite issue with the president's decision on the great question, was accompa nied by a statement that he was not speaking as a candidate for the presidential nomination-. Many -of the democratic diners freely said that portion was a distinct surprise to them. Today the rank and file of the democratic partv ns well as the lead ers throuKhotit the, eoiintrv are study ing the opposite announcements o the two national leaders and are at temiitintr to assess their effect on the party's fortunes at the nominating convention which will he held in San Francisco June 28, and at tlie polls next November. Mnnv political observers feci it is yet too earlv accurately to estimate the position in which the clcavau'C be tween the president nnd the foremost democrat in private life lrtives the party. Thev feel that the situation must settle down a little and that the opinions of the rank and file must be sounded. FiKht in Convention Whether the position of the two men, now definitely announced, means a finht in the national conven tion reminiscent of the spei'tacnlar battle in Multimore in 1!U2. when Mr. Bryan forced the president's nomin ation, none of the party leaders is willinc to predict for publication. Sentiment anions' the democratic leaders at the Jackson dinner ns ex pressed in their speeches seemed to be divided between support of the president's decision and Mr. lirvan's position, while some of the men who are in the list of nominating possi bilities did not touch upon the sub ject nt all. It seems nsTeei that Jtr. Bryan's argument that the treaty should he ratified with such compromises ns mnv he possible will srive n tremen dous impetus to the movement which steadily has been coins.' on in the un dercurrents of the senate for a com promise of all factions in puttiiiL' throutrh the covenant. President Wilson's reiteration that there can be no reasonable objection , to interpretations to "suv what the undoubted mcanine of the league is,'' it is thought bv some of those on both sides of the contest, may speed the movement. Senator Lodge. the republican leader, and foremost in the fieht against ratification of the treaty without reservations, takes a wholly opposite view and has ir-sued a state ment declaring t he president's mes. sage makes impossible the hope that the senate might compose its differ ences and irntifv the treaty "pro tected by the principles set forth In the fourteen reservations." An appeal to the tieople nt the Polls, the republican senate leader declared in his stateaient. would he to him ''most cordially welcome." The President's letter WASHINGTON". Jan. P. President uson. in hi message to'the .Jack-nn lav diners here last night, said: "The clear and single wav." to determine the will of the American people on the league of Nation tvns to make it an issue at the next election. The. president's nieneo said noth ing whatever about the third term for f hismclf and neither did it snv even hv implication or intimation that he would not be a candidate, as had been widely forecast. Most of the mes sage was devoted to an expression of his argument of why he considered it the duty of the United Slates to ioin in the League of Nations covenant and why he considered the war not really won until it did. Another attempt to crush the new nations of Kurope would be made, the president said, it the I'nited State held aloof. Can't Ken-rite. Treaty The president expressed bis atti tude toward reservations much ns he did at his conference with the senate foreign relations eommittec in this language: , , "If the senate wishes to sav what the undoubted meaning of the treaty is I shall have no objection. There can be nit reasonable objection to in terpretations accompanying the act of ratification itself. But when the treaty is acted upou I must know whether it means that we have rati fied or rejected it. We cannot re write this treatv. We must take it witjiout changes whieh alter its mean ing or leave it and then, after the rest of the world has signed it. if w- leave it. we must face the unthink able task of making another and sep arate kind of treatv with Germany.'' WASHINGTON. Jan. It. Plans for the democratic national convention at San Francisco June 'J8. were dis cussed bv Chairman Ciunmings and other members of the national com mittee today and were to In; taken up formally at a meeting of the executive committee later. A committee on arrangements for the convention probably will be an nounced tndav or tomorrow. 'This committee will go to San Francisco within davs to lav out the seating of the delegates on the convention floor and to arrange for hotel accom modations, committee rooms and the like. Still lloe ill Senate WASHINGTON. Jan. ). Senators disagreed widely today as to the probable effect on the senate treaiv situation of President Wilson's Jack son dav letter urging that the oues t:on of ratification be carried into the presidential campaign.. Among the democrats generally il was declared the letter had not changed matters at all and that the effort to agree on compromise rc---rrvntions would continue. The mild u-servation republicans thought a compromise bad been rendered more cit'ticult bv the president's action, but said Jhcv did not consider that the door had been elo-ed entirely. A still different view was ludil In the treaty's irreconcilable foes who declared Mr. Wil-on's declaration .'iii,I related incidents during the dci- ( Continued on I'age Twgj President Wilson and Former Sec'y of State Who Split Over Treaty Reservations If 4 I 4- rf k 10 FOLLOW DRY LAW 4,4,4,4,,,. 4, SVHACrSK. N. V.. Jan. !). lievolution is liki-lv to 'follow in the wake of prohibition, accord ing to the l!ev. Dr. G. Campbell Morgan, pastor of Westminster chapel, I.ondoh, now visiting in Syracuse.' "Whenever n great country banishes strong drink it must prepare for a revolution,'' he de clared from the pulpit here. "When a men stops drinking he begins to think. All that hap pened in Hussia in the revolu tionary line has occurred since vodka was abolished. Whenever London goes dry her Knst end will arise." LINER Sf. L00IS B( LI NEW YORK, Jan. 0. Dumagc to the American lino Htcamer St. Louis which burned at a llolioken nliipvnnl last night, wrh estimated at $1,000, 000 early tcclay. The interior of the ship was wrecked and her plates bad ly warped. The origin of the fire is not known. The St. Louis was heinc re-fitted as a passenger steamer after service as the transport Louisville during the war. Launched at the Cramps ship yard in Philadelphia in 1 VI and christened by Mrs. (J rover Cleveland, she was the first passenger vessel to be built in this country in more than 20 y?ar. The craft at that time was the third largpf-;t in .iMenre and was the fastest. She and her sister craft, the St. Paul, launched the folhwing year were used as auxiliary cruisers dur ing the Spanish-American war. The St. Paul capsized at her pier here during the war. The St. Ltitiis brought home to many Krpnch wives of American sol diers in her Jater days as n transport that navy men caliei) her the "liridr.l Miip.' 1i i 1 w t IK Y i I I fcKsv J X ft V tested Rilg eisr nrtini iitioii ni-nTim a ' ' V jf . . f AN 7 U.S. WOBBLES ID. THENCE 10 DANZIG COPKNIIAGKN. Jan. !). I'lidrsir- , allies deported from - the I'nited I Slates wil lie landed here anil trans i .shipped to Danzig under supervision : of the Danish police, according to re ! ports. The radicals will not be per mitted to come in contact with the i population here. I Kach ship bringing deportees will bear litttl persons, it is said, and the . I'nited States government has ar ' ranged with the I nited Shipping com ! panv of this city to take them from here to Danzig. STOCKHOLM. Jan. R The 'J -I!) undesirables deported 'from tiie I'ni- ; ted States on the transport linl'oni, I "the soviet ark.' probably will be landed at llnn-o, Finland, ami wilt I proceed lo Uu-sin bv rail under ,i Isd'onir LMiard. il was said hen? toda v. I The Kinnih legation la-'ks oi'lieia! I information but belief was expressed I I here that no eoinniunieahon would be allowed with those landing front the liut'ord. who will be furnished with sufficient food for the imirnev bv rail. The harbor of KevM i frozen and the port of Lilian is be lieved improbable as a landint: plaee for Ihe- undesirables. The Swedish authorities deelare that those de ported from the I'nited States wiH not be allowed transit through Sweden, WASHINGTON. Jan. !). Alien ra-1 icals deported on the army transport Hut'ord. which now is Hearing the Kiel canal, will not he landed at Copen hagen nor is it planned to send other deportees from this country to Ihe Danish port. Anthony Caminetti. com missioner general of immigralion, said lodav. He st'll refused, how ever, to say where the Uuford would land. Mr. Caminetti conferred today with army officials urcstiiitahlv for d--ort-ing addilionn! radicals to so ii-t Itus. Chink Guilty n; Murder. WASHINGTON. Jan. p. Ziang Sung Wan tv;i. toimd guilty of mur der in tlw lir-t degree tndav lor the death of Hi n Si-n W'u. a year ago. a member of II, e Chinese ediica; otial mission. Dr. T. T. Wong, head ot t!ic mission mid ('. II. IJsie were kilU-d at ihe same time. Cold and silver totnliinr; f s, i n I KIS wok received at the San Francis co mint In XHi'J. 1. ! FEAR A SECOND ICE JAM ON COLUMBIA IF' TMK IIALLKS. Ore.. Jan, !). lluve iee cakes were floatiim down (lie Cidumbia river past The I )u lies toda v, of a size; to menace navigation. Some of the cakes were ns larL'e as a box ear. If further cold weather comes, the llontin iee will likelv form the neueleu for another iee jam here. The leuiperul ure vesterdav lie iran dropriimr rapMlv and everv indiealion was that The Dalles would soon he fihtinir tlirom:h nnntber severe eoM snap. Tlie wind was continuimr from the northwest wi'h snow in pros pect. STEEL STRIKE IS OFFICIALLY CALLED OFF BY LEADERS IMTTSm'Ifti. .Inn. !!. Or-Miiizer field wurkers and international union beads interested ill the imtioii-whlc strike of steel workers whieh wenr into effect September 'J 2, were in re ceipt of an of ficjiil order from the national cotnurttee callitrj off the strike. Thi-viietii.n was taken bv the committee here last niuht. The order declared the committee's dceis-ion wa forced Ijv "ruthless mis iwe of power' bv the ft eel corpora tion, the pre--, the rniirt. federal i tronp-, -date ooliee alid maiiv puhli iot'tieiidf in that thev denied steel ( worker- "their riirlils of tree ieech (and tree as-i'mblave and the r lit In j' ruauie." Th" older iiddd that the i union will l.i"ij lr an iihieidiate c-!in-! pc. L'ii to f:iitlicr op'ani.e the work- tei "and ui'l mt eeit-e until imlns trial in-ti'-e in tin steel iniln-lrie-; lias been tichit x ed." And It Is Some Line. PA IMS. Jan. S. flu roh Wircle Sen I'-e. ) -The whole of the Kamen-cfM-l'ndol-k -1 r-kiirv-M aiok oiis tan -loilov railway line i' now in tin- hand.- ol the I'oles, lr"iu WarMiw. iceordircr In udviec REVOLUTION SPREADS GUARD 1 BULGARIAN KING AND HIS FAIL! C.KNKVA. .Ian. iK -The revo luliouary movement in Huluarla is spreading amoUR peasants and workiimmen accordiim to lielBrade advices. Kins llc.ris and ttie royal I'aaiily are said to lie secluded in the palace under heavy j-urd. PARIS, .Un. il. -TVe French foreign office, which is In con stant touch ftilh the Italkau sit uation, has received no confir inatioR ol" l.irmini; reirts rela tiro to lh spread of n rcvilu t ion a ry movement in Bulgaria. Panic Rcitins In Western Part of Vera Cruz Because of Oncninti of New Crater kh Emits Smoke Extinct Craters Become Active- Cause of Eartluiuakes Seen. MKXICO CITY,:.kan. n. Intense excitement anil panic, relmis among the inhaliltaiils of tile cllles of Cor delia nnd Oi-izalia, lit tho western part of the stato of Vera Cruz, lie cause of the opening of a new cratei of tho volcano of Orlxuha, fifteen miles northward. Tho new crater Is emitting smoke.'accordlni? to reports from army officers. It is officially reported that noth iiiK untoward has been noticed at the other volcanoes In Mexico. Kxports believe tho reported open ing of a small and supposedly extinct volcano at Sun .Minuet and tho break ing out of a new crater on .Mount Ori zaba provide an explanation of the eartliiiuake which on Saturday nlKlil centered with lerriric effect along the line between the states of Vera Cruz and I'uebla. New advices tell of 200 deaths near Kan .Miguel and In the country districts near Cordi.-ka. and it seems improbable the final list or casualties will fall below original estimates of 20(10 even if reports of Hioo deaths at Couztlan were exaggerated. It )s believed twenty villages were com pletely destroyed with almost double that number i.-r towns and villages badly damaged. MKXICO CITV, .Inn. !). Seven towns near Teocelo, snlllll of .lalapa have been overwhelmed by tho earth disturbances nntl a great lake Is cov ering their former sites, according to a message received this morning from Teocela thru Vera Cruz. Thirty-four bcilles had been recovered when the message was filed nt Teocelo. The towns that were Inundated are Tlalaualau, tjuie.iuitlau, Coastalccac Toslguo, lxllabiiacan, Clinloyii , mill Sun .loae-Achllchlcn. Kvcry house in Teoceol has heen niuile unlnhubltuble. ARREST 2 GROCERS IN SUGAR OVER 13 CENTS POItTI.AN'I). ,lun. !). I'urthcr nr rests are probable beff.ro the week is ended among the grocers of tho city bs the result of information given 1'niteii States Attorney Humphreys bv householders that sugar is llein sold by grocers at prices exceeding l.T cents, the fair price fixed for this ( omnii.-dlty by K. Newell, federal food administrator, Mr. Humphreys said today. If these charges are cor roborated mid arrests are ni:ide, the grocers will be investigated by the federal grand Jury along Willi A. Anderson nnd Joseph l.etlff. two gro cery men arrested this week en com plaints issued by Mr. Humphreys charging them with profiteering. GRATER ERUPTS red horde: Bokhara, Canity of Khanate. Lss Than 200 IWiles From Afqltanistan. Is Canttirct! bv Bolshcviki Troous lixnortant Citv in Don Cossack Re tiion Caiitttretl From Denikine Lcnine Plans World Contiuest Ac cortlinti to Italian Letter. LONIION, Thursdiiy, Jan. it. llok haia. capital of the Important Kha nate of Bokhara in central Asia anil less ihan 2U0 miles from tho Ai'Khan istan frontier lias heen entered hy bolshevik forces, uceorclini! la war of fice reports. Further west, soviet troops have occupied Krasiuivoil.sk on the eastern shore or tho Caspian sea. It is claimed in reports frc-iu .Moscow. ItD.MIO, Thursday, Jan. S. Tho Upoca says that Nicolal Lenlno has written another hitter to tho direc tors of tho socialist party imploring them not to precipitato any revolu tionary movement which in tho pres ent ccndltTons would havo no prob ability of success. , ' l.enlne adds that tho revolution' In Italy now would have a grave reper cussion in the Kussian soviet republic which is about to negotiate with tho liourgeoise powers for the acknow ledgement of the recent state of af ialrn in Russia ami also for essential oconomlc agreements. All this would bo rejected, sayR Lenlne, If anothor revolution c-ccurred in Italy, because with tho eventual spread of bolshev- lsm thriiout Europe, In a spirit ot preservation the states still iminuno from bolshevism would hermetically closo themselves itgninst .infection and the soviet republic dostlnott ,to become a typo for tho future, would not have time to strengthen Itselt sufficiently to become vital. Capture N'ovocherknssk STOCKHOLM. Jan. !. Esthonltt has acceded to tho reiuest of (lenoral Yudenitch for the transfer ot tho tat ter's army to the Bouthcrn Kussian rront where it will reinforce Genoral Denikine, according to a llclsingfora dispatch to the Tidningen. LONDON, Jan. 0. Tho city ot Novocherkassk has been captured by the bolshcviki, It Is asserted III wireless message from Mescow today. The city was taken Wednesday uftor a battle of the most severe charactor with ticnernl Deniklno's troops. Novochekassk is twenty miles northeast of Itostov, principal seaport of tho Don Cossack region. TOKIO, Jan. .' A dispatch 'rem. Vladivostok received horo 'today states that tho American sovornmont has decided to withdraw all Us troopu Irom Siberia. 1X0 announcement, of any decision of tlie United States government to withdraw tho entire American force troni Siberia has been mudu In this country. It may be that tho Vladivo stok report arises from the announce ment recently made that tho United States was to send troop ships to Vladivostok for the transporting home of the Czecho-Slovak forces in Siberia. ASTORIA BABIES BURN ASTOUIA. Ore.. Jan. 9. Tho two Infant children of I,. A. Samuels, warehouseman ilt the Standard Oil company here, were hurned to death today when the Samuels home caught fire and burned to the ground. Mr. Samuels had gone to a neigh iior'a house on an errand. leaTing the children In hed ot her home. Re turnini; she found the hfuse la ftanic- Kfforts oE firemen to rescue the children, a boy and girl, were futile.