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Medford Mail Tribune pgi The Weather Maximum yesterday 48 Minimum today 10 Daily Fourteenth Tttf. Forty-ninth Tear. MEDFORD, OREO OX NO. 24!) , TUESDAY. JANTAKY 1:5. 19120 gov. oicon SAYS COURT Supreme Court Holds Oreaon Gov pernor Retains Office Throuahout Entire Unexpired Term of Governor Withycombe Now Expected Gov ernor Will Resiqn Position as Sec retary of State Three Supreme Judaes Dissent From Opinion. ' SALEM. Ore.. Jan.' 13. The state supremo court in a decision handed down here toduv held Unit Governor lien. V. Olcott retains liis office throughout the entire unexpired term of the lute Governor James Withy combe. Olcott became governor upon the death of Governor Withvcombe year aifo. lie was secretary of stale and refused to rcsisrn from the lat ter office to which he was elected for lour years, until the riirht to retain the office of Governor Withvcombe' term was settled. Action upon which , today's decision is based, was taken bcvcral weeks niio, when mundnmus proceedings were broucht by Attor ney G. M. Roberts of Medford for the purpose of decidintr whether Gov ernor Olcott must contest for elec tion at the ircncral election next fall. Three Judges Dissent The prevailing opinion was writ ten by Justice Johns and with him Justices Bennett and Bcnn and Chief Justice McBrido concurred. Bennett writing a special concurring opinion. Dissenting justices were Harris, Ben bon and Burnett. The case was taken into the su preme court directly in the form of u mnndnmus to compel Olcott as secre tary of state to include the office of eovernor in the list of offices cer tified to county clerks of the state to bo filled bv election Ihis .vcar. Governor Olcott, it was said here today, now that his status has been detennincd. will soon resign from the office of secretary of state so that he may devote, all of his time to the governorship. The appointment of Sam A. Kozcr to the post of secre tary of state is expected. Kozcr is now deputy secretary of state and u candidate for secretary this year. SOUTHWEST U. S. KANSAS CITY. Mo.. Jan. IX Whether a mysterious intestinal mal ady which has appeared in Kansas and Oklahoma exists in other commu nities of the southwest was a matter for much speculation here today. Meantime, officials were making ef forts to identify the disease and dis cover means for checking its spread. Topeka. Kas and Muskogee, Okla., apparently are the worst sufferers. At Topeka, advices here sav. 20(1 uses have been reported and unoffi cial estimtcs placed the number at 1.000. Many School children nre among those ill there. At Jfhiskogcc it is said, there are about "100 cases. No fatalities were known to have oc curred at cither place and the death list irom the malady remained nt' four, all at Skiatook, the little Okla homa town where it was first noticed. The situation at Skiatook is said to be under control. State health department inspectors sent to Skiatook to investigate were expected to furnish information to day that would assist the authorities in classifying the epidemic. Tests also were being made at the Oklahoma slate emergency hospital. Some physicians express the be lief that the mnladv is n form of dys entery, while others were of 'lie op inion it is a gnstric form of influ, enzu. i I WASHINGTON. Jan. 13. Former Representative Miller, the new secre tary of the republican national com mittee, took charge of national iiead nuarters here today and at the same time James P. Hevnolds. the retiring secretary, opened national headnuar lers for flnvornof ('oohdi'o of M.im-fcacliu-flUi. WOULD MAKE YAKHEE DRY OR US TRAVELS WASHINGTON. Jan. IX Senator JTcNarv. republican, Oregon, today introduced bv re otiest a bill which would extend the provisions of the national prohi t'tion constitutional amendment to American citizen livintr in consular districts in China and other countries where the amendment does not conflict with treaties alreadv eiirstinr " between those countries and the United States. It was referred to the iudiciarv committee. ' LEGION AFTER Two Legion Posts Condemn War Record Heavvweiqht Champion Declare Him Unfit to Represent America Aqainst France No Ac tion Leqion as Whole. . FOIiT WAYNE. Ind., Jan. 13.--C'ondcnining Jack Dcmpscy as an un fit representative of American ath letics, the Fort Wiivno post of the American Legion unanimouslv passed a resolution last night declaring op position to his defending t lie cham pionship title for America. The resolution is the result of re cent agitation against Dempsev for his war record due to the fact that his service during the war was confined to work in the ship yards. CLEVELAND, Ohio. Jan. 13. Condemnation of the war record of Jack Dcnipsey, world's champion heavyweight, was voiced in a resolu tion unanimouslv adopted bv the Meuse-Hhinc post of the American Legion here. Tilt . resolution con tains an appreciation of the war rec ord of Georges Carpentier. INDIANAPOLIS. Jan. 13. Va rious posts of the American Legion arc acting independently of the na tional organization in condemning Jack Dempsev, heavyweight boxing champion, on his war record, accord ing to information given out here to day. The national officers of the legion have not considered taking any offi tial action along such lines, accord ing lo G. II. liennick, assistant adju tant general, JJenipsov was not in the service. Jl!r. Kennick said it was his belief that no action would he taken bv the national organization. SUGAR TO SOAR PORTLAND. Ore. Jan. 13. YVIurf are said to be the highest sugar prices in the history of the country will be effective here upon the arri val of sugar now on the wuv here, it was announced tudav in udvjces from San Francisco. The announcement came from the California and Haw aiian Sugar rcfincrv and placed the wholesale price of the new crop of cane sugar at 16 cents a pound wholesale in Portland. The price in San Francisco was fixed at lo cents, the advices state. LEFT FOR EDUCATION LAKKVIKW. Ore.. Jan. 13. Crca tion of the Bernard Daly educational fund, income from which is to assist young men and women of Lake conn tv in obtaining college education, is provided for in the will of the bite Dr. Bernard Dalv. which was filed for probate voterdav. Directors of the Hank of Lakeview nnd presidents of Oregon Agricultural college, and the t'niversitv of Oregon to have charge of the fund, lo which is beoucnthed all properly of Ihe $1,000.0110 nutate not otherwise dispo-cd of. DEMPSEY FOR SHIP SERVICE COM MRS REPEAT M WAGE SCALE President Lewis Presents Same Scale to Wilson Commission Operators Agree to Accept Findings of Com mission With One Reservation. No Price Fixing Beyond Period of Ef fectiveness of Lever Law Pro gress Is Made. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Miners" representatives put before Ihe com mission their full demands as orig inally made and refused bv the oper ators before the calling of the coal strike last November. Acting l'resi unt Lewis reiterated demands for an increase of (i0 per cent in wages, the six hour work day and five dav week. for the abolition of double shifts and lor the consideration bv districts oi internal differences and defended each of them. . The efficiency and health of mine workers, he declared, rcouircd short er hours, and he added that the min ers would endeavor to show the com mission that the average bituminous coal miner did nut work more than 30 hours a week in anv case. Ouo Hcsoi'vntion WASHINGTON, Jan. 13. Mine operators in the central competitive field tudav told the commission nam ed to settle the bituminous coal strike that they would accept with a sin gle reservation any award the com mission might make. The operators said they would not be a party to the fixing of coal prices beyond the period of effectiveness of the Lever law, the war time measure under which the government has con trolled food and fuel prices. Ralph Crews, ''counsel for the central opera tors, explained that without making Ibis reservation, the operators could not legally join any price fixing agree ment. He nlso said the operators would not make their acceptance of the commission's award contingent upon the character of answers to a scries of aucstions which the opera tors yesterday asked the commission. In accepting the commission's de cision, the operators. Mr. Crews said. understood that the (commission s award should "of itself constitute n final contract between the miners and operators for the period of time fixed bv the commission." Operators Yield President Robinson reminded him that President Wilson's letter creat ing the commission authorized it only to make an award which might be used as a "basis for a wage contract." He nsked if the operators would not modify the language in their accept ance accordingly and Mr. Crews fi nally agreed that the commission should determine that point. "The mine workers understand that the award shall bo a basis of a new wage agreement, and not of itself ail agreement." said John L. Lewis, act ing president of the mine workers. "I trust the record is not being made here which call be used subsc- oucntlv as a basis 'for a refusal bv the operators to write into a wage agreement the commission's award.'' President Robinson said Mr. Crew's stipulation that the commission should have power to determine what the procedure should be. had cleared up this point. 1ST OF EUROPE CAN FEED HERSELF vt AMII.Mi l u., .Jan. 1.1. Hccnuse of the "enormously, improved" con ditions overseas, the task of feedin: Europe until the next harvest on Or tober 1 will not be the burden of the American government that it wa hist vear, the house ways and means committee wirs told today bv Herbert Hoover. "From the signing of the urmis tice until last July 1. the provision ing of Europe cost two and one-half billion dollars," ho said. "Thut was a burden on our government and th taxpayers. In one form or another. the I'nited States treasury advanced 2.2.)0.nOO.OOO to feed Europe. But this year Europe will be largely nbh to feed itself bv the exchange of goods, and credits of .tl.'iO.OOO.OOO to .iJOII.000.000 from the I'nited States. In nil.. the situation is that of front ing the echo of the situation we bad to ir.iit last vcor." NO MORE GUN PLAT i IIS. IF ORE SENATOR CAN HELP IT SALKM, Ore.. Jan. IX The first bill introduced in Ihe sen ate tudav was ottered bv Sen ator Colon K. Kherhard of La Urande. and is entitled "an net making it unlawful to exhibit or cause to be exhibited motion pic ture scenes of -any net, scene or episode depietin-: a felonv under the laws of Oregon, prcscribiriu u penalty for violation of thi net. and dcclarim an emerueu i'V.'' The bill, if passed, will male it unlawful to show an act. scene, or episode, which if uc tuallv performed in real life would amount to a felonv under the laws of Oregon. Violation of the act would be a misdemeanor punishable bv a fine of not more than 1.00(1 or bv imprisonment in the fount v jail for not more than one vear, or bv both fine and iinprion menl. ENGLAND-FRANCE E LONDON. Jan. I'J.-Lord Kihnar nock left London today to act u British diplomatic representative in Berlin. His departure marks an important step in the re-establislnnent of the diplomatic relations between Great Britain and Germany which will lie effected almost immediately. Consul.- end consuls general will he appointed shortly bv the two governments, tier many will be first represented her by a charge d'affaires, hut it is be lieved the rank will soon be raised to that of minister, instead of ainbassn dor as formerly. PARIS. Jan. 12 The Spanish ambassador at Berlin, who has been representing the interests of France at the German capital, notified 'the Gorman government yesterday that rraneo bail taken action for the re sumption of diplomatic relations with Germany. France's charge d'affaires will probably leave Paris for Berlin on January 18. Germany has not vet given notice of the nomination of Baron Kurt vnji Lcrsner. head of the German mission in Paris, as the German charge at the French capital nor the nomination of anyone else. Meanwhile. Baron von Lcrsner remains as the iirovisional charge. It was said in German dele gation circles today that Germany might refrain for the present from nominating a charge. T BOSTON. Jan. 13. At the same time that a protest against the "pre vailing propaganda of fear and hy steria" in connection with auti-raili-cal activties was being voiced last night bv Judge George W. Anderson of the I nited States court before (be Harvard liberal club. Henry J. Skef fington, immigration commissioner a; this port. Was telling the Massachus etts Press association that he would "lake pleasure in 'getting' some of these Harvard liberal club radicals." Commissioner Skeffington said: "Heretofore wc have been abb' lo deal only with aliens, as all citizens have been exempt from our efforts, but last Friday the senate passed a bill to include everyone citizens and aliens and I sec that the bouse has made the Irill even stronger. Some of the Harvard liberal club radicals have been raising so much Cain around here that if I have a warrant in mv pocket I'll lake pleasure in getting them." "Ileal democracy now seems un safe in America." said Judge Ander son, speaking as a guest of the Har vard liberal club, lie asserted that the present agitation concerning the limiting of free speech had been "ex ercised without much regard to con stitutional or even proper legal rad iations." Must t,f the fear nut of which "perhaps dangerous limitations ol tins precious right (of free spec-lit are being advocated is. in niv opin ion, groundless." the speaker con tinued, adding that "nuinv of the -ame persons that for two years were faking prn-fiennnn plot now nr proniotine the red terror,' NO CHANCE WICATi THIS WEEK Possibility of Final Senate Action Vanishes When Democrats Decide to Wait for Party Caucus on Thtirs dav New Reservation to Article 10 Is Draftcl !v Senator Gore of Oklahoma Lodue Coolers With Smith. YA.s.llX(!TOX. Jan. l.'t. - Possi bilitv of tinal semile action fin I lie pence treatv bv January l(i, when Ihe League of Nations council will as semble in Paris, vanished todav. ac cording to republican ami democratic leaders. Not before nctx week, spokesmen of both the parties pre dicted, was anv action probable. Democrats declared thev would be astisfied if ratification was elfect ed this month. While negotiations toward adjust ment of differences over reservations rained new impetus todav, it was said some democrats were disposed to de fer action until after the eancu., Thursday when a minority leader will be elected. Conferences in the compromise ne gotiations of the democrat todav centered about a new reservat on af fecting article (en of the leauue cov enant drafted bv Senator (lore, dem ocrat, Oklahoma, ami other draft bv Senator Simmons, democrat, Norl h Carolina. . The former was submit ted to "mild reservation" republicans and discussed also with other repub lican leaders, but without definite re sults. Senator Simmons draft; was said to be favored by many demo crats and with the MeKelhir-Ken- drick draft was the subject of fur ther conferences today between Re publican Leader Lodne and Senator Smith, democrat. (Jeoruia. 120,000,000 Want Action WASHINGTON. Jan. lit. With the innounced purpose of seekimr ways -and means for the earlv ratification of peace, a conference which dele gates sa id represent ed liO.000,000 Americans hetrnn here todav. (War Straus, former secretary of commerce anil labor in the cabinet ot President It nose veil, presided as chairmen. National organizations represented included the American Federation of Labor, the League to Kn force Peace. National Advertising Clubs of America. Farmers' Alliance, Women's Christian Temperance I'll ion. and World Pcucc Foundation. lieirinniti-r with a ioint conference, the . meetiiiir is expected to develop into n select commitlee of fiive which would present the decisions readied to Democratic and republican lead ers in the senate. The committee also would call at the While House Tor the same purpose. FOR R0ME-T0KI0 KOMK. Jan. PJ. Kvervthintr is in readiness for tin proposed Koine '1 okio- airplane tliitlit. and with or without the participation of ('nhriclc d'Annunzio it should be completely imdcr wav not later than January 'JO, it is declared by Colonel MerlieH, the director ircncral of aeronautics, in an interview in teh Tribuna todav. A delav bevond the date named, Col oicl Jierlicri point.-, out. would carry the effort into the monsoon season. Il would not be advisable, either, to postpone the fik'ht until next fall, he said, as the Aero club of America wu origin .hi:.' a round -I lie-World IIL'ht, which would overshadow the Rome Tokio plan. DEFENDER OF KUT LONDON', .Inn. M.iii.r (lcm r.il Churles X. K. Towncnil. tin ilefVmlor of Kiit-d-Aiuiim. nhs tendered his rcsimmtiiin to tin ivnr oftW. (Icn ernl Tiuni-nil v imiriMu'l bv the Turks when h? nml his 'jurrisun Kut. south of Hiiu'IikI. wito hi'in iimiI in bv Hip Turks in ldlli mi. I turf ed to surmuliT. CHALLENGES GENERAL WOOD MD. DEBATE piki;i;k. IK. Jan. i:t. Senator Miles IVndcter ol Washington, the l'ir-t independ ent republican lo t'de hi- petition as a presidential candidate in South Dakota, has issued his challenge to -jet Leonard Wood, as the republican majority pro posal candidate, for a joint de hate in this state under the pro visions nf the WichanU primary law. If Wood refuses his name will not an on the ballot accord ing to the Uachards law. TEDDY JR. ASKS L FOR SOCIALISTS Assemlilviuan Theodore Roosevelt In Maiden Sncccli Declares Epulslon of Socialists a "Grave Matter" Wants Comiiletc Conies of Evi dence Huiihcs Is Criticized. ALBANY, N. V.. Jan. IK. Discus-1 sion of the procedure lo be followed in the hearinu on the eligibility id' the live soeialisl members who have been suspended from the assembly took up the ureater part'of the session in the lower house todav. Ileariims are to he public. An effort to have the assembly as a whole ad as a trial court instead of the iudiciarv com mittee failed. . Assemblyman Theodore Ifoosevclt, in his maiden speech, declared that the assembly, had embarked upon a lirave mailer and he considered it the duty of every assemblvman to be in formed absolutely on every detail of the hcarinir in order lhat a souare deal be nven to the suspended mem bers, lie then introduced a resolution that stenographic copies of the evi dence be furnished all members, h was adopted. Charles K. 1 1m lies was sharply rilici.ed bv Assemblyman Martin MeCne for the attitude he had taken on Ihe assembly action, lie declar ed lhat Mr. Duplies aud'the other members of the Pnr association which bad framed a resolution atlackiicr the assembly should withhold 'abus ive .statements' until the evidence is all in. WILLAMETTE U' FOR LEAGUE OF NATIONS SALICM, Jan. 13. In a vote of the student. asHemlily on the League of Ntt Monti covenant and peace, treaty, Willamette university KtiuleutH have gone, on record as favoring the coven ant with any compromise which would piake early ratification poHsi hie. AV'ith IeH than r0 per cent of the student body voting, the rennllH wero: Kor any compromise on reHer vaMtiiR. which would make ratifica Hon possible, OS. Kor adoption of the League of Nations covenant and treaty with the senate reservations (!. For ratification of the League of Natif-tis covenant and treaty with out reservations r7. Against adoption of the League of Nations covenant In any form, REFUSES 8-HR. DAY OAKLAND. Ciil.. .Inn. LV-The in- hitrntion boiml which ronsidcrrd Mir rictiuinds ol' the cmiiloviM of lln; Sun ''niui'isi'o-Oiikliind Torininul Kuil- wuvh Tor hitditr wnires, shorter hours Mid fhiiuircs in tin.' conditions ol' ' plovmciit. rendered its report toduv, mcri'usiiif the imv of pint form men in the (ruction und kev divisions bv si xeents mi hour, mi npiirnxiuititc in crease of tl'IK) a vein it num. Tin demand tor an eiiiht hour duv is re fused on Ihe LToiiud that the coin pnnv ciinnot afford the clmnuo nnd would he thrown into bankruptcy if il were made. The. arbiters refused to inukp the hinder wace scale retro active to October I, the date on which Ihe platform men of the eompiinv v ent out on ii ten duv .strike. A SQUARE DEA SAKS MARCH WORSE Til DER KAISER Conurcssman Gallivnn. Democrat of Massachusetts Declares U. S. Chief of Staff Refused to Consider Gotl. Only "Me" Viuorous Attack On Armv Decorations Made Loniie Lizards land Mcssenticr Bovs Get Bulk of D. S. M.'s. WASHINGTON', Jan. After spirited debate, the house today by a vote ol' IHU to ti!;t mWpfcd iv resolu tion iiy Itejiresenlntlve, (Jallivan, dem ocrat, Massachusetts, calling on the. war department lor the names of alt officers ami others who wero award ed the distinguished service medal lor their Ncrvlees during the wr. Most of the democrats voted against the resolution. 'WASHINGTON'. .Ian. 13. UikIuk congressional iuvestteiillon (if thu award of army deeorat ions for ser vices during the war. lloprcsentutivo tlalllvan, tleint-'crat, .MasKiichusetts, declared in the, house, today that more dlstlnnuishetl service medals in proportion wero awartled to army ot- ' fleers who never got nearer the, front than Washington than to those, who saw service, overseas. It Is common talk In tho army," said Mr. Callivan, "that our present chief of staff and one. of his assis tants, u colonel, whoso duty It was to osecrt nnd (lino foreign missions horu in Washington, havo no space left be tween their belts and thotr collars to display tho medals that havo boon given them as a result of this ser vice." Congress should luvestlguto all awards of medals nml crosses,' Mr. (iallivun said, so as !o detormlne why sonio recommendations woro actod upen favorably and others dlsrogardt cd. . , I. S. M, Clienpenctl Tho distinguished sorvlco modal has been cheapened and certainly rid iculed by thu bold und brazen1, man ner In which It has beon pussod out to those who belong to the oloct," said Mr. (iallivun. It has even been used to placato those who havo been romoved to make way for somecno elso. Tho rending of tho citations In awarding the distinguished service medal to sevoral chair officors of the general staff who never loft Wash ington during tho war, if bollevod, would certainly Impress one that tho war was fought with red Ink at ma hogany dci'ks. "Surely tho "loungo lizards' of tho ' second army of tho Potomac' can. havo no quarrel Willi their comrades, the 'lobby lancers' of tho tapltol as to tho number ot P. S. M.'s; these' two valiant units received for horMc' service In this war. '' ' ' ' " Tho. Lobby Liim-ors ' ' '" As for Franco, wherever tho com mander in chief sent a 'commissioned messenger boy' on an onand tho 13. S. ,1. was sure to lie the reward. "In Washington wo had four dif ferent thlefs of staff during the war nnd everyone who knows anything nt all about tho workings of tho war de partment knows lhat tho precedonts of tho present high priest of Prus slantsm, Ceneral Peyton C. March, wero considered unequal to tho task. Thru one pretense or unothcr, thoy were removed. "Ordinarily when a man hus failed in the performance of any specific task be Is removed without reward. Thcso men buve on the other hand been rewarded In tho name of tho president of tho United States by the bestowal upon them of tho I). S. M." Woi-st Than Kaisct "Tho kaiser." continued Mr. Cialll van, "with some spark of apprecia tion for consistency yet allvo, said: Mo und dolt.' Not so your chief of staff, U. S. A., Peyton ('. March.' who sees no. reason T-T Including 'Oott.f It is simply '.Me.' with him. "In Kraneo there wus o board ot awards or medals that sat In Chau niont nnd looked with easy favor on giving awards to their friends and with blind eyes and deaf emu to rec ommendations cf those without tho pale." "Tho failure to send Major (Jon eral Leonard Wood ovorsoBS In com mand of troops was a "case of inter national notoriety," Mr. Gallivan said, adding that Henoral Wood "was never given an Important active com mand during the war," but "to pla cate public opinion something must bo done." A Jew Clothes Modal "Tho bestowal of the D. S. M. on General Wt'od," ho. continued, "Is heartily approved by the entire mlli- (Contiuued on Page Six)