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Newspaper Page Textedford Mail T The Weather Maximum yesterday 43 Minimum today 27 Fair and colder. Predictions l-'ulr urn colder. Dlly Fourteenth Tear. Forty-ninth Ter. MEDFORD, 0R1XI0X, WKDXKSDAY, JANUARY :M, 1020 NO. 1W 32 BILLS VETQE M RIBUNE IE Governor Stauahters Measures bv WholesaleMost Measures Involv erf Jbuse of Emeraencv Clause- Road Bills In Doualas. Clatson and Benton Counties Also Vetoed "Straluht Party Bill" 1 Bites the . Dust List of Bills Vetoed Today SALEM,. Ore., Jan. 21. Sixteen bills passed' at the special' session of tho legislature wove vetoedi today by Governor Olcctt," in addition to tho Blxteon vetoed yesterday. Most of those refused signature were emer gency measures, for which there was little' excuse, according to tho chief executive, as Be held that no emer gency need exists for them. i Many road bills, Including those fbf state highway branches Ifi Jack is to, Douglas, Clatsop and Benton counties, were yetood, as was the ' straight party" bill, designed to change the. form of voting. .The vetoes announced today in cluded:' H: B. 51 by .Gallagher, re lating lo Irrigation district. . , S. B: 7 by 'Multnomah county dele gation', 'relating tc kindergartens. H. b; 39 by Burdick, establishing county fair for Deschutes county. : , S. B. 34 by.Moser, relating to at tachment's: ' v ' ': . . .. S. B. .5,. by Strayer, amending the law creating a board of engineering examiners. .' -. '; '..''. " 8. JR.. 80 by Roads and highway cbhinilsalon, reducing ' amount of Maintenance cost .which the counties areto pay for state highways from 00 to 20 per cent; : ' '' ' : 'H. B. C6, roads and highways com mittee,' increasing highway revolving fund from S30,00to S7u,000. H. Bi 68 by committee on corpora tions,' extending corporate existence of private corporations. ' H. B. 69 by Gallagher, fixing open Beason for game birds. H. B. 49 by Burnnugh, fixing tho times for holding court in the tenth judicial district. S. .B. 23 by Union county delega tion, relating to salaries of Union county officors.. v iH. B. GO Linn county delegation, authorizing employment of stenogra pher by Linn county school superin tendent. ' . H. ,'B. 72 by JIcFarland. to regnlato angling Ih (he Willamette river, be low Oregon City.' S. B. 71 by Lachmund, relating to fire Insurance association meetings'. I MARSIIF1ELD. Ore.. Jan. 21.--Juiues Humes, a 17 year old school bov, outwitted a hiifhwnyman last riisht after being- asked for n match. As Humes was handing- the man the match-he was confronted with an au tomatic pistol and told to deliver his valuables, lie handed out $2 from line' imeket and proffered $(i he had in another. ",' AS the hiirhwuvmnn reached for the bov's. watch., he was off irnnrd for a moment, and Hnmos struck him on the chin, knocking him into a ditch. x Haines was too friahtenrd to capture his. man and ran to liive the 'alarm. The robber escaped.. JAPAN AGREES . v SOLDIERS TOKIO. Jan. 20. Japan's ob ject in 1 liUTeeini.' to cooperate with the United States in supporting- Cxccho-Slovuk troops in Siberia has been attained and the withdrawal of Jananese troops from Siberia will follow, it was decided at a meet in? of the advisorv diplomatic council veterdav. accord in? to newspapers here. It was asserted nt the meelinir.' it is said, thai Japan has no territorial WILL TRY TO GET SOME ILL FATED LUSITANIA l.OXnOX. .Inn. 21. Efforts to raise some of the treasure" from the ill fated Liisitnniu will be made cnrlv this venr. Kniri- neers and divers who have been prospeetimr about the sunken vessel believe that thev run nt lotiut out tlimisitti.i. ill' iwmmls worth of valuiibles but that it 'will ho impossible to raise the steamer or much of her curiro 'Aveiax to the treat depth of tho water in which she is Ivin: Senator Walsh Offers Resolution Dc clarinq Makina Public Official In structions Deserves Condemnation All Good Americans Chairman Hale Jakes All Responsibility. WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. A reso lution declaring that the action of Rear Admiral Sims in making public "official Instructions of tho most con fidential character,'!' affecting inter national relations deserved the con demnation of all Americans, was in troduced in the senate -today by Sen-otor- Walsh, domocrat; Montana, a member of the naj committee. His request for immediate consideration was denied on objection of Republi can Leader Lodge. The resolution quoted from the letter read by Admiral Sims last Sat urday before tho senate committee investigating naval decoration in which the admiral said that before he loft the United States for Europe in March, 1917, he was told by a high naval official not to "let the British pull the wool over your eyes; it is none of our business pulling their chestnuts out of the fire; wp would as soon fight the British as tho Ger mans." "I cannot but beliove that whothor the above admonition was or was. not given tc Admiral Sims the disclosure under almost any circumstances must receive tho disapproval of evory American," said Senator Walsh. Borah Is UcllKlitod Replying to an inquiry by Senator Borah, republican, Idaho, whether Admiral Sims volunteered his letter, Chairman Halo of "the decorations sub-committee said: - . ''The admiral produced it because 1 insisted and I am entirely willing to take all responsibility." ...... i. The warning given to Admiral Sims against letting the British "pull the wool" over his eyes was approved by-Senator Borah, who said the offic ial giving it Bhould be commended. "I don't find anything tc censure either Secretary Daniels or the ad miral," said Mr. Borah. "It was a very proper admonition and I regret that the secretary has denied it." Senator Walsh said the whole question was over disclosure of con fidential orders by the admiral and Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado, said it seomed to him that there was "gross violation of somebody's confi dence." Jowh was the first stato to eloet women ns countv superin tents of schools. " " .' TO RECALL FROM SIBERIA ambitions in Siberia and that troops now beinir sent to that country are merely tu repluee losses. It was declared that fundamental policies will not be affected bv this step. The council is reported to hnve indorsed the cabinet's decision not to interfere further in the internal af fairs of Siberin and to adhere slriet lv to the coverntiient's declaration when it entered into its nerreniciit witb america in 1?18, v v 9 v ASKS SENATE 10 CONDEMN SIMS REPORT .wMfcd& mm i SENATE VOTES FAVOR GREEGlAN CLAIMS TO .,- WASHINGTON, Jan. 21. A resolution supporting the claims of Greece to Thracian .territory was reported today by tho sen- ate foreign relations cemmittco as a substitute for a similar res- olution by Senator King, demo- crat, Utah. " The resolution later was adopted by tho senato on a ris- Ing voto. A few senators' rose 4 f in cppositlon and Senator Borah republican, Idaho, said he lie- lieved it was. "hone our our bus- incsB," while Senator King said tho resolution wus h step in tho right direction. ,t''!'4';'l' 4,,4' '- IE E LEVEL NEW YORK XKW YOUK. Jan. 'JI New lnw record on Knulish, French and Ital ian exchange were made at ihe open inif of the market here todav. De mand bills in the pound sterling:, which reached a record low of T';i.(i4.Vi on December 12, fell todav to :i.2'H. off 'IV from vesterdav'. close. French excliunsie. which wus inmted vesterdav at the rate of 11.75 francs for the American doling a new low,' dropped todav to 1 1.!7, or 17 points below last niirht's closinc. (imitations, hire checks dropped from vesterduv's new low of 1H.87 to a rate of 14.07 for the American dol lar. The adverse trade balance against Kuropean countries and t lie uncer tainty reaiirilini: forniun trade' are held responsible for the demoralized exchantie rajes. Kates of Hclttian. Cierman and Austrian excllaliL'c also dropped to new low levels. Ileluian francs were mioted at the rate of 12.03 for the American dollar. German marks a' l.."2 cents, iw compared with 211 and 24 cents, their value before the war. ::nd Austrian crowns at .'(" cents. 18 Killed Prussian Ft. R. Wreck. fOPKXHAOKX. Jan. 2(1. Kieli teen passengers were killed and 20 injured in a milwnv cnllisinn nut- side of Selpieidemuhl. frrussiat lastthimlmnd bav rum or Jaimiica vin- n'Kht. 50 NEW CASES OF FLU IN CHICAGO EVERY 60 INtJIES WA.SHIXCJTOX, Jim. 1. Slut is medical authorities' Imvc the, influen za situation no well in hand thai no epidemic is expected, the pulilic health .service announced today. CHICAGO, Jan. 21. More than six thousand pomens in ChlcuKo to day are ill from influenza, and re ports were that tho contagion had appeared in ciUen and towns thruout the middlo west. Pneumonia also was reported epidemic and propor tionately had canned a large number of deaths. During the last 24 hcure new caseu of influenza were reported at the rate of fifty an hour. Of these throo hundred could not ho glvon even tem porary HUporvlHlon by trained nurses. K if toon hundred additional nurses are urgently needed at once, the health commissioner announced." DeatliH from Influenza in Chicago during tho last 24 hours numbered 3, as against 214 during the day the great oh t number of cases was report ed in last year's epidemic. IINE AND WHEAT FOR 0. S WASHINGTON'. Jan. til. Four hundred million pounds ut wtmar, 2U.IHHMJ1I0 bushels 'of wheat and In rue ounntilii'x of hides and other materials stored in Ihe I'kraine will lie made available for the market- of' the wurhl when general hloekade ol IiusHin is lifted. ifcordiiiLT to an im nonncenient here todav bv the I'k raiuian mission in America. I'kraiiie tii-etls uiedieinc and suryi cal umt'h-, elothinir, shoes and ai:ri- ulttirnl inahitierv. aeeordini: to tbe mission, which t-nid ihe laek of medi eines and elothinir alone had reduecd to miserv i urejit arears of the I'k raine. itenresenlative-i of the I kriiiifinn eo'ipcrative societies are now in Switzerland. Km nee. Knirhtml and other eountrie mid it was announced that a delceution soon uotilr arrive in this eountrv to open headquarters. An Alabama woman advertise that she has purchased a hhot nun anil will shoot ntiv man whu stdk her Ker. INDICTED AS A RED CIIICAtiO. Jan. 21 Tho special annul iurv whicli lias ,lieen iuvcsliuatiiiir "red" activi- li.l in l.,.L- .....llllv In.lilV I'll. turned indictments airainst Wil- J li., ll.. I.L.v.l inilhimiiire parlnr socialist, and 37 oilier al- J 4 IcL'ed members ut Ihe eniuniun:st labor partv. Three of those indicted are v wnincn. Ihe most prominent of l.:.,., M.,r,M,,,. l'.-i-,.,. ..!' i Cleveland, who was a deleuatu to the national convention of tho communist labor party, held here. ' I SHOOT ALL DOGS roitTI.ANn, Jan. 21. ,1'renidlng Judge John McCutirt ot tho circuit court here today upheld the validity of the Htaio dog lieeiiHO law. by bub mining tho -demurrer to thu 8iiH hroughl by Walter IK lloneyman if thin city, to tent the act. Under thin decision, sheriffs must shoot all un leashed dogs not wearing stato II censes, besides city license- when those arc Imposed by the communt ties. No provision Is made for lm p.unding the dogs, or for their mas tors to recover them by payment of tt fee. The law wad passed by the 1919 legislature. , About 5000 dogs In Multnomah county are affoctcd by the dcclsloDi It was stated today. The stato law da 111 a 11 (I s a license or J I for male and 'l for female dogs. This must bo paid by January 1, according W tho statute,, but owing to the test of the Inw, its operation has been hold up, pending decision. PARIS. .Ian. 21. (llavas). Pre mler .Mill of Italy may not wait longer than today to accept an an swer to the. allied note sent to the Jugo-Slav government last week, ac cording to the Kcho de (Paris. If an answer Is not received by tonight tho newspaper says tho Italian premier may demand the unqualified oxerti tlou of the treaiy of London, rcserv- Ine the fate of r'iumo to lie, decided later, STRAY TOM CAT HAS A $100 BREAKFAST AT '- H' XKW YOUK. .Ian. '21. A ' strav tout cat projected himself into Ihe annua! poultry show in progress toilav .in Mailisou Siuiare Harden and had a $1110 breakfast on two carrier pigeons on exhibition bv a Baltimore fancier. The homeless feline siiiicczed into the mirileh in some unknown wnv and feasted his eves on the 1 1.000 birds, finally learinir the muslin slips off the cnuc housim; the pigeons. Onlv a few leathers were left lo tell the laic. The cat escaped. '. ' ' NljSSjlLY Seymour Stedman of Chicauo De clares Expression of Solidarity With Soviet Russia- Not Crime in England. Germany. Italy or Nor way land Is Not Crime In U. S. Al.HAXY. N. Y., Jan. '2.1. A de IVlise of soviet Russia was made to (lav on the' floor of the New York tissuinblv bv Seymour Sledman of Cliicaiio, an attoniev for the defense ill lho Irinf of the five sllspeiided 'SO- I'inlisl. assemblymen before the as sembly judiciary . commiltcu , on (.'lini'ires of disloyally, .. Assort inir in c.unneetiiiii .with the chiii'ncH;tlint tlie csoeiulist nartv at its convention' in Chicmro last ' sununiu hud expressed solidarilv Willi soviel Hussia. and that the .assembly hiid (onileinned the suspended iiiemher. because thev were members of a par tv which expressed such approval, Mr. Sledman declared that expres sion of belief in the soviet principle: was not an offense in Kicrlanil. tier- :iunv. Italy or Norway, where it lind become all issue, and that in this eountrv it wus not a crime for which a man could he tried and sent lo the penitentiary ,nur did it even afford the basis for n civil suit. "Wo are not at war wilh Russia." ho siril. "It is true Hint some of our tiuiups lire over there and some of the" troops of our associates. II was t'iithur nnforliinate for snmeof our associates' troops, for the Russians shot some i'b.HH bito their heads";"' ', Keeling In (.'IuiiikIiik" Mr. Stediniin. who said eilticatlniial instititlinns wore hein? developed iti Kussin 'despite the' fisrlilimr Ihul 'wn (ruinir- on there, asserted fciilitiit!'to ward that eountrv was cliniiaini; nnil cited dispatches to the effect' thai the allied Kovoriimeiils were' pn'phr intr to resume trade relations. This, he claimed, was commercial recogni tion of the Russian political aii'l' economic structure. Aripiim; a motion lo dismiss the cliarues because thev do not include cause for exclusion of ihe socialist members. Mr. Stedman declared that "volt specify no act which would jus tify the exclusion of these men." 'Tun von snv that if we plead irui' Iv lo the first cause (adherence to the Chicago pialform). it justified our exclusion f he asked. AIJiANY. N. Y.. Jim. 21.--The sec ond day of the trial of Ihe five sus pended socialist asseinblvnicn before theassembly tudic'iirv committee op. ened. ibis morning with announcement by Louis M. iMiirtin. connnittce chair mtin that :a motion for dismissal of the proeeedinsis as "unwarranted'" tnade vesterdav bv the socialist coun sel hud been denied. , : SOVIET RUSSIA DEFENDED IN "HELLO-JOHNNY" IS GREETING OF PERSHING'S BOY CHUM TACO.MA. Jan. 21. (ieneral John J. I'ersliiii'.' urrived here eailv till moruitiir from Seattle, und af ter mecl iny a reception committee went to 'limp Lewis at !) o'clock lo inspeit that cantonment. When Oenernl I'ershine slarled to f'amp Lewis Samuel Hawkins, a boy hood friend of his in Ijiclcde, Mo.t sti'iH'i out o( the crowd, DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO Willi GEN'l Secretary of War Baker in Oimoslnn Provision of Army Sav Disposal of General Pcrshinu Hard Problem Maklnq Him permanent Chief of Staff Would Be un-American ami Threaten the Establishment of Mil itary Autocracy. WASHINCITON", Jan, 2 1.- Tho army rocrgiinlzullnu bill drafted by lho senato military suli-commlttoe, was endorsed today by Secretary Ilnkor, who appeared before tho full committee. "This Is the most stalesmanllko attempt to re-organlzo tho army evor made in any country and Is an ex ceedingly nblo and effective pioco of legislation," he said. Tho measure provides for compul sory military training aad tho forma tion of one big army, to bo dlyldod into a citizens reserve army, the reg ular army consisting of 280,000 num. anil the national guard. While disclaiming any "personal (merest or almc'at none," in the mat tor, Socretnry Dakor. opposod; provis ions which would . make MGoneral Pershing chief pt staff. . These pro visions would In effoct abolish the war department aa jong a General Pershing was on tho active 1 lat , : t lio socretary said, nddlng that tho presi dent or the uocrotary. ut war should , be permitted to nnmo thd chlot ;,o staff In view of tho fact that ho is the military adviser and tho ; mnn upon whom both depend for carnylu.6 put the, military policy. ; ,7 'a hi ("aii't Afforil Aufocracy: o- Senator Frolinghuyaon, ropi)illaan. New Jorsoy, Buggostod that thei pur pose was lo provido a place, lor tionr ornl Pershing. . "We can't afford to make a mili tary autocracy In America In order to find a place for an officer," the soc rotary said. "I think whon you placo a military man In a placo created by luw and you can't replace him, you're doing something that I believe the constitu tion prohibits. It is Impolitic and constitutionally Infirm." Denying he had discussod tho mat ter with Oonernl Porshlng, Mr. Dakor said ho did not think the general would caro to have the placo. .,., (iuiiural Porshlng'a future relations tq lho army rc-organlzatlqn form a problem Secretary Bilker , suldi -sin finding un nHHlgnmont for him of im porliineo and dignity cirruspvndluK to IiIh high rank. 50 CASES SMALL ' BKNI). Orv.t Jim. 21. WHhllm cstiimited imiiiiImt nf simh1Iihx fUHt'H n Ih'iid sfd bv Incul phvsiciuiiH ut fiinrc thiin oil. dmstic nit'tiHuns r to lit' tukrn hv lho cilv uoV(?ruiii'nt to prevent the further hpreud of tho di-pjise. In some homes where the. diseiises have broken out' there ttro no phvsi rinns in utlendnneo, it was lenrucl tdiiav. mid no ouurniitiiie bii been eslaldislied, Innoetors luivo .been nuced on dutv nt m iviuu nieturv shows, dump's mid skittintr riukn to pruvvnt persons whu huvo ionlrueteI the disease from mixiiiir twilh tlej erowls. A Japanese uirl with an umisijitllv prominent noe is considered n hvlh1. "Hello, Johnny Persliiii!:,'' he said. 'Well, if it isn't 'Feather' Hawk ins," I'ershiiur responded. "How do vou liko the west?"' Hawkins asked. "All ri'.'ht. I never felt bettor," the general answered. Arraimeiuenls were made for A lone; talk toiiiulit between the two boyhood friends. Mr. Hawkins U foreman in u local suwniilt. IS 1