Medford mail tribune., January 27, 1920, Page 1, Image 1

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Dally Fourteenth Tear,
forty-ninth Year.
MEDFORD, ORECOX, TL'KSDAV, JANTAKY
1'rJO
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SECY TREAS.
Secretary of Aqriculture Nominated
bv President to Succeed Carter
Glass. Who Takes His Place in Sen
ateEdwin T. Meredith of Des
Moines. Editor "Successful Farm
ing" Is to Be Secretary of Anricul
ture. '..;
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27 David
1'". Houston of SI. Louis, now secre
tary of mrriculture. was nominal oil
today bv President Wilson to lie scij
rotiirv of tho treasury. At the same
timo Kdwin T. Meredith of Des
Moines. Iowa, was nominated to suc
ceed JIr. Houston.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 27 Edwin
T. Aferedilh of Iowa, editor of "Suc
cessful Kanainir' will he named sec
retary of agriculture to succeed Sec
retary Houston, who is to become
Kpcretaiv of the treasury in the place
of Carter Glass.
Mr. Meredith, who is at Miami.
I'la., teleirraphcd the White House to
day accepting the office. He is 5-1
years old and his home is in Des
Moines.
'Before starlimr "Successful
Varmimr," lie was publisher of the
Scanners' Tribune, lie was a candi
date for the United Stales senate in
1014 and for (.'overnor of Iowa in
1010.
President Wilson was expected to
send the nominations of both Mr.
Houston and Mr. Meredith to the sen
ate today. As soon as Secretary
Houston nualifies Mr. Glass will tak
his seat in the senate to succeed the
late Senator M'artin of Virginia.
MIAMI, Ma.. Jan. 27. Kdwin T.
Meredith, who is to he the new sec
retary of agriculture said today Hint
he hoped to work out some solution
of the problem of trettiiiir crops to
market "without too much lost mo
tion' in his opinion this is the basis
in fact of all permanent prosperity.
Mr. Meredith was a member of the
labor mission sent .abroad during' the
war, of the excess profits board of
the treasury department and of the
public irroup at the industrial confer
ence last October, lie has been a
director of the federal reserve bank
at Chicago since its orunnizntion and
is president of the associated adver
tising clubs of the world.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27.- Dr
Iluiih S. Cuminim." of Hampton. Va..
was nominafed surL'eon -renernl of
the public health service today bv
President Wilson. He succeeds Dr.
Itupcrt Blue, whose term expires on
January
WASHINGTON. Jan. 27. llavdcn
II. White of liuffalo, Wvo.. was nom
inated today to be register of the
land office at. Buffalo.
FRANCE LOSES HAND
PARIS, Jan. 27. Tho piiRlllBtic
career of Luis UePcnllen, feather
weight champion of France, endcI
yesterday when surgeons amputated
his left hand to save the renter's
life. Ho met Taney Ieo, the British
champion, in this city on Christmas
day and tho he knocked out his oppo
nent in the seventeenth round of
their bunt, ho injured his band and
blood poisoning developed.
niK'AfiO. Jan. 27. The Illinois.
Women's Kair I 'rice commission,
which distributed -J-'LlKin blank "com
plaint" cards, received only 10 renlic
i'rom women who believed tbev weic
victims of profiteers. Mrs. Joseph T.
Howen. heail of the commission, an
nounced today. Twenty cards hcar
in vairue inl'onnation and charues
were returneil to the I'nited States
district attorney's office. One card
carried h Ioiil' eompliiint about the
price of hunimine; birds anil another
protested aeainst prufiteerint' in
skunks.
"There ore three reasons I can
think of for this poor response to the
SSH. GIRLS' IHE SMALL
8
: PARIS, .Inn. J7. Wliis.MT
...... i ;.. i, w ..i- iwhi..n
tlmt small wuists arc to "come v
in" u train next si-hmhi. Strict-
est st'crc'cv is hcimr imiintaiiuMl
in professional quarters in at-
coi'diincc with a decision hv
i:reat dressmaking establish-
incuts here not to make prema- v
tare revelations hut it is said
irowns (lesitined after the new
mode have been seen and admir-
ed. Authorities in the dress
makintr trade, however, denv
tiuht lacintr is to ret urn, one of v
them sa vinir : "The wasp waist
is as obsolete as the sluirc
eonrh or the sedan chair."
E
E
Orders Sent for All American Women
to Get Out of Trans-Baikarla
- Which Is In Path of Bolsheviki
Hordes March 15th Before All
Americans Out.
VLADIVOSTOK, Jan. 27. Amer
ican army authorities believe it will
be March 15 before the last American
soldiers and Red CroHs workers 'are
out of Siberia. Orders have been
sent that all American women be
hurried out of trans-Itiiikalia, which
is in the path of the ndranciiiK bol
shevik army that has moved steadily
eastward along the trans-Siberian
railroad and now seems to be nearing
Irkutsk. Rear guard Red Cross units
are reported at Chita, a city just
north of the .Manchurian border
where the Amur valley branch of the
Trans-Siberian joins the main line,
while the 27th United States infantry
is at Verkhnie-lMinsk, west of Chita.
Soldiers of the 27th are still in
possession of the armored train cap
tured near Verkhnie-Udinsk en Jan
uary 10 from Russian troops belong
ing to one of General Senicnoff's
commands. Two Americans were
killed in this fight which was caused
by the independent action of a sta
tion master who is alleged to1 have
been intoxicated at the time.
Reports state tho bolslwiviki have
swung southward from Taiga and
have reached the Mongolian frontier.
GENKVA. Jan. 2 7. Nearly 7.",O0o
of the 5oofooo Austro-Hungarian
prisoners of war taken by Russians
have perished in Siberia from sma'
pox and typhus, according to Vladi
vostok dispatches to international
Red Cross headquarters here. The
rest were kept alive only by the effic
ient work of Japanese American and
English doctors. East of Lake Itaikal
Chinese physicians are also helping,
but the work is difficult owing to the
bolshevik invasion.
OUND MAY BE
MANDATE TO ARMENIA
PAKIS. .Ian. 27. (Ilavas) In
case the United .States refuses to ac
cept a mandate for Armenia it may
he Riven Holland, according to a dis
patch from The -Hague to the Matin
quotinc rumors In that city.
complaint campaign." Nfrs. Rowen
Mini, firt. ptiblie resentment fver I
hidi prices mav have been overesti
mated. Second, people who believe
their denier is irouirintr them would
rather pav the excex than run the
lisk of beinir called a witness in
a court prosecution. Third, dealers
have threatened that informants wili
be placklited and repaid for tunfini:
in complaints bv having their servjeo
and credit cut down.
''It is diappoinlin:r to know that
the public sceminL'Iv so eaL'cr for n( -tiin
against profiteers and hih
prices, will not take the trouble to fill
out and send in the cards which must
be the basis for the pro-ecutiu;,"
HURRY WOMEN
AWAY BEFOR
RED ADVANC
f C8 i ,
PLAN A COMPLETE
TICKET THIS YEAR
PORTLAND, Jan. 27. Plans for
getting out a complete democrat tc
stale ticket, for the coming election
and full party tickets in each county
in the state were drawn up last night
at a meeting of tho Jackson club, at
which l"r. J. V:. Morrow, state denu-
cratic committeeman, was chairman.
Div Morrow forecast a victory for
tho party, and told of his attendance
at Washington early this month ot
the national Jackson day dinner and
of the meeting of the state commit
teemen at Washington at which Kan
Francisco was chosen as tho location
for the 1!)20 convention. J)r. .Morrtw
expressed tho hope that at least a
portion of the ten delegates to repre
sent Oregon at tho convention would
be women.
STOCKHOLM. Jan. LMJ.-Tlic cm
hlovers association tnrlav adopted a
resolution (hat a lockout would hcL'in
immediately where possible -.and that
all shops represented in the aoey
lioii would close bv Januarv 'A. Tfii.-
action followed a decision of the la
bor unions not to end I lie strike which
has ill rend v affected ."ill per rent of
the plants in the countrv. Labor lead
ers, fcarinir lite Lr rowing hoMievik in
fluence in (heir ranks, opposed the
refusal to end the strike bttl had small
influence apparently. It is probable
a split will take place in the ranks
of union labor.
MOW VOItK. Jan. 27 Sterling ex
changed rear bed anoiner low mark
ut today's opening of the market,
when It dropped to $:i.."7,4, I V
ynder the previous low record.
Francs and llres also made irew low
records, the former opening at 12.(17
to the dollar, and tho latter at 1 l.7."i
to the dollar. The previous low rec
ord for francs, made yesterday, was
12.47 and for lires 1 l.tJO. .
Storting exchange corn limed tV
weaken and betore noon was ojio'led
at $.'!.." ti . The reaction also affect
ed exchange rates on the northern
Kuropean countries. Ccrmaii marks
were offered at 1.07 rents each.
7
10 RETURN TO BERLIN
MA YKNCK, Jan. 27. I (lavas).
Cernian newspapers puldirh a letter
from former Kmperor "William to
personal friend In which Count llo
henzollern expreRseH his iihsohitR dis
couragement and says he does not
want ever to return to Germany. He
says he believes his reiurn would
cause a spilt between (ierman factions.
GIANT STILL SEIZED BY NEW YORK
UHE -
POLITICIANS ON TRIAL
CliANI) KAIMIiS. Mid... Jan.
'2i. Ciiited States Senator Tru
man II. Newberrv, and iLi.'l men
prominent in M t-h i l: n n politics
went on trial in federal dis
trict court here todav charged
with conspiracy, fraud and cor
ruption in tilt; 3'llH senat(H'ial
election. -
Of the Ltr men indicted hv the
federal grand jurv last Novem
ber, nine have entered ideas of
nolo contendere, the rase of one
has been continued owini: to ill
ness, and another, upon whom
service has not been obtained,
was said to be in South America.
Twentv-three pleaded "not LMiiL
tv' :imt Hil Mood mule when
arraigned.
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CHANGES TO OVATION
!T
SAX FIIAVCISCO, Jan. 27.' fif
teen hundred persons who gathered
here Saturday night to welcome (Jen
nral Persuing suddenly turned the
meeting into an ovation Tor Herbert
Hoover, when the hitter's name wan
casually mentioned during a welcom
ing address.
For several minutes. Hoover's name
was cheered in a spontaneous out
burst. (.'!" cut liusiasm.
-Men sprang to their feet and waved
t heir arms.
The welcome was tendered to Pr.-r-shing
by the Commercial chit). Fred
erick Whitton, toastmaster, was in
troducing 'Pershing when' he men
tioned Hoover. He declared that
Pershing would occupy a niche in tho
annals of America "similar to those
occupied by Washington, Lincoln,
Grant, Roosevelt. Wilson, Hoover"
Ho got no further.
Mn iim nrini mi i
rLU UtAIn IULL
CHICAGO. Jjiri. 'J7.-New ea.-es o,
iriflncii.ii ;i iid iineiiinoiiia continued
to dew-fop .,.;,v bill I lie d.silll toll
i liiiihed -tejtdiK lii'jiier. I f tirinr the
pat 21 hour- the two dieae elaiin
ed a tot:i of 1 7'. live--. fJ ucrunib
inir to inthtenzii ami 82 to pnetiuto-ni.-i.
Ibirinir the -Mine period new c;i-e-repnrlel
loliilled 1.8tM) of inlluen.i
and (!)! of pneutnonia.
SCANDINAVI AT0 CONSIDER
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS
PARIS. Jan. L'7. ( Kreneb Winded
Service. 1 A conference of Sen nd inn -vian
cabinet mini-tcrs will be hehi
earlv in Kebruarv at Christiana, ac
cording to advice- from that eitv. The
om-tion of Norway. Sweden and
Penmark ioinintf tii'' Leairne of Na -Iioih
is ij )'C con-idcred it is a'n.
CHICAGO GROWS SUGAR STRIKE A
RAIDERS
NEW YORK Here's ft giant
Et ill that made whisky for thirsty
New Yorkers till detectives un
covered It. It was set up In ail
old barn in the Bronx. When it
was seized, IS barrels of whisky
cached in tho barn wero taken
too.
TO SERVE UPON
MONTIiSANO, Wash., Jan. 27.
special venire i.f JiOO talesmen re
ported in superior court here this
morning when the second day of the
t rial of eleven alleged members of
the I. W. W. on charges of first de
gree murder in connection with the
Armistice dav parade sh no-lings at
Centralla, Wash., opened today. Fol
lowing answer of a roll call, the court
allowed those having excuses for not
serving to present them, close to 1 00
of the venire appealing for dlscharg
Those who had passed tho age
limit of no years were iiic1tly ex
cused. Women included in the panel
who have a legal exemption because
of their sex, were excused upon re
quest. .Most of tho-.ie in the venire
took advantage of this exemption and
did not attend court. Those not ex
cused were ordered to report again
tomorrow.
Of tile li'i veniremen!, who Applied
to the court to be excused from Jury
duty, ."ill had their request granted
Illness, pressing business and ago ex
emption were the most frequent ex
cuses advanced. One venireman In
sisted upon raising his loft hand to
lie sworn and explained his inability
to use ttie right hand by saying he
had no such member.
ASTORIA TUG LOSES
2 CONCRETE BOATS
ASTORIA, Ore., Jan. 27. The
army tug Slocuin, wbi.cli left Astoria
last Thursday with four concreto
boats in low, bound for San Francis
co, wirelessed l.o the local station last.
night that she had lost two of the
boat- hut had taken the crows off.
The boats were said to lie in a sinking
condition. Tin; Slocuin is returning
to port with the remaining two boats
and then will endeavor to recover the
two she lost, the message said.
Captain Frit. Ilirsch, Columbia
port pilot who too'k ttie steamer A bur
ros out yesterday for trial trip, said
he sighted the Hlocum off Cape .Meant
with two concrete boats In tow and
sighted two other co'ncrete buali;
a lion t leu miles southwest .
FIGHT TO FINISH
HOXOLl'LC, T. II., Jan. 27. (Hy
Associated Press). The strike of
sugar plantation workers already has
Hod up five plantations on the Island
or Oahu. The two other plantations
o:i the Island have not ! m affected
hy the walkout, of Filipino and Jap
anese workers which began January
20.
According. t semi-official figures
the number of workers out are: Fili
pinos 2.'!'Ml; Japanese r2;:s and sev
eral hundred of other races.
It Is reported (n sugar circles that
the planters asscdnt ion Is prepared
to put up a finish light.
Tho Japani'Ho Kcilonillnn of l.a'trir
of Hawaii ypslenlny callpil a KPnernl
strike of .lpanwn miRar plantation
workofB for Feijnmry 1,
JUGO-SfAVS ACCEPT
Tl
I'.l'.li'NK. Swiizi'iliinil. .lilil.
A lii'l'jnulc ilisiNili h .-.-iv.- Iluit'
the .luu'-lilv i:n('i'llMH'lit lui '
(leriili'il In tn--clt llic llllinl lll
tmuitlllli Willi ri'LMnl I" .-clllc-
iiicmI ill" (lie Al rial i- nnilni-vciv-v.
Tin- iln-i-hiii In iiimm-iiI t In- ul
lirmiliim un.s rt-iu-ln'il hv n r-m:ill
iiiii iui'il v mill nl'lt-r n l"ii'-' li--t'liMnii
tin- iliiiiiti-li :nliU. Tin'
.luuii-Sliiv 1'i'plv will In1 M'hl In
l'nri within IS lnmr.
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OF MEAT IRUST
Senator Kcntlrick of Wvominti Oiiens
Ball at Livestock Association Med
ina in Snokane Stuinlv ami De
mand Must Be Rcstorcil Lively
Debate On Meat Retaliation.
KI'OK.WK, .Inn. 'J7. Discussion
of li'Klslatlon to rurli I ho acllvllli-H or
tho IiIk incut piickors, tiximiilud to lo
volop onu nf I ho wuniuisl ronlosts o'f
tho prosonl ('onvonlion of tho Anior
k'lin 'N'litlonnl I.lvcslock nnsoitliillon,
was liiuiichiHl liy United Slates Colla
tor John II. Kondrlik i.'f WyoniinK.
ni-psldi-nl of tho association, in his
adilross at tho opcnillK session here
today.
Senator Kendiirk. author of a hill
111 coimress intended to elremnseriho
tho husiness ai tivitles of tho packers,
presented the af firinat ivo side f the
argument for reslrlclion, declaring
tliat ho was speaking not alone with
tho Intel-cms of the livestock pnodm:
ora In view, lint "hecauso It is a ques
tion of the ultimate good of tho en
tire nation and thnre is not a hntiKry
child III tho luiinlilest hi.'ine in Amor
lcn who Ik not vitally coneorned in
tho solution of this prohleni."
What Oidiniallon Jlld
"It was your market coinmlttee
that hrntiKht aliont the investiKatlon
hy tho federal trado coinmlsslLH,"
said Senator Kcndrick. "It wiih tho
fart secured hy tho commission that
armed tho attorney Keneral for his
negotiations with tho packers. Call
It sensational if yon will: call it un
fair; call II radical the federal trado
commission needs no defense from
mo lint it iinco-vered the facts, facts
which tho inemhers of this ornaniz
lion had loan suspected reai-dinK
the concentrated control of all the
iiKonclos on which our Industry de
pends, facts lhat emlioldened tlie at
torney Kononil to ko hel'i.re a ChlcaKo
Krand jury, facts that lnduce.d tlie
packers to accept without consent an
InjunctioucatisinK them to surrender,
some of the control they had gained
over tlie foul supply of the nation."
"Our husiness now Is to seo to it
that .no oilier few individuals shall
over aitain lie permitted to acquire
similar control or similar power," he
continued. "Our duty now is to' write
this victory down In tho statute hooks
of the nation so that chaiiKlui; Judges
may not hritiK ihaiiKlnK Injunctions.
If it tie true, as tho packers say, thai
they have violated no law In hulldiiiK
up this vast commercial edifice, we
eanmt osi-apo the obligation of kIv
Iiik them a law lhat they must not
violate, n law that will prevent thorn
or any other set of individuals from
ever attempting to follow their ex
ample." Independents Increaso
CitlnK an unprecedented Increase
durlim the past four years In tho
nunihor of independent packlnK
(Continued r.n 1'aco Six)
WOULD FURTHER
CURB ACHY
P0LI1ICAL FRIEND OF SECY DANIELS SAYS
SIMS SHOULD BE FID FROM U. S. NAVY
WASIIIXCTON, Jan. 27. Hear j
Admiral Sims, a leadltiK fluro in the!
naval decorations controversy and in'
the pendinK Honate inveslimition of;
the navy's conduct of tlie war, was ,
criticized today in the housn hy Hop-1
renentatlvo Byrnes, democrat, South i
Carolina. I
Declaring lhat If the admiral was '
admonished hy a hlKh mmi! cfflclal I
not to let the British "pull tho wool"
over bin eyes, as he testified recently i
heforo the senato decorations com-i
uilttco h violated a confldenco in i
HUNT FIGHT
OS PACT TO
FLOOR AQAIN
Senator Hitchcock Serves Notice On
Senate Leader? . Unlesss Comnro
mise Netiutiations Are Continued
He Will Carry Fitilit to Senate
Floor 1 1 th Hour Balk bv Johnson
Borah Clique Evidence of Bad
Faith Article Ten Aurccd Uiioii.
WASHINGTON. Jim. -'".Notii-ii
was Hcrvcil on lenders ol' lite- sonale
IimIiiv hv Seniilor Hitchcock ol' Nc
lirasliii. aihninisl ration,, siiokesninn
thai unless compromise, neirntintiontf
mi Hie Ireiilv were conliuueil lie
wnnlil carry I lie- IVirlil to the seimUi
I'lniir hv nioviie,' lo take Hie Ireatv mi
I here.
Tlie notice was iriven in the reply
of llic inliinniil ill icratie coinmil-
lec to Hie relu-al of Hie reiiihlican.-i
to ciimiiriiinic on arlicle ten ol' the
League ol' Nalions covenant. Out of
Hie discussion which I'olowed eanio
i urcmcnl lor Hie lii-iunlisan eoni-
millces to meet ii'-'nin on Tliiirsdav.
'I'hus the door In compromise was not
enlirelv closed.
liel'iirc he went lo Hi infcrem-! i
Seniilor Hitchcock wits in cotiimuni
calion willi Hie While House hut it
was mil said how far the iiresidenl,
miulil he in a irdinir with Hie iii'O-
tmscil ciiniiiromise reservations as
niiiile imhlie hv Senator I lilchcock. ,
Senators ol' Hie irn ncilahic
.-mini inilicaled todav that thev
would stiiumrl anv move to brimr tho
Ireatv, up lor lieilnte. ileclarinsr dis
cussion would stromitlien their ease
lierore I lie- counlrv. The mild rsor. ,
valion repulilicans nlso have ovidone.in.
ed a desire lo uvt Hie I roil I v into tho
senate nuniu should the comprumiHa
neuoljatioiis fail. .!,,(..,-.-.:
liodK- lioits Scllttlo ....
"The democratic members of this "
conl'i-rcnoe have considered the an
uoiiiiceiuciil niade hv Seniilor I.oiIl-c)
llial he anil his associales an) nof.
will'iiv lo consider nnv I'omproniisj
mi the l.odire reservalion coiicefniii'.r
arlicle ten nor on lhat relet imr to tho
Monroe doclrine," said Senator
I lilchcock in the ilemoeralie reply I'.i
Hie rciiulilican ultimatum.
"In reply we desire to sav lhat wo
enlercil ,on Hits conference without,
anv reservations or restrictions in tho
hope thai we could compromise dit'
lerences not onlv on arlicle ten .but
on till oilier reservations. We as
sumed Hint the other side of this
i otiforonoo had the same purpose.
''The unexpected interrupt ion of '
Hie conference end the decision to re
fuse anv compromise on article ton''
is all the tuoie surprising because it
seemed from expressions on luitlr'
sides of Hie table that we were eloso
lo ir compromise on this verv import
ant reservation hv means of the fol
lowing liricf prepared hv several and '"
asseufed In bv most of the members
on hiilb sides of Hie table before tha
interruption.;
'!-!. A l',i.
I
I'be Hnited Slates assumes no oh- '
li'-ralion lo emtilov its niililarv or na- ,
val forces or llic economic lioveolt to
Preserve Hie territorial integrity of '
political independence of anv other
country under Hie provisions of ar
licle ten."
Steel Dividend Declared.
NKW YOlfK. Jan. 'J7. The United
Stales Steel corporation at its quar
terly meetiuir here todav declared
reuualr dividcuts of one and n iiuiir
ter per cent on common and one and
lliree-ouarler per cent on common
loon stock. - ''i
Sam Gompers Is 70.
WASHINGTON. Jan. J?. Samuel
'lumpers, president of the AmrrlAiur
I'Vdorotioti of Labor, was 70 viiurt;
old todav. lie spent mot of the dav
at his office.
inaklns the instruclions puMlcHep-resf-ntallvo
Byrnes said ho deserved
the "rondemnatfon i.-f every Aniorlcan
and a illshonorahlo discharKn from
the navy."
Characterizing Admiral Sims as a
"hyphenated politician," Mr. Byrnes
charged that when serving as com
mander of American naval forces In
Knropean waters during tha war ho
had liheled the army and deprecated
the work of the navy and had urged
that the I'nited States leave the con-'
trol of tho seas to Oreat Britain.