The Weather
Maximum yesterday -"i.T
Minimum toiluy
lMst night's rainfall .0." int.
Prediction
Km In ton i; hi mill Sat unlay.
Daily Fourteenth Tmjt.
Forty-ninth Year.
MEDFORD, OK'KdOX, FK'lh.W. .lAXl'AK'V :ln. lic'it
so. 2(;t
a u a til
AGREEMENT
ON TREATY
Senator Lodqe Refuses to Accent
Reservation to Article Ten Draft
ed bv Former President Taft So
Democrats Walk Out Hitchcock
Declares Treaty Will Be Called Un
in Senlate for Debate February 10
Opinion Divided as to Success.
WASHINGTON', J;ui. .'10. --The
unofficial bi-pnrlisnn negotiations
on reservations to the pence treatv
PinliltMi.lv came to an end todav
when the democratie senators, fail
ing in a last attempt It) obtain a
compromise on article ten, walked
out of the conference and announc
ed thev would seek some other meth
od of obtaining ratification.
The democratic leaders said the
next step would not he determined
until there had been a consultation
among the friends of the treatv.
Thev indicated tin it- nothing- would
be done for a few duvs.
The final break came when Sena
tor Lodge, of Massachusetts, the re
publican leader, refused to accept a
reservation to article ten drafted bv
former President, Taft and presented
to -the bi-partisan conference by the
democrats.
After consultation with his partv
associates. Senator 1 1 ilcitcock an
nounced that notice would be given
in the senate tomorrow that on Feb
ruary 10 he would move to take up
the treatv for debate. Opinion ninony
senators was divided as to whether
the motion could secure a majority.
WOliCKSTKIi, Mass.. Jan. X
Rergennt Alvin ( York, war hero,
who is tourimr the United States in
behalf of the Alvin C. York founda
tion to found and maintain a school
in the mountain section of the south,
was today forced to cancel his lour
owing to an altack of appendicitis,
lie was stricken after his lecture in
Jioston Tuesday night.
He was placed under doctor..'
care here and lliey advised an im
mediate operation.
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MILAN', Jan. 30. The annulment
of a marriage has been obtained here
BOlely on the grounds that it was
childless. , This decision is expected
to he followed by numerous applica
tions for annulment on similar
grounds, for there is no divorce in
Italy.
The actif.n of the tribunal is in
dorsed by the Italian press as a whole
and the socialists have gone so far
as to prepare a measure for the intro
duction Into the chamber proposing
that marriages shall be compulsorily
annulled if nu children result from
them.
I E
"IDE MORE EDWARDS TALKS THE MORE
ASHKYILLK. X. C. Jan. :i0.-lie-1
pi vinir to a statement lust night bv j
Governor Kdwlirds of New .Terse '
that William Jennings Itrvan "sound-1
ed a deatli harmony' in the demo-!
erntie primnrv with San Francisco )
ns the "inoreup." Mr. Hrvnn said;
here todav he Imped the New Jersey j
executive "would keep on talking"."
ns "no champion of the honor traf-:
lie can talk long- without insulting-j
the conscience and sen! of decency ;
of the country." j
"The more (invenmr Kd wards i
taik." said Mr. P.rvan. "the more
dshaipcJ Chairman Cuiii'iiing-i wiii .
GIVEN SECOND VOTE OF
CONFIDENCE 510 TO 70
I'AltIS, Jan. :to The cabinet
of Premier Millerand was given
a vote confident'!.' in the
chamber of deputies today at a
session attended by virtually all
the mem Iters. The vote was
Mo in favor of the ministry to
seventy against it. and with no
abstentations from voting.
. PARIS, .Ian. ISO. At today's
meeting of the cabinet council
K Premier .Millerand made the
I ministers actpiuiutcd with the
conversations which wore held
fr during the recent visit ol Presi-
dent Poincare and tin; premier
i of Belgium.
f
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IS HALTED BY
LACKOF FOOD
London Believes Sensational Gains
bv Bolshevik Arimies in East About
Over Because of Difficulty of
Suiiulv -Ficihtinq Snirit Denikine
Troops Saiil to H'ave Recovered.
LONDON'. Jan. 'Mi. Difficulties
of supply have probablv Mopped the
advance of liolshcvik troops along
the trans-Siberian railroad west of
Irkutsk, according lo advices to the
war office. I Machmcnts are re
ported to have reached the Chinese
frontier southeast of Rlisk.
Latest reports show that relations
between (be new government ami tin
(.'.echo-Slovaks have become wor-e
and that bolshcvisin is Lrnininv
ground as a result ul' the arrival of
red agents. Kncounters between
Semenoff's troops ami Czech de
tachments are repotted.
In south K'tissia the bolsheviki
have resumed their advance against
(leneral I enikine. ( n the wc.-tern
half of (he front the main effort of
the soviet I mops appears lo be di
rected southward against Crimea,
ami south wot ward against the
Khersou-Nikolaief-Odc.-it area. In
the former sector thev have reached
the northern end of the i thin us ami
captured Oeni click ami I Vrekop.
but further progress across lb.1
narrow anil easily defended neck of
land has been staved moiuenlarilv.
In the latter area the reds have
pnshed forward down the raihvav
toward N'ikolaieff alter occupying
Klinbethgrad. but still are about ."it
miles from N'ikolaieff.
Iteds Checked on Kast
On the eastern half of the front
the threatening- red advance along
the wcslern shores of the Caspian
iea has been checked anil thrown
back. In the center (ieneral Oeni
k i lie's units have fallen b.-n-k. but in
the Don region the nnti-bol-dieviki
are maintaining- their positions. All
reports concur hi saving the Kussian
retreat is being carried out in an or
derly manner and that the pursuing
soviet cavalrv is gaining- around onlv
step hv step and is lo-dmr severely.
Continued on Page KighO
be of giving- re-peclabilit v to hi, can
didacy for tin- presidential mmi i na
tion ami the more certain it will be
that prominent democrats will have
other engagements when invited to
his meeting.
"(io em or Kdwnnl-' candidacy i
an often .-e ngnin.-t the democratic
parfv, and the sooiu-r he finds out
that he is going- ui again t a stoic
wall ami settle-; down to companion
ship with t!io-e who u-ed to be cn
L'au'ed in the criminal business of
which he ha become he nio.-t con
spicuous champion, the sooner the
pariv will bo able to turn it- atten
tion to the important work before it."
RED ADvANC
SAYS BRYANPALESTMEARABiANS
yk . t - - f v
7 J
HOSTO.V There Is n fiictory here wlinrq Btrlke will not occur. Soventy-anven prolll-xlinrtMi:
einiilove sloekliolilera operate It In South HohIoii.' 'I hey nmka clRara. They ure pulil hlch wafies unit
share In the prnlils. Tlie olllcers work. loo. H. Hronkliorm (rinlit ) . in treasurer, ami Joshua O. Kon
eca (left), Is buyer, uslile from their regtilur liours at the bench. The workers siiiK and whistle.
SINKS AT SEA
XICW YORK. Jan. .".O. The Amer
ican Hteitmer .Mielero Trout .Matau.as,
Culia, .1 an nary 2::, for Philadelphia,
broke in two ami sank al sea, ncconl
hiK to a wifeless message reei:ived
here today by the naval ci.'nimunica
Lions serviee. One loat with the cliief
officer am! seventeen men, ha.s been
pickiHl up by the .steamer O.cttc and
another boat with the captain and 2
men is still mianlng.
Tliu Iohh of liie tnnlter was report
ed by the steamer O.ette by wireless
relayed thru1 the U. S. S. Clenison.
The position given by the Ozette in
dicated that she picked up the men
approximately 150 miles east of Sa
vannah, On. The message, reporting
the rescue said:
"Picked up lifeboat containing
chief officer, third mate, four engi
neers and twelve members of crew
of tank steamer Mielero which broke
in two on .January 2ft and sank. (!ap-i
tain's boat with 22 men cf crew Ktil!
adrift. Heavy northeast seas ipoder
ating." The message was dated at I0:'t0 n.
m. today.
The Mielero was owned by the
Cuba distilling company and she car
ried a cargo of 1)IMI,oihj gallons of
molasses in bulk. She was built at
Quincy. Mass., in 1 !) 1 7 and registered
5S5:: gn.ss tons.
Representatives here of the Cuba
Distilling company said they had re
ceived no information beyond that
contained in the radio dispatch.
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RESPECT FOR THE QUEEN
WITH GREY FOX IFF
LONDON, .Ian. :tit. (Jueen Mary
made the mistake recently of wear
ing a huge grey fox muff when at
tendini: a meeting i.t the West Nor
folk Kox Hounds. According to tlr
Central New:!. .lust before the pack
was started one of the hounds spied
the muff and made for it. Soon most
of the pack swarmed about the queen
to the great delight of the king and
the considerable discomfort of the
queen. The mast er of t he hounds
finally extricated her without dam
age. OBJECT 10 ZIONISTS
ROM K, .Ian. .to. iv.-pe Ib-nedict
has received a memorandum from
Arabian tribes in Palestine which
protests against what is called the
"pro-XionisL" polity of fireat Itritain,
andj A. J. IJalfour's statement that
"Palestine must be for the Jews."
The memorandum denounces the re
port that bolshevik Jews have been
given pcrrnissU.-n to settle in Pales
tine! ainl declares the Arab will
nevfr allow Zionists to take posses
sion of their country.
DIRECTORS WORK WITH
CHICAGO WOMEN EMPLOYjFRENCH MONEY
MALE SERVANTS TO HOOK! PDicie mm
THEM OP AND 00 HAIR
CIIICACO. .Ian. Ji)-Men
supplanted house ui.pns ns
-house servants at (he , Yoiioir
Women's ( 'lm.-l iaii a-oeiat ion
hord here todav. A .-hurt aire of
housemaids force! employment
of men, said Mrs. ,J. M. Sharp,
a matron of the hotel, who de
clared I lie siibst il at on proved
verv satisfactory.
Mrs. Sharp expressed the op
inion thai "general substitu
tion of houi; nidi for house
maids is the onlv solution of
the servant problem,' and
added:
"I iot .1-") replies within 1M
hours in answer to an adver
tisement for hoiiM' men, but not
one replied to an advertise
ment for bouse maids. A friend
of mine employes n Japanese
as Indv's maid to do her hair,
hook her up and t care of
her clothes.'
4, ; .j. 4, 4. 4. 4. .f
BILL WOULD PUT
ORKOON CITY. Ore.. Jan. :;).-
State Representative Chris Hohuehel
has drafted a bill for submission 10
the people at the November election
he announced today, providing for a
new state highway commission, to, be
coin posed of three members, one ap
pointed from each of tin? thret? con
gressional districts of the stale, with
a salary of ?:p;imi and traveling ex
penses. It is provided that one com
missioner shall be naincd until De
cember 0 1 , I !'-'. one until December
1 , 1121, and one until December .' 1 ,
1 122, future appointments to run for
t lireo years.
The measure would authorize the
commission to purchase, acquire, coii-
I nil NIL a II II II jH I il I 1 1 J 1 1 II M 1 il ' I 1 1 I II1S
in. tins ana mnruim-ry ior ine produc
tion of any and all road building ma
terials. NKW YORK, Jan. SO. The appli
cation (.f I:an Johnson, president of
the American leamn- to have !-ef aside
a preliminary injunction obtained by
tho New York club restraining him
and the St. Louis and Cleveland ehibs
from Interfering with Carl Mays, a
pitcher for the Yankees, pending
trial of the Ktiit for a permanent in-jun-
tion, was denied today by the
appellate division i.f the supreme
court. The court expressed no opin
ion on the merits of the controversy,
giving leave to the defendants to
move t( vacate the temporary in
junction If the plaintiff should fail
to move the tase for trial promptly.
BAN JOHNSON LOSES j
ON INJUNCTION S0IT
MEN
4 4
IN FIVE YEARS
I'AlilS. Jan. L1!. ( 'oinincnlimr oi
I he evebanu'e sit uat ion. the hit ran
I ;.i'Ji':H'l s.iv-; tiubivr
"This is one of the ravtt cri e:
'f the nasi live years."
"If no remedy is possible, if uu-
L'rene has iufeetcd Ihc oruanisin,
l tie new spa per conl nines. only an
opeialioii will save us. In financial
lati'j nae i' t his means lin nidation or
some kind of compression of 'our
del.tr
The finam-in! nolicv of the l-'reneh
Lovernincnt is lo avoid as far as pos
sible restrict ing I lade with all na
tions, Although the u cavity of the situa
tion is fully appreciated, it may be
-aid (here is no panicky feclim: in
official circles. It is estimated by
persons in elo..e touch with the nrob
Iciii thiil it will rcnuirc about fivv
vtar-i for l-'ranee to ovep'ome Iter
financial (lit t icnlt ies.
PARIS. Jan. :I0. An imporlanl
pari of the pi eeds of the new
French loan will lie upplicd to the
retirement of paper in eirculnlioti.
This will be one of the essenlial fea
tures of the i:oye!iiiiicnt.s plan to
improve the financial situation, the
Associated I 'res-, is able lo saw
Radiejil increases in taxation to
balance the budget and if necessary
riL'id rest ricDotis on the importa
tions of luxuries to check the depre
cation of the franc also have been
derided llpoll,
FAR AS LIGHT
LONDON, Jan. ti In a small room
at the imperial college of technology.
Soul h Kenslngti.n, Professor A. C.
Uahkiiic is perfecting an instrument
I which f.heots messages as a gun
I I hoots lihells.
j A person talking into a t rum pet
(attached to a minute mirror, rcflect
! ing a .strong light, can send a nics
siige to any distance reached by the
1 light without fear c.T the words being
; intercepted, il is said. The words
spoken can be heard distinctly half
a mile away and are transmitted thru
projectors to an electric battery at
tached to a pi:-ce oT selenium filled
hi an ordinary telephone receiver.
The larger the receiving battery the
greater diMancc can the message he
sent.
CARTRIDGE CLOTH IS
LATEST N. V, STYLE
; WASH I.n ('TON, Jan. 2 It.- Car
tridge cl'.'lh, a new material created
! by the war, Is being t rrisformcd by
j war department experts into attrac
tive rtoods for women's wear. Ham-
pies of the material made up in wom
jen's blouses of fetching design is ho
ling offered for sale in New York
j mures to ffl la w milady takes to It.
,ir It proves popular other creations
wijl be put on sale.
I
i uuiuiu umiLu
UNCLE SAM HINDI ii n rinurnti
ON EVERY BOTTLE OF
BOOZE GREAT BRITAIN
.. .j, .$. .. .. .,
LONDON. Jjin. :;p. A caii- v
catiire of "I'ni'le Sam" vv 1
elongated nrobosci-; bcariiej (lie v
word "prohibition" is soon to v
appeal' on labels pa -ted on '"
i wrv l,..iile. ,
ivl ul' Iti'rl'. UIIM'
k and bar- v
r wln.kcv.
' sold in (ileal r.ritam. T!ie la- '
bcls, live nnllion ot wbi.di have
bi'cn printed, bear llii-. in -e rip- "
I ion : v
"If prolnbiiiou wins I here
will be 110 more beer."
Some dealer-, obji-ctcl lo this ':
' wordirc,. on the : round Dial the
bell er c!n--s cii. oim'is iniht - v
v consider il vidua r, mi a second '
' label has ln-cu prinlcil for n-,e
by uroccrs bearmir a keteh of !
' nu inverted pyramid dc.:unated
"prohibition" and llie warnitiu:
"Local otdion i the linn end ''
:' of this wedee. Don't let them ':
ilrive it home."
UNITED STATES
Allhoiiuli Influenza Enittemic Ovir
Lartic Part of Country Medical
Nursinti Facilities Are Adequate
Pneumonia Gains While Flu Loses
In Chicatio Honolulu Suffers.
AVASIIINUTON. Jan. :m. . Altho
iuflucn.a has n vv become epidemii'
over a larue pari of the country Ihc
public health service said (odav lb'
situation was well in hand pructi
ally everywhere mid lhal mcilica!
and n ursine; facilil ies wen pi'ov iii''
adciiliate.
YAKIMA. Wii-I... Jan. :m. All
school eon I est s for the coming I wo
Weeks were today called off by S11
peniilemleiil A. ( Davis as a pre
ctpit ioiia rv meas'ire 011 uccoiuil of
the influenza si I mil ion u Inch is to
day reporli-d a-, more serious. An
eiuergencv hospital will be opened a
sitoii as possible in the Sunday
school rooms of the Kirst I'resbvle
rian tdiureh, which have been select
ed us (he best oiitirters available.
CIIICAOM, Jan. :iO.--Nevv inlluen
a cases reported to Hie health de
parliueiil duriii'.' the lasl 21 hours
dropped to l.lli!!. jul over half the
hie.Ii mark of I he present ep demie.
Sixl v-iught deal lis I'rom in fhieu.a
were rejiorted ami S'J from pneumo
nia. New cases of pneumonia re
ported reached -MX I he highest num
ber reported for auv 'J-l hours since
the epidemic appeared.
IHlN'oLrn;. T. IL. Jan. LML f Iv
the Assocjalcd Press. ) Three
dcuths from inlbicna were repotted
hen1 today, makiin 12 fatalities here
from t he d:sca-e mi ice Jamia rv 1 .
Sixty-four cities have been rep.irled
1 u ri uir that time.
The s luation on the i-laml ol
Maui, second largest island'of the
Hawaiian uroitp. was dednnd out
of hand todav and the territorial
health doctor has been dipnlclictl
to the place. Two deaths luive oe.
(Continued on Pago Kfght)
N0TOR0US BANDIT DIES
HIS REAL
OSSIMNfi. N. Y.. Jan. :tO - The
body of Cordon Kawcett ll.11nbv.no
torious murderer and bandit who
was eiccl rocnlcd In si.n.r s;,!,,,
late last night for the murder of two
officials of 11 Itroolilvn savings bunk
in !eeembcr, l!MH. will be buried to
day. No, one claimed the bodv and
the nivslerv surround his parent
age which he bad stiidiou-Jv .Minrdcd,
remained unsolved.
An anion, v ,1,.,., 1 1 . . t tin
brain of the youthful criminal a-
'normal'' ami well developed.
FLO SITUATION
WELL N HAND
U.u.rMHICIM
Of VERGE Of
DIG REVOLT
As'st i'Jostn:asttT Gfn'l Biakslee Tells
Senate Committee Conditions 'Dis
qtiietliui anil Portentious of Disas
trous Coiisciiuenees 40.000 Re
plies to 200.000 Qiiestionuates
Show Toilers of Soil Keatty to Quit
Farm cr Cut Down Production. ,
WASIilNdTnX, J;,n. ::tl. I)e
creased farm production next year
and a con-euiirnl increase in the
co -1 of living, due to dissatisfaction
of farmers a predicted before tlui
senate pordoffice comuiiltee todav
by James 1. Klnkslce. fourth assist
ant postmaster general. More than
in.mm answers to 2t)0.mm ouestion
naires sent to fanners, he said, iudi
cnlc a condition "disnuiiding: and
portenlious of d;saslroits eonso
iptences." , , '
A report siiminavizimr the conlehls
of the farmers' answers prepared bv
Ceoige L. Wpml, superintendent of
the division of rural mails, was rend
by Mr. lihtkslee. Declnrimr that the
fanners were tired of receivinir low
return- for lomr. bant periods of toil
while city dwellers lived in "ease ami
comfort with high wares nnd short
hours," the report said that the re
plies received indicated that hun
dreds of farmers had resolved either
to unit the farm entirely or trrentlv
decrease production. -
Complain of II. ( 1u
Complaint was made in ti majority
of the replies, (he report said, of the
high prices paid bv consumers as
compared with the low return to tlw
farmer, indientimr tin entirely dis
proportionate profit for the middle
man. A member of Ihc committee re
marked that the replies seemed to bo
"mostly from a bunch of bolshc
vists." which prompted Mr. lilnksleo
to say that in Ins opinion the situa
tion was exlrenielv serious.
Inability to obtain I'nrtu labor wns
another complain! id' the fanners.
The report said that the tri'ont de
mand in the eilies for labor with lii;:Ii
nav and short hours is drivinir the
farm hired help and the farmer.1
bovs am! irirls lo the eilv.
Funnel's Iteseatfiil
"The high cost of weurinjr' nppnr-
id.
nf slaples not produced on the
farm, of farm implements, and fer
tilizers, nil of which seem to have
filled the farmers minds with dls
courniremenl, nnd resentment, is cer
tain lo result in the curtailment of
food production,' the report said.
Mr. Iliakslce said the report and
all other data bearing on the mat
ter had been submitted to Postmas
ter (b-iieral Itnrleson. Kxtcnsioii of
the rural parcel post service to make
il cas-er for llie farmer lo 'sell his
products direct lo the eilv consumer
was advoealed bv Mr. UlaksJee as
one step toward correcting; the condi
tions indicated.
Accompanying1 the questionnaire
to tanners was a letter urging them
lo take advatit;
f the rural parcel
lie greatly in-
post svstem.
Production could
creased, the letter
shortage of labor
imrliv remedied, if
ship their products
ami not devote the
time and the scrvii-i
said, and the
complained rf
farmers would
bv pa reel post
r nu n valuubln
of their UVnj.s
and vehicle
market.
to hauling foodstuffs to
GAME, HIDES
IDENTITY 10 THE LAST
j llamhv muiutained his composure
to the last, smiling: as he was ptrap-
ped to (tie chair and makinir ft brief
I oral statement to the warden nnd
J witnesses iust before life was Hnuff
j cd out.
as lie lei 1 ine dealli House lie call
ed out to his companions : "Good
bye, fellows! I alwavs liked to try
everything; once."
The murderer gave three letters tt
the warden. u-ked him to mail Ibem
and keep the addresses secret.