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Newspaper Page TextMedf ORB NE The Weather Maximum yesterday 50 Minimum today Ul. Prediction; Fair. Dally Fourteenth Ymlt. Forty-ninth Te&r. MEDFORD, 0"REC0Nr, MONDAY, FIOIiRl'AKY !, um NO. 272 ' SOLDIERS UPON I. W. W. ATT'Y EXONERATES THE CLAIMS SERVICE MEN IMS ITALY USED AS TOOLS WHEN TO ABANDON I. W. W. HALL ATTACKED ALLIEDJAiflP Attornev Vanderveer for Defense in Surprise bvi Exonerating. American Leqion Men From All Blame Maintains Service Bovs Were Used as Catspaws Business Men of Centralia Real Criminals Held Meetinq at Elks' Club Before Armis tice Dav and Planned Demonstration to Scare Wobblies Maintains I. W. W.'s Given No Protection and Had to Protect Themselves in Self Defense Avers Grimm Stated I. W. W.'s Were Harmless Trial Really of Labor Organization Brought by Capitalists Is Claim. MONTESANO. Wash., Feb. 9 The Americiin Lemon toitav was completely exonerated for any part in the plunninir of an alleged plot to raid the I. W. W. hall nt Centralia. bv Attornev Ocoree F. Vanderveer. of council for the 11 I. W. W. defend ants on trial here for their lives for the Centralia Armistice dav shoot ings. In on openincr statement - to' the iurv in which he outlined what the defense will offer during' the trial, Vanderveer churned that the Ameri can Lesion Members who miirbt have participated in what he ullcires was a prearranged affair, were catspaws of commercial oruanizntions ot Cen tralin. "I exonerate now nnd foro'cr af ter the American Lcirion as an or Canizution for any responsibility for this attack on the I. V. W. hall." Vanderveer said, in puttins forth the defense's claim that the hall was at tacked before a shot was fired from the hall. "Those members of the American Icerion who did participate in this laid were catspaws, without their knowledge nnd consent." he added.' Vanderveer outlined what the de fense will offer to prove, nllcirinu that commercial organizations H Centralia bad planned to raid the hall, and cited previous destruction of a former I. W. W. hall in Centra lia. He declared the rantter was discussed at meetinirs of the Com mercial club, held in the rooms of the Elks' club, and that the plans ot the raid were decided upon despite the fact that the county nttorncv and tha citv attornev, a brother of Wnrrer. (). Grimm, for whose murder the 11 defendants are on trial, had said, that the I. W. W.'s were not doina nnvthine wrons. "Vanderveer told of alleged perse cutions of the. I. W. W.'s throughout the country over a number of years, mentioning specifically the Bisbee de portations, the lynching of Frank Lit tle at Butte in 1917, beatings nt Ab erdeen, S. D., tarring nnd featherings nt Tulsa, Okla.. nnd other alleged ill treatment of I. W. W.'s at Kcd Lodge, Mont. I. W. W. Against Violence "However, because it does not be lieve in violence," Vanderveer suid in describing the previous destruc tion of the I. W. W. hall in Centrulin. "the I. W. W.'s in circulars, appealed WASHINGTON, Feb. !). Farmers' organizations will not join the Amer ican Federation of Labor in its cam paign to elect this year only friends of the trades union movement, ne rording to T. C. Atkeson, represen tative of the National Grange, whicii lias 700.000 members. Mr. Atkeson pointed out that rep resentatives of the Orange, National Farmers' union. International Farm congress. American Farm Bureau federation, Farmers' National con cress, and National Milk Producers' federation, recently met here and formulated a platform of principle, lnit decided that individual members should he allowed to exercise their right of personal preference in vot ing. , . The procrnm bus been sent to ev Centralia Massacre Trial Springs to the citizens for protection. These things happened, notwithstanding. "Counsel for the stale said the American Legion did not know ther was to be a raid on the I. W. W. hall on Armistice day. He was right. Bat there were some who knew it. Lieu tenant Cormier, in the meeting held ill the Klks' club said it would 'be a good idea to inarch down past the hall and show them how strong wu are.' " Vanderveer charged that during the raid Cormier rode up to a section of the parade which had halted a block above the hall and asked them to go back and help "finish the iob." "The 1. W. W.'s had appealed for protection. They finally ceased to appeal. The limit had been reached. Thcv had to shoot to protect their meeting place," he declared. Attorney Springs Surpriso JiOXTKSANO. Wash., Feb. !). Taking the unusual course of deliv ering its opening statement before the prosecution had ottered anv evi dence, the defense in the trial of 11 alleged I. W. W.'s charged with the murder of Warron O. Cirinim, Cen tralia Armistice dav parade victim, lodav began to outline its case be fore the iurv. George F. Vander veer, attorney for the 11 defendants, began his statement to the iurv shortly after court convened todnv. "We will stand or fall on the posi tion that the shooting at Centralia was dono in self defense."- he told the jurors. "The big iiuestion is who was the aggressor? Was it a delib erate attack upon the marchers wtihout .justification, or was the shooting the result of n deliberate at tack upon the I. W. W. hall by the marchers?" . An I. W. W. Trial "There has been some effort on the part of the state to sav that this is not an I. W. W. trial. It is an I. W. W. trial. No one can conceal the fact. An I. W. W. trial is at the bot tom of this. Not n an aggressor, however, but as a labor organization And because it is a labor organiza tion, this thing has grown into n fight on the part of capital against the I. W. W." Vanderveer then outlined the be ginning of the organization of the I. W. W. in Chicago in 1905. explnin- (Continued cm Page Six) L ery member of congress. Mr. Atke son said, and it may be expected that farmers will observe the attitude of legislators on bills affecting their in terests. "We decided," Mr. Atkeson said, "that . tho interests of the fanners and organized labor were not iden tical, in fact were diametrically op posed on some question The union men want shorter ; hours nnd Iiiirher pay, which means hclicr prices to tho consumer. A I similar attitude on the part ot the Kussia as a country or desolation, I will be one of the units of occupation farmers would mean curtailment of i where many country districts are t IJiin.iir. has arrived in that city production of food until the people j famine stricken. Ho says people aro ,m( ti,e jnst Gcnnun troops left ves were so hunurv thcv would pay ex-drlven several hundred miles to get tcrday. orbitant prices rather than starve. In-1 provisions and refugees aro robbed stead, it is our policy to encourage : by red guards unless they are bribed. Followers of football at Colgate as much work as possible to stiinu-:He late production, so that normal con - - ditiens; may be restored.-' Deputy in Italian Chamber of Depu ties Declares Italy Must Renounce Anglo-French Alliance Unless Ver sailles! Treaty Is Revised Break With Allies Foreseen Unless Con cessions Are Made Claims Wilson Not Hostile. ROMK, Saturday, Feb. 7. Italy must not join tho Anglo-French alli ance unless "the Versailles treaty is revised and all odious, unjust and harassing clauses' abolished," said Deputy Fiammlngo, ministerialist, In the chamber ot deputies today. Slgnor Grazidei, socialist, asserted the waj had been "advantageous to England, who inherited the German colonies." He criticized the anti Italian propaganda abroad and said Finnic must be internationalized, like the Suez canal, the Stalls of Gibraltur and all other great pathways ot world cohimerce. Deputy- Salyenin! defended the pol icy pursued by former govornmenta relative to the Dalmatian coast and said that as soon as the treaty of Lon don had been perused at Belgrade it would be understood by Jugo-Slavla that Italy could not reduce her claims. "President Wilson would have ac cepted our proposals," ho asserted, "if wo had not gone thru tho mis takes we did at Paris and if Captain d'AnnunzIo and Admiral Millo had not discredited us before the world." Ho reviewed policies of past cabinets and said an agreement was signed with Austria in 1913 for the division of Albana. Premier Giolitti sprang up and denied this. Tho deputy closed his address by saying Premier NItti had renounced Italian claims to Dal matia in the compromise reached re cently at Paris and that Italy should retire from that region. P.OMIC. Feb. 8. Premier Nitti's speech is described ns "a paraphrase of the interview he recently gave the Associated Press," in an editoriul printed bv the Popalo Romano, com menting on the premier's address in parliament Saturday. "We have often observed," the newspaper continues, "that whenever Signor Nitti speaks in interviews to foreigners he is more of a national ist than when he addresses the cham ber." In an article on the "financial he gemony of America over Lurope,' the Financial Italiana declares the American government's "inconsider- ate language toward Europe" can be explained because of that country's supremacy. The newspaper savs: "America ought to be satisfied with her enormous commercial expansion, her exports having been uundi'uplcd since 1014." BUDAPEST, Feb. -Former Hun garian soldiers who have returned to Hungary after escaping from Russian prisons in Siberia states there ure 200,000 Hungarian prisoners of war In that country and that their condi tion is pitiable. Some have been there from three to six years and the Hungarian government is unablo to find the 15.000,000,000 crowns ncc- essary for their repatriation. Another returned prisoner pictures declares bribery is the only way by which a person can get Itussia. across ALBERS CONITION IS AFFIRMED. WILL CARRY FIGHT TO SUPREME CT. RAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 9. The I'nited Stall's district court of appeals here today affirmed a decision of the federal dis- triet court of Portland. Ore., imposing a fine of $10,000 nnd three veal's' imprisonment on Henry Aiders, n Pacific const miller on charges of violating the federal espionage act. PORTLAND. Ore. Feb. 9. ,T. Uenrv Albers, Portland mill ing man. whoso convict ion for violat'linr the espionage act was upheld hv the I'eder.'il mmcllnfn court in San Francisco todnv. will enrrv the ease to the Vni- ted States supreme court in a final effort to escape the pen ' ally, be said, when advise, I of the newest development. "I am verv much surprised'.'" he said, "but I must take it as it comes." c L R. R, STRIKE FEB'Y 17TH General Chairman R. R. Brotherhood Calls Walkout of 300.000 Men Next Week Tuesday Declares Hands Have Been Forced bv Government Promise to Lower Cost of Living Not Fulfilled Original Demands Were for 40 Per Cent Raise. DETROIT. Feb. P. A slriko of 300.000 members of the Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way employes and railway shop laborers was call ed for Tuesday, February 17, at a meeting of the general chairmen of the brotherhood here today. Decision to order a cessation of work was announced bv Grand Presi dent Allen K. Barker, following ad vices from Washington that the ne gotiations with the railroad adminis tration for wage increases offered no hope of n favorable settlement. "I am loath to call a strike," Mr. Barker said, "but there is nothing else we can do. Our hands have been forced. I am tired of the treatment we have received from government officials." The general chairmen of the broth erhood who have been in session here for several davs we're empowered to order n strike hv a vote of the union membership last summer. At u con vention of the brotherhood last Sep tember a strike was postponed in or der that President Wilson might mvo opportunity to attempt to bring aboul a reducion in living costs. Accord- inir to union officials his efforts have been fruitless. Oriirinul demands of the brother hood were for an avernire increase ot -10 per cent, the Greater increase to t:o to the lower paid men. Wants Berger in Leavenworth. CHICAGO, Feb. !). District Attor nev Charles P. Clinc has brouirht suit in the circuit court of appeals lo have Victor Heru'er, convicted social ist eoiiirrossmun, sent to Leaven worth penitentiary to serve out his ten year sentence. British Occupy Danzig. IIKRLIN', Feb. 9. The advance . em,rd of u llritish battalion, which 1 are highly pleased over the announce iment that Larry Itankart will coach I the team again next season. NATIONWID WILSON IS OPPOSED TO BRYANITES i i President Writes Letter Opposing Caucus Plan of Democrats to Make Partv Issue of Universal Military Training Leave Question to the National Convention Says President Condition of World and Late War Record. WASHINGTON; Feb. !! 'President Wilson opposes the plan to havo tho domocralie memhei-s of Die house at their caucus tonight innko an Issue of universal military training. The president's views aro set forth in a letter to' Secretary Halter, trans mitted today to democratic leaders In tho house. Mr. Wilson says it would be "unfortunate to make a party is sue on tills subject, particularly since within a Jew months the party will assemble in convention and declare tho principles upon which it deems it wise to commit Itself In a national election." He recalls that ho gave his appro val In principle to the various "very moderate" training projects suggest ed by tho general staff hud expresses his "strong feeling" against action by the caucus which would tend "to ln- terposo nn arbitrary party determina tion to tho consideration which this subject should receive from the best thought ot the members ot tho house." Tho call for the caucus tonight was issued by Representative Clark, the Ulcmocrat leader, on a petition at a number of democrats opposed to gen eral military training. Military Is Needed Tho president's letter follows: "I am told that a caucus of tho democratic members of tho house ot representatives has been called to consider pending military legislation, and the suggestion has boon mado that a resolution bo adopted commit ting tho democratic membership of the house against the policy of gen eral military training. In tho present circumstances, it would seem to me unfortunate to 'inako a party issue upon this subject, particularly since within a few months the party will assemble in convention and declare the principles upon which it deems It wise to commit Itself in a national election. The present disturbed state of tho world do'es not penult buck suroness with rognrd to America's obligations as to allow us lightly to decide upon this great question upon purely military grounds while the demonstrated advantage to tho use of tho country which 'came from mili tary service In tho war plainly sug gests that in the national Interest quite apart from military considera tions, the moderato and carefully conducted course of military training may havo the highest possible advan tages. In our discussion ot the sub ject, you will recall gave my appro-: vul in principle to the various very moderate training projects suggested! On the heels ot tho report camo an by the Rcneral staff and I would be appeal from Governor Edwin IV.Mor very glad to havo you convey to ap-' r(,w f(. troops to nrotect tho necro bronrlute members of the house who wlM attend the caucus my strong feeling against action by tho caucus i wnicn win tend io iniorposo nn nriu trary party determination to the con sideration which this subject should recelvo from the congress." MT. LASSEN STARTS liKDDING. Oil.. Kcb. 9. An ernp- tion lit Lassen peak was noted this! morninif bv observers here. This is the first eruption in three months Reds Claim Big Booty. LONDON. Feb. II. Knormous booty was taken bv Hiissinn soviet troops when thev occupied Odessa, according to a wireless message from .oscovv. A Itritish end n Itos. -miser are rcoort..,! ( I., lu.n.b. ulim ll)e rc.di. IJm tuc llHrJurt 4 KILLED, 15 WOUNDED WHEN H LEXINGTON KY. AnICKS CT. HOUSE Attack On Court House While Trial of Negro Murderer Is In Progress Has Fatal Cousegiiences Crowd Repulsed Raids Stores and Pawn Shops Receiving Fire Arms With Which to Avenge Death of Comrades Further Bloodshed Feared Rushing Regular U. S. Troops From Camp Taylor as Reinforcements Looting Reported Over at 2 p. m Color ed Defendant Found Guilty bv Jury and Hurried to Place of Safety Execution Set for March Many of Mob Wounded Expected to Die Two Women Reported Killed. JKXINGTOX, Ky., I'Yi,. ) Lex- lllglnu was placet! under inai'llal law at !J o'clock this aiicrnoou by Itrign dier General F. ('. .Marshall, United States army, who commanded npprox. iniatt'ly 300 regular troops rushed hero from Camp Taylor, near Ijollis ville. LEXINGTON, Ky., Feb. 9. At 2 o'clock the mob spirit seemed to huvu been broken at least temporarily, and the city was quiet. Large cruwdB were still upon tho streets but the looting oi pawn shops hud cuusu-d. it was guueruiiy known among the crowds iliiu United biaies regular , troop ft ore on their way heiu from (Jump iayior, at Louibvillo. Aiiiho'i-iiics announced thu follow ing list oi dead: n. 1''. Carrier, Lexington. John Thomas, Versailles. William Ellington, Versailles L. ,M. King, Lexington. Several, of the wounded aro cxpoct- ed to ate. LisAi.NUio.N, Ky., Feb. 9. Four poisons were killed and several in jured hero today when a mob Intent upon lynching William Lockett, a negro, who conlessod to the murder of tun year old Ueneva HurUuiun, charged the court houBO during Lock out trial und was firod upon by po nce and state troops. Two women wero reported to bo umong those shot by the state troops. The clash with the soldiers held oft the mob while tho authorities inan- aged to slip the negro- away to a place of sufety. Oroat excitement was caused by tho shooting and thoro wero muttor IngB of further trouble. While the mob, the ringleaders of which carried a rope, wus attempting to get into the court house to get Lockett, a Jury found him guilty of first degree murder and a minute or two later the negro was sentenced to die in the electric chair .March 11. LOUISVILLIO, Ky., Feb. 9. Re ports received hero by telephono dur ing tho forenoon, said mobs then wero looting pawn Bhops and hard ware stores at Lexington In an effort to obtain firearms and had declared the Intention of securing tho negro by any means and quiet the situation, Arrangements wero Immediately mB$e nt CaInp Znchary Taylor to send flvo battalions of 1110 men oach START TO DRIVE LONDON. Feb. 9. Norhcrn Korea has been evacuated by the Japanese, it is clainieiin a wireless dispatch irom .Moscow today rtuutinir an Omsk niessmre. The population rose to aid Korean forces from Chinese terri tory it is declared. The Omsk messimc ns irivon in the bolshevik wireless savs that on Feb ruary l, bands of Koreans raised in Chinese territory, crossed tho fron tier and attacked Hie Japanese. Musses of the population lire joininz the insurgents, it is added, the Jap nnesc rctrcntinir and evacuutinc northern Korea. LEGION and send thoin to Lexington. The troops wore to he commanded by uenurul I'', u .Marshall and were to go by special train if ono could be secured. Lacking railroud facilities, 11 was said, the troops would be sent by truck. Lexington is about. 1U0 miles from Li-uisviile. .Mobs Loot Shops The. moo is uutv looting . pawu ihoijs. i3i.u-tuo luvolvuis Kci'e- taken .it ouo pUco. An ulUcli on tho troops is feared by tho uuthoi'itiua. .10 rui-.iuua Wounded lu addition to the. tour pui'sous killed, 15 persons wore wounded when tiio troops fired into the mob, ! the authorities ascertained tutor, I Four htinuiuu troops Ii oui'caiup T a lor, ivy., havo been ordered to Lexington, to prevent uuy further Iroubiu and uru now enruute here, oiiiciuls announced. Thu additional truops woru roqtiesied as it was fear ed that tho tlueo hundred tnllitiauien could not handle the situutlon. Soldiers and policemen continued on guard near tho court house follow, ing the shooting. Otllcluls feared that another attempt might be mado to lynch Lockett should the crowd discover his whereabouts. Troublo was feared by tiie author ities us soon us Lockett was captured und confessed to the assault and mur der ot tho little Hurdman girl last Tuesday. Early today hundreds of farmers from the surrounding country came to Lexington to attend the trial. The state troops closely guarded tho streets' when the negro was taken from a train and rushed to the court house. Thft 'nrlnnnnr wna limntrtit hero oarly this morning from Frank fort on a special train. , Heavy wires and ropes had been stretched along tho streets to prevent tho crowds from charging the prison er with his military escort. , 20 Hurt In Railroad Wreck. SCA.MMCW, Kas., Feb. 9 Twen ty persons wero injured, none se riously, when several coaches of n St. Louis and San Francisco railroad passenircr train were derailed near hero this moriiiiiL'. Two cars turned over. The injured were brdiluht here. An open switch is said to have caus ed the wreck. Chicago Flu Dwindles. CHICAGO. Feb. 9. Influenza to dnv dropped below the 1200 mark for the first time since the epidemic started. New cases reported durins the past 2-1 hours totalled 111". Sev on v deaths were recorded, fiom from infliieny.a nnd thirty-seven . from pneumonia. - JAPANESE INTO SEA Added to these dispatches on the atlack was the initiation of an netivo rebellion in Koren. It was described us "the beiriiminir of a tremendous affair." WASHINGTON, . Feb. 9. Official dispatches received here today said a force of 2.0(10 Koreans, armed principally with equipment furnished bv the bolsheviki crossed into northr ern Korea from Kir.n. Mttnchuriii, and attacked n Japanese, post of. 700 men nt ninlit. killed 300 of them and outed the remainder.