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MEDFORD, OR'XiOX, ITKslUY, FKIUUWRV lil. 1!i0.
NO. 285.
Medfor
TRIBUNE
U.S.OFFECER
REFUSES TO
AID PUIS
U. S. Commissioner Hatch Refuses
to Issue Federal Warrants for Ar
rest of 6 Irontown Officials
Major Dalrymple Sets Time Limit
and Threatens to Make Arrests
Without Warrants State Police to
Aid in Round-Up.
5.HARQUKTTK, Midi.. Feb. 21. II.
B. Hutch, United States; commis
sioner, today refused to issue fede
ral warrants for the arrest of six
Iron county officials charged with
conspiracy to obstruct the prohibi
tion law. Hatch declared he could
not aet without the approval of Dis
trict Attorney Walker at Grand
ltnpids, Mich., Federal Judge Ses
sions or Attorney General I'ahner.
Major A. V. Ualrvniplc. federal
prohibition director for the central
states, who 'isked for the warrants,
notified Hatch that unless telegraphic
authority to issue the warrants was
Tcceivcd from District Attorney
M'alker by 2 p. in., he would proceed
to Iron county with a company of his
own men and a sound of Michigan
stnto police and niaku the arrests
without warrants.
Commissioner Hutch, after confer
ring with Major Halrvmplc wired
District Attorney Walker at Grand
linpids, asking for instructions re
garding issuance of warrants.
Major Dalrymple said ul'ter the
conference tliut Commissioner Hatch
told him he was willing to issue the
warrants, but was following instruc
tions from District Attorney talker.
MARQUETTE. Mich., Feb. 2-1.
Jtoijor A. V. Dalrymple, federal pro'-'
liihition director for the central stales
arrived in Jliuouclle early lodnv to
apply to United Stales Commissioner
Hatch for warrants for the arrest of
six officials of Iron county and the
village of Iron River charged with
obstructing enforcement of the pro
hibition law.
Sixteen federal agents, brought
from Chicago, Milwaukee and other
cities of the central stutes dctr,:"ed
at Ncgaunee, liendiiuurters of the
state constabulary in the upper pe
ninsula, and Major Dalrymple will
leave for Negauneo this afternoon
for Iron River, accompanied by a
troop of state police. The federal
raiders are scheduled to reach Iron
Iiivor at 11 o'clock tonight.
CAILLAUX CLAMS f!E
PARIS, Feb. 24. Tho examination
ot former Premier Joseph Caillaux,
on trial before tho eennte sitting as a
lilRh court, on tho charge or having
had treasonable dealings with the
Germans and conspiring to bring
about a dishonorable peace, was re
sumed today.
' The questions dealt with the rela
tions ot M. Caillaux with Bo'lo Pasha,
executed at Vlncenncs in April, 19 IS.
after being convicted of treason, and
Pierre Lenoir, executed in Octoher,
1919 on being found guilty ot having
held intelligence with the enemy.
M. Caillaux explained that he
thought Bolo PaBha Innocent until
certain telegrams trom America were
published. Then, he testified he
broke oft all relations with Uulo.
Plow Inventor Dies.
KACINIO, Wis., Feb. 24. William
Sobey, ,70, .inventor and for luanv
years vice-president and general
manager of the J. I. Case Plow
Works, died at Dallas, Texas, accord
ing to advices received here today.
llliYN MAWK, Pa.. Feb. 24. Use
of the government's surplus of
smoke making material left over from
the war in signalling Mars was sug
gested todav bv Junies J. Crenshaw,
associate professor o chemistry at
ISryn Mawr college, who served in the.
chemical welfare section of the
American expeditionary forces. That
smoke screens hundreds of miles in
width, he believes, would be more
likely to be discerned bv possible
Maritans than the geometrical de
signs which Sir Oliver Lodse sug
BOOK DEALERS REAP A
OTTAWA, Feb. 21. -Innuirv
at the customs department til
day disclosed that books print
ed in (icriuuu and Austrian or
any other language other than
Knglish and French are admitted
into Canada duty free while
books in English and French are
dutiable. This is prescribed
under item 172 in the dominion
tariff regulations in force for
nearly a ouarter of a century.
Hook sellers in the United
States are reaping harvests of
money by shipping (iennnn anil
Austrian Itooks into Canada for
sale in the communities through
out the dominion where foreign
languages are spoken, it was
said.
IN 1 CAMPS ON
LONDON, Fell. 2 I. Agitation in
favor of expelling tho Turks from
Constantinople which has been a con
spicuous feature in one seel Ion of the
press during Iho last tew days and
which has hud the support or relig
ious and philanthropic bodies, met a
counter blast rrom another section or
tile London newspaper world today,
which contended the question was
one of such importance that It could
not be settled on sentimental consid
erations hut must he lctt to the ma
ture deliberation ot the supreme al
lied council.
In a lengthy argument the Tele
graphs asscrtod .lliat -lirilislv- states
manship "has neither the duty nor
Interest to expel Iho sultan rrom
Constantinople " and expressed the
opinion thai agitation to this end was
"ill inspired and ill considered. "
Tho Daily News, which has always
been a staunch champion of the Ar
menians and a supporter ot Glad
stone's demand to "sweep the Turks
out of Kurope," says tho real ques
tion is the weight to be attached to
warnings ot .Moslem unrest as a re
sult of the expulsion of tho Turks
from their spiritual capital.
Under the caption ""a too success
ful agitation" the Morning Post says:
"The Hellish government by mak
ing hasty announcement thruout In
dia ot tho decision in favor or the
sultan has barred revision of that
decision."
The newspaper seeks to show the
decision was merely a concession to
political agitators in Hindustan who
may not be temporarily mollified b.v
it.
Tho recent cumpaigji in favor of
tho expulsion or the Turks is said by
the Express to he based on a "pertcr
vid sentiment" and the newspaper
argues there is not a single advan
tage to bo obtained in drawing the
sultan away trom Constantinople. -
PRICE 30 PER CENT
SPOKANE, Feb. 24. As a mea
sure looking toward stabilization or
tho lumber market, price' reductions
which it was declared would amount
to 10 to uO per cent under present
prices, wero announced hero today by
L. S. Case, manager of tho Weycr
hauser Sales company, distributing
agency for cloven lumber mills con
trolled by tho Weyerhauscr interests.
The reduced prices, it was declared,
would remain effective at least until
June 1.
gested lie laid out on the Sahara
desert.
The government has enough smoke
niaking material to create a tremen
dous screen or spot on the earth anil
that material can be used for no
other purpose. Professor Crenshaw
said. He advocated covering an area
as big as the state of Pennsylvania
with either black or white smoke.
Professor Crenshaw believes it
would be possible to make the spot
appear and disappear by regulating
the flow of smoke.
MONO
I.W.W.'S 00
ON STRIKE
Wolihlies on Trial for Murder of
Legion Men Refuse to Eat Meals
Present Menu Thev Insist Upon
No More Mush or Macaroni Want
edThree More Jurors III so Trial
Is Aqain Postponed Mistrial
Feared.
MONTKSANO, Wash., Feb. 2 1.
Three m ore jurors in the ten alleged
I. W. W. oa trial here for the murdcr
or Warren O. Grimm, C'eatralia Ar
mistice day parade victim, were re
ported ill shortly before court was
opened today at the beginning of the
fifth week or the trial.
Kdward Parr, because of whose ill
ness the trial was temporarily halted
last week, was reported improving.
It would be impossible, according to
the court, to go on with the case to
day, and It was unlikely that any ot
the sick jurors would bo discharged
at this time.
To discharge more than two of tho
sick men would mean a mistrial, it
was explained, and there was suid to
be a chance that those reported ill to
day would be sufficiently recovered
by Thursday to occupy their places in
the jury box.
Tho three men reported sick today
are: U. G. Itobinson, lloquiam; Frank
Glenn, Ilrudy, and Aubry T. Fisher,
Elma. Their illness has not been
diagnosed but the county health offi
cer says influenza is suspected.
On I longer Strike
Three more defendants joined tho
hunger strike in the county jail this
nfornitrgwr or fhonv'wllh Iho excep
tion of l.oren Itoberts revising to
accept, tho food placed before them.
The six prisoners who refused
their food yesterday, throwing it. into
the jail corridor, today presented a
written demand to Sherirf .letr Har
tcll, outlining a menu upon which
they insisted. Their demand is us
tollows:
"Ilreakfast.
'"Toast, ham or bacon, coffeo and
fried potatoes.
"Lunch.
"Hoiled dinner consisting of sound
meat and lets of . vegetables with
bread and cofroe.
.Supper.
"Fruit, bread and butler, coffeo
and beans, or other vegetable." .
They Insist that they shall be
served no more mush nor macaroni.
Their regular food, according to the
jailers, has consisted of mush, with
sugar, three slices of bread, syrup or
apple sauce and cofrce anil occasion
ally hotcakes, ro'r breaklast. For
luncheon they have been receiving
boiled potatoes, occasionally boiled
beef or mucaroni, bread, beans, cof
fee. The evonlng.meal has consisted of
boiled potatoes or macaroni, beans,
bread and cofrec.
Prior to the beginning ot tho trial
tho men received only two meals
daily.
With tho exception of itoberts, all
of the men refused their food today,
several of them throwing it away,
while others placed it in the corridor,
untouched. Ufitt Smith, Itoy Becker
and Mike Shcehan joined tho hunger
strike this morning. The demand
upon the sheriff' was tigned by the
six original recalcitrants: .lames Mc
Inerncy. Bert Bland, Kugcno Harnett,
6. C". Bland, Klmcr"5mith and John
Lamb.
LI
$3500 PER YEAR
WASHINGTON, Keli. - K The re
cut fmirtiiMi per cent wnire iiwruiit-e
jiu jinlcil ronl miners will nlil $0,(100,
HM) iiimimllv to the luirdon on ron
MUiiers in Colorado it 'ml operator.!
there lire allowed to increase prices
to produce an adequate return on
their investment. K. If. Weitzel, ol!
the Colorado Kuel and Iron eompanv
todav told the senate coal investigat
ing committee. The waire increase,
he said, could not he nhsorhed bv
his eompanv which operated in 1911)
at a loss of 7 4- eents a ton.
Colorado miners did not need the
whl'c increase, he said, some miners,
under the former scale receiving as
hitrh a.s .3.5U0 a vear while the aver
age was about .l,(iS2. Kmploves of
his eompanv had opposed the strike,
he fcuui. . .. . .
EUGENE PLACED UNDER
ON ACCOUNT OF "aU'
KIT.KXK. Ore.. Feb. 2-1.
Kugeno was under strict quar
antine today as the result of tike
prevalence of influenza. All
public gatherings were forbid
den by order o' the health
board. At the I'nivel'sity of
Oregon alt social gat lierings
were held under the ban.
'OUR GEORGE' FILES
POLITICAL AIMS
SAldlM. Ore., Feb. 1M. Senator
UeorKO 15. Chamberlain today filed
with the secretary of slate here his
declaration of candidacy f.r re-election.
The slogan which ho asks to
have printed after his name on the
ballot is: "My country, its preserva
tion and the porpeliiiitiou unimpaired
of its institutions."
In his declaration of uiniH Senator
Chamberlain says:
"Strive for world peace, and for
such legislation by congress as will
stabilise tho agricultural, industrial
and sc'ciitl life of our country and
hasten the restoration of normal pre
war conditions; for legislation for the
proper care of those who have suc
cessfully fought -Ihe wars or our
country; for co-operalicii between
tho federal and state governments in
road construction; for improvement
of our riverH and harbors and recla
mation of arid lands; for the protec
tion by airplanes of national forests
as well as forests in private 'control,
in co-operation with tho owners
thereof.'.' ' . , -
EXPECT OIL BILL TO BE
SIGNED TOMORROW
WASHINGTON', Feb. 21 Presi
dent Wilson is expected to sign th.1
oil land leasing bill tomorrow. Unless
he signs or vetoes it before midnight
tomorrow night it will beocme a law
automatically.
Before taking final uclion 'the
president asked reports on the meas
ure from Secretary Daniels und John
Itnrton Pnvne, who as secretary of
the interior, will administer the bill.
These, arc expected to be in hnnd
early tomorrow.
WASHINGTON", Feb. 2-1. (Ily the
Associated Press) Charles K. Crane
of Chicago, is Understood to have
been selected bv President Wilson as
minister to China to succeed Dr. Paul
licinsch, who recently resinned.
TAKE HIS TIME ABOUT
SIGNING THE B. R. BILL
WASHINGTON", Feb. 21.
President Wilson will not act
immediately on the compromise
railroad bill passed yesterday
bv the senate. It was announc
ed at Ihe White House todav
that the president had directed
that the measure be referred to
the department of justice as
soon as it reached the White
House from coiiltcss.
The executive has ten davs in
which to pass upon the act be
fore it can become n law with
out, his highlit lire. It is gene
rally expected that hi? will be
urtrcd bv organized labor to
veto the bill bc'-ause of its labor
and oilier provisions.
. The railroad brotherhoods op
pose this section because it pro
vides for tri-pnrtile labor
boards whereas thev deire to
return to the old method of ne
erotialion and decision by repre
sentatives of the workers and
the railroads.
T
DEAL WITH
Allied Supreme Council Decides to
Postpone Resiimimi Relations With
Soviet Russia Until Convinced the
Bolshevist's Horrors Have Come to
an End Trade Relations Mav be
Resumed Report
80 Per Cent I
Soviet Army Not Red.
LONDON. Kcb. 2-1. The decision
of the supreme council, it was recog
nized, precludes diplomatic relations
lie! ween the allied governments and
the .Moscow administration in Hie im
mediate future.
The council expressed llsell' as
pleased that Ihe interna! ioual labor
bureau had decided to send a delega
tion to Russia to study conditions but
it slated its helier that supervision or
tho delegation should he under lite
council of the League of Nations, giv
ing the investigators greater author
ity. Tile council, it was stated, decided
that the allies could not accept the
responsibility of advising Ihe bolder
slates to continue war against the
bolsheviki. ir tho bolshevik! attack
within the territory ot the border
states, however, thu allies promise
"every possible support."
U)NI)ON. Pel), i I. Tho allies will
declino lo deal with soviet Itussia
"until they have arrived at the con
viction that the holshcvists horrors
have ct.'ine lo an end," It was an
nounced after a meeting or the allied
supreme council today.
LONDON, Feb. 2-1 Recognition ot
tho Russian soviet government Ity en
tente nations Is not contemplated by
tho supreme allied council, but trade
relations may be resumed and mutual
engagements relative to aggression
agreed upon as a result of yester
day's conversations by .tho council
uccording to newspapers here.
Millciiinil I'cairill
Premier Milloraml, ot France, Is
understood to tear that united Russia
might l)e a serious menace to wes
tern ICuropo while Premier Lloyd
George and N'lttl believo Russia has
been broken up und is not dangeroua.
Reports, thercroro,' that Premier Mll
lerand has agreed to decisions reach
ed by the council are taken to moan
that a middle ground has heen round
on which the allies can stand until
developments show true conditions.
Poland is said to havo been won
over to the Hritish view.
HO IVi-ccnl Not Itcil
A M STIC R DAM, Feb. 2-1 About SO
per cent of Iho red ariiiv In Russia Is
not red" at all but is neiilral ac
cording to the staff correspondent cf
tho I lauilelsblad, J. N'ypels. who has
Jast returned rrom an extended tour
thru soviet Russia. He says about 1)0
per cent of the officers, who are
largely drawn from Ihe trained mili
tary men of the old upper class, lire
"czarist" In inclination. This luaveH
only about 20 per cent of the soldiers
and 40 per cent ot thu officers, thoro
ly attached to tho soviet regime, tho
rust being neat rut or czarist.
N'ypels, one of the few neutral ob
servers who was permitted to visit
soviet cities recently writes In a ser
ies of articles that ho was more cour
teously treated by the bolsheviki than
by tho Poles, thru whose country he
had passerl.
Two kinds of Itcils
la general, he observes that "thero
are two kinds of bolsheviki." The
first class, he says are cranks with a
lot of adventurers und rascals follow
ing them. These people, he says, are
very vain but it one knows how to
treat. Iheni they are as wax In one's
hands. Tho second class are tho true
theorists, the adherents or Marx's
principles who are serious, well
meaning people and Invariably trout
one Tairly.
"They either admit you into their
country anil treat you very well or
don't aduill ou ut all " bo declares.
RED CROSS LEADER VICTIM
PNEUMONIA IN SIBERIA
SF.ATTI.K. I'cb. 21. Arthur II.
(Jrindcll. Seattle, director of the di
vision of provision und supplies ot
the American lied Cross cnmmissjnli
in Siberia, died in Vladivostok yester
day of pneumonia, accordint; to
nicssaue received here todav.
I (irindcll left here for Siberia Inst
April with the rank of major in th
Ked Crn-s service, licfore his dc
part arc he w as director of publicity
( of the northwestern division of the
Ked Cross, (irindcll. before ihe war.
whs advertising atfcnt of the (.'hi
. cngo, .Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
loud here, .
WN
M
MARSHFIELD Y.M.C.A. IS
OF THE BATHING GIRLS
MAIi.Slll-'llCl.l), Ore. Feb. 24.
-Officers of the Y. M. ('. A.
here filed witli tho mayor and
chief of police yesterday a pro
test against a theatrical troupe
which lias been featuring some
so-called "bathing girls" at a
local theater, declaring the fea
ture to be objectionable. Robert
.N.alsdcn, manager of the thea
ter where the show was appear
ing, declared there was nothing
about the show to which excep
tion should be taken. The troupe
was allowed lo appear last
night.
CONVICT AT ST.
SAN FUANCISCO. Feb. ' -l The
restoration of the mind of u prisoner
serving u sentence in San Ouciitin
penitcntiurv, who was suffering from
uphasia, was announced ht niidtl
bv Dr. I, ro L. Stanley, resident phy
sician atthc prison.
The prisoner, Kobcrt l.ockwood, is
27 years old und entered the peni
lentiarv, September 2-1, P.ll'.l. to serve
u term for itrnnd larceny. Mr. Stan
lev asserted that he has established
Hint Lockwood's real inline in Fred
Hrulev. son of Peter Urulev who for
merly lived in Plaltsburir, N. Y.. and
that he has a wife and child in tin
cast. Dr. Stanley said be became in
terested in the prisoner shortly lifter
he entered the prison a id on Septem
ber HI) he irave Hnilcv a scrum treat
ment by injection into Iho 'spine.
Shortly piflerward ' bis recovery of
memory becnine innuil'csl.
llruli'V suid I hut in .laiiuury 11117
he was in New Yoijk und remembered
iioariinur a tram lor I uica!!o. mil.
could recall no details.
'I .just seemed lo come lo myself
in (lie hospital." Itrulcv said.'
i BOOZE CASE MARCH 8
WASHINGTON, Fob. 21. Argu
ments on Ihe government's motion lo
dismiss thu original suit instituted
b.v Rhode. Island to' test the constitu
tionality of tho federal prohibition
constitutional amendment will be
heard In tho supreme court March 8.
Assistant Attorney (lenenil Frler-
Him und Solicitor General King will
appear for the government.
While the suit will be heard on the
motion lo dismiss, all tho issues in
volved will bo argued, Mr. FrlorsiM
said today, and tho entire cuso suh-
mltted upon its inerllH to the court.
A decision nt this term is expected
by court officiuls.
J. A. YE0MANS OF SPOKANE
VICTIM OF PNEUMONIA
SPOK'ANK. Kcb. 21. I. A. Yeo-
ninns, vice president ol Ihe mil ,a-
tional bank of this cilv wilh which
he bus been Connected for 21 years.
died here early today of piicumoniu.
He was iiired l"i years and is sur
vived bv his father und mother, his
,. ;.l..- ,l .. .1,1,.,- mi.l two
brothers, William Yeomans, a busi
nessman of this cilv and llciirv 1 cu
mans, a member of the faculty of
Harvard university.
75 PER CENT
SUFFER F
CLKVF.LANI). )., Feb. 2 1. The
lives of hundreds of thousunds of
persons are sacrificed annually, hu
man power iminonsiirublv wasted and
staggering economic losses results
from the failure to upplv scientific
knowledge lo the prevention of need
less weakness, diseases and deaths,
said Dr. Thomas 1). Wood, professor
of physical education at Colunibiu
university, New York, addressing the
Nntionul Council of Kduciition todav.
The council is composed of P20 of the
leading educators of the country at
tending the National Kducutioiiu! as
sociation convention here.
"Our schools are wasting enor-,
Bjoits sums iu trying to educate chil
F
m REPEAL
OFR.R. BILL
President Wilson Requested bv
Leader Farmers Council to Veto
Cummins-Esch Bill as Matter of
Public Policy Break in R. R.
Brotherhood Ranks Threatened l)V
Measure Wide Divergence of
Views on Wilson Policy.
WASHINGTON", Feb. 21 Presi
dent Wilson was asked today bv
(ieoire P. I lampion, manauiuL' di
rector of the Farmers National coun
cil, on behalf of lann onrnnization
affiliated wilh the. council, to veto
the railroad bill on the "grounds of
public policy."
Mr. Hampton asked that the prosi-
il.nil ,,i,ritiiiilK' or throueh Secre
tary Tumult v. receive n delegation
next Thursday that the tanners'
leprcsentulives may have a chance
lo express more fully their reasons
lor opposiiiL' it.
Threaten a lticak
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 ThreuU
of a break in the affiliated railroad
employes' oraanizations militated to
diiv iigainst immediate solution of tho
iiueslions before the reprcsentativex
of 2,11(10.000 rail workers eonferriuir
here on President Wilson's proposal
lor a settlement of their wage do
innnds. liecnusc of the wide diverg
ence of views held by tho commit
teemen called lo Washington to con
sider the White House policy. Execu
tives of the organizations admitted
that they did not know whether thev
Could hold the strenirth they had guin
ed when it was agreed ten davs neo
that the organizations should -alfili-ule
to consider the proposal. ' '
In every conference, it WHS said,
demands for a nnppenl lo the presi
dent to veto tho railroad hill con-
tinned lo grow more insistent. The
leaders, therefore were confronted
with the tusk of cxplainintr to th'
local chairmen the basic, reasons for'
their tentative acceptance Of the
president's nlan
Radicals llnsy
The leaders also were forced to
combat moves of radical elements in
several directions. Thev said these
might take definite form lit uuv
time.
That the general committeemen are
not in favor of the president's propo
sition was indicated bv privato dis
cussions unioiiL' the executives us' to
courses of action in event tho plan
is re jected. F.. J. Til anion, president
of the llrotherhooil of Uuilwnv Telci"
raphcis. was said to have suggested
I hut the whole controversy , be rot
I'rrroil lo the general membership.
This proposal has not gained head
way among the other executives, it
the trend of thought of the leaders.
GORGAS MAY LEAD A
NEW SINGLE TAX PARTY
CI.KYKI.AN'i), ()., Feb. 2-1. Single
tax clubs throughout the country
propose this vear to form u new
national party, according to Junics
A. Robinson of Philadelphia, hationnl
organizer. The tax on hind vuluen
only will be the platform framework.
"Our cundiilate for president has
not been selected, but General Wil
liam Gorgiis, the man who elenned
up thu Panama Canal Zone is a mem
ber of the party and wo have reasons
lo believe lie would run," Mr. Robin
son said.
dren handicapped bv ill health," l)r.
Wood said. "Seventy fivo per cent,
or 115,(11)0,000 school children of tho
United States have phvsieul defects
which are. mostly remediable. This
shows that the business of keeping
Ihe school children of tho country
in good phvsieul condition is a dis
gruce to the nation." .
Josephine Corliss Preston of
Olvmpin, Wash., president of the Na
tional Kduciition association, said a
substantial salary increase was.
ncccssnrv to secure trained and com
petent teachers to fill the 23,000 vu- :
ciineies and replace 75,000 teacher ,
below professional standards iu
ability. ...
OF SCHOOL CHILDREN
ROM REMEDIABLE DEFECTS