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Mail Trie ME DFORD une The Weather Maximum yesterday ."8 Minimum today :I7 Precipitation t HI Predictions Rain. Dally Fourteen Tv, Forty-ninth leu. MEDFORD, OnEOOX. "WKDXKSIUY. MAKCIl It). 1!l0. NO. L!)8 i.W.W. CASE Will GO TO JURY 13TH Both Defense and State Declare Fate of Alleged I. W. W. Murderers Will Be in Hands of Jurv Saturday ; Centralia Barber Testifies Shoot inq Started Before Anv Rush Was Made on Hall Made His Wav to the Ice Box. MOXTKSAXO. Wash.. Mar. 10. ; Cc.nrinuntion. of rebuttal testimony '.today in tl! trial of tun alleged 1. ;W. W. here fur tin- murder of Way t(mi O. (ii-iiiiiii during tin' Cent I'nlin 'Armistice (lav nurude lirouuhl "ill ! further evidence to the effect Unit '; the American Legion men tliil no! ,' break ranks until several shots lunl 1 been fireil. Three marchers in the parade testifie.l to the effect Unit the ' coliunii of Centralia men had halted " '-ami were either nt vest, at ease or i marking time when the shooting licaau. , The prosecution expected to com plete its rebuttal todav and it was ' expected part of tomorrow would be devoted to sur-relnittal bv the de fense. f Hoth counsel for the defense and state, an tithe court expected the case to be given to the iurv bv Snt ' urtluv noon. ' ltarlx-i- Testifies MOXTESAXO. Wash.. Mar. 10. t Walter E. Jordan. Centralia barber. ! testified today at tin? trial of ten ulletred I. W. W. here lor the mur der of Warren 0. Grimm, Centralis Armistice day parade victim, that he walked right into the hull and ran back to the ice box where several of the defendants were captured. Jor. dan was walking down the street at the time the shooting started, he tes tified, lie heard three or four shot's, started to walk quickly and then to run, he said. Jordan's testimony fixed the time of the beginning of the shootim? some moments befre the uhifrmed march ers rushed toward the hull, lie saw McKlfresh fall, he said, and then begun to run toward the hall. He fore be reached the hall he stopped momentarily and helped undo the tunic of the fallen legion member. When the shootim.' started. Jordan testified, all of the soldiers in the line were in formation, lie asserted no soldiers rushed toward the hull before the shots begun. When Jor dan reached the hall, he said, hp saw two or three uniformed men at the door. The door was pushed open, he testified and he followed the soldiers in. . Jordan said be "got clean back to the ice box." It was in the ice box that linv Becker, Mike Shcchuii and James Melnerncv were captured after the shootim;. N. J. ALBANY, X. J.. Mar. 10. A hill defining intoxicating beverages as those containing more than three and o half per cent of alcohol by weight, was introduced in the legislature to day by Assemblyman Maurice Iiloiit, democrat, of New York. The mea sure, according to the introducer, is 'Governor Edwards' New Jersey bill adapted to this sta(e." WASHINGTON. Mar. JO Presi dent Wilson todav took his third automobile ride since he was order ed to bed last October. An open cur nas used and Mrs. Wilson, Miss Mar garet Wilson and Hear Admiral Cirav son, his physician, iiccompiinied him. SOUTH AFRICA VOTING ON WHETHER TO STAY IN THE BRITISH EMPIRE LONDON', Mar. 10- Parliamen tary election being lield todav in the Vnion of South Africa will, it is believed, decide the fate of the cov ernment held bv Jan Christian Smuts, which is contending nguinst strum; Dutch nationalist elements, aided bv the labor partv. The result ninv de cide whether Cape Colon v, the Trans vaal, Oranne Kree State and Natal lire to continue British or are to form n South African Dutch repub lic under its own flag and with up PHILADELPHIA. Mlir. 10 Decision of American Ketlera- tion of Labor officials, reached in Washington two weeks ago, to oppose all candidates for pub- lie office who are regarded as foes of organized hihor, boro 4 fruit here today in the opening of a ampaign against twenty- 4 five Pennsylvania and seven New Jersey members of the 4- house of representatives. 4 In a bulletin issued by the Philadelphia Camden advisory boards of the federation, atten tion is called to the railroad hill ! recently passed by congnws and H approved by the president and H the defeat of all congressmen voting for it is urged. "See that neither you nor your friends or aciuiiintant'ps ever again vote for those who gave labor a 'slap in tho face.' " said the bulletin. FORECLOSURE SALE COOS BAY AVERTED 'PORTLAND, .Mar. 10. Litigants in federal court have reached an agreement, it was announced today, whereby a proposed foreclosure Bale of the property of the Coos Hay Lura bar company, valued at $10,000,000 ot more, will not he made, and the re ceivers company 'will have opportU' nity to pay off the indebtedness now existing againHt the properly. The suit started a year ago, when tho Continental and Commercial Hank and Trust company of Chicago, holders of about $H, 000, 000 in mort gage bonds of the CoOi Hay Lumber company, filed foreclosure proceed ings in federal court and procured the appointment of two receivers to handle the affairs of the concern pending the outcome. The receivers, it was shown, had succeeded in set ting aside a reserve fund now avail able for meeting interest and princi pal payments. That this stipulation will have a far-reaching effect on the northwest lumber industry was ad mitted by the attorneys had it failed, as it would put the present lumber market in a precarious condition, it was asserted. BIG SHIPPING REVIVAL WASHINGTON, Mar. 0 Hevival of activity at the Port of Hamburg was reported in official advices today to the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce. Thirty-seven shipping ser vices have been definitely re-established and initial sailings made. Of these four are to the Atlantic and one to the Pacific coast of the I'uited States, to Great Britain seven, France one, Holland four, Hclgium two, Cuba and West Indies three', Mexico and Central America two. South America eight, Africa one and Asia fi.nr. ltegular steamer servieo between Japan and Germany has been inaug urated. Sailings of the German steam er er Hans for Havana and Vera Cruz with mail, marked the formal re opening of the liamburg-Vera Cruz service. Two Killed. Plane Smashes. MIAMI. Kin.. -Mar. 111. Charles Sims. 1'ilot, and Mechanics Knrle an-1 I'liinchard. of New York, were killed when their airplane crushed to the ground cn route to Miami lust niutil . elected president. Smith Africa is valuable to fircat lirituin because of its gold fields, and separation, it i- believed, would meet with strong opposition. Na tionalist sentiment there is sn-d to be so intense that in some instance- families have been divided over tin issue, whic h is a survival of the old struggle which has been going on between the Dutch anil the British since the Netherlands ceded Cape Colony to Great Drilain in 1SH. 1 0 WiiLLION TIMBER WILLIAMS FREE NO RANSOM IS PAID 10 VILLA Latest Victim Mexican Bandits Re leased and Wires He Is in Good Health Chicago Minina Company in Sonora Blown tip bv Mexican Bandit Renegades. KL PASO, Texas, Mar. 10. Joseph Williams, of El Pa.so, an employe ct the American Smelting and Hefining company captured and held for ran som by Francisco Villa when the ban dit wrecked a train on the lexican Central railroad Thursday last, has been freed, according to a telegram from Williams lo his employers re ceived today. The message merely said Williams arrived in Torreon last night and would leave there tomorrow, arriving here March 111 and that he was In good health. From the message it was believed no ransom had been paid. It was reported by fellow travelers on the train Williams was being held for $r000 ransom but officials of the smelting company said no demand was made on them. Report that Williams' health was good relieved friends hero c'f consid erable anxiety as he was suffering from the effects of a wound and gas poisoning suffered- in France. He was enroute here for treatment when captured by Villa. In the fight for the train it was reported more than a score of train guards, passengers and train crew were killed. Two other Americans on the train with Williams were rob bed. A Syrian passenger was said to have been hanged. Williams was a native of Henry, Va. AGl'A PrtlETA. SCnora. Mexico, .Mar. 10. LIuildingH and tho mine shaft of the Chicago Exploration and Development corporation near To nichi, Sonora, wore wrecked by dyna mite two weokB ago by renegades, said Franklin 1). Harding, consulting engineer of the company, who ar rived here today. He says the loss is $12.000. WASHINGTON, Mar. 10. .lames M. Arthur, manager of the .Mexican Consolidated Mining company, has not been kidnapped by Mexican ban dits, but is snfe near Nogales, Mexico the American consul there reported today to the state, department. -Mrs. Arthur who is in Nogalos Ariz., telegraphed her father, F. E Avery at Columbus, Ohio, yesterday saying that her husband needed f 20(10 and this was said to have led to the reports that ho had been kid naped. TAKE STUMP IN FAVOR SIOUX FALLS. S. I).. Mar. 1(1. Kavmond Hobins will spend 10 davs speaking throughout South Dakota in the interest of the cundidacv for nomination for president of Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California, it was announced last night by Johnson hcadiiiiarters. Senators Norris, Nebraska: Kcnvon, Iou'a: nnd'Hornh. Idaho are anxious to get into South Dakota in the interest of John son's candidacy and will prob ably come us soon as the peace treaty is ratified or definitely set aside in Washington, it was stated at Senator Johnson's hi'iidiliiiirters today. POUT DEPOSIT, Md., Mar. 10. The aerial bombardment of the ice jam in the Susquehanna river which extends several niilow below here, will he resumed this afternoon by the army aviators who all days yesterday dropped bombs in their attempt to dislodge the gorge. The army officers today expressed themselves as satlbfied with their work thus fur. 1FAILURE U. S. NAVY COST HALF L! ADMIRAL W WASHINGTON, .Mar. 10. Knilurc of the nuvy department to fully co operate in the war during the first six months ufter America's entry cost hair a mi Hit. 1i lives, fifteen billions of dollars, 2, T 00, 000 tons of shipping and prevented a victory over Ger many by July 19ls, Ituar Admiral Sims told the senate investigating committee today in presenting docu mentary evidence in support of his charges of delay against the depart ment. Tho officer read to the committee recommendations he had made to the department immediately upon his ar rival in London in 1917. A cable gram sent late in April, 1917, said the critical area where the war would bo won or lost was in the eastern At lantic at the focus ot all lines of ocean communication to England and France. Admiral Sitna told the com mittee that altho ho repeatedly urged that every destroyer and small craft that could bo sent to sea be dispatch ed Immediately to this area his rec cMimcndation was not complied with until about six months later. He also recommended, he said, that two divisions of the American drcadnaughts bo sent to base on Urest to guard against raids in the English channel by German cruiser forces, but this recommendation was entirely disregarded. ''Failure of the department to throw tho full force of the navy Into the struggle, ho said resulted in tho "un necessary" loss L'f 1,500,000 tons of shipping by Kiihmarine attack in 1!U7 and 1,000,000 tons In 1!US. "If tho tonnage lost in 1917 had been saved by the prompt co-opera tion of thenavy," ho said, "America could have had a million men in Franco at the beginning of 1!HS in stead of HIHI.OOO." " Admiral Sims said the German of fensive of 19 IS was due to the failure of the German submarine campaign and that In all probability it never would have been undertaken and the morale ut the German people would have broken if Ihe American troops had been more promptly dispatched to France. 'He estimated on the banis of what happened when the American forces did arrive that victory could have been achieved by July 191S if the tonnage had been preserved. The navy department's first real decision as to participation in the war Admiral Sims said, was contained in a cablegram to him 21 days after America entered the struggle. The message said the department intend ed to send 3fi destroyers, c'ne tendor and a mother ship to the British Isles and asked for minute information re garding the possibility of obtaining necessary supplies at Kerehaveo, the probable base. t "All of these plans ahould have been worked out long before we en tered the war," the admiral said, "and should have been placed In ef fect, In substance at leastthe day we entered the war." Invoked Aid Pajie Admiral Sims wild that when In found that his own effort impress upon the navy department the se- j rumne-s ot the situation were un i availing lie invoked the aid of th" ; late Ambas-ndor Piiye at London. who on Annl 27, 1917, sent a confi dential cablegram lo Secretary I.uns inir and President Wilson declariiu that "there is reason for the ureate-t alarm about luc i-ue of lUc war. 1 f- -. 5 is ti f V S SAYS ADMIRAL M 5. SIMS caused bv the iiicrcain'j success of German submarines." The ambassador uriied Ihe imme diate assignment of everv available Tailed States dest rover and subma rine chaser to liritish waters. Even this reiiuest was unheeded, for some mouths. Admiral Sims said The witness read a message to tin department in 1JI17 savinir the liri! ish ffoverntneiit "appreciated'' what the Tinted States was doing to keep flown .submarines. "Incidentally," lie added, "that m a case of international pnlitenesn, Thev were thaidvirii: us for selidimr six destroyers.' Kcntly to Jump Overboard Admiral Sims insisted he had been handicapped bv failure of the depar tiient to keep him informed of its plans. He read excerpts from his messages, uririn-j adoption of the con voy system ami said : "I will show that ureat hisses were sustained due to the resistance of the I'uited States to ta!;inir up the con voy system." He then read a department mes saire sent him in iMay and signed bv Secretary Hnnicls. ''In regard to convov," it read, "t consider American vessels havintr armed liuards are safer wheu sailing independently.' "When I L'ol that message I wan about rendv to jump overboard," con tinued .Admiral Sims. "I realized that tht department did not under- si a ml or appreciate the sil nation." E COURT DECIDES ON LINE EMI), olihi.. Mar. 10. A decision of the I'uited Slates supreme court and treaties between the I'uited States and Spain. Mexico and the He public of Texas, makintr the south bank id' the Ifed river - the hmm darv line between the stales of Okln hoiria and Texas, were cited in an opinion eiven todav bv Federal .ludut Voumans when he granted a tempor ary injunction to the Judsonia De velopment association ntrnin-d Sam Sparks and other. The case has been under advise ment by JimIl'u Voumans since lust week when he was asked to make th? temporary re?d ra initio order issued by .Indue John Pollock permanent. The controversy is over a Kill-acre (raid of land in the south portion of the ed river bed and oil property esti mated nt over $.'00,0110,000 is in volved. MOTHER JONES ARRIVES TO SUPPORT S. F. STRIKE OAKLAND, Cul.. Mar. 10. "Moth cr" .Jones, need woman labor leader, will arrive here Thursday to lend her support to the bay cities shin yard strike accordim.' to a tele gram received by the secretary of tile Abimedii county Metal Trades eouil cU. DEC! WASllINliTON. rar. 10. The loss to the government as a result of the supreme court's derision dci-hiriug stock divi dends not taxable as income will be nearly half a billion dol lars, according to an estimate today bv Colninissiolu-r of In ternal lievcuue Kopcr. M!r. Kopcr said a hastv search indicates that $70.0011.(100 paid in 1017 and I!I1S will have to be returned while the loss in lllicollci'tcil (axes in llllll will be $1011.000.0011 and that for !!J(I $.100.0110.0110. . .Mr. Holier emphasized that estimates of lite government's loss arc not official and that the loss might be found to be larger than now estimated. WILSON'S LETTER PARIS, Mnr. 10. President W'il- son'a letter to Senator lliteheok re Kurding reservations to tho Versailles treaty was Riven little spiu'e and a minor position in most of thiH morn ing's newspapers. The Oatilols prints Its comment in tho (irst pase under tho caption warnings of Wilson." "Mr. Wilson," it says, "takes re venge for tho silence imposed upon him by illness. In less than 21 hours. ho presentu us with two documents in which ho affirms In a singularly m; Ki'csslvo manner that he had recov ered full possession of his masterly faculties. "Ilo finishes the weakening of governmental frameworks of cTdor and discipline which he already lilts so thoroly shaken. Ills 'antl-iniper- list' formula will bring new encour- igcnient to International bolshcv- isin." The Paris Midi says the accusation of Franco as militaristic Is "impu dent" and it refers to air. Wilsou's 'gratuitous insult to this country." It adds: "Mr. Wilson accuses Kranco c'f be ing militaristic and at the sumo time Josephus 'Daniels, secretary of the Amurlcan navy, la tho only minister in tho world who announces an un limited program of armament." I. 'Information says: "Today there are men conscious of tho ovident necessities of Franco, but there Is no longer u militarist party, proporly speuklng." TO THE ALLIES WASHINGTON'. Mar. 10.-The al lied irovorninenlH will receive no fur ther loans from the American t.ruv- erntnent, Secrclarv Houston announc ed toiluv. Loan nuifle lo the ulties to date total !l,li."iil.H.U.Ii!l I.i) l of the ten bil lions authorized bv conuress. Mr. Houston said, and it was not deemed advisable to utilize the remainder of the authorization. Wootton Jurv Completed. TOjrHSTON'K. Ariz., .Mnr. 10.-- The jurv to Irv llarrv K. Wootton on it (din rue of kiilnatiiut: in con nection with the deportation of l,Kti7 striking cornier miners and t licit- sym pathizers from itislii'c was an nounced toduv. ' PARENTS AND TEACHERS HAD NOTHING 'To the public: It has come to tho notico of the committee of the Parent Teachers circles, which met at tho Hchool hciise last evening, that there l some criticism being madu with referenco to transactions at the meet ing and that tho committee is bolng accused of having pre-arranged those transactions. Tho committee wish It distinctly understood that it met with the board of directors by appointment and at tho request of tho board Bolely f.T the purpose of. gottlng a more defin ite statement from the board with reference to Its recent action, and T A QUIT POST School Supt. Defies People to Put Him Out After Petition for Resig nation Is Presented Will Continue at Post Until Contract Expires Hdateri Meeting Held at High School Building Hoodlum Spirit Is Condemned. The most strikine: fenturo of the most, sensational meetintr on school affairs ever held in .Medforcl was the cMiplmttc refusal of Superintendent William Davenport Inst niirlit before a lnri:e crowd of pn rents, patrons and teachers, in t 111 hik'h school biiildiiiir to hand in his resiunation at the reiiuest of .luilire Win. M. Col viir ufter the latter had rend a lie tit ion to the school board renuestinc; the superintendent's resignation, sie;ncil bv "i:i citizens nnd taxpayers, iiicludim.' John Mann, JtiuVc Glen O. Tavlor. A. ('. Hubbard mid E. SI. Warner. "Without Koine: into details and Hiving tin. reasons for droiHiintr cer tain teachers for next year I abso lutely refuse to resie.ii. Things nra fair and sininre. All till' data is there (pointini; to his and the board's records Ivinir on the table) and sub stantiated all the wav thi'ouiih. You will find there some astonishing tliinuH. There is pen and ink on the table, but I inn not L'liimr to rcsitm. I inn tioiuu to continue to tench in Jited ford until the end ot mv contract for another year and continue to do my level best." Situation In Deplorable . While all the members of the au dience which crowded the Willi school assembly room and balcony to the doors, hv nn overwhelming mapority were not in sympathy with the su perintendent nnd board, and roerotted Unit school matters had come to such u state and recoirnized that the situ ation was unfortunate, deplorable nnd disgraceful in a wnv, even the fairest minded tire puzzled to seek the best wav out. of the nnxzlincr di lemma that has arisen for the fu ture welfare of the sehoolB, One thiiiL' that even tho most bit ter opponents of the school adminis tration insist on. is that no routtfr what the difference on school poli cies anionc the natrons nnd parents, the school pupils must bo reRpeotful and observe discipline. It wob broimht to the attention of the au dience bv President Hiddeli of the school board that on the previous niirlit some hierh school bovs rotten eirued the office' of Superintendent Davenport. Tho audience unani mously disapproved of this disgrace ful net. Petition Asks for Itrt,ljrnat Ion Judge Colviir in prescntinir tho pe tition asking for Mr. Davenport's resignation, explained that he taught school in Illinois for three years after the Civil War. had served two terras as Jacjtsnn county superintendent of schoc's from 1H80 to 1884. had Berv ecl on the stato text hook commission with such men as llnrvcv W. Scotl, W. S. I.tidd, Professor Cntuphell of Ihe V. of ().. und Judge Johns of the state supremo court. Ho Baid that he believed more in results accom plished than in methods. .. Ho e.x nluined that the 5.') signatures obtain ed to the petition were obtained in onlv a. litle over an hour's tune ves lerdnv. The petition, which was addressed, to the school bonrd, reiids as fol lows : "fientlenien : "We, the undersigned citizens nnd taxpayers of Meilloril, Oregon, hnv- ( Continued on Page Eight) T that tho committee disclaims any part In connection with any remark made or petition presented or other action tuken at that meeting other than tho remarks made by the repre sentative cT the committee who stat ed In his opening remarka that he was appearing In behalf ot the com mittee. The committee does not wish to bo understood as In any way Indorsing any other action that was taken at the meeting other than that as out lined by our representative. . COMMITTER OF PAMBNT- TEACI1ERS CIRCLES.