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Newspaper Page TextMail Tribu MEDFORD The Weather Maximum yesterday -I I Minimum today :ti Predictions JL i jPj l'alr. Dtllr PourtMntk Ttu MEDFORD, OKKOOX, WKDXKSDAY, MAWJl 17, l. rortjr-nlntu leu. NO. 30-1 CHANCELLOR KAPP QUITS POST, RADICALS START A COUNTER Prussian Doctor Who Led Pan-Germ an Conn tl'Etat Follows Orders From Von Hindenburq to Steo Out Danger to Ebert Government Veers Suddenly From Reactionaries to Bolsheviki Hundreds of People Killed in Larqer Cities Workers Proclaim Governments in Many Dis- tricts While Soldiers Terrorize Inhabitants Another French Com mission Mobbed. Members Nearly Lynched Von Hindenbura Is Re ported En Route to Berlin. BY THE ASSOCTATJOD PUKSS, Mir. 17. Tho Kapp administration at Berlin, realizing- the futility of attempt ing to hold the reins of power, lias decided to give up its .short lived dictatorship. At one o'clock this afternoon, Berlin time, Chancellor Kapp decided to resign, according to official advices from the tierman capital. Previous to this announcement forces of extreme radi calism asserted themselves in various German centers. There were increasing spartaean disorders and growing talk among the radicals of the possibility of utilizing the present disturbed conditions to establish soviet rule. The list ol! killed reported from numerous German towns and rutins in clashes troops mounted into the hundreds. There has been no direct reports ot 400 killed m a bombardment ot Kiel by a war ship, but there are apparently veracious reports of 100 killed and 300 wounded at Dresden, probably more than 100 billed in Berlin suburbs and the killing ot from a halt dozen to a score of persons in others of the twenty-four or more German centers where clashes have been reported. LONDON, lijir. 17 Independent socialists and communists in (lor munv have commenced a violent nui tution in favor of a soviet republic and an alliance with soviet Kussiu, according to.n Berlin dispatch to the Exehaim-e Telegraph company. . PARIS. Mar. 17. News from Ber lin and oilier German points telling of saniruinarv clashes at Kssen. Dort mund, Leipsic, Mannheim. Frank fort and Brunswick, together with a report that a council of workmen had assumed power at Chemnitz, has given the impression here that there is more to he feared from a revival of the spartican movement than from the activities of the Kapp govern ment in Berlin. According to the latest dispatches the military move ment has resulted in bloodshed in -4 (ierinun towns. Tho spnrtacans nre reported to have risen in Dresden, where :i clash with troops is declared to have re sulted in a casualty list of 100 dead and 300 wounded. Fighting in Hres lau, Hamburg and Kiel also is re ported. HAMBURG. Mar. 17. An encoun ter last evening in the Harmheck Quarter between spnrtacans and troops resulted in ten deaths. Workers Take tliuigo COPENHAGEN. Mar. 17. A tele crrnm from Kssen savs that at the first sitting of the revolutionary workers council held Monday after noon, a committee of thirty-three took over the conduct of affairs. "Efforts arc being made." adds the dispatch, "to secure common actioa of all three socialist parties for the lower Hhine district anil Westphalia on the basis of a proletarian dicta torship." The demonstrators whose activi ties liuve resulted in clashes with se curity' guards in Hamburg are appa rently spitrtucnns, according to dis patches from that eitv. In yester day's hostilities the casualty list to talled 17 in killed and wounded. A dispatch from Oldenburg savs tbnt at WilhelimdmnjjlMheoffi 18 M UD GI LOSES LIFE IN N. D. BLIZZARD 10 SAVE MILE ONES BISMARCK, X. D., Mar. 17. Five known dead and thousands of dollars damage to property was the toll of the two day blizzard which swept this state the worst In more than thirty years. The storm today was reported to be gradually subsiding with tem peratures sinking. One girl gave her life to save her sister and brother whllt the heroic effort of another youth to bring help proved fatlW 4 he and his three brothers perished on the prairies dur ing the storm. When their sleigh was wrecked by the wind. Hazel Miner, aged IS took off her coat and wrapped it and Jjlankets around her small brother ill between demonstrators and confirmation of last night's cers of the garrison whose nttitmh was "doubtful" namely about -III!), were aVrestcd yesterday. Workers Attack Troops LONDON'. Mar. 17. Machine gun firing was heard in Berlin between 11 and 1'J o'clock last night, savs a message to the Exchange Telegrapa company today from the German capital. Daring the day a detachment of soldiers passed through the lirun ncnslrasse. headed by a band play ing "lleil dir 1 1 i Siegerkranz." Work men immediately charged the troops and a skirmish ensued in which a number of men were killed and others wounded, the message adds. At Spandaa. sixty-nine persons, nearly all workmen, were reported killed and the fighting is continuing. The correcpondent reports that big trucks are (instantly passing through the streets, loaded down witli armed soldiers who point their guns in the direction of the sidewalks. The message reiterated the report that Field Marshal von llindenburg had "sent a telegram to Dr. Kapp ask ing him to resign immediately in the event the old government agreed to hold new elections. National Assembly to Meet BASLE. Switzerland. Mar. 17. A dispatch from Chemnitz, the indus trial center in Saxonv with a popu lation of more than 200.011(1 savs a republic of workingmcn's councils has been proclaimed there. A "com mittee of action" has been formed, comprising ten communists, six in dependent sociali.-ts, four luaiviritv socialists and one democrat. STUTTGART, Mar. 17. It is be lieved the national assembly will open here late today despite the railway strike. President Ebert and .Minis ter of Defense Noske, as well as 1'hilipp Seheidcinann, former pre mier, are here. PALMS, Mar. 17. A mob has (Continued on Pane Seven) and sister near Center. For twenty four hours they lay in the snowdrifts before they were found. Hazel was dead but she saved the lives of the little ones. Virtually no freight trains were running In this state and passenger service is slow. Two Great Northern trains are stuck in the snow near ..tinot. Reports from Devils I,ake said that there are snow banks from twen ty to thirty feet deep between there and Minot. Hotels at Devil's Lake are said to he unalde to handle the stranded travelers there and many persons were reported sleeping in coaches iu the railroad jurdd. pass treaty ultimatum FH BRYAN William Jennintis Declares for Demo crats Join Irreconcilihle Rcptih licans Is Unthinkable To Deny Right of Senate Majority to De termine Policy Suicide for Demo cratic Party Resolution for Irish Freedom Defeated. WASHINGTON. Mar. 17. W. .1. lirvan arrived here today from Flor ida enroute to New York to deliver an address Friday night and immedia tely became a participant in the eleventh boar negotiations of demo i ratie senators working for a com promise on the peace treaty. Ahhough Mr. Brvnn said he did not intend to visit the senate nor in tervene in the treaty situation, demo cratic senators began to consult him before he had finished bis breakfast. Mr. lirvan gave out another state ment urging ratification of the treaty. "For democratic senators to ioin witii tin? 'irreeoncilubles' 'in defeat ing the treaty," be said, "is unthink able in advance of its being actually accomplished and it would be un speakable afterward." Mr. Bryan said it would be "sui cidal, for the democratic party to deny the right of n majority of the senate to declare the senate's policy. "We have the right to appeal to the people to reverse the action ot tint majority," he said, "but we have no right to resist, that majority to prevent the people speaking through the representatives. "The democratic party cannot hope lo make much headway coaibutting the fundamental principle upon which it stands." Irish Move Defeated WASHINGTON. Mar. 17. Hasten mg to clear the way for final action on the peace treaty the senate today choked off a St. Patrick's dav de bate on the Irish ouestion by tabling VI to 121 a proposal to declare by reservation that Great Britain should proclaim Ireland free. The motion to table was made bv Senator Kellogg, republican. Minne sota, who denounced the proposal as "politics." Thirty republicans and twenty-four democrats voted for the motion, while fourteen democrats and seven republicans opposed it. Ibe Irish declaration was proposed by Senator Shields, democrat. Ten nessee as amendment to Senator Owen's reservation declaring that the protectorate over Egypt was to be c onsidered a war measure only. The vote to table carried down the reser vation itself and all proposed amend incuts including that by Senator 1 nomas, democrat, Colorado, for Ko rean independence and another by Senator King, democrat. I'lah, pro viding lor lreedom for the Philii pines. I'orto Rico, the Virgin islands and Hawaii. Senator King said lie offered his amendment merely to show how ri diculous the senate was making itself Senator Owen's reservation declur ing that the treaty was not to b. construed as modifying in anv win the armistice terms was rejected V. to f)". SENTENCE L W. W.'S f MOIXTESANO, Wash., Mar. 17. Sentencing of the seven alleged 1. W. W. convicted hero Saturday of second degree murder, for the murder of Warren O. Grimm, one of four vic tims of the Centralia Armistice day tragedy, will occur Monday afternoon if a motion filed today by the state asking immediate sentencing of the prisoners 13 granted. The minimum penalty for second degree murder is 15 years Imprison ment; the maximum, life Imprison ment. The Jury asked leniency for Kugeno Harnett and John Lamb, two of the seven convicted men. The other five are O. C. Bland, Ilert Bland, James Mclnerney, Hay Decker and Britt Smith. Boy Killed School Quarrel. IM KUI,, Colo.. Mar. 17 Ted. the 11 vcar old son of Mrs. II. A. Ktiv kcndnll, in a statement today short Iv before his deulli. charged he hail been kicked and injured bv iiv schoolboys. Physicians sav the lad cikd as a result ol tuee injuries, MEN TO CRANK FIRST TIME ICE OCTOBER WASHINGTON'. M;u 17. Pilot ouniplit'i'-s vTt: jiermittoil to tttlu; their titst pictures of President Wilson toilnv since liis return from Ins western trip hist September. Tin1 t resilient was pliotouraplieil as he left the White Mouse irnmmls on his fifth automobile ri'Ie since lie went to heil in Ik'tolier very siek man." I'ntler instructions from the White House the police allowed moving picture operators ami photographers lo set up their machines at the t.iithwcst irate, and as the president's automo bile came out the chauflcur slowed down. The camera incii had been waitinir manv weeks 1W these pictures. The president was accompan ied on his ride tieln v bv M rs. Wilson and Wear Admiral (Irav sou, his physician. J .J, t A ! 3 4 4 4 TURKS FIRE ON ALLIED TROOPS COXSTAfTIiOPI.E, liar. 1G. (By Associated Press.) Constanti nople was occupied this morning by allied forces under General Sir George F. Milne of the British army. This lonK looked for military demon stration by the allies against Turkey was carried out with only one un toward happening, u serious clash at the war office, where the Turks re sisted the allied troops. An exchange of shots resulted, in which several Punjabi of the llnliMi Kast Indian forces and a few Turks were killed. The excitement caused by the oecu pation quieted down before darkness. which brought absolute calm. CONSTANTINOPLE, Mar. 1G. Allied troops have occupied this city and the great guns or the British dreadnaught Beubow and other giant allied warships, moored to quays or anchored in the Golden Horn, com mand bcth sides of the Uosphorus Kvery ship is cleared for action. The actual arrival of allied forces caused little alarm, nor were there any signs of panic except fu Stam- boul. Shopkeepers closed their places when they heard the allies were com ing, but tho troops inspired confi dence and tho stores were soon re opened. All the allied powers participated in tho movement. CITY OF 457 147 WASHINGTON', Mar. J7. Popu- lation statistics for lOlit) announce!', today bv the census bureau include: Milwaukee. 4o7.1-17. "ii increase of 8:i30,' or li'J.:i per cent over 11110. Milwaukee is the fifth big city, tho population of which for HIL'O ha: been announced. It rankciL twcll'tl in 1010 with :i7:i.8")7, an increase of :il per cent over 1 !)()(. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE PORTLAND. Ore., Mar. 17 Rog er Sinnolt. Portland lawyer and brother of N. .1. Sinnolt, representa tive in congress from enstern Oregon, died suddenly from heart disease last niirht at the family home here. Mr. Sinnott was born at The Dalles July lo, 187J. He had lived in Port land for the past twenty years. PORTLAND. Ore., Mar. 17 Plar s for the canipait-'n to raise Oregon's ouotn of the t:i.'t(i,777,r72 which forms the national campaign budget for 1020 of the Interehureh World movement, will be perfected at a con lerenee tomorrow morning at the First Congregational church. SALKM. Ore.. Mar. 17. liavmonl Walsh, one of the resident engineer of the state highway department. Inn been detailed to work out n standard silrn method for the intcr-statc high way system, and at the next nieetin: of the commission distinctive style o hiirhwav simis probably will hi UtlopttJt . .. HOOVER HITS WILSON FOR POOR TASTE Former Food Commissioner Declares Publication of His Memorandum a Breach of Good Taste Has Modified His Ouinion Regarding U. S. Representation on Reparation Commission Must Protect U. S. Interests Abroad. NEW YOKK, Mar. 17. Herbert Hoover tulay issued a statement in which he said he had modified his opinion, expressed In a letti-r to Pres ident Wilson last April that the I'nited States should not bo repre sented on the various hoards provid ed to enforce peace in Kuropo. He now favors this country having a rep resentative on the reparations com mission in order that American inter ests may be protected. He protests against the publication of his letter to President Wilson on the ground thai it was not issued Troin tho White House and he had not consented to its publication. Tho statement follows: View 1h Modified "I have seen in some of this mor ning's papers a copy of a memoran dum of mine that was prepared in the course of the peace conference on the subject of our participation in the large number of International commissions set up in Europe. As to tho views expressed in the momc-ran-dum, they were later modified as to tho particular of our having a rep rosentntlve on tho reparation commis sion itself because of the largo eco nomle control finally given to it over u great part of Europe and the com plete necessity for tho United States to bo represented thorer,1!! at once In order to protect American interests. Ilremii iood Tawlo "Regardless of any personal point of view in this matter there is noth ing that Is such a breach of good taste or tho very foundations of rela tions among government officiate us for them to issue to the press corres pondence that may have passed be tween them and their superiors hi tho course of their service without appro val on both sides. I am informed it was not Issued from the White Houso. It is scarcely necessary for mo to say that it was not released by mo and that a searching Inquiry In my Own office satisfies me that It has not come from my staff." In his letter to President Wilson published today Mr. Hoover expressed opposition to tho coutiauunco of tho t lined btiit.es as a mumucr of the various cominisiiionH sot under llio i.uuCc ilcuo, Llio. hue n ulliuu i euiuouaiin coma wtny ieau lo vudL uiUkUiiy uiiu nuiiUilu ugaiusl me ieugtiu ol .Nation.-). lOupiusenLUtWii oi luo LiiiU-u auiua on mo couiuiui-.-.o lift, he butu, wouiu men u Lhu to un ity ll'UUiliK ItrtuU to too political UllU tmuiiUiUi imui tiilh ot oilier tijoiii meiii.V inii'iiiti puuiu, a an-uuliuu mui inn a i. uu uiiLiity i.tnii3ivo iu our ml- i.Oilill LiUHUlOltd tUiU lilUUls." ura .Mono iteMTvo lie uiku.u ttiUL he was hol ftiine thuC I he l Lvoiinioii 111 FiUi upo to aa ovur ami inuL " our peopiu aio noi'piu-pa-teu lor us .o utiuortaKe luo in Hi lary poncing ol Europe wiiilu il ijoiih jihoil oai." 1 11c letter concluded: grows upon 1110 dally that the Unnuu Sluuuh is the one gioiU morui reserve 111 mo world K;duy and tint we cannot maintain indepumietieu-01 action thru which Lhm ie.suive is to wo mainmnieu u wo allow oursuivuii to be uragged iuio uolailed EUropoaa entanglements over a puno- - years, 111 my views, 11 the allies can be brought to adopt peace on tint basin ol the fourteen points, wo sbould re tire tram Europe, lock, stock ami bar rel, and we should leiul to tho whoJe world, our economic and polltlcuj streugth or the world will swim iu a. sea, of misery and disaster worse than ttie uark agos. If they cannot be brought to accept pence on this basin, our national honor is ut stake und wo should have tc make peace indepen dently and retire." J'OHTbAiXD, Mar. 17 An advance In gusolino pricex of two cunts a gal lon went Into effect In Oregon and other Pacific northwest states today. The price of gasoline at filling sta tions and Harases here was quoted at 27 cents today. An advunco of 26 cents a barrel on fuel oil also went luto effect here today. The advances are a "natural and direct result ot a shortage in the petroleum supply, coupled with an Increased demand," according lo a statement made in Han l-ranclsco yesterday by K. It. Kings bury, president of the Standard Oil company, ol Culiforuiit, TO LEAVE HIS CASTLE A MEKOiNt! EX, Mar. HiCon siderable excitement was caused here Sunday by an attempt by a mysterious (Jerman woman to visit former Emperor William. She appeared at the gates of MiMitinck castle- hut was iK-nii-d admittance and later had a eon versatii.il with the steward at the castle, leaving a bouquet of flowers for Count I lohenzollern. There were rumors that her name was ftapp, which is the name of the chancellor of tho new government but there is no confirmation of this report as yet The former emperor -is still engaged In sawing wood and has no't yet been permitted to leave the castle even for a visit at Doom since Saturday. OA NO BREACH OF WASHINGTON'. Mnr. 17 (Hy tin AssoeintiMl I'riissl Tlur American uoyernnu'iit lias sent two notes to Holiyin mid is prepnrinir to send n thinl rennestinir that there lie no breach ot! peace in South America. At the state department it was said thut the representations made to Holivia had lieen ''nruenl" and tlut u second note had been dispatched and a third prepared because no re ply to the first had come l'rom lo- li via. WASHINGTON, Mar. J 7. Peru. throue.li Ambassador I'ezet, has asked the American irovernment to use its friendly offices to prevent n breach of the peace in South America irrow hilt out of the attack by Bolivians on the Peruvian leantion at La Pa. IPOIITLAND. JIar. 17. Oregon's income taxes for the year will over shadow tho $1U,000,00I) paid last year, Milton A. .Miller, collector of internal revenue, said today. The largest Individual tax paid by a corporation in tho state will total I 1,500,001), according to Miller, while the largest tax assessed against an Individual will be close to $1,000,000. Taxes of from 1 100,000 to $ii00,000 arc not uncommon this year, the col lector said. "In general, the taxes show a most prosperous year' ho declared. SHELLY POEM IS SOLD FOR $1 6.25G NEW YOKK, Mnr. 17. The orig inal manuscript of Percy Hyssho Bhel ly's poem "Jiillun and Maddalo," was sold tilr ? 16,250 to Krnost I). North at an auction of tho library of the late Hurry B. Korman yesterday. Tho original manuscript of "Tho Spectacles" by Kdgur Allen Poo brought $11,100 at tho same salo. IRISH VETS PARADE JTKW YORK, Mar. 17. Tlu ira ditional "wearing of the irreen" in St. Put tick's dnv parades on Kiftb ave nue irnvc wav todav to the wearing of the green, white nnd vellow the tri-:olor of the "Irish republic" in honor of Kiimonn DeVnlera. horn! of the unrecognized government who re viewed the 'iVIM) marchers frr.m St. Patrick's cathedral. The parade was a "free Ireland" demonstration, rhe like of which New York has never be fore witnessed. It also took on a "free Inibn" aspect, lor more than MI00 representatives of that race inif.ri'hed with the sons of Krin. . . ty'hilu the colors of the Kmeruld MINNESOTA PRIMARY IS CALLED FAKE Senator Johnson Declares Stronfl Arm Tactics Used bv Wood Sup porters With G. 0. P. Machine in Absolute Control Voting Hour From 7:30 P. M.. to 8: 30 P. M Disenfranchised Farmers Politi cal War Breaks in State. DKTlilHT. Mich., Slar. 17. The Minnesota republican primnrv was characterized as a "pretense" and the "first stromr arm tactics of the 1 !'() mnimimi," by Vnitcd States Senator Hiram Johnson in a sinned statement issued here this forenoon. lie chai-.'ed that "the republican stale machine is in absolute control" of affairs in Minnesota. "This ma chine," tlie statement declares, "has been eoinluctinir the Wood fieht." Althouah the state's presidential preference primary law bad been re pealed, Senator Johnson said, the re publican organization in Minnesota called what it termed n. "primary," with a preferential vote for president. Kixinir of the time of votiner botwecn 7:110 p. m. and HiMO p. m.. with coun ty chairmen empowered to fix the hours 7 to U i. in., be nlleced. meant in the country districts no primary , at all. Fanners Disenfranchised "In mid-winter with tho present condition of the ronds," he added, ,'it was the disfranchisement o tho farmers." Contimiinir. tho stntemcnt savs: "When I was reeontlv in Minne sota, I demanded a hall: dnv in which, citizens niiirhf express themselves. i'ollowiiiL' this Hoover nndfLowdon forces mndu a similar demand. Of course the machine, in absolute, con trol and represeiitincr Wood, contem plnlinir a mere fako prirnurv. which uiiuht'hc used to influence other states, paid no iitlcnlion to our de mand. I then advised mv friends iu Minneapolis and St. Paul to iro to these niirht polls and fitiht as best they could. advices are that I have curried Minneapolis and Henne pin county and perhaps St. Paul. "This one-hour, machine controlled primary was a travesty on the risrht of free expression." Jolinsonilcs Take Control MINNEAPOLIS. Mar. 17. Sup porters of Hiram Johnson for presi dent took control of tho Hennepin county republican convention hero today, named a new countv commit tee anil elected State Senator Arch Coleman, who has been opposed bv the Wood state oruunization, as coun ty chairman. ST. PAUL. Minn.. Mar. 17. Dcle tralcs liledtred to the cundidauv of Leonard Wood were in control of the Hanisev countv republican conven tion here today and succeeded in dc- I'eatiiiL' the Johnson and Lowden delu- I rtn..,ii,i'w viiv iinllIHe county Wood organization. W'ood forces produced n maximum of 270 votes out of a total of 502. Two delegates to tho national con vention from Kainsav countv. in structed for Wood means that onlv four deloL'iilcs out of Minnesota's 24 are iu doubt. Thcv are in the two Minneapolis districts and are claimed by Johnson and Wood. It has been conceded that Wood has won the four deleirates nt liinro to be named bv the state convention. IN NEW YORK isle nnlurallv predominated, ths Stars and Stripes led the parade, followed by the "fighting Irish fl!)th." for merly the Kiolh United Stntes infan try. Kverv Irish-American organiza tion here was represented. lietween the great Gothie towers of (tie stately cathedral floated ths American flag and tho tri-color of (he republic. In nddition to "Prcsi ient" DeVnlera. fiovcrnor Alfred E. Smith, Former fiovcrnor Glynn, May or llvlan. Archbishop Haves and .a host of. Catholic dignatnries were invited-to the reviewing stand.. Pre vious to the parade n pontifical mass wua celebrated iu the cathedraL . I