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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD mail Tribune jgf The Weather Maximum yesterday Minimum today 'AH Pally Fourteenth Yi, Forty-ninth Tear. MEDFORD, Oh'KOOX. Tl'KsiUY, MAKCIl 1 SH'O. XO. lw. ' t BOLSHEV m par T S Entire Western District Reported Held Solidly by Radicals Army of 5000 Workers Advancing on Wesel Red Army Is Benin Con stantly Reinforced Reports Con tinue to Be Conflicting Quiet Re stored in Berlin. KSSKN. Germany. Mar. 2!!. (Vi:i Copenhagen) T!ie local executive council today announced that the en tire industrial region hereabouts is in the hands of tin- revolutionary workmen and that a red nrmv of .1,011(1 men is victoriously advum-int: on Wesel where "the last remnants of the regular Irooiis" are conccn trnted. i COPENHAGEN". Mar. 2.1 The whole western industrial distriet of (iermnnv is held solidly by radicals and disaster is inevitable if the gov ernment troops try to interfere there, aeeordinir to information received from Herlin this morning bv telephone by thiY Berlingske Tidcnde. The So cial Demokraten learns that a purely workers' government is on the point of formation, without co-operation with the bourgeois parties. rol'KNirAGGN'. War. 22. A dis patch to the Berlingske Tidemlc from lierlia says t ho communist nrmv in Westphalia aggregates fully lO.Oull men who are equipped with mine throwers, armored cars and innchin? guns. The army is being eonstantlv reinforced. It already holds about a dozen towns. Kxpect iovt. Troops MSSEl.I)OHr Jlar. 22. (Hv the Associated Press) Small sounds ol independent socialists, wearing red brassards and having armv rifle slung over their shoulders, are arriv ing here to strengthen the forces numbering several thousand men which are holding this city while awaiting a threatened attack from government troops. The red army, in which many com munists have enlisted, is now drilling near town. Socialist forces are pa trolling the streets, but are not mo lesting the public. No disorders were reported today. The people of DusseldorC expect government troops, which were forced to retire to Wezel. :t2 miles northwest of here, to be reinforced sufficiently to recapture the eitv within a week. A1X I.A CHAPKU.K. lihenish Prussia. .Mar. 2X Another batllc is reported to be going on between Spnrlacaus and troops of Ihe regu lar nrmv at Wesel, twentv-two miles northwest of Essen. 'Ihe regulars, the reports say. appear to have out 1 hulked the Spartncnns. Kai-tacfst Proclamations HKRLIX. Mar. lilt Snnrla.i-I proclamations appeared on the streets todav. One poster lorc the headline, ''The Hal Klair,'' and sii:ned "Tim Com munist I'artv." It declared the people were dissatisfied with the return of the Khert government nnd protested nirninst military eontnd of the eitv. The prineipal burden of (lie text was "either disarm the troops or uive 11. wenpo'ns." (Continued on Page, Three) em UNDER RED HIGHEST PRICE SINCE CIVIL WAR SAN FRANTISCO, Mar. 23 Cane MiL'iir supplied to Pacific coa-t points by the Western Suirar Kct'miiu company advanced Iron. l. to Jm cents a pound wholesale todav. ac cording to an announcement hv the refinerv here. The Cnlifomia-IIa-waiiHn SiiL'ar liefininjr company, the other eomnanv sunplvinir susrur to coast points, had nut advanced its i prices, it was announced. ''The New I York oiarket ouotation?' eiven ! US thi' reason for the riie. j 4 u result of tuduv'a advacj CLEMENCY FOR FOES URGED BY PREMIER 10 SAVE IHE WORLD 3OMK. Mar. UH. Kurope ran regain ltii eciuililuium only thru the rehabilitation uf !er- many and Itussia, .said Premier .Villi in presenting his new tab- inet to the chamber of deputies today, lie declared: "There- should issue from par- liaments and peoples a powerful humane voioe uruinj; sympathy and clemency for the vanquish- ml." The premier announced that new foreign capita I b roue, lit to ! Italy to increase production t would be exempt from taxation. Some sharp disturbances- and I passages at arms occurred dur- iiiK his speech when socialists tried to interrupt the premior. ! WILSON DID ALL HE COULD, PARIS, SHANGHAI, Keb. 17. Dr. C. T. Wans, who was one of the prominent members of China's delegation to the peace conference at Paris, has return ed from Franco and announced he plans to submit a report to the Pek ing government some time in March I'pon his arrival in China after i stay of a. few days at the southern capital of Canton, he came to Shang hai, intending later to go on to Peking. "While in Shanghai Dr. Wang re marked that President Wilson had done "everything in his power Paris to support China's contention j in the Shantung controversy." ; "China's only hope for a just set tlement (,'f the Shantung question," he said, "now lies with the League of Nations, not in direct negotiations between Japan and China, which To kio is seeking to open." "It is only a beginning," he said, "like a scaffolding around which a great superstructure in time may be built and it cannot be a success with out America." AVhen he was asked what he be lieved would be the outcome of the present internal strife in China, Itr. Wang shook his head. "tied knows," was his laconic an swer. KING GEORGE LEVEE IS BRILLIANT AFFAIR T.ONDOX, Mar. L'li. King George's first levee at St. .lames palace niicc 1!U I, held today, was a brilliant ai fair. John W. Davis, the I'nited States ambassador, and his staff, all dressed in black, presented a notable contrast to the full dress uniforms of military and naval officers and min isters and judges in their wigs and official robes. The kintf drove in semi-state from Itip-kinuhum palace. A feature was the presentation of representatives of new states, includ ing Finland, Poland and new repub lics of the Llalkans. Dr. Kthamer. German charge d'af faires hero, was presented by Karl Curzon, Itritish secretary of elate for foreign affairs. urar will retail at IS1 cents pound here and at the same pric plus the freight rate from the San Kraneis-o .-eaboanl at other eoat end interior puin that are supplied i mm here. Kxecutive of the t'alifomia He tail Grocer-' u?-o-i:ition said that th. , raise hroiiuht siil'm r no to us luuhot Price since the Civil war. It the second rai-e within four dav-. the sale price havinir lu-en rai-ed trom H tu lj cents lust Sat uriv. ADMIRAL CUES GEN L PERSHING 10 BACK WORD Rear Admiral Sims Tells Senator Pittman He Must Disprove Persh ing's Report if He Upsets Testi mony Rcciardinq Losses Due to Delay bv Navy. WASHINGTON'. Mar. 2P. Cros eamiiiatiiii of Hear Admiral Sim-- was continued today before the sen ate committee invent iirn tiny (lie na s conduct of the war with Senators Pittman of Nevada and Trammel! of Honda, democrats, undertukiiur to .-bow that the I'nited Slates was not whollv responsible for heaw .subma rine losses durimr t ho two mouths immediately following the entry of the I'nited States into the war. Admiral Sims said adoption of the convoy system marked the turnimr point of Ihe war and that Ihe allies had to wait for American co-operation before the plan could be made cl feclive. "Our destroyers and oilier ships should have sailed the niulit we de clared war and there was no oid reason why thev should not have done so," he said. 'lf thev had. 'J,.)00,000 tons of shippinir would have been saved, mid Ihe I'nited Stales would have had tin nrmv of 1.000, 000 men in France May 1. 1018. The fact was that after we declared war manv American ships had to be placed in drv dock and repaired be lore thev could be went, to the war .one.'' Senator Pittman told the admiral he had not presented any evidence to support his assertion that failure ot the navy properly to co-operate durinir the war had prolonged th struiriile at a cost of oOO.OOO lives. 'I notify von here and now that at the proper time evidence will be introduced to show that the armv did imt ask for ocean transport that it did not tret." said the senator. "If ou do vou will have to disprove (ten cm I I'ershiiui's own report in which Ik said that he could not 'et troops to France when he wanted them." re turned (In admiral. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE PORTLAND. Mur. 2:!. Initiative petitions for placing three proposed measures of the United Land and La bor league of Oregon on the ballot will bo circulated in about two weeks, accoidiiiK to K. K. Coulter, father of the league and a member of the exec utive committee. Tho measure, if placed on the ballo't and passed, wouhL, provide for voting by mail, making the present Initiative, and referendum law applicable to the pri maries, and for opening of state- owned warehouses, banks and other hiduslrial institutions. rOUTLANI), Mar. The steam er Cansumset of the Kuropean-l'acif it line, bringing the second lot of im ports tu be received here directly from Kuropo since the war started. docked late last niht at municipal terminal No. 1. Tho imports carried to Portland by this ship consist of linoleum. Fuller's earth and house hold goods, all from tho United King dom. PORTLAND, Mar. 23. Introduc tion of evidence in the trial here of Joseph Laundy, alleged I. "W. charged with violating the state crim inal syndicalism uct, was expected to begin lato today. Thirty-five tales men had been examined when court adjourned at noon, the box being ten tatively filled. Two peremptory chal lenges remained for the defense and one for the stato. SALEM, Mar. 23. Extradition to Kern county, Calif., where they are wanted to answer to a charge of burglary and grand larceny, alleged to have been committed when they stole an auto in Bakersfield two years ago, is being fought by Russell and Raymond Eyerly, brothers ar rested here last Friday for Bakers- field authorities. An order, comply ing with a petition of the two broth ers for a writ cf habeas corpus to be acted upon April I was signed by Cir cuit Judge Hingham here this morn ing. SEATTLE. Mar. 2-1 Horner Mver- uitomobib' man. exalted ruler of the Scuttle Kika lodta', died today. PREPARE FOR WALL PEACE EFFORTS FAIL rnl'K.NIIAliKN. M;ir. 'M. KM In m ia ami iu.i. t u o of the former Kussian lialtie prov inces, now independent nations, are pre pa rintr for war, sa vs a dispatch to the Herlm-ske Ti dcnde from Kiiviin. Concentrations of troops in Inriie numbers on the frontier is reported. (Iretit Britain has tried unsuccessfully to mediate the dispute over boundaries. TO MEET DEMPSEY SOON AS POSSIBLE Ni:V YOliK, Mar. 2::. "I am anx ious to box Jack I empsey for the world's heavyweight championship as soon as the match can be arranged." This was the first statement made by Georges Carpentler, the Krench heavy weight, on his arrival hero (his mor ning. "I can get into condition on reasonably short notice and am will ing to meet the holder ut the premier title anywhere the mutch can be held either In America or lOurope," he added. These statements, made thru an interpreter, were the answers given to a host of newspuper and moving picture operators who hoarded the French liner La Savoie to obtain their first view of the holder of the Euro pean heavyweight championnhip nd the pugilistic sensation vl a decade. Tho first impression of Carpentler was far different than might have been expected of a heavyweight box er and veteran of four years of world war fighting. Of apparently slight physique and weighing, according to his own state ment, but 17t pounds, the conqueror of a long line of French and English heavyweights resembled a bank clerk on a vacation far more than he did a pugilist wh(.'m boxing enthusiasts in nil parts of the world are eager to see match skill and power against the American fighter. The French champion wore in the lapel buttonhole of his coat the rib bon of the croix de iruerre with three palms, which he won while nit air pilot in a bombim: souad during Ihe r. lie said he was twice wounded by shrapnel, once near the left tem ple ami the second time in the left ot. Cnrpenlier was accompanied bv bis 17-year-old bride, his mnnnirer Ues- enmps nnd two trainers. Sirs, ("arpentier, an extremely pretty lit lie French 'voman. scarcely reached her husband's shoulder. When ouestioned rcardin'- her ideas of bo.iur she said as lonir as (icortres s in the riiiL' she hoped he would win the world's title before he retired. Cnrpenlier will remain here for several weeks while a two -reel mo lion picture is lakeu of the French puifili-t in the role of u college hov interested in boxing. After this cn- Laeineut be will embark upon a ten week's vaudeville tour. ('arpentier refused to express nnv opinion reLu-duur the outcome ol a match willi Ocinpsey. He did say. however. Hint if he won the world'. heavyweight title, he hoped he would he permitted to retire after defend inir the championship once. STOLEN SEATTLE SEATTLE, Mur. 2 3. Diamond rings, watches and bar pins worth ap proximately 110,000 were stolen from a downtown jewelry store at 9 a. m. hero today by four robbers, who bound and gagged the proprietor, S. M. Feldiuan, and a clerk. Miss Xettfc Goldman, according to reports Feld nian made to the police. Feldman said ho had just opened the safe and was taking out the Jewelry when he turned and saw four men in the store. One of them cov ered him with a revolver and another pointed a gun at Mixs Feldman. "What is it, a Joke? Feldman naid he asked. A blow across the face with the handle of a revolver an awcred him. FINE PROGRESS MADE DRIVE C. OF COMNERCE Entire Force of Wurkers Go Over Tod at 10 a. in., anil Not a Serious Casualty Is Reported Enthusiasm Is Shown on All Sides. ! 4 Hi dow is v,howii tlic number of nit inhere obtained in the cam paign inaugurated this week, in division and team order : Women's Uivislou Caplaiu -Mrs. (i. K. Satchwel! S $ 'IT) Major lloimTjrue's Division Captain Frank Far- rell Captain K. Keanv .... Cnntain (!. erts Captain A. Captain W. ker Total . 17 -IK M. Mr 1! M. Itoh- II Vance VI :. Wal- 'Jl Major Hen Sheldon's Division Captain S. I. Brown... Id $ IS". Captain F. W. Mears '27 2".0 Captain John Good rich lrt pjr. :tio KM) $1:121 Captain N. A. Loueks '2'. v Captain U. Mioore 17 i Total (Irand Total ... 1 041 ...1H7 4 The M'edford Chamber of Com meree's expansion and reonrnniA lion cnmpuiiMi is on in earnest, nnd the future civic ami commercial de velopmeiit of the city depends npon the result of the mcmhcr.-diip enroll ment crusade which betrau todav aud is to continue up to and includiu Frinav. Ten teams of men workers. and one sound of women, the "Pepto- mi-U Army." received their final in .-(ructions from llircetor (Jheen pre cedimr the making of a uroup photo- :raph of the entire body in front of the public library ut 10 ft. m., and in u few minutes were distributing them selves Ihrmurhout the entire commit in the enmpuieu for -XIO meribers and a bink'c! of $1(1,1)00 for Ihe Chamber of Commerce, There is no mislakinir the intense interest in the citizens ol Mcdtol'd in the success of this drive. J)nwiifi d' business nnd professional men luive (dosed their desks and left th-di places of business to rally to the call of the Chamber of Commerce for hinteer workers. Following the three weeks of pro paratorv work lor Ihe intensive drive. two divisions, each headed hv in;i jor, composed of ten learns of from seven to nine men and an independent team of a dozen women headed by .Mrs. (J, U Salehwell, started the enrollment work this moruiiiLr. At noon, after two hours of work, the field workers assembled at the Hotel Holland for luncheon. Offic in Is of the Chamber of Commerce wore broad and confident smiles fol lowinir the receipt of the enrlv re turns which were bulletined on a black hoard. The statement was niven out bv Director (ihecn that he cnlcrliiiits strong hopes and expectations that the drive will pass its objective before the expiration of the fourth day. M (lawn addressed the peptomisls at the luncheon todav The tennis are nil operating nloim careful and systematic lines, each team having drawn from Ihe dislru to which his team is assigned. Th pro.spect cards showintr names and addresses of those men am women of the eitv who have been selected prospective members were placed in the hands of the various team cat tains. From campaign heudnmrtcrs vitations to ioin (he Chamber of Com meree have been mailed out to up proximately 1.000 individuals whose name have been included in the pros pt et st. Kentucky Derbv Held May 8. LOI ISYILI.E. Mar. 2.'(. -The his toric Kentucky derbv with its new :fO,OiMI added value, and for which 107 nominations have been made, will have its fortv-Mxth renewal at Churchill Downs here Saturday. Mnv 8, the opening dav of the Uown rneet ntr. the Kentucky Jockey dub uuuoiuKi'd today, EALOUSY CAUSE OF GIVES HIMSELF UP 4 FliESNi , Cal.. Mar. 2:i.-AL E. Pittman surrendered himself at ihe entinlv iail hi-re shortly before noon todav. telling t lie sheriff he was wanted for the v murder of A. Nil hoKon. u Fres- v no build iter eon I raid or, w bo-c hodv had been t'oimd a short time before ut the I'lttman home in north Fivmio. v Mrs. I'itlinaii lohl Ihe police her husband was jealous id' Nichol-on and she believed tins was his 'reason for firimr Ihe fatal shots. Mrs. I'ittman also saitl she Indie veil her husband v was h i I i 1 1 it' yesterday in the at tie of their home when Nicholson called on a business visit. This morn bur, she said. Nicholson called aLMiin and her husband dropped from a hole in the attic and shot Nicholson four times in the head. T liOSTON, liar. (S The supreme court today heard nnrumerits on the reuuest of Mrs. Emilie li. Uulen ot New York for the riuht to inlcrvemi in tho litigation lo which the di rectors of the Christ inn Science church and (lie trustees of the Chris tian Science Publishing society are the principal parties. Mrs. HiiIcii brought, the petition as one ol the lirst memhers ot the hurch. These first members were described bv Charles F. Choate, .Jr., her counsel, as a hodv which origi nally had certain authority and func tions that were later transferred lo the directors. II was his contention that the report of Ihe master in the suit between directors and trustees had shown that the directors had no standintr and therefore it had become necessary lo have the first members come in to protect the rights of the church. Edwin A. Kraulhoff of Washing ton, a first member, appeared in op position to the petition. Mr. Krauthoff aruued that the first members were abolished hv a bv-lnw in 15)01. which was approved by Mrs. Eddy and Unit Ihe ullempt to inter vene was mi attack on the by-laws of the church, the first, he knew of in the church's history. The motion to intervene, be said, was in fact an attempt lo have the case tried auain. Mr. Kraulhoff said the master's re port had not ruled that Ihe directors hud no authority. Former (iovernor John L. Hates, counsel for the di rectors, announced that thev look a neutral attitude on the petition, but reserved the diuht hi define their position if necessary. OLYMI'IA, Wash.. Mar. li. Ad journment of the special session of the Washington legislature tomorrow wuh predicted here ted ay by members of both houses. The legislature met yesterday and ratified the proposed suffrage amendment to the federal constitution. The senuto today took up a hill the house passed yesterday ordering that tho question of a bonus for soldiers be submitted to tho elec tors next fall. RAISE STREET CAR FARES PORTLAND HELD UP FOR SPECIAL ELECTION SAI.KM. flrn.. M'cir. 2.1-Increase in cnrfiirrs on the lines oi" tlie I'nrL Inml Knilwav, I.iaht nnd 1'iiwcr I'lira pnnv in the eitv nf I'urtlMiMl in held in nbevnnee hv nil rminion of the nnh lie service commission hnnded down todnv. The opinion recommends that nt ii special election, culled on Mnv 21, opportunity to vote on the (iiiestion of tukinir over the tracks of the com pany, which would reduce the valu ation of the company's properties in excess of $.-).(l(IO.I)(l(l. litis liU3 Wereueo duly to tho U.S. CONTROL L PRICE S REIVED President Wilson Restores Fuel Situ ation tu Condition Before Strike Was Called Declares Commission Report Shall Be Accepted In creased Wanes to Miners Will Amount to Approximately $200, 000,000 a Year. NEW YOIUC, Mar. 21!. The gen eral scale committee representing the anthracite coal miners by a virtually unanimous vote decided today to re main at work after April first pond ing negotiation of a new wage agree ment "providing the mine (,'wnera agree to make any wage award retro active to that dale." "WASHINGTON, Jlar. 23 Govern ment control over the maximum price of bituminous coal was withdrawn to day by President Wilson effective April 1st. At tho same time tho president wrote the operators and miners trans mitting the majority report of the coal commission and informing them that -this report was "the basis upon which tho wago schedule agreements between the mine workers and opera tors shall he made." l(y removing government control of prices effective April 1, the president paves tho way for increased ooul : prices to absorb the average 27 per cent increase recommended In the majority roport. Conclude Agreements Tho president wrote tho operators , and miners that it was "essential to tho public welfare that the agree ments ho concluded at the earliest date practicable so that the uncer tainty as to the fuel supply may be ended and that the consumers may be able to make contracts for their coal supply." The president said he assumed that neither party would raise any ques tion and that he was sure that no question could properly be raised as to the binding character of the award by alio majority of the commission notwithstanding the fact that It was not unanimous. No Provision or Iuw Tho president said there was no provision of law for fixing new coal prices for peace time purposes and that "unless and until some grave emergency shall arise, which In my judgment has u relation ito the emer gency purposes of the Lever act, I would not feel justified in fixing coal prices with reference to future condi tions of production." Tho majority report of the com mission said the 2 7 per cent absorbed the 11 per cent Increase allowed when the miners returned to work and that in dollars It would approximate $2iHl,iMiu,noo a year. The executive order withdrawing government control of prices removes virtually all government control ot coal, placing the fuel administration in the Status that It was before its authority was restored when tho min ers struck last (November 1. Railroad Strike Snaln. MADIilD. Mar. 'Jit. (Hv th Asso ciated Press) At a mcetintr of rail road men earlv todav it was unani mously decided to dcchiro tl striko ut in ii In iLrlit touitrht on all the rail roads in Spain. tracks in Ihe streets, not to the street i ar system us n whole. The opinion further recommends that at the spec ial election the people vote on roliov inir the eompanv of vnrious burdens, incluiliuir maintenance of pnvinir. franchise taxes ami enr licenses, a total yearly expenditure of $170,000. Should these reliefs be afforded bv the people's vote, a decrease In tho present six cent fare is prospective, the opinion states. A dissenting opin ion hv one of tho commissioners, recommends n seven cent faro with a ehnrse of one cent additional for transfers, .