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Newspaper Page Textmail Tribune The Weather Maximum yostenlay Ml Minimum today Ill Predictions Fiftieth Year. Dailv Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OK'lXiON, AVKDNKSDAY. MARCH 121. lJVji). XO. 2 WOOD LEADS LIGHT VOTE IN DAKOTA Returns From Over Half of Precincts Show Wood Lcadinq Lowclen by Approximatelv 5000 Johnson Is Close Third Women Vote But Re turns About Same as Pre-Suffraae Totals Bad Roads Cut Rural Vote Count s Slow. SIOCX FALLS, S. I)., Mar. 21 Will about nine tenths ot the citv vote thioiiL'lioiit the state recorded, tubulated results of vestenlnv's pri miirv election on indorsement of a republican candidate for president todav showed these totals from 70S of 1.740 preeincts. Wood, 22,b!l7; Lowden. J!).2S3: Johnson, 17.")00. Senator Miles Poindexter, an inde pendent eandidale for republican in dorsement polled a sniufl vote. Tlie Inraest total reported from anv ooni munitv nunc from Pierre, where he .received 04 votes out of about 1.100 east. In most counties Coindextor's totals as reported, ranged from five to fifteen votes and available figures show his total from about '.i coun ties to be1 less than 700 votes. Ten counties, mostlv in remote sec lions such as the Mad Lauds retrinn. have not vet reported. Those coun ties have 142 voting precincts and manv of them are isolated from rail road and wire communication. Returns Are Slow Returns which came in rather briskly from the cities hist nibt were beinir received slowly this forenoon. In the counties west of tiie Missouri river, mountain time is the standard. Comparison of returns ill counties which reported a complete or almost complete vote showed (hut Cue bnllot inir was lisht, when the fact thai wo.nen voted was taken into con sideration. On the face of available returns Wood is leadiue- in :il counties, John son in 11 and Lowden in II. Wood and Lowden are tied on an incomplete total in one eountv. John son carried Minnehaha eountv (Sioux Kails) and received a major ity of the votes in Lincoln eountv (Canton). Western counties, par ticularly in the Hlack Hills.' rave Wood stronir suport. Lowden carried Davison county (Mitchell). In counties where the vote was overwhelmingly for Wood, Lowden re ceived most of the remiiiniii!." ballots, while in counties which supported Johnson heavily, the Illinois anv ernor was "the second choice. IN TROUBLE AT SAMOA SAN FliANUSCO, Mar. 21 V.w schooner Arm::. ml, bound l'roin Kii rekn, Cal., to Svdnev, has int into the port of Apia, Samoa, in a leaking condition which was ho serious that she had to jettison her deck loinl. nr cnnlinir to a cablegram received here todav bv the marine department of the Chamber of Commerce. LEAGUE NATIONS OFFICIAL TO BE HOOVER S SECRETARY WASHINGTON. Mar. 2.1. Chris tian A. Hcrtcr of New York, n spec ial attache to the state (lepiirtuient in charge of matlers pcrtaininir to the League uf Nnti' lias resiLMiod to become secretin' v lo 'Herbert Hoover. SATIRIST. KILLED BY VILLA IN 1915 SAX FRANCISCO, ititr. 'J I. A signed statement that he has posi tive evidence that Ambrose Bierce. noted satirist who disappeared in J Ml"), was put to death bv H Villista firinir sntiad near the Mexican vil lage of Ieaiuoli, on the trail to Monte rey, was made in the San Francisco 1 1 1 1 1 t in todav bv James II. Wilkins. a special writer, who has iust return ed from Mexico Citv in search for evidence retrnrdine Bieree's fate. Wil kins' informant, he said, was a mem ber of tho band that executed Bierce. i nd showed the writer a picture of Bieree taken from his clothes after tbe execution. ... . . FATHER SHOOTS SON 10 SAVE HIM FROM GOING TO THE DEVIL CHI C A (J O, .M a r. '1 1 . Krank Pinano. 17 yc.ii'H old, lay on a I cot in t lie county hospital today - seriously wounded while his ! father, who shot him "to save his soul" awaited anxiously the i outcome of the boy's stniKgle for life. The father used his revolver last night to keep his wayward sou from crime. i "I am not sorry," the elder Pinauo told the police. "Rather than have him hung or shot I shot him myself. I was always afraid he would turn bandit. My hoy was in bad company." The elder Pinauo last night found his sou on the street in company of a gang and after a few words with him fired three bullets Into his body. He wait- ed over the wounded boy until ! the polite arrived. 5 SOCIALISTS N. Y. Asscmhlv Judiciary Committee for Unseatinq of Members Who Belonu to Socialist Party Report Will Be Made to Assembly Next Monday. ALISANY. X. Y.. .Mar. 24 The assemmv puliciarv comnnuee, wuicn investigated (he churues of disloyally nuainst (In live suspended socialist members of the lower house, will hold an executive session late todav, Chairman Louis M'. Martin an nounced. At (his time, it is expected, the committee will decide the case. It was reported todav that seven of the thirten members of the commit tee favor the expulsion of the five socialists, four will vote to re-seat them, and that one is undecided, but mav cast his ballot for the majority report. The report will be submitted to t lie assembly next Monday niiiht. in the opinion of Chairman Martin! ALBANY. X. Y.. Mar. 21. The five suspended socialist members of the stiite assembly "are ineligible anil disqualified to occupy seals,'' coun sel for the assembly indieiarv eoni--mittee asserted todav in a brief filed with the commit lee, which enndm'ted an investigation into the. (diaries of dislovallv against the men. "It is hv Ihe oruaniznl ion to which thev belong thai Ihese men nlust he .iuilncd," xiivs the brief. "Their in dividual a.-ts ami deelarations in sofar as thev have been proved serve niereiv 10 illumine ami show in con crete the principal purposes and uro gram for whieh the organization .stands ami to eonfirin the seditious purposes of the party to wliieh they belong. "Socialists are trviinr to brinu' about a rhniuro of .jovernnienl hv po litical action, hacked up by a reneral strike, the two heim: employed as the two strung' anus of a ejant to pull down the structure of our uovern ment, which has been built and main tained throiich the inspiration, the toil ami the blood of countless loyal citizens of this republic." ROSKUt-Rf!, pre. Mar. 24. lios sic, Wane and Irwin Rreitenbiitclior. three youiigsleru of the eighth graiM at Ten Mile are believed to have not a record In thrift for the entire Btatn. FAMOUS The Mexican po-ilivelv refused to part with the photograph. Wilkins said. "There is no price it can be bought for.'' he told Wilkins, nccord ins to the statement. "It has served its purpo-e. Now r. must be de stroyed." After Ihe split between Villa and Carranza, Bierce was attac bed to the Larranza torces as a military expert, ncordinir to Wilkins' statement, lie was captured while directing a mule train bearin;.' a shipment of arms out of Toreon. and shot to death with an Indian prisoner, the Wilkins' state ment said. MAJORITY FOR EXPULSION OF TURKS 1ST OUITEUROPE SAYS COLBY New Secretary of State's First Paper Outlines Wilson's Policy in Near East Turk Must Go and Armenia Be Given Her Independence Fear of Mohammedan Uprisinu Not Entertained Open Door in Turkey It Demanded. AVAS11 1 XGTOX, Mar. 2 I .The original position of the American government that the- Turks should be expelled from Kurope is re-stated in a unto to the allied supreme council which has been prepared at the state department and which will ho trans mitted soon. Tho note will bear the signature of tiuinhridgo Colby, the new secretary of stale, and will be tho first diplomatic paper to be sign ed by him. The communication in in reply to an Inquiry from the French and Mritish governments as to this ecun try's views on tho Turkish settle ment. The Culled States Is said to take the view that the contention that ex- pulsiou of the Turks might he resent ed by the .Mohammedans, is not sup ported by the facts, since the war in the Near Kast was won largely by the aid of Mohammedans. Tho dtiled States, it is understood desires that Armenia be set up as an independent state and that it cm brace as much territory as the Ar menlan government can control. It also takes the position that any ar rangement that is made with regard to Turkey should guarantee to all nations equal opportunities for com merce and that no belligerent should be given paramount claims in any part of the Near Knst. The position cvf tho Cnited States it is said, Is tiiat in any arrangement for the government of Constantinople and the Turkish states a place for the participation of Russia should be made as tho American government is convinced that no plan of settlement can be successful in the long run which does not take into account the interests of Hussia in the matter. MOSCOW, liar. 2-1. - Tin? ninth annual convention of the all-liussnin communist, party, which will open here March 'J7 will be of vital impor tance to the future ot soviet Iiussi; as it will be e.ivcu Ihe task of out lniiiiLT the internal economic policy o the country during the coiuine: year. Three principal matters will be be lore the convention, these lieniir in dustrial rehabilitation, the iiL'rieiiltu ral policy and the development and status of the co-operative societies Two distinct parties have been form ed, one favorinir the centralization o power, and the other opposing that policy. The former proposes handling Ihe industrial ouestion tliroii'jh tin mobilization of workinir forces. It also favors extensive development oj agricultural communism and complete uowinmciilal control of co-operative societ ies. Jh( decent rabsts favor urealer latitude for local trade unions, sum land L'rants and no iml)lediate de velopment of agricultural commune STAR WITNESS STATE L, FREE CKNTUAI.IA. Wash.. Mar. 24. Tom Morenn, arretted in the I. W. W hall following the Ccntralia Armis ticc day massacre, has been release from custody, it lieinir maintained that there is instif t ieient evidence to convict him. Ilurin-j the recent trial at Monteano Morgan was u star witness for the slate. Dean Martin Dies. IiKNVKR. Mjir. 'J4 Dean Martin II. Hart of St. John's Cathedral in lliis citv for forty years, died at his home this morniiiL' of pneumonia Dean Hart was born in Km-land 82 years uo, 3 U.S. T MARTIAL FOR LOSS SUPPLIES 4 KL PASO, 'IYa. Mar. 21. ' Three- officers uf of the S'Jnd ' field artillery M aliened here have been recommended for court martial in connection with the loss of mnnv thousands of dollars worth of .mimiiiiitiiu juitl L'overnment supplies from i'ort Bliss, it became known todav. The officers, it was said, were not personally connected with the losses other than the ammu nition and supplies were lost while under their care. Ammunition, mm?- mid equip ment in Lrreat it'iautities have been stolen from border a run posls during the past year, il was said, which have been sm lulled into Mexico. The stolen munitions were sold to .hot h Mexican government of ficials and rebel leaders in Mex ico particularly Villa, aerotd itiir to reports made to A tueii cau authorities. IEHMI0N AIDS II WASHINGTON, Mar. n I. Failure of the Roverniiient lo aid former ser vice, men has resulted In tho 1. W. "W making a drive to geL such men into that organization, t lie house ways and means committee was told today by .1. K. Moldon, statu adjutant of the American Legion in I'lah. Organized propaganda by tho I W. W. tc discredit government aid and undermine tho American Legion is spreading thruouf the country, he said, and many unintelligent former service men aiv hoing gathered into the organization as the result of the propaganda staling that ttie govern ment has done nothing for former soldiers. "It is hard to come back," Holden said, "and see the I. "W, W. under mining the principles and ideals of fcrmer service men and plotting the overthrow of the government." .1. G. Strughani, a member of the legion's executive committee, told the committee there was much dis content among both former service men and women anil that immediate relief was necessary. They feel they haven't gotten a square deal and are chafing with un rest," Strughani said, urging passage of a composite hill framed by tho le gion and providing privileged land settlements as suggested in the Laue- .tontlcll hill; homo building aid; vo- i-ational training and payment of ad justed compensation at tho rate of $l.r0 lor every day of service. Uoprosentatho fiarner, democrat, Texas, wauled to know how the funds lo carry out the legion's plans were to bo raised. Tho wilness said he would leave that to the committee, but he estim ated the total cost at approximately $2,1UU,OUO,00. L TEACHER TANGLE Tho committee having in charKe the mailer of the resolution passed at a public nientiiiK and addressed to tho board of directors ot the public school, report a meeting with the board held last evening diirinK which tho en lire matter of endeavor to tiring about a peaceful adjustment of existing difficulties was disdissod. The hoard wished for lime to fur ther consider and formulate their an swer which will be given at an early date. The committee feels warranted in saying that tho outlook for mutual approach is at a most favorable stage and ask the indulgence or the public while it continues negotiations. In the meantime It has tho confidence (hat no teacher will suffer an injus tice at the hands of the hoard pend ing the consideration and answer of the resolution. PORTLAND. Ore., Mar. 24. The Cortland city council todav declined to consider a resolution offered bv Mayor Raker eallintr for expressions of tbe various civic clubs on a pro posal to enact a daviiulit saviutr ordi nance tor I'ortlitntl. . DELAY IN B11IS A A CHAOS EL Captain Harry Laninti. Assistant Chief Bureau of Navigation Cor roborates Sims Before Senate Com mitteeChaos Reiuned When U. S. Entered War Secretary So In terested in Petty Details Couldn't Pay Heed to Definite Plans. WASHINGTON. Mar. -J I.-Virtual chaos existed ill the navy department at Ihe time Ihe l llited States entered Ihe war. Captain Harris Lanim:. as--islant chief of the bureau of navi gation iluriinr the war testified today before Ihe senate invcsliiaatiui; com mittee. Captain Lamini said no one knew what to do after a plan of ac tion submitted by Hie bureau of oper ations had been disapproved and lliat Ihe "personal characteristics of the secrlcarv of the nayv often mude it impossible to -jet approval of really important policies.'' "Whenever a plan or policy was presented lo Ihe secretary he almost invariably delayed action on il," Cap tain LaniliL' declared. "The personal interest he look in all matters con nected witli the department absorbed so much of his lime that he never had much left to aive to the more iin- l-orlant affairs." Amazed lit Itesillts When important policies and plan: were submitted to Secretary Daniels Captain Laninir said directions would he mven to leave the papers tor con sideralioii." ami usually these in structions meant the mutter would uol be hcitnl from auaiii until the office interested looked the papers1 up anil then frenuentlv Ihe paper-s could not be found. "Conditions finally became so bad." the witness said. "Hint officers used every means possible lo put their plans and policies tbroiiuh without obtaining the reiniiied authority. "1 was. and slill am amazed that the navy was able lo accomplish th;: remarkable work it did, but it is cer tain that what it did l nplish could have been done much more ouieklv and efficiently it we could have had ,i plan from Ihe start." Captain l.animr said many offieers found Ibis condition lo be true uud be offered to furnish the coiiilulltee the names of oilier officers, who, he said, would corroborate his testi mony in this respect. IE DROPS DEAD IN WASHINGTON. .Mar. 21. Repre sentative W. .1. Hrowiiin'' of Camden, X. .1., dropped dead todav in a barber shop at the capitol. XIV. l,.rowiiill'r was about to step out of the barber's chair when In: was stricken witli an attack of heart disease, lie died before physicians could reach the shop. Born in Camden. N. J., seventy years n'jo, Mr. Itrowninv; had reprc scaled Ihe first New Jersey district in coiiL'ress since Hill, haviii'j- been elccled while serving as chief clerk of the house of represent at ives. He was the ranking' republican member of Hi iiavul commiltee and handled the naval bill ill the house where it pa.-sscii late yesterday.- WILSON TAKES FIRS! TRIP OUT OF CITY WASHINGTON. Mar. 21. Cresi- dent Wil-oii today made his 'irst trip outsi.'c of Washington since he was Inki n ill last fall. Accompanied b Mrs. Wilson ami Rear Admiral On". sou. his i iivsician. he drove into Vit t."ltlla a- ar as Alexandria. .No slop were made and tiie president w:iv awav lion; I Ik- White House less Hum two hours. Davton Gains 31.1 Per Cent. WASHINGTON. Mar. 2l.--Copu-lation statistics for CI2M announced todav bv the census bureau included : Uavton, Ohio. loli.S.'HI. an increase of H7,25J or Jl.l per cent over 1910, T RESOLUTION OF PEACE OVER PRESIDENT VETO WASHINGTON. Mar. '21. Congress has no collstituliolial authority to pass over ihe presi- deal's veto a ioint rcsolulion de- v clarinir a stale of pc; between ' Ihe l llited Slates and Gernianv, '' Senator Tholiuis. deniociat, Col- orado. declared todav in the senate. The senator said he had heard reports that leaders in coneress '' planned to adopt such a resolu tion, and in tlie event of its tlis approval to pass it over the '' president's veto. A resolution so adopted, be v said, would be ineffective he- cause under tlie constitution, the presidclil is empowered to wane war and therefore must hae a v part in terniinatim: it. v s E DAY OF DRIVE No Stoppinq Shock Troops in Of' tensive to Gain Permanent Pros pcritv in Medfnrd and Rotiuc River Valley Talk on "Dry Bones" Is Given. llelow is tho standing of thu teams to date: MKMm.KSIIII' Women's Division ADVANC MARKS SECOND Tiles. Wed. Total Satchwell 7 1(1 17 Major Doinergiie's Division Fnrrn.ll 17 II 211 JUKoany I 2:1 27 Itoliorls 1 I 1 Ui Vaiico II 2 1 :! Walker Ill 11 2 2 Totals 59 1 4 1 10S Major lien Slielilou's Division llrown tli :i 1!) Mcars 27 HI :S7 Goodrich IS J 1 2!l Loiicks 21 I 25 Mooro 13 11 2 1 Totals 95 tl9 1 :t -I Tiles. Wed. Total Grand totals.... 1(11 90 2,11 Following are the amounts of llud- get obtained by the various teams: IH'IKil'iT Women's Division Tiles. Wed. Total Sutchwoll ? 25 $ 2S $ 51! Major Domei-gue's Division Farrell $ 4 15 25 $ 4 10 .McKeany 711 1 55 225 Roberts ... 755 755 Vaneo 2 25 22 5 Walker 2511 250 Totals $1715 - USD MS'J5 Major lien Sheldon's Division llrown S ixii mo $ 2 si; Mears 250 175 425 (ioodrhh 2S5 :!0il 5X5 Lencks ::; i 75 4:tr. Moore lull 25 425 Totals $1171 $ 775 $22 It! Tiles. Wed. Total Grand totals. ...$:!2 1 1 SS:i $4094 Wo don't know of any existing government medals that are awarded tor gallantry in action In Chamber of Commerce drives. If there he any, (Continued on Pago Klght) OCKKNSTOWN. Mlar. 21. Sixty five Sinn Fein prisoners, under heavv military escort were brouirlit bv motor lorrv from the Cork iail to this citv this iunrnim.r. where thev were put aboard a British sloop which depart ed, presumably for FiiL'land. The sloop was accompanied bv two de stroyers. The prisoners sincr repub lican Sonus and returned the fare wells of the walchiiiL' crowds us the vessels left the harbor. CORK. Ireland. Mar. 2:1. More troops and roval Irish constabulary have been sent here, and empty houses at strateuie points havo been occupied by the military uud, police ALLIES WILL ALLOW HUNS USE ARMY Permission Granted to Germany to Enter Ruhr Valley in Occupied Zone With Government Forces Coal StiDiilv in France Depends on Order in District Chaos Continues to Rcitjn Throughout Germany Many Killed. DAIi'lS, Mar. 21. Two German of ficers, who arrived here last niirlit from Berlin lo explain to the allien the necessity for permittine tho Ger man niniv to cnler the occupied zone to restore order saw l'reniier M'jller- . a . 1 ' .1 T.'l 1 ami toilav anil loin iiim ine cocri. covcrumcut bud maple forces ready to deal with Hie situation in the Ruhr valley. It is understood on L'ood author ity the allies have decided to civu the permission. Tlie French uovcrnnicnt woubl I'.ave preferred inler-allied action in the occupied zone, while the British and Italians favored srrnnliin: per mission for operations bv the Ger man urinv. The French srnve ivuv on (bis point in view of the dependence of Franco on supplies of coal from the Ruhr district. French coal production has de creased from the old fisruro of 4(1, llllll.lllll) tons lo an averau'c of about IS.IIiMl.tlllO tons yearly. Bv the terms of the treaty of Versailles Germany is bound lo (rover the deficiency, un to a total of 20.(1110.(100 tons a Year. On the restoration of order in tho Ruhr vallev, therefore, depends laru'elv the continuation of Frontal industries. WKSUL, Germany, Mar. 24. (Via Heme). Six thiiisand government troops, reinforced by armed country men, had a skirmish with communist guards numbering about 15,000 nenr hero last night. Iteports stuto 62 were killed and upwards ot 10U wounded. HIU'DKItlOII. 'Rhenish Prussia, (Across tho Rhine from Wcsol), Mar. 24. (S:80 a. m.) ('By Associated Press). Tho government troops from, the southern part of the Ruhr district all of whom havo been besieged In Wesel sinco Monday night, wore still hcldlng the town safely Into last night. Tho government forces are keeping open the northern sido of the town to admit reinforcements, or to provldo tor a possiblo forced rotreat. Heavy firing was hoard from tho direction of Wesel during tho night. All thu Indications are that tho Kbert troops are safo hut very nearly sur rounded by lines ot workmen whose guerilla warfaro has driven tlio. gov ernment troops steadily out of tho Industrial district in five days time. In a combined relreut and concentra tion movement, to tho strong fortress at Wesel on the Rhine. Itelglans Aid (ioveriiinent About 100 interned prisoners who fled across tho bridge from Wesel last night, uro hold horo by tho Bel gians. A dozen German woundod. also woro brought ovor during tho night and treated at tho hospital hore. A small detachment of Hclglan troops, with artillery, arrived horo last night and promptly took up a po. sltloirnear tho brldgo. Tho Belgians stopped all traffic in tho direction of Wesel and interned all who came from that city. The eastern end of tho brldgo runs into tlio city cf Wosol and provides an (Continued on Pago Eight) REPUBLIC AS SAIL TO TOWER forces. The Sinn Fein organization is nininlninim: secret watches . and iruarils lo protect its leaders, some of whom are reported to have ro ceived thiin ten in.' letters similar to one delivered to Thomas MaeCurtuin. lord mayor of this eitv, beforo ha was murdered last week. Last niiibt troops supported bv constabulary wero stationed nt va rious points in the citv with armored cars and machine trims. This protec tion was maintained while the streets were tbromred, but Inter when tho crowds dwindled, the extra tniards were w ithdrawn. Soldiers and poliea olficers. however, remained in their barracks all niirht ready for any eincrj;cncy, , - lit