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mail Tribune The Weather Maximum ycsti'iiliiy I." liiiinium today :(. Precipitation Predictions Probable Tin In. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, TIll'HSDAY, APRIL 1, 1920. NO. 9 BSffld EX-SECY 10 ON CARPET Grand Jury Indicts 4 Men With Con spiracy to Defraud U. S. A. in Su preme Court Leak Which Netted $1,412.50 A. F. Emhry, Former Secretary to Justice McKenna. J. H. Graves Ex-assistant Atty. Dent, of Justice. Two of Four Implicated. 'WASHINGTON, April 1. Indict ments against lour persons wore re turned today by the District ot Co lumbia supreme court grand jury in vestigating au alleged leak in the United States supremo court's decis ion last iNoyember in the Southern Pacific oil lands case. Those indicted are Ashton. F. Km hry, former secretary ot . Associate Justice aicICenna of the supreme Coibrt; James Harwood Graves, for melr assistant attorney in the depart ment of justice; Darnett 13. Jlooses, Washington, lawyer, and F. Millard Malyer, Jr., New York, stock broker. .The indictments charge the four meii with conspiracy tc defraud the United States ot its right of secrecy surrounding the operations ot the su preme court prior to public announce ment of the court's decision. Embry is' charged In tho grand Jury report with furnishing a "tip" on the court's decision whereby the other- defen dants were able to sell "short" 500 shares cf Southern Pacific stock at a profit of $1,412.50. DEL MONTE, Cul., April 1 Golf "horctics" have iust concluded their annual "blethcrin' " contest here. The "blethcrin' " is primarily a cure for nerves. The conditions of the competition are that .the plavcrs and spectators can dance, veil, sing nnd do anything except actually touch the plavcr'or his ball. It was first tried at Del Monte lust season. In some sections the introduction of noise and rooting on the golf links lias been criticised as a bolshevik movement to assault the honored tra ditions of the rovnl and ancient pas time. Flavors and spectators, how ever, are in favor of the event as a noveltv feature once a venr nnd it was accordingly tried on March 20 mid 21 with much success. Through all thu noise some verv creditable erolf was displayed. C. A. Stoneliill'a visiting player from tiler. coe, III., turned up the winner. George C'urpenter of Mcdford, Oregon, was the last to tro out and ho made tho creditable score of 41 for Hie first nine. M. A. McLnughlin. Colorado state champion, lasted until the next to the last hole. SALEM, Ore.. April 1. After siv weeks illness with "sleeping sickness" J. S. Ilettick, 52, was reported today by physicians in charge of the slat? hospital, where Ilettick is isolated, as showing definite signs of improve ment. This is the first cac nf "sleeping sickness" in Salem. George carpenter shows good form mm golf JAPAN AGREES 10 RETURN KIAO CHAU BAY 10 CHINA AS AN OPEN PORT TOKIO, liar. 2. lTnofficial ex , (flanges between the IChinese and Japanese In Peking in regard to Shantung show a gradual entente, according to advices. They seem to agree on the following conditions: 1 Kiao Chau Day shall be return ed (o China and made an open port. 2 Railways shall be a joint enter prise between Chinese nnd Japanese, both contributing the same amount pi capital, the shares lor tho Chinese 3 1). S. BATTLESHIPS TO RACE FROM GOLDEN GATE TO SAN DIEGO SAN D1KCO, Cal.. April 1. Keen interest Is manifest among navy men here in tho outcime ! of a full power speed run which tho superdreadnaughts New ! ! -Mexico. Idaho and Mississippi .;. will make between San Francis- ! co and San Diego next .Monday. Tlio three ships will line up off tho Karallone islands and at a signal from the flagship New Mexico will race at top speed to a point off l.a .lolla, a few miles ! north of this port. : Tito supcrdreaduatiglils are : I coming hero tu act as au escort ! to tho British battle cruiser Ite- nown, carrying thu Prince of i "Wales, who is expected to arrive next Wednesday morning. EMJt MID EIES8 OFF WASHINGTON, April 3. Tho re publican leaders' resolution declaring the state of war between tho United States and llerniuny at an end was re ported today by the house foreign affairs committee' by a strict party vote, 12 to II. Illy agreement, with democratic loaders it will not be brought up in the house until next Monday. Republican leaders said the more important war time acts and powers which would be repealed autoniotic ally with passage of the resolution in cluded: War time prohibition; Level food and fuel control law with provis ions against profiteering; espionage act; selective service law; authoriza tion for loans of ten billion dollars to allies; complete control over all ship pings; authorization for president to use armed forces to prevent interfer ence with inter-state or foreign com merce; licensing the use of explo sives; authorization of a system or priority shipments; authorization cf an employment service in labor de partments; control over patents; war housing act; a moratorium protecting civil rights of men while in the ser vice, and authorization of an embar go on imports in the discretion of the president. The trading with the enemy act would be continued until Germany agrees to provisions of the resolution. The emergency shipping act, tho Overman act giving the president power to distribute executive powers as he desires, and the act creating the war finance corporation and the cap ital Issues committee expire six months after a declaration of peace. TAC'OMA. April 1. Seven nllcgo.i I. W. W. .were found euiltv by a iurv at South Bend today, according to word from that citv. The men wen! charged with violation of the stale syndicalism law. The inrv was out nine hours before arriving at n ver dict. All seven of tlte convicted men arc aliens, six of them being natives of Finland and the oilier a 1'ussitm. The men were arrested in Pucii'u countv last fall and red cc-' and I. W. W. literature found in their pos session at the time was introduced in evidence against them. to be paid by the Japanese for the j time being and become property of Shantung province. 3 Mining rights shall be disposed i of in a similar manner. Japan shall jbe given ttio precedence for develop ment and transportation of coal and iron mines, cotton, salt and food stuffs. Indirect negotiations are reported !to have been completed and direct ne jgotiations will be opened before long- SOCIALISTS OUSTED By LARGE VOTE 5 Socialist Assemhlymen Expelled from N. Y. Legislature by Vote of 1 16 to 28 Wild Scene Marks Ejec tion Debate Extends Over 22 Hours No Snecial Election to Fill Seats Unless Extraordinary Ses sion of the Legislature is Called. AI.ISANY, 1X1. Y., April 1. Five so cialists,' Louis Wuldinnii, August Claessons, Charles Solomon, Samuel A. IJewitt and Samuel Orr, all of New York City, tho entire delegation of their party in the New York assembly were expelled from the legislature today. - The majorities in favor of unseat ing the men, suspended oni tho open ing day of the legislative session on charges of disloyalty were substan tial. Voting came after twenty-two hours of oratory, parliamentary wrangle and filibustering. Owing to the fact that the men were expelled after midnight March SI, there can be no special olectlons to fill thoir seats in the assembly un less nn extraordinary session ot the legislature is to be convened. Voting began at 0:3S a. m. today Louis Waldman, the first yoted on was expelled, 116 to 2S, August Claessena, who' was socialist floor leader, was ousted 110 to 2S. Tho vole on Charles Solomon, who last week was arrested In Philadelphia for alleged disorderly conduct at a mass meeting ' called to protest against the ouster proceedings here was 116 to 28. The vote in Samuel A. Dewltt's case was 104 to 40. Samuel Orr also was expelled. 20 Hour Debate The debate lasted over twenty hours and more than forty members participated. The chamber was crowd ed with spectators from the time the assembly convened at 10:30 a. m. yesterday until long 'after midnight. M'any of tho visitors remained thru out the night and heard tho assembly record its verdict. Luncheon und supper wero eaten at the desks. Waldman and Solomon remained at tho capltol thruout tho delibera tions. Both appeared to be highly amused at the proceedings and smiled frequently. The other three men under fire were not present. Tho first chapter of tho story in tho expulsion of tho socialists was written January 7 last, the day on which the legislature convened (or its regular 1!)20 session. Immediately after Speaker Sweet had -been re elected he ordered the five socialist assemblymen before the bar of the house, and told them that a resolu tion to suspend them from participa tion in tho business of the assembly pending an investigation of their loy alty was to bo introduced and that thoy would bo allowed their "duy in court." The resolution waa offered by Ma jority Leader Adler. Hearing Started .Tan. "O Hearings wero begun January 20, after the judiciary committee had been appointed and had organized, with Louis M. Martin, republican of Oneida, as chairman. A notable ar ray of attorneys headed by Attorney General Charles 1). Newton appeared for the state, while Morris lilllqulst. Seymour Stedman. Gilbert K. Hoe, S. John Block, William Karlin and Wal ter Nellcs appeared for the suspended assemblymen. Twenty-four days were consumed in the hearings. Hy its action the as semblv established a precedent alto gether unique in the legislative his tory of the I nited Slates, as never before has an entire party delegation been ejected from any legislative body. When the assembly adjourned It had been In continuous session 23 hours and 40 minuted. AU!AXY. X. V.. April l.A pro test niriiinst the expulsion of the five socialist nsrie-inlilvincn was voiced lv Lieut. TnlonH Theodore Kooseveit Into lut nit:lit in hit nuiiricn speech ns u ninnhpr of the New York nssemh'v. Hi nnjnment was made in the course ot the debate on t lie? one-lion of nn--piitinir the socialist members. Colonel K'nn-ev It conceded that the nssern- (Continued pa Page Eight) FIGHT A BULL THEN TAKE ON WHITE IN MKXICAU. Lower ('nhi'ornm. April 1. Fred Ihito, brother-in-law ot" Governor Kstahan Canto, asserted todav that Jnek Johnson, former world's heavy weight ehampioii, now here, bad signed with a syndicate repre sented by I Into In put in a finish I'iuht here within ninety dnvs. Pato said he Would try imme diately to complete the match by securintr cither Fred Fulton or Carl Morris, who is in Ari zona. In tho meantime Johnson has arranged to irive, au ONhihition bull fiuht i" the local arena next Sunday. . 4 4 IS DECLARED OFF CHICAGO, April 1 The strike which has tied up the Chicago stock yards for four days and threatened to close all paekiuir plants here was settled todav, the men atneeim: to return to work and arbitrate I heir wniro differences. Work will be renamed ut the vard? tomorrow. It Euro than 7.000 packing house em ployes wero thrown out of work when feeders and stock handlers at tho yards unit. CHICAGO. April 1. More packing house employes were forced out of work here today as federal mediators tried to reach some agreement with 900 striking stock handlers ot the stock yards company. No more cat tle are being received and the pack ing plants are working on stock slaughtered before the strike. Fresh meat prices are rising sharp ly. Pork loins at 38 cents a pound wholesale are up five cents. Lard and other provisions are advancing. Chicago wholesale and retail butch ers aro ordering beef and pork from St. Paul nnd Cincinnati puckers an unprecedented occurrence. Other packing centers are prepared to take up the work ut providing the country with meat and all livestock shipments aro headed for these cen ters, diverted from Chicago. There were no receipts and no quotations on livestock here today. T The Toinlin I!ox company is build ing n 7-foot band mill in connection with its box factory which will have a capacity of 'J0.000 feet everv 8 hour shift. This band mill will be de voted to the cuttinir nf lumber and will be readv for operation bv June 1. Mr. Toinlin will buv loirs in the open market and with ii'lmmh xitpplv assured, will be in n position lo Mip ply the erowimr market for boxes in Southern Oregon. The enlarged piaut will have a capacity of 5.0110 fruit boxes per dav, and a force of from .'t. to -10 men will be employed throughout tho season. The Tomlin box company, while one of the latest industries in Mcdford is one of the most substantial and progressive. Mr. Tomlin is an enthusiastic Afcd ford booster and predicts u year of rent development nnd prosperity for pentv lor i-er valley. Mcdford end the Hoirue liiver POKTLAXD. Ore.. April 1. The trial of Joseph Lundv. alleged L Y. W., charged with violation of Cie state criminal syndicalism net. reach ed the argument Htncre todav, the prosecution failing to secure tin court's permission to introduce into the record the manifesto of the Third trial of Joseph Lnundy, alleged I. V Internationale of Moscow. Arguments were expected to occupy the enti dav and the court's instructions to be tiven tomorrow. JAP-RUSSIA WAR LOOMS IN SIBERIA Tokio Rciiorts 700 Jaunnese Soldiers and Civilians Killed in 2 Days Bat tle With Boisheviki Jau Consulate Burned and Consul Is Missino Tokio Reverses Policy of With drawal Trooiis to Remain in Si beria. HONOLULU, T. II., April 1. ( Uy Associated Press.) Seven hundred Japanese troops nnd civilians were killed In a two day battle with ltus- sian bolshevik forees at Nikolaevsk, Siberiu. according to u Tokio cable dispatch eceived hy the Japanese newspaper Nippu Jiji here. The Japanese residents organized a volunteer force to aid tho .lapneso soldiers fight a heavy force of bol shevik!. The Japanese consulate was burn ed, and the consul, M. Ishldu, is still missing, nccording to tho cabio. The two day battle began March 18. Nlkolaevsk is at tho mouth of the Amur river. Japs to Keiiiuln VLADIVOSTOK, liar. 22. Rus sian and Japanese troops clashed at .Nlkolaevsk, a city located at tho mouth of the Amur river, march 13, the Russians reporting their losses as being forty killed and eighty wounded. Belief is expressed horo that this encounter mny spread a guerilla warfare thru all eastern Si beria if the Japanese do not evacuate the country. Announcements by tho Japanese command here would seem to indicnte a change In tho policy followed by that country. In tho past tho Jap anese have been assisting Czech forces here but in future thoy will devote thoir efforts to safeguarding Jnpun's special position in Manchuria and Mongolia. Evacuation of Siberia by tho Japanese will not bo started, it is understood, until tho soviet government at Moscow reaches some form of agreement with Japan. Tho local provisional govornmont has handed pretests to tho Japanoso com mand regarding intervention in east ern Siberia and tho latter has con centrated Its forces along tho Uasurl and Chinese Kastern railways. The railway to Chita, where the remnant of Admiral Kolchak's forces was trapped by revolutionists, Is open and Czech troops In that vicinity are thus enabled to got out of Siberia. When this is accomplished, all anti revolutionary forces will be eliminat ed as p(.siblo operations by General Hemenoff and l.leutenunt General llorvath occasion no apprehension. , .lap I'ollry ('banged HOXOLlil.U, T. II., Auril 1. f l!v the Associated Press) fleiiernl Haron Y. Cclinra. chief of the mili tary ireneriil stuff, announced toduY' Hint "Japanese forces would be re tained in Siberia for protection of the life nail nroncrtv of Jnwmese sub jects, as well ns lor Hie reason of niilionnl defense, nccordim: to a cubic from Tokio lo the Jmmiicse news paper lioclii here. This annoiinceuieut is taken lo moan a change in the withdrawal pol icy outlined liv Premier llnrn, the cable sniilu According lo Siberian reports re ceived bv lioclii. there is a stronir aiiii-,)iiiiiiiese foolinc Hiimii'.' tlic Kussiuns. VLAWVOKTOCK, Mar. 22. (l!v the Associated Press) All Siberia will be put under Iho soviet form of ifovernmeiit April 1 when the com munist partv opens its convention nf N'ikolsk, near here. Two thirds of the districts in the eastern part of tho couutrv have alreudv adopted the soviet svslcm. Few clinni.res in tronernl conditions have developed since ihe revolution ary movement look control here, nntl authorities have adopted tho policy of wnilinsr until bolshevik officials nr rive from Moscow. Bahv Killed bv Fall. SANTA ANA. Cal., April 1. The Ihree months old son of M. and Mr. Mark H. I.acv wns almost instantly killed here yesterday when he sl'opcd from the hands of his mollier. ns she lifted him from the bathtub and fell head first to tue floor WILSON IS if AVfRSE im, ENTERS PRIMARY 4 WASl 1 1 NCTO.V, Anril 1 . President Wilson took no steps to prevent his name appearing on the presidential primary hal Iwt in licorfctu. it was said today at the While House. The president had until one o'clock, Washington time, today to act. It was understood that he did not reply to tho telegram from Secretary ("lardner of tho Georgia democratic state com mittee askiiiK whether he wish ed his name to appear on the ballot. A petition signed hy tho re quisite number cf Georgia dem ocrats asking that tho presi dent's mime he on the ballot in tho Georgia primary April 20 wna filed with the: state commit tee last .Monday. IRL ARE PICKED UP AT SEA BAi.TlMOliK, Md., Anril 1. Aftor havimr been adrift in a seaplane for sixteen hours without food or water, iM'a.ior Sidney K. Parker of the Ilrit ish nrinv, and Miss Blanche Krnser arrived here loilav o nlhe steamship Hilton, hv which thev were picked up Sunday last. Captain Carey said lie found Ma ior Parker and Miss Frnser in their plane about fifteen miles southeast of Jupiter, on Ihe Florida coast. Maior Parker refused to talk of his trip or experience, but Miss Frn ser said llicv1 left Palm Hench on Saturday for Himini island, i nthe Ifn liamas, in the seaplane to take dinner with members of the Wniini Gun club on the island, which is fifty miles dis tant. All was .truinir well until they ran inlo n lienvv fou'. The machine ran out of iriisolino nnd Maior l'arker wns forced lo descend. Miss Frnser said she is a native of Helirium and had seen service durinu tho world war. SPECIAL BALLOT ELECTION MAY 21 SAI,F..r, Ore.. April 1. Measures to bo submitted to the voters of Ore gon nt the special election lo he held on May 21 arc to he printed on a bal lot of llieir own and not the retmlar primurv nomiuntim; ballot, accord inir lo a lcirnl opinion iiivon bv At torney General Broivn. This is necessary, accordine; to the attorney ireneriil, for the reason that only the republican and democratic parties are represented at tho pri maries and persons of other political affiliation would be deprived of their rijiht to vole on 1 lie measures. The opinion was iriven followinc receipt of iniiuiries from many dis trict attorneys of the state. Frisco to Advertise. SAM FIlANTISrO, April l.A I'linipniL'n lo raise $25II,0U() n year for ndvcrlisiiiL' San Francisco lias been started bv the Central Bureau of Sail Friiiiciscnonriinizations, F IE WASHINGTON', April 1. Amer ican troops on the Hlilne are subject only to tho ordom ot the presldunt of tho Unltod States as commander in chief of the army, President Wilson wrote congress today in response to a resolution of Inquiry adopted by the house. The American troops and the terri tory they control still are governed by the terms of the armistice, tho president said. He disclosed that the American govornmont had disapprov SOFFRAGE IS BEATEN IN DELAWARE Ratification Defeated in Lower House by 23 to 9 Vote Great Demon stration Follows Victory of Antis Leaders Are Showered With Red Roses Suffragettes Weep. But Will Try Aqain in the Senate in Hope of Rcvisal. llOVF.li. Del., April 1. Ratifica tion of the coital suffrmrc amend ment wns defeated in the lower house of tho legislature todav. The vote was 2.'! to ). Members who voled for the amend ment siihsetpieiillv chnnircd for tha purpose of later moving to recon sider. The vote ns finally announced wns 2(i to 5. The defeat of the ratification reso lutions dashes to enrth tho hone of the suffrusro leaders that Delaware would become tho thirty-sixth state to ratify suffrage. Tho legislature, cnllcd in extraor dinary session hv Governor Towns end to consider the amendment, mot March 22. Gratification over tho defeat of the ratification was expressoil by Jibs.' Ilenrv B. Thompson, president of the Delaware Association Osed , to Woman' Suffrage. ' She said: , . "Wo have nssttrnnco from Con necticut nnd Vermont tlint no spec ial session will bo called. We also havo assurances Ohio, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Maine will, bv rieht o referendum, determine tho will of the people ns to whether women shall voto." Party Uncs Disregarded Eight republicans nnd one demo crat supported tho resolution and thirteen republicans and ten demo crats voted against it. Tho house later defeated a motion to reconsider, thus killing the mens ure for this session. Tho senate has not vet acted on tho resolution. A wild demonstration by tho "antis" followed tho voto. Women leaders were lifted onto tho uress table in tho chamber and speakers wero showered with red roses. The suf fragists, with nearlv, ovorv woman wiping tear stained cheeks, slowly emerged from tho state house. Outside, thoy could still hear the tumultuous shouts of the victors as legislators who volod nqainst recog nition and the overjoyed anti-suffragists staged a whooping war dance nround the hull. Mrs. Florence Hillos president of the state suffrage or gnni.ntion. said: "We have a nmiorilv in the senate We will trv to shove the measure through that bodv nnd then strive to hnvc tho houso act favorably on the joint ratification rosolution. We aro discouraged, but wo are bv do means licked." SWIFT CO. ROBBED OF $45,840 CASH KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 1 Two nrmed men In a motor car held up the mossenger ot Swift and company, packers, on the Twenty-Third street viaduct here this morning and escap ed with a handbag containing $45, 840. ed plans to have the troops and the territory placed under tho Orders of the Rhlneland high commission. Field Marshal Ferdinand Foch has no authority over the American troops, the president said. Major Genera! Allen, commanding the forces "has full authority," Mr. Wilson added, "to utilize his troops for the police of tho occupied district, the preservation of ordor and to repet any attack which may be made upon him." t ' ) i
