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MEDFORD, OTiJSGOX, FIIIDAV, APRIL 2, 1020.
NO. 10
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Two More Americans Murdered by
Mexican Bandits in Tampico Dis
trict U. S. Military Attache in
Mexico City and Family Attacked
But Escape In Rifle Fight on
Border Three Mexican Smunulcrs
Killed by U. S. Officers.
WASHINGTON, April 2. Two
lnoro Americans have been killed by
Mexicans in (In) Templco oil fields,
dispatches to tho stale department
today said.
WASHINGTON. April 2. Lieuten
nnt Colonel Robert L. Campbell. Unit
ed States military attache at the em
bassy in Mexico City, his wife and
an American woman doctor mimed
Paine, were attacked lv rebels a few
miles from Mexico Citv, but escapee!
through "(niielc work and quickness
of action" the state department was
advised today.
The attack took place at Tres Ma
rias, a small station on the railway
from Mexico Citv to Cuernnvuen, to
which place the attache was going
for an outing. The rebels with dvnu
mito wracked the train and destroyed
the track for some distance.
Colonel Campbell and members of
his party escaped without injury, the
advices staled. The women of the
party hid in the woods nc the sta
tion until the rebels left. The fate
of the members of the crew nnd other
passengers on the train ' was not
stated.
Details of the attack arc being for
warded bv mail from the embassy at
Mexico Ctiv.
LAREDO, Texas. April 2. In a
riflo fiith t lute yesterday between four
American customs inspectors and
seven alleged Mexican smugglers -1(1
miles southeast of Laredo, threo of
the smugglers were shot and killed
and the others escaped, presumably
crossing the l?io Grande into Mexico.
None of the Americans were injured.
vi AoiuiNijiu.N, April 1. Hy a
decisive vote, the house ways nnd
means committee today decided to
recommend passage of soldier relief
legislation wim probable provision
for a cash bonus. Details of the plan
will bo referred to sub-eoiuniittees.
The eominitteo program declares
against any bond issue, saving the
funds to carry out the relief plans
should be rinsed bv sales or luxury
tuxes.
TWO MGR
ARE KILLED
IN I
OIL CITY, Pa., April 2. Accord
ing to the monthly review of activity
in tho oil fields of the country, made
public hero today by Tho Derrick,
now production during March
amounted to 283,574 barrels, a loss
of 35,994 from the February record.
Wells completed numbered 2394 or
237 more than In the previous month.
. There were 432 dry holes and 13S
gas producers, the review said.
!New work at tho close of March
showed 2933 rigs and 7341 wells
drilling.
DISTRIBUTE $152,522 IN PROFITS
TACOMA. April 2 Members of the
ruuyllup and Sumner Fruit Growers
association. representing several
thousand fruit and berrv growers of
the Puvnllup vnllcv, will Saturday re
ceive $152,522 of undistributed funds
of the association. The "melon eitl
ting" will uke place in the high
school auditorium nnd more than
3,0(10 growers have sienifietLtheir in
tention to be present. The associa
tion will not only distribute ten per
FOR DINNER DECLARES
LONDON. Mar. 27. Frcvuil-
inir fashions in women's gowns
were vigorously assailed in a
sermon recently bv Hev. Her-
nurd Ynughun, the widely known
Jesuit father, whose essays and
sermons on morality and home
lit'n h,..- ...,f ....!..
years attracted groat attention
throughout the world.
"In days gone by ladies dressed
for dinner, now thev undress for
it." he declared. "Women's
clothing ought to serve tho three
purposes of decency, of warmth
and of ornament. Girls who fol
low the up-to-date fashions are
ruining their own and their
neighbors souls as well as their
own bodies. Designers of fash
ions seem to be devoid as much
of taste as of principle."
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TLAND I
H
POUT LAM), Ore., April 2. The
verdict of "not guillv" found bv
self-stvle! "labor j-
which listen
ed to the evidence .it the I. W. W
murder trial at Montcsano durim
January, February nnd .March, failc.
of adoption bv the Portland Central
Labor council last night. The report
ot the "labor itirv " was read to Hi
council and a motion for its adoption
made nnd seconded, hut President
Nickerson of the council declined to
put tiie motion.
According to several of those in at
tendance, an appeal was taken from
the decision of tho chair. Niekerson'w
ruling being upheld. The report was
filed and it was said it would not be
brought before the council again for
any action.
SEATTLE HELD UP
SISATTLB, April 2. Police today
were searching for two aimed ban
dits who last night forced .Mrs. Bert
Farrar, socially prominent here, to
sit on tho odgo ot her bod while they
ransacked tho Farrar homo and
escaped with valuables worth about
$800. The Farrar home is in the
heart of tho fashionable Capitol Dill
residence district.
TO START APRIL 5TH
April 5th to 10th has been design
ated as Farm Bureau week among
the farmers of Jackson county. Prac
tically every school district in the
county will he in chargo of h captain
and a corps ot assistants. It is
planned to visit every farmer in the
county and solicit membership for
the farmer's organization that has
been growing by. leaps and bounds.
Tho Farm Hureau Kxchango has
made definite plans for extending op
erations that will greatly benefit all
farmers of the county. Warehouses
have been purchased that will enable
tho bureau to handle Its Increasing
business in fertilizer, feeds, seed, etc.
Farmers in all parts of the county are
rallying to the support of tho organ!
zatlon that means sry much to them.
cent per annum on evorv share of
stock from the time of issue until
the present time, but will 11N0 dis
tribute a sum enual to more than ,"jfi
times the amount of the original capi
tal stock of $2711(1. The association
is one of the few co-operative or
ganizations that hns ever made good.
The call for the meeting has been
issued bv W. II. Paulhamus, pre:
ilent of the association, and one of
the besf known fruit und berry,
growers in the west. 1
BALKAN STATE
ONLY HOPE FOR
EUROPE PEACE
Take Jonescu, Rumanian Leader De
clarcs Alliance Between Poland,
Greece, Czlieco-Slovakia and Ru
mania Is Only Salvation Deplores
Idleness in Rumania.
'BUCHAREST, April 2. Safety for
Europe lies in an alliance between
Rumania, Poland, Czecho-Slovakia
and Greece, in the opinion of Take
.lonescu, who as an editor, financier
and politician, has played a promin
ent role in tho national life of Ru
mania for a quarter of a century.
linking with un Associated Press
correspondent recently ho expressed
tho hopo of seeing such an alliance
realized, with America taking an im
portant part in tho work of Balkan
countries.
"Unless America shows interest in
Ilalkan conunerco," ho said, "it is
possible wo all will again fall into the
hands of tlermany, if only because, of
tho exchange situation. Rumania is
determined to operate matters for
herself but may not bo ablo to do so.
I am very sorry America has refused
to occupy Constantinople and I am
sure In a few yours the people of the
United States will realize their mis
take In not doing this servico to civil
ization and possibly to their own
commerce.
Keep Porte Ojien
As America will not tako a man
date, another solution must bo found.
I advocate sending Rumanian troops
to help tho allies in the prosent
scheme of neutralizing Constanti
nople nnd tho Dardanelles as wo have
a great interest in keeping open that
outlet to the sea. '
I think Rumania will act in nc-
cord with her neighbors In tho inter
est of the rest or Europe. Rumania
made great sacrifices in tho war but
the charges that she had disregarded
the allies are untrue. Our internal
political strifes must not he taken too
seriously. We are democratic and
are for freedom and against despo
tism, bolshevism and international
ism. Rumania 1b intrinsically weal
thy hut wo ure poor now because the
Germans took our cattle by the mil
lion and our agricultural machinery.
"One of the worst conditions con
fronting us is that the people will not
work. During tho last five years we
have produced nothing, but have
acquired a taste for higher standards
of living. From an economic point of
view it was one long joy ride. War
means waste and also laziness. Sol
diers in tho trenches may bo bravo
hut they come home idlers, oven was
trels. Our national debt Is 25,000,-
000,000 lei
IT Wl
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ATLANTA, Ga., April 2 With the
withdrawal of President Wilson's
name by a number of democrats who
entered him in tho Georgia democra
tic presidential preference primary to
lie held April 20, only threo candi
dates were loft in the raco when the
entries closed yesterday. They are
Attorney General Palmer, straight
out advocate of the administration
United States Senator Iloko Smith of
Georgia, who partially indorses the
administration and who desires the
treaty and League of Nations ratified
with reservations, and Thomas li
Watson, former populist cundidate
for president, who "stands squarely
against tho Lonf.'ue of Nations."
Census Returns
WASHINGTON, April 2. Popula
tion statistics announced today by the
census bureau included:
Wilkosborre, Pa., 7.'!, 828, an in
crease of 0723 or 10 per cent over
1910.
Waterloo, Iowa, 3(1, 2.10, increase
9337 or' 33.7 per cent.
Murphysboro, III., 10,411, Increase
2920, or 39.1 per cent.
Iong Branch, N. J., 13,521
crease 223 or 1.7 per cent.
In-
Prince Sails for San Dieao.
PANAMA. April 1 The Prince of
Wales, aboard the Hritish battle
rrui-er Renown, sailed todav for San
Diego. Cnl., after bis visit to the
Canal Zone.
The cruiser suffered damage to her
starboard propeller in the Culebra
cut Tuesday, where it was necessary
to blast obstructions in the channel.
caused by the recent earth slide.
STAGE SCULPTOR HELD
Ni:V YORK, April 2 Charg-
oil with cruel and inhuman
treatment nt' bis 1 7-venr-nld
daughter, Minnie, John Gullau-
der, known on the stage as Gal-
landa, a clay sculptor, was ar-
raigned in a Hmoklvn court to-
day and held in .f2,,')00 bail for
a hearing later. Nearly III!) scars
were found on the girl's body,
District Attorney Lewis said.
Affidavits filed with the court
v alleged she had been branded
with hot irons, scalded, stuck
J with ice picks, hat pins and v
j darning needles, and that some
of her teeth had been broken
and then pulled out with pliers.
WITH AGREEMENT
JUKSKLT)OHI' April .1. (I?v (he
Associated Press) Soldiers of the
workmen's armv in the liulir district
must mako u delivery of their arms
to local authorities before April Id
under the agreement reached between
the government mid the central com
mittee of the workmen's general con
ference nt Kssen todav. They will not
he considered rebels if fighting ceases
throughout the district by noon to
morrow. .
The commander of the communist
troops before YVesel gave n pledge to
the conference for the strict obser
vance of tho agreement, lie dei-bire.l
he had really a good army but could
not continue fighting because he lark
ed aminunilion nnd asserted all loot
ing had been suppressed und that all
looters had been shot.
"I will shoot with mv own pistol
ho said, "any communist soldier who
disobeys tho order to withdraw nnd
disarm."
Assurance was given tho delegates.
however, there would be no trouble.
The general strike throughout the
liulir industrial mid mining distrirt
has been ordered called off, effec
tive, as far as possible Friday morn
ing. At the last meeting of tin
workmen speakers said that the
revolutionists could not have lived
to accept a final agreement if the al
lies had not barked them.
IT
RAISES A PROTEST
WASHINGTON. April 2. (Hv the
Associated Press) Acting Secretary
Post denied todav that the bouse im
migration coiamiitcc bad taken pos
session of evidence in the case of ;
number of aliens recently ordered de
ported and Bubscoueritl'- released, lis
announced yesterday bv Chairman
Johnson, of the house committee.
Mr. Post said that without making
nnv previous rcriuest, the committee,
accompanied hv the house sergeant
at arms, appeared at (lie department
yesterday and asked to see the evi
dence. He tidd them, he said, lhat
the department would co-opcrat"
with them in their examination of the
documents relating to the aliens.
Secretary Post said :
"The committee is in the
of a man who goes into a library to
rend hooks."
The committee, which is investigat
ing radical agitation is represented as
being dissatisfied with the manner
in which the department of labor has
handled Ihc rases of several hundred
of tho two thousand and more per
sons arrested in the recent raids bv
the department of justice on the
hcadiiuartcrs and locals of the Rus
sian communist pnrtv.
Chairman Johnson bus announced
Hint evidence lias been obtained which
convinces the committee that the I.
W. W. arc allied with the commun
ists and that thev should be deport
ed since Secretary of Labor Wilson
has ruled Hint the communist organi
zation is one which advocates the
overthrow of the United States irov
erninent bv force. The department
of instice is nlso known to bo dis
satisfied with the manner in which
the department of labor has pro
ceeded on Hie deportation warrants,
SECRETARY OF
NAVY DEN ES
E
Secretary Daniels Writes Chairman
Paqe of Senate Committee That
Newspaper Report Is Unfounded
Denies He Said Japan Was Menace
on Pacific Coast.
WASHINGTON. April 2. Chair
man Page of the senate naval com
mittee made public today u letter
from Secretary Daniels denying re
ports published in some newspapers
that the secretary bad told the com
mittee yesterday thai. Japan was a
menace to the United States.
"I ma moved to write vou" said
Mr. Daniels "because this publication
conveys the impression that is cireii
tatcd to give to a friendly nation a
view of the altitude of the scerelarv
of the navv and your committee thai
is wholly al variance with Hie atti
tude of your committee and the navy
department.
"I slated to. the committee that our
relations with all countries on the
Pacific were most friendly und cor
dial and that I did not believe nnv
nation menaced the I'nited Stat
and I was sure this country would
adopt no policy based upon untogoi;
ism to any power in the Pacific.
"I ma sure that vou - all the
members of the senate naval affairs
committee will regret a misleading
publication Hint inuv be misinterpret
ed by our Japanese ally in-' friend
Fletcher Is Scored
vt ji-iii.Mj uiin, jpnl J. Uupt'ini
Myron C. Long, former aid for opera
Hons on l!ear Admiral Sims' staff at
London, ret used today to modify his
previous testimony that Hear Admi
ral William It. Fletcher disregarded
Sims inst ructions that he formulate
n snte doctrine for convoy operations
He was cross-examined at length bv
counsel for Admiral Fletcher hefora
the naval hoard investigating Fletch
er's removal from the Itrest command,
Cuplain Long said a general doc
trine of convoy operations was for
mulated at Oueenstown for tho do
strover force there as early us May,
nil.
WASHINGTON. April 2. Further
hearing before the senate committee
investigating the navv's conduct of
Hie war were postponed today until
luesdav. Admiral Hodman, com
munder of the Pacific fleet, will tes
tily (hen and will be followed hv
Admiral ilson, commander of the
Atlantic fleet.
fcccreturv Daniels said today ho
would be the last witness to appear in
the presentation of the department'
ease.
"WHITE EASTER" IN
THE MIDDLE WEST
ST. PAUL. Minn.. April 2. A cold
wave and blizzard starting late last
night extended over Minnesota anil
eastern Dnkolas todav giving prom
ise of n "white Faster." The mer
cury fell about thirty degrees from"
yesterday's maximum to ten degrees
above zero this morning. While the
snow fall was not unusually heavy
the high wind accompanying it im
peded railroad and citv traffic con
siderably. A fall of-a few inched ill
Hie Mississippi mav nl. Winona.
.Minn.; removed danger of a further
preail of flood waters there, but
iiianv cellars in the city were full of
water making dry fuel a scarcity
when most needed.
Duliilh reported that the hlizzunl
there was sweping ire out of the har
bor, giving promise of mi early open-
oi lake navigation.
DAVKNPORT. al.. April 2. A ter
rific wind, rain ami hail storm struck
the vicinity of Wilton, Iowa. :)2 milts
northwest of Davenport last night.
1IKLKNA. Mont., April 2. Nomi
nating petitions to place the name of
Herbert Hoover ns republican prcsi-
lential candidate on the ballot in the
Montana primary were tiled with the
ccrota rv ot Mate here today.
NKW YORK. April 1.
strike order effective immediately on
all railroad bouts except ferries, was
issued bv the marine worker's affilia
tion this afternoon. Workers on ferry
hunts of railroad companies wnr.i
ordered to unit work at 8 o'clock to
night. , The union announced that 5.000
nun would obey the order nnd that
the strike would tie un forty n.r mm1
of the total harbor traffic. 1
JAPAN MENAC
FEET 12 BLIND MEN
MADRID, April 2 Hxfroui.'
brilliance marked llolv week
ceremonies at the roval palace
today. Ksrorted to the palace
chapel hy a guard attired in gala
uniforms, King Alfonso, Oneen
Victoria nail Oiieen Mother Ma
rie Christine attended mass, at
which there was a large con-
ei'eea I inn ill' title,! tici-s,inniris
armv officers and eTandees of
Klinm 'I'll,, n,..n In full
Miiglithood. while all the ladies
v wore while imint illns
Later the kirnr washed the
feet of twelve blind men, while
the uuron performed the same
office for twelve beggar women,
J who, after the sovereigns hud
broken bread with them, left the
v palace hearing baskets of food
E
LONDON. Mar. 2(i. Charges lhat
the government hail indulged in reck
less extravagance at the peace con
ference in Paris, have been nuide in
connection with its hill of rjtKI.MHK
pounds sterling for the expenses of
the Hritish delegation.
When the bill was presented in ills
house of commons recently Sir Ai
fred Mond, the first commissioner of
works, was sharply questioned us to
whether his bill for hotels in Paris
covered the cost of champagne, food
and dunces. lie replied his depart
ment was not responsible for the pay
ment, of hills for food, clothing,
typists, dances or bauds.
One member of the house indig
niintlv declared it would have been
belter for the Hritish delegates to
have gone to bod to think over the
pence- conference instead of indulging
in such relaxation.
The government representative nd
mittcd that tho Hritish had five ho
tels nnd threo other premises, while
the Americans had onlv one hotel,
but, be declared, the Americans spent
more money. The house indulged in
ironic cheers when Sir Alfred Mond
said the government "did tho thing
well."
The total staff of the HritisH dele
gation numb-, red 524.
HIS LIFE FOR COUNTRY
HIS ALL FOR FIANCEE
TACOMA. April 2. Miss Ruth Vi
gils, daughter of Rev. Joel Vigus, of
Auburn, is named sole beneficiary
and executrix of the estate of Grover
I. Porter of San Diego, Chi., in n
will filed todav by Miss Vigus. who
was his fiance. Porter was it private
in Company F of the .'Ib'-lth infantry
of the Hist division mid was killed
in Franco September 27. DI18.
the will was written in pen and
ink by him July .'HI, of the same year
a few days after he arrived in Franco
with the division. Miss Vigus is also
made the benel'iciarv of 1 (1,000 in
war risk insurance carried bv Pri
vato Porter.
Doctor's Conviction Upheld.
SAN FKANCISCO. April 2. Con
viotiou and sentence of Dr. L'phriuin
Norlhcott of San Francisco for the
murder of Miss Inez Klixabnlh Recti,
armv nurse, in San Mateo coiintv in
March 1!H!I. was upheld bv the state
supreme court here totlav.
EMBASSY STATE DEPT POWERLESS
WASHINGTON, April 2. F.ffoit-i
of the state department today to
have the Washington polico million
ties break up the picketing of the
Hritish embassy bv women fuvorublo
to an Irish republic failed. Tho tv
lice said that in the light of the de
cision of the federal courts in the
rase of the suffragists who picketed
the Whito House two venrs ago thev
were polverless to net unless there
was disorder. '
A dozeu ivotnen marched up nnd
R. R, TANGLE
GOES BACK
TO WILSON
For the Third Time Since R. R. Labor
Filed Demands for a Wage Increase
Whole Controversy is Placed Be
fore President Railroad Opera
tors Accused of Failure in Duty
Union Men Willinii to Test Law.
But Operators Refuse.
WASHINGTON. April .2. Tho
whole railroad wage conrrovcrsy was
placed before President Wilson todav
for the third time since tho railrontl
labor tiled its dcuiuiids for a general
increase in wages last summer.
In a letter to tho president, P. M.
Jewell, chairman of the railroad
commission, which constitutes the la
i i. ii :i i I
said he regretted verv much "to ad
vise vou of our failure to obtain tiny
beneficial results from these confer
ences." '
The employes, Mr. Jewell said, were
keenly disupioiutcd at tho position
taken bv the railway executive coiu
niillee which announced Inst night a
deadlock and tho withdrawal of tho
TUMi-outl i enibr.-s from the confer
ence. Mr Jewell did not ask the presi
dent to :av the wage oont.-vorsv be
fore the railroad labor boa: I, which
!s to be liominiiled by tho president
ns provided in thy Irunspo.-.-ution net
..-ml on which tho public will hnvo
reprcsontutiion. v
Attached to Mr. Jewell's let'ot wns
coi rt si ondenco setting forth the at
titude of the men mil the executive
committee. K. T. Whiter, for tho rnil
roatl executives, wrote that tho cxeeu-
lives did not believe congross con
templated a settlement involving so
great nn addition to transportation
costs without tho public being repre
sented in the conferences.
It. It. Operators Welch
Replying to this letter, .Mr. Jowoll
said ho believed the reason given by.
tho malingers for terminating the no
gotintions was "not in accord. with
our understanding of the law."
"The attitude of .your committee in
failing to carry out the wishes of the
president of tho United Stutes cama
as a surprise to us," Mr. Jewell wrote
to Mr. Whiter.
"Wo understand from this that
your committee bad definitely de
clined to assume the responsibility
nnd perform tho duty which is so
clearlv desired in the publiu interest
and which the transportation act, as
wo understand it, contemplates: Thnt
of agrooing in conference upon rntes
of pnv for riiilroa'l employes which
are just and reasonable." .
Union officials reiterated that, at
the retiuest of the president, they wore
going along to givo tho transporta
tion net a fair trial." although tbov
did not indorse nnv of its provisions.
They took the position that with the
breaking up of tho joint conference,
the whole matter was nuido more dif
ficult since tho union membership wnu
becoming restive.
STRIKE CAFETERIA TO
FEED 3000 PERSONS
HL'TTK, Mont., April 2. Arrung-i-nients
were made at a conference o
proprietors of local eating places to
day to open a cafeteria capablo of
caring for .'1,000 persons, three times
tlailv at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning.
Kmplovcrs will constitute the staff
ol this restaurant, it was decided, and
nil other cafes, restaurants and club
and hotel dining rooms will remain
closed, duo to the strike.
down in front of the embassy this
morning displaying banners eriticis-
ing tho Hritish government. State
department officials immediately
conferred with tho District of Co
lumbia commissioners nnd nolico au
thorities. It wns said that the Brit
ish embassy had mndo no complaint.
The women undertook a demonstra
tion nt tho cnpitol yesterday") hut
were turned nwnv bv the cnpitol uo
lice. Before going there, thov staged
a demonstration opposite tho Whito
House.