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Newspaper Page Textnn The Weather Maximum yesterday Bl Minimum to;iy...... Predictions Vrohnlila ruin. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1920. NO. 11 Medford Mail RIBUNE NO APOLOGY FOR SUPPORT SAYS HOOVER "It Was My Duty to Support the President Durina the War." De clares Republican Candidate and I Offer r No Apologies" Urges Friends to Sling No Mud at Oppon ents, Who Are Patriotic Honorable American Citizens. NEW. YORK, April 3. Horbert Hoover, who has announced he is ready to accept the republican presi dential nomination if it is demanded of him issued a statement today in which he requested he be not further embarrassed by suggestions of seine Independents that his name be placed before any other party, as "a primary sense of team work in any party or ganization would preclude such a possibility." Mr. Hoover said in his statemont he had no great record of partisan activity and "admitted" that his po litical activity was confined to mem bership in a prominent republican club and allegiance to the party ever a period of years. He added that lie cause of his profession of a mining engineer, continual shift of residence had prevented him from exercising ns much as he desired the privilege of every citizen at the polls. No Personal Canvas Asserting that his administrative duties in vurious relief organizations would prevent him from making a personal canvass for the nomination, Mr. Hoover said he expected Hoover organizations thruout the country would have to expend certain amounts for printing and other ex penses, but that tie hoped they would confine thomselves to minor subscrip tions and expenditures and would be prepared to open their books to pub lic inspection. Hon't Sling Mud Mr. Hoover requested that men and women advocating his nomina tion "bear in mind that personal criticism of the other names before the pnrtv is chiefly of service to the opposition!" "All these men," he said, "arc pa triotic, honornblo Americans. They have all served the country well nncl are entitled to respect." Because he had refused to allow his name put into the primaries, Mr. HooveHdeolnred there wns "little or ganization" on his behalf and nt this late date no organization is possible that could compete with other organi zations. lie urged that his sup porters confine their enemies to "promotion of their views to the coun try and to the delegates already named, with full respect to their prior pledges." The Partizan Scored Sir. Hoover said that he had no expectation that his entrance into the presidential race would bo welcomed by the "typo of person who conceives that fitness for office, patriotism and citizenship, depend upon placing sheer partisanship above" national interest or who requires years of demonstrat ed participation in work with me chanical politicians." ' "I cannot assist these people with explanations trying to prove that I belong; to their class," ho added. Did Support Wilson "Some people of tins sort feel great trouble of mind that in a letter ad dressed to a friend last year I ex pressed mv alnrnr at the then glow ing partisanship and pressed the need' for unity of action between (Continued on Page Six) ATTORNEY GENERAL PALMER STARTS . DRIVE ON SOFT COAL PROFITEERS 'WASHINGTON. April 3. Fede ral district attorneys were instruct ed today bv Attorney General Palmer to receive nnd consider complaints of profiteering in bituminous coal, "which may arise in your district under the Lever net." Mr. Palmer's telegram was pre pared after some bituminous coal operators had stated publicly that the new wage scale agreed oh under the terms of Ihe award bv the coal strike settlement commission would result in nn increase of from CO cents to $1.25 st ton on coal. Pointing out that the total increase in wages had been estimated nt ap proximately $200,000,000 a year Mr. TANK EXPLODES. TWO KILLED, MANY INJURED POHTF.RSVILLE. Oil.. April 3 Two men were killed, another lies in n critical condition, seve ral others were injured and the lives of scores of citizens en dangered bv the explosion of nn oxveen tank today that demol ished the rear of the City ea- ' ' C." L. Hilliurd, 2l'. buttery man, who was working in the rear of the gurngo. was blown to pieces. Paul Holmes, 26, tractor salesman, who had his automobile parked in the build ing, wns standing moro than ,10 feet away when a large frag ment of the bursting tank struck him 011 the head. He died on the way to- the hospital. . 4 INCREASE IN EAST 'WASHINGTON, April 3. To date population of 253 of the approxim ately 14,000 incorporated cities, towns and villages in' the country have been announced by the census bureau. , Virtually all show increases and some have more than doubled in size. Some of the larger cities, in cluding Chicago nnd Now Orleans, are being prepared for announcement while New York's portfolios are al most all In. Figures for only ten of the fifty cities of the group having 100,000 or more inhabitants in 1910 thus far have been made public. Of these To ledo showed the largest increase with 44.3 per cent. , Of the 5!) cities having 00,000 to 100,000 inhabitants in 1910, six have been announced.- Schenectady, N. Y., leads the increases in this group with 21.8 per cent. (Population of 28 incorporated places of the 119 which in 1910 had from 25,000 to 50,000 inhabitants has. been announced. Knoxville, Tenn. leads in this group with an increase of 114.1 per cent. Scott Bluff, Neb., has the highest percentage of increase of any of the incorporated places thus far announc ed with 295.9 per cent. Other in creases over 100 per cent are: Eldor ado, Kas., 251.4 per cent; Cicero, 111., 209.1; Alma, Mich., 173.6; Knoxville, Tenn., 114.1 and Oak Park, 111., 104.8. (Manistee, Mich., has shown the heaviest decreaso with 21.7 per cent. Other decreases are: Shelburn, Ind., 11.7. per cent; Jeffersonville, Ind., 3 per cent. IS. KIMBALL FEARFUL LOSING ART TREASURES CHICAGO, April 3. Fearing art thieves were planning to loot the house, conservators of the estate of Mrs. W. W. Kimball today asked the Chicago Art Institute to take charge of the Kimball collection of paintings, ade and other art objects. Mrs. Kiio ball is the aged widow of the piano manufacturer. Experts who recently examined the collection valued the pictures at "far in excess of $2,000, 000." The jades and other pieces were pronounced "valuable beyond estimate." Palmer said that if this entire nmount were "added by the operators to the price, if would only mnke nn incrcaso of forty cents a ton."' "If, however, the operators absorb the 14 per cent increase which be came effective in December," said the attorney general, "there would be left only SflG.nCIO.OOO to be pnsscd on to the consumer. In this event the in crease in the price of coal at the mine should amount to twenty cents n ton.'' Air. Palmer said lie understood operators had estimated the demand for export coal would bo 100,000,000 but that port facilities arc only ade quate for the export of .10,000,000 tons. This, he said, should not be made an excuse for raising the price. U. S. REPORT ON ARMENIA SENT 10 THE SENATE President Wilson Transmits Report of American Commission Header! bv Major Harbord First Year's Cost of Mandate Would Be Only $275,000,000. WASHINGTON, April - 3. Presi dent Wilson transmitted to the sen ate toduy tin? report of tho Ameri can commission, headed bv Manor General Harbord, which investigated conditions in Armenia. The report had twice been asked for by the sen ate, first last November nnd then under a resolution adopted scveri'i weeks ago. The commission made no recom mendations us to the United Stales establishing a mnndato over Turkev and Armenia, .but its report contained extensive arguments for and against such action. No mamlate should bo taken the commission said, without formal, agreement with France and tlreat Britain and also "definite approval" of Gerninnv and Russia. Tho inhabi tants, the commission stated, desire America to lake the mandate first, with Great Britain their second choice. ' The principal arguments advanced in favor of the United Slates accept ing n inundate were that the influence of the United States would tend to avert wars, that the inhabitants want ed American protection and that this would give Ihe United States an op portunity to do a great humanitarian work. . Reasons advanced ngninst a man dale were that, it "would weaken our position relative., to the Monroe doc trine," that "liumniiiturinnisiii begins at home," and that tho first year's cost would bo $270,000,000. including $88,500,000 for the army and nuvv. Mandate versus "War "Better millions for a mandate than billions for war." said tho rec ommendations favoring u mandate. "If America nccepts n mandnto for the region visited bv this mission.'' said General I larboard, "it will un doubtedly' do so from n strong sense of international duty and at the unan imous desire, so expressed at least, of its colleagues in the League of Na tions. . ' "Accepting this difficult task without previously securing the as surance of conditions would be fatal to success. The United States should make its own conditions certainly be fore and not after acceptance, for there are a multitude of interests that will conflict with what any Ameri can could consider a proper adminis tration of the country. "In our opinion there should be specific pledges in the terms of for mal agreements with Frnncc-nnd Eng land, and definite approval from Ger many and Russia to the disposition made of Turkev and Trans-Caucasia and n pledge to respect them." In administration and sanitation, the report said, America could aid the peoples residing in the territory nnd against the cxpenso it would save the nmount now given charitably for Near Eastern aid. TAX RESTRAINED SALEM, Ore., April 3. Every county In tho state and three laws passed by the legislature of 1919 are said to bo affected "by a decree of the Marlon county circuit court yester day, restraining the county court and the tax collector from enforcing the collection of taxes under a special separate levy- in excess of the 6 per cent limitation amendment to the Oregon constitution. Census Returns WASHINGTON. April 3 Popu lation statistics nnnounced today bv the census bureau included: Pottsvillc. Pn., 21,875, nn increase of 1,54!) or 7.7 per cent over 1910. Logansport, Ind., 21,020, increase 2,507 or 13.5 per cent, Conncrsvillc, Ind.. 0,001, increase 2,103, or 28 per cent. Lorain. Ohio 37,205. increase 8412 or 20.1 per cent. Wnukcgan. III., 10,199, increase 3130 or !.; per cent. Pekin, 111.. 12.080, increase 2189 or 22.1 per cent. Millville. N. J.. 14,001 increase 2210 or 18 per cent. DON'T SELL THEM, PLEA' STI LOS ANGELES, Cal., April 3. Governor Stephens today is sued a letter in which he said : "Now is the time to purchase Liberty bonds nnd Victory notes, not to sell them. Thev are below par chieflv because those who purchased them during the war are now forcing their biddings on the market in excess of the demand. "All financial authorities are agreed that Liberty bonds and Victory notes will be worth considerably more than par long before their maturity. "Thescbonds and notes of the United States government are the safest investment in the world. Thev can1 be purchased at this time very advantage ously. Instead of selling your bonds keep them and buy as many more as you can." WILSON POLICY IN TURKEY AROUSES BITTER FEELING CONSTANTINOPLE. April I (Bv the Associated Press) President Wilson's note to the allies intimating that the Turks must get out of Eu rope, enine us a shock to all Turk ish parties. Mir. Wilson's note appeared in a slightly censored form which made the position of the United Slates seem harsher than it appeared in the full text of the communication. . The note wns oouullv displeiming to the Greeks, who wero much of fended at the American president's apparent unwillingness to grant their claims to a large district about Smyrna and his insistence that Adri nnoplo bo given to tho Bulgarians. American business men here are apprehensive over- the effect of the president's stand nnd there is con siderable uneasiness ns to (he effect it will hnve 011 Asiatic Turkey where 500 American born teachers and re lief workers are considered to be in considerable danger if the protection of Turkish forces should be with drawn. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE PORTLAND, April 3. According to a bulletin just issued by the West Coast Lumbermen's association, the 128 mills represented in Its report made total rail shipments last week of 2248 cars, or 67,440,000 feet and new business accepted was 83,416,-60-8 feet, of which 61,950,000 will move by rail and 2,246,819 will be delivered locally. Of water shipments 10,236,034 feet will be exported and 8,983,755 feet will go to domestic markets. . FALLS CITY, Ore., April 3. An 18-inch snowfall In the mountains southwest of here necessitated the closing of two logging camps Wed nesday, giving an enforced vacation to about 170 employes. Operations have ceased at both the Spalding Lumber company's camp and the Wil lamette Valley Lumber company's camp, and will not be resumed until the weather moderates and some of the snow leaves. .'- EUGENE, Ore., April 3. 13. R. Spencer, county commissioner, has been elected president of the Lane county fair association. He succeeds W. C. Yoran, who was elected secre tary, taking tho place of Hay H. Wood, who has resigned and will leave at once for Salt Lake City, Utah, to reside. Roy Woodruff was chosen as vice president to succeed Mr. Spencer. ARGENTINE ELECTION BUENOS AIHES. April 2. Can vass of the votes cast in the recent Argentine elections show that out o! 158 seals in the next congress, which will convene in Muv, radicals will hold at least 102. The count is coinpleteu with the exception of one province, where only one seat is involved. Con servatives and democrats, who were allied in the campaign, will have 45 scats and the socialists 10. EXPECT WATER IN VALLEY BY SPRING 1921 Judae Calkins Renders 'a Decision, Which Makes Prompt Construction Work on New Fish Lake Project Practically Certain District Has Right to Sell Bonds Savs Court. The filial decision of Judge Calkins handed down on Friday confirming the acts of the directors of tho Med ford Irrigation District and allowing tho issuing of bonds voted bv the landowners in September, 1018, re moves the last obstacle to immediate construction work and makes it almost certain that wilier will he de livered on the laud in the spring of P.I2I. The decision comes 11s tho end of a bitter fight against water bv a mi nority of lam! owners and is sweep--ing in its findings. Kverv point prayed for bv the board of director- of Ihe district, has been settled in its favor. The board of directors announced lust night that the final report of the Little Butte project upon which its engineers have been working for the past four mouths is in final shape and wll be reported to the state en gineer within a few duvs, This pro ject has been handled throughout with the help of Mr. Ctipiicr and under his ndvico so it will receive his approval without the shadow of a doubt. Com pilations of acreage nnd land values have been completed and tho direcors report to the State Irrigation Secu rities Commission is readv for imme diate filing. Everv effort is being made to begin actual construction work within six weeks and one of the conditions of the contract will be the completion of the works in time for tho 1021 irrigation season. District, of 10,000 Acres President Leonard Carpenter of the Medford Irrigation District gave the following out lino of tho Little Butte project today: "Since the formation of the dis trict threo years ago every water source nvaihible has had a thnrouUi investigation. Bv a process of elimi nation controlled on the one hand bv the excessively dry venrs and 011 tl.c other by the constantly increased cost of construction tho Little Butte pro ject for ten thousand acres has been arrived at. This project contemplates tho erection of dams at Four Mile nnd Fish Lake with he necessary canals to bring the water to the high point of each ownership which can be reached bv gravity. Data hnv-i been assembled bv specialists and submitted to the board upon every disputed point. Geological recom mendations have been made bv the state geologist. Water, findings and records bv the bend of tho U. S. Geologic Department in Oregon. Water duty and general irrigation practice bv the head of the Irrigation Department at the O. A.' C. nnd by the local county agriculturist.- Engi neering by the head of the U. S. Reclamation Servico west of the Hoekv Mountains. In everv resnuct the directors have been satisfied wish tho reports submitted before talcing the next stnv." Offer lllds nt Onco "Judge Calkin's decision confirm ing the organization of the district nnd allowing the directors to use the bonds voted in 1918 makes it possible to immediately advertise for bids upon the bonds nnd for the construc tion work. Final copies of tho re ports to the state engineer and the Irrigation Securities commission lire being made and will be sent to Salem on Monday. Actual construction work should be commenced within six weeks nnd tho dams nt the two Inko-i will bo completed in time to impound the run off waters of 1020-21. More than half of tho acreage embraced within the district will receive the benefits of water during the growing season of 1921. During the past few davs many acres for which elimina tion petitions were filed hnve been re petit'oned into the district. Some what more than 50 per cent of the entire acreage is orchard property. Less than 250 acres arc at the pres ent lime uncultivated and nil of the waste lands have been eliminated. One of the immediate results has been the number of prospective new land owners who have visited the irriga tion offices to assure themselves that lands upon which thev have options will be retained in the district. Alto cclher, the directors are more than pleased with Ihe success which has crowned llicir three years of constant effort. It is to be regretted, that the whole acreage of he Medford Irriga tion District will not receive the bene fits of water, but enough land has re mnincd in to nssure n measure of prosperity to the valley, comparable (Continued on Page Six) DEPOSED N.Y. SOCIALISTS TTO NEW YOltlC, April 3. Offlc- ials of socialist party organiza- tlons in New York City, meeting today to plan thoir campaign for ro-seuting of the five soclnl- ist assemblymen ousted from the lower house this week on charges of disloyalty, decided to demand that Governor Smith call special elections to fill the vacancies caused by this action. It was announced that if this demand was granted, tho quin- tot would run again for office and wero confident of bolng re- elected. 34 CASES OF FIZZ PORTLAND, Ore., April 3. Depu, tv sheriffs seized 31 cases of cham pagne and nineteen enses of assorted wines in n storo room here today, the biggest haul of liquor taken in months, according to tho authorities. Harry Jones, whom tho sheriff's deputies say has admitted shipping the wine from California, was arrest ed and turned over to federal authori ties. Tho manager of tho storeroom whero the liouor was found was not held by the district nttornov because, he is (Minted ns saving, there was nothing ho had done for which' he could bo prosecuted. According to Deputy Sheriff Christ of fcrson, Jones told him he bought tho wines in Cali fornia two months ago and arranged for their shipment here. The boxes containing the wino were labeled "paper napkins." Jones pleaded guilty when arraigned and wns fined tsoo. ST ERL1NG EXCHANGE NEW YORK, April 3. Denlors in exchange reported nn active market for London remittances today. The rate for demand blldls roe to $3.97 with cables at 398. fThese are the highest quotations in this market since last December and show a recovery of almost fifty bor cent from the low of February when demand fell to $3.18. French and Italian quotations were only nominally better today and re mittances to other continental Euro pean centers were light. Railroad Strike Settled. ' liOANOKK, Vn., April 11. Em ployes of the Norfolk and WcRtern railway returned to work toduy. The strike of approximately 12,000 work ers representing fourteen organized crafts, hns been settled bv an agree ment between officials of the railroad and bv local and international rep resentatives of the unions. PROMINENT URUGUAY EDITOR IS U' KILLED IN DUEL BY EX PRESIDENT MONTEVIDIO. -Uruguay. April 2. Political excitement prevails in this city tonight, ns a result of tho denth of Washington Bcltrnn, editor of the r.ewspaiicr El Pais in n duel with louiier 1 resmeni josb name v proli nes this morning. After the hist elec tions in Uruguay, the nationalists ac cused the "Bntllistcs," the party headed bv the former president, ot frauds, Beltrnn's newspaper, in ou editorial discussing tho elections, enlled Untile the "champion of fraud." It was this utteranco that led to tin) fatal duel. The opponents met in the midst of a rouring rainstorm nnd waited for tln-e h-iirs for the rnin o cense. Beenuso of the rain the two men de cided to keen on their hats, but Bel tran changed his strnw hut for n felt, so ll'ot both might bo on oven terms. Standing 25 pnees npnrt, tho duel ists wero given the word to fire, both missing on tho first exchange. Before Eellran could fire n second shot, he was fetruok by a bullet from Bailie's GOV'T ARMY I S SWEEPING BACK REDS Ebert Troops Advance Rapidly Airainst Insurgent Forces in Ruhr District Dusenberg Harbor and Ruhrort Rhenish Prussia Are Taken Left Wino Advancinu Toward Hamm General Strike In Ruhr District Called Off. COBLENZ, April 3. (Bv the As sociated Press) The reichswehr captured Duisberg, Ithenish Prussia nnd Huhrort, tho harbor of Duisberg, Into this afternoon, after much street fighting, according to advices re ceived this evening. THE HAGUE. April 3. The gene ral advance of tho German govern ment troops nloug the entire front against tho insurgent forces in tho Ruhr and neighboring industrial re gions which began nt 7 o'clock Friday morning, has been very successful, ne- corduig to well informed Dutch sources. The troops forced the reds to retreat across the Tcsterbere and the government, forces have already penetrated llnmborn, the advices stnto. At tho center of the front the gov ernment troops have taken Reckling hausen, 13 miles northwest of Essen, while the left wing is advancing from Iliimm westward. Companies of the red nrmv have hecn named . after prominent Russian and other extrem ists, bearing such , names us "Com punv Lcnino," "Company Trotzkv," and "Compnnv Karl Lichknecht." The personnel, however, is -mostly Ger man, - .1 : COPENHAGEN, April .3. Decision to call off tho general strike in the entire 'Ruhr industrinl region was reached nt a plenary session of tho cxeoutivo council of the district yes terday, according to n disputoh from Essen. It will be renewed, howevor. if tho Berlin government fuils to ful fill obligations entered into with the workers. ; . 7 CO. P. TO OPEN IN CHICAGO CHICAGO April 3. Three moro republican candidates for the presi dency are planning tc open headquar ters and join the Wood and Lowden forces on "Presidential How" In a downtown hotel, it was announced today. , Rooms have been reserved by friends of Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia university; Covernor Coalldge of Massachusetts; and Senator Miles Polndexter. The Harding and Hoover forces also are expected to open their head quarters here prior to the convention June 8, Predicts Normal Weather. ' WASHINGTON, April 3. Weather predictions for the week beginning Monday arc: Pnoifio States: Except for, occas ional rains on the north Paclfio fair. Normal temperature probablo. . pistol nnd Bank to the ground roor tullv wounded. There is a law against duelling in Uruguny, but it is understood that one of the conditions agreed to by Bcltrnn nnd Bntlle wns Hint neither would prosecute the other in ease 'of injury. Duels nro infrequent in this country. Bntlle who wns twice president ot Uruguny and now is a! member of the nutionul administrative council vol untarily gave himself up to the po lice following nn order by the stats prosecutor for his arrest, ris well ns that of doctorsrscconds and other persons connected with the duel. He is being held incommunicado in a po lice station. Tho chamber of deputies at a spec ial session lute tonight unanimously adopted n resolution creatine? an an nnnl pension of $3,000 to Boltran's widow. The chamber also Bent ix messngo of sympathy to the widow. Beltrnn's family hns requested thnt tho body lie in state in the chamber of deputies, pending tho funeral.