Mebforb Mailt
Predictions
I'rolmMo rain.
Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year.
MEDFORD, OREGOX, MONDAY. APIilL 5, 1920.
NO. 12
The Weather
Maximum yesterday OS
Minimum today 41
RENCH ARMY ADVANCES
FOCH
I EM
yi
France Decides to Occupy German
Cities on Right Bank of Rhine as
Reprisal for Movement of German
Troops Into Neutral Zone Mar
shal Foch Given : Supreme Com
mandParis Declares Ebert Govt.
' Has Larne Force.
PARIS, April 5. (By Associated
Press.) The utmost secrecy is being
Maintained in official circles concern
ing the nature of the "military pre
cautions" which Premier Millerand
lias instructed Marshal Foch to take
in the Rhine occupation zone. A ru
mor was current in Purls this aCtor-,
noon that General De Goutte's army
began moving from Mayence and
IWeisbaden upon Frankfurt this mor
ning but the war office refused either
to confirm or deny the report. All
officers and soldiers on Easter holi
day leaves have been ordered to join
their units immediately.
iKrance has four classes of men
. those of from 1910 to 1919 inclusive
still under arms, or about 800,000
men. No other class has boon recalled
and no effort made to incroase the
effectives besides tho cancellation of
all leaves.
, 'PARIS, April 5. ( Havas) . French
troops commanded by General De
Goutte, which are stationed along
the Rhino are prepared to enter Ger
man territory this morning, accord
ing to the Wiesbaden correspondent
of the Matin. It is reported that the
French government has decided to
occupy cities on the right bank of the
Rhine as a reprisal for the movement
of German government troops into
the neutral zone fixed by the Ver
sailles treaty. No official announce
ment has been made of such an order
however.
Newspapers continue to discuss the
situation resulting from the entry of
German government troops in the
Ruhr basin, and the Petit Parisien
declares the Indications given by the
, German note concerning these forces
do not correspond with the informa
tion received by Marshal Foch. De
mand is made by the Journal that the
expenses ot the occupation bo borne
by the Germans, and It is suggested
that cities occupied bo taxed to make
up this amount.
llrilisli Refuse Aid
The British government will de
cline to co-operate In the occupation
of Frankfort, Darmstadt and other
German cities, according to the Lon
don correspondent of the Petit Par
isien, but will, he says, favorably fol
low the action of France, realizing
the Importance of the situation.
(In the southern part of the Ruhr
district, says the Echo de Paris, the
German government troops have ad
vanced without resistance, hut have
encountered serious opposition in the
' central portion of the Ruhr basin,
two hundred persons .having been
killed in a fight near Duisberg, ac
cording to information reaching this
city. -
Focli In Control
PARIS, April 5. (By .Associated
Press.) French military measures
(Continued on Paee Six)
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SHANGHAI. Mar. 30. (By the
Associated Press) Japanese offic
ials and bankers have expressed n
desire to enter, on the same terms' n.
those accorded other banking groups,
the consortium bv .-which the United
States, Great Britain. France nnd
Japan would take a prominent role
in the financing of China, according
to Thomas W. Lnmont. a member of
J. P. Morgan nnd eompnnv. who ar
rived here todnv. He has been in
Japan conferring with financial
leaders.
TOKIO, Mar. 30. (Bv the Asso
ciated l'rtss) Japuu desires to cuter
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GREAT FALLS. Mont.. April
5. The Herbert C. Hoover cum-
paign for nomination upon the
republican ticket for president. v
in the republican primaries April
23, was luunched today, J. W.
Sherwood of Great Falls being
announced as manager of the
Hoover campaign for the stale. v
Mr. Sherwood is manager of
the Kovnl Milling eompnnv, with '
headquarters in Great Falls, and
announces, that an active and
aggressive publicity campaign
will l, U nil mil II iliit ,,p
the primaries."
This is tho second republican
candidate with headquarters in
Great Falls, Fletcher Maddox of
this eilv beiiiL' manager of the
Leonard Wood camuaiL'n for the
slate.
WOOD EXPECT TO
iBKTROIT, Mich., April 5, Mich
igan voters wero today registering
their preference for. presidential nom
ination, with thirteen candidates
seven republicans, five democrats and
one socialist seeking endorsement.
An exceptionally heavy vote was in
prospect, notwithstanding a large
portion of the state was covered with
two to six Inches of snow. Vigorous
campaigns made by several of the
candidates "and hotly contested mu
nicipal Issues In nearly all the larger
cities were counted upon by campaign
managers to taring most of the voters
to the polls.
Confidence in the outcome was ex
pressed by the headquarters of Gov
ernor Frank O. Lowdon, Major Gen
eral Leonard Wood and Senator Hi
ram W. Johnson, all of whom made
extensive campaign tours. Other re
publican candidates were General
Pershing, Senator .Miles Polndexter
and William G. Simpson of Detroit.
Herbert Hoover's name appeared
both on the republican and democra
tic tickets, but he has made no cam
paign and has no state organization.
Attorney General Palmer was the
only democrat to campaign thru the
state, the others named on the ticket
being William G. McAdoo, William J.
Bryan and Governor Edwards of New
Jersey.
Eugene V. Debs was the socialist
candidate.
The polls opened at 7 a. m. and
wero to close in the rural precincts at
five and in the cities at 8 p. m.
GO 10 PENH ENTIARY
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5. The
motion of Henry Albers, wealthy
Portland miller sentenced to ten
years imprisonment for seditious ut
terances, for a re-hearing of his case,
was denied by the United States cir
cuit court of appeals today.
U.S.A. IN
TIL
the Chinese consortium hut will not
abandon her settled iiolicv demand
ing the exclusion of Manchuria nr.ti
Mongolia, nccording to articles pub
lished in newspnners here after an
extraordinary cabinet nicctintr.
The policy, however, mnv lie moli
ficd provided first that rights nlre.ulv
nciiuircd in those provinces nre
recognized, and second, that the con
sortium agreement excludes (future
loans of a nature prciudicinl to
Japan's national defense or militim
interest in Manchuria nnd Mongolia.
It is the general opinion here that
a long practical step toward pennn
ncnt pence in the far east may tie
achieved bv the consortium.
HENRY
NON-UNION
R. R. STRIKE
IS SERIOUS
(Jhicaqo Paralyzed bv Walk-Out of
Switchmen Stockyards Crippled
and Milk Supply Threatened-
Chaos Impends Entire Police
Force Placed in Reserve Riots
Feared May Call Ouf Militia
Union Leaders Opposed to Walk
Out Aid Authorities.
CHICAGO, April 5. Train servico
thruout tho Chicago district, altho
seriously crippled by a heavy snow
storm, virtually was demoralized to
day by the spread of an unauthor
ized strike of switchmen, according
to reports from the eleven railroads
affected.
Fearing posslblo riots, John J
Garrlty, chief of police, early today
placed the entire police force in :
serve. Five hundred policemen pa
trolled the switchyards last night, he
said.
!Mr. Garrlty said tho situation was
serious and added that it may be
necessary to call out the militia and
declare military control in the rail
road yards.
Approximately 2500 switchmen
wore out ut midnight, according to
strike leaders and the General Man
agerR association, representing the
railroads.
Tho strikers asserted that 9000
men would he affocted today and pre
dicted a "complete tie-up of freight
traffic and serious impairment of In-
terurban service. ',
No Compromise .
After a long conference with repre
sentatives of tho ' Brotherhood of
Railway Trainmen, with which tho
switchmen are affiliated and the
Switchmen's Union of North America,
the General Managers association Is
sued a declaration that there would
"be no compromise" with the strik
ers.
'Sixty per cent of the switch en
gines in Chicago are out of service,'
said the managers' statement. "This
has -been caused by an outlaw organi
zation which has presented demands
for rates of pay that already had
been presented to the railroad organ
izations by the Brotherhood of Rail
way Trainmen and the Switchmen's
Union ot North America.
"These demands are being handled
by the wage conference at Washing
ton and must under the transporta
tion act, be concluded before the la
bor board yet to be named by the
president."
(The statement added that all rail
roads centering here have contracts
with the striking switchmen.
Union Officials Oppose It
Officials of the two big unions
have declared the strike "illegal," or
dered the men to return to work and
are operating with the rail heads in
attempting to break the strike.
The trouble broke five days ago.
switchmen in the Chicago district
yards of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
St. Paul railroad going on strike. The
Illinois Central and the Northwestern
next were affected, the strike spread
ing to the other railroads yesterday
and last night.
The Chicago switching district cov
ers a radius of thirty miles and in it
25.000 cars are handled dally. The
yardmen make up and "break" all
trains in that area, also "spotting"
cars at loading and unloading plat
forms, i
Tho demands of the "outlaw" or
ganization the recently forced Chi
cago Yardmen's association are:
HtriUo Demands
Foremen of all yards and transfer
engines SI an hour; yard helpers 95c
an hour; switch tenders $5 a day for
attending not more than three
switches; holpers rate of pay to apply
at 95c an hour; time and a half for
overtime, Sundnys and all legal hoi!
days, and where they are required Jo
work more than eight hours on bun
day or legal holidays double time for
all time exceeding eight hours.
Slock Yard Crippled
CHICAGO, April 5.J Fifty thou
sand stockyards employes will be
thrcwn out of work tonight as a re-
suit of the strike of switchmen in the
Chicago railroad yards, officials of
the packing companies announced
thin morning. Five thousand were
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WASHINGTON, April 5 Two
women picketing tho British
embassy today, advocating free-
dom for Ireland, wero arrested
by the police.
.. An hour before the police in-
tervened two Washington woni-
en passing along Connecticut
avenue attacked two pickets
then "on duty!' at tho embassy
and drove one of them nway
after destroying her banner.
The women who made the attack
were arrested.
; Tho women nrrested woro i
Miss Mollie Carroll, New York,
and Mrs. Harry Walker of As-
torln, Long Island.
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Well Known Church Leader, Bishop
of Portland District. .Victim of
Pneumonia Taken III Friday. Dies
Sunday Highly Respected and
Loved in Southern Oreqon.
CLEVELAND, O., April 5. illishop
Matthew Simpson? Hughes of
Portland, Oro., died nt a hotel here
yesterday ot pneumonia from which
he had been ill slnco Friday. He had
been on a lecture tour since October,
spending last week addressing Lenton
meetings here.
Ho was born In West Virginia 57
years ago. Previous to being orduined
IHSHOP MATT. S. 1IUG1IKS
Who died nt Cleveland, Ohio, yester
day after n brief illness.
a Methodist bishop In 1916, Bishop
Hughes had held pastorates at Grln-
nell, la., Portland, Maine, Minneapo
lis, Kansas City and Pasadena, Cal.
Bishop E. A. Hughos of Boston
brother of tho dead bishop, Is expect
ed to attend the memorial services to
be held here.
'Bishop Hughes had been suffering
from a severe cold for some woeks.
Last week he was advised to take a
rest, but declined to cancel his Cleve
land engagements. He became sor
iously 111 Friday noon. Easter ser
vices in local Methodist churches
were tiirned suddenly In memorials
for Bishop Hughes, who had been
scheduled to deliver Hasten sermons
In thrco churches. I
PORTLAND. Ore., April 5. Fune-
ral services for the late Hishop Mat
thew S. Hughes, who died suddenly in
Clevchihd, Sunday, will he held here
next Saturday mormng. it was an
nounced here today. Dr. William- W.
Yniingson superintendent of the Port
land district of tho Methodist church,
ncting in behalf of the widow, tele
graphed toilav to Bishop Edwin
Hughes, n lirolhcr, to accompany tins
body to this citv.
Assuming that the hodv will reach
this citv Friday night, services vill
be held liere Saturday morninir. In
terntnent will he in the Jason Lee
cemetery nt Salem Snttirduv niter
noon. ... . ,
The sadden ilealh of Bis'ino
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BISHOP
HUGHES
PASSES
AWAY
CLEVELAND
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KILLS FRUIT
Easter Blizzard Destroys Peach, Ap
ple and Small Fruit Crop in Mis
souri, Oklahoma, Texas and Louis
ianaCattle Suffer in Open Coun
tryCold Wave Spreads From
Rocky Mountains to Appalachians.
In Four Directions. .
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., April 5.
Tho blizzard which swept Missouri
yesterday, destroyed the entire peach,
apple, cherry and plum crops, caus
ing losses tit' millions of dollars, ac
cording to information received bv
the slate board of agriculture toda.
NKW ORLEANS, La., April 5.
The Louisiana strawberry crop is
seriously threatened bv the predicted
frost tonight, according to the lotvl
weather forecaster.
.KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 5
Sunshine after the storm, the most
evore on record for April in tho
southwest, is resulting in a General
thaw today.
Not only was the April snowfall
record lor Ihe southwest broken bv
the Easter blizzard lull, tile storm re
sulted in the lowest April tempera
ture on record in tho southwest, nn
cording to the wcnlhor bureau horo
Topcku reported the lowest tempera
lure, 14 degrees. A killing frost, '.he
local forecaster said, was general
over Oklahoma, northern Texas nnd
northern Louisiana this morning.
Horticultural nulliorities reported
considerable damage to the fruit,
peaches, apricots and plums suffer
ins the most.
Cold Wnvo Spreads
WASHINGTON. April's Tho Eas
ter' storm which buried the south
west 'and middle west under a snow
blanket wns spreading today in four
directions with n cold w'ave envelop
ing virtually all territory between the
Appalachian nnd the Itockv Moun
tains.
Rain or snow late today nnd free
ing temperatures tonight were fore
cast for the territory east of the Ar
palachians. Frost nnd freezing toln
peratures, the bureau said, are prob
able tonight in the east L'ulf stales
north and west of (Jcoririn, extremo
north Florida, Tennessee ontl the
Ohio vnlley.
Freezinir temperatures prevailed to
day an far south ns the interior of
Texas nnd the north portions nf
Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
The Ohio vailev storm of vesterduv,
according to the weather bureau hnd
divided today and formed two conteVi
of disturbance, one to the northward
of Lnko Ontario and the other over
Virginia.
Excepting in the Atlantic and New
England states generally fair weather
tonight nnd Tuesday was predicted
by the weather bureau.
Cnttlo Buffer
CmCAGO. April 5. The midill,
nnd southwest, heartened bv weathei
bureau predictions of n "return to
Imlmv spring weather" todnv set
about nigging themselves out of rec
ord-brcaking Eustor snowfalls. The
warm blizznrd. ns official forecaster
designated it, developed in the Texas
('unbundle and yesterday swept
rapidly through the central west, to
day continuing steadily eastward, the
snowfnll ranging from six inches to
two feet.
In the open country of the south
west entile were reported to have suf
fered. There wen! few official re
ports of crop damage, however.
bv noon vesterduv Hie snow, driven
into huge dr'I'ts liv gales that averag
ed ,'10 to 'Iff miles an hour, had htiriei
railroad tracks, eitv boulevards end
country highways throughout the af
fected regions. Suburban nnd trans
continental trains moved hours be
hind schedules. Telegraph nnd tele
phone communication was cut off in
some sections and in Chicago nnd
sonic oilier e lies, electric servico wns
crippled.
Vi line Hie ("iiipcniluro in portions
of (he southwest dropped ns low ns
twenty degrees, in the central west
It was (he minimum nocordihg to re
ports. Melting of the snow under the
wnmnng sun threatened floods in
some streams, it was reported.
Sunshine nnd temperature of tin'
less than fifty degrees were forecast
for Chicago toduy.
I W
SON OFPORTLAND AIT'Y
KILLED, WHEN RESISTS
' ARREST BY POLICE
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PORTLAND, Ore., April 5.
A coroner's iiupiest was to bo
held tonight over the body of.
Wavne Cnsou, 1!), son of a Port
land attorney, killed last night
during a struggle with members
of the local police force, Ca
son, according to the police, was
nrrested for drunkenness and
resisted arrest. Three policemen
were rcipiircd to take him to tho
police station, .where the police
siiv, he again showed resistance.
During the straggle, the polieo
say, a revolver fell from the
pocket of one of tho officers,
accidentally discharging the bal
let penetrating Cason's lung,
entering (he body under tho arm.
E BY
POSSE ON TRAIL
(CHESTEIt, 111., April G. An arm
ed posse is scouring tho Mississippi
river bottoms south of Chostor, in
pursuit of eight Inmutos ot the Chcs
tor stato hospital for erluilual insano
who participated in the delivery ut
the institution lute Saturday nlgUt
when fifteen men mudo their escnpo
after assaulting and overpowering
tho night keeper. Hospital officials
said tho men who1 escaped were con
sidered among the most dangorous of
the inmutos.
Seven of tho men wero captured
yesterday and last night and roturnod
to the hospital. Ono of tho number,
Hurry Slock, of Rock Island, HI.,
wns probably fatally, shot when ho re
sisted capture.
U. S. RED CROSS GIVES
4000 EASTER GIFTS 10
.VIENNA, April 5. Four thousand
destitute Austrian civilians who dur
ing the war wero interned in foreign
prison camps nnd who nre now tem
porarily lodged in municipal bnrraeks
outside this city, received Easter
gifts from the American Red Cross.
Euch received sugar, coffee, cocon,
canned meats nnd crackers nnd every
child wns given a package of choco
lates and several cans of condensed
milk, the iift of tho iunior Red Cross
of America.
Twenty-four -hundred nuirs of
shoes 1,000 women nnd girls over
coats, 2.000 blankets nnd 2.000 pnirs
of stockings were also distributed.
SALEM", Ore., April 5. Governor
Oleott announced todnv thnt J. M.
Bateheldcr f Lakcviow will be ap
pointed circuit indge for the llth
judicial district to Buncoed Judge L.
F. Conn. Tho latter hns resigned, ef
fective April 7. Frjissura of private
business wns the reason for Judge
Conn's resignation, it is said.
OF
OF FIELD
BELFAST, April 5. Inquiries
made this morning of tho police from
Londonderry to Cork and from Bel
fast to Sligo, showed there hud been
no renewal last night of the wavo of
incendiarism that swept over Ireland
on the ovo of Easter Sunday.
Field M!arshal Sir llenrv Wilson,
chief of the imperial army staff, ar
rived in Belfast this morning to re
ceive the freedom of tho city.
LONDON. April 5. Reports con
tinued to reach London todnv of tin
destruction of property bv raids in
Ireland bv nrmcd bunds, most of
which occurred Suturdnv night. Po
lice, barracks seemed tti hnve been
tho main objectives of tho raiders.
Among places whoVo tho bnrracks
were burned or blown up wero Cork,
W.W.'SGET
FROM 25 TO
FORTY YEARS
Judiie Wilson Denies New Trial and
Sentences Seven Wobblies Con
victed of Second Decree Murder for
Slavina of Walter 0. Grimm At
torney Vanderveer Gives Notice of
Appeal Against Sentence Juror
Declared Prejudiced.
MONTESANO. Wnsh., April 5 The
seven men convicted here Mnrch 13 o
sect iid degree murder for tho slavine
of Warren O. Gromm. Centralia
Armistice Dnv parade victim, were
sentenced to not less than -25 years
each in states prison nor more than
10 years bv Judge John M. Wilson
after he had denied a defense motion
for a new trial. Defonso Attorney
Vanderveor took exception to the sen
tence and gave notice of appeal.
MONTESANO, Wash.. April" 5.
Declaring the verdict in tho onse of
tho seven I. W. W. found miilty ot
murder in tho second degreo for the
denth of Warren O. Grimm, Ccntraiin,
Armistice Day murder victim, to be a ,
"travesty of justice," nnd that pub
lic opinion so held it, George F. Vnn
dervcer, defense nttornev today nr
gued his motion for a now trial he
foreo Judge John M. Wilson.
Decision on the motion was re
served until this afternoon,
Vnnderveer cited three grounds for
n new trial: ;
1. That tho verdict wits "senso
less," that it did not decide whether!
the men wore guilty or innocent. -
2. That thore were grave errors
of Inw made during the trial... . ,
3. That Juror Henrv Sellers entor
cd tho jury box proiiidibed." Fivo
affidavits wero submitted in an at
tempt to provo Sellers prejudiced.
In nnswering Vanderveor both
special prosecutors, W. II. Abel nnd
C. D. Cunninghnm expressed dissatis
faction with tho verdict because it
wns too lenient.
Of the statements attributed to
noners in tno nnuiavits tiled, one
was that ho said "whon thoy kiil
our soldiers they kill our best
friends." Another statement attrib
uted to Sellers was "I'm coiner to bo
ono of tho -jurors nnd I'll hang every
damn ono of them." 1 The affidavit
containing this nllegcd stdtoment by
Sellers wns made bv nn I. W. W. in
vestigator, r .. ... -
BR1TISHEXCHANGE
GOES TO OVER $4.
NEW YORK. April 5. Tho British
exchange rnto rose above $4 today
after being below that figure since
December first last. Cnbles on Lon
don sold nt $4.00 shortly after tho
opening and demand bills nt $3.09.
French, Italian nnd Gorman rate!
also wero firmer, frane ehecks open
ing nt 14.55 to the dollar, lire checks
at 20.52 to tho dollar, marks 1.54o.
Cnnndinn dollars nt'91.65e.
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Clonolough, Dunkerrin, Cloakennv,
Bnllymnokev, Dolln, Ballinderrv. Ard
fort, Bnllyheigue Katbeoole, and
Drinngh.
Sevcrnl barracks in north Tippe
rarv nlso were destroyed.
Other buildings destroyed include
tho Ballvvourncv courthouse, nhilo
tho press association roports tho
Protestant school house nt MUHown
burned nnd nt Olin the windows, or
gan nnd other furniture broken on
Sunday night, nt St. Paul Protestant
church. Raids were carried out on
customs nnd excise tax offices in
some places, notably Renngh and
Sligo, where income tax papers wero
destroyed. Tho Dublin postoffice this
morning reported a general stoppage
of telegraphic communication to north,
Ireland. ... , . ...