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Newspaper Page TextMedford M ail Tribune The Weather Maximum yesterday 58 Minimum today 38 Precipitation MU Predictions Tonight and tomorrow, fair. Tomorrow morning light to heavy frost. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1920. NO. 17 RA ROAD STRIKE SWE EPS THE COUNTRY ADRIATIC QUESTION IS Ininio nrm v m mini Min i 1 i 8 I V. SWITCHMEN'S WALKOUT THREATENS COMETEI UP ALL TRANSPORTATION Passenger Trains in East Cancelled. Express and Freight Embargo Called, U. S. Mail Piled Up at Chicago Is Put in Storehouse for Safe Keeping Federal Investigation Impends Gompers Rushes to Cleveland, Ohio, for Conference With Railroad Brotherhood Leaders Coast Freight Paralyzed in Portland and San Francisco, But Pas senger Trains Run on Schedule 40,000 Employes Now Out With 500,000 Made Idle in Other Lines I.. W. W. Switchman in Chicago Arrested for Speech Made Thursday Night. CniCAGO, April 10. Federal in tervention unless the railroad strike is ended within 48 hours, was in (It eated as probable at the federal build ing today. District Attorney Clyne, following n conference which had lasted since early Inst night, said the government had the power to cope with the situa tion brought about bv the interrup tion of food shipments. Mir. Clvne lias received instructions from Attor ney General Palmer regarding tbe course to. be pursued, it was learned. The district attorney yesterday conferred with members of the Brotherhood of Railway Engineers and immediately called a, conference of department of iustieo officials and heads of the bureau of investigation which lasted throughout the night. Plants Closed ; ! The strike spread to eleven mora districts today and in seven cities the ranks of the strikers were in creased, news' reports show. California, Kansas Gity and Cham paign, 111., reported 525 men voting to return to work, but their number was more than offset bv more than 4000 additions to the "outlaw" unions in other' cities. ' Coal mines in southern Illinois havo practically nil censed work, as there are no cars to move the fuel. Twenty thousand coal miners in this state are idle. Three food plants in this district closed today, the Corn Products factory at Argo, and the Quaker and Nationnl Outs plants at Cedar Rapids. The state asylum was without light last night becauso of its inability to get coal and officials say the power plant will be entirely closed by to night. The first accident resulting from operation of engines bv inexperienced crews occurred today when two switching engines, running double, struck and demolished four automo bile trucks nnd a wagon on a down town crossing. r WASHINGTON. April 10 Samuel Gompers, president of the American i Federation of Labor, is en route from New York to .Cleveland, hendciuartei-3 of the brotherhood of trainmen. Federation officials here would not discuss the purpose of the trip, but it was understood be would confer with the brotherhood chiefs on, the unau thorized strike of railroad employes. CHICAGO, April 10. Started as a freight tieup, the railroad strike to day Invaded the. passenger field at ' New Yclrk, where several trains were cancelled, while the freight tieup ' Continued to spread among . yard " Switching crews from coast to coast. In Chicago, birthplace of the "out law" unions which called the first of the "Illegal"' strikes, brotherhood heads and railroad officials claimed some slight improvement today. One encouraging sign wob the delivery at MAIL PLANE CATCHES FIRE, AVIATOR JUMPS, IS RESCUED BY COMPANION CAMDEN", N. J., April 10. Lien tenant 'Mark C. Hogue ot Portland, Ore., and Lieutenant Richard Wright of Cleveland, O., were Injured today when the aerial mail plane they were piloting from (Bustleton, Pa., to Washington, caught fire 1700 feet over Berlin, fifteen miles from here. Hogue, the pilot, who escaped with bruises, did a nose dive. When the machine was 200 feet from the ground, Wright, who had crawled out pa one of the wings, dropped. Both the stctekyards ot 179 cars of cattle, almost twice as many as have been moved on any one day since the strike was called April 1. i . . While available figures indicate between 35,000 and 40,000 railroad men have joined the unauthorized strikes, railroad managers hero esti mated today that at least half a mil lion workers in other lines have been forced out of employment by the freight tieup. Reports from strike centers thruout the country today shew the following men out: Portland Tie-up PORTLAND, April 10. Freight traffic in and out of Portland was completely tied Up this morning, ac cording to reports of railroad offic ials. All of the switchmen employed by the Southern Pacific at its Brook lyn yards, forty in all, failed to report for we'rk today, officials said. Five Southern Pacific men were out at Al bina. A total ot 110' are reported. At the S. P. and S. yards, thirty men, virtually the entire-force, had failed to report. Similar conditions are said to prevail in the Northern Pacific terminals, where the O. W. R. R. and N. freight trains are handled. Approximately 110 men are out here, it was said. An embargo has been placed on all freight althb passenger trains are ar riving and departing on schedule. (Desertions of inOre yard and switch men and at least seven brakemen from their posts at other points ag gravated the railroad strike situation in California today. The Western Pacific and Santa Fe system were the heaviest sufferers thruout the night and early morning, twenty Westorn Pacific men going out at Stockton, and fifteen Santa Fe men at Rich mond, according to company reports. The Sc'nthern Pacific in its report today reducod tho number of its strikers in California from' 1330 to 1200 as the result ot the improved conditions reported. No freight was moving over the Southern Pacific in the San Francisco bay district but passonger trains were said to be maintaining their schedules. Fifteen men were reported out at the company's station at Brooklyn, Oregon. . KANSAS CITY, .Mo., April 10. One hundred nnd twenty-five switch men employed bv the Rock Island railroad returned to work todav. ac cording to railroad officials. Sixty five firemen on Kansas Citv Termi nal company locomotives who went on strike in sympathy with tho switch men were also reported as having returned to work. CLEVELAND, O., April 10. A miutini, nP TiOO Vltr.llMPn PllltllriVd OTl Cleveland railroads adjourned at noon todav alter the mei: nal voted to co on strike at 2 o"clock this after noon. They left the hall ehecrnj (Continued on Page Six) legs and his right arm were broken. The plane then hit a tree and the gasoline tank exploded, setting the1 tree on fire. Hogue was blown out of his seat, but picking himself dp he searched for his companion and then brought him to a hospital here, where it is feared he may die. Both aviators fcad served In France during the war. Wright, who Is cred ited .with having brought down Ger man planes, was seriously wounded in one combat, ; . HOUSE ADOPTS PEACE RESOLUTION, SENATE Tl I. ' l rf WASHINGTON, April 10. With the adoption by the house Ot the joint resolution declaring the war with Germany at an end, the senate today again be- came the "battleground for 4 peace." Both republican and democratic leadors expected the measuro to bo taken up there without great delay, probably Monday. Sponsors of the measure were confident its passago would be obtained with considerable more than a majority. The resolution was adopted late yesterday by the house 242 to 150. , t Immediate passage ' by the senate'after it is called up there was not looked (or, however. , IS VICTORIOUS FIRST CINCINNATI, April 10. In the "preliminary skirmishes" of the threatened Industrial war, "big busl ness" has beaten its rival, the trades unions, Dr. Royal Meeker, commis sioner of labor statistics for the de partment of labor, declared in an ad dress today before the City clubs. He urged' cooperation in the struggle against high prices. "Bj a carefully planned and lav ishly financed campaign of misrepre sentation," Dr. Meeker declared, "big business has succeeded in magnifying the defects and obscuring or discred iting the benefits of publicly control led and managed enterprises." Contrary to the popular belief. Dr. Meeker said, profiteering was the re-. suit and not the cause of high prices. Increase of prices, he snld, was to be attributed to two causes:doubllng of tho quantity of currency and decrease In the quantity of goods, the profiteer was the result of these conditions. IS PORTLAND, Ore., April 10. Fu neral services for tho late Matthew S, Hughes, resident bishop of Orcon for the Methodist Episcopal church, were held here today from the first first Methodist church. Final rites were under the auspices of the church nnd of the Masonic lodge. Eulogies were delivcded 1J Bishop Paul B. Mitchell of St. "Paul nnd Hishop Earl Cranston, first resident bishop of the church in the north west. The body luv in state today until the funeral at 1:30 o'clock. Final ceremonies were held at the Portland crematorium lute this ufter noon, the body being placed in n vault there pending final burial arrange ments. . . .d Census Returns WASHINGTON,, April 10 l'opn hit ion statistics announced 'by the census bureau today included ; Corning, N. Y., 15,280, an increase of 20(10 or 15.2 per cent over 101(1. Kt. Albans, Vt., 7582, increase 1201 or 18.8 per cent. Middletown, O., 23,594, increase 10,442 or 70.4 per cent. Cape Girirdeau, Mo., 10,252, in crease 3340 or 13.8 -per cent. Fon du Lac, Wis., increase 4G30 or 24.6 per cent. Ln Porte, Ind., 15,158, increase 4G33 or 44 per cent. BUENOS AIRES, April 10. Bo livia will continue to pursue with "Irrevocable resolution" Jts purpose to obtain the port of A flea as an out let for her to the Pacific, according to a new note from Bolivia to Peru, which la published here. ' The note answers the latest Peruvian commu nication declining to recognize Bo livia's aspirations. REBELLION IN SONORA BREAKS OUT State Government North Mexico Severs Relations With Carranza- Mexican President Ordered to Halt Mobilization of Federal Troops- Attempts to Invade State Boun daries Will Be Resisted War Looms. NOGALES, Ariz., April 10 The state government of Sonorn, Mexico. severed relations with the Mexican federal government last night, accord ing to an official telegram received here today. Governor Do La lluertn of Sonorn. in n telegram to General Salvador Al -vnrndu here, said : "In view of the replies of President Carranza to the governor and con gress of the state of Sonorn it was decided- to suspend relations with the central government until such a time ns tho causes leading to the deter mination had censed to exist." Military Plot The state authorities of Sonora had culled upon President Carranza to halt the mobilization of federal troops within Sonorn, Thev charged the Mexican president with plotting to establish a military dictatorship in the state and tako over the state gov ernment. It had been opcnlv charged this was a plot against the presiden tial enndidacy of General Obregon. Cnrranza answered tho state authori ties that he had no such intention, but that tho troops were being order ed to Sonora for the general welfure of the countr". Cnrranza Repudiated AGUA PRIETA, Sonorn. Mexico, April 10. The initial break toward open revolt in Sonorn came this morn ing when the Sonora state congress convened in secret session at Ilcrmo sillo, repudiated the Mexican central government and adopted resolutions declaring the slate Would tako steps to resist any invasion by troops or in fringement of slale rights nttcmplcd by the Carranza government, accord ing to Fernando Mendozn, who madu the nunouiicement in Aguu Prieta to day. This is taken to mean ill American circles that Sonorn is making open declaration of independence and is in line with action reported to ho in progress by the state to defy Cnr ranza to disclinrgo tho customs House workers at the port of Agun Prieta. llnndits Hanged AGUA PRIETA. Sonora. Mexico. April 10. lioberto Carrillo, chief ot the Carranza secret service, who re turned here this morning from the central section f,tlio state, brings news of n wholesale execution at Nuevo Minos yesterday when a com pany of federal cavalrymen, who hud been scouring the 'mountains in Ih.i vicinity of Nucvo Minns trapped n party of twenty-five bandits in Ihe Canon Diablo (Devils Canyon) south of that nlnce. According to ndviees, stated Senor Carrillo, a' pitched battle ensued which lasted for about six hours, during which seven bandits : were killed, the balance surrendering, pro viding they be extended immunity. The prisoners, eighteen in number, were taken into Nuevo Minos, given trial nnd sentenced to be hanged. lie fore sundown a platform nnd scaffold had been built in the public sminre of Nuevo Minos and soon the m'litarv commander ordered the bandits ex ecuted in the presence of the resi dents of the little town, who about three weeks ago suffered at the hands of the raiders, who entered the town, and uftcr looting same, murdered several citizens. WASHINGTON, April li. The senate session today was exclusively taken up with eulogies to the late Thomas S. Martin,, senator from Vir ginia and for many years democratic floor leader ln the upper house. Senator Martin was One of the last confederate veterans to ' sit In the senate, having enlisted In the south ern army as a boy of 16. Senator Kelson, republican of Min nesota, himself a Civil war veteran, but of the Union armies, jolne1 'n voicing praises of the dead Virginian. illOI'l IS REPORTED SETTLED. U.S. ADVICE IS NOT ASKED I.ONIOf April 10. Report that a new basis or settlement of tho Adriatic question hua been nror-osed by Premier Lloyd George on which I ho udviee of tho United States was not solic ited, were confirmed by an an thorit alive Serbian quarter this morning. . Tho proposals are character ized by Serbian partisans as tho most acceptable yet urivnnced, but the announcement that they have been definitely accepted by tho Italo-Serbian conferees la said to be premature. "There aro very good grounds for believing that an end will be put to this tangle nt tho San Remo conference next week," said the Associated Press' infor mant. N.Y. I T WAY TO NEW YORK, April 10. Scenes such us havo seldom, if ever, boon witnessed, occurred today at ferry terminal!). With the tubes closed to them, commuters, pushed and shoved their way through the ferry gates, During the rush hours no teams or nutoipobilcs were allowed on the oonts nnd tlie space usually occupied bv them was filled by struggling liu inanity. The city's milk supply is reported not vet to havo been affected. A supply was brought in during tho night by rnilroad officiuls stoking yard engines. Morning newspapers announced tilt strike of railroad workers had so accentuated tho scarcity of nuws print paper that several pages had been dropped. First editions of mnny pupers comprised only four pages. A summary of the situation this morning bv J. J. Montcll. chairman of the sub-committee of the Railroad General Managers association, re ported freight of nil kinds virtually tied tin on all roads entering Greater New York and passenger service somewhat curtailed. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE COIIVALL1S, Ore., April 10. Dr. H. P. Harrows, professor of agricul tural education at Oregon Agricultur. al collego and state supervisor of ag ricultural education undor the Smith Hughes act, has resigned. He will becomo federal regional agent far agricultural education nnd his terri tory will comprise the seven western states. Headquarters fcr the work will be at San Francisco. COKVALL1S, Ore., April 10. Nearly a million dollar!) $929,497 was saved to the farmers of Oregon thru the work of the county agents, according to the annual report of Paul V. Marin, county agent leader. This was done at a cost ot $99,475, or approximately $10 saved to $1 spent. i SALEM, Ore., April 10. Llfo In surance companies operating ln Ore gon transacted new business to the amount of $49,397,157.07 In 1919, according to a report prepared .today by A.' C. Barber, state insurance com missioner, and filed with Oovernor Olcott. The net gain ln the amount of Insurance in effect on December 31, 1919, over December 31, 1918, was $83,856,313.19. SALEM, Ore., April 10. Four fa tal accidents out of a total of 444 In dustrial casualties were recorded at the offices of the state Industrial ac cident commission for the week end ing April 8. 123.000 Bibles Stolen. CHICAGO, April 10. Chicago Do- lice today were searching for the meanest thieves" who stole 123,000 bibles valued at $:i7.i00 from tho Prison Hiblo society. The bibles iters carried away in a moving van. rHIIOIfLI lUCIlULH u CONCILIATORY, TENSION CONSIDERABLY REDUCED French Appeal for Allied Conference Regarded as Good Omen In Lon donConversations Expected to Be Over in Time for an Announce ment bv Premier Millerand on Monday Order Beinn Restored in Ruhr Vallev But Fresh Spartacist Outbreaks Are Reported in Sax ony Germany and Austria Pleased at Protests AqalnsJ French Action bv Allies Diplomatic Defeat for French Militarism Is View France A'qrees to Take No Further Action Without Agreement of Her Allies Agrees With Lloyd-George Unity is Essential. LONDON, April 10. The reply of Fiance to the British noto on tho ac tion taken bv France in occupying nd 1 i t i mi it I German territory, was re ceived in London today. Officials here view tho noto as conciliatory, because of the expressed desiro of the French for an allied conference. In other official quarters tho French note is considered to have relieved tho tension of yesterday. PARIS, April 10. Conversation' between tho allies relative to the French advance cast of the Rhine may be completed in time to allow Premier Millerand to make u state in out on the situation in the chamber of deputies Monday, according to the Petit Pnrisien. ' BERNE, April 10. While order is being restored in the Ruhr region after the prolonged disorders there, a now revolt is reported in tin) in dustrial town of Pluuen, in Vogt lund, Saxony. Communists .there P'.'sterduy uttacked the police and leichswolir and nftcr hard fighting occupied tho polico posts, barracks and railroad stations. ' VIENNA, April 10. Satisfaction over dispatches telling of dissension between Great Britain and France rolativo to the action of the latter in sending troops into German cities eiist.pl: the Rhine is not concealed by Vienna newspapers, which cxpross the hope that Franco will be isolated. Franco is credited with designs which ninv provoke further blood shed by the Neue Freio Presso, which invites the entente to intervene "mora than verbally to prevent fresh hostili ties." Other newspapers speak of Franco its having received "diplo matic defeat." ' ' Itcrlin Is Pleased BERLIN, April 0. Qreat Britain's disapproval of the nction of France in occupying cities in the neutral zone east of the Hhino is hailed bv news papers hero with moderate expres sion of satisfaction. ' "Franco is in tho thrall of chauvin ism and militarism,,' snvs the Vor wncrts, "which, as Germany's fnte bus shown, lead nations inevitably to perdition. It is essential that Ger many seek to live in ngreement with her neighbors, and it is the duty of the French socialists to see that the ground for this understanding be prc pured. An international crisis can lie nvoided only by the Lcuguo of Nations becoming a reality and tak ing n hand in the solution." "Great Britain's attitude." the Tngeblutt declares, "is a reminder to France thnt the Versailles treaty is not a compnet between France nnd Germany, but all European belliger ents. The British stand is a bud Mow PLAN REORGANIZATION OF U. Sj NAVY WASHINGTON, April 10. Oyer the protest of tho democratic mem bars the senate committee Investlgat In the 8im8-Danlels row decided to day to broaden the scope of Its work to Include suggestions for the re organization of the navy department. Senator Plttman, democrat, Ne vada, strenuously objected to the ex amination of Rear Admiral F. F. Fletcher by Chairman Hole td devel op re-organization suggestions, de claring the committee had no author ity to go Into that mattor. Chairman to tho Mllernnd government, but i is immaterial who rules France so long ns blind militarism is not sun planted by common sense." Tho Lfliknl Anzeigcr, while admit ting there is a "dawn of common sense in the world." asks why tho allies of France did not net moro promptly. Mlllmnnd's Noto ' PARIS, April 10. The note sent yesterday by Premier Millerand to the British government, in reply ' to the British note with regard fa thq notion of France in sending troops into! tho neutral zone in Germany, says: . -'; "Tho Fronch government affirms first of nil that no doubt ban' be felt of the loyalty of its attitude. The allies have been constantly in formed of its policy. Tho French government has always opposed tl)'e entry of supplementary German troops into the Ruhr region and has added that the authorization for such nn entry must havo a counterpart in, the occupation' of . Frankfort and Darmstadt. "On April 3 its representatives in all the allied capitals informed the governments to which they were ac credited (at tho same time a copy being sent to the allied representa tives in Paris) that Marshal Foch'u measures could no longer' be post poned. Furthermore, the French gov ernment recalled thnt tho matter con cerned the violation of ode of the most solemn clauses of the treaty signed by Franco, and that the Ger-, man government had formally recog nized that formal authorization, given in advance, was nocessnry for such a derogation, and that Franco had tho right to ask for territorial guarantees. As to German Promises! . "How could tho government . of France havo been satisfied with the Germun promise to withdraw tho troops when order had been restored? Neither for reparations nor for the delivery if the war-guilty, nor for coal, have the allies received the stip ulated satisfaction. "The question could be asked when tho British government, which no doubt has not measured the danger of these svstcmatio violations, would step in the path of concessions. France, in any case, was obliged to say: 'That is enough.' ' Must Havo Unity s "The Fronch . govornmont is nd less convinced than the English gov ernment of the essential necessity of maintaining unity of the allies for tho application of the treaty with Ger many. This close concert of Franco nnd Englnnd nppears to Franco equally indispensable for the equitable (Continued rm Page 8lx) TO Hale declared the committee was authorized to investigate anything connected with the navy department, and when Senator Plttman persisted, a vote was taken. The two democrats present voted against extending the inquiry and the two1 republicans vot ed In favor ot doing so. Chairman Hale then cast the deciding vote. Senator Plttman announoed be would carry his protest to the full naval committee immediately. It the inquiry were extended as proposed, he said, the committee would ho In ses sion "the rest ot tho year."