Medford M ail Tribune
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Predictions
Tonight and tomorrow, fair.
Tomorrow morning light to
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MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, APRIL 10, 1920.
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ROAD STRIKE SWE
EPS THE COUNTRY
ADRIATIC QUESTION IS Ininio nrm v m mini Min
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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."