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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 120, 1920.
NO. 25
RAILROAD MEN VOTE A
R. R. CLERKS
VOTE DOWN
NEW STRIKE
30,000 Railway Clerks and 8000
Freight Handlers in Chicago Dis
trict Vote Against Unauthorized
Walk Out and Decide to Leavo
Wage Demands to Labor Board
Third Walk Out Looms by Main
tenance of Way Brotherhood.
DETROIT, April 20. A walkout
April 28 on the part of 100,000 mem
bers of the Brotherhood of Mainten
ance of Way Employes and Railway
Bhbp Laborers in the Chicago district
will not receive sanction of the
brotherhood,' E. G. Gable, president
of the arganlzatlon, said hero today.
CHICAGO, April 20. Strike fever
among railroad employes suffered a
setback when 30,000 railway clerks
and 8000 freight handlers In the Chi
cago district announcod today their
decision to permit hearing of their
wage demands by the railroad labor
board at Washington.
The district council of the Brother
hood of Railway Clerks, which in
cludes freight handlers, voted last
night against an unauthorized walk
out. . i -..
Assurance was'glven by tlio Asso
ciation of Railroad Managers that
the roads would Join with tho broth
erhood in asking tHo labor board to
grant tho men increases. Tho rail
way clerks, who receive in general a
minimum of $8750 a month, ask an
increase of 20 cents an hour. The
freight handlers domand an increase
of 12 cents an hour and restoration
of wage differentials between truck
ers, callers and stowers, abolished
when the government took over con
trol of the roads. Freight handlers
receive 43 cents an hour.
Traffic Normal
Freight movement in the Chicago
district, hampered by the unauthor
ized yardmen's and engincmen's
strike, continued to increase today
and elsewhere In the middle west and
far west traffic conditions were re
turning to normal.
Four Chicago strike leadors, in
cluding John Grunau, president of
the Chicago Yardmen's association,
were in jail pending hearing on
charges of- violating the Lover act.
Warrants wore out for 27 persons
indicted yesterday by the federal
grand Jury in Los Angelos in connec
tion with the strike.
Another Htriko Ixwms
Possibility of another serious blow
lo the railroads in tho Chicago dis
trict loomed today with a threat that
100,000 members of the Brothorhood
of Maintenance of Way and Railroad
Shop Laborers would leave their
work on April 28 unloss their 'de
mands for a temporary increase of
$1 a day and time and a half for
overtime after eight hours were
granted. Chairmen of the northwest
district of the organization, which
embraces an area within a radius of
500 miles of Chicago, involving 35
roads, tolographed to E. G. Gable of
Detroit, president of the brother
hood, requesting him to present their
demands.
According to brotherhood officials,
these workers now are paid from
$2.24 to $3.20 a day.
CAPTAIN DISPUTES SIMS'
WASHINGTON, April 20. Rear
Admiral Sims "strained a point to
make a case agninst the navy," when
he charged that its failure to co
operate fully with tho allies during
tho first few months of American
participation in the war postponed
victory four months. Captain Pratt,
war time assistant chief of operations
declared todav before the senate com
mittee investigating the Sims-Daniels
low.
Pratt saiil onlv one charge made
bv Sims could properly be considered
crave, that, he said, was the nsser
in that the failure of the navv to
throw. jts full weight into the struggle
SOLVE THE SCARCITY
OF SCHOOL TEACHERS
BY A JITNEY SERVICE
ROSEBURG, Ore., April 20.
With scarcity of teachors still
apparent in Douglas county, the
problem of securing Instructors
for all the schools has resolved
itself into the matter of consoli
dation of many districts. At
Green, the directors of five dis
tricts will consider the question
of consolidation.
With Green as the central
district among the five, and
with three of them on tho Pa
cific highway, the pupils can bo
transported to the school by
autos, according to proponents
of the plan and the teachers in
the one school can be paid high
er salarlos than if a number
were employed.
PAIR IN N. J.
Clothina Firms Advertise Overalls
With Gold and Rhinestone Buckles
From $10.75 U $4350 Denim,
Tuxedo and Calico Wedding Gowns
Latest is New York.
NEW YORK, April 20 Hendimar
ters for tho organizntion of n mam
moth overall parade which will invade
the clothing manufacturers district
Saturday were opened today bv the
Cheese club, local lender of the
La: k-io-thc-overnlls movement.
It was iinniimiccd that persons who
Preferred to v.cnr old, patched cloth
ing instead of committing the "ex
travagance" of buying overalls would
be welcome in tho line of march.
Fancy, as well as plain overalls
will appear. One firm inserted ad
vertisements in newspapers todnv of
fering denims "custom tailored in
stylish spring and summer models,''
at $10 and denim tuxedos for even
ing wear at $12.30. It also offered
"modish evening, wedding and after
noon gowns," of calico and ginchnm
at $15.
NEWARK. N. J.. April 20. Over
alls at $43.50 a pair is tho latest quo
tation in the nation's war on high
priced clothing.
The following newspaper '(adver
tisement inserted bv a local merchant
appeared today:
"Substantial overalls in fashionable
one-piece models, made of strong
serviceable material, suitable alike
for dress, for office work, for brick
laying, for banking, boilermnkmg,
bookkeeping, fishing, school, garden
ing banquets, church and the theater.
Thcv are pleasingly priced ns follows:
Plain overalls, $2.25 to $3.50 : over
alls with belts and solid gold, ster
ling silver, and Trench ennmel buck
els, from $10,75 to $40: overalls with
rhinostone buckles $42.25 to $43.50."
MITCHELL. S. D., April 20. Dr.
W. D. Si'hermorhorn. president of
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OVERALLS GO
10 $43.50 PER
AGAINST SECY
from the start cost $15,000,000,000
and 500.000 lives.
"What does Admiral Sims mean 7"
the witness asked. "Can we. a nation
at peace, no matter what our incli
nations mav be, perform overt acts
of preparation which are onlv justi
fied acts of wart I denv the charge."
Pratt told the committee that dur
ing the enrlv part of the war onlv
nine or ten nnti-siibmnrine craft were
kept at home to protect the Atlantic
coast, while during the same period
the British admiralty kept 111 di
strovers with the grand fleet nnd en
tirely out of anti-submarine opera
Itipns. . ,
ARE
KILLED IN
Mississippi and Alabama Are Visited
by Devastaating Tornado 18
Killed Near Birmingham 12 Killed
When Deemer Lumber Camp Is De
stroyedProperty Damage Tre
mendousBig Hog Ranch Com
pletely Destroyed.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 20,
Eighteen persons are known to have
been killed and great property dam
age done bv a tornado which started
in southern Mississippi just before
noon today and swept up that state
into southern Tennessee.
Fragmentary reports received late
todav showed that the storm swept
four Mississippi towns Bay Springs.
Aberdeen, Columbus and Glen and
did some damage in Williamson coun
ty, Tcnn., whero one man was killed.
The dead at Bav Springs were plac
ed at four, at Glen eight, nt Colum
bus, five with several at Aberdeen.
The storm started in southeastern
Mississippi. It zig-zngged up the
state sweeping Columbus, Aberdeen
and Glen in the order named before
passing into Tennessee.
SHEFFIELD, Ala., April 20 A
tornado swept this section of Aln
bnma today killing a fanner, his wife
and two children in Colbert county.
One man is reported to havo been
killed in Franklin county.
ABERDEEN, Miss.. April 20. Sev
eral persons nre reported to have
becnkillcd and between fortv and fifty
injured in li tornado which struck
Aberdeen early todav. Early reports
estimate tho property dnmuge at ap
proximately $200,000.
The Harbold hog ranch near Aber
deen, one of the largest enterprises
of its kind in this section, is reported
to have been destroyed.
PHILADELPHIA, Miss.. April 20.
Twelve persons were killed and 25
injured today in a tornado which
struck the Deemer lumber camp six
miles north of hero.
MERIDIAN, Miss.. April 20. Ten
persons wero killed on the outskirts
of Meridian, nnd two nt Runnets
Bridge and many others were injured
when a tornado struck here todnv.
Houses in tho suburbs were blown
down.
About a dozen unidentified bodies
have been brought into local under
taking establishments.
' HATTIESBURG, Miss., April 20.
Four persons nre reported killed in
n tornudo which swept Bnv Springs,
county sent of Jasper county todav.
According to advices received here
the sheriff of Jasper county was
among thoso killed.
LAUREL, Miss., April 20 Re
ports received here todnv said Br.v
Springs, 18 miles north of Laurel, had
been levelled bv a tornndo nnd that
several persons had been killed.
F AFTER A
20
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BELLIXGHAM, Wash., April 20
After a wild race of twenty miles
three Soattlo men, Charles Carroll
and Mark and Henry Spencer, broth
ers, were taken Into custody hero to
day. The men. driving two cars.
crossed the border at 'Blaine without
stopping and were chased to Fern
dale by customs officers. Unable to
overtake the suspects, the customs
officers telephone the sheriff's office
here and the men were met this side
of Ferndnle by two deputies. One of
the machines went into the ditch and
Carroll, the driver, surrendered with
seven sacktulls of bottled whiskey.
One of the sheriff's cars, which had
been used to block the highway, also
was ditched. ,
WINDSTORM
ALLIES THREATEN TO
IF
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PARIS, April 80 (Bv the As-'
sociatcd Prcss)-AU tho allied
nAirniv oitnonrnnd nnur hiivo nn.
nroved tho principle of the col-
lectivo representations to be
made to the Berlin government
regarding the execution of tho
treaty of Versailles, and the
charges d'affaires of the several
allied nations will probably be
instructed to call at once at tho
Wilhemstrasso and deliver the
declaration.
Tho declaration is not regard-
ed as an ultimatum, but Gcr-
many will be given to under-
stand that as a disagreeable,
alternative to compliance with
the terms of the treaty regarding
disarmament the allies will be
unable to continue the relations
re-established in the peace
treaty.
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R.R. DEMAND
Written Demands Presented to Rail
road Labor Board bv Railroad
Workers Wage Increase From 41
to 47 Per Cent is Asked With Over
time on Sunday and Holidays 26
Day Month With 20 Minutes for
Lunch and Deadhead Rule.
WASHINGTON. April 20. Formal
written demands that tho railroad la
bor board give assurranccs of the
award of a "living wage" to railroad
men and that the employes now on
strike would bo returned . to work
without loss of seniority or preju
dice wero filed with the board todav
bv Edward McIIugh, representing the
strikers in the Metropolitan district
of New York, nnd James Eubnnks of
the St. Louis Yardmen's association.
Tho board permitted filing of the
complaints after it had held a short
executive session. With tho com
plaints in the hands of the secretary.
the board proceeded with its first pub
lic hearing on the general wngc Ho
unds of the two million railroad
workers over the country.
Chairman Barton in opening the
first hearing, laid down the polity
that cases would be henrd in the order
in which thcv were filed except where
some dispute should become of such
pressing importance as to demnna
precedence.
W. N. Donk. vice president of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen, was the
fbVst spokesman for the unions. '
Principal demands presented bv Mr
Doak include:
A wage increase of from 41 io 4"
per cent with a minimum of $150 a
month and time and a half for over
time on Sundays and holidays. A
basic month of 20 days with a uni
form lunch period of 20 minutes and
a uniform "deadhead" rule providing
that time consumed in going to lind
from work be considered as working
time.
Tho trainmen compriso baggage
men, brnkemcn, flagmen, vnrd fore
men. helpers, switch tenders nnd
ynrdmastcrs below tho rank of gene
ral yardmastcr.
IS
ALLIANCE, Neb.. April 20. Bur
lington train number 42. which had
been snowbound eight miles west of
Hemingford since Sunday morning,
arrived here early today, 4!) hours
late. Three snowplows nnd 200 men
were required to clear the tracks. A
baby boy was bora on the train.
150 MONTH
MN
Ml
IS
BY SOVIETS
American Red Cross Nurses Return
ing From Russia Picture Great
Country as Prostrate Before Dead
Hand of Red Propaganda Plenty
of Food but None Will Work
people Helpless Before Inroads of
Disease.
SEATTLE. April 2(1. Picturing Si
beria as a countrv of utter despair,
whero disease is ihe greatest foe of
armies, the civilian population and
those who would render assistance o
tho unhappy inhabitants of once
prosperous cities and villages, twenty
one American Red Cross nurses and
nurses aides arrived in Scatllc toduy
Tho parlv left Vladivostok January
17, coming bv way of Manila.
There is no scarcity of food in Si
beria, according to the nurses, but the
inhabitants seem to be in the dentil
of utter discouragement and despair.
"I saw peasants idle with their
wheat fields unhiirvestcd," said Cap
tain A. K. lliggs of Portland. Ore.,
lender of the party. "The farther
you go. into the interior, the worse
conditions get."
"The Russians nro demoralized,"
said Mrs. G. J. Brandon of Los Ange.
les, chief nnrso of the party, who
sailed from San Francisco for Si
beria March 29 last year, as n mem
ber of the first unit. "They have
wonderful cities, wonderful rosourccs,
but no competent leaders."
Miss Grace Robertson of Chicago,
ono of the American workers who
took care of 1000 children sent out
of Petrograd by their parents when
that citv was under siege bv tho liol-
sheviki, told a pitiful storv of the two
year journey ncross Europe and
Asia to Vladivostok. The children
ranged in ages from four to eighteen
venrs. Although the bolshevik! had
agreed to let the children return to
their homes in Petrograd, Miss Rob
ertson snid it is doubtful if mnnv will
ever find their parents and arc likely
to become government charges.
BILL FOR ARMY
PASSES SENATE
WASHINGTON, April 20. The
army re-organlzatlon bill was passed
today by tho senate and now goes to
conference.
The mensuro provides for a regit-
lar army of 297,000 officers and men
a '.National Guard of 425,000 and a
voluntary system of military training
for young men between tho ages of
18 and 21.
Tho vote on passage of tho bill
was 40 to 10.
Opposing tho measure wore ono
republican, Gronna of North Dakota,
and nine democrats: Dlalm Ilarrlvon,
McKellar, Overman, Reed, Sheppard,
Simmons, Smith of South Carolina,
and Trammel!.
ANTI-STRIKE LAW IS A
POLITICAL NECESSITY
ST. LOUIS. April 20. Pursuit of
an aggressive foreign trade policy by
tho United States and enactment of
federal legislation to guarantee in
dustry against strikes, were advocat
ed by speakers at the opening session
of the Mississippi Valley association
convention here today.
The United States Is producing far
more than is needed for domestic
consumption, It was asserted and a
foreign market must he found for
this surplus. Federal legislation
guaranteeing against strikes was de
manded by Harry H. Merrick, preal
dent of the association.
"We must pool our resources," he
asserted, "so that only thoso favor
ing legislation against these criminal
attempts to stop production will be
elected to congress."
A A
IRS IS NOW NEAREST
TO EARTH; TRY TO GET
N TOUCH BY WIRELESS
OMAHA. Neb.. April 20. An
attempt is being niiide this week
to pick up wireless signals which
Mm1 alleged inhabitants of the
planet mars nro believed bv ex
perts to bo sending out to the
earth. This announcement was
mado todav bv Dr. Frederick H.
Milliner, wireless expert of this
citv.
Dr. Millcncr explained that
during this week the earth and
Mhrs will be closer together than
at any time during the year and
for that reason the experiment
will be conducted now.
WILSON TOAST
Associated Press President Pays Re
spects to Chief Executive and
Prays Restoration of His Health
Usual Charges of Political Cam
paign are Denied.
NEW YORK, April 20. Members
of the Associated Press met nt I ho
Waldofe Astoria hotel hero todav lo
elect five directors, four advisory
boards, and auditing and nominating
committees.
At a luncheon in connection with
tho meeting. President Frank B.
Novcs of tho Washington Stor. pro
posed a toast to President Wilson,
saving "in offering a toast, the fov-
mnl wish for 'health' is usually of
littlo significance. Willi us this venr
in our onlv toast it is. our custom
to offer, tho case is profoundly dif
ferent for, very earnestly, very hope
fully nnd very sincerely wo drink to
tho health, the full restored health
of the president of the United States
"Evcrv season of tho year is -in
open season for the critics of the
Associated Press," snid Mr.'Noves,
beginning his nddrcss.
The Common Idnrs
"We are accustomed, through long
experience, to tho railings nguinst our
sorvico of the uimilormed, the nolo
riotv seeker and the common or gar
den linr who charges bias or sup
pression in tho report of the Asso
ciated Press.
"Evcrv newspaperman, every in
formed person, knows how prcposlcr
onslv untrue these charges are
whoever may make them. To you, I
Heed explain that our vcrv organism
(inn was in response to tho demand
of the newspapers that their news
service should bo owned nnd eon
trolled bv themselves and thenisclvc!
t jone, that it should bo their servant
and not their master, that it should
give an adequate and truthful record
of tho world's happenings, free from
bins and from opinion or propaganda.
While laving no claim to inerrancy
our service has been singularly sue-
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OPENS MEETING
A. P. MEIERS
HOMER S. CUIMNGS SELECTED AS
CHICAGO, April 20. Homer S.
CunimlngB, chairman of tho demo
cratic national committee, was today
solected to act as tomporary chair
man of the party's national conven
tion at 8an Francisco noxt June. Tho
selection was made by the executive
committeo of the democrntie national
committee. There were four other
names considered for the honor.
CHICAGO. April 20. The execu
tive committee of the democratic
national committee in session here
today, is considering five names for
tho temporary chairmanship of the
democratic national convention to be
held, IB Son Francisco June 28,
BUTTE MIS
TIED UP BY
RED STRIKE
I. W. W. Walk Out Results in Suspen
sion of Minina Activities in Mon
tana District Strikers Are Well
Organized and Hundreds of Miners
Prevented From Returning to Work
Miners Injured in Clashes Last
Night Will Recover.
BUTTE, Mont., April 20. Mining
operations in tho Butte district prac
tically wero suspended this morning.
Only n fow minors succoodod in get
ting thru tho lines of the pickets
posted by tho strikers who are asking
for a six hour day with wages of $7
and In most of tho mines no attempt
was inado to hoist oro. An exception'
was tho Elm Orlu, a W. A. Clark
property, whoro sixty men out of six
hundred reported this morning.
Tho strlkors wero well organised
nnd pickets to tho number of about
700 covorod all approaches to the
m I nos and swnrmod ovor the hill, on
which most of tho big shafts are lo
cated. Thoso men stoppod all miners
who sought to roach the shafts. A
particular offort was made to turn
back hoisting engineers and pump
men. Altho In some instances .very
lute, those men mnnagod to get thru
to tho mlnos. Neither the engineers
nor pump mon have Joined the I. W.
W. striko declared yesterday morn
ing against tho mining companies.
Wo nrrosts wore made this mornirfg
and only a fow casos of actual assault
roportod. Minors who wanted to work
for tho most part romalned away
from the hill withitho result that
thoro wore fow clashes. 'The miners
who wore Injured last night are re
ported to ho resting woll today and
none of them Is in a sorious condi
tion. ;
The Anaconda Coppor Mining com
pany continued shipments of ore
from tho bins at the mlnos In Butte
to tho smoltor nt Anaconda today but
hoisted practically no ore from the
mines. This moans that in a fow
dnys unloss mining is rosumed the
concentrating plants at Anaconda
will be forced down becauso of a lacK
of oro and that ovontually the fires
will have to bo drawn from the smel
tors. Sovornl thousand men are em
ployed at the smolters at Anaconda
and Groat Falls. t ;"
At I. W. W. hoadquartors' " today
striko leadors roportod that tho strik
ers wero inoroiy ort;uuizuu nuu
thoy proposed to close tho mines 1
down and keep them down. 1 No de
mands havo boen made on tho com
panies by tho strlkors. The streets
of Butte aro crowded with idle men
today but tho city is orderly and only
a IOW cases VI aBHUUIL Httin liuiuo ,w
the notice of tho authorities., '
I'UU 1 LAliLf, April fl. nuauDi.
t..n n..tn twimls flnulnr nrrpntnd in
.iuiiu, uuiu n uvn. ,.,
Scotland, S. D., is being held In tho
Multnomah county jail louay in ub-
n I r. nnn hull .lnntrrt while
IUIIII Ul f n,vuu v..... - c
declining to go into tho particular
pnaSOS OI IWO CriUUUUl tuiuiiiaitun ,
which ho Is held, charging larceny by
balloo and obtaining money under
false protenses. Insists that he Is In
nocent. Tho flvo aro Dainbrldgo Colby, sec
rotary of state; Martin Glynn, former
governor of Now York; Arthur Mul
lin of Nebraska; Homor Cummings.
chairman of tho national committeo,
and Carter Glass, former secretary of
the treasury. 1
Dissatisfaction with the convention
arrangements was aired in the meet
ing this morning. Charles Fay, post
master of San Francisco, and chair
man of the San Francisco convention
committee, is here and will meet
with the committee on arrange
ments. Indications are that the com
mittee will decide to hold the con
vention in San Francisco u planned,
if Mr. Fay succeeds in removing ob
jections.
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