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Newspaper Page TextMedford Mail Tribune The Weather Maximum yesterday BO Minimum today 30 Precipitation Trace Predictions Light to heavy frost. Fiftieth Year. Dailv Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 21, 1920. XO. 26 GEN. WOOD DEFEATED m H.J IN AND BRYAN WIN STATE California Senator Leads Wood by 6,000 Votes With Plurality Increas ing as Count Propesses Bryan Jumps Into Lead as Delegate at ' Large Outside of Omaha. But is Closely Pressed by Hitchcock Pershino Behind Wood. OXtAIU, Neb., April 21. In 552 precincts out of 1849 in the state Bave the following voto for republi can presidential preference: 'Johnson, 22,287; Wood, 1G.103; , Pershing 10,383; Ross, 740. These were returns from 55 counties, five of which wore complete. William Jennings Bryan made de cided gains as the counting of the dolegato-nt-Ittrgo votes progressed and went into tho lead o nil dele gates in the returns received from 38fi precincts, outside of Douglas county . (Omaha). The vote in Douelas coun ty, however, from 164 precincts cut this advantage and in 532 precincts, including those heard from in Douglas county, he stood fifth in the contest, LINCOLN, Neb., April 21. Elec tion figures compiled bv the Lincohi Daily Star on yesterday's primary for republican presidential preference, give: Johnson, 24,418 ; Wood, 18,805; Pershing 12,521; Ross, 1223. These returns are from 40 of the state's 93 counties, only three of which are complete. In the dernocrntio contest for dele gates at largo (four out of eight can didates to be elected) William Jen nings Bryan iumped into fourth place on the face of returns from forty counties, two of which are complete, returns compiled by the Star show. . Bryan Strang In Country OMAHA, Neb., April 21. Senator Hiram W. Johnson continued to main tain a lend as the ballots in Tues day's presidential primary were slowly being tallied today. With 432 precincts out of 1849 heard from he had polled 15.018 votes to 12.7H2 for Leonard Wood and 7309 for General John J. Pershing. The contest for delegate at large on the democratic ticket furnished the most interest in Nebraska this morn ing. While one of William J. Bryan's delegates was running third in the field of eight, Bryan dropped back to seventh position when 408 precincts had been counted. Political observers call attention to the fuct, however, that while Bryan lost Douglas county ho was running second outside of the county and tho race promises to be close. Tho voto of 408 precincts stood: Hitchcock delegates: Neville, 12.352: Shallcnberg, 12,035; Nclilf, 9819 : McNcnv 9388. Brvnn delegates Stephens 10,085; Bergc, 9351: Bryan. 9313: Thomas, 8559. Governor MoKclvie iontmued to lend Adam McMullon in the republi can gubernatorial contest when 424 precincts hnd been heard from. The vote: McKclvio, 9358; MucMullen 8251. BUTTE PEOPLE ARE BUTTE, Mont., April 21. Clashes between mine euards and I. W. W. pickcters marked the opening of the third day of the stroke called Sun day night bv the I. W. W. for higher wages, a six-hour dav and the re lease of political prisoners. In other respects tho local situntion is the same as yesterday. No ore is being hoisted by the mines of the district, but the various companies are able to keep their pumps going and to otherwise protect their properties. Practically no miners got through the lines of pickcters this morning, but engineers and pumpmen reiwrted in sufficient numbers to prevent the mines from being flooded. No ar S SMITH AND WATSON TIED ATLANTA. On.. April 21. six countios still out, returns from yesterday's presidential preference primary showed Pal- mer had carried 49 countios with 138 convention votes: Smith 4fl counties with 118 votes and Watson 51 counties with 118 votes. Palmer stood for tho Wilson administration and the League Covenant, Smith for tho covenant with reservations and Watson against any league at all. Tl E; PARIS, April 21 Formor Premier Georges Clemenceau, who has been visiting Egypt lor tne past two months, arrived here this morning. He was alert and smiling, but avoid ed interviewers and would not be photographed. He was met at the Btation, by members of his family. Many prominent men were present. : 'When he landed at Marseilles yes terday efforts were made to get the aged statesman to talk but all were futile. "The war is over Isn't it " he ex claimed to the correspondent of the Journal. "Yes? Well, all I want is to bo left alone." "What am I going to do Why, just live until I die." The "Tiger" growled out brief im pressions of his visit to Egypt while tho elephant tusk and mummy he brought back from tho Ir.nd of the Pharoahs were being placed on the "1 got a fine case of bronchitis and found myself stuck in the middle of Egypt with both lungs out of com mission. That's what comes from believing in mirages. Evidently I shall not die from it, for I am still more solid than my dear friends think, but it prevented me from vis iting Palestine as I had planned." NEW YORK, April 21. Specula tive issues were subjected to severe liquidation in tho stock market today declining 5 to almost 45 points in the absence of support. Automobile shares, steels, and oils were most susceptible to pressure. Gcnoral Motors fell 42V4 points to 273 and Baldwin Locomotive drop ped 15 points. .Sales wero estimated at 1,750,000 shares. The activity of the final hour was so great that last transactions wero not recorded on the ticker until 20 minutes after the closing hour. A factor in tho decline was the acuto woakness of Liberty bonds, sev eral of which declined 1 to 3 por cent to new low records. , TERRORIZED BY rests were mode by either county or city officers and in view of hist night's experience when a mob of 200 men paraded the street without re straint the people are apprehensive of further demonstrations. Last night's mob entered the Finlen and other. hotels and half a score of busi ness places, including bar rooms and other resorts in finest of "moonshine" which they proposed to destroy. The movement was planned nt Finn hull with a view to enforcing the closing of resorts. No lintior was found: a number of card games were inter rupted, the cards torn up and the players dispersed. One policeman fired two shots in the nir, but no nr rests were made. , . , - i . DEATH LIST TORNADO TOTALS 166 Wind Storm Proves to Be One of Most Destructive in Southern His toryProperty Damage Mounts Into Millions Calls for Aid Sent Out Richest Farm Belts In Ala bama and Mississippi Laid Waste Bed Cross Active. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., April 21 As sistance is urgently needed for the re lief of tomndo survivors in a do7.cn counties of Mississippi, Alnbnma and Tennessee, reports today from the storm swept district said. With a death list of 160 already reported and a property loss which will run into many millions, the tornado has taken rank as one of tho most disastrous ns well as most widespread in tho annals of the south. Hundreds require medicnl attention and tho forces of physicians nnd nurses available arc inadequate. Tents nnd other temporary structures must be erected nnd a shortage of food is foreseen ns a result of the destruction of barns and warehouses, coupled with the complete obstruc tion of communicating roads. . Struck Farm Bolt The storm, apparently struck tho rich fnrmiMEf-bcIt lying; around Bnv Springs, Juspor county. Miss., nnd moved northeast across the remainder of the state, to vent its fury upon tho extrcmo northwestern tier of coun tios in Alabama before moving into Tennessee. In nnd near Meridian, Miss., 21 persons lost their lives, while 16 employes at a lumber camp in Ne shoba county were killed. Tho denths n Mississippi already reported to talled 118. Of these Aberdeen and Meridian had 21 each: Rose Hill 6; Bnv Springs, 7: Glen 10: Igomnr, 6: Stnrkville 6: Neshoba county 1(1; Winston county, 5, and others scat tered. Alabama reported 45 dead, of whom 20 were in Marion county and 15 in Killingworth Cove. The others were scattered. Only three knovn dead were reported in Tenn essee. Crashes Over Moustnlu ILUNTSVILLK. Ala.. April 21. The tornado swept into Madison coun ty from the southwest iust south of Lilly IFIagg and crashed over tho1 mountain in Killingworth Cove, leav ing, as far as known here, fifteen dead and more than a score of in jured in its wake. Extensive property damage was reported. MACON, Miss., April 21. At least five persons were killed bv tho tor nado in its course through Noxubee and Winston counties, according to word received hero, nnd considerable damage was caused to property and crops. LAUREL, Miss., April 21 Fifteen persons are known to have been killed nnd property valued nt a million dol lars destroyed in tho tornado which swept through Jasper county fifteen miles north of Laurel yesterday, -NEW ORLEANS. La.. April 21. The gulf division of the American Red Cross has sent a carload of tents, blankets nnd medical supplies to gether with nurses, workers nnd phy sicians to Meridian to aid in relief work among the storm sufferers. PRINCE TO AMSTERDAM. April 21. Ncgolin- tinnu with tlin vtlfnYnnA nUttmtU f Wieringen for the purchase of a local presnvterv as a permanent residence for the former crown prince of Ger many," hove been begun bv the Dutch government, according to the Wierin gen correspondent of the Telegrnaf. BUTTE, Mont., April 21. Sheriff C. K. Wyman of Beaverhead county was-shot nnd killed t noon today on the main street of Monida bv nn al leged horse thief for whom the au thorities at Idaho Falls hnd request ed the Montana sheriff to search. CHINA FACES GREAT ERA OF PROSPERITY SAYS CHARLES CRANE CHICAGO, April 21 China stands In tho position of the United States fifty yoars ago, entering an era of de velopment and progress, said Charles R. Crane, newly appointed mlnistor to China, who left today to tako his post at Peking. "Porhaps tho country's blggost problem is that of transportation," ho Bald. "There are more miles of canals in China than of railroads in the llnitod States but railroads aro badly needed." "If we have poace in tho Pacific," Mr. Crane said, "there is no reason the Pacific of the future should not repeat what has boon accomplished in the trade channels of tho Atlan tic." l; NEXT TO ST: PAUL WASHINGTON', April 21. With an increase of 139,308 in its popula tion during tho last decade Akron, Ohio, has gone ahead of Kansas City, Dayton, Ohio, Memphis Uenn.,; Nnsh ville, Tenn., nnd Syracuse nnd A!' bnny, N. Y. Akron's increuso was the largest in number thus far report ed in tho fourteenth census. Ranking as 81st city in 1910. Akron's rate of growth in tho Inst ten yearn was 201.8 per cent, which places it now iust below St. Paul which is the next largest citv having reported this year, with 234,595. Tho followuig census returns arc announced. Akron, O., 208,435, increnso 139,- 368 or 201.8 per cent. Wichita, Kns., 72,128 increase 19,. 678 or 37.5 per cent. Mansfield, Ohio, 27,824, increase 7056 or 34 per cent. Dcdhum, Mass., 10,783, increase 1499 or 16.1 per cent. Ijnurel, jviiss., J.f,u.w, increase 9572 or 54 per cent. LATEST NEWS OF THE STATE PORTLAND, Ore.. April 21. The entire Pacific Northwestern clip of wool, for tho season of 1920, will be concentrated in Portland, already the second wool center of the country, if plans agreed upon yesterday bv the wool growers of Oregon nre carried to fruition. i 1 SALEM. Ore. April 21. Fees re eoived from filing of candidates in the primary election together with the statements for publication in the voters' pamphlet, totalled $1 1,975, ac cording to n statement prepared bv Snm A. Kozer, assistant secretary of state. This money has been turned over to the state treasurer nnd is n substantial offset to the cost of print ing and distributing of the pumphlvts. SALEM, Ore., April 21. William Farre of Burns was' appointed coun ty judge of Harney county liv Gov ernor Olcott, to surged tho late Judge Lcvens who died last week in Port land. Raise Sullivan Monument. CHICAGO. April 21. Plans to raise n fund of $50,000 to erect a monument to the memory of Roger C. Sullivan, democratic leader, who died here a week ago, were announced to dav by a committee of friends. Con tributions would be limited to five cents. .... C VE v. E TO ATTEND Ambassador Johnson instructed to Be Official Observer Allied Con ference for U. S. A. Will Not Par ticipate In Deliberations Italy and England Favor Withdrawal of Al lied Troops. But France Is Bitterly Opposed. WASHINGTON. April 21 Am bassador Johnson at Rome was in structed today bv the state depart ment to attend tho allied conference at Sun Rcmo lis an official observer for tho American government. Ho will not participate in tho discussions or deliberations. PARIS, April 21. Germany bus asked tho intcr-nllicil conference nt San Rcmo to increnso from 100,000 to 200,000 men the standing army provided for Germany bv the terms of the treaty of Versailles. Tho request was contained in n note handed to the French foreign offico Inst evening with the demand that it be sent to the supreme council at San Rcmo. Tho note set forth that nn increns ed force wns neccssury for tho main tenance of order in the interior and that furthermore, tho army would not accept an order for its dissolution Ask for Staff ' The nolo further requests that Germany bo allowed to retain tho cntiro general staff and corps of of ficers, which menus the entire frame work of the active army. ' In French official circles tho Gor man requests aro considered rs merely ono or moro moves in tho sys tematic offonsivo against tho treats of Vcrsaillos.' It was pointed nut that if Germany's requests were granted, the German army would dif fer from the army of 1914 in nothing but tho facility with which the rank and filo could be mobilized. France, it was indicated, will stoutly resist any concessions. Italy-England Afirccd PARIS, April 21. Withdrawal of allied troops from parts of tho Rhine land In consideration of immcdinli execution bv Germany of certain fi nancial obl'gations of the treaty of Versailles is proposed bv Italy nnd Great Britain at the San Homo eon ferencc of the supremo allied council. says a dispatch to tho Petit Pnrision Premier Millerand has refused to agreo to this plan, it is said. Tho Anglo-ltnlinn demand would include disarmament of Gormnnv under th.cnt of blockndo and tho si multaneous inauguration of a nolicv of reconciliation, says tho Matin. which ndds t int, in view nf M. Mil lernnd's refusal to join them. Pre miers Nitti nnd Lloyd'Gcorgo nro not likely to persist in carrying out their proposals. Balfour Arrives SAN REMO, April 21 (Bv tho As socintcd Press) Arthur J. Dulfoiir, British member of the League of Na tions executive council, who has been acting as tho presiding officer at the council's sessions, arrived in San Remo today to represent the Lonuue of Nations iii 'discussions, with the supreme council regarding tho man date for Armenia, which tho league had been asked to assume. Erzeriun, which has been selected ns tho capital of Armenia, is the home citv of Mustupliii Kcmal, the Turkish nationalist leader. Ho is reported (o huvc 15,000 troops there, which the League of Nations, under tho man date would have the task of turning out. RAILROAD MEN WILL JUNCTION CITY. Kus., April 21. A co-operative grocery store as nn aid in fighting the high cost of living will be opened here shortly, it wns an nounced today bv representatives of the Union Pacific shop workers. Four fifths of the store's capital stock of .f-"0.000 is owned by shop workers, it is declared, , AM AN 1 EAST REPRESENTATIVE CUDAHY PACKING CO. IS NEW YORK, April 21. Tho fourth arrost in a fow days of Brooklyn managers of big puck- ing houses for nllogcd profiteer- Ing enmo today when Oliver tl. Saunders, manager for tho Cud- ahy Packing company was taken into custody charged with 4 soiling meat at oxccsslvo prices. It was alleged ho sold at 34 conts a pound meat similar to that which a few days boforo had sold at 29 cents. II o plead- ed not guilty and was hold in $2500 ball for examination May 5. , TO , STATES E SIIANGHAT. April .21. (By the Associated Press) Dominnnt ele ments of the northern and southern Chincso government will mcrgo and organise a united parliament, prob ably in this city, in n short time, said Wu Ting Fang, administrative leader nnd minister of forcgn affairs of the southern government, on , arriving here. A constitution and pcaco pro gram will be drafted at tho meeting, ho snid, thus terminating the Canton government. Sun Yal Sen, first president of tho Chinese republic and leader of the constitutionalists, and Tung Shuo Vol fonncr premier of tho Peking gov ernment, nro here, and ninety of the 300 members of the Canton parhn mcnt hnvo arrived. Wu Ting Fang favors the consor tium in which Japan, tho United States, France and Great Britain would piny a dominnnt role in the fi nancing of Chinese undertakings, but opposes loans now pending. SHANGHAI, March 17. Refusal of American, British and French hanks to carry through n proposed loan of $25,000 to tho Peking gov- arnmont has led the national students union and tho Shanghai students union to address to tho lending Ameri can, French and British banking houses in China messages expressing gratitude for the decision reached. Messages of the same tenor were nlso forwarded to tho ministers of the three countric sin Peking. PLACE, HOLY SEE ROME, April 20. The Oermnn government has concluded tho neces sary negotiations for having Jill Ger many represented diplomatically at tho Holy See and shortly, therefore, Diego von Bergen will bo appointed German ambassador to tho Vatican. Almost simultaneously the Holy See will institute n nunicaliiro of tho first class in Berlin. PIES TUMBLE SENSATIONALLY IN CHICAGO, April 2 1 Prices crash ed heavily downward in the grain market today, especially In the last fifteen minutes of trading. Corn fell as milch as 8-c a bushed. Liquida tion owing to weakness in the Now York Block market was the chief ap parent reason. Oats tumbled five conts In value. Pork dropped J 1.25 a barrel in some cases, but lard and rlbt hold relative ly steady. Final quotations were at nearly the bottom prices ot the day with July corn typical at $1.58 to as compared with $1.66 to 11.66 Vi at yesterday's finish. l'nenslncss over the financial sit uation had been evident from the R. R. SWITCH IN RETURN Except In Chicago Strike Is Practi cally Over Freiqht Traffic S. P. Lines Now Nearly Normal Ameri can Flaa Hooted at Chicago Meet inn When Insurgent Leaders Plead for Men to Return Agreement Reached in East. LOS AIN'tlBLES, April 21. Strik ing switchmen and otlior employes of tho Southern Pacific, Salt Lake and Santa Fo here, began to return to work during the morning and shortly boforo noon T. II. WilllamB, assistant general managor . of . the Southerrn Pacific, announced that local frolght sheds had raoponed with a full crow. Ho said tho situation wns rapidly approaching normal. CHICAGO, April 21. Striking railroad men in tho Chicago district rofusod today to voto on tho quostlon of returning to work. All efforts ot a committee of strike leaders to ob tain action failed. .'. . ' ' I.M. J. Kennedy, R. S. Murphy and Shannon Jones, 1 three of ' the strike leaders nrrested last weok, made the appeal tor a return to work at a moss mooting ot striking yardmen. , Thoy wore greeted with cries of -"sold," "outside," nnd "where's. Orunau?" Jonoa explalnod that efforts to obtain the release of John Orunau, presi dent of tho Chicago Yardmen's asso ciation from Jollet jail on bond had not succeeded. Hiss American Flan ,. 'Murphy, waving an American flag, took tho floor to declare lie "would not fight the American government." Ho was greeted with catcalls and hisses. ' : ' ' lUnion leadors declared after the mooting they wero helpless to order the men back to work. , i ' ' i A police lieutenant declared the meeting adjourned after the strike leaders had bcon rofusod a hearing. Ho announced that no "rump" meet ing would be permitted and the hall was cleared under police supervision. NEW YORK, April 2(. Frolght traffic, almost compiotaly throttled last week by the unauthorized strikes of railroad workers, had reached 40 to 50 per cont of normal today on lines entering New York and Jersey City, according to a stntemont Issued by J. J. Mantell, spokesman for the lines. Passenger servico Is virtually normal. Mr. Mantell denied claims of strike londors that 70 per cont of tho strik ers' still woro out. t 'WASHINGTON, April' 21. An agreoment with the railroad brother hood unions under which the strik ing railroad workers In the metropol itan district of New York will return to work immediately was announced hero today Kdwwrd Mcllugh, spoKosman f..' the strlkors. iMr. 'Mcllugh said he had aban doned efforts to have tho case ot the "vow York mon takon up separately by the railroad labor board and that his committee would roturn to New York today leaving thoir case in the hands of tho leadors of the regular brotherhoods. N.Y. outset in tho grain market but It was not until tho session was almost over that values gave way In oarnest. Sell ing ordors came in a flood and found the market without any adequate support. . iM Isglvlngs in regard td the finan cial situation were associated to a large extent with the stringency In Japan due to over-speculation. Here tofore tho Japanese troubles have had only transient and obscure ef fects so far as the grain markets were concerned. Today, r however, the subject received general notice and became of vital Importance at the last In connection with the fading away of prices tor securities In Wall street. . . ."