Medford 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.
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GEN. WOOD
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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
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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.
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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. , . ,
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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."
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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.
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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. ....
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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, ,
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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
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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
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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. . . ."