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MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1920.
NO. 31
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TO PROTECT
IBXJNE
VOT
MILLIONS
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ON PACIFIC
LODGE
"If Danger Is Coming. It Is Cominn
There." Declares Massachusetts
Senator In Favoring Strong Inde
pendent Fleet on Pacific Coast
. Senate Votes Millions for Increas
ing Naval Strength on Western
Coast Mare Island Is Approved.
' .WASHINGTON", April 27 Com
mittee increases of nonrly $10,000,
000. in tho funds for naval aviation
were approved todav bv the senate
when tho nnnuul naval appropria
tion measure was taken up. The
house fixed the aviation fund at $15,
87B.000 and tho senate committee in
creased this to $25,000,000.
An amendment bv Chairman Pace
authorizing tho naval board in se
lecting a sito for tho base to con
sider Murq Island was approved. Tim
committee had limited the inquiry to
two sites, at Alameda and Hunter's
Point.
The committee provision for an
initial appropriation of $1,000,000
looking to the establishment of a new
base on San Francisco bay was
adopted without debute.
New Items Pacific
New items for tho Pacific coast
added bv the senate included $1,050.
000 for fuel oil stnrago plant at
Paget Sound and $1,000,000 for a
similar plant at Pearl Harbor: $000.
000 for a submarine base at Sua
Pedro and $100,000 for a submarine
and destroyer base at Port Angeics.
Wash.
The committee provision in increas
ing from $48,000,000 to $52,000,000
tho funds avuilablo for completing
ships now under construction was
rdopted without debate. A new item
of $11,700,000 for completion of de
stroyers under construction at tho
Hoc Island yard also was approved.
Increased appropriations included:
Verba Bucna. Cal., training station.
$125,000 to $250,000.
Pearl Harbor station, $800,000 to
$1,080,000.
A new item of $200,000 for the
Newport, R, I., torpedo station was
adopted as was another preliminary
appropriation of $300,000 for a dry
dock at the Boston nnvv yard.
The committee increase for the
naval reserve foreo from 50,000 to
500,000 also was approved toeethor
with a provision authorizing assis
tance for the state naval niilith,
which would become part of the fcie
ral navul reserve force.
Danger in Pacific
Chairman Page and Senator Lod-'c
of Massachusetts, republican leader,
urged special expansion of naval
activities on the Pacific coast.
"If dancer is coming, it is coming
thorc." declared Senator Lodge.
"Hawaii." Mr. Lodge added, is the
American "outpost in tho Pacific."
"The Pacific coast." ho continued,
"needs naval defense moro than the
Atlantic at this time and it needs it
now. Wc should strengthen the fleet
and all appurtenances there. Also
Pearl Harbor is vcrv important."
Senator Smith, democrat. Mary
land, pointed out that one half of the
navv is on the Pacific coast.
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PROMISES HAS
BELL1NGHAM. Wash., April 27.
Criticism of the record of the dema
cratic party nnd an attack upon "bol
shevism, communism nnd I. W. W.'ism
as the enemies of civilizntion," featur
ed the address of Judge C. W. How
ard of Bcllinghnra. temporary chuir
man of the state republican conven
tion which opened at 10:30 o'clock
here this morning.
Judge Howard asserted that the
Platform of 1912 had been disre
garded bv the democratic partv nnd
that the president had failed to make
the most of his opportunity to "go
down into history as one of the
world's greatest men," by ncslectinj
FINANCIAL COLLAPSE OF
THE COUNTRY IS NEAR
BEKL1N, April 26. Gcr-
many's financial collapse is
near, according to a statement
made before the national as-
sembly today by Dr. Wlrth,
minister of the treasury while
presenting the budget tor the
coming year. The minister at-
tacked war profiteers, who, ho
declared, "aro turning tho naT
tion's economic plight to their
own advantages."
Dr. Wlrth declared the army
and navy budgets reached their
present dimensions because
3ermany was maintaining a
paid defense force which lormor
enemies should take into ac-
count in demobilizing the old
army.
Dr. Wlrth favored the flota-
tion of an internal loan and de- 4
mandod that Germany's obliga-
tions imposed by the treaty of
Versailles be fixed.
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CHICAGO,' April' 27. Claims of
railroad officials that 80 per cent of
the normal freight traffic was being
removed in the Chicago district to
dav were disputed bv manufacturers,
who declared receipt of raw materials
was seriously curtailed and that out
going shipments were fur below nor
mal. Embargoes on lunnv roads aro de
clared to be still in force intcrmit
tcntyl. Coulunl f'.nd supplies., which
have preference, were reported to Ik
moving normally.
The insurgents indicated no dispo
sition todav to yield. The Railway
Managers association announced that
1,980 strikers hud returned to work.
WASHINGTON, April 27. Short
liuo railroads may be given a.henring
on the wago demands of railroad
workers before the railroad labor
board finally adjusts the pav contro
versy. Chairman Barton nnnounced todav
thnt the board had this matter under
advisement. K. T. Whiter, chairman
of the railway executives committee,
told the board that his committee rep
resented 115 of the some 600 roads
of the country and thnt these 115
had between eighty nnd ninety per
cent of the total mileoge.
The board today refused hearings
on the wage demands of the striking
ruilroad employes at Philadelphia
and Pittsburg nnd the non-recognized
Chicago express nnd freight handlers
union.
Timothy Shea, vice president of the
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
told the board thnt the employes wngo
demands would be presented to the
short lines by tomorrow.
Shea continued todnv the represen
tative of the fircmens' demands, call
ing attention to the particular hard
ships of the work.
NEW YORK. April 27 James par
kin, Irish labor leader, charged with
criminal anarchy todav was found
guilty bv the supreme court .iurv bc
fnrc which his case was presented.
OF
WRECKED HIS PARTY
to appoint a coalition war cubinct
during the war.
"The war has been over a venr nnd
n half," he added, "and vet if vou go
to Washington citv todav - find
there are not enough chairs to scat
the unemployed employes kept there
bv the administration at the people's
expense.
"The president kept us out of
work," he continued. "Then he kept
us out of war in order to obtain the
191(1 nomination and election. Now
he has kept us out of pence. Because
of his utter disregard of promises
Woodrnw Wilson has wrecked h
party," .
REPUBLICANS
OF WASHINGTON
DEFINE ISSUES
League of Nations Opposed Unless
Reservations Fully Protect Ameri
can Sovereignty Watchful Walt-
ino In Mexico Condemned Moo
Violence and Socialism Opposed.
BELL1NGI1AM, Wash.. April 27.
The report submitted to tho republi
can state convention here tnis after
noon by the platform coinmittco op
poses ratification of the League of
Nations Covenant "unless reserva
tions and declarations are included
which will fully protect American
sovereignty, independence and ideals."
Tho report also demands that
"Americans lawfully in Mexico shall
be protected in their lives nnd prop
crtv and their every right and that
Mexican offenses against them shall
not go unredressed as has been the
case under n weak, timid, ineffective
policy of so-called "watchful waiting.
"A government that fails to protect
the lives and welfare of its citizens
has miserably failed in the first renin
site of government."
. - . . Against Socialism
The committee expresses itself ns
being "uncompromisingly against so
cialism," believes the heart of Ameri
can labor to be sound, commends the
spirit of Americanism shown bv nil
labor during tho war and declares
against autocracy of cither capital or
labor, favoring u radical democracy
in both "characterized by a spirit of
co-operation nnd helpfulness.
' Adoption of a scientific national
budget system, the granting of ade
quate salaries for teachers, reclama
tion of the arid lands of the west,
particularly, of tho Columbia basin
project, repeal of the Underwood
revenue lnw and enactment of a pro
tective tariff law, adoption of uni
versal military training, pnssngo of
laws requiring aliens to register nt
least once a year, approval of nn
tional highway legislation nnd ap
proval .of the marking of the old Ore
gon trail from, tho Mississippi vnilev
to the Pacific coast, are among other
recommendations.
Condemn Mob Vlolenco
"We condemn mob violence," says
tho report in demanding industrial
and' economic equality for nil citizens.
The legislature is commended for
giving the people an opportunity to
pass upon tho soldiers' compensa
tion bill and for systematizing the
state school system.
"Wc recommend thnt the republi
can partv hoartilv favor cnfnctnicnl
bv congress of a law providing for
a generous compensation to soldiers,
sailors, marines and nurses," says the
committee.
Businesslike retrenchment of ;in
tional expenditure, thrift nnd indus
try, and vigorous legislation to pre
vent profiteering, are recommended
to effect a reduction in the high cost
of living.
Japs Aro Opposed
A constitutional amendment pro
viding that no children of persons
ineligible to naturalization shall ever
become citizens and lnws to exclude
all immigrants ineligible to naturali
zation are favored.
Enactment of a civil administration
code, providing for the consolidation
of boards nnd commissions and the
addition of a penalty clause to the
present budget law for not furnishin
records nre recommended.
Other recommendations include the
submission of constitutional amend
mcnts to the people of tho state pro
viding for iust compensation for
elective stale officials and nuthoriz
ing the right of eminent domain in
the reclamation of waste hinds: tb
enactment of n national law givim
American coastwise shipping free
passage through the Panama Canal;
adequate naval protection for the Pn
cific coast and the upbuilding of the
Pugct Sound nnvv yard.
A supplementary resolution rccom
mends that the convention pledge the
delegates to the national convention
to support the candidacy of Miles
Poindextcr for president.
Declare Steel Dividend.
NEW YORK. April 27. The Unit
ed States Steel corporation at its
Quarterly meeting here todav declared
regular dividends of IVi per cent on
common nnd Vi per cent on preferred
stock, . . ........
ELECIED DEMOCRATIC
LEADEROF U.S. SENATE
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WIASTII.NIGTCN, April 2 7. Sena
tor Underwood -of Alabama was
elected democratic leader in tho sen
ate today at a conference of senato
democrats. Ho was unopposed. Sen
ator Hitchcock of Nebraska, acting
loador sinco the death of tho late
Sonator Martin of Virginia, having
withdrawn from the fight last week
Besides electing ,Mrr. Underwood
the democrats discussed briefly soli
darity of action generally. Tho pend
ing peace resolution was consldorod
and tho democrats agreed tentatively
to call a conference later in an effort
to have tho minority present a solid
front on their resolution.
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COPENHAGEN, April 27. As a
result of tho elections held thruotit
Denmark yesterday the radical party
lost fifteen seats In the lower house
of parliament. The social domocrnts,
independent rights and independent
radicals each lost ono seat. Tho
trades party gained throe soatB, the
conservatives seven, tho socialists
four and tho liberals four. The next
houso will bo made up as follows:
Trades party 4; conservatives 28;
radicals 17; socialists 42; liberals
48.
"Tho oloctlon passed like a steam
roller over tho radical party," says
the Borlingsko Tidende, commenting
on the result. "'The majority of tho
people stood like a wall against tho
socialists and crushed their brutal
arrogance. With an enormous num
ber of votes, tho liberal party has
conquorcd. Tho socialists went to
tho polls with a republic on their
program, but the Danish people yos-
terday rallied around their king. '
FLI
A BARREL. THE HIGHEST
PRICE EVER RECORDED
MINNEAPOLIS, April 27.
Flour advanced fifty cents a
barrel at the market hero today
Hip. bicrtyest .sinele rise
this year and the highest price.
ever received for Hour here.
The inprcisc. which brollcht
flour of the standard grade, sold
in 08-pound cotton sacks in car -
lfin.1 lots to $15.50 a barrel, was v
duo to the. lush wheat murkct.
ALL WAR SOCIETIES
ARE CALLED TOGETHER
jOMAHA, Neb.. April 27. C. E
Adams, chairman of tho national
committee for the federation of all
war societies today called a meeting
of committees of the O. A. R., Span
ish War Veterans, American Legion
Veterans of Foreign WarB and World
War Veterans to-he held at Washing
ton May 14.
CLAIM
ASSIST
SECY OF LABOR
Chairman Johnson Declares Govt.
Official Cancelled Deportations
Becommended bv Bureau for Alien
Communists and Anarchists Po
litical Pre! u dice Is Denied.
WASHINGTON, April 27 Charges
that 1mis V. Post, assistant secre
tary of labor had violated the lnw
in behalf of uliens who have con
tempt for Ibis government, and who
arc trying to overthrow it," were
made before the house rules commit
tee today bv Chairman Johnson, of
tlio house immigration committee.
Mr. Johnson was tho first witness
at 1 he investigation into Mr. Post's
conduct in handling deportation pro
ceedings against radical aliens. He
was followed bv "Representative Iloch
of Kansas, whose resolution looking
toward the possible impeachment of
the ass-stunt secretary is before the
committee.
Chniniian Johnson presented n re
port of eommittcu investigators, pre
pared bv W. A. Blackwood of Seattle,
Wash., which reviewed many score
deportation proceedings in which Mr.
Post was said to have cancelled de
portations recommended bv immigra
tion inspectors and tho immigration
bureau. Tho cases Mr. Johnson said
wcro those of "alien communists and
anarchists."
The report also shows n decision
by the assistant secretary in cases in
which he undertook to define the word
"anarchist," and to affirm that con
gress could not have used tho word
lis a vorbal "brickbat."
Chairman Johnson declared "tho:
public is not seeing red without u
reason.
"It is seeing its laws violated bv Dub
lin officials." ho declared, "in behalf
of aliens who have contempt for this
government and who are hero trving
to overthrow it. Neither those
aliens nor their revolutionary notions
arc needed in the United States."
Representative Iloch declared his
resolution did not involve nnv "politi
cal or other partisan consideration,1'
but he udded that "there should bo II
showdown in a situation which has
become intolerable."
IN JUGOSLAVIA
' LONDON. April 27. A bolshcviki
revolution has broken out in Jugo
slavia, says a Central News dispatch
from Home quoting Trieste advices.
Mnchino guns have been brought into
fiction in Helgradc where hundreds
are said to have been slain, it is said,
whild fatal riots have occurred at
Laibach and Agram.
Official Jugo-Slavian quarters here
aro not alarmed over reports of revo
lutionary troubles in that country,
and declare diplomatic dispntches
from Belgrade' ivcsterdav indicated
nothing amiss. The Trieste report of
an uprising is attributed to "a fac
tion of trouble-making Italians, who
arc seeking to embarrass the impend
ing Itnlo-Scrhian negotiations."
VIENNA. April 2(1. (Hv the As
sociated Press) Ten civilians were
killed and twenty-one wounded in a
conflict between strikers and gen
dnmics ut Laibach. the capital of
Cnrnoliii, in Jiigo-Sluvia. nccordic
to the Jugo-Slav press bureau.
FEAR WOMAN DOCTOR
OF
SKATTLK. Aoril 27 Pears for the
safety of Mrs. Hazel p. KingsloV. Sc
attic physician, head of a party o
cd Cross nurses in Albania, worn px
pressed bv rclutivcs here today after
they had learned through Associated
Cress dispatches that Tirana, Al
bania, had been occupied bv Turks
Mrs. Kingslcv and her pnrtv. thei
said. was. believed to be in Tiran.i
Two other Seattle nurses were hp.
licvpd to be with the pnrtv, but this
could not be confirmed today
AIDED
C. C. CHAPMAN SAVES
A LITTLE GIRL
DEATH IN AUTO WRECK
AMITY, Ore., April 27.
Ethel Emorson, 1 1 year old
daughter of Joseph Emorson of
Hopewell, is in a McMlnnvUlo
hospital today, sufforlng from
serious injuries received yoster-
day when nn automobile in
which she was riding ovorturn-
ed and went into a ditch near
here. Jlrs. Charles Johnson of
Hopewoll who was driving tho
machine, was badly .crushed,
and her condition also Is said to
bo sorious.
Quick work on tho part of
C. C. Chapman, editor of tho
Oregon Voter, In assisting In
the rescue, probably saved tho
liro of tho littlo Emorson girl.
Chapman, by holding tho Emor-
son girl's head out of tho water,
snvod hor from drowning, wit-
nosscs say.
U. S. INDEPENDENCE
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BKLL1NGIIAM. Wash., April 27.
The issues before tho American
people arc tho maintenance of the
independence of the United States the
freedom of labor and industry and
th6 need of "Americanizing the Aincr-.
ican govorninent," said Senator Miles
Poindextcr, candidate for president,
in an address before tho state republi
can convention hero today.
"Hv an insidious and powerful
propaganda, backed by unlimited fi
nancial resources tho subtle princi
ple of internationalism lias been in
stalled into tho thoughts of mnnv
people and is menncing the splendid
Americanism which is inherited from
our fathers," said Senator Poin
dextcr. "For the first time since wc sovcrcd
our governmental union with Orent
Britain, i. is seriously proposed, with
tho backing of a powerful pnrtv, to
form a governmental union with Eu
rope." Bv freedom of labor and industry
Senator Poindextcr said ho meant,
"tho right of a working man to work,
to support himself and his family, and
that ho shall not be denied cmplovt
mcnt because be belongs to a labor
union or becuusn he docs not belong
to one: nnd the right of the cmplovcts
to labor to the protection of the law
against intimidation nnd violcnco in
I ho settlement of industrial disputes.
To this may be added the interests of
the general public in tho rule of tho
people, as a wholethrough constilit-
iinmil mndnu rutlipt limn hv n tttWP.
ial class, through the coercion of
physical force."
The senator also pleaded that the
attention and resources of tho gov
ernment be "devoted again to the in
terests of the American people rather
than to those of Europe nnd Asia."
Tho proposal that tho victorious
nations establish an international
government "based upon the same
claims as those advanced by the kai
ser" was characterized as "an
ustounding paradox."
"The American pcoplo nnd their
progenitors," said Senator Poindextcr
have fought for a thousand years to
cscniio from such n rulo and to go
buck to jt now is reaction and not
progress."
PRICE Of YELLOW FIR
H'OIITLANO, April 27 Individual
logging firms will incrcaso tho price
of yellow fir logs produced In tho
Columbia rlvor district, erfoctlvo May
1, It becamo known hero today. Sov
eral operators admitted that an In
crease would become offoctlve on
that date but all said it was not a
concerted movement.
The new scale, It Is said, will be
$18, without charge for No. 1 logs,
and S25 and 36, compared with J24
and $3 for No. 2 and iN'o. 3 logs. It
M EX. REBELS'
OBJECTIVE
MAZATLAN
Possession West Coast Port Will
Mark First Decisive Engaaement
General Flores Proceeding Slowly
Toward City Carranza Forces Re
treating Destroy Bridges and
Property More Than 50,000 Well
Equipped Soldiers in Revolt.
AGUA 1' III ETA, Sonora, April 27.
iJIoro than 50,000 soldiers In Mox
ico now aro In revolt againBt tho Car
ranza govornmont, it was announced
at 11111111117 hondquartors horo today.
Noarly half this number. It was Bald,
have jolnod tho revolutionary forces
in Sonora.
Mexico has bcon divldod Into four
military zones, the first of which In
cludes Sonora, Slnaloa and Nayarlt,
according to ionornl P. Elias Callos,
commander of tho army of tho north
wost. Commanders for tho central
zono, Ciulf coast and southern zone
hnvo not bcon named, it was said, nor
tho boundaries definitely fixed.
Tho first doclsivo ongagoment ol
tho revolution Is oxpocted nt Mazat,
lan, Slnalon, a west coast port, tho
possession of which will give tho
rebolB tho koy to virtually all tho
west coast of Mexico, It was said,
Anothor rebel force working-fur-thor
south was expected ' Soorf' to
launch an attack on tho pott of Mnd
znnlllo. . ; . '. .'
General Angol Floros continues
slowly toward Mazatlan; lt;ws said,
repairing railway bridges and 'pro
perty destroyed by rotreatlug Carran
zlBtas. Sonora. troops continue ,to fortify
tho mountain passos In, the oast thru
which Carranza forces aro expected
to attempt to broak thru from Chi
huahua, military headquarters an-'
nounccd desortion of more Carrania
soldiors from tho army bolng concen
trated In Chlhuuhua to attack So
nora. . ' ,
Troops lii Agua Prlota and those
which havo passed thru snrouto to
tho mountains apparently arp ' well
supplied with arms and ammunition.
A considerable number of' machine
guns and artillery also has passed
thru hero. Dynumito in largo, quan
tities also has boon sont to tho moun
tain passeB for mining road.'
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THE DUTCH FOR KAISER
THE HAGUE, April 27.-Rosponsi.
bility for the continued residence iu
llollahd of former Emporor William,
of Germany was placed sqtiarelv and
exclusively on tho Netherlands srov
ernmont in u noto sent bv Promior
Lloyd George of Great Britain March
24 and published todav for tho first
time in tho Orange book containing
documents relating to the dcmandoJ
extradition of Count Hohonzollcrn, '
The noto pointed out that William
in spite of precautions, is "a verv se
rious danger so long as left within
forty kilometers of tho German fron
tier, and is a potential ocntor of re
actionary propaganda land a con
stant mcnaco to the peuco of Eu
I rope."
LOGS IN
E
was said that it was questionable
whothor tho advanco In the price In
logs would bo reflected In a higher
lovel of lumbor prices. According to
representative logging mon hero,
there has been a differential of prices
in this district compared with prtcos
prevailing In tho Grays Harbor and
Puget Sound districts and an equali
zation Is said to be the purpose of the
rise which became known today.
Increases in wage scales, effective
April 1, are said to have actuated, the
advance. .
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