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MEDFORD, OREO OX, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1920.
NO. 32
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10 LEADS
JOHNSON BY
SMALL VOTE
Closest Race in History of Primary
Staged in New Jersey Wood's
Lead Less Than Thousand, But
Wood Delegates Running Ahead-
Edwards, Wet Candidate, Leads
' Democratic Delegation by Biq
Margin.
NEWARK, N. J.. April 28. Al
though 1.893 out of 2,025 election dis
triots cave General Wood a lead of
684 with a .talnjt,jJ',5Q,7,55 matched
against Senator Johnson's 50,071, the
result ot the preferential contest ami
assignment ofbcVsYnVe's twonty-cight
delegates remain in doubt.
'-, At' present, Wood is suro of one
member of tho "big four" and five
of the twenty-four district delegates,
while Johnson is assured of the sifp
port of six district delegates.
Incomplete returns indicate that
Wood may win scvon more, Johnson
three, and that three may go to Chi
cago unpledged.
Complete returns from the twelfth
district showed that Johnson had
obtained two mono district delegates,
bringing his total to six as compared
to Wood's four,
' In this district both Johnson and
Wood candidates fur outstripped two
pledged to (Senator Harding of Ohio.
This, was the only district in which
the name of Harding adherents ap
peared, NEWARK, N. J.. April 28. Muio.
General Leonard Wood was still lead
ing Senator Hiram W. Johnson of
California this afternoon in New Jer
sey's presidential preferential pri
mary contest. Tho Culiforninii, who
took tho lead on the first returns last
night, but who was 7iS8 votes behind
IiW opponent at 7 o'clock this morn
ing, managed to cut down this mar
gin at one time to 332, but later the
rcnirnl regained ground somewhat.
At J 2:45 o'clock revised returns for
1.859 election districts out of 2,025
gave Wood 49,770 and Johnson
40.237.
Returns for district delegates still
were incomplete. Republican results
were known only in fivo districts,
which elected five Wood delegates,
four Johnson and one unpledged. In
complete returns from six other dis
tricts showed a closo vote, but indi
cated election of eight Wood, two
Johnson and two unpledged delegates.
Governor Edward I. Edwards, who
lias announced that he would carry
the fight against prohibition onto the
floor of the San Francisco conven
tion, was elected head of the demo
cratic, "big .four." Other democratic
delegates at lurge elected, all without
opposition, wcro James R. Nugent,
Essex county democratic leader;
Ma yor Frank Hague of Jersey City
and Mayor Frederick W. Donnelly of
Trenton. Democratic voters did not
have an opportunity to register their
choice for "president, there being no
candidates' names printed on the bal
lot, although all of the "big four"
and virtually all of the district dele
gates are pledged to the candidacy of
Governor Edwards. '
BORAH 10 LEAD IDAHO DELEGATION
WITH MAJ0RI1Y
CAECB D'ALENE, Idaho', April 28
When the Idaho republican state
convention, in session here today to
select eight delegates to the national
convention at Chicago, adjourned nt
noon until 1:30 p. m., to permit con
sideration of reports bv committees,
it seamed that five of the eight dele
gates would be favorable to Major
General Leonard Wood, and that Unit
ed States Senator William E. Borah,
a Hiram Johnson man, would head
the delegation.
In claiming six members of the
delegation, the Wood men conceded
Place to Senator Borah, it was re--son
Ported, and it also was reported tUalngTecd on for temporary champion,
AN .AFFINITY IN SPIRIT
FOR CHICAGO DIVORCE
CHICAGO. Anril 'R Afr.
Lillian P. Clayton had a divorce
rWroa ft.. l,a.,n..c3A
band wrote her from the Pn-
oiftn nr.net Unit k. UnA I 4
finity in the spirit world from
whom he received love messages.
Mrs. Clayton charged that her
husband, Robert C. Clayton,
eloped to Senttle with the wife
of Wellington Glover, his best
friend, in 1918.
Mrs. Glover died recently.
T Clayton informed Mrs. Clayton
that ho could not return to her,
as ho received "daily messages
of love," from Mrs. Glover, ac-
cording to letters introduced as
I evidence. "Death has not
. not changed mv love," he wrote.
SOCIALISTS OF
FRANCE RALLY
TO RED BANNER
Every Radical Member Chamber of
Deputies Comes Forward to Sup
port Valliant Coutrurier Who In
cites Troops to Disobedience Feel
ing Runs High. -
PATHS, April 28. Uvory unified
socialist member ot tho chamber of
deputies has come forward in sup
port ot Doputy Valllant-Couturicr,
who on April 23 published in the
newspaper I.o IPopulaire an article
addressed to the ir.-0 c!a"s of re-
crults, which has been considered an
c"ort to incite the troops to disobe
dience. Tho articlo was re-published
in L'llumanito today and was sub
scribed to by tho sixty-five members
of the party. Removal ot parliamcn
tary immunity so that M. Valllant-
Couturicr may be prosecuted has
been demanded.
"Soldiers and comrades," says M.
Vaillant-Couturier's articlo, "you are
to bo sowers of hatred and new war.
You, along with colored troops, are
the sole hope of the bourgeoisie,
which feels the tide of revolutionary
truth mounting. Sanguinary liba
tions always attend tho funoralB of
moribund regimes. It is not simply
a case ot mutinying at tho hour of
those funerals, it Is incumbent upon
you to understand now whero He the
interest of tho country you love. It
is a case of know now if you desire
your country to bo veritably yours.
"Assassinations at Frankfort and
occupation of the noutral zone of
Germany east of the Rhine have done
more for the cause of German re
venge than twonty years of political
action led by skillful pan-Germanlsts.
It is a government of treachery
which now, under the pretext of ob
taining execution of a still-born
treaty which seeks to crush the paci
fist revolution in Germany.
"Remember that on May 1st, last
year, whllo the Parisian guard, with
fists, clubs and sabres, repulsed so
cialists crowding against tho infantry
barrage near tho Madeleine, pale sol
diers, with fixed bayonets, opened
their ranks and permitted the red
flags to proceed."
PLEDGED 10 WOOD
the 'eighth man on the delegation, as
proposed, would be M. H. Weamun of
Idaho Falls, said to favor Governor
Lowden of Illinois. ,
A further complication developed,
it was said, with tho demand of
American Legion members that they
have two members of the national
delegation, one each from the north
and south. Thcv also were reported
as demanding a new nationnl com
mitteeman in place of Senator John
W. Hart of Rigby, who issued a
statement that he had no intention
of withdrawing as national commit
teeman. It was stated tlm Will m
of Mountain Home had been
HARDING IS
OHIOWINNER
OVER WOOD
Favorite Son in Presidential State
Leads Military Man by About
10,000 Votes Politipal Sensation
Are Number of Votes Written in for
Hoover and Johnson Former Food
Administrator Gets 3753 in Cin
cinnati, Johnson Gets 2753.
COLUMBUS. O., April 28. Re
turns from 5488 precincts of 5882 in
Ohio give: Iluidiug, 118,454: Wood,
105.348.
COLUMBUS. O.. Aoril 28. Late
returns today from yesterday's presi
dential primary election in Ohio from
all but 582 of tho B.8S9 nreftinefe in
tho state showed that Scnutor Hard-
was leading General Wood bv
WARREN. G, HARplNG-
12,281 votes. The vote in 5,300 pre
cincts stood :
For Harding, 111,89.1; for Wood,
102,012.
Additional returns late this after
noon indicated 38 and posiblv 40 of
the 48 delegates from Ohio to tho re
publican nationnl convention may be
pledged to Senator Harding on fust
choice.
COLUMBUS, O., April 28. Latest
available returns today on vester
day's presidential primary election
hows that Hiram Johnson of Call
fornia polled 15,009 votes, despite the
tact that his name was not printed on
the ballots and had to be written in
CINCINNATI, O., April 28. While
Senator Warren G. Harding carried
Hamilton counyt (Cincinnati) in yes
terday's presidential primary bv a
plurality of 1,817 over Ma jor General
Leonard Wood, tho voto given Her
bert C. Hoover and Senator Hiram
Johnson caused comment among poli
ticians berc.today. Hoover and John
son's names were not on the ballot
and had to be written in.
Hoover's vote was 3,753 nnd
Johnson's 2,573. Johnson carried
one city ward nnd ran second in
another. Hoover did not carry nn
of the wards.
rOrrVHUS. (I.. Anril 2fi Tn 4 1120
precincts out of 5,882 in Ohio guvs
Harding 100,404. Wood 90.230.
COLUMBUS. O.. April 28. Re
turns earlv this morning on yester
day's presidential preference primary
election in Ohio from all but 1,111
precincts out of a total of 5,882 in
the state, showed that Senator War
rcn G. Harding of Ohio was lcadin;
General Leonard Wood of Massachu
setts bv a liitlc more than 9,000 votes.
The vote stood :
For Harding. 97.490: for Wood
88.381.
Fourteen counties, including the
larger cities of the state, bad report
ed complete, nnd incomplete returns
had been received from each of the
other seventy-four counties.
Although their names were hot
printed on the ballots, Hiram John
son of California received 12,708
votes and Herbert Hoover of Cali
fornia received 8,283 votes in 3,440
scattering precincts.
The name of Governor James M.
Cox of Ohio was the only one ap
pearing on the democratic preiden-
(Contioued oMpage Eight).
E PATROL
I FORESTS
WAR DEPI.
WASHUNOTON, April 28.
Because ot the depleted person- 4
nel only one aviation squadron
will be detailed for forest ob-
servatlon thiB year, the war de-
partment announced today. The
ninth squadron .will be based at
Mather Field and will cover the
various forest reserves of Call-
4- fornia. IN"o squadrons will be
available, it was said, ror the
4" reserves of Washington, Orogon
4 Nevada or Utah.
INTERPRETED BY
E
PORTLAND, Ore.. April 28. If a
person is tried in the stale court on
a state liquor charge and acquitted
ho cannot be taken into federal court
and prosecuted on the same charge
by reason of former jeopardy, accord
ing to tt decision handed down oruUy
vostcrdiiv bv Federal Judge Bean
during the trial of Clyde Jenkins,
under federal indictment for an al
leged violation of the national prohi
bition act. Jenkins had been tried in
the district court op a churgo of hav
ing liquor in his' pcjssession.
Ho was acquitted beforo District
Judge Hawkins.
The federal authorities then look
charge of tho case nnd returned an
indictment, the first count of which
contained tho same charge of posses
sion of liquor illegally.
Judge Bean held that the wordin.
of the federal prohibition amendment
which states that both the. govern
ment nnd states shiill have concurrent
jurisdiction in the prosecution of
liquor violations means thnt the power
of each were identical and that if u
man were prosecuted bv one sover
eignty ho could not bo compelled to
faco trinl on the sumo charge by the
other.
Two other counts in the indictment
against Jenkins contained charges
which are not covered bv state law-,
and for that reason Judge Bean al
lowed the case to go to the jury on
tho two additional counts.
Jenkins is alleged to have manu
factured nearly 500 gallons of gin,
which were sold in Portland from De
cember until his arrest, January 17.
CLAIMS GIRL ASKED
TO
'.ONLY IN THE WAY"
PONTIAC, Mich., April 28. An
son Host, formerly of Flint, Mich.,
confessed onrly this morning, ac
cording to Prosecutor Glenn C. Gil
lespie, that ho killed Miss Vera
Schneider, 1 $ years old telephone op
erator, whose body was found early
Sunday morning on the porch of an
unoccupied dwelling.
"She asked mo to kill her," Rest
was quoted as saying, lie, declared.
according to the prosecutor, that he
met Miss Schneider for tho first time
late Saturday night.
Sho oven drew the handkorchiefs
from his pockets and asked him to
tie them together and place them
about her neck, Host said. ' Her only
reason, ho said, waB that sho was
"simply In the way of othors."
TOTAL 768 RADICALS
DEPORTED SAYS POST
WASHINGTON, April 28. A total
of 708 deportation warrants have been
issued by the department of labor as
a result of tho so-called radical raids
bv the department of justice. Assist
ant Secretary Post said today in a let
ter to Chairman Johnson of the house
immigration committee. He wrote
in reply to an inquiry by Sir. Johnson,
FRANCE WILL
WITHDRAW
NEAR FUTURE
Premier Millerand Informs Chamber
of Deputies France Agrees to Leave
Neutral Zone Soon as Excess Ger
man Troops Withdraw Hun
Forces Ruhr District Reduced to
10,000 by June 1 0th Turks to Re
main in Constantinople.
PARIS, April 28 Premier Miller
and, in making a declaration to the
chamber of deputies today on the re
sults of the supreme council meeting
nt San lfeino. said that the'Frunkfort
and Darmstadt territories would be
evacuated by the French as soon as
the allied commissions have establish
ed that tho Gorman ariiicd forces over
tho number allowed bv the convention
of August, 1919, had been withdrawn.
The whole German forces in tho
Ruhr region, the premier declared,
must be reduced to 10,000 men bv
June 10, next and bv July 10 all the
German soldiery must bo withdrawn
and. replaced bv a police force of 10.
000 men.
"The details of the treaty with
Turkey," lie continued, "cannot he
divulged before Turkey's plenipoten
tiaries come to Paris May 10, but I
can sav that tho Ircatv is in con
formity with the outline already made
public, the Turks being, maintained
in Const a ntinoplc. and the territories
in which they nra in the majority."
BERLIN, April 27. Conflicting
French, British nnd Italian views were
compromised in framing the finnl al
lied statement issued lit the Sun
Remo conference, according to the
views of newspapers here.
A member of the allied conference
is cited bv the Vossiscdio Zcitung as
saying that "Premier Millerand pre
vailed in the mailer of form, but Pre
mier Nilti, in tho matter of fact."
FUME SUFFERS FROM
ITALIAN BLOCKADE
TRIKSTIi, April 27. (By the As
sociated Press) The blockade which
Fiumo is now undergoing is admit
tedly the most severe to which it has
been subjected. Tho town's commit1
mentions have been' completely cut.
Regular Italian troops tore up sec
tions of tho railway and brought up
machine guns to guard tho frontiers.
Passage ill and out of the city is for
bidden, not even milk iroing in. Con
nection with the outside world bvtlic
sea route also lias been severed.
Gnbrele d'Annun.io. the insurgent
leader has threatened reprisals.
RETREAT FROM URFA
PARIS, April 21.. -Official ac
counts of tho French retreat from
Urfa, Asia Minor, confirm tho reports
that tho retreating column was am
bushed, altho tho French had an
agreement with tho Turks which
they bollovcd would insuro a Bafo re
tirement.
Tho French loft Urfa. only whon
food and water were lacking, after a
siistulnod sioge of two months. Tho
French losses in tho siege are said to
have been small, while tho admitted
Turkish casualties totalled 500.
BRITISH AFTER NAVAL
E
HONOLULU. Anril oa o T.lt.
tie and A. I. Perfect arrived here
vestcrduv en route to Fanning island
with five tons of surveying and boring
equipment for investigation in behnlt
of the British admiralty. Fanning
island has been conside; I for a pro
posed naval base by the British gov
ernment for many ycurs.
y STARTS
ADVANCE ON 180 MILE
T INTO UKRAINE
WARSAW. April 28 (By tho
Associated Press) A general
iirlviiiwi liv Polish forces nlon"
a 180-mile front into tho Ukraine
was announced in today s com- v
muniqiic bv tho Polish general
staff. The movement, it is set
forth, is for the expulsion of the
foreign invaders. ( Russian bul-
sheviki).
Ttw Pnhw envornd nbout fiftv
miles the first day of their for-
ward movement, their advanced
line taking tliciu within sixty
miles of Kiev.
The advance was explained in
a proclamation issued in tho
name of General Pilsudskv. head
of the Polish state, which an-
nnunccd that alter the expulsion
up tlm foroifrii elements the Poles
would remain in the Ukraine only
until an authorized Ukranian
government should take control.
U. S. Chamber of Commerce" Author-
: Izes Committee to Visit Europe
With View to Onenina Trade Rela
tions With Russian People R. R.
Labor Condemned for Attitude.
ATLANTIC CITY, N. J.. April 28.
-.-Tho board of directors of tho Unit
ed States Chamhor of Commorco to
day nuthoiizod appointment of a
commission to proceed to Europe to
Invostlgnto tho possibility of rosump
tlon of trade relations botweon tho
United StatcB and ttia 'Russian poo
plo.
'President llomor I.. Ferguson was
directed to namo tho mombors of the
commission nnd given authority to
"bring tho project to a successful
termination." i
The foreign commerce group of
tho chnmher previously had unanim
ously adopted a resolution proposing
American trade with Russia bo ro
sumed and characterizing tho soviet
government as "a falling regime."
Discussion In tho convention's gon
oral and group sosslons today cen
tered about problomB of transporta
tion and production as bearing upon
the high cost of living and with or
ganized labor's attitude toward re
cent legislation.
George A. fPost, chairman of tho
ohambor's railroad committee, de
clared, "we have tho right to oxpoct
and Insist that the railroad employes
will co-operate with their offlcera
and keep the wheels rolling, and not
paralyze commorco with quarrels
among thomselvos.
"Tho attitude ot organized labor
toward the railroad labor board is
dooply to bo doplored," ho said. "So
bittor was tholr opposition that aftor
the passage of tho transportation act
(Continued on Page Eight)
SENATOR LODGE AND
EASY WINNERS
BOSTON, April 28. The organi
zation slatos of republican and dem
ocratic candidates for delegates at
largo to tho national conventions
were elected by substantial major
ities in yesterday's presidential pref
erence primary, according to the
complete voto today.
Sonator Ilonry Cabot Lodgo led
the republican "big four" who head
ed the ballot as u group. He was
followed in tho order named by
Speaker Frederick H. Cllllatt, of tho
national houso ot representatives,
former 8enator William 'Murray
Crane, and Edward A. Thurston, for
mer chairman of the republican state
committee.
The democratic regulars were
BUSINESS IN
FOR RESUMING
RUSSIAN TRADE
ATTACK ON
I1AZATLAN
IS STARTED
Important Mexican Port West Coast
Is Attacked bv General Flores
4000 Carranza Troops Chihuahua
Revolt Aqainst Government Car
ranza Deserted bv Garrison at Sa
lina Cruz Where Plunderino. Is
Started Rebels Occupy Alvarado.
AGUA PR I ETA. Sonorn, April 28.
Mnzntlan, Sinaloa, a port on the
Pmnl'i,, i-oiwl. nt' Mpvien. is hoin at
tacked by revolutionary forces under
General Angel Flores, according to nn
uncoil firmed report received at milU
fnrv Iwiiilnmirtors hern tndav. Gene
ral P. Klias Calles announced tho nt-
tuek hud been expected since yester
day. ,
AGUA l'RIF.TA, Sonora. April 28.
Aimrovimiiiclv .1000 Caranzii troops
at Parrul and .limine,. Chihuahua, re
volted yesterday, according to infor
mation given out hero today bv Gene
ral P. Klias Calles, commander of
the revolutionists in northwest
Mexico.
WASHINGTON. April 28. Advices
from Mexico today through official
channels slate Hint rebels have occu
pied the town of Alvarado, on the
gulf const south of Vera Gruz, and
that fedcriirTroops liavhceH'thiH!; '
from Vera Cruz in nn effort to ro"
gain control of the port. '",'
At Salina Cruz on the Pacific coast
all business places wero roported '
closed veslcrdav as a result of the
revolt of the government garrison of
seventy men, who robbod tho post
office, telegraph office, express of-
fieei stores disarmed tho police and -customs
officials, cut tho telogruph
wires and look all the available horses
in the city.
Mexico City newspapers vestordav
confirmed reports that had reached
here of the revolt of Gonerol Cosio
Rcbclo, nnd General Maveotto nnd an
nounced that General Rafael Garzn.
and Giinjurdn, near Mexico City, ha l
joined the revolution.
KL PASO. Texas, April 28. Ruiz
Sandoval, consul general here for the
Mexican federal government, tpdnv
confirmed reports of a rovolt in Chi- .
Illinium City, capital of, the state of -Chihuahua,
hut said he wan without ..
information us to detnils. ,
"There was lighting, but beyond
that I know nothing of the situation,"
said Sandovnl. , ) , . ,
E
10 OBEY COURT
PORTLAND, April "28:-T-;Dan . J.
Malarkoy, attornoy for tho Northwest
Steol company and the , Columbia
Itlver Shipbuilding corporation, an
nounced today that he would refuse
to turn over to tho fodoral grand Jury
tho rocords of those companies, as
ordered yesterday by Federal judge
Bean. i
THE "BIG FOUR"
IN MASSACHUSETTS
olectod by majorities of three and
four to ono over former Congressman
Joseph F. O'Conncll who made his
campaign on an anti-prohibition Is
sue. Those elected are Senator Da
vid, I. Walsh, Richard H. Long, twice
democratic nominee for governor;
District Attorney Joseph C. Pellotler
and Daniel F. Dohorty. .
Of the 3d republican delegates, In
cluding thoso at large, 29 are un
pledged but sovoral of these have an
nounced tholr Intention to vote for
Major Gonoral Leonard Wood. Two
are pledged to Wood and four wore
doscrlbed on the ballot as favorable
to him. Tho entlro democratic dele
gation Is unpledged.
The "big four" republican candi
dates carried 21 ot the 38 cities.