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MEDFORD VI A IT T"RTR The Weather Maximum yesterday OH Minimum today at UNE Predictions Fair. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OREO OX, MONDAY, MAY :?, 19'JO. XO. 36 UAR HINDUS II 2 IRE U.S.CITiZBNS E. F. Greenlaw and Son Are Latest Victims of Open Season Across the Border 2 U. S. Destroyers Ordered to Vera Cruz and Tampico Rebels Busy Preparinq for an Advance on Mexico City Carranza Generals Gets U. S. Passage. JUAREZ REVOLTS 2 P. M. OBREGON IS ACCLAIMED EL rASO. Texas, Slay 3. (Flash) Juarez, Mexico, lias revolti'il. Juarez joined the rebellion in Mexieo at 2 i. in., todav. Hevo- lutionnrv troops cntcrinir the city were acclaimed amid wild secnes of joy, bands playing, and the populace crying: ''Viva Obregon." EL PASO, Texas, JIar 3. The Mexican authorities have closed the port of Juarez. No transportation is allowed across the International bridge from cither side this after noon. .WASHINGTON1, May 3. Two American citizens, Eben Francis Greenlaw and his minor son, were killed by Mexican bandits yesterday, the Btate department was informed today by the American embassy in Mexico City. The killings occurred at Palazasas, about 125 miles from Mexico City. Greenlaw waB omployed by a British lumber firm. The state department announced that it has requested the Mexican government thru tho Americnn em bassy to take "effective measures" Immediately for apprehension and punishment of tho assassins. V. S. Destroyers Sent, WASHINGTON, May 3 American destroyers have been ordered to Vera Cruz and Tamplco to protect Amer icans tbere. (The navy department acted on tho request of the state department, where it was explained today that tho warships would take aboard Americans In thoso ports In event that it should become necessary. It was said that the vessels would not intervene In Mexican affairs and that their despatch was a precaution ary measure. Only tho cruiser Sacra mento is now on tho cast coast of Mexico. She was last reported at Tamplco. No reports of any disturbances in either Vera Cruz or Tamplco have been received by the state department but revolutionary outbreaks have oc curred near both ports. Advices to the government today said the line between Mexico City and Vera Cruz had been cut, but thoy did not indicate the extent of damage. This lino runs thru the northern part of the state of Tlaxlcala, the governor (Continued on Page Eight) LONDON, May 3. A second effort will bo made 'io produce "A Night In Home" in which Laurette Taylor is the star, at the Garrlck theater to night. The American ambassador, John V. Davis, and Mrs. Davis, who were present in the theater last Thursday night when the ifrst per formance of the piece was broken up by a gallery demonstration, have ac cepted invitations to attend tonight's performance. At the theater, it was said today, no trouble was expected tonight. A cablegram to Ambassador Davis from the Irish pickets in Washington signed "Mary Walsh, captain of the Washington pickets," says: "Press reports say that Laurette Taylor, American, actress, was stoned N.Y.DEPAR1MENT STORE ITS PRICES 20 PER CENT NEW YORK, May 3. Ono of New York's largest department stofts inserted advertisements in today's newspapers announc- ing that it would attempt "to break tho backbone of high prices," by offering its stock valued at $20,000,000 at a re- duct ion of twenty per cent. Tho only goods excluded will be about $50,000 worth of mer- I'handise purchased under price restrictions which cannot be "honorably changed." Tho only motive in making this general reduction, said the advertisement, is a "conscien- tious sense of duty," made nec- epsary by the reports of govern- ment investigators that prices are still on the upward trend. ! HOME, May 2 Production of syn thetic ammonia is announced by Dr. Casale, prominent in the Italian chemical industry, who says ho has solved the problem by the use of special machinery and a chemical re agent of his own invention. The process requires no material except air and water and works auto matically without expense for atten tion, energy or material. It forces a mixture of nitrogen and hydrogen thru catalyzing tubes at a pressure of 250 atmospheres and transforms the two gases into pure ammonia. Dr. Casale expects soon to employ un'ts that, will enablo Italy to have 300,000 tons of a;:::;:r.!a for fertiliz ers each year, besides surplus produc tion fnr export. Tho undertaking is financed by American capital and the plant has been visited by Alfred Denis, an American commercial attache here who has reported to Washington. FRANCE ID UP E PAltIS, May 3. Tho strike situa tlon In this city was gonorally st,T tionary at the north and cast stations this morning only about fifty per cent of the usual number of trains being in operation. At tho St. Laxare station traffic was affected more ser iously. Virtually no freight trains were moving during the forenoon. M. Monitto, managing director of tho weekly publication "Labor Life" which has been conducting a cam paign for the continuation of the rail way workers strike was arrested this morning. This is tho first arrest in connection with tho railroad strike. PARIS, May 3. Announcement is made of the Indefinite postponement of the sailing of the liner LaFrance for Now York, which was fixed for today. Officials of tho French line believed she would sail this week. by the Uiitlsh in your presence. Do you consider this an Insult or assault to the American ambassador, accord ing to tho law of nations. Will you Instruct tho nritish foreign office as the British ambassador instructed the American secretary of slate to charge as felons American women peacefully displaying the truth about Ireland on Washington sidewalks In tho sacred precincts of the British embassy?" The stage setting of the play has been changed so that those In the highest gallery will be able to see perfectly, thus removing the alleged cause of complaint Thursday night. The American embassy announced that Mr. Davis saw nothing anti American in Thursdav's demonstration, T Little Town of Pegns is Completely Wiped Out by Twister 44 Bodies Already Recovered and Total May Reach Into Hundreds Only 3 Houses Left Standinq Only Phy sician in Town Amonq Those Killed Aid Rushed. MUSKOGEE, (lkln.. M;iv 3. More than fiftv persons arc known lo have been killed and approximately 100 were injured in a cvi'lono that vir tually wiped out Teens, a small vil lage in the northwest corner of Cherokee county about 9 o'clock last night. Forty-three bodies have been re covered by rescue workers. More arc believed to be in the wreckage. Only three buildings remained standing after the storm bad passed. Whole families were crushed to death when their homes were torn to pieces. Nine members of the 1 .evens family were killed : seven of the l.itt'.c ficld family, eight persons by Ihc name of Frank and five members of the Wilkerson family are numbered anions the dead. Forty-two coffins arc being sent to the scene from Tuhleauah. This is as ninny as could be found in the city. Tomporarv hospitals have been organized nmid the wreckage and scores of severely injured are being L'ivcn first aid. Those who can stand the trip to Tahlequnh are beins taken there where thev will be placed in hospitals. MUSKOGEE. Okla., May .'!. "Af noon todav fortv-four bodies bad been extricated from the debris re sulting from last night's storm at Peggs. Okla. John Littleficld. his wife and six of their seven children were unions those killed in the storm, a report to Tahle- miah said. The onlvjdiysician in the town, Dr. . li. mil also was mueo. MUSKOGEE, Okla., May 3 Thirty seven bodies have been recovered by rescuers from wrecked houses in the storm demolishod town of Pggs, ac cording to a telephone report from Tahlcouah. This information brought from Feces by the first man to arrive from there today. Twenty of these bodies are report ed to have been taken from one build ing alone. MTSKOGEE. Okla., Mnv 3. Fifty persons are reported killed and more than lo0 injured in a storm that is said to hnve destroyed tho little town of Peggs, Okla., Cherokee countv, Inst night. A special train carrying doctors and nurses and ciiuipmcnt left Mils kogec for Peggs this morning. All doctors ami nurses in Tableruiah ai-'o have trono. Virtually every store in Tnhlcounh, which is the county sea of Cherokee county, has closed and several hundred people have gone to Feces to do rescue work. Direct communication with the stricken town was impossible this morning, as all wires from Muskogee to Feces are down. Hcports to the Muskoscc Time Democrat from Locust drove and Tahleounh. where dead and injured from Fcees are being taken said that not a Jiouse was lett standing in Fcees. The liltle village of Fcees is in the foothills on the northern bonier ol Cherokee county about sixty miles east of Tulsa. The place is oft the railroad. Tahlcouah, fifteen miles south, is the nearest railroad station. Thoe familiar with the roads say it is virtually impossible to reach Feces bv motor car. The Tulsa Tribune started n news paperman bv airplane to the stricken district this morning. PARIS, May 3. Workers thruout France will be protected by the gov ernment against aggression by strik ers, according to an Interview with Yves LeTrocquer, minister of public works, printed In this morning's Ma tin. The minister declares all mea sures to furnish necessities of life to the people have been taken. IIRNADO IN OKLAHOMA 0. S. SUPREME COURT REFUSES A REHEARING OF IHE U.S. STEEL CASE WASHINGTON, May .1. The supremo court today refused to Crant tho Government's request, for a re-bearine of the anti trust suit acainst the United States Steel corporation. The Government's motion for a re-hcarine was based principally on tho contention that the court's delusion in the steel case March 1 conflicted with that April 20, ordering the dissolut; of the rending company and cer tain of its rail and coal subsi . diaries. Huth cases were decided by a four to three decis:on. WASHINGTON, .May .'I. Tho supremo court recessed toilliy until May 17 without blinding down a decision on tin; constitu tionality of the prohibition amendment and the enforcement act. IS KILLED BY SI RUGH SAW MILL The coroner's inrv at the imiuest here todav held that the death of Merrimnn Bigha"i was accidental and attached no hlaiue to anyone for the tragic, occurrence. I ho body was shipped to Yreka this morning for burial. The accident through which Hic ham, who was a little over 18 years old, occurred at Pittsburg Lumber company saw mill four miles south west of Rueh late Friday atternoon It was his first day of employment at the mill and he was put to work al a cut-off saw, being cautioned seve ral times during the dav about care ful handling of the saw and uboi't his footing. At 4:110 p. m., he fell against the saw which cut tho fleshy part ol) his right leg to the bone, severing an artery. The injured man was rushed to the Dow hospital in Medford which was reached at 0:10 p. m. He died a ball' hour later from shook and loss ol blood. F OF KANES CREEK William A. Haynes, aged U7 yearn, a blacksmith by occupation but who had been mining for the past 2 years, was found dead in his cabin at tho head of Kanea cronk near Gold Hill, on April :i0 by Clyde 15. Kamli who had taken his cattle to that vic inity to graze and on passing the cabin and receiving no response to his calls entered. Mr. Haynes had been a resident of the state for 30 years. Ho was last seen alive on April 23rd, and It is not known whon he died, hilt it was prob ably shortly after that date. Death was due to natural causes. He for merly resided near Albany, Ore., and was a member of the Masonic lodge of Albany. His son, Chas. Haynes, is here from Portland to take eharge of the funeral. Last October whilo walking on a trail some distance in front of Wil liam Fostnr, a young man of doubtful mental condition Mr. Haynes was ac cidentally shot in tho head by a 30.30 shell loaded in a 44 caliber revolver, which was carried by Foster. He recovered from the wound. REFER METHODIST UNION TO A SPECIAL COMMITTEE DKS MOINKS. In.. Mav 3 The re ports ot the commission on unifiey tion ol' the Methodist Kiieop:tl church, north and south, in its re ports to the uenernl quadrennial con ference todav has recommended that the mutter be referred to n special eommiKee. The recommendation wns adopted. KIEV FALLS, RED FORCES IN RETREAT General Pilsudski Enters Capital of Ukraine With Victorious Troops Bolshevik! Make Desperate Stand on Dnieper River. But Are Over whelmed Chinese Troops Aid Reds and Many Are Captured Revolt Looms In Moscow. u-AUslAW M,iv riiv the As sociated Press) Public. Hots and up rising's among the soldiers are re ported to have occurred in .Moscow upon receipt ot news ol the 1 olisli successes. The reports sav I hero arc increasing demands for a chaiiL'O ol' government. WAliSAW, Mav X (Pv the Asso ciated Press) Polish lorccs oecu- nli'il Kiev vestcrdav. according' to extra editions id' the newspapers here today. (Icncral Pilsudski, president of the Polish stale, led the troops into the city, the newspapers sav. W'AliSAW, Mav 1 (Hv the Asso ciated Press) Holshcvil; forces have backed up asrainst the Dnieper river and are preparinir to resist the Pol ish and I'kraninn efforts to take Kiev towards which General Pilsudskv's men are fiubt'ni; their wav from three directions. Polish cavalry, which reached Ihc region of Kiev Halurdav has halted, accordins to latest reports, awailin'i the comiiiL' up of infantry support. Stubborn fiuhtiiiL' is coins on in the open country alone the Telrow river ill the vicinity of Maliu. Chinese Aid Itcds Chinese mercenaries are beinir used bv the boisheviki to stem the eastern sweep of Polish and Ukranian forces, said Saturday's official coinmuninnc. A number of Chinese have been cap tured, it was announced. The Polish advance into the I'krainc alone a front of 18(1 miles liciran carlv last week for the an nounced purpose of cxpellinsr the "foreiu'ii invaders" or Hussinn boishe viki. The Ukraine, as an independent republic, would create a buffer state between Poland and the boisheviki. Kiev is the capital of the Ukraine and the outlet for its vast stores of agri cultural products. (Icncral l'ilsudki. bead of the Pol ish state, announced thai after the ex pulsion of the boisheviki Iho Poles would remain onlv until an autbor b.ed Vkranian covornnicnt took con trol. (iernmns nnd Poles (lash HKIIIdN', May U. A violent col lision occurred between Voles and (iormnns at Katibor. Silesia, vesler dav on the occasion of the Polish na tional festival, acoordim.' to u dis patch publi-hcd here. Munv people were injured on both sides, some sc riouslv. Several thousand Poles cnri'vim; Polish fiaiis and emblems paraded throue.li (he streets. The (ieriTUir.s demanded removal of Polish emblems of sovereignty on the ground that siM-h emblems were prohibited bv the allied commission. CONSTANTINOPLE. May 2. The seizure of Haku on Ihc west coast of the Caspian sea, bv (he Hussinn bol shevik on April 'JH has aroused the fieortrians. who have called for nd ditional classes lo arms and an nounced thov will not permit the rods to enter Gooruia through A.crbaiiun. Thus far thev have been able to prevent tint boisheviki from entering through the mountain passes in the vicinity of Yluiknvkaz. The capture of Haku yives tho b;l sheviki virtual control id' Azerbaijan. Its seizure makes the Armenian situ ation more precarious as the bolshe vik doubtless will help the Moslem Azerbaijan opposition to Armenia. In this wav Miistaphn Kemal Pasha's Tiirk'sh nationalist Molieininadan forces would be able lo connect wild the Azerbaijans, forminir a connec tion with the Moslems in Turkestan bv way of the Caspian sen and Per sia. MARSEILLES, May 3. This harbor is almost completely paralyzed by the strike. No ships hnvo left Binco tho walkout was declared. WKSTHUVILI-K. O., May 3 Tho Antl-Snloon league ot Amer ica, ihrii Dr. 1'. A. llaker, lis general superintendent, today placed lis stamp if approval on seven presidential candidates. Thoy are Hoover, Wood, l.ow den, McAdoo, Hughes, l'olndcx ter and lliyan. Mr. linker's statement says tho "prohibitionists of tho coun try can safely support nay of these men if nominated." Tho statement is taken by league men to mean that no other cnadlilates mentioned as possibilities up to date have tho league's approval and that the dry organization will fight alt othera heretofore mentioned by it and not included in this list. They are Harding and Johnson, republicans, and Cox and lid wards, democrats. 4.4, PORTLAND, May 3. Perioral .ludgo llean today declared tho North west Steel company and tho Colum bin Hlver Shlpbhllillug corporation In contempt of court and levied fines of $2.ri00 each. J. It. Dowlos nnd Alfred P. Smith, heads of tho two coinpanios wero technically placed undor arrest, be ing placed In tho custody of tho Unit ed States marshal. A stay of execu tion for fivo days, allowed by tho court in which to file an application for u writ of error, will prevent tho shipbuilding magnates from actually going to jail, it was said. Ball was llxcri at $10,000 each. Sentence of tho heads of tho two shipbuilding companies Is tho result of contempt findings against tho com panicB and officers, who Inst week re fused to obey a court order requiring them to produce the hooks and rec ords for a federal grand jury investi gation. Howies and Smith, it was said will remain in tho custody ot the marshal until tho books and records are turned ovor to the grand jury. , CAL WASHINGTON, May 3 Hillings, .tont., 15,100, lucreaso 5069 per cent. or 50.5 Aberdeen, Wash., L',,337, 1G77 or 12.3 per cent. Washington, Pa., 21, ISO, 2702 or I 4.4 per cent. Krnnkfort, Ind., 1 1 , 5 S 5 , 2951 or 34.2 per cent. Long Heach, Cal., 55,503, 37.78 1 or 212.2 per cent. Pomona, Cal., 13,505, 32!lS or 32.3 por cent. Durham, N. C, 21,719, 3478 or 19.1 per cent. Increase Increaso inercaso IncrenBO Increase IncrenBO AGAINST U. S. A. PANAMA. Mav 2. Several thous and Pananinns tonieht marched throiiu'li the streets in torchlight pa rade as a protest against the nciiip sition by tho United Stntes of the major portion of TaboL'a island for the purpose of fortifying as u nnrl of the Pacific defense scheme of the Panama, canal. An uutomobile in which flencral Pershing was driving lo a ball in bis honor at the Union club, was halted bv tho procession nnd forced to return to the Tivoli hotel. - Mobs later formed in 'the streets and irresponsible persons threw rocks at prominent 1'uuama. officials, a PANAMA MOBS THROW ROCKS. PROTES MB DAY ANARCHIST A SUICIDE Man Who Printed Pink Circulars Found Near Places Bombed Last June Jumps From 14th Story of Park Row Buildlnq Reveals for First Time Arrests Have Been Made by Government Fear of Red Revenue Cause. Nl'.W YOliK, May 3. Tony Tnzio. .'10 years old, detained bv the depnit mcnt of justice as an important wit ness aurninsl a number of radicals in volved in the bomb outrnees last June, committed suicide enrlv todav bv hurlinir himself from n window on the fourteenth floor of a Park How office buildiiiL' where the department hcMduuarlcrs arc located. Chief William J. Klvnn, of the de partment said todav that Tazio was one of several anarchists who wero arrested in connection with the bomb explosions of June 2 last, and had been detained at hcadoulirtcrs as a government witness for six weeks.' The June bomb attacks included (be homes of Judire Chnrlcs C. Nott of concrnl sessions court in New York anil Attorney General Palmer at Washington. The explosions resulted in the death of two persons. Tazio's saic.ido revealed for the first time that anv Important arrests ever hnd been lnado in connection with Iho case. Printed Circulnra Chief Klvnn said that the man's real name was Andrac Salsedo. Ho admitted, nccordinir to Chief l'Tynn, that it was bo who printed the pink circulars, (topics of which woro found in the vicinity of homos wreck ed by the bombs. Salsedo was a printer nnd writer. He was slecpine with another Govern ment witness when ho cot up. went to the wash room and jumped from tho window without rousing his compan ion. Mr. Flvnn admitted that several other men hnd been arrested in con nection with the plots, that thev had confessed to participating nnd that thev had agreed to turn eovcrnniout witnesses. llo declined, however, to eivc tho names or to explain whnt part thev had played. Prom Chief Pl.vnn nnd N, C. Donnlo, Salseilo's lawver, it was learned that Ihc circulars hnd been printed in an llnlian printinc establishment in itrooklyn where Salsedo wus em ployed. Aocordiii2 lo Donnlo his client's employer asserts that Salsedo must have done tho work in his sparo timo without his knowledge, lto admitted, however, that the circular headed "plain words," and sinned "anarchist fichters," had been turned out on his presses. Fenr of Murder Acoordim; to Donnlo, Salsedo, who camo lo this country about live vcarH apro, did not know English and was not "a man of action." His nttornovs said that when anarchists nsked him to print the pink circulars, he did not appreciate the cravitv of his act. Chief Plvnn said that Salsedo an.d other troverninent witnesses had ex- fContinuod on Page Eight) T AS PERSHING PASSES number of who mwerc injured. Mount ed policemen, nctincr ott orders of Mayor llovd, charged and dispersed the demonstrators. Major General Chaso W. Kennedy, commander of tho Americnn troops in the canal zone, following receipt of reports of rock Ihrowinsr. ordered all American officers attending the ball to leave immediately, Knrlier in the evening General Pershing attended a reception at tho rtalbon administration building where thousands of American employes shook hands with him. Tomorrow ho will inspect tho Atlantic canal defenses,