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The Weather
Maximum yesterday 81
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Prediction":
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Cooler Saturday.
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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 7, 1920.
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EIBUNE
CARRANZA S
REPORTED TO
E FlEO
Unofficial Reports State Mexican
President Left Mexico City Last
Night With Guard of Troops for
Vera Cruz Rebels Start March on
Mexican Capital Laredo Guards
Form Rebellion Anti-Carranza
Revolt Is Spreading.
WASHINGTON. May 7 A private
message received here after midnight
from Mexico Citv via Laredo saving
Unit President Carrunza already had
left the Miexicnn capital for Vera
Cruz had not been confirmed in of
ficial circles earlv today. According
to the message Carrunza left Mexico
City last night accompanied bv n
guard of troops under command of
his son-in-law, Cajdido Aguilar. and
that he ostensibly was headed for
Vera Cruz.
Revolutionary agents here predict
ed President Cnrranza would abandon
the capital soon. Their view found
some support in official quarters
where the greater part of the reports
received had indicated a steady
growth of the rebellion.
March on Mexico City
JUAREZ, ' Mexico. May 7. One
thousand revolutionary troops al
ready have started on their march
from hero to Mexico Citv, and five
hundred more will depart this after
noon, according to information given
out at military headquarters hero nt
noon.
SAN ANTONIO, Texas. May 7.
A report considered reliable reached
here at noon that Mexican 'revolutionary-
forces had captured Lampasas.
just south of Nuevo Laredo, and wove
holding up a train en route from the
border to Mexico Citv. The rebels
were said to be en route to Nuevo Lu
I redo, where the report soid, the fede
ral forces would surrender.
Tjaredo Joins Rebels
LAREDO, ' Texns, May 7. The
mounted customs gunrns at Lr.evp r,n-
rcdo mutinied nt midnight Inst night,
declaring for the Sonora revolution,
and after an exchange of shots with
federal troops fled in the direction of
Colombia, 25 miles up the Rio Grande
according to an of ficial announcement
by Mexican Consul Garcia this after
noon. The consul denied, persistent re
. ports that tho mutineers had demand
ed the surrender of tho federal gar
rison nt Nuevo Laredo hv two o'clock
this afternoon. He said a military
train carrying four hundred cavalry
with mounts and full equipment would
nrrive from Monterey late today to
reinforce the loyal forces in Ncuvo
Laredo.
Fight In Pueblo
WASHINGTON. May 7. General
Murgia has been sent into the state
of Puebln to attack the forces of Gen
eral Pablo Gonzales and an engage
ment already has occurred between
the vanguard of the Currunzistn
(roops and the rebels at Otumbn, be
tween Mexico Citv and the city of
Puebln,' '"'.
Authoritative advices reaching
Washington today said General Gon
zales had declared lie was not in
league with the Obregonistas and
would resist them bv force of nrms.
This was regarded as complicating
the situation in Mexico. Gonzales
has declared martial law in Pucbhi
City, according to these advices and
has exacted n loan of 200,000 pesos
from the population.
AV
DUPONT POWDER TRUST THREATENS
TO
WASHINGTON. May 7. Senator
Kenyon of Iowa, declared in the sen
ate today that E. I. DuPont de Ne
mours and company, of Wilmington,
Del., virtually had threatened to op
pose Major General Leonard Wood's
campnign for the republican nomina
tion for president unless Senator
Moses of New Hampshire, one of his
campaign managers, withdrew his op
position to the dye bill now before the
senate.
Senator Ken von read a letter from
Charles K. Weston, manager of the
company's publicity department l
Senator Moses, declaring that the
HIRAM SPURNS IDEA
OF BEING SELECTED
AS VICE-PRESIDENT
wAsmvryrnv r,iv 7. Son.
ntor Johnson of California has
cimMl.!iifntwl ' Ihe n lit hni'i 7.pd
statement of two weeks ago by
one of his campaign managers,
Representative Nolan of t'ali-
fornia, that in no circumstances
wntiM lm npppnt. n imni inn t win
for vice-nresidencv. bv making
formal and direct statement to
II, ..t IYo,.t hmienir
Senator Johnson has issued
Hie following:
"Under no circumstances will v
I accept the republican noininn-
tion for the vice-presidency. It
is amusing to me that the men
who are suggesting me now for
vice-president arc those who are
most horrified nt the thought of
my nomination for the presi-
dency."
10 GREATER ACTION
PORTLAND, May 7. Mr. W. B.
Ayer, who has represented the statu,
of Oregon in the Hoover National
Committee, has made the following
statement regarding the California
result :
"The result ji California was oc
cassioned bv the failure of the Hoo
ver sentiment to manifest itself nt
the polls. Only 50 per cent- of the
registered vote was cast. It was a
case of the Johnson machino func
tioning and his full strength was. re
corded. The people complain about
our inefficient government, but it is
their own fault when they fail to
exercise their right to vote. I ean
not sec how the result in California
is going to affect adversely the result
in Oregon. On the contrary, it will
simply stimulate a movement of the
rank and file to.vai". t!;c polls in favor
of Hoover. 'Faint heart never won
i'nir lady,' aind I nm not in the least
unccr'nin about the result in this
state."
There is absolutely no doubt Hint
there is more sentiment for Mr. Hoo
ver than for any other presidential
candidate in the state of Oregon. It
is necessary to get the Hoover sup
porters not only to work for Hoover
and talk for Hoover, but actually to
go to Hie polls in the primaries on
May 21 and vote for Hoover.
WASHINGTON, May 7. Acting
for the Society of American Florist::,
W. F. Gude, its Washington repre
sentative has issued a denial of the
statement bv Miss Anna Jnrvis, presi
dent of the Mother's Day association,
that florists profiteered in white car
nations, the symbol of observance of
Mother's Day, last year. Miss Jarvis
had called on observers of the day
this year to abandon the carnation
and displnv American flags.
All members of the society,
throughout the country, Mr. Gudo
said, have been urged to sell white
carnations nt the usual market rate
on Mother's Day, Sunday Mav fl.
T
New Hampshire senator's opposition
to the dye bill was not in accord with
the expressed views of General Wood
and asking for an explanation of bis
opposition to the measure.
The letter was dated April 16. Sen
ator Kenvon said he presented it with
the permission of both General Wood
and Senator Moses, adding that both
of them resented it.
''Here we have the remarkable
spectacle," said the senator, "of n
Lnited btntcs senator engaged in
managing a presidential campaign
practically threatened as to what will
happen to thnt campaign if he does
not withdraw his opposition to a hill.
H. C. L NOT
CAUSED BY
II. S. LABOR
Former Secretary War Labor Board
Presents SJatistics in Behalf of
Railroad Workers, Showing In
crease in Living Costs Primarily
Due to Excess Profits Increased
Cost of Labor Slight Item in Total
R. R. Labor Must Have Raise.
WASHINGTON, Mav 7 Con-
plndinc his studv. Mr. Lauck
ciltn.!ttiil Ilia fitllntriiio- irnnpml
demands in Wie name of the
.-..;i,....l u-Ai-l-nra .
1. T.nbnr in penernl. nml v
railroad labor in particular,
must-, bnvn wnffn increases oro-
portionate to advances in liv-
ing costs.
"2. In the present crisis, and
for all time to come, producers
and middlemen must be re-
strained from advancing prices
in pyppss nf incrpnsps in labor
"'3. Producers and middle-
men must refrain from inelud-
ing income and excess profit
tuxes in their costs nnd nass-
ing them on to the consumer with
an added profit. .
"4. The nrincinle of a livine
wage must be accepted and
established in order that normal
production mav be restored and v
increased production hoped for
in all fields of industry."
WASHINGTON, May 7. A study
of profiteering in American industry,
mndo under the auspices of the rail
way brotherhoods, was presented to
the railroad labor board today in sup
port of the railway workers' demands
for higher pay and to refute tin
charge that increased labor costs arc
responsible for the high cost of liv
ing.
Prepared by W. J. Lauck. former
secretary of tho war labor board, the
sludv seeks to show that profiteering
in industry is the fundamental cause
for high prices It gives many sta
tistics to support that contention.
Calling attention to the many war-
made millionaires, the study contend:
that the increase in the wealth of the
wealthy is an "ununswernblc" refu
talion to all attempts to charge labor
with profiteering.
"For, if invested wealth gets a
larger return," says the studv. "the
man who -gives personal service or
labor is bound to get n smaller pro
portion.
Regarding Sugar
Of the extraordinary increase in
the price of sugar now amounting to
300 per cent, tho study says, the in
crease in labor cost paid by the con
sumer was less than 15 per cent. The
result of advnnced prices, according
to the quoted reports of twelve com
panies, was pictured in the net profits
of these concerns which it was said
rose from an average of $11,000,000
during the years 1912-1914 to $34.
000.000 for the years 1916-1918.
In the meat packing industry where
profits were said to have increased
between 300 nnd 400 per cent the la
bor item was shown so small that a
wage increase of 100 per cent would
add less than five per cent to the total
cost of meat. Tho increase in price
between 1914 and 1918 was shown as
eight times the totnl labor cost and
tho 1918 price represented 25 times
the total labor item.
Labor iwm Small
Profits absorb approximately one-
half the retail price of certain kinds
of cloth, the report declared, while
the labor item amounts to from one
fourteenth to ono-twenticth of the
price. Similnr relations were pic
t u red in the manufacture of men's
garments.
Shoes, according to the study
"furnished n splendid opportunity foi
the profiteer,", the profit items in
1914, it was charged, absorbed nearly
one-half the price paid bv the con
sumcr, or nearly three times the totn
labor cost, while in 1917 the profit
items amounted to approximately
three-fifths of the total price and
over five times the totnl labor cost.
Increases in the retail price of
bituminous con! were shown at four
times the increase in labor costs,
while the proportion of the proceeds
of the industry received by the conl
operator was shown as increased from
75 to 400 per cent.
A
MILES ON 1 GALLON
HOME. Mav (. Dr. Pasticci.
n nntprl chemist. lli lIlMCtlvprpd
a method of cheaply producing
liquid hydrogen. It may be used
in driving automobiles, one gal
lon being sufficient for 251)
miles. It also mav be utilized in
railway locomotives anil in the
engines of ocean steamers, he
declares. Scientists are tre
mendously interested and if the
facts are substantiated iti is
believed the entire world of in
dustry will he revolutionized.
MONEY FAR EAST
TOKIO, May A America's! best
contribution to the economic
adjustment of the Far East will be
something more than financial en
gagements, said Frank Vanderlip, who
is visiting Japan at the head of a
commercial mission, to a correspon
dent of Reuters hmited today.
"I feel," he declared, "there will he
far more important things for Ameri
ca to do than to lucrely mako loans,
and I particularly doubt the wisdom
of making loans to meet the expenses
of governments dud military opera
tions. American jcapitnl can earn n
large return at home, and the needs
of Europe are extreme. Therefore,
the oast cannot cjpect capital to flow
to it unless it oilers security com
parable to that ofwred in Europe, as
well as a comparatively attractive
rato of interest."
4 REPUBL
S,
4
.C.
WASHINGTON, Mav 6 Mark W.
Potter of New York, president of the
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio rail
road was nominated todav by Presi
dent Wilson to bo n member of the
inter-stato commerce commission.
Tho appointment will bring the
commission up to its newly authorized
strength of eleven members if nil of
the three nominations now before the
senate are confirmed. Mr. Potter is
a democrat.
Four of the present eight commis
sioners are democrats and four are
republicans. Of the two men nomi
nated last week and still unconfirmed
one is a democrat and one an inde
pendent. During the past fifteen yenrs Mr
Potior has been extensively interest
ed in development work in the Appala
chian highlands. Before he took up
tho practice of law in New York, he
worked as a railroad brakeman and
later ns telegraph operator.
SAN" FRAXClRfn Muv 7T.IpI
returns from 5507 precincts out of
571)0 voting m the presidential pri
mary election last Tuesday in Cali
fornia show the Johnson group of
delegates to the republican national
convention to have received 307,895
votes ns against 208,777. votes cast
for tho Hoover group.
This total includes complete re
turns from 33 counties of the 58 in
California. Los Angeles countv.
latest to report complete returns, gave
Hoover delegates 76,825 votes com
pared with 75.153 for the Johnson
group.
WASHINGTON, May 0. A com
promise bill to regulate co-operative
associations of fnrmcrs, dairvmpi
nnd other food producers, was report
ed today by the house judiciary con
mittee as a substitute for the Cap-per-Hersman
measure.
The bill proposes that no such or
ganization mav earn more thun eight
per cent annually.
LOUIS POST
DEFENDS
ALIEN AID
Assistant Secretary of Labor Accuses
Caminetti, Immigration Commis
sioner With Delaying Action in U
S. Deportations Unlawfully News
Only Found on 5000 Aliens Arrested
by Government.
WASHINGTON. May 7 Appenriiis
before the house rules committee to
day to defend his official conduct in
alien deportations, Louis F. Post, as
sistant secretary of the labor depart
iiient, charged that Anthony Ciimi
netti, commissioner general of imiai
grntion, had delayed action in ilo
portutions by withholding cases so
he might compile "an unauthorizcil
and unlawful memorunda," recom
mending final action.
Mr. Post declared that last March
he changed the custom that had
grown up in the department ot per
mitting Mr. Caminetti to mako recoin
Herniations and went direct to the
record to make tho final decision him
self. This, he argued, was tho only
lcgallv authorized procedure.
At tho time of the change, Mr. Post
said "scores and scores and scoros'
of cases bad piled up in the immi
gration bureau with the result that
nuuiv uliens were being held in juii
for mouths.
Newspapers .Unfair
Mr. Post testified thnt the secre
tary of labor alono was authorized
bv law to issue warrants for depor
tation and that he also was tho sole
judge in ordering deportions. Tho
immigration commissioner... ho added,
assumed throughout its report that
Mr. Caminetti had powor to recom
mend deportations.
Newspapers, he charged, bad not
correctly informed the country of his
actions, declaring that "outside sala
ries paid to reporters caused them
to make unfair statements."
Questioned by Chairman Campbell
the assistant secretary said be could
not provo a single case of reporters
being inlluenced in their articles ro
garding him,
Referring to tho "red" rnids con
ducted by tho department of justice,
which have resulted in five thousand
arrests since Inst fall tho assistant
secretary testified that tho only
weapons found by the department
agents were three revolvers, two of
.22 caliber. Only fortv of the nlien.i
who have been given a Hearing, he
said, testified that tbev favored use
of violence in bringing about a change
of government. i
At tho session of the Southorn Ore
gon Presbytery which convened at
tho public library here this atternoon
to determine the policies to be pur
sued and to appropriate home mis
sion funds to the vnrious churches of
the Presbytery, It was decided to
ralBe the salary of every home mis
sionary In the presbytery from (1200
which sum they received last year, to
J 1500, in addition to providing for
each a manse.
Home missionaries are maintained
by tho proBbytery at Morrill, Klamath
county, Jacksonville, Contral Point,
Phoenix, Roguo River and Glendale.
Among those attending today's ses
sion are Revs. Henry of Grants Pass,
McVeigh of Rogue River, Edgar Of
Central Point, Gammons cl Jackson
ville, Taylor of Ashland and Angell
ot Phoenix.
ALBERS GOING BLIND, :
PRAYS FOR PARDON
1 PORTLAND. Ore.. Muv 7. A pe
tition asking that the prison setence
of J. Henry Albers, wealthy Port
land milling mun, convicted tinder the
federal espionage net and sentenced
to a thrcc-vear term at McNeil island
be lifted hv presidential clcmenoV wiia
circulated here today. ,'
Department of justice officials 3nid
today thov were informed thnt Albers
personally had prcpnred similar pe
titions, giving ns an excuse a plea that
he was Soon eoing blind and wished to
die in pence.
DUCHESS CAN'T ABIDE
IE
PARIS, May
-American
food ns served ill restaurants in
that country did not favorably J
impress the Duchess of t'ler- '
inmit-Tonnerre. who visited the
United States last autumn and
has written a book on her trip.
The only American foods that
appear to have mndo an appeal
to the duchess were red buiinnns,
California apples (grown in
Oregon) I and oranges and
"linnm nt' Virginia."
"One must admit," she savs
in her book, "that food in Ameri
ca is not irond. To a French
man, the word 'meal' cannot be
applied to the bolting down of
n club sandwich in five or six
bites."
The dnelipsK snvs she "is
unable to comprehend why nn
American should require less
time for his whole luncheon thnu
ono of her countrymen needs to
merely scan the wine list."
E.
E
WASHINGTON, May 7. Spokane,
Wash., ranking ns forty-eighth city
in tho country in 1010, had a de
crease of 108 in population in the
past ten vcars and now has 104,204
people, the census bureau announoed
toda.y. - - .
Tho Washington city thus becomo
the first of the cities in the class
over 100,000 thus far announced to
show a decrease. Newport, Kv., and
Joplin, Mo., both cities of tho 30,000
class, are tho next, largest cities which
have shown decreases.
Between 1000 and 1010 Spokane's
population increased 183.3 per cent.
Spokane, 104,204, decrease 108 or
.2 per cent.
Chico, Cnl., (revised) 8,872, in
crease 5122 or 130.0 per cent.
PEACE RESOLUTION
VOTE IN 3 DAYS
WASHINGTON, Muv 7. Decision
to bring tho republican resolution to
end the state of war with Germany
and Austria before tho sonnto Mon
day for continuous consideration
until finnl disposal, was reached to
day by the sennte republican steering
committee. A vote on adoption is ox
pectcd within three or four days.
FIRE SEAL STARS
FOR GAMBLING
SAN FRANCISCO. Mav 7
"Casov" Smith and Tom Senton, lead
ing pitchers on the San Francisco
team in the Pacific Coast league were
i,. (i,,.;,. ,.,i;i;,.,.i ,iun i,
day, following charges of gambling
Placed against mem by Mnnagoi
Charlos Graham.
OF
WASHINGTON. May 7. Bankers
called before tho senato inter-stato
commerce committee today did not
agree with the testimony of raliroad
executives vesterdav that the govern
ment should loan $500,000,000 addi
tional to the roads for new rolling
stock. TheV said, however, that no
great part of the G10.000,000 which
the railroad presidents estimated to
be neccssnrv for new equipment could
be raised from tho public.
. Jerome G. Hnnaiier of Kuhn, Loeb
and company. New York, chairman of
the committee of investment bankers,
suggested thnt congress extend the
period of $100,000,000 loans already
provided for tho railroads from five
to fifteen years: that some money
ASKS 1AM
TO EXPLAIN
Hoover Delivers Sharp Reply to
California Senator's Attack Asks
if Covenant With Reservations Is
English League Johnsons Claim
He Favors a league for Peace
Gratifying But What Does It Mean
Acks Hoover.
NEW YORK, M 7. Senator Hi.'
ram Johnson nnd Herbert Hoover
hnve issued statements making clear
er their positions on the League of
Nations, regarded in some quarters es
the leading issue in the coming presi
dential campaign.
Senator Johnson, speaking; of tho
recent California primary had this
to snv in Washington: "I am very
glad Mir. Hoover accepts so philoso
phically tho result in California, ' Mr.
Hoover savs his friends 'introduoed
no personal issue,' but rogistored their
protest at mv 'extreme opposition to
any league to prevent war nnd re
duce armament.' Neither statement is
correct. His friends introduced into
tho campaign every conceivable iBsu,e,
including personal abuso and, I have
never expressed opposition to any
longue to prevent war' and reduce
armaments. Mv opposition has been
to Mir. Hoover's English' league which
did neither of these thinirs." . ", .
Herbert Hoover today authorized
the following statement: ' '.
"Senator Johnson is quoted as stal
ing that he has never expressed, op
position to any leugue to prevent war
and reduce armaments. This indi
cation of a change of heart is a mat
ter of groat satisfaction, vHe..$tft,t.8
he does not want nn English leagii.
None of us do. But does th6 senator"
mean that tho covenant with . tho
Lodgo reservations is an English
league? This is tho covenant and
these ore the reservations which.' I
have supported since thov were first
proposed bv the majority of the sen
ate Inst November. Will the senator
speak out plainly on this subject so
Hint tho people may know where ie
stands nnd what ho Stands for in this
matter?" .!-.,... ,.
L
WASHINGTON, May 7. With re
serve supplies of guBollne greatly de
pleted and with reserva supply lot
crude oil showing probable early ex
haustion, government officials t are
considering means of controlling the
supply of gasoline, or limiting the use
of motor vehicles, It wbb learned tOi
day. ;
Information collected by the bur
eau of mines Indicates that the short
age which Is likely soon to become
acute thruout the country it due, In
a considerable degree, to attempts ot
foreign Interests to actually comer
the world's supply of orude oil,
It Is Bald that money, borrowed by
foreigners In the United States at 6
per cent Interest, has been used to
acquire available lands thruout tbs
world for oil exploitation and tost
this movement has been exerting ef
fects on the oil trade ot the United
States In a most detrimental fashion.
In the meanwhile, the Increased,
use of motor trucks is InOretsIng too
consumption of gasoline to Unprece
dented extent.
OPPOSE GOV'T.
TO
be used in the betterment of terwi
mils and that the roads be so man
aged as to expedite the movement ot
cars, and "reduce to a minimum re
nuiremcms for new equipment,"
Chairman Cummins asked the opin
ion of the witness on a plan givW
a government guarantee for the pay
ment of interest and principal on
sums borrowed bv the railroads for
nev equipment. ,-::
"The securities issued would then
sell entirely on the credit of tho
government," Mr. Hanauer replied,
"and carrying a much higher rate of
interest would bndlv affect the vain
of Liberty bonds and all other out
standing obligations of the Uqlted
states. "
All