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Medford Mail The Weather Maximum yesterday Rt llniiniim today 42 Predictions Probable rain. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth. Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920. NO. 41 MEXICO CITY IS CA imTi? 110 CITY S CAPTURED SAY REBELS Unconfirmed Report States Gen. Ben jamin Hill Takes Capital City of Mexico Carranza Flight to Vera Cruz Officially Confirmed 3 Stae Capitals Fall Into Hand of Revolu tionists In One Day Federal Troops Revolt. AGUA PRIETA, Sonora, Mav 8. General P. Klins Calles commander of troops in northern Sonora, stated to the Associated Press todav that, lie had lust received a telegram from Torreon informing hiin of a revolu tionary attack bcinsr made upon the suburbs of Mexico Citv and expressed no surprise at news the capital had fallen. EL PASO, Texas, Mav 8 Three state capitals in Mexico fell into the hands of revolutionists todav through the revolt of Carranza irarrisons eo incidentnlly with an unconfirmed re port eiven out bv revolutionists here that Mexico City capital of the re public, had1 been taken bv General Benjamin Hill. EL PASO, Texas, Mav 8 Revo lutionary forces under General Ben jamin Hill have taken Mexico Citv. according to an unconfirmed report received hero todav from Chihuahua City and mndo public bv revolutionary lenders here. The messago from Chihuahua said: "It has been confirmed President Cnr ranun left the capital for Vera Cruz." Saltillo, capital of the state of Conhuiln, which borders on the Unit ed States, rovolted Into yesterday, revolutionary advices today said. It was announced'that General Aimu.. tin Castro and Cnsescreo Castro, former Carranza leaders, had revolted with their troops in several garri soned towns, including Saltillo. Floos With Cnsh General Espinosc Mircles, Carran za Governor of Coahuila, which is the home state of the Mexican president, fled with all the public funds to Mon terey, Nucvo Leon, where Cnrranzis tas were reported concentrating?!) re sist the revolutionists, it was an nounced. Carranza troops nt Lasvacls, across the international boundary, from Del Rio, Texas; revolted, ac cording to local rebel lenders. Coal mines and towns in northern Coahuila were reported in the hands- of the revolutionists. "Piedras Ncgrns, across Jho boun dary from Euglo Pnss, Texas, will fall todav," the announcement said. "Gen eral Rcynnldo Garza in a telegraphic communication with President Car ranza nsked him to resign nnd said he was holding Lnrodo notwithstand ing the fnct his soldiers wcro onthe verge of ioining tho revolutionary movement." STATE KIR HOFF HEHHI BV JUBV FOR LAXITY IN METHODS SALEM, Ore., Mav 8. Bv the text of its report, filed late yesterday with Judge G. G. Bingham of the circuit court, the Marion county grand jury severely criticized bond transactions between O. P. lloff. state treasurer, nnd John L. Etheridgc of the Portland firm of Morris brotheis, and declares that exorbitant profits were exacted from the state by the Portland bond house. Nowhere in the report is there any suggestion of illegality in the various bond transactions between State Treasurer Hoff and the firm of Mor ris brothers, though for the former there is criticism for lnxitv of method and for the latter there is criticism directed against profits which the grand iurv deemed exorbitant. The foreman, Gideon Stoltz, in pre senting the report to the court, said that it might not be final. This is taken to indicate that one or two minor nnd comparatively unessential matters remain on which the inrv will make further return, .. ..... - HOTEL IN THE 10 BE ERECTED CHICAGO, Mnv 8 Plans for the largest hotel ,in tho world to front three blocks on Lake Michigan and Sheridan --id, were made public today. According to tho plans, tho hotel will he in five units, with the present Edgewater Beach hotel as one unit. The archi tects have planned 4001) rooms. The cost is estimated at $15, 000,000. A thealer, seating 2000 is a featuro of tho plans. A "pea clock alley" three blocks long, connecting all the units, 400 kitchenettes for those who de sire to cook their own meals nnd one sixteen-story unit for bachelors are other features. A minimum charge of $15 a day in one of the units is con templated. POLES, E OVER THE Bolshevik! Officially Admit Loss of Ukranian (Japital Declare Poles and Ukranians Are Led bv German Officers Reds Claim Victory East of Minsk. LONDON, May S. Polish and Ukrainian trco;-s rehired Kiev Thursday night, according to aa of- "rtal statement issued at Moscow yesiarday and received hero by wire less. The text of tho statement says: "In the Kiev region, 'during the night of May 6-7 our troops eagngod superior enemy forces northwest and southwest of Kiev. Toward evening, the enemy broke into tho outskirts of the town, but were held up by our counter attacks. Later our troops, in accordance with orders, started to withdraw in order to tho left bank of the Dnieper river. "In tho direction of Pytaloff our troops repulsed an enemy advanco 28 miles south of Krasny. In the direc tion of Igumen (east of Minsk) the enemy attempted to cross tho Bcres- fna river near Rercslna village but were driven back across tho river." Reports that Kiev had fallen woro current in Warsaw Monday of this. week, but subsequent developments showed these reports to have been er roneous. Kiev, a city of 250,000 beforo tho war, is the capital of tho Ukraine Tho town has changed hands several (Continued on Page Eight) Tho report, a voluminous one, charges that the most flagrant ex ample of excess profits was the sale of $100,000 Recdsport water bonds to the state treasurer, wherein the Port land financial concern is alleged to havo profited to tho extent of $10. 019.90. Respecting this transaction tho report asserts that the Reeds port deal is an impressive illustra tion of the post of doing bushiest through n middleman. Striving for a solution of the prob lem of disposing of municipal bonds within the state and nt the same time protecting the interests of the com monwealth, the grand jury, admitting thnt it had no legislative function-;, recommends to Governor Oleott the enactment of remedial legislation that would make imperative the advertise ment of sale of all county nnd mu nicipal bonds, and urges that the sti'tc enter the bond market as the first hand bidder for its own subsidiary qccurilii'N, Kl TAKEN BY ADVANC A OF IDEALS Morris Hiuuquist, Temporary Chair man Socialist National Convention Vents Ire Upon President Elected by Socialists Turns Traitor to His Own Ideals Promised Socialism Thru Democratic Party Gave People War and Tyranny. NEW YORK, Mav 8. An attack on the administration of President Wilson and a prediction thnt the so cialist party would poll more than two million votes in the presidential campaign were made todav bv Morris Ilillqmt, temporary chairman of the socialist national convention at its opening session here today. Ho said that the party would survive, the eon certcd attack "unparalleled in fcro ciousness and lawlessness," mndo on it in the last venr by "nil tho powers of dnrkness nnd oppression in the country. lie declared that the last three years had furnished the most strikin and nbhorrent proof of the fallacy of the "goodman theory in polities." "If there remained any large sec tions of workers who put their trust in old party Messiah." ho said. "Woodrow Wilson must havo effec tively destroyed their naive faith. For, be it remembered in 1910 Wood- row Wilson ran. as a radical. AVILson Promised Socialism 'He promised socialism through the short cut of the democratic, party and thousands of radicals through out tho country voted for him rather than throw nwnv their votes on the. opeless candidates of tho socialist party. "One half of the normal supporters of the socialist party ticket cast their votes for him. Woodrow Wilson wns elected over Chnrles E. Hughes bv the vote of socialists. In California nlone the defection in the normnl socialist voto determined his victory in, the presidential contest. 'Mr. Wilson's administration in the last three years has furnished the most striking and abhorrent vroof of the fallacy of the 'good man' theory in politics. Wilson a Turn Ooat "Wilson, tho pacifist, drew us into the world's most frightful wnr. Wil son, tho anti-militarist, imposed con scription upon the country in wnr, and urged universal military training, n large standing nrmy and a huge navv in pence. Wilson, tho democrat, ar rogated to himself autocratic, power grossly inconsistent with a republican torm ot government. Wilson, the liberal, revived tho medieval institu tions of the inquisition of speech. thought nnd conscience. His adminis tration suppressed radical publica tions, raided homes and mcetng places of its nolitical opponents, de stroyed their property nnd assaulted their persons. Wilson, the apostle of new freedom,' infested the country with stool pigeons and spies and filled the jails with political prisoners. Restored Klavery "Wilson, the champion of labor, re- stored involuntary servitude in the mines nnd on the rnilroads, nd answered the wage demands of the workers bv lading their leaders. "Wilson, the idealist nnd humani tarian, hns inaugurated a reign of intellectual obaurantism, 'moral ,'jr rorism nnd political reaction, the like or wnicn tins country had never known before. The morbid national psychology which he has helped to create has produced such atavistic political types as Palmer. Burleson. Sweet nnd Lusk. It has advanced tn places of honor political mountebanks like Ole Hanson, but has put in'o prison stripes the noblest nnd truest tvpes of American manhood, persons like Eugene V. Dobs, nnd mnnv of hi less conspicuous fellow prisoners. The pitiful collnpse of Wilson s liberalism was nothing accidental. Capitalism Falls "Woodrow Wilson was probably in spired bv the best of intentions when he ran for re-election. But he did not voice the sentiments, convictions of interests of the class he represented or the political party to which he wed allegiance. When the great (Continued on rngo TCIght) WILSON BETRAYER SOCIALIST LEADER LAUNCHES VICIOUS ATTACK ON WILSON NEWARK PASSES CONVICTED IN CINCINNATI IN SWEARS DIDN'T- CENSUS CONIES! WASHINGTON, May 8. Newark, largest city in New Jersey with a population of 415,009, has out stripped Cincinnati, which ranked it in the last census. Cincinnati's popu lation, recently announced, is 401, 158. Newark ranked as tho fourteenth citv in 1910 with a population of .'147,409 an inereaso of 101,399 over its 1900 population. Washington, sixteenth city ten years ago. now outranks both Cincinnati nnd Newark with a population of 437.414. Newark, N. J., 415,009, increase 68,110 or 19.G per cent. . Lynn, Mass., 1)0,148, increase 9812 or 11 per cent. Conncaut, Ohio, 9343, increase 1021 or 12.3 per cent. Benton Harbor. Mich.. 12,227, In crease 3042 or 31.1 per cent. Mnndan, N. 1)., 433G, increase 403 or 13 per cent. Ottawa, Ills., 10,810 increase 1281 or 13.4 per cent. Newark, Ohio, 20,718, increase 131 1 or 19.0 per cent. Clinton, Iowa, 24,151, decrease 1420 or 5.0 per cent. Muscatine, In., 10,008, decrease 110 or .7 per cent. Berlin N. II., 10,104, increase 4321 or 30.7 per cent. Holland, Mich., 12,100, increase 1070 or 10 per cent. OF CHICAGO, May 8. Mrs. Helen Prindlvllle Griffin Baa- tcdo, who married Lieutenant Commander Paul Henry Baste-' do last Tuesday following tho death of her first husband, George Griffin Monday, will re- ceive Griffin's 19,000,000 estate by the terms of his will, his at- torncys announced today. Mr. Griffin died In the south Monday and tho following day his widow married the naval of- fleer at Snn Diego. Mr. Griffin will be buried near Boston Monday. Mrs. Ban- tedo's mother will represent tho wldow-brlde at the funeral. KILL HELLO GIRL PONTIAC, Mich., Miiy 8. Anson Best, convicted last night of tho mur der of Vera Schneider, a telephone operator, and sentenced to lifo im prisonment at Marquette, will not be taken to the northern Michigan prison immediately. A movement to finance an appeal by popular subscription was begun immediately after the verdict. In his statement beforo sentence was pronounced Best called upon Heaven to witness his innocence, and a purse wns immediately started. It was said to contain $1000 this morn ing. The prisoner maintained ho had never known Afiss Schneider nnd that the confession offered bv tho prose. culion was obtained from him under duress. OIL STOCKS BOOM X E NEW YOHK. May 8. Oils and rails divided the honors of today's stock market, displaying greater ac tivity limn such favorites as stools, equipments nnd motors. lioval Dutch rose 4 points to n new high record and Mexican Petroleum was bought extensively, advancing 12 points Crucible Steel featured tho high priced industrials at a live point rise hut other issues of that group were com paratively duict. The demand for rails began with heavy having of lexas and Pacific at a gain of almost three points. New Haven, Rock Island and Mis souri Pacific, also such investment shares as Heading and Southern Pa cific, made irregular ' gains, Th; closing was strong. Sales npproxi muted 375.000 shares. S.F.CHINESE BURN J SAX I'KANCISCO, Mav 8. Pre coded bv a parndo in Chinatown in which hundreds of Chinese partici pated, a huge bonfire wns made last night of thousands of dollars worth of Japanese goods imported bv Chi nese nirri hnnts. The merchants cart ed the Japanese goods, including silks and other fineries from thcip stores to the street and with n ceremonv the torch was applied, DEATH CLOSES CAREER OF OF BUDAPEST, Mav 8. Death has closed tho romantic career of Baron Ernest Wullburg, born to a peasant girl and acknowl edged as son bv the lute Arch duke Ernest. The lato Emperor Francis Joseph gave him tho title of baron, a princely allow ance and liberal education. The allowance was reduced when ho married a poor girl and was cut off entirely when ho attempted to obtain restitution. During the Inst few years the baron lived with bis wife and six children in a two-room flat. At one timo he served as a waiter in a coffee houso where it was tho custom to give as a tip seven silver crowns as recognition of the seven branches of bis baron icnl crown. He died in a hospital here curly this week. FEO'L RESERVE S! ...... . -..v.. .r. urjjjf, A 1920 I1IC David Forqan, President of National City Bank States Usual Panic Fot ' lowinn Deflation Won't Come This Time Thinks Labor Convinced of Folly of Strikes. CMICAnO. Mnv 8. David H. Eor- gnn, president of tho Nat'" ! City Hank, said tho nation-wide switcu mcn's strike was tho climax of the in dustrial situation which hud caused high prices and lack of production, speaking at a meeting of the western society of engineers hero vcslcrdnv. Pnnililinna fi-mil nnW OT1 WOllld gradually resume their pro-war stand ard, ho believed. "Labor all over tho country is-beginning to sec that strikes nro uot helping tho situation," ho said, "nnd thnt is a very favorable sign." Tho federal reserve banking svstcm umiM ni-ovunf. I hi, minifs llsnnllv at tendant upon deflation, according to tho speaker. CHICAGO, Mav 8 A demand that John Kninnu, hand of tho Chicngo Yardmen's association, inform strik ing switchmen how they can -I thcic seniority rights restored was mads public today in a letter sent to firu nuu by R. S. Murphy, publicity chair man of tho association. ''Great numbers of the members of Ihe C. Y. A. nro nsking: 'When do you ex'nect to land tho 95 cents and $1 per hour?' " the letter reads. "It is logical to conclude the labor board will not give our members recount tion or consideration until wo return to work. What have you to offer us? "The question is, how can the seniority rights of the men who have followed the C. Y. A. bo restored "Come out from under cover now and say something definite ono way or the other." said Ihe letter. E IRE WIVES, HOPES LOS ANGELES, Mav 8. James P. Watson who stands convicted by his own plea, of tho murder of Nina Leo Deloney, nnd who is alleged to havo now confessed the murder of six other -women whom ho hud mnrried nnd bignmous mnrringes with about a dozen others, will bo taken beforo tho district attorney again todav for further questioning about his career of matrimony and murder. Watson was questioned vestcrdav for seve ral hours and it was unofficially re ported that he added two more mur ders to those previously confessed. Mrs. Agnes Wilson of Canada nnd another unnamed womnn were tho women mentioned. He said ho could not remember the last name or tho WILL PREVENT U. S. WHEAT YIELD IS NCR Slightly Larqer Production Winter Wheat Predicted Than Expected, But Entire Crop 33.8 Per Cent Less Than Last Year Condition of Crop Below Averane 693,000 Bushels Forecast In Orenon Rye Also Decreases. WASHINGTON, May 8. A slight ly larger production of wlntor wheat than had been oxpoctod was forecast today by tho department of agricul ture on the basis of tho condition ot tho crop and acreage on May.l. Total production was ostlmatou at 484,0-17,000 bushels, or 1,030,000 more than wan forecast as of last April 1. This total, however, is about 2 87,000,000 bushels loss than . Ia6t year's crop. There was an improvomont or s.a par cont in tho condition of tho crop during tho month. During tho wlntor 11.9 per cont of tho acreage planted: was abandoned, tho total acroago re maining to ho harvested being placed at 34,105,000 bushels. WASHINGTON, May ' 8. Winter wheat production this year was fore cast at 484,047,000 bushols or 33.8 por cont less than last year's crop by tho dopartmont ot agriculture today. "flTha condition of tho orop May.. was 79.1 por cent of a normal com pared with 75.0 ort April 1 this year, 100.5 on May 1 last year and 87.1 ten years May 1 avorago. ' Tho area remaining to be harvested is about 34,105,000 acroB or 11.9 per cent Iobs than that plantod last year. WASHINGTON, May 8. Aoreago of wlntor whoat May 1 and the fore cunt of production based on May 1 condition and acroago ( both In thou sands, e. 1., thousands omitted) by importnnt stntos Includo: Washington 736 and 15,765 Oregon 603 and 14,348 Production of rye Is forecast at 79,789,000 bushols compared with 88,478,0000 laat yoar and 01,041,000 In 1918. ' The condition ot ryo was 85.1 per coni of ii nnrmni c.omnarod with 86.8 oa April 1, 95.4 on May 1 last and 90.5 tho ton yoars May 1 avorago. Tho condition ot moadow (bay) in.ict was A nnr ennt of a normal. tho oxpoctcd hay acreage about 71,- 752,000 acres and tho proauonou forecast 11 1,831,000 tons compared with 108,666,000 tons last year. Stocks of hay on farmB May 1 were 11,375,000 tons ngalnst . 8,559,000 tons last yoar on May 1. Spring plowing was 60.1 per cont complotod nnd spring planting was 50.2 por cent completed May 1. " LONDON, May 8. King Albert and Queen Elizabeth of Belgium -enmo to England by airplane todnv. They landed at Fiirnhorough in Kent. fiV ing from Brussels in thrco hours and 57 minutes. Thev will ntlcnd tho wedding next Tiinuilnv nf T.n dv Cvntbia Curzon. daughter of Earl Curzon nnd Lieu tenant Oswald Ernnld Mosloy, mem ber of tho houso of commons. TO ESCAPE GALLOWS particulars more than that he had drowned both of them in Lake Wash ington, Seattlo. . While ho was under interrogation he wns also observed bv two physic ians nppointed by Judge Frank fl Willis, who is to sentence Watson Monday. The physicians. Dr. Louis Webber and Dr. Charles L. Allen have nunlified as experts in previous mur der trials here. 1 Wntson was inclined to be reticent yesterdnv until it wns made plain to him that the attitude of the district nttorney towards recommending lifo imprisonment for him instead o the ileath penalty would depend largely on his frnnkness nnd truthfulness in his further Tevelnt ions. 1 Thereupon he grew morn talkative,
