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MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 8, 1920.
NO. 41
MEXICO CITY IS CA
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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
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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
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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!
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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,