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Mail Tribune The Weather FORD Predictions l'alr. Warmer Wednesday. Light to heavy frost. jlujlnium yesterday jlloinmm today ..09 ..as fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MOUNTAINS Deposed President of Mexico Report ti) o Have Eluded Captors and Fled on Horseback to Wilderness ; Revolution Practically Over With Rebels in Control New Govern ment Will Ask Immediate Recouni tion From U. S. A. and Also Loan WASHINGTON, May 11 The jtrotationnrv government in Mexico lill risk for immediate recognition lv the American government. Emilinno Tonicz, conimerciul agent itXoeales of the revolutionary gov ernment is reported to have been en trusted with the mission of nego tiatint? with the Amoricun government. A report originating in Torreon siys (lie new regime in to call for a loan of 300,0(10 pesos to bo used for payment of its troops. According; to Nognlos advices Ocno rai Obreiron lins placed himself under the orders of General Do La Huerta, 'provisional president of Mexico. An unconfirmed . rumor reaching! border points today said Carranza had escaped from his captors and Jed on horseback into the mountains. : Capture' Doubted ' BY Til EASSOCIATED PRESS. May 11. While the advices com ing through from Mexico, on the revo lutionary situation there are frag mentary and conflicting thev cost considerable1 doubt on the reports thai: President Carranza has been made a prisoner. .vA Vera' Cruz dispatch . from the uen'spapcr El Dictumen. a member of the. Associated Press;; bearing Mon day's date, declaring'' the fugitive president of the republic had broken through the revolutionary lines and tas standing at bay with 4000 men it San Marcos, 27 miles north of Puebla. PrcsupposinT the accuracy of the reports that Carranza is still at lib erty, the situation he finds .:"lf .according to the Vera Cruz advice.-, precarious. . . Agullnr Deserted It is announced that government troops in Vora Cruz have deserted their commander ' General Candido imilar, the governor of the state, and nine over to the revolutionists, muk ing that state nppaicntlv no longer ,i safe refuge for tho fugitive presi dent. 1 In addition revolutionary forces under Generals Hill and Trevino were "ported closing in on, Carranza near Marcos. EL PASO, Texnsi May 11, Moxi ts newest revolution is in its final fes. The old regimo has been werthrown.. With the exception of 'ncatan, Cnmpcche. Chiapas and Mrthcrn Lower California, all of the country is declared bv revolutionist raters to be under control of the new Kfrune. A bulletin issued last night bv the al consulate of the liberal consti "uonnlist party said President Car jM!' nnd his staff had been cap '"red, Generals Murguin. Urquizo nun Mrragan executed and the revolu "onists were in control of the nu capital after an almost blood lfConttnuit en Pane Six) EST. OVERBOARD IN ST S,AN' FRANCISCO, May 11. Risk 's his life by jumping overboard rm the yacht Aquilo.H. A. Alexan ler. millionaire shipping man and esident of the Pacific Steamship "upany, rescued a member of the ' while the little vessel was bat lln6 a gale off Crescent City Sunday "ernoon, it became known yester V Snen the craft arrived here from icoma. The 8tory wag reiated by Boatswain udrew Petrle, whose life was saved 'Alexander, who owns a half inter fl l the Aquilo with Colonel David - Jockling. Alexander, who was "ber modest about the affair, acted ' bost to a party of five prominent "'dents of Tacoma, who have come re to attend the foreign trade con eatlon. I SOCIETY EDIfRESS OF T0O.KKI1IS PORTLAND, Ore., Mav 11.- Miss Cainille A. Dosch, society editor of the Portland Ore- KOinan, died here early today as the result of injuries received last Sunday in the collision of two Southern Pacific electric trains near here. Her death swells the fatality list due to the accident tu nine. Miss Dosch is a sister of Aruo Dosch-Eleurot, well known war correspondent. Her nephew, Fleuort Dosch Jos- selyn, seven years old, also was killed in the wreck. Coroner Karl Smith was plan- ning to hold an inquest over the body of one or more of the vie- tims of the wreck tonight. The state public service commission also planned to participate in the inquest with the idea of ascertaining the cause of the col- lission and urging preventative measures for a repetition. STA1E BIOLOGIST ED, PORTLAND, May 11. Oregon is to have no state biologist this year, the state game commission decided yesterday at its regular monthly ses sion. Neither is supervision of trout and salmon hatcheries to be divided for the present. Master Pish Warden R. E. Clanton will remain in charge of both until January 1. A fund of $ii00 to be paid out in rewards for catching marked salmon was authorized by the fish commis sion, which met at the same time. Payments of 50 cents each will be made for the marked portion of each salmon caught in the Columbia. These were turned loose from Her man creek, Bonneville, while Salmon and Clatskanine in 1915 and 1916 and already this season a number of them returning have been captured. Tho joint cj.u:r,:;c"cr.s unpointed a committee to consider proposed in C'.""ROs In the salaries of deputy war dens and report next month. All in creases granted would be effective June 1. Construction of a new hatchery on Clear creek in Washington county was authorized, as was also expan sion In the Tumalo hatchery. Meach am lake and upper tributaries of the Siletz river were closed to fishing. IS UPHELD BY COURT sat.ru Milv 11. In a decision handed down today by the state su preme court in the case of the Ham mond Lumber company and other lumber concerns, the state public ser vice commission is upheld in its con tention that it has the right to estab lish mips nn the carrying of logs by the Nehalem and Columbia River railroad. The railroad company filed a sched .,i f rntna with the commission which were protested by the lumber companies, after a hearing issued an j- fivinir rntes. The lumber com panies instituted court action to have the rates set aside. The party included C. A. Foster, president of the Wilkinson Mining company; S. M. Jackson, president of the National Bank of Tacoma; W. R. Nichols, president of the Pacific Coast Gvpsum company; T. E. Rip ley, manager of the Wheeler, Osgood company and Paul T. Shaw of the chinnin? Sunnlv company. According to Petrie he was for ward, making things fast on account t ,h honw weather when a big sea struck the vessel and tore him off the deck. . (Alexander promptly seized a Ilfe-ii- ..j wont overboard. Captain Marquard who was in command, al ready had signalled the engineer 10 give the engines full speea astern, and a moment later Alexander and the boatswain had been pulled hack on the ship. MEDFORD, OREGON', TUESDAY, if AY WILSON HIT NAVY CALL President's War Instructions Given Out for First Time By Secretary Daniels Confidential Speech Given on Quarter Deck of Flagship Pennsylvania on August II. 1917 Too Much Red Tape in English Navy No Time for Prudence. WASHINGTON, Mav 11. Presi dent Wilson's hitherto unpublished war instructions to the officers of the Atlantic fleet, given in person on the quarter deck of the flugshii Pennsylvania on August 11, 1917 und bidding them "throw tradition to the winds," strike the word "prudent from their vocabularies, and do the thing that is audacious to the utmost point of risk and daring," were made pub ic, here today bv Secretary Daniels. In laying the text of his remark before the senate naval investigatin committee, Secretary Daniels said they showed the "bold and vigorous1 policy the president had outlined for the navy. In opening his address to the of ficers, Mr. Wilson said: "Admiral Mayo and gentlemen: have not come here with malice pre pense to make a speech, but I have eome here to huve a look at you and to say some things that perhaps mav be intimately said and, even though the ocmpanv is large, said in confi dence. "This is nn unprecedented war. and, therefore, it is a war in one sense for amateurs. Nobody ever before con ducted a wur like this und therefore nobody can pretend to be a professional-in a. war like this. Here ere two great navies, not to speak of the others associated with us our own arid the British, outnumbering bv a very great margin the navy to which we are opposed and vet casting about for a way in which to use our superiority and our strength. Think War Out "Now, somebody has got to thinli this war out. Somebody has got to think out tho way not only to fi"ht the submarine, but to do something different from what we are doing. "We 'are hunting hornets nil over he farm and letting the nest alone. None of us know how to go to the nest and crush it and vet I despair of hunting for hornets nil over the sea when I know where the nest is and know that the nest is breed! ir. hornets as fast as I can find them. 1 am willing for my part nnd I know vou are willing because I know Ihe stuff vou are made of I am willim to sacrifice half the navy Great Brit ain and we together have to crush that nest, because if we crush it the war is won. I have come here to say that I do not enre where it conies from, I do not care whether it conies from the youngest officer or the old est, but I want the officers of this navy to have the distinction of sav ing how this war is going to be won Willing to Sacrifice "I am willing to make any sacri fice for that I am ready to put my self at the disposal of nnv officer in the navy who thinks he knows hov to run this war. "I wish that Icould think and had the brainy to think in the terms of marine warfare, because I would feel then that I was figuring out the fu ture historv of the political freedom of mank'nd. I do not see how nnv man can look at the flag of the Unit ed States nnd fail having his mind crowded with reminiscences of the number of unselfish men who have died under the folds of that beautiful emblem. I wonder if men who do die under it realize the dis tinction thev have. "There is distinction in the prm lege and I for mv part am sorry to plav so peaceful a part in the busi ness as I myself nm obliged to plav nnd I conceive it a privilege to come and look at vou men who have t!ie other thing to do and ask vou to come and tell me how this thing can be better done, and we will think God that we have got men of origi native brains among us. "We have got to throw tradition to the wind. Xcvcr Done That Way "As I have said gentlemen. I take it for granted that nothine I sav here w'll be repeated and therefore 1 nm going to sav this: Every time we have suggested anything to the British admiralty the reolv has eome back that generally imounted to this, that it had never been done that wnv. nnd (Continued on Page Six) PRESIDENT SIGNS BILL OF NTERNED U. S. ALIENS - "- WASHINGTON, Mav 11. President Wilson today signed .1 bill amending the deportation laws so us to make possible the deportation of Germans and other aliens who were interned during Ihe war as enemy aliens. Hoth aliens convicted of vio- lating war. emergency laws and those merely held on presiden- tiai wnrant.s of arrest would lie subpect to deportation on the order of theseoretarv of labor after hearings. Aliens so de- ported would forever be barred from readmission to the United States. Enactment of til's law was asked of congress by Attorney General Palmer nearly u vear fr J SOCIALIST PARTY L SOVIET PLATFORM NEW YORK, .May 11. Dcclarins for the "red flag of international so ciulism," in the socialist partv ol America, J. Louis Engdahl of Chicago denounced the "conservatism" of the anti-dictatorship program siibm'tted b ythe regular platform committee through Morris llillquit. Engdnhl amid the cheers of his faction,' de cried the decorations of the conven tion hall, the American flag, and called for world Socialism ''without equivocation. NEW YORK, May 11. The social ist party national convention tin afternoon went on record as opposed to the dictatorship of the proletariat as voting down an international so cialist declaration of principles sub mitted bv the delegation from Illinois The vote was 103 to 3!!. NEW YORK, Mav 11 Demanding limitations of citizenship and dicta torship of the laboring classes, tile Illinois delegation of the socialist party's national convention todn'' opened nn aggressive minor'.tv fish! for the' "radical principles" of inter national sovictism in the 1920 plat form. Four Ohieiigdan, headedby J Louis Engduhl battled to substitute their program for that given the con vention yesterday bv Morris llillquit nnd his platform committee. The keynote of the Illinois substi tute platform was sounded in its pre amble, which rend. The socialist partv summons al who believe in their fundamental (joe trine to prepare for a complete re organization of our social system bnsed upon public ownership of pub lic necessities, upon . government bv representatives chosen from oceupa tionnl rather than solely from geo graphical groups in harmony with our induslr'nl development, nnd with rep resentntion bnsed on service that w may end forever the exploitation e-j class by class." . . . ' " "This means the dictatorship of the proletariat," Engdahl said., "It mead:- real, red, radical socialism such ,i our comrades in France, Germanv Russia and Italy are fighting for." The platform itself as drafted b the Chicagoans resembled closelv thrt already suggested bv Ihe Hillquit forces excepting its introductory de mands. . :- New York won the election of Al gernon Lee to be chairman of the convention for today, Lena Morrov Lewis of California, was elected vice cha:rman. When the question of the adoptioi of a sociulist platform came up on lln floor, Cameron II. King' of Sun Fran Cisco, moved to refer the Hillquit platform or to "nut more pep in it.': L CHICAGO, May 11. Representa fives of farm organizations in the United States and Canada met. here today to discuss the establishment of an International board of agriculture. Milo D. Campbell of C'oldwater. Mich., former president of the nation al board, made a plea for better un derstanding, both between Canadians and citizens of the United States and between farmers, labor and capital. The farmers, he declared, are the 11, 1920. t i CALLS PLAN Republican Member Foreign Relations Connnitica Condemns Knox Reso lulion for Separate Peace Would Be Rank Desertion of Allies Can't Make Leatiuo Supremo Issue in Ca.npaiun People Want a Chanpe and Will Get One. WASHINGTON, May 11. The re publican resolution to declare, tho war with Germany und Austria ut an end was culled up in the senate today by Senator Lodge of Massachusetts, the republican leader, who announced ihnt he would keep the measure con tlnuously before tho senute until a vote. WASHINGTON, May 11. Opening tho fight against tho republican plan to end tho state of war by Joint reso lution of congress, Senator McCum ber of North Dakota, a republican member of tho senate foreign rela tions committee, declared In the sen ate today that such a step would bring dishonor upon the nation as it would involve desertion of America's associates in tho war. "This administration has made many mistakes," he said, "but all will become insignificant compared with the coiossal blunder of making the president's individual and auto cratlc stand on the League of .Nations a political issue. If this were the only Issue, the president would Btand alone In his determination to subvert the will of the nation to his Individ' uar conviction on this Important na tional question. ' league Not Issue ' 'But you cannot make the League of Nations the real Issue in this oam palgn. If it were I would be greatly concerned for the sake of my own party. The thought of the people Lof this country Is engrossed with the complexities that surround us. We stund almost helpless while debts, national, state, municipal and Indus trial are piling mountain high. We behold Idleness ever increasing, pro duction dangerously decreasing, cur rency becoming moro nnd more In flated, the yoke of taxation ever growing more great and moro galling, :.hef prices of all necessities of life ever advancing. We are living in the midst of strikes and threats of strikes. Itolgn of Hell Threatens "The very atmosphere Is poisoned with socialism's infectious breath! while anarchy, fevered by hate and envy awaits only the opportunity to work a reign of hell which today Is consuming agonized Russia. "The war is not the cause of this threatening situation. Tho American peoplo today arc the victims of the new system of purchasing pollt ical support by enacting purely class legislation. ., "The American people T want to get back as nearly as possible to normal conditions and they will at' tempt It by an overwhelming vote In the next elections for a change in ad ministration nnd they will do this treaty or no treaty, peace resolution or no peace resolution, League of Nations or no League of Nations." Senator McCumber challenged many contentions of Senator Knox, made In the letter's opening address last week In support of the resolu tlon. While agreeing that congress has the power to repeal resolutions declaring a state of war, he denied vigorously that peace actually exist ed. . Wilson Illomod "I realize," he said, "that the pres ident is more responsible than any one man for the failure to enter Into a common treaty. He knew that the senate had a right to make reserva tions. He should have accepted them and our allies should have adopted hem. We refused to Join the allies 'n consummating this agreement but while we seek to compel Germany to assure us all of the, benefits and all of the rights which would accrue to us, we decline to accept any of the responsibilities of the treaty. "No argument, no matter how cun ningly devised or eloquently present ed, can hide the deformity involved .In this course." element to save It in this time of change and unrest. "Why don't the farmers strike as labor has been striking?" he asked, "because the farmer has his piece of ground and his interest in the general welfare of the country. It is not that he is at heart more patriotic than the industrial worker. And the way to solve the question of labor unrest will be to give the laborer an Interest In his work, just as the farmer has." A i IS OF LEGION OF HONOR -r PORTLAND, May 11. Col. John L. May, commander of "Oregon's Own," 102nd regi- ment overseas, has been award- ed the cross of tho Legion of Honor of France, one of tho highest decorations of tho b French republic. Tho crosH was received by Colonel .May yester- day having been forwarded to hlin by William S. lliddlo, adju- taut general of tho United States army. Colonel May was In command of tho old Third Oregon regi- ment and took tho aggregation to France. fr A largo share of tho honor of the decoration Is glvon by Col. May to tho Oregon troops, whoso general deportment nnd military behavior, ho declared, was such us to morlt tho highest praise. IS ON INCREASE One almost requires u stenographer und bookkeeper to keep track of the kaleidoscopic real estate sales of citV property and the many changes of residence which has been going on for months and keep the poor mail carriers lying awake nights. If this thing keeps up "one will not know where nobody lives" without, diligout inquiry. ' .'. . Hero nro a few of the latest sales iust become known : Edward N. War ner has sold his largo home nt SOU West Main St., to E. J. Skcwis. Mr. and Mrs. Warner then needed a home, thev having sold because the house was too large for their family, and so the head of the house up and buvs the J. II. Drews homo at 847 West Second stroct. The Skewis family will continue to reside on the ran.'h near Tnlcnt until the Talent school closes for the Rummer. E. II. McKeany thinking it lime that he bought a nice home in view of tho way things are moving, looked about and purchased the home of Jesse J. Ilouek at 21) South Newtown street and will move in as soon !is Mr. und Mrs. Ilouek move into their property nt 202 South Oakdale street, tho former Heveridge home, which thev arc having fixed up. C. C. MeCurdv has iust purchusei of Joe Hrown the hitter's property it 1207 West Main - 1 which has been occupied by P. W. Dailev and family. This cot Pat so mad he hur ried nnd bought the Huskins property on South Central. But to cap tho climax Ed White, while Joe Brown wns talking this noon of the sale he made, happened tp think that some one today bought his dwelling property nt 1000 West Main street, the old Coleman prop erty, but for. the l'fe of him ho can't tell who it wns. You see the sale wa'i tnado through a third party and the advance money wns paid over to White, but he has not vet been given the purchaser's name. . ) . WARSAW", May 9 (By Associat ed Press.) The military, economic and political convention signed by Poland and Ukralnla Just before the opening of the drive toward Kiev Is understood to havo provided for a Polish outlet to the Black sea. Such a southern outlet has been a Polish ambition dating far back In the national history, Just as was a seaport on the Baltic. INTO ACTION BROWNSVILLE, Texus, May 11. An advance guard of revolutionists approached the southern side of Matamoros, the Mexican town oppo site Brownsville, shortly before noon tndnv. nnH pxeltnnfrprl n feur shot- with a Carranza outpost. The rebel move is believed to be prelim. narv to an nttuck in force. Three hundred revolutionary troops "'o advancing on Matamoros from TlevnnRR nnd nt nnon were rcnorted onnnsite' Snntn Marin. Texas, about twenty-five miles west of Browns ville. American military authorit eg or NO. 43 SIMSHALTED SEA BARRAGE SIX MONTHS Secretary Daniels Makes Counter Charge to Sims' Attack Rear Ad miral Delayed American Plan Whjch Defeated "U" Boat Cam paifln Tried to Rob America and U. S. Navy of Credit Controversy Enters Bltjcr Stage. ; WASHINGTON, May 11. A coun ter charge that establishment of tho North Sea mine barrage was'doluvd siy mouths because of tho opposition of Rear Admiral Sims and tho British admiralty, was made before the vm. ate naval investigating committee, to day by Secretary Daniels in present ing the second part of his reply to the officer's charges that tho nuvy de partment bad unnecessarily pro longed tho war through failure' to ed. operate fully at first with allied navuil forces. The barrage, Mr. Dunicla added, was the most effective meas ure that had been taken to check the submarines and wholly nn American idea. . '.: "Admiral Sims attempted to roto America and the United States na"V of the credit for initiating this greut achievement and to give it tho ,itn pression that it was a British .pqn though it originated : in the navy department, was proposed nnjj Urged bv us (or half n year before wo could induce the British ttdtni raltv to approve it and altho.ugj four-fifths of it was composed o American mines dosianed and con structed in America and transported 3100 miles overseas and laid-V'bv American vessels," Mr. pamojs, told the committee. . ' ,i '-' -Vy'-t.!, . Ho said close eomrndeshin'hiq7l)S( istcd between tho American.' arid British navies during the tfar. spite Admiral Sims' attempts to orei(tj) tho impression that there Was luelt of harmony and co-operation,.'".,'' The Sims charges of unprepared, noss before the war woro not justi fied, Mr. Daniels asserted, declaring that in July, 11)15 ho ordered the gen. oral board to study and recommend plans for a "consistent and progres sive development." . '. .'. The policy was evolved, ho snidi that the United States must bv 192f have a navy equal to any Othor Jn the world and the direct result was the five-venr building- program of 1010. President Wilson fully ap proved the policy, tho witness. n sorted. , , ' ; -. '' .' The vision of tho president, Mr. Daniels asserted established the i'uot that he was "in advance of some dl't fillers, vocal now, but silent then.'! . CABINET MAKER IN : PORTLAND, May 11. John Q, Kampf, cabinet makor, was burned to death and damage estimated at J 70, 000 was caused here today In a fire of undetermined origin which started In the paint shop of a furniture ware house In the downtown district. Two stories of a four-story structure were gutted and efforts of seventeen fire companies were necessary to halt the blaze. '".' ': i ' The fire started on the fourth floor and Kampf Is said to have lost his life when he refused to try and escape and tried to extinguish the flames with a patent extinguisher. Several unsuccessful attempts , were made. to effect his rescue. . . .' ' ON MEXICAN BORDER dered a detachment of soldiers to tho American end of the international bridge where two machine guns woro put in position pointing , toward Matamoros. The bKdga had been closed for repftirs but United State officers ordered it thrown open In event civilians on the Matamoros side should seek safety in Brownsville. y Mexican cit zens of Matamoros are n, liking desperate efforts to induct) General Colunga to surrender with out a fight, but he is reported to have refused. He has approximately three hundred men equipped With mu- chine guns. He nlso is reported to be depending on reinforcements. - PORTLAND