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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
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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
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SOCIALIST PARTY
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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.':
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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
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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