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MEDFORD, OHEGOX, FRIDAY, MxVY 14, 190.
NO. 46
OPEN SHOP
IS DEMAND
OF HOOVER
Former Food Commissioner Declares
Freedom Demands Non-Union
Man's Right to Work Labor Has
Every Rlflht to Organize and Bar
gain Collectively, But No Right to
" Restrict Freedom of Individual
Testifies Before Committee.
' WASHINGTON, May 14. "The
principle of individual freedom re
quires tbo open shop," Herbert Hoo
ver declared todav in testifying be
fore the senate labor committee nt
honrings on proposed legislation for
tbo settlement of 'industrial unrest.
Sir. Hoover, who wns a member o
President Wilson's second industrial
conference, said bo did not believe
the relationship between employers
nndmployes could be settled "bv nnv
form of lceal repression, whether it
be by injunction, compulsory arbi
tration or industrial courts.
"Fundamentally," ho declared, "all
such efforts leads inevitably to the
use of jails as a solution for disputes
ns to respective participation of labor
and capital in industrial profits and
proceeds swiftly toward compulsory
labor, or compulsory wages, or mar
tyrdom. Ijttlwr OrKunljition
"No one doubts that the modern
consolidation of the employers over
large units of employes gives cverv
justification and right for the orgun'.
zntion of employes similarly into units
for the exertion of equality in bar
gaining powers. Such organization
has a right to present its own repre
sentatives in bargaining. On the
other band there should bo no com
pulsion to loin such an orgnniatiou.
Tho principle of individual freedom
requires the open shop."
Mr. Hoover heartily approved the
plan of tho second industrial confer
onco for voluntary settlement of labor
troubles through co-operative agree
ment. Senator Jones, democrat, New
Mexico, wanted to know if labor had
not been disturbed by excessive
profits..
Needs Careful Thought
"It has," replied Mr. Hoover, "but
it is difficult to snv how far this has
helped to cause industrial unrest, now
with the rising cost of living. There
is no question as to tho enormous in
crease in profits, but what weight is
to be given this requires very careful
attention. There has been a big in
crease in profits over tho cost of la
bor, but I cannot say us to propor
tion." On the question of strikes Mr. Hoo
ver said n distinction should be
drawn between conditions in this
country and Europe, declaring that
strikes for politico! ends had been re
sorted to in Europo, which had caused
unnecessary alarm in this country.
Labor Is 1'ralsed
"There has been no taint of such
strike order in this country," he de
clared. "No attempt has been made
by leaders of organized labor in the
United States to ovcrrido tho ballot,
. and labor leaders have discouraged
that use. There seems to be a misap
prehension as to whether tho strike
may develop into n political weapon.
But certainly that has not been the
ease in tho United States."
Mr. Hoover thought it was almost
impossible to legislate ns to hours of
labor. Wages, he said, should take
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BLAME BRITISH
CONSTANTINOPLE, May 12 (Dy
Associated Pross.) Charges that the
French steamer Souirah could not
have been robbed by Black sea pi
rates May 6 without connivance of
persons employed on the ship were
made by 300 Indignant passengers of
the craft who landed here today in a
driving rain.
Penniless and enraged the passen
gers Joined in denouncing the British
passport cbntrol office at Batum, the
failure of British authorities there to
disarm the robbers before they board
ed the Bouirah and the negllgance of
the steamship company In not main
taining armed guards. It seems the
fact the robbers did not molest the
Rhip's safe aroused suspicion on the
part of passengers.
CALF WITH 8 LEGS AND
IS
SALEM, Ore., May I I. A
calf with eight legs, two bodies
and of the size of an ordinary
calf two months old, was born
at the state asylum farm east of
Salem, of a Holsteln mother.
Tho freak calf died fifteen min-
utes after birth. Tho "main"
calf was of normal shape, the
extra four legs and small body
growing between the legs of tho
larger body, and on its stomach.
All of the legs were fully de-
veloped. It is being mounted
at a local establishment.
ELITE AID
WASHINGTON, May 14. To aid
in relieving the railroad freight situ
ation, the Association of Railway
Executives todav recommended to the
inter-state commerce commission that
$12f),0(IO,0(K) of the $:!U0, 000,000 re
volving fund provided in the trans
portation ai't be loaned to railroad's
immediately for the aequiesition :if
equipment.
For additions and betterments tho
association reommended that $7li.
000,000 be ndvancd the roads. It
also asked that 12,000,000 be loaned
to short line roads; that $50,000,000
be set aside temporarily to lake care
of railroad obligations maturing in
1020. and that the balance of ap
proximately .1140,000,000 be held, in
reserve for claims and judgments
against the railroad administration.
REFUSHODiVULGE
NAVY DEPT. PLANS
WASHINGTON, Way 13. The
i:r.vy department's plan for a war
with Germany, prepared before the
United States entered the world con
flict, will not be furnished to tho sen
ate committee Investigating the Sims
Daniels row.
Rear Admiral J. S. McKean, who
had been, asked to furnish the plan
wrote today that since the strategy
of the plan was similar to any or all
other plans covering the Atlantic
ocean it would give a possible future
enemy of the United States an im
mense advantage If tho plan were
mado public.
ENGLAND CAN SELL U.S.
WOOL SUITS AT $32
NEW VOHIv, May 14 England is
rnmlv- ttt toll l,i Amorinnn nwirebiints
mens' clothing, all wool, that can be
retailed at a 20 per cent prolit nt
$.'18.40 each, according to J. C, Shan
non, member of a London manufac
turing concern.
"Wo Can produce suits, transport
them to America, pnv the duty and
sell them to the retailer for $.'12 each"
Shannon asserted. "The same anil
ity suits arc now selling here from
$00 to $80."
FRENCH SHIP
FOR PIRATE HOLDUP
Tho captain of the Souirah refused
to discuss the matter with tho corre
spondent of tho Associated Press. It
was stated that in future all French
ships on the Black sea would carry
guards.
James Wood of Glasgow, Scotland,
a Y. M. C. A. worker, who witnessed
the holdup, said the thieves showed
"great courtesy" ordering stewards
to bring refreshments for the passen
gers. Before leaving the ship one
robber threw a steward a 1000 franc
note. Mr. Wood declared the robbers
had a committee of experts ready to
pass upon jewels suspected of being
Imitation. He said the leader of the
gang was not masked and wore a
Tartar officers' uniform. '
TRAIN
ROBBER KILLED
Har-olif Walton. 22. of St. Joseph
Missouri Robs New Orleans Limited
of $100,000 Between Kankakee and
Chicago Arrested by Police Kills
One, Wounds Other.
CHICAGO, May 14. Ono of the
most daring train robberies in the
middle west in recent years ended
this morning in the death of a lone
bandit who last night looted the Illi
nois Central New Orleans limited and
tho recovery of currency estimated to
total nearly ?100,000.
Ono policeman shot by tho bandit
is dying and another is seriously
wounded..
The bandit was Identified as Hor
ace Walton, aged 22 of St. Joseph
.Mo. Jlo fell with four bullots in his
body after barricading himself In his
apartment and fighting a pitched bat-
tlo with more than 100 polico.
Walton boarded the train a few
miles from Kankakee last night. A
Decatur pouch containing registered
mail was taken on tho train.
As tho flyer pulled out of Kanka
koo, Walton stopped into tho mail
car and announced ho was tho postal
inspector. Ho then drew a gun and
commanded "hands up." Four of
tho clorks were ordered to lay on the
floor and the fifth was forced to bind
their hands. Walton then tied tho
fifth man's hands and set about
leisurely sorting of tho mail pouches.
With the clerk's key ho picked out
and rifled the bags which contained
shipments of money, remarking that
"it's easy when you have inside infor
mation." A travollng bag appropri
ated from ono of the clerks furnished
a receptacle for tho money.
Banters Willi Clerks
Walton kept up a running firo of
banter with tho clerks until the train
reached South Chicago shortly before
1 a. m. There he leaped out.
iFifteon minutes later. Patrolmen
William A. Roberts and John Ken
dricks mot Walton. Roborts stepped
forward to question the man. Wal
ton fired thru his coat and Roberts
fell, shot in the head' and side.
Walton leopod Into the area way of
an anartmont building while Kon-
dricks opened firo. After an ex
change of shots the policeman dashed
forward and Walton dropped tho bag
and fled to an apartment house
half block away. Police rifle squads
surrounded tho building and for more
than an hour poured hundreds of
bullets into Walton's apartment. Ho
returned the fire steadily, using two
guns, then suddenly stopped. Detec
tive Chief Moonoy found Walton on
the floor, dead, with four bullets in
his body.
Patrolman Roberts was rushed to a
hospital whore doctors said ho could
not recover. Patrolman Thomas Sor
rlter also was wounded, but not fa
tally.
Walton had lived in tho apartment
where he was killed for several
weeks, according to neighbors.
Policeman Roberts died later this
morning. He Is survived by tho wid
ow and five children, the eldost of
whom is six years old..
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., May 14. Hor
ace Walton, the train robber who waB
killed by the Chicago polico, was a
St. Joseph high school graduate, 22
years old. His father is a clork in
the city's leading hotel. Tho youth
was a railway mail clerk until
month ago when he resigned and left
homo without telling his parents
where he was going.
WASHINGTON, May 14. White
House officials said today that Presi
dent Wilson's war time address to the
Atlantic fleet and messago to Rear
Admiral Sims wore laid before the
senate investigating committee by
Secretary Daniels with tho full con
sent and approval of tho president.
Tho British admiralty was criticised
in both of the documents and reports
published here said that because of
this the president might reprimand
the naval secretary for making them
public. I
WOMAN GOLF CHAMPION
RETAINS ENGLISH TITLE
NEWCASTLE. Countv Down, Ire
land. May 14. Miss Cecil Lcitch re
tained her title to the British women'?
golf championship here todav bv de
feating Miss Molly Griffiths in the
finnl round of the tournament by
DARING
APARTMENT
seven up and six to play.
EFFORT OF HOUSE TO
VETO LOSES 170-12?
WASHINGTON'. May 14 Tho
house todav failed to override
the president's veto of the oxee-
utive, legislative, and -judicial
appropriation bill. Tho vote
wns 170 to 127.
WASHINGTON, May 11 An
ntlnmnt tr r.nc tlin h.irwln t iv
executive und judicial uppropri-
tion bill over President Wilson's
veto wns mudo todav in the
house.
The motion to ovcrrido was
made hv Chairman Good of the
appropriations committee, but
was delaved by an hour's debate
and Iho demand for a duoruiu.
SEATTLE, SPOKANE
SPOKANE, May 14. Polico und
rnllroad special agents today were
seeking to loam the identity of rob
bors who stole $10,000 in currency
from the cashier's cage of tho express
office in the Great Northern station
hero last night at tho time when a
score of railway and express employes
wore in and about the Btation, and
made their escape.
What mado tho feat all the more
remarkable, officers said today, was
tho fact that tho money, uartly In sil
ver, weighed some fifty pounds. Be
tween five and six thousand dollara
in currency was loft scattered about
the floor of tho cage by the robbors,
who, according to the story of H. A.
Peterson, the oxpress agent, struck
him down and beat him into Insensi
bility. Peterson was found shortly before
midniglrt by a fellow omployo of the
company, some twenty minutes after
the robbery is said to have occurred
SEATTLE, May 14. Two armed
bandits lato last night held up tho
entire crew of the Admiralty logging
camp near Edmonds, Wash., search
ed the men individually and escaped
with $300 in cash.
The camp is tho same ono which
was robbed two yoars ago by a lone
bandit who shot and killod Frank
Jones, a logger, who attompted to
throw a chair at him.
$417,910,141 FOR
U.S.
WASHINGTON, May 14. Enact
ment of tho army and navy pay bill
was completed today with tho adop
tion of the conference report" by the
house and senate. The measure now
goes to tho president.
As finally agreed upon tho bill car
ried J41S.919.141, an Incroaso of
$42,153,317 over tho house measure.
One amendment would authorize
American school teachers In Porto
Rico and Hawaii to bo'brought back
to tho United States on army trans
ports during the vacation months.
CALIFORNIA DUEL OVER
SPANISH GIRL IS FATAL
TO
.
NKKDLKS. Cal., May 14
Juan Sonorcs and Emilio Kovcs
killed each other today in what
the polico said was a duel for
the affections of a voting Span
ish woman, who recently camo
here from Los Angeles.
According to the police, the
men met curlv today, Sonorcs
armed with a dagger, and Rcven
with a knife. Sonorcs stabbed
Heves six times. The hitler,
realizing his wounds were mor
tal, drew a revolver and shot
and killed Sonorcs. When the
police arrived the two bodies
were lying clasped together as
thev had fallen. The voting
woman was prostrated and was
removed to a hospital for treat
GOV'T. CONTROL
U.S. SHIPPING
IS OPPOSED
Speaker at National Foreiqn Trade
Council Urqes FreeRein for Mer
chant Shipping Commercial Ex
hibit to Oriental Ports Is Endorsed
by Delenates.
SAN FliANCISCO. May It. Ai
American maritime policy eliminat
ing federal control is necessary for
the development of successful com
meirc, il was stated todav in a report
of the merchant murine committeo of
the National Foreign Trade Council,
read hv Welding King of New York,
before the council's seventh annual
session here.
"The merchants and mariners of
the Cnitod Stales should be enabled
to compete with (heir rivals in otbcv
countries without governmental inter
volition or supervision of trnnspor;;:i
tion charges," (he report said. "There
should be no did ul ion as lo trad'
routes, freight charges or methods of
management.
Oclegatcs from ton Pacific const
commercial organizations made pub
lic todav a letler to Secretary o
Commerce ,1. W. Alexander and Ad
miral W. S. Mensem, chairman of the
shipping hoard, which rcipiested that
provisions be made for sending a
commercial exhibit of United Stale
products to Oriental ports for educu
tional purposes. The commercial or
guniy.niions rcciucsted that tho steam
ship Iris be allocated for a seven
month's trip to sixteen ports in Hie
Far East to display the exhibit. I;
was proposed Unit the exhibit remain
in Shanghai following Iho cruiso to
the oilier ports, as a permanent ex
hihil. Tile delegates further proposed
to have Iho American Chamber of
Commerce in Shanghai prepare
similar exhibit of Chinese products
to be'ourried by the Iris for displav
in Pacific, coast ports. Training on
the proposed trip of one hundred
voung men as officers in the mer
chant marine and trade emissaries in
tho Far East was suggested in tho lot
tor. The organizations signing this let
ter were: Portland Chamber of
Commerce'. Foreign Commerce club of
Portland: San Francisco Chamber of
Commerce: Foreign Trade club of
San Francisco: Scallle Chamber of
Commerce: Foreign Trade club of Se
attle; Los Angeles Chamber of Com
merce; World Traders of Los Ange
les; Tncoma Chamber of Commerce;
Oakland Chamber of Commerce.
SUGAR SALES ARE
ST. LOL'IS, May 14. The prnetieu
of some grocer in reoniring that a
n.Wnin ..n,....4 ..1' fl... ......... ...1 1 1 I
bo purchased with each pound of
sugar is a violation of the federal
trade commission act, according to
instructions received from Attorney
Genera! Palmer bv tbo local depart
ment of jnstico todav.
sentencedIFdeaih
but keil's absent
LONDON, Jtnv 14 M.istitphu Ko
mal, leader of Turkish nationalist
forces in Asia Minor, was condemn"'
to death at tin extraordinary cnutt
martial held in Constantinople Wed
nesday, according to a dispatch to the
Exchange Telegraph company.
As Mustitphu did not appear for
trial he was found guilt v bv default.
Census Returns
WASHINGTON, May 14. Caspor,
Wyo., 1 1,447, Increase 8808 or 333.8
per cent.
Cripple Creek, Colo., 2325, de
crease 3877 or 02.5 per cent.
Canton, Ohio, 18,907, Incroaso 36,
874 or 73.4 per cent.
Oil City, Pa., 27,274, increase
.1617 or 35.9 per cent.
Cohoes, N. Y., 22,987, decrease
1722 or 7 per cent.
Karrell, Pa., l.j.ll.'i, Increase 4925
or 4 8.3 per cent.
Lake Charles, La., 13,038, Increase
1639 or 14.3 per cent.
Marshall, Texas, 14,271, increase
2819 or 24.6 per cent. i
LEAP YEAR PROPOSAL
REFUSED MARK WHITE,
CHICAGO. SHOOTS SELF
CHICAGO, May 14. Miss
Mary Whito last night shot her-
pelf after her leap year proposal
had been rejected by Joseph
Keller.
Miss White Invltod Keller to
dinner, took htm to a picture
show and suggested a walk In
the park. Thoro slio proposed
marriage and announced she
had furnished an apartment for
Keller. .
Dor wounds are not serious,
! hospital attaches Bay.
I
1
TO H.
WASHINGTON. May M. Senator
McNary todav rev d his position
fiu n onfi.iil in tin. Rcntiblicnn nresi-
denlial contest and issued a state
ment declaring for Senator Johnson,
saying be hopes that Oregon will de
clare for the California senalor at the
primorics. lledetofore MVNarv has
stoutly maintained he would indorse
no one and those who seek an ex
planation of tho present turn of af
fairs believe that it lies in tho per
sonal friendship existing between -Mc
Nary, Johnson and Horah.
Since Johnson returned here from
his recent, campaign lour ho mid
Month have sought conferences with
McNarv, and it is believed thev re
called that, thev "went to the but" tor
him when he was engaged in a strug
gle with Robert N. Stunfiehl at the
Oregon primaries two vears ago.
WASHINGTON. J2.iv 14. CSting
amnesty deoreso of several European
nations, a delegation of socialists,
headed by Seymour Slediiiiin of Chi
cago, socialist candidate for vice
president, appealed to Attorney Gen
eral l'ulmer today for "immediato am
nesty and pardon for nil federal pris
oners convicted on the basis of po
litical speeches and writings of labor
union activities."
NEW YORK, May 14. Tho social
ist party of America at Its national
convention hero today votod to re
affirm Us nllogliinco to the third
fMnntnwl intnrnut Innillc. with reser
vations, Including that of determining
Its own national policy.
iBy a vote of 90 to 40 It rejected a
proposal by J. Louis Engduhl of Chi
cago to pledgo without reservation
its allegiance to the third Interna
tional, which was attacked during
the socialist Investigation In Albnny
as the organization that, at tho bid
ding of Lenlne and Trotzky, had Is
sued a call for violent world wide
revolution.
THRONGS OF PILGRIMS GREET POPE
ROME, May 1.'!. Solemn ceremon
ies for tho canonization of Gabriel
1'ossontl and Mnrlo Alacoquo wore
hold in St. Peters today. Popo Bene
dict was carried In tho chair of stato
to tho cathedral being surrounded by
a gorgeous retinue of Roman nobility
and general officers of religious so
ciety. When tho procession entered the
cathedral tho choir sang Ave Maria
Stella. Throngs of Kronen pilgrims
greeted tho pontiff with loud cheers,
waving handkorchlofs and holding up
religious objects tor tho apostolic
blessing, which the pope bonovolont
ly imparted with his upraised hand.
Pope Boncdlct was seated In a
throne and preceded tho acnonlzatlon
ceremonies by Intoning a hymn.
After he had pronounced Iho formula
ENGLAND IS
INVOLVED III
IXIuOWAR
British Consul Vera Cruz in Car
ranza's Camp British and Frenrh
Warships Join U. S. Fleet in
Vera Cruz Harbor Surrender of
Oarranza Expected Today Rebel
Reinforcements Arrive Carranza's
Lines Are Broken.
EL PASO, Toxas, May 14 Surren
der 8onio tlmo today of President
Ciirranza and his forces, said to bo
surrouiulod near Rinconada, Fuobla,
was prodlctod In a telegram- from
tieneral Alvaro Obregon, formor can
didate for tlm prosldoncy of Mexico,
received today by Luis Montos De
Oca, Mexican revolutionary "consul",
at El Paso. '
MY ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 14.
Mexican robol forces have appar-,
ently won the first phase of tho battle
against troops still loyal to President
Carninza which havo boen fighting In
desperate battlo north of San MnrcOB,
stnto of Puobla for tho past four
days. . Advlcos from Vera Cruz indi
cate a break In tho Carranza lines
and tin effort on tho part of the presi
dent's men to break thru tho rebel
lines and inarch northward. ..
Tho struggle is continuing and now
rebel roluforcomonts are reported to
have reached tho scene, coming .up
from the south. . "
An International incident may bo
foroshadowod by the tact that W. A.
Body, British consul for Vera Cruz,
Is In tho camp of President Carranza.
It seems probable ho accompanied
tho president In his flight, from Mex
ico City. British and American au
thorltlos in Vera Cruz have arranged
for a Mexican naval lieutenant tc go
by special train to tho battlefield and
nttompt to rescue the Mngllshman. .
French and British warships have
mado their appearance In the harbor
of Vora Cruz and four American
fighting vossols nro at anchor there.
iNogotiatlonB for tho surrender of
Matamoros, across tho frontier from
Brownsvlllo, Toxas, are under way
and It Is oxpectod tbt Camntl ioroes
thoro will surrender without fighting
today. ,
V. 8. Troops Watchful , .
CALEXICO, Cal., May 14 A quiet
night was reported from Moxlcall,
across the International border where
thoro were rumors of revolution Jata
y-eBtorday. - . -. .!
Oovornor EBtoban Cnntu, personal
ly took charge of his troops last night
Hpcndlng tho night In tho Cuartol,
whoro various snspectod porsons
wore taken undor arrest and ques
tioned at longth. ! : , '
American troops wore '..watching
with extra vlgllanco, having boen
askod to do bo yoaterday by Gover
nor Cantu. ... i '
EL PASO, Toxas, May 14. Adolfo
De La Huorta, Bupremo commander
of tho revolutionary movement In
Mexico, has Issued a call for tho Mex
ican congress to convene and name a
provisional president, It was announc
ed. ; :,' -
Aliens nro now arriving in the port
of New York at u rate tliroo times
greater than thev nro leaving, ac
cording to statistics made publi'i
yesterday tit tbo Ellis Island immi
gration station.
E
for canonization and Inscribed the
names of tho new ralnts In the sacred
roll, tho pontiff Intoned a te doum
whllo tho bells announced the happy
event.
Lator Popo Benedict celebrated
mass and thon returned to his apart'
ments In the Vatican. Cardinal O'Con
noll of Boston, MaBS., was present for
the first time as a cardinal nt a cere
mony for canonization. ,:
Onbrlal Possentl, one of the pafl
slonlst fathers, was ronownod for his
"sanctity and miracles.'" Ho was
born at Asslal, Italy Marcl 1, 1838
and died Fobruary 27, 186.1, Ho was
burled at Isols 1)1 Gran Basso.
Marguerite Mario Alacoqus. was a
French nun ot tho late seventeenth,
century. She was the founder ot tho
worship of the sacred heart of Jesus.