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MEDFORD, ORIX.OX, MONDAY, MAY 17, 1920.
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NDEmNTY
FRENCH QUIT
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French and Belgian Troops Occupylnq
Neutral Zone Withdraw as Per
Agreement "French Keep Their
Word" Proclaims De Goutte Ger
man Indemnity Fixed at 30 Billions
Permit Germany to Issue Bonds
In Payment.
BERLIN', May 17. (By Associat
ed Press.) The. French and Belgian
troops which have been occupying
Frankfort and Uanau evacuated
those cities this morning. No unto
ward incident has been reported.
PARIS, May 17. It is understood
in official circles here that the Anglo
French conference nt Uytho, which
closed yesterday, decided that the
sum total which Germany should pay
ns" reparation would be fixed at 120,
000,000,000 marks gold. (Approxim
ately $30,000,000,000).
It is also understood that it was
decided Germany would bo permitted
to issue bonds covering her indebted
ness to the allies, payablo in annual
installments.
. Such action, it is pointed out would
enable France to discount a part of
her claim on Germany and permit her
to settle her debts to the United
States and the allies.
A special conference of tho allies
will be hold at Ostend to consider fi
nancial questions, It is statod. .This
meeting will be Independent of the
League of Nations conference at
Brussels. Tho dates of theso confer
ences remain to bo fixed.
MAYENCE, May 17. (By Associ
ated Press.) Tho French troops
which have been in occupation o."
rrankfort, Darmstadt and other cit
ies on the east bank of the Rhine
evacuated those cities this morning,
it Is announced here.
Tho Gormans were informed of tho
doparture thru a laconic proclama
tion issued by General De Goutto
posted In tho various cities which
read: "The French keep their word."
The evacuation proceeded amid
entire quiet.
LEAGUE OF NATIONS
GENEVA, Mav 17. The popular
majority in favor of adherence by
Swit.prland to the TiCairuc of Nations,
in the referendum held vestcrdav a
93,720. The vote in favor for the
proposition was 414,(i00 and the vote
iwiinst it 320.880.
LEVI P. MORTON DEAD
POUGIIKKEPSIE, N. Y.. May 17.
Levi P. Morton, former vice president
of the United States and former srov
ernor of New York, died at his home,
Ellerslie, Rhincbeek on the Hudson,
at 8:30 o'clock last niirht on the 0(ith
anniversary of his birth.
RHINE 0
FIX PAYMEN
ACQUITTED OF MURDER, THIRD TRIAL
MURSIIFIELD. Ore.. Mav 17.
Harold Howell, aged Hi. has his free
dom today after eight months in the
county jail and three times facing
trial in the circuit court on the
charge of murdering Lillian Leuthohl
at Bnndon on July 27. The iurv in
the third trial returned a verdict of
not guiltv nt 2:30 n. m..Rundav in
the circuit court nt Coquille. The
jurors were out 17 hours.
At first thev stood seven for enn
jictipn and five for acquittal and the
GREAT BRITAIN TRYING
10 SECURE SUPPLY OF
WASHINGTON. Mav 17.
Grout Britain's policy with refer-
encc to world pertoleum (supplies
is reported to cxcludo aliens
from the control of petroleum
supplies within the empire, and
to endeavor to obtain some
measure of control over oil prop-
erties in foreiim countries, the
senate was informed todav in a
state department report trans-
mitlnd l. Praeidnnt. WiUnn
The report, siuncd bv Under
Secretary Frank L. Polk, was
furnished in response to 11 reso-
lution by Senator Gore, demo-
crnt, Oklahoma, nskini; what dis-
abilities were being imposed upon
American exploitation of world
oil resources bv other countries.
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MOVIES, THEN
KILL REPORT
Southern Baptist Convention Tahles
Resolution Blamina Booze and
Movies for Divorce Increase
Newspapers Attacked Establish
ment Baptist Paper Considered.
WASHINGTON. Mav 17. An at
tack on the national board of censors
of motion pictures contained in the
report of t!:e eonvn'ttee on temper
ance and social service ot the South-
c;n Baptist convention was climinnt
cd toii:iv when the report came up for
adoption.
Dr. W. W. Lundrnm of RussollvU'n.
Ky., presenting the motion to strike
out the attack, declared that tho
statement was libelous and might re
sult in heavy damages being obtained
from the convention.
A proposal to appoint a committee
to studv the advisnbilitv of establish
ing a Baptist newspaper was made
Ihe occasion for an attack bv Dr.
Hon Cox of Memphis, Tcnn., against
the American newspapers in general
and tho Associated Press in particu
lar. Seventy-five per cent of "the
blue pencils of American newspaper
offices," he charged, were in Hotnan
Catholic hands.
Frnnk E. Hurklmller, of Nashville,
Tcnn., and the Kev. . Alexander W.
Healer of Georgia, bolh resented the
attack and declared that the Baptists
had always received the fairest treat
ment from the Associated Press.
WASHINGTON, May 17. Moving
pictures, lax laws and intemperance
are blamed for tho numerous di
vorces In tho United States by the
committeo of temperance and social
service in its report to the Southern
Baptist convention today. Enactment
of a uniform code of marriage and
divorce laws was recommended as a
remedy.
Quoting from government statis
tics on the number of divorces ob
taincd annually in the country, tho
report shows that in 1916 when the
last figures were gathered, there were
112,030 divorces.
As a primary cause of "this sad
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balloting continued unchanged until
toward the last when those who were
f'nr'eonviction went over to the other
side.
The bullet which killed the LeuthoM
girl was said to be the main point of
evidence which led to the belief of
some of the jurors that the hoy was
guilty. Thev thought the bullet hail
been fired from Howell's gun, but
finally admitted that it had not been
shown that Unwell fired Ihe gun or
killed the tiirl. ...
RAPTmQ
uni iiui
CARRANZA S
SON-IN-LAW
GETS AWAY
General Aquilar, Governor Vert Cruz.
Breaks Through Rebel Lines With
300 Followers Plans to Join
President in Hills Capture of Car
ranza Is Soon Expected Rumor
More U. S. Battleships Will Be Sent
Mexican Waters Wires Restoied.
VERA CRUZ, Mav 17 (Bv the
Associated Press) General Candido
Aguilar, governor of the state of Vera
Cruz, and son-in-law of President
Carranza, who has been virtually a
prisoner of revolutionary forces near
Orizaba for the past week, escaped
last night. It is believed ho is trying
to join Carranza who fled into the
mountains near Chalchicomula Fii
day. General Aguilar has with him
about 300 of his followers.
1'ursuit of Carranza is being vigor
ously pushed bv Generals Pedro San
chez and Higinio Aguilar, leaders of
tho revolutionary forces, which fought
a grim battle with Carranza's army
last week. Thev have a superior force
of cavalry. : -I I .
Lack of Food
Lack of food and water lowered
tho morale of Carranza's men so that
their defeat was comparatively easy
says 11 (lUnalcli .from the Associated
Press correspondent 111 tho hattl
zone, lie has just been joined by n
correspondent of the newspaper El
Dictainen of this city who was with
Carranza when he fled from Mexico
City M!av 7, and witnessed much of
the fighting around San Marcos and
Kinconada.
When revolutionary troops swept
down on the capital, Carranza do
eided to flee to Vera Cruz and estab
lisb his executive powers. His trains
carried 10,000 men and a large
amount of war munitions. On Mav
8 the Carranza trains pushed past
Apizaco where thev were joined bv
troops commanded bv General Pilar
Sanchez, but soon Ihe engineers re
ported that their locomotives were out
of water.
The troops detrained and pushed
on down the road, defeating a force
of revolutionists. After the track had
been cut behind it, means was found
to take tho presidential train further
towanl Vera Cruz and Mav 1 L il
reached San Mil reps. Kinconada was
reached tho next day and there a bat
tle was fought against troops com
manded bv General Mirclcs, which
were defeated bv the heavier columns
commanded bv Carranza.
When the town of Algibes was
reached, Carranza s men found tl
rails cut. No water could be secured
and the morale of the soldiers seemed
to break, large numbers deserting.
General Torres Killed
On the afternoon of Mav 13, Gene
ral Sanchez made a violent assault or.
the Carranza army, hut the attncl.
was repulsed by a counter thrust led
by General Murgiu.
The next day the Carranza men
abandoned some of Iheir ground and
General Sanchez launched a new nt
lack which smashed the Carrauz:
line and routed a pnrt of the govern
ment troops. More than 3,;!00 pris
oners were taken by the revolutionists.
Tt was immediately after this reverse
that Carranzu fled to Ihe mountain-i.
General Lihcrado Lara Torres, who
was wounded in the fighting Mav 13.
and was later brought to this citv
for treatment, died yesterday. .
Sgnd More HnUlcships
NEW YORK, Mav 17. The Atlan
tic fleet which has been at anchor in
the Hudson river for the last two
weeks, put to sen today. After ma
neuvers and practice runs, it is
understood the fleet will go to Hamp
ton Roads.
Rumors were also current that ad
ditional ships may soon be sent to
the Gulf of Mexico to join the Ok!a
hom and the destroyers now on duty
there.
WASHINGTON. May 17. Cable
rommunieution with Mexico Citv has
been restored. The company's land
wires wero torn flown in the firrlitino-
that took place between Carranza's
ormv nnd the revolutionary forces
near Kinconada,
FAILS DECIDE VALIDITY
1). S. DRY AMENDMENT
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WASHINGTON. Mav 17 The
supremo court failed atrnin to
dav to doi'ido the validity ot' the
prohibition amendment and the
enforcement net and recessed
until June 1. '
WASHINGTOK, Mav 17.--Convietion
of Dpniel O'Connell,
lawyer and five -other residents
of San Francisco for violating the
selective service and vsihouhuv
nets, was upheld todav bv tho
supremo court, 1 :
The other defendants were i.
K. Hoffman, piivsician. sen
tenced to three years imprison
ment; Thomas Carey, two years;
Carl ,1. F. Wachor, 18 months,
and David J. and Herman H
Smith, one year each. O'Connell
was sentenced bv the lower court
to seven vears.
AH the defendants were mem
bers of an organization known
as "Aniericnn patriots" which
thev claimed was formed for the
purpose of testing the constitu
tionality of the selective service
act.
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A BITTER FIGHT
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SPOKANE, May 17. Probability
that the light between the state or
ganization and tho "federal" faction
for control of tho Ivlng and Pierce
county delegations to tho democratic
state convention would be carried to
the convention floor seemed strong
when the convention met hero this
forenoon.
The element In tho convention fa
vorable to tho organization of foderal
office holdors apparently was dis
posed to contost to tho hint tho pre
liminary victory won by tho forces of
National Committeeman A. R. Tltlow
and State Chairman George 1''. Chris-
tonsen yestorday afternoon when the
state central committeo, by a vote of
18 to 16, decided to seat on the tem
porary organization of tho convention
tho Seattlo delegation favoring tho
state organization and to scat both
Pierce county delegations, with half
a vote for each delegate.
A sontlmcnt was apparont early
today among delegates seeking party
harmony in tho convention, for un
soating both contesting delegations
from King and Pierce countlos. Stalo
organization pnrtisans were hopeful
that the temporary organization ns
outlined by tho state central commit
tee yesterday would be made perma
nent by the convention however, and
the opposing clement refused its sup
port until the committee had passed
upon credentials.
State Senator A. E. Judd of Tnco-
ma was selected as temporary chair
man of tho convention.
SEATTLE. Mav 17. Carlos ,'.
Byron, Portland attorney and I'M
ward M. Comyns, attorney of Seattle,
fotPid L'liiltv in the United States dis
trict court here hist February of mis
use of the mails to further an alleged
fraudulent L'rant filinc scheme, were
sentenced todav to 1" months in Mc
Neil Island penitentiary.
Myron, who was brought here from
the penitentiary for sentence will be
ein servinc his time on today's sen
tence at the expiration of a sentence
of fifteen months on the churire of
fraud, service of which bcenn on
March. II, last. Comvns was not in
volved in the previous choree.
House Kills Money Bill.
WASHINGTON', May 17. Ilv an
overwhelming vote the house todav
refused to adopt the conference re
port on the diplomatic appropriation
hill because of a lcirislativc rider mak
ing permanent the war time passport
control regulations,
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AGAIN IrvnrnTi n n IB0LSHE1I FORCES omnniiniiin
ArCUM.U.U. SUING BACK AT 0III0 VtfUULU
TAKE OVER H m PRUSSIANIZE
m. m m m mm, m mm, i e m mm mm mm m
it A I I II II A I I bolsmwik0forccK!r7e staking hi U ill
Unl I III IHI II 1 back nt the Polish and I krain- I I . II. 1 1 Fl H I
. I was fc w
National Railroads Swamped With
Business Turn to Government for
Relief Hundreds of Thousands of
Frcinht Cars Held Uu Because of
Insufficient Labor and Equipment
State Public Service Commis
sions Called.
WASHINGTON', Mav 17. Railway
and public sorvico commissions in
every state were called to the aid of
the inter-state commerce connuissidn
and the railroads todav to break the
l'rcicht blockade.
WASHINGTON. May 17 The na
tion's railroads, swamped with busi
ness, and not vet on their feet after
the long period of federal control,
turned hopefully to the government
todav for relief.
With reports from industrial cen
ters showing several hundred thous
and cars held up because of insuffic
ient equipment and labor, the inter
state commerce commission was cx
pected to heed the appeal of tho car
riers and take charge of (he situa
tion. Railroad officials said there
was slight hope of early improvement.
The greal need is to clear the tracks
of non-essentials and open Ihe way
for the necessities of life.
So .Tent is tho traffic congestion
according to reports (hat there i"
immediate danger of wholesale closing
ot big industrial plants and the eon
sequent cut in production.
Should the commission find, on the
strength of reports laid before it bv
the railroad executives that tho emer
gency justifies it, orders takinir over
virtually complete control of the
movement of frcinht, probably will be
issued.
Kailroad officials, mcclins with
members of the commission today
suggested several details for inclusion
in its traffic plan to break tho con
gestion. One of these was a general
scheme for the movement of grain
cars westward and coal cars east
ward to meet current requirements
Cars for food and perishables, how
ever, woiiki nave tun preterence over
all others under the plan.
I R. EXECUTIVES
E
CHICAGO, May 17. Wage ad-
advances should bo granted to many
railroad workers to enable them to
meet tho high cost of living, tho Anno.
elation of Railway executives declar
ed today In their opening statomont
before tho railroad labor board.
13. T. Whltnr, chairman of tho con
feronco committeo of rail managers
of tho executives association, told tho
board that somo part of tho wago do
mands being made by 2,000,000 rail
way employes probably would be
found to bo Justified by tho rise in
the cost of living.
This is expected to go fur toward
expediting early settlement of the
controversy which culminated laBt
month In a series of strikes. Tho do
mands now before tho board aggro
gate more, than a billion dollars I
year, In addition to a billion dollar
advance during tho war and a $300,-
000,000 advance In tho two years
prior to government control, accord
ing to Mr. Whiter. Ho presented fig
ures to show that tho railway payroll
had increased from 39.5 per cent of
the gross earnings of the roads In
Id 15 to &.1.6 per cent Inst year.
"Wo appreciate fully," .Mr. Whiter
said, "that the Increases received by
some employes in the lust five years
have not been commensurnte with the
increase in the cost of living.
'We appreciate also that there are
other employes who are receiving
rates which cannot be considered at
all low In an obsolute sense, yet
which do not compare favorably in
some localities with wages paid tome
occupations In outside Industries."
LONDON, May 17. Russian
bolshevik forces are striking
back at the Polish and I'krain
1 inn troops which ciiplured Kiev
about ton days ago, according to
an official statement Issued in
Moscow yesterday and received
hero by wireless. Tho statement
snid soviet troops hud started an 4
advance and wcro onguged
about ten miles northeast ot
Kiev.
STAGES FATAL
Three Nicihts of Riotinq at London
derry Between Unionists and Sinn
Fein Factions Assume Serious Pro
portions Bottles. Bricks Thrown,
Shots Are Fired.
LONDONDERRY, May 17. Lon
donderry, after two niiihts. of riot
inn, was asruin tho scene of riotous
demonstrations today. . Hundreds of
men remained nwuy froni Iheir work
walkinir about the streets, where inanv
individual encounters occurred be
tween tho Sinn Keillors and unionists
There was stromr feelim." bv the
crowds to some extent and at one
point Sinn-Keillors, the police report
ed, fired shots nt two unionist ex
soldiers, but missed their mark.
LONDONDERRY, Ireland, Mav 17
Riotincr last niuht between iiutkiii
nlist and unionist mobs was oven
fiercer Hum Saturday's fightiiur. Bot
tles, bricks and pistols wero airnin
freely employed bv tho combatants
nnd many more shop windows were
broken. '
Groups of men and women in the
unionists quarters in Fountain streets
nnd irrtuips in the Sinn Fein quarter
followed an exehanuo of party cries
with stone and bolt In throwiiiL'. Then
nioro than one hundred revolver shots
followed. In addition to the killim;
of n former soldier named Duller! v,
three others were wounded. When
tho hostilities broke out the police
were withdrawn anil for a few hours
mob law was supreme.
DUBLIN, Mjiv 17. Countess Geor
gia Markievicz, Sinn Fein member of
parliament for the St. Patrick's di
vision of Dublin, whose whcrcabo'ils
has lonir been a mystcrv, made n
theatrical appearance clad in a com
mandant's uniform vestcrdav nt an
open air meetinir in Crokcr park in
;ncniorv of the members of the Irish
republican parliament, who were exo-
utcd lifter or killed diirini; the rebel
lion of I 111 (I.
The countess delivered an address
in which she appealed for support for
Irish industries.
$500,000 WORTH OF
E
SAN FRANCISCO. Mav 17 A de
cision nivimr the Federal Minimr and
Smoltinjr company of the Cocur
d'Alene lead nnd silver district in
Idaho title to .T-.")0I),IMII) worth of ore
allcced to have been extruented from
beneath certain holdings of the Star
Mininir company was reversed bv the
United Stnles circuit court of appeals
here todav.
The Star company hud Roueht in
tho lower court to enjoin such extrac
tion, hnldinir that its Eveninc Star
and Mnry I!, properties wero beinir
ncronehed upon. I ho lower court
decided against the Stnr company
and Ihe case appealed, today's decis
ion resulting i
NORTH IRELAND
S. FEIN RIOTS
Secretary Daniels Lets Go a Verbal
Broadside Aqainst Plan to Put
Navy Officer at Head of Depart
mentClaims Sims Tryina to Dis
credit Present Secretary Because
Ho Refuses to Be a Rubber Stamp
Nonentity.
WASHINGTON, .May 17. Socro
tary Daniels today lot go a vorbal
hroadsido against tho advocates of a
genornl staff for the navy, declaring
that they sought to "Prussianize"
tho nnvy department and mako tho
civilian secretary a "rubhor Btamp."
Ho told tho sonnto cnmmlttaa Investi
gating tho navy's conduct of tho war,'
that ono of Rear Admiral Sims' chlof
objects in writing his lottor of Jan
uary 7 and bringing about this inves
tigation was to remove tho nnvy, bo
far as possible, from civilian control'
Roar Admiral Sims' original
charges against tho navy department
showed hostility toward certain offi
cers and a desire to damage the rank
ing officors who directed naval oper
ations during the war, tho naval sec
retary declared, adding that "the evi
dence has shown a duslre to discredit
tho secretary of the navy booauBO'he
wns not a 'rubber stamp secretary.' "
If congrosH wlshod to doport from
tho "traditional Amorican policy" of
civilian control ot tho navy It should
do so "directly and clearly and with
out protonso," snid Mr. Daniels, by
making an admiral secretary of tho
navy nnd a tnomhor of the president's
cabinet. Tho most ardont advocatos
of the gonornl stuff system had not
advocated going so fur, howovor, bo- .
causo thoy wished to keep a "rubber
stamp" civilian ns a flgurehoad in
tho secretary's offlco, ho declared. V.
Tho witness quoted from reports
nnd writings of other naval secretar
ies to show, ho said, that they too,
struggled against substitution of the
general saff system. .. .
ST. PAUL SWITCH
SPOKANE, Mav 17. Tho entire
dav switchmen's foreo of tho Chioinio,'
Milwaukee and St. Paul railroad herd
failed to report for duty and it wr.s
stated that none of the niuht crew
had been on duly Inst nieht. Great
Northern nnd Northern 'Tihcifio
switching crews todnv wero reported
by the railroads to be full, handed,
but four switchmen on tho Great
Northern and three on the Northern
Pacific were not on duty last niuht, if
wns stated. It was stilled .that no
demands bad been presented bv tho
men, who declared they wore walking
out individually and "thev wanted
moro money."
A meetinir of switchmen waB to be
held duriiur today, it was announced.
ORE MINED BY
The defendant company had held
that tho ore vein in question had
nnexed in its own Grouso and Iron
Crown holdings. Tho court held to
day, however, thai the priority of the
Grouso patent dill not determine the
question of the priority of tho dis
covery of the vein.. The Grouso pnt
cnt was hehl to have determined only
a surface rieht.
Lendine mining experts, from nil
parts of the country had participated
in the action. It developed in the
courso of tho hcarine that one (duim
of tho Federal compnnv, which had '
no connection with the ense, had pro
duced between $'2.),000,000 nnd $30,
000,0(10 sineo it was '"ened up.
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