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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD Mail Tribune The Weather Maximum ycsterdny 70 Minimum today :m Predictions Fair. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, ORECOX, THURSDAY, MAY 20, 19l(). XO. 51 E No Candidate Will Enter the Conven tion With Any Decided Advantage Wood Will Have 145 Delegates, Johnson 100, Lowden 78. Harding. 39, But Even These Are Contested All Candidate Managers Make the Usual Claims. CHICAGO, Mnv 20. WitU the re publican national convention onlv IS days away and 8!)i) of the !)84 deto nates already elected the situation facing the republican candidates is that no candidate will enter the con vention with enough votes pledged to him to give him any decided advan tage over his opponents. Forty-seven ofthe fifty-three states and territories have chosen their dele gations and are sending to Chicago 537 tininstructcd delegates, forty-, four more than a majority of all those who will sit in the convention. Major General Leonard Wood on the face of returns to date, will show the most strength on the first ballot, for of those delegates, who have been instructed or who have expressed a preference, 14; are pledged to him. In addition ho carried the preferen tial primary in Vermont, but that state's eight delegates have not yet been chosen by the state convention. Johnson Has 100 Senator Ilirnni Johnson of Cali fornia, who commands an even hun dred votes, is second, while Governor Frank 0. Lowden of Illinois with 78 votes pledged to him, is third. Sena tor Warren J, Harding of Ohio, has 39 votes from his home state. There are, however, contests pend ing in twelve states and the District of Columbia, involving 104 delegates. Thirty-five of tho contests are on Wood delegates: si$ on Lowden men and 03 among uninstructed delega tions. The credentials committee will meet here May 31 to thresh out these contests. Xo Nomination 1st Ballot Campaign managers at Chicago for the various candidates agree '.'; there will ho no nomination on the first ballot. The complimentary vote for tho large list of "favorite son's" may, in fact, thev saw be so large that it will destroy the usual signifi cance of the first bnllot as an indi cator of the strength of the various candidates. Among those oandidates who are expected to divide the uninstructed vote on the first ballot, in many cases commanding all or part of the dele gates from their home states, are Governor Sproul, Pennsvlvanin: Gov ernor Coolidge, Massachusetts: Sen ator Sutherland, West Virginia : Sena tor Poindexter, Washineotn: Senator La Follette. Wisconsin: Dr. Murray Nicholas Butler, New York: Herbert Hoover, California, and Judge Pritch nrd, North Carolina. Senator Poindoxter has fourteen ini Btructed votes from Washington; Judge Pritchard seventeen from North Carolina: Governor Coolidge. thirty-three from Massachusetts, and the other candidates have, or expect to have, varying numbers. Claim tho Earth Campaign managers here of the three candidates who are leading in delegntes actually instructed have made definite claims as to the vote thev expect to receive in the conven tion. Major General Wood's head quarters has issued a statement claiming he will hnve from 297 to 302 votes on the first ballot: that he will gain from 12 to 20 on the soeonii bnllot: and that he will be nominated on the third or fomth. THE PUBLIC DAMNS BARK FAVORITE A CHICAGO THE PUBLIC SHOULD BE WASHINGTON, May 20 The gen eral public "this socalled innocent third party," was arraigned as "the only wrong-doer In industry," today by Henry Sterling, chairman of the legislative committee of tho Ameri can Federation of Labor, appearing before a senate sub-committee to op pose the Poindoxter anti-strike bill for railroads. Tho proposed legislation was founded on the theory that the public must not be Inconvenienced he Baid, and added: "Did it ever occur to you that the public does not care a d n for the JOHNSON SPENDS 100 IIMF. TOURING TO TEND TO HIS JOB WASHINGTON, May 20 Charges of Senators Kenvon of Iowa and Johnson of California, that the senate steering com mittee had sidetracked the meat packers regulation and other bills drew a reply today from Senator MeCumber of North Dakota, committee chairman. He made the counter assertion that Senator Kenvon had discussed irrcvalent subjects and that Senator Johnson had spent six mouths uwuv from the senate in his presidential campaign. Li SI. PAUL WASHINGTON, May 20. Denver. Colorado's largest city, which ranked as the twenty-seventh municipality of the country in 1010, has outgrown Louisville and. St. Paul, which ranked twenty-fourth and twenty-sixth, re spectively,. ten years ago. The census bureau today announced Denver's population as 25(1,3(1!), an increase of 42,988 or 20.1 per cent over 1910. Louisville's population has been an nounced as 2:14,891 and St. Paul's as 234,f95. WASHINGTON, May 20. Tacoma. Wash., !)C,!)cr. Denver. Colo., 25C 309. Increases, Tacoma 13,222 or 15.8 per cent. Denver 42,988 or 20.1 per cent. New London, Conn., 25,688, in crease 0029 or 30.7 per cent. Elizabeth, iT. J., 95,082, increase 22,273 or 30.3 per cent. Englowood, N. J., 11,017, increase 1093 or 17.1 per cent. Garfield, N. J., 19.3S1-, increase 9168 or 89.8 per cent. Hamilton County, Ohio, containing Cincinnati, 493,672, Increase 32,946 or 7.2 per cent. HAS ESCAPED 10 EL PASO, Tex., May 20. The El Paso Times today prints a story quot ing a refugee Carranza official here as having advised other Carranzistas in tho united States that Venustiana Carranza, deposed president of Mex ico, accompanied by his son in law, General Candido Aguilar, has found refuge on the Mexican gunboat Pro greso. ' Carranza, this Information said, dodged thru a net of robels surround ing the besieged presidential party on the mountains of the state of Puebla, after a hard ride thru tropical jun gles, made his way to the gunboat, the captain and crew of which re mained loyal to Carranza when Vera Cruz turned rebel. The report further said that Car ranza has issuod a manifesto aboard the Progreso directed to all his for mer officials and partisans saying he wanted them to stick to their posts and he would guarantee their salar ies. Carranza is believed to have car- Iried a large sum of gold aboard the gunboat. LABOR THEREFORE I man who works? The public is the !ono great sinner in the Industrial field. It makes all the bad condi tions. It Is positively criminal in its ! indifference." P. J. McN'amara, vice president of the Brotherhood of Railroad Engi neers, said the bill "made serfs and slaves of men." "Congress couldn't pass a law pro viding Involuntary servitude," Chair man Poindexter interrupted him. "Well, if It is passed, It will be something the radicals can use to stir up more unrest among our men McN'amara responded. PEACE CAN'T PARTI1 AMP Wilson's Running Mate Gives Keynote Speech Before Democratic Conven tion Indiana Not a Democratic War, Can't Be Democratic Peace No Man Should Be Read Out of Party for Stand on League of Nations. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., May 20. A boom started for Vice President Thomas H. Marshall at tho democra tic state convention here today for the presidential nomination at San Francisco, was nipped in the bud by the vice president. INDIANAPOLIS, May 2 0. "Equal and exact justice to nil men," as a remedy for unrest was prescribed by Vice President Marshall in his key note address today before tho state democratic convention. He also urg ed jail sentences for profiteers and increased production to relieve the high cost of living. Tho vice president expressed the hope that President Wilson and the senate would reconcile their differ ences over the peace treaty and that it would bo ratified; but said no man should be read out of the democratic party because of his opinion on the League of Nations. "This was, as I understand it," the vice president snid, "an American war. The peace should be an Amer ican peace. Tho war could not have been fought successfully as either a democratic or republican war. The peace' cannot bring that real peace which the American people want it it bo made olther as a democratic or a republican peace." .Hacks President Vice President Marshall said his comments on the treaty would bo brief for he had no hope of lighting the "Cimmerian darkness which now envelops it," but added: "A lifelong advocate of a resort to courts and not to force, I gavo my unqualified Indorsement to the altru istic views of the president, in the de fense of which views ho has broken his body." Any let-up In the enforcement of national prohibition until legal change has been made in its provis ions was opposed by Mr. Marshall. "While the prohibition amendment remains It must be enforced in ac cordance with its provisions" he said. "If crystallizing public sentiment does not as the days go by get back of it, the people will find a way law fully to lessen what some deem to be its rigors." Freedom of Siccch Restoration, now that the war is ended, of freedom of speech and of the preBS with punishment, for those seeking to create disorder or over throw the government by any other than legal means, was urged by Mr. Marshall who also advocated read justment of taxation after govern ment expenditures have been reduced to a minimum, In order to place tho burdens upon those most able to bear them. While omitting any direct refer ence to soldier bonus legislation, the vice president said he would say to the former Borvlce men "sound of body and mind" that they can obtain almost anything they want from con gress. "It will bo afraid to resist you," he continued. "But looking back upon your glorious record, I beg you to consider whether you want to go down in history as of the tribe of Nathan Hale or of tho tribe of Oliver Twist."- ASKS PRESS TO AID WASHINGTON, May 20. The treasury department appealed todav to the press of the United States to aid in improving the Liberty bond situ ation by carrying in their columns n statement as to the intrinsic value nf (he bonds and their present prices. The statement explained the reason? for the present bonds price and sug gested methods for their improvement. GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK VETOES DAYLIGHT REPEAL ALBANY. X. Y.. May 20. Day light saving will remain in effect in New York state. Governor Smith to dav vetoed tho Fowler bill designed to repeal the daylight savins law. STATE ASKS FOLLOWERS TO DEFEAT H. JOHNSON PORTLAND, May 20. The I League of Nations covenant is the paramount issue in Oregon's primary election tomorrow, both the republican and democratic contests tending to servo as a gauge of public sentimont in the state on this momentous controversy. Altho the name of Horbert Hoover appoars on the ballot as a candidate for the republi- can nomination, his managers in Oregon have askod republicans to throw their strength to the candidate who favors treaty reservations 'whom you think has the better chance of defeat- ins tho 'no league candidacy of Hiram Johnson.' " CAR SHORTAGE IS CREATING ACU1E NEW YORK, May 20. The car shortage, coupled with labor distur bances on the railroads is rapidly cre ating an acute Bituution here, it was suid by businessmen today, who as sorted that building operations were being seriously affected. Announcement was made by tho Merchants association yesterday that a number of additional manufactur ing establishments had been forced to close because of lack of raw materials and others would closo perhaps every day from now on unless some thing drastic was done to relieve the situation. SEATTLE, May 2 0. Tho railroad labor board now meeting in Chicago to adjust wage grievances of switch men and other rail workers must grant these workers a substantial in crease in pay; that Is the only fair thing for the men, Bald Bird M. Rob inson of Washington, D. C, president of tho American. Short Line Railroad association who is In Seattle today conferring with representatives of all smaller railroad lines In western Washington with regard to their needs. American railroads, confronted by difficult financial problems must op erate during tho present year with a shortage of more than threo hundred thousand freight cars, Mr. Robinson declared. "Not only the largo roads, but the smaller lines are giving orders for the purchase of equipment but it is al most Impossible to obtain these sup plies at the present time," added Mr. Robinson. SOLOIER RELIEF BILL PASSED BY THE COMMITTEE WASHINGTON, May 20 The house ways nnd means committee to day ordered a favorable report on the soldier relief bill, with a provis ion levying a ten per cent stock divi dent tax retroactive to last March 15 included. Efforts to eliminate the stock tax provision were defeated 13 to 12, the same voto bv which the provision was adopted earlier in the day. Three re publicans and ten democrats support ed the provision. The vote approving the bill as a whole was understood to have bcon 15 to 10, eight democrats and two republicans were said to have op posed the bill, which was supported bv 13 republicans and two democrats. Tentative plans to bring the bill up in the house Saturday was agreed upon by republican leaders. WASHINGTON. May 20. The senate voted today to retain in (hi house merchant marine bill, scmiic! committee provisions exempting from excess profits taxes (he net earnings of American-owned ships engaged in foreign trade, providing a ' similar amount is re-invested in new ships. PORTLAND. Ore.. Mnv 20 led Thve, middleweight wrestling cham pion of (he world, had too much -class for Sailor Hoffman, 170 pounder of New York, nnd threw the latter twice within an hour in their match at the Olympic gvmnnsiuin hull here last night before n packed house of enthu siastic wrestling fans. NO SUGAR SHORTAGE IN U.S.A. Investination by U. S. Department of Justice Shows Present Hiqh Prices Pure Inflation Caused Throuflh Hoarding by Siicculators National Canners Will Stay Out of Suflar Market Until Prices Come Down to Normal Attain. NKW YOHK, May 20. The Na tiunal Preserves and I''ruit Products association anounced here todav that its members will stay out of the sugar market until (be price of sugar comes down from Us present high level. Tl association claims to represent 85 per cent of the manufacturers of the country who make jams, jellies and preserves. "The so-called shortage of sugar does not exist," read a .statement by Marcus Bliikcmorc, president of the association, who has investigated available supplies with the help of (he department of justice and rep resentatives of the refining industry "Present prices represent pure in Ijation, caused through hoarding by sugar speculators." lie said that witli the sugar that has lalrijidv been received in (his country anil the amounts contracted for ami available on (he Cuban mai'kel are in excess by more than 500,000 Ions last year's consumption. Campaign I'rged It is tho hope ol'lho association Mr Mukemoro said, to start a nation wide movement among nmnui'nctiirers using sugar and also among" the housewives of the country aimed a the present high prices. "If the housewives want to help, thev should begin by using up the small supplies of 25 to 100 pounds, which most of them have stored away," he snid. "As soon as the dealers see tlint buying has ceased, prices will tumble and the enormous stocks now-storei in warehouses and freight cars will become available at reasonable figures." Foreign countries which never be fore shipped sugar to tho XJnitei States, are now invading the Ameri can market, content lo deprive them selves of their normal supply in order to profit hv the high prices this coun try is willing to pay. Air. Illakcmoro said (hat other as speiuti(ns of 'Manufacturers Insini' sugar largely were expected to bud port the preserve and jam makers in their stand against high prices. He said that the National Association of Manufacturers of Fruit Svrnps and Soda Water Flavors had recommend cd that its members make no con tracts for sugnr at present prices, nnd (hat the candy manufacturer's asso ciation was expected to take similar action during (heir convention next week in St. Paul. Coiifercnco Called OC1DKN, Utah, May 20. Tho pre serving of fruits in Utah will be cur (ailed considerably bv reason of high prices of sugar, according (o II. I). Olson, secretary of the Utah Cunnor association. Mr. Olson said the can ners individually have decided to pad only sufficient fruit to meet ndvuncj orders. CONTROL 26,000 ACRES OF FROIT Tl.a numlimi P tlin Oreimn f!lYlWir Co-operutive Association held lit the libnirv vcsicniav was uiicnueu bv over 100 members. H. C- I'nuli sules niiinncer. outlined the selli us, ng policy of the association ami explni in- ed in detail the methods enplovcd in distributing western fruit in the eastern slates. C I T npfrtiiMViili,.,, ,nnmif :er, slute.l tlinl Iho nssncinl if tn nnw h IllS nearly 1300 members controlling 20, 000 nercs of lruit. 1 be acreage the Medford district now totuls o 5000. C. C. Cute urged the growers Ion,, a tl,,,,-,, U',it,'li f,r Ml, .1,1 tirli has appeared in many orchards dur the pust few days. IF THEM YOUNG ENOUGH CHICAGO. Mnv 20. Marry- ing (wo voting girls under age docs not constitute bigamv. it ' lias been decided bv a jury in Judge Pain's eourt and Anton Harilow was found not guillv of the bi'Mimv charge, lie married Freda Newman, aged 111 and later married Charlotte Lazarus. aged 15. The jury held (hut his marriage to Miss Newman was not legal as she was under age, v and hence his second marriage ' was not bigamous. 10 KEEP CLOSE IF WASHINGTON"', May 20. In order (hat closer supervision may be given government deposits In banks the treasury department has created a section to be known as the division of deposits. Secretary Houston has named Roland A. Croxton, formerly a member of (he treasury war loan staff, to bo the new division's hend. NEW YORK, May 20. Tho attack by banks on high prices thru credit restriction was reflocted In todny's stock market. Additional losses f 1 to 3 points at the feverishly activo opening, with extensions during the course of the first hour, wero generally attributed lo further unforced liquidation for out of town Intorests. The furthor reaction was believed largely to have resulted from tho more pressing noods of morchants who found their credit Impaired by tho vigorous methods ndoptod by tho banks nt the earnest solicitation of the federal reserve board. The head of a large local bank ex pressed the opinion that financial conditions thruout tho country al ready have been strengthened in con sequence of the prico reduction made in many lines of merchandise. He be lieved, however, that the movement might get beyond reasonable bounds and work unnecessary hardship to small tradesmen. SPOKANE. Mav 20. Tho nrico cutting movement hero sprend today with the anpouncement by a large clothing store that all its lines except "contract goods would go on sale today at a 20 per cent reduction. On largo department store yestor rinv nnnnunced a 20 ner cent reduc tion, effective today, and another said the same reduction would go into ef fect next Monday. PORTLAND, Ore.. May 20. Crop and fruit conditions in the Pacific Northwest, especially in the Oregon and southern Washington country, could not look better nt Ibis time and witli continued favorahlo grow ing weather both bumper grain nnd fruit crops will he brought in Ibis coming season, according to officials of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle railway, who have just completed a thorough canvass of tho counties adjacent to their lines. PORTLAND, Ore., Mnv 20. - Thirteen deaths out of sixteen cases reported to the bureau of health is the record set by lethargic encephali tis, tile "sleeping sickness' which first appeared in Portland last De cember. The thirteenth victim of the mysterious 'disease was Krnest A. Heugles, age 50, who died nt his home here. TWELVE KILLEO, 3 BATTLE IN M ATEWIAN, W. Va., May 20. With 100 deputy sheriffs, armed with rifles patrolling the streets and de tachment of the state constabulary expected to arrive at any moment, the situation In this mining villago, the scene of the killing of twelve persons last night In a battle between private detectives and citizens, was quiet early today. Last night's shooting, In which Baldwln-Kolts detectives clashed with citizens and Matewan police, resulted according to tho authorities, from action of the dotoctlves who ovlclod a number of miners from H(one Moun tain Coal company houses yesterday. ENGLAND S PANICKY AT Seizure ofEnzeli and Invasion of Per sia, Together With Crushlnq De feat of Poles Alarms British Gov ernment Northclif fe Attacks Govt. Policy in Near East Oil Resources 'an Issue Bolsheviki Claim Big Captures and Booty. LONDON, Mjiv 20. The Anglo Persia Ireatv does not place Qroat llriltiin under obligations with regard lo the bolshevik invasion oE Persia, it was stated in (he house of com mons todav bv Andrew Honar Law, I lie government leader. ' LONDON, Mav 20. Invasion of Persia and the seizure of the port of F.nzeli by the bolsheviki, with the evacuation of that town by British Iroops has created a stir hero nnd the Near Eastern position is pxtremely grave, it is declared in some quarters. Newspapers ask what tho British gov ernment is going to do, in view of its ngrcement witli Persia, which was concluded last veur. Tho Times sharply attacks he British government bocnuso of its past attitude toward Persia. . .' "The Persian issue,' it adds, "can not be considered npart from that of Mesopotamia. We are not prepared lo assent to any arrangement which would saddlo on British tax payors the cost of holding Mesopotamia as far north ns Mosul. If wo sink oil wells there, they will have to bo surroundod by legions. We do not now desjro to express a definite view about (lie Sot did squabbles relative toMjosopotn mian oil which seems to he develop ing hctwoen various British, Dutch. American and Clermnn interests, but whoever gets tho oil, must pay the hill. This country will not Consont to maintain a big garrison in Mesopota mia for the benefit of partially foreign oil companies." T nvnrvv nr,,., on ti. pc.:., ........ , .i, .iiu uiiuiimvu begun lust Friday by the bolsheviki against (he Poles along a. fifty-mile line on the northern tront was con tinuing successfully uo to Wednes day, according to an official state ment from tho soviet government re ceived Hy wireless from Mosoow to day. The Polish retrofit, wn nnntlnn. ing nnd was panicky nt some points, (He statement declared. The capture of n large numbor of prisoners nnd immense amounts of supplies is claimed. The bolsheviki report their advance in Mm CllerkllSOV nwinn nlnn Ik. ' ...,, hiuuk flfv Dnieper to the south of Kiev to be continuing, but stato that there is no ehnnge in the situuion in the region of Kiev itself. i . OF INDIANAPOLIS, Intl. May 20 In completo returns into nntionnl head quarters here indicate that approxi mately 80,000 new mcmbors were ob (ained in the first two days of the American Legion nation-wide cam paign for increased membership. Na tional officers believe this figure is conservative because many points Id thickly populated districts have not roportcd. SOVIET COUP SOUTHERN MINING TOWN Two Stone Mountain Mine company mines were closed recently when it became known that an effort wai be ing made to unionize them. A shot, said by authorities to bave been fired from a coat pocket by Albert Felts, a dotectlve. and whlob ended the life of Mayor Cabell teBter. man of Matewan, started the battle. An instant after ho fired, Felts, ac cording to authorities was killed by "Sid" Hatfield, chief ot police ot Matowan. The shooting then became general and when the battle ended, seven detectives, the mayor and tour coal miners were dead and three oth er persons badly wounded.