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MEDFORD Mail Tribi The Weather Maximum yesterday 80 Minimum today 1.1 Prediction Fair. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 190. NO. no 11 d tion OF PEACE IS IIP 10 PRES. Republican Peace Resolution Adopted bv House bv Vote of 228 to 130 Twenty Democrats "Join With Re publicans in Vote Vote Indicates Congress Will Be Unable to Pass Measure Over the President's Cer- ' tain Veto. 1 WASHINGTON, May 21. The re publican pence resolution was adopted finally today by the house. It non goes to the president. The house majority accepted the senate substitute for the original house resolution, democrats vainly opposing it. The vote approving the resolution was announced at 228 to 13'J which was taken to indicate that a veto bv the president could not be overridden. Twenty democrats ioined with the republicans in adopting the resolution, while two republicans, Representa tives Kelly, Michigan, and Puller, Massachusetts, voted onanist it. Democratic supporters of the reso lution were: Ashbrook, Ohio: Cald well, New York: Carew, New York: Cullen, New York; Cooling, Nt'.v York; Evans, Nevada: Gnllivnn, Mussachusots; Ganlv, New York: Goldfogle, New York: Ilumill, New Jersey. Huddleston. Alabama; Me Kiniry, New York: McLana, Pennsyl vania: Maker, New York: Mead, New York: O'Connell, New York: Olnnv, Massachusetts; Sullivan, New York; Sherwood, Ohio: Tngue, Massachu setts. WASHINGTON, May 21. Senator Kenvon of Iowa was named today hs" chairman of the senate sub-committee which will begin-next Monday in vestigation of tho pre-eonvention campaign expenditures and pledges of both republican and democratic presi dential candidates. Other members of the sub-Committee are Senators Spencer, Missouri, and Edge, New Jersey, republicans, and Pomerene, Ohio, and Keed, Mis souri, democrats. E4 L NEW YORK, May 21. A saving of four days for American mail to the Orient through postoffico contracts for seaplane delivery of postal mat ter from Seattle to Victoria, B. C, to begin nbout Julv 1, was announced here today by E. N. Gott, general manager of a Seattle aircraft manu facturing company. .With Victoria three days nearer the Orient than San Francisco, Mr. Gott said delivery of between 700 and 730 pounds of mail across Pugct Sound by plane from Seattlo will save an addi tional day in clearing postal matter for trnns-Pacific shipment. Davison to Testify. NEW YORK. May 21. llenrv P. Davison of J. P. Morgan company, today was subpoenncd to testify be fore the joint legislative committee investigating profiteering. His opin ion on the causes of discontent over the present economic situution will be sought it was stated. ON THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE CHICAGO, :Mnv -211. Efforts to stop losses added to the wildnoss of trading in the last hour and instead of reacting the market plunged down ward with greatly accelerated mo mentum. Almost panicky conditions prevailed in the final fifteen min utes. The close was demoralized at the lowest point of the day for corn. $1.58 to $1.59 July, a drop of llti to 13',2C in 24 hours. 4 CHICAGO, May 21. Prices came down heltor skelter today on the board of trade. All raln and provis ions joined In the big tumble. Corn and pork underwent extreme breaks respectively, 7c a bushel and $2.05 a barrel, July delivery of corn touch PERSIA MAKES APPEAL 10 LEAGUE OF NATIONS TO DRIVE OUI SOVIET 4 .LONDON, May 21. Persia has appealed, to the Lenguo of Nations to protect her against Bolshevik aggression. The np- peal, which .follows the landing of bolshevik forces on Persia soil from the Caspian sea, was made through the Persian for- cign minister, who is in Paris. The appeal alludes to the pres- ence in Enzeli harbor of wnr- ships belonging to the nHti-bol-shevik forces formerly operating under (leiioriil Dcnikinc nnd maintains that Persia acted within her rights as a neutral with regard to these vessels. T BE HELD WASHINGTON, May 21. The "big five" meat packers dominate tho live stock industry so completely that enactment of federal regulation legis lation is necessary. Senator Ken drick, democrat, Wyoming, author of bills for that purpose, asserted today addressing the sanate. "One bv ono the big stock markets have passed into their power," he said, "until today they ?cont rot not only the fourteen principal markets, but fourteen others as well, so that their odmination of the industry is all but complete. During the veni 19 Hi more than 7li per cent of all tho stock handled in! inter-state, -commerce passed through their yards." The packers obtained thir posi tion, he said, by "suspending eco nomic law and defying stntuto law." The per capita meat consumption of the country and the number of its livestock have been dropping off, the senator said. Dogs only had in creased in number due to the fact that inu;prr.:!"rt pickers still had a large measure of coniioi, lie inLicd. "As conditions stand today," he confined, "the thousands of pro ducers iiud miili.ins of consumers aic so interested in what goes on in live stock, markets are wholly without protection." HEAVY PRIMARY VOTING UPSTATE. LIGHT LOCALLY PORTLAND, Ore.. Mav 21. Early balloting in Portland and Mjiiltnomah county indicated that a heavy vote would be east before the polls closed at eight o'clock tonight. The combined republican and democratic rcgis- trution totalled 321,076, and managers of both party cam- paigns predicted at least jlO per cent of the total would be cast. Due to the late hour of clos- ing the polls, eight o'clock, it was thought that the trend of the ballots would not be indi- cated until ten o'clock at tha earliest. , J . Up to noon there was a light vote in Jackson county, both city and country, with a rush of voters to the polls expected dur- v inn- the closing hours. 4 ing as low as $1.64 and July pork $34.75. Belief that a drastic order will be issued for the railroads to move grain on a priority basis was largely re sponsible for a selling stampede that caused the smash in values. Much of the selling appeared to be in the nature of unloading by holders who no longer saw a chance for profits on the bull side of the market. The downward sweep of the mar kets was so rapid that it was almost impossible to fill orders at black board quotations. Houses with coun try connections were especially active in the selling. Tightening of credits received continued notice as a bear ish factor and so too did extension of department store price cutting in widely distant cities. VILLA STILL A FACTOR In IX. MESS Bandit Informs Associated Press He Will Fight if Obregon Put in Con trol of Country Refuses to Allow Politicians to Handle Government Carranza Saved From Death by Rebel Captive Deposed Chief Puts Up Hard Fight. PIEDIIAS 'NUCHAS, Mexico, May 21 Ono thousand liberal revolution ary troops under command of Gen eral Joao JIucrtado left hero today for Torreon following receipt of ad vices that Francisco Villa and his band of rebels was heading toward Muzquiz, Coahuila, with the avowed object of taking possession of the wheat crop in that section. Huertado was under orders to block Villa's re ported plans. CHIHUAHUA CITY, Mexico, May 20. (Via El Paso, Texas, May 21.) (By the Associated PresB). General P. Ellas Calles, minister of war for the new revolutionary government left here tonight for Torreon and Mexico City after a conference with envoys from General Francisco Villa. The conference, it was understood, did not result in tho acceptance of conditions laid down by Villa where by he would retire to private life. Elimination of Villa as a military or bandit factor in the Immediate future because of the conference is believed unlikely. However, revolu tionists announced means for his elimination were being considered. IN CAMP WITH GENERAL VILLA Boquillas, Chihuahua, May 19, via El Paso, Texas, May 21 (By Associated Press.) Francisco Villa, variously described as a revolutionist, patriot aad 1andit, is yet a factor In Mexican affairs, as ready and willing to take the field against the newest revolu tionary forces as he was against Car- ranzu, he told the Associated Press here today. - Villa, the man who drew the Amer ican army under General Pershing in close pursuit of him, after the raid on Columbus, N. jr., in 1918 whon Villistas raided that border town, de clared the successor of Carranza must fully satisfy bis ideals of government before he would retire to private life and quit tho life of a "Hobliihood." Opposes Obregon Villa docB not like General Alvaro Obregon, candidate for tho presidency of Mexico, who apparently has be come the "man of the hour" In Mex ico thru thecountry's now revolution Obregon is the Mexican leader who first decisively defeated Villa. This fight occurred at Celaya. Obregon then was loading Carranza troops against Villa and later became minis ter of war in tho Carranza cabinet. Villa would not make public the guarantees he demands from the new government except politicians must be kept from ruling Mexico. Villa's greatest emotional period was during questioning concerning General Felipe Angeles, who was executed by Carranza forces at Chi huahua in November last for rebel lion against the government. Tears came to Villa's eyes as- he discussed Angeles and condemned the men who ordered him executed. "Angeles is tne man Mexico should have now," he said. Villa declared Carranza officials prevailed on American officials at El Paso in June last to cross the Rio Grande and drive him from his attack on the city, which he v.'aa about to take in company with Angeles. HAVANA, May 20 Warning from a captured revolutionary soldier saved President Carranza of Mexico from possible death or injury during the fighting near Rinconada, state of Pucbla, last week, according to J. H Durrell, Mexico City representative of the National City bank of New York City who arrived here today from Vera Cruz. Mr. Durrell was a passenger on one of the twenty-throe trains in which Carranza and his fol lowers fled from the Mexican capital May 6 and was in the thick of the fighting that preceded the defeat of Carranza's soldiers.. The captive haC been taken on board Carranza's train, and when he found it was to move ahead, he hur riedly Informed officers in charge that the track was mined. Invest! gation proved the truth of his story and three mines were unearthed. Carranza was absolutely fearless during the heaviest fighting at Itln conada, Mr. Durrell says, personally leading his men to the attack and dis regarding the bullets falling thick about him, !L BIG PART SCOTLAND WILL VOTE GLASGOW,. May 10 Scot- land's local option act, enacted in 1913 after thirty years of agi; tation, becomes effective Juno f. Prohibitionists arc planning to launch an electoral campaign. There will be a poll in every town and district in Scotland and out of that vote will come the choice of one of three alter- natives total prohibition, re- duction of drinking facilities bv one fourth, or continuance of present regulations. 4 Spokesmen for the liipior in- forests concede that a good part of Scotland will go "dry." Wave of Price Reduction Spreads to Every Important City Whole salers Effected, Fear Movement Will Eventually Raise Prices Higher Than They Were Before. WASHINGTON, Mav 21 The wave ot price reductions in wearing ap parel, which has spread to every im portant city, is due largely to pub lie withdrawal from the market and to the investigation conducted bv the department of justice, in tho opinion of Assistant Attorney General Gar- van. Whilo ho said he did no be lieve the department "deserved too much of tho credit," Mr. Garvan re fused to indorse claims of merchants that thev were actuated solely by patriotic motives. NEW YORK, May 21. The price eutting movement here today reached some wholesalers when managers and buyers of prominent department stores announced thev would refuse to purchase from jobbers until sub stantial reductions wore made. The department stores, which claim to of fer, reductions of from 15 to 50 per cent, now demand Hint wholesalers make concessions to them, Komi Reduced Some wholesalers' of wearing ap parel declared tbcv believed the price cutting movement to be artificial and uneconomic, asserting that it has stimulated buying without a corres ponding increase in production, and a reaction wns bound to come. The first reduction in food wan announced yesterday when one of the largest cabarets and restaurants in the citv stated it had cut nil items on its menu 30 per cent. Kwrlonri Interested LONDON, Mav 21. Cabled reports of a slump in ilHces in the United States uro featured in newspapers here and are being read with enor mous interest, as thev excite the hope that conditions across the Atlantic mnv be reflected in Great Hritain. Some writers on economics, however hold out little hope thai this will he the result, maintaining the new con ditions in America are more likely lo have a contrary effect here. Official statistics show the people arc spending less, while Uritisb hnnks are assuming a more careful attitude. There has been n downward trend in some food prices here recently find, although these are. for the most part, seasonal, the public is building some hope on the circumstance. Managers of large stores in London admit the sale of luxuries is declin ing. NEW TRACK RECORDS ON COAST ACCEPTED RAN FRANCISCO, Mav 21 The new records made bv Jack Merchant of the University of California, in the broad iuinp, G. Hartlctt of the Univer sity of Oregon in the discus throw and Eldo Jcnne of Washington state college in the pole vnult, were ne ccptcd last night at a meeting of the Pneific association. Merchant was credited with 23 feet 11V4 inches in the broad jump: Knrt lett 139 feet I1V iuuiiun in the dis cus, and Jcnne, 13 feet inch in the pole vault. LOWER PRICE FLURRY GROWS FOOD LOWER GERMANS TO ATTACK POLE REAR LINES Warsaw Claims German Troops As sembled in Upper Silesia Have Been Haulinq Ammunition in Beet Cars for Weeks Polish Counter Attnck in North Drives Soviet Army Back 12 Miles Russian Pur suit Alunq Dvina Continues. WAliSAW, Mav 20. (I!v tho As. sociatcil Press) General Alexis A. I'riisiloff, former commander in chief of Hussian armies, is understood to have a-sumcd command of the bol shevik offensive against Poland. In Polish military circles thev sav tho soviet attack is designed to overrun Lithuania and extend the bolshevik front westward to east Prussiu. . WAUSAW, May 20. Information indicating some elements in Germany uro determined to help tho Hussian bolshevik. The latest report is re garding upper Silesia, where German' armed forces have been assembling on the borders of the plebescite area. Newspapers here today published dis patches stating that 1,000 security guards had arrived in upper Silesia by special train. For weeks, it is declared, Germans have been hauling ammunition into Silesia, hiding it beneath beets in railroad cars. WAUSAW, May 20. Polish troops counter attacking bolshevik forces on the northern sector of the battlefront have driven the soviet armies., back twelve and a half miles near Kr.v.n zopol, according to an official state ment issued hero today. The statement declares that on (he middle Ucresina sector tho bolsheviki wer ercpulsed when thev tried to force their way across the river. LONDON. Miiv 21. Russian soviet troops are continuing tehir pursuit of the Poles in the region of Polotsk on the Dvina river, according lo an of ficial announcement issued in Mos cow nnd received here bv wireless. E MEXICAN RULE " WASHINGTON, May 21. Efforts to bring Villa completely Into line with the revolutionary movement in Mexico are continuing despite failure of General Calles and Villa's repre sentative to reach an agreemont yes terday at Chihuahua, it was said here today by representatives of the de facto government. Messages were sent today to both Villa and Calles urging the necessity of co-operation, they said. Unofficially somo doubt was ex pressed as to the possibility of a satis factory understanding with Villa. Tho no change In the negotiations looking to the payment of taxes by the oil companies was reported, Indi cations of an adjustment were seen in tho unofficial announcement that Manuel Palaez, commander in the oil region, was on his way to Mexico City to meet Obregon. LIBERTY BONDS GO UP; HEAVY BUYING NEW YOIIK. May 21. Heavy buy ing of Liberty bonds and Victory notes in tho first hour of today's trading on tho stock exchange result ed In many substantial recoveries for those issues from recent low records. Liberty second 4's rose to 82.70, an advance ot $1.30, first 4 V 's at $85 showed a gain of $1, second 4 '' at $8.1.50 roi;e $1.40, third 44'b at $87.10 gained $1.30 and fourth 4' at $84.30 were strongest of all at a gain of $2.30. Victory 3 91 '8 rose 96c to $95.60 and the 4 9i.'s gained $1.20 at $95.90. Dealings in these Issues up to 11 o'clock approximated $8,500,000 par value. THE BEST PLATFORM iNEW YOltK, May 21 Award of the Walker Dlulno Healo prizes aggregating $10,000 for tbo best republican platforms offered by Truxton Iiealo, for- mor United Stat,es minister to Persia, In memory of his son, who as an aviator lost his life during the war was announced here yesterday. Tho winners are: Carl Smith .loselyn, Springfield, .Mass., Harvard university; Howdrd H. Wilson, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, and W. P. Smith, Ann Arbor, Mich., Uni- versity of Michigan, 4,4.4.4.4.4.4.4.4. E WITH 76 VOTES CHICAGO, May 21. With the democratic convention a little more than a month away, a canvifss of the situation shows no ono man has re ceived as manv as 100 pledged delo gates, while the uninstrnctcd delegates thus far chosen number 587. There aro 212 delegates yet to be elected. Under the democratic convention rules, a two-thirds vote is reunircd to nominate or 728 out of the 1,002 votes which will bo cast in the convention. Of those candidates who havo votes instructed for them, Attorney Gene nil A. Mitchell Palmer is leading with the 70 votes given to him bv his home state of Pennsylvania this week. Governor James M. Cox of Ohio, is a close second with 74 votes, the solid delegations of Ohio and Kentucky.. The names of three favorito sous stand third, fourth nnd fifth in the list; Governor Edward I. Edwards of New Jersey receiving his states 28 votes; Senator Carter II. Glass hav ing Virginia's 24, nnd Senator Hon ort L. Owen of Oklahoma, being the choice of that state's twenty dele gates. Only one contest hns nppeurcd to date. In Georgia, friends of Mr. Pal mer, dissatisfied with the action of tho state convention which wns domi nated by tho llolte Smith and Watson force, organized a sepa rate convention and selected 28 Palmer delegates. Oregon democrats lodav elect ten delegates. 1 Kim LflOI 81 VICTIM. POLICE SEATTLE, Mav 21. Thirty min utes after ha hail held up Max J. Willers, n general storekeeper nt Georgetown, a suburb, in broad day light today and robbed him of $1204. Matbew liiley, :I7, was cornered nnd captured on tho brink of a steep bluff by his victim, 11 posse of citizens an.l Patrolman A. F. Brewer. Tho money was all recovered. Hilev is said to have confessed he was a laborer "broke," and unemployed. Willers was held up in his own garage as he was about to take his car to the bank to deposit. lie noti fied the police and Brewer made prompt response, trailing the robber through the brush to tho bluff und exchanging shots with him, - BRITISHER HELD BY ' WASHINGTON, Mnv 21. George Miller, a Uritisb citizen, is being ehld by Francisco Villa for $:0,U00 ran-Horn,- according to official advices to day to tho stato department from Chihuahua, It was not stated whether Miller was captured in nn attack on Parn.l. where he lived, or was kidnnped. He was supedintendent of the Alvnrado Milling and Mining company of l'nr-ral. GOV'T LOANS 120000000 RAILROADS Inter-State Commerce Commission Takes Important Steps Toward Breaking Up Freight Congestion Routing tftders Cancelled, Car Service; Rules Lifted Coal Cars Sent East and Grain Cars West No Hope Immediate Betterment. WASHINGTON, May 21. A loan of at least $125,000,000 out of the $300,000,000 revolving fund to en able railroads to purchase equipment required to moot transportation noeds of tho public was approved to day uy iiiu uiiursiuie commerce cum- -mission. ' ' The commission In a few hours has taken three othor important steps toward breaking the freight conges tion. These wore orders for; ' Forwarding of traffic without ref erence to previous routing; abroga tion ot all railroad rules governing car sorvlce; transfer ot 32,000 coal cars from west to oast and of 20,000 box cars from oast to grain fields of the west. ' " These moves were expected within ton days, members of the commission said, but they expected that a much longer period would be requlred'to "get the entire tangle straightened out." V Hearings to consider applications for loans will be held here May 29 and the commission asked that appli cations embody detailed atatemepta of the transportation needs which the carrier would be unable to meet and what service for the public could i)bt be performed it the loan asked watt not granted, statements Of. security offered and tho earning powor of the applicants. : ' Kqulpment Is Short '-' ' -'' "The $125,000,900 tor equipment might beet be disbursed," the com mission said, "thru a national equip ment corporation in which the oar riors would take stock for 25 per cent of tho cost of tho equipment, the United States advancing the cash for the stock op to $125,000,000 and the remaining 75 per cent being financed thru a car trust. Provision would havo to bo mado for adequate per diem or rentul with such an arrange ment." Tho commission estimated that cqulpmont already ordered and to cost $125,000,000 represented prbh nbly less than 25 per cent of that noeded. ; ' "It is evident," the commission's statement said, "that the equipment required cannot he secured unless the carriors themselves assume the bur don of financing the remaining 75 per cent." ' The commission said allocation of me $i2t,uuu,uuu lor equipment would be mude according to the per centage which the standard return of a company bears to the total standard return of all the railroads. : " ' TO PAY INDEMNITY UNLESS GIVEN AID MANCHESTER. EnglandMay 21. Writing on the forthcoming confer ence at Spa with the Germans, the Berlin correspondent of the Manches ter Guardian says: "I am assured on very high author ity that Germany Is potentially In a position to put forward a reparation estimate that ought not to fall short of intelligent and reasonable allied demands but it will be expressly pointed out that the naming of a fig ure must bo mado dependent upon the restoration of the European eco nomlo machine to something like working order. The present chaos renders any reasonable conversation impossible." Tho correspondent says Oerqisny will likely put forth conditions pre cedent to a discussion, asking thst Germany bo granted shout 400,000 tons ot shipping; that proceeds of the liquidation of the German property In England and France be allotted to her; reduction of the costs of occupa tion; insistence upon the impossibil ity of fulfilling coal delivery obliga tions it tho Siloslan coal field Is lost, and the restoration ot economic inter course between Germany and her neighbors, at least on the basil ot reciprocity.