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MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 21, 190.
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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.
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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
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.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. ,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.