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Newspaper Page TextI Medford The Weather Prediction Light to licavy frost. Maximum yesterday 08 .Minimum today 41 Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. MEDFORD, OL'ECOX, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1920. X0. 54 ILL I In El mog J1 ft V JOHNSON IS LEADING BT SIVIALL VOTE Complete Returns From Coos County Increase Hiram's Lead to 1189 in State Big Counties Have Com pleted Count, But Many Small Country Districts Still to Be Heard From Final Result May Have to Wait on the Official' Count. PORTLAND, Ore., May 24. Sena tor Hiram V. Johnson had a lead of 1307 votes over Major General Leon ard Wood, according to a oonipila ( tion of returns made bv the Portland ' Telegram at one o'clock todav, on last Friday's presidential preference pri mary. The returns were from 35 of 30 counties in the stato, Curry coun ty not -having sent any returns to this city. The count which includes Mult nomah (Portland) county complete, several other complete and incom plete, gives: Johnson 42,101: Wood. 40,74!); Lowden, 14,800; Hoover. 14,190. PORTLAND. Ore. May 24. Com plete returns from Cops county in last Friday's presidential preference pri mary, rive Senator Hiram W. Johnson n majority of 1244 voles Over Major General Leonard Wood, increasing Senator Johnsons plurality in the stato to 118!), according to compila tions made bv the Portland telegram nt 11 o'clock this morning. The total tabulated vote for the two leaders in the presidential preference contest gave : Johnson 41,727 Wood 40,058 The count is far from complete in several counties, although most of Ihe counties with largo populations have t completed the unofficial canvas.;. '!'' " same returns which give Johnson the lead of 1'18!) over General Wood, Coos county excepted, give Lowden 14,000; Hoover, 14,205. Johnson Lend PORTLAND, Ore., May 24. The presidential preference of Oregon re publicans was stdl obscured in tin certainty at the opening of this, tin third day since the primary election nt which tho preference was recorded. While Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California has steadily led almost since the count of tho bnllots began, ond while his lead early last evening wns better than 1000 votes, bv nun night this had been cut to a bare 510, according to n tabulation made bv .ac Oregoninn. Tho figures given were: Johnson, 40,010: Wood 40.109; Low den, 14,480: Hoover, 10,030. The Oregoninn figures were based on complete unofficial returns from 412 out of 413 Portland precincts. complete returns from 14 Oregon counties and partial returns from all other counties, nlthongh from some the returns were based on tho counl of only a few ballots. lth tho open ing of the working week today, elec tion boards generally resumed the count, and there wns prospect that today would see the result determined in the republican presidential prefer ence contest. Johnson supporters and those of Wood each professed confi dence in tho prospect of a favorable outcome. Other liesnlts Results settled bv the count so far are : Presidential preference, democratic. William G. McAdoo. Senator, republican, Robert N. Stnnfield: democratic, George K. Chntnbcrlain, (renominated). Representatives in congress, first district: Republican, W. C. Ilawlev (renominated) ; democratic none; sec ond district, republican, N. J. Rjnnitt, (renominated): democratic, Harvey Graham: third district, republican, C. N. McArthur. (renominated): demo cratic. Dr. Esther Pobl Loveiov. Secretary of state, republican, 3cm Kozer: democratic, none. Public service commissioner, repub lican. Fred G. Huchtol, (renomi nated ; democratic, none. KKLSO, Wash.. May 24 Two chil dren were burned to death and three other occupants of the Henry lllovd residence on south Fourth street burned and injured in escaping from house vpsterd.tv when the struc- s tu'e was destroyed bv fire. . BREAD AND PASTRY PRICES GOING HIGH, I PORTLAND, Ore., May 24. Bread went up one cent a loaf on the part of the wholesalers in Portland todav and the in crease was reflected by the re tailers. Two retail bakeries in creased their. price two cents on the pound and one half loaf, the price now being 17 cents instead of 15. With the price of sugar an un stable duantitv, there is a pos sibility of a further increase in the cost of other bakery goods such as cakes, pies and dough nuts the wholesalers asserted. These were increased in price two weeks ago. DRIVEN 10 SEA IN IINY GRAFTS SEATTLE, May 24. Tho forty eight Indian seal hunters whose ca noes were reported to have been blown far out to sea on Thursday last, off the Northwest Washington const, and concerning whose fate fear had been entertained, were reported today to have all returned safely to Neah Hay. The report came from the Indian agent at Neah Bay, who notified the commander of the live-saving tug Snohomish, which had been dispatch ed in search of the hunters, that no assistance was needed. The com mander conveyed this information to the Healiij (.!': : e Cn'tocl States coast guard service bv wiieiess. '''he only canoes caught by the suua.l, according to the Neah Bav agent, wt:'" the two picked up bv the steamer Multnomah, which took the six occupants of the small craft to San Francisco. SEATTLE, May 24 No word of the 48 missing Indian seal hunters, who put out from (Juillnvute Thurs day morning for the sealing grounds southwest of James Island and were caught in a gale which blew their en noes out to sea had been received at Quillayute or anv nearby coast point early today. The life-saving tug Snohomish. which put out in search of the sealers was expected to report by wireless at any time but had not been heard from nt ten o'clock. E G. 0. P. DELEGATES SALEM, Ore., May 24. Because ol the short tunc remaining betore Hit republican national convention nice'.? at Chicago June 8, Sam A. Kozer, deputy secretary of state, has taken action to procure credentials suffic iently early for the Oregon delegates. He has telegraphed the county clerks throughout the state to make a spec ial and separate tabulation on the vote on dcleeates to be submitted to thu state department for nn early canvass, so the winning candidate.-. for the Oregon delegation mnv be of ficially determined and their creden tials provided. REDS BATTLE TO WARSAW, Mav 24. (My the As sociated Press) The boUhcviki arc attacking in waves on the northern lighting front in a thrust to break tlu I'fdish lim s and open con ninienrioh with East Prussia. The fiercest figg ing in months is raging along the 00 mile battlefield. Villages are changing hands dailv and the lines arc swaying to and Cm. CAMPAIGN COST 10 CANDIDATES JUST ORDINARY New Jersey Primary Expenses, John son $1307; Wood. $15,000 Hiram Spent More Than He Had Poindexter's Bill $60,029 Much Money From "Local Sources." WASHINGTON, May 24. No evi dence of extraordinary expenditures wns adduced at the opening todav of the senate's investigation into presi dential pre-convention campaign ex penses and contributions. The largest expenditure in a single state was $15,000 which Frank Hitcl cock, one of Major General Leonard Wood's managers said had been spent in New Jersey by the Wood orgnni zation. Angus McSween, eastern manager for Senator Johnson of California, said his candidate Sunt $13,207 into that state. Mir. Hitchcock told the committee he could throw little light on General Wood's campaign finances and he was not asked as to contributions. Mr McSween, however, testified that the total of contributions to Johnson's national organization was $08,138, while expenditures bad totalled $72,- 230., Both Mr. Hitchcock and Mr. McSween said state organizations had gathered their own funds in many instances. WASHINGTON, May 24 Howard M. Rice, secretary to Senator Pom dexter, republican, Washington, tesii tied before the senate campaign ex penditures investigating committee that about $75,000 bad been contrib uted to senator I'oinuexlers cam paign. .Mr. luce, asked about expenditures, said "we have spent $011,02!) chiefly upon publicity, and about $20,000 in salaries, traveling expenses, rentals. and so torth. ' WASHINGTON, May 24. Frank H. Hitchcock, one of Major Generat Leonard Wood's campaign managers, told a senate investigating committee today that so fur as he knew the lar gest, sum spent In any state by the Wood organization was $15,000, in New Jersey. Ho added that the next largest was $12,500 In Maryland. 'Mr. Hitchcock said1 that in New York, "as in a number of other states," the Wood supportors "financ ed their own campaign in their own way," without asking assistance from the Wood organization. Senator Kenyon gave notice during Mr. Hitchcock's examination that he had summoned Horace C. Stebbins and Elbert A. Sprague, treasurers, respectively, of the Wood headquar ters tn New York and Chicago to ap pear before the .committee. ' Kxcuscd From Financing Asked by Chairman Kenyon If he could tell the full amount of money expended, and who the contributors were, Mr. Hitchcock said: "All that can be obtained, but the treasurers of the campaign organiza tions have the data. I asked to be excused from the financing work, tho after my. connection with the cam pafgn became established some checks were sent to me by individuals amounting to not more than $20,000 or $25,000 I think. All of that I turned over to the treasurers." Mr. Hitchcock said that in Mich igan the Wood campaign was flnanc ed "by local people, without any call on the national organization. Col Fred Alger of Detroit, he said, was the state chairman. Before Mr. Hitchcock was called Chairman Kenyon explained tho pur poses of the Inquiry. "There is no Intention," he said, "to aid or injure any of the various candidates for the presidency in any party." The committee began Inquiring again as to expenditures in individual states. Mr. Hitchcock Bald he knew of no money raised In Delaware. No Iu Font Money "Didn't a large interest, the Du Fonts, contribute there?" asked Sen ator Kenyon. "I'm certain they did not do so," Mr. Hitchcock replied. "While Mr. Miller, one of our managers, lived in that slate and looked after affairs I know several of the DuPonts and I would have been told." Discussing the Michigan campaign. Senator Heed-, democrat, Missouri. wanted to know If Colonel Alger was not a wealthy man and whether any (Continued on Page Eight) OF JAPAN SERIOUSLY III, BRAIN AFFEC1ED A ... . Caw ? r " tJ hiupcroi osiii(o of Japan HONOLULU, Mav 21. The mika.l of Japan, H. 1. SC. Yoshito, suffered a physical and mental collapse about April first, according to the Honolulu Pacific Commercial Advertiser, ouot ing an unofficial, but 'considered au thentic source. The advices said he was suffering from locomotor ataxia or a similar disease. He was also af fectcd mentally, the advices stated. Plans for establishing a regency have been discarded, the Advertiser' informant said, because it would re veal his real condition. A Tokio cable to the Nippu Jiji, a Japanese vernacular newspaper in Honolulu April 1, reported the em peror was ill nt his winter villa in llnynma, near Yokohama. AVIATION FIELD EUGENE. Ore.. May '21. The honor of having the first municipal aviation landing field in Oregon conies to Eugene as the result of the passage of a city bonding measure list Fri day by a majority of 83G votes. Th( measure provides for the purchase of the field that is now used bv trans ient planes nt a cost of $22,000. It received bv far the greatest majority of anv of the five bonding measure on the ticket. L LOST, RAIL RULE WASHINGTON, Mav 24. The gov ernments gross loss in operation of the railroads during federal control was $000,478,000 according to th.' final report of Swager Sherlcy, rail road inlministration director 5f fi nance. Of this total $1)77,513.000 wa chargeable directly to the excess ot operating expenses over revenues ami rentals for the "class one" ronds Mr. Sherlcy said. Smaller lines, sleeping enr companies mid inland waterways added $45,41)0,000 to this total. NO TRAGE OF MINING IS BUTTE, Mont., Mav 24. A party under the direction of Edward Kane, foreman of the Bell mine, todav com pleted the search of the Ticon min1 without finding an vtrncc of Holier: II. Lindsay, mining engineer, who dis appeared suddenly on Saturday nftrr- noon. I.indsnv. who has an office in Great Pulls, but was temporarily em ployed bv a Butte mining eompnnv, started to examine tho Ticon mine Snturday afternoon in eompnnv with Will Word of Helena, a well known mining engineer. SMOOT CHARGES . DEPT. IS ON' HIS MIL Utah Senator Charges Focleral Trade Commission With Effort to Defeat Him for Senator George E. San tiers, Formerly of Medford Finures Conspiculouslv in Disclosures. WASHINGTON, May 24. Charges that a federal trado commission in vestigation of tho Utah-Idaho Sugar canipany wns being used In an effort to defeat him for re-election woro mado in the senate today by Senator Smoot, republican, Utah. "'Xo one can object to any action that can bo taken to control or regu late the lawful distribution of sugar", said Senator Smoot, "but when any department of the government under, takes to secure the defeat or election of a United States senator thru tho investigation of tho affairs of a sugar company It Is time that such a con temptible practice bo culled to the at tention of the public." Senator Smoot read copies of tele grams alleged to havo passed between W. II. Beer, attornoy for tho commis sion in the Utah-Idaho compa'ny's In vestigation and George E. Sanders of Salt Lake City, in which Mr. Boor asked Sanders for advice regarding bis movements and departure from Utah. Tae alleged reply of Mr. Sanders advised Mr. lieor not to bo "in too big a hurry to finish your case as public sentiment is fast changing and al most entirely for government' prose cution." "Sugar magnates anxious for you to get their caso through," tho reply continued. "Palmer should keep you on job. If you keep going for two months It will cost Smoot his senate seat. Better kill time with Washing ton authority." Months ago, Senator Smoot said, ho was advised that the trado com mission planned to Investigate the Utah-Idaho concern just before tho election, and that among other causes assigned was that it would help de feat him for election. Mr. Smoot said ho owned only 76 shares of stock in tho campany, pay ing him $22 monthly. Senator Smoot said it appears the trade commission investigation had become a blow at his political career. "I am positive the honest people of this country," snld Mr. Smoot, "will not approve ot any such rotten politics." George E. Sanders is well known in Medford and southern regon Whore he was influential at one time in securing the Utah-Idaho Sugar com pany for Grunts Pass. Tho subse quent failure of this plant and San ders' part In the original doal, was reported ut the tlmo to havo led to a serious estrangement botwoen San ders and the officers of tho Utah Idaho Sugar company. Mr. Sanders arrives here tomorrow and will be a witness before tho federal trado com mission investigation committee which holds hearings here at the fed eral building. WASHINGTON. May 24 Presi dent Wilson toduv asked authority tioin congress for the United States to accept a mandate over Armenia. The president told congress that he thought the wish of the American people was that the United States hmihl become tho mandatory for Armenia. NAME MAN TO CHICAGO, May 24. Senator Hi ram Johnson of California will be nominated for president at the re publican national convention here by Charles S. Wheeler of San Francisco, It wan announced at Johnson head quarters here toduy. GOVT COAST, HALF LENGTH SEATTLE, May 24. Univer sity of Washington's 'varsity crew won the Pacific coast inter collegiate sculling championship from the University of California by it scant half'boat length.. California -led bv two lengths one-half mile from the finish, but Washington came up with a niagnil'icient spurt and over hauled the Dears a short dis tance from the finish, pushing their shell six feet in the lead at the line. Official time was 10:35. SEATTLE. May 24. Tho Washington freshmen eight de feated the University of Cali fornia crew in their two-mile raco for the Pacific coast fresh men championship on Lake Washington today by five lengths. Time, 10:53. MILLION DOLLAR ING DIST. PORTLAND, Ore., May 24. Dam age estimated at between $(i00,000 and $1,000,000 was wrought by a dis astrous lire 'which completely de stroyed the plant of tho North Port land Box company nnd the wooden shipbuilding plant of the Ktandifer corporation in the industrial district, below Kenton yesterday. Destruction of the entire dislriet of industrial plants was narrowly nvertcd. The loss" estimate was mado by Fred Huberts, fire enplain, who spent the day in investigations at tho scene of the sweeping conflagration. There is onlv n hazy knowledge as to how much ofthe fire loss is cover ed bv insurance. Starting npparenlty in n mass of dry shavings in the planing mill of the box eompnnv plant, the fire was swept bv the high wind to the box company's factory and the Ion; stretch of docks along the water front. BRITISHER HELD BY VILLA, RELEASED WASHINGTON, Muv 24. Miller, tho British subject i held by Francisco Villa for has been released the state -George reported random, bv Mining ment has been advised bv the oan consul nt Chihuiihuu nnd nn official of the Alvarado and Milling eompnnv of whic is superintendent. b Miller NEW FREIGHT RATES EXCLUSIVE OF WAGES WASHINGTON, May 24. The $1, 017,000,000 additional revenue which the railroads are seeking thru In creased freight rates docs not tako Into account any increase In wages which the railroad labor board may grant the 2,000,000 railroad em ployes Howard Elliott of tho Associa tion of Railway Executives stated to day before tho interstate commerce commission. FAR EAST SITUATION STILL BOTHERSOME TOKIO, May 20. (Ily Associated Press.) Tho situation In the Par East Is still too unsettled to permit the withdrawal of Japanese forces from Siberia, said tho Imperial address read by the empress at the nnnual meeting of tho Japanese tied Cross today. Owing to thj emperor's ill ness the empress read tho address. I BUR SELl, nun nit Ul UltLLUUII HOLMES WIN Final Count In Jackson County De cides Closest Primary Race in His torySome Results Way Be Over turned by Official Count as Margins Are Small Sheldon Leads Carter by 1 1 Votes With Cowqlll Only 50 Votes Behind Miss Holmes Wins by 63 Plurality. "' ' Completo returns in Jackson coun ty on the clo80 local contests com piled from tho missing precincts given by County Clerk Florey this noon, gives the following results; -State liCKbdature Sheldon 1,716 Carter '. 1,714 Cowglll 1,662 Sheldon's plurality 2, Joint Iteprescntntivo C.oro ....1,727 Hopkins '. 1,106 Gore's majority G22. County Commissioner r v: nursoll ..1,167 Court Hall 967 Kinney . . 945 Bursoll's plurality 210. : ' School Superintendent Holmes 1,469 Ilnnby .........:..U....i,37,7, Oodward i 2911' Holmes' plurality 82. .'.'. Closor contosts for primary nom-' Inations In Jackson county ' havo never been waged and interest arous ed was therefore intense. In the 11 missing precincts the Saturday night results were not changed' but the lead, majority and plurality of each leuder incrensed. The closest race was for county superintendent. Han by led thruout until Saturday night when Ilelleview put Miss Holmes ahead by two votes. The country districts all gave Miss Holmes 'a ma jority howovor and increased ' her plurality to 03. ' : 1 ' Whllo thoro may be a change when the official count is made this Is not regarded as likely as the tabulation was carofully mado by the Mail Tri buno, and rechecked twice. ' It any error has occurred It was probably made In transmission, as tho adding machine is a very Intelligent contri vance. . ' (Joro lefeatcd Sheldon and Carter are elected as there were two to name, while Gore's dofeat is now believed certain as ft long distanco from RoBeburg at 2 p. ni. stated Hopkins has a lead over Gore in that county of 656 votes. while there nre 15 precinots still to henr from, which will undoubtedly increaso this majority. Gore's lead in Jackson county complete Is 622. The final vote on president In Jackson county Is as follows: Wood 1,389 ' Johnson 901 Hoover B64 Lowden i. 216 Johnson's vote was Increased &y the final count from the outlying dis tricts, the 11 missing precincts giving him 127 votes to 75 for Wood, 65 tor Hoover nnd 16 for Lowden. lloml Majority 1410 . Tbn voto for the S.'iOO.OOO bond is sue ill Jackson County stands, for. 2410; ngainst, 1000: maiontv lor. 1.110 On tbn ditmnitrntifl ticket Chamberlain defeated Starkweather nearly 4 to 1, the vote slarldipi. Chamberlain, fiO!); Starkweather, 143. All the amendments earned bv large majorities except the restoration ol capital punishment, which stands 1231 to 1102, a bare maiority tor restoration, which the official count mnv overturn. On Republican delegates at largo to the national convention, tho two lenders are known to ho favorable to Hoover whilo MeCnmnnt, who Is No. 'I, did not announce his stand on the League of Nations, but is known to be favorable to Wood nnd opposed to Johnson. Strangely enough Bovd, an outspoken opponent of the Icaetie, and favorable to Johnson, wns Xourtn. Perhaps because ho led the names. The vote for tho four leading; dole- gates follows : Carey L.....817 MacClean . ....6'23 MeCiimant , ....-.5Cr! Bovd -a 542 ' The district delegate vote stands: (Continued on Page Elgtyt)