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The Weather
Prediction
Light to licavy frost.
Maximum yesterday 08
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Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year.
MEDFORD, OL'ECOX, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1920.
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JOHNSON IS
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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,
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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
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OF JAPAN SERIOUSLY
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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.
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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:
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