Mail Tribune MEBFORB The Weather Maximum yesterday 75 Minimum toduy 110 Prediction r'lilr nnd vm-iner. Fiftieth Year. Daily Fifteenth Year. BEDFORD, OKEGOX, TUESDAY, JUXK 1, 1920. XO. 61 REDS FRIEND IN CABINET "AUTOCRAT" Attorney General Palmer Testifies Secretary Post "Factor in Revolu tion Plan" With "Passiv Toler ance" of Bolshevik Did it "Un consciously" Counsels Deporta tion of Portland Teacher From France. Who Had Romance With "Y" Worker Case Attracted Wide Attention. WASHINGTON, Juno 1. (By As sociated ProBS.) Charging that Louis P. Post, assistant secretary of Jabor, had a "perverted sympathy"- for the criminal anarchist, Attorney General Palmer told a house committee today that in dealing with attempts of the government to rid the country of dan gerous aliens .Mr. Post had employed a "self willed and autocratic substi tute of his own mistaken personal viewpoint for tho obligations of the public law." Mr. Palmer was testifying before tho rules committee which Is Invest!- catine the official conduct of Mr. Post in deportation proceedings. In answering Mr. Post's state ments that he had cancelled deporta tion warrants "only where facts war ranted such action," Mr. Palmer cited numerous individual cases which ne claimed placed the assistant secretary in a position of "passive . tolerance and encouragement" of bolshovlk propaganda. Mr. Palmer declared Mr. Post had "become a factor in the revolutionary plan" but ha credited the assistant secretary with having been led Into it "unconsciously." -S-,;;".;.' - ! -WASHINGTON, June 1 -Warrants ifor the arrest and deportation of Madeline Ilabln and her mother and sister on charges that they entered the' United States from France for im proper, purposes, were cancelled to duy! by Assistant Secretary Post. Evidence in the case presented at hearings at the -department of justice said the women came to America at tho invitation of Lee Shippey of Kan- srs City, Mo.,' formerly a Y. M. C. A. worker in France. Shippey, it was testified, lived with the Babin family while oversoas ond an . "attachment arose between him and tho eldest flaiiffhtpr. "Upon his return to the tfnitod States," it was added, "he and his wife became estranged and are now living apart,, he In Los Angeles and sh In Kansas City. - "Evidently he wlshos her to insti tute proceedings for a divorce and she rofuscB. Evidently, also, if ho wore divorced he would marry tho alien who is about to be. it she has not already becomo the mother of his child." From testimony, Madeline Babin came to the United States to accept a place as a teacher at Portland. Ore gon, "which Shippey had obtained for her. On her way to Portland she stopped at Kansas City, the report said, "with the expectation or mar riage to Shippey if he were lawfully free to marry her." .' EAST TO WEST WASHINGTON, Juno 1. Opera tion by the United States Steel Pro ducts' company of a line of steamers between ports on' the east and wost coasts via tho Panama canal is ncin by the Inter-state commerce commis sion not to violate the prohibitions nf the Panama canal act. While there can be no doubt, the commis sion said, that the application Is in terested in railroad lines which might be competitive, such competition "is unsubstantial and nominal." Tho company plans to place as many of the thirty steamers under con struction In the coast to coast traffic as conditions may warrant. "The railroads of the country are. and probably for some time will be .faced with an acute condition of car shortage," the opinion said. "And they arc and undoubtedly will be taxed to their utmost capacity to ren der In a reasonably satisfactory way (he servlco demanded of them." PAPAL LETTER URGES 'LORD'S PRAYER' FOR 44 ROME, -May 31. Pope Bene dict has issued an encyclical let ter, announcing that, while he maintains the claims of the holy Bee to temporal power, he re scinds ' the order forbidding Catholic rulers to visit the king of Italy in Rome. It is under- stpod the first monarch to visit Rome under the new conditions 4 wfll be King Alfonso of Spain. 4 Pope Benedict emphasizes the 4 necessity of "eliminating the 4 germs of discord which have 4 prevented tho full establishment 4 of peace 'and seriously injured 4 not only the temporal interests 4 of the nations, but the life and 4 spirit of Christianity as taught 4 by the Lord's prayer and the ex- 4 ample of our Saviour." - 4 EASY SPENDING Columbus Publisher Testifies He Wanted to -Aid "Favorite Son," But Supporters Too Much Indiana Votes Cost General $57, 000. With $17,000. Unpaid Hope to End Senate Hearings by Thurs day Night for Convention. WASHINGTON, . June 1. A score of witnesses were here today to testi fy at the resumption of the senate conimittee's investigation of pre-cqn-vention campaign expenditures. Ef forts wore being made to expedite the hearing so that a temporary halt might be called Thursday night lie- cause of the Chicago republican con vention. Robert F. Wolfe, publisher of the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatoh and the Ohio State Journal testified that his papers "had taken an active part" in the recent Ohio prlmury contest between Major General ' Leonard Wood and Senator Harding of that state. "Politics in our state," he said, are in the hands of an Inside coterie of men, whom. I have felt it a duty to oppose. I wanted to support Senator Harding but told him that I could not do so If his candidacy went into the hands of this group. Our fight after ward was against an element in the republican party 'rather than for any individual." Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri, asked "what evidence of expenditure tho witness had seen." "My estimate is that each sido in Ohio Wood and Harding made a fight that cost about $100,000," he addod. His own papers, he said, "didn't care a snap" for the advertis ing involved. Frederick A. Joss, the next witness said ho supervised all the expendi tures for General Wood in Indiana. "We spent between $".7,000 and $38,000, $17,000 of which is In un paid bills," he said, adding that every precaution was taken to put the cam paign management under terms of the Indiana corrupt practices law, al- tho "other candidates have taken the position this law does not apply to presidential primaries." Joss would not attempt tto estim ate expenses for other candidates. Mr. Joss said he had told Colonel William Cooper Procter, general chairman of the Wood forces that "a national committee could collect money for the Indiana contest easier than a local committee could. 'Mr. Jobb said tho volunteer assis tance in organization was "the finest thing I ever saw in politics." Senator Pomercne, democrat, read from the Wood national statement filed with the committee Saturday, the report that $45,000 had been spent on the Indiana campaign. Mr. Joss explnined that his total contain ed unpaid bills. ran mm OF MP. CHICAGO. June. , On motion of T. C'olcmnn Dul'ont of Delaware, the repnblienn national committee todnv tinanimousv adopted a resolution cnllinc on republican states -which have not done so to pass the woman suffrage constitutional amendment'. WOOD HARD NG OHIO PRmARY ARMENIAN MANDATE DEFEATED Effort bv Hitchcock to Soften Sen ate Rejection of Wilsonian Scheme Beaten Dozen Democrats Vote for Move Final Action Delay Fails "Economic Rehabilitation" Help Sought. WASHINGTON', June 1 Bv ovenvhelminir vole the senate late lodny passed anil sent lo the house the resolution declining to irratit President Wilson's raiucst thut con gress authorize u uiiindiitc over Ar menia. WASHINGTON. June 1. Bv a vote of -13 to H4 the senate today rejected a plan of democratic lenders to de lay congressional action on the pro posed Armenian mandate until lifter a peai'O settlement had been el lei-ted with the central powers. Tho vote was on a million bv Sen ator Hitchcock, dcnioi'ratii', Nebras ka, to lxyi'onnnit Hie resolution de n villi: authorization of the mandate, with instructions "to report it after ratification of a peace treaty with the central power." The amendment proposed bv Sena tor Iliti'hoek of Nebraska, rankinu" minority member of the foretell rela tions committee, proviilihir fur a joint commission to work out an economic rehabilitation projiram for Armenia was discussed. Supportintr Hie resolution. Senator Thomas, democrat, Colorado, an nounced that lie would vote nirninst nil proposed amendments. In order to put the democrats on record Senator Hrnndciree, rcpiihli can,. Connecticut, moved to amend tiic resolution no as to authorize a man date The motion tot the support of twelve senators, all of I limn demo crats. The vote imainst it was (12. . YOUTH DIES BY O.A.C. COKVALLIS, Ore.. June . Seve ral hundred students at the Oreiron Agricultural college here passed the bodv of a man liaimiinr from a brunch of the largest fir tree on the campus todnv, but none of them noticed it until a- keeper on the grounds found it nnd cut it down. Tlie man, said to bo about '20 years of age, had been dead but a short time. In the pockets qf the dead mnn were found two letters addressed .to a Mr. Ludwig of Astoria. Ore., and efforts are now being made to ascer tain the identity nf the suicide through Ludwig. John Wells, cam pus watchman, suid today be saw the voung mnn about the caniput early this morning. RUSSIA TO TRADE LONDON. June 1. Ab tho first result of yesterday's meeting of Gre gory Krassln, Kusslun bolshevik min ister of trade and commerce, with Premier Lloyd Georgo nnd members of the British cabinet, the soviet gov ernment has been granted permission to open Immediately a central trading offlep in London. SALEM!, Ore., June 1. T. 11. Hund ley of Tillamook today officially r,uulificd as state corporation com missioner, a position' to which be yr.s appointed bv Governor Olcott to suc ceed II. J. Scbiildcrmnn. R was first necessary for Mr. Hundley to resign as state senator for Lincoln. Wash ington, Tillamook nnd Yamhill coun ties and as attorney for the slate hind board in Tillamook county. HANDlEY qualifies COURT HOLDS TAX ILLEGAL SUPREME COURT '. WASHINGTON". Juno 1. The suprthno court today do- clared unconstitutional provia- ions in the war revenue act of 1919 requiring the president of the United States and all fed- erl judges, including members of the supreme court, to pay any income tax on their salaries. WASHINGTON, June 1. The supreme court hold today that federal constitutional amendments cannot bo submit- ted for ratification to a referen- dum vote in the states having referendum provisions in their constitutions. , The court declared inopera- tivo the Ohio state constitution- al referendum amendment inso- far as it affects ratification of federal amendments. Ohio supreme court decrees dismissing injunction proceed- ings brought by George S. Hawke of Cincinnati to prevent submission of the prohibition and woman suffrage amend- ments to the voters were1 set aside by the court. T DISGRACE OF G. 0. P. MEET IS DULY NOTED .CHICAGO, Juno 1. In tho District of Columbia contest, the commltteo voted to seat the regularly reported delegates, Prank J. Hogan and Jumos A. Cobb of Washington, D. C. Com mitteeman Howell of Nebraska, char acterizing the.,.whola contest as a "disgraceful affair" sought to have all threo delegations thrown out, but his motion was lost. Hogan and Cobb are unlnstructod but ure said to favor the candidacy of General Wood. The committee thon reverted to the three cornered Flor ida contest. Committeeman Warren made tho report of a sub-committee on the law and tho fucts. Some of the Florldu attorneys, however, wer not ready to go on and the committee turned to the Georgia contest which promised to be the most sensational of the crop. The regularly reported delegation headed by Henry T. Lin coln Johnson, an Atlanta negro, was opposed by a delegation headed by Charles Adamson of Cedarville, known as tho "Roscoo Pickett fac tion." ,- ' The Pickett faction has been sup porting the Wood candidacy. CORN PRICES UP E CHICAGO, June 1. Dig jumps In prices were witnessed today in the corn market. Tho uteepest rise was for the July delivery, which touched $1.7354, a not gain of 7 -compared with Saturday's close. Failure of supplies to arrive from the country as freely as had been hoped for mado buyers anxious and sellers scarce. GIVEN RELEASE VERA C'UfZ. June 1. (llv (he Associated Press) General Candido Aguilar, governor of Vera Cruz and son-in-law of the late President Ciir ranzn, lias surrendered to the new government and will be allowed to leave the country. IT T WASHINGTON, Juno 1. Without a record vote, the couse today adopt ed a resolution offered by Represen tative Mondell of Wyoming, republi can leader, providing for a sine die adjournment of congress at 4 o'clock Saturday. , I WOMEN ROIL SENATE: ASK RISH FREED Denounce England From Gallery . During Brandagee Speecb Vice President Orders Their Removal and Ladies Run From Ushers Suspend Session Till Annoyers Chased From Chambers. WASHINGTON', June 1 The Unit cd State ssennto was heckled from the eallerics today bv a dozeu women sympathizers with the cause of Irish freedom. The women beiran when Senator Hrandctreei republican, Connecticut, speiikiur nuainst tho Armenian man date, made a pnssimr reference to the "lavishes of the i Inn." "Whv not eject tho English Hun from Ireland?" shouted the first in terrupter. The ushers bad nut out a ball' dozen of the disturbers when the inicstioniii!; suddenly broku out afresh. , "Why don't vou put : them out ?" asked Vice-President Marshall. "Haven't you enough nerve to move I hem?" "You haven't enough nerve to tro imninst Kmrlnnd, not any of you," re plied one of the women as an usher escorted her mil. Several of the women were taken lo I lie capilol ttiuird room, but miickly released. Thev said tlieirNiuestion iner was not by pre-nrranueinent. Two women later uained admit tance to the floor of Hie house and shouted an appeal for Ireland. Hot' were hurried to the corridors, mem bers assisting the doorkeeper. Siiiiiillaneoiislv five other wmr.cn sprnni; up in. tho naileries chullimiriu',' manil,na I.. .1 ,i...:.. ..1.... 1. N,I,"ln'ln ,i,-iiy men- pica Jor Ansa sympathy. Proeeedimrs were sus pended until tlicv could bo ejected. Keprescnlntivo Wanton, democrat, Texas, asked that tho irnllcries lie closed and that the sciVeant at arms take tho women into custody. ' "You can't do that, the whole crowd can't do that," one of the women shoaled. Doorkeepers attempted to take them out. Thev ran around the naileries however, and it was sevn- nil minutes belore thev were finally ejected. E WHEAT PRICES ENDS BY LAW WASHI.GTON, June 1. Federal control of whent and wheat products ended today, the wheat director ceas ing to function nndor tho limitation of tho law creating Ins office and the food administration control end ing by proclamation of President Wilson. This menns tho passing of tue government gunranteo of $2.20 bushel for wheat. As soon as some remaining contracts are carried out by the United States grain corpora tion, that body will turn over Its fi nances to the treasury department. Licensing of dealers In wheat nnd wheat products has been In the hands of the wheat director and tho food administration and this automatically ended today. Dealers without fixed contracts aro free to buy and soil at such prices an conditions warrant. OFF TO NEWPORT OUEENPOHT, L. I Juno 1. Tho sloop yacht Vunltlo, candidato for the honor of defending tho America's cup against Sir Thomas Upton's Shamrock IV In the serlos of race off Snndy Hook in July, left hero thin afternoon In tow for Newport whero bIio will resume horBorles against tho Resolute Thursday. It wus snld to day that removal of tho Vunltio's guard rail has lightened tho sloop by Bomo 2700 pounds. . t Name Alaska Postmasters.', ". WASHINGTON, June l. Post masters reappointed todnv bv Presi dent Wilson include Charles If. SclicC. flcr. Cordova, Alnsku: Zinn if. Unid- ford. Juneau, Alaska, nnd William K, Kout, Kewurd, Alusku. BURN WAY OUT OF CELL IN TACOMA JAIL TACOMA, Juno 1. Claude Sellers, alleged to be one of tho leading I. W. W. of the North- west, nnd T. C. llarty, accused of a series of local burglaries, -J burned their way out of tho city jail here early this morning. Sellers, who is said lo bo tho former editor of tho Bulletin, ! tho official publication of the 4 Metal Mine Workers Union in ! Hutte, was arrested Friday night. Tho two men who occu- pied tho same coll, obtained gasolino from a small stove, climbed up a pipe and burned a hole two and u half feet across into the city controller's offico above. They then broke a win- (low out of that office and escaped. A passerby happoned to see tho flames after tho men escaped und his discovery, it is bolieved, prevented tho city hall from being consumed. FIRS! BALLOT MP. Presidential Candidate Named Fri day, June II, Prediction Chicano Takes on Flurry of Convention City All Candidates Confident Rumpus in General Wood's Ranks Not Likely Delegates Busy- Flags Flying. . CHICAGO, Juno 1. Whlloihe na tional committee Is grinding away at the contests things aro boginnlng to stir about the heudijuarters of tho presidential candidates and their managers. Chicago hotels, already overcrowded with an abnormal bust neBS, aro 'beginning to show tho flrBt symptoms of a campaign week of noise and confusion. Headquarters aro blossoming out with banners, but the campaign managers have not yet emorged from the state of confident predictions. Only two of the- man ugera, Governor Lowden and Major General Wood, are in tho city, but Senator Harding and Senator John son will arrive later in the week. ' Estimates of the probable duration of the convention are as numerous aB the candidates aro various. Somo confident ones have made railroad reservations to . return homo on Thursday of convention weok. The prediction that a presidential candi date probably will be nomlnatod Fri day night and a vice presidential can didate Saturday seems to bo regarded among most of the politicians as probably being more accurato than any othor. The general accepted tentative pro gram seems to bo Tuesday for tem porary organization and keynote speeches; Wednesday for permanent organization and work of tho resolu tions committee framing tho plat form, leaving Thursdny und Friday for balloting If two days bo needed. All tho politicians seems agreed that no one Is going to lie nomlnatod on the first ballot. .Many of them aro going so far as to make predictions of what is going to happen on tho first, second and third. Then come the sanguine predictions of what Is going to happen on tho fourth. It took three ballots In 1D1G to nominate Charles Evans Hughes and (aht was tho first time since 1K9I! that more than ono ballot had been required to nominate a candidate, in 1900 and 1:101 (ho nominations wore mado by acclamation. , Princlpul Interest outside the na tional committee meetings toduy cen tered about a conference of tho Wood manages which has been called to decide who in to take cliargo of the general's forces on tho floor of tho convention. Thoro has been talk of a showdown botwocn Frank II. Hitchcock nnd William Cooper Procter, but Mr. Hitchcock's friends declared nono would ho precipitated by him. Mr. Hitchcock's attltudo has been de scribed as ono of agreement with whntevor the general's managers de cide upon and his friends are saying today that anyone expecting a rumpus in the Wood camp over the question of lcudorHhlp will bo disappointed. A II Kendal! of Dowaelac. Mich.. nnd Mr nnrl Mm. Lester Burnett Of San Francisco are stopping at the Holland, NO NOMINATION NO DECISION ON VALIDITY OF DRY LAW Supreme Court Adjourns Till Mon dayUphold State Courts That Federal Amendment no Subject to Referendum North Dakota In dustrial Program Held Valid. WASHINGTON'. June 1. The su preme court' failed nirain. today to decide the validity of the prohibition amendment and portions of the en forcement act und recessed uutil next Monday when tho present term will close.' Seven other proeeedimrs hnvo been brought to prevent submission of the prohibit ion amendment to n referen dum. The Washiimton supreme court took virtually the Hiimo view of tho question ns did the Ohio court, while the courts in Oregon, Maine. Colo rado, Arkansas, California ' and Michigan held that federal constitu tional amendments were not subject to referendum. - WASHINGTON, Juno 1. The su preme court today refused to inter fere with decisions of the North I) koln supreme court declnriiur consti tutional n series of state constitu tional amendments und statutes to carry into effect an. industrial pro irrain in North Dakota and porinit linir state bond issues to finance the enterprises. ,-... YKUA CRUZ, May 31. (llv the Associated Press) President Wilson has offered to send hospital ships, nurses, doctors nnd medical supplies to Vera Cruz immediately to assist in - coiubattinctbo bubonic plau'iii:-, which bus mado its appearance hero, eleven authenticated cases Imvinc developed to ditto und five deaths re sulting. ' ,.'.: ' The outbreak appears to dute back to Jl'jiy l.'i when tho first case is be lieved now to hnvo doveloped. Too victim in this case died May 22 und tho seeon dvictim May 24. Vera Cruz is already completely cut off from tho rest of the republic, llclief bus bcirun to arrive.' Medical authorities believe the pbiuuo hits not vet attained the character of on epi demic, - 1 , E SEATTLE, June 1. The threat ened strike of incniliora of the Seattle Building Trades unions In support of tho "closed shop" was onllcd today. Contractors and builders in tho Mas ter Builders' association, declared they were not worried while union representatives asserted all non union Jobs would be tied up thru the calling out of skilled union workers, a large majority of whom wore car penters, it was said. According to union Claims, about four thousand workers will bo affect, ed. '." . ' WELL KNOWN NEWS WRITER IS DEAD LOS ANOELES, June.l Tho fu neral of Arthur M. Nelson, for many years engagod In nowspapor work In Soattlo and Los Angeles, was held hero today. Mr. Nelson had boen omployod as dovolopmont agent for Imperial county for some time, hav ing gone there for tealth conBldora tlons. Ho was a veteran of tho world wur, having attalnod the rank of ser geant In Company I. 364th Infantry, 91st division. His malady was appar ent when ho entered the army and grow worse as he campaigned, his comrades in service salrd, hut ha re sisted every move to discharge him nnd served thru the war, . DREAD BUBONIC ! PLAGUE BREAKS OUT VERA CRUZ