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Newspaper Page Texterrr tm The Weather Maximum yesterday 54 Minimum today 33 Precipitation 08 TRIBB Prediction! Oetashmal rain. Daily Fifteenth Tear. Weekly Fiftieth Year. MEDFORD, ORKGOX, TUESDAY, MARCH 22, I92t NO. S0t i Medfo KB AGREEMENT REACHED III IATS1KE Government Intervention in Meat Packers' Controversy Said to Have Been Suc cessful Final Terms to Be Announced Late Today Cabinet Officers Influential. WASHINGTON' , 'March 22. An agreement between the five big meat packers and their employes through which preaont wage and other dis putes will ho amicably adjusted was forecast today a short time before a second Joint conference of spokesmen for both sides with Secretary Davis Bt the labor department. Secretary Davis told the cabinet at the regular session that good pro gress toward a settlement had been tnade and from other sources It was learned that the negotiations had ad vanced so far that the further at tendance of Secretaries Hoover and Wallace at the conferences was not regarded as necessary. ' It -was stated that both sides had tentatively agreed to a settlement at private conferences with Secretary Davis late last night and' early to day and that all that romained was to bring them together on tho final terms on the join conference late to day. WASHINGTON, March 22. As the eablnet assembled! today to consid er, tho controversy botween the meat packers and their employes, there were reports that a tontative agree ment was being approached. One plan being considered was that the wage reductions which went Into effect yesterday should stand; that the packers agree to extend the Al schulor arbitration agreement pro viding for settlement of differences by a permanent arbitrator and that the eight hour day be agreed upon subject to peculiar conditions obtain ing in the packing industry. '. ' Parties to the conferences which have been conducted with Secretar ies Davis, Hoover and Wallace refus ed to discuss the reports and cabinet bfficlals maintained their silence, it was said, however, that a prospect of a tentative agreement had resulted ffprn private conferences held by tho cabinet officers last night with the packers' representatives and by Sec retary Davis this morning with the spokesmen for the workers. k,:The controversy is understood to settle largoly around the war time agreement as to wages and working conditions which employes claim the packers now seek to 'break 'by pro posing a reduction in wages from 12 Mi lo 15 per cent. The employes say the agreement was to be effective for one year :after the war ended, while the contention of the packers 1 -reported to be that the war ac tually has ended and the agrement therefore no longer is in effect. IN THE PAS! TENSF. MIAMI, Fla., Mar. 22. William Jen nings Bryan made it plain hero today tbst he was Bpcaking facetiously last night and In tho past tenso when be referred at a Young Woman's Chris tian Association banquet to his presi dential aspirations. Mr. Bryan was quoted as having said that with wom en voting he was sure he would be nlecieri. Hn cxnlained today that he said "would have been," elected, in stead of "would be. U.S. KILLED IN EL PASO, Mar. 28 federal Pro hibition Agents 8. E. Beckett and Arch Woods were shot to death early this morning when prohibition agents were hunting for liquor on a ranch owned by Nell T. Shearman, near this city. Federal Officers were given a tip last night that a load of twenty-three cases of liquor was to be sent across the line intended for a ranch, accord ing to members of the raiding party. Approaching tho ranch the officers Flying Warship Is Already Perfected By British Experts LONDON, Mar. 22. Details of a new typo of seaplane which can both fly and cruise as a warship have been mafic public here. Two of these ships are being built for the air ministry. The vessels arc said to be much like small ships with wings added. They are lar- ger and stronger than any sea- going aircraft yet constructed. capable of riding the roughest waves and each will carry a crew of seven with emplacements for five machine guns. They will be capable of joining 4 In all naval maneuvers without a parent vessel, operating from a sea base just as tho submarine does. They have a range of J500 miles, and, when not flying will be able to taxi along the water driven by their own propellers. JAPAN WILLING 10 AMALGAMATE Prominent Japanese Bishop Declares Nippon Fears U. S Aggression Only Outlet for Surplus Population Seems Western World. NEW YORK, Mur. 23. Bishop Yo- shlrla Hlra-Iwa of tho Japan Metho dist church, now in this city, declared today that while ho was in Washing ton, Count Shidoharn, Japanese am bassador, had expressed to him belief that the Harding administration would adopt tho Morris-Shidehara agreement in final settlement of the Japaneso question in California. "Tho Japnnese public is anxiously awaiting news to this effect," said the church man. "The Morris-Shidehara agreement will bo satisfactory to the Japanese people, but it leaves un solvod tho problem of racial expan sion, which is pressing." "The Japanese still look toward the western hemisphere as the only logi cal ground for immigation. Hut con trary to belief in this country, they are willing to amalgamate with the people among whom they settle. "Japan does not want Hawaii or tho Philippines. The present friction has been greatly augmented, how ever, by tho suddenly increased gar risons and tho extensive fortifications being erected there. 'Frankly, tho Japanese people are extremely nervous over the possibili ties of aggression from a nation of such powor and wealth aa the United States. They do not contemplate be ginning any trouble of their own ac cord. "There is a strong movement in Japan for reduction of armament be cause the present military and naval expenses consume more than one third the yearly budget and the peo ple arc buidoned with heavy taxes. Any action by the United States toward such nn agreement would find a hearty response In Japan, but it must originate with your country, because of tho relative size of the two nations." Jap Upholds Borah. TOKIO (Correspondence of the Associated Press) Representative Yukio Ozakl, ex-minister of justice, who has come into prominence anew because of his championing of re stricted armaments, accepted the challenge to a public debate on arma ments issued by Professor Matsu naml of the Imperial University, who recently returned from Manila where ho delivered a series of lectures on jurisprudence. Ozakl begiyt with a brief review of the respective naval strengths of the United States and of Japan and in the course of his argument polnt- (Continued on page six.) AGENTS ARE ON TEXAS searched an automobile but found nothing. Tho nosse nenred the house wnnn a vntf-o shotted to them to halt. The officers did not stop, a volley of shots followed. Beckett onu w ooas imin fti .nnrfnllv wniinflpd. The remain ing nffirprs fired from woodsheds and hums, return nu fire from the House. When the firing from the house ceased, the officers entered the place. v-rth,,tt- nnn thprp. Officers think the men in the house crawled through the darkness and followed the rivers course into El Paso. WITH AMERICANS MP CO, CRATER LAKE IS LAUNCHED President Portland Chamber of Commerce to Organize a Holding Company Vernon Vawter to Represent South ern Oregon New Conces sions are Considered. CRATER LAKE SEASON IS OPEN JULY 11TH WASHINGTON, Mar. 22. Cra ter Lake park, Oregon, v.ill open July 11 and close September 30 this year, according to announce ment of dates of opening and closing of national parks Jiadc by tho department of interior last night. Hotels and camps will be open to accommodate visitors on tho opening date upon which also the first scheduled motor tours will be operated. PORTLAND. Ore., Mnr. S2. Presi dent If. B, Vanduzer of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, has appointed a committee to organize a company to take over coneusKions in Crater Lake national park nnd provide ade quale accommodations for tourists us a result of the recent conference here. Heading this eonunittee is Gov ernor Olcott as honorary chairman. Eric V. HauHer is chairman, with the following members: Leslie Duller, Hood River; Ym H. Vawter, Medford; L. IL Wheeler. Rodney L.' Olisan, II. W. Childs. K. W. Price, Julius L. Meier and Amos Benson of Portland. The eommittoo will merit soon for organization and it is said that the plans to bo followed wilt be some what after tho plan of handling the concessions In the Yosemlto national park, which were outlined in detail nt tho recont conference, by A. H. Dohrman of San Francisco. Largo Capitalization. The company will have a capitali zation of between J250.0OO and $500.- 000. It will take over tho present concessions in tho park, t'he operation of which have not been satisfactory to national park officials nor to tour ists and adequato accommodations wilt be provided. Special attention will be' given to transportation facilities in tho park, so that tourists may bo given oppor tunity to see not only Crater Lake, but all the other natural phonoroen-i and unusual scenic points in the vi cinity of tho park. ; New concessions also will he added so that the lake and its environs will he made far more attractive than It has been In the past. BULLETINS CINKS'.'ATr, Ohio., March 22. A series of explosions that shook houses within a radius of two miles and the hurling of sky rockets, bombs and other pyrotechnics over a wide territory marked a fire which today virtually destroyed the plant, of tho A. L. Due Fireworks company at Reading, a suburb. WASHINGTON', March 22. Ma jor Leonard Wood will retire from active service in tho army to become head of Pennsylvania university af ter he returns from the Philippines It was learned today at tho war de partment. DAYTON, Wash., March 22. George Htthbard, well known in Day-to-., at 7:39 o'clock this morning killed his wife with a hand axe and a few minutes later ended his own life by cutting his throat with a ra zor and sending two bullets through his brain. COPHN'HAGEN, March 22. The Finnish government has decided to try on a charge of high treason, the chairman and other leaders of the Finnish communist party, says a Helsingfors dispatch, today. Flu In Coblenz COBLENZ, Mar. 22. An influenza epidemic has broken out here among the United States occupation forces, the second battalion of the eighth in fantry has been quarantined by the medical authorities. Forty-five cases have been reported and It is said the attack of the malady Ib very severe. At the present rate of increase the United States will have one billion persons within the life of grandchil dren of persons now living. Queen Marie Denies She's Conspiring to Oust King of Greece ATHENS. Mjir. 22. ( liv Associated Press.) Reports that Quefirt Mario of Rumania was working for the de thronement of King Constantino of Greece in order to secure the nscon tiancy of Crown Princo Course and his wife, formerly Princess JClizaboth of Rumania, arc without foiflirtatloit, tho (pieen declare! yesterday Hjion her rt'turn to Athens from a tour in mr ttiorn Greece. She asked . tho Associ ated Press to refute these, stories. ' Queen Mario of Rtimnr.ia, regarded as Europe's most beautiful monarch. niece of the into King Kdward of Great .Britain, Is to visijt the United States, in the near future according to a statement by Princess Hilieseo, wife of the new Rumanian luSnlster. Prin cess Hibesco was formetily Miss Tenr tiant, rister of Mrs. Asnuiih. CRIMNALCASE SWITCHES TO . ciyiup Criminal Charge Against J. E. Bartlett Dismissed and Civil . Action for Recovery of Money Is Started by Bank Superintendent Bramweli. After tho criminal antiou against. J. K. liuiilett, tho former Medford electrical goodH dealer, on the Indict ment of aiding and abetting a bank cashior to defraud a bank, hud been dismissed by tho stuto in circuit court in Jacksonville this afternoon, a sur prise was sprung when Ktato Hank Superintendent I'.ramweU's civil ac tion against liiu'tlott for the recovery of money alleged to be duo . on n promissory note and overdraft to tiro amount of $3S00 was called. 'Superintendent lirainwell is rep resented in I lie suit by OeorKe Rob erts, former rounty prosecutor,' and Bartlett by his attorneys, (!us New bury nnd Frank Farrell, Work on selecting a jury was at once started and It is expected the submission of testimony will start late this after noon. I,llje(vlst Assists Moore. L. A. Liije(lvist, assistant to the at torney general, arrived Afondny to assist Prosecutor UhwIoh Moore in tho Hank of Jacksonville eases. This action was taken by the county court upon the request of the district at torney. Mr. JJIjeovist has a wide letrnl experience, nnd is rated as one of the leading .lawyers of the state. It'1 ppent this rttorninir at Jackson viilf ncfjuainllns himself with the de tails of pending cases. Dismissal of Indictments against .1. K. ftartletl and 8.. T. Johnson In pemlins. They were charged with sibling nnd abetting a bank cashier to defraud a bank." The counts against them rested on overdrafts, and they were exonerated by Johnson, the liniK cashier, the chief witness agninnt them, who' declared that they were just ordinary business transactions. Civil actions for recovery of pioney filed against them will he pressed. The case of the state hank examiner vs. Hartlott for recovery of money will be called this afternoon. The next case on the docket is tlmf of the state vs. Myrtle Bhtkely, for mer county treasurer, charced with aiding and abetting a bank raHhlcr t it defraud a bank. A jury at tho trial of the first count, "malfeasance in office" disagreed. County Loses Suit. The circuit court wa occupied this morning in the civil suit of K. Sf. Uig 1mm vs. Jackson county for the re covery of money for wnges to the amount of 1130. This Is a test ease. (Continued on pagfe six, bdic5fp v v f i HOTEL MEN WON! PAY NEW RATE Oregon Hotel Keepers Decide to Pay Old Phone Rates, Pending Rehearing by Pub lic Servscte Commission George Mansfield Vigor ously Attacks Company. PORTLftXD, Mar. 22. Hotel men of Oregon fit session hero decided late yesterday to- tender the Tacific Tele phono and Telegraph company pay ment for service at. the old rates and to right through the. courts any at tempt of tho companj- to cut oft ser vice until final settlement of the rate increaso question Is made before! tho public service commission. This action followed adoption or a resolution ask ing the public rvice commission ror a re hearing of tho ease In which rate Increases wcr recently authorized. Tho city ctmncll late yesterday de cided to" usk. Governor Olcott to in struct tho Attorney general to take steps for a reheating of tho telephone rate case. Tho council Invited other pities ami towns of tho stnto to co operate, with Portland finnncfnlly or otherwise. In addition, tho council instructed City Attorney Frank S. Grunt to wire to tho inter-Btuto commorce commis sion to furnish ono of Its rate experts to aid Oregon fn this fight. Mansfield Speaks At tho hotel men's mootinc. flnnree M"unstleld of Medfind," president of the Oregon Farm Hureau, gavo the viewts of farmei-a on tho telephone rate In crease. "The public is being proflleerod upon by the telephone company," said Mansfield, "in a year when tho far mers arc bearing losses that total t8.000.000,Qllft. When people am! busi ness on every hand are losing money, fho telephone company comes lu and demands a great Increaso lu rntos nil along tho line. t'H tell you how tho farmers are going to meet this In crease they're going to ettt out the phones." Emil Mohr of Medford was among the hotel men prosont. Mansflehl mado a scathing de nouncement or what ho termed "tho ptihlfo be-dnmued attitude displayed by tho telephone eompnny ns shown by its representatives hore." "Wo are going to have to teach the public service corporation that Its business is tho public's business and not to ho operated for its own private gains," declared Mansfield. "When they don't serve tho public and refuse to listen to the public's needs and de mands, then wo should titke their fran chise awuy from them and put in com panies that will have sumo considera tion for tho public." This statement mot wllh loud an plnttso from the lingo gathering of hotel men and their wives from tho four corners of Oregon. "A rich man In New York once said, i no public be damned,' According to ino answers made you hotel men by the telephone company's represen tatives Here today, tho Pnclflc Stutos Telephone company has adopted that sttttntte. Mr. Hickman, of the Pacific Phone company, arose to explain that be hadn t meant that attitude by his re marks, hut what ho wanted to convey waB that if the hotels did not want tho phono service, they could cut It out." SAVAGE MONKEY PROTECTS YANKEE HAVANA, Mar. 22. Port officials encountered stern opposition yester day when they boarded tho American Hchooncr Benjamin Vnnbrunt to tow her to the dock, following the refusal of the commander to leave his anchorage. Whon tho officers went over the side of the craft they wcro met by a hugo and vicious monkey, which ran amuck among the boarding party and bit n policeman so severely that surgi cal attention was deemed necessary. me captain or the lioat had re fused to dock and unload his cargo until demurratre charges aggregating f 14,000 together w0h a payment of J.lftO for aleged deterioration of ma chinery was paid. Cuban Rttthori- ties took up the matter with the American consul general and it was advised to disrcitrad the skipper's oh- jectiomt and bring the ship to the wharf. Teddy, Jr., Does the Honors at Launching Super-Dread naught ! CAM DION, X. .1., March 22. Tho supor-dreadnaught Colora do, the largest and most pow erful battleship ever built on the IViaware river, was launch ed at the New York Shipbuild ing corporation yard her& at 12:5.'l p. m. today. The great fighting machine was spon sored by Mrs. Iluth Melville of Denver, daughter of United States Senator Samuel D. Nich olson of Colorado. Theodore Roosevelt, assist ant secretary of the navy, and Seuator Nicholson stood by the sponsor ns sho smashed tho gold netted and gaily herlh hotied bottle of bubbling miner al water from Colorado against the prow of the giant hull as it began to recede into the Dela ware. 5 WALL STREET BOMBSUSPEGTS ABE ARRESTED Mutineers Sailors Arrive at New Orleans Heavily Man acled Chief Flynn De- ' dares Wo Evidence Yet, But Investigation Will Be Made. WASHINGTON. Mar. 22. Chief Flynn, of tho dosmrlment of justice bureau of investigation said today no evidence had boon uncovered to con nect five men hold at New Orleans with tho Wail street bomb explosion of last September 16. An Investiga tion of tho men still is being -mado, howover. Tho arrest of the men on the steam er City of Alton appears. Chief Flynn said, to havo resultod from a mutiny on board that vessel. He added that the department of justice had heard of the arrests ten days ago and Immedi ately began an investigatioE to deter mine whether tho men were connected With tho bomb explosion. NEW YOMK. Mnr. 22. Shipping board records hore show that tho flvo roan brought Into New Orleans today on the steamer Rffshvttie and alleged to bo under Investigation in connec tion wllh the Wall street explosion woro charged with starting a "soviet revolution" aboard tho slonmor City of Alton Inst Febrnnry. Tho records contained no allegations that they had a ham! In last September's dfsa3ter. NEW OHLEANS, La., Mar. 22 Five inon said to ho wanted In connection with tho Wall street bomb explosion Inst year woro brought hero today from llio do Janeiro on the shipping Board sfeamer Rushviile. The men are sailors and gfve their natlonaSiiy as Germs nor Russian. They were shackled, hand and foot. Nnmes of the men as placed on the register of the parish prison hero where I hey are being held incommuni cado are Philip Hender, alias "Chief" Lionet Kttebreezuff, Rudolph Dorsh, Hans Ritndia and Hettrik Lfpnn. Alt are apparently between 2S and 35 yuars of age. Among their effects were ntlases, maps aud a large quan tity of correspondence. Hand in was snid to live on South street, New York City. Tho five prisoners wcro arrested late In February on the shipping board vessel City of Altos, where they were working ns members of the crew. Ac- (Continued on page six.) GERMANY WILL REFUSE TO PAY ALUES : BILLION MARKS IN ' GOLD MARCH 23D BERLIN. Mar. 21. ( Bv tlin Asso ciated I'ress) (Jermnnv's renlv tn tho entente demand for the payment before March 2a of one billion marks, gold, to apply on reparation nbttga Hons will be In tho negative It was un officially stated today. The CJerman eovemmrmf1 Anwu-er to the allies, now hettwr drafted, wilt lie presented within 48 hours. The siilc-d reparations commission in a note sent March IS demanding fulfillment by (lerraany of article 234 of the pence treaty notified the Cicr- mnn government that It must pay one billion marks gold before March 21, WILL SETTLE TARIFF BY VETOED BILL Reptibfican Leaders Unite on Compromise in Tariff Fight Rush Through Fordney Emergency Measure Pre cisely as Vetoed by Presi dent Wilson, WASHINGTON, b. C 4 p. si., March 22. Committee oa way and; means began active preparation of regular tariff bitL 1 was appelated chairman of the sub-committee on the agricultural schedule. We aiso ordered favorable report or Fortteejr emergency tariff bill passed at last session with Items unchanged. W. S. HAWLEY, M. C. WASHINGTON, March 22. Work of framing a permanent tariff ibitt was begun today by the boase ways aud means committee which ap pointed five sub-committees to pra paro various schedules. A sub-committee consisting of Ropresentattvo Young, North Da kola; Hartley, Washington, and Tim lierlake, Colorado, will take charge of the emergency tariff to be Intro duced Uy Mr. Young ott the epeEteg? day of tho extra session, The Fsrd r.oy bill, passed last season., and ve toed, will be presented In Its sama form except that it will run for six months instead of ten. Tho Young committee wilt raft a report showing the need of Imme diate ac;. Son in order ts relieve th demauds for protection, "'- " ' Tho sub-coimultteea are: Chemicals LongwortH, Ohloi Copley, Iowa; Hadloy, Washington. Jfotabr Tiison, Connecticut; Mott, New York; Timbertako, Colorado. Agriculture Hnwtoy, Oregon; Young, North Dakota ; Frear, Wis consin. ; Cotton 'Green, Iowa; Treadway, Massachusetts; Ilowcrs, West Vir ginia. ; ' - Wool Fordnoy, Michigan; Bacli nrach, New Jersey; Watson-, .Penn sylvania. ' , Other Stth-eommHtees to conafder glassware, lumber and other sub jeets will be appointed later. Nona of them will hold bearings, WA Srf 1NQTON, Mar. 22. With tho decision by republican leaders to put through the Fordncy emergency tariff bill precisely as vetoed; by ProsWoitt Wilson, Immediately open th eonten- Ing of congress, tha-major lesis'.ltivo program for tho, session -was iheHeved" ' tpday to be .definitely Bettlodpn fii-.::'. Reversing vtholr previous i pesltion'c; against, enactment .of. ana emergency' tariff, members, of the honse-wny and means committee agreed - to passaga - at usee of measnrs' desigHedito --af- " ford protection to the farmers against . fiireign competition. Agreement to the program also waa given by Senators Penrose, Smoot and SfcCumber, conferees from the senate finance cc tcuittee. Senator Penrose stating there would be limitation of debate it necessary to l&sstra speedjr passage of the bill through, the senate It probably will be rushed through, tha house under a special rule. With the emergency measure out of ' the way tho house, according to the final sH-ograni agreed on then wfft take up the attU-dutrtptEg biii, to fee; ioHowv ed by permanent tariff revision. Tte actual work of framing tha tariff bill will be begun by the ways nnd means committee at once. It is planned to speed up tho program by having the senate finance committee consider ( Continued on page sistj and that she must complete tho pay ment of twenty billion marka gohi by May 1. It was announced by ttlo commission, howover, that Germany had virtually refused to pay tho bal ance, asserting: that the twenty bff llon marks already have been, paid In full. Tho allied representatives stated that tho greatest sum they eouid compute as bavtnsr been paftf by Germany against this aoant could hardly reach eight billion marks by May 1. It Is said, there fore, the Initial payment of one bil lion marks, and a balance, of at least eleven billion that the allies are de manding, cannot be met.