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MEDFORD, Oh'EUOX, THURSDAY, .MARCH 24, W21
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Communist Disorders Starting in Hamburg Extend Through
out Central Germany Banks Seized and Gold Distributed
Among Workers Prisons Stormed and Inmates Liberated
Property Damage Runs Into Millions Scores Killed
Police Defeated by Insurgents in Hamburg Harbor Com
plete Anarchy Reported in Many Sections.
AMIRS riRM, IWLARIO
GKILMAXS .MIST PAY
.PARIS, March 24. (Ry the
Associated Press. ) The Ger
man government was notified by
the allied repartitions commls
Bion today that the total amount
of twenty billiot: gold marks
due under auielo 23i of tho
peace treaty must be paid by
May 1 or additional penalties
will bo inflicted upon Germany.
PARTS, March 24. Premier
'ttrfand yesterday informed the
senate committees on finances
and foreign affairs that he ex
pected new German propositions
in connection with reparations,
particularly concerning indus
trial participation by Germany
In reconstruction in tho devas
tated resins.
LONDON, March 2 4. The com
munist revolt in Germany financed,
it is declared, by soviot gold, 1s
spreading throughout the industrial
districts of middle Germany, threat
ening the great ammonia, potash, an
thracite and copper works, says a
Central Mews dispatch from elirlin
today.
Strong police forces havo been dis
patched to tho centers where trouble
has grown out of the recent demand
of the leaders for a general strike
and the arming of tho proletariat
Dresden, Eisleben, Freiburg, Loipsic,
-Hale, Mansfeld and other towns, the
message reports.
Efforts of the authorities, adds the
dispatch, have only resulted in the
communists strengthening their posi
tions.
LONDON, Mar. 24. Communist
disorders in central Germany nre in
creasing and large sections of indus
trial regions are actually in the bands
of the insurgents, says an 3-xchange
Telegraph company dispatch from
Amsterdam, which quotes telephonic
advices from Jlerlin during the night.
Reports from Saxony state that
more buildings have been damaged by
dynamite In various towns and that
in Mansfield prisons have been open
ed and their inmates liberated. Com
plete anarchy is declared to reign at
Hetsstadt, where all hanks have been
raided and where the population is
fleeing in a panic.
An account of the troubles at Ham
burg, telegraphed by the Berlin cor
respondent of the Central News says
that more than fifty communists and
police are reported to have been
killed in the fighting last night at
Heiligengeist Field, In the Altona sec-
lion of Hamburg. The message adds
that fighting is continuing in Ham
burg, where tho police were defeated
at Steinwarder island, in the free har
bor territory, after a fierce battle.
AS SUSPECT IN
NEW TOR, Mar. 24. Robert
Rosenbluth, former army captain, ar
rested here last night in connection
with the death of Major Alexander P.
Cronkhite, at Camp Lewis, "Wash.,
October 25, 1918, waa held without
bail when arraigned today before
Vnited States Commissioner Hitch
cock. His hearing was set for next
Saturday.
The warrant for Ropenbtuth's ar
rest, which charged that he caused
Major Cronkhite to be shot, was
served on him by department of Jus
tfen agents.
While at the federal building
Rosenbluth would not make a state
ment. His counsel, however, stated
Rosenbluth had nothing to conceal
and talked freely with the depart
ment of justice agents of circum
Great Itumngc I'opnrted.
UEULIN, Mar. 24. Great property
damage and tho loss of upwards of
a score of lives marked communist
disorders in various cities and towns
iti Prussian Saxony and 'in Hamburg
yesterday. The trouble in Prussian
Saxony seemed to center about the
MansMd district. leaders of the
movement seemed to center their at
tention on the banks and public, build
ings und many of these edifices have
been badly shattered or completely
wrecked by high explosives.
Stories of violence, robbery and vir
tual anarchy continued to arrive last
night from that region. Town halls
at Plauen and Iloduwisch were de
stroyed and county buildings at Ieip-
sie and Freiburg were damaged, one
person being injured at Freiburg.
The county court building in Dres
den was badly damaged by an ex
plosion and three persons wore in
jured. A similar nttempt against the
town hall at Auerbaeh was frustrated
by the police capturing a man car
rying a bag of dynamite.
Hanks Sacked.
A parly of armed men, riding in a
motor lorry at tacked two savings
banks in Mansfield yesterday morning
and succeeded in obtaining about
200,000 marks from the institution.
Tho savings bank at Ilelbra was also
robbed during the day and strikers
in that town compelled the I Iclbra
Aireiger to suspend publication.
A large crowd surrounded the po
lice barracks at llesindt and do
manded the surrender of arms stored
there. A deputation entered the
building to negotiate with the poPne,
but the result of these parleys has
not been reported.
10 Killed Hamburg.
HAMBURG, Mar. 24. Fifteen
civilians and one police officer were
killed and six persons were wounded
in riots here yesterday afternoon.
Tho mob attempted to break the
police coition about the Vulcan ship
yards and to disarm the police. The
police ordered the crowd to disperse
and when the order was ignored, the
officers opened fire and threw hand
grenades into the mob.
The P.lohm and Voss shipyards,
about which there was considerable
fighting yesterday, havo been closed
by the management.
Communist leaders tried to hold a
mass demonstration in Heiligengeist
Field, in tho Altona section of the
city, but were unable to obtain pos
session of the Held, as the police had
erected a barbed wire entanglement
around it and had stationed armored
cars at strategic points. The crowd,
foiled in its attempt to hold a meet
ing, stoned the armored cars. Street
car service was virtually suspended
during the day and some streets have
been barred.
Shops Looted.
The communist Volks Zeitung of
this city has called upon workers to
arm themselves.
Reports of serious rioting Eisleben.
Prussian Saxony, have been received
here. Communists there attacked the
security police, forcing them to re
tire. The police headquarters were
also attacked, and it is said several
persons were killed and wounded.
Shops at Eisleben are declared to
have been looted by mobs.
CAMP LEWIS KILLING
stances connected with the death of
Major Cronkhite.
TACOMA, Mar. 24. Captain Rob
ert Rosenbluth, arrested in New York
last night in connection with the
mysterious shooting of Major Alex
ander Cronkhite at Camp Lewis in
lit IS, stood (lose to tho dead officer
when he received his fatal wound.
Captain Ros.-nbluth, it was paid at
Camp Lewis today, testified at the in
quiry in Major Oonkhlte's death. He
declared that he saw the major fall
and asset ted tho wound was caused
by a bullet from the major's pistol.
Officers at Camp Lewis who served
wirh Major Cronkhite, said today they
knew of no ijl feeling between the
major and any of the men who served
under him.
Eugene V, Debs Goes
To Washington Alone
To Visit Daugherty
WASHINGTON. March 2 4.
Kugono v. Debs, serving a pris
on sentence at Atlanta for vio
lation of the espionage laws,
came hero today artmo and con-
f erred with Attorney ileneral
Daugherty regarding the inves-
tigation of his case ordered by
President Harding.
Decision to have Debs porno to
Washington, tho attorney gen
's oral said, was reached after con-
f e ren e o with the p resi d en t .
Debs not only came alone but re-
5- turned alone.
START SUII 10
TEST BOARD
Railroad Employes File Action
to Determine Authority of
the Federal Railway Labor
Board B. M. Jewel, Labor
Leader Starts Argument.
COLUMHPS, Ohio, March 24. A
test suit to determine what authority
the federal railway labor hoard may
have in backing up its ruling that
railroads may not reduce wages until
after conference with employes was
filed in federal district court here to
day by Attorneys Randolph W. Wal
ton and W. S. Pealer, representing
1200 employes of four subsidiary
lines of tho New York Central rail
road. Tho action is brought by Ce
cil K. .lewell, a member of the Uni
ted Brotherhood of Maintenance of
Way Employes of the Toledo and
Ohio Central railway, and is said to
be the first attempt made in the
country to get tho court's interpreta
tion of the powers of the labor
board.
It. M. Jewell KeiMirl.H
CHICAGO, March 24. 'Negotiat
ing rules and working conditions on
each individual railroad, us proposed
by tho railway executives, would cost
the railroad workers more than $6,-
000. 000, and require tho services of
more than r,000 Tncn, It was stated
before the railroad labor board to
day by 13. M Jewell, president of the
railway employes department of the
American lOederatlou of Labor in pre
senting the labor side of the contro
versy over national rules and agree
ments. "If the request of the conference
committee of managers of tho Asso
ciation of Railway Executives were
granted," said Mr. Jewell, "and the
national agrement abrogated by de
cision of the board, remanding the
subject matter of rules and working
conditions to the respective railroads
and committees of their employes for
conference on Individual lines, the
employes' conference committee on
each railroad would necessarily be
composed of at least one man from
each craft at each point on tho rail
road. For tho 107 roads listed the
figures show that the services of ,-
1. "8 committeemen would bo requir
ed at a total daily expense of $J5,7t0
and a total expense for ninety days
or $.-,,918, 4-12, besides additional ex
pense. Knomious Kxpense
"Much of this enormous expense
on both railroad management and
railroad labor, together with the con
sumption of valuable timo of the
highly skilled and essential railroad
officials and railroad employes,
should bo eliminated by co-operation
between railroad management and
the recognized railroad labor organ
izations through the creation of a
conference committee authorized to
represent on the one hand, railroad
management and on the other rail
road employes of tho particular
crafts."
ille presented figures to show that
9.1 per cent of the 455,170 railroad
shop employes of class one carriers
are members of their respective or
ganizations and declared that since
IS 12 when the railroads' employes
department of the American I-'edera
(Continued on Page Eight)
R. R. WORKERS
1
TlJipi
In Sudden Offensive Constan
stine Forces Drive Back
Turks 20 Miles on Both
Smyrna and Brussa Fronts
Sultan's Troopers Fight
Hard.
CONSTANTINOPLE. Mar. 24 (Hy
the Associated Press) An advance of
about twenty miles was made by the
Creeks on both the Smyrna and
Urussa fronts during the first day of
their offensive against the Turks. The
Turks, who are fighting hard, declare
they will not retreat until every
means of defense has been exhausted.
ATI1KNS. Mar. 21. (l!y the Asso
ciated Press) Greek troops munbtM'
Imk 120,000 nru pai-llripaatiug In the
Greek offensive against Hie Turkish
nationalist forces in Asia Minor, it
is reported here.
The Turkish nationalists are be
lieved to have about U0. 000 effectives
in the field, but have small supplies
to draw on.
The must careful preparations were
made by the Greeks In connection
with the offensives, which began yes
terday. and it is anticipated lu re that
the Greeks will win important posi
tions with their first drive.
- Apprehension- Is fell here that the
advance of Greek forces east ol in
Kmvrmi hinterland will throw the
Turks Into the arms of the Ittissian
soviet government of Moscow.
The objective of the offensive Is
the Itagdad railway although Greek
ntnanders have planned to reach
the city of lOski-Shehr. It is af
firmed that Ilritlsb, French and Ital
ian armies in the Near Kast will not
participate in the campaign.
VI KNNA. Mar. 24. (Hy the Asso
ciated ress) Humors that t'zecho
Hlovak troops havo been concentrated
on the Austrian frontier have caused
panicky feeling here, In view of the
internal political conditions in the
Austrian republic. This feeling per
sists in spite of tho fact that reports
egarding the gathering or t zecn
troops have been partially denied by
newspaper advices. It Ik asserted in
certain circles that the military ac
tivity of C'zccho-Slovakla is due to
the marked recrudescence of the
movement for fusion with Gcrmnny
since the unsatisfactory result of
Chancellor Mayr's London mission
has become known.
SAUNAS, Cnl., March 24. Hert
Nixon, son of the late United States
Senator George S. Nixon of Nevada
who was instantly killed here last
night, was driving his automobile on
the wrong Hide of the street at a
high rate of speed when It struck a
sewer trench In front of a new cot
tage near the center of Salinas, ac
cording to Coroner .1. A. Cornott to
day. Witnesses Bald tho front wheels
oi' the big car stuck In the trench and
the body of the car catapulted for
ward, throwing Nixon to the ground
and breaking bis neck.
Nixon was on his way from Carmol
to San Francisco to take steamer for
Australia on a pleasure tour. He had
left his wife, the former Miss Kthel
Kslrey of Lcmoore, Cal., and their
child at Carmol.
Nixon was a graduate of Harvard
university. Kor several years he liv
ed on the Nevada farms, near Napa,
Cal. His father, Senator Nixon, died
bi 1912, leaving an estate worth sev
era. million dollars. His mother, the
Countess Armand d'AIeria, lives In
Jx)S Angeles.
! 'O I IT I . A N I ), Or'., Ma r. 2-1 .The
state highway commission has re
vived the first application for the
creation of ft special road Improve
ment district as provided by senate
bill yfl-4, pawned at the recent session
of the legislature. J. M. Crnhuin of
Forest Grove conferred with the com-mb-Hion
yesterday and proposed a
road district having $823,000 of as
sessed valuation. The road Is to be
in tlio Uubtun-Jjillcy district.
SON EX-SENATOR
: NIXON KILLED IN
MOTOR ACCIDENT
Ivory Soap Magnate
Sues General Wood's
Treas'r. for $110,000
HICAOO, March 24. Colonel
William C. Proctor, manager of
Major iieneral Wood's campaign
for the republican presidential
Humiliation and contributor of
$:00,000 to tho campaign ex
penses, today filed suit to re
cover $1 10,000 from Major Al
bert A. Spraguo, of Chicago,
treasurer of the Wood cam
paign. Colonel Proctor claims
n largo part of his contribu
tion was a loan uot a gift.
STATE SUPI. OF
L
Jury in Circuit Court Awards
Bank Official $2543.14
Against J. E. Bartlett on
Overdraft and Promissory
Note.
A verdict for State. Superintendent
of Hanks Ilimmvcll of fiE.YItt.M
against .1. K. Hart let t of Med lord, was
awarded by a Jury In circuit court at
Jacksonville this afternoon. Brain
well brought action for the recovery
of money alleged to be due the .lack
son vl lie bank on a promissory note
and overdraft, toUiINn- fo:.
Johnson Cross-Kxu mined.
W. 1. Johnson, ex-cashier of tho
Hank of Jacksonville, began his sec
ond ds,y on the witness stand Wed
nesday afternoon, with recross-exnm-ination
by the plaintiffs attorney on
the Intricacies and details of the Itart-
lett account, upon which the civil
suit for recovery of money by the
state banking board is based.
Johnson explained that double
barges occuring in the ltartlett acc
ount were due to the "prcsHuro of
tho railroad that wanted money for
the bills of lading and the bank ex
amlncrs wore bothering."
Asked on re-direct examination if
Miss It oho Wick man had not "pro
tested" against tho balance of over
draft, Johnson first denied and then
admitted she had.
LI. D. Kahler, deputy bank exam
iner, was the second witness for tho
plaintiff, : nd identified previous ex
hibits introduced as. evidence, nnd tes
tified that the overdraft of Bartlett
waH $3803.35, less 2 73.fi 0, which was
admitted as a "double charge.
Mr. Kahler said Miss Wtckman told
him that tho overdraft was $f00, not
$3800, and that Bartlett had offer
cd to' pay that amount In settlement
of his account "within the hist two
weeks." Mr. Kahler is In charge of
the present affairs of tho Hank of
Jacksonville. Marshall Hooper, for
mer assistant superintendent of
banks, now vioo-prosident of tho First
National Hank of Klamath Falls,
trailed as a witness, corroborated the
testimony of Kahler offering to pay
"$&00 or $000, what he owed the
bank."
MIhh Wickliam Testifies.
The first witness for the defense
was Miss Hose Wickman, bookkeeper
and stenographer for Hartlett, who
testified that she had protested to
Johnson at statements showing "over
drafts," and called attention to er
rors in the account and that her ef
forts to havo corrections made, al
ways resulted in promises to do so.
hut no action.
A carbon copy of a letter written
to Johnson by Miss Wlckbam was of
fered by tho defense, with the usual
objection by the plaintiff. The letter
was In regard to settling the bank
account, and that an early settle
ment was desired nnd that two notes
of $300 each would be paid "as soon
ns the Crater iJtko deal was finish
ed, all would bo cleared up." The
note marked "paid" were Introduced
as evidence. Tho plaintiff counsel
admitted an error of $100 In an over
charge, also a $400 draft not credit
ed. ThlH Is in addition to the $237.50
amended in the complaint. Miss
Wickrnan's testimony was intended
to refute that of Johnson.
On cross-examination tho witness
avoided traps with womanly skill,
and In exchanges with Attorney Hon
erts, said she had "spent six weeks
finding errors In the bank state
ments," and that no record was ever
found of n $940 check she wrote on
tho Hank of Jacksonville, and "all ef
fortR to reconcile tho records failed,"
though "Mr. Johnson promised to
take action."
Witness testified that "I had noth
ing but disputes with Mr. Johnson."
(Continued on lw Eight)
RANKS WINS IN
VI
A N
PRES T HARDING CONGRATULATES
BOTH SIDES IN
SAMUEL GOMPERS
Representatives of Packing Industry and Employes Escorted
to White House by Secretaries Hoover, Davis and Wallace
Great Service Rendered to American People Present
Administration Has Nearest to Its Heart Helpfulness
Toward Settling Labor Controversies Without Conflict
Terms of Settlement Announced Gompers Pleased.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. Kepre- i
sentatlves of the packing industry and
its employes, who reached an agree
ment here yesterday to avert a threat
ened strike, were congratulated to
day by President Hardin- on the ami-
cable settlement of the first big labor i
problem faced by the new admlnis- I
tration. Tho packers and employes
ommiltees wero accompanied to the
White House by Secretaries Davis.
Wallace and Hoover, who acted with
them In tho negotiations and by Sam
uel Ciompers, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor. The presi
dent thanked the entire delegation
for its work, declaring it had ren
dered a great public service by com
ing to an agreement.
Mr. Oompers declared himself
much pleased with the settlement and
with the statement of congratulations
made by the president.
Harding Much Gratified.
Addressing the Joint committee,
President Harding said:
"1 havo asked you in solely for my
own satisfaction. I have learned that
you have found a way to avoid a
suspension of activities in tho pack
ing Industry, and 1 wanted, in the
presence of the cabinet representa
tives who have joined you In this mat
ter, to express tho appreciation of tho
executive.
"I want to say in regard to tho
controversy that this administration
has nearest to its heart at all times
any righteous helpfulness that it can
give In avoiding a suspension of in
dustrial activities in this country. I
have said publicly and I want to say
it to you, if wo can bring our civili
zation to a point where wo can meet
around the tablo in advance and
adjust our differences righteously, we
havo made a lung step toward tran
quility .
Wants to Ho Helpful.
"Pleaso know, those of you who
speak for labor nnd those of you who
speak for management, that the ad
ministration does not want to intrude
unduly on any occasion, but wo
always want to bo helpful In the
cause of Justice and tho harmonizing
of these two elements of American
activity. Pleaso go away assured of
the appreciation of tho executive that
you have brought about a solution of
the controversy in tho great packing
Industry. I am grateful to you for
myself and I know tho American
people will bo pleased."
Terms Given Out.
WASHINGTON, Mar. 24. Expres
sions of gratification were general
today In administration circles over
the successful settlement brought out
through mediation of Secretary
Davis of tho dispute between tho five
big packers and their union employes,
tho first major labor controversy to
como up for adjustment under tho
new administration.
Compromises by both tho packers
and their employes made possible a
settlement of tho dispute. Kepresen
tatlves of the latter agreed to accept
tho wage reduction of eight cents an
hour .and 124 per cent for piece
work, while the packers met the de
mand of the workers for extension of
tho war timo arbitration agreement
for six months or until next Scptom-
CARDINAL GIBBONS DIES AFTER CABLE
BENEDICTION FROM POPE BENEDICT
BALTIMORE, JUL, March 24.
Jnmos Cardinal Gibbons, archbishop
of aliltiinore and prlmato of the
American Catholio church, died at
the urchl-eplscopal reHidcnce hero to
day after a prolonged Illness which
mainly affected his heart, lie was
In his 85th year. Tho end came
peacefully at 1::33 o'clock.
Cardinal Gibbons had been uncon
scious and In a dying condition for
the last 2 4 hours. A slight hope was
raised among his friends and asso
ciates last evening when his pulse
grew stronger, that death might be
deferred, but this rally was only tem
porary and was merely an evidence
of the cardinal's remarkable vitality.
Ho was perceptibly weaker this
morning and It then was realized that
ho would uot live the day out.
WAGE DISPUTES
DELIGHTED
her 15. Tho other major provision of
the agreement was the retention of
tho basic eight-hour day and over
time rates as provided in a previous
arbitration ruling.
Labor Still Suspicious.
Although ho announced the men
would bo urged to accept tho agree
ment in mass meetings to be held
next Sunday, tho labor representative
at the conference doclnred in a state
ment that tho agreement was "but
a truce for us to prepare for war,"
and added "if at the expiration of tho
arbitration period the packers main
tain tho attitude they havo shown In
tho past, there will bo a serious
strike."
Kepresentatlves of tho packers de
dared after signing tho agreement
that its provision fixing a definite
date for termination of tho war time
arbitration agreement "would allow
tho packers to complete their plans
already announced, to adjust the mat
ters between themselves and employes
to mutual interest'
Mni Keturn to Work.
SIOUX FALLS, S. D., Mar. 24.
According to company officials, ap- -proximately
150 of the 700 workers
of the John Morroll Packing com
pany who havo been on strike since
March 3, were back nt work today.
CHICAGO, Mar. 24. The Inter
national Harvester company which
last night mndo known proposed
wage reductions of from 6 to 20 per '
cent for 45.000 employes, today an
nounced that "present economic
conditions," would mako'lt necessary
to lay off several thousand men with
in tho next sixty days.
NEW OKK, Mar. 24. Immediate
strike orders to engineers on ocean
going boata whoso owners have cut
wages, wero being sent out today by
Thomas B. Healoy, general manager
of tho Marino Engineer's Beneficial
association. Mr. Healey said about
2,400 men are effected.
C. B. Hnnna, president of the At
Inntic Coast Towboat Owners' a&sn
elation, said ho did not expect dif
ficulty in replacing the strikers.
PHILLIPINES PROTEST
THE U. S. INCOME TAX
MANILA, Mar. 24. Exemption of
American citizens, resldont In the
Philippines, from payment of tncomo
tax to the United States upon Income
derived from sources within the
Philippines, is askod of congress In
a resolution adopted today by the
Americuti Chamber of Commerce
here. The resolution also requests
that exemption bo made retroactive
for three yoars.
Income tax laws of the United
States applied to American citizens
residing in tho Philippines are an .
unjust discrimination against Ameri
can business enterprises, placing it at
a tremendous disadvantage in com
petition with citizens of other nations
residing hero, tho resolution says.
A touching Incident In connection
with the last hours of tho cardinal
was tho bestowal of the pope's bene
diction upon htm which had just been
received by cable from Rome.
The city hall bell was tolled In re
spect to the cardinal's memory when
word of his death was sent to Mayor
Ilroening.
Holy Thursday services were pro
gressing at the cathedral when tho
cardinal breathed his Inst, The great
auditorium of the old building, so
closely associated with the cardinal's
career, was packed to overflowing.
When Bishop Corrigan, who was pre
siding, simply, but In a broken voice,
announced the end had come, the de
vout sank to their knees and, with
tears strenmlng down the faces ot
many, said a prayer for the dead,