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MEDFOliD, OlMXiOX, FRIDAY, .MARCH U5, 19:21
NO. 3
EX-
MEDFORD
IS
NEAR DEATH
Lieut. W. D. Coney Falls in
Louisiana Swamp When At
tempting Trans-Continental
Flight Machine Hits Trees
Feared Aviator's Back Is
Broken Aid Is Rushed.
MONROE, I.a., March 25. Lieu
tonant W. D. Coney of the army air
service, received probably; fatal In
juries today when his airplane struck
a tree -while he was attempting to
make a landing near Crowvllle, La.,
early-today on his return translcon-
tinental flight from Jacksonville,
Kin.,- to San Diego, Cal. ' '
' The landing was attempted after
engine trouble hnd developed and
' the plane fell about 75 feet. Lieu
tenant Coney was flying over a
swamp wilderness In northeast
Louisiana when the engine got into
difficulties. His back is believed to
have been broken. ,
The Injured avl tutor is being mov
ed to Natchez, Hiss., for hospital
treatment. He la being taken over
Bwamp roads for a distance of 11
mines to Winnsboro where he will be
placed aboard a train.
A village doctor who was called to
attend the officer said that besides a
broken back Lieutenant Coney ap
parently had received internal inju
ries. Owing to his critical condition
the trip to Winnsboro was a slow
one.
The officer crashed with his plane
and was unconscious when found. He
regained consciousness some time
later, however, but was unable to say
. anything except that he had had en
gine trouble and was soeking a land
ing place when he smashed into the
tree.
Later today Lieutenant Coney was
able to converse, but when questioned
regarding his accident, declined to go
into details and merely said it was
engine trouble. Ho did not mention
the new propeller which he was using
and which - Lieutenant Hartman, as
signed on duty in Jacksonville in con
nection with the flight, said yester
day ho did not believe was the typo
desirable for such a strenuous flight.
Residents of Crowvllle saw Lieu
tenant Coney's DeHaviland plane cir
cling about 7:30 this morning, the
pilot apparently seeking a suitable
placo to land. Finally the piano was
seen to swoop down and crash into
the top of a tall tree on Mose La
nier's farm.
Rescued by Farmer.
John Bush, a farm laborer was th
first to reach the scene of the wreck
age and managed to extricate the un
conscious flier from beneath the shat
tered parts of his piano. Lieutenant
Coney was taken to the little cabin
where Mose Lanier lives alono with
Bush, his helper. The vlllago doctor,
hastily summoned, pronounced the
flier's back apparently broken and
said there appeared to be internal in
juries. Lieutenant Coney's home is in
Brunswick, Ga. '
The scene of the nccident is in a
somewhat Isolated section of Franklin
parish and it was several hours after
the accident before the news of it
reached this place. Crowvllle is a
small town on Deer Creek in Franklin
parish in the northeast section of
Louisiana. Tho country is swampy,
roads are built of logs on dikes, mak
ing travel and communication ex
tremely difficult. At this season of
the year, travel is tho worst.
Crowville is several miles from a
narrow gauge railroad. The nearest
town of any size is Winnsboro.
WASHINGTON", Mar. 25. First
Information tho army air service re-
(Continued on Page Eight)
SOCIALIST STATE IS
LENINE, DEPLI
"HKLSINGORS. Mar. 25. Many
Russian workers have abandoned
communism and have adopted the
most extreme form of individualism,
It is said in Petrograd newspapers
received here. This step, It is said,
came as a result of the abolition of
the ban upon trading foodstuffs with
peasants, which was the aftermath of
the Kronstadt rebellion. In some in
stances workmen have begun manu
facturing, trading articles they be
lieve peasants desire.
In one of his recent addresses on
the economic situation in Kussia,
AVIATOR
Runaway Boy Gets
$2,000,000; to Build
A Laborer's Home
THERMOPOLIS. Wyo. Mch.
25. A home for brokendown
laborers and a park to help
make home life attractive for
children are planned by L. C.
Lesher, garage man, with i2,-
000,000 from the estate of his
father, to which he says he has
fallen heir.
Lesher said his father was a
wealthy ship owner and phil-
anthropist of California. The
Thermopolis man ran away
from home when in his Veens
and refused urgent pleadingB of
his parents to return home, he
says. He thinks a public park
will help keep youngsters from
following in his footsteps.
Lesher is a member of the
teamster'B union.
IF
irSPffiSBE
Secy, of War Weeks An
nounces U. S. Will Recog
nie No Statute of Limita
tions Extradition Possible
When Peace Signed.
; WASHINGTON. Mar. 25. "Wo are
going to get Bergdoll If it ia possible
to get him," Secretary Weeks do
clared today in discussing tho case of
the Philadelphia draft evader now in
Germany. "I don't believe we will
recognize any statute of limitations in
his case if ono should exist."
Secretary Weeks would not say
what steps would be taken to get
Bergdoll out of Germany. He refused
to discuss the possibility of his ex
tradition by Great Britain lor viola
tion of British passport laws, but did
say that he assumed that if tho state
of war between the United States and
Germany were declared at an end. ex
tradition of tho draft evader would
be possible.
Secretary Weeks announced for
mally that Brigadier General Allen
had made overtures to tho German
government looking to tho pardoning
of Carl Neuf and Franz Zimmor.
Americans sentenced to prison terms
at Ebcrbach, Germany, for attempt
ing to arrest Bergdoll on German soil.
Tho secretary said General Allen was
optimistic that the two men soon
would bo released.
GIVES HOI BREW
SAN FRANCISCO, March 25. An
unidentified man who shot and kill
ed himself yesterday on a lumber pile
after calling a small crowd to witness
his death, left a receipt for "jackass
brandy," which the coroner's office
made public today.
The receipt contains the following
items:
"Seven spools of barbed wire, ten
pounds of chewing tobacco, one sack
of title roots, ono can of blasting
powder, five gallons of river water.
Mix all together and cool 'for nicn
days and nights. Set on Ice and cool
while you dig your grave. Then take
one drink and go for the hole. ou
will not need a covering. Tlio jack
ass will cremate you."
A
Nikolla Lcnine, bolshevik premier.
said:
"We must grant freer economic
relations between workers and peas
ants. As a matter of fact, we hither
to have acted in a too military man
ner, and in some cases have gone too
far in nationalizing trade. If some
communists thought that the erec
tion of a socialistic state was possi
ble in three years, they were dream
ers. Freedom of economic relations
means free trade and free trade sig
nifies a return to capitalism. A
practical solution of this question is
most difficult hut it must be found
GOING TO GET
BERGDOLL
ORES HIS OWN MILITARISM
REDS 1ST
REFORM TO
GET TRADE
Secy, of State Hughes Replies
to Bolsheviki Appeal for Re
sumption of Trade Rela
tions Requests Assurance
That Fundamental Changes
Be Made in Government.
WASHINGTON-, Mar. 25 Resump
tion of undo relations with soviet
Fiussiu will depend upon satis
factory assurances that "fundamental
changes aro contemplated Involving
due regard for the protection of per
sons and property and th establish
ment of conditions essential to the
maintenance of commerce," Secretary
Hughes says today in a message sent
to tho Kussian soviet representative
at Keval.
The message was In reply to the re
cent appeal of tho soviet government
at Moscow that tho United States
again trade with Kussia. anil that It
negotiate with a delegation to be
sent to this country for that purpose
by the soviet authorities. The note
was transmitted through the Ameri
can consul at rtcvnl as tho original
message from the soviet government
was received from the soviet repre
sentataivo there.
ATTORNEY'S SLAYER
IS FOUND GUILTY
PORTLAND. Ore., Mar. 25. Jos
eph C. Poeschl was found guilty of
second degree murder of Charles J.
Schnabel, Portland attorney, by a
jury today. It recommended tho
maximum sentence of life imprison
mnt. Formal sntence wllUUiisiscd
Wednesday. Poeschl shot tlio attor
ney at the court house February 4,
claiming his act was due to Schna
bel failing to press a law suit for him
against tho Southern Pacific several
years ago. Insanity was the defense.
EX-PRES. WILSON PAINTED BY SECT LANSING
IN HIS BOOK ON PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE
AS BITTER HATER AND BIGOTED AUTOCRAT
BOSTON, March 23. Robert Lans
ing, former secretary of state and
member of the American Peace Com
mission, will reveal In his
forthcoming book on "The
Peace Negotiations," which will
be published by Houghton, Mlf-
fln company, March 25, how
close he came to resigning from the
commission because of differences
with President Wilson over the Shan
tung decision and his belief that many
of the terms of peace Imposed on
Germany were harsh, humiliating
and seemingly Impossible of perform
ance. The publishers of this book, which
has been eagerly awaited by histo
rians and the public, have carefully
guarded the text of the manuscript
but they have permitted the general
trend of Mr. Lansing's argument to
become known.
President Wilson, according to Mr.
Lansing's belief, at one time during
tho Peace Conference! purposed to
negotiate a preliminary treaty which
would start the League of Nations
functioning without laying the docu
ment before the I'nited States sen
ate, and evidently was- much per
turbed when his secretary of state
told him that the only way to change
the status from war to peace was by
a ratified treaty or a joint resolution
of congress.
Nearly Kosigned
A profound conviction that Imme
diate peace was the primary need of
the world, Mr. Lansing Implies, was
oil that kept, him from, resigning
from the Peace Commission because
of fundamental disagreements with
the president on principles. The
former secretary discloses that In
1916, shortly before a meeting In
Washington of the League to Enforce
Peace at which the president was to
speak, Mr. 1-anning wrote to 'Mr. Wil
son objecting to the use of force to
settle international disputes. In this
(Continued on Page Five)
Ex-President Wilson
Suffers an Acute
Attack Indigestion
WASHINGTON, March 23.
former President Wilson suf-
fered an acute attack of indl-
gestion today which caused bur-
rled calls for medical assist-
ance. It was said, however, that
he had entirely recovered an
hour after the attack.
Dr. sterling Huffln, who at-
tended Mr. Wilson In the White
Houes during his serious Illness,
arrived at the formur president's
Washington residenco first, in
answer to the' calls and upon
leaving at 2:20 this afternoon
said Mr. Wilson hud so com-
pletoly recovered that he was
able to eat a light lunch. 4-
L
FARMERS BATTLE
SCOTLAND, S. D.. Mar. 25. A
fight between some 300 men. alleged
to be members of American Legion
posts of Hutchinson and Bon Homme
counties and about an equal number
of farmers of Hutchinson county was
averted last night at Kay lor. near
here, when tho alleged legionnaires
found that their guns numbered only
about thirty, whereas tho opposing
forces were armed to the man with
rifles and shotguns.
Tho trouble is said to have started
when residents of Hutchinson county
began collecting cows hero to ship
to Germany.
Wednesday night 1100 cows held
ready for shipment wero released
from a pen and started toward their
homes. The animals, however, wero
quickly rounded up by those who had
donated them and returned to a cor
ral near Scotland. Fearing trouble,
tho sheriff of Bon Homme fount y
ordered the cattle taken out of tho
county and tho animals were taken
to Ivaylor, where they aro still held.
Feeling in this and Hutchinson
counties is reported running high,
although everything was eomparn-vircly-
(julct today? v- ' ' "
Science has dcvelopod that the gen
eral sea level of the world was onco
about twenty feet higher than it Is
now.
High Spots in Lansing's Book
Some high spots of Mr. Lansing's book aro shown In tho following
extracts:
"I cannot but feel that my open opposition to his attending tho
conference was considered by the president to .be an unwarranted med
dling with his personal affairs, and was none of my business."
"He (Mr. Wilson) said with great candor and emphasis that he
did not Intend to have lawytrs drafting the treaty of peace. -His
(the president's) sweeping disapproval of members of tho legal pro
fession participating in the treaty-making seemed to bo, and I believe
was Intended to be, notice to me that my counsel was unwelcome."
"One may infer that the president was disposed to employ tho
general longing for peace as a means of exerting pressure on tho dele
gates in Paris and Inducing their governments to accept his plan for
a league."
"The president having in the report (on the League of iNatlons)
declared tho American policy, his commissioned representatives wero
bound to acquiesce, whatever thoir personal views were. Acquies
cence or resignation was the choice."
"I think it is not unjust to say that Persidcnt Wilson was Btronger
In his hatreds than In his friendships. He seemed to lack the ability
to forgive one who had offended or opposed him."
"The time given to the formation of the covenant of the League of
Nations and the determination that It should have first placo In tho
negotiations caused such a delay In the proceedings and prevented a ,
speedy restoration of peace. Denial of this is useless. It is too mani
fest to require proof or argument to support."
"It Is fair to presume that he had no program prepared and was
unwilling to havo any ono else mako a tentative ono for his consid
eration. It left the American commission without a chart marking out
the course- which they were to pursue In tho negotiations and apparent
ly without a pilot who knew the channel."
"He was not disposed to discuss matters with the American com
mission as a whole or even to announce to them his decisions until
something arose which compelled him to do so. Ho easily fell Into the
practice of seeing men separately and of keeping secret the knowlodgo
acquired as well as the effect of this knowlodgo on his views and pur
poses." "But for secrecy 1 firmly believe that there would have been Mo
Flume affair."
"If to the Increasing socretlveness or the proceedings of tho con
trolling bodies of the peace conference are added the intrigues and
personal bargainings which were constantly going on, the log-rolling
to use a term familiar to American politics which was practiced, tho
record is one which invites no praise and will find many who con
demn It."
"Secrecy and Intrigues which were only possible through secrecy
stained nearly all the negotiations at Paris but in tho final act of with
holding knowledge of the actual text of tho treaty from the delegates
of most of the nations represented In the conference tho spirit of so
cretlveness seems to havo gone mad."
"After an hour's conversation Viscount Chlda made It very clear
Japan intended to Insist on her 'pound of flesh.' "
'T
Admiral Kato, Minister of Ma
rine, Gives Official Interview
to Associated Press Naval
Competition With U. S. A.
Preposterous and Absurd
Willing to Reduce Armament
TOKIO, March 24. ( Hy the As
sociated Press.) Assertions that tho
Japanese naval program was being
followed for tho purpose of compet
ing with tho United Slates navy,
were denounced as "preposterous and
absurd," by Vice Admiral Tomoaa
huro Kato, Japaneso minister of ma
rine, in an interview with tho Asso
ciated Press hero today. -Ho declar
ed Japan was not trying to compete
with tho American navy and that the
Japanese naval program had been
formulated so that tho Island empire
could bo defended against any emer
gencies arising In tho Far Hast alono.
Turning tho course of tho Inter
view the minister emphasized the
I fact that Japan's project to havo a
fleet of eight battleships, eight bat
tle cruisers not over eight years old
was not necessarily Irreducible. 'Ho
indicated that if all Iho naval powers
would agree to a naval holiday he
would be willing to outer such an
agreement and would not Insist upon
tho completion of the naval program
projected by the government.
In view of tho popular movement
for tho curtailment of armamenta led
hy Yuklo Ozuki and commercial and
industrial leadors of tho empire, as
well as tho world interest In disar
mament, the correspondent asked II.
Kato to give as definite a statcmont
I as possible of Japan's naval policy.
' Finances Chief Item.
. J'Tljo tranters of the "oighl-oight"
program did not havo In mind any
foreign country as a probable en
emy," tho minister omplalned. "I
wish to emphaslzo that they merely
(Continued on Pago Three)
A
Southern Pacific
Promises Klamath
Freight Reduction
KLAMATH FALLS, March
-'". Voluntary reduction of
freight rates on the Klamath
Falls branch has been prom
ised by the Southern Pacific
within GO days, said M. A. Cal
laghan, head of the Chamber
of Commerce traffic depart
ment. Local shippers protested nn
extra charge of 40. H cents per
100 pounds from San Fran
cisco and intermediate! points
to Klamath Falls over the San
Francisco-Medford rate. The
distance Is practical)' the same.
Hates from Portland and in
termediate points aro propor
tionately excessive, it Is also
charged.
c.
E
THRESHED OUT
Johnson Testifies to $16,000
Cattle Deal Financed by the
Jacksonville Bank No In
dividual Record of Kubli's
Account Kept After 1919.
Testimony dealing with checks,
notes drafts and overdrafts running
Into sums of flvo figures, and care
less bookkeeping that existed for
years In Hank of Jacksonville was
adduced at tills morning's trial of
tho civil action of tho stato bank su
perintendent against Chester C Kub
li, for an amount aggregating $41,000.
Tho plaintiff udmltted an $8800 over
charge. 10. D. Kahler, In charge of the
untangling of tho affairs of tho riu-
runot bank was tho first wtness, and
after Identifying records, etc., testi
fied that no Individual ledger account
had been kept of Kubli's account
from December 24, 1919, until tho
bank was rlosed. Tho defense will
endeavor to show that there never!
was a lodger account of Kubli's af
fairs from tho time ho opened an ac
count in 1010.
On cross examination Kahler ad
mitted that ho had told tho defend
ant that "tho account had been made
as large as there wos any chanco of
collecting.' Asked If ho told Kubli
"It was no uso for him to hunt up
$8800 errors, as I will find something
to offset it." Tho witness would not
admit flatfootedty that ho had made
this statement, neither would ho dony
it, but said "if I did it wus a joke,
and not made seriously."
Marshall Hooper identified the rec
ords offered as evidence by tho plain
tiff. $1ft,000 for Cattle.
Tho defenno objected to tho Intro
duction of a ledgor sheet showing the
doblts and credits of Kubll, on the
grounds of incompetency, for tho rea
son that they hnd been prepared re
cently, and were not tho original
sheets. They wero admitted by tho
court, but with tho proviso that they
did not carry tho weight of tho origi
nal documents.
W. H. Johnson, cx-cashlcr of the
bank, took tho stand and testified re
garding a $16,000 rattle deal with the
I-add & Tilton bank of Portland and
tho Banker's Mortgage company in
volved. Tho deal was concluded when
tho Bank of Jackson vilie, through
.Johnson, forwarded tho amount.
Johnson also identified a ledger
sheet purpoiitng to show tho status
of Kubli's account from 1917. He
testified that ho had made up the
sheet from memory, memorandum
and ehecks in his possession.
Difficulty was experienced In se-
(Continued on Fftge Eight)
WOULD YOU GO TO
?
SAM.V. as.. Mar. 25. "Would you
go to hell to prosecuto an Imp, with
satan presiding on tho bench 7"
Much was tho Interrogative made
in an address horo last night by fori
mer Unltnd Htatos Senator Burton,
who was forced to leave Barton coun
ty recently by opponents of the Non
Partisan league, who also tarred two
other men, who had appeared with
Burton at meetings.
Tho address was a reply to Attor
ney General Hopkins' statements that
Burton and the others1 should return
to Barton county If they wanted pros
ecution of their assailants.
Tho former senator rented Con
vention hall himself and spoke on
"mob law versus free speech," He
Kill
A
CIRCUIT COURT
I
GETTING THE
Although Situation in Germany
Still Dangerous, London Re
ports Communists Are Being
Overcome by Law and Order
Terrific Fighting at Eis
leben Last Wight.
EISLF.nrcX, Germany, Mar. 25.
(!::i0 a. m.) (By Associated Treat).
Flighting between tho communists
ami security police for possession of
Klsloben had extended this morning"
to a half mile front in tho western
section of jhe town with the positions
of advantage changing' hands irom
moment to moment. Tho communist
army of 2500 was being reinforced
Hteadily by peasants and villagers
coming into town on foot and on bi
cycles. They carried army guns in
tho hope of surrounding tho two
thousand security police and destroy
ing them.
Kiflos, machine guns, grenades and
dynamite, which wero heard continu
ously throughout the night, had be
come a continuous rumble resembling
drum fire, From tlio post and tele
graph building the combat was visible
and above tho roar of firing could bo
heard calls of encouragement to both
sides and tho cries of tho wounded, ly
ing whero thoy fell.
LONDON, Mar. 25. Although th
situation arising from tho communist
outbreak In Germany is still danger
ous, tho communists are being ovor
como by tho forces of law and order,
according to reports from tho differ
ent centers, says a Central News dis
patch from Berlin today.
At Elslebon whero tho situation
yesterday was roported critical, tho
pollco tho reports stato, havo driven
out the communists, who havo en
trenched themselves in tho neighbor
ing hills and aro directing machine
gun fire on tho police strongholds.
Tho troops are marching on Eislcben
over the highways as railway commu
nication has boon destroyed. -
Thoro has boon no ropotitton of the
disorders In Hamburg, whero the po- '
lico aro masters of tho situation, tho
reports add.
Investigation of tho reported com
munist attempt to blow up tho statu
ary in tho li leges Alleo in Berlin is
declared to havo revoalod tho exis
tence of a widespread conspiracy of
violence which was to havo been
started today. Good Friday.
Hand to Hand Fighting
EISLEBEN, Germany, Mar. 24.
(7:10 p. m.) (By Associated Press.
Tho street fighting as a result of the
communist outbreak which has been
in progress for tho last forty hours in
this important copper mining town of
Haxony was continuing desperately to
night, with a hand to hand combat at
tho railroad station and in the streets
In tho center of tho city. Tho rattle
of machino gun rlru. the crash of
hand grcnado explosions and the
popping of rifles has been going on
steadily for tho last thrift hours Two
thousand pollco wet'O holding the" east
half of tho town white 0800 Workmen
were in possession of tho western'aec
tion. All -tho workers "areliJ heavily
armed and well disciplined::'111 fi
Tho intensity of tho Jflghtlnff 'may
bo Judged from tho fact thrit'thO'Wrtl
way station changed haritrs" tWld in
tho twenty minutes preceding the 1M
ing of this dispatch. Tho pbllee now
aro in possession of tho station J
Bodies of tho dead and eoverdttf
wounded wero still lying tonight In
tho streets whero tho victims fell
twenty hours ago. The less severely
wounded wero crowded in sheltered
doorways with bullets raising puffs
of dust about them.
20 Killed, AO Wounded
Tho extent of tho casualties Is not
definitely known but at least twenty
were killed and fifty wounded In this
morning's fighting.
(Continued On Page Three)
HELL TO PROSECUTE
declared that tho Attorney' General
tho judge of tho Barton county dis
trict, and tho county attorney there
had all the evidence they needed and
charged that they endeavored to force
him to go back to Barton county Into
hostile territory.
"For," ho wild "Governor Allen Is
a mob governor, Itlchard Hopkins Is
a mob attorney general, and Judge
D, A. Banta of Barton county. Is a
mob judge."
Mr. Burton reiterated his former
chargo that tho leader of tho Barton
county mob conferred with Judge
Banta and Khoriff Snm Hill on the
Saturday afternoon prior to the
trouble and that they knew his identify.