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MEDFORD, OKEOOX, THURSDAY, AVML 21, 1921
NO. 26
BERLIN ASKS
HARDING TO
El
German Government Promises
to-Fulfill in Spirit and Letter
Any Award on Reparations
Which President of the
United States May Render
U. S. Decision Withheld.
WASHINGTON, April 21. Ger
many's appeal to President Harding
to act as mediator in the reparations
controversy between that country
and the allies was received today by
the state department from Commis
sioner Dresel at Berlin. It is under
stood to havo been discussed at a
brief conference late today between
Secretary Hughes and President
Harding.
The text of tho note to President
Harding follows:
"In the name of the German gov
ernment and the German people the
undersigned, notwithstanding the
still existing technical state of war,
respectfully petition the president of
the United States to mediate in the
reparations question and to fix the
sum to be paid by Germany to the
allied powers." ,
"They earnestly urge him to se
cure the consent of the allied powers
to such mediation. They solemnly
declare that the German government
is ready and willing to agree, with
out reservations or qualifications to
pay to the allied powers as repara
tions such sum as the porsident, af
ter examination and investigation
may find just and right.
"They rformally pledge themselves
to fulfill in letter and in spirit all
the provisions of any award that may
be made by him ' With abiding faith
in tbe righteousness of this request
and with undeniable sincerity of pur
pose the German people, through
their constituted government, sub
mit their appeal to the president of
the United States, with the confident
hope that it will be granted, to the
end that the final award may be
made in accordance with the right
and justice, to meet the heartfelt
wishes of all civilized nations to
avoid the) Immeasurable conse
quences of the imminent coercive
measures, and to promote tho peace
of the world." i
BERLIN", April 21. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) The German govern
ment has formally asked the presi
dent of the United States to mediate
ln the reparations question.
The note embodying the request
was forwarded Wednesday by Lor
lng Diesel, the America commis
sioner In Berlin to the state depart
ment In Washington. . ,
The note was signed by Chancellor
Kehrenbach and Dr. Walter Simons,
the foreign minister.
The appeal pledges Germany to ac
cept the mediation without reserva
tions and to fulfill absolutely arty
award President Harding may make
after examination and investigation
into the subject. ,
AT SANTA BARBARA
8ANTA BARBARA, Cal., April 21.
Horses from many points on the Pa-
ciflc coast from San Diego to Vancou
ver are entered in Santa Barbara's
third annual horse show, which opens
at two o clock this afternoon. Society
OF
LONDON', April 21.- Announce
ment is made that Lord Sholto Doug
Ins, third son of the late Marquis of
Quoensberry, will be married ne.t
Saturday to Mrs. Barnard Mosselmanp
of Park Lane, this city. She is a
daughter of a wealthy Dutchman
Lord Douglas was given a divovco
May 21, 1920 from Loretta Mooney,
the California dancer, to whom he
was married in May, 1895.
OAKLAND, Cal.. April 21. Lord
Shnlto Douglas met Miss Loretta Ad
dis Mooney of Oakland, a dance hall
favorite, in 1835, in Dakersfleld, Cal.,
where h was looking over runching
BE m
A
State Commission
Asks Information
On Talent Project
SALEM, Ore., April 21.
The state Irrigation securities
commission has requested fur
ther information relative to the
requested certification of bonds
by the Talent irrigation district
in the amount of $25,000 and
the Squaw creek district in the
amount of $25,000. The Tal
ent bonds are desired in con
nection with an agreement with
the Jackson county court enter
ed into with the district where
by tho roud is to he changed to
go around Emigrant creek res
ervoir and for the purchase of
additional rights of way.
Pending a decision by the
commission, all interested per
sons will havo an opportunity
to present their views.
T
LIFE ATTORNEY
SAN FRANCISCO, April 21. Tho
directors of the Pioneer Mining and
Ditch company, owning valuable Alas
ka properties, were prevented from
considering the resignation of R. H.
Cross, an attorney, from the board to
day, through an injunction action in
which Cross said the resignation was
forced by threats against his life by
Jafet Lindeberg, Alaska, Tacoma and
San Francisco capitalist.
Tho injunction was set for hearing
for April 29.
The action arose from the alleged
objectionable activities of Lindeberg
and W. H. Metson, an attorney, In
which Lindeberg obtained the position
of manager of tho company's proper
ties, and Metson was named attorney.
Metson stated that the difficulty
arose out of differences between the
company and F. O. Lindblom, Alaska
and San Francisco capitalist. Cross is
Llndblom's attorney.
Tbe injunction matter was argued
while Lindeberg was under arrest yes
terday on an extradition warrant de
signed to remove htm to Tacoma to
stand trial for the alleged illegal di
version of funds from the Scandinavian-American
bank there.
TO
AID CATTLEMEN
CHICAGO, April 21. Legislation
directing the secretary of tho treasury
to turn over $ 100,000,000 of the
profits of tho federal reserve hank
to federal land banks and to he loan
ed by the latter inHtutlons on stock
cattle for the purpose of assisting cat
tle producers, has been recommended
y V. P. G. Harding, governor of the
federal reserve bank, according to a
statement today by Everett C. Brown,
president of the National LivestoeK
exchange.
Enaction of BUch legislation, in the
opinion of Mr. IJrown, would enable
a multitude of livestock men "who
might otherwise havo been forced out
of the business," to continue produc
tion.
"Consumers also should receive
benefit from tho increase ih produc
tion thus made possible," tho state
ment declared.
from every social center in the west
is expectei to attend.
The show will be held in the Palm
ring on the grounds of the Ambassa
dor hotel, recently destroyed by fire
L
properties. They were married in
San Jose, Cal., in May of that year.
The honeymoon was spent In an Ala
meda beach cottage. When his re
mittance from England was cut off,
the wife returned to the stage in Los
Angeles. Lord Douglas later took out
a $110,000 insurance policy in her fa
vor. He Is said to have conducted a
cigar store in Seattle, Wash., and
jewelry business in Detroit, Mich.
In 1906 Lord Douglas wan arrested
on a charge of bigamy at Lake Se
bage. Mistaken identity was proved.
He was acquitted by a Jury at 1909
at Nelson, 13. C, on a charge of phoot
ing with intent to kill J. 13. Rowlands,
a former British officer.
HARDING FAVORS
$100,000,000
SU1GID
EE
Son of Millionaire Meat Packer
Ends Own Life by Pulling
Trigger of Shot Gun With
Toe Life Was Tempestious
One.
I.os Angeles, April 21. Funeral ar
rangements for John J. (Jack) Cuduhy,
son of the late Michael Cudahy. Inter
nationally known meat pucker, and
himself for a time manager of tho
Cudahy Packing company of Kansas
City, who commuted suicide here yes
terday were expected to be perfected
today.
Cudahy's taking of his own life, ac
cording to detectives who Investigated
the tragedy, followed failure to nego
tiate a loan of $10,000 from a Chicago
bank.
Yesterday, it was declared. Cudahy
seemed his usual self. About 10:30 he
was said to have gone to his room In
the house in Hollywood district of Los
Angeles, where he and his family
made their home.
Early In the afternoon Mrs. Cudahy
heard a shot and hurried to her hus
band's room.
She found him dead, his head shut
tered from a gunshot wound. He lay
on a bed, n shotgun close by. The
shoe and sock had been removed from
one foot, and tho detectives Inter de
cided he had placed the muzzle of the
weapon In his mouth and pulled the
trigger with his toes. Physiclnns who
had lately attended him said he had
been suffering from nervous afflic
tions for several months, and lately
had been tnklng treatment in a sani
tarium.
Widow Prostrated
The widow, Mrs. Edna Cowln Cuda
hy, who was the daughter of General
John Clny Cowin of Omaha, Neb, was
said today to lie in a, state of collapse
as the result of the tragedy. With her
In the house when her husband killed
himself wore two of their four chil
dren, 'Miss Anne Cudahy, 17, and
Michael, 14. their only son. Miss Marie
Cudahy was away from the home at
the time. Tho fourth child is Mrs
Percy Fisher Ilrowne of Pasadena,
who was married only a few months
ago.
In connection with the financial and
physical troubles which were believed
by officials and friends alike to have
been the immediate cause of the sui
side, a number of court actions in
which Cudahy figured were recalled
today. Shortly after the Cudahys left
Kansas City and arrived in Pasadena
in 1914, Cudahy was sued for $30,000
damages by Dr. B. O. Coates of Pasa
dena, who charged him with having
violently thrown the physician's wife
against a table. ,
In January 1919, Cuduhy was sued
by a hotel company of Pasadena for
1945L said to represent a two years
hotel .bill. In connection with , this
action Cudahy asserted he had loaned
the president of the company $30,000.
Attended by Neurologists' .
For severul weeks prior to March 21
of this year Cudahy was at a Pasadena
hotel, attended by neurologists, men
he came to a hotel in Ios Angeles and
registered under an assumed name, it
was said. On April 15, back again at
his Hollywood home, according to Dr.
L. J. Huff, who attended him, he took
poison. Dr. Huff found Cudahy ill but
apparently his system was free from
poison, the physician said.
Cudahy told Dr. Huff, the latter
stated to the police, he had tried to
kill himself but declined to give rea
sons.
Why Cudahy lived at a hotel under
a name other than his own was not
known. Friends today suggested it
might have been in lino with a com-
nlaint he once made that he never
could do anything like other men."
"If I tip a waiter," they quoted him
"it is Immediately circulated I am giv
ing away $100 bills.
"if I buy a piece of Jewelry it is
heralded from coast to coast.
"If I am seen at a race I am always
'betting wildly.' "
Disappeared In 1915
In 1915 he disappeared for a time.
Friends and relatives conducted
search which ended when he was
found calmly reading a magazine in
his Pasadena home. No explanation
was ever made public.
In 1917 Cudahy caused a sensation
through an argument with Prince Paul
Troubetzkoy, when the latter, a vege
tarian, made some remark on meat
eating that made Cudahy "sore" as he
said when a physical encounter had
been avoided.
When the United States entered tho
war Cudahy obtained a captain's com
mission and was assigned to duty at
Camp Lewis, Wash. He served six
months and then, because of physical
(Continued on page six.)
NO
WILD
CAREER
JACK
CUDAHY
German Government
Refuses Demand to
Transfer Her Gold
PAIUS. April,21 (Hy Associttt-
ed Press.) The Herman govern-
ment has refused to transfer tbe
gold reserves of the Keichsbank,
the German Imperial bank, to the
Coblenz and Cologne branches of
the bunk, as demanded by tbe
reparations commission, it was
announced here today.
Louis Youcheur. minister of
liberated regions, has completed
a plan for the economic penalties
4- to be placed upon (lei ninny In de-
fault of her payment of repara
tions. The Echo de Paris de-
clares that his plans include a
tax of ten gold murks on each
ton of coal and n smaller tax on
lignite nnd perhaps manufactured
goods. A tax of forty per cent
paynble in foreign money would
be levied on all exports. Cier-,
many would be allowed to ninnu-
facture certain products nnd de-
liver certain materials to the
allies, the value of these products
being credited to the reparations
account.
R. R. LABOR BD.
CONDEMNS GUT
I HAUL WAGES
CHICAGO, April 21. The railroad
labor board in a decision today ruled
that the receiver of the Atlanta. Bir
mingham and Atlantic railroad in
reducing wagesof Its employes in
compliance with a decision by Federal
Judgo S. II. Sibley,! had acted in vio
lation of the spirit' nnd letter of the
transportation act. . V
The board, declared that it was
powerless to' take action 'in tho case
at present and suggested that the
employes, most of whom tire on
strike, again hold conference with
the owners, nnd, If an agreement is
not reached, bring the case to the
labor board.
"The duty to obey a 'decision of
this hoard is not any less an obliga
tion on the recelvors of a road than
on the owners of n road," the decis
ion said.
RADICAL DISORDERS
IN ITALY SPREADING
'ROME, April 21. Disorders In
which extreme nationalists und com
munists have been engaged and which
havo been confined for the most to
central Italy havo spread to several
provinces, according to Kpoca.
A dispatch to that newspaper from
Barl states that a party of national
ists riding In a motor lorry encoun
tered a party of communists at Orta
Nova, and that In the fight which en
sued six communists and three na
tionalists wero killed.
PHILADELPHIA, April 21. Babe
Ruth knocked his third home run of
the season here today, scoring one
man ahcurl of him.
American League
R It K
St. Louis 3 4 1
Cleveland 4 11 1
Shocker nnd Hevereld; Bugby and
O'Neill.
R If 10
Washington 0 2 0
Boston 1- 7 0
Mogrtdgc and Obarrlty; Jones and
Uuel.
n H E
New York 6 11 '1
Philadelphia 1 13 0
Mays and Srlmng: Moore and Per
kins, J. Wulker.
R II K
Detroit 3 6 1
Chicago 8 D o
Khmkc, Ayros and Ainsmith; Kerr
and Si'halk.
flume culled end 7th, rain.
National
R. II. K.
Cincinnati ...... 7 15 1
Pittsburg 8 11 2
Batteries: Napier, Ilrenton, Mar
quard and Wlngo; Adams, Ponder,
Yellowhorse and Schmidt. .
R. II. K.
Philadelphia 6 10 3
New York 5 7 1
Batteries'. Huhbell, Betts and Brug
gy; Toncy, Kenan and Smith, Snyder.
P. H K
Boston 2 7 1
Brooklyn 4 5 2
Wnlson und ONell; Grimes and
Miller
PERSHING IS
APPOINTED 10
BE WAR HEAD
Secy. Weeks Announces a
Radical Departure in System
of War Dept. Instant
Readiness for War in Time
of Peace Object.
WASHINGTON'. April 21. OrRiini
zution nf n war stuff hraili'tl liy (it'itf
rul lVrnhiiiK to la Ito I'lmiKt' f fli-ltl
opt'ratioiis of the armii'H of the I'liilt'ii
States In time of war was uimmtm-e d
loday hy Sim-rotary Weeks.
"Instant prop" rat Ion In time of
peace for active, military operations."
wan given by the setre Wiry oh the
reason for thu new organization.
The organization headed hy Gene
ral IVishliiB will he entirely aoparate
from the office of the chief ot" staff,
Mr. Weeks Bald, which will contlniK
to direct the activities of the mili
tary establishment In time of peace.
General Pershing will have a skele
tonized staff which will correspond to
that at C'hanmont during the world
war nnd which will concern itself en
tirely with problems of strategy, tac
tics and war organization.
"Wo are going to have n skeleton
ized general headquarters established
in the war department," said Secre
tary Weeks. "Its purpose will he to
keep us instantly prepared for active
military operations. Tho details will
be given out later, but General Persh
ing will be at the head of the activity.
Before tho world war, Secretary
Weeks' explained, Marshal Joffro had
been similarly selected to command
th armies of France, If war came and
had organized a skeleton staff which
was Instantly available.
L
INVESTIGATE IE
EC!
WASHINGTON, April 21. A thor
ough investigation into the death of
Major Alexander Cronkhito at Camp
Lewis, Wash., In October 1918, Is be
ing made by the department of Jub-
tlco, Attorney General Daugherly
said today In discussing the case of
Cuptain Robert Rosenhluth ot Now
York, arrested In connection with the
death of the major.
Rulteratlug that Cnptain Rosen'
bluth would not ho sent west for
trial until tho department was rea
sonably sure of his connection with
the cuse, tho attorney genorul said
ho had talked with Captain Rosen
bluth at New York lust week and that
the young man bud told a straight
story.
Wr. Daugherty said It had not yet
been determined whether the CronK
hlto case was one for the state or for
federal courts and that, of courso
Captain Rosenbluth could be moved
west under state laws, with which
the department would not Interfere.
Captain Rosenhluth'B case, Mr.
Daugherty said, was first called to
his attention by Secretary Hoover
under whose direction Rosenbluth
formerly worked. Senator Caldor of
New York also called on the attor
ney general today, Mr. Daugherty
added, and was given assurance that
tho case would bo thoroughly Invcs
tlguted.
WASHINGTON. April 21 Charles
F. Marvin was renominated todny by
President Harding to be chief of the
weather bureau.
Other nominations were: Claudius
It. Huston of Tennessee to be assist
ant secretary of commerce. I'rank
W. Howbert of Denver, to be col
lector of Internul revenue for the Dis
trict of Columbln. Arthur V. Odllu
of Florida, to bo United States Judivo
for trie district of. Porto Itlco.
WASHINGTON, April 21. David
II. Hlalr of Wlnston-Sulcin, was
nomlnuted today by President Hard
ing to be commissioner of Internal
rovenue.
ONLY KX-SKHVICK ,MK TO
UK K.MI'I.OVl:l DISTILLERY
ROCKFORD. III.. April 21. Paul
J. Healy, president of tho Chicago
Grain Products coinpnny announced
today thnt he hnd issued orders that
only ex-scrvlce men wero to bo em
ployed at tho new nlcobol distillery
here.
Mr. Hcaly Is an cx-soldicr,
Democratic Senator
Launches Attack on
Ambassador Harvey
WASHINGTON. April 21.
Senutor liurrlson, democrat,
Mississippi, charged today In the
senate that the appointment of
George Harvey by President
Harding as ambassador to Great
Britain was a "reward for ills
efforts," to discredit tho Wilson
administration.
The Mississippi senutor said
Mr. Harvey's pursuit of Wilson
through his journals nnd other
wise ure only comparable to
Milton's "hellhounds that were
stationed at the gates of the ln
fernul regions." Ho added that
tbe ambassador had "no equal
us a creator of prejudice and a
stirer of strife," und that he
wub "u vindictive, self-anointed,
intolerant political accident."
PAT ON MANDATE
ISLAND OF YAP
TOKIO, April 21. (By Associated
Press.) Tho Toklo newspapers today
accepted ns accurate tbe reports pub
lished hero yesterday that the cublnot
had decided there was no reason to
alter Japan's policy on tbe mandate
question because of tho recent Amer
ican note on the subject.
According to tho Hochl Shimbun tho
Japanese reply to tho American note,
which now Is being drafted, will again
bo considered by tho government to
morrow nnd dispatched to Now York
after having been submitted to tbe
diplomatic advisory council. The ten
or of the reply, according to the news
paper's nummary, is that Japan be
lieves It fair and reasonable to adhere
to her previous policy regarding the
Island of Yap, which was based on de
cisions of the supremo council nnd the
League of Nations.
A perusal of the correspondence on
the subject, the note will Bay, contin
ues the summary, demonstrates tho
justice of the Japanese . attitude and
tho unreasonableness of that of the
United States. Nevertheless the re
ply, It is declared, will emphasize tho
contention that tbe question involved
Is between tho United States and the
powers collectively.
Tho publication of the notes already
exchanged is commended by the presB
us strengthening tho cause of open
diplomacy.
For Premier Okuma, In a statement
to the press todny says tho United
States should bo reminded that in
crushing German militarism Japan
played a role us prominent as that of
tho United States.
E
SPOKANE. April 21. Wage re
ductions affecting approximately
2,000 employes of mines and smelters
In the Coeur d'Alcne district of north
ernt Idaho, has bee nannounced to
day according to information receiv
ed hero. They amounted to 50
cents a day for mine employes and
75 cents for Bmeltor men.
In addition to the Bunker Hill and
Sullivan, tho Caledonia and the
Sierra Nevada companies, which an
nounced reductions yesterday, the
Fedoral, Ilecla, Hercules, Tamarack
and Custer and the Callahan zinc
mines today posted notices of similar
reductions. The three jatter com
panies have been employing only a
few men In development work, it was
stated.
INDIAN TRIBE IS AROUSED
BY MURDER OF
YAKIMA, April 21. Discovery of
the body of Sum George, Yakima
tribal lender, in a shallow grave in the
wildest part of the Indian reserva
tion, led to tho impanelling of an
Indian coroners Jury late yesterday
at White Swan and finding that
Oeorgo met his death through mur
der. Old Chief Tecumseh was leader
in summoning the jury and in put
ting white men on the trait of a man
who is believed to be the slayer and
who is a son of one of the rhiefs.
According to the Btory told at the
Tndtiinn' Inauest, conducted with alt
tho solemnity of tribal rltce. George
B.H00D
SKIPS OUT
TO RUSSIA
W. W. Secretary Scheduled
to Begin Prison Term at
Leavenworth Landed at Riga
April 16 Declares Attorney
Officials Have Been , On
Lookout for Weeks.
CHICAGO, April 21. Fedoral offic
ials today received official information
that William D. Haywood, secretary of
the Industrial Workers of the World
and scheduled to begin a sentence at
the Leavenworth, Kansas penitentiary
this week, had fled from tho United
Stares and is in either Moscow or
Riga.
Charles F. Clyne, district attorney,
announced that a search had been
started for Haywood.
"He is not at Leavenworth, Chicago
nor New York and we have been pri
vately informed that he has landed
either at Moscow or Riga," said Mr.
Clyne. "That is ull we know about it,
but we expect to havo definite infor
mation very quickly."
Otto Chrlsteuson, attorney for Hay
wood, said he had been Informed that
Haywood sailed from New York on
the Oscar II about April 1 and landed
at Riga about April 16. He said ha
thought Haywood had gone to Russia
on a personnl mission and that he was
not fleeing from tho penitentiary sen
tence. .
NEW YORK, April 21. Officials ot
the American Civil Liberties union
here stated today that they had been'
advised "Big Bill" Haywood, for whom
federal authorities are searching, had
arrived In Russia. This information,
it was said, had been supplied ' by
friends of the I. W. W. leader. " .
Will Como Huck
NEW YORK, April 21. The
American Civil Liberties union today
Issued a formal statement asserting
it had been onformed "Big Bill" Hay
wood, I. W. W. leader for whom the
department of justice is searching,
was on his way to attend an Inter
national trade union conference In
Moscow In June, but would return ,
as soon as it was ended to begin
serving his sentence in Leavenworth
penitentiary. . '
"This information came to me yej
lorday and I immediately communi
cated It to Mr. Clyne," said Mr.
Christensen.
"I am sure 'Big Bill' will coma
back and Berve his sentence." -
Haywood was one of the 46 I. VV
W. whose cases the United States su
premo court recently refused to re
vlow and who are expected to report
to the Leavenworth penitentiary this '
week. He was at liberty under $10,
000 bonds. The men were sentenced .
by Judge I.nndls in 1918 for oil.'
slructing the war draft.
The convicted men will go direct
to Leavenworth prison to servo vary
ing sentences and the first group was
expected there either, today or to
morrow. GETS NO FIELD CASH
SPRINGFIELD, 111., April 21.
Henry Anthony Marsh, reputed son
of Henry Field of Chicago, and the
London chrus girl, Peggy Marsh, Is
not entitled to inheritance of any ot,
tlio Marshall Field millions, the Illi
nois supreme court decided this
morning in ruling that the Marshall
Field will specifically exempts from
Inheritance any illegitimate offspring-.
CHIEF SAM
was last seen on April 15. At that
time George Wanessey reports, he was
riding on his horse in the general di
rection of the place where the grave
was found. Wanessey reports that
he was told that George had fallen
from his horse and had been seriously
injured, but that he had retained suf
ficient strength to crawl through tho
barb wire fence and roll Into the
grave In which the body was found,
and which was providentially dug at
that point. The man who put forth,
this explanation Is being sought by
both Indian and white officers.
Georgos head had been beaten In anil
his arm and leg broken.)