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MEDFORD, ORKOSOX, FRIDAY, MAY 1:1, 1921
NO. 45
POLE PERFIDY
FLAYED, WORLD
PEACE MENACED
Lloyd-George in Speech De
clares Poland Owes Liberty
to Allies Defiance Alarms
Confidence of World Is
Shaken.
LONDON', May 13. (My Associated
Press.) Prime Minister Lloyd George
lu a dramatic speech in the house of
commons today concerning thp Uppey
Silesian embrogllo, said the action of
the Polish Insurrectionists was a com
plete defiance of the treaty of Ver
sailles. "I think it is right I should Bpeak
quite plainly," Mr. Lloyd George de
clared, "because if these things can
happen and we take no notice and do
not deal with them with that stern
justice which has characterized ths
attitude of this country in all Its deal
ings abroad, It is going to bo fatal to
the peace of Europe. If that Is dis
turbed I do not see what is going to
happen to Europe.
"1 am alarmed. " I am frightened
that unless some confidence is restor
ed to the world the consequences may
he of the most terrible character, be
cause the whole industrial world 1b so
built up on credit and confidence that
once that Is shaken I do not see how
it can be rebuilt."
Mr. Lloyd George declared the
treaty of Versailles Was'the charter of
Polish freedom, and that, she was the
last country of Europe who had the
right to complain about the treaty.
Poland did not win. her liberty, he as
serted. Her liberty was due to Italy,
Great Britain and France.
Mr. Lloyd George cited that the
Poles were divided In the war, half of
them fighting with tl6 Germans "and
shot down Frenchmen, British and
Italians who were fighting for their
freedom., , v
"I see Korfanty (leader of the Polish
insurrectionists) has said that the
Poles In Silesia would die rather than
surrender. If they had thought that
earlier, when the batile for Polish
freedom was heing f Jiight, there would
have been fewer British, French and
Italian lost. But they only think of it
when the Germans are disarmed and
helpless. The Polish government has
repudiated responsibility and I am
bound to accept that statement as rep
resenting their views but It has hap
pened once too often."
The prime minister recalled the set
tlement with Lithuania, to which the
United States, France, Italy and Great
Britain were parties.
"Vilna was occupied by regular Pol
ish troops In defiance of the allies,"
he said. "They were asked to retire
and they said 'we have no responsibil
ity for it.' The same thing is happen
ing now. The same disclaimer of re
sponsibility. Arms passing from Po
land and officers crossing her fron
tiers make it very difficult to feel that
those repudiations of responsibility
are anything but purely verbal."
E
WASHINGTON, May 13. Attack
on appropriations in the half billion
dollar naval appropriation bill was
renewed today by Senator Borah, re
publican, Idaho, who challenged in
creases made by the senate naval
committee aggregating $100,000,000
over house provinloiiH of $396,000,000
or -almost threo times tho pre-war
naval budget, he sulci. Including the
Immediate appropriations and future
commitments, Senator Borah said the
bill really called for about $650,000,
000. Asserting that the Japanese navy
had only 75,000 to 80.000 men and the
British about 100,000, Senator Borah
Raid it appeared that the personnel of
120,000 men, American navy pro
posed b the senate committee was
being advocated to keep naval whips
"on parado, rather than to save
money for American taxpayers.'
E
EMPORIA, Kas., May 13. MIm
Mary White, 16, only daughter o.'
William Allen White, author and
publisher of the .tmporia Gazette
died this morning of injuries received
in a fall from a horse last Tuesday
Famous Medical Men
Never Heard of Beer
Used As a Medicine
tyfif
WASHINGTON, May 13. Dr.
Howard A. Kelly, a surgeon of
Johns Hopkins hospital, and Dr.
James SI. H. Rowlund, professor
at the University of Maryland,
testified today before the house
judiciary committee that they
never had prescribed beer and
had never seen it used as a med
icine. Representative Chandler, repub
lican of New York, asked wheth
er beer was not responsible for
the "magnificent stature" and
long life of the German people
who drink beer all of their lives.
"I do not know anything con
cerning the longevity of the race"
Dr. Rowland said. "I am an ob
stetrician and I work at the front
end of life. I do know t hut beer
or any fluid containing alcohol Is
had for babies." .
OF 4 HUSBANDS
'SWEETWOMAN'
Mrs. Southard Thus Described
By Landlady Present Mate
in the Navy Willing to Re
turn to Mainland Without
Extradition.
HONOLULU, May 13. (By the
Associated .Press.) Although Mrs.
Paul Vincent Southard, wife of a
navy chief petty officer, arrested
hero yesterday on orders from Los
Angeles in connection with the
deaths in Idaho and Montana of four
of her former husbands, a brother-in-
lanw and child of one of the men she
married, expressed willingness last
night to return to the United States
without legal process ararngements
for her early extradition wero being
made today by the insular authori
ties. The Southards arrived in Honolulu
from San Francisco January 12. Ac
cording to Mrs. William Stetzer of
Honolulu, who said she knew Mrs.
Southard in San Francisco, the cou
ple lived at married people's quar
ters maintained by the army and
navy Y. M. C. A. Later they moved
to a rooming house where Mrs.
Southard was arrested yesterday.
Mrs. Stetzer said she knew Mrs.
Southard as a "good sweet woman."
The lundlady of the rooming
house and Mr. and Mrs. Southard
came to her place about six weeks ago
and were quiet people. She said
when the police arrived to arrest
Mrs. Southard she went with them
without protest.
Mrs. Southard since her arrest has
been kept from public .view and her
name has not been put on the police
blotter. Only the woman's husband
was permitted to see her last night.
Mr. Southard, chief petty officer of
the IT. S. S. Monterey, was recently
transferred from the U. S. S. Chicago.
SALT LAKE. May 13. V. H
Ormsby, deputy sheriff of Twin Falls
Idaho, was on the way to San Kran
Cisco today, en route for Honolulu
where Mrs. Lyda Meyer Southard was
arrested yesterday in conection with
the death of her four former hus
bands. Ormsby before leaving here
said he planned to meet a matron
from the Twin Fails sheriff's office
who would accompany him to Hono
lulu and take Mrs. Southard to Idaho
Mrs. Southard's fourth husband, Ed
ward F. Meyer, died at Twin Ful
September 7, last.
LONDON, May 13. The decree of
divorce granted November 9 last to
the Duchess of Marlborough, formerly
Consuelo Vanderbllt, which dissolved
her marriage with the Duke of Marl
borough, was made absolute today.
Under the provisions of the British
law six months must intervene be
tween the granting of a divorce decree
and the issuance of a judicial decree
making the divorce absolute.
At the trial of the case last Novem
ber allegathrtis of desertion and mis
conduct were made by counsel for the
ACCUSED SLAYER
duchess.
RELIGIOUS
WAR
FANNED BY REDS
MEXICAN STATE
Police and Radicals Charge
Catholics, 50 Killed, Score
Injured Red Flag Hoisted
On Church Tower, and
Image Smashed.
MEXICO CITY, May 13. (fly Asso
ciated Press.) Fifty persons were
killed and a score wounded lust night
In Morelln, capital of the state of
Michoacan, says rejwrts to the Kxcel
sior this morning, when police, aided
by unsolicited help from radicals
charged a largo group of catholics.
The latter were demonstrating
against "alleged desecration of their
churches lust Sunday by radicals.
The catholic population of Morelia
was much Incensed Sunday when rad
icals entered several churches there,
broke many Images and eventually
placed their red flag on the cathedral
tower. A demonstration of protest
was held yesterday, according to dls
patchps received here, but was broken
up by K)llce, aided by federal soldiers,
when clashes with jeering radicals on
the side lines threatened serious trou
ble. The demonstration was resumed
again In the evening. Vicente Coyt.
inspector of police, led a large unit of
fully armed gendarmes against the
demonstrators, few of whom carried
arms. The latter refused the demand
of Coyt that they disperse and when a
volley was fired over their heads, the
dispatches stated, they charged at the-
police, who levelled their guns at the
crowd. The catholics, some of whom
were women, were dazed at the action
of the police and seeing their com-J
rudes lying dead in the. streets, fled
In panic. .
General Garcia, chief of military
operations, in the state of Michoacan,
and General Muglca, governor of the
state, combined their forces to restore
order and prevent further outbreaks
which It Is feared will occur.
The latest dispatches from Morelia
to Excelsior Indicate intense bitter
ness is being manifested against the
extreme action of Coyt, which is be
lieved here to have been unwarranted.
Coyt, who led the police personally,
was Injured and three of his men were
among those killed. Isaac Arriaga,
socialist leader in Morelia and head of
the agrarian commission there alse
was killed.
OF
KORFANTY HEEDS
OPPELN, Silesia, May 13.-(By
the Associated Press.) German
forces on the left bank of the Oder
river are being augmented by former
German soldiers from Breslau and
a number are coming from Germany
Several hundred security police have
reached Urieg, 20 miles northwest of
here.
There are rumors that the Germaiu
will take the offensive, probably
within a week. The Poles are
strengthening their positions with
artillery although they are not ad
vancing. French sources declare that Adal
bert Korfanty, leader of the Polish
insurrection, has "heeded General
Lerond's instructions for the first
time and suspended his offensive."
F
THOMPSON FALLS, Mont., May
13. A charge of first degree murder
was filed here today against Fred
McCully, husband of Mona May Mc-
Cully, on trial In district court here
on a charge of murder in connection
with the killing of her son-in-law.
Leon Richardson, near Plains last
Novem ber.
Defense Attorney AInsworth Imme
diately announced that McCully
would take the witness stand and
assume al blame for Rlcahrdsnn'a
death. It was Indicated that McCul
ly was willing to plead guilty today
to the charge, hut June Lentz, after
a conference with attorneys for the
state and defense, announced h
would not accept the plea until af
ter the present trial, had been con
eluded.
Tobacco Rated As
Most Harmful of
'F our Social Poisons'
LONDON', May 13. Tobacco Is
the most harmful of the "four so-
4 cial poisons," tea, coffee, tobacco
and alcohol, according to Sir
James Cantlie. the eminent sur-
geon, speaking here recently.
"Smoke the same amount of
tobacco every day." said Sir
James, "and the heart will be-
come ucenstomed to a certain
amount. If one smokes less one
day than another he feels tho ef-
feet as much as if he hud smoked
more."
S He said three days abstinence
from smoking would entirely free
the system of nicotine. He con-
v deinned the cigarette
DIETZ. 'DEFENDER
IS GIVENPARDON
Wisconsin Governor Says in
Doubt of Guilt Opposed
Sheriff's Posse for Month
Fought Lumber Concern
Controversy Over Land.
MADISON, Wis., May 13. Complete
pardon was granted John F. Dletz to
day by Governor Illume, restoring
freedom to the widely known "defen
der of Cameron dam" on the tenth
anniversary of his conviction of the
killing of Oscar Harp, a deputy sheriff
Governor Blaine in granting tho par
don stated that he had considered that
the trial was legal in respect to the
judicial proceedings and declared that
from consideration of public policy
and In making allowance for the ex
ceptional circumstances." he had con
cluded that Diet, should be free.
"I am conscious," the governor said
tnut from the evidence before me
there Is a doubt as to the guilt of John
Diet, of the crime charged, and that
he should he granted a complete pur-
don."
Dletz held off a sheriff's posse for
months, attracting nation-wide atteu
tion. It is not expected that othci
charges pending against him will be
pressed by the officials.
The controversy which led to the
conviction and sentence of the Wis
consin pioneer to life Imprisonment
for first degree murder, started In
1914, shortly nfter he had moved Into
Sawyer county In the wooded northern
section of the slate. His altitude in
opposing the Chippewa Lumber and
Boom company resulted In trouble cul
minating in a fight with the sheriff
April 25, 1905.
. Dispute had arisen over the prop
erty rights of Dletz In his homestead
which bordered on a logging stream.
L
LONDON, May 11. The Peninsula
ami Oriental liner Ilcnalla, from Lon
don to Sydney, Australia, with 110(1
passengers and seamen, lias' been
beached near the ' Royal Sovereign
lightship, close to the entrance to the
Straits oi Dover, arter a collision with
the iiritish tank mourner Patella, says
a Lloyd's dispatch from North Fore
land. Th,e collision occurred In a fog.
American League.
It. II. E.
Huston ..." HI 15 1
Chicago 8 IB 2
Jones nnl liui-l, Walters: Kerr, Mc
Wcpiu-y, Hodge, Pence and Kchalk,
Yaryan.
n. If. K.
Washington 4 10 a
Cleveland - 2 7 4
latteries: Mogrldge and Ohurrlty;
Suhle and O'Neill.
National
It. II. E.
Chicago 4 7 .0
Philadelphia 2 8 0
Batteries: Martin and Kllllfer; Hub
bell and Bruggy.
Cincinnati 5 14 1
Brooklyn - 4 7 1
Batteries: Blxey and Wlngo;
Grimes, Mitchell and Miller.
Plttsburg-Hoston postponed, rain.
CAMERON
DAM
BASEBALL SCORES
BERGDOLLS POT
OF GOLD BURIED
BY HISJVIOTHER
Testifies Not Near Hagertown,
Md., As Claimed She,
Alone Knows Where Sent
Slacker Son $10,000 Last
Week.
WASHINGTON, Miiy 13. Mrs.
Kmmu C. !JitkI'M. mm her of Clrnvrr
(.'. Iteration, ilnil'i ilmlKcr, luld a
In Hi no lnvi'KtiiitiiiK roiiuiiitlt'u loil.iy
tlmt Hhu Inn-U'il tin $10r,.i)()0 In until
oMitlm'tl from Oic treasury in tho full
nf 1917. Slu- rofusttl l.. ffivo any In
formation i'i'Krilins Out lmrial plaio,
lint ImllrutiMl it was inn ji.m tar away
from IMillaiMphla a Hattor.sinwn.
Asked wlwre tho tftthl was tnw.
Mrs, Htrmlill replied, "in my mh
si'Hsitm ami hurieil in (lie nanm place
1 fit-Kl put it."
Counsel fur tho com m it toe said II
was important to know if U was near
1 luKcrstnwn, .Maryland.
'No," she said, "I never wuh
around there in my life," adding that
nobody else know its location.
I'ho witness said she had been told
by the late 1). Clarence fJlbboney, her
attorney, that he was depcndluK on
the advice of JikIro John W. W'osloott
In efforts to obtain tho release of her
son.
T dlil not understand, however,
that JihIko Wostcott was one of my
lawyers," she added.
Mrs. HorKdnll said she never heard
of ( : rover's pot of buried K"hl until
alter the escape. A week nK(), Mrs.
Heiftdoll testified, she sent i rover,
who is in (iermnny, $10,000. "Tliat'H
all I've ever nlvon him since his ar
rest," fOic added.
7
) BY
T
E
Autopsy Performed and Brain
and Stomach Sent.to Salem
for' Analysis Accused Man
Well Known in Grants Pass
Attorneys Hopeful.
T. W. Gruetter, 45 years old, the
local assayist and chemist, who Is held
in the county) jail ;m $20,000 hail' on
the charge of having murdered' his
wife at .their home in the Agate, sec-
Hon.; inc-tests that he is innocent of
the fc'l-irjiej. .elinrned and t takeij j the
charge 'and his Imprisonment, philo
sophically, while awaiting the outcome
of his preliminary hearing next Wed
nesday. Both he and his attorneys, John H.
Carkln of Medford and O. S. Illanchard
of Grants Pass, feel confident that tho
charge will be eventually dismissed
Oruetter has not resided in Medford
long, but he Is well known in Grants
Pass where. hlB family 1b said to be
one of the old ones of that city and
where he long resided. Ills attorneys
point out among other things Hint so
far as can bo learned no motive has so
far developed as to why he should
want to kill his wife. They are busy
gathering evidence In Grants Pass and
Josephine county tending to show why
James Ilomgardncr, former husband of
Mrs. Gruetter, was Instrumental in
having caused Gructtcr's arrest on the
murder charge.
As was predicted yesterday would
happen an autopsy was performed (in
the body of Mrs. Gruetter lute Thurs
day under tho supervision of Coroner
Perl by Doctors Dow and Poellnltr.,
and the brain and stomach have been
sent to the state board of health for
chemical analysis. ' '
It is expected that that board will
make a report of the result of this
analysis before the preliminary hear
ing set for next Wednesday.
DELAYED A WEEK
NEW YOKK, May 13. Hearings
in the divorce proceedings Instituted
by James A. Stiliman, New York
banker, have been tentatively post
poned from 'May IS and 19 to May 25
and 2f, attorneys for Mr. Stiliman re
ported today.
Mingling in European
Politics Means End
Of Monroe Doctrine
'PHILADELPHIA. .May 1.1.
The place of the United States
in a world organization for the
maintenance of peace was the
general topic before the 2Tth an
nual meeting of the American
Academy of Political and So
cial Science 'Which opened to
day. John Hnsett .Moore, an author
ity on iuteninlfnnal law, deal
ing with the Monroe doctrine,
said that "non-interference in
ICuropean politics was and has
continued to ho its source, In
spiration and justification," and
that the title cannot be applied
to policies involving world poli
tics without "a fanciful play
upon words and Hie entire loss
of its actual and distinctive
meaning."
IN COAL SHE
fighting Resumed With Vigor
Over 7-Mile Front in Hills of
West Virginia Governor
Asks for Federal Troops
Three Dead, to Date.
WILLIAMSON, W. Va., May 13
Mountain warfare which raged all of
yesterday and intermittently through
the night over a seven mile front in
Hit West Virginia-Kentucky coal
strike region, was resumed with vigor
this morning. HeportB sent, to Captain
J. li. Brockus of the state police at
headquarters here said heavy firing
was In progress at McCarr, Ky the
eastern end of the trouble zone and at
Merrimae, W. Va., where yesterday's
shooting Btartcd.
WILLIAMSON, W. Va., May. 13.
Reports that firing from the moun
tains had been resumed at dawn today
at Sprlgg, where state police fought a
battle yesterday with riflemen hidden
In the mountains, were received by
county authorities.
Governor Morgan's request for fed
oral troops to guard the district fol
lowed the battle In which one man was
killed and two wounded. '
Firing from tho Kentucky side of
the Tug river continued intermittently
throughout tho night, according to re
ports. j An unidentified man was killed on
the bridge leading from McCarr to the
West Virginia bank of Tug river this
morning, bringing the known casual
ties to threo killed and two wounded
This Includes a member of the attack
Ing parly reported killed at McCarr
last night.
The principal firing toward the
Kentucky side came from Sprlgg, W,
Va., according to reports, when Pike
county deputy sheriffs and a number
of miners approached the state line.
West Virginia state policemen and
miners are reported to have participat
ed In the firing.
Earl Smllh, a Pllto county deputy
sheriff, was reported shot and serious
ly wounded by State Policeman Henry
Bentley at the West Virginia end of
the Tall bridge nt Williamson.
I
UPPER SILESIA
IS CALLED OFF
BERLIN, May 13. The general
strike begun by tho German workmen
at Oppcln, Upper Silesia, in protest
against the attitude of the inter-alllcd
commission toward the Polish Insur
rection has been called off, according
to advices today.
Members of all the German parties,
including the German nationalists and
Uie communists, visited the headquar
ters of the commission yesterday, the
dispatches state, and were assured by
General Lerond, head of the commis
sion, that no negotiations with the
Polish Insurrectionists had taken
place, as had been reported. He added
that he had asked for military rein
forcements, and would be glad to see
British and Italian troops sent to the
INT!
WAR
CONTINUES
GASOLINE DROPS
2 CENTS GALLON
FOELOILJLSO
Oil Companies in Portland An
nounce New Price, Includes
State Tax Gas Company
Rates Lowered Reduction
Due to Cut in Fuel Oil.
SAN' FI1AXC1SCO. Miv 13. Re
duction of two cents a gallon In tho '
iirtcu uf uiiHoline is to bo made by the
Associated, Union and Shell Oil com
panies and tho General Petroleum
eompnny, the officers of these comV
panteH nnnounreu louay.
Tho reduction would be general in
the territory served they announced.-
The new price at service stutiona It
'J5 cents a gallon. , ;
VOttTLAND, Ore., May 13. An ad
litlonitl decrease in the price of gas
wiih nnnounced by the Portland Gaa
and C'oko company today.
The reduction will be combined
with a new Hchedulo of rates now
being prepared by the public service
commission. The new cut la the re
sult of a reduction today of 2S cents
a barrel in tho cost of fuel oil. , '
This reduction added to the 20 cents
a lum-el reduction nnnounced on May
5, will give the commission a -total
reduction of 45 cents a barrel oh
which to base the new schedule...
Upon receipt of the notice of the
reduction from the Standard Oil com
pany, officials of the gas company im
mediately notified tho public service
commission and asked that the sched
ule now being prepared be ' held up
and tho new reduction incorporated
in It. ' ,r'
Kred Williams, chairman . of the-
public service commission issued. A
statement at Salem upon receipt of
the gas companys mcssuge in which
he said that the investigation now
being conducted would be continued-'
to gunrantee that the patrons" Of 'tile
oompany will receive the' benefit ot
every reduction in the manufacturing?
cost of the gas.
Coincident with the announcement
or the reduction in the price of fuel
oil, the oil companies operating in
Portland an announced a reduction' of
two cents a gallon In the price of ras
olino on the open market. The price
Is now 28 cents a gallon. This price
includes a state tax of two .cents a
gallon. ' "- ;
The gasoline reduction was di
rectly due, it was announced, to the
reduction In the price of fuel oil,
which dropped today from $2.36 to
$2.10 a barrel In the Portland market;
On May 5 a cut of 20 cents a barrel
in oil was made and a reduction .In gas
rates npproximaattng $100,000 ; was
announced. That reduction combined
with one in March and the additional
one announced today brings the total
reduction in gas revenues announced
in three months to $360,000 annually;
Offlcluls said the latest reduction
would bo effective about June, IB,
' The Standard Oil Co. was the first
to announce tho reduction on gasolln
from 36 to 3 cents, which takes place
today. ' ' 1
I
BANK TO FACE
I
TACOMA, May 1 3. -Judge V. D.
Askren toduy refused to delay the
second Ural of Ole S. Larson, In con
nection with the failure of the Scan
dinavian American bank, until Jafet
I.-lndbcrg,' San Francisco, and J, E.
Chllberg of New York City can.be
brought hero to testify. . .. , -
"Since Mr. Chllberg is indicated
In tho bank case he may never pu
turn to this state," Judge Askren
said. "I deny the motion. - : ';, '
Llndberg Is In California now
fighting extradition to Tacoma.
Prosecutor Selden today refused to
discuss the Inrlctments against Chll
berg which were made public for tn
first time last evening when attor
neys for Larson filed their motion
for postponement. The grand Jury
returned five Indictments that bare
been held secret hut It is not known
how many of these are against the
New York man. r
Chllberg was the predecessor . ot
Larson as president of the Scandin
avian American bank here and a year
ago he .resigned as president of the
Scandinavian American bank In Seat
tle to devote all his attention to Bui
shipping Interests. , J ' - '
SA.i FRANCISCO The score stood
1600 to 1042 last night in the billiard
match between Edouard Horemans,
Belgian champion and Jake Sobaeter
of San Francisco. Horemans won the
fourth block of his 4000 point match ot
18.2 points billiards 411 to 400.
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