Medford mail tribune., June 02, 1921, Page 1, Image 1

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The Weather
Maximum yesterday 82
Minimum today 62
R.IBUNE
Prediction!
Fair.
Dally Sixteenth Tear.
Weakly Klriy-I'lrst Year,
MEDFORD, OREUOtt, THURSDAY, ,WSK 2,
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MEDFORD
GERMS
ATTACK
EST A
F
TEUTON DRIVE
AS POLES AID
Germans Attack Garrison at
Beuthen and Meet With
Heavy Losses Poles Los
ing Control in Silesia Out
of Food Situation Is Re
garded As Very Grave.
OPPELN. June 2. (I3y tho Asso
ciated Press) French soldier form
ins the garrison at Beuthen, a city In
southeastern Hilesia near tho old Pol
ish frontier have been attacked by
forces organized by the German in
habitants, lleports state the Germans
in tho fighting numbered 3,000. The
French charged with tanks and are
said to have gained tho upper hand.
There have been many German cas
uullies. The situation at Beuthen Is com
plicated by the presence of Polish in
surgent forces around the city. The
Poles began a fight with Germans in
the outskirts of tho town Sunday and
when tho French were attacked, the
Poles rushed to their assistance.
The attack by the Germans on the
French Is said to huve been well
planned. Telegraph and telephone
wires between the French headquar
ters and the barracks were cut, sen
tries were driven back and tho head
quarters detachment was surrounded.
Tanks were rushed to tho sceno and
the Germans, who were armed with
.pistols, attempted to capture the ma
chines, but were repulsed and were
driven Into adjacent buildings, from
the windows of which a hot firo was
opened. The tanks charged on the
buildings, firing volleys through tho
doors and windows.
The situation at Beuthen Is report
ed by neutral refugees reaching here
to be grave. The German population
''of the city is declared to be desperate.
Food supplies are running short and
there has been much looting during
recent nights.
' All wire communication between
Beuthen and Kattowitz, further south
has been Interrupted since Monday.
Itefugees arriving here say the
French at Kattowitz have killed a
number of Poles, who attempted to
loot two motor lorries loaded with
food and It is declared there were
some Frenchl casualties.
Germans and Poles have heen en
gaged In a battle near Gross-Strehlitz
just east of the Oder river and south
of Oppeln. The Germans have at
tacked the Poles and have forced tue
insurgents to withdraw from strong
positions.
German dend and wounded have
been removed in farm wagons from
the scene of this fight, which took
place at Posnowitz, about five miles
west of Gross-Strehlitz, and were
taken to Krappitz, causing much ex
citement there.
The correspondent of the Associat
ed Press was at Krappitz when these
wagons entered the town and saw the
dead, who ranged from 19 years to
00, removed from them.
Tho Improvised ambulances which
brought the wounded from the scene
of the fighting were parked in rows
in the court of tho castle at Krappitz.
Women began volunteering Ust
night for service at the front. A num
ber of women, wearing men's clothing
ore driving wagonB and automobiles.
The Germans aro sending every man
possessing any sort of weapon to the
Posnowitz front.
Members of the Blark Watch, con
stituting a part of the British forces
sent into Silesia have reached Stu
bendorf, about six miles northwest of
Gross-Strehlitz and Polish sentries
aro on duty only a short distance
(Continued on PftW KiKht)
SHERIFF TERRILL DUMPS 64 GALLONS
OF HARD LIQUOR INTO THE SEWER
i Under the direction of the grand
Jury, Sheriff Terrill Wednesday af
ternoon dumped Into a cesspool at the
county court house, 64 gallons of
contraband liquor, ranging from the
crude concoctions of amateur dis
tillers to the historic Old Crow. The
firewater was destroyed upon an or
der Issued bv Circuit Judge Calkins,
upon a petition filed by District At
torney Rawles .Moore. J. W. Klden,
foreman of the grand Jury, and P. C.
i;igham, a member thereof, were of
ficial witnesses of the tragedy.
During the operation, the air was
heavy with the scent of hootch, and
Daugherty Refuses
Oregon Request to
Reconsider Albers
WASHINGTON', June 2 At
torney General Daugherty has re
fused a request of the Oregon
)ar association that lie re-consider
the government's confession of
error in tho casu of Henry
Albers, wealthy citizen of Port
land, convicted of the espionage
act. This became known today
when Senator McXnry of Oregon,
as counsel for the association,
filed in the supreme court a pe
tition asking a stay of the court's
order reversing the conviction
and remanding the case. Senator
McXary's petition was taken
under advisement.
tjt J (Jt tl tjt
OF
MURDER RESULT
Solitary Confinement Walla
Walla Penitentiary Leads to
Confession By Mark McCoy
Slaying of Confederate in
Robbery Described.
WALLA WALLA, Wash.. June 2.
Smitten conscience following long soli
tary confinement at the state peniten
tiary resulted Wednesday in Mark Mc
Coy confessing to burglarizing a safe
at Centralia and then murdering one
of his confederates and burying the
body in a gulch two miles west of
Galvin, Lewis county, Washington,
according to information given out at
the state penitentiary hero today. Mc
Coy, according to penitentiary custom
is subject to six months "in Siberia"
following his return to the peniten
tiary. Ho was arrested at Aberdeen
following the attempted bombing of
the American Legion building last
winter and wns recognized as an
escaped convict.
McCoy's affidavit states that the
dead man was Whitey West and that
with a third man, whose name he re
fuses at this time to divulge he and
West on the night of January 22 last
burglarized the office of the Eastern
Railway and Lumber company at Cen
tralia. They found some Liberty bonds
in the safe and following the crime
walked the railroad track to and
through Galvin. ,,
When they reached this point they
decided to divide the loot and it was
during a quarrel over the number of
bonds taken that the crime was com
mitted. McCoy says West reached for
his gun first, and that he fired, Bhoot
ing the mnn over the left eye. But one
shot was fired nnd West was Instantly
killed.
Following the 'murder, McCoy Bays
in his statement, he and the unnamed
man carried the body back into the
underbrush and they covered It with
six or eight inches of dirt and leaf
mould. The two revolvers were bur
led with the body.
McCoy was sentenced from Spokane
county to from one to 15 years for
burglary, second degree, on October
13. He escaped from the institution
on December i and nothing further
was heard by the penitentiary officials
until a few days after the Aberdeen
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a number of spectators viewed the
ceremony some rejoicing, some very
sad. Very few knew the' obsequies
were going to take place.
.Most of the destroyed bevterage
wan of high grade, seized In the Sla-
klyous when California was wet, and
the trip over the mountains had a
strong appeal. There was Home, how
ever, that smnlled of acid and cop
per, with blindness In every swig.
In many communities, the best of
the liquor is turned over to the hos
pitals for medicinal and surgical pur
poses, and only the deadly portions
destroyed.
CONFESSION
OF CONS G ENGE
U.S. ATTACK
Senator Kellogg Introduces a
Bill to Protect Alien Rights
By Use of Army and Navy
if Necessary California
Anti-Alien Land Law Is
Objective.
, WASHINGTON. June 2. A. bill au
thorizing tho president to maintain
through federal court h or otherwise,
irrespective of any state law, treaty
rights of aliens in the United Ktates,
was introduced today by Senator Kel
Iok&T. republican, Minnesota, and re
ferred to the foreign relations com
mittee. It would specifically permit
use of the army ami navy, as well us
United States murshalri lo enforce
court rulings.
Where such alien Hyhts were con
travened in the judgment of the presi
dent, he would be authorized to in
struct the attorney general to assume
tho defense of civil or criminal suits
ugainst aliens and transfer the issue
to federal courts. While no specillc
application was described In 'the bill,
it was said it might be available under
cases arising out of state statutes such
as the California anti-alien land law.
RACTIAMI5NTO, Oil., Juno 2.
Calfornla, uiuKm- Its nntl-allen land
laws, does not violate any rights guar
anteed to tho Japanese or any other
aliens by treaty and never has at
tempted to do so, It was declared
bore today In a statement Issued by
State Senator J. M. Iiiinnn, president
of the Japanese Exclusion league of
Califonia.
TOKfO, Juno 2. (Hy the Associat
ed Press) The Hochi Shlmbun says
today It has reason to believe Japan
has proposed to give tho United States
the Yap-Guam cable with the privi
lege of control of the lino to the
Island of Yap. "While Japan intends
to keep tho mandate, the newspaper
says, she, considers this to be virtual
Internationalization.
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ST. PAUL, June 25. Between 7000
nnd 10,000 workmon will be re-em
ployed in the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern railroad shops, offic
ials announced today. The men will
be called back to work July 1.
The decision Is a direct result of
the wage reduction, said a Northern
Pacific official.
NEW YORK, June . Approxim
ately 65,000 New York clothing work
ers today began a gradual return to
work following a general strike In the
industry starting last December.
NEW YORK, June 2. The tide or
business failures continues to recede
slowly, according to reports received
by Ilradstreets for the month of May.
These showed 1338 failures for the
month, a decrease of 7.4 per cent .from
the April aggregate and .the smallest
monthly total recorded since Novem
ber 190.
ANTI-RED REVOLT
PEKING, June 2. (Hy the Asso
ciated Press) The nntl-bolshevlk re
volt in eastern Siberia, which begun
with the capture of Vladivostok and
nearby towns by troops formerly
(-onimund'Ml by the lute General
Knppell, has spread to niugovoHt
chensk, capital of the Amur province,
It Is said in reports reaching here.
Local authorities at ItlugoveHtchensk
are said to be defying the government
of the Far Eastern republic which has
its cnpltal ut Chita.
Tho new socialist government
established at Vladivostok continues
to function. Tho city Is reported to
be quiet.
A thirsty elephant will drink 3G gal
Ions of water at one lime.
City Water Supply
Land Offered to
Medford, $2.50 Acre
r
WASHINGTON, June 2. (Spe-
cial.) Tho puYdic land committee
toduy reported to the house fa-
vorably a bill to Bell to the city
of Medford- eighty acres of land
for use In connection with the
city water supply at a price of
two dollars and fifty cents per
4 acre.
E
UNITE PLEA OF
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va Juno 2.
Tho English speaking people of the
world should he "bunded together in
leadership of all the nations, to the
era of world peace and, as a first step,
to the era in which the wars which
even now we can recognize as futile
and unnecessary are done with for
ever," Sir Auckland Gnddes, tho llrit-
ish ambassador,- said in an address
hero today at centennial exercises of
tho University of Virginia.
"The continuance Indefinitely Into
the future of peace between our peo
ples Is so obvious a necessity of our
national lives," Sir Auckland said,
"that I do not dream of the contingen
cy of its rupture. What I um con
cerned witli is something that seems
to mo far greater and fur nobler."
Deprecating war as a sapper of tho
physical vigor of nations and denying
that "peace will rot the vitals of a
nation," the ambassador expressed the
belief "that now is the time for the
English speaking peoples with their
great atid peculiar advantages to re
solve that never again will they per
mit this fair world to he devastated
by unnecessary war it standing firmly
together they enn prevent it."
"Whnt Is to hinder their co-operation
to this great end?" he asked.
"Nothing that I know of but ignorance
of each other's ideals and aspirations
and the suspicion that is the child of
ignorance."
GOES UP IN SMOKE
HELLINGHAM, Wash., June 2 The
largest funeral pyre to the memory of
John llurleycorn since nution-wlde
prohibition went Into effect, according
to customs officials was celebrated at
lllalne yesterday when whiskey estl
mated at "bootleg" prices to he worth
$150,000 was burned by L. P. Flanagan
deputy United States marshal by
order of Judge Jeremiah Neterer of
tho federal court In Seattle.
The whiskey had been seized in
cars in transit between Vancouver, B.
C, and points In the United States.
National League ,
H. II. E.
St. Louis 5 12 1
Cincinnati ..8 11 2
Goodwin, Hrhupp, North, Ttivlore,
Shcrdell and ('lemons, Dllboefer;
Hugge, Eller and JIargrave.
n. ir. k.
New York 7 12 0
Pittsburg 0 3 1
Nehf and Smith; .Zlnn, Carlson and
Schmidt.
American League. :
It. H. E.
St. Louis 2 7 4
New York -7 li 0
Shocker, Deberry. Ilayne and Se
vercld, Collins; Shawkey and Scbnng.
It. II. E.
Cleveland 8 13 2
Koston 4 ' 8 1
Chin nnd Thomas; Sotboron, My
ers, Neltzke and Walters.
It. II. K.
Chlcngo 2 7 3
Washington 7 12 2
Kerr and Yaryan; Courtney nnd
Gharrlty,
MEDFORD MAY GET GET
STATE WOMEN'S CONVENTION
PENDLETON, Ore., Juno 2. Med
ford, Tillamook and Newport are ex
pected to ask tomorrow for the next
annual convention of the Oregon Fed
eration of Women's Clubs now in ses
sion here,
JAPAN NOT
DRIVEN TO
GRAB AND
Russell Denies Japanese Are
Thronging to Colonize Other
Lands Only 135,618 in
North America Raw Ma
terials Form Great Need,
and These She Must Have.
By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL
Special Correspondent of the Mail
Tribune.
Copyright, 1921, by the Mail Tribune.
TOKIO, Juno 2. Imaginary men,
monsters, mountains, islands, coun
tries, animals, fruits nnd flowers have
always danced more or less before the
vision of man in his febrile or vinous
hours griffins, hlppogrifl'ls, basilisks,
Lilliputians, anthropophagi and pink
monkeys but so far as 1 know Japan
is the only country on record that was
two countries at tho same time nnd
both Imaginary.
That Is tho way iho world has elect
ed to look at her. Part of us are con
firmed in tho habit of thinking of Ja
pan us a country desperately driven
because of its narrow limits and Its
swelling iHipulalioiiH to go forth and
grab additional laud wherever land
can' bo found. The rest of us aro Just
as certain that Japan has a trciuen
dous ambition to rule the world and
by stealth, by trick, hy bargain or by
open depredation Is busily annexing
territory day and night.
Tho only thing wo ngree about Is
that Japan is either a basilisk or a
hlppogrll'f menacing us witli destrue
Hon und therefore on with tho now
battleships and bo quick ubout them.
For the notion that Japan is forced
without its will Into landgrubbing to
get room for its people to stand on
there urc some supimrtlng facts. 1
suppose there wore supporting facts
for the conception of tho Minotaur und
tho Jobberwock. The population of
Japan increases about 700,000 a year.
Only 19 per cent of Its soil Is tillable;
tho rest is mountain and rock. On
this 19 per cent the population is
about us dense as In any other coun
try on earth. Almost every Inch that
will grow anything 1ms its green
blade. How, men say) ahull this Japan
feed its annual increnso of hungry
mouths except hy getting more land?
And as sho is an island and Islands
don't stretch, there is nothing for her
but to grab on tho main land, and to
send forth her teeming legions to till
them.
Hence these visions of overflowing
Japanese colonies all about the earth
with which we aro regaled every three
weeks In congress. Toduy the horrible
spectre of a Japanese colony makes
its appalling presence known at Mag
dalcna Hay. Tomorrow It will ho In
Peru, the next day the hideous thing
will be in Colombia, Ecuudor, Molda
via, Thibet or Winch, menacing our
Interests with its vast brown hordes
and of course necessitating more bat
tleships. Has Plenty of Land
I)ut the odd fact is, If any of us care
for the facts, that Japan isn't driven
to seek additional laud on which to
plant the feet of hor people; Rhe has
land enough. And her peoplo are not
thronging in vast hordes to colonize
other countries; they aro clinging
tooth and null to their native soil and
in general can't be coaxed, bought,
lured or bribed to do anything else.
In Formosa, for Instance, which has
been for twenty-six years Japanese
territory, nnd where exists every op
lortuntty for profit and every condi
tion to invite, the zealous efforts of
tho government have planted ,oj Jap
anese population of fewer than 300,
000. In Korea, bIbo now Japanese terri
tory, the Oriental Development com
pany, a government Institution, has
been trying for years to Inijuce Jap
anese people to take up fertile farms
in an attractive cllinnto nnd with
money nnd every conceivable advan
tage has been able to get only about
300 families a year.
In the whole of North America, In
eluding the terrible Mugdaleiia liny
Mexico, Canada, California and nil,
there are only 135,018 Japanese. In
South America where tho venerable
Henry Cabot Lodge sees the monster
advancing with giant strides (here are
all told 31. 101. In China, well-known
(Continued ou pne Eight)
Report King George
Will Open Ireland's
Parliament June 21
1IELFAST, Ireland. Juno 2.
(Hy Associated Press.) Tho News
Letter today says it has learned
"on very gooil authority that in
all probability King George will
visit Hell'ast for tho purpose of
opening the Ulster parliament in
siato June 21.
The parliament, will meet next
Tuesday for tho election of a
speaker and the swearing in of
members.
DUHLIN, June 2. (Hy Associ
ated Press.) Four members of
tho ikjIIco force were shot dead
and three others wounded in nil
ambush at Clonmore, county
Kerry, yesterday, it was announc
ed nt headquarters hero today.
The Killed were Police Inspector
MacGaughoy, a sergeant and two
constables. The threo men wound
ed were constables.
MILITIA RULES
TULSA; DEAD IN
E
Scores Wounded and Loss By
Fire $1,500,000 Probe to
Fix Blame Started Hous
ing Negroes Problem
Race Feeling Dies Out.
TULSA. Oltla., Juno 2. Outwardly,
TuIhil resumed lis normal atmosphere
tod n y except for tho presence, under
a nmrtlal liiw proclamation, of ap
proximately KOO Oklahoma National
GtiardHmen, sent hero yeHtenluy ufter
many hours of rioting between ne
Kioch and white men, Itu-ludhiK a
nluht of incendiarism In which vir
tually tho entire negro quarter wan
destroyed with u Iohh of about $1,-
500,000.
, Ah the situation rapidly died down
tho estimates of deaddwlndled. Nino
dead white meb had been identified
today and fifteen negroes were ac
countd for. The lint of wounded In
creased, however, nnd tho total wuh
unofficially eHtfmated at about 240.
IIhhIh for estimates still ranged ns
high an forty negroeH dead was tho
possibility of an unknown number of
bodies having been destroyed when
tho torch wnH applied to tho negro
needon. Casual search of tho rjuur-
tei failed to disrloso additional bod
ies or bones today.
i Negroes began to return to their
places of employment this morning.
Soma wore white hnndkerchlefs
around their arms while others wore
white ribbon budges inscribed "po
lice protection."
TUI,SA, Okla., June 2. A sweep
ing investigation of the race riots of
Tuesday night and yesterday morning
Which resulted in death and injury,
unoffif ially estimated nt nearly 100
killed and scores wounded, most of
the victims negroes, was txpoc.tfd to
get under way todny. The city Was
in tho firm grasp of the mllltla nnd
officials were confident the disturb
ances would not recur.
A military commission has tho task
of fixing, responsibility for the out
break. Stores were permitted to open at 8
a. m., after business had been sus
pended last night and citizens kept
off tho streets.
The military officials began a check
rGontlnund nn Hi Bight)
WASHlIflN PASTOR
niDGKFIKI-D, Wash., Juno 2.
"Wedding bells ring ns merrily for the
old as for the young," says Pastor
Andrew Btover, of the Seventh Day
Adventlst church, who, at tho age of
eighty-five, contemplutes his second
adventure In matrimony.
1-ato In June, Mrs. Sarah R.
Master, of Norwich, N. Y a widow,
sixty-five, and nn old acquaintance of
Stover, will become his second wife.
After the ceremony the newlyweds
will make their home in Ridgnflelil.
Elder Stover was first married In
Indiana in 1805 and spent Blxty-flve
RAC
II
WITH 65 GRANDCHlLDRENlTOTAKE 8RIDE
WILL NEVER
President Harding Tells Navy
Graduates He Hopes Nation
Will Never Fight Again
Promises Middies There Will
Be No War That Isn't Moral
Necessity.
WASHINGTON, Juno 2. President
Harding returned hero at 4 p. in. to
day from Annapolis whore he deliver
ed diplomas to tho midshipmen grad
uated today from the navaj academy.
Immediately after reaching the'Vhlto
House ho wont Into conference with
W. C. Teaclo. nrosldent of the stnmi-
aid Oil company of New Jersey who
has heen prominently mentioned for
me cnairmansnip of the shipping
hoard.
ANNAPOLIS, Mr., June 2. A hopo
that tho nation would never bo called
upon to fire a gun In war again wan
expressed by President Harding to
day in presenting diplomas to the
graduating class at tho naval acad
emy. '
' The president added a promise that
whllo ho was hero tho young men
graduating today would never go to
war except in a cause that squared
with American conscience.
"A good deal Is said now-a-days,"
said Mr. Harding, "about preparing
for defense. I know nothing nobler
in this world than the defense of one's
own country. That is an inherent
thing in man, planted in the human
breast by Cod Almighty. There
wouldn't be any civilization today If
men were not willing to give their all
for Its preservation.
"llttt the preservation of the estab
lished order Is one thing, and it Is
highly essential, while crusading for
u new order is quite another thing,
sometimes most nobly Inspired, some
times' most ill-advised, I can believe
the ideal for our country is a sen
sible blend of the maintenance of the
established order and the enthusiasm
of the crusader.
"I want to say to you, young men,
I hope you'll never be called upon to
draw a sword nor fire a gun except,,
in the customary amity of respect.
And, I promise you that while I am
presidont you'll never be called to fire
a gun except you can do It with the
American conscience, with Which you
can answer to God.
"I do not want to be misunder
stood. I want an America unafraid,
but I want yon to help make a re
public of conscience, a republic of
sympathy and a republic of high
ideals."
1 921 COTTON CROP IS
66 PER CENT NORMAL
WASHINGTON, June 2. The con
dition of tho cotton crop May 25 was
l6 per cent of a normal, the depart
ment of agriculture announced to
day. That compnroB with 02.4 per
cent n year ngo, 75.6 two years ago,
82.3 threo years ago and 76.7 the
average of the last ten years, May 25.
No forecast of production or acre
age wns announced.
85 YEARS OLD,
years of wedded life, his wife dying
hero a year ago. Through this mar
riage eight children were born, five
of whom are living, with about sixty
five grandchlldron and great-grandchildren.
Doaplte his advanced years Mr.
Stover can do a fair day's work. For
more than fifty-five years he has lived
on two meals a day, and bars from hla
table tea and coffee. He uses little,
fresh meat or butter and never In
dulges in alcoholic drinks or tobacco.
To his method of living Rev. Stover
ascribes his wonderfully robust health,
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