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t Medford Ma The Weather IRIBUNE it .. Maximum yesterday.. Minimum today. 87'2 Daily Sixteenth Tear. Weekly Fifty-First Year. MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUXR (!, 1921 NO. 65 "TELL THE WORLD WE ARE He Is Under Fire Again 10 OP Predictions Fair. I Lil A PHILIPPINES NO! WANTED BY JAPAN, HER AMBITION IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION REBUILD! IS WORD OF PUEBLO BUSINESS MEN 'Are We Downhearted? No, Lets Go!" Is Spirit of Plucky Citizens of Devastated Colorado City Pueblo Will Rise From Desolation to a New City of Greater Beauty and Im portance Meanwhile Waters Rise in Other Parts of State As Heavy Rains Continue Governor Sharp Asks U. S. Government for $20,000,000 for Flood Relief. all rirrciiko citikkns A It 12 PUT. TO WORK PUEBLO, Colo., June 6. (By the Associated Press.) All able bodied citizens were order ed to go to work under military direction cleaning up - the streets and removing the debris, under an order issued this af ternoon by Lieutenant Colonel P. 'Nelson, commander under martial law. Pay was fixed at 43 cents an hour. ' , The order Instructed all sight seers to leave the city immedi ately and exempted no Pueblo citizens from the work order. Persons who refuse to woil? will be placed under military guard and required to work without pay. PUEBLO, June 6. (By the Asso ciated Press.) At leust 62 bodies have been recovered from Friday night's flood. This was definitely known tbls afternoon when Ralph Taylor, a reported for the Pueblo Chieftain, reached Pueblo from the St. Charles mesa, six milts below Pue blo, where ten bodies have been re covered. Taylor had made dully attempts to reach Puelilo from his home in the mesa since the flood aud today waB the first tlmu he could get into Pue blo! PUEBLO, Colo., Juno C. "Tell the world we are going to rebuild." was the message Pueblo business men guve to the correspondent of the As sociated Press toduy. "Send out word over your wire that we are going to have another city." Optimistic signs began to appear in the windows of stores in tlio down town district. "Are we downhearted ? No. Let's go," read one sign In a furniture store in which there has been several feet of water up to this morning. Al though in some instances business men lost all of their property from the flood waters, they are not dis heartened. They believe-, they said, that Pueblo will rise from its desolu tlon to a city of greater beauty and importance. Asks' 120,000,000 FUEELO, Colo.. June. 6. Gov ernor Oliver H.' Shoup todny asked the United States government to place J20.000.000 at the commnnd of the state for uro In flood relief. The governor's 'request was con tained in a tolegram to United States Senators Lawrence C. Phipps and Samuel D. Nicholson of Colorado at Washington. "Transportation into Pueblo from north and east is greatest .present need. Federal government has large emergency fund available which is urgently required for construction of 26 large steel and concrete bridges in valley of Arkansas and tributaries on main east and west highways through most populous section, all of which now inundated. Twenty millions needed now. Please take immediate steps to place funds at command of fctate. PleaBo wire immediate reply. (Signed) "O. H. SHOUP, "Governor." For the first time since the flood waters overflowed into the city Fri day night, the business district of pueblo, lying on both sides of the river channel today is practically free of water. Tho overflow has drained back Into the river, which is several feet below banks this morning. Water is Btanding in low places, however, and every basement in the flooded section is filled. Reconstruction Is beginning in ear nest over tho city. Stocks of mer chandise are watersoaked and covered with mud. In less fortunate loca tions, contents of the buildings wero washed away. On streets . fronting into the current of the flood were completely gutted as though a tank had plowed through them. The side walls still stand, but the contents were washed away. The section south of tho union sta tion apparently suffered most. There walls are down and mud was washed Into the buildings. The railroad yards present a picture of the vio lence of the waters. Hundreds of cars were in the yards. Many were washed hundreds of feet off the tracks and others were overturned when the tracks were washed away beneath them. On one side of the yards was a huge accumulation of piling, driftwood and ties. A switch engine was at work In the yards this morning. Its task Is made difficult because the switches are washed out and cars on many tracks are isolated. Cars are stranded on stretches of tracks of which both ends wero washed away. ; . Like Bombarded. Town.' Looking east from the high ground across from the railroad station, in the direction of the grove, one of the sections hardest hit by the flood, tho skyline of tho city resembles a bombarded town. Piles of debris have accumulated, pieces of house hold furniture are lying about every where. In one place. In the midst of the wreckage is a 'small herd of cat tle, standing chewing. In the grove section, a sulvago party was at work this morning stirring about tho wrecknge in search for bodies. The men, in charge of patrol leaders, appointed by Sheriff Sam Thomas, wero poking into the piles of driftwood and pools of water with billiard cues, sounding for corpses. Their work requires that they wade 'knee deep and deeper in mud nnd slime but hundreds are toiling there and in other sections of the city. Two attempts have been made to re cover tho bodies of a woman und girl near tho Colorado and Southern bridge southeast of the station, but have been unsusccessful. "Wo can feel the bodies under the water but cannot get them out, one of the party reported. "They are ap parently lodged under some logs." This is believed to be true of many of ttie bodies of the flood victims. Damage $10,000,000 Flood damage, it is believed, will stand' at tho lateHt estimate of $10,-000,000. Summary of Stnta. DENVEH, Juno 6. Heavy rains which fell at a number of points in northern Colorado late yesterday and last night, sent streams in that dis trict up today. Reports received at tile Denver office of the Associated Press allowed tho following condi tions at outlying towns: Greeley Poudre and Platte rivers rising rapidly today. All bridges in Weld county over these two rivers are impassable. Severnl thousand acres of farming lands In tho bottoms are Inundated in several feet of water. Residents In eastern Weld county havo been warned against tho rising Platte. Estcs Park lilg Thompson river again last night flooded highways be tween hero and Boulder. Motorists marooned. Longmont St. Vraln river reached Its highest stage In two years this morning, overflowing its banks and flooding the Lincoln highway in places. Tho rise of tho St. Vraln was sadden nnd followed heavy ruins of yesterday. Owners of four reservoirs. the Foothills, Foster Lake, Mulligan Lake and Terry lake, are having them drained to revent possible breakage and inundntion of the district. Lyons Water last night flooded the highway out of Estes Park to Lyons for a distance of 2i feet. Marshall All danger of breaking of the big Marshall dam, a mile above here is believed passed. Somo resi dents who on being warned last Wed nesday, sought safety in Iloulder, have returned. Marshall again is nor mal. Fort Collins This district, includ ing Larimer and surrounding terri tory north of Lovemand, received the benefits of the rainstorm. Officials of the Colorado Agricultural college said the heavy rainfall would be of great worth to the crops. Fort Col lins this week has received 3.22 Incncs of rain. The Poudre river, higher now than at any time for ten years. has not overflowed hero and no danger Is feared. Wild Basin and Copeland Heaviest rains these mountuln have experienc ed in years falling yesterday. Dam age is slight. PUEBLO, Colo., June 6. (By the Associated Press) After a night of quiet. Pueblo awoke this morning to find the waters in the low-lying sec tions of the city receded to below the five foot mark nnd still going down. The flood Is at Its lowest etugo since Its sudden onslaught last Friday night. Todny the work of removing the bodies from the Grove and Pcp persauce bottoms districts began. Colonel Pnt Hamrock in charge of the military, announced the situation ii well In hnnd and that order Is rapid ly being brought out of chaos. District Is Guarded. All during the night the devastated areas were patrolled by a heavy guard of Colorado soldiery, while tho state rangers in automobiles and armed with riot guns patrolled the streets of the residence districts. Every per son found on the streets after night fall was slopped and questioned. Some time after midnight, reports (Continued on page six.) WHERE TO VOTE IN Little interest has been taken so far In tho special stale election, which will bo hold tomorrow where the voters have the privilege of expressing their opinion on five measures, sub mitted by tho leylslature on state wide questions, but every effort Is being mndo to get out a good vote. c d j- c.;n I J A (Jltl 11115 To Be Maximum Price Of Wife in Liberia LONDON, Juno C Five pounds sterling and no more, is to lie the price of a wife, according to a recently ratified convention be- tween the governments of Great Britain and Liberia. This con- vention regulates the relations between the tribes living on the border line between Liberia and Sierra Leone. Women's rights are to be rec- ognized, even in the West Afri- can Jungle, for it Is expressly provided in the convention that no claim can be made in respect of a woman except by her hus- band, and that no woman can be compelled to return to a claimant against her will. . ' ',; PORTLAND, Ore., June G. Colum bia river flood waters today had in undated a valuable tract of farm land at Hood River, Ore., and was threat ening othor tracts in that region fol lowing a further rise above the crest reached last week. Continued rise was forecast by the weather bureau above the stage reuched here by the Wlllamotte Thursday of 2 4.2 caus ed by back water from tho Colum bia. The stage here today was 22.9. The upper and mid-Coluiublu points tojlay reported sharp rise and the Snake river also was higher. The predicted stage of the river this week threatens damage at Vancouver, Wash., according to statements tehre today, though tho business district was said to be In no danger. Stage of 23 feet in Portland will put wuter on Front street. Seeping through a gopher hole at Hood ltlver last night, inundating valuablo truck gardens and caUBlng a damage of nearly $4,000. The river at Hood river now about two Inches hlher than the crest of a week ago, rose four inches last night. J. II. Koberg, whose truck garden la the largest In the mld-Columblu, a mile east of that of Munenialo, said today his dikes still have a foot of leeway on the flood,. COLUMBIA OVER THE BANK, HOOD RIVER FLOODED SPECIAL STATE ELECTION T The voting booths here will bo open from 8 a. m., to 8 p. in., and the vot ing booths in tho various precincts of the city will be the same ns at the na tional election last November, as fol lows: (Oakdnle, tho Onkdalo grocery: rtoxy Ann, tho llradshaw house; Southwest Medford. 1021 West loth st.; Newtown, Washington school; E CONFERENCE FOR WASHINGTON, Juno 0. As a sub stitute for the Itorali disarmament amendment to the naval appropriation bill, tho Iiouho foreign affairs commit tee reported today a Joint resolution concurring In "tho declared purpose" of President Harding to call an in ternational conference to limit arma ments. All republican members voted for tho resolution, democrats either op posing or voting present. As a substitute for the republican measure Representative Flood, Vir ginia, ranking democrat on the com mittee, offered a resolution author izing und requesting the president to Invite all nations to send delegates to a convention to provide for disarma ment and making an appropriation therefor, but It was rejected. The object of the committee resolution which was later presented in the liduse by Chairman Porter was to ex press to house conferees on the nuvul approprlatlo nblll the attitude of the body on tho whole question of dls annanienl. BASEBALL SCORES National League. II. IT.' K. Boston .., 11 0 Cincinnati ' 1 4 2 Scott and Gibson; ltogge, Ilrenlon and Wingo. II. H. K. New York 4 ' 7 2 Pittsburg 5 .12 1 Humes nnd Sinllhlll Cleaner, Adams and Schmidt. II. H. K. Brooklyn 7 l.i - I Chicago 4 1.1 3 Iteutlier anil Miller; Martin, Jones and Daly. American Ix-ngno. SI. H. K. Detroit 12 19 3 Philadelphia 8 12 I Dauss and ltassler; Keefe, Hasty, Nnylor and Perkins. ! It. H. K. Cleveland 8 1 .1 0 Boston 7 9 3 MnilH, Caldwell nnd ThotnliH, Wil son; I'cnnock, Myers, ' Kussrll and Huci. II. H. E. St. Loll! 0 7 0 New York 1 2 2 Liavls and Hevereld; Collins, Hhec han and Schang, South Medford. Kun7.innn's store; North Medford, Smith's till shop building oil North Grape St.; West Medford, West Second St.; Northwest Medford, Jackson school building: Northeast Medford, Lincoln school building; North Central, city hull; South Central. Fonts' Grocery: East Medford, Pacific & Eastern depot; Southeast "Medford, Hoosevelt school. Medford Banker Is Elected President State Association SKASHIE, Ore., .T110 6. Wil liam (i. 'fait, president of the First National bunk tit Medford, lato Suturduy, was eluded presi dent of tho Oregon Hunkers' as sociation at the close of the sixteenth annual session. Other officers elected wero C. II. Vaughun, Hood River, vice pres ident; Glenn R. Stuplotou, Gas ton, treasurer, and .1. L. Hart- mun, Portland, reelected sec- rotary. BYSUPREMECT. WASHINGTON, Juno G. A peti tion of the Oregon liar association that it be permitted to Intervene as a friend of the court in the case of Henry Albcrs was denied today by the supreme court. Conviction of Alberts, a wealthy citizen of Portlund. of violating the espionage act was reversed when the government con' ressed error. WASHINGTON, June 6. Sale of the Vnshon Island military reserve Hon in the state of Washington, Is (ithorl'ed In a bill approved toduy by the house und sent to tho Benuto, WASHINGTON, Juno ' G. The houso passed today a bill providing for government acquisition of private fishing rights In Pearl Harbor, Haw- all. WASHINGTON, Jno 6. The su preme court toduy ordered the United Shoe Machinery case, tho original sit between Wyoming and Colorado and a number of others "restored to tho docket for re-argument before a full court." f'nn Case HIsiiiInkimI WASHINGTON. Juno G. -On no Hon of Solicitor General Frlorson the supreme court today ' dismissed the government's appeal from lower court decree holding that the American Can company did not constitute a mo ncpoly tinder the Sherman Antl tiust law. ALBERS MOTION TURNED DOWN Charles Edward Russell Declares Idea of Japan Grabbing U. S. Pacific Possessions Entirely Unfounded Only a War Would Render Islands of Value to Nippon and a War Is What Japanese People Wish to Avoid Japan's Develop ment to North and West Not South Spain Offered Philip pines to Japan in 1 897, But She Refused Them. By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Special Correspondent of the Mail Tribune. (Copyright, 11121, by tho Mall Tribune) TOKIO, Juno G. One of tho favorite versions of the great Jnpnnoso goblin tales now so popular in tho United States represents tho monster as crouched for a spring upon tho Philip pines' with full intent to eat them alive. Nothing keeps her off now bu'. tho United States navy; onco let that 10 withdrawn and It Is good night to tho poor Filipinos. Tho Jupnneso will havo them tho next morning for break fast. Tho basis for tills almost universal notion Is the belief that Japan bus a fixed, perfectly defined und Inalterable policy to grab anything anywhere that looks like hind; that her relations with foreign (lowers uro Invariably ad justed to this pulley; that shu is con trolled by a secret und sinlstor sanhe drln of elder statesmen who always know exactly what to do about every thing, uro without responsibility or morals nnd busy themselves In spying over tho world whoro thero Is a weak nation they can oppress, soma Ho thoy can tell, or something they can steal hi furtheranco of their perfectly dia bolical iHilicy. No Foreign Policy Probably any attempt to shake our faith in tills dear delusions would be hopeless. Kngllsh speaking peoples are not likoly In this generation to sur render a romance so picturesque and nt the same time so useful. Of courso, anyone who knows tho Inside of things In Japan knows that It has at. present no foreign policy, that the elder states men havo lost practically nil their power, that tho main idea in the minds of the present administration is to keep alive, and that whenever there Is any kind of a showdown in the diet, as there was over Chientao, ovor the Siberian situation and over the affairs in China, tho government Is a fatuous optimistic drifter to which oven Lloyd George could give no points In futility. Hut as to eating up tho Philippines, the idoa of tho monster at largo pusses outside of ordinary romanco and has place. In the history of human delusion. Japan hus never shown tho loast Inter est In these Islands. Thero is no rea son why she should covet thorn nnd evory reuson why she should not. For one rouson, her development is most obviously In another direction. Hut even If It were not, sho has her hands so full of the jobs she has already till; on on that with tho storm signal flying at homo and the equivocal situa tion that confronts tho government there, Bhe doesn't yearn for any more troubles than she has. : I ;, Development Not South Plainly Japan's development Ib- west and north, not south. The great fact about it that we are always overlook ing Is that It Is an economic develop ment and not territorial. To get more land Is nothing in Japan's lino; what she must got is raw materials. It isn't any ordinary hunger or thirst for riches that drives her, but a sltuutlon. The materials she needs Ho right to her hands In Korea, Manchuria, Mon golia, northern China, and thoy don't He at all In tho Philippines. Tho no tion that she is to turn from the things sho needs when they are on her doorstop and chase 1500 miles after something sho doesn't need and can't use and can't get without plenty of trouble seems something for the kin dergarton. Thero may be two or three more battleships in It, but assuredly nothing else. In the history or record ed actions of tho Japaneso nothing in dicutos that they are generally Insane or go out looking for trouble when they already have enough; but they would have to bo as mad as that be fore they undertook such a Job. Ivel-hoaded observers in the Orient, laughing at tho strange ease with which this delusion lays hold of people, have pointed out to mo that If tho United States Bhotild withdraw from the Philippines, Japan, supposing she wanted them and could use them In her business, could master them only after a long and bitter struggle with an Intensely hostllo population, nnd she has had enough of such strug gle not to havo any nmd yearning for more. I havo discussed this subject "With all classes of Japanese In a position to know about It, with old friends, with journulists, the wise guys of public af fairs, seasoned foreign residents here, SB well as with government leaders. and found only one point of view among them. It is that except for a wur between tho United States and Japan, the Philippines us a Japanese proposition are purely imuglnary. Opinion Unanimous I have ulso discussed It with five of Japan's foremost statesmen and have from each of them a statement for publication, solemnly repudiating any Intention, near or remote open or covert, to meddle with the Philippines. So powerful upon the human imag ination is the figure of the fictitious Japan, the Japan of lies, chicanery. Ifitiiguo nnd boundless ambition, that ordinarily such statements are taken as trickery to lull us into a false secur ity that tho horrible dragon may the more easily leap at our throats. But tho Idoa of dissimulation turns Itself in tho case of Viscount Katieko, grad uate of Harvard, life-long, devoted and steadfast friend of the United States, Intimate personal friend of many Americans, man of the most obvious honesty and purity of character; or in tho case of Marquis Oktima, Japan's grand old man, now in his 84th year. several times prime minister, plain. simple, sincere; or in the case ot Huron Goto, present mayor of Toklo and former minister of foreign affairs; or Huron Mutsiii, who long resided la tho United States and then mafle so : ndmlrahlo a record ns ambassador to France; or Mr. Hanlharl, the present vico minister of foreign affairs;' 'for theso are men who do not deal in guile : and havo no reason or Impulse to speak to us anything but their thought. It is from these men that I rhavo had tho clearest and most em phatic exiwsltlons of this subject. Were Offered Philippine Viscount Knneko said: '"'" "It. Is a Rtrnntrn notion hilt wholly '" Unfounded. Let mo tell you a bit of history that should help to make its absurdity the clearer. If Japan wanted the Philippines or could use them It could havo had them long ago, cheaply nnd easily. In 1897, before the Span- -Isli American war, Spain, tired of years of struggule with the natives, asked Japan to take the Islands oft her hands. The price she named was ' $3,000,000 gold. The Japanese govern ment made' an investigation of the islands nnd arrived at the conclusion that they had no attraction and no advantage for us and declined Spain's' offer. They are the same islands to; day and this is the same Japan. ; ; 'Marquis Oktima said: "Japan has no designs noon the . Philippines and has had none. Why - should we want them? Or why should any one think we harbor any secret plans to take them? The Great War' has abolished all such maneuvering from international affairs. There was once a power In this world that delud- ed itsolf into tho belief It could build Its own greatness by Belzlng and hold ing the territories of other nations. In the war the world set Its condemna tion forever upon all such theories, enterprises and attempts and they will never be revived. It Is a different world since the war. Let us not forget that fact." Baron Goto said: "Japan has no de- ' signs upon the Philippines and no thought of molesting them should the United States withdraw its sdverelgn- ty. The suggestion Is utterly impos sible." - ' Baron Matsul said: "If there were nothing else, the Philippines do not lie - In tho direction of Japan's develop- ' ment. Our experiences In Formosa have proved that. We are not a peo ple for the tropics. Formosa marks our southern limit." Mr. Hanlharl said: "You can assure your readers most positively and un equivocally that Japan has not ' the -slightest thought ot annexing ' the Uiillpplnes or menacing them or dls-' turblng them if the United States should withdraw." This is exactly what men on the In sldo, the journalists and others who know, assured me confidentially was the fact, and I haven't found any bet ter test than that. WASHINGTON. June 6. Robert M. oshorn was nominated today by 'resident Hnrdlng to be land office register at Kallspeel, Mont. NEW YORK, June 8. The Chandler , Motor company today declared a quar terly dividend of $1.60 a share. This was a reduction in the annual dividend rate from $10 to $6.