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Daily Sixteenth Tear.
Weekly Fifty-First Year.
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, JUXR (!, 1921
NO. 65
"TELL THE
WORLD WE ARE
He Is Under Fire Again
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Predictions
Fair. I
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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.
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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. .
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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;
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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.