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Mebforb Mail nn The Weather Maximum yesterday.... 78 Minimum today 52 BUNE Predictions Fair. pally Sixteenth Year. Weekly Fifty-First Year. MEDFORD, OK KG ON, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 8, 1921 NO. 67 SLILDIERS AID BILL CIIS Hygiepic Marriage and 60 i Day Legislature Bills De- feated Close Race Women 'i Jurors Veto Bill Approved Only Two Measures Carried i On Ballot. PORTLAND, Ore., Juno 8. Ko turns from yesterday'B special election . compiled at noon today giving virtu ally complcto figures from 22 cum plete counties in the state, including Multnomah,, gave: . Legislative, for 26,110; ugainst 30, 47. : Bonus, for 53,7'.0; against 18.452. Marriage examination, for 31,:J.l; against. 38,056. Women jurors, for 35,013; agaiiiBt 30,043. Veto omergency, for 37,010; ugainst 20.201. PORTLAND, Ore., Juno 8. Aid for ex-service men in the shape of bonus of $15 a month for each month served Jn tho world war, with nn alternative of a real estato loan not exceeding $1000 was approved by Oregon voters at a special election yesterday by a vote of about thrco to one, according to returns from all except a few re mote counties reported early today. A measure referred by the legisla ture providing for physical examina tion of both men and women seeking marriage licenses was defeated on the face of returns available this morning. A measure to lengthen the biennial legislative session from -forty to sixty days and to increase pay of legislators from $3 to $5 a day also waB defeated. Available returns showed close vote on a law permitting women to serve as jurors. The votors approved a measure enabling the governor to veto provisions in bills which declare emergencies without affecting other provisions of tho bills. Returns from 403 out of .413 pre cincts In Multnomah county gave: . Legislative session, yes 11,243; no 13,443. rionus, yes 27,588; no 7133. Emergency clause, yes 19,290; no 10,018. Marriage bill, yes 14,009; no 19,681. ' Women jurors, yes 19,197 no 13,441. - While tho sixty day session is ahead in Multnomah county by less than 1000 votes in tho 403 precincts, tho up state countios are against it. A simi lar amendment was defeated in tho last genoral election. Complete returns from 403 of the 413 precincts in Multnomah county in dicate that the bill empowering tho governor to appoint members of tho port of Portland commission has car ried by a substantial majority. The vote was, yes 16,923; no 12,566. PORTLAND, Ore., Jno 8. Com plete returns from 377 of tho 379 .precints in the city of JPortland show that a charter amendment vot ed on at the special election yester ,. day authorizing tho vacation of streets for railroad terminal develop ment was passed and that a charter amendment authorizing a $200,000 ', bond issua for additional fire .fight- : Jug equipment was lost. - , Tho vote in the 377 precincts was: Terminal amendment, yes 24,091; no 7,694. Fire apparatus bonds: Yes 8564; no 23,750.. ' SALEM, Ore.. Juno 8. Two meas ures, the soldiers' state aid nnd emer gency veto amendments to tho consti tution,' out of tho five submitted to the voters of Oregon at yesterday's election have carried in Marlon coun ty on tho face of complcto returns from 65 of a total of 74 precincts at 10:30 o'clock this morning. The complete returns for the 55 precincts gave the following totals: Sixty-day legislative session Yes, 13B7: no, G4f8. Soldiers' aid Yes 4352: no, S841. Emergency clauso veto Yes, 3395; no. 3141. Marriage test Yes 3457; no, 3716. Women Jurors Yes 2772; no, 4104. FILES ANSWER YOVKERS. .X. Y June 8. Mrs. Anne I'. Stlllman, defending the suit for a divorce brought against her by James A. Stillman, New York banker, todav filed an amended answer nam ing a woman known to her only as Clara, as a second co-respondent. The first woman named was Mrs. Flor ence leds, a former lirnadway cho ilia girl. HE 0 Bandits Raid Dance Lady Saves Diamonds Via Cup of Coffee CHICAGO, Juno 8. "Lino up hero or you'll get shot," com manded a young man with cap pulled down over his eyes and a pistol In each hand as ho step ped out on the dance floor of a roadhouso north of Evanston early this morning. The guc3ts laughed, but throe other bandits stepped In and fired several shots Into tho ceil ing and then gathered up money and jewelry estimated at $15, 000. One woman was said to havo saved diamonds valued at $13, 000 by dropping them into her cup of coffee. TO DANGER OF PUEBLOFLOOD Rush Work of Removing Dead Animals, and Taking Sani tary Steps Red Cross Aids Refugees Death List Now Estimated at 500. PUEBLO, Colo., Juno 8. (lly Asso ciated Press.) A bright sunshine to day played over flood stricken Pueblo and mado the more imperative tho work of removing bodies of animals and clearing of debris as a precaution ary measure against disease. All night gasoline pumps worked on flooded cellars throughout tho busi ness district, 'pouring thousands of gallons of water into the streots and again converting them into quagmires. Tho correspondent rodo through the district shortly beforo midnight with tho Colorado rangers. More rtreets were passable toautomobiles than nt any other time since tho flood. Tho Main street viaduct closed yes terday when Its condition became me nacing, was opened to traffic, after ono side of the concrete structure had been removed. Completion of the refugee camp near Mineral Palace park was expect ed today and arrangements are being made to bring refugees into it immedi ately. Another camp is to bo con structed on the south side. A squad of marines from Denver arrived yes terday to assist in organization of the refugees. i A convoy of trucks left today to bring back food and supplies from Colorado Springs. Railroads announced yesterday that refugees would be transported from Pueblo free upon recommendation of the Red Cross. Arrangements for relief of the Mex icans hero was made by Folipe G. Teovino, consul at Denver, who has $10,000 appropriated by tho Mexican government for this purpose. Red Cross relief for the ontlre Colo rado disaster, was placed in the hands of A. W. Jones of St. Louis by James L. Flescr, manager of tho Southwes tern division of the organization, who Is on tho ground. Work of recovering the dead has been subordinated to the work of cleaning up and restoring sanitation. Tho search for bodies has hardly be gun. Great piles of debris are In the downtown streets ready to be carted away. It is expected that the cleanup work will reveal more definitely the loss of life, which Red Cross estimates place at 500. !SE PARIS, Juno 9. General Von Hoo fer, head of the tierman defense forces in Upper Silesia, has formally assured the allied officials in that region that his troops, which' advanc ed several kilometers on the Anna berg sector after the insurgent at tacks of Friday and Saturday last, will advance no further, says a dis patch from Berlin today. POrOHKEEPSIE Girls at Ben nett school. Mllbrook, yesterday play ed their fathers a game of baseball aa a feature of commencement.. The fathers won In six innings, 15 to 12 A feature of the game was two home runs made by the Misses Mabel Hanks aud Barbara Ricaurdson. SUNSHINE ADDS BETTING ON JAP WAR IN SIX II hi; Club Sports in Shanghai Wager Even Money That U. S. A. and Japan Will Be Fighting Soon No Real Cause for Trouble Says Charles Edward Russell. By CHARLES EDWARD RUSSELL Special Correspondent of the Mail Tribune. (Copyright, 1921, by tho Mail Tribune.) TOKIO, Juno 8. As to the chances of war between the United States and Japan, if you listen to the talk in the foreign clubs and circles of the Orient, especially wherever tho banner of England flios, there is no chnnco about it. War Is certain, assured, on its way, and there is nothing to specu late on excopt the first gun fire. When 1 was In Shanghai they wore betting even money that this would be in six months and 3 to 2 that it would come within a year. And yet there is between tho two countries no issuo worth tho digging of one trench or the shedding of one drop of blood. No issue nnd on tho part of the Japanese people certainly no hostilo feeling and no impulse to fight. Yap Not Vital Even about Yap, where the Japauosc it must bo admitted had under the Versailles treaty a most plausible case nobody Is angry here. Part of the press has had Borne bitter comments, but nothing compared with the shriek ing? of a part of ours. One- of the Tokio papers this morning complains acridly that Japan is tired of being always in the position of yielding hor rights beforo tho overbearing attitude of the United States, but that is as violent an utterance as nny I have seen. As to the masses, they are as irresponslvo as the Daibutsu himself. Yap, they think, Is nothing to fight about, nnd they nro perfectly right In that thought. The treatment they are getting In California is rough, they think, but nothing to fight about, aud once moro their thinking is sound and sane. But there is one point of fric tion between tho countries that seems not to have occurred to them, and yet Is far more Important than any of these casual things. In truth, the casual things, Yap and tho cable com pany's roar and the rest, really grow out of this and the Japanese press never mentions it, although it contains the only grave chance of producing between those countries a row that might call for guns. Japan, as I havo pointed out beforo, is driven into China not by land hun ger or a mad purpose to annex every thing in sight, but because old Econo mic Necessity demanding raw mater ials has the pistol at her head and she can't do anything else. She has blun dered in left-handedly, but she Is in seeking the things she needs. . Japs Monopolists Now It is not to be denied that Japan, with all the remarkable keen ness and ability exhibited by her busi ness men has one fundamental theory of business that doesn't agree at all with ours. She does not fancy a field open to everybody and equal chances to all. For some reason she seems al ways fearful of competition and to look for a closed market; that is to say, a market closed to everybody ex cept herself. Why this is so has been the subject of much speculation among observers, whether she doubts the quality of her goods or tho ability of hor merchants or is awed by the great cr experience and bolder methods of other nations; but of the fact there Is no kind of doubt. In other words aud iilain, what is really at stake Is the exploitation of China. I have no doubt it will be neat ly disguised with something else Yap or California or tho horrible ambition of the terrible man-eating Jap, or something but this Is what it is all abont. For one handy disguise the United States has for the Orient traditional policy exactly the reverse of what Japan's is supposed to be. It Is about the only discernible thing1 we have in tho shape of a foreign policy and we are therefore, the more likely to insist upon it; particularly in sight of all these exploitable treasures. As Japan works her way Into economic China she will assumably try mpre or less to keep other people out and her policy and that of the United States may be on a grade crossing with every chance of some collision; not neces sarily anything for the wrecking crew, but some kind of collision. The Armament Race On Ihis situation comes the devil (Continued on lage Eight) Supreme Ct. Allows Cost Bill in Suit W. S. Barnum vs C. & O. SALEM, Ore., Juno 8. Tho supreme cour; today ordered allowed a cost bill in the rase of AV. S. Barnum against tho California-Oregon Power company. Proceedings objecting to the cost bill originated in Jackson coun ty. SALEM, Ore.. June S. "County courts are not empow ered to build court houses by wholesale," is one of tho re marks by Justice Horris of the supreme court opinion handed down toduy in tho case of J. M. Dougun company against Treasurer Van Ripor of Kla math county, a mandamus pro ceeding to compel tho county to pay him about $20,000 under a decree previously obtained. Tho opinion overrules , a demurrer and motions of the plaintiff and allows ten days in which to filo a reply. SECTOF WAR Z Tells Graduating Class N. Y. University it Would Be Folly for U. S. to Disarm First U. S. Wealth Craved By Others Less Fortunate. NEW YORK, June 6. Declaring that it would bo, tho height of folly for tho United States to 'disarm, first, Secretary of War Weeks, in an ad dress today to tho graduating class of iow ork university, said be hoped to see this nation prepared to defend its rights, its sovereignty and its citi zens until tho day comes when nil na tions by mutual consent dismantle their fortification and scrap their na vies. Tho university conferred upon the secretary tho honorary degreo of doc tor uf laws. "I do not lovo war," tho secretary declared. "I abhor it. i do not an ticipate war, but there are active' and foveiish military preparations among those with whom wo might possibly conio In contact. And 1 want to say 1 cannot give a moment's serious con sideration to tho possibility of war with Great Ilritaln." Such a conflict, ho declared, would, In his opinion, be tho end of civiliza tion. Mr. Weeks declared tho tlmo had como when this country must have a definite military policy. Tho national dofonso net, which became a law June 4, 1920, is tho policy which he thought should govern tho army. ' "In many eases. In somo parts of tho world." he continued, "thero are developing large excesses of popula tion requiring expansion of terrltoryf Tho future can only add to tho rot quircinents of nations for increased territory, and there can be no assur ance, notwithstanding our own disin terestedness and desire for peace, that our wealth, will not bo craved by others less fortunate. "Tlmo has not lessened the wisdom of Washington's advice 'in tlmo of peace prepare for war.' It is as es sential in tho preservation of the re public in 921 as it was in 1780." BASEBALL SCORES National Lcaguo. It. Philadelphia 1 Chicago '. 8 CauHey, Itutta nnd Petei-H; Vaughn and Duly, O'Furrell. n. Boston 4 Pittsburg I" H. E. I ft 2 17 1 York, II. E. II 4 25 4 McQitflinn, Itrnxton, Watson and O'Neill; Hamilton and Schmidt, Skiff. Cincinnati-New York postponed. Rain. American League. It. H. K. Detroit 2 11 2 Washington 0 13 1 Oldham Holllng and Alnsmith: Mogridge and tiharrlty. H. H. E. Chicago 9 13 1 Philadelphia 7 14 4 Kaber and 8halk; Harris, Hasty, Kcefe, Kommcll and Perkins. It. H. E. Cleveland 3 S 1 New York 4 7 2 I'hie. Coveleskie and Nunamaker; Hoyt and Schang. R. H. E. St. I.ouls 2 1 Boston I ft 1 Kolp, linyne nnd Collins; Jones. Morgan and Ruel. DANGER HORI $1$ CALLED FOR SPEECH ABOUT IRISH Admiral Asked to Cable if He Said ' Blood On Hands for Obstructions During War" In Reference to Ireland at Home and Abroad Secre tary Amazed. WASHINGTON, Juno 8. Secretary Dcnhy instructed Rear Admiral Sims today to ttdvlso tho navy department Immediately by cablo as to whether ho was correctly quoted In press accounts of nn address he mado to tho English Speaking unon at a luncheon In Lon don, Juno 7. Tho secretary's action was taken after Senator McConnlck, republican, Illinois, hud c&llod on tho secretary to urge disciplinary action against Ad mlral Sims because of reference, to the Irish in this country attributed to the officer In reports of tho speech. Mr. McConnlck also called at tho White House to ask that tho matter be brought to President Harding's atten tion. "I havo read with amazement," Sec retary Donby said in his mossago to Admiral Sims, "certain extracts from a speech purporting to have boon made by you in addressing tho 'English Speaking union." Tho message then quoted tho pross reports of what Ad mlral Sims said about Irish in the United States "somo of them natural ized and some of them born there, but none of them Americans at all including tho assertion that "they have tho blood of llrltlsh aud Amer ican boys on thulr hands for tho ob structions they placed in tho way of tho most offectivo operation of the ulllcd naval forces during tho war." "You will inform the depiirtinont immediately by cable," Secretary Don by concluded, "whothor or not you woro correctly quoted and mado such statements at tho time and place In question." DECLINE SHOWN !N JUNE REPORT ON WHEAT CONDITIONS WASHINGTON, Juno 8. Tho Juno crop report of tho department of ag riculture, issued today, giving produc tion forecasts based on tho condition of tho crops Juno 1, tho condition on that date and acreages planted, fol lows: Winter wheat: Production fore cast 578,000,000 bushels; condition 77.9. Spring wheat: Production 251,- 000,000; condition 93.4; acreage 18,023,000. All wheat: Production 830,000,000; condition 82; acroago Bit, 74 4,000. Oats: Production 1,40.",000,000; condition 85.7; acreage 44,829,000. aBrley: Production 191,000,000; condition 87.1; acrcago 7,713,000. Rye: Production 71,T)00,000; condition 90.3. Hay: J'roductlon 101,000,000; condition 85. Apples: Production 108,000,000; condition 41.8. Poaches: Production 31,700,000, condition 45.5. The heavy decline In tho produc tion estimate of winter wheat was caused by conditions in Kansas, Ne braska and Oklahoma. Kansas show ed a loss of 8,000,000 bushels and Oklahoma a loss of about 2,000,000, Tho spring wheat crop promiBos to lie 42,000,000 bushels larger than that of last year. WITH HIS BOOTS ON LOB HI, Ariz., June 8. K. H. "Hod Whl8ker" liurnett, ewaped eonvlot and sunpeeted of the- murder of Mar- lona TeRRiie her on the. nisht of May 22, for whom n sean-h han boon conducted continuously ly rhprit fit' poMP and rowhoyn. wan shot and Jn- atantly killed yeMerday afternoon by a member of the pohhp which had been clouo on his trail sinco mcning-, Ashland Woman Is Drowned, Crossing Mont. Creek Bridge ANACONDA. Mont., Juno 8. .Mrs. M. E. Gray, a wealthy wld- of Ashland. Ore., was drowned Sunday night In tho west fork of Hock Creek, anout 40 ml'.es southwest of hero, according to word received in this city last night. Mrs. Gray was with a party of tourists from Oregon and they had gono to tho upper Rock crook district to Inspect mining property. While attempting to walk a foot log across tho swift stream Mrs. Gray fell In, It was reported. A search is being mado for tho body. OUR GEORGE' IS Johnson Supporters Land Las , ker Chicago Advertising Man Heads Bureau Two Democrats Appointed By President Harding. WASHINGTON, Juno S. -Formal announcement of tho appointment of A. D. Lnsker, a Chicago advertising man, us chairman of the shipping board, was niudo today at tho Whlto House. Mr. Laskcr Is appointed for a term of six years as tho representative of tho contral portion of tho country, His nomination and tltoso of tile other Six mombeis wero sont today to tho senate, Tho other momhers nro: T. V. O'Connor, republican of Buf falo, N. Y., appointed for flvo years as representative of tho Great Lakes region. former Senator Cicoigo E. Cham berlnln, democrat of Portland, np pointod for four years as a roprcson tativo of tho Pnelfle coast. Edward C. Plumnior, republican, of Bath, Maino, appointed for tbreo years as a representative of tho At lantlc coast. Frederick I. Thompson, democrat of Mobile, Ala., re-appointed for two years as representative of tho gulf coast. Hear Admlrnl William 8. Benson rotlred, democrat, Georgia, ro-np- pointed for ono year as a representa tive of the Atlantic const district. Meyer Llssnur, republican of Los Angeles, appointed for ono year as a representative of tho Pacific coast. In accepting tho board's chairman ship Mr. Laskor Issued a statomont outlining his purpose to put tho board on a sound business basis. ' Tho makeup of tho board Is under stood to havo boon finally decided nt a prolonged confereneo this morning between Presldont Harding and Mr Lnsker. Mr. Iisker is nn official of tho Lord and Thomas advertising agency of Chicago and part owner of tho Chi cngo National league baseball club. Ho was n supporter of Hiram John son for tho republican presidential nomination last year. ' Mr. Llssncr, who Is a lawyor, also was a Johnson supporter. Ho 1ms been netivo in California politics since 100B when ho organized tho non-par tisan city central commtttco of Los Angeles. Mr. Plummer has had wido cxport enco as an admiralty lawyer In the shipping Industry. " Mr. O'Connor Is International prcsl dent of tho longshoremen's union. Mr. Thompson holds tho position of vice-chairman of tho board. Ho Is chief owner and publisher of the Memphis Commercial Appeal and the Mobile Itcglster and News-Item. Senator Chamberlain was war time chalrmnn of the senate military com ntlttee nnd in that capacity attracted unusual nttentlon by a scnsationnl break with President Wilson and Sec retary linker. DISABLED ENGINE TOKIO, June 8. Rcimrts have been received here that the American steamer Wenatchoe, enroute to Seat tle from tho Far East, has boon dis abled by engine trouble In the inland sea of South Japan. Tugs are said to be standing by the Wenatchoe which is reported to be near Mojl, a port on the Island of Kiushiu. On her trip to the Far East during April, the We natchee which took Major Genoral Ieonard Wood to Manila was serious ly delayed by, engine trouble. GIVEN FAT BERTH SKIPPING BOARD JACKSON 0 F 3 T0 1 Tremendous Vote Given the Soldiers' Compensation Bill in Tuesday's Election AH But Legislative Regulation and Woman's Jury Bill Car- ( ried Locally. ItlCSl'LTS IN JACKSON CO. : Winning' Measures Soldiers' compensation. Emergency clause liygonlc marriage. , '. lxwlng .Measures Legislative regulation. Womnn jurors. , v With Medford complete, Ashland complete, but ono out-lying precinct and with only a fow Binall country precincts yet to hoar from the out standing featuro of yestorday's elec tion locally was the overwhelming voto glvon tho soldier's loan and omponsatlon bill which carried over three to one. In Medford tho bonus monsure carried by nearly six to one. and in Ashland by over two to one; whilo in overy precinct in the ounty thero was a majority In favor of the bill, tho vote only bolng close In Jsa- glo Point nnd East Phoenix,' 56 to 4t In Eagle Point and 36 to 32 in East Phoonix. The surprise of the election was tho strong support glvon the Hygenlc marriago bill with a vote of 1161 for and 900 against, a favorablo major ity of 261. Ashland voted against this measure, and thd country pro-' clncta still to hoar from will un doubtedly decrease the majority, but thero Is no doubt the measure carried In tho county as a whole. In Medford every measure was car- rlod, tho voto on the Hygonlc mar- riago and Woman's Jury howevor, be ing very close, while the country vote wus strong against the latter measure. particularly In Central Point,, and Gold Hill districts. , In the county as a whole only about 30 per cent of the registered vote was cast, and In Modford a con-' splcuous feature was the large woman voto, in many precincts the woman voto outnumbering the men! The rosult follows: ' . , Icglslutlvo regulation r Yos, 946, no 1014; majority against 68. . ' ' Ilonus Mcnsuro ' . Yos, 1684; no 516, majority for, 11C8. ' ', ' f:' ;;';;.' ' ' Emergency Clauso ,, .'','' Yes, 1131; no 682, majority ' for 149. ' " ' ' . , r, . ' ' llygcnlc Mnrirnge Yob, 1161; no 800, majority for m. ..,,. - tjl !; "'Woman's July Bllt '. ' , Yos,: i,903; no 1068; . majortty against,' 160.' ' ' " , . , IS. BLUEBEARD N ON WAY TO MURDER TRIAL IS CAREFREE SA FKANCISCO, Juno 8. Mrs. Lydla Southard "is, not worrying," she said today although she. is charged with murder, of Edward iMeyor, hor fourth husband, and the death of throe other husbands, her brother In law and child Is being In vestigated to lear nlf they died from poison. ',- Mrs. Southard rested In San i"ran clsco today en route from Honolulu to Twin Falls, Idaho, tq stand trial. , iq stana, mai. V H. Ornjshy. a s wlfe..j"j;v, rry?"' she ksk- Sho is In custody of -j deputy sheriff and his "Why should I worry? cd. "I have documonts showing the causes of death. I shall say nothing until I reach Twin Falls, when a statement will be forthcoming from my attorney." Mrs. Southard sat for a photo graph today and latei was conducted to points of Interest around San Francisco by the Ormsbys. Last night In their custody she attended a vau deville show and appeared to enjoy herself Immensely. Mr. and -Mrs. Ormsby expect to leave with their prisoner tonight or. tomorrow for Twin Fnlls, OR SERVICE MEN 1