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The Weather Maximum ye6terday .33 Minimum today 2S;a Predictions Fair. Daily 8txtnth Tear. Weekly Fifty-First Tew. MEDFORD, OlMXiOX, TlIl'liSDAY. DECK.MliKli S, liVJl" xo. PEACE MAY OVERCOME oi ii ii rnii i iu m ft i m u 1 11 II I L Dail Eireann Cabinet Meets and Some Want to Quit Public Indifferent Ulster Heads to Confer With L George Oath Causes Dislike. to Crown DUNLIN, Dec. 8. (Ily the Asso ciated Press) Announcement was made today at the military headquar ters hero that if the Anslo-Irish agreement is ratified the crown forces would he rmovod from Ireland within a month. DU11IJX, Dec. 8. iny the Asso ciated Tress) The agreement with Great Hritain for establishment of the Irish free state was taken up by the Dail Eireann cabinet at a special meeting today. A large crowd en thusiastically greeted the- cabinet members on their arrival at the Mansion house. The beginning of the cabinet ses sion at noon found all the members present, Arthur Griffith, Michael Col lins and the other plenipotentiaries having arrived by tills morning's mail boat. They W'ere given a cordial wel come at Kingstown. Talk of a possible split in the Dail cabinet over the terms is Increasing nnd the .resignations of some of the cabinet members are predicted, among them Cathal Drugha (Charles Jiur gess), minister of defense. Some of the leading members of the cabinet are known to object to the form of tho oath of allegiance laid down in the treaty. Regardless of possible differences, however, it is believed the agreement will be approved. In prin ciple nt least. , The public maintains the same seme semblance at Indifferenco tow ard the agreement noticeable when the news was first received. The people seem generally satisfied, but refrain from expressing' their feelings in any outward demonstration. This attitude was shown when Kamoiin IX1 Valera arrived at .Mansion house yes terday; a small group of admirers began a welcoming demonstration, but the republican leader hurried in side the building as If eager to escape notice. Republicans of tho lank and file mako no secret of their dislike of the oath involving fidelity to tho Ilritish sovereign, nnd criticize among other features of the treaty the appointment pt a governor general and the finan cial clauses. Women's republican or ganizations aro especially antagon istic toward what they call "a surren der to England." LONDON, Dec. 8. (lly the Asso ciated Pressj--An interview between Prime Minister Lloyd George and representatives of Ulster regarding certain parts of the new Irish agree ment has not been definitely arrang ed, but it was considered quite likely today that Sir James Craig, tho pre mier, Lieutenant Colonel Spender, secretary for tho Ulster cabinet, and Sir Ernest Clark, under secretary, would cross from Ireland tonight and see Mr. Lloyd George tomorrow. BELFAST. Dec. 8. (By tho As sociated Press.) Tho members of both houses of the Ulster parlia ment considered the Irish agree ment at a meeting this morning. Af ter two hours of private conference, it was announced that Sir .Tames Craig, the premier, would leave for London tonight. LONDON, Dec. S. (By the Asso ciated Press.) The Irish corres pondent of the Pall Mall Gazette as serts that the Dail Eireann has given orders for tho immediate de mobilization of the Irish republican army. RESCUES LITTLE NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Thyras, a shaggy imlice dog from Poland, is a hero acclaimed by the sixteen passen gers on the steamship Gdansk, which docked in Brooklyn last night, after .1. - Ul.nllp buffeting its way across me .-ui.i..-.-through storms that more than once threatened to carrv youthful members of the ships company over the rail and into the sea. Captain A. H. Peterson, who sal I it was the roughest voyage of his lif'?- THYRAS. SHAGGY POLAND DOG HERO, Harding Invited to Visit 'Frisco Next Summer On Tour : WASHINGTON. Dec. S Wil- liam Crocker, ropublican national I committeeman for California, iu- vited President Harding today to k visit San Francisco next summer, should tlto president's projected j tour to the Pacific coast bo made. The president accepted provision- ally, explaining that uncertainty still existed as to whether he could go and as to the exact tlmo. ! NOSE DIVE FATAL Submarine Sticks in Mud Tanker Arrives Just As Last Torch Lighted Suffer From Chrforine Gas Accident Occurred Five Miles Out. NEW YOU.lv, Dec. 8. (By the As sociated Press) Kitty-one member., of tho crew of the submarine S-48, who escaped through torpedo tubes after their craft had made a nose dive off lirldgeport harbor yesterday and stuck to the bottom, told a remark able story of rescue on their arrival today at the New York navy yard. According to a report made to the commandant, they lightened one end of the submarine until it appeared .above the surface and then sat perch ed on this pinnacle for more than ten hours, until after darkness had talli n. Then by lighting matches they ,.t-, traded the attention of a passing, tanker, which picked them up end: brought them here. Several of the men, ' as well ns ; Lieutenant Francis Adams Smith, j were found to be suffering Horn the. effects jtt chlorine gas created by salt ; water flooding, storage . batteries. After examination, however, only, three' were detained, at the hospital. . The majority of the crew were em ployes of the Lake Torpedo Lioat com pany at Hrldgcport. 'When night came on, some of the fit men went down into tho sunken craft and hauled mattresses to burn in order to get a blighter signalling flare, than any matches could give. One by one the mattresses were burned at the tip of the upstanding bow. There was a stiff wind and the waters of tho sound were becoming more rough. Just as the mattress was burning about 10:30 o'clock the Stnndard Oil Tug No. 28 sighted the .submarine nnd came alongside. The three men held at the hospital acute gas poison duo to chlorine gas" for observation and treatment "for are Lieutenant Smith of California, Chief Eloctricinn Michael Augustus Fritz of New Jersey ami Peter Frank Dunne, Bridgeport, civiliun employed by the builders. All were able to lit up and eat and talk. The threo men said the S-IS went down about five miles off shore. For nearlv four hours everyone remained inside the submarine, fearing the bow would settle, leaving tho craft flat on the bottom. They shifted everything movable from the forward end to the stern. The water entered only the two aft compartments. TAKES S AI TRAIN ROBBERS CHARLESTON, S. C, Dec. 8. Un nrrielal reoorts reaching here today, said a marine guard on a mail car of train No. 80. Atlantic ( oast line, neai Savannah, Ga., shot at three white men who were robbing an express car ahead. Two of the men were said to have been badly wounded GIRL AND HER DOLL tw..' evnloit in saving Zeata Zebo- ruwski. youngest of a family of five children on the way from Danzis to ! i,.tive in the United Males. J 11 .k- Zeata dropped nor ami over ."--....'.i ii ,.f,m-ht on a nail on the side I till lillU 1'. -.-,- of the ship." he said. "A heavy sea was riinnim; hut Zeata wno is i old. started to elimh after the doll. Just as she was going over me sine up Ti.r who seized her dress anil hum; on. The girl screamed and the purser ran up and nraggeu me... S-48 CREW SAVED URN BEDDING both to safety. JAPAN . lOUADRUPLE AfiDffMFWT MUhLLIIILIl I Tokio However, Fails to Under stand 5-5-3 Naval Plan Optimism Grows Among the Delegates and Harding Pre diction Coming True Make Headway. WASHINGTON. Dec. 8. (I!y the Associated Press) The Jupanes government has accept" ihe pro posal for a qundruple understanding in the Pacini, an authorized lbl'-ish spokesman said today. The ltritish spokesman said the 0-5-3 ratio proposition with regard to capital ships was iu r-omo way re lated to a complete settlement and that this proposition bad not yet hem accepted by the Japanese government. Calling attention to an Associated rress dispatch from Honolulu, quot ing a Japanese newspaper as to ac ceptance by the Tokio government of the Quadruple plan, the British spokesman said this was correct and that the Washington conference knew it to be correct. WASHINGTON, Dec. S. (Uy the Associated Press) An atmosphere, of distinct optimism over the progress of tho arms conference negotiations ap peared to be growing among the dele gates today as the Far F.astern com mittee of tho whole convened to pro ceed with its disposition of questions relating to China. The proposal for a new four-power treaty as a substitute for the Anglo Japanese alliance and providing for a period of peaceful discussion before resort to arms over any dispute In volving the Pacific islands was gener ally viewed today as a definite shap; ing of developments along important lines of accomplishment. While Pres dent Harding In declaring in a pub lic address that "the negotiations promised to succeed beyond our fond est hopes," made no direct reference to the proposod four-power agree ment, his expression was everywhere accepted ns evidence of the optimism with which the American delegates view the present trend of the nego tiations. The conference committee on Far Eastern n-faflrs, the Ilritish spokes man explained, was no waiting for the officlnl signification by the Jap anese government that it hnd ap proved tho whole of the scheme, in olving an agreement on the naval ratio. The agreement In regard to Yap, it was said, had no special reference to the matter under consideration by the conference. Such an agreement, however, was growing nearer to a satisfactory conclusion, it was added. There appeared to ho a tendency tc mix up two or three different phases of the agreements, said the spokesman. Outlining them, he said first, there was the original Yap agreement; second, there was the proponed "cooling off" agreement and third, there was u similar arrange ment in regard to tho maintenance of the status quo with reference to naval bases and fortifications. Explaining tho application of tho four power agreement to matters out side of China, tho spokesman assert ed that it might concern the Anglo Japanese alliance us this treaty ap plied to differences arising in the Pa cific and of course, It might cover the important questions of naval ratio, maintenance of naval bases and forti fications. Difficulties ill cable communica tion with Tokio were said today to have delayed receipt of tho Japan ese government's views on accept ance of the American proposal for naval limitation. Proportions of a dispatch from Tokio were under stood to have been received but some sections of It, it was explained had not yet been received. ' F YAKIMA. Wash., Dec. 8. Captain William L. Splawn. who as a lad of 1 1 came overland with hi'i widowed moth er to settle In Linn county, Oregon, in 152, died today at the hospital here. He had been in )oor health for two years following an automobile acci dent. Captain Splawn first gained fame in pioneer days In 1S55 when he volunt'-cred to carry a message from the Oregon volunteers surrounded by Indians, nnd won through to Colonel Kelsiy's force. I Robber's Wife Greets Him in Prison 111 "r ::l;riifc- - V ! 4 ... ' I : - -: ' ' '".ViSMlKiS On hearing that her husband. Hoy Gardner, train robber and escaped convict, had been recaptured, Mrs. Dolly Gardner hurried from her home in San Francisco to greet Gardner in the prison at I'hoeaix. Arizona. The liars prevented any more iniimat-? greeting than a handclasp between Gard ner nnd his faithful wife. Tho photo shows Gardner, his wife ami United States .Marshal Joe Dilli.'un. 1 ' iiiSiiiil Hfl IvF QTDIkFPQ W HUUUL UiiHUUlUj II STORM 1" TRAIN BEFORE 1500 Policemen Patrol Stock yards After Crowd Is Fired Upon Women Use Red Pepper Negro' Stoned and Drowned. CHICAGO, Dec. 8. Forty men were cut and bruised thin morning when strike sympathizers stormed an elevat ed train carrying packer employes to tho stockyards. All windows in the train were broken by missiles which were thrown ut It. Fifteen hundred policemen were sent to the yards early when, long ho foro daylight, several groups of per sons. Including a few women, gathered there. Only a few hours before 200 policemen hnd fired into thousands of strike sympathizers who attacked plant employes and, finally, the police men. Last night's toll of casualties Includ ed ono dead, nine seriously injured and an uncounted number hurt when mounted police charged Into the crowd with drawn batons. "The women are moro difficult to deal with than tho men," Chief of Police Fitzmorrls said this morning. "They cany rod popper nnd throw it in the policemen's eyes. Tacks have been scattered through tho adjacent streets In nn effort to stop tho police motor cars." Tho man killed last night w-as an un identified negro who was seized by a crowd of men, thrown into Bubbly creek, north of tho yards, and pelted with stones until ho sank. The body was recovered several hours later. Immediate action was expected to dny on a petition for tin injunction tgainst the Amalgamated Meat Cut ters nnd Butcher Workmen of North America by twenty-two packers, who allege that intimidation of workers has been practiced by union men. The larger packers say they are working about !K per cent of normal, while the smaller firms have given out statements that their output Is curtail ed tt 50 or CO per cent of normal. The union lenders claim 19,000 men are on strike in Chicago. AI.HKHT LICA, Minn., Dec. 8. Mayor Wohlsuter nnd Sheriff Foss today asked state authorities to send troops here as a result of picketing o'f the Wilson and company packing plant by strike sympathizers. L, S. 0. MITCIIF.I.L, H. I)., Dec. S. A pas senger train on the Oinnha railroad was wrecked twelve miles east of Mitchell at noon. The number of In- Jur.-d Is unknown. Doctors were rushed to tho scene. J The train Was bound from Minne apolis for Mit'.h'.U. UTALITY EARINGS BEGIN Sen. Watson Appears "and Reads From Texas Paper Half Not Told of Offcers' Cruelty Detroit Sergeant '', Hanged. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8. Beginning investigation of churjis by Senntor Watson, democrat, Georgia, that pri vate soldiers wero hanged during tho war without convictions by courls- martini, Chairman llrandegeo of the special senate conimltteo announced that the proceeding was not an Inves tigation of the Georgia senator, hut was ordered to ascertain whether "officers of the United States tinny were murderers." Senator Watson appeared before the committee immediately after the adop tion of a resolution requesting him to appear and testify in supiKirt of his charges. "I made no Indiscriminate chargo In the senate against offlcors nnd nurses" said Senator Watson. "I snld too many officers wero guilty of brutality towards soldiers." Senator Watson declared he ; was prepared to prove his charges that sol diers wore hanged without trial. Tho senator read a story from a Waco, Texas, paper which quoted John J. Forbes, of Cleveland, Ohio, a for mer r.orvlce man, as saying the Wat son charges wero true, and that "the half had not been told about cruelties Inflicted on soldiers by officers." "Go ahead then," the chairman broke In and the senator proceeded to read Forbes' statement that he had seen a man hanged. "Do you want Forbes summoned?" Chairman llrandegeo asked, and Sena tor Watson said lie did. The Waco newspaper printed a pic ture of what was purported to bo the gallows on which Forbes alleged ho saw tho soldier put to death. Discussing procedure ns to calling witnesses Senator Watson said there wero some men who were Injured In the war and now drawing compensa tion who 'were afraid their compensa tion might be affected by their appear ance before the committee. "They will be protected," Chairman Ilrandegee declared. "This, committee gives you carte lilanche to say what you please and to cull any witnesses you please." An affidavit signed by Georgo II. Taylor, setting forth that he saw twelve soldiers hanged in France, and that he did not know whether all were convicted by court martial, was pre sented. Tho soldier said he saw two negroes and a white sergeant hanged, the latter after conviction by a French court martial on charges of rape. The sergeant, Taylor snld, resided at De troit, Mich., nnd asked that his mother be notified that he died of influenza. According to Taylor there was no Jus tification for the charges as the girl was 17 years old and received money from tho soldier. Senator Watson presented nn afflda- (Continued on page eight.) SENATE 100 Blind Inmates Of St. Joseph Home Saved From Fire ,1 KUSKY CITY. X. J., Dor. S Om hundred inmates of St. J' seph's home for the Mind were Km! from the building by atten dants, firemen and Hli(vmen to day when fire damaged tho utruc ture. Mure than fifty Mind women, some of them paralyzed, were carried out. Several fainted hut wen soon revived. The blaze wan discovered iu the sacristy of tho chapel by tho Hev. Cornel in Melnerny, chap lain of the home. The fire was soon under control. IS BORAH PLEA Most Essential Thing for the Restoration of Peace No Use to Cancel Debts if Present Policy Followed European Salvation Risky. WASHINGTON', Dec. S. The re writing of the Versailles treaty, next tc disarmament, was characterized by Senator llorah, ropublican, Idaho, in a statement today, ns tho "most es sential tiling for tho bringing of ' peace and for the rostorinir of ocon , omic Bocurity." Mr. llorah discussed European con ditions at length nnd his studios had convinced him, hp said,: that unless there aro changes In the pact "Ku ropo will go from bad lo worse.',' He declared the United Status could do nothing to snvc Europe unless she first is willing to bo saved. "And the first Btep toward order," tho statement continued, "Ib to con form tho Versailles treaty to tho economic lifo which has been built up through S0O years of effort throughout tho entire continent. The I next conference ought to ho between I Grent llrltaln, Japan, Franco and Gormany to rewrite thin treaty so Kuropo can Ilvo." Mr. llorah referred to what ho de scribed as a revised and restrength ened propaganda for the cancelation of foreign debts, but ho asked what good could come from such cancella tions if the policies of Franco and Groat llrltaln wero to continue. "Is Germany to be destroyed, Ilal kanlzcd and dismembered?" ho ask ed. Tho Idaho senutor added thut ef forts of tho Unltod States to save Europo under present conditions would ho comparable to starting "a summer gulden on tho lava Blopes of Mount Vesuvius." L GltAND ISLAND, Neb., Dec. 8. A third political party In Nebraska was formed here today when more than r.OO men and women, who referred to themselves as independents and pro gressives signed a statement of or ganization at a mass meeting- of county delegates. A resolution for balloting on selec tion of a name for tho party was adopted. . 4. t SI fill mm i k PflnTl I L.I1UJ ULLLV i I IU I Mil BUyS 2 BASEBALL SLAVES FOR $175,000, SET IMOR LEAGUE RECORD NEW VOKK, Dec. 8. (Ily Associat ed Press.) At the height of his playing career John J. McGraw, then a mem ber of the Dnltlmore club, was b:1! with two other star baseball players to tho St. Louis team for the sum of ?lfi,000. During tno Inst forty-eight hours the samo John J. McOrnw, as vice presi dent of tho New York National league baseball club has paid the sum of J175.000 for two players, ono of whom will not ho available for the Giants until the beginning of tho 1923 Benson. in the spread of these two deals ia REAL NEFDS i CLEAR HEADS I SAYS WEEKS Too Many Committees in Con gress for Work Rule By Party Is Main Idea No Strikes in Germany, Lots Elsewhere Criticises Bloc for Farmers. NEW YOItK, Doc. S. The present system of organization in congress whereby control is divided between numerous committees, may, ''if carried lo its logical conclusion." divide the United States "Into hostile factions or groups." and leave the country "power less to defend or maintain its interests i national or international," John W. j Weeks, secretary of war said today lu an audress before the convention of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. ! Contrasting tho present situation I with a recent administration charac terized by reference to a "big stick," Mr. Weeks snld: "It was not many weeks ago that wo heard stories about a "big stick" which was supposed to lie used in driving congress into a stato of tractabillty and force tho enactment of laws de sired by tho executive. , Tho truth, however, is that whllo tho executive was a masterly man of dominating per sonality and characteristics, ho was a party man and thoso In the legislative branch of tho government wore equal ly no. They believed In government by parly nnd that tho responsibility .under such government should be ob- served even by those who might doubt tho wisdom of tho proposed action. I "Then came a reform, or it was so heralded, In' the condiict of ' t'firt-hoitsa' of' representatives.' The ' power 4 of action, which hnd largely rested with tho Bpealier and through hini with, (he jcommluno on rules, was takon away taind divided among committees. Tuo (result and I think it has been clearly : demonstrated is that it is Impossible to get tho typo of legislation action i which conies from party regularity nnd resiionkibllity." . . . Not only the United States hut tho wholo world "is slowly but surely re turning to normal," the secretary de clared. "Tho great need of the present emergency Is clear thinking," Mr. Weeks continued. "The real euro, I however. Is bo old fashioned nnd bo readily within our reach that some of 118 fall to recognize it. It is work. , "Wo do not hear of strikes in Ger many hut they seem rather popular every where else. Tho selfishness which congress front the doslro to got somolhlng at the expense of one's fel low man 1b having a potent influence in preventing the restoration the coun try ne$ds." Tho farmer "tho backbouo of tho country" was the first to feel tho effects of post war deflntion, the secre tary said, but added, that "the farmer could not ho entirely absolved from blame" for his present sUuntlon as ho should have foreseen the inevitable collapse of values. "I shall not take the time to criticize the legislation congress has enacted for tho benefit of tho farmer. It was brought about by a combination of members of the two great political parties which had sufficient votes to obtain the result desired. Some of this legislation may benefit those for whom It was enacted. Much of it is unsound, howevor, from an economic standpoint und I very much doubt if it would bo any benefit oven to tho far mor. "Ono of the leust excusable of the fCnntlnneil on P Eight) epitomized the progress of baseball in two decades. ' In the purchase of Heinle Groh from Cincinnati for tho reported sum of $100,000 nnd two players and Jimmy O'Connell of tho San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league for $75,000, McGrnw has clinched his claim to be ing tho greatest baseball trader in tho history of the game. Aptly termed the "David Itanim" of baseball McGraw has also earned the reputation of a "one season trader." The purchase of O'Connell at $75,000 establishes a new record tor a minor league player. lime as a skipper, told the story i I
