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VOL. VI., No. 48, GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE COUNTY, OREGON, . FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1018. WHOLE NUMBER 1592.
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DISSOLVED
BY KINS
Constants Throws Down
Gauntlet to tie War v Party
in Greece, and Calls fcr a
New Election Next IWk.ifJ:
London, Nor. 12. King Constan-
tine baa dissolved the Grecian psr- " r J ZZZ. :., kV k
llament, thereby Anally throwing ' lf Mtb?r h?
own th. gauntlet to the war party. 2 ? " T?
Thla action evidently followed J between the Serb.
When he took thl. radical .fp. the "J 'be,rh ftf "fugs-Mont.-former
Premier Venlieloa'.refuaal to. ,i 0,
1-.-t 4 V t Mt1niiill -wtlttl-tlfMf '
with Ita "benevolently neutral" lead
er and Ita Zalmla member.
In dlaaolvlng parliament the king
did deliberately what Venlselos had
declared be f had no power to do la
much as, Veulieloi claimed, the
question of what stand the nation
should take toward war waa settled
six months ago when the eountry re
turned him to power. (
The king selected December It a
the date for the elections, a time
earlier than had been expected.
king presumably was convinced of a
satisfactory result from his stand
point from ths handful of electora (
ante to cast the ballot now me army
Is mobilised. In fact, "evidences have
pointed to a disinclination on Venl
ieloa' part to force the people again
to go ' on record. It had been be
lieved here that lie felt, In a final
show-down, the peoplo might remain
loyal to the king. J
The former premier's course la be-
Ing watched anxiously here, how-
ever, for It la felt among diplomats
that If he rouse the people against
the king a revolatlon la probable, i
Events In Grecian political affairs . Williams aro in the Provolt dls
' have turned with kaleidoscopic swift- trlct, tbls being the first visit In the
neas and variety In the past few Williams country. Mr. Williams is
months. especially taking up with the farmers
Venlxelos, forced out once, appeal- n the upper Applegate and Williams
d to the nation on a platform (rank- valleya the question of transportation,
lly pro-ally and pre-war.. He waa re- it being the Intention to establish a
turned. Again a show-down came, truck line If enough beeta are plant
and Venlselos resigned with his cab- 'ed there to Justify It. Rousing meet
Inot. though his henchmen still re- ings were held at Olendale, the farm
talned the upper hand In parliament. 4n there being much enthused over
Zalmla waa named premier and a the project. Upwards of 200 acres
new cabinet waa chosen. The Venl- were' signed Op at that place, and
xeloeltes forced Zalmla out. The king more will be added before the week
chose Bkouloudls as premier, a man a 0ver. The local committeemen are
frankly sympathetic with the allies mucn encouraged over the prospect
j and 'benevolently neutral" toward ,d state that If there la no ret up In
them, but not so partisan as Venl- the effort or the enthualasm the fsc
selos. Behind him wss the same tory will be a aure go. Some of our
cabinet personnel, with on excep- people are, now giving their entire
lion, as the Zalml ministry. time, to the J move and all the cltliena
Th Venlselos opposition apparent- respond In tlTe right spirit when call
' ly continued. Hence, likely, ths king 6a Upon. a It la necessary for the
decided on thla final step of dlsso-tCommtttees to visit some of the dls
lutlon and an appeal to the nation, trlcta several times, and the services
TWO MILLION DOLLARS FOR
RAILROAD IMPROVEMENT;
Tacoma, Nor. II. Nearly two mil
lion dollara will be apent in the
northwest for Improrementa by th
Oregon-Washington railroad, accord
ing to announcement by J. P.
O'Brien, vice-president of the com
pany, here today. This big expendi
ture, which Is being made In port for
the Union Paclflo alone, but the bulk
of it for the O.-W. It. & N. and"
Oregon Short Lino railroads, was do
tlured by railroad men as the best
Indication of recent months of the
certain Improvement of general ibiml
ncHg conditions.
O'llrlon snld that onlors had been
given for fifty million foot of lumber
for tiesrouting approximately $400,
'000, Jo bo Biippllod n tho northwest.
LINOTYPE OPERATOR
II 1,1 It TO FORTUNE
Salem, Nov. 12. James Murray,
rn, linotype operator, Is heir today to
50,000, part of the estate of an
uncle who died on the Isle of Man
recently.' ' ,
HI ARMY 13
FLEEING BEFORE
ITS C0II0UERORS
Derlln, Tit Wireless to Sayvllle,
Nov.12 Spreading their clutches
after the fleeing Serbs, the Teuton
armies hare captured 1,700 more
prisoner!, making a total of (.700
reported la two days. .
Today' official announcement told
of thla capture, along with 11 can
non, In the Rlbard dlxtrlct northwest
of Man.
The main army of the hard-preued
Morara. '
One Austro-German body of troopa
WHITE STAR LINER
ORETIO IN DEATH ZONE
' New York, Nor. II Steaming
their way toward Naples, the White
8tar liner Cretlc, with 1,038 paasen
gera, and the Lloyd . Italian liner
Caaerta, with ' 1.S00 othera, were
thought today to be In the "death
tone" where the Italian, liner An
cona met her fatebefore an Austrian
aubmarlne torpedo. , '
GUILE SIGHS
FOR SUGAR BEETS
The beet acreage commltteea aro
doing great work these days, and if
perseverance and energy will got any
where, the requirements of the fac-
tory builders will e met. Today
Messrs. Bramwcll, Dr. Macy and J.
of Mr.,.Bramwell, being required in
so. many instances, the work can not
be 0oge(i up Saturday night
ILLINOIS STEEL PLANT
WILL HE ENLARGED
(By United P,rssi Leased Wire.)
Gary, Ind., Nor, 12. Three thous
and men , will share in Gary's new
prosperity, it is estimated, as a re
sult of the Illinois Stool company's
proposal to enlarge Its vast works
hero at a cost of 97,500,000.'
PRESIDENTIAL REE
; RVZZINf FOR RRYAN
" Mftrldtnn, Miss., Nov. 12. That
former Secretary Bryan was after tho
proHtdiMitjnl nomination toxt year Is
belinvo'il here from guarded state
ments from J. M. Mcnenth, chairman
of .the state democratic, committee,
nnd J iid o Cochran, prominent demo
crat.' Tlvey hlntod Bryan already Is
planning to capture the state delega
tion In the national democratic con
vention and that he will sook the sup
portof prohibition and suffrage ad
vocates, ,,
ACREAGE
ALLIES PUSH
THRQUGHTO
I SERBS,
Bulgarian Troops OJerfcg
Strong Resistance to Ad
vasce cf British snd Freirch
Abg a Sxty-tSle Frct
Bucharest, Nor. 12. Pushing their
way obstinately to the aid of Serbia,
th allies, advaaeing from the coast.
have met strong resistance from the
Bulgars along a 60-mlle front from
Velea to southeast of StrumnlUa.
Th Bulgars' efforts to check the In
vaders, however, have been rain.
The allies occupied Gradsko, and
the French artillery .clipped off men
and silenced guns, clearing the way
for the oncoming of th British
French infantry and cavalry.
The Bulgar retreat northeast of
Velea verged Into a rout with; heavy
losses. Meantime the allies are re
ceiving constant reinforcement from
Salonlkl.
Bulgarian dead lay In heaps at
many points. They have had but
little time to cover them with even
a layer of earth. f .
In the north the Teutons are press
ing their invasion, tut, as a jear
ago, they are meeting with difficulty
from fighting -teethe meuntaUs,
known Intimately to the Serb de
fenders and affording them a protec
tlon and at the same time leaving
the invaders largely at their mercy,
Several thousand new allied troops
were rushed toward Serbia from Sa
lonlkt today to augment a force which
Is now growing to menacing propor
tion.
ONLY ONE SEAMAN SAVED
FROM TORPEDOED SHIP
London, Nov. II. The British
steamer Rhlneland, of 1,500 tons', has
been sunk by a submarine and only
one seaman has been accounted for.
The locality of the attack waa with
held. ' .
FORD JIUSTIII
Wsshlngton, Nor. 12.Dr. Josef
Gorlcar, former Austrian consul at
San Franciaco, waa accused In an
Austrian embassy statement today of
plotting with Russian and Serbian
agents, intent on disseminating dis
loyalty among Austro-Hungarlan
emlgranta.
This' statement Was Issued In re
sponse to the Providence Journal's
publication today of a story In which
Gorlcar waa quoted as saying that
the country Is honeycombed with
German and Austrian spies, directly
under German Ambassador von Bern
storft and Austrian Consul General
Nubor of New York. Moreover, Oorl
oar charged that every AuBtro
llungarlan consulate In the country
Is "a hot bed of propaganda tor the
destruction of munition factories, for
the creation of atrikea among labor
meu working In such factories and
tor every act of violence that Is be
ing committed hero having these ob
jects In view." f T'
, Perhaps the moBlvStarJllnsciMm!
was that the naval VWitfio-'eftbe,
Austrian embassy i xtlixljloBtott
sought last your, whru Gojaj iwai
stationed at San Frniki'Vao, 'to, hay
him obtain plans of ,ill tho 'rbpUnea
tlons and defensos Ffrinolseb
harbor and the Paqillo cba8ty JIo
claimed, the Journal, ' I10
was Instructed particularly, ,t j get
every possible detail '.tt ,tte operation
activities, machine
if,' -content! i ld
IV1 A Y F 0 R C E
T BATTLE
England Threatens Ccnscrip-
tica Unless Mere Soldiers
Are Enlisted, Need fcr
Trcc;s Being Presdng;
London, Nor. 12. England .was
confronted today by an official threat
of conscription. Her young men
must come forward voluntarily be
fore November 20 la answer to the
summons "Tour King and Country
Need You." else Lord Derby, director
of the voluntary enlistment system,
will take steps to enforce his threat
of using "other means" than requests
for filling the army ranks. '
Moreover, men seeking to khteld
themselves as In the "married men's
class" by weddings since the regis
tration day, August 15, will atlll be
regarded as single men. - '
Lord Derby has said the single
men must volunteer before he would
attempt to gather In the married
men. ' . '
The conscription threat came in a
statement from the press bureau, In
which Derby said the premier au
thorised him to express surprise that
his announcement in, the bouse of
commons of an intention to tak the
"other means" had been found ambl
guoua. Then he set forth the pro
nouncement which caused England
today to realise that conscription
may be extremely near.
"Lord Derby Is authorized to state
definitely that if young men medical'
ly fit and not Indispensable to any
business of national Importance or
any business conducted for the gen
eral good of the community do not
come forward voluntarily before
November 30, the government after
that date will take the necessary
steps to redeem the pledge made on
November 2 (that 'other and com
pulsory' means would be taken be
fore married men are called on to
fulfill their engagement to serve)."
strength of the Bremerton navy yard
on Paget Bound.
Refusing to get these facts,' the
paper said, he was transferred in
April, 1214, to Berlin and later on
dered to Vienna. Instead, fearing
that because of his pro-Qlevis affl
nations he would be Imprisoned pr
killed, according to the paper, he
fled to Rome and later resigned.'
1 . Von Nuber and th German privy
counsellor at New York were parti
cularly denounced tby Gorlcar, who
claimed they were engaged In acti
vities dally sufficient to drive them
from the country. '
The department of Justice an
nounoed that It would Btart an lm
mediate Investigation of Goricar's
charge that American Correspondent
Archibald knew the contents of the
papers he carried abroad for Aus
trlan Ambassador Dumba which later
caused the American request for tho
amboasador's withdrawal from this
country.
Now York, Nov. 12. German Am
bassador von Bernstorff Intimated to
day that he would Ignore the Provi
dence Journal's latest "expose" of
Tontonlo, propaganda In America.
"I havo nothing to say," he com
mented, whon told of the charges of
tho former Austrian Consul Gorlcar
accusing htm and the New York
Austrian consul general with being
the center of a spy system honey
combing tho United States.
CABINET HOLDS
FIRST L1EEJIIIG
HI MAHY nOHTHS
Washington, Nov. 12. Though
President Wilson conferred today
with Lis cabinet an hour the first
time In months It "was positively
stated that the session was not due
to any crisis over the sinking of the
Italian liner Ancona. He will hold
the meetings every Tuesday and Fri
day hereafter, and they promise to
be of vital Importance.
Because of the conflicting reports
In the Ancona case, the cabinet did
not take up this question at all to
day. It was understood that the
meeting was given up chiefly to the
question of the administration, mili
tary preparedness program . The pre
sident, It was said, presented aa out
line of his plans.
The president's first message to
congress probably will deal almost
entirely with the subject of increased
appropriations for the army and nary.
Meantime, the cabinet has under con
sideration what steps shall be takes
to raise revenues wherewith to sup
ply the large amounts. ' :
The absence of Secretary of Com
merce Redfleld was at first thought
to be due to the difficulties with the
president over proposed trade legis
lation, trat this suggestion was swept
away with the announcement that the
secretary is in Georgia. , ' ,
REVISED LIST
6
Great Bend, Kas., Nov. 12. Six
dead stood today as the revised total
from the terrific twister which
ploughed through here Wednesday
night. , In addition three dangerous
ly hurt persons were In hospitals.
Great Bend handled Its own relief
work, asking no outside aid. A re
lief committee sought funds from
citizens, and the response brought
forth more offers of ( homes for the
homeless than are needed. .
With the water and light supply
shut off, the town has been forced to
carry its water from wells and to do
Its reading by candlelight. Water Is
expected to be in the mains tonight.
Many strange freaks of the twister
were reported today. Under-Sheriff
Duncan saved himself by holding to
the roots of a rose bush. John
Brown tried to out-distance the tor
nado in his six-cylinder auto, but it
beat him to It and bowled over the
car, slightly injuring the occupants.
ALLIES HAVE KOW
III
Monastir, Serbia, Nor. 11 . (Delay
ed). The allies are firmly establish
ed in southern Serbia. ; '
Monastir, Prilep and the surround
ing region were in Imminent danger
for a time from the Bulgars, but the
French saved these points when they
recaptured Veles.
Large numbers of Austria's Croa
tian and Dalmatian subjects who
sympathize with the Serbs are de
sorting their cause and are flocking
to the Serbs' standard.
The kaiser, extending his congratu
lations to the Bulgars for their suc
cess in capturing Nish,' referred to
the Serbs as a "band of brigands."
The Teutons know aUlrast that the
Sorbs fight with the ferocity of
"brigands." i,
American doctors escaped from the
town of Uskub before the Dulgara
arrived there. ; Thoy are due here
tonight after taking a roundabout
route through Albania. ; That the
Bulgars detained Lady Paget is con
firmed. . '
GIVES
TV7STER
ID
FOOTHOLD
SOUTHER!
SERBIA
OVERTURES
FOR PEACE
David Starr Jordan, Delate
cf fcternSczd Ccsress,
VfcSs Pres. Wibcn WEI a
Fb for llcdral Mzzs
Washington, Nor. 12. DellniU
overtures toward peace from a group
of leading neutral nations will be)
made by Christmas, Dr. David Starr
Jordan, chancellor of Leland Stan
ford Junior university, predicted to
day. This optimistic statement fol
lowed a visit by Jordan to President
Wilson in the capacity of delegate
from the International Peace con
gress at Saa Francisco to urge the
chief executive to Join in creating a
neutral nations' commission to fur
ther peace. . - f ' '
On December 14 peace delegates
from the leading neutrals will meet
la Berne, Switzerland. From this
session, Jordan said, Is "expected to
develop a commission of qnasl
official delegates from neutral coun
tries who would address a mediation
proposal to the belligerents.
. He expressed the personal belief
that, regardless of America's action
toward the proposal the other coun
tries weald' "nct.ay : wayf
Washington. Nor. 12. Dr. David
Starr Jordan, chancellor of Stan
ford university, asked President Wil
son today if the United States would
unite with other neutrals in a re
quest to establish a peace commission
to end the war on the basis of inter
national Justice. What the president
answered was not learned.
--.Jordan's advices were Interpreted
as being definite overtures from many
neutrals, who possibly were inspired
by belligerents. ',
Jordan, recently delegated by the
International Peace conference as its
spokesman, said after seeing the pre
sident: . ' '. .
"I merely called the president's at
tention! to onr desire that , he co
operate with these neutrals la es
tablishing a body to unite on continu
ous efforts, toward conciliation. The
commission would act as a sort of a
clearing house on peace ideas. In
a war like this political leaders must
save their own faces. All the belli
gerents want peace, but do not say
so until they tell others than their
enemies.".-I y v.
' The commission's Idea was formu
lated in the Saa Francisco conven
tion. Formal approval of such a plaa
has been received from Holland, Den
mark,- Switzerland, Norway and
Spain. It it is formed, Jordan would
suggest that it. meet at The Hague,
Copenhagen or Berne about Christ
mas.' i' v
"This would be a fitting and effec
tive time for such a conclave," he
commented. '
An Informal meeting of peace ad
vocates from neutral nations will be
held December 14 at Berne to take
preliminary steps toward accomplish
ing the alms of the International
Peace congress.
Jordan added that if the commis
sion la successful in ending the war,
it would be maintained to work for
everlasting peace.
"Even If it shortened the war by
only-a day," he said, "it would pay
for Itself a thousand times."
The commissioners from the neu
tral nations have no way of binding
their home countries, hence their ac
tivities are informal.
PREMIER'S DAUGHTER
WILL WED NOVEMBER 20
. London, Nov. 1 2. -Violet Asqulth,
the premier's daughter, will wed
Maurice Bonham Carter, Novem
ber 20. '
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