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Oregon Historical SdclotJ Public Auditorium.. r - .-; . ' THE EMEMMCr M THE WEATHER ' The only paper in Roseburg carrying The Associated , Press dispatches. Tonight and Saturday rUiin. Highest temp'. yesterday ......56 Lowest temp, last night 50 vol. vni. ROSEBURG, DOUGLAS COUNTY, OREGON. FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1917. No. 207 WA DEPARTMENT SHORT RIFLES Investigators Find Five Million Dollars Were "Blown in" - On Revolvers. ' DENY RESPONSIBILITY No One Accepts Blume for Misuse of .- Funds Output of Rifles lirops Fifty Per Cent, in a Few Months. (By Associated! Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14.- Fur ther examination into the rifle and machine gun situation by the senate investigating committee today re- , voalod some startling transactions, und there were heated exchanges of words between the chief witness, Goneral Crozier, and the members of the committee. Some of the com mittee were inclined! to blame Gen eral Crozier for the marked falling off in the-production of rifles since the war began, It being shown that fifty per cent reduction in number of rifles manufactured had taken place in a few months. This was also al leged to be due to changing tine type of rifles. Perhaps the most as tonishing thing brought out today in connection with the investigation was the fact that the war depart ment had failed to use appropriations for intended purposes. Five million dollars which congress appropriated for purchase of army rifles has been used. for buying revolvers, and some of these small arms were shown to have been secured, from private con tractors at high royalties. Investigate Navy. WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. A house sub-committee to investigate the navy department's management of the war was created today by the naval committee. Hearings will be commenced! soon. Secretary Daniels and other bureau chiefs will be called before the committee to answer ques tions relative to the situation. Explosion Kills One. WILMINGTON, uec- 14. As re sult of an explosion in the acid plant of the Du Pont Powder Company, 18 miles from this city, one man is dead and five others hurt. A fire startefl 'immediately after the explosion. Commission (Joes Fast. SEATHLE, Dec. 14. Members of the president's 'Jabor commission who have been In Seattle for several weeks in connection with telephone and mill strikes, expect to leave to night for Minnesota, where other la bor troubles require their mediation. The commission will not announce its conclusion in the lumber mill strike situation until after certain recommendations for laws governing these affairs are laid before the president. DR. W. T. FOSTER OF REEDCOLLEGE TOSPEAK Dr. W. T. Foster,' president of Reed College, will deliver addresses before the citizens of Roseburg on Sunday afternoon and evening at the Methodist church, the afternoon pre grain starting promptly at three o' clock and the evening program at 7:30, the sole purpose of the meet ings being to impress the people of Douglas county with the facts about the war and about the service of the Red Cross, Dr. Foster, by reason of actual contact with conditions on several of the .fighting fronts, is equipped to present the truth and every good American should hoar It. The lntroduceion ot Dr. Foster in tho evening will be made by Chair man O. P. Coshow and In the after noon by Chairman J. H. Booth, and the various splendid features In eluding tho address of Dr. Foster, as they were carefully prepared fol io w: . ' Selection I. O. O.. F. Orchestra America Audience Prayer Rev. Warrington In after noon. Rev. Spencer in evening. Selection ..... . Orchestra "Onward Christian Soldiers"...... .- Audience Address Dr. W. T. Foster "Star Spangled Banner" rSolo by - Miss Klnser, the audience joining in tho refrain. Benediction Rev. Coppage In after noon. Rev. Barr G. Lee in evening. Prof. F. H. Appelhoff, conductor of orchestra. Prof, C. H. Arundel, leader of sing ins. . HONOR GUARD MEETS. The Girls National Honor Guard mot last evening at tho armory and several important business nutters were transacted. Classes In llrst aid find military, drill occupied a goodly portion oi me evening and- irom ev ery Indication the girls are accom plishing a great deal with this splen did work. Burt of the Red Cross Society, attended1 the meeting and re quested a committee of Honor Guard girls to assist in the-big drive next week. A number of girls were se lected to assist and will have hourly shifts In the various booths. ' Plans for the New Year's ball were discuss ed and further preparations for this delightful event will be made next Tuesday when the Honor Guard will meet again, i LAND OFFICE FURNITURE SOLD. The auction of the furniture at the land office was held as advertis ed this morning and a large garner ing was present to bid on tho vail ous articles. W. H. Canon, register of the land office, acted as auctioneer and the sale was a success In every way, everything being taken but the safe, which will be stored fjr far ther use. Because of the delay in getting the furnishings for the fed eral building, the land office will not be moved! until the first of January. Portland Chosen as the Next Meeting Place by a Unanimous Vote. HOLD BANQUET TONIGHT Important Resolutions Recommended Officers Elected for Ensuing Year R. C. Holman, of Mult nomah is President. ; By unanimous choice Portland will be the next meeting - place of the Oregon association of County Judges and County Commissioners. .. Action to this effect came yesterday after noon in the concluding business of the -convention; assembled - at "the court house, in Portland. , ', .-. Various resolutions were adopted as embodying the suggestions of the county officials for legislative action. One provides for the appointment of women officers in juvenile court work to have custody of women and girls. Another recommends the dis continuance of all road work, save such as is imperative, until after the war. Although tho latter resolution was preceded by much discussion of the road problem, no opposition develop ed and it was passed by unanimous vote. It is net the sense of the recommendation that proper road work be uiscontinucd, but that all work not essentially urgent be delay ed until peace shall have been de clared. Advocates of the resolution point ed out that the scarcity of labor and the need for men in military service and other activities necessary to the successful prosecution of the war were strong arguments for the' adop tion of the resolution. It was also argued that the cost of materials for road construction is now excessive ly great, anu that economy would dic tate a curtailment ot prospective con struction. The resolution declared for the postponement of construction of expensive -highways and bridges, un til normal conditions return; and recommended that scenic highways and pleasure drives should wait im provement until the end of the war. It advised that funds shouldl.be ex pended only for the betterment of traffic conditions and upon contracts already awarded and that effort should be concentrated upon the im provement of grades and ot macad am and gravel roads. Another resolution unanimously adopted was relative to the juvenile courts, recommending that in all cases of transportation of women and girls to Oregon institutions that women officers shall be designated to accompany them. Resolutions of endorsement of the work of county agricultural agents won by a narrow margin, the vote being 18 to 16. The resolutions set forth as excellent the work of the ag ricultural agents, particularly with regard to their services in promoting food production at this time. .Ob jection to the measure appeared to come from the belief of various coun ty judges that the agents were vested with too much authority and were not actually essential to the needs of local progress. . '"Road Building Under War Time Conditions," was the theme' of an ex- celelnt address delivered by John T. Dougall. By unanimous vote the present of ficers of the association were return ed for the ensuing term, as follows: Rufus C. Holman, Multnomah coun ty . commissioner,' president; F. S. Gunning, county judge of Wasco county, vice-president; - Phllo Hol brook, Multnomah county commis sioner, secretary-treasurer. BUSINESS SESSION OFCOMM I0NERS TELLS WHY SUGAR SCARCE NEW YORK Trust Magnate Informs the Administration Better Price Paid by Canada. BLAMES FOOD BUREAU Attempt of Federal Officials to Pre vent Inflated Prices Balked By Trust- No Patriotism In Sugar Combine. (By Associated' Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Alleg ing that there is no shortage of su gar in the United States markets, excepting a few localities along the Atlantic seaboard, and openly de claring that the product is going to foreign markets because the price of fered there is higher, President Spreckles, of the Federal Sugar Re fining Company, testifying before the senate committee investigation, to day coolly placed the. responsibility of any shortage on the food adminis tration. Spreckles declared that the sugar famine in New York was due to the product being shipped to Cana dian ports, because the price there was higher. In this way the federal food administration. Is responsible for the shortage. The food adminis tration, by placing a maximum price that sugar might be sold for, hoped to curb the grafting tendencies of the sugar trust. The trust, not being filled with an over-abund'ance of pat riotism, caring nothing about the necessities of 1 the American people, Immediately evades the whole issue by shipping the sugar crop to foreign ports, and then coolly admits the fact before the senate committee. Pneumonia Claims Soldiers. WASHINGTON, Dec. 1.4. The weekly report of the surgeon general shows that there were 190 deaths In the national guard during the past week, of which 170 -were from pneu monia. There were 74 deaths in the national -army, 47 being from pneu monia. The epidemic of measles inat afflicated the soldiers for several weeks, is said to no longer menace the troops. L E The Progressive Teachers club will hold their first' regular meeting to morrow in the Roseburg high school. A delightful program has been pre pared by the committee and teachers from all over Douglas county will be present at the meeting. The program for the day is a." fol lows: Music by Miss Bernlce Klnser, who will render two selections. Miss Ruth Corbett will give an address tomorrow morning on the food con servation question and during the afternoon ,hour Prof. Allen, of O'. A. C., will give an interesting address on the extension work of the O. A. C. The program . for the next meeting will be given out at a later date by Miss Maybell Wilson, secretary and treasurer of the club. Harvey Wells, insurance commis sioner of the state of Oregon, spent the day in this city. Mr. Wells lec tured this afternoon at the Antlers theatre on fire prevention, with mov- ingpicture to accompany the lecture. The pictures were shown to the stud ents of the local schools, two shows being given during the afternoon. The first four grades of school were dismissed for the first show and the upper grades and high school "for the 3:30 show. Mr. Wells will leave this evening for Salem. ELK CREEK RESIDENTS FILE SUIT TO ANNUL Lewis Thomason, R. W. Thomason, W. P. Thomason and Mary Furlong, Elk creek residents, have filed suit In the circuit court, through their at torney, U. L. Eddy, against the coun ty of uouglas, R. Wj Marsters, county judge, and B. F. Nichols and W. E. St. John, commissioners. The plaintiffs allege that the coun ty court erred in proceedings where?- by a county highway had been de- HAVE THREE BLANKETS. - - : - . ' (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. Quartermaster General Sharpe has advised Secretary of War Baker that there is no founda- tlon for the report alleging that Oregon - troops - were sent to Camp Mills without any blan- kets,- and that all of 'the men had three blankets apiece, with the exception of a feW soldiers who sold one of their blankets,, keeping only 'two for their own '.use. ' - ' ;i .-.;"-'! , . . clared and ordered open from the Drew postoffice to a point up Elk creek and the petitioners have there fore filed a writ of review and furth er seek to annul all proceedings wherein the road in, question Is to become a reality. . ' The plaintiffs Bet : forth in their complaint that the counts' court erred a number of times In this road mat ter which they show: In tle petition filed. They fuither ask thfit all pro ceedings pertaining to thijt road be set aside, annulled and all together held to naught. A , ; 2-- WATER POWER IMPROVEMENT. (By Associates Press. , WASHINGTON, Dec. 14. The Shields bill, providing for develop ment of water power projects on navigable streams, passed the senate today. .- - B. L HIGH SCHOOL PUPILS Attorney B. L. Eddy this morning gave a most Instructive as well as interesting address to the pupils of the Roseburg high school. Mr. Eddy spoke of the Red Cross- drive for which preparations are now being made. He asked that the student.- take a more active interest In the Red Cross and appealed to their patriotic spirits. "More enthusiasm and moro Interest should be manifested;-" said Mr. Eddy. "Awake to the situation which now confronts the -American people and do 'your bit'." At the conclusion of his address Mr. Eddy asked that all pupils join the Red Cross if they have not already done so and in all ways assist with the Red Cross drive which begins De cember 17, and continues throughout the week. At the close of the ad dress iJiss Ananbel Denn gave two delightful selections on the piano. HINDU WITNESS SAYS GERMANS BUY SLAVES (By Associated Press.) SAN FRANCISCO. Dec. 14. A Hindu servant testified here today that Ram Chandra, the Hindu edi tor now on trial in the federal court in this city, charged with fomenting revolution among his people in British India, sold five Hindu ser vants to the German government for $10,000. These servants were forc ed to woi'k for two dollars a month. QUESTIONNAIRES READY 82 According to Deputy ' Sheriff Raffety, who lias been assisting In the preparatory ' work of sending out the questionnaires all is now in readiness for 10 days's mailing and the first con- signment of 82 will be placed in the postoffice early tomorrow morning. .....': 4 The registrant will be allow- ed seven days to fill out the questionnaire and return it to the draft headquarters. The legal advisory , board! jwill be found in rooms 211 and 212 at the Perkins building and all questionnaires should be sub- mttted before thsl body to in- sure correctness. ' ' As soon as the questionnaire has been returned to the draft board and the registrant hag received notice of his classifi- cation all those who come un- der class one will be summon- ed before the exemption board, composed of Sheriff Quine, chairman, E. H. Lenox and Dr. E. B. Stewart, for medical ex- amlnatlon as to their fitness to serve and if the registrant Is found to be free from d'isabill- ties he will be subject to fill the quota on the first call for draft- ed men. Exemption board head- quarters Is located at tho court house. - L L BACK PIG RAISING Sufficient Funds Will be Ad vanced Applicants to Carry On Club Project. - UNLIMITEDMEMBERSHIP ": : i r ;'... Organization Will Be Known As tho Lnipqua Valley Bank t'lMg Club Hurd and Brown AVill Cooperate. The Umpqua Valley Bank is to father the pig raising club work in this community, so it was announced today by L. J. Allen, of the Oregon Agricultural College, who has been in this city for the past few days in the interest of this movement, by fur nishing fundls at six per cent interest to the . boys and girls which will en able them lo purchase the porkers for the initial start in the hog rais ing industry. Any Douglas county boy or girl, from 9 to 18 years of age will be accepteu as members in this organization. . ' First, those who contemplate en listing in the club work should pro cure an enrollment card. These can be secured at the office of the. coun ty school superintendent or through the schools. Fill the card out com pletely and mall it to the Oregon Ag ricultural College. .- Your name .will then be placed , on the mailing list and in due time bulletins, circulars and other reading matter tending to enlighten the applicant. In the care of pigs will be sent out at different intervals. A record booklet will also j oe forwarded wherein entries are to be made, step by step as the hog ma-j tures.- - As soon as the applicant has! been placed on the roll and) presents tne application to the bank with the proper - approvals he or she, as the case may be,, will then be asked to sign a promissory note. This com pleted; ',the cash is readyfor the-plgi raiser.- i- Loans will be extended only for the purchase of pure bred pigs and sows and for the growing of breeding animals. County Agriculturalist C. J. Hurd and County School Superintendent O. C. Brown will in a short time visit the ' different breeders of hogs throughout the county and will, at tempt to establish a uniform price among, the breeders for pure bred animals only. . ; Mr. Allen recommends that the club purchase no pigs until shortly before spring as it Is quite difficult to care for them in the' winter months. Proper quarters are hard to arrange for andl feed is scarce, therefore no pigs ought to be bought before early spring. A few of the club members may de side to purchase brood sows and brood gelts and If so the bank will loan sufficient funds to carry on this work. The club will be known as The Umpqua Valley Bank Pig club and there is no limit to membership of this organization. The bank is prepar ed to furnish unlimited amount of money to insure the success of the project. The growing ot corn, a kindred in dustry to the raising of pigs, will, be pushed and all club members will be requested to ' raise all corn fed to their pigs.' Field peas Is another good commodity for the porker and ought to be planted, as the present prices of pig feed are ajmost prohibitive.- ' .'.".': . Mr. Allen will remain in this coity until Saturday, at 'which time he will go to Wilbur to address a meeting at that place. He will then return to O. A. C. t . . Mr. Hurd and Mr. Brown will visit the rural schools throughout the country In the near future and the club work will be thoroughly explain ed In the institutions, and members will be recruited. . GETS THE "EVIDENCE" flnnatnhln Howard ' Church and Game Warden Orrin Thompson today delivered to the county poor farm the carcasses of the deer that were brought to this city as evidence "Ruck" Johnson and Harold Hampton, the two Yoncalla boys who are to. appear Monday to answer a charge of having deer meat in their Tinncapnalnn unlawfully. . It is alleged that the youths have participated in the wholesale slaugh ter of protected game for some time an A hftVA dlnnnnedi of fresh venison at a profit. However the boys claim that they were only killing the deer for camp meat and had not sold any rt nnvnnlt. ' ' . '- Harold Hampton, who is but 15 years of age will appear before the juvenile court, while the Johnson LOCA BANK WIL lad, who is 20," must answer in the justice court. V . : Just what disposition will be made of the case is not known, but it is highly probably- that the boys will be given another chance, providing they promise to remain out of the woods in the. vicinity of Yoncalla. SEPARATE DUTY FOR (By Associated Press.) WASHINGTON, Dec. 14 The flrBt step to place soldiers of German and Austrian birth at duty apart from the actua) fighting forces, appear in the army orders today. These orders show the transfer of f nearly one hundred of the regulars or national army men to duty with the disciplin ary barracks at Fort Leavenworth. Three soldiers under this order come from the expeditionary forces In France, and the others, were taken from recruits about to sail to join Pershing, -.,-' , Fighting For. Control of Gov ernment in Russia Increas ing in Violence. U. S. ENGINEERS KILLED Brief Report of Casualties Reach America General War Situation; , in Europe Ifocluuiged Today. ; ': Exchange Prisoners. ; (By Associated Press.) ; ASSOCIATED PRESS WAR LEAD, Dec., 14,r-The"struslse Jon -power: Jn Russian interior la growin-j in vio lence and bitterness - daily. Both sides to the civil war in pros -ess claim' advantage.' " . : " U.. S. Engineers Killed. German bombs are said to have killed a number of Unit?d States railway engineers in a town behind the British front. Through effective bomb fighting the British before Bullcouft : have slightly improved their positions. ;. ' Conflicting' Claims. PETROGRAD, Dec. -14. A Bol shevik! staff report alleges that Gen. Kornlloff 's cossacks were defeated near Bleigora weanesaay, ana' re treated to Vasil Ika. Evening papers gave reports of cossack victories, in the battle at Rostov, and state that the Bolshevik! retreated across the river Don. Other Reports. . LONDON, Dec. 14. Accoruing to Reuter news dispatches Bolsheviki troops have occupied Tamanovak and Kaluga. Leon Trotzky says that if the armistice for , the eastern front Is Blgned at Brest-Lltovsk, Rus sian, delegates are empowered to en ter Into peace negotiations. Italian Hold line. ITALIAN HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 14. After three days fighting the Italian lines are intact. Exchange Prisoners. LONDON, Dec. 14. The Russian Bolsheviki authorities have ordered the release of all civil prisoners in ex change for four thousand Russian of ficers in Germtn prison camps. Claim Trenches Gained.' BERLIN, Dec. 14. British troops are endeavoring to recapture the trenches lost at the Cambrai front. All attacks were beaten back, r r County s Engineer Germond' and Road Viewers J. I. Chapman, of Wil bur, and Joe Large, of Sutherlin, who have been. In the vicinity oi Oakland for ine ipast few days view ing out a strip of road eight miles in length from a point six miles east of Oakland through Driver valley, have completed the work and will submit their findings before the coun ty court before the first of the. year. Should the county officials approve of the report of the viewers actual construction will commence on the contemplated Improvements wltuln the next few months. The Royal Club Cafe fed fifty re cruits this morning, who passed through the city; No ' Information had been given out In regard to their arirval and while it was a surprise to the restaurant manager, arrange ments were quickly perfected to give the boys a wholesome breakfast, . STRUGGLE GROWING MORE BITTER DAILY THRIFT CAMPAIGN E Everyone Urged to Invest a Small Amount in War Saving Certificates. TO WIN WE MUST SAVE O. C. Brown Named as Ooinmlttee- ltitin to Launch Thrift Movement -County Schools Chairman ' Soon to lie Appointed. . ' ', County School Superintendent O. C. Brown , today received a letter from C. A. Wonacott, assistant state ddreotor of the United States war savings committee, to the effect that - he had been appointed a member of the county committee to launch a saving campaign in the schools of Douglas county, and Mr. Brown, in compliance with the provision set forth in circulars and pamphlets for warded to his office will immediate ly formulate plans for carrying out the wishes of the government, and all principals, - teachers and assist ant superintendents, under his super vision will in due time receive in formation as to the part they are to play, together with Instructions to lend every possible assistance In In troducing the thrift campaign in the schools. , : Mr.. Brown, who is to represent the activities of the state war savings committee through the schools will nn-nnai-ula AlH lv a Annnfv nholi'mnn soon to be appointed. - Other sub- commltteemen will be named and a general thrift campaign .will be waged In all parts of the county. ' Grown uns will be solicited to curb - the waste as well as the children by Investing small amounts in Wttr sav ings stamps, which will be -found on. sale 'at all dtrug . stores, banks and postoffices. ' ' . i. :..' i . 25 cents, to be applied in payment for a war savings stamp. It does not earn interest.' The purpose of its Is sue is to enable people to accumulate . in small sums tho amount necessary to pay for a war savings stamp. It Is a plan by which you can lend small savings to your, government at 4 per cent interest, compounded quarterly. For instance, should one purchase a war savings stamp In January, 1918, ' n-n.,1nn- h ana t'r 41 19 To ,1 II O lV 1 ' 1 1923, the government will pay you $5.00 for it, and bear In mind, every dollar loaned the government helps to save the lives of our men at the front and to win the war. Thrift cards can be obtained at any- authorized agency, a pocket size fold er containing 20 spaces on which to y affix war savings stamps is furnished. It becomes an obligation as soon as one or more of the stamps are affix ed to It and the agent from whom you make your purchase will write your name and address on the cer tificate andl will furnish you an en velope in which to keep it. You have now become a war saver. Continue to buy war savings stamps every week or month and place them on your certificate until you have fillod all the 20 spaces. When this is com- . pleted you can purchase another war saving stamp and you will receive free ot cost another certificate . to which you can attach new stamps as you buy them. Ten certificates is all that will be sold to one individual. The law per mits each person to own $1,000.00 - worth of war saving stamps and no more, , . , - The price of the stamps does not always remain the same. ; However, the price appoarB'on the race or eacn Stamp. , Wever . pay eltner more or . less than the amount shown ror tne , month in which you make the pur chase. The price is $4..ii in Decem ber, 1917, and In January, 1918, and incfeases one cent each month after January, 1918, until December, 1918, when the price is' $4.23. The stamps are higher each month, be- ; cause they are earning interest. . ; : The money derived in this manner Is to help materially in paying the expense of the war. The government promises to pay you $5 for each stamp January 1, 1923. This prom ise is backed by the faith and honor of the United States and by the tax ing power of this county the rich est nation in the world. , Superintendent O. C. Brown, with the aid ot his subsidiaries, will carry the thrift plans into execution In the schools at onces Posters will be dis played conspicuously. In all study rooms and the spirit of '76 will be Instilled into the war savings cam paign. "The county chairman soon to be appointed," said Mr. Brown, "can look to heaity co-opgration irom ine uougiaB county scnooi heads, and everything possible will be done to encourage the pupils In the habits of thrift and1 saving, The success of this campaign is of Inesti mable value to the county, the state I and the nation and will receive our prompt attention.!' . NEXT WAR M EASOR