- - Mi v :. y Ashland AlLY VOL. XLIII ASHLAND, OREGON, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1919 , NUMBER 62 t t y 1 io urn m 1 1 Mt HEAD IKES STIRRING SPEECH 1 1 (By the United Press) i retary Daniels,. In an address here today, Justified the division of the American naval forcea into the At lantic and Pacific fleet. He point ed out that the Pacific fleet, when all its nnlti have arrived will cora prue 615,000 tons, aa compared with the entire American fleet of 115,000 tona which went around the world ia 1(07 at Rooaevelt'a di rection. The secretary paid tribute to the ofrethoufht of ' Roosevelt, both in ending the fleet around the world and in the construction of the Pan ama canal. He aald it waa the ca nal which made the Pacific fleet possible. ' "By developing the navy bases," be declared, "wo will add to the strength of the fleet aa much as if we added their equivalent in fight ing ships." He further asserted that the capacity of these proposed naval bases "Is beyond anything heretofore found necessary." "This will be true even after we save relegated all pre-dreadnoughts and all old cruisers, destroyers, sub marines, gunboats, etc., to either the coast defense or the strap heap. . "To inn up," he aald, "will soon have, lnstead of the "six real fight ing ship of 1811.- 37 modern dreadnoughts, battle cruisers, 100 destroyers, more than ISO submar ines, B0 mine planters and large number of mine sweepers and pa trol craft, an entirely new air force. "The fleet riding at anchor in your harbor today is a powerful one," said the secretary, "but that which will be with you next year Locals Win Labor Lota of hitting, lota of scoring. Ashland winning IS to 8. My gra cious Annabel, what more could any home (an want. A record breaking: crowd turned ..out to be High School grounds Labor day and saw the local boys take Pitch er Anthony and his Northern Cali fornia bunch over the skids. It was h see-saw, up on your toes, who can tell, kind of a game right up to the .seventh inning when Ashland got to going right and took the lead by a I svide margin. Anthony pitched for Weed and showed the effects of the hard game at Weed the day before and the long trip over the mountains. Even at that he stuck it out. .' Ashland used three pitchers: Bear Is pitched the first four innings, Er nie Pry the fifth and Jud Pernoll took good care of the. last tour. As far as hitting goes, Kenneth Lilly came back into form with vengeance, getting two singles, a dou ble and a home run. The latter was a long, long hit and shows conclusive ly that Anthony knew what he was doing when he walked Lilly on nu merous occasions. Lilly also stole Jour bases "and rounded out a good "day by throwing out a man at home on a hard hit grounder when an ex tra run would have looked bad. Tre gllgas got three healthy wallops as did also Gearhart. Frye kicked one into the left field bleachers for a homer the first man at bat? Ashland scored one on Frye's homer In the first. Weed scored .on a base on balls and two hits in the second. ' Aihland took; the lead with a run i In their half of the second with hits by Bentley, Trig,' and Gearhart, Weed,' slipped Into the lead again THE WEATHER" . a For Oregon Fair, settled. " e) "Soldiers Didn't Know a Spruce Tree From a Rosebush" Avers Spruce Probe Witness (By the United Press) PORTLAND, 8ept. J. That con structlon of a government railroad in Lincoln county, Oregon, . waa waste of public funds and that lots of the soldiers employed in spruce camps there did not know a spruce tree from a rose bush, were, state ments made by J. B. Miller, timber- man, before the congressional com mittee probing the spruce produc tion fiasco in the northwest, which began its sessions here today. Interest In the Portland hearings has been intensified by the unex pected arrival here of Brice P. Disque. This former head of the aDruce division, with the rang of brigadier general, appeared, without warning, and demanded that he-be given the opportunity to be heard regarding the alleged unwarranted expenditures of money and ineffi cient administration in the spruce division." The former general eame to Portland from New York city, where he is president of the export ing and Importing concern of O. Am sinck Co. will be immensely stronger . and when all the ships ordered are com pleted America will be able not only to protect its coasts but to do Its share jn policing The world under the coming league of nations. "The coming of the Pacific fleet will be followed by the improve ment of .harbors, bays, rivers of the Pacific coast, for all of them must be developed to care tor the giant dreadnoughts of the navy and the larger merchant ships which will come In ever increasing numbers." The Pacific fleet, he declared, will be composed of approximately 18S ships which are either enroute or to sail in a few weeks. See-Saw Day Game in their half of the third with two scores on a base on balls and two doubles. Ashland tied it up In their half with a run made on a single, a stolen base and another single, Lilly coring. , Weed made it 6 S in the first halt of the fourth with a couple of doubles and a base on balls. Ashland made it 5 6 in their half with hits by Bentley, Trig and two sacrifices. '. Weed made 66 in the fifth with a run scored mostly on errors. Ash land tied it 8 6 again in their halt when Lilly doubled, stole and was brought home on Hill's bunt. Weed took what looked like a win ning lead of two runs In the sixth on a combination of hits and errors. Ashland did not score in the sixth but came back strong In the sev enth, scored six runs and cinched the game. Lilly walloped out a homer in the eighth Just to make it 18 to 8. Both teams played much looser ball than at Weed the day before but the crowd liked every minute of It and showed more pep than has been shown this year. It was the kind of a game that makes the small boy hoarse and more than one moth er Is wondering where her little Wil lie caught that awful cold this morn ing. Next Sunday, Ashland will go to Weed. If possible a special car will be chartered. Notice to Water Users The Judge of the Ashland City Court wishes to notify water users of the city water that after the first of September that the fines for Vio lation of the water ordinance of the city when complaints are made and sustained by the awter officials, will not be less than ($5.00) five dol lars. MELBOURNE. The Astrallan gold reserve Is now 43.67 percent of the note circulation, according to a statement issued by the federal treasury, SEATTLE BURS STRIKE (By the United Press) SEATTLE, Sept. I. Building op erations In this city are practical ly at a standstill, as the result of a deadlock between the maater build era' association and the unions atfll iated with the building trades coun cil. The strike followed the refusal of the association to pay the new wage Kale asked by 8000 workers, who demanded $10 per day for skilled workmen and $7 tor laborers. ', fclX HUNDRED GO OUT (By the United Press) LINCOLN. Neb., Sept. i.-flx hundred Burlington shopment at' the Havelock, Neb., ahops struck this mornina. It is reported that all but the woodcutters walked out. FIFTEE.V HUNDRED GO OUT (By the United Press) CUMBERLAND, Md., Sept. 2. Fifteen hundred Baltimore and Ohio shopmen here struck today, rejecting President Wilson's appeal to remain at work. The Job of moving the Tidings is completed and the office Is now ready to turn otrt neat Job work In short order. WOULD GIVE H A IE IN R. 1 CONTROL AND PI IIS (By the United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Private ownership and operation of railroads under strict government supervision, with labor sharing in the manage ment and earnings, is provided in a bill Chairman Cummins of the sen ate interstate committee Introduced today. ' The bill makes strikes and lock outs a criminal offense. A Joint committee on wages and working conditions, on which both sides will be equally represented, Is created and a railway transportation hoard with sweeping powers over the rail roads Is provided tor. The Interstate commerce commis sion will be given complete author ity over the issue of stocks and bonds and the determination of fair returns. The roads will be returned to the private owners on the last day ; BARGAIN WEEK ! The Daily. Tidings Will Be $6 Per Year I The following special price will be made this week to all old Tidings semi-weekly subscribers: DAILY TIDING ONE FULL YEAR $5.00 if cash accompanies the order. ; " Those who have a Credit on tha Semi-We'ekly will be allowed that much off the five dollars for the coming year. ; The bargain week runs until next Saturday. After that the Daily will be $6.00 the year, v ; Merchanta having ledger accounts With the Tidings may tele- ' phone in their subscription and the amount will be added to their i October 1st MIL , COMING OF FLEET HERALDS AN ERA OF GREAT NAVAL DEVELOPMENT ON COAST Says Packers Control Prices WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. Vlrtuol control by combinations of packers of five great livestock markets has been responsible for besvy losses to the producers in the past ten days Senator Capper said today. He cit ed the recent market break as one reason congress should enact leg' Islation along the lines proposed in the Kenyon bill. (By the United ,Press) MILAN, Italy, Sept. 2. King Emanuel of Italy took another step and a most significant one along the path of democracy when he Informed Premier Nittt, according to official announcement today that he Intends to relinquish all crown lands throughout Italy tor the benefit of the peasantry and combatants for Italian unity. The official announcement states that the king renounces possession of the buildings on these lands In favor of the charitable institutions and organisations whose aim is the mitigation of the suffering which has followed the war. King Emanuel also announced that In the future his own private property would be taxed the same as that of the commoners. petitive systems, and the employes and the public are each to have two members on the board of directors of the month in which the bill be comes a law. The measure provides tor the ul tlmate reorganization of the roads in from twenty to thirty-five com The Cummins bill provides that one-half of the excess earnings be used for the purchase of railway equipment by the railway board, to be leased to the roads, and the other half be administered by an em ployes' advisory council for estab lishing a system of profit sharing for the employes, Improvement of working conditions, invention of safety devices, the techincal educa tion of employes and to supplement the employes' pension Insurance. The railway board would have broad powers In re-routing traffic, DLL PAITffi compelling the Joint use of termi nals and suggesting - improvements in the service in general. The Cummins bill is the result of weeks of conference between rail way officials, financiers and labor leaders, with a special sub-committee of the senate. While many features of the Plumb plan are Incorporated In the mod ified form, the bill alao embodies the Ideas of both railway executives and financiers. The anti-striking provisions have aroused much com ment. Whether labor will accept this, even with the recognition It gets In the management of the roads, will be a paramount ques tion in congress. Precautions agalnts watered stock are taken by requiring the capitalisation of the roads to be limited to the actual value of the property, as determined by the In terstate commerce commission. The railway transportation board would consist of five members ap pointed by the president at a sal ary of $12,000 a year, and the com mittee on working conditions be composed of four representatives of the employes and four representing the companies. ' , r NOTICE , Dr. 'Sawyer has gone to Chicago to take some post-graduate .clinic work, and her office will be closed until November 1, when she will re turn. l-4t Labor Will Its Right (By the United Press) WASHINGTON, Sept. 2. The right to organise and bargain col lectively regarding wages and work ing conditions, will be the principal points organised labor will press at the round table industrial conference to be called by President Wilson, labor leaders here are agreed. They feel that they will have Wilson with them In this demand and there la a belief among some of them that the president may go even further. The granting of this proposal by the employers' representatives will bring quick action and agreement at the conference the labor leaders de cern. Thev clan soon to begin a series of formal conferences at which 'the points In their program win ha framed. Local leaders from all parts of the United States will probably be called upon to at tend. , ULTIMATUM TO GERMANY f (By the United Press) PARIS, Sept. 2. The allies, through the supreme councl ltoday handed Germany an ultimatum de claring that within two weeks Ger many must modif ylts contsltutlon, eliminating the provisions which ad mit of Austrian deputies In the relcbstag. v It Is pointed out 'in t'le ultima tum that this clause Is In contradic tion of the Versailles treaty forbid lng interference in Austrian affairs. PHOTOGRAPHERS MEET (By the United Press) PORTLAND, Ore., 8ept. 2. Pho tographers of the Paclflo northwest convened In Portland this morning for a three-day convention. An ex tensive exhibit of photographic art is being viewed at the Multnomah hotef, the convention headquarters. LOWESTOFT. Fishing in the North Sea, a Lowestoft trawler net ted a portion of a German submar ine with a machine-gun attached. (By the United Press) " SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 2. The Pacific Coast may prepare for an unprecedented program of naval de velopments as a result of the organi sation of the Pacific fleet. Secretary Daniels, on his present trip Is gath ering data on which he will base recommendations to congress, which will embody a program involving Immediate expenditure of millions of dollars, The secretary will present rec ommendations September 24 on the first work to be done, and It Is quite certain that the report wil Icover all or part of each of the following: Establishment of an aviation sta tion and submarine base on the Columbia river, probably In the vi cinity, of Astoria; extensive improve ments in the Puget Sound nsvat fa cllities, particularly at Bremerton; establishment of a naval training station at San Diego; continuance of the 8an Pedro submarine base, es tablished during the war,' and the establishment of a new naval base and navy yard at San Francisco. Tht work will require appropriations of millions of dollars before completed. The policy of the navy , ' depart ment will be to make the first work that which ia Immediately, required for handling the vast naval force of the Pacific fleet. Later, atten tion will be paid to.tbe smaller, pro-. 'a Aiw Jects, such as the proposed esiao llsbment of submarine and avlatloa bases on the secondary harbors of the coast. Contend to Organize , (By the United Press) , PARIS, Sept.. 2. rThe remaining , provisions of the peace treaty were handed the Austrian delegation to day and Chancellor Renner leaves Immediately for IVenna to present the treaty to the Austrian national assembly. - , - 3 Fl $(By the United Press) SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Sept. 2. Captain McNab. a member of an American flying patrol on the Mex ican border, was shot in the head and dangerously wounded by Meyl can troops while flying on the American side near Laredo, a dis patch states today. There were about twenty-five sol diers in the. Mexican party, which was on the Mexican side of the line, McNab reported. The Mexicans (Ired more than 100 shots. Lieu tenant Johnson, mechanician for McNam, was not hit. ' E t (By the United Press) PARIS, Sept." 2. That the high coBt of food In America is due en tirely to the failure of the allies Central Powers Immediately , after the signing of the armistice was tha declaration of Herbert Hoover, tes tifying today before the American congressional committee investigat ing war expenditures.. He said tha delay in lifting the blockade caused speculator sto corner foodstuffs and noia tnem, i AUSTRIANS GET TERMS OF PEACE MEXICANS ION ABAN Ml BLAM BLOCKAD