U. S. Ulli 2 MILLION
56 U. $. BOYS A R E MISSING
ROADS GET BIG SUMS
STATE N EW S
IN BRIEF.
work or nr, is
LATEST WOO EDICT
British Transport Moldavia Sunk by
Money Will Be Spent This Yenr for
Enemy Submarine.
Additions, Equipment and Bet
The British mercantile cruiser Mol
terment on All Lines.
davia. carrying American troops from
The two alleg«sl slackers who were
arrested recently on board the motor
America to Europe, has been torpedoed
Washington, D. C. Railroads under schooner Evelyn, at Astoria, have been
and 56 American soldiers are reported
government operation this year will relcu8«>d and allowed to rejoin the ves
All Men Within Draft Age Must
1316 Airplanes Now on Battle missing. The liner was sunk Thurs | spend nearly $1,000,000,000 for addi sel on signing their questionnaires.
day morning, according to an official
tions, betterments and equipment, or
John Adams, former student at the
Serve Somehow.
Fron t- Many at Home.
statement by the British admiralty.
approximately three times as much as Chemawa Indian school, who was re
The Moldavia is the thin! transport
ported us killed in a recent cusualty
in any one o f the last three years.
carrying American troops to be tor
list from France, is alive. A letter
Total capital expenditures approved
from him has been received by friends.
pedoed ami the 15th troop ship sunk
by the railroad administration as an
•by the Germans.
L. P. Branstetter, o f Cotjuille, is ex-
nounced Wednesday are $937,961,318.
pected home from California soon with
That German submarines are operat
Of this big sum $110,071,000 will be two trainloads o f Hereford cattle to
ing off the South coast o f Ireland is
spent for additions ami betterments, stock a large ranch on the Coquille July I Date o f Enforcement o f New
Over 200,000 Will Arrive in France in evidenced by
the sinking o f the
such as stations und other property river, within u few miles o f the county
steamer
Inniscarra
o f Cork, with loss
Order Many Unes o f Non-Useful
Course o f l*resent Month Huge
improvements; $479,686,000 for equip seat.
o f life.
Occupations Are Affected.
At u meeting o f the city council
Army Budget is Reported.
. David Lloyd George, speaking at ment — cars and locomotives already
Friday
night
Dr.
Clara
Dunn
was
Edinburg, said that the submarine is ordered through the railroad adminis
still unconquered, but that it is no tration; and $18,203,000 for track ex named city h«>alth officer for Medford.
This is the first time a woman physi
longer a vital menace to the entente
Washington, D. C. Every man o f
Washington, D. C. — The full allies. He said that the U-boats are tensions.
cian has held the position since it was
draft age must work or fight after
The figures disclose Director General created many years ago.
strength o f the army, including Na being destroyed faster than they can
July 1, under a drastic amendment to
tional Army, National Guard and reg be built by Germany, while the allies McAdoo’s determination to let the
The Intercollegiate Prohibition asso- the selective service regu!ati«>ns an-
are
building
ships
faster
than
the
sub
KirUUy by Provost Marshal
railroads make many improvements ci.tion o f Willamette university elect-
ulars. is now 2,000,000 men, chairman
marines are sinking them.
which they had neglected during the ed officers Tuesday noon for the co m -, General Crowder. Not only idlers hut
Dent, o f the house military committee,
ing year. The newly elected officer*
announced Monday in his report on the
London — The British armed mer- last three years, and postponing all are: Fred McGrew, president; Faye uli draft registrants engaged in what
army appropriation bill.
are held to be non-useful occupations
possible
projects
requiring
big
expen-
chant troop ship Moldavia, with Amer-
The total number o f officers in the ican troops on board, has been torpe-, «litures. It also is shown that the rail- Bolin, vice president; Myrtle Mason, are to lie haled liefore local ksiards and
secretary; Ralph Thomas, treasurer, given the choice o f a new job or the
army was given in the report at 140,- d.HHl
official road administration .s not encouraging
doed and sunk, according to an
an official
and Evaiine McCully, reporter.
133, while the total o f men before the bulletin issue«! by the admiralty.
many extensions of lines during the
army.
April draft was 1,506,152. The drafts
Gamblers, race track and bucket
Arthur S. Benson, cl«>rk o f the Su
war
emergency,
and
in
some
coses
The text of the admiralty statement
since that time carry the total of en follow s:
projects already under way have been preme court, announced Friday that shop attendants and fortune telling
listed men slightly above 2,000,000.
the case o f the city o f Portland head the list, but those who will be
“ The armed mercantile cruiser Mol discontinued.
There are 504,667 men in the regular davia was torpedoed and sunk Saur-
The railroad administration elim against the Oregon public service com- reached by the new regulations also
Army, the report said, 510,963 in the day morning.
inated $349,247,000, or nearly one- mission, known us the 6-c«*nt fare inrlude waiters and bartoftdere, theater
National Army; 411,952 in the Na
In paring case, has lieen set for hearing June 18. ushers and attendants, passenger ele
‘There were no casualties among fourth o f the proposals.
tional Guard, and 78,560 in the Re the crew, but o f ■ the American troops down the budget to this extent the ad The city ’s brief has been filed und the vator operators und other attendants
serve Corps.
on board 56 up to the present have not ministration made it plain that most brief o f the state will lie filed in a few o f clubs, hotels, stores, etc., domestics
“ While some mistakes and delays been accounted for. It is feared they o f its decisions are tentative.
and clerks in stores.
have occurred, ” the report said, “ on were killed in one compartment by the
Deferred classification granted on
In general, the eastern trunk lines
Dwight Wilson, o f The Dalles, who
the whole we think the country is to explosion.”
were given generous sums for im was recently elected president o f the account o f dependents will lie disre
be congratulated that after a little
provements and equipment, to enable student body at the University o f Ore garded entirely in applying the rule.
more than a year from the date o f the
them better to handle the great flood gon, was drafted Saturday at Eugene.
A man may l>e at the bottom of
declaration o f war our country has
o f traffic to the Atlantic seaboard for Wilson is a prominent member o f the class 1 or even in class 4, but if he
constructed a wonderful military es
movement to Europe.
Part o f the junior class. He played end on the falls within the regulations and refuse
tablishment.”
capital necessary w ill be suppliai by football team last fall and guard on to take useful employment he will lie
“ While it has been generally ru
the govenment, from the $500,000,000
the basketball five during the past given a new number in class 1 that
mored that we had no airships with
revolving fund of the railroad adminis season.
will send him into the military service
our army in France, the fact is that Ministers Are Recalled From Various tration, although advances will be re
forthwith. I,ocal Ixiardu are author
we have between 1300 and 1400 o f
Mrs. Lillie R. Trumbull, o f Port- ize! to use discretion only where they
Posts—Washington Sees Indirect
paid eventually by the individual rail
them, at least 200 o f which are fight
roads. Wherever possible, railroads land, was thiB week reappointed by find that enforc«*d change o f employ
Aggression Towards U. S.
ing machines,” the report says.
will finance their ow n enterprises, but Governor Withycombe to membership ment would result in disproportionate
The report o f the committee dis
the railroad administration may buy on the state board o f child labor in hardship upon his d«-|>cndenta.
closed that the exact number o f Amer
Mexico City — Mexico has severed the bonds or other securities issued.
spectors to serve five years.
The
It has been known for some time
ican airpanes in France is 1316, of diplomatic relations with Cuba.
Examination o f the roads' budgets other members o f the board are that some form o f “ work or fight”
which 325 are combat planes.
There
This was learned officially late Sat had been directed by Robert S. Lovett, Stephen G. Smith, Portland; Mrs. plan had been submitted to President
are 3760 planes in the United States,
chief o f the railroad administration's Sarah A. Evans, Portland, and Miss Wilson, but there had l»een no intima
urday after a report that Mexican
the report said.
I division o f capital expenditures, and Pauline Kline, Corvallis.
tion that it was so far-reaching in
More than 200,000 Americans will Charge d'Affaires at Havana and the John Skelton Williams, director of
scope.
Both military authorities and
Deschutes county remains as a valid
be sent abroad during May, and that Cuban minister here had been recalled { finance and purchases.
department o f labor officials believe
political
entity
o
f
the
state,
and
the
number probably will be much exceed from their respective posts had been
opinion to that effect is affirmed in an that it will go a long way toward solv
ed next month, members of the sen
opinion of the Supreme court Wednes ing the lalxir problem for farmers,
confirmed
at
the
foreign
office.
ate military committee were told that
day, written by Justice Burnett. A l shipbuilders and munition makers ami
at their weekly conference with Secre
leged irregularities in the election held will end for the present at least talk
Washington, D. C.— In M exico’s
tary Baker and his assistants.
The an
in Crook county in November, 1916, o f conscription o f labor.
sudden breaking off o f diplomatic re
nouncement today gives notice signifi-
to
determine
whether
Deschutes
coun
lations with Cuba is seen an indirect
Wheat— Bulk basis for No. 1 grade:
ty should be carv«jd out o f Crt/ok re | cantly that the list o f non-useful oc
Hard white, $2.05. Soft white, $2.03.
RA ISE V O L U N T E E R A G E LIMIT action against the United States.
cupations will be extended from time
suited
in the proce«Mling sdecided.
Those here most familiar with Lat- White dub, $2.01. Red Walla, $1.98.
to time as necessity requires.
in-American affairs profess to see in No. 2 grade, 3c less; No. 3 grade, 6c
The department o f I,abor, United
Provost Marshal General Crowder’s
Secratary Drafts Bill Which Will Open
it the forerunner o f more direct ac less. Other grades handled by sample. States employment service, has opened new regulations may require profes
Army to Men o f 55.
tion, possibly an interruption o f inter
Flour — Patents, $10 per barrel; an employment office in Medford, un sional baseball players either to en
Washington, D. C. — Another move course between the United States and whole wheat, $9.60; graham, $9.20; der the supervision o f M. S. Jaynes, a gage in some useful occupation or to
barley flour, $14.506515.00; rye flour, local rancher. The business o f this join the army.
toward full utilization o f the country’s Mexico.
Although without official informa $10.756/ 12.75; corn meal, white, $6.50; bureau wi^l be to assist in every way
man power was made Saturday when
Baseball players, as well as jockeys,
possible local orchardists, ranchmen professional golfers and other profes
Secretary Baker sent to congress the tion o f a detailed character, it is un- yellow, $6.25 per barrel.
that
M exico’s real
Miilfecd— Net mill prices, car lota: and stockraisers. All able-bodied per sional sportsmen, General Crowder
draft o f a bill proposing to raise the derstood here
maximum age limit for voluntary en grievance against Cuba is the recent Bran, $3".00 per ton; shorts, $32; sons, male and female, not usefully said, will be affected by the regula
listment in the army from 40 to 55 incident in which the Mexican minis middlings $39; mixed cars and less employed, are requested to register at tions if strictly enforced.
General
years. All men over 40 so enlisted ter to Argentina, Senor Ysidor Fabela, than carloads, 50c more; rolled barley, this bureau.
Crowder said he did not desire to make
would be assigned to non-combatant was delayed in Havana while some $756576; rolled oats, $73.
The case o f State vs. Jess Fox. "Pec'fic nilings at this time and would
official, ostensibly a Cuban customs in
Corn— Whole, $77 per ton; cracked,
service.
Harry
Martin and Elmer D. Paine has ma'<e rulings only when cases come to
In a letter to Speaker Clark asking spector, searched his baggage and $78.
been
set
for trial in the Lane county
^rom Lx***I boards after July 1.
Hay — Buying prices, delivered: circuit court during the term begin-
that the bill be pushed, Secretary probably removed some papers said to
Theatrical
performers were excepted
be o f an international character.
Eastern Oregon timothy, $296/30 per
Baker said:
ning
June
3.
The
defendants
are
fr,,r?
th,?
regulations
at the direction
This incident is believed here to be ton; valley timothy, $256/26; alfalfa,
“ Every man above the age o f 40
chargtsl with burning a warehouse at "T Secr«^tary o f War Baker, who is
the
real
cause
of
the
break
and
those
$246/24.50; valley grain hay, $22;
years who is enlisted in non-combatant
Coburg belonging to the Eugene Mill said to feel that the people cannot do
branches o f the service will make avail who entertain this belief are firm in clover, $19 m 20.00; straw, $9.006/10. & Elevator company for the purpose of without all amusement in war time.
the
conviction
that
Mexico
was
con
Butter—Cubes, extras, 37Jc; prime
able for duty with the line troops a
defrauding insurance companies. The
man within the prescribed age limit vinced that the United States was re firsts, 37c; prints, extras, 42c; car building was destroyed together with
sponsible
for
the
incident.
tons, lc extra; butterfat. No. 1, 41c
for all troops.
4000 sacks o f potatoes last Februray. W O R K E R S W A IV E H O L I D A Y S
When Senor Fabela’s luggage was delivered.
“ Many men whose long experience
searched
it
was
maintained
by
some
Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 34c:
as mechanics and artisans will make
Lawrence Middleton, aged 20, was
Portland Shipbuilders Offer Recreation
them particularly valuable to the vari- that the person who did it was not a candled, 35c; selects, 36c per dozen.
instantly killed when the work truck
Hours to Government.
ous staff corps and departments may Cuban official at all, but some other
Poultry
Hens, 27c; broilers, 40c; he was driving was struck by a pas
be thus secured instead o f younger men agent in disguise o f a Cuban inspector ducks, 32c; geese, 20c; turkeys, live, senger train at a crossing al>out a mile
Washington, I). C. The customary
without such experience and the effi or gendarme. Later, however, it is 266/27c; dri -ed, 37c per pound.
west o f Merlin. Jack Beears, aged 9, Saturday
half-holiday
during the
Veal Fancy, ] 8 £ 6 z; 19 e.
ciency o f the staff corps and the de seemed to have been satisfactorily es- j
who was riding with Middleton, was months o f June, July and August has
tablished
that
the
man
really
was
a
i
Pork— Fancy, 236523$c per pound.
partments thus will be increased.”
badly hurt, but it is believed he will been waived by unanimous vote o f the
Sack Vegetables— Carrots, $1.15 per recover.
There are probably 7,500,000 men Cuban inspector.
Portland, Or., Metal Trades Council in
A break between Cuba and Mexico, sack; turnip*, $1.50; parsnips, $1.25;
between the ages o f 40 and 55 and
order
to speed the work o f building
A man named Coon, said to live at
many thousands o f them have already it is felt, disrupts practically nothing beets, $2.
The
Dalles,
was
but
a
long-standing
friendly
relation.
I
dr
owned
a
few
days
i
J
*
?
’
. , Th" .
to.
Potatoes Oregon Burbanks, 75c6/
attested desire to serve by bombarding
In the opinion o f those in clo se , $1 per hundred; new California, 10c ago in Snake rive r, below Huntington,
' " l * ? / 1 o f time Rn'' n half
the department with applications.
h'*>'<lay work if m/cessary
While the great majority of the men touch with the subject it may actually per pound; sweet potatoes, 10c per With his brothe er, E. R. Coon, a 1 fl'r Notification
o f the council s action,
rancher, with whom he was visiting,
in this class undoubtedly will be re give Cuba a free hand, as the Mexican pound,
telegraphed Friday to the shipping
foreign
minister
says
in
is
announce
and
John
Tucker,
he
was
fishing,
their
Onions
Jobbing prices, 16/l i e per
strained from enlisting by family and
boat being tied to a cable running board, resulted in the adoption o f a
business ties, the number at liberty to ment, but perhaps not in the manner pound.
across
the river. The l/oat was over resolution thanking the representa
join the colors is expected to be more suggested.
tives of organized labor for their pa
Cattle—
May
25,
1918.
American agents for some time have
turned by the sw ift current. The other
than sufficient to meet the purpose in
triotic and co-operative spirit.
Prime
steers....................
$13.006514.00
been
reporting
Gearmn
agents
operat-,
„
,
.
,
.
two
men
managed
to
reach
a
small
view.
11.506/12.50
If labor councils in other cities
t'ho,ce H
,teers- • • •
island whence they were rescued by
Staff corps positions include many ing in Cuba, some of them crossing g® *!
10 . 006 / 11 .00
should follow the example set in Port
frequently
to
the
United
States
as
Medium
to
good
steers..
witnesses
o
f
the
drowning,
but
the
vic
duties behind the front. Every head
Fair to medium steers
8.506/, 9.50 tim ’s body was carried down the river land, the result would mean the ad
quarters unit includes a number o f po Cuban citizens or Mexican citizens. Common to fair steers
dition o f many ships to the board’s
8.006/, 9.00 and has not been recovered.
A
severance
o
f
diplomatic
relations
sitions for which the older men would
Choice
cows
and
heifers.
10.006/11.00
building program. As more than 300,-
be just as well suited as the present probably would leave [the Cuban gov Com. to good cows and hf
fi. 506/2 8.00
According to farmers near Browns 000 men are now employed in Ameri
ernment
feeling
more
at
liberty
to
in
occupants, who, under the new plan,
Cannera............................ 3.0065 5.00 ville, grain suffers more from aphis can shipyards, the total result o f their
vestigate their activities.
would be released for line duty.
Bulls..................................
6.506510.00 than ever before.
Not content with labor for even half a day is enormous.
Calves................................ 8.506512.00 having half ruined many a likely-look
Drafter’ s Father in Jail.
Noted Tenor Passes Away.
Stockers and feeders. . . .
8.006510.00 ing war garden, the little green crawl
Woman to Rush Campaign.
Salem, Or.—Charged with offering a
Akron, Ohio. — Evan H. Williams,
Hogs—
ers have also been busily devouring
Reno, Nev.— Miss Anne Martin, can
bribe to Sheriff Needham, o f this noted tenor, died Saturday morning at Prime mixed..................... $17.406517.50 the fields o f vetch, and several farmers didate for the Urrited States senate
county, to arrange matters so that his the city hospital after an illness o f one Medium mixed................ 17.156517.35 in that community report that their from Nevada, has resigned as chair
son might have his draft call delayed, week. The death o f Mr. Williams Rough heavies................ 16.156516.35 vetch crop is a total loss.
What is man o f the National Woman’s party
L. P. Laidon, a farmer o f Pratum, means the passing o f a national figure Pi*9................................... 16.006516.00 more serious, they are now said to he in order to center her attention on her
is in the county jail awaiting arrival in the musical world. Recently his Bulk...................................
17.35 attacking the grain itself in widely campaign, it was announced here Sat
o f a federal officer. Sheriff Needham work has been among the soldiers, who
Sheep—
separated localities.
In Brownsville urday.
asserts Laidon said he would give him will remember him for the way he Prime spring lambs........ $17.006517.50 every gardener is busy with spray
Two thousand names have been se
$50 to arrange the matter. Needham sang “ Tim Rooney’s at the Fightin’ . ” Heavy lambs.................... 16.506517.00 pump and lime cup trying to save his cured for Miss Martin's nomination
took Laidon before District Attorney Mr. Williams was born September 7, Yearlings.......................... 12.506513.00 peas and beans.
Even the grass in petition. Three thousand, three hun
Gehlar, to whom he is said to have ad 1867, at Mission Ridge, and lived in Wethers............................ 11.500212.00 the streets and alleys is covered with dred names are necessary for her nomi
mitted the attempt to bribe the sheriff. Akron most o f his life.
Ewes.................................. IO.OOO 2 IO. 6 O aphis.
nation.
NEW CALL IS ISSUED
TROOPS POUR ACROSS
MEXICO AND CUBA
SEVER RELATIONS
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