Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, September 06, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textlite J- 7.7 DAILY EDITION vol. vt, No. ami. (JKANTS PAgg, JOSEPHINE COUKTY, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 6, WHOLE NUMBER 1843. "V,. -- '"If. ' A v Other Towu io the World the Size of Grants Pass Has a Paper With Pull Leased Wire Telegraph Service. ''',.. . .... . . ' : ... ",; : 0 i V. SUGAR BEET SPECIAL ST C01I Utah-Idaho Co. Announces TL.i I li ' I. lOai AKUWUllUnSl AUSUITflclally, are confirmed by private ad- Will Be Here to Address farmers During the Fair The county fair board baa been not!- tH4 mat Agriculturist AuaUa. 'whether or not tbe United States win directs the field work lor the t'tah-'j afrt Idaho g.iRar company, will be In Commenting upon the latent devet Grants Paa during the progress of opmM(( , Jau,nwm rWatlon, wltn the county fair, September II to II. china, a cabinet official aald: .ur.,,.,. wm uenver one or "The only thing which greatly In moreaddrea bearing upon the beet. tflrwiu tb(l UnHed 8tatM n thl, tt. growing Industry. Mr. Aurfln ha oaUon whrtWor not ,nl8 countryl, been Identified with the sugsr beet trttde right, are to be Jeopardised. Industry alnce lta eatabllahment in Japan hM r,potwlr KiVen us aasur the west, and Is recognised aa the LnfWI tntt n0 matl,r what attUude heading specialist In the line. Coming lor acon or nCf()tlat,oni ,he took or Just at the time the first commercial LarrM on wtn mnt tn0 wo,lld b4, crop of beet ever grown In weatern ! ,ntePf,r,.nre wlth the open door In Oregon Is coming to maturity, bl ;any policy." rlalt Is moat opportune, and he can I - point out places wnero the growers ran Improve upon cultural methods another year. The factory people also announce that visitors to the city during the progress of the fair will he welcome to Inrpect the factory, which will he very mnr completion at that time. H T. Dyer, of the Dyer Construction c ompany, which has the rontreet for the erection of the factory. Is alresdy J on the ground, and will have charge, of the factory during a 30-day trial run. At the end of thla period, If; the machinery Is running smoothly, the buildings will be turned over to the Utah-Idaho people, the Dyer con tract being complete after the factory ,Ms been operated for 30 daye. Sugar '..faker are also beginning to arrive, and about 100 men who are special- lata In the various branchea of the j American-Mexican border commls-sugar-making industry will be on the :Slon. ground when the fsctory begins allc-j "Carranxa troops are letting Villa Ing Its flrs.t beets. Msnsger Nlbley -severely alone since he whlpiwd them states, however; that the men brought , badly several times recently. The In from the outside will not be re-1 bandit chief knowa that If Amerl talned permanently, but that local jean troops move south toward him, people will be broken Into the poal-jlt will put Carransa In a position tlons as rapidly as possMble. where he will be compelled to order Visits to this' greet factory, upon jtherh to halt, or to back' down before which the Utah-ldabo people have ex- his own people." pended nearly a million dollars this, Scouts have been sent out from aesson, and the addressos by Mr. General Pershing's, outposts to deter Austtn should prove among the popu- mine the position and strength of lar features of fair week. Mr. Aus- Villa's forces, according to reports tin's addresses, In conjunction with 'from Columbus. those of Parmer 8mUh, will add a value to the annual fatr that can not AVIATOR FATALLY he computed In dollars and cents. St AKED LOSES ' . FRISCO" CHURCH San Francisco, Sept, 6. Dr. Charles F. Aked Is not wanted again as pastor or tbe Flint Congregational cburch, even at a reduced salary. This was a sottled fact today following a 1 meeting of the congregation, which ended a stormy session without choosing a pastor Rev, H. S. Bradley of Worcester, Mass., decllnod the call extended him, owing to the Aked trouble. ' Those opposed to Dr. Akod declar ed that he Is no pastor, that he gave too much attention to outside matters and was not effective In work within his congregation. They also alloged . that tho day after he recolvcd Henry Tord's Invitation to help get "the 1 r out of tho trenches before -Christmas," lie left his pulpit, despite the objection ot the trusteos. Fred Grover Is spending a short time In tills city While en route to Ms borne at Harbor, coming ffrom a visit at Ashland. IIS BIS Oil CHINA WILL BE PROBED BY U.S. Washington, Sopt. 8. Inqulr!e will be made Immediately by Ambaa dor Guthrie at Toklo and Mlnlatcr KclnHch at Peking regarding Japan's new demand on China, the atato de partment announced today. The pub. Ilabed demand, although they have not rea not reached the atate department of- vlcea to officials. The only one of the demands which may poealbly Interfere with American Intereata, It It aald. Is that requiring Japancae police powers In Inner Mon golia and southern Manchuria. The L.t of theM , dotermlBl VILLA LEADING OF El Paso, 8opt 6. "Villa Is rapidly looming up as a menacing factor In northern Mexico," said a high mili tary official today, sifter receiving from secret service men reliable in formation that Villa with 1.000 men jwaa hiding In Santa Clara canyon. "It was said, and It was true, a short time ago," contlued the mill 'tary authority, "that he was not a ! factor " the situation. No doubt he Is timing his latent activities for their effect upon negotiations' the I.VJl'ltKD IX FALL Uuffalo, N. Y Sept. 6. Major W. K. Campbell, British army instructor at the Curtlss' aviation school here, was fatally Injured, and Theodore de K nil Jens, a Harvard university stu dent, or Freeport, N. Y., waa hurt, when their biplane fell 800 feet to day. - Campbell suffered a fractured skull, a broken rlgtot leg and broken ankle. De Krutjess' escape from serious in Jury Is considered miraculous. N BURY ZEPPELIN IN London, Sept. 6. The bodies of the eighteen Zeppelin sailors, burn ed to death when, their airship was brought down in Sunday morning' raid, were burled three miles from Cuffley today, but 'not with military observances, The' Church of Eng land burial service was used, Objec tion had come from many quarters to the suggestion that the Zeppelin crew bo burled wlth-rallttsryhonors since non-combatants 1iad been their vie Urns, ARMY 1000 MEN CREW ENGLAND POSTPONE IS GOAL OF STRIKE TEUTONS Action That Will Determine Whether There Shall Be a Tie-up of Mines of Middle West Put Over One Day Kansas City, Sept. 6. Decision of whether or not there would be a coal miners' strike in the southwest, has been postponed another day. At the request of the mlneworkers' representatives the deciding session of the miner and coal operators was postponed until Thursday. That announcement was made this afternoon by President Fleming, or the Southwestern Interstate Coal Operators' association. The reason for the delay was not stated. Reports to the general offices here of companies owning coal nines in toe mtanurg, Kas., district, today in dicated, according to the announce ment of the operators, that many of the several thousand miners who walked out there yesterday returned to work today. The operators admit ted, however, that 24 mines, employ ing 4.000 men. weje still Idle today. Kansas City, Sept. 6. A big coal mine strike in Kansas, Missouri, Ok lahoma and Arkansas Is near. The sub-committee In conference between the miners and tho coal operators have split on the "discharge with out cause" clause In the xew contract. Failure to agree will be reported to the general committee this afternoon. T'nlers the sttltude of operators In the genersl committee hss been changed by strike developments ye terday at Pittsburg, Kas.. the con ference will then disband and a gen eral stlke or from 35,000 to 38,000 men will follow. The coal operators hsve decided against Inserting In the new contract a clause "prohibiting the refusal of work to any members of the United Mlneworkers of Amerlcs without cause." Kansas mines will be hardest hit, from 12,000 to 13,000 miners being affected; Missouri has about 10,000 miners, Oklahoma 10,000 and Ar kansas from 8,000 to 8,000. LA FOLLETTE WINS I Milwaukee. Sept. 6. United States Senator iFollette, progressive ' re publican, baa been nominated repub lican candidate to succeed himself by a large majority over Malcolm G. Jef fries, of Janesvllle, returns from yes terday's primary showed early today. It is estimated from scattering re- ! turns that LaFollette's majority wilt be about 7S.000. Governor E. L. Phillips, republican, has defeated former Governor Mc Clovern and Wm, H. Mutton, progres sives, for rcnomlnatlon 'or governor on the republican ticket. He will have a large plurality. Phillips was one of the original Hughes men In Wisconsin. Bert Williams was nominated tor governor and Wm. L, Wolfe 'for United States senator by the demo crats without opposition. IUTII.RKSTTt.llKl, UVTIIUKK ZHIM'KLIXS Copenhagen, Sept. 6. Three Zep pelins took part in the Sunday night raid ou Bucharest, Berlin dispatches PRIM ELECTION Germans Said to Be Planning Bold Move Upon the Rou manian Capital City, Mu nitions Being Concentrated London, Sept. t. A bold German stroke, aiming at tbe early capture of Bucharest, capital of Rou mania, was revealed In despatches from Berlin today. The Germans and Bulgarians have concentrated artillery and men against the strongly fortified Rou manian bridgehead at Tutrakan on the Danube only 40 miles southeast of Bucharest ' The German war. office this after noon announced the capture of seven Roumanian works near Tutrakan, fol lowing the occupation of advanced positions announced yesterday. Tu trakan lies at the end of a railway leading along a river valley directly to Bucharest. The Germans, It la believed bere. hope to cross the Danube, strike down this valley and inflict a severe blow on the morale of the Roumanian people by seizing their capital, while the main Russian army Is Invading Transylvania. - Bucharest despatches, however, assert that the southern frontier Is well protected, and that Bucharest is in no danger from that direction. The Roumanian war office today announc ed the repulse of the German-Bulgarian invaders everywhere on the Do brudja frontier and reported the cap tare of another Transylvanlanftown. "On the Somme battle front the allies won further victories In last iilgbt's fighting. The British cap tured tho Irhrtla of TitA mnnA misTt. Ing their advance to within a mile ot Combles, while French troops are already at the outskirts or that strongly fortified town. The Ger man war office tbis afternoon ad mitted for the first time the loss or virry 10 uenvrai roin a troops. The Russian war office announced further progress near the Hungarian frontier and the loss of ground In that region was admitted at Berlin. The Slavs have taken 4,500 prisoners in fighting around Hallts. IN London, Aug. 25.(By mall.) Seared by molten metal, blinded by steel shavings, and with fingers snip ped off by the cruel machinery of the munitions factories. EmrlUh i women and girls are paying the price jof patriotism as well as their men at the front. , , Industrial accidents (have not dim inished the claim of labor experts that women are more careful than men. I Their inexperience is believed to ac count for many of the accidents so the experts may be right after all. In theory. But theory won't restore sight or knead the kinks out of pit ifully mangled hands. ! Anothor explanation Is that fem inine puddlere, machinists and lathe hands become preoccupied at their work when their thoughts flit to the men iflghtlng in France, the ladle tips or the belt slips off the roller, there's a scream and' another casualty goes down on the growing list. reported today. They dropped bombs on Urge wheat' storehouses In the Roumanian capital, starting several fires. WOMEN MA MED ENGLISH FACTORIES L18S. CAH SLATED FOR I-ELECTII SUFFRAGE HEM Atlanta City, N. J., 8ept 6. To no party or no candidate will go tbe endorsement of the National Woman j Suffrage association, which went Into convention here today. This much was decided upon after a struggle In the executive committee which be gat) early1 yesterday and lasted nntil well towards morning today. The program arranged by the exe cutive committee calls for the re election of lira. Carrie Chapman Catt as president and tbe election of a vice- president to succeed Mrs, Fran Mt Roenslng. 1 iii s'r-i . ?h More than a thousand women, rep-, resentatlves of 12,000,000 suffragists, were present at tbe formal opening of tbe convention in St Paul's churcb today. Suffrage leaders supporting three different views ai to the best manner of obtaining votes for women engaged in a three-cornered fight this after noon. , . ' , Following the discussion the dele gates were to vote whether the asso ciation should concentrate its efforts on getting tbe vote through national congressional legislation or through action of the state legislators, or whether tbey should continue the pre sent plan of supporting both federal and state campaigns. , Miss Laura Clay, of Lexington, Ky.. a state's right advocate, urged the 'suffragists to center their activities on getting suffrage legislation tbrough their state legislatures. "Coercion or some sort .will be ne cessary to force enough of states to ratify a woman suffrage amendment to obtain the necesssry two-thirds," Miss Clay said. Mrs. Ida Husted Harper, of New Tork. who advocated concentrated effort In behalf of the federal amend ment, said: "We have now obtained enough of equal suffrage states to make onr measure a national political Issue and to force its endorsement by the plat rorma of all five parties." Mrs. Raymond Brown, vice chairman of the New York State Suffrage association, urged tbe asso ciation to continue Ms support of both national and state campaigns and to maintain strict neutrality In regard to political parties. VILLAGE OF CLKRV CAPTURED BY FRENCH Berlin, Sept. 6. The village of Clery has been captured by the French, it was officially admitted to day. The French war office Sunday night announced the capture of Clery and Forest The Germans on Monday admitted the loss of Forest. GERMAN SUBMARINE DESTROYED BY BRITISH Amsterdam, Sept. 6. British air men bombarded and destroyed a Ger man submarine in Zeebrugge harbor, returning safely to their base at Dun kirk, according to reports received here today. Boise, Idaho, Sept. 6. Practically complete returns today showed that D. W. Davis, ot American Falls, re .cetved the republican nomination for 'governor in yesterday's state primary. jAddleon T. Smith wss renominated I tor representative In congress. Form er Congressman Burton L. French defeated Congressman Robert Mc 'Cracken for the nomination, y j The dempcrats renominated Gov ernor Alexander without opposition and named Marlon J. Kerr and John ,V, Stanley for congress., ' 1 RETURNS ROM IDAHO PRIMARY u.s. nil COBSION MEETS First Formal Session cf Rep itsectatiTes cf Two Go v erczests Held, Next Ses sion to Be Friday llcnig New London, Conn., 8ept. 6. The first formal session of the Mexican- American commission adjourned tbis afternoon to meet again Friday morning.' ':' ; ' - ' Chairman Cabrera In an official statement, voiced the desire to brine the conference to a conclusion "profit- - able alike to Mexico and America," and, declared that the Mexicans are willing to meet the American com missioners in a "spirit ot tbe utmost frankness." . The members exchanged views in general about tbe situation in Mexico,' especially on tbe border, with a view to making a oreparatory study, it was , stated. ; - Tbe commissioners reviewed the growth, control and strength of tbe . constitutional government, which has become every day stronger during the last two years, and particularly -. since Us recognition 's a de facto government.-"'-- " . V v-'.',' The commissioners spent the after noon on the presidential yacht May flower, with the newspaper men a guests. i.'j-:4.v.j:v MANY VISITORS AT CAMP VVITHYC0P.1BE Camp WItbyoombe, Sept. 8. Vis itors swarmed to Camp Withycombe today to welcome borne infantrymen ot the First, Second and Third bat talions, O. N. G., just returned front border service. Outsiders were not welcome while the troops were de training, but there was no objection to them tbis afternoon, tbe routine of camp life having been resumed. Prac tically all the soldiers believe they will soon be mustered out teany of them expressed disappointment at being recalled from Imperial Beach, where they spent the last week. The artillery and cavalry units of the O. N. O. remain at tbe "front" SEATTLE BANDITS SHOT BY POLICE Seattle, Sept (. For several week the police bere have been receiving reports from persons robbed on tbe streets by a one-armed man, The , search of detectives and patrolmen ended last night, when John Hllde brandt, paroled criminal, whose right hand Is amputated at tbe wrist, and hie iboy partner, Walter Healy, were shot down in the street after a hold up, by Motorcycle Officer M. S. Arbo gast, who was himself wounded in the wrlBt by a bullet fired by the , older man of the pair. Hlldebrandt admitted his Identity while city physicians examined the lo cation of the bullet in his spinal col umn, which tbey say probably. wjll prove fatal. Hlldebrandt was sen tenced to life Imprisonment In 1904 after he and "Kid" White, later banged for tbe crime, bad killed Mathew Murphy, while robbing the Conway saloon here. Hlldebrandt was paroled from the Walla Walla prison a few months ago by Governor Lister. ' . w.