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mm DAILY EDITION No Other Town In the World the Size of Grants Pass lias a Newspaper With Full Leased Wire Telegraph Service VOL. VII., No. l.'W. CiKANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE OOirTV, ORKOOX, 81 NIAV, MAY 1.1, 1017 WHOLE NUMBED S008. PEASANTS TRY UN n TH ICV IM) HMrT WAIT M)lt UK FOItMM PKOMIKKU IIY TIIK 1 MA LKAIIHKM SlIiMTIOH BELIEVED ffltt 4kmny'a hlu Hand New In IH tnut and Impatience of Oxn lluatlM People Petrograd. May 12 Anxiety of ths plain people of Kuaala Instantly to bridge the cIimiu between the au tocracy that waa and the democracy that la to bewithout careful tent ing put the bridge menacea Ruaala today. , The friction betwevn the duma leadera and representatives of the aoldlera and workmen haa long been apparent. Today, however, came word of an equally menacing: point of difference. KtiHla'a peaaauti are taking, thing In their own hand. I'leaa by duma representatives aent broad at throughout Huula to preach the doctrine or the new plan of gov ernment and tell the Ignorant' pea anta to wait for complete organisa tion, are apparently falling on deaf oars. Word Indicated today that nearly 150,000.000 acrva or land have been seised by the peasants throughout Kuaala. The peaaanta could not wait for the promlaed breaking up or vast estates under pledge that auch a distribution would come aoon after the constituent assembly had defi nitely mapped out Russia's future. Conflacatlon and distribution of landi have In many section ben formally decided upon by vote of the popular assemblies. The movement lias become ao general throughout Russia that the German agent have succeeded In stirring up great dls aatlafaction among soldiers along the front, by Insinuating that unles the soldiers deserted and Trent home to participate In the conflacatlon, they would lose their share. Numer ous desertions have come from this report. The Russian workmen, too, are taking matters Into their own hands. Throughout Russia workmen are placing representative officer of their organisations with various man ufacturing companlea, and refining permission for any shipments with out their official vise. Minister of War Gutchkoff today Issued this proclamation to the army: "People who hate Russia are coun teracting the work of the army, clam oring for the end of the war. An ao tlve campaign la progressing against discipline and obedience. Do not lis- (Continued on Page 4) TOLSTOY REGRETS APPOINTMENT OF &IHU ROOT ON AMERICAN COMMISSION TO RUSSIA Seattle, May 12. Count Ilya Tol toy, son ot the great Russian phil osopher, today denounced the ap pointment of Kllhu Root as chair man of the United States commis sion to new Russia, "I disapprove ot the. appointment of Mr. Root, on the Russian conimls slnn," he said. "In sending him as chairman, America makes herself ap pear a plutocracy, Instead of a dem ocracy. That la true, but I should not think It well to show It on such a commission, Tbs Idea of sending ths commission was good, but It Is annihilated by tha selection of Mr. T ARE SENT OUT War ItrfMrtiDeat Takea first Hlop In lutilng Conscription Law Into Kffcct Washington, May 13. The gov ernment today took Its first prelim inary atep toward putting Into affect the selective conscription system for raising an army of one million men. Certain of speedy action by congress on the army bill, which will come up for final debate In the house at 10:30, the war department began distribution of 10,000,000 registra tion blanks through which all males of the nation between the agea of 21 and SO will be card-Indexed. Theae blanks will be sent to sheriffs and mayors of hundreds of communities. The cards contain blanks for four teen questions every detail the gov ernment wishes to know about Its po tential aoldlera and a query whether exemption la claimed. Men who are absent from then home states will be required to pro cure a eard wherever he bay be and mall It to the county clerk at his home. Distribution of the cards Is expected to be completed within a few day. According to estimate Compiled by the bureau of remua, New York City alone ahould reglater 624,700 men of between 21 and SO yeara In' cluiive: Chicago. 100.800; Phlladel tihla. 171.800; Bt. I.ouis, 84.900; DoMton. 77.800; Cleveland, 82.600; Bait I nt ore. (7.(00 and Pittsburg, (7,- 100. The figures given by the bureau are based upon the average age of the numerical Increase In population for the different cities and states since 1910, when the last accurate census wss complied. New York state lead the country with approximately 1,068,000 men aulJert to selective service. Penn sylvania la next with 874,000 and Illinois third with 639,500. The possibilities for the three Pa cific coast atates, compiled by the bureau, are aa follows: California, 362.000; Oregon, 108,100: Washing ton, 217.400. SENATE GRANTS A PARMDRY NATION Ile evening report: Washington, May 12. By a vote of 8M to 32, the senate amends the Gregory espion age bill providing partial prohibition during the war. Washington, May 12. Demands for war prohibition broke out afresh In the senate today when Senator Cummins, Introduced an amend ment to the eaplonage bill to pro hibit tho use of grains, cereala or other edible things In the production of IntoxloanU. Root aa Its head. He will be very badly received by ths iRusslan demo crats, and Instead of uniting Russia and America, I think It will have Just the opposite effect." Tolstoy Is here on the laat lap of his Journey homeward, where . he says, he expects to be "drawn Into" the work of reconstructing the Rus sian government. , "I would like to escape that fate," he said, with a shrug ot his shoul ders, "but I feel It will be Impos sible." Tolstoy will leave Immediately for Vancouter. 'Bi O. DRAF UK w in com By a Vctc That Was Sarprisiaj Erea to Friends of ilt Co!::d The Hcse Amy Bill fed bfo Cc:fcr cce to Include Prcrcica for RccseTtlt Divbicn Washington, May 12. Supporters of Colonel Roosevelt won an up-hill, fight in the house today, when, by a vote of SIS to 178, the house re committed a conference report on the selective draft army bill with In struction to Inaert the Roosevelt volunteer divialon plans. The slight democratic majority In the house was overcome by a sprink ling of democrats from all over the country who voted for tho till. By the house action, the bill goes back to conference between bouse and senate. House conferees are In structed to stand for the Roosevelt plan to the last. The senate orig inally adopted the Roosevelt plsn. The house originally rejected It. The margin of 37 votes, by which the Roosevelt amendment carried, waa surprising even to the colonel's sup porters. No advantage for either side could be found until the roll rail waa almost completed, when there was a strong trend to the Roosevelt men. The house cheered when Speaker Clark announced the vote. For the first time In many yeara many In dividuals were applauded aa they Toted. Speaker Clark, the-last to vote, was wildly cheered when jhe WAR DM THREE FRONTS RESOLVES TO London, May 12. Word received lalo today fro. Halg, announce, rlo. ' lent attack on llullecourt which he oorupim, -and can-tea ties-man lines over front of mile and half. London, May 12. Hundreds of prisoners were taken by British forces In further advances today around Bullecourt on the Arraa Cambral road and north ot the Scarpe river, Field Marshal Hslg re ported. "At night and early this morning," he said, "we made attacks on the Hlndenburg line in the neighborhood ot Bullecourt and also astride the Arras-Cambral road and to the north of the Scarpe. We gained our ob jective and took hundreds of prison ers." , Crown Prince Rupprecht Is trying with almost every sort of weapon known to military science to dislodge the British grip on Oerman positions around Fresnoy and Bullecourt. Front dispatches told of hand gre nades, trench mortars, liquid (Greek) fire,-boiling oil, nauseating gases, bayonets, big gun, little EDISON NEEDED A SHAVE 4 East Orange, N. J May 12 4 4 Thomas A. Edison waa halt- 4 4 ed as he tried to psss an armed 4 4 guard near his, factory here. 4 4 Part ot the factory was burn- 4 4 Ing, and tha wlsard waa hasten- 4 4 Ing to oversee tha work ot tight- 4 4 Ing the flames. .., .;. . 4 4 "Rut I'm Edison." exclaim- 4 4 ed the Inventor. 4 4 "Not with those whiskers." 4 4 the guard replied. , 4 4 Edison has been so busy 4 4 working on a solution of the 4 4 strTwnarlne problem, he had not 4 4 takes time to shave. 4 TO voted "no," as was Majority Leader Mn- "m Miss Jeannette Rankin won loud applause when she voted to , let 'Roosevelt lead volunteers to the fighting front Representative Sher wood, civil war veteran, now 82 year old, also received an ovation when he voted for the Roosevelt plan. Fitzgerald, New York, said Gen eral Pershing's 'brigade should be sent. To send four volunteer dlvl Ions, he said, "would be to send 80,000 men to be slaughtered." "I'm not a political friend of Roosevelt," Uncle Joe Cannon said amid laughter. "I voted against him In 1112. I do not believe he I a candidate for president. I never expect to vote for him again. But If you are afraid of him, it la more dangerous to leave him at home. Washington, May 12. The house decision on the army bill, referring it back to conference with Instruc tions that the so-called Roosevelt di vision amendment be embodied in the bill, waa reported to the senate late today. Senator Chamberlain asked unanimous consent to with draw his report to the senate on the bill, which wa granted, and the army bill waa again In conference. . guns, machine guns, rifle fire, all ! """t ' fur ot Alt rvrvrrvt unHw 4? itAnnAftajl mat ass I nu VCFV4 tuaasij ivi wuisi ivu aaass attack baa passed at these points, ac cording to descriptions of the dead- lock received here. - The struggle has developed Into hand-to-hand bits ot fighting while behind roar guns on both sides, pelting the lines opposite with vast quantities of shells. It is not only at Fresnoy and Bulle court that the Germans were striv ing todsy to stop all movement. ot the British. . Official reports detailed mass offensive assaults at Arleux, and other point around Iens. . The British grip on the coal city has been Increasingly strong of late and Field Marshal von Hlndenburg, with every reserve force at his command, is en deavoring vainly, so far and with extraordinary losses to weaken the circle of British trenches about the town.' Dispatches from the Macedonian front today showed a desperation In the fighting there Incident to the al lied advance that Is equalling any thing seen on the western front. Des pite a terrain highly unfavorable to the attacking forces, General Ser (Continued on Page S) MUST MAKE SACRIFICES ... 4 4 Washington, May 12, What 4 4 the war that America Is In will 4 4 mean In heartaches and In every 4 4 way waa brought home to a 4 4 great audience that witnessed 4 4 the dedication ot the new Red 4 4 Croas home here this afternoon. 4 President Wilson and former 4 4 president Tatt "both emphasised 4 4 that American homes are to be 4 4 bereft of loved onea, but that 4 4 Americans must be real Amerl- 4 cans In bravely standing the 4 4 coming sacrifices In the Inter- 4 4 est of "freedom gad , democ- 4 4 racy." . 4 STRUGGLES E SHALL GAINS Fighting (Win uw At gerrraf Point on French line Without IteKuIt of Importance Paris, May 18. Fighting all the way from south of Laon down to Al sace-Lorraine was detailed In today's French official statement. Gains were achieved by General Nlevelle's forces In penetrating the German lines north of Besonvaux, as well as at several points In the Amnwrts wil ier sector of A Is ace, the war office aid. Around Chemin de Dames, the artillery combat showed a alight slackening, the statement said. The French blew up a munitions depot In this section. In the region aonth of Pargny and In the Champagne, west of the Cornlllet wod, the same style of fighting prevailed. Arcnnd Verdun them wm an ar 11110 7 battle In the region of Avo court. bnt without Infantry action. "French detachments penetrated the German lines north of Beson vaux, aa well as at several points in the Ammertxwlller sector of Alsace," the war office statement concluded. ROUTINE OUTLINED AT OFFICERS' CATAP San Francisco, May 12. Ten hours a day Instructions, lectures In the evenings, with the remainder -of .the waking hours devoted to study "chief-j ly. Is the program mapped out tor the student officers at the presidio training camp. Today about half of the appointees to the camp are at the presidio with 680 scheduled to enroll during the day. Colonel Sladen, commandant of the school, today emphaalsed the fact that because the camp la on a strict ly "make good" basis, no fraternis ing between officers. Instructors and students will be permitted. OF Tokio, May 12. -It lies In the power of Japan and the United States to determine the answer upon which the future happiness and progress of the world wltl depend, Foreign Min ister Motono declared In an unusual ly frank address at the - banquet given by the American Society ot Japan laat night In honor of the in auguration ot Field Marshal Ter auchl aa premier. Premier Terauchl declared that the entrance of the United State Into the world war had greatly strengthened the ties between Japan and America It Is Imperative now, he added, that these relations be cemented more strongly than ever, and the efforts for progress toy both governments and peoples be combined more close - ly. " '- ' FRENCH LI SOCIALISTS CABLE GERMAN COMRADES THAT : 1R MUST SWEEP t..'. New York, May 12. America's socialists sent word to their colleag ues ot Germany today that tho kaiser and kalserlsm must go; that the war against Germany must be continued by the democratlo people ot the world until this result Is achieved. The message was cabled by 'the na tlonat executive committee ot social ists ot America to socialists In Stock holm, Copenhagen, The Hague and Berne,- with request that Its text be forwarded to Oerman socialists. Ths names of - America's most SErlATE HITS MIL OF lines BY A HARROW MAJORITY OP ORB VOTE PKES8 CENSOR SHIP IS KILLED tSPKEOlSMSO Watt the Preetdent la Grrea Um Principal of Washington, May 12 By a tight majority of one vote, the senate to- day (track from the Gregory espion age bill tha censorship - provision that would authorise power to con trol tha press la any and all crit icism of the government's conduct of tho wa and tha administration's In ternational policies. The vote waa tl to it. Fifteen democrats lined up with 24 republicans to defeat tha objection! provision, which has caused a storm of criticism from all . over the country and on the floor ot both house and senate. Senator Martin, democratic floor leader, was one ot the democrats who voted-' against provision which At torney General Gregory promulgated. Disposition ot the censorship fea ture leaves the president with no specific control over ths press. Other sections of ths eaplonage bill cover treasonable utterance and it was ths contentfoa of thoae opposed to tho censorship that those sections will . give the government ample powers to protect Kaelf. J . It la possible thst later an effort will be made by the administration to secure adoption of a much-modified censorship provision, out ths . temper of the senate Is such as to absolutely prohibit any drastic regu lation of ths press or Interfere with . the rights ot free speech. ' ' Even as It stands, it gives tho president powers such as are hardly exceeded by any ruler in ths world. He Is authorised to Issue proclama tion governing the movements ' of all American vessels and 'to take possession ot such vessels. It neces sary. He is authorised to employ land and naval forces to prevent , destruction or injury of any vessel In American waters; to prevent ves sels, as resort for any one conspir ing against the United States. K , penalty ot not mors than 25 yeara Imprisonment, for any , one foment ing ' trouble or conveying false re ports about the military and naval forces ot ths country. It provides heavy penalties for any one conspir ing against ths United Stabss, or who harbors any one whom he bus- j lts ot if a conspirator. The president may restrain in port any armed vessel owned wholly Or In part by American cltlxena un til adequate proof is given that sail- ; lag ot the vessel will la? no way j Jeopardise (he Interests of the United, letstes." ' ' " T '' i , r KAISERISM FRO!.! EARTH i prominent socialists wars affixed to ths messages Including Charles Ed ward (Russell, J, O. Phelps-Stokes, Wm. English Walling, Ross Pastor Stokes, snd others. ? Milwaukee, May 12. Indication - that a nation-wide rupture la tho socialist ranks is Imminent cams to day when Victor 1 Bsrger, member of the national commutes, declared socialists who todsy sent a messtc to European socialists were aot rp resentwttves ot ths party. i