Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, September 17, 1917, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EDITION VOU VII., S. UHH. oiuirn pamm, jonFBm oomrrr, Oregon, monday, September it, lm whole Ktic3 use REPORTS FROM NERVE ALUES TltOOIW FIGHTING JTAMANTLV AM MAIM'HI.NG TOWARD RIGA ' THIiHK tlTINH TAKKX CABINET CRISIS HAS PASSED Kereaaky Firmly In Control. Komi, loir Will Probably Kwap Drath Sentence). Aletlelf Waahlngton, Sept. 17. Tin Rus sian are driving toward Riga along a wide from. During the lait five daya their troop have advanced eeven miles, Thla la the report reaching ilia Russian embassy here from official eouroe today. The whole Russian military establishment la being re organlxed under General Alnxleff with a policy of ouatlng discredited commanders. Two aectlon of the front which It was feared had been torn by the Kmnfloff forces were those which the offlilal statement today declared had made good advance sgslnnt the ixi.lt long gained by (he enemy In the recent Herman advance. The lelrugrad atatemeui told of MabllRhlng of advanced Husslan pout In the village of Medug and of the capture of Kronberg. Both eltlea are In the Riga sector, not far from the roaat. The war office a aerted prisoners bad peel taken. Further to the east, on the Pskoy road, the city of Peln we occupied by the Russian drive. The attacking troop, according to the war office, moved on toward tainberg. occupy ing the vlllagea of Kiel ten and 81s aeral. v (ieneral Alexluff, Kerensky's new chler or malt, personally arrealed Kornlloir and tiervlsed the gather ing In or the other rebel chieftain. Alexlnff haa telegraphed to the pre mier from general army headquar ter that he la In complete control or the altuatlon, An official itatement latued today describes the political orlala a solv d by the formation of new min istry, satisfactory to all faction. It I believed that the new cabinet In clude lour conKtltutiona! democrat!. Official cablea from I'etrograd are most encouraging. The present mor ale or the troop la splendid. The provisional government la reported stronger than aver. Official word received from I'etro grad to the effect that the respon sibility or the Kornlloff rebellion has been Axed upon hla adviser and not the general himself, Indicate the probability that he will not suffer the death penalty for tilt share In the trouble, A BEFORE-THE-WAR ORUMMER OF EREIP.E1Y IS KNIGHTED BY ITALIAN KING FOR BRAVERY With the French .Armies, Aug. 28. (By mall) .Knighthood In the Royal Order of the Crown of Italy has Just been conferred by King Vic tor Emmanuel on Margli Qullbaut, a French soldier who before the war was a "drummer" for a wholesale grocery home, One or King Victor's hobble since the beginning or the war has been the seeking out and rewnrdlmt or reai deed of vkhlghthood . simmgat the soldier, not only of hi own, but of the allied armle. In conferring the cross or a chevalier or the OrOcr or the Crown or Italy on Gulllmut King Victor dubbed him a saroud "Chevalier d'Assits," Caught In a night amhiah.'and knowing that utile thea'arm a given other French soldier would also be captured, Oitllbattt unuml- GEO; TRIED I TO STIR REVOLT KffurlN Maul to Cne Trouble In lliilippliin Island ftaiirnloua I'rotnlMH Made t Natives ' Washington, Sept 17. German Intrigue undertook to create an In surrectloa In the Philippine Wanda- Conrad Andre, Oerman vlce-oon ml at Cebu, llolle and other aland, I aUegad to have surrounded bint' self with a number or Influential Fli- Ipplno, gaining strength to bl num bars by promising the native among other ihlnga that they could have aa wlvee any white womea In Cebu if they would lake part In a rebel' lion. It Is suspected that Andre under took to establish a ubmarlne base In (he Philippine. A ship bearng a complete machine ahop equipment was interoepted and detained off the Islands, Rome, Sept. 11. It Is reported here, on what is considered good au thority, that Austria Is finding It In creasingly d moult to work with Ger many. Epidemics and riots are reported throughout the dual empire, and po litical . differences over Prussian leadership Indicate that there is growing danger of a break between the two nations. Austria la unques tionably Buffering from a lark or food. It I reported that Prussian offi cers are frequently aasaulted oa the streets. "' HEW VOLCANO NEAR LASSEN ERUPTING Redding, Cat., Sept. 17. A new volcanic vent, possibly a new vol cano has been uncovered when a dense column of smoke began to Is ue from hills about 10 miles south or Mount lessen today. Observers declare the eruption as large as any that Lassen haa ever staged. It la thought to Indicate a resumption , or the activity In that section which distinguished Lassen aa the only aotlve volcano In the United State a couple of year ago. NIX AUK KILLED IN REAR KNU COIJilHION Aurora, 111., Sept. 17 Sis' per son were killed and alx Injured thl morning when two eaat bound stock tralna met In a rear end collision on the Chicago, Burlington k Qulnoy ralroad. tatingly called out to his men ,tr fire dlreotly onto his captor although well knowing like the Knight , of Asiai or old that the bullets must almost Inevitably kill himself as well. ' The darln? plan proved effective. Realising they were discovered, and that French soldier were close at hand, the ,Gifruianwlth, vurses fell back Into th darkness, the last one thrusting. hi gun, Into . Cultbaut'a faco. qullbaut Belied the barrel and unreedod In turning It ailde, the bullet tearing away part of one thumb and graaing his client. With the alarm that had been riven the entire German patrol sta tioned earlier In the night for the imrrmr of ambushing the French, boat ii dlnorcet retreat and Gull Until' sentinels nml odvnnco ixiKts ivmnliied master of the situation, INlPfK ALONG COAST SYMPATHETIC STRIKES CLUHK DOWN WOKK OX IMPORTANT GOVERNMENT CONTRACTS (toverament'a Ship Program Barlows- ly la terf erred With by Geaeral Walk-owt of Workmen Portland, Sept. 17. A thousand engineer and pattern , maker and other unionist working In tba wood en shipyards went on strike this morning In sympathy with the ship carpenter who struck Friday. The calkers at the shipyards did not at tempt to work with the other places vacated. It la reported that the wooden shipyard worker are attempting to get the laborer In the steel yard to alio stage a sympathetic strike. All the Portland plant have been operating on an open-shop basis and It la the Intention to resume on that basis. All hands will be taken back tomorrow morning. Indiscriminately strikers. If they want to come bark, as well as those who did not go on strike, and new applicants who may be looking for work. Every plant reports a heavy Hat of appll cant and the managers say they will have little or no trouble filling th.e place vacated by the strikers. 7 ' U 'Washington. Sept. . 17. William Blackman. department of labor mediator, today took charge or the Pacific coast shipyard labor prob lem. With a delegation of Portland unionists, he, and other federal au thorities, are conferring today with a view or reaching a satisfactory agreement that will permit the gov ernment's ahlp contract to proceed without further Interruption. (S ARESTia Washington, Sept. 17. The Ital ian offensive cannot be considered ended, according to telegrams re ceived by, the state department from Rome. Italian activities In the Balkans Indicate a new offensive there while General Cadona'a troops are. winning fresh vlotorie In the Balnalssa val ley. ' Preparations are being made for continuing the advance beyond . M. A . . . . . . I V . m mourn oi. uaoneie, me summit or which was taken by th Italians late last week after, a two-weeks' cam paign. SILVER PIjATKD PERIH4XWK8 HELP TO HIOR SUBMARINES An Atlantic Port, Sept. 17. Ger man submarines have been equipped with silver, plated periscope, mak ing them practically Invhtbre, ac cording to a report brought here by the passenger of an American liner. MIAI1 FOR ALL; " REGISTEREO KEN' NQT.Y Washington, Sept. 17. If a large part or the governor! of tha state approve a suggestion by the provost marshal-general, an Immediate ex amination or the 7,000,000 men reg istered for military service and not yet called tor duty will be begun. The suggestion was made with a view to satisfying the great nunvber or young men a to what they may expect, II COMMITTKKH KKAOV FOR WOKK WHKM WILL UKKATLr HBM . SOLDIER MORAUI . COUSn Wfia DO : FULL SHil Nstloa-wtde Moveneat MeeM With Prompt Kesponse tsi Every Quar ter. War Secretary Appeals . Thirty of the prominent women of this community are ready .for th "War Library Fund" drive which will be conducted la Josephin coun ty tomorrow. The city has been dis tricted and a team placed in charge of each dlatrk-t. Subscription blank are In the band of these team and will be used In the drive tomorrow. Later, receipts, issued by tbe state campaign committee, will be mailed to each subscriber. To facilitate tbe work, tb local committee asks subscribers to hand the amount of their subscriptions to the committee when they are made. This will obviate a long-drawn-out collection campagn. Should any cltixen be missed by these soliciting teams, the commit tee would appreciate having them telephone tbe Chamber of Commerce and volunteer their subscriptions. Portland. Sept. 17. With Gover nor Wlthycomb as tba head. of the Oregon War library Council, an -en ergetic campaign haa been begun to raise Oregon's (25,000 quota of the million-dollar fund to equip every army camp and cantonment In Am erica and France with libraries. ; Secretary of War Baker, in an nounclng the campaign, said: "Three hundred and fifty thou sand books will be purchased at the outset, and the plan is to maintain these for the period or three, year. These libraries must be rushed so that the men In the; various camp may be rendered ..more efficient, keener, better Midlers. "The , establishment . of the , , li braries are an absolute essential and their maintenance become a pa trtfcCle neceaslt:; y ; ' "Th war library , fund waa begun at th Instance of the war depart ment and Is In addition to the col lection of books and so that there will be the widest possible rang or works . ror the libraries, alt I rea lised too, that the constant usage of th book will demand mainten ance and replacement, henoe the million-dollar fund which will pro vide at tha outset 350,000 book tor th cantonment and maintain them for three years, new. book being purchased a the need arises. "I trust that every cltixen In Ore gon will realise that It la hla duty to subscribe to thla fund," said Gov ernor Wlthycombe, Saturday.. CROWDS AT YAKIMA . ; North Yakima, Wash., Sept. If. Automobile races today: drew a rec ord erowd to ; the Washington state fair in progress here. A silver cup and $1,150 In cash were' offered to the winners. Today Is automobile day. . The fair opened Saturday and will end next Friday night. New build ings, exceptionally large crowds and unequalled exhibits make this the best fair In th' association's his tory. -1 West wood, Cal., Sept. 17. A mil lion-dollar damag was the result of a fire which early today destroyed two-thirds of the stock of the Red Wood lumber company here and for a time threatened th plant Itself, riAV rnn I LIBRARY DRIVE COST SERIOUS COAST STRIKE All Kan IrVaacisco hj Wp BaUdtag Stopped by Strike of Iron Work ers Many Riot San Francisco, Sept. 17. The most serious strike In tbe history f the Pacific coast began thl morn ing. ' , ,'.i j". : :t : following the walk-out of iron worker, (topping operations In vary -San Francisco bay ship build- plant,' rioting ha - been reported from many section. A doxen street cars of th United Railways have been partially or wholly wrack ed and early this morning a num ber of strike breaker war severely beaten. ( Government ship eontracta involv ing $150,000,000 are completely tied up. Because of thia fact It la hourly expected here that tha federal government will Intervene. In this connection comes the report that or der have been Issued at the presi dio that solders have 1een ordered to be held ready tor instant call if needed to preserve order. two k:ibaixs i::e Portland, Sept.! 17. Two of the leading financial institutions of thl city were consolidated Saturday and thla morning opened for business as one. They were the United States National bank and the Lumber- mans National bank. Tha consolidated bank will do bus iness under the name nad charter of the United States National in the handsome new quarters of the lat ter bank, at the northwest corner of Sixth and Stark streets. It will have a capitalisation or $1,600,000, aurplus or $1,000,000, undivded profts of . $400,000 to $500,000 and deposit in excess of $10,000,000. SCOTCH AND ENGLISH ARE ' Kl'OOKRSFVIi IN NIGHT RAID London, .Sept.. 17. General Heig reported today .that . 'England , and Scottish regiments,, last night auc- tesafully raided the. German posi tions east of Epehy. German , dug outs, trench mortars, emplacement and ammunition stores were -des troyed. " FORMER I'NIVKRHITY MAN 1 ' ' GlftS 'OHIO, PORTION Portland, Sept 17. Dr. Don C. Sower,, assistant director of tha bureau ' of municipal reaaearch of Dayton, Ohio, and formerly profes sor or munlcpalltlea In the Univer sity or Oregon, has been appointed director of tha bureau of municipal research of Akron, Ohio, aucceedtng FranTt L. Olsen. HEATING PROBLEM FOR Camp Lewis, American Lake, Sept. 17.--The Invigorating air of th early morning Is almost .too, much for men, and officers here from south ern, state. Their sufferings are In creased by the tact that tha ateani heating plant for the officers' quar ters la not completed and, all th stove In th barrack are not In stalled, i The. men from tha northwestern states of course look forward with much plaaure to the approaching In dian aummer. The heating problem here I a big one. The first shipment of 1.07$. big heaters for the barracks has ar rived, Forty eight, thousand tons Of coal will be used thla mtnter to heat the various building here. Bids for this fuel are now being sought. Captain Maurice D. Welly, aide- SUGAR PLAI1T IIEARHD in mm UTAH-IDAHO COMPANY. PROPOSAL FOR BITLIHXQ FAC TORY FJf UPPER VALLEY tkms ra B! tt or Medford Paper States That Local' Factory Wul Be Moved Owtag to tba Lack of Beet Tbe following Is clipped from th Medford Mail Tribune and ra-pab ilshed without comment , Th Utah-Idaho Sugar . company has submitted a proposition to th Medford Commercial club for th es tablishment of a sugar factory la th Medford-Central Point section to re place the present Grants Pass fac tory, which Is to be moved to Wash In gto a, on account of lack of suffi cient beets to operate profitably. Th proposition Is a business oa and th best yet submitted but la depend ent upon irrigation. The company' agree to erect am up-to-date modern factory, costing, equipped, in the vicinity of $750,000 provided contracts for ' 1,000 acre of Irrigated beet sugar land is tha Medford valley,' approved by Its soU experts, are aigaed up tor th fret year on three-year contracts, 2,500 acrt tor the second year, and 1,009 acres for the third year. In addi tion, the company agree to secure 1,000 acres here and plant R to beet the yield of the total S.OOO acres In th Medford district together with that of the Grant Pas and other section, being sufficient to operate the factory the first year. The suc cess or the grower Is depended upon to Induce Increased acreage In th future. To show Its good faith, th sugar company will put up a bond of $50,000 to insure carrying oat Its agreement and. the , building and op eration of the .factory. JAP1BPLEHD: TO STO BY ALUES Philadelphia, Sept 17. 6peaklQC beneath the tower of Independence Hall,' today. Viscount Ia.hU, special ambassador of Japan, asserted com plete sympathy, of Nppoa with Ideala of human liberty and promised that she would stand with th , allle "through the struggle for liberty and tor freedom." CAT.'P. - LEViS GIVES - de-camp of Major General H. A. Green, has been named camp, cen sor. :v Officer at Camp Lewis , will not have time , to , play. . From early morning until late at night their time" will be occupied by drllla, study and ' 1 fihuuwa ' ftt th..' i.mn ' uiliAnl when tha organisation of the camp is completed, rermroaioa , lor , . ao- sence. from the famp. wll) be, gtvep sparingly, ai , a .privilege, , not aa a right, according to general orders. Examination of men Jn the-first quota continues. The number of re jections due to physical .disabilities haa been higher than the army phy sicians expected, especially since (he men were examined before. they left tur a iiiasi ii aa ga imbibi rrnunii iiiu men will be rejected from th first quota. k .