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

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY EDITION vu vni., N... nu. ORANTII PA AM, JOHKPHIXB COUHTT. OREOOJf, WKDSMUlAV, HBO. 1. 1017 WHOLK MMIIEIl J6U7. 0 MM OAS HARD NUT FOR PEACE ENVOYS 'IlKMAMM PltOMIT ANHWKIt TO gi KMTION "PKACH WITHOIT AXMKXATIONH" WANTS KATIOHS SELF-DEFIH 1 HG Teuton Mtow llHNliUin to Work f.r IU-at Tit-ma IWilde llul Vlrll lUlher Than llreak Conhagen, live. K. Although Berlin reports that Dr. von Kuehl minu, the German foreign minister. I tin hi way tu llrent-l.ltonk In take part In peace negotiation be tween Ruaala and the en n Ira I pow r. advlcea from Petrograd are (hat an effort would be made to con elude the final negotiations on neu tral idII. Stockholm and The llano are both favored. WaahlnKton. Doc. 19. Various reports continue to com from Hue alt with retard to operation of the revolutionary and conntrr-revolu-tlonary forces In their struggle for supremacy, but out of the max It li impossible to Rain an accurate Idea ee to which tide I In the ascendency. Recognition of the llolshevlkl government by the t'nlted States atllt la remote. It waa Indicated to day at the atate department. Re port In Kuroe suggesting a devel oping aentlmenl In favor of dealing with the new regime at a da facto government have found no response here, and It waa made plain thnt tne Vnlted Btatea would continue It policy of awaiting development. Petrograd, Monday., Dor. 17. Count Ciernln and Dr. von Kuehl- (Contlnued on page J.) TREATY 1H SPAIN BY COUNT Iomlon, Dec. II. "I have no doubt of the allies' ultimate vic tory," Count Komanoucs, former Spanish premier, waa quoted aa de claring In Madrid dlspatcn printed Monday here In the Dally Express. "We hope for treat lea with Am ilea and France almllar to that uttt concluded with England." Reference to a treaty with Eng land la not explained. ITALIAN TIMKM'S HELPED IV OAITTRK OP JERl'SAI.KM WaahlnKton, Dec. 19. British troopa were aided In their victorious advance against Jerusalem by Ital ian forces and Major De-Agoatonl, (Rome cables announce this after noon. WINTER WHEAT ACREAGE IS FORTY-TWO MTTJjION WaahlnKton, Dec. ,19 The winter wheal acreage Is 43,170,000. Its condition la 79 8-10 per cent, ac cording to a statement Issued today by the department of agriculture. OLO FRENCH CRUISER BY Paris, Deo. 19. The old French vinlser, Chateau Renault, employed s a transport, was torpedoed and sunk In the Mediterranean on De- . comber 14.' The submarine which attacked her was destroyed shortly thereafter. The passer gers of the Chateau Renault were nil soldiers or sailors, , and were saved. Ten members of -if he crew were lost. DANIELS QUIZZED CONGRESSMEN fei'tt-tMry of Xay lU-fiire lnvet. gallon Ciiimiilltif ami Hays Me la Prowl nf Navy's Itooinl Washington, Duo. 19. Hocretary Danlela waa the flrnt witness before the bouse naval affairs committee Investigating the activities of the naval department. He told how the navy waa build ing 414 ahlpa and aald that he waa proud of the way the navy had met the teat. A sharp tiff occured be tween the secretary and Con great man Drltten when Britten aaked what complaints had been made to hla department by Admiral Blmrns. Daniels replied that Rlmms had been given everything that the depart ment could give. lie characterized any contrary ru mors aa "a mesa of gossip" which shouldn't be "bandied about." He said there was a perfect understand ing between Admiral Hlins and the department. E Ixindon. Dee. 19. Field Marshal llalg reports that he la making some ImiKittnnt changes In bis headquar ter ataff. There have been no changes In the situation at the front. Heavy anow and bad weather gen erally has brought the fighting al most to a standstill on the western front In France and Belgium, except for small encounters by outposts and reciprocal bombardments. OREGON CITY MILLS ROASTED BY MISSION Portland. Due. .19. The report of President Wilson's labor commis sion, headed by Secretary of lbor Wilson, made public today, says thnt their efforts to settle the Oregon City paper mills strike failed be cause the officials of the Crown Wil lamette Paper Co., with headquar ters In San Francisco,' refused .to ar bitrate. The report criticizes these officials severely, saying that the strikers offered to agree to any set tlement made by the arbitrators. E Cleveland, O., Dec. 19. Police to day claimed to have evidence that fire which late Monday night des troyed "Forest Hills," the home of John D. Rockefeller here, waa of In cendiary origin. Detectives were preparing to search the mini as soon aa - they cool In an effort to tlx responsibil ity for the blase. Revised estimates Axed the amount of the loss at 1150,000. ( Rome, Dec. 19. On the northern Italian front, the 'Austro-Qermans continue their strong efforts to And a weak, spot In the Italian defense through which -they may rush south. The Monte Solarolo sector Is (he center of the fierce fighting at pres ent. Berlin, Dec. 19. The Austro-Oer-mans are storming the Italian posi tions on Monte Asalone and the ad joining heights. Over 2,000 Italians have been taken prisoner. FILLING BLANKS BY REGISTRANTS ISTWLESOM KVEN' I.M1AL ADVINOIIM FAIL TO COMPLY WITH PLAINLY STAT ED DIRECTIONS STIff PENALTY FOR FALSEHOOD FrWl Attorney Iseuee Another Warning Against AlUffltpta to Get Into Preferred CI"slhViitlo Portland, Dec. 19. The adjutant general's office haa again sent out a warning urging all registrants to exercise extreme rare In the filling out of the questionnaires aent them. I'ntrue answers are apt to bring down upon the head of the maker thereof, severe punishment. In this connection an official warning that should be carefully noted by every draft registrant has Just been Issued by Clarence L. Reamet, United 8tatea attorney for Oregon. Thla warning aays: "In connection with the filling out of the questionnaires,' word has been received from the attorney general to prosecute) Vigorously those who make statements therein that are false. . "In view of the fact that false statements In support of claims for exemption or deferred classification constitute a grave menace to the fair and equitable enforcement of conscription, we have been request ed to give wide publicity to the fact that such material false statements even when the facts have been dis torted only slightly, will be prompt ly prosecuted. "Attention should be further dl rected to the fact that all exemp tions and discharges made prior to noon on December 15 wjll thereaf ter have no validity, and to the fact that every personwho has registered and Is not yet In military service Is required to fill out a questionnaire Draft registrants may rest a.uved thnt the personal questions they are obliged to answer In regard to their domestic business conditions will be seen only by the proper authori ties. Members of local and district boards are forbidden under severe penalty from divulging such Infor matlbn. Even though a registrant Is per fectly iiire he understands all that la required, Jn the. questionnaire, for his own protection he snouia con sult one of the members of the var loua legal , advisory boards for ad vice, , This legal advice Is free. Questionnaires are now being sent out by local boards at the rate of. five per cent each day, except Sun- ( Continued on pact 1.) FOR GRAIN MILLERS New York, Dec. 19. In the regu lations prescribed by the food ad ministration tor the guidance of millers announced yesterday, are the following: "No 'HccnRee, after De ember 2." shall use more than 264 founds or clean wheat In making 196 pounds of 100 per cent flour." ' From the 100 per cent flour ao produced the licensee may at his op tion remove not more than five per cent of clear or low grade flours,! none of which may be mixed with or sold as feed. The 95 per cent of the, 196 pounds of fiour remaining shall not be subject to further eepaaatlon or division. Bran Is to be sold at a price per ton not exceeding 88 per cent of the average cost of wheat to the miller, "shorts" and "middlings'' are to be sold at approximately ' $2 per ton above the price of bran, mixed feeds at not more than 1 4 above this basis and flour middlings at not more than $9 above the price of bran. . FLOODS ALONG VALLEY OF ri:ori,K OF WOOWI-AWX HIOIXG KKHCIKD IIY VKHKKUi HKXT FROM PORTLAND Heavy IUIiim Cauae Worst VUtoA In Years l'xm Kt roams In Territory Tributary to Portland Portland, Dec. 19. A fleet of three river steamers and a Port of Portland tug have been sent by Mayor Buker to Woodlawn, Wash., to rescue realdenta who are eo daggered by the flooding of thf town. The water Is six feet deep there. A. ahartff 'a posse from Portland haa rescued four negroes marooned near Lents. Two of them wert women. Flooded water falls are menacing the Columbia river highway. m Portland, Dec. 19. Flood reports are coming In from various sections of the northwest aa a result of the several days of hard rain. Because of the high water. Great Northern and Northern Pacific trains to Puget Sound are operating by way of the Spokane, Portland and Seattle (North bank) railway be tween Spokane and Vancouver, Wash. ) ' High water Interrupted rail traffic between Portland and Seattle for a short time today. ' High water near Hoover, Ore., on the Cor vail Is & Eastern railroad and a slide on the Southern Pacific line to Tillamook, caused slight de lays today, but railroad schedules are being approximated. The Willamette river is approach ing flood stage and the Columbia is rising steadily. Telegraph and tele phone service has been Interrupted. IS BY E San Francisco, Dec. 19. With three bullet wounds In his back. Frank DaRoux lies hovering be tween life and death In a local hos pital as the result of an attack upon him by his recently divorced wife on a crowded down town street. Mrs. Da-Roux accompanied her former husband to the hospital fol lowing which she was arrested. The Immediate cause of the shooting waa DaRoux'a refusal to remove an at tachment he had placed upon his ex-wlte's furniture. nKTirSWTED GuLSU1 FALLING Stockholm, Dec. 19. The iMaxl rnallat regime la slowly but surely riding to a fall. Information, from travelers reach ing here aa well aa antl-Bolshevikl newspapers smuggled by way or Haparaada Indicate even the Petro- grad garrison no longer supports the Lenlne-Trotsky ring. TWenty-slx or Russia's provinces and territories have formally re fused recognition ot the BOlshevlkl "government." Every Bolsherlkl claim from Petrograd must be heavi ly discounted. . Terrorism reigns in Petrograd The cleverest Intriguers of the old Russian regime are aiding the ex tremists In playing on the minds ot the Ignorant masses of the soldiers by fairy tales that there will be an Immediate revolution in Germany, COLUMBIA LONDON VISITED ANOTHER ID til o Twenty Aeroulanm Tr to Doinli MmropolW Killing Tee an Injuring Seventy London, Dec. 19. Ten persons ere killed and seventy Inlnr., i London during last nla-hr. i .m Outaide of London, five were la- jurea. One German aernnlana down and another la believed to ave been destroyed. From i 20 raiders engaced !n h. They divided Into tlx groups each group endeavoring to get over the city but only Are nlaln. ,,.-a.a - r - wnvuwcuWU In dropping bom be within the dtr umiia. An official announcement nt - UMW raid says: "Hostile airplanes crossed the Essex and Ken coast about (:lt 'clock and proceeded toward Ten don. Some of the raiders reached the London district and dropped uomos. Homos also were dropped In Kent and Besex. "Reports or casualties and damaa-e have not yet been received. Our guns and airplanes were both In ac tion." SEATTLE'S l!EW CHIEF MS BAN EM Seattle, Dec. 19. Seattle's new chief of .police, Warren, today told General Irons, commander at Camp Lewis, that he was trying to clean np the city and he hoped Seattle would be glvea a Christmas present in the form of a revocation of the atnbargo 'order. ATTEMPT UPON HOME OF GOV.: TERRORISM Sacramento, Dec. 1 9. Governor Stephens last night gave out a state ment In which he says that the at tempt to dynamite his home was due simply to 'the reign of terrorism among the pro-German and I. W. W enemies "within our gates." Combined efforts of the police, the sheriff's forces and scores ot Individ uals, up to an early hour tonight. had failed to produce any tangible clue to the Identity of the persons responsible for. the explosion. S ARE Chicago, Dec. 19. Owing to transportation difficulties, there Is a glut of hogs on the Chicago market and more than the packers can con veniently handle, so that there Is a tendency for a drop in price below the $15.50 per 100 which J. P. Cot ton, head of the meat section of the food administration, Informed stock men would be the minimum price. Mr. Cotton today reaffirmed that statement and asked farmers to hold back their hogs for that or bertter prices until the packers could get caught up with their work. POOR INCLINED TO DROP ILK AS FOOD New York. Dec. 19. Disastrous results of the sudden rise in the cost of milk, which Is causing the poor to drop It from the diet ot babies and young children, are re ported by the experts of the national children's bureau, who fear wide spread sickness and a rapid Increase In Infant mortality, unless milk is continued in the feedings. bad mm HINDERS II FOR RED CROSS PK8PITF, HANDICAP. EYKAY MIXTION OF STATE 8KXD8 EV couiagino itKroirrs UMATILLA COUNTY Mm or Uie Remainder of Week, Work Will lie Ptubed With Itenewed Yitfor. Jonephlue Doing Well Portland, Dee. 19. Reports reaching atate headquarters for the Red Croaa drive np to noon today1 give a tout for the state of ll.XSl' divided. Portland 9,110 and outside 23,189. There la a paucity ot retuma for: Portland districts. One dlaUtct out ot the 22 haa turned In over i.OQO alone. I Late returns bring Umatilla coun-l ty Into the lead with 4,009. or a per centage of 52. Coos county U second -with 1,800 or 51 per centi Both counties have quotas of 7,500; Twelve per cent of the atate'a toJ tat haa been obtained during the two day'e work. 8ixteen countlee aver-t age 27 per cent The average for all the atate outside of Portland It' It per cent. The camoalan win now be forced In Portland where the bad! weather has held it back. X. P. Macduff, chairman for JoH aephlne county's Red Croaa mem -berehljr drive, thl morning received from C. C. Chapman, state chairman the following telegram: "Fifteen counties of Oregon, aver aging 24 per cent of their allotted quotaa rank In the following ordet Becoming to reports received nere to date Coos. Colon, Morrow, Gil liam, Deschutes, Malheur, Harney, Western Washington, Josephine Wallowa. Yamhill, Benton, Clatsop Baker and Lane. "Weather conditions are fright fully adverse. Twenty precincts In Portland have averaged 300 each Seven counties have wired that the will certainly exceed their quotas." ECONOMY BOARD TO SURVEY KTRH Washington, Dec. 19. George N Peck, Industrial representative of! the war Industries board, Monday! wae authorised by the council ot na tional defense, to make an itnmedt ate survey of so-called non-essential Industries which may be converted to supply -war needs. He will be as-l alsted In this work by an economy board. E Baltimore. Dec. 19. Half a mil lion losa resulted from a fire which broke out In the five story clothin establishment of Morris Brothers & Company In the heart of the whole sale buslnes district about 12:1' this morning. Several large whole sale establishments suffered heavJ loss by -water and were threatened by the flames. ' FLKTCHKR RKTCRXIXG FROM MKXICO CTTV Washington, Dec. 19. Americai Ambassador Fletcher will return t' he United States for a Chrlstma vacation state department official stated today. Officials denied that, as Oermai propaganda had It, he la qultttnlh Mexico City without asking for paspf pons.