Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, December 27, 1917, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text5 v. '! w DALLY EDITION VOI VIII., Si,K fW. aiuirra f am, jofcraiivi oonmr. oeeooji , thiiwday December 27, iit WHOLE Jft'MBER SCIIS. mm on now : 1 . 4 . r e H1 184.324 MEMBERSHIP THIIEK MOKE COIMTIEH HEACH O.MK HI MKKI PEIl I KMT OH BETTER JOSEPHINE COUNTY NOW 1700 OmmUjpi Miuuim la I'urtUad Ex pect RUU tit Hrerh Qttola by Mat nrday Niftiit Portland. Dee. 17. Portland ind 1 Oregon art moving ahead Id the Red Cross Chrlstmss membership drive. Grunt county, Increasing It percent 4a to 111, baring a total member atal) of 1.700. . I'nlon county to met up to 101 par cant with 6,400 mem bers, and Wallowa county . reaches 100 par cant with 1.000 mam bora. Josephine county's mamlarthlp has been Increased from 1.800 to 1,700, firing a percentage of 57 of the ap portionment. .Portland ttaa 13.158 membera. outalda of Portland. 111,1(1; .total for Oregon, IM.I24. Portland la being Jasxed by three band and arnre of Inatruuiental lat and 500 worker art now on th Job. lieaderi ex pact tha campaign to ba successfully concluded by Sat urday, deaplta torrential rain. :O0F7AR ' EMSFOilDAY . - & ' r'.'.A-;-Caernln' statement I considered a virtual acreptanct of peace term offered by Russia, provided tha Rus lan allies agree. Tha return of the German lost colonies la an essential part of tha Herman condition. Tha United States and entente al lies have not recognised the , Bolshe vik I nor agreed to tha Russian peace term. , .. ,7 Rolshevlkl leader are taking measure to placate opponent, and baa admitted aeren revolutionists to tha council of national commission ers, their ruling body. , Active military operation are to day confined to Italy. - - Snow ha been falling tndav nn the waster front., Admiral .loillroe nas been replar d as flrst mAwt'to M&lTUyiW mnu. London. Dec. 27. Vlce-Admlral fllr ,Roslyn Wemys ha been ap pointed first aea lord In succession to Admiral Sir John R. Jelllcoe, ac cording to an official announcement todar. , ' . ' " ; '.i 4 MAL LUNAR ECLIPSE 1 ' I I HAIMI a fta Jtal Haw . II lfll'IIJI I 1111111111 Id VIOIDLC lUHIbni J , Washington, Deo. , 17. Astrono mers of tha United State naval ob- aervatory here, Ilka their fellow scientists In other part of the coun try bave their Instrument all prim-' .'. ad for taking observations of , the total eclipse of the ..moon, which Is to take place tonight, h' will be the last eclipse of the present year and the second total eclipse of the moon since January 1, wjjlch will be ob aerved over practically the. entire United State and Canada. , Nearly sU hours will elapse be ' - tween the time, the moon enters and me time it..ipaves me suaaow , iu nlght. It will be daylight before the eclipse Is viewed In the eastern part of Jhe country la concluded. The ,. beginning of the eclipse wiy 'be visible generally In North and ' South America, throughout the Pa cific ocean, and the extreme north eastern portion of Asia. The end ing . will be . observed generally throughout Norm America, tne pa . olflo ocean and eastern Asia, and Australia, T II i DESIRING PEACE Austrian Furrlgn Minister Htates Wllllngnr i KraxNtnre Anuria . . tlttna and loVmaltlra Patrograd, Dee. 17. Count Cxera In, Austro-Hungarlan foreign minis ter, today told tha pear conference that tha Teutral power had agreed to conclude a general peace without forcible annexation or Indemnities, provided the Russian allies would bind themselves to adhere to auch an agreement. Count Cseroln said th central power want - to algn peace term Immediately to end the war on condition equally Just to all belligerents. The count read the statement Tuesday at Brest-IJtovik. DiSDE UU,! F0nnERS Ixndon, Dec. 17. The Brltlah navy announeaa the organisation of a formal branch of naval aervlce for women, under the title of the "Worn en's Royal Navas Service." , Tbe membership Include women employ ed on dutle connected with the navy, chiefly In dockyard and at naval, base. Member will weir a distinctive uniform of navy blue1 with. bra button. Tbe member of the new service already have been nicknamed "Wren." thl being a convenient shortening of the Initials W. R. N. 9. which they wear on their collars. Snlem, Dec. 27. State Fire Mar shal Well ald today that hi de partment ha Information which leads It to believe that the lire which destroyed a warehouse at Carlton last Sunday was of Incendiary ori gin. The fire marshal said that yes terday waa a flretess Christmas In Oregon. ?yyvu unit i;nrasERY!CE French .Front,- ,Dcc. -.2. (Corre spondence I Trench warfare , has not diminished the German cavalry forces as had been generally sup posed for Information which .has Just reached the correspondent of the Associated Press shows the total of squadrons in the service to ,he even higher than It was at the mo bilization In It 14. Changes,' how ever, have teen Introduced In the mounted, arm of tbe service, by which , some of the squadrons tem porarily have been dismounted. nd utilised aa infantry, while the for mations have ' undergone consider able variation. ' At present the Germans army has at Its disposal no fewer , than (49 squadrons of cavalry, comprising ac tive, reserve, mobile ersaU, , land wehr and landstrum. units, but . of these 144 have been separated from their horses and used .as Infantry. This figure compared. , with,. .440 squadrons on a peace toting.' 1 ', When war began the German cav alry wns at once formed Into 11 di visions, each composed, of .tlx Jrexl-. ments of four squadrons. , Besides '.hose, ther,e were also, the bodies of divisional cavalry attached to .the -ctlve and reserve divisions of. In fantry. : k 1 ', " Roumanla's entry Into the war -.nade .more . cavalry formations ne cessary and the number of organized 'llvlstons was at once increased ( to fourteen. ' . The spring of .1917 saw the end of (Continued on page J.) n p w km mm paw mv BY THE Secretary McAdco N:ed by tcr-Gccsrd cf Mmiz vznzi tie Cc:th2ce cf War-Order Effective il Ni:a Tc;rrcw . u'l Washington, Dee. !(. Govern ment possesalon and operation of the nation's railroad for the war, waa proclaimed by President Wllaon to night, to become effective at noon next Friday, December IS. William O. McAdoo, retaining bis place In the cabinet, as secretary of the treasury, Is placed In charge aa director general of railroad., Every railroad engaged In general transportation, with Jta . appurten ance, Including steamship lines. Is taken over and all systems will be operated aa under the director gen eral. In a statement accompanying hi proclamation., he announced that aa loon.aa congress re-asserabted be would , recommend legislation guar anteeing pre-war earnings, and main tenance of railroad properties In goqd repair. , r: , Government backing will be given to new laauea of railroad aecurltle that a ready market may be found. The president' , move, . although forecasted for , weeks, .came t tbla time, a a great surprise .to nearly everybody la Waahlngton, including railroad official. .It bad : been be lieved he would await the re-assemb ling of comma before taking any step. He acted through Secretary of War Baker. Direct management of the railroad will remain In tbe hands of .railroad official and he railroad war board,, composed of five railroad head, will continue to direct actual operation under Secre tary MoAdoo'i general supervision. The chief practical effect-of gov ernment operation will be to permit a complete unification of all rail sys tems, impossible under private oper ation because of statutes prohibiting pooling of rail traffic and earnings. The railroads themselves bad gone as far as they dared In this direction and It became known only today that they had. been warned by Attorney General Gregory that a violation of anti-pooling laws could not be per mitted. This situation was fully realised by President Wilson, who In his statement declared' the roads had gone' aa far a they could and that already some systems were endan gering their earnings In attempting unification. . . Although the proclamation ap plies to all electric lines engaged. In general' transportation, local Inter urban systems are exempt. Congress will be asked to guarantee earnings equivalent to t'he average net oper ating Income of each railroad In- the three year period ending June 30, 1917. Railroad experts estimate that this will coat the government next year In the neighborhood of THE AGGRESSIVE ALLIES WASHINGTON STAS af'V'l ill II i .... FEDERAL 5 !; '. M ; : r Preside Wiksa as Direc- ( $100,000,000, which can be raised In, large part by increased freight rates, If (be , Interstate .commerce commission grants the roads' appli cation .for. the IS per cept rate in crease now pending. Otherwise' It will be psld largely out of the gen eral funda. The interitate'commerce commis sion and other government agencies which have to do with the railroads will continue te perform their func tions as heretofore, except that they will be subject to orders of the di rector .general of railroads. Washington, Dec. 27. One of tbe first acts of the government In be ginning operation of the railroads of the country will be to reduce the lane salaries now belrs pall to railway executives, and Inrre ise In some measure the waves of workers. Securities are to be lssui while the government Is In cop ml, which will be not less then 4 per cent. President Wilson will ask congress to. empower the government to-buy any quantity of new, railroad securi ties, and all dividends above a cer tain agreed amount to go to the gov ernment. Congress, will also be. ask ed Ao appropriate probably 12,000,. 000 for the Immediate supply of rolling stock to handle the Immense burden of, traffic ' .VI Paris. Dec. 27. Tbe German forces todsy made two tioleht . at tacks on the Verdun front, but were unable' to break through the French lines, the war office announced. Richmond, Va., Dec. 27 A pouch containing (50,000, sent by the fed eral reserve bank to the Columbia South Carolina bank, has disappear ed, and Is believed to have been stolen. ARRESTED IN GERMANY London, Dec. 27. Over 300 mem bers of the German minority social ist party were arrested Christmas eve by German military authorities, according to a statement In tbe wire less press dispatches. I HAI n . I MMA 1 GOVE Railway HUtion Partially Destroyed Boom After Emperor's Special Train Departs Oeneva, Dec. 27. Tbe German emperor, returning with his staff from the Verdun front, bad a nar row escape during tbe reprisal raid of a British air squadron on Mann- helm Christmas eve, according to a dispatch from Basel. ' The emperor's special train left the station an hour before It was partly destroyed by severs! bombs. A section of the tracks was torn up, rutting commu nication north. In fact, the emper or's train was tbe last to lesve Mannheim, and no tralna arrived at Basel yesterday from that city. Two bomb fell on the suspension bridge serosa the Neck a r river, the bridge being badly damaged. ' An ammuni tion factory In a northern anburb was. Mown op. ...Few persons ..Wf re killed at the factory, however, aa the employee were having a holiday. A considerable number of . persona were killed or Injured within the town and several were blown Into the Rhine. . , oimm;:::s ' " " t-' ' - - Copenhagen, Dec. S. (Corresppn dence of, the. .Associated Press) Plana for general conscription .. of women after the war are being made in Germany, and there is a' general feeling that girls, as. well as boys, will be compelled to undergo a reg ular period of , training correspond ing to the German youth's service in the army. The service proposed for girls is not military, but civil. It is proposed that all women should preferably at the age of 17, be taken from their homes and compulsorlly "trained." either in a profession, a trade,, or In household duties. , . The characteristic German divi sion between rich and poor Is main tained in the project. Girls of the upper classes are to be trained In apeclal institutions: poor girls will go to factories or be placed In pri vate households, where their em ployers will give them a trifle , of pocket money and make a contribu tion to the atate r-i The Idea meets with wide com mendation ' in the German -newspa pers, but one English critic notes that "there is "some difference be tween male conscription which puts a man Into a regiment run by and for the state, and a female conscrip tion which makes a girl work with out wage for the profit of private In dividuals. The latter cannot with accuracy be called anything but alavery." . . . A short time ago a Berlin socio logical society offered a series of prises for the best essay on compul sory service for women, and 145 es says weresu bmltted. The best two says were submitted. The best two asine, Soxlale Praxis, In reviewing the essays submitted, says: I - "There is general agreement that , byv a' thorough compulsory training, the services of women to tbe coun try will become much greater than .heretofore. Opinions differ .as v to 'whether after leaving school girls 1 should be trained principally for a . professional or for household du ties. The lesson of the war, which has brought Into a clear relief the abilities of women In both spheres. Is perhaps that in future a middle course should be adopted. "The training In households Is to be regularly supervised with a view to seeing whether the girl really learns something there and Is ,not HENT KAISER SMS MB U.S. TROOPERS GET BANDITS BELOW BORDER TEX KILLED AXD OTHERS ARK WOVNDEII IJT RINSING . BATTLE nma son mm Father sad Host Barricade Hooae and Give Battle to Marderoos Baadita -Frosa the goatli . Marfa, Texas, Dee.. 27. Ten of the Mexican bandits who . raided Candelerla Christmas morning were killed and a number wounded when American cavalry troops under Col onel George T. Langhora overtook the fleeing bandita on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande today. One American soldier waa wound ed In the running fight with tha fleeing bandita, but will recover. Many horses stolen by the bandita were also recovered. Marfa. .Texas, Dec. 27. Ranchers who arrived here tonight from Can delarta brought the first connected story of th Mexican raid Christmas day on, theBrite, Store and, the little ranch settlement In the elbow of the Rio Grand But two ,were .at the ranch, , louse Christmas ,', morning when the Mexican raiders arrived there. They were T. T. Nelll, man ager of the ranch, and hla eon. Sam Nelll. Their wives and children ware also at the ranch house. The) father saw the men approaching and awakened hla son. .The women and children were put In the most pro tected room and the two lone men opened fire upon the bandits riding wildly toward the honse. -A desperate rifle battle waa then fought between Sam ).'elll and the leader of the Mexicans at 100 yards range. ' Nelll killed his man while his father covered tbe approaches from the rear and fought oft the Mexicans who were attempting to gain . en trance through a rear door. . Two more bandita were killed whereupon the. remainder retired for a confer ence. A Mexican was then sent to the house with a demand that the Nells surrender. This was refused, but T. T. Nelll finally delivered over the keys to tbe Brlte' store nearby and sent a hired hand to assist in . rounding up the horses In order to save the women and children from almost certain massacre. . . While the store -waa being looted by tbe bandits, Rev. H. M. Bandy of the First Christian church of Msrfa drove up In hla car with his family to apend the day at the Brlte ranch. They barely escaped but got Into the ranch house where the minister seised a rifle and guarded a window with the other Americans. At this time the United States mall stsge drove tip to the store, carrying Christmas packages for the -United States soldiers stationed at Cande larla. The two Mexican " passengers were killed before they could get out of the stage. Michael Welch was 'taken from the stage, hanged and his throat cut In the door of the Brlte store. T. T. Cobb, a ranch hand, ap proached the store during the loot ing, but was warned back by Fore man Guyon, who was barricaded in his house 100 ysrds away. Cobb, realizing what had happen ed rode 12 miles to the nearest tele phone and gave the alarm. Sheriff Cline and a posse started in pur suit. . merely made a drudge, and she must be allowed time to attend the women's service school. The employ ers are to give a small sura as pocket money to the 'conscripts' and pay the state a levy for the services render ed. This revenue Is to provide the means for creating more Women's service homes."