Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, February 01, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textmm DAILY EDITION OI VIII., No. KM. U HA NTS PAM, JOHKPIIINK COt'RTT, OHEOON, KltlUAY, KKIUll AllY I, IUIh. WHOLE M MIIKU X Y IS DISTURBED BY STIES .MARTIAL LAW K.XTEM'hlt T ItltKMKX AMI IIK.MKI.INGKX. ItlOTM (KM KOI, II l TUDE 11 BUILDING SEIZED: ' , lrlii Im Viiirmliiirg, Itiiwirla llrniti I n u Woik tivr ii Tiiii ia' Iciiioii-Iiiiiiii Imdon, Fell. I. Martini law lnu t)ttn eiteuded to Bremen mid Itctm-t-tnatfit, according to report. Striker have liroknn out In two more Itoro imind mine. Striker at Nuratn bur, Bavaria, haw resumed work after two daya demonstration. Tito strike h not been extended. The Tlerlln TaKi'ltlatt y police have ailMd the Trade fnlon building and arretted leader. Umdon, Keh. 1. Related reports ahown the strike movement In Ger-I iniinv ha apri'iid sine Monday, but I the authorities have taken lernj measures la suppress It, I Amsterdam, Kelt. I .-There wan; clash between striker and police In the northwestern part of Herlln yesterday morning. One policeman waa killed and a dozen striker In Jureil. There were minor disturb ance In other arta of the city. The German press generally agree that the outbreak ha rearhrd the rllmn and la now receding;. Demons! ra tion are aald to lark centralized rontrol. Report from Industrial cutter Indicate the movement nowhere finding support to curry It along. London. Feb. I. The broad fea- ture of the new filtering In today from Berlin are, first. Hint the strike, movement la extending and second,! that the (iertnan authorities lire en-; daavorlng to minimize It Import-; a nee. Thus fur I hero hiia been no; newa reKnrdlnii the deHon of Min uter or the Interior WnlrnIT after lila meeting with General von Stein, column nih'r of the home force, a to what attitude the government will adopt. In the upper Slloslnu industrial re gion. It la reported the strike hasi gained no ground and report from the Khlne districts nro raid by cor-, respondent In .niterdiim to he- re jisnrlnq to the German government. WHAT AHTONIHIIKO KltKXCH HtH.DIriltS WIIKX IN I'AKIS Pails, Keh. I. Ono of the French ' trench newspaper ha been nnklng soldier returning from leave whiit; astotilhhed them most In I'uiis. Iferej ure a fow typical replies: j To see people lttlng down to tlielr meals. To eee unocciiplinl cellins. , To llnd there nro women who are not grocer. To llnd people who wnnt to go lo Ihe country. . To see funerals. To be asked to wit down w hen get ting one' hair cut. To hear civilian complaining about their hardships. E London, Feb.' 1. Owing to a lireak between the Bolshevlkl and llumanla, a revolutionary committee of the Dlack eu fleet ha resolved .to confiscate all menna of transport tielonglng- to Rumania. Forty hhlps and several warahlpa have heeu seteod In Ulack ea harbor. am mi is m Oil r U FBOIIT Oertnaiiy Mm Ordrml Tlml All I'rlMtneiV ll Kept HiiMiillnK In ('KM for Four ! With the American Army In France, Feb. I. Conditions on the American sector are quint, owing lo fog. American officers have pos session of a document ukcn from the Germans opposite Ibem, ordering lliut all prisoner Im kit itundlng In saes four day without food, and then lie fed In uttiall quant II leu. It U believed the order waa Issued be. ritiiM the flml American prisoner refused to give military Information. ITAMIXH INKMtT NKUV Id HHKM OX THE ENEMY Koine, Keli. 1. Knormou loMea were Inflicted upon the Mistro-Ger-in nn troip hetwecn tho Aln( pla teau and the flrenta valley by the Italian offensive on Monday and Tnexdiiv. nrttd dUpatch from (he front today. In addition lo rnpturlna- nearly S.nnn prloner, the Italian Inflh ted eneualllea eMIuiated at from 20. Ann to til.noo. The defense on Monte de val Bel la and In the neetnra of Tol de Hoo and Cole de Chele have heen or Kanliel and held aKalnat determined rounter-attark. delivered by the In vader In force. FATAL ACCIDENT ON NORTHERN PACIFIC llelllimhnm. Waeh.. Keb. I. Kotir peraona were killed and 12 or more terlniiKly injured when a runaway Northern I'uclflc freight train ernah ed Into the rear roach of a Great Northern paenner train at the de pot at Scdro Woolley, Vanh., 80 mile eonth of her at 8 o'clock lat night, according to reporta received here. Among the dead were C. ('. l'atten of Seattle, president of 1he Atln limher company, and Henry T!)cmi;i- nn, county commltudnner of Hkaalt county, The Great Northoin paasenger trnln, No. i!H2, wa hound eat on the Anurorte-Itoekport branch, while the freight trnln wa bound south on the mnln line of thn North em Pacific. - The cnih rnuie at the Sedm Wool- ley rrnsslnv, nenr the stntlon and the Impact amnHhod the conch Into the depot building. Every doctor In flkunltt county who could be reach ed wa aummoned to the scene to cure for the Injured. So far as la known all the dead and Injured were pnssenpers In the wrecked crt. I WnahltiKton, Feb. 1. 0wald West, former governor of Oregon, told tho sennte military committee today that delay In getting out spruce for nlrplnnea, could he attri buted to Ignorance of the spruce In dustry by offlcera of the signal eorpa In Washington, and the personnel of the Oregon advisory hoard. ' West attacked the appointment of George 3. I,ong, who la connected with the Weyorhauser lumber InterenU, from which, the government buy epruce, and that board should be composed of men not financially Interested In snle. ' Rome, Feb. I. Austrian yeater- dny attacked along the Aslago pla tcnu, and .attempted to drive the Italian from their newly won posi tion tin Monta del Bella, hut 'were nntihle to reach the Italian lines, By a sudden attack at dawn the Italian advanced their line a far as the head of Tolago valley. SUPPLIES FOR GEN. PERSHING ARE ID UP HI' A IV TllltKATKXKI) WITH THOl HI.K IIV 1'. H. AM MAV MAVK K(MII Hl'PI'LV I I T VET RETMTEiRAICIS TO USE (ernmn Infliiciue Itelleved In Ite In Iju-ge Mentiire l(eNnilldn for. the I'mM-nt Trouble Washington, Keb. 1. quick re- lalitory measure were forecasted here as the answer of the I'nlted States and the allies to Spain's Inter ference with the shipment of good serosa her frontier into nance, in fact certain Spanish ship now In American port ready to Rail are be ing held up pending a clearing of the situation, although the war trade board In a formal statement tonight denied that vessela under the Span ish flag generally were being kept In port. The American government Is par ticularly concerned because of the large orders placed In Spain by Gen eral Pershing for supplies for the American army. It holds, too, the thief weaion to force a lifting of an embargo placed by Spain, since Spain i draws heavily on the Vnlted Statea for foodstuffs. Allied official have been given no end-of ierplexity by Spain. A con- slderable element in the 8panlsh gov ernment. It I well known, la German In Its. leanings, and officials In Wash ington expres no hesitation In Inti mating that thl element I in a large me'aure responsible for the present trouble. The official reason given for the blocking of General Pershing's or ders Is said to he that the Simnlsh railroad system has broken down and that It la Impossible to handle good destined for France. Allt HAD) OVK.H PARIS KII.IX 4 WOVXHS tt(7 Paris. Feb. 1. An air raid Wed nesday night resulted In the denth of IS nnd wounding of 207. SEPARATE PEACE IS TO BE LAST RESORT Petrograd, Feb. t. Foreign Min ister TroUky's speclt before the pnn soclet congress wns gencraly regard ed today aa foreshadowing a separ ate pence between Russia nnd Ger many, unless a revolutionary up heaval occurs in the central empires. At the same time the United Stntes waa authoritatively .Informed that the Russians' policy 1 to prolong the negotiations at Ilrest-Mtovsk an loni; as possible. In order to draw out now German propositions, and also In order to stir up a revolutJon In AttH trla. TroUky nnd his colleagues hope to compel modification of the German terms, and pOBslhly to obtain en trance of the allies Into the negotia tions. Emphasis was laid on the declaration that a eeparnte peace could be'slgned only as a lost resort. "We have done our best for the cause of democratic peace," was the way Trotsky reported to the pan-so- clet meeting. "Our bands are clean. Our obli gations to other peoples have been met. If we are compelled to sign a separate peace, there Is not a single honest entente worker who can blame us." Washington, Feb. 1. It la rumor ed thnt Secretory Tumulty niny be selected by Governor Edge, to suc ceed the late Senator Hughes, of New Jersey. SLAVS 1 RELEASE OF I'KKHMl'ltK OX AMKKK'AX KM. IIAHHV TO KKKK IIKIUi.AX, (;)I,IM.X AXI MOOXKY i 'Secretary linsing Omlrra Iteuort J (niirrliistlc leiclopnient Kent to 4 Mate iMparlnient ) IVtrngrad, Feb. 1. The ministry of foreign affair today transmitted to David R. Francis, the American ambassador, letter addressed to Ieon Trotsky, the Bolahevlkl foreign minister, by the Petrograd croup of anarchists, Insisting that Trotiky hrlng presure to bear on the Ameri can embassy for the release of Alex ander Berkman, Kmma Goldman and Thomas J. Mooney. The ministry also inclosed a reso lution adopted by tho anarchist threatening demonstration against thn embassy. Thla Is the third threat by anar chists that Ambassador Francis has received within a month. ', Washington, Feb. 1. Secretary Ianslng has Instructed Ambassador Francis at Petrograd to report to the "State department any develop ments In connection with the threat made against him by anarchists be cause of the conviction of Emma Goldman and Alexander . Berkman, but It has been left to the ambassa dor to follow any course he may consider. Ill SHI A WORKING FOR A F.l'KOPKAX SOCIAL RKVOLT Petrograd. Feb. 1. An official statement Issued today by the Bol ahevlkl government says "the new workmen's and peasants' red army will serve to support the coming so cial revolution In Europe." Ixindon, Feb. 1. A Bolshevlkl de cree establlnhing "an all-Ritsslan col legium" for guidance In organizing the "workmen's and peasants' Red army of the Russian councils' repub lic," Is announced In a Russian of fiVlal wireless statement received here. Another decree assigns 20,000,000 roubles from the war fund for the organlzntlon of the Red army. The Pravda print a rumor that Rumania lntely bns made a separate agreement with the central powers and suggests that this may Include compensation for Rumania in Bessarabia. PltKSTON C. MY KUS, SPOKAXK, in ks ok imoxmiTia Washington. Feb, 1. General Pershing reports the death from bronchitis of Corporal Preston C. Myers, of Spokane, Wash. ENDORSED BY PARTY Washington. Feb. 1. Speaking as a question of personal privilege to day, Senator Stone denied categor ically that any democratic leaders or Postmaster General Burleson, as published, had conferred . with him on the subject at all. Dispatches sent out to the news papers of the country on that day saying democrats .were advising Mr. Stone not to deliver the speech were based on statements several demo cratic leaders at the capltol made to tho newspaper correspondents In which they unreservedly declared they were apprehensive of the effect of the speech and were advising the Missouri senator not to deliver it. ANARCHISTS ft I n CrillT I TO BE ELECTED One for hliort Term to Kill Out Hie Term of late Hmmrj liae, and one for BU Venn - Salem, Feb, I. Two United State senator must be Chosen in Oregon at the November election this year, according to an opinion rendered to day by George W. Brown, attorney general or the state one for the long term of six years front March, 1, and one for the short term from November, 1J1S. to March, tl, to fill out the unexpired term of the late 8enator Harry Lane. The atorney general holds that Mc.Vary'i appointive term will cease with the November election. It is possible under the attorney general's rating that one candidal may be elected for both th short and the long terms. BRITISH HOMKS AUK OI'KV TO AMKKK'AX HOLIllKlLS Liverpool, Feb. 1. The Liverpool Rotary club ba started a scheme for the opening up of British homes to American soldiers fighting lo France when they get a brief respite from the trenches. Several homes have already announced their willingness to accept one or two men and It Is proposed to send particulars of the scheme to all British and Irish-clubs, inviting their cooperation. MOSCOW REJECTS . PEACE PROPOSALS Petrograd. Feb. 1. The Moscow council of workmen's and soldiers' deputies has declared the German peace proposal unacceptable and has suggested that the council of com missioners organize a socialistic army to fight against German Im perlallsm. Representatives of 16 regiments of Don Cossacks addressed the congress of soviet, promising unlimited grain in exchange for cloth, nails. Imple ments and other manufactured pro- duets. They said the enemies of General Kaledlne now were in con trol of the Don basin and that a great supply of coal was ready to be moved toward Petrograd. s E BELGIAN PEOPLE The Hague. Feb. 1. 18 Nouvel les reports that arrests by the Ger mans are increasing In Belgium nnd that recently-42 prominent person ages were taken Into custody by the military authorities at Brussels, in cluding Paul Lambert, the sreat French manufacturer, and Kdnunrd La Guerre, son of the French deputy. Ninety Ghent notables have been seized as hostages to guarantee the performance by the Inhabitants of military work ordered by the Ger mans. At Liege a Hollander named Paul I'ssen has been condemned to death and his wife to 12 years Im prisonment. Two manufacturers have been sentenced to hard labor for life. PAHTS OK OltK.OOX AND WASHINGTON SNOW COVEREO Portland, Feb. 1. Northwestern Oregon and Washington are covered with snow. Rain will probably be falling by tomorrow. The storm does not extent to southern Oregon Roseburg and Marshfield report rain Baker has 10 Inches of snow. Crops are expected to he benefitted by the snow blanket. San Francisco, Fch. 1. Vital food problems affecting Washington, Ore gon, California and Alaska, will be dis'ussed at a conference of food ad ministrators In" Portland next Monday. T 0 niu PRODUCTION OF PLANES IS DELAYED PLAN CONSTANTLY ALTKKKD TO MEET CHANGING 1.IM TIONM IX El ltOI'K Not a Single Machine of Kxa-t Type Considered When Apprnprlatbm Waa Made Will lie l aed Washington, Feb, 2. Constant al tering of plans to meet rapid changes In air fighting; tactics In Europe, combined with delays In getting ma teria: and scarcity of skilled labor has put America's great airplane program two months behind It schedule,, though It is now moving forword smoothly. In disclosing this today to th senate military committee. Colonel Deeds, assistant to Major General Squlers, chief sig nal officer of th army, said that got a single machine of the exact type. planned when congress appropriat ed $(40,000,000 for an air fleet will see service In France. Colonel Deeds told tho committee that the tendency was toward ma chines of greater power and that val uable lessons in this respect had been learned at the last battles about Ver dun. He believed that the machine now being: manufactured and sent to France not only would meet present requirements, butwould excell any thing the enemy may produce.; WOODEN SHIP POSSIBILITIES ARE TO BE IXTESTIG ATEI Washington. Feb. 1 Still another survey of northwest shipbuilding possibilities will be made, according to Information given Senator Me Na'ry today by Vice President Plei of the federal fleet corporation. J. H. Bloedel of Seattle and R, S. Shaw of Astoria have been selected to make the survey and they are to submit an Independent estimate of ship schedules which the fir indus try can provide. On this report, says Pies, and fur ther consideration of the advisabil ity of creating a large fleet of small size tonnage, with Its operating costs and difficulties, will depend the future of the wooden shipbuilding policy. PRFSIOEXT WILSON STILL OPIOSES WAR COVNCIL Washington. Feb. 1. At a confer ence with a dozen democratic sena tors, President Wilson reiterated his opposition to the bills for a super war cabinet and a director of muni tions. Petrograd, Feb. 1. A constitu tion of the Russian socialistic soviet - republic, has been adopted by the. congress of workmen's and soldiers'. deputies. The resolution proposes that there shall be a voluntary union of the nations of Russian, of which the highest authority sliall be Rus sian workmen and soldiers, which shall meet not less frequently- than three months each year. The government of the federation, which will consist of a council of na tional commissioners, may be elects ed or deposed. In whole or In part, either 'by the congress or the commit tee. The constitution provides that the manner of participation of the various nations in the federal gov ernment of the republic shall be de termined after each nation forms a "soviet republic." All local affairs are to be in the hands of local So viets, which may, however, be regu lated by the higher soviet.