Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, February 08, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texti ni DAILY EDITION - You VIII., No. oi. "(HUNTS PAM, fOAEPHINB OOl'MTT, ORKOOJI, r'KII'AV, FKHIHAKV 8, I VIM. WHOLK XI MUEH 8279. TEX. RANGERS 11 BAND OF 15 MEXICANS i i in fclll TO MAUI ItUI'KI, I.UUiK t'ATrLH ItAXtll XK.Ul IIMIV Mil, TKXAH WASHIHGTOH IS HUNG 4 liltwl HUtr Army ot Implicated In Affair Melrn AmhuMailor HI. Prolot Kl I'aso. Feb. 8. An Investigation Of the k t II I n k of IS Mexlcau rltlanna t I'orveolr, Texas, 40 mile nnrth- wmI of i'resldlo, on January II, has been ordered by th itata dopirt nmnt at Washington, anil la blnn made by th military stationed In tha Ills; timet district of Texa. nbnio th killings occurred. This wa asked for by Mexican Ambassa dor Yunai'lo Hnhlllaa. Mitrfa, Texas. Fb. Texas ranger reported uii January 13 dial lhay bad had trouble with a hand nf Mexlcana at Porvenlr who were sup posed to hav been Implicated In the Brit ranch raid. They1 admitted having killed 13 or thv number. Th bod In were taken aero th Klo Cranda to Kl Cotnldor and burled by their families and friend. - Tho I'nllad States army had noth ing to do with the affair and no sol diers wort near that plare the night of the killing. Instead, a number of Mexican lOiight and received pro tectlon from the military at Kver rtt's ranrh, the military authorities here declared. I.otuliin, Ki b. Opi'iutloiih on the wenterti frcnt loiitlnnr to le marked by heavy urir.lnr) exclian ; In conjunction with raiding mtirKa n the oppoMng trencbei, I'arla re porta ai tlve cnnnomtdis on the AUnr and Verdun frontn and In A Inure nnd a hair doien (leiman foinya were re linked In which the enemy loot men and nmterlnl. According to llerlln, the nermana captured prUonern In a raid In r"lander nnd In fnrefleld en- Kagemonta In Artola. nnd Krench attack In the Chnmpagne broke down. Rome report alight nrtlllery nc tlvlty on all the Italian front, brt thnt hoatlle aircraft Wedneodny morning renewed . their bombard ment, or Italian town. The num ber or enemy nmchlne brought down by the entente airmen on the Italian front, from January 2d to February 8, wa f6, according to Rome, A Indicating the chaotic condi tion In Ruaala under the DolRhevlkl Tulo, a Petrograd advice reaching tendon, iay that looting occurred on Tuesday and Wednesday In the RnsRlan capital, when wine cellars were sacked by mob. The author 1tlea imed armored car to oppose the pillager, many of whom were killed or wounded. I R.S New Vork, Fob, 8. Theodore Roosevelt' condition Is unchanged today, which Is considered satisfac tory. , , :rw York, Feb. 8. The affeitlon nf IloORCvnlt's ear subsided some what today, It Is announced, DAYS SUMMARY WAR OPERATIONS MID' ii uni I'MMwnuir ( am. Moli.r Trucks mid Farm Trai-lJira lit Orr! IttrMy " (n I'Uplnr Portland. r'h. Willi .19 dlffer rnt make of passenger rr-inl models In all -IS make of motor trurk and l farm tractors repre sented, Portland's ninth annual au tutnulille, truck and tta lnr show opened last nlKht In the city audi torium. An event of deepest war Imp' ance and significance. thU show For num.' gun, ship and Ihe auto mobile must win the war for Amer lc. With Ihe railroad faltering tin der their tank, the automobile 'ha taken up the burden of tranaiiorta tlon and la not faltering. Through the automobile business and ln try are enabled lo keep up the tre mendous pare that must be main tained to aupply the armies, meet war loana, suhsrrlhe to the lied Croes. the T. M. C. A.. Knlghta of roliimbua. Armenian relief fund and a hundred other merltorlona project . In the show thai opened lout night, to continue until next Wed neiiday, are displayed the very 1st est and beat that the motor car man ufacturer have to offer In passenger autnmohllM, trurka and farm trar lora. . . U. S. AM WAS NOT EXPELLED Washington, Keb. 8. Tbe state department today received routine telegiama from Ambassador Krancla at I'etrograd under date of Fehru ary 4. ThU la regarded a dlscuunt Ing unconfirmed reporU that Am bassador Kramla had been eximlled by the llolihevlkl. Stockholm. Kelt. X. vVciordlng to unconfirmed dispatches, the HoUhe vlkf government hu expelled from IliiHola all entente mUslon and they nre on their way to the Swedloh hor der. Ambassador Krancla has not been heard from since February t. Stockliolm. Ke'. ('eucral Man- nerliilin. commander of tbe torre supporting the Finnish i rovlHlniml government, haa defeated tli revo lutionary Red Guard ut Korkeakosl, near Tammerfor. ac orjllng lo llcl slnnfors dlspatihos. . Amsterdam, VoU. . Ltiv vuu Seydlor, Aualrian premier, tortuy tetulcrod thd reelBiiullou of bla en tire cabinet to Emperor' Charles, a - voiding to Vlennu (llaputihos. A.MhltlCAX AVIATOU 8HOT VOWS HV JEKM.XS Paris, Feb. 8. William S. Tailor of HoBlyn. U I., fb'lug In the French escadrllle while awaiting an Ameri can commlBHton tor which he hud boon rocommeudud, was killed Mon day In an encounter with Germans, who brought down Ills plane behind their lines. Taller waa 23 years old. CALAMITY HKKS IX HI X ' Otil l'ATlOX OK SAMOA Ottawa, On t., Fob, 8. 'A dispatch to Renter's. Wmlted, from Welling ton, N. Z.. quotes Premier Masgey of New Zealand as saylug that any ar rangomont allowing Germany to're pofBoos Samoa would be a national calamity for the British Interest In the Piiclfb'. He therefore urged that Australia and New Zealand be rep- r .-rented nt any" pence conference. PORT S AUTO cum uw ED. PARKER More Than Hundred Oregon Men Were on the Torpedoed Tuscania-No Definite News Until List of Smivors Has Been Cabled to Washington Wellington. Keb. H. Passenger oil tbe torpedoed Irauaport Tuseanla Included many Oregon men, among whom were Edward P. Parker of lirant Pa and C'barlei ileiidricka of Klamatli Fall. An Irish fort, Keb. H.--AS tbe IUI of the Americana aboard the' Tus canla waa lot when Ihe veaael went down It will be Impoaalble to ascer tain I lie naniva of thoae loot until the namea or the survivors art cabled to the I'nlted State. Portland. Keb. K. Sixteen officer and men from I'ortlund were aboard the torpedoed tranaixirl. Tbe IUI Included nearly 100 men from other ectiona of Oregon. Among them were Joe K. Hedrield of Ulendale. and Second Ueutenant Daniel W. I'arker and Kred K. Snyder of Aah land. Thoae on board from Eugene nre: Ruben Chlndgren, John H. Chapln, Howard II. Merrill. Arthur J. Ream. Riley K. Murray. Otto K. Miller and Iiiile II. Mummy. Seattle. Keb. H,-Vm, W. Cooper son of Prof. Frank Cooper, siiierln lendent of the Seattle schools, was sboard.ihe ill-fated Tum-anla. - Sulem, Feb. X. Governor James OF Washington, Feb. 8. Washington was decidedly a changed city today. I The sinking of the transport Tus ranla has awakened the country as has no other event since the war lth Germany began. The spirit of the reply of the Am erican nation may be summed up in Hie words of Secretary Baker, who said: "We must win this wnr nnd we will win this war." While his department was niakiim every effort to get a complete list of the missing from Tuseanla. the attitude of the government was sharply expressed toy Secretary of War Raker. Declaring that the sinking of the Tuseanla has brought the nation face" to face with the losses of war in Its most relentless form, he declared: - "The sinking or the Tuseanla brings ii race to race with the losses or war In Its most relentless form. It Is a fresh challenge to the civi lised world by an adversary who has rerined. but made 'more deadly, the stealth or the savage In warfare. "We must win this war and we will win this war. lxsses like this unite the country in sympathy with the families of those who have suf fered loss; they also unite ua and make more determined our purpose to press on. "As rapidly as details come In they will be given to the public In order to relieve anxiety where . possible and notice will be sent as promptly as possible to those whose sons and brothers have been added to the na tlon's heroic dead." The successful attack on the trans port had brought sternly home for the first time the great dangor that marks the transportation or troops over seas. It also had served to end for all time the arguments of the . " , . . many persons who have been declar- ' . , , inn inni iiermany was noi panning , , ' . .. 1 ,. j ruthless warfare on the , United i States. The loss of the Tuseanla, of ficials pointed out, has confirmed fully the announcement by Secretary AMERICA HAS BEEN SINKING BOAT Wllhycoiuba expressed tbe fear that bis son, Karl Wlthyconibe, wa on board tbe tranaport Tuscanlu, tor pedoed off the Irish coast, but his feara were dispelled later, on receipt of a telegram aaylng hia son had been transferred from the engineers' regiment which he believed to have been aboard the ship. Later word was received that the young man Is III In a hospital at Washington, 0. C. Washington. Feb. 8. Advices to Ihe war department accounting, for all but It of the American soldier aboard the torpedoed Tuacania re mains unchanged. Cable reports from an Ireland port give Information that 44 bodies of American oldiers. battered beyond recognition, were washed ashore 13 miles from the scene of the torpe doing. Their Identification tags bore no names or numbers. ' Officials pointed out .that the soldiers bad not yet been assigned to ' definite units. War department advice now show the total number missing as 210, of which 11 J are American troop. It may take some time to deter mine definitely who I missing. . London. Feb. R. Revised figure Indicate that Tuseanla victims nunv ber nearer 200 than 100." TT of War Uaker that the German mili tary command had planned a con centrated attack directed against the American transports In an effort to prevent the American troops get ting to France in time for taking active part In the sprlnc drive. Cnly n Few Are lxist It hud'beeu HCrepted That trans- imH. u-mil,l hn aitnrken hut there was a strong hope entertained that. the protection plans 'of 'the navy de I'artment would checkmate the Ger man efforts. And. while there was! the deepest regret over the appar-l ent loss of life In this initial sink ing of a transport, officials pointed out that the large number of saved was art eloquent tribute to the ef fective measures that had been plan ned to meet such attacks. Until the complete story of the attack reaches Washington, officials did not care to comment on the ef ficacy of the convoy. It was accept ed, or course,' that the navy had done Its full part and that the Ger mans had managed to get a trans port was accepted as simply one of the fortunes of war. Already Secretary Baker has lef It be known that the United States has transported overseas more T troops than Canada has sent during the entire war period, and it can hardly be expected that the enor mous volume of shipping now on the seas can keep making the trips with perfect Immunity; : Deepest sorrow everywhere was expressed over the loss of life. It was remarked that It was a national guard outfit which had suffered the first big blow for the army on the sea. To Michigan and Wisconsin will go that place in history. Nation 1 Knocked Tho naorn ama In WnahfnirtOfl ft . , . , .. .. la severe shock. No Intimation of .. .. . ,. . . i the d Raster was allowed to become . , , . , , . known until about 10 o'clock Tues day night, when Secretary Raker was hurriedly summoned to the de- (Continued on page i.) AWAKENED TRANSPOR SCAN I A AMERICAN RELIEF WORKERS RESPOND I led Croea and V. M. ('. A., Anuerkv ran Army nnd Naval Oflirer Ite mhm1 yulckly lxndon. Feb. 8. News or the sinking or the Tunanla reached the merlcan military authoritiea bere Wednesday morning. Additional ma chinery for relief work lmmedlatel) wa put Into action, and several core officials of the .American army and navy left here during the day for Ireland. Vice-Admlral William Aims, com mander of the American destroyer squadron in European watera, who now la In Rome for a few day, was notified by telegram of tbe disaster. The night boat train, which goes direct to the port where the major ity of th survivors was landed, was crowded to overflowing. The pas sengers Included msny American Red Cross worker, representatives of the Y. M. C. A. and a large num ber of military and naval men. . A correspondent of the Associated Prees, traveling on this train, found every seat taken a half-hour before leaving time and a number of pas senger standing In the aisles for the all-night trip. TURKISH LEAGUE OE PEACE AND LIBERTY Berne, Switzerland, Jan. 20. (Correspondence) Kemal Mldhat Bey, grandson of the former Turkish Grand Vlxler Mldhat Pasha, Is In 8witxerland organizing a society tlfowri ' atJthewrurlirsh ' Leag (le " of Peace and Liberty," the objects of which are stated as follows: "To persuade the Turkish govern ment to make a separate peace; to unite and reconcile the ' various na tionalities which make up the Otto man empire; and to modernize Tur key." In a statement to the press, Kem al says: "Turkey has reached the end of Its tether. The capture or Jerusalem has probably proved the rinishing blow. ' My latest reports from Constantinople emphasize the tremendous Impression made by the capture or Jerusalem. But the 'stop the war movement in Constantin ople derives its principal impetus rrom the economic miseries or the people rather than rrom any dismay at the dwindling or Turkish power condi ' .? tions or the poorer classes cannot easily be exaggerated. "The disorganization of the army Is another factor. The number of Turkish deserters In Asia Minor is now over 200,000. The Turk de serts not because he Is afraid, hut because his eyes have Tieen opened to the real origin of the war and the futility of continuing it. The aim of our organization Is not merely to get Turkey away from alliance with the Germans, but to get Turkey Into the war on the side of the entente." ARiyiY FLYING FIELD FOR RIVERSIDE. CAL. Washington, Feb. 8. The estab - lishment of nn army flying field at out sending the troops to their boat lUve:elde, CaL.'has been authorized stations and to get the lifeboats out. and contracts for construction have The shock was not severe. It was been let. Namts of the firms se- more of a crunchlng-ln- feeling that c'liing the contracts have been with- went through the' ship than of a dl heid. rect blow." - lU'Tt'H (UHLDHKX OATH Kit TOXS OF XKKDKU JVXK Amsterdam, Feb. 8. School chil dren of Frankfort In two wcoks col lected 166,000 pounds of waste pa per, 24.000 pounds of rags, 8,400 pounds of metal, '900 pounds of women's hair, 4,000 pounds or rub ber, 2,000 pounds of leather, 85,000 bottles, 20,000 electric lamps, 41; 000 corks, and 12,000 hats. The articles were all turned over to the army. MONTHLY FAST DAY IS FOOI MTIATIO.V CAIBK8 EX TIIKAIK A XI LTV IX HALLS OF COXUKKHft DRAFT ALL PERSONS FOR WORK Heat lean Monday Discontinued I South Wanner Weather Expert ed to Rolleve gltmaUoit Washington, Feb. 8. Senators today urged drastic action to cop with the lood shortage. Senator Siuoot of I" tab urged the establish ment of a monthly fast day. Senators ar agreed that if war keep on every person will be draft ed for work suited to him. 1 Washington, Feb. I. Heatles Monday hav ' been abondoned through the south extending from Virginia. Fuel administrators hop that with wanner weather will com improved railroad traffic and that heatles day may be discontinued after next Monday. Another bill affecting the draft would authorize the president In any emergency to call Into immediate service skilled experts In industrial lines or In agriculture regardle of their classification, residence ' or quota. NO 0E ON BOARD - I I E Ijondonderry, Ireland, Feb. 8. An American officer, who hinted that the U-boat waa sunk after attacking the Tuseanla, said: "Everything went well with us during the voyage. Many of our men had never been to ea berore and I must say they stood it like soldiers. "We were one or a powerful con voy. I must not tell you our posi tion In the convoy or how the vari ous ships were formed, but you may take it that all the other boats have got through as far as I know. As for ourselves, well, the Huns auc ceeded in getting only a fraction of our fine fellows in addition to our boat; but If they have; they have pu the Iron Into our souls and we will be ready to repay them when the chance offers. ' "Monday was a mild night. Had the disaster occurred during a. sale 1 1 don't like to think what would have happened. But Tuesday even ing was calm. "The first Intimation we had of possible danger was an order for all . men to go on deck with life belts. It was about 4:30 o'clock. At the same time we sharply altered our course. At 6 o'clock, just as the darkness was setting well in. we got the blow. Nobody saw the periscope nor could one have been seen well. Some sol diers described having heard a hiss ing sound before the torpedo struck. "We were Instantly disabled. All ' the lights went out. '.'An order rang Ill 1 i With the American Armies. Fet. 8. The American artillery and in fantry forces ' have succeeded In clearing out a majority of the snip ers who have been causing consider able' annoyance. ADVOCATED