Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, March 31, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Texto DAILY EDITION VOU VIII., No. HIT. IRRIGATION FOR NORTH SIDE IS IN SIGHT AUG OP PROPERTY OP TUB ROOT! RIVER Pl'RLIO SER VtCa CORPORATION i IK FOB ELEVEN THOUSAXD ICmricxalMltoN of Company mmI An KMiamtMHit of I'Uiim dir Work Eipertad Boon Another chapter In the affairs or th Rogu TUvr I'ubllo far-vice corporation tu clnsd on Saturday by th uli of th property on order of th foiled State dlntrlot court by Robert P. Magulre, master In chanery. The affair of th com pany war placed In the handi o re ceiver In Junt of last year and tba real object of the Hilt, whlrh waa brought by P. M. Feuvr against the company, waa to conserve the pro-, prty. At the sale, whlrh win hold nt the court hous yesterday, Attorney flpei'r of Portland, attorney (or the receiver, bid In the property In the name, of Newton W. Itpindtree. for a aunt a little In etees of tit. 00, aubjert lo a bond Issue of untie MOD, 000. The 111,000 represents the coet of receivership pens and maintenance during the part yeef. : A reorganisation and re-lnrorpor-atlnn of the roropany will he (Tett ed In the ?ery near ftitnre and It I ' ex per ted that within two week def inite announcement of the pinna or the new eompany will he made pub lie. It la ballered that thla move mean the early operation or an Irrigation system by gravity and pumping (or the northslde, and will eventually Include all the Irrigable landi In the dlatrtot. MER GRM1TS PASS fl Word waa received hero through the I'urtland papera thut l-eo Uroy Graham, a former resident of Urent Paaa. leaving here about a year and a hair ago, la a prisoner at Kiel, Oermany. Graham, wbo ta a broth er of Mra. Harry O. Hltchey of till city, waa a member of the crew of the achooner Kncor when the ve ael left Portland last May with a cargo of lumber. Th Encore waa a victim of the raider Wolff. News concerning Oraham waa aent to Portland by the bureau or navigation, department of commerce and waa received by the bureau from th naval attach at Copen hagen, Denmark. ' toe Angeles, Mar. '30. An In 4 junction to prevent th abolition of aaloona by ordinance at midnight hai been denied. The people of Josephine county responded freely to the call o( the war aavlnga atampa houee-to-houe canvas. In Oranta Pane there were 170 families who purchased thrift stamps or war savings stamps and the atotat sales amounted to" $1,148. 84. , The s-hools continue their mar velous work to help win the war. Accurate figures are not available, but It Is known that the sates of thrift stamps and war savings atanuis made In the schools exceeded .1.R00. The total sales In Josephine coun ty,. to -rt.-.fo exceeds $19,000. HOUSETOKQUSEOANVAS EIGHT im DAY II HOUR PAY Eight Hour Day ami Equal Pay for Mom ud Woiuea Engaged In Mk Work la (Jmiitml Today Chicago, Mar. 10.-Th eight hour day wag Increasea and equal pay (or like work by nun and wom en were granted to Chicago packing house employes by Judge Samuel Al achiiUr, arbitrator la th recent wag hearings here. Several other demands of the workers also were granted. Beginning May t, lilt, eight hour ahall constitute th basic work day and such work ahall be com pleted, Insofar as possible, wltblo nine consecutive hour. Overt I m ahall b paid for at th rat of doubl time for all Sundays and holiday, except that where the operation la necessarily and general ly carried on for save day, pro vision may b mad for relief work er so aa to give th regular em ployes a day off. MIW. MiMINKY REAIJiAHED OX 910,000 MAIL San Francisco, Mar. 10. Mrs. i(ina Mooney has been released on 17,501) ball on each of two murder charges. nun vooloi ais ' W BEEN SEIZED . Washington, Mar. JO. U great (ierman-owned New Jersey woolen mill, wltk a total valuation of more than 170,000,000, have been taken over hy the enemy alien property custodian, who has named govern ing boarda of directors to assume control of them. ' Th earnings' of the properties during th war will go, Into the federal treaaury for th purchase of Liberty bonds. Tb mills taken over were an nounced today by A. Mitchell Pal mer, the gmy alien property cus todian, as follows: The Passaic Worsted 8plnnlng mills, the Ilotany Worsted mills, th New Jersey Worsted Spinning com pany, the Forstman and Huffman company and the Oera mills, all of Passilc, N. J and the Garfield Wor sted mills of Garfield, N. J. L HOLDS VITAL P0!!IT New York, Mar. 30. By restrain ing further ' movement of German's first reserve troops across France, America' "Increasing military strength along the Alsace-Lorraine border la exerting what may prove to be a decisive Influence upon the progress or Hlndenburg'a attack against the Anglo-French lines. The key to the situation now con fronting Hlndenburg, Halg and Po tato Is the question of reserves. Both sides must depend for a renewal of activity upon fresh reinforcements. If Hlndenburg were able to bring up still more ahock troops - and to slaughter them In large numbers at a further sacrifice to the Hohensol lerns, the situation along the west front would cause much anxiety. There are German reserves ready for auch a purpose, concentrated at Mett and southern Alsace. It would be ratal, however, for Hlndenburg to draw on them. If they were to vanish, the road to the Rhine would be made Into an easy nassnge ror General Pershing. Were It not ror the American armlea now In eastern France and the rast-arrlv-Ins American reinforcements, there would b'a nothing to prevent Hln denburg from throwing nt least a quarter of a million men more Into the western combat at this critical moment, i ' . (HUNTS PAXS, JOCSPHIVI CCrTTT, LIBERTY LOAN mam IS CUMMITTKW APPOINTED POIl EACH lilt.mil OP PIltXIMIV AltY WOltK 0ISTE1CI CAPTAINS SELECTED City IMvlded Into Your and (tooaty Into Nlaeteow Dtetricta, Kadi With Captain In Ctiarg Th orgsnlxatloa work for- the Liberty loan drive In Josephine county Is about completed. All com mltteea have been appointed for. each particular branch of th work. A map baa been prepared dividing th county In It district. These district have been outlined to conform aa nearly as possible to top ographical conveniences. Eah . dis trict will hav a team captain wbo will hav charge of the work In pre paring queitlonnslrss. Thla captain will select any number necessary aa members of hi committee, to make a thorough canvass of the district and obtain th names of all persona who are th head or a family . or have an Income or earning capacity sufficient to Justify th purchss of a IJberty bond. It I th Intention of th committee having charge of this part of the work to hav all questionnaires returned by April f. Th card will then b turned ovr to committee which will. Insert the amount of taxable property of each person aa shown by the county tax rolls. Wneu thla la completed the sarde will b delivered to the rating committee. ' The name or those who sub scribed ror IJberty bonds or either of the prior Issue will alto be pro vided and the amount Inserted In th questionnaire cards. All prelim inary work will then be completed and Josephine county will be ready for a systematic drlv when th time arrive for the IJberty loan cam paign. The appartlonment for thla county has not been made. Definite announcements as to the amount. rat of Interest, kind of bonds, etc., will be made as soon at the Informa tion la available. Chairman Bramwell haa made the following committee appointments: Executive committee Frank O. Bramwell, chairman;" Geo. E. Lund- burg. 8am H. Baker. N. F. Macduff. E. T. Ludden. Other RWndlrui Committee Questionnaires and teams cap tain E. L. Coburn, chairman; A. N. Parsons, C. 'A. Wlnetrout, T. P. Cramer, E. H. Balalger, Oeorg W. (Continued on pag 6.) FOCHS APPfliraiT PLEASES THE ALLIES Washington, Mar. 30. New of the appointment of General Foch was conveyed to President Wilson during th cabinet meeting yester day. Th text o( the cablegram to the general was made public before the cabinet adjourned. The president, In addressing the cablegram, however, did not make clear whether Foch was supreme In command or merely In command of the Anglo-French-American army of maneuver the "victory reserve." The announcement that Oeneral Foch commands the allied reserves la most pleasing to the military ex perts, who tinf that the , veteran French general has no equal In all Europe as an exponent of military strategy. Wlth his transport line short, so far a these things go In Europe, and with an abundance of men anjt supplies o( all sorts, Foch can 'be depended upon to reach ,the vital spot In the German advanced lines by the quickest route.' HI CSS30N, SUNDAY. MAltt II GERWUSII THEIR WEDGE IIITO EIITEIITE AI'KX OP UNK.MY'k) LINK DIUVKN TO WITH I 13 MILKS OP CITY OP AMIEXg LIFE STRUGGLE EE3S ATD FLOWS Han (lain to Have Itofoaleil Brtt. Mi and French Troops and to Hav Captured Ileaacort , Parte, Mar. SO. Germans have driven forward an apex or their wedge toward Amlena, now astride of the Somme, about 11 mile east of Amiens. The British line Is now west of Marcelcav and Demuln and la atlll regarded hopeful. Th ene my advance haa not yet been arrest ed, but Is certainly greatly retarded. French have completely checked th Oermsns west of Montdldler. Con tinuing their counter offensive In tb region about Arraa and Olse, the enemy's line offers positions for the entente counter blow to roll up on side of tbe enemy wedge. Berlin, Mar. 10. Between the Somm and Avre, Oermsns hav driven the British and French troops further back, reinforcements of the enemy brought np from parts of their former positions and have cap tured Beaucort and Metier. French attacka against Montdldler hav failed.. . , . ; London, Mar. 10. Fighting on th battle front between th Scarp and the Olse hat diminished greatly, except between Albert and Montdl dler. The allies are preparing for a counter blow. The Oermtn atrength given Indication of waning. Gen eral Foch wilt command the British, French and American armlea In the xpect attack. British Headquarters, Mar. SO. In th vicinity of Albert, Germans ar digging themselvea In, along line from Thlrsval to Labotselle. London, Mar. 10. The war office announcea that the Germane have captured Aubvlllers, flv and on hair mllea northwest or Montdldler, aa also th villages of Grievnes, Cat- Igny, Mensll, 8t. Georges and Ayen- court, all In the Montdldler region. They ar also making progress west of the Aver river. . A feeavy rain la falling. MORR UNIONS THREATEN TO HOLD CP SHIPtlCILlMNG New York. Mar. 10. Th work of camouflaging ships In thla harbor may be brought to a halt next week unless the demands of ship painters for a rals In pay la granted. Th painters, who now get (0 cents an hour, aak an Increase of 10 cents and threaten to strlk tomor row unless their demands ar granted. , BOY SCOUTS MAKING GOOD STAMP SALES The sale of war savings and thrift stamp which Is being conducted by the Boy Scouts Indicate that they are putting forth good efforts. Stamps which have been delivered by the postmaster and were sold through the activities of the scouts total 11.194.28 for the past week. Thomas McKlnstry sold stamps valued at $646 and is high boy for the week. Newell McKlnstry la sec ond with $195. Claud McCracken la third with $71.75 and la again in the honor columns. Scout Norrls Clemens has gone to Kerby and Holland to sell stamps to day. V ... 81. 101. FIIITFKSS OF II I.1DEH I'aria (liurrh I. Struck tiy Mietl Ihir. In d Friday Service. Women and Children Pay the Price . Parla. Mar. 30. Oermanr's long rang gun has surpassed th air Plan for frlgbtfuln!. A shell struck a Paris church during Good Frldar service, klllins- over IS and Injuring 10. mostly women and children. ' Mor bodies of woman wera found today. Washington. Mar. JO. French re serve troops hav stopped tbe Ger man advance on a 28 mile front, ex tending from Moretill to Laaalgny, according to an official Parla dis patch. Parla, Mar. 10. Germane have renewed powerful attacks in th Montdldler region, wher their wedge (hat been pushed farthest toward Pari and a great battle 1 raging. Apparently French have been forced back slightly on the northern edge as fsr aa Morevll which forma a part of the line. food AD::;;isiii an i;eeo Engineer John Dubul of the Grant Paaa Irrigation district pro ject and F. 8. Bramwell, president of the ' Chamber . of Commerce, left laat night for San Francisco lo con far with the federal reserve board, In connection With th local Irriga tion situation. Mr. Bramwell on. Friday received th following wire from W. B. Ayer, federal food administrator for Ore gon, showing hla Idea of the Import ance of the project: ' "I understand that you are leav ing for San Francisco tomorrow evening ror the purpose of present Ing to tbe federal reserve board the application of the Granta Pass Irri gation district. Will you please say to them that I consider it of the ut most Importance that Irrigation de velopment ahould be encouraged as a food production measure and that I trust that In their Investigation of the merit of th Granta Pass pro ject they will give due consideration to thla phase of the matter. W. B. Ayer." , liiLFOKD ALIBI Ml . GIVE FISH GIL TALK WUford Allen, former editor o( the Courier, and former president of the Chamber of Commerce, now a member of the state Industrial acci dent commission, will be guest at the noon luncheon at the Cham ber of Commerce on Monday and will present some Interesting infor mation regarding the fish bill. There will also be a discussion of the irrigation district project. MOLLA lUri'RSTKlrT WINS , TENNIS CHAMPIONSHIP New York, Mar. 10. Molla BJur- stedt haa won the Indoor j'ennls championship, . defeating Miss Elea nor Goes. .. NEST OF SPIES IS Ml tu in Newark. N. J., Mar. 80'. Admls slon that a grouj) of spies ' have ueen empio.vea in me pinnia or me Curtis engineering corporation at Hampstead, N'eW York, has been ob tained, from Mrs. Lydla White, ar rested with blue-prints of airplanes la her possession. WHOLE M'MIIKR SIIMLDFJIS OFFER TO I'M OBI FIRS1 CAN Tl'RN OIT MORE YK88KLA THAN ANY OTHER STATE IN THE INION o o sites ra Prepared to OotuOmct ISO Motor Driven Woode Ship Without Ia terferestro With Program Washington, Mar. 10. The ship building board has granted permis sion to vacant wooden shipyards of Oregon to accept contract for tb construction of 150 motor drives ship of 100 tons each. Vaael will probably be put Into Pacific coast and China trad and will cost about $400,000 each. Washington, Mar. 30.--Oregon ahlp builders hare madj an offer to the shipping board to build ISO motor-driven wooden ships, without la Urfarlng with the government' program. Timber and sites ar avail able. They offer to mak Orsgoa th foremost shipbuilding state, by turning out more vessels than any other state of the union. Portland, Mar. 30 A seventy-flv million dollar- shipbuilding project at Portland will be entered upon by Delaware ' "' capitalists presumatly th Da Pont aa soon as Chairman Hurley of th shipping board, con firms in writing assurances he gavw over th telephone yesterday to Sen ator McNary. Thla written confir mation is promised today. In brief, th shipping board has agreed toamend lta regulations, ac cording to suggestion mad by Sen ator McNary, ao that privat capital may build at Portland for private American account, and receive assur ance that It can complete and turn over to the owners ships of 3,000 to 3,200 ton, such ships to be operat ed after completion In trans-Paclfle, Australian and South American trade. DEATH PENALTY FOR . i ESPIONAGE IS PROPOSED Washington, Mar. 30. The death penalty for many acta of espionage 111 be proposed . In legislation brought before congress, said Sen ator Overman, after . hearing th testimony of . several government agent. .;- ; OHIO MOB TEACHES ' PRO-Hl'NS PATRIOTISM Cashocton. Ohio, Mar. 30 A mob of 600 to 600 persona early today visited 16 homes and forced between 26 and 10 alleged pro-Germans to klsa the Stars and Stripea and say, 'To hell with th kaiser." JOSEPHIIIE'S QUOTA LEAVES THiS Josephine county's quota repre senting the first 5 per cent of the second draft will leave thla morn ing on No. 14 for the camp. The county will be represented by Lewis S. Fall, Merlin; Roy -Ruby Reed, Le land. and Maple Carmen Page, Ga llce, and these are the first men called by draft from Jorephlne county. Five other men will leave for ramp at the same time, having been drafted from other counties, j but are temporary residents here. It Is expected that a large delega tion of citizens will be at the, sta tion to give the men a patriotic send-off.- j ; J . .