Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, April 21, 1918, DAILY EDITION, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextV - ; I'lilvfimlly of Ore Lib: rary DAILY EDITION VOL. VIII.. No. IM. M KO.tr, APHIL 21. IOIM. 1 KNOLINIf (APTtltK SK MA. CHINK MNH, TltKNCH MOItTAH AND PUIHONKIW llmnim Forced (Hit of Piwliion In GIvetM-hy-IVeliatirri ItiN In Ktmlhwrn Flanwr London, Apr. 20. Nine machine xune, on trench mnrUr and prison ers were taken 'by the llrltlsh south of the Rcarpe In local operation. A Herman counter-attack was repulsed. The llrltlsh ejected the Oermana fnm advanced portions In Flanders In the riKlon of Glvcnchy end Fest nhert. The MrltUh gained nil objoe Uvea In counter-attack In Flanders, advancing their defenses to Given ehy and Festubert and re-establishing their tiottltlnn. They drove bark German attackers southeast of Ro becq. PAIIIH AGAIN IIOMIIAIIIIKII IIV 1-ONU IIANGK hn Paris, Apr. JO. Yesterday's long range bombardniont consisted of throe ahola at wide Interval. There wore no raaualtlea. IXI Harbin, Manchuria. Apr. 20. On April 14 an order waa received at Vladlvoatok from the Holshevlki government to ship all shells, ex plmlvea, inetaU. machinery and tool concentrated there to European llus ala. Freight and passenger traffic will be auapended for the pnrpoae If necessary. UGHT FOR PAST WEEK Ixmdon. Apr. 20. llrltlsh raaual tlea during the week ending today totalled 1J.38S. divided an follow: Killed or died of wound: Officer. 575: men, 1639. Wounded or missing: Officer, I1TS; men. 7981. The cneualtloe reported for thl week are approximately half a large attain aa thoae reported In the pre ceding week. Although heavy fight ing has now been In progress a month, however, the llta have not begun to approach the else of those of Inst year In the month of active operation when the Brltlah were on the offensive. There la no mean of determining' how far the raaual tlea now being reported represent losses In the fighting alnce the ler man offensive was started. In the aeveral week preceding lat week, when 8129 namea were Hated, the total had been running no higher than between 3,000 and 4,000. El LISTS ARE ISSUED Wellington, Apr. 20. The revls ed enemy trading Hut containing 5,000 names, Including enemy Arm In neutrnl rnuntrle In Europe, ha hern Issued by the war trade bourd. It ban been entabllnhod In conjunc tion with Knglnnd and France to unify the allies' effort to keep pro ducts from reaching the enemy. Analyst of Wiir HUmp I U-turn HIiohn HmwU Tonua Not Kern ing U Quitt tut A cuinparlitou of the word mad'J by the varloua pontofflces througn ou I the county In Ihe sale of war navlnga itanipa for the month of March I not particularly flattering In all ranee. A ometlmei happen, the little, aparrely populated places often make a better ahowlng than more wealthy communities. Thl Is the caae In the Instance of Josephine county. Murphy head the list of town outalde of Oram I'aaa with a toUl of 1481.15. Hugo makea a fine ahow lng with 1335.11. Almeda, with 1317.01 makea a good ihowlng, while Drydun hand Ihe lint of f 111 nola valley town with 1217.59. Oa lli' la keeping up about a well a could be expected, while Wlldarvllle I doing well considering, that rural route from thl city tap that die- trlct. On the cither hand, Waldo ha fallen down In a manner to dlsap point the muni optimistic. Holland. Kerby, Bel ma, William and Takll ma were all looked to for better re aulta. , Hunt mauler Qulnlan, who ha had charge of the campaign In the county, look for belter reiulta be fore the preaent month I up and hope to ee May take a big bound ahead. Thrift stampe are nothing mpre than baby Liberty bonda. The money, the aame aa IJberty bond money, go to buy guna, ammunition, food clothea, traneportV and the Innumer able other thlnga that are necessary for the American boya to carry on the fight for democracy, flut Uncle flam haa authorised the laanance of loan of a large aum In email de nomination for the small Investor. If one haa but a quarter to Invest, he can buy a thrift stamp. Sixteen thrift atampa on a card, with 11 or 14 cents added, can .be exchanged for a war savings stamp, which In 1923, will pay the holder $5. One can buy as many W. 8. 8. as he chooses up to 1 1,000. and can buy 11,000 worth for every member of the family. They are for ssle the year around and are as good as gold at any time, rncle Sam will refund your money on war savings at any time and pay you three per cent In tercut If withdrawn before the date of maturity. At maturity they draw around four per cent W. 8. 8. are. the best saving pro portion ever Invented and wilt be the meana of many people getting darted In the aavlng habit who never saved before. Buy a atamp tomorrow. Following are the W. 8. stamp sale at the various postofflce of the county: Almeda. 1317.01; Dryden, $217. 59; Qallce, 199.35; Golden, 110.53: Holland. 1218.36; Hugo. 1335.11; Kerby. $12.64; Iceland. 184.34: Merlin, 165.60; Murphy, 1681.35; Plncer, 163.99: '8elma, 192.40: Speaker. 173.54; Takllma, 1376.10:, Three Pines, 25o; Waldo, 159.13; Wlldervllle, $139.19; William, 1255.81; Wolf Creek, 1210.20: Wonder, 136.81; total. 13.499.20. BY New York. Apr. 20. The Ameri can eteanior "Florence" haa been unk with a loss of life near a for eign port, It Is reported. Washington, Apr, 20. The Amer ican steamer Florcn-e II. was blown up In a French port by an Interim) explosion, ' The cause Is unknown,! nccordlng to n report to the nnvy crew and 75 others were rescued, the crew of an Amorlcau destroyer j muklnn most of the rescues. BRUSH 01 l!f$ FORCES Haig Takes Aggressive asd Compels Hca to Grre Up Small Portions of Crocd Which Places Lice b Best Positioa Since Opening of Presect Drive llalg'a troops took the aggressive last night on Ihe aouthern aide of Ihe Ly front. With quick and de cisive resulta and compelled the Oer- mana to give up small bit of ground. On the Olrenchy-Feitubert sector the OrltUh line haa been completely re established aa It existed before the attack Thursday. Active operations are halted while both sides prepare for the onslaught of the Germane. They may attack In Plcardy or Flanders or Artols white the menace of the Allied counter-offensive Impends. Unfavorable weather prevails on the northern battle front, but the Oermana have selected cotd and misty period as opportune for striking. The lull Is probably due to appalling loaee and the awaiting of the arrival of new troop. The Tirltleh are bombarding troops 12,000 ARTISANS MKN IV NEARLY KVKIIV TKAItE AUK WANTKI ('Mil la 1'rgrnt for Nervlre In Franc at One ami Offer Oreat Ofipor (unit Ira to Patriots Portland, Apr. 20. The United States army must have Immediately, for service In France under General Pershing. 12.000 men skilled In spe cial lines of work. 8o great I the emergency, de clares a meaaage from the war de partment, that there Is no time to select the men through the occupa tional card system recently put Into effect, hut not as, yet completed In all the states. ' The men are need so greatly and so quickly that the war department calls for volunteers from among those qualified In Oregon. , They are urged by the war de partment to present themselves vol untarily, and at the earliest moment, to their local draft boards to be list ed as available, preparatory to being voluntarily Inducted later Into th military service. Thla call la described by the war department aa being "urgent." With the allied armies engaged In a death grapple In-France, the American troops over there must be kept sup plied with the skilled men needed In varloua lines. "Please give the widest publicity to this urgent call." asks the war de partment. "Qualified registrants should be urged to present them selves to their local boards. ' "This office Is without an appro priation to pay for this advertising, but the patriotism of the American press la relied upon to aid In every way In their power. "The military duty and training of these sktyled men will be Interesting, and the men who succeed In securing induction Into the branches of the aervlce to be filled, will receive ma terial personal benefit which will aid them In advancement both In their army career and In after life." Men are needed In 65 skilled oc cupation. ' V. H. TAKKH OVKK H OM. A N IKA l K II l( 'A V PIKItH New York, Apr. 20. the Holiund Amerlcan line piers In Hoboken were today taken over by the government for the duration of. the war, through an arrangement by the war depart ment and Cnptnln A. C. Iarsen, pres ident of the ship company. and auppllea as they are moved up. There la little doubt but that the Oermana will use msny more re serve divisions In attempting to crush the allies. British, French, American, Bel gian, Portugese and Italian troop are on the weatern front. Their num bers are constantly Increasing. Th Oermana cannot halt If they would attempt to crush the allies while they atlll have atrength. After a month of hard fighting the allies are now In a better position for over powering the offensive than before. Attack on French. Falls Paris, Apr. 10. The Oermana at tack In the region of Hangard-en- Hanterre southeast of Amiens ha railed. The French took many pris oner. W.S.S. SALES MANY OIUMNIZATIONH . IIKLP HALE OK STAMPS Aaauaant Htate IMrector Will Vb.lt 1ty Monday to Htir l Inter- - est In the Work : Interest In war savings stumps In Josephine county la asserting Itself. Stamp sales are Increasing corre spondingly and the month or April bids fair to carry oft the honors for the months to date. Before the first of May the salea in Josephine coun ty will have passed the 130,000 mark. 125.000 of which has been disposed of through the Grants Pass sales statlona. the other 15.000 be ing distributed through the post of fices throughout the county. Some or the outside district have been ahowlng a keen Interest In the stamp sales, while In others there seems to be a lack of proper interest In the work and It la the Intention of the county executive committee to put into execution at an early date a plan that will force Interest where such action seems necessary. The Boy Scouts, churches, scuools, lodges and kindred organisations have been doing a big work In the sales or war saving stamps, but It Is not proper that the work . ' should be shouldered by a re. The suc cess or the campaign will be deter mined through the Interest shown by the Individual. Those in position to purchase stamps should not wait for committees to hunt them up. This all takes time, and unnecessary effort should be eliminated wherever possible. . v To reach all It will be necessary to organise war savings clubs and so cieties and In communities , where these have not already been form- dA ,1.. ..kH.iU t.. ... J.J ,.l at once. Twd hundred and twenty thonsnnd dollars Is the amount al lotted to this county to secure through the sale of . war savings stamps before the close of the year, and to secure this' amount will re quire a vast amount'of Individual as well as organized effort. To further stimulate Interest In the work C. N. Wonnacot, assistant state director will visit Grants Pass on Monday. April 22. The morning will be given up to visiting ' the schools as far as possible and It Is the hope or the local committee that time will permit's vUlt to all the schools; at the Chamber or Com merce luncheon Mr. Wonnacot will s;ieak In the Interest of the csm (Contlnned on Page Four)' oiiniw onu IGIKG IKCREASE G07.1PERS BRANDS . ennm ion nnn nrmini Josephine Cumuli of Defense . Is sue Edict to All Non-I'roduc-Uve ClUsena In another part of this paper, ap pearing In advertising form. Is a statement or set of resolutions which all non-lnduitrlous Individ ual will do well to read carefully If they care to remain In the city. The Josephine County Council of Defense Is after the slacker and loaf er and It will not be healthy for him If he remain In this ballllwlck In a half-hearted manner. Nothing but 100 per cent, un adulterated, red-blooded American ism will be tolerated. If any man or woman in the community la not making himself useful In these strenuous war times, measures will be taken to see that they give their best efforts or more to some other part. The committee omitted one clauae which could have been added, . and thla la that any man accepting money for performing work, and doing It In a half-hearted way, or hindering the progress of work In any manner. will be treated In the same manner aa the common slacker. This will no doubt be attended to whether stated In the resolutiona or not. Read the resolutions on page 4. Cleveland, Apr. 20. Socialism In America waa branded aa poisonous German propaganda by Samuel Gom pers, president of the American Fed eration of Labor, In a apeech in be half of the liberty loan at the City club here last evening. While the labor chief was excoriating socialism and calling on labor and capital In Cleveland to Join handa In SDeedlng up the city's subscription race, Doug las Fairbanks, moving picture actor. was making a loan appeal before a crowd that Jammed the largest thea tre In town. "There Is no such thing as an 'American socialist party," Mr. Gom pers said. "The American socialist organization Is merely a branch or the one In Germany It is part of German propaganda." Mr. Gom pers declared he had been changed from "the most active pacifist In America to a good fight- 2,000,000 MEN ARE PLACED III CLASS ONE Washington, Apr.' 30. Provost Marshal General Crowder today told the senate military affairs committee that approximately 3,000,000 men will be placed In Class one under the classification or the draft. Probably 90 per cent of those reaching 21 will be placed in Class one. It is Im probable that future calls will ne cessitate going outside of Class one. London, Apr. 20. A Russian dis patch says that German prisoners ar: demanding equality between officers and men and are organizing to pre vent being sent home. Germany de mands that the Russian authorities disarm the prisoners and . take charge of the situation until the Germans can deal with them. Klint, Mich., Apr. 20. As a re suit of a round-up of suspected draft slackers held during the Inst 24 hours, 164 men are being held ' In Jail here. U. S. NAVY WILL RECRUIT NEXT MAY PAKTY Olf SIX FICOM STATION At 8KATTLE WILL TAKE ENLIST. ME.NTS FOB SERVICE TWO WOMEN TEOMEK PJTt 10,000 Men To Be Itecrvited Front 1.1Ui Naval IHatrlct Ashland and Medford Help A recruiting party of six. af th U. 8. naval reserve force from Saw attle. la due to arrive In Grant Pang on Tueaday, for a three day ram- Ptgn here. The party consists of three C. 8. naval officers. Ensign T. H. Upshaw. N. N. V.. a reMnt nf Oregon for over 11 years and the rormer assistant manager of the Ladd Estate Company of Portland, r-aymagter W. W. Uasher. former manager of the telenhone eomn.nr of southern Oregon and a reaident of Ashland for five years and haa re sided in Medford for a period of two years. Mr. tssher Is well kun about thla district Assistant Surgeon Charles B. Wade, who has lived fl ..r. i. Rosebnrg and attended the Univer sity of Oregon la another member of the party. Mr. Wade practiced medicine for two and a half yean In the Perklna building of that city, Besldea the 1 naval r.mr. i. Charles Graham, pharmacist mat ana two uregon yoetnanettes. Mitt Paillne Greaves' a former reaident of Medford and employed aa a tele phone operator there and who en tered the navf about si months m a a third class electrician, la one of the yoemanettea. The other voem- anette of the party la Mlaa Amorette G. Crossley, first class yoeman, who naa Been in the aervlce six months. She la stationed at the Bremerton navy yard. Mlsa Crossley has been a resident of Portland for over tea years and waa formerly the employ ment manager for the Underwood Typewriter company or that city, be fore entering the service. The re cruiting party is in charge of Ensign F. B. Upshaw, of the naval tratnlnr station at Seattle. The recruiting party, which is one of three In the 13th naval district. Including Washington. Oregon. Ida ho. Montana, Wyoming and Alaska. and who are on a tour of western Oregon only, started their campaign of this state In Ashland with the purpose of working north, winding up the campaign at Portland where they propose to hold forth for seven. days. The commandant of this district haa sent out word that 10,000 naval (Continued on Page Four) NEARLY HALF OF 1917TAXESC0LLECTED Sheriff Geo. W. Iewlg, tax collec tor for Josephine county, today turn ed over to County Treasurer Geo. C. Calhoun the sum of $92,387.54 col lected on the 1917 tax roll. Of thla amount I57.674.4S goes Into the state and county fund, tS,303.1S in to the general road fund, $720.15 to the forest patrol fund. $952 to the Grants Pass Irrigation district fund and $15,125.90 to the city of Grants Pass. ' ' The first turn-over or 1917 funds collected amounted to $21,379.29. The assessor had collected $15,413. 43 on personal property, which, In alt, makes a total ol $129. 180. 2 gathered In on the 1917 assessment. The total amount to be collected I amounts to $297,712.92. With less I than hair or the money collected, the office or Sheriff Lewis faces a busy season before the last half or the j taxes are gathered on October 5.