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I 'It , '-'I .J I ... ... DAILY EDITION csattj rxn, r 3 cccktt, cT3C3, si'nday, hkptbmhkb s, lem. 3L3 VOIj. IX., ikSfo;.. MMk MM 1 tttiUiiyi r.llu li i. tt old mm AND SNUB MF.KT IX TIIIM CITY TOMORROW TO HOLD IMth AXNl'AL KNCAMI'MKNT CIS D1XNER NEXT THURS. lOO Kvcnluttn lu lie KnMveitMl jf HjMwk Ing, llrxilatitws and Mulc Or. gnnlsetloa Konnol ;io Ymh At the special meeting held by General lig W. it. C, Thursday afternoon, tha plana for Hi coming week's 0. A. n. encampment were outlined. At the preliminary meet ing held at Medford by tha com mittee it lew weeks ago, It was de cided that thli reunion be different from all othera held since tha organ liatlon was founded nearly 10 yeara ago. by eliminating all ipeelal day and tvenlng program! and the big costly dlnneri and auppera. : Tba reunion this week will be held as a fraternal camplng-out vacation. Tha local W. It. C. will have an In formal entertainment each evening, ol speekfuf.' muelo. reading aad rae Itatlona, and tha cooperations of the teachers and children will be greatly appreciated Ay tha W. R. C. Tharaday noon a picnic dinner will be served on tha grounds where a long table will be In readlneia. This frw picnic dinner given In honor of the gueats will replace tha banquet given at each gathering In tha paat. As It will be, Impossible to solicit aoh corpa member personally, all members are asked to fill the biggest basket they have, to overflowing with eatables and be on the grounds not later than 11a. m., Thursday. The ladlea will endeavor to make this picnic dinner the big event of the encampment. . Oranta Pass has always been noted for Its royal reception of visitors, and every effort will be made to make the Southern Oregon 8oldlere' and Sailors' Association glad they chose this city for their 26th annual reunion. The reunion will be held from Sep tember to 14. TIIH (JOYKKN.MHNT NtiHIM 2,000 ' HTKN'OUltAPHKIM AXI TYPISTS San Francisco,' Sept. 7. Two , thousand itenographera and typewrl - ters are urgently needed to till va cancies In departmental service at Washington, D. C.,' according to an V announcement from San franclsco Office of the 12 th civil service dis trict. Examinations are being held at frequent Intervals. JOSEPHI County Agriculturist C. X. Thomp son tins recoived reports from all throHlinrmen In Josephine comity with the exception of one threshing outfit. Last year only 9,800 bushels of wheat wore raised In thin county, whllo this year's yield will be close to 1 2,000 bualwls, 10,150 bushels having already been reported to Mr. Thompson. 'While tho acreage over lnr,t year was Increased this sonson, the yield per aoro was also greater. For Instance, one ranch that pro duced only 627 oushela last year, -produced 3,593 bushels this seaBon, duo almost entirely to Increase In acreage, ";' """ - '" flinrabr OY DEC. 1 lulled tkrttm Hooa to lie IWwl Time for ll-ontlnulug )laaufar turn to lie Moved I'p WashlnKton, Sept. 7. ilnnufac tur of bear In the United 8tates will be prohibited after December 1 next aa a war measure. This announcement was made to day by the food administration, which said the declilon had been reached at conferences between Pres ident Wilson and representatives of the fuel, food and railroad adminis trations and the war . Industries bosrd. Action along this line, it waa said, has been expected by the brewing Interests, In view of the fuel admin istration's order of lsst July 1, re ducing coal consumption of brew- erlea 60 per cent and a warning that they might not be able to continue In business. Under national prohibition legis lation payed by the senate yester day and sent to the houae, which en acted similar legislation last May, manufacture of beer and wlna would be prohibited after next May I. Today's order will move up all months the time for discontinuance of the manufacture of beer, although the breweries may be allowed to re same operations between that date and the effective operation of the dry legislation, if finally enacted, alnce today'a order waa "until fur ther notice." josFii:;;E over to? MAllAOf Josephine county has gone "over the top" In the Salvation Army drive to raise her quota of $400. Saturday Roscoe Bratton, chairman of the county drive, reported that the M00 had been raised, with a few places yet to hear from. The national lriv lo raise 12, 000,000 for Salvation Army . war work ends on September 21, but due to the efforts of the local committee, Josephine county's share wai quickly raised and tha matter la now out of the way for the great Fourth Liberty loan drive. HARVEST FESTIVAL TO 1 REPLACE COUNTY FAIR A harvest festival, to take the pluce of the county fair, will be held In the Baptist church on I Sunday, September 15. Exhibits of grains, fruits and vegetables are requested. The church will be open during the day for Inspection by visitors. In connection with the festival there will be three special meetings at which Rev. Alonxo W. Petty, D, iD and Mrs. Petty, of Portland, will ho the speakers.... A largo chorus Is bsltig trained to furnish . music for tlio occasion. With the American Army in France, Sept. 7. The Uermans Bcor od two direct hits Wednesday night on a large Red Cross hospital south east of Solwons. There were," no casualties as' the patients had been removed to nearby caves when the bombing began.-' . , am w ton am 111! IUII S II S I IS uli a-j I I isiuiiuii mvib i y.iiii mils n I rf AV IN DnlCfi hii nrrrrii hriii r rnhMf U.I will III miIjU U tt NJflU Ul French khizzt ca 0:: cf Th Kty?:is cf Tfcjfon: Deleave Systcn Fccb's LVCit VW:ii:$ Cccd Gtrcia Strche cf t!tfca 21 krfiis Retreit With the American Army In France, Sept, 7. Menaced by In creasing danger In the salient In which they bad been attempting to hold their ground, the Germans to day began a withdrawal from the Vesle valley to the right of the Am ericans. The Germane fought with the spirit of their traditions, but slowly continued to give wsy des pite their desperate resistance. The Americans awung their line forward to Its Junction with the Trench, The alowlng down of the German retreat from the Alsne enabled the Franco-American foroee to bring up their big guns and supplies and get their line In full fighting strength. With the American Army la France, Sept. 7. The Germans fell back a short distance today before the pressure of the American-Franco force oa a line about midway be tween Rhelms and Conde. London, Sept. 7. Last night the British captured three towna eaat of Peronne, the war office announces. Fighting their way toward the German left flank along the Canal Du Nord, the British penetrated the PARMKR KILLS HORSK ' ' AM) PLEADS Gl'ILTY Eugene, Sept. 7. A. B. Mathews, of Thuraton, today killed a balky horse, had a complaint issued for his own arrest and paid a fine of $10 In JusUce Wells' court . LEUTEI1IIIT SEES FIFTY IIRPIJL"E CMS WITHOUT J FATALITY An Am eric in Aerotjroti in'Cng- land, Sept. 7. Flying, In the air Is becoming rapidly more safe,' veteiao Instructors at' the British-American aeroaromes in England tell their pu- pus. ine proportion oi. casualties during training' In' the air force are now no higher, they gaiVthah in! any other branrh of combatant service. "During three years flying exper ience 1 have seen upwards of - 50 1 I" V. r . ... ' 11' . J er .she, but 1 have hot yet seen anyl" lly,ng' 1 mu8t ve een Perhaps man receive more than skin-deep lu-l 60 rMhv I seen airplanes Juries as tho result of these crashes," 'mh '"to hangars, stone, walls, declared Lleutenant'L. Walmsley, of no. Imp Posts, trenches, motor the Royal Air F-rce,v In" a talk wlth!66 8nd brldKM- 'Personally 1 American airmen recently. have flashed ,nto b. on a tennis "Probably my experience has'been c0,lrt' ,n . Hooded field, and into a junusually fortunate, lut , statrjt ceilru'"ca Iore"! "i st at a speed 'show that the proportion of fatalities f 80 nil,e an "our. And In all to crashes Is extraordinary small. "Some of the first-airplane acci- seen mn receive anything worsened on the western, front. In this dents eie due to tho collapse of,"""1 skinned nose as the result of connection It Is known that the ship the machine In mld-alr, and because (,r8Bh- and tl on'y wound I ever ment of civilian goods on. returning the pilot in those days was merely Rot mylf was made by a thorn grmy transports and supply ships re- strapped to a board or strut, without any covtrlg whatever, the results were mostly total. , The Introdiic- tlon of tho fusolaije or body, mnde strongly of steel and wood, in which he can use his undercarriage and the pilot's and passenger's seats were planes If necessary, to best advant plared, made It possible tor an air- age, first of all to save the life of his plane to fall from great heights with- observer and his own, and If possible out the occupants being killed. Be- to ove the engine the most valuable cauao of the central . position of the part of the machine, fusolnge, this Is always the last part "Tie may have to 'pancake' Into to foel the effects of a crash, the a patch of brush, or he may have to mnln force of which is broken by the fly deliberately between two trees under-carrlage and planes, which act and strip his wings, but so long as as buffers, 'ho. keeps his head the chances of "Two days after I Joined the Royal making a successful crash are gr-eat-Alr Force 1 saw a machine come ly In his ifavor. wood. Paris, Sept. 7, -The French con tinued their, advance east of Ham today. On the American front north of the Vesle the situation is an- chsnged. The French advanced on a 20-mlle front to a depth of two miles. London, Bept. 7. Accelerating the flight of the retreatlng.Germaoa, the British, French and Americana gained Important new ground last night and today along the entire front from the Alsne to west of Cam brel. ... In the northern, part of, the front the British have pushed forward more than 15 miles and driven In hard on the left flank' of the German line protecting Cambrel along Ca'ne.1 Oa -Nord anfl occupying the Creator portion of Havrlncourt wood, and capturing several, additional . towns to the northward, in their, nrogreas, Beyond the Oise the French are advancing on the forest of tt. Go bala, the keypolnt of the Oe'nnan de fensive system.. Aa a whole, .the campaign Inaugurated by General Foch on July. 18. has cancelled the German atroke Of March 1 1st, last. "1 waa hauling hay." he told Dis trict Attorney U L.' Ray, The horse balked, and I picked 'up a board and struck him over the head. ' He laid down and died, f know the humane society wlH be arter me and' I want to get this thing stranghtened out." down in a gtddy spinning dive and land squarely on the roof of one of the hangars. The pilot climbed out ,Bnd, lighting a cigarette, calmly ask- ed If the 'other machine' was ready. "During the next few weeks, I saw no fewer than five crashes, and not in a single case was either pilot or observer hurt. . ; ' "Since then, in nearly three yeara i,,eBe aveniures, i nave not yet lirom a pncKiy pear busn. "An airman can usually tell when a crash Is Inevitable and like llght- nlng ho must make up his mind howJ western part of Havrlncourt taking prisoners. .IfflCQJCTS' .Vlatety-ooe Seat to Ft. Leevrnworb -Lone Terns for Haywood So Hall Secured Chicago, Sept 7. Ninety-three members of tha L W. W Including Secretary William D. Haywood, were placed aboard a special train on the Rock Island road under heavy guard to be taken to Fort Leavenworth prison to serve the terms Inflicted by Federal Judge K. il. Lendls after they had been found guilty of violat ing the espionage act In fighting the selective draft and opposing the war otherwise The prlsonerg were taken from the county jail at 10 o'clock and con veyed to the station, more than., a mile away. So secretly was the start made and so unostentatiously waa the transfer made that no crowd waa attracted. All efforts of the convlcta to ob tain bail or legal delaya were aban doned today, after many efforts had been made to keep the men from prison. 4 ' V. 8. CASUALTY LIST . - The followlpg caanaltiea are ,, re ported ,by the commanding general of .the American expeditionary forcea for Saturday: - Killed In action .......... 50 M Using In action ,11 Wounded severely 143 Wounded,, degree undetermined ..111 Died of wounds 17 Died of disease ... Died of accident . Wounded slightly . 1 '71" Total . Killed In action Leo vant, Lebanon, Ore. ..,..636 i. Sturte- Wounded severely In action, Hux ley L. Oalbralth, Lebanon. Ore. Hux ley Oalbralth is the son of J..F. Osl bralth, former owner, and. editor, of the Oregon Observer of this city, and young Oalbralth attended school here. . ' t: Washington,' Sept. 7. The Bol- shevikl authorities in Moscow have been warned by the. allied powers, through , ministers , of Holland, Den mark, Switzerland and Norway that they will be held responsible for the safety of the allied consular officers and missions now detained In Rus sia. GERMAN CAPTIVKS TO BR DROl'GHT TO THR C 8- Washington, Sept. 7. Publication today of orders' providing for a sub stantial increase in the corps, of in terpreters of , the . army revived re ports of plans or bringing to Amer ica large numbers of Germans cap cently was sharply curtailed by the military authorities MI'S MAKER AT L Paris, Sept. 7. A treaty has been concluded between Germany and Finland under which the entire man power of Finland has been placed at Germany's disposal, says a , Havas dispatch from Copenhagen. igm in IOEE1' ID OFOJ SEPT. 9 DR. fXTHEIl POIIL LOVEJOY, XZU I.VK.VT SPRtKER, TO TKLL OF TIIIULLIXO KXPCIUE5CES t:S IW.I JIT CfffJ DS Hm. K. Stils, Vld )Unaer for Houuiweetern Oregia, Ukt Toar of Ooeat OaUouk Bright The Fourth Liberty loan campaign will be opened Monday evening. September t. at the opera bona at 8 o'clock, when Dr. Esther Pohl Lovejoy wiU speak. She haa recent ly returned from a year's work with the Red.Crosa in France. She knowa conditions .first .hand and to say that her speech U a "thriller" wlU be putting It mildly. She has" seta the awful work of the Han aa It re ally 1 aad is aot tr14 t tell atat It., Anybody, who la In doubt toot, the awfulnea and extent of Oersaa. atrocities should hear Dr. Lovejoy. She not only haa the facta but knowa how to present these la e, rivld aad pleasing way. She Is an accomplish ed speaker. , , , , , .r .Anybody who ataya away wUl.ba sorry. . This la the only platform meeting which the Liberty loan com mittee is planning for thia campaign and the committee reqaeata all cit isena. to spread the newe, of it. , It lar hoped fhat . people from out of town a well as those living In the city will attend. The orchestra will play and Prof. J. S. MacMurray will sing a solo. Wm. F. StHs. field manager for the si i countiei in southwestern Ore gon,, who haa Just completed a ton of the .Oregon coast cities, arrived lnthe city Saturday and Is very op timistic In regard to the Fourth Li berty "loan. "The outlook tor the Fourth Li berty loan look's bright," says Mr. StlU, "and I venture the prediction that Oregon, ia going 'overxthe top' the first day. ,1 find business very brisk in the coast cities, while In the interior cities business is fair." Mr. Still speaks very compliment ary of Dr. Lovejoy, and states that she la one of the most interesting speakers in the west, her narratives of , "over there", , being told in a manner that, grlp the attention of the audiences. Mr. Stils spent Friday In Medford snd will return to Portland, his headquarters, today. The , national campaign . tor the next loan, opens September , 28, but the managers for Oregon's quota feel confident of putting the state "over the top" the first day, as the work is to commence Immediately. Chicago, Sept. 7. Carl Mays, for rierly of Portland, Ore., was In the box for Boston today at the opening of the third game of the worlds series, which is the last game Chi cago will see until the end of the war. Some rsln fell. - Boston scored two rung In the, third inning. ... The final score was as follows: Boston 2 7 0 E2 1 R H Chlcsgo i............ 1 6 . Batteries: . Boston Mays and ?chang. lefer. ' Chicago, Vaughn and K1U