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7 1 3tt00 VOU IX., No. 07. GRANTS PASS, JOSEPHINE OOUNTV, OREGON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1919. WHOLE XCMDER 23fl. RHINE WILL NOT BE GIN UP SAYS FOCH SUES' HOME Henry l-oniitr Umrm 9 1, 000, Itut the Thief leaves 9:100 In Victim's Puma WILL HE IHKI AH UARRICIt AGAINST HUN 1IORDEH IN CASE OK "COME RACK" Roseburg, Ore., Jan. 18. A thou and dollar were itolen from the coat pocket of Honry Lemur at the Soldiers Home bore. There have boon other thefts at the home. YANKS HAD DEVIL'S 01 PUNCH Argouno Front Whwo American At tacked Waa One of tho Hardest Nuts to Crack Treves. Jan. IK. It is the convic tion of Marshal Koch that the Khlne must bo made the barrier between Oermany and France. Ue expressed bls clearly yoatwrday when ho re celvnd American newspaper rorro uondonts. The marshal I here In connection with the moetlnK con corning the extension of the German armistice. ' Marshal Koch pointed out tho dif ficulties that had been overcome aod'sald that peace must be common urate with tho price of victory Oermany now was beaten, ho added tut with her resource, especially In men, recuperation In a comparative ly short time was quite possible. It was now the duty of the allies to prevent further aggressions. Marahal Koch praised the work o the American troops and said that General Pershing had asked that the American forces be concentrated for an attack on one soctor. The allied generalissimo 'admitted that the Argonne-Meue front, where the Americans began- their offensive on September 20. was a "sector hsrd to tackle." The marshal said he had told General Pershing: ' "You men have the devil's own punch. They will get away with all that. Go to it." The American attack succeeded the marshal continued, "and here we are on the Rhine." The armistlco was not concluded too soon and the allies got all they asked for from Germany, without continuing the fighting. The allies, the marshal said, were prepared for another, offensive stroke, which would have forced the Germans to srlve up. This was to have boen made In Lorraine on November 14, with six American and 20 French divisions. SCENEOFRDBBERY the VOLUNTEERS SWARMING TO COL ORS TO PROTEST EASTERN FRONT FROM INVASION. ' ex- The Row-burn Review gives following account of the theft: There has been . considerable citetnent today and yesterday at the Soldiers Home regarding a robery reported to have taken place there on Wednesday afternoon about 4 or o'clock. Henry tamar, a veteran at the Home, Is the man who was robbed. Mr. Lemar said that he left bis room in the main barracks to go to supper and left banging there on the wall his vestcoat containing a purse having In It the amount of $1,360. When he returned the vest- coat and nurse were still there, but $1,000 of the money had dlsap peared. The guilty person had been clovor enough to leave $360 of the money In the purse in the hope of postponing discovery. The theft was brought to the at tentlon of the officials at once and thi.v tiitva heen working on the case. but today nothing definite nad been rnachnd. The affair see ms to be quite entanglod'and hard to unravel The inonev stolon consisted all of $50 bills, and has not been recov ered. Where It went to la the mys tery. The exact amount left In the purse was $360. The officers have their suspicions regarding the per petrator of the deed, and the men f mm the Home renort that this Is not the first occurrence of the kind there, although the others were not so serious In their nature. How Mr. Umir hannened to have so much money about his person Is unknown excopt that he was not In the habit of keeping It In the bank. It Is thought that developments will come to light within a few days which will clear up the case. CZECHS HAVE ABMY OF 500,000 Ioknl Anzelgcr Declare Fart of Em pire Will Re, Lost Unless Ger man Troops Awake Berlin, Jan. 18. Volunteers are Joining the colors In great numbers at Koonlgsberg to protect the boun daries of East Prussia from Bolshe vist aggression and : against the Polos, it Is reported. The Lokal Anzelger declares that the eastern frontier will soon be lost unless the Germans awake to the danger, and that 800,000 Germans In Poson are being prevented by the Poles from arranging for elections to the national assembly. ' The Czechs are reported to have an army of 500,000 threatening an Invasion of Breslau, Silesia. The people of the threatened district have formulated an appeal to Pres ident Wilson, asking 'protection against the Czechs, saying that their country Is overwhelmingly German. SAYS VACCINE PROVED AT. Spokane, Wash., Jan. Of liiore than 1,001) persons treated at the city hoalth offlco here with in- lluena vncclne, only eluht have do voloped tho dlseaso, according to announcement of Dr. D. H. Ransom, usslatunt hoalth officer. Of these, Dr. Ransom said, only three were at tacked after the full three dosos of the scrum had boon admlnlstorod. Throe dovoloped after one treatment liad boon given and two after two treatments. : No deaths of persons who took the treatment were known by health of ficers to have occurred, and no cases of pneumonia have followed, so far a they have learned. The serum was furnished the olty by the Cook county hospital at Chicago. FLU CONDITION BETTER Portland, Jan. 18. Considerable amiaront imirovemont In Influenza conditions nre reported today. To day thore were 200 new cases and five deaths; ycRtorday there were 27C cases and 25 deaths. There were five deaths In one family In hours. The four children of Herbert Baldwin and their grandfather, Frank Jshns, died. P HUNS IN CH . RIOT STARTS FEAR OF POLES WHEN HEARST AND RUSS REDS IS CHEERED MEETING ORGANIZED TO WEL COME RETURNING TROOPS liltEAKS IP IN RIOT MAIN EJECTED FROM THE HALL 300 Policemen Take Part Men and Women Mount Chairs to View Physical Encounters BRAKEMAN MEETS DEATH III A WRECK Logging Train Roll Down Embank ment, lue to Washout- Others : '' Injured Roller Explodes- Portland, Jan. 18. Carl Magun son, a brakeman on the; logging train' of the Kehalem 'Logging 'com pany at Scapoose, died from injuries when the train went down an em bankment, due to a track washout last night. Engineer Ray Tenant and another brakeman, Archie Williams, are se verely injured and In the hospital. The boiler of the locomotive explod ed after tire accident. ASKS PEOPLE TO PRAY - . TO CHECK INFLUENZA Salem, Ore.,' Jan. 18. Governor Withycombe today issued a procla mation at the request of the Port land Ministerial Association, asking the people to pray at 11 o'clock Sun day morning that the spread of in fluenza cease. New Tork, Jan. 18. Intermittent uproar marked a mass meeting held at Madison-Square Garden last night by the Independent citizens commit tee, organized to welcome home com ing troops, as a protest against the appointment by Mayor Hylan of Wil liam R. Hearst as chairman of a committee named for the same pur pose. More than a score of persons were ejected from the hall after they had started disturbances by calling at the top of their voices for cheers for Hearst or Hylan. A few of them were soldiers and sailors. After each of these Incidents there were coun ter demonstrations, although a ma jority of those in the building ap parently were ardently In sympthy with the purposes -of the new com mlttee. Men and women leaped onto chairs, either to shout protest or encouragement to the officers or to have a better view of what was hap pening. There was no lack of noise but few actual physical encounters. Rev. 9. Parkea Cad man, one of the speakers, was Interrupted by CURRY COUNTS SOLON VICTIM OP PNEUMONIA Salem, Jan. 18. John R. - Stan nard, of Gold Beach, elected a mem ber of the Oregon house of represen tatives . from Coos nd Curry coun ties. Is dead of pneumonia at Ban- don, according to a letter 'received by Speaker Seymour Jones. " " (Continued on page 1.) THROUGH FEAR OF TREACHERY BRITISH CAPTAIN LEAVES 18 GERMANS TO FATE Washington, Jan. 18. General March announced today that the American fprces In Franco and the occuplod territory of Gormany are to bo reduced to minimum strength, conslBtent wlth'-our natloual obli gations." ' General March said that the num ber of divisions kept In Europe by the United States will be far less than 80 divisions, but the number Is. unofficially estimated. FROM MONTH TO MONTH Paris, Jan. 18. The agreement Tor the renewal of the German ar mistice signed Thursday provides tor the renewal of the armistice ' from time to time after a month's exten elon, until the conclusion of peace, subject to the approval of the allied .governments. MULTNOMAH KENATOU WANTS STATE POLICE Salem, Jan. 18. The creation of a state police department and the appropriation of (60,000 to start it are proposed In a bill Introduced in the senate by Senator Orton of Mult nomah county. A superintendent at a salary of 13,000 a year, a deputy superintendent at $2,400 and a force of 12 officers at $1,500 a year each authority being given the superinten dent to appoint' his subordinates are proposed In the measure. London, Dec. 31. (Correspon-i dence of the Associated Press.) Captain William Martin, of the Brit ish trawler King Stephen, wno, from fear of treachery, refused to take off the crew of the disabled Zeppelin L-19 In the North Sea in February 1916, died 11 months later of a nerv ous collapse caused by the mistaken belief that be had been poisoned. This and other facts concerning the Incident now are available for the first time and It is possible to tell the story In detail. It is believed herethat the 18 Germans compos ing the crew of the L-19 perished. The action of Captain Martin evoked denunciations of alleged "British inhumanity" In the German press Which compared the affair to the celebrated Baraloug case. It Is claimed here that public opinion up held Captain Martin in his position that If he had taken the Germans on board the trawler they would have captured the vessel and unarmed his crew of ten men. It will be re called that the Rev. Arthur W. In gram bishop of London, publicity de clared, "we ought to stand by a skip per. The Germans have killed chiv alry In wartime." " (Because of his' action,' Captain Martin, It Is learned, received a num ber of letters threatening his life. About 11 months after the North Sea Incident, he came ill after smoking a cigarette from a box sent him by mail and he was convinced that the cigarette contained poison. Analysis of the tobacco proved that his fears were unfounded but he never recov ered from the shock. The verdict of his -physician was that he had died from sheer fright." " The L-19 had taken, part in a raid over the midland counties of Eng land In which " 67 non-com oaranta were killed and 117 injured. The Zeppelin was damaged by gun fire and compelled to descend to the North Sea where Captain Martin of the King Stephen found her resting in the water. According to Captain Martin's story the Zeppelin's com mander offered him a reward if he would take off the German crew but Martin refused saying, "I don't trust you," "I had talked It over with George GREAT .yl. . I PEAC E CONVENTION HAS OPENED PRESIDENT .POI.VCAIRE MAKES SPEECH DELEGATES READY V FOR BIG UNDERTAKING ' ' I EE Publicity Plana Calls for One Open and Five Secret Session Each . Week;- - -, ... Paris, Jan. 18. The peace con ference formally opened this after noon, with a speech by President Polnt-alre. . President Polncaire thanked the allied nations for having chosen. Paris Xor their work, and praised the valor of the allied armies which pre served the French capital from the enemy. 93 PERISH OH GREAT LAKES DURING WINTER Detroit, Mich., Jan. 18. Ninety- three deaths and a loss to shipping of from $6,000,000 to $8,000,000 is the disaster toll of the . 1918 ship ping season on the Great Lakes, ac cording to figures compiled here. .The loss of life was unusually heavy. due fo the drowning Of 78 men '61 the two French mine sweepers that disappeared in a gale on Lake Su perior November 24. ' Loss to ship ping was the lightest in many years. Four vessels were sunk in colli sions, five foundered in storms, and the Congdon, one of the largest new ships on the lakes,' went to pieces on Canoe rocks, near Passage Island, Lake Superior, with its cargo 6f grain, invplvlng a loss of $1,500,000 V-139 IS TURNED OVER TO FRENCH GOVERNMENT Paris. Wednesday, Jan. 15. Ger man submarine U-139 has arrived at Brest, a fortnight later 'than other U-boats turned over to France, ow ing to her damaged condition. " She is the world's largest Bub- marine, being S54 feet long and hav ing a displacement of 2,900 tons. nly Paris, Jan. 18. All peace dele gates held final meetings this morn ing before the assembling of the peace congress this afternoon. Presi dent Wilson, however, remained at the Murat mansion to rest. V The prospect for rapid progress at the congress seemed enhanced today by the defeat of Bolshevism in Oer many, thus opening the way to sta bilizing, the government. The proposed league of nations will be the first business. All ques tions at Issue will be decided before the enemy delegate arrived. It has been decided impossible to have Rus sia represented by any Russian ele ment at present. The latest publicity plan of the supreme war council calls for' one open and five secret sessions week ly. The American , correspondents are still insisting on unrestricted publicity. . . Paris, Jan. 18. The British peace alms coincide with the American ideas on the whole, investigation shows. , . She made only one cruise before the Denny, my mate," Captain Martin is armlstlce was signed. quoted as saying, ' and we ' agreed that it we lowered a boat and sent some of. the crew to the Zeppelin they would be kept- prisoners until we did as the Germans wished which would probably be that in the end we should have them take charge of the' ship if they came on board, or if we refused "to fetch them off they would carry the crew of our boat down with them. I was determined to take no risks. I know what the Germans had done to my class in the North Sea, and, besides Zeppelin crews' droppldg bombs on houses and killing women and children didn't appeal to me. There were 18 Germans and only 10 of us and you could scarcely imagine their al lowing us to take them as prisoners. There were two to one. "So I old the commander plainly that nothing he could say would In duce me to rescue them. It was not a nice feeling to leave 18 men to drown even if they were your ene mies. When the commander saw we were leaving and- that there was no chance of being rescued, he and the others set up a howl. Their rage was awful. Shaking their fists in despair, they . kept shouting out 'Gott, strafe England.' ' And they kept shouting this again and again as long as we were within hearing. The weather had been steadily grow ing worse and as no other vessel was in eight, I knew the Germans were doomed, but I felt that I had' done the i right thing under the "circum stances." :'' '.-' " Chicago, Jan. 18. July 4tn, 1919, was' set yesterday by the labor Moo ney congress here as the date for a nation-wide strike of every branch of organized labor as a protest against the Imprisonment of Thomas J. Mooney. Resolutions setting the date for tho strike and providing tor a com mission of five labor delegates to go to Washington to solicit federal in tervention -In Mooney's behalf were passed overwhelmingly. Adoption of the motion followed a four-hour debate. .Resolutions yesterday included: Recommendation of five year gov ernment control of railroads. Reorganization of the American Federation of (Labor on an Industrial basis and to oppose capitalism". Recall of Samuel Gompers as president of the federation, with Mooney as a candidate for his post tlon. . . . Recommendation to President Wil son for the removal of Postmaster General 'Burleson. Appointment of five men to coun cil of soldiers, sailors and workmen. Demand for general amnesty tor political and Industrial prisoners. IN THE UTAH SCHOOLS " J . .'.'. " ; i 1? ir M.-. Salt Lake City, Jan. 18. Utah schools, particularly those of Salt Lake City, will study history and geography with the aid of newspa pers and news articles in the future. According to Professor Ernest A. Smith, superintendent of schools here, practically all modern history relating to the European war will In clude the close study of newspaper stories from the battletronts and European capitals. One or two weekly magazines al so will be used In this work and his torical and geographical studies will Include the solving of problems through argumentation- and not by mere recital of. facts as recorded. . , In the universities and colleges In this state the University of Utah, Utah Agricultural college and' Brig ham Young university these meth ods also will be followed to a con siderable extent. Plans outlining these courses are in the course of be ing worked out but they will not as sume definite shape for several weeks. ;t: SAY UEBKNECHT DIP " NOT TRY TO ESCAPE t Hi i t- i v. t ,y -London," Jan. ' lS.- Independent socialists at Berlin "assert that Dr. Liebknecht, who was killed yester day by a mob, did not try to escape from the escort of troops,, but that hei was shot through the forehead a few1 paces' distant by' soldiers' guard ing him, says a Copenhagen diBpatcb.