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. .imMAw Medford Mail Tribune ' SECOND EDITION WEATHER Unlit tonight nml tomorrow Mar. M( Mlii. III. A forty-fourth Ttar. nllv Nlnlli Yrixr. BEDFORD, OKKOON, TUESDAY, .JANUARY 5, 1915. NO. 245 ESS Y ( i k t FRENCH AMY MM 30 M S OF THE HE Allies' Propess In Upper Alsace Is t Most Slunlflcnnt News of Day Swnmpy Ground Checks Belgian. ; Advance Germans Still Attack ! Inn In Poland. LONDON', January fi, I 'J 'III j - 'i'liu right wiiitr '!' llm French army is today less tlimi (liiity mile from tlu river llliini, holding llio Alsatian village or Nteinbnoh, nml tin height Id tlio southwest of tin ullage, a f tor one of the iniixt Nliililiurii localised lights of tin war. At mi other point nf tlio w I'stri n front has them been miy noteworthy change. Tin? news i'iiiiM'(iifiilly dwells chiefly tmliiy on tln IiimI weather conditions. In I'oliiml tlii'ru has hci-u little shift in tin relative positions uf tin invinl in;,' mill defending untile. Tim (ler iiiiiiih continue to deliver tlii'ir furious mill intermittent attacks mi the llr.ura-llawka line To lliu ninth the KiiHklmii have swept forward to Su. una, near tin Itiiiniiiiimi frontier. In tint Caucasus tlio Turkish invaders nml tin' Hiiomiiiis mi appaicutly still fighting out llirir buttle in the region of Kuri ICuiiihIi, both hiiIch claiming ii victory. I'ri'iuli Progro KlKtilflcnnt The Frcneh progress In iiicr Al sace is probably the most Hiiiifi'tiiit news t'roni tin' western fuuit in n nninlicfof weeks mil) liy some nlixcrv cih lien- it is token to indicate future iittcinilM nn the part or the allies to lucnk through in this region, main taining meanwhile a hiioc on llclfort. Tor the moment the swauipv coiuli lion or the ground in YVt Flanders pi collides a general advance move tnent in this locality. Furthermore General .loffni'H feeling tnctlcM at other point m have rcMiltcil in no giiiim ami it oniiseipiently would not he a surprise if the heaviest fighting dur ing the next foituight eentcreil mi the ciihtern slopes of the Vogc moun tains. It it down these hills that the French Alpine chasseurs, hackcil hy the fnmoiiH Tfi-inilliinclro gnu, swept to victory cstoriliiy at Stein lincli after homo of the mot sanguln nry fighting of the cumpiiigii. Only a little farther mlvancti to the south east, IIHIimIi commentators point out toilay, will give the allies poxscKHion of the village of ( ornay. Ihev now holii the heights to the went of this town, mnl IIm fall would throw open the way to Muclhnuscii. In the duirnmiH Whether lliu Turks are oMiggcrnl lug their successes or not, they aic doing Hoinu linnl fightiii'r in tlio Cau casus, judging from tlio dispatches leaching Loudon, l'.xeu telegrams from Pctrogrml mlniil that this situ ntiou in becoming one of first im portunce. There is no Niu iik yet, liowever, of Hnnhia'n moving troops i'rom her weHtuin to her houlhern frontier. I HATK UNION WAHIIINuTON, Jan. fl. The hii preiao court toilay affirmed .fJ."iO,t)tltl jmlginviil iiwardeil hy thu Now Vork fcilurul uoiirlH to I). F. Louwo & Co., Daiihury, Conn., hattorri, ngaiiihl home 1 8(1 luemhcrH of tlio United Unt ie in" iininn, under thu Shcnuan antl- Iriiht law, iiH diuuagoa ichultlng from a hoycott. During u strike at LoowoV hat fnc tory in 101'J tlio United Sutter of North Ainorlcii were, charged with having hoycottvd the Louwo hatH, The mantifacturei'H alleged that largo lohHiis roHtilti'd. The hat company hegnn Hiilt in 11HKI ngainrtl .18(1 ineiu hurt) of the union. Judgmunt for $2r'J,i:iO was awarded to (ho uoiu imny and affirmed hy the circuit court of appealK, Justice, ilolmcg announced the court's unanimous decision, Ho held that lliu dufciulautH, ns memhors of n labor union, were liable under the Bhcmiiiii anti-trust Juw, for the acts pf tho officials of the union, BY I COSTS 250,000 CASH PANAMA CANAL GUNS PLENTY BIG ENOUGH SAYS COL GOETHALS WASHINGTON, Jan. ,r.. (lovcrnor floelliulrt of the l'minniii eanal .one lolil the Iioiim' aioironriatioiiH huhnti tutu cniiiiiilttce on forlifiontionx today that while mniH ami aiumiiiiitioii at the caniil were ample now, it wan nccchNitry to have orovihion for du plication, 'Tinilil fiirclgn wnrxhlpH outrange lliu guim of the canal fortifications f ' iikHciI rhainiiiin FitKcrahl. ".Vor replicil the uovcrnor. "Oar guiiri am of equal rmiKc, ho far n our information koch," (loviiiiior Onclhalrt did not helicve the government would hit justified in imilalliug linger guiiH. IS E HEAVY PENALTIES I'AIMS, Jan. .'. One of the Ameri can life uiMirmicc companiiw Iiiih paid out ahoiit f 1(10,0(10 on policies held hy xoltlicix who were killed in the war. The hint policies isMied which cover the war rink were dated July LT). A captain of ailillcry who paid hi firnt pieuiiiiiu on a .."O0O policy July 'J.", wiih killed in one of the early en giignurntM, Aiiuuitiert mid elaiuiM in ease of death from natural cause ure heiug paid promptly hy American compan ies, Mhile olhcrn, iu accoid "ith the proiMniirt of the moratorium, are paying no nuuiiiticH in cxeexs of V-10 Kr-vvrar, ami no death elaiuiM. 'J'lt ere were xix (lemma and An, trial life iiiMimiico compauicH doing IniHinens in Fniuce heforo the war. They come under the incnMiicK taken against (lenaaiiM doing hiixincns in France, and thuir icm-ivch deposited with the national consignation de partment will he used for the henefit of policyholders other than those of (lermuit or Aiistiinu nationality. HALE'S PROPERTY SEIZED BY SHERIFF I.OS ANOFI.KS, Cnl Jnn. &. Southern California property valued nt $ I Til), 00 nnd relouglng to Nnthnn W. Hale, former representative In congress, wns In tho hands of tho sheriff toilay under n writ of attach ment In connection with a Judgment affirmed sonm llmo ngo by tho su premo court of Tonnessee. Tho Judg ment was tho outcome of n stock tran saction Involving securities of tho tlrent Southern Agency, nn Insurnnco copany which went Into tho hands of n receiver, John W. Preston, United States dis trict attorney of Sail FrnnclBco took out tho writ, acting, ho said, In a prlvato capacity. Among tho proper ty hoUoiI was Halo's homo In l'asa denn, vnluod nt SCO, 000, Hnlo said ho had boon elected a director of tho Insurnnco company without ' his knnwlcdgo nnd that ho know nothing about tho litigation which resulted In tho Issuauco of tho nttachmont. ALBANIAN REVOLT HOMB, Jnn. fi, 1:1.") p. m. Tio revolution in Albania is extending. Assertion is made hero that it is be ing fomented hy Austrian and Turk ish elements with tho object of forc ing Hervia and Montenegro to em ploy troops along tho Albanian fron tiers. Another ohjoct, it is Haiti, is to engago Italy more deeply iu Al bania, thus distracting her attention from tho main conflict. Home newspapers urge tho govern ment not to fall into tho trap, as it is called, and to reserve, all tho energies of tho country for tho conservation of Italy's supremo inloresls as in- volvcd ju tho European wax; WAR COSTING BANC M GROWS EXTENSIVE AUSTRIANARMY SURROUNDED BY E Unofficial Dispatches Claim Capture of Elyltt Hunnarian Towns Sev eral Divisions Reported Hemmed In Vienna Asserts Austrian Success Germans Loslnn In Alsace. LONDON, Jnn. 6. Farther Hub Man iiiiccciikch In oierntlonn UKiilnat the Atintrlun n ru iloncrllied In unof flclnl dliulc!ic8 from Pctrograd. Ac conlliiK to tliPKu ndvlccii, tlio itunilnn troopn which were unld novornl ilny no to have penetrated tlio pom-ii of tlio Carpnthlnn mountnlim nnd begun nn InvnHlon of llungnry In forco havo enpturucl dIkIiI Hungarian towns nml Nurroiiniled Hcvornl dlvlilonH of Am trlnn troop In tlio tnountnlnx. Thoro wnn no Official confirmation of theso NtntomcutH, however, nnd the latent offlclnl nnnoiinromeut from Vienna annertH (lint tho Aimtrlan forces In Onllcln havo captured strong post tlons nml nro preparing for further operation!. AIUioiirIi It Is admitted In I'otro grail that tlio Hermans occupied ItiiHxIan positions nt llollmow, on tho liattln front heforo Warsaw, the Hus sion war offlco states that tho Invad ers later wero driven back ngaln, abandoning six machine guns. Tlio (icrman defenders of Alsace nro still IohIiik ground heforo tho French advance. Today's official statements from Merlin, ns woll ns Paris, sHnk of fighting to tho cast of Htelnbnrh, showing that tho French have pushed beyond this recently captured vlllngo. Tlio Paris an nouncement gives tho first Intimation of another French udvanco Into Al- hnco near Qrboy, 14 miles west of Co I mar, capital of UpKr Alsaco. Infantry flRhtliiK has boon resumed In Uiilcluin, and the French report states that ground was won by tho allies near Nlcuport. Klsowhcro military activity Is chiefly In tho way of artillery duets, IIKHMX, Jan. &. Kmperor Wll Ham, replying to a congratulatory messngo front Arch Duko Frederick of Austria, tolegrnphed ns follews: "My best wishes to your liuporlnl hlghnoss nnd your bravo Austro-IIun-gnrlnn troops, who In tho past year havo shown nn unchanging spirit of comradeship toward their Gorman nlllos. With ntir combined, forces wu contlnua tho fight, nnd with our eyes townrd Cod wo will win; a decisive success for our Just cause will not bo wanting. (signed) "WIl.I.IAM." IMMIGRATION BILL A WASHINGTON, Jan. 5. President Wilson probably will give a hearing to opponents and MipoHers of tho immigration hill, which passed. Mon day, heforo deciding whether to sign or veto the measure. I.ouU N. 11am mciTuig, pret-ident of tho American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, anil llov. C. h. Orhach of Tfow York, laid a request for a hearing heforo the president today. IS WASHINGTON, Jan. fi. Tho su premo court today upheld as consti tutional tho Ohio workmen's compen sation law. Tho Maryland automobile license law was upheld as constitutional to day hy tho supremo court, Tlio court held that in tho absence of federal regulation of interstate au tomobile (rave!, states may lvgulnto sitoh traffic, . DAN HORD KIR REPLIES 10 AUSTRIAN MESSAGE COMPENSATION A Business Man On the Charter To the Public: ' In violfition of my lifelong habit of keopiug, out of tile public print, I desire to cull tho attontion of Medford 'b citizens to one, feature of tiie new charter that seeing to have been generally overlooked in its discussion! which is of prime importance. T. refer to the provisions for bookkeeping and reports to the public. ! Any member of the present council will tell you how hard it was for them to get on paper a statement of how the city's finances stood, when they took of fice. It was not the fault of the city recorder's office, nor of the preceding council, but of our worthless (barter. A system that has been worked out in the east, at an expense of .$325,000, and found nearly ideal, has been incorporated into the new charter. Tt means absolute honesty and full publicity in the handling of our money in running the city's affairs. It means that every dollai's' worth of property bought for the city must be strictly accounted for. That means economy. Tn my judgment this one feature of the new char ter will be worth thousands of dollai's to Medford. Isn't the fact that among the many cities that have adopted this kind of charter, not one has failed to show a marked improvement and better and cheaper government, reason enough whv we should adopt this charter? A. C. UUBBARDl FRENCH VICTORS IN FIERCE FIGHT FOR TIIANN, ANace. Jan. -I, ia Paris, Jan. f, 1 1 :.'l.i a. m. A race of three milcrt up the steep slope of KngcW burg, through thickets nml up rocky step-, between a battalion of French light infantry with mountain guns, nml u Geniiati battery, determined the result of the stubborn fight for lue ikisniinu lown-ja nieiupacu. The French surprised a movement of the ClcniUui bnttcry ivscundini; to ward tho KUiumit of the mountain hy roml ami taking a short cut. accom plished what seemed to he the im possiblc. The French battalion arrived five minutes heforo the (Jcnnans ao'K-ur-cil in nn open space nml had just time to put into position their mountain guiiH. Five minutes more nml all was over. Too late tho Germans at tempted to retire and the hatter)' was annihilated. When tho French finallv succeeded iu slipping around the enemy's right along the Steiiihach brook, thero com menced a. fierce combat for the pos session of bteinuneu itsell. I lie church nml tho ccmetcrv twice wero taken and twice were lost. Since hand-to-hand fighting was now coin on night nml day nml from door to door, the Germans, unable longer to use their nrtillery, resorted to incen diary bombs nnd pot firo to a number of barns and houses occupied hy the French. The Germans held on till the morn inv of January -I, when the last cour ageous resistance of tho defenders was worn out by the persistent nml impetuous charges of the chiihserurs and the whole town was occupied. TEN LIVES LOST IN XOGALKS, Am., Jan. ,". Ten lives vcrulost in tho floods whioli swept portions of Northwestern Mexico ten days ago. Heports re ceived from tho valley of tho Mavo river, iu Souora, today said that the towns of Sail Pcdror San Ygnaeio ami Ktchojoa had been destroyed.- llitututahampo and Old Navajo suf fered considerably. Only 'Jfi per cent of tho wheat crop iu tho valley can ho harvested. OBREGON CLAIMS CAPTURE OF PUE8LA VBOA CRUZ, Jan. 5, 1 p. m. Gonornl Obrogon reported to Carran xa at headquarters that ho had cap tured tho city of Puobla, capital of tlio state of that name, at 11:30 a. m. totlny, All Vera Crux Is celebrat- ,mK 4U. ALSATIAN W MEXICAN D WILSON NAMES MEOIATRSTENO L WASHINGTON, Jan. 3.- Secretory Wilson of tho department of lnbor toilay appointed Daniel J. Kecfe, for mer commissioner general of immi gration, and Hywel Uuvies, a Ken tucky coal operator, as federnl con ciliators, to attempt to settle the eas tern Ohio coal Mnkc. The mutest for intervention of the uV-rtment of labor was made by the Wheeling, W. Vii., chamber of commerce. C'LKVKLANI), O.. Jan. 3. That the 1.1,000 coal miners iu eastern Ohio who havo been on strike since the first of April hint will be given nu opportunity to resume work soon un der the "open shoo" --oliev nt n ware contract which calls for 44.01 cents a ton the offer reiected hv the min ers' organization us a result of nu adjourned meeting of the Conl Oper atort.' association, was tho belief ex pressed by several imorators before they went into session today. Sentiment expressed hy individual operators indicated that the organ ization probably would decide to dis regard negotiations with tho union. WHEAT REACHES CHICAGO, Jan. o. Directly as a consequence as wheat iu Chicago to day sold nt J?l.:illl4 a bushel, the highest price iu more than forty years. Moreover, tho chief epeculat ivo option, Muy delivery, roso to 1.:17) to $1.37:h a bushel, an ad vance of mom than 10 cents a bushel since a week ago, and tl cents above last night's figures. The market closed unsettled, hut not far from the top level of the day. POItTLAND, Or., Jan. fi. As a result of the unprecedented ikmauil for wheat, tho lid flow off in the flour market hero today and prices jumped t!0 cents per barrel on all grades. The rise brought flour quo tations to the h'mhost point recorded iu fifteen years. Patents sold today n.1: ij-0.40 per barrel, straiahts at -ffi.UO iid $0.10, and exnorts at $.1,110. WANTS' RHODE ISLAND IGIVEN BALLOT IMtOVIDKNCK, It. I., Jan. 5. Tho extension to Ilhodo Island women of tho right to vote for president was advocated by Governor Hoekmnn In Ills Inaugural address today. "In tho Interest of plain justice and of sound political principles," ho said, "I recommend tho passaogo of an act by tho present gonornl assembly granting presidential suffrage to women," 01 A I 1.36 AT CHICAGO WOMEN NO PROTEST By GERMANY PON WAR SHPMENTS Kaiser's Government Throutjh Berlin Foreign Office Makes Position Plain Expect Exports to Continue Bartholdt Declares It Immoral to Furnish War Munitions. WASHINGTON. Jan. 5. Chairman Flood of the houtc foreign affairs committee today told proponents of legislation to prohibit exports of war materials, that the German govern ment through the Berlin foreign of flco had made It plain that it did not expect the United States to stop such exports. Chairman Flood made his state ment to Representative Dartholdt, who at a public hearing today was making a general argument for his resolution to stop exports. llnrtlioldt's Opposition "Suppose," he asked Dartholdt, "that you understood that tho Gor man government, through the Ger man foreign offlco. had said that It did not expect this government to pass this legislation. Would you sup port It?" Representative Dartholdt asicrtcd that he knew nothing of the attitude of tho German government and that ho and his associates opposed tho ex portation of arms on tho grounds of "International Immorality." Chairman Flood.repcatcd the state ment In his question and added: "I said that they realize, and so state, that they don't expect this gov ernment to pass this legislation." "The stato department," said Flood to Representative Dartholdt, "has In vestigated your charge that dum-dum bullets wero being shipped from this country to tho allies. They have found that not more than 700 of theso bullets havo left the ctuntry and that non of them would fit modern mili tary scrvlco rifles." Neutrality Violations Representative Dartholdt said ho had heard that tho neutrality of tho United States had been violated by (he shipment of Canadian troops over American territory in Maine, on their way to the war zone. "I havo never heard If that," said Chairman Flood. Representative Dartholdt said that ho knew of the Incident only as a matter of gossip. "Tho shipment of war supplies to belligerent nations," said Chairman Flood, "has been recognized for 100 years as a right of our citizens by tho Inw of nations. When this war be gan that right wns recognized. Eng land, through her foresight and tho expenditure of her treasure, had gained control of tho seas. It would bo to her disadvantage to chnngo this situation now. Would It not bo an unneutral net?" Representative Dartholdt said that only "equality townrd law" could morally Justify tho exoclae of the right to ship arms to belligerents. NKW YORK, Jan. fi. Tho Amen can Round Hale Press company, n New York corporation with $0,000, 0Q0 authorized capital, filed today a voluntary petition in bankruptcy in which its liabilities wero given us $1)0 1,000 and its assets ns fifty-nine cotton gin plants in the south, and presses, value not stated. Paul Jonos, a lawver of this eitv was appointed receiver under iffiO.OOO ihond, Attorneys for tho receiver attrib uted tho failure to the European war. "The business of tho company had been prostrated hy paralysis in the cotton trade, resulting from the F.uro pean war," their statement read. i SNOW COVERS COLORADO AND MOUNTAIN STATES DF.NVFR, Colo., Jan. fi. Snow, driven, by a high north wind, fell iu Denver today and over u large part of Colorado early today. Thu storm was general over Colorado, with a lighter fall of snow in Wyoming and parta of Utah and Now Mexico. COTTON GNNERS FILEINBANKRUPTCY UNCLE SAM TO CERTIFY CARGOES AS TO CONTENTS Government Urges Co-operation Be tween Exporters, Shippers and Au thorities Believed Action Will Solve Difficulties Regarding Seiz ure of Ships and Stop Searching. LONDON, Jnn. 5. Tlio nritWi government was informed today of the decision of the Washington au thorities to certify American cargoes as to their exact contents heforo thoy leave American orlH. It is felt hero notion of this nature will assist ma terially in solving tho difficulties which led to tho presentation of tho note from Washington concerning British interference. WASHINGTON Jan. G. Tho deci sion of the United States government to certify cargoes as to their exact contents before leaving American ports was believed by officials and diplomats alike today to offer a means of solving one of the points now under dispute In tho shipping controversy between Great Britain and the United States. Tho circular which had been for mulated by Secretaries Hryan and Rcdflcld and Acting Secretary of tho Treasury Peters for Issuanco today urges co-operation bctwees American exporters, shippers and tho govern ment in regard to tho manifests of neutral ships used to carry American cargoes. Exporters were to be urged to ac company their products with affida vits telling exactly tho contents of their shipments, nnd treasury offi cials were to bo Instructed to certify that the manifests contain the ar ticles mentioned. Treasury officials, however, -will not rule on tho subject of whether n product Is contraband or not. SCOTT ANO VILLA MEET TO ADJUST WASHINGTON, Jan. fi. Admliiis tration officials today awaited with interest the outcome of a eonferencu to be held probably on the interna tional bridge at Kl Paso between Ilrigadier Oeneral Scott, chief of staff of tho United States army, nnd Generul Villa, commander-in-chief uf tho forces of tho Gutierrez govern ment in Mexico, the object being to reach an agreement if possible to pre vent (urlher firing into American ter ritory by Mexican factions fighting along the border. Roth Generals Scott and iYlhi weru on their way today to Kl Paso, thu mooting between the two having been arranged by telegraph. General Scott had been at Naco for the past fortnight iu an effort to bring about an agreement between Generul Maytorenn, commanding tho Gutierrez force, attacking the lexi cal! town of that namo, and Generul Hill of the Carranza garrison. Al though Hill hail agreed to withdraw to Agua Prietu, Maytoreua has de layed entering into any final agree ment, awaiting, it is stated, tho ar rival thoro of Gonornl Cabral with his force of 8000 troops to take charge, of tho situation. It is understood that the confer ence with Villa ww sought not only on account of tho ilelay at Naco, hut in order that if nu agreement weru reached it might apply to the entire holder line. KATY LIMITED ENGIN WRECKED IN TEXAS DALLAS, Toxas, Jan. 5, The en gine of thu Knty limited No, 9, south bound from St. I.ouls, on the Miss ouri, Kansas and Texas railway, over turned near Dells, Texas, toduy. In-. Jurlng tho fireman and engineer. None of- the coaches left the ralU, ac cording to the report at the railway's general heudo,Uarters here, atd. n passengers were Injured. v BORDER TROUBLES I 3 h.