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Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Fair tonight mid Tuesday. Aluv. HI; Mln. -10. Forty-fifth Tear. Daily- Tonth Yrnr. F Germans and Russians Both Claim Victory The Germans Retake Trendies In Northern France Italians Make Progress in Invas ion of Austria. LONDON, Juno H. In northern Onllcla, between l'rzomysl nntl Lom lierg, tlicor lias been a renewal of fur ious fighting nnd, according to tho official announcement from Dcrlln today, tho Teutonic nllles have gain od nn Important victory. An at Inrk nlong a 15 mllo front Ih Bald to have resulted In tho capture of tho Kufisltm positions between Syornln wa, northwest of Moacllca and Slon lawn, northward of the San. Tho nn nouucenient says thnt 1G,000 prison ers wero tnkon. Different Version A press dispatch from Potrograd plves another version of whnt appar ently was tho samo battle. , It said -'0,000 men of the AuHlro-Gormnn army of General Mackenscn wore kill ed as tho result of nn attack on tho llusslan positions near Mosclskn In C.allcla. TJio Austro-Germnn nttompt to capture I.etuborg Is said to hayo been given up. Official dispatches however, Indlcato no marked chnn.RO 1n Onllcla, whero tho fighting is con tinuous nnd sovcro. 'Not for montliB past has there been such general activity on tho eastern front. Checked nt tho con tor of tho Oallrlan line, tho Aus tro-Ocrmnns hnvo developed an of- fenslvo on both wings nt tho samo time nnd thoy nro starting another battlo In 1'olnnd to tho north of Prznsnysz. Thero Is confused fight ing going on nt the namo time In thn Jlnltln provinces, bo It may bo said that tho contenders are at grips once more from the llnltlc to tho Ituninn Ian frontlor. On Western Front In western Franco hoavy fighting continues. Tho German war office nnnouncod that tho French had sus tained a soveor defont near Arras. Tho French mllltnry authorities as sert a German work had been cap tured near Loretto, but admitted the Germans had recaptured part of the entrenchments at South Sheso on tho previous day. Announcement of the Cnrlnthlan town of Vnlentlna by the Kalians Is announced officially nt Home. Along the Isonzo river n battle of lnrco pro. portions has been In progress for several days. Although tho Italians apparently have won some advan tages the Austrlans have brought up reinforcements nnd nro offering de termined, roalstnnco. On Gnlllpnll Pcnliiculft Heavy fighting has been resumed on Galllpoll penlnruln between tho French and Hrltlsh forces and the Turkish army, which Is defending the approach to Constantlnopo. Tho Turkish wnr offlco announces that at tacks of tho allied forces against tho right wing of tho Turks wero ro pulsod and that the attacker wero thrown hack to their orlglnnl posi tions with hoavy losses. LEAPS FORTY FEET . NKW YPUIC, Juno H Ily- man Uebman, a.jrloner In tho Tombs who was to have been placed on trial today for murder jumped from tho fourth tlor of tho prison cells today forty feet Into tho arms of Warden Han ley. Tho lattor had hoard the kocpers shout, looked up and braoed himself to catch Llob man. Llebmnn received only a blinking up and a few brulsos. Wardon Hanley was bruised slightly. Two Dead in Race War WINNSHOIN), S. C, June 11. A white uian named Kisuiiltauor ami UlB Smith, ugra, charged with oruuiiwl assault, rt killed nihI In officers were wounded, Sheriff A. I. JIimhI pruh.iblv fatally, in a not hen earl)' today UROUS An AGNG AON AU A N H AG TRAFFIC PARALYZED BY Tl 14,000 Elevated and Surface Line Emnloyes Out Attempt to Be Made to Operate With Non-Union Crews No Violence Yet Reported Million and Half Forced to Walk. CHICAGO, .lune 11- Whnt is sitid to he the greatest street-ear strike the United States bus known begun hero nl I o'eloek tlii morning. Four teen thoiiMinil Tiorsons were thrown out of employment, 11110 mileq nt" Mil lie elevntetl nnd snrfnee Irnek ren dered idle, niul u burden thrown on slenni ronds, automobiles, vans nnd other vehicles which tliey were nhle to meet onlv in u sinnll part. For i'niir hours not u enr moved. Then n South Side elevnted trnin, currying only u few passengers, made a round trip ns n test. Ah u result it was announced that nn attempt would be made to run (ruins with htrikehrenkersniid guards every fif teen minutes. The surface lines made no attempt to work. .Mediation n Fnlliiio No disorders were leporled curl v. lliisiness was not paralyzed, hut it wiih benumbed. The rupture, over hours of service nnd Wildes, came Inst night when Mnvor Tliouipsou iidmilted that his nttemp't nt mediutiou wns ii'fniliirc. . I). Million, national president of the Street Car Kinployes' union, nftcr. conferring liere on the situation, re liirncd to Detroit, his licniliiinrters, the better to diicct tlic fiuuncial phnso of the strike. A carload of strikebreakers was rciorled to hnvo nrrived secretly from Oiiieinnnti. Orders to strike were issued ufter nn nil-day conference of union lend ers, transportation company officials nnd Mayor Thompson m u vain at tempt to brill; about arbitration. Neither side would yield. The strik eis demanded u guarantee of u wnuc increase. .Olficiiils of the companies refused this demand. To meet it they said would menu uu iiicreuse of .fl, 100,001) niiniiiill.. APPEAL TAKEN IN WASHINGTON, June 1 1.--The su preme couit today declined to icwew the conviction of F. Drew t'limiuclti of Sacramento, Cnl., on charges ol violating the white slave law. Cnniinetti win convicted with him after u sonnliunuI trial, which at tracted national attention hecnu-c of the )romiueiice of Cnininetti'i father, the eomuiissioiier general of iiumigrn tiou, tlic resignntion of the United States attorney, John I,. McNub, at San Francisco, under whose jurisdic tion the prosecution came, nnd n controversy with Attorney (leuenil McKeynolds nnd Secretary Wilson of the department of labor, which ended bv I'lesident Wilson tuking a hand mid appointing n special prosecutor. (uh llcglstor Cuso The supreme court today declined ti review tho rovornl by the sixth United States circuit eouit of appeal of the eonviction of officials of the National Cash Register company of alleged violation of the Sherman anti-trust law. JJy today's, decision the government lost the nio-t importnut crimiuni prosoeution (lint 1ms yet come to trial under the Sherman law and what was regarded by former Attorney dene nil Wickershum nnd Attorney Oenernl Orecorv ns nrobublv the most far- reaching suit of its kind in the gov ernment long list of piotieeution of "trut." Wcbb-Kcuyoii l.hpior Ijiw Tho supreme court today disposed of the so-culled Kentucky Wcbb Kenyon liquor cases without determ ining the constitutionality of the Wehb-Kenyun law or minf on its construction. The Kentucky cu was H jirosec ulinn of (ho Admit Kx press coinpnnv fur bringing lupior for per- (Contlnued on page three) HUH STRIKE mm USES SUPREME COURT MEDFORD. PONTIUS PILATE TYPICAL NEUTRAL Peace Advocates an Unlovely Body of Men and Most Undesirable Citi zens Country Contains. Declares Teddy in Letter Read to National Security Leaquc. NKW Y.OmC, .Tune 1 1. Soldy-i-s, Hiiilor-, slnlesinen, cleifjvmen, reore sentntics of labor and of business met here toduv to discuss the militurv needs of the nation. The National Seeiiril" lcii)Mie with which (he idea of the j.'iitlicnii; ori;iualed, nuiiird it the pence nnd preparation confer ence. Alton II. Parker will "reside nl n muss Hireling touiubt in CuiucKic hull. The speakers include the Itev. Dr. Lyman Abbott nnd two former secretin iis of war, Henry I.. Stiinson, .Incob .M. Dickinson and former Sec retary of the Nav Charles '.I. Hoiui parle. The eonfereuct) will couelude tomorrow. ltooseclt Ales Views Theodore Roosevelt's views on ar bitration treaties, war, iiunrepared ness nnd pacificists, expressed in a letter written hv him under dnto of lune II to Hudson Miixim, were ;iveu the Kiitheriu; hv Mr. Maxim. After rcfcrriiiir to letters on unnrepnred nes ent to Mr. Maxim by Oscar Strauss and others, Colonel Roose velt's missive centinued: "The professional pacificists, tho professional euce-nt-iiny-priee men, who during the Inst five years have been so active, who have pushed the mischievous ull-uibitratioii treaties nt Washington, who have condoned our criminal inactivity as regards Mexico and above all, as regards the questions created by the great woild war now raging and who have up phiiided our abject failure to live up to the obligations imposed upon us us n signatory power of The Hague convention, nre at best mi unlovely body of men, nnd, taken as u whole, nre probably the uiot undesirable citiy.cus (hat this count rv contains. I'onlliiN I'llalo the Xeutrnls -"The." ridvoehtos of imcifisin . . . have been" preaching poltroonery. Suidi ineiiujiiiig, it reduced to jmie, licc, IS rniiious lo nalionul chnraeUtr. These men hne been doing their best to make us the Chiun of the Oc cident, "The prime duly for this nation is to prepare itself so (hut it cull pro tect itself. ... It is wicked to be neutral between l.ight nnd wrong, and this statement can be siiccess t illy refuted onlv bv men who uie prepared to hold up Pontius Pilate, the anli lpial neutral oV all time, as worths of our admiration." BAHLE AI WASHINGTON, Juno 1 1. Atten tion of Washington officials waa focused uh'aln today on the military situation In Mexico, whero thero wan a possibility of important devolop ufontH which mluht bring ultimate peace In the Houthoru republic. Chief Interest centers In tho outcome of tho prospective battle between Carranza troopH and Villa forcon for tho pan soBBlon of Mexico City, now In tho hands of Villa's men, AdvlcoH recolvod horo from Car ranza sources at Vera Cruz said that General Pablo Gonzalos, a Carranza commander, who is now moving to ward Mexico City, had boon approach ed by members of tho convention par ty from tho Mexican capltol with an offer of au armistice. Ills answer Is said to have been that the forces In Mexico City had bettor Join the Carranza forces or ovacnato tho city without shedding blood. According to the satflo Information, Gonzalos gave the deloKatos IS hours to return and presout his proposition to tho convention. Developments In tho military sit uation nt Moxlco City are awaited with eonslduranlo Interest horo lie cause of the likelihood of their In fluences on the political sldo of Mex ico's problotn. i A Rflfl V HAND SE MEXICAN CAPITAL OREGON, MONDAY, ,JTNtf II, l!)l.r HURRAH! HURRAH FOR IHE RED, HIE AND BLUE ! v Hang cut Uijfurl the wave over your home. U It' Hi B HL tJkjV BHB 1 .VVmM4"VK9ipP,' HHkl V 4toik BSa " A. THE STORY The "star Fpuniclod baner" became tho national flag of tho I'nltoil States or Amorlcan on .Tnm II, 1777, when thn Continen tal cnimrHss usNcmuled In Phlludelphiti, adopted It an tho nation's official emblem. The 13 stsrs and 13 stripes reprosentod tho 13 original colo nies. Tho stars on tho first flag wero arranged In a clrclo tho circle signify eternity, and tho stars unity. Tho stars also donoto subordination of th stntos to tho union tho broad red stripes rep rosontlng tho union. The first national flsg whs ma do hy Delay Ross. The flag was first recognized by a forelKii power when John Paul Jonos, commander of tho "Hangor," carried It Into foreign waters Immediately aftor Its adaption by congress. Tho flag wus first roeognlxed on laud when It wag raised over Port Stanwlx, N. V., August 0, 17T7. In 1K1S congress doorood that on thn nilnilsxlon of eneh new state a star should bo added to the flag, and the number of strlpon then 20 ho reduced to 13. New arrangements of tho stars on tho flag was made In 1912, and tho new flag was officially rocognliced on July I, 1 U 1 2. Theio are now 48 status, represented on tho flag. The design or tho Amorlouu 'flag Is said to have boon supt'otit od by George Washington's eoat of arum- throe Hturs and three stripes. IJSfiO.V, . J.iik' 1 I Tho gem-nil election" held Sundnv passed without disorder. Return I nun Ijshou as sure u inujoritv to the demo oral uud a minority to th revolutionists. (t poit from the provinces save similar results, the flag today! Star Spangled Banner and let her Make it known to everybody who passes "our residence this day that you are a loyal, patriotic American citizen. .iXjmet'.-isaiMv&L This is Flaq Day I O, thus be It evor when free men fthnll stand Del ween their lov'il homes nnd the war's desolation; Hlest with vlrt'ry and penco, may the heav'n-reseued land Praise the pow'r thnt hath made and prcsorv'd tin a nation! Then compter we must, when our cause It Ih Just, And thin he our motte: "In God is our trust I" And the star spmiKled banner In triumph doth wave O'er the Iandof the fiee and tho home of the brave! OF THE FLAG iem-- --,--, WEST VIRGINIA 10 PAY SHARE OF DEBT WIAK!IIX(IT)N June 1 1. - The hii preme court toduv decided the long standing Vu-giuin-Wesl Virginia dehl ease, holdiiiR West Virginia should pay $PJ.:i0.'l,1l'Jfl a it net share of the Virgiiiiu ilflit nt the time of the partition of the stutes, FLAG SYMBOL OFNAIN'SLIFE SAYS WILSON Real Experience and Life of a Nation Lies With the Great Multitude of Unknown, and Flan Is Essence of Dally Endeavors Host That Re sponds to Dictates of Humanity. WASIIINOTOX, June M-President Wilson, Hpcukiim; nt Flair day exercises here today, ui'irod Ameri- enns (o remember their pntriolim on other days limn national holidays uud to enrrv the I'lai; of the eounli'y ever in their heart. "For me," snid llie president, "the flair does not express u mere body of vuiritc sentiments. 'It is the embodi ment, not of it sentiment, lint of n history, uud no mini ciui rightly serve under thnt fhir who bus nol ciiiikIiI some of the meaning of thnt history. Cr'aliuir National l.lfo "Vou do not ereale the nienninir of u national life by tiny literary exposi tion of it, hut by the uctuul daily en deavors of a ureal people to do the tasks of the day uud live up' Co the ideals of honesty and rinlitcoiujnesH nnd just conduct. And ns wo. think of these tilings, our tribute in to those men who have created this ex perience. Of these men we feel thnt they hnvo shown us llie way. They hnvo not been iifruid to k before. They have known that they were spcukinir the tlioulits of a irrcut peo ple when lliey led that irronl people nlonir the paths of achievement. There wns not u single swashbuckler ninoiiir tl.iem. They were men of so ber, ipiiel thouirhl, the more effective because there wiih no bluster ill it, They wero men who thoiiidil nlonir the lines of duty, not tilniur the linen of sclf-uirirritmlixcmcul. "They were men, in short, who thought for the people whom they served uud not of themselves. Multitude (ho Nation "Mut while we think of them nnd do honor lo them as those who have shown us the wuy, let uu not forget (hut the real expeiieuce nnd life of u nation lies with the great multitude of unknown men, They constitute Hie body of the nation. This flair is the essence of their daily endeavor. This Hug does not express any more than whnt they nre uud what they desire to he, uud us I think of tho life of this great nation, it seems to me Hint we sometime look to the wrong place for it source. "We look to the noisy place where men lire tnlkiiig in the market place; wo look to where men nre e.proinir their individual opinion; wo look where parlisaiiH nre cprciur pa siou; instead of trying to attune our ear lo Hint voiceless mass of men who morely p about their daily Jnsksjjry lo be honorable, try ' mine thy people they love, trv to la worthy of the great communities to which tlio,r' belong. Theso nro the breath of Mio; nation' nostrils; these nre the sinew of its might. "There nro no lii.Vrt of special pat riotism. There nre r day when you should be more putilodo thuii on oilier day. Vision of NatlonV jflJu "I inn solemnized in ihe- prCflcjiPo of such u duv. I would not Under (like to speak your thoughts, Vor must interpret theui forme. Hut I do. feel that hack not onlv of every pub-' lie official, but of every man and woman of the United Slute there marches that great host which has brought us to tho present day; Hut host that hnH never forgotten the vision which it saw nt the birth of tin nation; tho host which ahvnv re spends to Hie dictates of liiimnuiP (Continued on pngo three) ITALY 10 FED POOR ug VHHONA, Italy, Juno- 1 1. Tho Italian government, considering tho poverty nnd mUornblo condition of tho Inhabitants of tho districts Just captured, has dooldod to glvo tho fam ilies of Inhabitants serving In tho Austrian army from tlioso dlstrlotH tho same nllowancoH as tho families or Italian soldiers. It is said. This will ho auuouncwd In tho now district today. NO. 72 SUGAR FACTORY IS PROMISED BY MORMON CHIEF $800,000 Sugar Beet Factory Assured by Joseph Smith, President of the a nrmnn M , It MIMaii I i I I I x, 39 iKMiie nner vimi'V villi lurnisli nereago for sugar beets, and they enu bo grown successfully, which the next six weeks will tell, the question of finnneing nn .f 800,000 sugar beet fac tory will be assured bv Joseph Smith, president id' the .Mm men church, the most efficient organization in the world, outside of the Gorman mililnrv Hyfllem, nnd ('. W. Nihley. head of Iho Uluh-Idaho Sugiir compuuv, director in u pcorc of hunk in the Itoeky Moiintuin districts, mid extensive holder of limber interests, represent ing million in ciipitn). This wns the voluntary nssiirnnce given by the two finiineiers Snluiduy lo W. Ilflore, president of the .Medford National bank; (leorge It. Carpenter uud oth ers who Kuttirdiiy took the visitor on a flying nuto tour of the valley. Hhovvii Samples of Heel Samples of the heels grown this 80111(011 in the volley, collected by Soil Expert S. .Storey, were shown Messrs. Smith nnd Nihley. They exceeded ex pectntinu. According lo their state ments Hie local product is f0 -er cent further advanced than in their own fields. "If llie beets you hnvo shown uu today muiiitiiiu the present ipiality six weeks from now, you enu rest as sured Hint u beet sugnr factory will ho built in southern Oregon. The only filing necessary for vou lo do is lo secure (he acreage ami the fann er to rnise them. The financing will be taken cure of by us. We have mnde urriiugcineulH for that without loiml help, bonuses or other strings." This was the statement of Joseph Smith, eoueorded in by C. W. Nib ley. Acreage .Must lie Signed To iiHsure u heel sugnr factory it will be necessarv for the promoters to know no! later than October 1 the iimouul of anuigi', etc., ho Hint con flicting ci op will not he planted. It i planned lo oigani.e n systeinulic campaign, similar to Hiosd launched last spring, u soon ns Hie full finds of Iho present (est beet patches nre known. The beets nre being grown under the supervision of Soil Fxpert Storey. Messrs. Smith nnd Nihley uud wivoH weie taken from their private cur at AmIiIuiiiI nnd driven over the valley, entraining iiguhi nt this city. The fleeting gliuio of the valley brought forth strong prniso from ('resident Smith. riiui'iiHNl Willi Vnlley "The minute I crossed the' Siski yous," 'Provident Smith hiiIiI, "there flushed into my mind tho storieV of inossliaekisni I have liimnl of Orueon. There is no moss here. It I the most honutiful nnd progressive section I have seen in miiiiy u day. The nation is on the eve of its greatest em of prosperity. Then this so'tion souio- wliat backwards, will see n period of rapid development. Tho iit o the two finiineiers left MEDFORD I FAIR GROUNDS SATURDAY JUNE 19 Kxhlhltlou Heglns at 130 P. M. Seo DoKor, Aiuorlen's Greatest Av Itar, loop tho loop, fly upsldo down, imUa. - J4&ulral ctido.' of M. VonUelos, tlio former proniTorr who gave up office on account of his policy In favor of war on tho sldo of tho allies, were elected in Athens and thnt elsowhoro throughout tho' kingdom his partisans wero success ful. King Constantino has not yet boon told or tho result of tho elec tion, as his physical condition still continues to cause anxiety. A chaiiRo of ministry will bo Im possible until parliament meets nnd tho sosa'lon may bo postponed by tho govornmont for forty dnya. Tho pres ent cabinet oonsoquently may remain In power until tho end ot August. 44 ru 4I SO'l 1 M
