Medford mail tribune., July 22, 1915, SECOND EDITION, Image 1

Medford Mail Tribune
SECOND
EDITION
WEATHER
Fnlr Tonight and Fritter.
Max. 100, Mln. na.n.
forty-fifth Yenr.
Dnlly Tenth Year.
MEDFORD. OREGON", THURSDAY, .7TJLY 22, 1915.
NO. 10t
RUSSIANS BURN
CITIES LEFT TO
Tnrcli Applied to Evacuated foWns,
Vlllaues and Farms Czar's Forces
Holdiiifi at Stratetjctical Points ns
Nation Prays for Victory Desper
ate Fightiiifl in Progress.
INSULIN, July 22. Unforo ovac
niilliiK Wlndau 4.I10 Russlnnn applied
tho torch to tho city nnd tho liarhor
works, according to advices recolved
lit Lilian. Tho fit-cater part1, otho
city la said to have beep, cjefclroyod.
Tho llusslnn. troops arc Bifid reported
tifli.tyi: Ilroii villages, anil fiirm houses
In other pints of C'onrlaua, ln,dccord
ahce wllh the provisions df recently
lilihllBhud army orders &,
tyfcllLIN, July 2S.-T)iO,vnr,o'rrico
toijay announced that (ho Ahtro
(lurinnu forces which aro driving at
Warsaw from tho south had coin
,.ollcd the HtiBalans to retreat Into
tlio fortress o Ivangorod, about fG
miles southeast of thu l'ollah capital.
The fortress Ih now closely Invested.
(Var !ra)N for Victory
PHTitOGItAI), July 22. In an or
der Issued In connection with tho ser
vices o? prayer, which aro being held
throughout Itussia today, Grand
Uuko Nlcholaa, tho commander In
thief, calls upon tho troops to accom
plish frc-.li deeds to achlovo a victor
ious end of tho groat'battlo now rag
ing. Tho order of tho day follews:
"Ily tho dcslro of tho emperor and
holy synod, tho wholo of Itussia Is to
day praying for tho victory of Itus
slau arms. 1 firmly believe tho Joint
pravors of the emperor and his peopo
will ho fulfilled."
Desperate Fighting
LONDON, July 22. Desperate
fighting continues hetweon tho Teu
tonic nrmlea. pressing upon Warsaw
and tho Itusslan forces defending It
with tho Issuo still In tho balance.
Advances niraldng tho fronts nro
claimed In the latest Gorman and
Austrian official statements, but I'o
trograd, whllo not donlng tho closer
drawing In of tho Austro-Gerhian
lines In somo sectors, asserts that
Iheso lines aro being hold stationary
or hurled backward at vital points.
Strongest at Lublin
On tho Importnnt front south of
Lublin, a serious breach which would
moan tho cutting of tho Lnblln-Chclin
railroad lino and tho division of tho
Uusslun armies to tho north and
south, tho Itusslan resistance scorns
to bo strongest. The 1'ctrograd state
inont claims tho Teutonic rush has
been arrested there.
Counter attacks havo driven tho
Hermans back along tho lino of tho
rlvor Norew to tho north of Warsaw,
tho Hussions' declared. Thoy assert
also that their lines on tho left bank
of tho Vistula to tho southeast of tho
city aro holding.
Tho fortress or Novogeorglevsk
poems to ho giving effcctlvo help in
keeping tho Teutons In chock to tho
northwest, for tho tlmo being at
least.
Oinmns Ncnringltlga ,
In tho llaltlc provinces tho Oor
man ndvanco la progressing with
tholr outposts barely twenty miles
from Itlga, (heir Immed.lato object
ive , .
Along thofiAnTtfo-Itallan front
Home claims thcuaJn'of a part ct tho
heights commanding GorUla and the
Isonzo bridges from tho right bank
of tho river. The latest roport from
Vienna declares all attacks on GorU
la have beon checked and that a
height that tho Italians had captured
was retaken.
ENROUTE 10 ITALY
PITTSIiTHG, Julv 22. Twont
threo car 1 ouded with MontaiM
iuro were slopped here lt !'
1W the minimum time allowed by t''
Ihw for rout and water. The
lwing htirnwl through t H.onne, N.
.1., for JiirHWHt t the ,lw,i"" nnH:
One hundred wutl tmr cm loaded
ith htre fer ixj)rt have mmod
through PitUbunttNijfan4l,'to JMiittt
the uwjuritv quttiluie fnH wit
the iiurtlim-ft.
INVADING ARMY
SLAVS BATTLING
DESPERATELYTO
SAVE WARSAW
Teutons Make Progress in Envelop
ment Move But Russians Yield
Stubbornly, Making Fierce Counter
Attacks Tactics Used Against
Napoleon Arc Employed.
LONDON', July 22. Wliilo prayers
for victory were being said today
throughout Kiissin the Austiinns mill
the Germans. continued their drive n t
,Wur.siw I'roin tiie north, the west mid
(he south. Meanwhile tliey were
reaching further.' north toward Hiyn,
on the Dultltv'Jrom whieli their nd
Vance guard isTunt more lliiiu 21)
guiles diMunt, j. .
Tho tope otydospntches from Pc-
sjrogrnd bespeaks plainly Hint the
country' is tivvnreof the grnveness of
tllo military situation, inviting not
only tho falo of the Polish enpital
hul Iho integiity of the Russian nnny
in Poland, the northern and Koutheru
sections of which might ho cut in
twain by a decisive defeat alone; tho
Lublin-Ohelm railway. It is along
this sector that tho Russians are now
fighting mosl desperately, for thin
railway is Hit mile great nilery of
communication of Poland with south
ern Russia, sweeping nwav from Lub
lin ami Cliehn towards Odessa.
Teutons Make Progress
Kot (Invest (ifjJiuhlin, however, the
Teutonic forCejfhnve pushed for
ward to tho bridgehead positions
south of Ivnngofod and thenco north
ward. Around ,lho circle which is
tightening on Warsaw they have
mado Ktcady progress, though nicot
ine; with serious opposition along the
Nnrew river noilhwesl of tho capi
tal. Llseu here, generally speaking,
Hie Russians jfio falling hack, em
ploying tin Indies with which they
harassed Napoleon in 1812. That is,
they ate not only binning all bridge
and destroying road but nro laying
waste the country-side with fire nnd
dynamite, removing such provisions
us they can, destroying such as they
can not Inko away, driving cuttle
nml other livestock liol'ont them and
leaving for tho invader a ruined and
desolate wnstc.
All Coiirlaud has been laid waste
and Winditu, in flames, Kent up a
jrlow vi-ihlo many miles away.
The British public is following
with keen anxiety the campaign in
the cast, hoping that (Irani! Duke
Nicholas may stem the Austro-Ocr-miiu
tide or at least extricate his
n runes mid continue in fuither reheat
in tho cohesion he has becu able to
maintain thus far.
Front of KOO Allies
Eliminating tho stroke against
Hign, the oporhtions in Poland oc
cupy a front of roughly 800 mil's,
divisible into thice principal mens:
Tho first, nlong tho Nniew, north mid
west of Warsaw; tho second, tho cen
ter on tho Vistula between Warsyw
mid Ivaugoiod; tho third, in tho
cinitv of Lublin where thu Austrian
and fiennans are lighting for the
railway. Tho situation, as tho 111 it
Hi press sees it, is ciitical, nnd the
papers cditoiially remind Itussia Mint
as she cheeked tho Germans at tho
t;ati s of Warsaw last fall and drovo
them hack within eleven miles of
Lublin, so she can now hold them.
Coincident with despatches from
Ifualn paying the, spirit of tho ngnV
is unbroken tin dlhe belief In ultimate
victory is Strong, comes tho report
Hint II11. fnliiwr is fniwino (lull ltnuJ
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siu is doing moie than her shire 111
(he war, bearing at present alnu:t
the entire burden. Those complaints,
according to special cories)iouiUuts,
are not uotiliucd to the rank mid
file. Itiiskiau uowpuM)rs contrjst
llu' cob. -sal battle in which their ra
tion is engaged with the comparative
linn ti in along the wc-tern front.
santaDruzTaken
by mm FORCES
NOOALKS. Ariz , July 22. Five
hundred Carranza troops captured
Santa Cruz today, according to re
ports reaching here. Santa Cruz is
a few 111 1 lea southeast of Nogalos.
tionora, where Governor Joso May
torona, tho Vila! loader, oxpocts to
make alast stund. Tho Carrama force
jg sold to have oaptured a oannon
Which wu turned an the fleeing Villa
soldiers, two of whom were killed.
AMMUNmON PUNT THREATENED HUH
u !X.jlJ2 4 , sj 2 i , t uji ri.aa
Itetnlngton cotnpaiy's new plant at UrlrigcHrt, Conn., when slill.o of vvoikers mliy hold up great am
iiiiinltlon ordcrN the allli-s hao placed with tho Itcmliigton conceiii.
BRYAN 10 SPEAK
Win. J. Itryan will speak in Med
ford Thursday evening, July 21), no-.
cording to present plans. Jlr. Hrynn
has been rcipiested to remain hcic
until Hut Shasta Limited, instead of
taking tram V., which would give
him time for an evcfiing ailttress. lie
will speak in the city paik mid pro
spects nro for a record hi caking
crowd.
The following letter was icceivcd
from Jl. Hrynn teday:
"I find that I (rather wc) shall
Icavo Ran Francisco on evening of
Tuesday, Julyl'7, reach Monluguo til
1 p. in. 28th. 11 may bo possible for
us to tako tho later train mid thus
have more time in Medford. 1 hope
so, hut thought wo had better plan
for the 7 o'clock train. We am ex
pecting to enjoy tho trip greatly mid
appreciate your iuvitiation.
"Vours truly,
"W. J. WtVAX."
If arrangements cannot bo mnde
for Mr. Hrynn to remain in Medford
until the Shnstn Limited, ho will
speak at 0 o'clock instead of 8 o'clock.
Definite announcement will he fuith
coming in a day or so.
SERBIAJ10I1ED
WASHINGTON. July 22 -Tho Am
or lean vlco consul nt llolgrado report
ed today that thu tvplius epidemic in
Serbia and Montenegro Is under con
trol. Hod Cross officials hero noti
fied tho Ilockefellcr Foundation au
thorities In Now York and tho latter
indicated their readiness to provldo
any necessary funds, in co-operatlou
wlththo Hed Cross, for completing
tho work or putting (that? part-of tho
Kuropean Vnrizoae under tiie Juris
diction cC tho Autaricuita sanitary
commission into a clean ce-jiditlon.
Tho dispatch added that an appro
priation or $10.00 for iiso in Serbia
would bo amplo for control of Infec
tious disease during tho next two
months, and" that certain permonont
improvements could ho mado with a
similar amount. Tho Hed Cross has
approximately 110.000 avallablo for
that purpose. It has previously given
30,000, the Hockofeller Fouudutlon
gavo nearly' 1100,000, and a Serbian
committee contributed 10,000r
AI WARSAW LEAVES
WASHINGTON'. July -'-' Tho
American con-ul at Warsaw cabled
the stoto department todnv tint tho
Helgmu noiMiiHiud left Wurauu ami
(hat tho Ainurieau eoimulnt Imd
taken charge of the affair of holh
Iiclgium uud Serbia, there.
ID
AK
THURSDAY JULY 29
YH
EPIDEMIC
I
E
HJtinOKPOHT, Conn , July 22.
John A. Johnston, vice president of
the Amciicmi Stiiicluial Iron Woik
crs Union, aniiouuccd t liiv that he
had been advised by J. J. Keppler,
president of tho Inturnalional Asso
ciation of Machinists, that "a writ
ten agreement" which would settle the
strike of the uiuchiuuds in the plants
of tho Iteiningtoi) Anus mid Ammu
nition company mid various sub-con
tractors, had been secured.
According to Mr. Johnston, the
vice-president of thu machinists tele
phoned Jinn from New iork and le
niiested that Thomas J. Savage, mem
her of tho general executive hoard of
tho mnchiiiists, ho asked not to con
tradict nny more statements regard
ing tho settlement. Mr. Savage de
nied last night that he knew any
thing of setlemciit after Dr. Kep
ple'r had announced that the slriko
had been declined off and tho men
would go buck to work Monday.
Mr. Johnston said Mr. Keppler
would return to Hrulgepoit with the
written agreement this nflernoon.
Mr. Johnston said he also understood
that tho girls who walked out nt tho
Union Metallic nC'rtndgo plant of
the Ilciniugtoii conipnnv had voted to
return to work, having been promised
mi uicieiiHo of about 110 cents a day.
INJUNCTION HALTS
TROLLEY CONTROVERSY
RAN ITIANCISC O, Julv 22. The
California supreme cuuit issued writs
of prohibition tnduv staying all pro
ceedings in a contriersv between
the Municipal Hmlwav and tho United
Hallways nnd its snli idiary over an
injunction, ntrainsl ou. mtion of two
munioniai.oa7,itio8 our Market street
court, rw
was to hear the eiue tmlav.w
Tho aotiou permits Oiu car lines
involved to continue operation al
least until further action by tho su
supremo court.
The writs are n Innbli Tuenlnv.
CALLES EXECUTES
SIXTY VILLA TROOPS
DOl'GLAS. Ariz, July 22. Gon-
eral V. Kllas Callos, Carrunza com-
niandor In Sonora, confirmed toduy
previous reports that his soldiers had
executed between fifty and sixty Villa
troops caught lootlug storos and res
idences at Cananoa. Callos also re
ported that his advance guard was
within twelve miles of Nogalos whore
Governor Maytorona has concentrat
ed Ull avauauia yiiiu lurtea, i
AGREEMEN
MADE
HR
SETTLEMENT
MUNITION
STRIK
IrueJciiKouniii I'mled Kail ways.
TJTo wjUh were o.iojed .against.
Judge James M. Trmit $h)itUi
judge of the Miperwr niurti'awh'i
SHE "HE UP"
STRIKERS KILLED
T
BAYONNE PLANT
NKW YORK, July 22. -Two dead
and six seriously injuied, one prob
ably fatally, was tho harvest reaped
by t inters at the Standard Oil mid
Tiilewnler plants in Hayonne today,
as tho result of two attacks on the
deputies guarding tho property. Two
lues ulso occurred, one in the Stand
n nl Oil plant where a watchman's
house was viiiiially destroyed; the
other in tho yard of tho Tidewarter
Oil compnny whero staves mid lum
ber were stored. This last fiio was
started by means of burning waste
thrown over tho walls by rioters. It
wqs speedily cheeked witli trifling
loss.
Those killed in tho fighting wero
Stanley Murefko, 2!) years old, mid
Nieolay Iwaszkiu, 10, both of whom
were shot through tho heart by Win
chester rifle bullets apparently fired
bv tho guards. Tho men wero killed
during mi utiicl; on tho barrel works
of the Tidewater plant which began
nt 11:10 a. in. mid lasted for half mi
hour..
A sudden downpour of rain had
much to do with stopping this fight.
Later it was announced that Sher
iff Kiukcad hnd nsked for troops
and companies from Newark mid Hed
Hank and were expected soon to bo
on tho scene, as all preparations had
been mado for such a call, Rheriff
Kin Lead's call was mado diroot to the
governor by telephone and later he
despatched a vviiteu order.
F
SAN FHANCISCO, July 22.-State
laws to penallzo street beggars who
Impcrsonuto deaf mutes to trado upon
public sympathy wero recommended
today by James F. Meagher, editor of
a mutes papor of Vnncouver, Wash ,
In an udih-csa before tho convention
of. tho'tfv'atlonniVAt.Hoclnlloii of tin
ueof?
"Tlivi of s.who- aro deaf and
dumb never heg,' ho said. "Roal
deaf mutes aro not idlers. They
work."
Tho address waa in tho flngor lan
guage, Mr. Meagher said such laws
as ho rccummondod wero already In
force In soven states.
BY
LONDON, July 22 - Tho Swedish
burl; Capella mid the Norwegian haik
Nurdlynet, both tiuibor laden uud
bound for F.ugluud, have been set on
fire in the North Sea by Gorman sub
marine, tlio orovv oi. tho tapelhi
was landed at Hull mid that of the
Nurdlvbut ut rri'dericUhliuvcn.
ATTACK
AMERICAN NOTE
ON SUBMARINES
SENT GERMAN!
Demands for Disavowal of Any In
tcntlon to Sink Lusitnnla anil Re
quest for Reparation Renewed
Publication to Be Made Saturday
Places Responsibility on Germany.
WASHINGTON, July 22. The
... ii.m-...-,... .IUIC m.mu,,,
tint A titrVKiimi iiitli In fljttMi(a atf tt.
us way lo iteriiu, it eienicu lrotn
Washington over the telegraiilftw'iro
during tho night nnd loday vvmhbciu'j?
Hashed over the caliles lOj;puiio!i
and thence to Copenhagen vvheroMi,
goes by oveiland wires ngaih, t tlte
Gennim foreign office, ll l should
rcaoh ils destination tonight ' 'lfl.r'-v
tomorrow.
Rccrelary Lnnsing nunounced Unit
Iho text of tho note would bo given
out hero Friday afternoon for publi
cation in morning papers of Sntur
day.
No Answer Necessary
Concerning fiiluro conduct of Gc'r
man submarines, tho note does not
necessarily call for mi answer us it
announces tho intention of the
United Stntes to regaul any further
violation of international law result
ing in thu loss of American lives ns
unfriendly. inf
On thu other baud tho AincnfrUi
demands for disavowal of any inten
tion to sink tho Lusitania mid tho re
quest for reparation nro renewed in
tho now nolo nnd very likely those,
with other points, such ns the willing
ness of the United Stales to act ns
an intermediary between tho belliger
cuts to ndiust rulo of mntitimo war
fare probably will bo Iho basis for
furOier discussion by Germnny.
An answer is not expected for al
least two or three weeks on those
phases. It is generally agreed among
officials here, however, that any loss
of Amorienn lives in tho meantimo
would in tself rniso tho question of
notion irrespective of any formal ro
ply from Gormnny.
Is Final Statement
Tho American note is in the nature
of a final statement on tho princi
ples involved, in which tho United
Stntes takes Iho iimilterublo position
that tho accepted rules of interna
tional law must govern the rights of
neutrals irrespective of retaliatory
measures of the belligerents against
ono another. What action would be
taken by tho United States in the
event of further violation of Amcii
cmi rights is not disclosed in the
now nolo nor wns it officially com
mented on othorwiso hero today buj
a general iiiuluralundiug prevails
t lint another disaster, such a- betel!
the Lusitania, would mean the aninvtf
into assembling of congroBs.
President Wilson has given art
ful consideration to ovciituafifi'i
which tho new American nolo tun
commit tho United Statos and h
believes it plnces squarely on Goi1,
many responsibility for any not Ilia
may causo ruptuio.
Thero is now no indication lb.
Lusitania case itself will causo a rup
tore, but tho president has determine
to keep that subject in tho forufior
ns a diplomatic issue of first in
portauco between the two count riot
WOKNIX, Ariz., July 22. Frank
Trott, chairman of tho stale board
of paidous uud paroles, issued n call
today for tho board to meet nt Flor
ence prison next Tuesday, threo days
before tho dato set for tho execution
of tho fivo Mexicans who wero saved
from tho gallows May 23 by a Inst
minute reprieve. Trott declined to
sav whether the caso of the Mexicans
would ho considered.
Governor Hunt said ho had received
n loiter from Secretary of Statu Lan
sing asking for information,
On account of tho exoeution set
for July IH), Govornor Hunt an
nounced (odav (hut ho had given up
his proposed trip to tho Pauaum-Pn-cifiu
exposition at San Frauuiseo to
help celelintto Arizona day, which
takes place on tho date fixed for lie
liaugiiigs, . .
ARIZONA PAROLE
BOARD TO MEE!
FLYING TORPEPP
BY AMERICAN
Swoopinn Down Five Miles from 0b
Ject of Attack, Air Craft Will Drop
Deadly Passentjer Into Water !m
pact Sets Torpedoes Machinery in
Motion at Forty Miles an Hour.
WASHINGTON, July 22. An
norlal torpedo tyP'U)f0P attack on ships
pa'tcnt'K Just IJmiti'tij'ltKktf earned
today, H.o Itoar Artnilrat-jtlraijlpy A,
Fiske, tow altachcu,f6 ll.havy war
coHetwilMitirormerJ.V5 aldeifor opera
tions uj.fcflcnffry i)Ul(dl 5,,
' Tlid-'jilnn cionifiipDialfl'sjftqulpptnK
ft, monstor tuSropihtiiv irtm'tlar to a
number now under construction la
tills cblintry for tho British govern
ment with a Whitehead torpedo oi
regulation navy typo.
Swooping down nt a dlstanco or five
sea m I lea from tho object of attack
the air craft would drop Its deadly
pnssongor into tho water Just as it
would havo bocn launched by a des
troyer. Tho impact sets tho torpe
do's machinery in motion and It is
off at a spcod for moro than forty
knoto an hour toward tho enemy ship.
Flying Torpedo Itoata
Admiral Flsko bolloves that the
flying torpedo boat would maka.vjt;
posslbol to attack a footveven witk
In n land-lockod harbor. The raajre
of tho newest navy torpedoes Is 10,
000' yards and oven tho older type
will bo effcctlvo at soven' thousand
yards.
Carrlod an n hugo aeroplane the)
2,000 pound -weapon would be takea
over harbor dotonsoa at an altitude
safe from gun flro. Once over the
bay tho machine would glide down
to within ton or twonty feet of the
wator, tho torpedo ruddors would he
sot nnd It would bo dropped to do
Its work whllo tho aeroplane rose and
sped awny.
Aoroplanos to carry a ton of dead
weight havo beon porfected by several
countries, itussia in said to have
sovcrnl that will carry twenty men
and tho now Drltlsh aircraft probably
will havo a similar capacity.
Itadlo Typo to lo Tried
It is said to bo posslblo that a type
of radio controlled, torpedo might bo
employed, ono aeroplane carrying the
torpedo and another tho -wireless
machinery to control the missile's
flight through tho wator. It 1b point
ed out that Admiral Flsko secured
patents on such a method of control
In 1900, when ho was a lieutenant-
commander In tho navy. They are
said to ba bo broad and far reaching
as to undorllo nil subsequent develop
mont of radio control dovlces.
"My invontlon," says tho applica
tion fllod by Lieutenant Commander
Flsko botoro tho battlo of Manila was
foucht, ,"la especially applicable to
TffiararwiOT
NF.W YOniC, July 22. Ttudolph
Malik, an Austrian salesman, was
ptaccd on trial In tho federal court
hero today charged with having wrtU
ton a lotor o President Wilson de
manding nn indemnity of $200 be
causo of Malik's enforced detention in
tho United States, and threatening,
If tho monoy was not forthcoming,
that ho would commit a "political
crlmo." The tochulcal charge "waa
operating a achemo to dofraud by
moans of tho mail."
A second indictment charges that!
In a postcard mallod to the consul
general of Austro-Hungary, Malik
threatened to shoot overybody ia the
consul's ofico. Tho govornwent cos
tenda thla is tho "political crime"
which the defendant referred te l the
Wilson lottor, Mnllk deal writing
either tho lottor or tho vtwrd.
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