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awr j-?jt , -owtetjwrtatgiiHsigairwe jBumwwwwwwat xatyK jsse - rx-tSix'xrcffsnMamTrTxxxtvtiMJsmmasrmti Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER B.t.5; Mln. I.1.BS Pro. .02. Italu Wednesday, Mnr. Forty-fifth Yenr. Dully Tenth Tear. BLEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1915 NO. 221 wuium mi.i.iivnHiMmMHiSnsf&iiL-w U. .k PAW ill MOM FOR WORLD POLITICS" UNITE NATIONS SILENCE GREETS PRESIDENT READING HIS ANNUAL MESSAGE fgEKJ OF 2 AMERICAS PRESIDENT ON HHiHi 1 1 FOR PROTECTION PREPAREDNESS Mliiltl President in Third Annual Address to Congress Advocates Doctrine of Full Partnership Between American Nations In World Affairs Prepar edness the Theme. WASHINGTON, Due. 7. A doc trine! of Pan-Americanism of. full partnership between tlio nations of the Western Hemisphere in world af fairswas proclaimed Iiy President Wilson today in his- third nnnunl ad dress to congrons, the lliemo Of which was preparedness ly the United StnteH to defend not only its own in dependence, but tho rights of thoho wiili whom it lias inndu eomuton cause. The message wns rend by tho president to tho bennlo and house assembled in joint session in tho chamber of the house. Every recommendation embodied in the document hud to do with compre hensive plans for strengthening the nntionnl defenses. The program in cluded tho unny and nnyy plans al ready made publio by Secretaries Garrison and Daniels; legislation for government-owned merchant ships; a rural credit law; tho Philippine and l'orto ltieu bills which failed of final paMago nt tho last session; conser vation legislation; a law giving fed eral, aid to industrial and vocational education; and tho creation of a com mission to iii(uirc into the Itiiuspor tatiou pioblcm. Hyphenated Amci Irani Naturalized and native born Amer icans, who, sympathizing with bellig erents abroad, have plotted nnd con spired to violato their own country's neutrality, were scathingly denounc ed by tho president, and congress was urged to nrovido adequate fed eral laws to deal with such offend- OJS. Internal tnxatiou was proposed ns tho means of nroviding the nionoy necessary to add to tho nnvnl and military establishments. Sources of taxation suggested weie incomes, gasoline, nnptha, automobile and in ternal explosion engines, fabricated iron and steel, and n stamp tax on bank cheeks. Extension of the war revenue bill nnd continuance- of the present tariff on sugar were recom mended, and tho sale of bonds op posed. This message was the longest Mr. Wilson has ever delivered to con gress. Hu began with a statement that since ho last addressed con gress : I If feet of War "Tho European war has extended its threatening and sinister scope un til it has swept into its flame some (Continued on pago five) I0SETTLE0.SC. E WASHINGTON', Dec 7 - Senator Chamberlain today Introduced a bill returning to tho United States tho un sold lands of tho Oregon and Califor nia land grunt and tho payment to tho railroad company of $2. CO an aero for tho lands returned. Tho bill provides for tho classification of lands Into mineral, timber and agri cultural, and tho disposition of min eral land under tho mineral land laws. The timber lands to ho dis posed of as agricultural after tho tlmhor Is removed by sale, under toalcd bids. Tho agricultural lands are to bo disposed of under gonoral homostcad laws and the payment by entrymon of $2.60 an acre. The pro coeds of the sales of tho land Is to bo distributed to the railroad at tho rate of 2. 50 an aero, and tho bal ance, 40 per oeat to .tho Oregon bghool funds, it per eont to Oregon reads and bridge, and ! per sent to be- returned to the federal treasury CHAMBERLAIN BILL LAN GRANT A Crowded Galleries Hear Annual Ad dressApplause for Pan-Americanism Remarks Upon Disloyal Foreign Citizens Cheered Takes Hour to Read Message. WASHINGTON, Doc. 7. Tho pub lic galleries woro packed thrco hours before tho time for President Wilson to dellvor his annual address, and hundreds of disappointed ones who had failed to got tho coveted tickets of admission lined tho corridors of .tho capltol and stood on tho plaza outsldo to gel a gllmpso of tho presi dent as bo passed In. Tbcro wcro unusual arrangements to prcserev order. Only thoso who bad tickets of admission were permit ted to go to tho upper galleries, nnd an oluslvo rumor of sonio sort of n woman suffrago demonstration brought out extra guards who woro sprinkled among tho spectators and In tho corridors through which tho president had to pass. A number of men wcro placed nt commanding po sitions In tho galleries. Scenes nt Ittwllng When tho galleries had been fill ed with tho usual visitors, tho official parties ramo In. Mrs. Gait, tho presi dent's flancco and her party took tho exccutlvo gallery. Other reserved places wero occupied by government officials and their wives. Tho dip lomatic gallery was unusually woll filled, tho Latln-Amcrlcnu members being largely represented. Just after 12:30 o'clock tho pres ident took his place nt tho clerk's desk with his manuscript In hand ready to begin. Kverybody In tho house, floors and galleries alike, roso and cheered, Hciiuiiks Cheered Then a tense sllcnco settled down over tho hall nn tho president began reading In n low even volco which could bo hoard everywhere. His ref erence to all pnrts of tho American continent standing "so far as wo aro concerned on n footing of gonulno equality," arnusod tho first npptauso. Then tho allusion to "United States nid, hut not coercion" of Mexico, evoked moro onthuolnsm. Tho president's outline of tho plans for national dofonso nnd tho need for thorn wna recolved In sllcnco by tho senators nnd representatives, but with rapt attention. His declaration of a now Pan-American doctrlno was received with tho deepest interest. When ho referred to foreigners within tho United States borders, who whllo small In nunibor, "havo brought deop dlsgraco upon us, and necessi tate uso of processes of law by which we may bo purged of their corrupt distempers," tho greatest enthusiasm was shown and loud applauso inter rupted. Flnnlly atl:!0 o'clock, after hav ing been reading steadily moro than an hour, tho president finished, nnd another outburst of cheering took placo as ho left tho chamber, and started back to tho will to house. Tho Joint session dissolved, tho senate filed back to Its chamber, and tho house resumed work whero it bad loft oft. WASHINGTON, Dee, 7. Word from tho cruiser IJcs Moines was re ceded today at the nay department that tho American boat bending the "S. 0. S." call out la-.t Saturday off Croto was tho Standard Oil tanker 1'etrolito, which was fired on, pre sumably by nn Aiutriuu submarine. Ono man was wounded, advices stated. The dUtoli from the l)e Muiuo emtio from Canea, Uland of Crete, uud reported that tke followiug mow mmc had been picked up Sunday: , "American Miur I'etroht. Al exandria to New York, Hacked ly atibntariae flying AMairian flag, lata (Sunday) Morning nt 000, knigilHiIo 32.25 north, latitude StLS WMt. One man wl iwriouely injured." SUBMARINE FIRES ON AMERICAN SHIP MANY S NLCTANARE T 1'OHTLANI), Or., Dec. 7. A do ereo providing that the gri'iitees of laud under tho Coos Hay wagon road grant are entitled to a value of $2.50 per aero in the property and no moie was signed by Judge Charles E. Wol erton in the United States district .court hero fodny. The Southern Or cgou company, holder of 3.,0()0 ncrcs of tho grant, which comprises 1)15,000 aores in Coos nnd Douglas counties, announced that it would appeal. Tho signing of tho decree is impor taut in that tho conditions under which this laud was granted are sim ilar to the conditions surrounding tho Oregon & California railroad grant, the disposition of which is involwd in a similnr controversy with tho gov ernment. Tho prneipal stoekholdi is in tho soulhorn Oregon company nre Charles It. Smith of Mcnnshn, Wis , nnd mem bers of his family. Tho companv contended that tho expenses incurred in hurdling the lands gave them nn equity nbovc tho $2.50 per acre for which tho grant stipulated they should bell the lauds to settleis. FARGO, ND., Dec 7 It. C Kit tle and Wlllam Kittle, brothers and former president and cashier respect Ivoly of tho First National bank of Cnssolton, N, 1)., woro arrested to day by United Statos Marshal Doylo. chargod with conspiracy In making false outrlos to cover an alleged em bezzlement of $100,000 from tho funds of tho bunk, tho doors of which wero olosod yesterday, Tho Klttloa walvod preliminary ex amination and tho caso will go direct to tho next grand jury. Uoth mon wore released on bond, ThoV insist that tho closing of tho bank was duo to clow papor and that every dollar will bo paid and tho bank bo ro-oponod. GERMAN RADICALS FIRM IN STAND TO PRESCRIBE PEACE IIISItLlN. Dec 7 -Tho executive eommltteo of the rudleul party whloh, noxt to the socialist. Is regarded as ttronaest In the support of any peace movement, has adopted the following resolution applying to the earning de bute in the reirHUf. RAN LAND DAKOTA BANKERS UNDER ARREST 4 DEMOCRATS SEAT AS WASHINGTON, Dec. 7.- -The dem oeratio national commilteo met here today to fix- tho time nnd place of tho next democratic national conven tion, elect a secretary, dispose of contests for membership from Ken tucky uud Oregon, and transact such other business as tiiiht cuuiu before it, including tho reception of advo cates for and against womnii suff rage. Of the thrco cities in tho field for tho convention, St. Louis claimed priority. Its delegates asserted op enly thnt tho conimitlco would do eido in its favor on tho second or third bnllot, a claim that was not con ceded, however, by tho delegates from Dallas nnd Chicago. Thomas J. Pence, assistant to tho chninnnn, wns elected secretary pro teiu. Mr. I'cuco told tho committee there was no truth in reports of dis cord between Mr. Metombs uud hiiu self. After n short opening meeting tho coinhnttco went into executive session to decide the contests from Kentucky and Oicgon. In Oregon, W. II. East erly contested tho scut of Will It King. Tho Kentucky contest involv ed General W. 1 1. Haldcmaii of Louis mIIo and Urey Woodion of Owens- boro. Will It. King won his fight for a seat in tho committco from Oregon. Tho subcoiiimittco appointed to con sider the Kentucky caso decided in favor of Urey Woodon and will so repoit, it was said later in tho day. Mr. Kuig was boated without rofer onco to a uuh-oommittco. After the contest had been decided in his favor tho committee appointed a sub-com- mitteo to draft a resolution to cover oases of couilict between npiiointeo of state committee and candidates for the committee electid at primar ies in tho same state. Von der Goltz to Command In Persia GKN'BVA, Switzerland, Doc. 7, via Paris. Tho Germans aro preparing on a largo soalo for operations In Mesopotamia under Flold Marshal Haron Kolmur Von Der Goltz, who has Just boon appointed commander of the Turkish foreo in Mesopotamia, according to private information re oolvod by tho Journal de Genevo. Al though the Germans speak ostensibly of Kgrpt. says the dleputah to the Journal, It la not Iwpoftnlble that tbofi may make their principal of. forts thta winter from Ilasdad toward the Peretan gulf. i i N OREGON MM E MAN Berlin Claims Allies Retire to Avoid Envelopment Bulgars Defeated by French Serb Retreat Into Alhanla Hampered Germans Reinforce Bulgarian Forces. IIUIIMX, Dec. 7. The war offlco announced today that tho French forces In southwestern Serbia near tho Vardar river, havo been compell ed to retreat. Tho capturo of Ipek, Montenegro, also la announced. Tho official Ualkan statement fol fel fol eows: "Tho city of Ipolc (Montenegro about 150 miles from tho Serbian border) haa boon reached. Some 1250 prisoners wero brought In. "On account of a tlucateitcd cnvol npmont of their positions In tho Ccr tin Karasu-Vndar salient, tho French havo bono compelled to glvo up tholr positions there." llulgiir.s Defeated I'AItIS, Doc. 7. Defeat of tho Uul garlans December S In nttacks on tho French lino at Abozarkl, Domlr-ICapu and Costmorlno Is reported In n dis patch from Athens to tho Hnvas Nows agency under today's dato, Tho Sorblan retreat Into Albania, Bays tho dispatch, Is hampered by bad weather and roads and tho prosenco In the Serbian ranks of moro than 40,000 Austrian, prisoners. Thcro nro now 100,000 Serbian troops nnd 20,000 rofugecs gathered In Albania, tho AtbcnB advices state. Gci-innus Aid llulgnt") LONDON, Bop. 7. Tho campaign ngalnst tho main Serbian armies hav ing boon closed, It is expoctcd Gonor al Von Gallwltz, with his Gorman forces, will Join tho HulgarlaiiH In Macedonia In an effort to crush tho French and llrltlsh nrmles boforo they become much stronger. Information from llerlln Indicates that tho German forces engaged In tho carllor movements In tho Dalkans havo now boon detached for tho pur pose of sharing In tho attack on tho Franco-Ilrltlsh forces along tho south ern Macedonian front. Dispatches from Athens partly corroborate this theory, as It ts reported two Gor man divisions nro co-oporatlng with tho Ilulgnrlans near Strumltsa, Thoro Is llttlo to report from tho other fronts snvo tho usual minor op erations. Further Impetus Is given to pcaco talk by tho papal consistory, at which Pope Dencdlct delivered nn nddress calling upon tho bolllgoronts to mnku n just and Immediate peace. 1IKHLIN, Dee. 7 Capturo of 2G0 meters of nu advanced French Ironch In the Champagno district east of Au berlvn, wus announced by Gorman army headquarters today. Sixty mon wcro taken prisoner In this opera tion. i TOKIO, Dec. 7 Count Okuina, tho Japaiioso premier, having recover ed from tho iudlbpositloti caused by nn opeiatlon on his leg recently, ud dressed tho diet today. The proiulor dwelt on tho univer sal spirit of loyalty and patriotism inaiilfostod by tho Japanoso people at tho coronation of Smporor Yosblbito us a basis for further strengthening solidity and prosperity of tho Imper ial house and tho empire. Ho em phasized tho statement that tho pro ject for naval ropletlon which wus ratified by the council of dnfeuso was tho flret uecobelty In the preeeut sit uation of the world. "Not u day can bo loat In currying out tho plan," he declared. Count Okumu said that ho OQMaliN ered tke economic and financial out look propltloua. Haron Ishll, minister of foreign affair, alio adUromed tho diet. NAVAL REPLETION JAPANS M ASSERTS OKMA RESDNfl! FOR RECALL OF Kaiser Informed That Request for Dismissal Is Due to Naval and Mil itary Activities of Boy-Ed and Von Papcn Specifications Refused- Arc Persona Non Grata. WASHINGTON, Dec. 7. Secretary Lansing has replied to Germany that tho American government's request for tho withdrawal of Captain Uoy-Kd and Captain Von Paper, tho nnvnl nnd military nttnehes respectively, of tho Gorman embassy hero, wns entirely becnuso of their military and naval acttvlttcs. Sccrotary Lansing's reply to tho Gorman government's Inquiry, which Indicated tho llorlln foreign offlco Intended to contest tho withdrawal of tho attaches undor certain condi tions, wns delivered lit n long com munication which tho Gorman em bassy Immediately forwarded to llor lln. At tho embassy nil comment on It was refused. Prcsldont Wilson has fully approv ed Sccrotary Lansing's decision nnd it was snld authoritatively today that It would bo adhered to no nuittor what Germany does. Neither was tbcro any Indication of whether tho roply would moot tho contention of tho Gorman government thnt It should know tho reasons for tho request for tho withdrawal of its officers. It was broadly Intimated to tho state department that It tho request was based on something olso than tho developments of tho Hamburg-American lino conspiracy trial or tho caso of James F. J. Archibald, tho American war correspondent who secretly carried dispatches for Cap tain Von Papor, Germany would do cllncto withdraw either of tho men. Tho gonoral impression was that Secretary Lansing's roply at somo length repeats that tho two officers havo becomo persona non grata be cnuso of their military nnd naval ac tivities and that furthor undor diplo matic images existing between na tions It Is unnecessary for ono gov ernment to do moro than intlmato to another that tho prcsonco of u dip lomatic officer Is distasteful. Ono reason why tho American gov ernment will not furnish Germany with specific reasons for tho request for tho recall of Captain Iloy-Kd and Captain Von Papon, Is becauso It Is determined to koop secret tho sources of Its Information whllo reports In volving other men In this country aro Investigated. GERMAN AGENT E CROSSED BY LABOR CHIEFS KHW VOHIC, Dee, 7 United States Attorney Suowden Marshall declared that Franz Jllntolon, tho German agent who Is accused of com ing to tills country armed with a largo corruption fund to Incite strikes in munition factories, was "double crossed" by thu labor men bo tried to corrupt, Mr, Marshall said that dospltn tho expenditure of several hundred thous. and dollars Von Illntolou failed to accomplish his mission In any effect ive manner. Ho gao tho mujor credit for Illiitolen's failure to the stand taken by high officials In labor organizations. "Itlntulon only succoodod In cor rupting somo subordinates," Mr. Mar shall said, "and ho was beautifully doublo-erossed. Tho roal labor lead ers took prompt stops to check his activities. Savo for a fow smalt striken), none of his efforts woro sue coesful and ull tho strikes ho did in stigate woro killed by the good mon at tho head of tho unions. "I am not proparod to state just how much monoy Itlnteloti expondud, but It run Into hiindrodi of thousands or dollar. Ho had J 5 00,0 00 to his credit In one bank." ISnforeing the old Sunday closing laws kit a snag In Oregon us fust as aflmmuultiea find out It wide wopo. The? are not ready to turn back 200 oars In development and enterprise. GHANNV DOM. SOGARCMPANY STILL SEW BEET E Medford Committco Retires From the Field When Company Refuses Def inite Information Concerning Fac tory Location Company Says Get Required Acreage First. The Medford beet sugar committee, nfter six weeks of continuous cniu puigiiing among tho farmers of tho valley to secure needed ncrcngo for a sugnr beet factory, withdrew Monday from furthor paiticipation in tho cnmpnigu, having been unable to se cure Bntisfnctory stnlcmenta from Ilia Orcgon-Utnh Sugar company ns to tho location of tho proposed factory. The compnny nnnounccs thnt it will uontinuo its efforts to Bocuro ncrcago until tho fiOOO ncrcs required linvo been signed and that in Fcbrunry tho Snlt Lake capitalists financing tho factory will Beleet n Rite. Chairmnn C. E. Qntcs of tho commilteo states: CVmunlttco's Statement "Grants PnBs now has approved and accepted contracts covering an aorcago of 1250 ncrcs. Tho sugnr company concedes thnt thnt ncrcngo can bo increased to 1800. Tho Med ford committco jnvo 12101 ncrcs. Thnt ncrcngo was reduced to 1318 ncrcs, covered by accepted nnd approved contracts. In addition to this, tho Medford committco agreed to give bond thnt it would increnso that acrc ngo to JI200 acres, provided tho fnc- tory ho located anywhere between Gold Hay and Ashland. That was unsatisfactory to Mr. Nibley, secre tary of tho Oregon-Utah Sugar com pany. We, therefore, agreed to de liver to him contracts in twenty-four hours covering sufficient ncrcngo to make tho 3200 ncrcs, with. a clnuso inserted in tho contrnct nnd to ho mado n part thereof that theso con tracts would bo mill and void unless tho factory bo located as abovo stilt ed. This Mr. Nibley would not ac A AG cept, but insisted on contracts with- j out strings on them and to bo allow- , ed to tivko them to Salt Lake and i submit them to tho bondholders thcrel then ho would give his answer. J "Tho committco could not do this ns it had agreed with tho fanners Hint it would uso theso contracts oulv on tho condition thnt tho sugar mill wero located ns abovo stated, Henco tho committco informed Mr. Nibley that it would drop out of tho sugar beet ncrcago enmpnign nnd permit him and his associates to procuro the ncrcago wherever thov could; and to loeato tho fnclory wherever and whenever they pleased, and thnt tho Medford coniinilteo would placo uoth- (Continued on pngo six) OCCASION DEBATE IN THE REICHSTAG IIHItLIN, Doc. 7VlRoroii9 ami tinrostrnlucd discussion of'thi prob lem of fond regulation contlnuos li'i tho budget. committco of tho relch stag. Full reports of tho dobato aro not appearing In tho nowspapors but thu accounts publlBbed Indicate that ono aspoct of tho discussion consists of controversial nttompts to lay tho blame for various alleged fallings on tho shoulders of producers, doalern or coiisumors, or representatives of, different iiilnlstrels. lloth tho minister of tho Intorlor, demons Dolbrucok, and the Prussian minister of ngrlciilluro, Karon Vou Scborlomor, havo como undor flro. Ono radical spoakor directed hta criticism against producors for de siring hlgbor maximum prices. Ha pointed nut that tho Gorman tariff system In tlmos of peaco bad boon directed for yours toward strengthen ing Gorman ngrlculturo for Its task In war tlnio. Farmers should, there fore, bo contented with small profit at tho prosont. The regulations already put Into feroe for tho distribution of food pro duuta aro bolng dlgeiissod at length. Home of tho momhors contend that tho federal couuell delayed its action too long, D PROBLEMS iWJ- M 4 J 4 ;S