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JTfr& , - aa---.jiiiini .wffUfWwOiwWwiw TTT" i' Medford Mail Tribune SECOND EDITION WEATHER Itfiln, Manner, fioulh winds. Mnv. 53; 31 In. -10. Forty-fifth Year. Odlly Tenth Tear. ftlEDFORD, OREGON", FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1913 NO. 22 SFT!rs,!Il i "4 STATESMANSHIP OF INDUSTRY IS WILSON'S THEME President Says It Is Impossible to Separate Business and Life and Declares Business Men Should Be Prepared to Mobilize Resources as Measure of National Defense. COLUMBUS, 0., Dee. lO.-Presi-dent Wilson, addressing the clinni Iicr of commerce here, declared today Hint if tho United Stales preserves its self-protection in tho present crisis it will liiivo great influence in reconstructing tho peaceful course of tho world and in bringing tho nn tioim together again. Preparedness by business men to mobilize tho resources of thu tuition us a incnsiiro of national dufctiKo wnn urged by tho president. Addivss Applauded Tho president's address was ap pluudcd by a non-pnitisun audience of 1100 men, including many of (ho leading officials and business men of Ohio. His theme was tho states manship of industry. The president told the business men mIio hud assembled at a luncheon in his honor, that it was impossihlo to separate business and life. The his tory of business in tho United States, ho said, was tied up with the history of tho nation. Tho need of ships to carry the ooiniuoroo of the nation was dwelt on. Since tho war of 1812, he declared, the ufited, States has purposely at tended first to internal affairs. Some busbies men, ho declared, nought foreign trade, but many disregarded it. 1'iaLso Ilnnk I.iuv Tbo linukiupr nml eiirrpnov lftw parsed during tho present adminis tration was lauded by tho president n" a great aid to commerce. Until it was passed there wore hardly any foreign branches of American banks, he said. He criticised thu policy of protec tion. Dunne, he declared, should be efficient, but it should not he organ ized in order to secure monopolies. "I, for my part," ho said, "look forward to the future of Amerielin lituincss with confidence, because it has changed its point of view." Ho opposed the injection of pol ities into-busines8. Ho described himself as a "militant democrat," and added that tho democratic party wanted to help business. Repenting tho idea e.pressed in his- last mes sago to congress, the president said that he believed in liberty of all peo ple. Ho declared aggressively that so long as ho was president Mexico would bo allowed to choose its own got eminent. U. S. in Now Kclatlou The president's words were fre quently marked by applause. He spoke rapidly, but clearly, and used more emphatic gestures than usual. "I would not entrust the economic progress of tho nation to a few trus tees" said tho president. The European war, tho president aucitod, had put the United Slate in n new relation to the world. This nation will havo to he the reserve lorce of tho world, ho assorted. "It is iiuporativo, therefore," ho continued, "that no obstacle shall he put in tho way of American busi ness." "Business has been set free bv the new banking law," he added. (Continued on page three) OF LOG WOOD EMBARGO WASHINGTON', Dec. 10. Hended by Senator Hiiglus, Pntcr-on, N. J., tilk manufacturers today usited the state department and asked that iep jooutatioiii bo made to Knulnnd to remove tho ombiirgo which forbid shipments of log wood from her We-t Indian poeiuiis eseept to British ports. Tho manufacturers aid that if the embargo i not removed the big silk milU it l'utrou probably will hv to shut down within three months ou p count of h lark ! detiift. More th.tn -Runni vorkimn w..ul 1 Ik .ifleited. RELATIONS WITH ACTA NEAR BREAKING POINT Diplomatic Relations Will Be Sever ed Unless Urgent Demands for Dis avowal of Slnkinp of Ancona Arc Complied With Prompt Reply Expected Austria Still Delays. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. Diplo matic relations with Austro-HunRary are In danger of being broken oft by tho United States unless tho urgent demands ot tho American note to Vienna tor a disavowal of tho sinking ot tho Ancona aud reparation arc compllod with. Furthermore, It was Btatod today upon high authority, tho United Slates expects a prompt reply to Its communication. Austria's delay In furnishing answers to questions submitted to Huron Hurlan, minister of foreign af fairs, by American Ambassador Pen- field a fow days after tho Ancona wont down, has not served to caso the situation. The foreign offlco, however, did inform Ambassador l'cnflcld It desir ed time to answer tho Inquiry, but American officials aro tinablo to clearly understand why it Is Impos sible for tho Austro-Ilungarlan gov ernment to sccuro tho Information de sired. It has been said that if tho commander of tho submarlno which sunk tho Ancona had taken his vos sol out on another crulso ho should havo returned to his base long bo foro this time. It was understood that officials aro certain that It has been possible for the Austrian govern ment to communicate with tho com mander of tho vessel by now. OF UNNEUTRAL PLOTS ASKED BY LODGE WASHINGTON. Dee. 10. Sena torinl investigation of bomb plots and other unneutral nets by citizens of the United States and inquiries into tho law and facts in the attacks upon the steamers Gulflight, Fulaba, Lusi tnniii, Arabic, Ancona, Hesperian and Petrolito was proposed in the senate today by Senator Lodge. Senator Lodge's proposal was sub mitted as an amendment to n resolu tion by Senator Hoke Smith asking investigation of British interference with neutral trade. Senator Lodge declared it was fur more important that America should extend protection nud security to American citizens than American property. Senator Smith's resolution nud Senntor Lodge's amendment were re ferred to the foreign relations com mittee. "American livos nre moro impor tant thnn American dollars," said Senator Lodge. "The body of nn in nocent child, tho victim of an un armed vossol, floating on tho waters, is n far moro poignant and tragic spectacle than nn unsold bale of cot ton." Tho I.odgo resolution would havo the eommitteo investigate and reiwrt on tho law and facts "roferred to by the president of tho United States in his annual mossage when ho said, re ferring to cot tain porsens: 'They have formed plots to destroy property, they have entered into conspiracies against tho neutrality of the govern ment. They have sought to pry into very confidential transactions of the government in order to servo inter ests alien to our own."1 I WASHINGTON, D.-. Hi. -Bills for nn $ll,OUO,Uun government armor pluto factory re introduced in both home of congr todnv bv Chair man Tillman of tit senate naval louiiuittee itiul Ropriseutatue Tu CHUir ol Muiun, NA PROBE Hi HINT AT RETREAT French and British Rctlrintj as Serb Army Is Out of Reckoning Bulgar Successes Amount to Occupation of Evacuated Positions Attacks Re newed, States Berlin. IX)NDON, Dec 10 lighting along the front where the British arc facing tho IlulgarianB was suspended Wed nesday, and also Thursday morning, says a Hcuter dispatch from Snloniki today. Tho casualties of tho allies have not been considerable, it is declared, while the losses of tho Bulgarians arc thought to havo been heavy. BERLIN, Dec. 10. According to information received in military qiinrtcra here, tho Anglo-French ex pedition in the Bulknns has contin ued ilH retreat and has now entirely evacuated Serbian territory. In the battle between Bulgarian and Hritish forces in southwestern Serbia ten guns were captured from tho Dritisli, the war office announced today. 1'vncuatloii InlibIo LONDON, Dec. 10. What seems to bo an intimation that the troops of the entente allies eontemplnto evac uating Serbian torritoiy, if they have not nlready done so, is contained in n statement declared in n Hunter dis patch fionfSnloniki to have been is sued by tho French general staff on the Hnlkim front. The statement quoted by tbo Sal pniki correspondent reads as follews: "We, t)io French and British, are retiring for reasons easy to explain: Tho Serbian army for tho moment is out of the reckoning. Our presence in Serbian territory is no longer nec- cssnry. Bulgarian successes amount to nn occupation of territory no longer disputfcd by us. They hnvo in variably MiffVjred checks each time tho allied troops assumed the offens ive, notwithstanding their numerical ly superior forces." llulgars HeinforMsl LONDON, Dee. 10. Tho Bulgar ians, heavily reinforced and well sup ported by nrtillcry, are removing vio Icntly their nttaclc upon tho Franco British forces in Macedonia. Their assault has gone through all tho pre liminary stages and is now approach ing tho climax of intensity. Although pursuit of the Serbians still continues, it is apparent from the proportions wricli tho Macedonian conflict is assuming that the major part of tho Bulgarian army has di verted its attention to the allies. The outconio of tho buttle now in prog re'ss is awaited with great an.iety in England, as it will determine in gicat measure tho immediate futuie for the entente powers in the Balkan. May Force Jtetivut Tho numerical superiority of the Bulgarian forces already has been demonstrated in the initial encoun ters with the British. Ginvo doubts nro voiced hero as to tho ability of tho British forces to repel the in creasing momentum of the Bulgarian attack. Kesistnnco of tho Montenegrins has lost nothing of its stubbornness and the plight of the Serbians tlcoinsr into Albania is said to bo growing less serious. But military affairs in these sections have become of com paratively small importance and have little buuriiiir on the main situ ation which, since the Serbian to treat, has shifted southward. Hard fightinc continues ou the wostom front, whoro the Guniiuns hao been compelled to relinquish nil but a bmall part of the advanced trench captured by them oast of Butte de Sonant. Grain for Allies Burned ERIE, Pa., Dee. 10. Two of the Anchor lino grain eleaton owned by the Pennsylvuniu Hailroud company hero, wore do.troved bv fire eurly to day with their contents, about 500, 000 bushels of wlieut. Tho los is estimated at $750,000. A third ele vator holding 325,000 bushels of wheat, na saved by firemen. The wheat eamo from Canada and await ed shipment to Grout lintxiii and her allies. An investigation of the otigm of Uie fiic wdl bo remitted. ENTENTE ALLIES H SERBIA THE SKIPPER K?fe 3v 43 fF ''3 J! T Jjs. L VL Vb RiBlsv lr& TF ffe&AfrTV 'Wrm Vj9 ...-A iW MAry -4& I. -POV THOMPXOM- llciitiry Fort! ami C'npt. llvniiH.'! Just Iteforo tlm Osnir. siillctl. E SAFE CONDUCTS WASHINGTON, I).-. 10. Emper or William has porsonuliv v,itlulrawn Captains Boy-Ed and You Papon, the naval and military attaches of tho German embassy here, mid has made a personal retpiest that the United States secure safe conducts for them and their successors. This was for mally announced today by Secretary Lansing. Tiio German ambassador late today informed Secretary Lansing that Captain Boy-Ed und Captain Von Papon, naval and military nttuclieH, respectively, of tho cnihiBisy, bail been recalled in accordance with (ho request of tho United Staten. He asked that safe conduct homo bo ob tained for the officer. The ambassador said tho American reply to Gonnany'H wtiuogt for th reasons for asking the recalls bail been fiitisfaelory. Altur leaving Secretory Lansing the count reftucd to maku any statement. It was made plain that tho recall of the attaches was peiioctly sntin factory rt Emperor William, who handled the case pcrsoixtlly. TO. REFUND S. P. TAXES SU.K.M, Ore, Dec. 10 -Tho com promise eommitteo appointed by tho OroKon und California land grant conferenco today dcolded upon tonta tlvo plana for proiontatlon to tho Southern Pacific rallroHd company for solution of tho land grant prob lem. Tho eommitteo cokn to reach an agreement with tho railroad on a plan for tho disposal of tho landu which can bo dubmittod to congrosn for accoptanco. The eommitteo would givo tho com pany 12.50 an aero for tha land und rclmburso tl for all excess tuxoM. Huilroad officials woro to meet with the eommitteo thin afternoon. IMiTROdltA!), Dee. 10. The fol lowing official communication has beon received hero from Teheran: "Husslan troops bavo occupied Jul ian Hulak pass, whero Insurs'ont gsn darmos and Gorman mereonarlos had ben fortiflng thomsolves for the (Mist two jvooks under tho commaud of German and Turkish offlcors. The enemy fled In conipleto disorder pur sued by our troops KAISER NVOYS AND ASKS COMPROMISE AND THE BOSS --- sjtti.i TOiU,3BK,ir vans mr feiT.yMrxa urcflKiso " i-)iSfc$iy ns tliey s(imhI IkIiIikI a life presort cr T LONDON, Dee. 10. The speech of the Oeuiinn chancellor, Dr. Von Bethiuanu-Hollwcg, before the reieh- I stag yoMtorday, is commented on ex tensively by the Loudon uuwapnpurH this afternoon. The chancellor's utterances nro described editorially as colorless and perfunctory and aw an attempt to proscut a picture of Gonnuny waging a pin el v defensive war against en emies which would encircle and starve her. All of the nownpupcrti characterizo an fallacies the chancellor's argument in regard to the analogy between British troops in Greecn and the Gorman invasion of Belgium. Tho ovoninjc Standard Bays Dr. Von Bctliinnun-Hollwcg'a peeuh dis poses of tho idea Hint Germany in tends to ask for peace. This uuws .puper considers , tiio prospect of pcaco as porhups more romoto at this moment than at any other psrloi! since lliu outbreak of thu uur. It contends that any assumption that Germany's zeal is weakening will morcly lend to an iinplonsaut uurprixo in tho spring, at which timo Germany hopes to surpass her prevail i achievements, The object of tha ieichst(.g dolmlo, the Standard eontinuus, i to stimu late a national spirit which mil muku tho achievement possible. Tho l'all .Mull Giuotto tliiuks the essence of thu Gorman eliuncolUir's sM-ech lies in it oinisaions, It con cen tinues: "Whilo Germany, nocordiiiK t I lie chancellor, has bouteu eeiybody and her calculation 'show ho flaw and no uncertain fnetors' neither the bur den nor the incenveniences: of the conflict seem ti diiniiu-h." VILLA ENROUTE TO CHIHAUHUA CITY 1CL I'ASO, Texas, Dee. 10. Con firmation of the reported arrival ot Ounorsl Villa with 2000 men at .Ma dura, Chihuahua, several days ago, was glvon by Jauroz officials today Mob added that Villa was eu routs to Chihuahua City. Ilseuuio of tho rorout dispatch of numerous empty military trains to Casus Uruudos, Chi huahua. t 1 believed hero Villa In tend" retiming to Juarez, PEACE DEBATE! SIMULATE NATHN TD GREATER EFFO ARMY BOARD ASKSFORARMY OF 1,500,000 ! I General Staff Considers Hunc Mobile Army Necessary to Resist Invas ion and Protect Coast Third In Standing Army, Third Continental, Third Militia. WASHINGTON, Dec. 10. Score lury Garrison mntlo public today in connection with his annual report tho special national defense report uro purcil at his request by tho war col lege division of tho general stuff. It showed that the nnny itnolf considers that to secure the continental United States from attack it is necessary to havo a mobile nnny of 1,500,000, fully or partially trained men. It lniido tho following spceifiu recom recem recom mendateons: Regular army: Willi tho colors, 1 '2 1,000; reserves at cud of eight veur enlistment period, JI0!),00(); to tal, 500,000. Continental nnny: Un der training three months n year for each of three years, 500,000; on fur lough, subject to three months' addi tional training before taking the field, 500,000.. ()i'gimlcd ."Mllllla Organized militia: No provision be yond annual appropriation of $7, 000,000 and repeal of nil nets requir ing state soldiers to bu received into United Stales service In advance of any other force in time of war. In estimating tho cost of this es tablishment tho report figured as fol lows for tho first year: Regular nnny, $258,000,000; continentals, $87,500,000; militia, $7,000,000; to tal $3.-i:M 00,000. In addition to these figures, Secre tary Garrison points out, tin annual cxpenso of $2,000,000 for each of four years would bo necessary for harbor delenso and reserve materia! would cost for the first year ulono $28,10-1,78(1, milking tho grand totul for the first year $50:1,228,78(1. "Our abiding national policies," the board found to be the Alouroo doc trine mid tho avoiding of "entangling alliances.' lo maintain these, it says, a co-ordinated policy of laud and sua defense must bo evolved. Invaders Strength The report contained a military ta ble of tho strength of the leading for eign powers as of August, 1011, aud also an estimnto of tho availahlo shipping for a military expedition to the United States It said a "reasou nblo estimate" shows that Austria Hungary could send 180,000 men with all necessary stores and animals nerosH tho seas within -10.7 days in two expeditions; I ''ranee, -10 1,22(1 in .'10 days; Germany, 827,000 m 110.8 'days; Great Britain, 170,000 in 27 days; Italy, 227,000 in .'15 days; Ja pan, 2n8,n07 in -II days, mid Russia, 101,071 in 10 days. STEEL TRUST GETS I WASHINGTON, Dee 10 -No basis for tho charge that the United States .Stool company hud roculvod enormous rebutes from tho railroads during tho last six years has boon found In tho Interstate eommerco commission's In vestigations, This statement was mado today in rosponso to a resolution by Senator Luiio of Oregon, Tho commission Is In constant contact with tho records and accounts ot railroads and othor public curriers thiough its oxumlnors of accounts and bus reason to bo llovo thero "Is no basis for tho alle gation that tho wholosalo robatos have boon paid to tho stool corpora tion during thu period ot six yours nientlonod in tho resolution." NEW WORLD'S RECORD FOR BUTTER PRODUCTION BUFFALO, N. V., Dec 10. Lu.lv Pontiuu Johiiuuu, a cow valued at $20,000. has jut broken the world' record for butter production by viehl ing (!.'i8 pound of milk in one wuk, from which wus made II 81-101) pouuds of butter. This ecliies thu fonner butter record bv ."' i. Ludy Pontine Johanna is owned bv Oliver ( .ibaua, Jr, of Butlalo, A REBATE PROOIBITIONLAW OF WASHINGTON DECLARED LEGAL State Supreme Court Upholds Valid ity of Dry Law, Prohibition, Sale of Liquor After January I Saloons nml Drcwcrles Put Out of Business Initiative Sustained. OLY.MPIA, Wii., Dec. 10.--Tho atnto supremo court today affirmed decision ot tho lower court upholding tho validity of tho Initiative measuro adopted by tho voters at tho election of November, 1911, prohibiting salo ot liquor in tho stato after January 1,1916. Six Judges Joined lb tho do clslon upholding the lower court, two othora concurrod and Judge Bails man, who was appointed to tho bench nflor tho hearing was begun, 'did not Bit in tho enso. Tho court unnnlmoiifily upholds tho decision of Judgo D. P.' Wright, of tho Thurston county suporlor court, In which ho held Hint tho law was valid In every respect. Tho de cision of tho fliiproino court which covors fifty-eight typewritten pages, Is probably tho longest over banded down. As a result of tho court's con clusion ovory saloon and every brow ory in tbo stato will havo to go out, of buslucBS on January 1, although indlvldunla mny import for their own U80 not to exceed two quarts ot spir ituous or moro than twelve quarts of malt or vinous liquors for prlvato consumption In prlvato homes. Initiative Sustained Tho court In Its dcclson first dis poses of tho contention that tho ini tiative nud referendum amendment to tho constitution adopted in 1913 was invalid by upholding It on ovory point of nttaclc. Tho decision holds with Attornoy General Tanner, that whilo tho Inltlatlvo and tho referen dum woro submitted ns ono propo sition they both deal with tho subject of legislation and thcroforo mny bo proporly Included In ono amondiuoiit ns thero is hardly any subject thnt might bo submlttod thut id not capa ble ot being subdivided. Tho court says It will not go behind tbo Journal entry on fllo and tho proclamation ot the govornor, and will presume from tho official ac counts and records on fllo that all of tho Individual stops havo boon com piled with In ovory particular, Tho court adopts tho policy of tho "en rolled bill" dontrlno nnd concludes Hint tho law was duly submitted nud enacted according to law. Wots ftkso livery I'nlyt The contention ot tho brewors that n sufficient numbor of votes had not beon cast Is disposed of in short or der. In regard to tho "dlacrlmlatory" points rnlscd by tho opponents of tho law, which allows physicians and others to dispose of liquor, tho court nays tho quostlou is not n now ono but adds that tho prosont law docn not In any way vlolato tho rules of Interstate cominercu law Is handled by the court In saying that whilo thero Is a question ot tho right to rulso the point It is governed by tho clb Ken von federal act. REPEL BULGARS PARIS, Dec. lo -Montenegrin troops repulsed energetic attacks by tho Austro-IIungnrlans and forced them to rotlra beyond Dubotcbltza. December 8, according to un official communication received by tho Mon tenegrin consul gonoral hero toduyil Tho statement udds: "On Thursday an Austrian aero plano dropped bombs on Cettlnju without causing any damago. On tbo same day tho Austrlnns launched from neroplanos over tho Montono mln front a procaltuatton addressed to tho army and population advising them to couso reBlstanco or they would suffer tho samo fate us Serbia," GRAY AND KITCHENER SEE FRENCH PRESIDENT I ! n ii PARIS, Dec. 10. Sir Kdvrnn! Grey, tho British secretary for for eign affairs, and field Marshal Karl Kitehenor, secretary for war, who nro in Paris for eonforoncoa with French government ofticinN, wero received todaj bv Proidcnt Pomeuro, 1NENEG t;C