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MMMtaMMMMMWi... i. ,'t tf SECOND WEATHER Tonlghf ft ilit Thursday Haiti, Mn. r,r,t Min. rw, p, .07. .-wi whe iw mr-m, EDITION Medford Mail Tribune 'J Portv f ftfi Yptr, lllill T nlh Yrsr E Captor of Appam Reported Taken by 4, Armored Cruiser Drake After Three Hours' Runninn. Fight 200 Miles Northeast of Bermuda Two Merchantmen Also Taken. NUW YOFIK, Poll. 9. Advices ro- cclvcil hero today nsscrt Hint the Ger man warship Itoon, alleged to bo the captor of tho Appam, has been rap tured by the British armored cruiser Drako after a three-hour fight 200 nillcH eaHt northonst of Hormudn, ac cording to a story printed by the New York Kvonlng (Hebo. The enpturo of tho Uoon Is naltl by tho (Hebo to have been followed by itho seizure of two merchantmen, fly ing tho Gorman flag, 0110 of which wan armed. Tho story la contained In a moa- lango which the uiouo stales u ro- Icelvcd In codo from n rellablo source fin Uermuda. The luossngo rends: Messago "I" Capture. 'Drako hero todny towing Itoon. 'Took hor 200 knots oust northeast llormuda, threo hours' running fight. Lost Dnnforth, eighteen men. Hor losses about one-third. Struck as wo camo abeam. Two merchantmen with her, ono armed. Took both, brought bore. Sogravq, on sighting Itoon said: 'Ploaso God, todny I will avenge Cradock. Itoon Is badly knocked nbout by 9.2. Thirty-two of fleers and 711) men taken In tho threo prlzos." ThoSogravc mentioned In the mos- Isago Is supposod to bu Captain Sou- gravo who was with Admiral Cradock .when tho lattor wont down with his I flagship, tho Goodhope, which ns sunk In an engagement with a Gor- Imnn squadron off Chill. There Is no Dnnforth anions the officers in tho Ilritlsh navy list, z Sunk tho Dresden, Captain John It. Segrnve was In command of the auxiliary cruiser Omnia which formoa pnrt or Ad miral Crndock's squndron In the but tle off Chill. After tho battle the Omnia escapod and later, In com pany with tho cruiser Glnsgow and Kent sunk tho Gorman erulsor Dres den oft JUnn Fernando Islnnd. A few days lator, in March, 1015, Cap tain Segravo fought a bnttlo with the Gorman armed merchantman Navarra off tho Illvor Plate and sank her. Tho Orama was last roported at rballao, in June, ID 15, and since that time neither It nor Captain Segrave has figured In the nows. lor several days reports navo ocon current In maritime circles horo that the German commerco rnldor hnd iieen oitiier huuk or capiureo uy ui Illrltlsh, Tho Ilritlsh consulato. how- fever. has rccolvod no official tout; jmation of this report. WASHINGTON. Feb. 9. Tho Hrlt- Jsh embassy todny received advices from Ilritlsh agent in Now York that a man living on Staton Island, whose namo was not transmute!, nan re ceived a pilvate dispatch from Uer muda. saying tho Ilritlsh erulsor Drake had taken the Gorman erulsor ulooii and some . German merchant ship. The embassy had no further nilvlces. iPRESINI ACTS ON PHILIPPINE BILL A SHIXGTON. Feb 9. Presl, Jdcnt Wilson probail will call sen- ite and house leaders together soon I to agree on the oxaei lerms oi u I'bllipplno rndonondenee Mil. waloh has already paaaed the senate and threatened with amendment In tthe houge. He Indicated m muen 10 !la to the two Philippine commis sioners. The president wu told by the (commissioners that they approve the jlll as passed by the MUftla with the exception of too cIium providing that the president way refer tho ques tion of ludepoatfMco back to con- ?ress at tho end of four years If Uo thinks the Ktltpiaoa unfit for ma- jHTilf!Be uThe said thN wanted a liinr Mt nKil the r..Jniiis wouin a y Hi RAIDER B 1 HUGHES DECLINES CANDIDATE " mnuLiu FOR THE PRESIDENCY CHARLES CVAN3 I lUGHK. WASHINGTON', Feb. 0 Hepro- wentntivc Slemp, chairman of Hie Vir ginia republican committee, todny made public n letter from JiiHtlco Hughes declaring: 'My Uenr Mr. Slemp: Your leller of February ;i bus been received. 1 urn entirely out of politics and t know nothing whatever of the mutters to which you refer. I nm totally oppog- Lcd to tho use of my niimi? in connec tion with the nommntion nnd to tho "election or instruction of nny dole gntes in my interest, either directly or remotely. Very sincerely yours, (sAilcd.) ('HAS. It IIUflllKS." .Iiiiifo Hughe' Idler, mndo pub lic with hi .consent, wns.iu reply to it letter from, Mr. Slemp, which in formed the justico Fruuk II. llitch eoek, postmaster general under Pres ident Tuft, hnd.iiiuugurntod n movo- inonl in the south favoring the jiistieo for the republican presidential nom inntioii. TO SPEED OP DEFENSE WASHINGTON, Feb. 0. - President Wilson todny begun el forts to speed up congress on the national defense plans. He conferred with Itopreson- tntivei liny, Dent and McKellnr of the Iiouso military committee, in an effort to bring about tin agreement on nn army bill. In aeoonlHiieo with his policy of working for preparedness along non partisan lines, the president has ask ed Itoprosonlatives Knhn, Anthony mid MoKonaio, ranking republicans of the committee, to discuss the same ipu-tion with him tomorrow. loiter he c,wets to see both rejmhlicnu and democratic member of the souuto military committee. The house military oommittoo bo gau executive sessions today to draft tho army bill, a ft or hearing a dele gation from the Society of Friends, headed by William S. Hull of Hwarth more college, which told (he commit- I tee that war and preparation for war were morally wrong in their Mew, and urged that international diugree nieiils bo Kittled bv judicial means, the Tinted States leading in U world movement ( tluit end. SEAPLANES RAID LONDON, Feb. 9. Two German seaplanes raided the coast of Kent to day, dropping several bombs. No casualties have been reported. The fallowing official statement wm given out tenight: "At 3:10 p. m. two German sea planes wort reported approaching the coast of Kent. A few mUutoo later these two saplanes dropped three bombs in a field en tho outskirts of Ramsgat. Four bombs were dropped near a sokool at HroadsUlri. Threo of the lattor esplodod. No casualties taae been report- i il n l,itnat!c i ijiiMii otbi-r WILSON IS PLANS FR NATON BRITISH AST 1 tliun to D a; MKDFOIM RDAMIFIQ l BATHE BEGUN Clifford Thorne, Iowa Railroad Com missioner, Assails Conduct of Brandels In Freight Rate Case as Unprofessional Infidelity and Breach of Faith Charfled. WASHINGTON', Fob. 9. Investi gation of President Wilson's nomi nation of Louis I), llrnndols of Uob ton, to tho supromo court bench was begun today by n sonnto sub-committee, which first heard Clifford Thorno, chairman of tho Iowa board of railroad commissioners, who wni associated with Mr. Ilrandols In the fight ngalnst giving tho eastern rail roads Increased freight rates. Mr, Thorno assailed the conduct of Mr Ilrandols In that case: "I hollovo tho nomlneo before this committee was guilty of Infidelity, of broach of faith and or unprofes sional conduct In connection with ono of the grentost easos of this gen eration," ho sntd. 'Simply Dumbfounded." air. Thorno chnrgod that Mr. Dran dels, as an nttornoy nppearlng for tho shippers, conceded that tho rato return to tho railroad was Inndequato and that Mr. Urandels In his opening oral argument to tho Interstnto com merco commissi' .n concoded that tho roturns wore Inconsistent with pros perity of tho railroads nnd wolfnro of tho public. "I was simply dumbfounded by tho staton,iont," declared Mr. Thorno. "For four cars' the railroads had been fighting to ostnbllsh that be fore tho Interstate commission. They hnd en'rrlod on u nntlon-wldo propa ganda In nowspnpers, mngazlnos, spoeehos nnd In every concolvablo mauiiax, am not saying dishonestly. Coiicodiyl Itulli-onil l'olnt. "I was dumbfounded to hear nt tho conclusion of this groat caso Involv ing .'i0, 000,000 annually Intorost on a billion dollars If you adopt tho standard of dollars .and cants the grentost caso over trlod boforo a hu man tribunal slnco tho dawn of civi lization to hear counsel concede tho very point nt Issue at tho tlmo tho caso was sot down for argument." E l'F.THOOHAl), Feb. 0, in London. Hovero fighting it. ngnin developing on the Dvinwk front, preliminary ar tillery duels htiviug been succeeded bv u eontinuous bombardment of grenl intensity on both iile-. Tho (lerniaus, who bad taken tin initiative in the new conflict, attacked the railway station at Liksno, on tho oust bank of tho I'.lna, seven miles northweot of Driiwk, which would np penr to indicate n seriou penetra tion of llio iiMMan lini'K. nut tne Kushinii stuff explains that the fler man furees wore nimble to udvniiec, htill occupying their old ixmitions, and succeeded in reuehing Liksno only !). uuig heavy nitillory, which they now hac had time to mount. Little importance is attached to the prediction of a great tlerowu on ens ive again! Itiga and Dvinsk in Mun-h. ItiiHMiin mibtarv men believe the I)iuk-I(ign line is impregnable, WASIUNUTO.V, Feb. 3. Senate: Foreign relations committee recom mended tho ratification of the Ilatieu treaty. Secretary Daniels before public lands eommltteo opposed Opening western oil lands to public. Heuse: Hearings on national de fease continued by military and naval affairs committee. Witnesses In Impeachment pro- Ol eoedings against United sHatoa s torney Marshall of New York, heard in i xi-fiitiv.' hyyMon ! Judiciary ttj Coluuilt'iC, UPON BRANDEIS EVER FIGHTNG D1K FRONT DAY IN CONGRESS OltKdON. Vi:i)IsI) VN. BITTERLY OPPOSED BY PRIVILEGE IN SENATE WIFE OF NEWLY NOMINATED S MY-v I .nm I) Ilr.iin'ii , wluc-r- h people," h.i ju-.l been miincil b tin- I'liited SIhIcm supremo court. Lint shows the entrance to Itu-ir modest ton. ftOMH, Feb. 0 Tho- Olornnle d' Italia statos that MonNlgnor Tnecl Porcelll, papal numio to Ilelglum, prosonted to Ilelglum tlermaiiy's pro posal for a separate peaco. Whether ho was authorized to do so by tho vatloan, says the newspapor, 1ms not boon nscortalnod. It Is said that Germany, through I'rlnco Von Huolow and other prom Inont personagos, has IndfeattHl that tho tonus she Is ready to offer to Ilelglum for tho concluding of a sep arato pouco comprlie tho rootoratlon of IlolKttim to the govornmont of King Albert and the pnymont or a largo Indomnlty for damngoa cnusod by tho Invasion and tho occnupatlon and that she asks on tho roturn eco nomical and commerelnl privileges which would transform tho port of Antwerp Into a German nontor of traffic To those proposals Ilolglum Is said to have replied with a prompt refusal and a declaration nf inton tlon to odhore to the allies and not to conclude n eparate poneo. Statements regarding efforts be ing made to Induce Cardinal Mereler, who Is now living In Home, to use his influence In favor of proposals for a sopsrate pi-acr- have also been made, but it Ik ti- rled they have been entiul In .h PERSIANS DEFEAT MFItLIN', Feb. ! Ci.n-lniiliiKipl' reports gien out in.l.. b the (iwi fceiiK Kohh ngeiii-v -tniu that llu-Ki.in J'oroes in I'eriu huc met whh a se vere defeat at the bunds of l'ersinu trihesmoH ami that they retreated in disorder. ( The Persian forves, aeHriliug to thoso nilviees, were undar couimaml of llnidar My. They attacked the ItiiHsiaua uear Handnfrulak, which was reconquered by tht natives. MUItl.lX, Feb. 0.--Ailviiwa wore reccivwl from ('oii-lMiitiaojile today that another group f liritisk prison ers cHpturwl by tho Tartu k ike light ing at lSssin, on taa Tigris he low Kut-el-Amara, has been taken to fohul. in Assyria. 'J'.'O niilcs north- west of Magtfad. It ih said the con- yoy coosisted of ' ID men out or n great number captured. LONDON, Feb. -fttlllery ac tions between toe Ireo'h ;0il Ilrit lsh aad the Ocrmaus roatluue at var ious iHiints (Qn the Franco-Helidau front, l.ut lbir u- ii'on no lmior tam h-ilies in j'i-itiiii4 aiiwjnri' GERMANY OFFERS ' BELGIUM PEACE THROUGH PONTIFFS RUSSIAN 0 E 1-T.HHr.MlV H. 1'Hii UPREME COURT USTICE AND THEIR MODEST HOME i - .h.iml. the Limine 'Inwn of the pn-ubnl lor the iiiiic in the door ill the loll m the picture about homo in the Muck May dilri't of Hus GERMANS CM CAPTURE OF LINE HF.ltl.JN'. Fib. 0. rupture of the fir-t line French po-iluuw over n front of KIKI Minis to the west of Viiny wus niiiiiiiiui'ed todu, by the war office. The Ooimnii attack was iiinde uonr the Heatem end of tho Fihc1u front, a short diatanee below Die fiolglnn bolder in the region which haft been the kccho of pronounced aelivity ro cenlly. Vimy is two miles northeMat of N'ouvillo, uenr which town tho nor ma ns Isle last month made an In fantry attack, capturing, an roported by Merlin, 'about MOO yards of French positions. 1'AltlS, Feb. 0. Tho 1'ioniih wnr office this afternoon gave out tho following Htntemeut: "In Artois artillery on both sides continued to show activity. On the front extending from Mill M0 to the road from Keuville to lfollo, tho OcroiuitM just after midday e.vlodl two mines houvily ehnrged. "W'cfct of IjiTolie Ihey were able to 1 Mind rule some portions of our treuchcM which they had destroyed by lb"' cx4oHioiit, but at certain MiinU wo drove them out by nn of iVitii' hand grenade attack. The I'ighling eontiniieil during the night. "SiHilh of the Homme rivor we biiiiibiirdeil the enemy'- trenches. "In the Vni.gcM there hum cmiuou iidmt.' o both -idfH in tin- neighbor IiimiiI ni I Idi t iiui ii- YYi'ili-iknpl." OF NKW YOltK. Feb. S Kxpoctatlon or the solution of the ui)stery of the murder lu November, 1911, of Ilarnet llaff, an independent poultry dealer, who had been fighting the so called chicken trust was an nounced by the ikjIIvo today with the arrest of Frank Ferrera, a plumb er, on the charge of homicide. According to tho police Ferrern confessed to participation In the crime and gave the names of the men tho hlrod the murderers, of those who furnished the money to pay them, and o tho gunmen, who from an aiiluMeblle, shot Ilatf down after he bad left his store In re sponse to Omysterleu telephone mes sage. A Lugo nuiubar of arrests were ins'i at the Urn and wvtirnl men w imlletod, but tbolr proaoeuUen hu ubundonud -Xecuuse eorroboru live t ni. nit; vmix nut obtainable. FRENCH TRENCHES SOLVE MYSTERY D MURDER SEK 10 BLOCK N HON Nomination of People's Attorney Comes Like a Bomb From an Un seen Zeppelin Trivial Charges Arc Made to Keep Man of Contempo rary ideas on Social Problems Off My nir.sox n.iti)N'Kii. WASUIN'OTON. Feb. !).-- I.iko n bomb from nn uuhccii Zeppelin camo the nomination of I,onin I). Mrnndci to the I'nited Stnloa suprenio court. On the noiiiiIo, whoxo ilnlv mid priv ilege it is to confirm .judiinul np poinlinents, hucIi whs the effect. Cnn ho ho eonfirnieil? Tlllil wns Ihe instant and insistent pitry. A ninn of contempomrv blena on social problems ivpniinnted for tho supremo court- -thnt is tho sensntion. How could it hnppeu? Never before hud it hiippeued. Men hnvo been made Mipromc court judgON to maintain the institution of chattel shivery; as n reward for delivering needed volcn in tho electoral college; to muke the court Mufc iigniiiNt Iiiwh like tho in come tux net; mid beouuse railroad ami other big business interests ap proved their legnl and judieinJ rec ord ;huf to iiiinm n mini because he known economics nnd bus hud n pmctienl experience with iudiislrinl problems, nnd harbor convictions ns to tuelliods for dealing with 6U!'h pndileuiK ia so unprecedented ns to lie stunning. ("onti-nry to Trndltoni, Fuilhor, to choosoen uuin who has openly nnd stubbornly opposed crookudiitMH in higji finnuco f tculius; in temiN of millions -who bus ilisiip proved of the underpayment nnd ov erworking of labor, jw conl inrv lo thu niot hallowed traditions of a long cutiiblisheil order. Finully, to sug gest invading the siipieine bunch by miming ns one of its judges a man who has always approved the princi ples of trades unionism, who has do vtMcd methods for adjusting dipulo between sweathhop workers and their employer ; who has urged the aboli tion of bludgeoiiry and espionage in business competition; who lias fought desperately to preserve thu public do main, including the remaining miner als, forests and wuterpowor sites, and whoso sympathies are notorious ly with the average man nnd iigiiinst tho privileged few I lie selection of such it man for the Fulled Slates an prcmo court is clearly mi overturning of all tluit is snuctilied by ago mid precedent. Chargo as .Made The charges against Louis 1). Mmudcis on which llio special privi lege senators rely to opivose his con firmation as justice nf the supremo court are Ion rued on good authority to be substantially these; (1) That Mramleis has spoken- disiospoel fully of eonslilutiniM ami flipiMiutly of the menial attitude of the courts; (2) that he has liecn on both sides of I he shoe machinery (mat, first as counsel for the trust and then in op IHikition to it; (:i) that he lost tho publn-'s case against increased fivighi rates befiue the interstate commerce coimnixsioii by admitting Ibnt the railroads mailed more revenue-; mid ( I) thai he did something in ibe famous Ilnllinger-I'inchot in- M'-tigntioii which members of tho Miiate will try to characterise us "unprofessional conduct." Charges Aunlyisl, The busia of the firt charge is Mrundeis' public statements that (Continued on page two.) F E5PE I RUNS 10 MAZA1UN WASIHNOTO.S', Feb. 9 -Tho first train in four years oter the South ern Paelfie line from Nogalue, Ariz., to Msxatlau, was run January SO. State department reports say railroad officials are hopeful of keeping tho line opan. Consul ISdwanls at Juaret reports that persoiu from Caaai Qraiulea deny that Villa executed or eauaed to be executed a nut iber of women ihuraeil with being spies, as was re pord homo time ago. NO. 271 5D Prosecutions Involve German Consu lar Officials, Shipowners, Agents and Sellers of Supplies for Plots to Blow Up Munition Plants and to Organize Military Expeditions. RAX FIIANVISCO, Cnl., Feb. 0. Tlio brondneKs of the government's proposed prosecution of nllcgcd Oer man bomb nnd shipping plots, involy iiiflr Cloniinn conatilnv'nfncinlh, fchip owners, ngents 'nMd Kellers of sup plies wns hliowit todny as dotitils of indictments voted nguluat thirty-two men nnd finnn becnnio known. F.vcn the little bnrkontino llctricver, libd to hervlmrf in.je bay, wns. in volved hoenuse otjm nllejcd opntcm plijlert trip to cottl Qernmn wnpiifps off Uio'hunua moro thHti-fl Jifijjp0! in iho ghTBc of a moiiti'n'piettirc?df pedition. Perils of tho deep, it wna given out, were (o bo portrayed na never boforo Willi the Ketriovcr figuring therein, in front of n enmern. Investigation by government agents brought the report to the district attorney's offioo thnt tho lletriover wiih full of coal. The neeesiity of this cargo, on n sailing vessel, engaged in the motion picture business, was not evident to the in vestigators and tho Kctricvor never got nwrty nt nil. .1,1st or ludlctrsl. The complete list of thoso indicted, ns lundo piibllo today, Is: For coiiHplniey to intorforo with commerco tuidor tlio" Sliuriiuin "aim trust not nnd for conspiracy to or gnnlzo u mllltnr ospctlitieii: Fmni UopV, cotTsTicnPrnl1rof (icnnuiiy. Huron Kcklinnlt If. Von Sohnek, vice consul genernl. Huron floorge Wllhelm Von Mrinc ken, nttucho. .lohniines HenrikiiH Vnn Koolber grn. alleged Genimu agent, t rhnrlos O. Crowley, duleolivo em ployed by Herman coiisiilnto. Mrs. Margaret V. Cornell, nssist uut to Crowley. All thoso nro- involved in nllogcil plota to blow up Ciimidhiu tuuncls mid Amoricuii powdrr mills. I'niudiilcnt MaiilfosLs. For conspiracy to defruud tho gov ernment by milking fraudulent mani fests, in the nllcgcd shipping plots in volving Iho Hotriovor, Siicruuicuto, Muzntlaii mid Olson nnd Mabeny: Henry Y. K. Kmiffumiiu, ohnncol lor of the flenuuu consulato general. Moliert Cnpullu, ngout hero for tho Xorih German Lloyd Stiwiiufihip oom pnny. Mmirlfo Hall, oonsul goncrnl for Turkoy. lohii mid Julius HotliBohild, whole sale grocer. Oeorge mid James Mood, shipown ers ami brokers. Philip l(. Thayer, prooiilcnt of llio Northern & Southern Stonnishlp Co. II. II. Swnyne, of Swnynu & Iloyt, shipping brokers. John (1. Iloyt, of miiiiq firm, C. I). Mnnker of C. I). Mutikor & Co.. shipping brokers. Joeph L. Illey of C I), Mnnkur fi Co. Dead Man ludlctcl, Captain Fred Jobseii, shipowner, rHirted killed on a flomiim s ub urn -riue. Or, Simon Mulmer, raportcXl to bo a Oenuan iiavul jifficor,f J. K. Mien, nttornoy. T. A. Anderson, onpliiin of tho Sacramento. Itennn Ivlfieke, Gustnv Trfitib, Ad- (Oontlnuca on Page Two) OPERATORS REJECT M.OHILK. Ala., Feb. 0. Demands formulated by the United Mine Work citm of Amoncn at their rebuilt cou ventiou at Indiniiupolls were todny formally tvjeutod us a wholo by Iho ujterntom of Hip? ocitytil tdiuH)tUivo liituminniik conl flohif unu IJjo joint conference of empioorfi -innd em ployes ut oiieo took iipjfor.disoiiHhiou the eleven demuuds sariatlm. This il the usual lorinnlitv fullowcd in thu iiiiiTtntc eoiitVrciicca, . , hUKNtU KAU T CONSPIRACIES ft be frtc,