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FORECAST h'Allt TO.NK.'IIT AMI Tlll'liSIUY. Forlv-'lith Tear. IihIIv lOli-vi-nth To President Wiit Confer With Manag ers of Railroads and Employes To morrow at White House Issue Rests Pending Final Decision on Both Sides. WASHINGTON, Am;. Ili. Presi dent Wil-on late tmitiv completed a definite plan for settlement of the threatened railroad strike which be will submit tomorrow to the j:encrnl committee of (flu (5-10 representatives, (if the "employed' and to the railroad manager. Tlu jtln involve I he acceptance" of a h.i-ii t'iuhuhour day with regular pay for overtinie and an in ventilation In a commision of other issues. . r-rt WASHINGTON, An-.; KJ. Out of the deadlock between the railroad liinimuers and (lie brot herhood lead ers a new proposal appeared today for a rpecial commiiou lo consider imt only ihe pre -out vn;.c dispute, luii all iltrrs in the futuie. While Prc-idcnt Wilson, the ninn nyris committee and the spokesmen lor the men awaited the arrival of the employes committee of J 4 0 whi;h is expected here from New York to morrow for the next while house con ference, administration officials and the representatives of the two sides considered the committee idea with a decree of seriousness which indi cated it would come into the negoti ations as one of 'he next steps in the president's attempt to avert a nation-wide stiiUi. WASHINGTON', Amlt. Hi. Presi dent Wilson decided today to post pone further" conferences with the representatives of the railroads and employes on the threatened railroad .strike until tomorrow, when he will receive the .general coinmiltee of 6-10 workmen in the east room of the white house. In the meantime the committee of manimct-s here and tin general committee of the employes will meet to (lisciws tenia live plans now before them. In t he meantime, the president llirou-:h dud-re William 1,. t'hamhers of I lie federal hoard "f mediation and conciliation, will keep in close touch with Ihe representatives of Jioth sides. Nn enjjn Yemeni has been made for the mnnnijcrs' committee, hut it is probable that the president will see t hem tomorrow. The plan on which the president is working is to put into effect Ihe citiltf -hour day and have a federal commission investigate collateral issue-. Details of the plan have not been worked oaf, but it was said to be possible' today that if the rail roads conceded an ciht-hour day the employes will be uryed to eive up their demand for time and a half iverttme. The proposed commi-sion invest i cation would imt have power to en force any dcci.-ent but would inve ii'jalo all of the pieMioiis involved in the controversy and make recom mendations. 'fhe halt in the negotiations has heen caused primarily by the faet that the brotherhood leaders who have been meeting with the president have no plenary powers and have to refer all ini'Mtrtant ipie-tions back to their general committee in New York. President ' AVil-on deeiiled time wonJd be saved and better results achieved if the 610 members of the (Continued on page tlx) JEALOUS WIFE IN FUftY. KILLS RIVAL M.uiYsvn. .:. y.r., Aim. ir. Wliil scores iif traveler t the llur- 11" 1,H .In M; tVi :tun depot looked mi tutluy, .Mr. A. (iiliimre. -I'i years ulil. wile of 11 nl livery iiriipricttit-, I'iri'il lour N at Mr. Klin Shipp-, nl.-n of ry-vill... All tin- liulleN took i-f. t. Mr-. Siiiiii- ilii-il a fi'iv min - i;itri-. Mr. (iilmnrc IkiiiiIi-iI Iut ut. 8-HOUR DAY ON BRITISH UNABLE ROADS, BASIS TO WO BREAKTHRO AVERT LOCKOUT TEUTON DEFENSE rtvnlM-r tn n b -tinnier, unlki'il t-j tin- iicrilt".- iifliri- ii ml "iirri-inltTi'il. Hutli f;nni!ii- nil' inMii.iiM'iit. Mr. Shiip wn l; i-;ir nlil mill ilinrr'il. Mr. tiiliiHTi' rrci'iitly tili'it uit fur ili Yirvi .li'iili'Uy i niil tn linvi' JUltllllltl li till tllllltill. M EDFORD Berlin Tells of Being Outnumbered Six to One, Yet Holding Foe Cer tain Death to Be in First Trenches During Artillery Fire Horrors of Most Murderous Battle of History. GKRMAN TU'KNVIIKK. OPPOS ITK THK lilimsil PORTION AT GOMMKrol'liT, ON TIIK SOMMK F1IONT, Au-.H, via Merlin and Say ville, ui. 10 (from a staff corre spondent of the Associated Press). Half a million British have been en irnyed in an effort to break tlte Ger man lines oa the Somme front. Of ten, as in the fiiihtiui; on the Gont mecouii and Ilebutorne, the Itrilish outnumbered the Hermans six to one. They have named ground to a depth of from three to five miles over a front of about eighteen miles, but no where have been able- to break through. .More than ever death has become a commonplace in this most murderous battle of all times. The Germans in the first line know that they prob ably will be killed if I heir positions are attacked. Trenches are virtu ally useless, for the heavy Itritish shells widen them into broad chan nels, affording no cover of any sort. The first tine usually perishes. The advani'intr Mritish foot troops are no better off, because the Ger man reverse the process when part of their positions have been captured. After the Itritish artillery has lev elled the German trenches the infan try rushes in, often lo be thrown out aiiaiu as soon as the Itritish artillery ceases lire, which it has to do, owiny; to the proximity of tlte opposing lines. Thus the battle has been oini.r on for weeks, the opposing forces now frn in ula; at terrific cost and then losing at a jrrcnt cost, a .-few yards of trcuelies. At present all the fii:hliny; by the lirilUh is carried on from their Po zieres salient, where their drumfire is uueeasiiii; day or niirbt. German officers who were in the t'hainpane offensive ' said no sm-h artillery fire ever had been developed previously. The German fire, too, is terrific. An idea o.f its intensity may be gain ed from the fact that on certain Itrit ish troops German L'lins threw OH) shells in one minute and forty-five -centals, result int' in irrcnt slaughter. Often the Itritish assault dies be fore the German second line, from which machine yuns pour out streams of bullets which literally cut the men into fragments. At one time the As sociated Press correspondent umd within 800 yards of the Itritish trenches near Dclville wood. Nearbv the Germans had .just buried l'JOfi Itritish as lulls in the lirini permit ted. Some .")00 Itritish pioneers who the correspondent saw behind the firiiiy line plainly, were still da.ed from the shock. They were a sorry spectacle, ;lnd they had escaped from ''hell," as they termed it. The correspondent visited the en tire front of the present offensive and everywhere found from talks with Germans that they were more deter mined than ever to stand their ground. CALIFORNIA 1L IS E Of EARL LONDON. Aug. Hi. T;,e Karl of Tottenham was married in' St. George's church, Hanover square, l day, to Miss Patricia Iturke, daugh ter of the late J. II. Murke of Calk fornia. Walter Winans gave the bride nway. Viscount Crowhursl. eldest son of the carl, acted as best man. The Karl of Tottenham's first wife was Lady Kose Neville. She died in lit Hi. Sugar Company Dividends NKW VOliK. Ainr. Hi. The ("itlnjn-Ameriean Sugar company director- today declared an extra divi dend of Hi per cent in ca-h ami 40 per cent in stock in the c"iiiiii;j -lock, in addition to the regular ipmr teily dividend of per cent on that issue. University of Orefjon jj' Library .i MEDFORD HKhthitf Avblsker lor whisker, ( luules Kvans MukIioh and !. Hamilton Lewis are swiauinu around Ihe (Mditleal etrelc, talking for auk against 1 1 unites for president. Kverywhere Hu flics' wliiskc-i-s go .). Ham Lewis' will follow. Voters east, west, norili and south will he deluded with bewhlskeml oratory. If the campaign is to he won by the cutest whiskers. It is llnied the laurels will o to .!. Mam. He nursed his earcfuily while ettriiinu' the name of "hest tlii'ssed and politest seaa(4tr" in Washington. The whiskers of both are shown here. Which Ls which? ENTENTE ARMY IN WEST FAILS UKlit.lX, An-. Ili The battle of Pozieres has died dowa after a lon series of Itritish attacks which the war oft ice says gained them nothinii. The Itritish infantrymen remained in their trenches alt day yesterday. A nitrht attack near Ovillcrs fniled. There was lively fihtiiijr airnin 'terday stint beast of Annentieres and in the Artois,' savs the official t statement today. "In the rei;ioii of pozicres tin' Itril ish continued their fruitless attacks until yesterday moruinir. Throu-houf the day their inlantry olid nothing. A nocturnal attack north of Ovillcrs failed. "At Moulin-sous-Tont vent, in the Aisue district, artillery fiiihlin was aain revived temporarily on both sides, in conjunction with a fruitless ('reach ias attack. Kat of lilicims strong icconnoiterim; dci.ichments of i the enemy were repulsed. ' SPRING WHEAT WASHINGTON, An-. Hi ''Di.m ajie'by bliyht and nist continued on late-sown sprin- wheat in the north ern parts of the spring wheat area n ml extended into northeastern Mon tana, although the extension of rust damage was cheeked somewhat by t he cooler weather t ha t preva iled," the weather bureau today announced in rcviewiii" crop conditions for the week which ended yesterday, in the national weather and crop bulletin. Corn "encrnlly was benefited bv the weather exi cpt in Kansas, Oklahoma and north and west Texas, where lit tle or no rain fell. PltlNCK KUPKKT, H. C, Aug. 16. Mtb. Mary Sities and two of her ohlldren of I'ort Clemenls, Queen Charlotte islands, died today and Mrs. Si pea' mother and another child jtioiial tenuis dmb!i mutch here lo wi're made critically ill of ptomaine ' day, 8-(i, (i f. (i- f. tnun Lew ilaifly poisoning caused by eating fish, j and Nat Kmci-on of Memphis which Mrs. Si pes prepared recently. southern ihampioii-. Mrs. SipeH and the two children died I " - .-jl-.- before aid could be summoned by her mother, who in sjiite of her own IM-j ness, managed to reach a neighbor's ' house. 1 t Old Soldiers Organize CHICAGO, Aug. Hi. Pmly-liv. pun isional regiments, including ap proximately .")IU"HI men, have been organized among the veterans of for eign wars of Ihe United State- since i the sending of state troops to thej border. These regiments are prepar- ; cd to be mu-tcicd into the federal ervir-e. immediately upon their ne- j ceptam'c by the government in event j of a war involving the United Stale-, j according to a report ot Adjutant General IL A. Woodnlc of Pitts burg. Gnsolir.e Prices Dro) ClIlfACO, Auc ii;- ;aolim mis roiliK i'il in priri' lo 1 7 a pillion Iutp to'luv. a ri'iiucliun of J I'l-nt, X MAIL TRIBUNE OKF.fiOX. WKDXKSDAY. WHOSL IS WHOSE? l -TV 'Vj( 4v GERMANS CLA M CHECK TO SLAV E Czar's Force" Capture Jalilonitza and Importar.t Heights at Gateway to Hungary No dance on Somme Aviators Active Alnng Italian Lines on Gorizia Front. LONDON, Anir. Hi. The Italian progress is continuing from Gorizia southeast ward toward Triest , in which direction add it if ma I AuM i ian trenches are reported captured. A .Milan newspaper dispatch car ries a report that the Merman-will take over the defense of Triest. Teutonic resistance to the Ifnssian pressure in Gnlieia is increasingly stroll:. Iterlin n-ports only minor fmlitin on the Dnie-ti't', while Pet- roi'ad announces n check lo the ad jvanee in northern Galicin. The Uussiaiis, altera considerable I period of inacti ity in the Carpath 'iaas, are inovinir ayuresivcly a;:ains the teutonic forces there. l-ollow-in;- the takiiiLr of .lahlonit .a, one of the chief gateways to Hungary, they have captured a series of heights west of Voroklita ami Ardzcnmv. Alonjr the preach front in rtomme renion Hiere was in activity duriii!: hist niuht. At Verdun there wi: a viident ar tillery bombardment cast of the Mciise, but no infantry nctivily. L'aids by both Aulrian and Ital ian aii'ineu arc occin rinr with I're- aud (iorizia, where rival aviators are! endeavorini; p ial'liet material dam- ae behind the opp-.inu: Hues, LONDON. Aug. III. "With the ex ception of minor inlantry enaiic ments in the vjeiniiy oj' I 'ozieres, where our line i bcin consolidated, theic i-' no chanue between the Alien' and the Somme," the war office re port of today sjiy.-. "There was some heavy shelling by both sides during the niht." McLoughlin Wins Match LAKK POWKST. 111., Aug. Hi.--Maurice McLoughlin and Ward Daw ou of Los Amide-. Pacific eoa-t champion, won tl..ir semi-final na - WILL OF ( I.K KI.AMl. .. A...,-. Hi l;ii'' liilniil Iht lli'iiil. Iililikril ii-r ff- niul wi-iit lijti'U.lii -lri.i. '1'liiit' Iimw Miil' li -hr worrii-ii jiIi.imI ii ln'iiiil of hno -In-fclinr I'niiiriiili- ri'ri'i lnti' ini-lri'-. Mr-. N'i: niul lirr tlii'i IIih M. I'owi'l: ON ALICIA LIN Al'dl'ST 1(5, IDlii E FEAR LIFE LOSS f LONDON, An-. Ili. --The cities of i Ancona, Pesaro and b'imini, Italy. were sliauen by an earilnpinke early t his niorniti, says a St el aai News ajiency dispatch liom Koine today. Xo ilatua ue was done at Ancona, but al Pearo and Itimiui houses were wrecked and it is feared that at b'im ini there has been los- of life. PAK1K. Au. Hi. A llavas auency dispatch from Home todav reports an eartlupiake shock at Kiinini, Ancona ami Pesaro ami in the neighborhood j Plainly Hinted by the Imperial ehah icyion. The shock was felt at. about U-cllor in his Hpeei-h Inline relclistug S o'clock this morning, many houses April 4. when he made known to collapsing. j everyone that Germany harbors no It is feared, says the dispatch, rhnt Minns ni aggression or animxatlon at l.'iinini persons are under the towards Canada, Ilrazll or any por ruins. No deaths are reported front tlons of America whatever." Pesaro or Ancona. According to final reports receiv ed, the total captures by the troops I'POP' GEERS DOES AIll r IM 1 rfl V T N I'mH HULL 111 I ,00 "The number of offiecrs and men. I including combatants am) ihiiihiiii O., Aug. Hi. When batanls, taken prisoner and caution veteran race driver, jam! machine guns taken bv ihe troops ( (iLl'MDI'S "Pop" Geers, t drove Napoleon Direct under the wire first in the initial heat of the free-for-all pace of the grand circuit races here this afternoon, he negoti ated tor the first time in his long caiccr a mile in two minutes or hct- ter. The time f I m!)-,. Ih. mile was LONDON, Aug. Hi. Two new Ger man submarines of very large size will depart very shnrtly for America, necordiiiM to ji Central News dipateh from The Hague. Il is said I hese -n hum i'i a es hit ve iiuide t rut I In) lately. $47C0 for 'Change Scat Ci'H'AGO. Aag. Hi.- . Memberships :to tli Chicii-jo hmird of trade -..ll for . 17011 today, an inn-case ot f.MMl recent 'y b-d t the investigation. Of sinec yc-teiflay and aliuo-I double ' IWr- a--i-rt th-v foaml eviilence the price of a year ago. The price I hi'-h lemb-d in l that the hoiso i- sjiid lo he the highi'st on record. I Imd ! gien p-.i-(ti. WOMAN LEAVES $800 FOR CARE OF Iiiiy." Our nr tin- I'niir iilv Williil ! Wlii-ii .Mr-. I'iiivi'H'm will win. ii'uil,; it w'ii-. I'iiiiihI lluil Mi-. Mnr.i Alilrii'li ('iinl'ii'lil, ii u'likiT in llii' Aniiiiiil I'ro- ii'i'lin- li'ii'jni', li.nl liii'ii :i 1 1 11 1 ( In ll-r ijli. illrnllll' iliilll -tSMII tu rill'l' ii' llii' fill- I'm lil'f. KAISER NO FOE TO DANI Von Jayon Issues Statement That Germany Harbors Plan of Aq ijresslon nr Annexation on Any Part of America Deny -Plot to Balk Purchase !y U. S. A. j ItlCltLIN, Auk. 1 tlty WlrelesK (to Suyvlllo) In view of reports that j Germany was apprehensive over the j proposed sale of the Danish Went In- dies to the United States the lureixu I minister, Gottlieb Von Jukow, made ; the statement today that the Ger jman government xvas not opposed to . such a transfer, j Dr. Von .latfow's statement was ! made in response to tin hxpilry by .a representative of the Overseas News Agency reuurdinn reports ema nating from a 11 ritisli source that In connection with the proposed tranH j Ter apprehension was felt in the. United States because "a certain foreign power had adopted an under handed antagonistic attitude toward ! the change In ownership of these Islands." !Dr. Von Jugow stated, says the 'news agency announcement, that he 'only knew ot the matter from what ; he had read In the newspapers, hut that one thing was absolutely cer ; titiu. "Gnrmany In antagonistic," said the foreign minister, "to nobody's in tention as to the distribution of sov 'creign rights in these parts of the I World. The German policy was jof General Drussiloff during the op j rations from June 4 to Anuiit PJ. tin which period the fortified lines id i Ausiro-ticrmans stretidun tr 'iver Pripel to the Kumani ,,,,, W(.,.(. taken, were as follows t rctchin"; t rom iimanian of General Kaledine were 2!!Hl of ficers and HlT.li'J.") men, 1-17 guns, 4")!) machine guns niul 1 Hi bomb and mine throwers. Ily General Let chit zky. Jl.'tn offiecrs," lttl,:7S men, V27 ean non, -Ili -I machine guns, I bomb and mine throwers atwl .l.'i powder carts: by General Sn klia rfd'f. 1!H7 ofticers, 87,- IS men, 7li guns, 'J-'t'J ma eh i ne g tin-. 111 bomb and mine thrower- ami I'JS powilcr carts." E NATI PoliT MADISON, In., Aug. Hi.- j lnvetigalion of an alleged plot to 1 poUon horses con-iitiiicd to ugents of ' the entente allies wns begun here to- jdav bv oflieinU of the Atehis To- t peka & Santa l-V railroail. The seii- ' on- illuc-- of a shipment of horses from Kansas Gily h- port Madison FOUR CATS HIMI. "l)iii-." i. In i,i,,mI,- i n.r. Tin' t ln-i-i mi' "linliv" umi "Wil-mi." Ii molilli-. niul -;rl.vn, ii yi-nr-. Tin' rill- h ii I ln'i'ii Mr... I'owi.llV i'ltlliil II ioll'. lllttill ill!' l.l-( Vi'lir nl Iicr lil'f. SH SALE OF WEST INDIES ! WEATHER .Mnviiiiiini tmluy, KM; Minimum, .111. NO. 12.-) Prisoners Taken in Brusseloff's Of fensive Since Jure 4, Army in Self Captured Guns and Munitions of War Runs to Hundreds Admit Check on Zlota Una Banks. PETKOfiHAD, Aim. IB. llt-twnen Juim 4. wlifn the Hussiiin offciinlvu was Imtugiiratml, anil Aukusx li, (ifiiei'ul Hi-iiHsiiofrs Cori's cupttlreil more than 3.K,000 iiion, the war ofrico announcpd toilay. The Russian have luiptureil. a hp-i-lfH of heiKhttr to the: west o.f Vo roUhta ami Ard.einoy In the. : Car pathlaiiH. In the Voroklita anil Daln tyn reKlons, the- AuntrlaiiH ure retta ins to the west., . '- , ; ; V The statement says:' "On the Itiver Zlota !,lpa In. .the renion south of llrzc'.iuiy our troops1 oi'i'iipieil tretu'hes at some plaees -on tho western hank ot the river. The enemy, having; resumed his counter attai'Us, is elieekltiK our further ad vance. "In the reKlon between tho Zlota l.ipa and the Dniester our troops uro (inhtliiK tlioll' way forward. Tho ineiny here Is also making a des perate resistance. "On the river Hystiitxa we have occupied Solotviua and Clrinva, southwest of Solotvina. , "In the regions of Dalatyn and Voroklita the enemy owing to our pressure, Is rctlrinc to tho west. Our troops have cnpturctl a series of heights west of Vorokhla and Ardze moy. In the direction of tho Kli'll liaha reKion at C'apul Mountain, nt tcmpts by the enotny to reuume tho offensive were l'rustr.Ted hy our fire. ' : j "Creat numliei's of. cuns also were captured, says the report, which sIvcb the I'ollowInK figures: "Officers captured 7,757; men, :!.'iS,S4j; cannon, .10.1; machine Kuns, 1..12li; mine anil homli throwers, :i;!S; powder carts, 292. YANKEE TRADE I'OKTI.AXD. Ore., Aug. 10. Charles K. Hughes, in an address to the Portland Advertising club. In which he advocated couiliierf ial pre-' paifiiuess tor European couipetition through the anency of a protective tariff, toilay branded as 11 traitor to t Ills country the man who sought io' liufld Ui his iirli'iite fortune at pub lic expense. "The man who tries to Ret the hot ter of the public for hisj private purse," the nominee said, "Is a traitor to the neve rnnifiit. We will mi ahead and put these traitors out ot business while we build up the business of the United Stales." The fommcri'ln! problems which the country will face after the war, Mr. MukIics sulci, will lie Kreater than even before. "We must save tills country every day," he said. "II won't be saved by lettinK it drift. It won't lie saved by tulilut; everything for granted. Its industries won't be conserved by ImlulKliiK In Koud wishes around the club table. We have not to take ac count of the lessons learned on the other side and apply them. We have Rot to consider honest business with tiie success and pride that It deserves and we have Rot to fearlessly con ib'iiin abuses. "We have Rot the basis for suc cess. What we now need Is first tho motive power ot unswerving loyalty and a teal consciousness of national unity, which will rill us with a dominant sense of put riot Ic loyalty lo (lie Tniled Stales. "With that we want a conception of real government. We want to be well prepared, well orRunl2ed com mercially and Industrial!?. We h.ive Rot to match organization with or ganization, preparedness abroad with preparedness al home In all things." In oiienlng his address. Mr. HiighfK declared that while li.- wan speaking to the Portland Advertising club, he was a member of "(lie re publican advertising club." , RUSSIAN DRIVE COSTSGERMANY 358,000 IN IN
