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Newspaper Page TextUniversity of Oier-nri 1 brr)Cy M EiDFORD l Tribune I MAI FORECAST FA I It TODAY AMI Tllt'ltSllAY WEATHER Maximum Yesterday HH; Mlniniiiiu Toiluy 411. 4 Fortv-slxtb Ycnr. I):illy--l-:ivnlli Yir. FRENCH WIN Brilliant Advance Made in Capture of Bouchavesnes, Near Comhles, Which Is Isolated and in Danger Foch Now Enabled to Strike at Peronne From North Entente Offensive Develops in Macedonia Bulgnrs Continue Invasion. l,uXI)OX. Scpl. 1:1. Instead of resting on the fti'oinul won in yester day's (Trent :il tuck north of the Soinme, the I'Yeneh continued their thrusi lust nijrht, enotnrinjr the vil lage of Moiicliavesues, mid n wooded area neurhy. Itniiflitivesiirs lies east of the Tluupme-Pernnnc mad, cut in yester day's drive, and its capture with ad jacent territory aimnrently assures K reach possession of this main high way to I'ernnne. Cmnhles Cut Off. (''inhlcs is now cut off from the south and in n dangerous salient, while General Koch is in u favorable position for a stroke from the north nt I'eronne, which appears seriously threatened by the new French ad vance, one of the most important made in any single operation since the Soinme offensive bejrnn. The British, who hold the lines northwest of (Zombies, are maintain ing a firm jrrip on Ginchy, but as yet apparently have made no attempt to jrain further ground to the east, Lon don today reporting the general situ ation unchanged. -y' In Mticedouin the entente offensive is developing along the western sec tor. Athens announces a joint ad vance by French and Serbian troops who have captured Sorovitz, nenr Fiorina, while Paris reports impor tant progress- particular! n consid erable gain by the Serbians near Lake Ostrovo. On Macedonian Front. PAIilS. Sept. ..Kt. Not withstanding the stout resistance of the Teutonic allies, the Serbian troops on the Mac edonian front have made important progress at various points, it is an nounced by the war office. Violent fighting is in progress in the vicinity of Lake 0-troo, where the Serbians have gained considerable -ground. Italian troops are in action on this front in the Struma region, the offi cial announcement discloses. , ATHKNS, Sept. 13. French and Serbian troops have taken the offen sive on the western end of the Mace donian front. They have captured the town of Sorovitz, near Fiorina. llrltlsli Timet he. LONDON',. Sept. VX The Hritish troops, which took the offensive re cently oil the Macedonian front, forc ing a passage of the Struma river and captuiiug villages, have made no further efforts to advance. 'Except for nalrol encounters cast of the river, there have been no de velopments on our Struma front," says an officih report issued today. "On our Doiran front both our own and the enemy's artillery have been active.'' 1 ... Italians Advancing. HOME, Sept. 1. 'I. -Italian troops in Macedonia have driven back Ilulgar ian detachments near Lake Hntkovo, the war office nnnounced today. The statement savs: 'Snloniki front : On Monday and Tuesday in the district west of Kut Lovtt hike our columns had skirm ishes with Unitarian detachments, which were driven in beyond the De-mir-Ilissar-Ooiran railway lines." BLEASE DEFEATED COLI MHIA, S. C. Sept. IX Gov ernor Richard 1. Manning hni been renominated fur governor of South Carolina over former Governor Cole L. litease, according to nearly com plete unofficial returns from yester- dav democratic ntiiott primary eoni piled here today. II REJECTED BY I liiterliorough and New York Railways Formally Reject Public Service Commission's Recommendations and Decline to Meet Employes Ar bitration Agreed to by Men. .NEW YORK, Sept. 13. The Ititer borougk Rapid Transit Company unci the New York Railways Company for mally rejected today the public serv ice commission's recommendation for a strike settlement made' yesterday. The two companies, controlling the subway, elevated and "Green Car" surface lines, declined to hold fur ther conferences with representatives of the union and announced that It is tlicl intention to continue to operate their lines on the present basis. Brooklyn detectives, it was dis closed today, are Investigating an re ported plot to damage property of the Interhorough with an explosive. A cylindrical package was found by a track walker near the Borough hall subway station in Brooklyn late last night. It contained, according to the bureau of combustibles, dynamite of the powerful kind, generally used in undersea operations. Reasons for Itojectlon. The formal repectlon, presented by Richard R. Rogers, general counsel to the two companies, read: "The Interhorough Rapid Transit Company respectfully represents to the commission that it cannot arbi trate Its rights to enter into agree ments with 10, SOU or Its employes out of 11,800 when the employes who have signed are content with those agreements and are endeavor ing to carry them out in good faith." The agreements roferred to are the "master and servant" contracts which bind the m on not to ask for wage increases or betterment in working condlti"ns for twoyears. The distribution of the contracts among the Intei-borough and "Green Car" employes forced the strike, the union leaders claim. Kniptoyes Willing. Following the reply of the trac tion companies, the strikers, through William D. Fitzgerald, general organ izer of the Amalgamated association of tOlectric and Street Railway Em ployes, informed the commission that si: liters could not accede to the re quest of the commission to bring the strike to an immediate conclusion, in view of the stand taken by the trac tion companies. Ho accepted In be half of the union the recommenda tion that the nief-tions nt issue be submitted to arbitration. But few surface cars were operated todav and passengers were forced to use the subways and elevated roads, where the congestion was extreme. There was little or no violence dur ing the night, largely due to the fact that policemen were stationed on roof tops where ntlacks had been made on elevated trains. Hugh Frayne, state organizer of the American Federation of Labor, announced today that between 12,000 and 20,000 men will take part in the parade and demonstration tomorrow. 8 1 BKRUX, Sept. 13. "Russian methods of warfare are described by several eye witnesses," says an Ov erseas News agency dispatch. '"An Austrian sergeant major who escaped from the Russians, reports that sol diers of the 22nd and 23rd Siberian rifles told him three German infan trymen who were captured were tak en behind the lines and stubbed on command of Russian officers. A non. commissioned officer of the Cossacks said a Russian order had keen Issued to kill prisoners. "Three Russian soldiers of the Fifth Turkoman rifles who are now prisoners say the commander of their company repeatedly ordered them not to take Germans as prisoners but to kill them. A special order Issued In August says: " 'Comrades, when we attack, ev eryone shall keep in mind tlmt Aus- triaus may be taken prisoner, but that Germans as far as possible, shall be killed.' " ARBITRATION RAFFIC CHEFS MEDFORD GREECE LIKELY 10 ENTER WAR WITH ENTENTE Retirement of Zamais Ministry Pre lude to Nations Joining Belligerents Bulgarian Occupation of Grecian Territory Makes Policy of Neutral ity Impossible Longer. ATHENS, Sept. 13. The belief Is entertained in the entente cajiltnls that the retirement of the .amis min istry is preliminary to the entrance of Greece in the war with the allies. Recent dispatches from Berlin und Vienna show that there also It Is re garded as probable Greece will soon abandon neutrality and join the en tente powers. , The precise cause which led to the resignation of the ministry huve not been disclosed on account of the ex ceptionally rigid censorship, A Lon don dispatch yesterday said M. Zalmls had complained that Internal inci dents were preventing him from deal ing with the external situation. It Is believed in London that his resigna tion was due to the fact tilut he ac cepted the premiership on the under standing that he was to maintain neu trality and In view of the Bulgarian occupation of Greek territory had found this impossible. Retirement Vnexeted Up to the time of the first dispatch announcing that M. Kainiis- had pre sented his resignation, his retirement was unexpected, for it was under stood the premier had assumed dic tatorial powers and was in an excep tionally strong position. Political af fairs reached a crisis after the Bul garians Invaded northeastern Greece and the followers of former Premier Venizelos -served warning on King Constantino that he must abandon the advisers who It was said had mis led him and Influenced him in favor of Germany. At the same time M. Venizelos expressed confidence 111 M. Zalmls, whom he asked the king to support nnd it was understood an agreement had been reached under which the Zaimis ministry was to con tinue in power with the strong sup port of the Venizelos party. Armed Neutrality Over After the fall of the Venizelos cab inet last October, on account of the king's disagreement with Its policy favoring intervention in the war with the allies M. Zaimis was called on to form a cabinet. He announced a pol icy of armed neutrality. The cabinet resigned in November, but In June XI. Zaimls was again placed nt the head of the government. Although advo cating neutrality he was regarded as having a predisposition toward the entente. H. (illl'AdO. Sept. IX -Friends f If. t'hnmlli'f Kftnii, former western. natii.mil mid iulerejleiule golf elinmpicm, learned today Hint lie wns secretly divorced bisf July. Mrs. Kfiiin; wlin-e home is in t'lii-nu, ob tiiineil the decree. Incompatibility w.'ih given ns Hie cause. Mrs. Kgnn obtained tile custody of their daugh ter. Kpnn lives nt Mcril'nril, Or. "CLOSE-UP" OF SOLDIERS IN ACTION ON S0MME FRONT IN FRAN CE llrri'' a "(low Plrlurp of tlio Men Wlm Ar ItnltlitiM tin 11m1 Smninn l-'niftl In JOiii-oih. 'I'Ucy wrp Itril Isli Soldicm I'n-iwrMl for On Altar k, I)ali Ih-InK I'nn lilcil Willi (ins IIHiiM-tn. The I'liiini- Wan Tnkrn I tiir Iiib n HrllMi Ailvanrr, WMIc lli lMr hlno (Jnnm-r Wi-re In Anion. ORECIOX. WFDNKSDAV. from COH-IEWS -WErKnf i f t i ur nt a swan ' won jf " ' I'll yr A Dinner Provokingly Delayed liKliUX, Sept. i:t.-Tlu Itul.triiriiin army . wliicli is invmliny: eastern ltn maniu has nuuic fntther ains, says tlic official hnniiinTimmt made yes Icrday sit Sofia, wliif-n Vollous: "Our t roups aic contiiiitin"1 to ad-vnni-c in Dolirml.ja. "On the iNfiicednnian trimt near Ostrovo In Ue there was activity '' pntruls, as well as artillery fighting'. "Two Italian compr.nies with nia ehinc !nns and oil-' soiiadron of cav alry ailvanced in the direetion of Hntkova, near the Struma river, and Dziinia. We niadc a cinmter attack nnd dispersed thein.. Thirty Italians were captured. This was our fir.-t" encounter with Italian troops. 'in an encounter in the Struma valley, near Xevoylen and Kardziko, on Septemher It), (he enemy lost seven officers .and nlioitt 100 men killcil. We captured many rifles and a quantity of ammunition. We took priimer two Scotch officers and more than 100 Hritish soldiers. A hostile fleet is cniisinr off the Aegean coast. Our hydroaeroplanes made a stnceful attack on enemy wa rships in the hnrhor of Ka vala." ASSUME FULL BLAME OTTAWA, Out., Sept. 13. The fit. Lawrence Bridge company has noti fied the Canadian government tnat it arceptH full responsibility for the, full of tho Quo!h-c. Iiiilge B:,n am! gnve notice that it would undertake to re place the s,an and complete the j-ldge as soon if poKlblc. With Hteel scarce It Ik helieved It wlil cake two yeara to coiiHtruit a t.ew t(j'.in HE I THAI HER 101H- CHooa dntri kr W. C. UorrU L SAN FIIAXCISCO, Sept. i:i. An entire haslietfal of piettes T steel, brass shavings, empty ; eartride shells, nails, screws, .u.yUMlolts and other pieces' of metal, some of which had heen removed from the torn bod ies of the San I-'ranciseu preparedness parade bonih explosion victims, form ed today one -of the evhihits in the courtroom of Superior Judge Krank II. Dunne when lite trial of .Warren K. Hillings, 1 charged with having planted (lie bond, was resumed. As on the two preceding days of fche trial, the courtroom was crowded to its ca pacity, it being understood that the prosecution might reveal some of Us i promised sensational evidence. Hillings was the only one of the five persons charged with complicity in the explosion who was present today, the court having yesterday ordered Thos. .1. Mooney and his wife, Kena ; Kd ward Nolan and 1-rael Weinberg ex cluded. Judge Dunne yesterdnvYefused to admit the pieces of the exploded bomb into evidence, hut ruled that they might be exhibited lor purposes of idcntificutiiui. ! PULITZER'S SON , PARALYSIS VK1 HAW IIAItMOIi. Me., Sept. HI Joseph I'uliter. Jr., Ilic New York publisher, and his family Were tpiur untitled todav at the I'uliter summer e-talc here becau-c id infantile par alyMs. Mr. I'ulitcr's son, Ualpb, JO vein's old, who recent I v returned fi'om a summer camp in another slate, ha cunlracreii the iliM'asc, il was an- niiuucctt. WILSON PLANS El Constructive Program Outlined to Meet Commercial Needs of Nation Which May Result From End of European Conflict Tariff Revis ion by Commission Included. (Iiy Cill.sox (i.UiliNl'.lf.) WAKIIIXOTOX, Scpl. IX 1'ivsi lenl Wilson is nlioiil in ininouni'c plnns mi which ho hns liccn nt mU lor im'ctiii!.' tin- (iinimi'i'i'iiil nci'ils w hii'li may result I'nuii I lie rinse of hi win' inn! In!- inn-nil ycni'iinni'iilnl uiil In linsiiu'ss. If oli'i'ti'il, In' in- li'iuls to' use his inllni'iii'i- to securi' Hip followiiii; li'uilnlivi' ami oxwu ti pi-iiriini : 1. A revision of the tariff iilniitt lilies lei'iiiiiiiieiiileil hy the iion-pnr-tisnn lariff eoniniission to meet the nllereil eoniineieial neeils ereati'if hy the reviseil tiuil't's of wai-rins; powers nml the pressure likely to he applied hy new eoniinereial alhanees. The president's tariff poliey ailinils a i-eiisnnalile ainounl of proteetion and due consideration of revenue. Kxtenil Credit System. '2. OrKiiui.iitioii and extension to fnreiun eountiies of the credit imir chineiy of tint I'nited Stales, of which the federal reserve system, is the present nucleus. The I'nited States has become the fj'i'al lending and mvninjr nation of the world, and this pie-eiuiiieiice involves dnnsors and responsihilities which must he met hy legislative and executive net inn. .'I. Oi'iini.alion of American in dustries hy means of earlels, or fed eral incnrpniulion, for the purpose of more successfully ('onipclinjr in the lorcicn markets, of Die world. This policy, now urged by the federal trades eoniniission, involves a depar ture from the Sherman law's swopping ban on nil co-tipct'ntivc organization, Th president's idea is that size shall not lie regarded as n nicnnce and Unit regulation shall curb improper prnc licos in domestic markets, while com bine linn enables the business men of the 1'iiiled Stales to get their share of the world's trade. 1. Development by the federal I rude commission of n uniform sys tem of accounting and cost keeping for the use of private business. I'-xtendiiiK Transportation. .". Developing and improving transportation facilities on land and water, r'nr the latter purposes Hie new law authorizing the government to purchase f,-in,(mo,nim worth of shipping and put Hip vessels into commercial service is the first step. The second step is the extension of Icdcral aid on a large scale lo th railroads of Hie I'niled Stales. This aid is to be worked out along lines recommended by the special joint committee recently crcalcd by con gress at the instance of Senator N'ew lands. and the lines most likely to be followed, in the judgment of Presi dent Wilson, are (a) the elimination of the present system of regulation by stale coininissions with their vary ing regulations and placing Hie whole railway system under the control of the federal intcrslalc commerce enrn- mission; (b) icl'iiiiincing the roads in such a way thai Hie abuses of fren zied finance may be corrected, hut at the same time money provided for ndriiinlfly providing improvements and extensions. These policies are regarded as sll plcmenlnl to the enactments in th interest of Inbor which have charac lelizcd the recent congress. ELECTION RIOTS AT CIIlCAtiO, Sept. l;l.-- Police were ailed In quell disputes nt the pd!- in M-vcrat wards at loony s primary election. One arrc-l wn made of a man who was reported to have at tempted (o vote under another name I'M Ityut- and a sl;illtin" aiaoni; wuikers for rival deimci -a tic Taction wore reported at several precincts in the eighteenth uanl. A heavy vote was cast in nearly very republican ward in the city during Ihe early hour, while the vole in most of. the democratic strongholds was lighter thau expected. FOR EMERGENCY AT WAR S CLOSE NO. 149 COUNTY FA R EXHIBITS OPEN 10 IHE PUBLIC Tomorrow Is Community and School Dav and Record Attendance Ex pectedExhibit Most Complete Baseball and Athletic Events Racing Program Provided. ' t School nml Community luy. Itnxebnll commencing nt 12 o'clock. narheciio, free, at 12:.1o o'clock. , : Kulny riKc. Ashland, Apple- Bale. Clrants I'ur.-. and Medford represented, for rhnmplomihlp of Southern Oif;a:-ii. All Jackieu county srhoolM repretiented wltti a varied ad- sortmcnt of events Included In such meets lantlnR for three hourR. 4. JnckRon county'i big fair opens to morrow. It Is a community and school day and the record attendance Is ex liected. In many ways, It will he the big day ot the fair. In spite of the moving of the women's and children's exhibits up town the exhibit building at the fair Ik already crowded nnd there is the cer tainty of a large number of exhibits yet to come In. The large number ot ' xhlblts may be attributed In largo part to the district plan put In opera tion by D. M, Lowe. The county wo,h divided into ten dlHtrlcU. All o( these have sent In. large collections of grain, vegetables and .fruits wltutno exception ot the "I'lioonlx district,. The collection from Ih la district Is ex pected to be put In place early to-i morrow morning. Fruit lMilblts Largo. The fruit ehihlts are the largest and best In the history of the fair. It has already been necessary to tuke two of the sections of the machinery department for t ho display of tho rows of tempting fruits. Where only six entries of grain col lections were received last year, .10 are now In place. One of the most interesting exhibits of grains Is that of the Sperry wheat. This grain was evolved after ten years of experi ments by an expert of the Sperry Fluur Mills Company. Last year the grain wus divided among many sec tions, O. M. Lowe of fkslilanil receiy ng 15 pounds. Krom this 15 pounds he raised 21 bushels or wheat at tho rate of 44 bushels to tbe acre. The wheat was sown on light, dry land and 'during the hot spells was not In least nfrected. The 21 bushels, will be distributed for an experiments! purpose over the valley. Llvb Mock Is coming In rapidly. Most nf the horse stalls are filled, as are the sheep pig pens. At 1 o'clock this afternoon coops of chickens were entered. Livestock entries are ii0 per cent larger than last year. ItarlxH'iic Tomorrow. lOntrles for the races and the buck ing horses are ntmoxt oil on hand and the bui'liaroos with boots, loud shirts nnd high huts are much In evidence. Preparations for tho big barbecue tomorrow noon are nearly completed. Serving tables have heen erected and everything Is In readiness to build the fire nnd put tbe hoof on the spit. The Vawter-Darls building is re sounding to the sounds of hammer and saw as the booths of local mer chants are Indng put In shape for dis play. Several are already completed. The stage for the style show has been erected. During -the program of about an hour and a half In duration (Continued on dk two.) KILLED IN FLIGHT llKKI.IX. Sept. CI. AcconliiiR to rcsirU lioin Solia, says an Overseas Nen-fi agency announcement today, flencrnl Bossnrubeku, commander "f the ri ntly captured liumaninii fortre.x of Tnrlnki, attempted to es cape in a boat ai'ter the full of tho InM fortification. The boat wn nnk hy Itulgnrinn artillery and the gen erul was drowned.