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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 28, 1916)
University of Orognn l. I'.irrtrv Medford Mail Tribune i FORECAST FAIR TONIGHT. AXU I'ltlDAY. WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, 87; Minimum today, 40. V i l-orlv-in" T'O Pally Klfvcnth Yrar. L F French Begin Envelopment of Per onne Activity Resumed at Verdun by Germans Russians Again At- ; tacking in Southern Volhynia Minor Battles in Balkans. LONDON, Si'it. 28. While no new advances lor the infantry on the Sonimc front ure reported by Pains today, the violent struggle is being kept up without cessation by the ar tillery. The French have been thrusting out cast from Tlaneourt into the St. I'ierrc Viiast wood, at which point, and at Bouchavesncs, to the south, they ure almost in a direct line north of l'oronne, against which the speedy development of their enveloping movement is now to be expected. Activity at Verdun. Meanwhile activity has been resinn ed at Verdun, the Germans again at tacking east of the Mouse between Thiaiiinoiit and Fleury. The assaults were repulsed bv the French with lienvy losses to the crown prince's troops, Paris declures. The Kussiuns have resumed their violent attacks in southern Volhynia and Oalicia, but report a stubborn de fense by the Aiistro-Gennan armies which are declared to he delaying the Jiussinn advance by repeatedly counter-attacking. From Macedonia come additional reports of n determined Ilulgurinn re sistance to the entente offensive in "the region west of the Vardur. 3a tlie Balkans. 1'AIilS, Sept. 28. Bulgarian forces made tAVu attacks lasl. night near Fiorina, on the western end of the Macedonian front. The repulse . of these attacks by the French and Itiissians is reported in an official an nouncement Riven out here today. No further attack on Kaimakculan height has been undertaken by the Bulgar ians. On the Struma front near Jan inn, British artillery was more active. LONDON, Sept. 28. The repulse of four Bulgarian' attacks on Knhu iikcalan mountain is described in a dispatch from Serbian headquarters to Router's dated Wednesday. A loan I he, Soiiime. LONDON, Sept. 28. British troops j ' lust night udvnnced at various poiuls on the Somme front between Marliu t puicb and Gucdccourt, says the Brit i i- Ii official statement today. BF.KL1N, Sept. 28. German troops victoriously repulsed the Anglo French forces on a greater part of the battlefield between the Ancrc brook find the River Somme, says the offi cial statement issued today by the German army licaduutirtcrs staff. TltENTON, N. J., Sept. 28. Charles E. Hughes today addressed an audience at the state fair here. Mr, Hughes reached Trenton at 10 a. m. from Pittsburg, where he spoke last night, and motored to the fair grounds. There he held a public re ception, afterward speaking from the judge's stand at the race track. With him on the stand were suc cessful and defeated republican can lidates for various offices at last Tuesday's primary election. It was Mr. Hughes' first appear ance as a presidential nominee In President Wilson's home state. INCRE - BE KLIN, Sept. 28. A census of 4 Prussian livestock, the Overseas News agency announces, shows an Increase 1 of 2,000,000 hogs during the period from June 1 to September 1 of the current year. The number ot cattle ; remains virtually unchanged, the , only decrease being a drop of one per cent In the total number of cows. ARTILLERY DUE RAGING ALONG RONT GREECIAN KING IL Reports of General Mobilization Be ing Ordered Are Premature Cabi net Is Summoned Ultimatum De mands Immediate Evacuation of Seized Territory. ATHENS, via London, Soptember 2S. The Associated Press Ib In a po- sltlon to state positively that King Constantino decided this morning in favor of an Immediate leclaratlon of war on Dulgaria. Reports that general mobilization has been ordered are premature. After the session of the council of ministers at the palace this morning, Premier Kalogeropoulos hastily call ed a cabinet meeting. The proinier declared the government was giving the fullest consideration to the sltua tion and said there might be ad dressed to Bulgaria a note of such character that mobilization would logically follow. To Declare War. Later In the day it developed that the king had decided on a declara tion' of war against Bulgaria. The decision has not yet been announced publicly, as numerous details remain to be worked out. They include an ultimatum to Bulgaria demanding in stant evacuation of all Greek Mace donia, as well as plans tor mobiliza tion under the difficult conditions presented by the occupation of Greek territory by the entente forces. Even the departure of former Pre mier Venlsselos from Athens created nothing like the suppressed excite ment evident everywhere this after noon. The people feel that their long period ot expectancy Is about to end, and the prospect of war with the Bul garlaus apparently Is welcome Piinre Summoned. LONDON, Sept. 28 Prince Goorgc of Greece, brother of King Constan- stlne, who has been in London for some time representing the views of the Greek court, today recoived a telegram from the king recalling him to Athens. CZAR REPLIES TO WASHINGTON. Sent. 28. A per sonal letter from the emperor of Hus- sia replying to President Wilson's note to the heads of live belligerent nations requesting concessions for the shipment of relief supplies into Pol and was received at the state depart ment toduv and forwarded, unopened. to Shadow Lawn, Replies already had been received from Germany, F.nglnnd, France and Austria-Hun ii ry, hut none has been made public. It is understood that all of the rulers virtually have reiterated their posi tion previously taken by their govern inputs under which it has been impos sible to bring about an agreement for the relief work. LONDON, Sept. 'J8. The 2300-tnn British steamship .Stalhu and the Swedish bark lSengiicln, 088 tons, have been sunk. A Christianiu dispatch to Lloyds says the crews of the Swedish steam ships Knut Hilde und Daniu have been landed. The steamship Tlichnu of Glasgow, 1002 tons gross, has beeu sunk. CITY OF BUCHAREST BKI1MX. Sept. 28. German aviat ors yesterday tigain dropped a great number of bomb', on Bucharest, ac cording t" today's (iennan official statement, which adds Hint several points of the Rumanian capital "arc still burning as the result of, our DECLARES WAR ON BULGARIA previous attuck, MEDFORD GENERALSTRIKE IN NEW YORK SEEMS FIZZLE Leaders Claim 125,000 Out Police Say That If Strike Is in Progress There Is No Sign of It Rioting Attends Efforts of Street Cars to Operate. .NEW YORK, Sopt. 2 8. Leaders ot uniou labor appeared today to have ! met with small success in their re- j newed efforts to bring about their promised general strike to aid the striking traction employes, which was called to begin yesterday. Despite the claims of the leaders that the number who have quit work totals 125,000 and more, police officials Bald today that If a strike was In progress there was little evidence of It. "It there Is a general labor strike In this city we can't find It," said the secretary ot the police commis sioner. Service on the elevated and subway lines continued normal today except for the withdrawal ot a largo num ber of cars owing to the decreased traffic, due to "the Jewish holiday and the general situation seemed to be about the same as it has been for the last week. Violence broke out again today when a crowd ot strike sympathizers attacked a Grand street cross town street car with stones, breaking win dows and driving the motorman, con ductor and passengers Into the street. The stone throwers were dispersed by the police. Efforts of the Third avenue sys tem to run cars In Westchester coun- ty today tor the first time since the traction strike began, resulted in at' tempts on the part of the strikers or their sympathizers to cripple the lines by cutting feed wlros, soaping the rails and pulling trolley polos off the wires. E CHICAGO, Sept. 28. The romance ot an loi'a girl has temporarily block ed exposure of the latest blackmail plot which rosulted In the fleecing of a rich Iowa merchant out of $10,000. The girl, whose father was the vic tim of the blackmailers, Is to be mar ried October 20 and federal agents promised today to delay arrests until after the girl's wedding. The names of the Iowa victim and ot his swindlers will not be made public until arrests are made. Fear that his daughter's future happiness might be wrecked, and that the forthcoming wedding plans might be cancelled caused the blackmailers victim to ask for a delay In making the exposure. Warrants for the arrest of two women and a Chicago attorney already are planned, It Is said. LONG BRANCH, N. J., Sept. 8. Arrangements for President Wilson to assail the republican stand on the prominent Issues of the campaign were made at a conference here today between the president, Vance C. Mc C'ormkk, chairman of the democratic national committee and Secreta'y Tu multy. Mr. Wilson, It wa3 decided definitely today, will make speeches In New; York City, Buffalo and St. Louis ip the middle or latter part of October. A decision also was reached for the president to make at least one speech here every Saturday between now and election. i ROOSEVELT TO MAKE SOUTHWESTERN SPEECHES CHICAGO, Sept. 28. Colonel The odore Roosevelt will make at least live sceches in southwestern states for Hughes and Fairbanks next month, according to reports received today at western republican national headquarters. OREGON, THURSDAY. NATURE'S BIRD LOSES TO MAN'S BIRD! BANKER ' :r ' API A4M A fight in the air between nature's aeroplane over tlio French lines, proved man' .superiority. The wigle is shown here caught by its wings in ittcr it attacked the aviator. DRY CANDIDATES PUICK, Utah, Sept. 'H Breweries and Bryan, condemnation for the first and commendation lor the other, were subjects discussed before Ctuh folks today by Dr. Ira Liiiidrith, pro hibition vice-presidential candidate as the "dry" special entered the stale for a one-day campaign. Ulnh is wet. "It is not the saloon or the dis tiller, hut the brewery, that is the greatest evil of all, the Ihpior traffic agencies," Dr. Liiiidrith said. "It owns the fixtures of the saloon and all too often it owns the mayor and legislatures ulso." Dr. Landrith's remarks were occas ioned in part by what lie learned in a two days' campaign in Colorado, completed yesterday, where (he brew erics are seeking to weaken the dry law by having beer declared a non intoxicant. "1 welcome William Jennings Bryan to our rniiks as a new convert," Dr. Liiiidrith continued, "lie has declar ed that the one great issue is liipior. He and others arc going in for pro hibition to he in at I he death of li quor. Then they can point to their aid in the great victory. "But don't he fooled aboiil Bryan. He is like liooscvclt ; he is not dead, he is just resting. Bryan is the only man in this conn! ry who can keep both ears to tho ground and continue murching on. I shouldn't be at all surprised if he runs again for prcsi- WHY I AM l!v KlXiAK SKLWYX (Author ol' "Rolling Stones," "The ('mini ry Hoy".) I am for Woodrow Wilson because I have just got to lie. T expert to live with myself for sonic years to nine, and I don't want to live with the sort of citizen . aetwyv. to business, ami a large measure of injustice taken out' of our industrial life. As a consciiicnce of his foreign policy, the L'nited States is at peace, interna tional law has been upheld, the rights of humanity enforced and our ancient ideals lifted out of the mud. Xo president litis been faced by so many tremen dous problems; no president has ever faced tremen dous problems with such statesmanship and such courage. SKPTKM l'.KU. 28. 1010 bird, (lie eagle, and man's hii-il, the the wire framework of Hie machine HIGHER COST OF THEME IN SPEECHES COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Sept, The democratic party has not kept Its pledge to reduce the high cost of liv ing, Charles W. Kalrbunks; republi can candidate fur vice-president, charged today in an address horo. The speaker also touched upon the tariff, the .Mexico situfttlon and oeo; nomic conditions in this country at the termination of the European war. "The republican party," said Mr. Fairbanks, "has kept faith with the American people since the days of Abraham Lincoln, when he conse crated his mighty services to the cause of human liberty. The republi can party has pledged Its faith over and over again and not to this hour has its pledge gone to public protest. "One of the most earnest pledges of democracy was to reduce tho high cofst of living. This was one of the questions tiiat always Is of paramount imporluuco among the people, who earn their bread In the awout of thoir faces. This pledge was not kept. Did tho democratic party make this pledge knowing it could not or would j not keep It? 1-f so, they have for , felted public confidence. No party ; has iinv claim to public support which recklessly makos pledges which It cannot or will not keep." dint, on the dry ticket, anil I'll vote for him if he docs." J lie ltincrarv ol the drvs loilnv in cluded Price, Springvillc, I'rovo, Mid vale, Suit Lake City, Fariiiiugtou and Ogllrll. FOR WILSON who fpiits his fount ry in an hour of need. The president' is hated and fought by those who want him to take his domestic policies from Wall street and his foreign policies from Merlin. To stand against him is to stand with tho enemies of democracy. As a re sult of, the great laws that he has driven through congress, permanence has been given to prospcrit v, stabilit v NATION NEEDS PREPAREDNESS Universal Military Service Declared the Greatest Need of the Day by Frank A. Vanderlip All Other Matters Inconsequential in Com parisonReserve Law Criticised. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Sept. 28. "If ever a people should pause; if ever I hey should look abroad and profit by the experiences of others, should comprehend their national dangers, in the light of the terrible "ealilies that are being enacted before their eyes in other nations, it is now, und we are that people." In these words, Frank A. Vander lip of New York, addressing hero to day the annual convention of the American Bankers' association, warned his hearers they should not take too easily the present great wealth of this country that "seems dangerously likely to submerge us in our own prosperity." Hather, he said, "with an opportunity such us no country ever had to lav the sure foundations of a great future," we must not be "so intent upon dividing (he proceeds of present prosperity that we fail to safeguard its perma nence." Vnlvoifnl Service. Mr. Vanderlip, after speaking of the war's cost in F.urope and outlin ing the financial status of this coun try, declared : "In a word, I believe the greatest need of the day and a need so fund anient al as to make other matters in consequential in comparison is the need of universal military, industrial and economic preparedness." ,11c usked for training in military service for nil men, greater savings. by nil classes and greater efficiency in industrial pursuits. "I oucc thought you could, count universal military service as an econ omic wnste," ho said. "1 feel eunfi dent, in the light of eventsnf thu last two years, that it is not only a ti l ill tary necessity of superlative impor tance, hut our national life would draw a unity which could be obtained in no other way." Criticises Reserve Act. Mr. Vanderlip scarcely touched up on the banking business except to say that he believed the federal reserve act "embodies some sound fiinda mental principles, the free working of which, however, has been enlanglcd and hampered in its iuecntiou by po litical considerations and adminis trative attitude. Military service for all young men also was declared necessary bv James .1. Lynch of San Francisco, president of the association. Ills in politics through which "demagogues and ward heelers" have gotten into city councils, st ii to legislatures and even congress, are due to the negligence of bankers and other business men, the convention was told by Mayor (icorgc II. Kdwnrds of Kansas City. Mr. Lynch slated pcraparedness was necessary "because we are today the must tempting prize under the blue canopy of heaven." SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 28. One hundred L'nited States citizens of the 'city of Corlnto, Nlcaraiigua, have ! organized a legation guard to pro 1 feet fellow nationals In the event of I trouble at next Sunday's election, ac- I cording to Herman Glcblcr, Austrian counsel at Nicaragua, a visitor in San Francisco. The , United stales cruiser San Diego, sailed from San Diego two weeks ago for Corlnto. EDGE LEADER IN TltKNTON, N. .)., Sepl. 'J8. Willi ninety-one districts inissinir out of lHlHI, the returns from Tuesday's primary election gave Waller K. F.dge n lead today ol :i"27:i votes over Austen Colgate ill the contest for the republican nomination for governor. Edge hud "'-',774, Colgate 0'J,j01. NO. m FORD ASSERTS NATION NEED WILSON AGAIN Auto Maker Says Wall Street Inter ests Want Hughes Welfare of the Country Demands President's Re electionTariff Only Hothouse Remedy and Effect Artificial. , DKTltOlT, Mich., Sept. 28. Henry Ford announced his reasons for sup porting President Wilson in a state ment made public today. "I'm for WilHon," said Ford, "be cause he is on to the interests tho unseen hands that seek to control government' and is heading them off. That he is on to them and W heading them off is proven by his ro'- fusal to rush into war with Mexico. sacrificing the livos of thousands of young AinerieaiiH to'save the dollars Unit Wall street hus invested in Mex ico on a gamble. 'Hut for purely business reasons. which may appeal more directly to ninny men, the welfare of the country lemands Wilsons re-clcetion. The republicans are raising a great roar about tho eight-hour law and how it 1 bumper business. I say and I say from experience, not from guess, work that the eight-hour law will help business. Business men nnd em ployers who are, hostile to the eight hour day do not know their business!. 'We have had the eight-hour day iu force in the Ford factory for three' years mill we have made more money each succeeding year under it. It has: proved its own merit. "The business of the United States today has a momentum that no man or group of men cun stop. As for the tjiriff, which the, republicans insist must be revised to help save nur'prns perity after I he war, I want to sjy Unit the tariff is nuthing biit a ht-' house remedy. It inny make business sprout for a liUlc while, hut its effect is artificial nnd- it never can pro luce a Inndy business plant. "1 know Hughes. Teddy and '.Villi slreet are behind him. I'm ii rcpuli-. licnn, but I'm for Wilson. I'm n re publican for the samo reason I have cars I was born that way. Hut I'm for Wilson because I believo he can do more to enhance the prosperity and ussure peace for this nation than any other candidate. Any one who does not want peace nnd who wants to gullible with prosperity should vote against him." i IS STILL LACKING DURLIN. Sept. 28. News of the docking of the submarine Bremen at Now London Is still lacking, but the owners and the public generally as sume that 'the telegram announcing the departure of a convoying tug from the American port will be Im mediately followed by the announce ment that the voyage of the mer chant submarine has been success fully completed. LONDON, Sept. 28 The Asterdam correspondent of the Exchange Tele graph says travelers, who have ar rived from Uremcn report that ' a third Gorman commercial submarine will he ready to sail within a month. This submarine, to he known as the Kaiser, Is said to be slightly larger than the Duetschland. PHILLIES DEFEAT BROOKLYN 8 10 4 EBBKTS FIELD, Brooklyn, Sept. 2 8. Philadelphia gave Brooklyn a crushing defeat today by a score ot 8 to 4 in the first game ot a sorles of three games, that Is thought to point the way to tho chumplonshlp of the National league Brooklyn now leads the league race by only a halt game. It. II. E Philadelphia 8 8 3 Brooklyn 4 6 2 Battorles Aloxander and Killlfer;
