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University of Orcgorl l.l!rary M Mail Tribune EDFORD FORECAST KAIll TOXICJHT AND TOMOltHOW. WEATHER Maximum Yestmlny iVA; Mhi. Today 12.1; Pro. .21, Forty-sixth Year. Dully Kh-vt-nth Yt-nr. MKDFORl). PRECOX. SATURDAY. DKCKM 1KR 9. 191G NO. ':: ALLIED NAVIES BEGIN BLOCKADE OF GREEK PORTS Entire Coast From Corfu to Saloniki Blockaded King Is Persistently Hostile to Entente, Likely to De clare War, Being Promised Assist ance From Mackensen's Army. WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Ambssa dor Sharp at Paris notified the state department today that the allied blockade of Greece began Friday morning at eight o'clock. Hlockiidc Established. Ambassador Sharp forwarded a copy of the blockade notice which says France, being In agreement with Its allies to declare the blockade sets forth the conditions under which it will be effective. Beginning Decem ber 8, at 8 a. m., the notice says, the. blockado will be effective on the coasts of Grooco from a point off the Island of Corfu to a point in the Gulf of Saloniki off the Salambria rler us well as to islands actually under the control and occupation of the Greek authorities. Ships of third powers in the blockaded ports may leave freely up to December 10 at 8 a. m. Orders i have been gven to tho commander in chief of the naval forces effoctu'.a the blockade to proceed by noticing tho local authorities of tho deelura , tlon. King Hostile to Allies. The situation in Greece is not only again of decided folltlcal Interest, but potentially of marked military import, In connection with the sup posed purpose of the central powers to turn important sections of FielJ Marshal Von Mackensen's huge army in Rumanian upon the entente's Sa- lunilct nrmjv '"":-. ..r " - Correspondents in Greece report a porsistently hostile attitude by Kins; Constantino and tho Greek royalists toward the entente and declare ef forts are being made to gather aj strong army in tho Larlssa region for an attack upon the ontente forces 1 from the rear simultaneously with attacks by tho Teutonic allies from the north. British military writers call at-, tcntion, to these contingencies and decisive action with regard to Greece. ! is urged In the Interest of sound strategy and the safety of the entente forces in Macedonia. POLISH STATE TO BE P.EIil.IX, Dee. 0. The Tolish Mate council, which is to be estab lished in the Polish territory Occu pied by German mid Austro-llunar-ian troops, will be n provisional body, to remain in office until elec tions huvo been held mid a perma nent administration lias been set up, says the Overseas Xews agency. Of the twenty-five members of the council, fifteen will be appointed "from the territory organized by the Germans and ten from that held by the Austrians. The council will hold its sessions in Warsaw, usim? the Polish laniunge. It will elect a presiding officer, to be called the crown minister. It will jrive advice in nil administrative affairs nnd will co-operate in inuugiiriitim; all state institutions and orders re lating to the new kingdom. The council also will have the right to reach decisions in regard to the economic reconstruction of the coun try. Funds will be placed to its credit bv the German nnd Austrian administrations and the council will have the power of levying additional direct taxes and of contracting loans, subject to the approval of the military authorities. MAYOR OF DALLAS WOW COUNTY JUDGE DALLAS, Or., Dee. f).E. C. Kirk pntrick, mayor of Dallas, today re ceived his appointment from Gover nor James Wit by combe, as county judge of Polk county, vice John II. Teal, who resigned on Account of ill- FACTORY EXPLOSION liKIM.IX", Dee. H (by wirelcs t.. Sit i-vill,, An itviiliiKiim in it Russian ummunitiun plant has caused the ilonth of about .1000 persons, iicoonliiiir to Hie Over sell News agency today, ipiol ing the ltiissiun newspaper He.li. f 4 4 REPLY TO PROTEST DKItl.lX, Dec. 9. Germany will reply in a day or two with a memor andum to the representations which Joseph C. Grew, secretary of the American embassy, has been malting regarding the deportation of Uelgian laborers. The reply Is expected to follow much the same lines as that made to the Belgian protest through the Spanish government, the sub stance of which was published In tho North German Gazetto this morning The result of Secretary Crow's con ference with Chancellor Von Beth-mann-llollweg on tho subject prob ably will be that while the principle of using the unemployed Belgians In Germany will bo adhorcd to, yalns will bo taken to sec that it is accu rately applied. It Is explained that it has not always been possible to prevent the measure being applied to Belgians not of tho unemployed classos,, but that greater care is now being exercised and that with the use of Melgtan lists it is thought the measure can be restricted to the classes, wlilch it is designed to af fect. The position of tho German gov ernment on the Belgian deportations was outlined in a statement made on Thursday and transmitted in news dispatches on Friday. FOR U. S. CONTROL WASHINGTON, Dec. 9. Railroads were accused of trying to ruin their own credit and laying the foundation for federal ownership by Max Thelen, president of the National Association of Hallway commissioner, In resum ing his testimony today, before the congressional railroad investigating com mittee. "The railroads are in a hysteria of pessimism," he said, "they seem to be engaged in the absurd task of try ing to ruin their own credit. If they were really acting in the public in terest, as they claim to be, they would stop complaining about public regu lation and would devote themselves to supplying the cars, equipment, ter minal facilities and extensions which tho public urgently requires. "The talk of the railroad about 49 masters is simply language to Ucklo 'he ears No railroad in the United States runs through more than one third of 4S states. Although all other corporations which do business in different states are subject to regu lation by each state, nobody except the railroad are complaining.'' WASHINGTON, Dec n. te of shark skins as n substitute for leather is being investigated bv the United States bureau of fisheries as a possible solution of the high cost of animal skins. . Already, says a bureau -tntcment today, an adapt able leather i- being made from -baik skins in some foreip.il coun tries, timl in the United State there has been a limned demand tor the -kins as covering for .-nuiij urticlei LLOYD-GEORGE'S EE L;FEDERAL PROBES CABINET TO BE Business Government Promised by New Premier Program Is for Reorganization of Council of War on a Sweeping Socialistic Basis Nationalization of Shipping. LONDON, Dor. ). Lloyd-Georges cabinet will be non-partisan nnd will meet the popular demand for a bus iness government, ll will not be u coalition cabinet in the sense of As quith's administration, because Mr. Asquith had the co-operution of nil parties, even including (lie Irish na tioiiitiilists. The liberal meeting at the Kefonn club yesterday decided that the old liberal leaders will constitute an op position party in the house of com mons, though the opposition will be of helpful criticism rather thru, of hostility. The newspapers are devot ing themselves to framing possible cabinets and incidentally me so wrapped up in the burning questions as to whether Lloyd-Ocorge can be called a conspirator and whether a government, consisting largely of men unused to politics can be effi cient as one recruited from the tra ditional rn!in; class, tfint they give comparatively little attention to the events of the war. IJoyd-Crcoi-gX'Vs Progress. Premier Lloyd-George's program is for the reorganization of the coun cil for war on a sweeping socialistic basis and the general comment is that only a cabinet of super-men can accomplish and conduct snch a revo lution. In addition to the national ization of shipping' -mid agriculture, drastic reforms in (he drink problem nnd the temporary settlement of the chaos in Ireland are discussed as the major tasks confronting the new ad ministration in the home field. The appointment of Mr. Hal t our and Lord Robert Cecil to the foreign office is welcomed in the London press, except by Lord Northcliffe newspapers. F.ven the Tory Post, which has been bitter against the As quith government, speaks of Mr. Pal four's staunch attitude throughout the recent crisis, but says there may be some doubts as to whether his del icate methods in handling the affairs in the foreign office would be able to counter the brutal and robust methods of t ic Germans. Itjtlfour Indorsed. The liberal Daily News and ,th liberal Daily Chronicle indorse the selection of Mr. ISntt'our enthusia tically. The Times condemnation of the appointment is restrained, bid it regrets that he has been named for a post "where ruthlessness is needed and equally deplores the appointment of Lord Hubert Cecil, who, it says, is apparently more in sympathy with the spirit of the uld government than that of the new."' The Mail devotes to these two up tomtmcnts an entire editorial, en titled. "How to Lose the War,' but its language in condemning the ap pointments as a grievous nnM or tune,' is less violent than its criti cisms, o( iiullmir and l-nrd lioucrt before the change in the ministrv. It calls Lord Hubert a "sentimentalist' and siivs hi tenderness to neutrals ''is foolish." TOjYEAR SENTENCE FOR MBS COLBY THOMPSON FALLS, Mont., Dec. !). Miss Kdith Colby, who was con victed of murder in the second de cree for shooting nnd killing A. C. Thomiis, was today sentenced to serve ten years in the state peniten tiary at Deer Lode by .lude Me Culloch. Miss Colby made no state ment. Special Prosecutor Wheeler pre sented a motion to Judye MeOullneh to dismiss the eharjre f murder filed against A. S, Atnwnrth in connec tion with the Thomas killing. Jnd;e Mi-Culloeh -aid he would not pas on the motion beenit-e he had disquali fied himself, but would leave the mo tion to .Indue ( lenient, who tried Miss Colbv. NONPARTISAN WIIH lftlotl ' lll'.lil.lX, Dei-. 1) (bv wireless I In Nu.vvillc).-4-Knicror Onirics has visited the (iermau "cneral headquarters, where he conferr- ed with KmM'ror Willimu. Field M,.i,..i v., ii;,i.,i...... i Field Marshal I'mirad Von lloelzclldorl' were present. f T PKTKCKiltAD, liec. 9. In the pro vince of YVallnchla, says the ItttKHiun official utatomont today, the Ruman ian troops under unceasing hostile, pressure continue to retire eastward. In consequence of this, it is added, the Russian troops, who are on the left flank of the Rumanians also arc retiring. Russian troops on the northern Ru manian front attacked tho Teutonic forces In the Putna valley region yostordny and dislodged them from two heights, the war office announces. They took 500 prisoners, including ten officers, Bix machine guns, two bomb mortars and one cannon. liKRI.IN, Dec. fl. Strong attacks were made yesterday by the Russians In the Carpathian forests, the war of fice announces. North of Dorna Watra and: south btho Trotus valley the Russians gained ground at the cost of heavy losses. In western Rumania several thous and more prisoners have been taken, as well as many cannon. The Ru manians are retreating rapidly. Since December 1 the Rumanians have lost more than 70,000. men nnd IS I can non. Idttlo of Interest is occurring on the Kranco-Dclglan front. The only happening mentioned by either Lon don or Paris Is an artillery action in the region of Hill 304, on the Ver dun front, where the Kronen and Cier. mans havo again been disputing possession of this height. NATIONAL FOREST INCREASE .WASHINGTON, Dec 0. National forest administration last year was "characterized, according to Henry S. li raves, chief forester, in his annual report today, by receipts of $'-80uV 000 ; an im-rca-e of .f.'t 10,000 ; rapid progress in land classification; ma terial advance in development work, particularly road building, nnd rela tively small fire losses. Timber receipts were over -$1,100,-000, L'O per cent increase; ra.injf re ceipts, if, 20(1,000, and water power rentals $100.01)0. "At present." said Mr. Onives, "receipts from the national forests are about three-fourths of what it costs to protect them and carry on current business." LIQUIDMI XKW YORK, Dec. 9. A renewal of heavy general liquidation follow ing yesterday's big break In prices caused excitement verging upon de moralization in the cotton market here today. For u time prices broke 10 to 15 points between Rales and before there whs any pause in the de cline, .March contracts had Kold at $18.50, or 7 points under last night's close, and the general list was $14 a bale below the recent high records. Covering caused rallies of 20 to .10 points from the lowest as soon as the pressure diminished, but the mar ket was still extremely unsettled and nervous late In the forenoon. GUST OF LIVING BYGRAND URIES Investigations Ordered to Begin Next Week at New York, Detroit, Cleve land, Kansas City, St. Louis and Other Cities Operations of Coal nnd Food Speculators Is Cause. WASHIXttTOX. Dec. !!. Federal grand jury Investigations into the high cost of living were ordered to day by Attorney General Gregory o begin at once In New York nnd In l)o trolt next week. Similar investigations In Cleveland, Kansas City, St. I.ouis, .Minneapolis and other points are tinder considera tion. Frank M. Swacker, an assistant attorney general for the government in the New Haven case, will be asked to tako charge of tho New York in vestigation. Due to Speculators, Reports to the department ol' jus tice from its field force of investi gators indicate, officials suld, the widespread existence. of combinations of brokers and deulers In foodstuffs and coal to force prices upward. .Most of these alleged combinations were said to be local in character. All data concerning them will probably bo submitted to grand Juiios. In addition to grand Jury investi gation in the east and the middle west, officials are considering the ad visability of starting similar pro ceedings in the northwest and far western stales. If is likely that this latter proposal will ho held in nbey mice until the investigations more definitely contemplated are lu full swing. " ' Xutloii-Wlde Operation. Activities of alleged food and coal speculators arc said to have extended as far south us the .Mexican border and to have Included virtually every section of tho country. Closely re lated to their alleged activities is the shortage of freight curs, information bearing on which Is being compiled by tho Inter-state commerce commis sion for use in tro investigation. Tho plan of procedure probably will be placed today before Presi dent Wilson. United States Attorney Anderson of lloston, directing the investigation was told nt the white house that if pressure of oilier bus! ness permitted, the president would sco him. BOPP TO TESTIFY SAN- FRANCISCO. Dec. 9. Franz Bopp, (icrmun consul general; Haio K. H. Von Srhack, vice consul, and Lieutenant (.leorge Wtlhclni Von r.rlncken, on trial In the tin tied States district court for alleged dyna mite plotn to destroy entente muni tion shipH and railroads in this conn try, will take the witnesB stand when the defense, opens, Theodore Koche, chief defense counsel, announced to day. Koche Kaid the defense would be an admission that the consulate employed co-defendant detecllvcB and others to obtain secret Informatlu.i as to munition shipments, not lyna mite. LOOT RECOVERED SKM.'X CITY, in , Dee. 0. Two thousand dollar in currency and a brace of gun-, were found by offi cers today in a brush heap a .short distance from the soot where the lic enced robbers o' the Whitlow, Neb., bank surrendered themselves )a-t night in a wood a half mile -onlh of Winnebago, Neb. The W in -low loot -o far r vered totals iMJOO. The robbers nie reported to have obtain ed about $7000 and search is still being1 made for cash. Nothing is yet known as to the identity of the men,, although their description is -uid to tit II v with that of men known to the Sioux City po lice. The robbers were kept in the Pender jail last night, but will be taken to I hi' count v jail at Fremont loda v. FOR STEEL TRUST N'I'.W Ylll.'k'. !), 1 l iilill- ed orders of the l iiiled States Steel corporation for the month pmlimr Vm-iHiiliiH MM ln:fl u-,n 1 1 ,ll"iS,."ii'' tons, an increase of Ul-d.-.'fti tons over the prcccd- iug month. This establishes a new record for unfilled orders of the corporation. TO 1 BELGIANS WASHINGTON, Dec. lb With publication of the American protest to Germany on the deportations of Medians, slate department officials disclosed today the Vnitcd States !overmucnt has exhausted its menus diplomacy and lias laid the case before public opinion, from which it will expect o draw jruidimce fur the next steps, if any Vie taken. Germany s reply, conveyed in con versations wilh Charge Grew at Mer lin by Chancellor Von llelhmmin llnlkvei;, is that the deportations ure regarded as justilied on the grounds of social necessity. No actual reply in the form of a note has been received from Ger many, but no doubt has been left by the chancellor that the. protest of Ihe 1'nitcd States will nut be heeded. Official inforninliou shows also thai the deportations are continuing. Publication of the protest was dis closed at the .state department today to be for (he purpose of pluciuir the cUse before American public opinion. It wns also revealed that publication of the document mi.uhl be interpreted as unfriendly, but that this conting ency had been taken into considera tion before it wits given out. The state department feels that it has none far beyond the usual diplo matic bound in its protest to Ger many and thai in n strictly conven tional sciisc it had almost no right to dUcuss the malter at all with Ger many, as Iti'lgiuinV interests in that country arc represented by Spain, mid nut by Hie Cnited Slates. Coii scipicutly. with, all diplomatic pro cedure now admittedly exhausted, tho department has no other recourse than to give the facts to the public and leave the ease wilh it. IERAL DRIVE AGIST VILLA IS CHIIirAIH A CITV. Mcx., Dee. 0. General Jacinln I!. T re vino's com mand bus been incorporated into the division of General Fi'sinei-co Mar gin, the new inililnry commander of the noil hen stern milihi rv .one, and General Tievino was expected to command his old force- in the cam paign against Villa. General Mtirgnia lias Malted tlte work of preparing for' a general movement aga iu-t Villa in wc.-ei n Chihuahua, which is cxpc-led to be gin soon. In the meantime tin new commander has onleied nil stolen goods ret ii rr cd to (he owners, has policed he city I horniigldy, nil of the dead have been buried and order re stored cvervwheie. KL PASU, Tc.. Dec Govern ment agents hci e niiuoiinecd todn v they had received reports from Jua rez that fighliiig be) ween the Car nuiza and Villa forces was in prog ress be! ween Piilomn. and Fresno, west of i 'hihunhun. The fighting was aid to have -furled ye-teidav morning and was re-umed again thi- morning. The Carrau.a force- were -niil to have been in coiiimiuid of Gem-nil Curio- Ounu. Kciuloreciiiciits were -cut from ( hihuiihiiu City las) night. according; to this same report. mwm SUGAR E Niblcy Seeking Land to Lease for Su gar Beets Japs- Also Trying to Lease Irrigated Land No Land Wanted Wifliout Water Success Nlcims Another Sugar Factory. It the district plan goes through. there will be enough land suitable for raising sugar beets put under irriga tion to smother tho Grants Pass fac torfy and eventually place another factory hero, providing leases can bo obtained for a considerable amount oC that land and beets are planted." .1. H. Pettingill, field superinten dent of tho Vtah-ldaho Sugar Co., made tills statement Friday in dis cussing the relation of irrigation to sugar beet culture. The difference in rental value of land will. In a few yours, staled Mr. I'ettinBill, pay for the cost of tho water right for that land, In addition to taking care oC interest and malntenanen charges. Kecking; S-lgnr Land. A largo number of Japanese are at present literally finecombing tho valley in nn cTfort to lease irrlgiited land for tho raising of sugar beets. They will take all the suitable land in the valley. Alex Nlbloy is also searching for land for the lame pur pose mid is offering from $12 to $20 per acre per year, according to the character of tho soil and tho distanco from the ruilroud. 'No land without Irrigation Is being considered either by Mr. Nlbley or the Japanese. Mr. Pettingill outlined what It will mean for the valley In the event tho riistrtat plan carries and the' cultfva tlon of beets becomes general. It will nicttn that tho factory at tirants Pubs must run at least 120 days during the main run, with other sliortor supple mentary runs, it will mean ten load ing stations in the vicinity of Med ford, each employing three men dur ing tho running season, it will mean a crew of 1.10 men at the factory dur ing the run nnd 25 men the remainder of the year, in other words, It will mean a payroll of $ 100,000 annually. Payroll In Addition. And in addition will be the pay roll of thousands of men workers in the beet Nelds nnd huge rental rolls to the landowners. There will be suf ficient pulp at the factory to fatten for market, il.ono head of cattle and 10,000 sheep. That will mean a pay roll of men to tend tho stock. Tho beet lops are worth, cllher as eattto feed, or fertilizer, $:i per acre. Hut the big Item of interest to Med fonl. staled Mr. Pettingill, Is that tho increased production will make abso lutely necessary the erection of a plant such as has been built nt Grants Pass, in tills vicinity, somewhere on the right-of-way between Medford and Central Point. As to why such an eru of sugar (Continued on Pago Four.) S. N Fit A NCISCO, I cc. !. The high price of new piiul paer prov ed a -tumbling Mod; today to a com mitter of live members of the Cali fornia Pies-, j ..(! "iiition appointed to -olve il. After interviewing paper jobbing hoiie- the committee re potted to the annual meeting- of tho t--ocialion recommending i live-ligation by the executive committee. C. L. Day of Sun Lui- Obispo, ii member of the committee, declared that SOU country newspapers in the Cniled States have .-u-pemled pub lication since Ihe price of paper in-crea-ei from to (P ', cents. ''Something' has to be done about it. Inil ju-t what, wo don't know yet,"' -aid Mr, Ihiy. T lie n--ociat ion re-nnied di-cu-ii'ii lodnv of how to eliminate free ;oU erti-in even going -o far as to eon-ider co-opera I ion w it h grocers in proposed egi-hit'.on ngain-t the trading stamp which, it i- -aid. cuts down tMlciti-iug return.- to publi-h- c Is. PAPER SUSPENDS