Medford mail tribune., December 18, 1916, Page 1, Image 1

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FORECAST
I Tonight and Tomorrow Halu,
I nunner, southerly wiiiU.
rortv-slxth Year.
ally Kl-vnth Year.
Chief of General Staff of U. S. Army
- Declares Time Has Come to Dis
card Volunteer System and Resort
to Universal Liability to Military
Training and Service.
,SC0TT FAVORS
COMPULSORY
ARMY SERVICE
u. WASHINGTON1, I). C, Dee.
18. President Wilson told call-
'IA ers today he had reached no de-
cision on universal training and
. will not do so until definite
measures have been laid before
him. lie told callers the idea
was attractive, but that it de-
pended on definite plans, lie
docs not iigree that the Na-
tionol'Guard has failed.
. .
VASHIN'GTON. Dec. IS. Advo
cator and opponent!, of a B.va'.cm of
'.civersal training fo? military ser
i vice to replace the vouiutrer system
as the mainstay of the nit'on's de
fence, had a hearing tod;u before t!ie
senate military comnutva on Sena
tor Chamberlain's bill for univerasl
i i'ninK which is sunuorted by the
a- my genei ll ; taff.
. While r-'?rseiitatlv)3 of orsaniza
tlons oppose- to the bill, jendec', by
"'W.Uer L. fisher, former secretary of
he iuteri?. give their reasons for
0) posing it. Major Genera! Scott,
chief of sta.f of the arm . detailed
to the committee that the staff con
sidered the volunteer system wholly
broken down, inefficient and useless
and urged that it be discarded for a
tnlversal system of liability to tialn
itii. and 6orvjci.
' Wants Million ami Mnlf.
General Scott, disclosing hmcr . f
the army war college mater. a) hitbe;-
to regarded as confidently1, show
that the general staff now believcc
that instead of 600,000 avallablo men
which it considered sufficient as n
start i to defend the country against
invasion, the country Bhould have
t 1,500,000 fully trained men at the
beginning of a war with a like num
ber ready to follow in ninety days.
The change is based on the develop
ment of the British army, the organ
ization of great Canadian forces and
to British alliance with Japan.
With mich a force available, the
army goneral staff, General Scott
said, considers the United States prac
tically immune from such attack as
military strategists might be expect
ed from the victorious set of powers
in the European war.. Mr. Fisher de
clared himself in favor of adequate
preparedness.
(Continued on Page Five.) I
FAMILY OF FIVE
0 CHEYENNE HOTEL
CHEYENNE, Wyo., Dec. 18. Roy
White, of Baylis, Cal., his wife and
four children lost their lives early to
day when fire destroyed the Inter
Ocean hotel where the Whites were
guests. The bodies of Mrs. While
and two sons were found in the ruins
today while a nine months old baby,
rescued by firemen, died from burns.
One child still is in the smoldering
wreckage.
. White was killed when he leaped
from the third story of the hotel and
fell among electric light wires. Fit
teen guests were rescued by firemen.
While search continued In the
ruins today for additional victims, ho
tel officials declared their belief that
all had been accounted for. The
hotel was constructed 25 years ago
and was undergoing remodeling. The
loss was estimated at $50,000.
- While the fire department was
fighting the hotel flames fire broke
out in the paint shops and storage
house of the Union Pacific railroad.
Only the walls were left standing.
The loss was estimated at 1(16 6,000.
Both fires were believed to have been
caused by defective wiring. .
MEDFORD
FALL PLANTING
WINTER WHEAT
BREAKS RECORO
Present High Prices Encourage In
creased Acreage Condition Under
That of Last Year, Due to Late
r.ess of Planting Oregon Shy Us
ual Amount Account of Dry Fall.
WASHINGTON', Dec. IS. Ameri
can fanners, foreseeing a continued
steady demand on them from the
warring European nations for wheat,
planted an acreage of that grain this
fall second In point of size in the na
tion's history, but poor weather con
ditions sent the crop into winter dor
mancy two per cent below the con
dition of last December and 4.3 per
cent below the ton year average.
In summarizing its first report on
the winter wheat crop Issued today,
the department of agriculture said:
Pull Planting lUinvy.
The fall plantings of winter wheat
are reported to be 2.3 per cent great
er than In the autumn of 1913. The
present area seeded, 40,090,000 acres,
Is the greatest ever planted, with the
exception of the 40,452.000 acres
seeded two years ago and Is more
than ten per cent greater than plant
ed In any year prior to the fall of
1914.
"The high price received for the
present year's crop nail encouraged
an Intention to plant a largely In
creased acreage but the unusual dry
ness at seeding time throughout prac
tically the entire winter wheat pro
ducing territory largely prevented
these Intentions being realized.
Increases of between five and ten
per cent were general In the south
(Atlantic states. Iowa increased five
per cent; Ohio four and Kansas
three per cent. In the western group
of states, Colorado and California
show increases of five per cent over
last year. Montana remained the
same. Utah is 96;' Idaho 93; Wash
ington 87 and Oregon SO.
Condition 87.7 Normal.
The condition of winter wheat is
S7.7 per cent normal at this time,
It is two per cent lower than last
year at this time and 4.3 per cent
lower than the ten year average,
ranging slightly under 90 in most or
the eastern states and between S3 and
93 in the central states. In the west
the condition is 90 or slightly above
in most states excepting Washington
and Oregon, where it is 72 and 78 re
spectively. The low condition is almost uni
formly asciibahle to tho lateness of
planting which lias prevented wheat
from attaining its normal growth at
this lime and in some Instances late
seedings have not yet germinated.
Little mention Is made of the Hes
Blan fly, although It Is In evidence to
some extent, particularly In Kansas.
POUTL.VXn, Ore., Dec. 18. Oscar
A. Lund, who came here alone volun
tarily from Los Angeles in an effort
to clear himself of the possibility of
suspicion In connection with the mur
der of John Linnd today was prepar
ing to return south, as Edward Bar
tholomew, under arrest here, who
ha .'admitted complicity In the crime
last night declared he never saw
Lund before.
"Paul Lund murdered John Linnd,
but this Is not Paul Lund," Bartholo
mew paid when confronted with the
southerner. Bartholomew has admit
ted, the police say, to having placed
I.lnnd's body In a green trunk, which
he threw into the Willamette river
here November IS, 1915, after the
murder was committed by Lund.
Police believe Paul Lund Is a myth
ical personage, created In Bartholo
mew's mind to throw suspicion from
himself. Bartholomew was arrested
in Seattle. He has been charged with
murder.
OF'-ar Lund was a student at Wil
lamette university at the time of the
murder. He arrived here yesterday.
MKDFORI).
FIRST PICTURE OF WRECKED SUBMARINE H-3
The I'll I ted States submarine 1I-.I, helpless in Hie breakers allelr running ashore on the Pacific coast two
miles north nl Kurckii, ( ill,, during ll dense log. As the picture was taken waves were sweeping over the
diver, threatening destruction. Lieutenant II. U. Ilnguseli, commander, and twenty men were rescued by life
savers of the coast guard alter hours of dangerous work. The lives of I lie men were periled by chlorine gas
geneartcd in the boat after the accident.
F
T BRIT
LONDON, Dee. 18. The first food
restriction went into force in Eng
land today. Holds mid restaurants
arc now forbidden to serve more than
two courses for breakfast or lunch
eon and fhrce courses for dinner.
Little inconvenience was, experi
enced in connection wi!h ihu first two
moil Is. The Knglishmnn's usual
breakfast consists of a cereal and
bacon, eggs or iish, and except in the
mure expensive places, a luncheon of
two 'courses is t ho rule. It was in
arranging for a dinner of three
courses Unit the caterers experienced
the greatest difficulties, but even in
tills case few tire likely lo go hungry,
as liors d'oeuvros and soup count
only half a course and for the Iw.o
other courses diners have the choice
of fish, enlrecs or roasts, with vege
tables lintl desserts. Cheese with
bread and butler or crackers is not
counted as a course. ,
Tile meatless day which is expected
to follow shortly will prove u more
difficult problchi for restaurants
which make u specially of roasts.
E
H KKI.IX, Ik-c. 18. In pecinl
order the commander in chief of the
liuliirinn army expresses thank to
the officers and soldiers of that
anny for tlnur reeent victories, in
which more than 120,000 Iiiimanians,
the order states, have been taken
prisoner and .'01)0 cannon captured.
The order follows:
"The almost complete winni" out
of the Rumanian anny and the virtual
extinction of Kumania, which now
seems probable, and through which
Uularia now is given satisfaction for
her sufferinp of three years ao.
have caused this victory to occasion
ununa! rejoicing. Kvery where in
our country divine services were held
and demonstrations of joy by the
populace occurred in the streets, in
celebration of our triumph in this
notable victory.'
LONDON', itec. IS The peace note
of the central powers was handed to
the British government today by Wal
ter II. Page, the American ambas
sador. Mr. Page called at the for
eign office early In the day. In the
absence of A. J. Balfour, the foreign
secretary, he presented the note to
Lord Robert Cecil, under secretary
for Xpreigo affairs.
Mail
OREUOX. MONDAY. DECKMI5K1? 18. 191(5
1L PULL H-3 OFF
BEACH AI HIGH IE
4
EUREKA, Cal., Dec. 1S.
The United Stutes Monitor
Cheyenne had a line aboard 3
the submarine H-3 today and
wiis ready to put n strain on
the diver which went uground
In the breakers two miles
north of Eureka last' Thurs-
day morning. Surfmen board-
ed the H-3 today from the
beach without wetting their 4-
feet.
There was a smooth sea
and no fog. The Cheyenne
was waiting for a full tide.
f
KEPT ON BORDER
HALKM, Or., Dec 18.Oroon Na
Jional Guardsmen on the Mexican
border will not be permitted to return
home at present, hecause thorp are no
troops available to replaco them,"
said a letter received today by Gov
ernor James YVithycombe from Wil
liam M. Itif.Tahiun, nctiny; secretary
of war.
Governor Wit hycombe wrote over
two weeks no nryhitf Secretary of
War Maker to permit A troop, Oregon
cavalry, and A battery, field artil
lery, to return from t'alexico. Sev
eral days n-o, when no answer came
to his letter, he wired Washington,
repeating his request.
l-'or the precnt, no further effort
will be made by the authorities here
to secure the troops' release, if was
said.
SENATORS WANT 10
WASHINGTON-, Dec. 18. Senator
Smoot's substitute for the Sheppard
prohibition bill, which would not only
prohibit the manufacture and sale of
liquor In the capital but also prevent
Its Importation for personal use, was
rejected by the senate today by a
vote of fil to 8. Senators who voted
for absolute prohibition as provided
in the substitute were:
Ashurst, Curtis. Gronna, Reed,
Smoot, Thomas and Works.
PREMIER LLOYD GEORGE
MUCH IMPROVED TODAY
LONDON. Dec. 1 8.--Premier Lloyd
(ieorge wt much better this morning
and his eerctnrv -aid lliul be would
ceilninly make llie promised -tate-menl
in tlie lion-c of commons on
Tue-dav.
Tribune
SAFE, SURVIVORS
BEYOND SERETH
PAKIS, Dec. 18. Tho Tiumaniaii
army is now safe, according to new
received in Paris last nii-ht, says I he
Petit Parisien. The paper says that
the survivors are now beyond the
Sertith river ut Jassy and in liessar
uhiu, where they are being re-qrouped
and outlined in view of further op
erations. .Tho entire Uunianian front
is now stated to be held by the lius
sians alone.
After the. Pucharest-Plootchli line
was lost, the story says, the liussians
sent torees of cavalry to suoport the
retreat of the Rumanian ami v. Kin
Kerdinand fell back as rapidly iik
possible, assured of the possibility of
reforming behind the shelter of the
I!ussiansf Tind continued the with
drawal without uniting until Ihe Ser
eth was crossed. The liussians of
fered strong resistance to the Ger
mans in the region of Hueu so as to
permit engineers lo construe! a de
fensive front between l.'iniuik Sural
and the Panubc marshes, on which
front, it is said, the Itiissians intend
to stop the advance, of the invaders,
IllifSlI, Colo., Dec. 18. Two men
held up the Stockmen's National bank
here when the doors opened today
and escaped in a closed motor car
with -fTotJO.
When the doors of Ihe institution
were opened this morning two men
entered. Hank officials supposed
I hey were eu.-tomeis. (nice inside,
one of the men snapped the lock on
the bank's Mrt-el door to prevent any
one from entering. The other drew
a revolver and ordered Ihe Ihree em
ployes on duty to hold up their
hands.
A few minutes before. ( '. II. May
Ian n, assistant cashier, had taken
.7.10H from the'vault and placed it
in the paying teller's cae.
"I will take this," said one of the
robber-,, n- he leached I h rough the
window, jathcrcd up Ihe hills and
pushed them into his poekets. The
robbers then backed out of the door.
They made no e! fort to enter Ihe
vault. Mhcre .fl'i.OllO of the bank's
funds remained intact.
TEN PER CENT INCREASE
F02 COAL EMPLOYES
OAKV. V. Va., Dee. IS.- The
I'nited Stales Coal Si Cuke company,
a subsidiary of the 1'niled Slates
Steel company, announced today that
it would pi vi! its -4000 employes a
Christmas present in lie form of a
10 per cent increase in wai:e. The
increase vij become effective at
E
BY
Protocol Submitted by Conference
Returned Unapproved Door Not
Closed Entirely Against Agreement
With United States Mexicans
Wounded.
I'llII.ADKI.I'illA, Dec. I8.-Indi-calions
at lite u!orc of the morning
Mcs.-iun of tliu Mexican-American
commission were Unit (leucral t'nr
ratiza was not disposed to close the
door asaiust all U"rcciucnt Willi Ihe
American representatives who have
been trymjr for more than I It roc
months to solve ipiestions al issue
between Mexico and Ihe I'nited
States.
When the commission reconvened
today after a three weeks' recess, Al
berto .1. Piini reported the results of
his visit to tuerclaro. The report
was made verbnilv and was received
by the Americans without comment.
An adjournment until Inter in the day
was taken when it is expected Ihe de
tails of bis written, message from
Mexico will be discussed.
The exact character of his report
was not revealed, but it was learned
that while t'ai'ranza had not niimed
the protocol drafted al Atlantic t'ity,
this was not neccssarilv lo he taken
as all indication thai it would nut he
ratified Inter, the signature perhaps
belli!; that of Ambassador-Designate
Arredoiido, who is autliori.cd to siin
such ii document.
Not Signed by ('arrun.a.
It was understood that Mr. 1'iini'
message was not siuncd bv Carraiizii,
but ii was in the form of u comtiiuni-
catlon from the Mexican commission
ers, iiutlioi'i.cu liy the .Mexican ex
ecutive and calculated to he an ans
wer to the statement by Secretary
I. ane, chairman of the American com
mission, made on I lie lust day of the
conferences al Aliunde City. To Ihe
terms of tin protocol providing for
tlic withdrawal of die Aincricafi
troops within forty days and on con
dition that no new raids occur in that
part of the country about the region
now occupied by deiicrul Pcrhinj'!
column, it is believed f'arrau.a had
ol fered no insuperable objection. It
is known that the declaration of Sec
retary l,n ne that the American gov
ernment reserved the riuhl of unrc
stricted pursuit of bandits by Anicr
ican troops wounded deeply tile sen
Nihilities of Carranza and members of
his official family and that the mes
sage broulil by .Mr. I'ani was little
more than a counter declaration of
the policy of the Mexican govern
ment. lllllas I'uhllilt.v .ucut.
I'nlcss this counter-siijtMcstion is
regarded by American members of
such definite elm racier as to preclude
further discussion, it was believed
lliat Carraiizii will not delay louder
the ratification of the protocol mid
that the conferences will be formally
resumed. That such an outline of
the Mexican policy would block the
negotiations was considered improb
able because the Mexican ipicstiou nt
issue the right ' unrest riclcd pur
suit was not included in the proto
col itself.
.n inciileut ot the prclmiiuary ses
sion was the appearance in the hotel
of .1. ,1. Ilnwes, who represented him
self as Villa's publicity agent, lie
made an iiusiicec-sful effort to se
cure an auoieiicc with the American
member of the commisMim.
PONTIFF NOT TO
HOMK, Dec. IS. Pope Benedict
hH no Intention of utttMiit!uK to mo-
dinle anions the belligerents nl pre
sent, according to a Htatemenl Issued
today li v the vatleian.
The net result of several resolu
tion Introduce!) in the chamber of
deputies regarding the (iernian offer
of peace, and a prolonged discussion
among the nenatorH and deputlen Was
t he declKlon by t he ley Ma torn that
no peace would he accepted unless In
accordance with national aspiration
and tho HghtK of the people based on
the principala of nationality. If ntieh
a peae Ik impossible to obtain diplo
matically is wan de lured that it must
A
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NO. 'JIW
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Some Lessening of Intensity of the
Fighting In Ruamnla Indicated
Rumanians Reforming in Jessy and
Bessarahla German Counter-Attacks
at Verdun Repulsed. .
Some lessening in the intensity of
the fighting in Itumunia is indicated
by today's (icrman army headquar
ters stalemcnl, which reports die .sit
uation u the K 1 1 in ii i j in ii front un
changed. Field Marshal Von Maekcnsen'n
advance has pushed considerably be
yond the lluzeii line, drawn approxi
mately U'-russ'tlie southern boundary
of Moldavia, and unofficial advicen
indicate thai the entente front is to
be established between Kimnik-Snrut,
on the lluzcii-Jassy railroad, about
twenty miles north of llnzeu and on
the Danube marshes,
ItiiimuiiniiN Withdraw.
Current advices claim that the llu
maiiian army is no longer in ncdon,
having been withdrawn fo rre-group-
ing and rclilling to Jassy mid Hessa
rabia under the protection of Kussian
forces which now hold the fightinir
line. The Hussions arc expected to
make their sland on the Himnik
Sarat line, where strong defenses
have been prepared. The . llerlin
statement, reporting hostile forces
falling back on Ibriiila, may indicate
thai the easterly end of the lino will
be established at this important Dan
ube river point, twenly-five miles
south of (lalnla. 1 ; - t '
On the. Kranco-llelgiiin front, f'nris
announces a strong coiinler-uttncU
by the (Icrmans on Ihe positions won
by the Kreiich in their recent (sweep
ing advance north and northeast ol!
Verdun. The only success of the al
tacking forces, however, accoi'dinx to
Paris, was ut one point on the Chani
brelles I'u mi, about a mile hnd n
ipiarter north of Fort Douuumont,
where they secured a fooling.
I l,:tS7 IVIsoiiers.
Tlie I'Vcuch look 11,118" prisoners
in llie Verdun fighting of die pusl,
llirce days, the Paris war office an
nounced, together witli 11.') cannon,
7110 machine guns ami -I I bomb
throwers. (Ileal llrilaiu lias received tho
peace note of tlerinany and her allies.
The note was handed to the British
foreign secretary today by, Wultur
llincs I'agc, the American ambassa
dor. FIRST ATTEMPT
T
SAN I'UANCISCO, Dec. 18. The
government made its first attempt to
day lo dclinilcly connect Kranz 'llopp,
(lei man consul general, with alleged
unneutral dynamiting conspiracies
for which he and consular attaches
have been on trial in the I'nited
States district court for two weeks.
'Who Mgncd consulate checks?'
iiskcd I'nited Stales District Attor
ney Pie-ton of Frederick .lessen, it
clerk in til nsulate, who was on
the willlc-s stand.
"Mr. Ilopp,'' replied .lessen.
Tlieodoic ljoebc of counsel for the
defeuM' objected with llie deelu ration
that I!. II. Vmi Sehack, vice-consul
and al-o a defendant, likewise signed
cheeks.
"I intend to prove." Preslon ans
wered, "thai up lo Ihe lime the grand
jury began investigating (tH. evidence
in this ca,-c, Ilopp was die only one
in the eoii.-iilntc who could sign
cheek-. I will prove (bat Von
Seliaek'- mime was written in on the
Imnk card after Unit."
It i- the purpo-e of the government,
Pre-lon said, to connect Ilopp up
witli the money paid by die consulate
lo l.onis .1. Smith and ('. t'. t'rowlcy
for alleged dynamiting iiclivitics.
Smith mid Crowley are defendants,
bill Sniilb is chief witness for the
government.
RUIvlAN ARMIES
SCAPE AS SLAVS
CHECK PURS