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MEDFORD. 01JFC10X. THURSDAY. .TAXUA1.V -J, 1917
XO. 243
PRESIDENT TO
T
I
After Entente Powers' Reply Is Re
ceived, Wilson Will Make at Least
One More Move to Ascertain the
Avowal of Terms Hopes to Clear
Up Doubt Note Occasioned.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4 After tho
entente reply to President Wilson's
note has I orn received Co president
win not iei the negotiations drop,
but will make at least one more
move.
It the entente reply to President
Wilson's peace note fails to meet his
proposal for an early occasion for
an avowal of terms, the president
will not lot the negotiations drop, but
will make at least one more move.
To Clear l'p Positions.
If another communication is sent,
it is expected to make more clear the
position of the president as it is felt
that as a result of comment ahioad
and in the United States and the de
bate in the senate confusion has
arisen as to just what he intended.
RENEW EFFOR
OWARDSPEACE
President Wilson's chief hope In
the ultimate success of the negotia
tions is known to lie in his suggos
tion that a means be found for mnin--,
taining peace in the future. If1 an
agreement on that point can be
reached, tiie president is said to feel
It mlgjj,t be possible to end the pres
ent conflict.
While the president never has pub
licly indicated willingness to act as
a medium for exchange of terms so
cretly between the belligerents and
it Is known he would prefer that it
would be done publicly, American
diplomats have been looking into
I that .point. President Wilson's'
friends say he is unconcerned over
efforts to connect his note with the
German peace proposals. Ha is
known to believe that in the end the
entente allies, as well as the central
powers- will realize that his move was
not directed against either.
Policy of Silence.
All officials are silent that Ameri
can Ambassador Gerard, as a result
of his talk with the German chan
cellor, Dr. Von Bethniann-llollweg,
probably transmitted a report on de
, tails of Germany's peace terms to
make them available to the entente
allies. Thujr also refuse comment on
the statements attributed to the for
mer Hungarian premier, Count Jul
ius Andrassy, that the entente could
learn Germany's peace terms through
the president. .
Colonel E. XI. House, wlio had ad
vised closely with President Wilson
all along on the peace movement,
conferred at length with the presi
dent today and was about the offic
ial circle conferring with others in
touch with the subject.
Definite arrangements for publica
tion of the entente reply have not yet
been announced here.
' FUNERAL HELD OF
ARTIST MODEL
Pmi.ADHI.PHIA, Jan. 4. Ef
forts in the search to find the mur
derer of JIalzle Colbert, artist model
and former manicurist, who was
found beaten and strangled in her
apartment hero late last Saturday
night, were today-directed to learning
the Identity of a man who was driven
in a taxicab early last Friday morn
ing to the street corner y.hero the
apartment house stands. At the same
time the authorities are keeping
under surveillance the wealthy young
man from the interior of Pennsyl
vania, who Is known to have been a
friend of the young woman. Ac
cording to his friends ha has a com
t plcte alibi.
Men acquaintances of the murder
ed Brl are still coming forward to
tell what they know about Miss Col
bert and to clear themselves of any
connection with the case. One of the
most prominent to appear was a man
well known In the city, who was a
star baseball player in his college
dayc.
The luneral of the murdered
woman was held today. It was said
that the expenses of the funeral were
paid by iron who knew her well.
EUROPE 10 DODGE
i'irn itiurnTift iTinu
IM JNVttllbAllUN
NEW YOltK, Jan. 4. Thos.
W. I.nwson gave out here late
today a copy of a telegram he
said ho had sent to Champ
Clark, speaker of the house, In
which .Mr. Lawson said ho
would be unable to appear bo-
fore the house committee inves-
tigatiug the "leak" of the presl-
dent's peace note, because he
would sail for Europe Saturday.
r LAST
BADLY SHAKEN
I'K.TIiOtiliAP, Jan. 4 The litis
inn forces in Dobrudju began yester
day a withdrawal toward Iiruila,
across the Danube in Wnllitchia, the
war office announced today. The re
treat followed hasty fighting, during
which one attack near .Mutchiu was
beaten off, but which later resulted
in the yielding of ground by the Rus
sians, beginning their withdrawal
movement. .
Russia's lust remaining hold in the
Rumanian province of Dobrudja has
been so badly shaken by the loss of
Matchin to Field Marshal Vou .Mack
enseu's i'orces that it seems doubtful
if she C2ii much longer retain her
crip on i.u.v of this truns-Uanuhe ter
ritory. 1 cspatches from entente
sources Indicate an expee.'.Atioii that
she probibi will be forced shortly
to abund.-i It.
West of the Danube at this point.
Hraila. the important Itutuunian
grain and oil storage depot, is siill
held by the Russians, but It is con
sidered doubtful whether it cap hold
out long under as serious a threat
as is supplied "by tho GcrmMio-Hul-garian
operations across the river.
The lino of tho Sereth. to which the
Russians have retired farther north
westward, runs just north of Bralla.
The expectation is indicated in the
dispatches, ' however, that the pro
longed defense of the city has given
time for the removal of the valuable
stores of provisions and material
which it contained.
On the Moldavian west frontier,
where heavy pressure by the armies
of the central powers lias been ex
erted, the defense of the Russians
and Rumanians scms somewhat firm
er. The last Petrograd official state
ment docs not concede any further
withdrawals along this front In the
face of tie Austro-German attacks
although further progress at one or
two points was claimed by Berlin.
No operations of Importance have
been reported from any of the other
fronts.
LIFE OF
E
WASHINGTON", Jim. 4.A pro
pncd rule to compel immediate con
federation of the Adamson resolution
to continue the Xewlnnds railroad
committee fur one vear from next
Monday, favorably reported today,
was defeated in the house Iti" to 1 Ci.
Cnder present law, the committee
goes out of existence January
President Wilson wanted it contin
ued. Without a special rule it is
probably imposible to pet an exten
sion through the house. The commit
tee was working on the transporta
tion problems general!' not on legis
lation to supplement the Adamson
law.
ALL CLOCKS SET FORWARD
IN NEW SOUTH WALES
SAN KIIANCISCO, Jan. 4. All
clock- in New South Wales were set
ahead one hour January 1 to .ave
daylight, according to a cable; rani
received t"dav hv the AiM raliaii
trail. commission here. A daylight
;i ving ai't ha also been parsed in
the state of Victoria, it was .aid.
WARlINCREASES
EUROPEAN DEBT
FIFTY BILLIONS
Federal Reserve Board Gives Cost of
War as Estimated From Reliable
Sources Central Empires Over
Twenty Billions and Entente Twenty-Nine
Billions, Without Italy.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 4. The in
crease in the national debt of Great
Britain, Trance, liussia, Germany and
Austria-Hungary is estimated hy the
IVdcval reserve board at $4!M.V),
(100,(100 from the beginning of the war
to the latter pari of 1010, with the
exception of Ausl rin-lliingury, in
whose case the estimate extends only
to May, 1 SI 10. Twenty-nine billions
is the three entente nations' share of
tile total, and twenty billions is that
of the two central powers.
This estimate, the board stated in
tabulations made public today, is ap
proximate and does not cover the cost
of the war, us large revenues of un
determined amounts have been raised
by internal luxation. Kollowing arc
the estimated national debt in
creases :
Increases in Debt.
-Grunt Britain, to November 31,
m in, .ti:i,'2.-):t,.'i.i8,ooo.
I'rnnce, to August HI, 1016,
.f8,0:i8,."i00,000.
Russia, to December 111, 1016,
$7,1)7:1,274,0(10.
A total of $20,203,1 ICJ.OOO for the
entente.
Germany, to October 27, 1010.
.fl."i,2(iO,000,000.
Austria, $:i,710,200.000.
Hungary. $1,21-1,000,000.
A total of $20,102,200,000 for (lie
Germanic nations.
Great lltitnin's national debt, the
board estimated, was approximately
$l."i,l(i:i,7.")0.0n0 in November, having
risen from $:i,4-19.Sl;i,l.0 in March,
1014. Loans to allies and dominions
included in the grand total arc esti
mated at from three to three and a
half billion.
Trance's total loans to her allies
during the war nre estimated at np
proximately $.'130,000,000.
The national debt of liussia has
risen from 0.888,:I10,000 rubles, on
January 1, 1014, to 2.'),220,0;i(i,000
rubles (al I $111,11 4.880,720) at the
close of 1010.
Ilank Circulations.
ihink circulation in Germany has
increased greatly during the war ns
in other belligerent countries, the to
tal of l-eichsbank notes in circulation
on December 7 last being placed at
$1.0")2,271,000, as against $4."0,212.-
010 on July HO, .1014. Tho cost of
tile war to Germany since llumania's
entrance is placed at about $"24,-
880,000 monthly, mid (he last new
credit grunted by the roichslug
$2,880,000,000 on October 27 lust, is
estimated to be sufficient for about
five months. The number of sub
scribers to the various German war
loans is placed at 10,028,0.-) 7, the
fourth loan, offered last March, hav
ing the largest number. r,270,04-.
The figures were taken from for
eign sources which the board consid
ers reliable.
GKNKVA, Switzerland. Jan. 4.
The Austrian government lias asked
Switzerland to represent Austro
Hiingarinn interests in the unoccupied
portion of Kiunnnin. The political
department has accordingly instruct
ed the Swiss charge d'affaires at
Jassy to take charge of the interests
of Austro-lliingury.
P.KIfl.lN. Jan. 4. The n a-sinn-tinn
of M. Jollos, an influential mem
ber of the duma, is reported by the
Overseas News agency. According
to this report. M. Jollos disappeared
niy-tcriouly n sjiurt time ago, and it
is believed he was the victim of a
political murder.
lil.OCKHlt. Oklu;, Jan. 4.
Iletweeu fifteen and twenty
children arc believed to have
been killed In a tornado that
destroyed the I.ee-IluldwI'i
4 Hchool house about seven miles
! south of here shortly before
noon today. It Is also reportod
that several persons were killed
3 at Featherstonc, a few miles
west of here.
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TO LUIS CABRERA
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. The
American reply to General Carranza's
rejection of the protocol for with
drawal of American troops from
Mexico was taken today to Luis Cab
rera, chairman of the Mexican com
missioners in New York, by Dr. John
K. Mott of the American commission
el's. Whether there is one more session
of the joint commission will depend
upon the Mexicans. There will not be
a continuation of the conferences,
however: The report of the American
commissioners that further negotia
tions with the Mexicans were useless
has received the approval of Presi
dent Wilson, and if I here is another
meeting it will be merely for the ob
servance of the formalities of ending
the eonlerenccs. , i . . , ... .
The American commissioners ad
vised the president to act independ
cntlv mid of his own initiative in the
withdrawal of troops and to provide
for diplomatic channels through
which other questions can be taken
up.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. Attorney
General Gregory today assigned at
torneys of the department of justice
to confer with federal trade commis
sion officials and examine disclos
ures contained In the commission's
recent inquiry into conditions in the
print paper market "as a basis for
determining what further steps to
take."
"I know from what already has
been brought out," said the attorney
general in a loteer to the commis
sion, "that a serious condition exists
in this trade and that any remedy
which the law may nfford should be
applied at once."
EIGHT TALESMEN
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4. Fight
talesmen had been tentatively ac
cepted as jurors when court ad
journed for the noon recess today in
tho trial of Thomas J. Mooney, ac
cused of murder In connection with
a preparedness day purade bomb ex
plosion July 22, which resulted In the
death of ten persons and the wound
ing of nearly forty more. Altogether
ten talesmen have been excused for
cause.
TAIL OF WHALE
SAN PF.IiRO. Cal.. Jan. 4. The
slap of the tail of a sixty-foot black
whale sank the 32-foot gasoline
launch "Standard" today according
to Alike Stanoviti h, a fisherman, who
was picked up at sea In an open
skiff. The whale wan encountered
four miles off shore. Stanovltch
managed to cut loose the skiff be
fore the "Standard" went under.
IN
I
E
Taxicab Driver Who Drove Taxi to
House of Murdered Artists' Model
Seeks Arrest of Son of Pittsburg
Coal Operator for Non-Payment of
Bill Aim Is to Locate Suspect.
IMIll.AIi:i.rilIA, Jun. 4. KIttmid
I'owfll, a taxii-iih rlmut'tVur, wliu tuld
t!u police u IV w diivs iv,io thtit lie
drove a mini Id the upartnit'iit house
where Mauie Colbert, the nrtUts
model, was iomul murdered, and thai
the man disappeared without paying
the hill lor the hire ot' the vehicle, to
day swore uut a warrant for the ar
rest of one Uernaid V. Lewis, said
to be the son ol' a eoal operator of
Pittsburg, Ph., on a charge .of de-fnimlin-'
him out of the taxicab bill.
Sek to IxkiiIo Snec(.
In aniiouneinjr that a warrant had
been issued l'r the nrre.-t ol' Lewis,
the police hastened to sa-y Mint they
have nothing to say that he knew
flnylhint: about the death of Miss Col
bert. The charge mentioned in the
warrant is declared to be technical
for tile purpose of fiudinii' Lewis to
questioning him ns to whether he was
at the apartment house, at the lime
.Miss Colbert is supposed to have been
murdered. Lewis1 name was supplied
to the police by two public school
teachers who are sisters. The ehauf
IVur said he drove two women and a
man to Oermautown, a suburb, late
Thursday night, leaving the women at
their home and driving the man to the
street corner in town where the apart
ment house is located, early Friday
morning.
According to 'the chauffeur, III
man then disappeared, leaving his bill
unpaid.
AVns Stock Heokeiv
PITTSIH'liU, .Ian. 4. !t. Lewis
was identified with one ol the Itirj;
est stock brokerage bouses in the city
until a year ago, and was one of the
principal stockholders in a company
owning and operating a large theater
His friends sav he was not entirely
successful in his business enter
prises, the theater passing into (he
hands of a receiver. Lewis was mar
ried, he and his wife being well
known in Pittsburg society.
. KL PASO, Tex., Jan. l.A meet
ing of Villa partisans and advisers
will he held in San Antonio, Tex., Fri
day or Saturday to formulate a plan
of organization for the Villa govern
ment and to arrange for tint orolce
lion of foreign liven and property, a
report received by jiovcinmcnl ayclils
here today and forwarded to Wn-4i-inton
staled.
Tiie details of the proposed Villa
government will be discussed at this
meeting, it was added, and the loca
tion of Ihe proposed seat of govern
ment selected. Ilipotiln Villa, a
brother of I'Vanei-co Villa, would rep
resent bis brother at the capital, it
was said bv Villa agents.
IN COURT TODAY
PHOKNTX, Avi,.. Jan. -I. - The
Hunt and I'amnhcll forces in the con
test for control of the governorship
of Arizona were re-ting oi their arms
early today preparatory to the battle
before the supreme court this After
noon. The Campbell forces are ak
ini the court lor an order compelling'
(IjfVernor Hunt to vacate Ihe office in
favnr of (lover nor Campbell pending
a determination of the recount of bal
lots which will bein January
(iovernor Hunt todav still wat in
posKfK ion of the executive chamber.
Roth Governor Hunt and (iovernot
Campbell were preparing iiiejingi' In
the Icyi-diitnre, which convene next
week.
N
MURDER
BAY STATE ADDICTED
TO THE DRUG HABIT
f
liOSTOX, Jan. -4 An esti-
mate that (iO.O(K) persons in lliis
slate are addicted to the drug
habit was included in tile report
T today of a commission appoint-
ed by (Invernnr Mcl'nll to hives-
tiijalc Ihe ilnijr evil. The habit,
it was Miid. is not confined (o
iinv particular class of peoole.
4- -f
OF IHE PRESIDENT
WASHINGTON, Jan. I.-Senator
Works of California, in ills sensa
tional valediciory today assailed the
'tendency toward centralized, un
checked and unlimited power" in the
president of tho United States and
attacked growing proninacy of
wealthy as indications of decadence
of the American government.
"The greatest danger now con
fronting tho nation." Senator Works
declared, "is the unwarranted and
uiiconstiutlonal ursurpatlon of pow
er, by the president, amounting to n
dictatorship and the displacement of
its powers and functions and nban
donmcnt of its duties and obligations
by the congress of the United States
"The tendency has grown rapidly
worse and more offcnslvo In the last
four years. iXever has congress been
so submissive or so subservient to a
power ouUlile Itself. Never in all his
tory havo wo come so near a despotic
government."
Senator Works also asserted that
the nation now was feeling the evil
effects of Its growing wealth and ad
vocated laws to compel idle rich to
work for the state if not for them
selves. L
LONDON, Jan. 4.A Copenhagen
disputed to the Kxchange Telegraph
company says that most of Ihe Nor
wegian papers have attacked Ihe
Piiitish minister in Christ iania in
connection wild the embargo on coal
proclaimed by (ileal Britain.
The Norske Intelliirenszdler reports
that the Norwegian reply has bm-n
handed the British rcprcM'iitativc and
leaves no doubt that Norway is loy
alty maintaining the expoii prohibi
tions regarding fish and other i,ood.
The Gazette says Ihnt there i. a
great ipiantity of cunl in Norway and
no pro. pe-1 of a shortage.
HKIMJN, Jan. I. 'The Over-en-News
av'iicy says that in future de
livery of coal to Xmwav will be pcr
milted by lite liriti-h only in en-e
Norwegian ships carry coal to Italy
and France at fixed freight rates.
END FATALLY
HKUI.IN, Jan. I. "According to
recent reports by way of Stockholm,"
says an Overseas News agency slate
meut today, "Ihe prohibition of (he
convendons In Moscow had most se
rious conMiiienet's last Thursday.
Tho reports are still fragmentary,
hut the facts that the minthcr of dead
is given at much more than 00 In
dicates tho gravo character of the
riots. It. Is reported that the police,
unable to deal witli the disturbances,
called for military aid. but that (he
soldiers fraternized with the crowd.
"According to another rumor. Cap
tain Tschelnakov of tho Moscow city
forces and Prince Lvov were among
those arrested. The duma Is said to
have urgently requested tho govern
ment for information in connection
with the .Moscow troubles, this, how
ever. l"'lng given only In secret ses
sion at which socialist members Rave
the correct version of (lie troubles."
E
DRSEINT
OF PEACE NOTE
Vote on Hitchcock's Resolution Post
poned by Works, Who Makes Vale
dictory Subject Warmly Debated
by Lodge and Lewis, the Former
Strongly Opposing. (
WASHINGTON, Jan. 4. A vote on
Senator Hitchcock's resolution to
have the senate indorse President
Wilson's peace vote was nyain post
poned today by the parliamentary sit
uation.
When debute was automatically cut
oi l' by the expiration of the so-called
morning hour, the iiicstioii of conlin
uiiiv' precipitated a parliamentary
tangle, during which Senator Works
of California took the tloor to de
liver a prepared speech marking1 his
retirement from the senate.
Technically, he was speaking on n
motion to continue the peace note de
bate, but netnally he was delivering
his valedictory, which was long
enough to take four or five hours.'
The effect of his action was (o put
the Hitchcock resolution over un
olhcrday. Lodge's Argument.
liesuining his direct argument on
the president's note, Senator Lodge
referred to that portion which indi
cated that the I'nitcd States wus
willing to co-operate after the war
with Ihe belligerent nations of Kur-
(! and other nations in an ai'i'iuie
iiient for peace of the world.
"It is apparent to everyone," he
continued, "that when we abandon
our traditional policy ol' separation
from JKiirujienn politics we take u
great step which should not be taken
without niosl thorough kuowledgu ot
what is intended and what we are in
vited to do.
"An approval of I In- note in this
general form curries with it approval
of thai general principle of co-operation.''
Heading from newspaper dis
patches indicating (icniuiny'K terms
have been communicated to the presi
dent, Senator Lodge said:
Opposes Indol-scincllt.
"If the president has the terms
proposed by the central powers it is
entirely in his discretion to deal with
them," lint if we arc to indorse every
thing lie is doing, then before action
is taken we should know the grounds
on which we arc acting. When our
co-opcralion is asked we are entitled
to the same inlormalion the presi
dent has."
Here Senator Lodge read the en
tente reply of the original (icmian
peace proposal, which referred to the
(icrniun oiler us "pretended pronos
als of peace."
"Ccrlainly from thai note," said
Senator Lodge, "it is plain Unit the
allies do not accept the German iio
posals, and it seems to me that to
venture in the negotiations which
neither parly lias asked lis to begin or
indicated an acceptance, is unwise."
Senator l-w Is Iteplles.
Senator Lewis made reply at Ihe
rciiicsl of Chaii man Slone of the for
eign relations committee.
"I want I" warn the senate," said
Senator Lewi-, "against being curried
away by the elnipieiice of the Sen
ator I'l-uin Massiichusctls from ju-t
consideration' i' the resolution the
only thing before ns.
"When- is there in it a line or n
word which calN for approval of any
of Ihe contents of the president's
unto or invites this body into consid
eration of its effect in the present or
ill the future f"
Scnalor Noil-is, r.-iiiiblii'nn. nsked:
"llo you think thai our adoption
would mean approval of everything in
the note.'"
"I!y no means; nut at this time,"
Scnalor Lewis replied.
(Continued on Pago Four.)
DRAWN FROM FOREST
WASIIINCTOX, Jan. 4. More
than S. out) acres of lands available
principally lor agriculture have been
withdrawn from tho Sierra national
forest In California by an executive
order slgrod today by I'resW ""
AGAIN PUT OFF