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Newspaper Page TextUniversity' f Orenon ilirnrv MRDFORD M ATI, TRTRTTNTC FORECAST FA lit, (YK)IJ:R TOMUHT AM) Tt'KSDAY. WEATHER Max. Vest, Aliii. Totiiiy :VI; lre. total for storm .-17 Forty-Bljcth Year. Pailv Klevcnth Tar. IMKDFORD. ORKUOX. lONDAY. JAM'Ain 1917 (). 2M F K SAY I ' Pliny Fisk's Denial of Charges Made . by Frenzied Financier Most Sweep T - ino Declares Lawson Should Be Taken at His Word and Put Behind W PERJURER v the Bars Has No Connection With McAdoo or Other Government Of ficials. i j XKW YORK, Jan. '.'!). Ari-lii- bnlil S. White, testifying liefme t the "lenk" eoimnittee today, ile- : niej Thomas W. I.awson's charges that White told him l'liny Fisk has boasted to him about his alleged cunlrol of See- j rotary McAdoo. "It's all ro- niaiK'e," White declared. "1 novel' mentioned Fisk's name to " LuWNOll." NEW YORK, Jan. 29. A sweep ing denial of all of Thomas W. Law son's charges against htm, particu 1 laily his alleged association with &!cretaiy McAdoo .In Wall street deals was mode today before the . "freak" investigating committee by . Pliny Fisk and sons, New York bankers. Among categorical denials made by Mr. Fisk were that he ever had a joint Wall street account with Mc Adoo and a "Senator O,' that lie had told Archibald White or anyone else that he controlled Secretary McAdoo, , and had offered to call him out of -.bed at an early morning hour to answer a telephone call and that he had received any advance Information regarding President Wilson's peace note. lenial Is Swooping. Asked If his firm had ever enjoyed any advantages In transactions with the treasury department, Fisk re plied negatively. He admitted that after suggesting to Secretary McAdoo that offices in a building his firm owned would be suitable for the fed mpl reesrve bank, he had leased the offices to the government for IS months two years ago. In response to questions by Repre sentative Ilenett the banker said that it was his judgment that the market, prior to the publication of the presi dent's peaco note was In an over- houglit condition und ready for a vio lent drop. All It wanted was an cx- ; case. "I never," he declared, "talked, cliyamcd of or imagined a pool for stock market speculation with Mr. : McAdoo or any other government of ficial. Our business is not stock : gambling." Laivson's "1 )isolileiel Itrnln." In closing his testimony Fisk made the voluntary statement that he still ( thought l.awson's staiement probably was the result of a "disordered brain," and severely criticized him Tor dragging the name of llarvev Fisk and Sons into the inquiry. "Lawson should be taken at his wijj-d," Fisk said, "and placed behind the bars on the basis of perjury when he wantonly handles the name of a reputable citizen. If his state ment Is the result of a disordered brain, as It appears to be. perhaps the Good Lord will take care of him In his own way." Lawson, It developed today, had been ordered to remain in touch with the committee, as he may be recalled at any time. He will not take his pro- (Continued on Page Six.) ROTARY PLOWS CLEAR CHKYEXXK, Wyo., Jan. 29. Ro tary plows are preceding each "fleet" or I'nion Pacific trains put thru the storm district today. All trains are movlnR again, most of the eastern bound traffic having passed Chey enne by eight o'clock and all of the delayed westbound trains having passed through the blockade region. If no more snow falls, the line will ipmain clear. RUSSIANS BREAK BIG!IVIEN4NAIVIED BY THOMAS r r- r ii ii-n i HI UNtS -& mm Yrfm 2 MILE FRONT L , I Slavs Assume Offensive on Northern End of Rumanian Line Spirited Fighting on Several Fronts Rus sians Also on Offensive in Galicia Fighting at Verdun. I'KTlfOOliAD, Jan. !). During Satuiilav's buttle mirllii-iiM uf ,1a coheni, on the northern end of the HuMiniiian I out , Russian tn(,is c-ap-ttnvd thirly oflicers and mure than 1(1(1(1 men, the war ntTii-e nnnounrcd t oda v. I)e.-.)ite the severity rf the weather reported from nearly nil the Kuro pean baltlel'ronls, spirited fihlins is taking place in several of the war areas. . Itiissinn Offensive, The mostv nolulile recent develop ment is on the northern end of the Rumanian line, where the liu-sians took tlie offensive Saturday und liinke thruuyli the Atisiro-Gcruian lines mi a two-mile front alonir the railway from Kimpniuiii; lo dacobeni. Aeeordin In tndny's (Imnan olTiciul staiement, the liusitni lorres have heen unable to make further uroress, The Kiissians are also on the offens ive in the Zhda l.ipa region, in (jiil ieia, where their eanipni;jn for Lem berjr came to a pause some months nc.o. Turkish troops apparently are the main defenders of the central powers' line in this region, and Iierlin deelares that they have heen success ful in healing off the assaults. The Franco-Median front is also breaking- into activity nl many points. On Verdun Front. Merlin reports persistent 'efforts by tlie French In recapture their lost position at Hill 'MH, uoilhwest of Verdun. A surprise attack which failed was t'oiloweil by three assaults, but these are declared all to have hn.ken down without nin. 'flic Mritisli front in France is also a lively sector. The reported capture by the Mritisli late hist week of an in dependent position near l.e Transle.v was followed yesterday by fresh as saults delivered by Mritisli troops north of Ariiicntieres. These tailed with severe losses, uceordiiii.' to Mer lin, while southwest of l.e Translov Ibc (leniiaiis captured a Mritish po-t. PRESIDENT VETOES WASHINGTON. Jan. 29. Today IVi'-hlrut Wilson vetoed the iniiuira lion bill piiHMMl reetMitly by eohLTess bccaiwe uf it literacy tet provision. WASUINflTON, Jan. I!!). Presi dent Wil.-on went to tlie rapitol atiiiiii today lor eon Terences with, member of the en -J- and Iioiim on liU iei;).--lalive proiiitnii. The pre-ident wn (old by Ilepre sentative Siins ol' the liou-e -oinnicjce coimniltee that it would be impo-ib!e to -eciire tavornbie iHMioii in the lioti-e on .Mr. Wilson', oriuinul pro gram Tor ritiirotnl lei-hil ion. W. II. Wadhams. of the executive commillee of the League to Knforee Pence, told the president that that or ganization supported his recent peace addles to the senate. PIIOKMX, Ariz., Jan. 29. Gov ernor Thomas K. Campbell, the do facto chief executive of Arizona, by reason of the decision of the supremo court Saturday took over tlie exei u tive offi'-en today and prepared to de liver bis address to a joint session o.' the legislature this afternoon. The new executive had announced Ms in tention of retaining Governor limn " siaff. but none of the employ re ported for duty and the mornln ; was vpent in organizing an office (or e. There were no demonstrations. The governor'! message to Mie legislature is gei,ral in ehnraei-?.'. SLj&ft tv, tSZn f If'i;""' Sir j LvKAvJ iJDSEPri P.TUMULTV WM - rr L .. CHAS, &ABIN Henry, coii)ressniaii from Texas, name of .McAdoo. l,awson said he of Harvey Fisk Co., Xew Vorfc. AVhite, eapit ilisi, was named liy ue.ideiu of die (luaranty Trust Co, FRAUD ALLEGED Clllt'Ad", .Ian. L'll. : petition in bankruptcy and for a receiver against Vim i-'rantzius t (o., a liiy; stock hrnl-eraue house ,if ('hiea.co, was tiled today by creditors who al lege that liabilities of .-(l(lll,(UUI ex ceed the asset- by .t:i."i(l,(MM). Fritz Von Frantzius, founder of t lie house, died recently, lie attained wide publicity two years imo hy his marriage to Saliaret, the dancer. He was divorced from his wife and fell in love with a painting of the dancer long before he met her. They lived together only a few days when she left him. Later he divorced her. It is alleged ill the petition tbat Von Frantzius ami hi.s partner in the final months of I !i 1 li committed va rious acts of hankruptcy in transfer ring assets tq preferred creditors. One of these alleged transactions, the petition asserts, was the transfer of $400,000 to Scott Itrown a lawyer. Mr. Drown was asked as to the JIOO.000. "Xever bearii of It; know nothing about it; don't want to he quoted," he said. E I.OXIIMX, Jan. The crew of the Xoi we-ian Mcaicr Thel c-edal, 1 1 (i'J ton- L"i"s., :iiii bv n G-.'i iii;iu submaiine, has arrived ;it Las p;i. mas, says a Renter's di-patch frmn that Canary Inland port today. The captain was held a piiMim-ron boa id the submarine. At Lloyd's Ship.in agency today, il was announced U-,, the N'orwegi.Mi steamship Honshu!, of (iUM Ion ros-. bad been sank. The Ru ian straini-r Tglet was pitted a- "believed Mink." Lloyd's a!-o nnnoun-ed llie sinking of tin- P.riti-h str:iiii-bii Xatberan of 7(i'i tons gros. The captain am! crew were landed. The .Matlieran was f,.,. l,,nir built in Belfast in I'MMi an. I owned by thcT. & J. Hrookfebmik. U.I.. of Liv erpi oI. BATTLE ON BORDER WASHINGTON. ,,, first iiceiethi of the I'lah ea i-!:it;cn. ,iu and Meiean raider received licre t'p.f.y. (I -aid there were no Art le.ti! e.iNtial! ie-, n. li!, ft -'lit - In the bet Ween ni'ii!i cow hoy -t liriby. A Hz . lierjil lin-!oll ri an or y s iW.rLAWS0N t "inwui l i ni in,- I C5.MSADOO ROEiT U. HENR.Y. STUART eiBBONEV is clmiiiimn of iiie leak comnillteo said ly Ijiwson to have ulvcll him tl! was told McAdoo, selctary of the treasury, was in a stock pool.. I'iske is l awson as hi.s Inf nil int. (Illihoney, parlner of Jlalcolm JlcAdoo; Sabiu, Xew York are said o have known alioiit. the leak. CHIEF OE POLICE, SHERIFF INDICTED! SKATTU5, Jan. 2 9.. It was said at the federal building today that none of the defendants indicted last Saturday by the federal grand jury for allowed acceptance of bribes and ! alleged conspiracy to violate, the fed eral inter-state commerce and liquor laws would be arraigned today. 1 Anions those indicted are .Mayor Hi I rain C. CHI, Chief of Police Charles L. Iteckinaham, Konner Sheriff Hob crt T. Hodge and Kdward 1). Baker, j manager of the Jesse Moore Hunt ; company, a large wholesale liquor house of San Krauciseo. Maker left I San Kraneiseo for Seattle Saturday night and it is understood the ar l raianinents will not be made until ; Halter arrives here. All (ho defend- ants are at liberty under bonds., and ! Mayor Gill and Chief Ileckingha.i! are at their d sks today, j In the superior court todav the trial was begun of Policeman Kd.vavd - liugen. indicted by the cinnty grai.d I jury for alleged acceptance o; a ! bribe from it violator of the state pro i hihitiou law. SKAT'n.K, V!ih.. .I.-iii. -J!).- Mi, vor j Iliiiini C. dill uml I'hiel' of pi.iire "no ri, I., li--, kin-!i;ini i,,,e;,rr,i in , llie IcdiTuI I'niirt llii in, inline und : entered il,-o- of not "iiillv Id the hl ! tin t liit iit - tiled ;i''a:ii-t ill, -in Silt -j nnlnv l,y the l'e,l, i.il vmnd .imy. 1 i-'iii ririLr llirln will, ;,,'ii-,l iu.L' hriln j wifli ii,n-,ii .,,-- I,, liohile tin- j li ili'iiil li,,i,,r inn! inler-tiite eom I liien-e lews. .M,!,,r dill n-keil fr ;i I -) ui Mi t r- Iriiil ill', l-'edernl ,I,idue N'et ,'!er t'toli tin- r,',,n,-t under ii,li.-e-i mi ill. Tile niiivor ;,Mh,,iiiii'e,t Sntiir de v 1 1';--! he w,,:d,l l iMM- no lei'l'llienl : uli ,i-.-i ,., jiiiint !i, indirhnt'iil.-., but ' woiihl -,'i-!c :in eiirlv trinl. I Kx-MlerilT llodi- uml the oilier de- i'l'iidiinl- did n,,t ;,'ie;,r. Il i- un- ! ,!er-li,nd lili.t ll,,il-e mid the iuili. led : ,i,li,-,'!l:l-n w ill lilli,,-li (lie Villi, lil V id' I llie ilnlii-liiieul -. Kdwiild 1 1. Ilnl.er. iiiiiuii'jfr nl the .lr--e .Moore Hunt l.i- O'lnr i-,i:,i,;uiv ol' Si, ii I-'riiiieisfi,, in j di,-t,',I i,,r i-,,n-j,ii :ir-. end w ith the -,-,, lli-,i Itillinv-lfV liqnor yinlii'.i 1 l.iiid with the - -p.-.i .Miiruelt li,i,,.r ' ndii did 1:,. I lie:, r in ciiirt. It i i- r,-,',rte, (Inn ,,. h it Sum l''i,ni''ieo l..r S, -utile Sntuplu.v ni-jlil. j I Tin, ni:, U ,.r Hi,, in,! i,t f,l i , I nut In- lii'-.'iiu ill,:n .'i li ii , li t II. e eu it ei i't - el tort i- liiiidi' to extiedile 'tlo-li'i. ERITISH STEAMER SUNK BY GERMAN SUBMARINE LnMMiN. Jai o Til - tJl.: ibc ivton. 27 17 l"u- Ll 1'- a si ha- her i trier Je s'tiik. INW PROBE; m4 Nii.. s--'! RCliCr LAN61N0 si A i WHITE- IT ICU IKJTOrUK FILLED Willi TOPS SUM U-BOAT liKKUX, Jan. -J!) The .-inkm- ol u transport hip filled with i roups in the Mediterranean by a German sub marine on January . was anuouneed todav bv the admiralty. The vc.--el sank in ten minutes. Tlie following aunouueemeiit wa issued : 'A German submarine tti the enM erti Mediterranean on January !) -auk a fully laden .steamer ol' about 50(111 tons, ;ind on January 1" the armed British tank steamer Garfield, :IS0I! tons, bound 1'ioiu Malta to port Said wilh coal and oil. The en 'tain of the Gariiehl was made prisoner. "'fhe same submarine on January J.'i. about miles caM of Malta. urik with a torpedo tin armed hoMile t I'aiisporl st earner, proceeding- eas -uaid, convoyed by a French torpedo boat. The steamer, which was cram med with troops, .-auk within ten min utes. I XKW" XUUK, Jan. "J!'. - Interest in j the el'lorls of llie birlh control prop- avaiidists , spread theii- doei l ines 1 shifted today Iroin I )m- Rlackwcll - j ami woilJnui-e, where Mrs. Lthel i ll:ne is conducting a liniiger siike, 1 to llie special M's-iou court in Krook j lyu, mid Hie lii.il of .Mrs, Byrne's -i-ler( Mrs. Alarvarct San-er ami ; Miss Fania Momlell. Mrs. Sanger and Miss Mondell are ; eh)ii;jcd with aiding in the cunne : of a birlh eontiol elmic. !he same j ot i'en-e (tti v hieh Mr-. l' rne is -.crv-iin',' a ibirty-day -etit i-ue. ; ll was auuooiiecd thai .UU unth : els Irooi Ibiit n.-irt i . I' Brook I -. I n -1 j Mrs. Sanger's l.nlli eontiol clinic was situated would accompany her to court pii-hnii: I heir children in baby carriages. Y IS "WAHIIINCTON, Jan. 2 it.-- The naval appropriation bill, carrying $:i.'il,0ou.uno ami providing for h year Hharo of the three-yfai' con- J htruntiou program, Inr ludiiiK tbr e ;vreat battU-Hblps and one l),t'H jrriiiHer, was vofeil out late toiy hv ttiy hoi).- naval i onimitt'-. TO A TTrR n TniHI IU fllimu IKIML AMEE MEXICANS RIOT AT JUAREZ WHEN E An; eric iin Quamntine RcjuIattons Cause Demonstration at Interna tional Bridge, in Which Villa Par tisans Are Prominent Women Start Distnlcr Officers Injured. I'L PASO, Tex.. Jan. !. -Chief of Police Maymo Torres of Juarez, an nounced iiiis al'lenuion he had order ed all ringleaders of the ipmrnntiue riots al the inl ernat ional bridue ar rested, according to ui el niueiit a.yenN lu re. T!iis order included both men ;'ih women, il was said. The chief of police was said lo have admitted Villa partisans were largely responsible for the riotim;. One of (he latter is reported to have been killed., K'ioliPiX in Juarez as a result of American quarantine reirulaliotis was resumed early today. Il was a con tinuation of the demonstration voter- day in which hundreds ol women par ticipated. Iliotiiif; in Progress. Today more men than women took part. Itioleis approaching the mid dle oHhe internal ional bridge hurled missiles' al I'niled Stales soldiers on unrd, until two non-eouimissioued officers were injured, one by a flyiujr bottle and llie oilier by a lock. Mexican cavalry ultimately suc ceeded in driving the deiuoust ralors away from the btide. Andres (iur cia, inspector ueneral of Mexican con sulates, crossed to Juarez to attempt to pacify 1 lu mob. There was no streetcar traffic. The rcjiubitiouii will he. continued at llie 'tilled Stales immiurntion station, it was announced by the sen ior surgeon in ehat'ire of border quar antine of the I'liited Stales heallh service. Itatbs Cfliised lUot-. .More (ban HII Mexicans were umm baths at the newly opened quarantine bath house today, and many others were passed ailei" they shoved certificate- from lr. Caslillo, the Mexican federal health officer in Juarez, showing they had been bulbed. An arraneineiil whereby these certifi cates issued in Mexico would be ac cented by Ihe I'niled Stales heallh oflicials was made yesterday bv In speeiur (iciieral Andres (Jareia. How ever. Or. Pierce said todav these would be accepted only 'when llie bolder was seen lo he clean and the clollihiy, disinfected. The situalion in Juarez developed from ii purely local demons) rat ion yesterday auainsl llie quarantine re--ulalioiis, led by a mimbcr of Mexican servant iris employed in I'J Paso, into a general demoiisl rat mil today against Americans, u it h an under current of Mexican political 1'eelint: running biuh. ilCAN T Kb PASO, Tex., Jan. 2'J.- Ameri can expeditionary troops were mov ing toward Ojo Kederico, forty miles from tho border bite yesterday, ac cording t" paKseue, a arrlvlni; here today from Columbus, X. M. The neneral review of the expe ditionary forces at Palouuis Luke, on Ihe Mexican Hde of the boundary j line, will probably occur Sunday, it j wan Haiti, niter which Ihe troops will ; proceed iutos!' tho border to Colum bus. .Mormon leaders hero went an ur gent appeal today to aw Mormon resi dents of western Chihuahua to leave for the border before the last of Ihe expeditionary troops left Colon la Duhht u. WAKIH.Xtn'ON, Jan. 2!).- A proval wan Riven by President Wib-on today to the senate's ameiidment lo the legislative, exM iitive and judlctit till, whb h woubl put every po--tnNi--t"r In the country under eiil service. FORCEDTOBATH mjrnM APPROVES IFEAR TIMBER WOLVES KILLED H1IR Fintlhiij of Scattered Bones, Empty Rifles and Bodies of Three Lean Wolves on Evans Creek Believed to Tell Grim Story of Fatal Strugflle in Which Hur.tcr Torn to Shreds. tlol.1) HILL, dr., Jan. n. Kind iu;r of a man's scatlered bones, bis empty rifle and bodies of three lean timber wolves V ridny on Kvans ereuli, Jackson eounly, told a j;rim story, if is believed, of a fatal strutle in which John Hamniersley, a miss-in; government hunter, was torn to shreds by a pack of hungry Wolves, but only after he had killed three of the animals. News of (he discovery, which was made about a mile from I huinuersley's eaiup by timbenncn, was brought here today. Kvitlenee f StniKle. lu the clearing in the willows where, the bones were found the ground wn lorn up, vdviim evidence of a terrific struj;vJ'. The hunter's- (dothes were ripped to shreds and his bones were licked clean. Indications were that (he liulil occurred not loity; n-o. A posse which bus been searching for I lauiuiersley believes the bones are 1 Inmmersley's, as no other truce of him or his pack of hounds has been foumt. It is believed the hounds tied when the wolves set upon their master. Attempts to identify tho ritle will be made. Was (I'oveinment Hunter. Not him: more definite concerning the identity of the skeleton found nt. Kvans creek had been learned nt Gold Hill this afternoon. The' wvfe of the misfaiuu man has organized a party !' men who will arrive at the spot where the striitrile took place some time late this tillernooti, when it is thought some delinile clue to the identity of I be man will be found. Ilainmersley is keli known in this vicinity, having Jived for a number of years al (iold lill. I'or several years he has worked for the government killim wild animals, and has spent most of his time at his cabin on Kv ans creek. Previously be was a dep ut v eiime warden. I lamiuerslcv was married to a widow of (irants Pass about a vear E OP CITY P.aekcd by a syndicate of Mrdyn--ki supporters, Mcdford's former city attorney. It. li. McCabe, this morniii"; filed a suil in equity asking fnr a re straining order to prevent the city of .Med Cord ami the eily officers from selling or transferrinii any of the pro posed bonds authorized under the llansuii (dan, or of attempting ( cany out any of the provisions of the plan ilsclf. The suii was filed in behalf of Charles . Colby, who was the plaiulilf in Ihe suit brought to preent ihe sj,t. of the Itlue Lede bonds.. The complaint -tales as ".rounds for asking for llie restraining: order that the Hanson plan is illciui! and iheieiore void. I: alleges irrei;ubi rit ies botlt in the plan it -el I" ami in the election cailv ill the month, when the plan was approved bv the voters of the eily by an ovcrwhelmin majority. In answer to the complaint, .Judo Calkins issued an order that the mayor ami other city officials appear bel'oie him Friday, February 'J, and show cause why Ihe rest rainiu order should not be issued. lieprcseiitalive- of a number of boiidin-j houses ;(re present in Mcd ford and t"(ii-bt are expected to sub mil lo the council bitU on the refund ill" hood isiie of M'VHI0 aulhorized under the llan-on plan. The res rainiitM order has not yet been served upon llie various city official-, ami Mayor C. F. (Jates is--ned a statemcnl this afternoon that the council wilt meet at the council chambers lonib.i to consider bids up on the proposed bond is-ue. To all Mcdloni citizens win, jiiv interested in thi- matter he has issued an invita tion to be present nt the meelin.