Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, April 17, 1917, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextJ PAflTC MX ftfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE ftfEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY. APRIL 17. 1917 Me Th Mull, era l RAHJ FREIBERG KILLING ELEVEN University Town Attacked in ' Re prisal for Torpedoing Hospital Ships Germans Say It Is Awful to Attack Unfortified Place and They Have Riyht to Sink Ships BERLIN', April 17. An official announcement by the war office Hays Hint 11 persona have been killed, 29 Injured and considerable damage done to the university buildings by an air attack on FrleburB. The official statement follows: "On Sunday at noon an enemy squadron of twulve airplanes attack ed tho town of KrlebnrR In DrolsRau At 5 o'clock In the afternoon the at tack was repeated by two further squadrons totalling 23 airplanes. Several Kail Victim. "To this nefarious attack several people unfortunately full victims. Seven women, thrco men and one sol' dler wore killed and 17 women, eight men and two children Injured. "Tho enemy airmen selected as ob jectives tho new municipal theater. institutes and Infirmary. Tljp univer sity was considerably damaged. Ow ing to our effuctlvo counter measures the attacks could not he completed "In the courso of air battle, which resulted, two enemy airmen were shot down near Schlettstadt and Markir lch. A third was nliot down In an air battlo combined with a bombard ment from tho ground. All throe airplanes wero of English type with Kngllsh occupants. For Reprisal I'iiI'jkisos. "Tho lender of tho attack, an Eng lish lieutenant colonel fell into our hands. According to his Btutemcnt and the contents of fly-sheet which wns thrown down, tho attack was In reprisal for the torpedoing of the Gloucester C'astlo (HiitlHh hospital ship) recontly sunk by a Clerninn sub marine. Wo must resolutely contest tho right to muko such attacks. In Justification our government has tak en tho stand It could not longer tol erate tho passage of so-called hospi tal ships i;i tho precisely- defined zone. It tho English, desplto our warning, inlsuso the Red Cross and carry on It transports in tho war zone, they must boar tho consequences of their action; but to atlack an open town fur revengo is cheap glory. There uro no objects of military im portance In Krioburg to Justify the attack, " POLK GAZETEER FOR 1917-18 JUST PUBLISHED It. L. Polk & Co. havo Just Issued tho 1! 1 7-1 X edition of tho Oregon and Washington (!mtcor and Bust miss Directory, which la tho only work of I lie kind published. It con tains an annate business d'reclory .or eory city, town and village in Oregon and Washington, and tho names titul addresses of country mer chants, irife.-i(innl men. lumber men, etc., wlin are located a l. iicent to villages; also lists of government and roiiuiy officers, stulo boards, statutory provisions, names of co'irls. lerms or court, names of post offices, express, telephone and telegraph of flies, justices of the peace, hotels """ anil weekly newspapers, besides milch other Information useful to nil classes of business and professional men. An iiupnrt.iiit fealure Is the (Muss! fled Dim lory, ulinK ,,v,,ry iM1,,., "..ikcu iin.i. -r n special beading. thus enabling sulwr is to obtain "I n glnn. e a f , l,,,,,,..,, ,. rnrtiirlng or dialing In any p'irllculi Hue of giMul.. I "1 is (,i;ik i i; co. 'ii iiciouiit (.1 the scarcity and bij.1, price ef canned goods the ecouoml, ill Misewue win pel up a .,-,,. l)t of mill lllld vegetables this season. We WOllhl Slight that they y j K,,, supply of glass J;,,s 1,,-for gene. they are Sinter Johnson nrl i 'od.i." from lioi lu st, r lie spent l!n winter. 'I In Medford Y Y., where ' TIM (.ltuM(i t.im,, A gill when In her t.ens Is passing through a critical period of her life Tho transition from childhood to maturity Is not alns easy; conse quently, In tunny cases health breaks down entirely and the girl goes Into a decline lllld dies ig r F. escapes tills fate, she may fall into n state of permanent lll be.iltli. it i ( tt,p utmost Importance. In order to insure normal and healthy deielopment. that proper precautions be taken, and nothing has proved mote hclplui ulaii the faithful use of I.mIiii K Pink ham's Vegetable Compound, the Breai woman's deinli'lne and ionic. FIGHT FOR NATION BERLIN STRIKE T Shortage of Food Products for Bel ligerents Shows Need of Everyone Tilling the Soil Millions Who Stay at Home Can Help Win War by Raising Things to Eat. By ('HAS. EDWARD RUSSELL. WASHINGTON, April 17. This war will be fought in the trenches and it will bo fought on the sea. It will also be fought somewhere else. American soldiers will fight it in tho trenches. American sailors will fight it on the sen. Both will beyond a doubt win victories and help to free mankind from the blight und curse of autocracy. Our hearts will be with them all the time. We can't all go to the trenches and fight or go to seu and fight. Hut millions of us that stay at home can fight for tho United States in thut other place where there will be fighting and can win victories just iik important in their way as vic tories on sea and in the trenches. An Knoiny at Home. The oilier place is in tho buck yards and tho vacant lots. This country of ours, facing Ger many, the enemy of mankind, on the bultlcfield, faces another enemy ut home. The very gravo fact stares us in the face that this year we arc likely to be short of nil kinds of things that we grow to eat. Wo have never had nnvlhine like this before in America. We are go ing lo have it Ibis year unless those us Hint must stay at homo meet I he situation and beat it. Short of lieans, ieas, corn, pota toes, cabbage, onions, carrots nn.l turnips. Short of a hundred things we usually have in abundance. One reason why wo shall be short is because millions of men will be needed in the army, the navy and (lie munition factories. Another reason is that in recent years production has not kept pace with tho increase of INipiilntion. Every (own ami city in (his coun try has vacant lots and back yards that now grow nothing but eiiiss ami weeds and might grow enough to feed i! whole community for u year. Every vacant lot and every back yard ought to be nut lo that use now. this week, without any more delav. Time is short, spring is advanced, planting timo is here. Get busy, boys and girls nnd everybody else, plant something! fiet llnsy i n l,u!id. No person Hint owns n vacant lot or n back yard will refuse lo allow it lo be put to this good and necessary and patriotic, use. When other men ore offering their lives for this cause, lie will be glad to offer a piece of ground he doesn't use. It is good work, patriotic work, nccill'iil work, and most pleasant work. There is no greater pleasure than to cause things to grow and watch I hem develop. This is your work, (lo to it now and you will be proud of it ben-after. You will be glad to think that you had a pint in this great war for hu niauily. You will always remember thill you did your part to prevent n food shortage that would have done more to help the enemy than 10,00(1, 00(1 men could have done. lint congress at the same time should do its part, no less. While ik are producing things in kick vanls and vacant lots the farms in this country ought to go the limit in production. Wo need tins year the biggest crops ever known. We need the bumper record ill wheat, in outs, in corn. We need to have every corner of every fii rin out to use; we need to lime crops by the wayside and crops where there were never crops Jiefore. Itut no one can expect th farmers to push planting In the limit as it ought to be pushed unless there is a prosM'el of a return for their labor. They, like olhcr men, must see some n a: "ii and some inducement for their efforts. The only way to make sure of the cultivation and the crops we need is for congress to establish a guaran teed minimum price for staples. We lire going to tell you Inter how congress mnv be induced to Inke this ,'rent step to inMirp early ictorv iignin-t the enemy. 1 tttl just now. settle down on this needful job of the buck yard nn.l the vacant lot und help your country lo win. l:oly bushel of potatoes vou raise 01 L T AND IDLE LAND AND FOOD RIOTS CLAMED Streets Quiet Despite Parades of Strikers Who Are Prevented From Uniting Demonstration Is Against New Food Regulations Strike Is Limited to Factories. HER LIN, April 30, via London, April 17. A day of apprehension in Merlin ended tonight without alurni ing events. The threatened strikes becnuse of a reduction in the weakly bread ration materialized in only a portion of the larger factories and did not affect transportation nor public utilijics. The strike leaders had planned nn elaborate system of street demonstrations which were to unite in an outdoor assemblage, but inclement weather kept down enthus iasm. Some of the factories affected an nounced tonight that the workmen would resume work tomorrow. In others, meetings will be held tomor row morning to decide the future course of the strikers. The streets are quiet tonight, but the police are still on guard. The government authorities declnro that they will make no effort'to interfere witii me strikers, because tliev are only registering disapproval of the new food regulations and are expect ed to resume work everywhere be fore the end of the week. Limited In I'vient. The strikes are limited to factor ies ninnncd by unions belonging to the Liebknecht-Ledebor brunch of the social democracy. The Schcid iimnn group is not slriking. The Vor waerts, the organ of the Scheide mann socialists, printed n wn ruing against striking for four that the hit ler would interfere with effort.: to obtain a separate peace with Hussia. There were no strikes in factories employing the so-called Christian unions. The workers appeared in all the factories as usual this morning, but an hour Inter those who had agreed to strike walked out. Apparently Ihero wns nn agreement to march through the I'nter Den Linden to (Tinrlottonburg. The police, how ever, prevented the panniers from entering Tutor Den Linden and most I 1 A MIGHTY good doctor May to m, i I once; "When it come to curin' Ct K Lsgs?-'-U folk; Nature a the not M. D.rm only Wlfr rfQ gm H her assistant." That's the way ijtO'Wc SS&J' i MOTHER NATURE Protects Your She sees to it that Velvet's mellowness and aroma are not created by artificial methods.but by her very own. That is A complete natural curing for two years, during which time the tobacco remains, untouched, in its original wooden hogsheads. At the end of two years it is made into Velvet and is as smooth as its name implies. 10. Tlai I Ik. bkw Hato Sheriff Ralph Jennings accompan ied by County Prosecutor G. M. Rob erts, arrived in the city Tuesday fore noon having In custody Mrs. Nan Strickfadden and sister, Mrs. L. Dry foos, who were arrested In Seattle re cently in connection with the incen diary fire at the Strickfadden borne in Ashland last March. The prisoners both of whom were woeping, after a stop at the prose cutor's office, were taken at noon by automobile to Ashland by the sheriff and prosecutor, where they were arraigned before Justice of the Peace Wimer on an ' arson charge. On leaving Medford it was understood that the women would waive exami nation and be held to the grand jury and that the bail of each would bo This program was followed nnd each furnished bond. Prosecutor Roberts had agreed on this program at a conference In Port land between the women and their attorney. Mr. Roberts verified the report that E. 'X. Hemphill, the Medford man who committed suicide in jail in Eugene, had made a complete confession fol lowing his arrest in that city, impli cating Mrs. Strickfadden, Mrs. Dry- foos and Mrs. M. M. Garwood and admitting Uiat he had actually start ed the fire. .irs. uarwood, who was far- rested at Eugeno last Thursday and who is in the jail at Jacksonville, was also arraigned at Ashland on Tuesday afternoon on an arson charge. She waived examination and was held to the grand jury in bail of S.'iOOO. lloing unable to furnish bond she was taken back to the county jail. Attorney Clus Newbury of Medford represented Mrs. Oarwood at the Ash land hearing. As to why her bail was made double that of the others, Pros ecutor Roberts said he was not at lib erty to explain Just now. . (1I OK THANKS. Wo wish to thank our friends for the kindness shown and for the many beautiful floral offerings, during the Illness and death of our beloved wife and mother. . ; JAMES S. HOWARD, AND FAMILY. of the I'reiderstrasse, and prevented the different parades from uniting. Police officials said tonight that the trouble was over. Scat! Vm saving this GUARDS 10 ELECT At a largely attended meeting Mon day night In the assembly room of the high school, 16 more men added their names to the muster roll of the Home Guards company, making the membership so far 94. All men desiring to join the organization can sign their names at the Commercial club. At a meeting Wednesday at 7:30 o'clock at the same place the for mal organization will be completed by the election of officers and an ex ecutive council of three men. Mayor Gates appointed a commute of five consisting of E. E. Kelly, George Col- lins, H. L. Walther, Chas. Davis and Mr. Newport to report nominations for these positions. By-laws for the or ganization were unanimously adopted as follows: "The name of this organization shall be The Medford Home Guard, Company A. "The purpose of this body is to promote patriotism, enforce law and qrder, protect life and property, com pel a respect for the flag of our coun try, to secure the swift punishment of any treasonable acts or utterances and teach its members' the science of modern military drill. "Any able bodied male of good moral character over the age of 18 who is a resident of Jackson county and a citizen of the United States, may become a member after signing the roll and subscribing to an oath to support the constitution of the state of Oregon' and the constitution of the United States. "The officers of this company shall be an executive council of three, who shall be elected by a majority of the members, and who shall hold office for the period of one year. The du ties of the executive council shall be to establish such further rules and regulations, not in conflict with these by-laws as shall by them bo deemed necessary for the conduct of the bus iness of the organization; to provide a place of meeting and to make rules governing the time for drills; to levy assessments for necessary exnenses and to have control of all property of the organization; to try the mem bers of the organization for violation of the rules and regulations and to punish by fine or expulsion any such violation. Other officers shall consist of a for VELVET! Tobacco IF You Smoke Men have tried and will try to beat this method by ciuick curing or arti ficial processes, but Mother Nature's way the Velvet way remains the very best. It costs us more money to prepare Velvet in this way it will cost you only 10 cents to prtne Velvet, at the first store you come tol captain, first lieutenant, and second lieutenant and first sergeant. "The number of sergeants and cor-, porals shall be In conformity to thei United Slates infantry regulations 'and shall be elected In like manner and hold office for the period of one ! year. "N'o member of this organization shall be required to salute any offi cer except when In company forma tion, or In the exercise of some as signed duty. "All vacancies In officers after the first election shall be filled by ap pointment by the executive council "The first Bergeant of the company shall keep the muster roll of the or ganization and shall call the roll and note the absentees at each regular meeting. Music lovers from towns for ninny miles from Sled ford nnd from the country districts begun arriving in Jfedford this morning for the concert tonight of the New York Symphony orchestra at the Xatntoiium. The house was practically sold out at noon. The orchestra of about 100 mem bers with its great music stars ar rived in Medford early Tuesday af ternoon in a special train from Port land. Immediately following to night's concert nt the Natiitoriiim the orchestra will depart oil ils special train for San Francisco, where the organization is booked for u concert Wednesday evening. This evening's concei t will begin nt 8:30, but (he doors -will open ut 7:110. Any lalo comers will not be seated while the orchestra is playing. - WAR BOND ISSUE IN SENATE (Continued from Page One.) afternoon, when by a viva voce vote the senate rejected an nmendment by Senator Thomas of Colorado to make the proposed issue of $2,000,000,000 of treasury certificates the basis of issue of national bunk notes. The council holding its tmnrtcrlv meeting here today called upon Mr. McAdoo in a body to discuss the ad ministrations financial program. In accepting the offers of co-operntion Mr. McAdoo made it clear that the government will sect the aid of nil citizens and would be glad to receive suggestions from financial experts nnd big banking houses as well as others. VELVET 5Vl Ye8 COTTOLENE does make delicious biscuits. Yes The flavor does compare well with biscuits made with butter. Yes COTTOLENE biscuits do brown nicely. ', , .. Yes COTTOLENE does make a crisper crust. Yes COTTOLENE does . cost much less than butter. , Yes You do use one-third less shortening when you use COTTOLENE. Yes It does cream better when mixing the dough. Yes COTTOLENE is whole some. Yes COTTOLENE does make delicious cake too. And of course you know it is fine for frying. QUALITY MARK APRIL THE wearing of a diamond is said to bring good fortune to the April born. Diamonds, thfymost beautiful of stones, also signify prosperity and good investments. Appear prosperous and have your money well Invested where you can turn R at a moment's no tice. Let us tell you our plan for selling diamonds. DIAMOND RINGS $0.00 TO $850.00. Martin J. Reddy For Diamonds. QUALITY FIRST. Phono One O Correct Time. Visitors Always Welcome. EGGS "Were 50c per doz. last De cember. PRESERVE them now with Water Glass, while they arc cheap. 20c will buy enough Water Glass to preserve 12 doz. eggs. West Side Pharmacy 3Xa . IcyxaOJLi Store BEST SEEDS' That Grow We have a choice line of Garden Seeds, including the Famous Burpees in packages md bulk. 59 varieties of Spencer's Sweet Peas. Broadley The Medford Florist and Seed Man Phone 872. j Attention, Farmers MKDFORI) JUXK COMPAJTT 31-33 N. Dartlett 8t. Pty Highest Prtcei for HIDES! Oreen hides per lb 17 frjr hlde, per lb. J 5 Oreen calf hides, per lb. lie Drr calf hides, per lb. 0a Wt Uo nuj Slip-p Pelw and Goat is a- good as n live-inch shell. Rk-liu,