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Urn "WEATHER Maximum Yesterday 63; Minimum Today 32. FORECAST Tonight and tomorrow, Fair, light frost tonight. ford Mail Tribune Forty-seventh Year. Dally Twelfth Year. MEDFORD OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, MAY 2, 1917. NO. 35 II Q QTFAIUP OF WAR ASKED U.o.o1lMIVIli rv RflNAR LAW KIMintHlHIfl NATION'S TASK German Submarine Torpedoes Liner Thirteen Men Missing Boats Containing 33 of Crew Picked up by Patrol Vessel Ship Was For merly Nebraskan and Was Tor oedoed Shortly After Lusitania Disaster Was Armed. British Chancellor Presents Jourth Call for Revenue New Sources Needed Expenditures Over Twen ty Billions Since Struggle Began Part of Which Was Loaned Allies LONDON, May 2. The American steamer Rockingham has been sunk bv a German submarine. Thirteen men are missing. Two boats containing thirty-three men were picked up yesterday by patrol vessel. One boat containing 13 men is missing. NEW YORK, May 2. The Ameri can steamship Rockingham, former ly the steamship Nebraskan, was of 4408 tons gross. She was built at ' -jjdcn, N. J., in 1902 and was own ed by the Garland Steamship corpora tion. It was announced by officers of the corporation here that the Rocking ham left Baltimore April 19 for Liv erpool under command of Captal Charles Edwards of Brooklyn. Cap tain Edwards is a naturalized Amer ican of English birth. Formerly the Nebraskan. The Rockingham carried 49 men Including many Americans. The crew numbered 36 and the naval contin gent consisted of a lieutenant and 1 men. The value of the ship and he general cargo was S3, 250,000. The vessel was due In Liverpool today. The Rockingham carried guns and a United States naval crew when she left Baltimore, her owners said. When under tho name Nebraskan the Rockingham was torpedoed off the British coast, less than one month after the Lusitania was sunk, but reached port safely. The vessel at the time had just - been relieved from charter by the ? White Star line and was returning to America, Intending to carry coal from Newport News to California for the navy. President Addresses Governors' Council of Defense Seeking to Get Things Coordinated to Elim inate Lost Motion America Must Make Good Its Promises to World LONDON, May 2. Andrew Bonar Law, chancellor of the exchequer, in his speech Introducing the fourth war budget in the house of commons to day said that since the beginning of the war 822,000,000 pounds had been advanced to Great Britain's allies and 142,000,000 pounds to her dominions The national debt, he said, stands at 3,854,000,000 pounds, less advances to the allies and dominions. The total of the five per cent war loan, the chancellor announced was 96G,048,000 pounds and of the 4 per cent loan 821.005,000 pounds War savings certificates had produced more than 72,000,000 pounds. Twenty Billion Spent. During the war, the chancellor added, the national expenditure had been 4,318,000,000 pounds of which 1,137,000,000 pounds was out of th revenue. Touacco auiy, air. Law stated, would be Increased lOd per pound, and the excess profit tax raised from sixty to eighty per cent. The eighty per cent excess prof- Its tax was effective from January last, he said. The government, continued . the chancellor, would requisition all ships and by this means it would tnko the excessive shipping profits. Crew of AmeHcnns. BALTIMORE, May 2. The Amer ican steamer Rockingham of tho Gar land Steamship company sailed from Baltimore for Liverpool about April 14. She carried a crew of 32 men of whom 23 claimed United States citizenship. Among the native-born Americans, according to the United States shipping lint was II. F. Margey of California, second assistant cngin cer. GERMAN PEACE OFFER ODEFENDRIGHTS OFOiOCRACY BRIT ISH GET $200,000,000 FROM U. S. WAR WILL LAS I WASHINGTON7, May 2. Presi- cnt Wilson today received the gov ernors council ot national actons and told them it was tho supreme duty of the United Slates to eo-or dinnle its energies so democracy shall be vindicated and tho world shown that the American government does not live in vain. Co-ordinating Enemies, I have not a homily to deliver to you," said "'resident Vinson, -uecnusc I know you are as intensely interest ed ns I am in drawing all our ef- forts and energies together in a com mon action. My function has not ol recent days been to give advice but to get things co-ordinutcd so that there will not bo any, or at nny rnte, too much lost motion and in order that things should not be done twice bv different bodies or done in con flict. It is for that renson that I pnrtic ulnrly welcome a conference such as this you are holding, the conference .1. FORTHREEVEARS PREDICTS LANE Sswetarv of Interior Says U. S. Must Build Ships Rapidly to Off set U-Boat Losses Long and Bit ter Struggle Ahead Germany Far From Exhausted; Can Last Years. The greatest chock ever written was tho $2(1(),()()0,0()() loan of tho Vnl- ted Stales to England to carry on the war... Secretary of the livasuiy Mi Adoo is here shown, in center, signing the check to be given to British Am bnssndor Sir Cecil Spring-Itlcc, at left. L BE ARTILLERY DUELS FRANGEASSURED U. S. WILL SEND FORCE 10 FRONT French Commissioners Promised American Army as Soon as Ships Can be Spared for Transport Ob jection of General Staff Set Aside for Moral Effect of Participation, WASHINGTON, May 2. Tho food situation precipitated another lively discussion in the senate today dur ing which Senator Thomas reiterated which will acquaint you with cxaet- njs opinion that high food prices ly the task n9 it is conceived here 1 could be cured by a liberal hanging I Fourth Budget Biggest. LONDON, May 2. The fourth an largest budget ot the war has been nrniiared bv Chancellor Bonar Law for introduction in the house of com mons today. Although the interven tion of America in the war Is expect ed to relieve Great Britain to a large extent of the necessity of financing her allies, the government's expendi tures for the present year, if the war continues, probably will exceed the cost of preceding years. New sources of revenue must be found. The charges on tho war debt are Increas ing and excise returns are diminish ing on account of tho restrictions placed on the liquor trade. The house Is prepared for an increase of the levies on excess profits, tobacco and amusements. in Washington and with the ways in which co-operntion enn best be organed. For after all the tusk is comparatively simple. Means Complicated, "The means of accomplishing the task nrc very complicated because we must draw many pieces of machinery together and we must see that they act not only to a coniinon object but at the samo time and in a common spirit. My function therefore, todny is the very pleasant function of say- how much obliged to you 1 nm for having come hero and associated ourself with lis in the great task of making good what the nation hns iromiscd to do go to the detense ol "'.v minimis. the rights of people everywhere to Let us put 1 75 SHIPS ARE SUNK CHItlSTIANIA, May 2. Seventy five Norwegian vessclH were sunk by German submarines In April and more than 100 sailors lost their lives. If such a monthly loss was maintained Norway's merchant navy would be destroyed In a year and a half. COPENHAGEN, May 2. The pju'ech which was lo have been made in the reichstng by Dr. Von lieth-mnnn-Hollweg, the German imperial chancellor, on pence and international relations has been postponed to a more fitting occasion, according to word received here. The situation, ns reported in a dis patch from Berlin appears to bo as follows : At a caucus of the mnjority social ists in the reichstag, the group that. supports the policy of not embarrass ing the chancellor and the govern ment, it was decided lo defer an in terpellation that should be proposed regarding Germany's pence plans tin ti In more suitable occasion. LONDON. May 2. According to the Central News, the Norwegian for eign office has announced the sinking of the Norweglnn steamers Ilectoria and Langland by Germnn submarines. The crews were saved. TURKS IN FLIGHT of food speceulutors on handy lamp posls and Senator Williams suggest ed that the "German corruption" fund might have figured in creating a food scare that resulted in soar ing prices. The German corruption lund. said Senator Williams, "may have created the hysteria and the impress ion that food slocks nro short nnd creating it the prices have been increased. The first tiling, however," he said, "is to get rid of this hysteria nnd let word go out straight from here to the American people that there is no shortage that is, no cxtraordi- LONDON, May 2. "Both tho artil leries were active during the night at a number of points on our front be tween St. Quentln and Lens, says today's official statement regarding operations on the Franco-Belgian front. "In the neighborhood of Fau quissart a German raiding party was repulsed. . Otherwise nothing special occurred." our linnds on the ivo as they have a right to live tin- throats of food speculators," intcr h.r I ho vow ni-'mcinles of our nation, jectcd Senator Tliomns. "Tho real If w hut n.mne dons not dare la k enemy ot tue American people is mo .,i...i i..,,,Jn ,.ori,,ii. r,i ,in I speculator and I no coniiiinaiion oi nmns into one's thnmrhl and one's speculators engaged in controlling feline- ns one Ihinks of the nature of the necessities ol Hie lo the end that the task, nf Iho nnnortunitv that Am- Hie people mny be made lo pay what -; ,.,o t ahnnr tn nil tin. ever tliev see fit to demand. That u-nrld wlmt it mnnns to hnvn been a is the situation cnntronlmg the conn democracy for one hundred and for- try in the present crisis and I car iv I'ivn vnnrs nnd In mean overv bit nestly hope before we adjourn we ,,'r dm nrc,l wbi,.l, wn have so'iong will take that combination by thf professed. And in this thing it ought throat and not lot, go until we nc i l.n net nnd ilcliehl fid lo complish something;." .(,'," Senator liorali said he agreed with ' " "i I .. , , 1 IMC 1 oloinuo scilliior anil nun. sjirr ulalion had something lo do willi high prices nnd declared Hint "if we are at war two years, in my opinion and there are not the most extraor dinary, sustained and earnest efforts, the American people will face a worl famine." PARIS, May 2. The Germans made several attacks last night on the Aisne front. Today's official an nouncement says they were partially repulsed by French machine gun fire and grenades. In the Champngno the French made progress. Tho state ment follows: Near Chcmln-Des-Damcs, the ar tillery was fairly actlvo. On the Ger-ny-Hurtebelse-Craonne front the ene my made several attacks oa our trenches nnd small posts. The at tacks were partially repulsed. In tho Champagne tho artillery fighting continued with a dngroo of violence In the sectors of Mont Cor- nillot and Mont limit. Grenada fight ing occurred in tho wood west of Mont Cornlllot in which wo mado progress. Near Kpnrgcs our detach ments pencratcd tho German linos at several points, destroying defense works and returning with material 'On Monday night French anrlal snuadrons threw projectiles on the mllitnry establishments of Laon Vouzlcrcs and Bethel." KILLED IN WAR WASHINGTON, May 2 National prohibition during the war to con serve the grain supply for food was recommended to the council of na tional defense in resolutions prceut- ed to.l'M- by r rnmrniHcc nf Tcnrn- I.ONIlON, May 2. The thirteenth Turkish nrtny corps has been driven by the Hritish from its position in Mesoprilnmia on both bnnks of Mie Slintl-ol-Adhcm, General Maude re ported today. The British cavalry is pursuing the lurks into the Jcbcl 11 am rin hills and making many captures. AMSTERDAM, May 2. One mil lion threo hundred thousand Germans have perished In the wnr, according to an Item mnde by Joseph Frederick Nunoon, formerly a conservative member of the Reichstag. Herr Nil noon lecturing on "The Influence of the war on population," said in part: "Until now the war has caused a loss of 1,300,000 dead. This together with decrcaso In births, gives a re ductlon of 3,800,000. The surplus of females has Increased from 800,000 to far more than 2,000,000. The na tion has bled, as never since tho thir ty years war." CANADIAN RECRUITING STATION IN SAN FRANCISCO SAN" FRANCISCO, May 2-A Can adian mi vnl recruiting station has been opened in San Frnnci-en. Pos ters advertising for sons of native born Hritish subjects to join III vol iiTitecr'a reserve of Canada were dis PLANS FOR SEIZURE OF FOOD SUPPLY WASHINGTON, May 2 Plans I seize at least n part of (he nation' food supply are being considered b the United Slates government. Thi was ndmilli'd today by District Al torncv ('. F. Clvne, who said tha within the hist lew days district at torncys from the Mississippi vaile; conferred in Chicago on means taking over the food supply. He de clared that any further announcement must come from Washington. WASHINGTON, May 2. Secre tary Lane told t lie governors con ferring today that the council ot na tional defense on tho part state gov ernments will take in tho war that tho federal government had heard 4110,000 tons of shipping had been sunk in the lust week by German submarines. The destruction, Seeretury Lane said, was not only threatening the existence of England nnd France, but was alarming the United tSates, Study of inventions to combat the submarine menace is being diligently pursued in the interior department, lie said. Must llulld Miups. Tho United Stales must build ships as rapidly us possible, lie told the delegates. If we don t fight tho war on the oilier side," ho said, "we shall havi to fight it on this side of the At lnntic." Secretary Lane declared ho lie lioved the war would last several years and Hint every resource of tho country must bo brought into, place to bring it to n successful conclusion "Many persons thought," said bee rotary Lnne, "that nil wo had to d was to issue bonds nnd Hint- Germany would bow her head in sub:iiissan, Nothing could be further from the truth. Wo do not know when the wn end. It mny not bo a one yen nr. Personally i neneve it win mm veral years. Herbert Hoover ha: formed this government that Gcr any has loon enoiign to nisi iw ears, perhaps longer. Threo Years War. "Germany lias put up Hie grcntesi fight of history nnd sho has tho ad antago of now fighting a delcusiv warfare. Don't go bnck home an inspire your people with thcthought. that immediate action can bring th ar to an immediate end. lour peo nlo must look to this year's crop an xt years crop and tuo next unci int. "We can't afford to fail this yea very man ill this country is mtc csleil in this work and every in" ill the country is a soldier.' Secretary Lane warnod his hoaro gainst discontent and attack on the government. Always ho said there was dlssatis faction with those who are dlrcctln wnr and ho urged his hearers base their criticisms on facts nnd not on rumors. linker Asks Co-Operation. Secretary Duller asked tho slate ropresenlatlves to co-operato with th government In putting into operatl tho army draft law. Ho told of mili ary and Industrial preparations a WASHINGTON, May 2. Marshal 'of fro held a long conference with resident Wilson late today on the question of sending American troops to France. Ho was accompanied only by Colonel Spencer Cosby, o tho American army, who acted as in TOEAT LESS BREAD I)NI)ON, May 2. King George hns signed a proclamation exhorting people to lessen their consumption of wheat and to practice the greatest economy and frugnlitv in the use of all oilier kinds of grain. The proc lamalion particularly urges the peo ple to reduce the consumption of bread bv at least one fourth of Ihc PRINCE UDINE HEADS ROME, May 2. An official an nouncement snys that tho special nils slon to America will be composed of Prince Cdlne, eldest son of the Duke of Genoa; Senator Marconi, Marquis Borsarelll, under secretary for for eign affal.n and deputies Cltiffelll and CONSTAXTINOPI.K, May 2. The cvncunlion bv the Russian- of Mush in Turkish Armenia is announced by the wnr office. The Iowa lias heel occupied by the Turks. Mush is an important lowti 83 mile southeast of Krzerum and 10 mile west of Lake Van. The Itiissiun have been ill possession of virtunll all of Turkish Armenia smco Inst year mid there hns been no indica tiou of any change in Hi'' nulitiir sit mil ion which would cini-c tlicni t retire. PITTSBURG LIFE IN OF PITTSIUHG, Mny 2.-J. Dcnn tt'Ncil, insurance commissioner of Pennsylvania, this nnuiiing toi charge of the Pittsburg Iaf nnd Trust company. Laic yesterday he applied for a court order prohibiting the company from doing further bu incss nnd asking for (lie appointment of n receiver. Temporary orde were granted today and Monday set as the date for the hearing. Mr. O'Ncil also nsked for llio arrest of six persons whom be ihnrged with WASHINGTON, May 2. The French commissioners today had as surance that the American govern ment is willing' to send troops to France one of the urgent requests they brought to this country when tho allies bellove they can afford to spare the necessary ships for trans porting an army and Its equipment across tho Atlantic. The administration has put aBlde the. objections of the army general staff to sending any troops to the bat tlo front until a big force has been raised and trained for nearly a year and has decided that for the moral ttoct of America's actual partici pation In the trench battling,, a small contingent shall go forward as soon as possible. Likely to Bo Soon. This will be soon, It is believed, al- though the government is minaiui that nearly 500,000 tons of shipping would bo requited for a regular army unit ot 24,000 men and that this amount would have to be diverted from carrying food. Vlco-Admlral Chacheprat, repre senting the ministry of marine In the French mission here, Issued a state ment today which, In part, follows: Tho United States Is In possession of tho most powerful fleet in tne world noxt to the British and this Is bound to weigh heavily In hastening the day when final victory will be wrung from tho foo. You must not expect me to discuss In detail our general war plans, espe cially bb regards our campaign against enemy submarines. I need only sny that that Is a question claim ing priority abovo all others. Close Co-oicrntlon Llkoly. You will understand that I have fully and frankly explained those probloms to your high naval officials. I have every reason to hope that we shall succeed In establishing the clos est possible co-operation between the American and allied navies for the assurance of the freedom of the seas, the protection of trade and the tri umph of our rights." Conferences between the members of tho mission and representatives of tho United States continued. (Continued on P'ne six.) HERE TEN DAYS TH'SFI WASHINGTON, May 2. -The Brit ish mission expecis to be here at least ten days longer. Then the par ty will leave for New York and ios- sibly u short trip into the middle west. Several experts will remain pcnnancntlv ill Washington to help work out the arrangements agreed upon mill lo reinforcement of the slal'f of the llrilish embassy. Includ ing these wilU probably be shipping, munitions, food and I rude experts. Reports of fresh peace offers from licrlin brought forth the statement from the mission loday Hint a se ries of feelers were expected during the next lew months us an immense aninunt of iiuiet peace efforts had been under way by the Teutonic einis saries, but no credence is being plac ed in their acceptability. Germany was staled to have made advances proposing surrend-ring her conquests in the rust and west on condition ol retaining her Halkan way lo Bagdad nnd Mesoplamin but the nllics have I n more united against Hint plnn LONDON, May 2. A compilation from llrilish, French nnd German of ficial reports shows that 717 air planes were shot down on tho western front during April. The Gormniis lost :i(i!l; the French nnd Pclginns 201, nnd (he llrilish 1 17. This is a great increase over any similar period. T'no highest previous total wns D22 ill last September. WASHINGTON, May 2. Regis tration of approximately 7,U0U,U0U men for military service will ho com pleted within L" days nfter the wnr department's machinery hns hcen set in molion. Stale election systems will do the work under tho supervision ot tho federal government, the voting precincts being the units for record ing of the men. Registration cards havo been dis tributed by the census bureau to may or's of many cities and towns and the most remote sections will be sup plied hcforejliej-egistrntion day to
