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MEDFORD OREOOX, THURSDAY. MAY 10. 1917.
NO. 42
Medford
ARMY
30
CANNOT
TO INCHES
Conferees Agree Upon Army Bill
No Volunteer Regiments Permitted
Age Limit for Selective Draft
From 21 to 30 Inclusive Sale of
Liquor at Army Camps Prohibited
General Staff Officers Much
Pleased With Bill Agreed Upon.
WASHINGTON, Hay 10. Confer
ees on the army bill reached nn agree-
ment today nnd the measure will be
reported to the two houses for con
firmation as soon as possible.
The amendment put in by the sen
nte pennitting Colonel Hoosevelt to
raise four divisions for serviee
J1 ranee was eliminated as was an
other authorizing the raising of three
volunteer regiments for border patrol
duty.
The conferees made the nge limit
of those subject to the selective draft
21 to ,10 vears, inclusive, in place
of the 21 to 27 limits in the senate
bill and 21 to 40 in the bouse bill.
Tiie senate amendments prohibit
ing the sale of liquors at army camps
and otherwise safeguarding the mor
als of the troops were retained.
Oppose Conference Report.
Representatives Kalin and Anthony,
republicans, announced they wouhl
not sign the conference report. An
thony was opposed to eliminating the
Roosevelt amendment and Kahn op
posed the prohibitory sections, main
taining he could not n prove provis
ions making the United States appear
to be either a drunken or an im
moral nation.
Chairman Chamberlain of the fen
nte committee said he expected to re
port the agreement today but be
cause the house must first act, the
bill may not be finally agreed to
until later in the week.
Klimination of the Uoosevell
amendment is expected to arouse
some oposition in the senate where
it was put in by a large vote. An
agreement, however, is expected.
The prohibition amendment was modi
fied so that while liquor, wine or
beer cannot be sold or possessed on
military reservations or camps, it
will not bo unlawful to furnish or
give them to men in iniiTunii.
General .Stuff Pleased.
One of the difficulties in reaching
nn agreement was over the tribunals
which shall pass o nexemptions from
selective draft. The provision ac
cepted gives right of appeal from n
first tribunal to n second. Xo mili
tary men are to be on either and they
are to be distinct from the courts of
the United States or states.
General stuff officers were mm
pleased at the agreement of the con-
(Continued on Pago Seven.)
MENU
CIIRISTIAXSnURO, Va., May 10.
Chnilcs K. Vnwtcr, who shot to
death Stockton Ilcth, jr., wealthy
clubman und society man, in the Vnw
tcr home nt Hlacksburg March J!l,
is n free man today, lie wns nc
quitlcd of murder last niitlit by the
jury before which he was tried in
the Montgomery county circuit court.
Vnwtcr, who is a former professor
nt Virginia polytechnic institute, had
returned today to bis home nt Itlacks
bunr. ,
"The future stares me darkly in
the face,"' he said, "but I shall en
deavor somewhere to build n happy
home for my children nnd my wife."
Mrs. Vawlcr, who hired her life
in defense of her husband, broke
down when I he verdict w as read to
her at their Blucksburg Lome.
WAR EXPENSES
1 91 7 TO TOTAL
Debate Over War Tax Bill Opens in
House Those Who Stay at Home
Ought to be Willing to Pay Says
Kitchin Rich to Pay Half the Cost
Everybody Helps Foot the Bill.
WASHINGTON. May 10. At the
opening of debate in the house today
on the war tax bill, Chairman Kitchin
of the ways and means committee.
predicted that the war expenditures
for this year and the next fiscal year
would reach $5,000,000,000 rather
than the $3,800,000,000 his commit
tee had estimated. Those who stayed
at home in war time, he said, should
be glud to pay the bills. Demands of
war necessitated prompt and decisive
action, he declared, and patriotism
called for passage of a measure which
in peaceful and normail times would
never receive his vote.
Hicli Must l'ay the Hill.
"Men whose boys are conscripted
for the army," he said, "have a right
to expect that tlio money of the na
tion would conscripted to support
that army. If I were not ready to
fight, I would be willing to tax every
dollar in my pocket. They say that
this bill, by raising half out of the
wealthy,-, is going to raise a howl
throughout the country. We have
heard that howl in our committee. I
believe that tho business men, the
manufacturers and the wealthy class
are patriotic and that they are going
to stand by this bill. K very body
should do that. We have heard more
protests, complaints and kicks from
every tax in this bill than any other
tariff I have ho'.ped to write. There
is not an item in it that has not been
protested by the men who have got
to pay something."
Mr. Kitchin explained the bill in
detail and tho necessities for the va
rious taxes.
All Given riinnro to Help.
"This hill will let every human be
ing in tho United States know that he
Is helping to finance this war," said
Mr. Kitchin. In explaining the rea
sons for increasing all existing tariff
duties 10 per cent and putting 10 per
cent on the free list the majority
leader declared: "It was because we
needed the money."
The tariff provision, he asserted
(Continued on Page Seven.)
E
SAN FRANCISCO, May 10. Lieu
tenant Frank F. Wolf, alias Frank
Feds, a deserter from the United
Suites aviation corps at San Piegi
and said to be a lieutenant in the
Gentian army, was nrresled and in
lemed here today by federal author.
dies.
Wolf was arrested at the German
hospital where be lias been employed
as a dishwasher since Inst January
when, according to federal authori
ties, he deserted from the aviation
corps at San Diego, believing he
would be aide to get back to Ger
many.
In his effects, federal officers said
were found maps of roads and high
wavs about Sun Franci-co nnd th
buy cilies and coniplele plans of for
tifications on Sun Francisco bay.
According lo the federal autliori
tics. Wolf, who is 2.'1 vears old, was
wounded in the curlier lighting about
Verdun white an oflieer in (he Ger
man aviation service. After rceov
eruig he was sent to America, it was
soid, by the German' secret senicc,
He enlwtcil in the aviation corps nl
Sun Iliiiio lit t October and is un
dei'stood lo have made a splendid
record. lie was. taken to Fort Win
field Scott, where lie will be held in
clo-e confinement awaiting n full in
ventilation of. his activities.
$5,000,000,000
SURRENDERS TO
U. S. OFFICIALS
Convicted Leader of Bootleggers Syn
dicate Who Escaped Prison in
April Telephones to Federal Offi
cers to Come and Get Him Ex
pects to Give Bond for Appeal.
SEATTLE, May 10 Logal Ilill
ingsley, confessed head of a gigantic
liquor selling ring operating on Pa
get Sound, and who escaped from the
immigration detention station on the
morning of April 22, surrendered
himself to United Stales District At
torney Clay Allen this morning, rep
resentatives of the district attorney's
office having been summoned to the
office of Hillingley's attorney to get
him.
(iives Hull of $7000.
On liillingsley's arrival at the dis
trict attorney's office, and while be
was engaged in conversation wilh
Mr. Allen, deputy United States mar
shals burst into the office, nrrested
Iiillingslcy and took him to the im
migration detention station, where
he was locked in a cell. In loss than
a minute Hillingsley was taken1 out
again on nil, order from Iho district
attorney (o the marshal to produce
him in federal court. Upon liillings
lev's arrival in the court room Judge
Xctcrer fixed bis appeal bond to the
court of appeals at $7000, to be fur
nished by himself and I' red Killings
ley jointly, and the brothers were
given until 2 o'clock to perfect the
bond. It is understood that the bond
was arranged yesterday and lacks
only signatures.
liillingslcy, who was indicted to
gether with bis two brothers, Mayor
Hiram C. Gill, Chief of Police Charles
Iieckingham and others on a con
spiracy charge, pleaded guilty, turn
ed stales evidence and swore that he
paid a bribo of $-1000 to .Mayor Gill
for permission to import and sell
liquor.
llrothcr Also Kcleased.
On the neqiiitttil of Gill Hie llill-
ingsleys sought to change their plea
of guilty to not guilty, but their mo
tion wns overruled and the three
brothers were sentenced. After Logan
Billingsley had broken from his cell
Judge Neteror granted an appeal from
his decision.
Fred Billingsley, who served 1 six
months term in the Whatcom county
in i 9 , furnished hail several days ago.
Ora, the younger brother, serving MO
lays at ilellingbam, did not appeal,
and will bo released next week on the
expiration of bis term.
After his escape Logan Itillingsley
wrote almost daily lellcrs to the Sc
uttle papers. He busied himself large
ly in misleading the police and caus
ing them to make unsuccessful raids
on various supposed hiding places.
STUDENT RECRUITS REPRESENT YALE IN
TK . '. '. ; . -I';.--,. v,-; -
Yale men are here shown as recruits in a battery corps ot the United States army,
the regular army training course, taking examinations, they will be officers.
"BUY A BABY! BUY A
Hi "
lliotos of French orphan childrc
by persons "buying foibles."
(Staff Special.)
NEW YOItK, May 10. Do you
want to "buy" a child of a dead
French soldier?
The little blonde and brunette boys
and girls are "for sale" at the Wom
an's Exchange, Madison avenue and
43d street.
That la, for $36 you may buy tlio
up-kcep of one of the children for a
year. That amount will keep a
French orphan in its own homo with
Its own mother.
Americans who wish to do more
CONVICTS ESCAPE
SALEM, May 10. S. A. Tliuiher
nnd W. J. Flood, convicts at the stale
pcniteiiliary here, look advantage of
their privilege ns trusties and escaped
last night. Today Flood telephoned
from Pudding river, 20 miles distant,
that he was returning lo prison. He
said he accompanied Tliurber in Hie
hope of inducing him lo return, but
failed. Tliurber was sent from Pen
dleton for burglary, and Mood from
Portland for larcenv.
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n from which selections may be made
may contribute toward the complete
education of one or more of the chil
dren.
Tlioso wishing to "buy" babies
make selections from photographs.
borne nro children of officers, hut
many are tho sons and daughters of
"simple soldiers."
War orphans whoso fathers have
gono down under tho trl-color, also
may be adopted and brought to Amer
ica, but to obtain thoso It is necessary
to go to tho headquarters of tlio
Fatherless Children of France at COD
Fifth avonuo.
SENATE LEADERS
WASHINGTON, May 10. Senato
leadors today had not abandoned
hope for a final action on tho admin
istratlon espionago bill by Saturday
night, despite failure yesterday lo get
the senato to agroo to a vote at that
tlnio.
Consideration of the bill was re
Hiimnil with tho censorship section
still under debate. Several amend
meats to tho section wore pending,
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UNCLE SAM'S ARMY
After going through
OUTLOOK
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Reports of Agricultural Prospects
Disheartening Fall Planting a
Failure Cold Spring - Retards
Growth Small Acreage Results
Italy Faces Condition of Famine.
(Correspondence of (ho Assoclnteit Press.)
LONDON, May 1 0. Hoports of tlio
agricultural outlook in Great Mrltain
nro almost uniformly discouraging.
Not ovon the oldest farmer recalls a
more trying time than that tlirough
which he has just been passing. A
late sowing, a poor yiold, a wot au
tumn nnd a severe winter havo been
followed by a spring with all the
marked characteristics of Decombor,
The state of the fields is called in all
tho agricultural "sous" although it is
still possibio that a period of warm
weather might chango tho situation
considerably by the end of May. Tlio
history of ninny ot the host of tho
British crops this year is a story of
sowing in November and re-sowing in
April. In many cases tho autumn
sowing was destroyed completely and
8omo fresh schemo had to bo hastily
dovlsed.
Tlio wheat area, It is said, cannot
bo largo this year. Oats cannot yet
bo estimated and barley for some roa
son Is In disfavor.
In tlio mlddlo of April potato farm
ors were still awaiting a fnvorablo
moment to push ahead their planting
Italy's Oudook Poor.
IIO.MK, April 24. With last year's
world food crop poor and those of
this yenr poorer, it Is necessary, even
if tlio war ends this summer or fall,
for the United States to apply rigid
food war measures, according to Da
vid Lubln of California, founder of
the International Institute of Agricul
ture here, and American representa
tive to it. Mr, Lubln has already sub
mitted to Presldont Wilson and othor
officials plans for tho regulation of
food distribution.
'Tho moblllznllon of our agricul
ture sources comes next in Impor
tance to tho handling of our army
and navy," said Mr. Lubln, outlining
his plans to tho AsHocinted Press.
"The war problem Is not one of pro
duction, hut of distribution. Wo have
seen how the Kussliin government
was overthrown because peoplo wore
starving in a country that has had
over since the beginning of tho war
Inimenso supplies of surplus wheat
which the closing of the Dardanelles
prevented from going to markot.
Shut Off KN-riilatloii.
"Tliero is more manipulation of
food products in tho United States
than In tho belligerent countries of
Kuropo, so the first thing to do after
wo havo quit throwing away food
wanting It nnd havo began to plant
locally lu each stato and county more
heavily, Is to shut off manipulation
through an eftectlvo national food
distribution organization.
"Our remedy for high prices,
speculation, for providing enough
food to eat, lies In the application of
tho German system of organllnz the
farmers an din tho proper adaptation
of our parcels post Horvlco to family
food deliveries."
OF 01, DEAD
CINCINNATI, May 10. Joseph
lleiison Foraker, former United Stntes
Henator from Ohio, oralor, soldier and
citizen, tiled nt his homo hero today
agetl 70 years. Former Senator For
aker hns been In poor lienllh since tils
retirement from the senato In 1!0!
but It wns not until two weeks ngo
that lie was forced to his bed arid his
condition was not considered critical
mil II last night.
Mr. Foraker was twice elected and
likewise twlco defeated in races for
tho governorship of Ohio, while ho
served two terms In the United Stntes
senate, from 1S07 to 1909.
AN 1
lulblP
OF NIPPERS
UPON LENS
Coal Center Being Surrounded by
British Bloodiest Battle of Pres
ent Drive Raging About Fresnoy,
but Allied Forces Make Good Pro
gress Along Other Portion of Line
Men and Artillery Drawn From
Russian Front to Check British.
iWhllo for three days official, re
ports have thrown little additional
light on the situation around Fresnoy
where the heaviest fighting In the
Arras battle occurred this week, they
reveal important gains for the British
and French at other points on the
front in northern Franco,
London's announcement of British
progress south of tho Souclw. river
moans a further pushing back of the
German lines immediately south of
Lens, tightening tho hold of the nip
pers which the British are applying to
important industrial town and coal
district.
Thrust.s Delivered. - ...
Further inroads also have been
inado upon tho Gorman positions near
ilulecourt, on, the Hlndonburg line,
just west ot its point of Junction with
the Qtiennt-Drocourt switch, where
tlio Germans, although reported near
ly surrounded, nro stubbornly cling
ing to tho town.
Far to tho south on the British
front, two miles north of St. Quentin,
Goncral Halg's troops have puBhed
eastward from Grlcourt. They are
right atop the St. Quontin-Cambral
road at HiIb point.
Tho French, liko the British, have
mado no new general attack, but they
llkowlso are delivering a thrust here
and there and making valuable head
way in preparing tho ground for the
next push. '
Initio of Fresnoy,
LONDON, May 10. Progress was
mado by the British last night In the
neighborhood of Bullecourt east ot
Gricourt and south of the Souchez
rivor, says today's official announce
ment, i
Tho battle for Fresnoy continues to
rage with a fury which recalls the
hlodtly struggles for Forts Douamout
and Va-ux in the days of the battlo of
Verdun. Thousands ot lives are be
ing poured out for the mastery of the
little heaps of ruins that was once a
village nnd the blackened, blasted
stumps that were once a wood until
Fresnoy threatens to rank with Vlmy
In tlio price paid for Its possession.
Itonson for Struggle.
Tho groat Importance of the posi
tion Is due to the fact that It forms
the last Important defense to the
northern end of the Drocourt-Queant
lino and also covers tho only remain
ing railroad to Lens, connecting tho
city with the main German line to the
south. The Drocourt-Queant line
traverses one side of a railroad trian
gle which has Lens, Arras and Vltry
at Its respective angles. All of one
side of this roughly equilateral trian
gle Is In the hands of the British and
about ono-balf of Its base. Fresnoy
must bo held If tho whole triangle In
(Continued on Page 8even.)
ARMY IS FILLED
WASHINGTON. May 10. Oregon
has filled hor quota In regular army
recruiting. With a quota ot 1344,
tho Pacific stato has supplied 1349
men since April 1.
7'evutla, first stale to fill Its quota,
now lias 341 mon accepted on a quota
ot 102.
A grand totnl of 61,282 men hava
been recruited sluco April 1.
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