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Ur.l c-s'U ot Cregen WEATHER Maximum Yesterday 91; Minimum Today 50. FORECAST Fair, "Warmer Tonight and Tuesday. m medford Mail Tribune Forty-seventh Year. .Dally Twelfth Year, MEDFORD OREGON1", MONDAY, JUNE 18, 1917. NO. 7r E 9,611,811 REGISTERED FOR MILITARY DUTY ALLIED FORCES BRITISH TRANSPORT UPON REPRISALS FOR E SCIENCE UNDER DRAFT LAW T X UNCI SAM TO FOOD Rll I FIRHT GORKY ASSERTS WEDDED, SUNK g ; , T IN MEDITERRANEAN AlUo ortuULAlUK nun nnrninriiT NAME PRICES ON PLANNING DRIVE IN MACEDONIA in ARMYCONTRACTS RUSSIAS NEED Contracts Awarded for Steel Plates, Oil and Coal Accompanied by Threat of Commandeering Daniels ' Declares Government Will Pay Cost Plus Reasonable Profit: ' iWiA SH r. G TO X, June IS. A basic rice of $56.20 a ton was fixed for steel plates In contracts for ten steel ships signed today by Chairman Den man of tho shipping board. Future contracts will be let at that price In stead of $95 paid for steel in some earlier contracts. Contracts Itcfiisod. Tho contracts were let to the Dow ney Construction company ..of New York. Mr. Denman refused to sign them, calling for steel at $95, ami sent them back to Major-General Goctluils, general manager of tho fleet corporation, asking that the prico be reduced. Today they were returned to Mr. Denman, providing steel at a lower price. A final price will be determined by the shipping board and the fleet cor poration with tho advlco of tho raw materials committee of tho council of national defense. If the steel mills refuse their product at the price de cided on, tho president will be asked to e(j:rclse his power to commandeer their output. If a prico higher than toda base is fixed by the govern ment will pay the difference, if lower the steel mills will refund. Daniels Issues Orders. WASHINGTON', Juno IS. Secre tary Daniels has ordered coal and oil producers to supply tho enormous quantities needed by the navy at prices to bo fixed later by tho presl- dent when tho federal trudo commis sion has determined a fair rate. The navy will use 1,750,000 tons of coal and GO, 000, 000 barrels ot oil pur chased under this application of the authority granted by congress. Similarly, steel for the entire navy building program is being bought at a rate fixed when Secretary Daniels re jected the proposals of the steel as too high. ' Hoard to Fix Prices. Secretary Daniels said today that the coal operators proposed to furnish navy coal at a rate of $2.95 a ton at the mine. The navy has been paying $2.88 a ton delivered. The secretary directed the companies to ship imme diately, tho orders being pro-rated among the producers, agreeing to pay a tentative price of $2.:',:', at (he mines pending a reporting federal trade commission. Pnifit for Producers. Tho arrangnient regarding steel or- dor, the secretary said, leaves "handsomo profit" for producers. Tho steel contracts went to the So attle Construction and Drydock com pany of Seattle. Ton ot I he wooden hull contracts to the Foundation Co of Newark. N. J.; twelve to the Gro- ton Iron works of Xoank, Conn. T-t. .n,..,.lUn nn... I. n a Ann traded for a total ot i:;S ships and hulls. Complete steel ships contract ed for number 2S; complete compos ite ship 32 and complete wooden ships 30. Contracts have lieen let for 4R wooden hulls. E, CHICAGO, June IS. Advertise ments by Cbiciign merchants appeal ed in morning papers today offerin as high as II5 for liberty bonds, that value being offered when the sale was made in exchange for merchandise. An even piirchn-c of $100 worth of merchandise conlH lie paid for witli a $100 bond, the puroliu-cr receiving $5 in cash in change. The same of fer was extended to effect larger and smaller bonds. P0INCARE PAYS VISIT TO CITY OF RHEIMS PARIS. June 1S. President I'nin enre has vi-itcd Kln-ims where he pinned the cross ,,f (he legion of lion ,nr on the brcu-ls of Cardinal l.ncon. 1 input v Mayors lie Uruignnc nnd Chnrbonneaux nnd Managing Kditor Jlrninns of I.'Kclnire -l'r de I.'Kt, which continued to apcar tbruont tin : Vimbarduicnt. WASHINGTON, Juno 18 Al- most complete returns on tho registrations under the selective draft law received at the provost marshal general's office today totalled 0,011,811. Wyoming was the only state from which no returns had been received. BICYCLE CELLAR NEW YOU K, June 18 As n re sult of the murder of Hnlh Cruder, the 18-ycar-old high school girl grad uate whose body was found buried in a cellar Saturday, the police today began an investigation of charges that 22 missing girls in this city might have suffered sumilar fate. Evidence against Alfred Cocchi, proprietor of the bicycle repair shop in the basement of which the body of lfiilh Cruger, the' Wudloigh high school student, was found on Salur day, was laid before tho grand jury today. Word was received from Washington that the Italian govern inent had been requested to hold Coc- hi, who fled to Italy soon utter Kuth Cruger disappeared four months ago. As a war ally of this country Italy is expected to waive its policy of refusing to surrender a man charged with murder, except on . thetipulu- tion that the death penalty would not he imposed. Later an indictment charging mur der in the first degree was returned uinst Cocchi. El PETROGRAD, Juno 18. Tho members of the Root commission at tended a service in the Imperial chap el of the winter palace Sunday and afterward made a tour of the gigan tic building, much of which is now military hospital. Mr. Hoot and his assistants talked with wounded sol diers and nurses, inspected tho paint ings and scultpturo of tho Imperial galleries and passing hundreds of peasants who were being shown thru the palace, hitherto closed to the pub lie. Tho extreme democracy and order- lines of the Russians was shown by the utter lack of precautions to guard the art treasures of the palace. The former emperor's private apartments were opened for public Inspection Crowds passed quietly thru the room where Alexander II expired from the effects ot a bomb explosion, leaving untouched the personal belongings of tho former emperor, which have not been disturbed sinco his death, Hcar-Admlral filennon and his aides wiil leave Pctrograd today for Sebastopol, accompanied by Russian officers to visit the Hlack sea fleet. MADRID, June 18. A movement for a radical rebuilding of Ihc whole political edifice in Spain is gaining adherence everywhere. Senor Homcno, editor of Corrcs- pondencia De Kpanii, recently wrote: "The whole of Spain, with the ex ception of a thousand families who inonpmlizc the sweets of office, is -ick to death of the favoritism which condemn the country to eternal slug nation and is only waiting for the sig nal to rise like on man and do away with it forever. Favoritism is the canker which is killing Spain and will put an end lo her unless we put an end to it.'' British Retiring From Struma Front to Advance Along the Vardar Russians More Aggressive British Lose Advanced Positions In Arras District to Germans. Important developments are fore- shawoed on the Macedonian front fol lowing the abdication of King Con stantino by reports today of a with drawal by the, British without pres sure, of their advanced positions east of the Struma river on the extreme easterly end of the front and pro nounced reconnolterlng activity by the entente forces along the Vardar. It has been frequently pointed out by military observers that virtually the only practicable route for a suc cessful advance to cut the lines of the central powers In tho Balkans and re claim Serbia, Is up the Vardar valley, along the railway there. The present activities seem to point to the proba bility that an offensive by General Sarrail In the only likely sector that embracing the Vardar area Is Im minent. Drive Up tho Vardar. Had this been decided upon-, it would be a natural move for the Brit ish to relinquish the advanced ground they held along the Struma and with draw as they have done, to the bridge head near the river, thereby strength ening the entente right flank for de fensive purposes while the offensive stroke was delivered by the center, An aggressive move. It would seem, has now been made possible by the removal of tho menace to the allies from the rear which existed as long as Constantino was on the Greek throne and his pro-German political advis ers In control ol the Greek military situation. Doth tho Russian army and the Russian navy are giving more evi dence of aggressive intent. Recent Gorman and Austrian statements have lnstai. e.; Increasing activities by the Russian military forces In va rious sectors, notably Volhynla and Galicia, whore the great Brussiloff of fensive was In full swing at this time a year ago. Russian Navy Astir. Tho Russian naval arm also has been largely In evldonce In Baltic wa ters that Berlin announces it has been found necessary to carry out exten sive air raiding operations on Russian bases In this area. In tho Arras battle area the British were subjected to a heavy counter at tack on the new position they won last Thursday east of Monchy Lc point, the Important Infantry hill, but ponlt, tho Important Infantry hill, but had to fall back from some positions they had established farther In ad vance. NEW YORK, June 1 8. In a battle between a crippled, stranded British StcaniRhip and a German submarine off the Italian coast in May, both craft were destroyed, according to members ot the crow of the Amorlcan steamship llllonlan, who arrived hero today. The llllonlan itself had al ready been reported sunk off tho Ital ian coast on May 16, the crew being landed at Albcnga. On the same, day an unidentified British freighter car rying coal alBO was torpedoed, but the captain managed to run his ship Into shallow water before she partly sank Two days later tho Americans as serted, the submarine returned to the attack and launched a torpedo which hit tho steamer amidships and almost blew her apart. As the submarine came to tho surface to observe the effects of the shot two deck guns on the stern of the freighter were turned on her. A six-Inch explosive shell hit the U boat and she was seen to turn over twice and split squarely in two before going down. JUDS0N C, CLEMENTS. MEMBERJ. C. C, DEAD WASHINGTON', June 18 Com missioner Judson C. Clements of the interstate commerce commission, died here today. LONDON, June 18 The Ilrit ish Transport Caiiieronian, with a small number of troops on hnnivt wns tnrnedoed nnd sunk by an enemy submarine in tho eastern Mediterranean on June 2, it was officially announced tonight. Sixtv three persons including the captain of he trnnsport uro presumed to hue been drowned. T 1 .745.000 1 WASHINGTON, June 18. The German submarine toll of British merchant vessels since Februory 17, as shown in official British figures compiled hero today is 322 vessels of more than ljjOO tons and 135 of less (ban 1000. British Meum fislunj vessels are incomplete, but a three weeks' total was 78. Submarines in the period given lit tucked 20!) ships unsuccessfully nnd tho weekly percentage of iinsueccss fill attacks has ranged from 51 to 75. During the last week given tho seven days ending June 0 it was 58. " 1 Arrivals nnd sailings in British ports sinco tho intensivo submarine campaign began have averaged about, 2500 but these include channel suit ings. The British figures do Jiot give the tonnage of vessels sunk but official hero any that 5000 tons probably would be n fair nverugo for vessels of more than lli(M) tons destroyed. Computing the total at that average and putting the average of the small er shis nt 1000 tons, the total loss during slightly less than four months submarine warfare would rcaeli 1, 745,000 tons or about 250,000 tons less than the entire world's shipping output during 1016. IT T WASHINGTON, June 18. Unless Micro lire unforscen developments lo hurry construction of the sixteen can tonineuts for training, tho new na tionul army, t lie first increment of 050,000 troops will not he in truinin by September 1, as generally has been supposed and in fact may not get into training for six weeks thereafter. The first body of officers for the new nrmy now being trained in rumps thruout the count rv. is to be turned out ill August to make room for th next body. This was arranged on ill plan of having the draft eomplel exemptions disposed of nnd troops or dered into training camps by Scplcm her 1. The cantonments for the new nrmy will be built under a special form o contract under which no overcharge will be allowed, 'flic maximum profit on any contract lias been fixed 250,000. FIRES AT VENTURA VF.NTl'HA, fill.. June 18.-Sev era! thousand men from here, tlx nurd, Capintcrtii, Ojni, and othc places are fighting to save the conn try for miles around from thrr strong brush fires now burning within a few miles of here and from n re erudenscenec of the Ojni valley fire which burned h third of the town caused three deaths and nindo sixtv families homeless. A fresh force men has just been sent out by Slier iff E. 0. Multiu. Wilson In Letter Warns Opponents of Measures That They Must be Pre pared to Bear Responsibility Ob ject of Measure Is to Eliminate Gambling From Food Products. WASHINGTON,.. June 18. l'resi dent Wilson today in a letter to Hep resentativc Borland concerning the administration food bills warned op ponents of the measure that they must be prepared to bear the res ponsibility lor their detent it they succeeded in accomplishing it. A certain disservice bus been done the measure by speaking of it us the food control bill," wrote the president. Tho object of the measure is nut to control the food of the country hut to release it from tho control of speculators nnd other persons wlm will seek to make inordinate prolils out of it and to protect the people against the extortions which would esult. Must Tuko Blame. "It seems to me, that those who oppose the measure ought very se riously to consider whether they tire not playing jnto the hands of such persons und whether they nro not making themselves responsible should hey succeed, for the ordinary and oppressive price of food in the United States. Foodstiifls will, of course inevitably be high but it is possible by perfectly legitimate menus to keep them from being uiiieusoiuibly and oppressively high." Anticipating attacks on giving the president extraordinary powers, Hep resentativc Lever in his speech con tonded the situation warranted them. "Wo must either confer tho so-call ed autocratic powers upon tho con stitutional head of our government or be prepared to have them assumed by the German kaiser," he said. "Kv ery man, woman and child must be prepared to ninko sacrifices great sacrifices, and no mini is going to be iietmitted to stand behind fine spun theories nnd technicalities in his opposition to this measure. This is no pink tea a Hair. It is war against tho most powerful autocracy the world ever saw." Drive Out Manipulation. Without nn agency of control which would stimulate production, eliminate waste and conserve the food supply, he declared, this country can not furnish the bulk of food to the al lies. ; "Wo intend in this hill," said Mr. Lever, "lo drivo from I he establish ed agencies of distribution and mar ket manipulalor, the gnnihler, Ihc man who buys as cheaply as he niuy and sells us he can the sliylock of course. It is war measure pure and simple. "The bill establishes a governmen tal control of necessities which shall be exercised nnd administered by the president thru voluntary arrangement or agreement and in co-opcrution witli any agency or person. This is the most far-reaching and important pro vision of the bill and upon it we con fidently rely for that sane ami r.dc (puitc control necessary to the stabil ization of prices nnd for Ihc satisfuc- lory and orderly dislrihution of nec essities." People Not, Deceive,!. -""The people, Mr. Lever lidded, arc not deceived in the present food sit uation. They trust tbn president, he declared, and congress must, and will grant the powers to biin proposed by the hill. The food bill was made the unfin ished business in the senare when thai body accepted Senator Cliamberlain's notion to proceed willt I lie measure. Arrangements were made late to day for Herbert C. Hoover to meet members of I lie senate tomorrow in formally in a committee room and ex plain the iidinini.-.t rat ion's food plans. ALASKA MINE STRIKE Ef NKW YORK, June 1 8.-- Assertion that evidence has been found that strikes in the Alaska copper proper tics of the Kcnnecoll Copper corpora lion were instigated by pro-Ocrman elements supposedly as a strike against the military resources of this country, was made here today at the olticvs of the company. LONDON, June 18. Replying to n scries of questions in tho house of commons this afternoon ns lo whether the British gov eminent had decided upon re- nrisals for llie fiennaii ail raids mi Fitirltmil An.lrim. Holm I I .it w. member of tho British war council, said the e-ovprnnient. in- tended to take steps not only t',,i .liimnoinir ti i.tifiii,' lull I'nr preventing raids on Kugluud. -f FOR RED CROSS "WASHINGTON, Juno IS Tho big drive for the $100,000,000 Red Cross war fund began nt sunrise today ev erywhere In tho United States with elaborate organization plans for mak ing It reality within the next seven days. In grout cities and small towns or ganized machinery began gathering In the fund which is to care, not only for American troops off the tiring Hues In Europe, but for the destitute of the war zones of Franco, Belgium and Poland. Prcsldont Wilson in a telegram to ono hundred mayors of cities urgod generosity in contributions for the lied Cross fund. He said: "Tho American people, by their overwhelming subscriptions to the Liberty loan, have given a now on dorpemont to the high principles for which American entered tho war. Dur ing tho present week which I have designated as Red Cross week, they will have a iinlquo privilege of maul fcstlng America's unselfishness well as tho real spirit of sacrifice which animates our people. 'May I urge that your city, In do ing Its part in tho raising ot this $100,000,000 war relief fund, meas ure tho generosity of its gift by the urgency ot tho need." LONDON, June 18.-- Large, crowd galliercil in Dublin Ibis morning lo welcome tin; released Irish prisoners, al of whom Willi tbe exception ol Countess Marliieviscz, arrived ill 8 o'clock. Men willi banners escort the former prisoners lo their liomc Tbcrc was much singing of lrih songs and a great deal of chivring but there were no signs id' disorder. Countess Markievicz led a band of revolulioniMs which altemplel to capture Dublin castle, killing a guard. She was sentenced to death but th sentence was coinmiilcd lo penal serv itude for life. IRISH GIRL WINS NFAV VOIJK. Jane 1H. A verdict of .t2J5.000 in favor of Mis llonora .; r ? May O'llricn, L'H years breach ot promi-c suit iiL'aiiist B. .Manning, u retired banker and mil -lioliaire, years old, was awarded by a state supreme court jury in ling I-land City today. The plain till', secretary I,, a New York news, paper man, alleged that I lie defend ant, lather of grown children, broke bis promi-t to marrv her. PERSHING AT WORK UPON ARMY ARRANGEMENTS 1'AHIS, June 18. Major General Pershing was bard at work al hi. of fice today. He lui completed the round of social functions and lias a busy week alien, I in dealing with im portant inestions regarding tbe ar rival of the American troops. Author Taking Lead In Widespread Movement for Political and Eco nomic Reconstruction, Abandoning Politics Is Not a Peace at Any Price Advocacy Favors War. PETROGRAD, June 18. Maxim Gorky, tho author, Is taking tho lead In a widespread movement for polit ical and economic reconstruction of Russian affairs, having announced that ho has abandoned politics and In future would devote himself to cul tural and artistic questions. Tho evils from which Russia la suffering havo as tholr first cause our painful backwardness in scientific and technical knowledge," ho Bald. To that may bo traced tho present polit ical instability of which you hear much. "In regard to politics I will merely deny tho stories circulated abroad that I am an adherent of the faction which desires pcuco oven nt tho price ot Russia's destruction. I am accused of being ono of tho .'pornzhencts,' a new term of derision applied to that faction. My position is merely that I condemn all wars and expect the pres- ont war will bo ended by the com bined action of tho world's democra cies. Anarchy Tompomi'j'. "As regards our internal condition, I ndvlso you not to bcllovo tho talk about anarchy too readily. Undoubt edly anarchy exists temporarily, but ts soed existed long before the revolu tion. Tho fact is that undor the con- ' dltlons of tho old reglmo of despot ism, arbitrariness, cruelty and false hood, Russians could not develop a sonso of order and Justice. - ' - "Today ninny are disillusioned. I am beginning to rccolvo letters pro claiming that tho revolution Is ruin ing Russia. This qiicriilousiioss Is a natural product of our national passivity and Is equivalent to crying flro without summoning tho fire bri gade. Wo must havo a positive nnd coiistructivn srhenio for curing our underlying Ills. The medicine, I am convinced. Is science. Nearly all tho ovll8 of our dally llfo spring front tho absence of science. Lack of Selenco. "Thru tbe lack of selenco half our peasant children dlo before reaching tho ago of five. From tho the same caiiso nearly all tho peasant women suffer from women's complaints. The MouJIks cultivate tho land so badly that tho avorago yield Ib less than ouo-fourtli tho yield obtained in Eng land or Belgium. Conditions In our cities are equally bad. Wo havo no ilraiuage anywhere. Our town soil la poisoned. We arc choked with smoko and dust. Town children are rickety, nervous wrecks. Against such evils wo need not slerllo dreams hut sci ence, technique, machines, efficiently developed Industry, To nsslst in bringing this about there should at onco bo created scien tific institutions; for lnsanco, insti tutes of applled'tiiecbanlcs, chemistry nnd biology and tho whole scries ot bacteriological hygienic and gonoral medical Institutions. If thereby we clcansn Russia physically and Intel leetaally our anarchy will ccaso. To 'livmsc Russia. "Those are the Ideas underlying my new movement Ideas which led to the foundation of 'the frco association for development and dissemination of tlie positive sciences.' Tho associa tion will widen existing nehtevemonts of scholars in all tlint concerns men (Continued on pago threo) RESIGNS PASTORATE TO WED DIVORCEE IIEUKKI.KV, Cul.. June 1 S. Forc ed by church law, which forbids mar rlawe with a divorced person, to re sign his ministry or renounce his en gagement to Mrs. Rose Armsbary, Ban Francisco nrtlst. Rev. William F. lllg by, for three years curate of St. Marks Kpiscopul church here, ehoso to glvo up tho church, it became known to day. Ills resignation bus been given llishop William F, Nichols. Mr. Illgby, who will become an en gineer, has, It Is said, obtained a po sition In Denver. ,
