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Unh ersify of Conon Library WEATHER Ma xinnun Yesterday, 91; Minimum Todav, iO. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow, Fair. Medford Mail Tribune I Portv-aevpnth Year. f Daily Twelfth Year. MEDFORD, OKKOOX, TUESDAY, JUNE 19, 1917 NO. 7(i 1 I' 23 MILLION I RAISED FOR RED CROSS t Approximately Twenty-three Million ! Dollars Raised Before Second Day rtalf Over Of Total Seventeen Millions Subscribed in New York t City Over Three Millions in Cities Outside Campaign Just Begun in Medford Raises $2700 by Noon. fT WASHINGTON, June 10. B I Announcement was made nt ffl ll--3fJ Red Cross headquarters at 8 3 nVWIr this afternoon Hint i1 $23,000,000 more than one-fifth of ';$thc .$100,000,000 war relief fund jlisouglit in the seven day campaign had already been subscribed. H In actual figures $32,628,3(10 had j .been reported hefore the second day - was half over. 'j. Of the total $17,000,000 was sub f; scribed in New York City, the rc jS'ninining $0,1)28,366 coming from va il' rious sections of the country. J. F. A Morgan & Company subscribed $1, B OOC.OOO. l7 titles ueport. Early reports today a tlhe Red Cross head(unrters from 137 cities excluske of New York showed $3.- 203,236 subscribed or pledged to the $100,000,000 war relief fund on the first day of the big drive. The best showing on the first day was made in the north central states where $l,6ii(i,(i0ij was reported. The middle Atlantic states were next with JW()84,333. New Kngland third with 7 P4(l') 1 HO Il,n viulnrn nmnn f,.vlli with $51,200, and the southern states fifth with $-18,820. Among the cities reporting was Denver with $32,062. Miss Mahel T. Hourdmnn, of the Red Cross, today niipcnlcd to the women of America, to do their part in the campaign. "As women we must give nnd give quickly out share of the fund," she said . i $2711 liaised In Medford. j In less than three hoars this morn- ing northern Jackson county's Red I Cross $100,000,000 War Fund cam paign committee raised $2711.2") for the relief of American patriots who i will offer their lives for their conn- k try. Xue work Ihis morning cover ed only a small part of the people who will be solicited by the commit lee nltho a substantial number of those expected to contribute generously are included in the list. Probably one of the most encourag ing things in the campaign lliis morn ing was the contribution of the Cen tral l'oint district which in less than two hours solicitation raised $2J1.2r. This team is most thoroughly organ ized under the leadership of R. II. I'axon nnd consists of I). W. Stone, W. A. Cowley, I.ee B. Franklin, J. C. l1?rrinjr, R. V. F.ldcn, Wayne l.ocver, C. Robnett and Rev. P. S. Handy. ' The team meets every noon this week nt luncheon which is being nerved by the ladies of the Red Cross society in Central Point. Shirkers in Minority. While the committee has been dis npMinted by n few people who still fail to realize the country's need or have not been inspired with the pa triotic that is sweeping the entire nation the slacker is going to he so far in the minority when he final lift of contributors is Misted in conspic uous places turnout the city and pub lished in the press that there will he few surprises for those who arc -acquainted with the sources of support whenever this section of Oregon is culled upon to uphold its dignity and honor. PORTLAND. June 19.. Summer :"nshlne melting the mountain snows as caused the Columbia and Wlllam- fetto rivers to reach flood stages said to be the highest In several years. At The Dalles, Oregon, the Columbia peached the 40-foot mark and at Hood Illver the river has reached the high est point since 194. Weather bu- - -1 . V. . Ml . p-eached Thursday. SI ADM RAL ALLIED FLEETS American Appointed to Take General Charge of Operations of Allied Naval Forces Flag Hoisted as Senior Officer Lull Along Battle Front in France and Belgium. LONDON, lune 19. Vice-Admlral William S. Sims, U. S. N., has been appointed to take general charge of the operations of the allied naval forces In Irish waters. American Flag Loads. Admiral Sims will act in tbis capa city while the British naval com mander in chief is absent from his post for a period, the official an nouncement of his appointment ox plains. The American admiral's flag, meanwhile, has been hoisted as the allied senior officer in thes waters. The text of the official statement reads: "During a short absence of the British naval commander in chief on the coast of Ireland, Vice-Admlral Sims of the United States Navy, has hoisted his flag as allied senior offi cer In general charge of operations of the allied naval forces in Irish wa ters." .Lull in Fighting. There has been a let-up In the se verity of the fighting on the British front in France and Belgium. Along the lines occupied by the French, how ever, a renewal of activities of a more Intensive character is noted. v'3eneral Petain struck the German lines In the Champagne yesterday a blow which netted the French a trench system nearly a third of a mile In length, thereby straightening out the French line along the hlHs be tween Mont Camlllet and Mont Blond, in territory vital to successful observ ation work. A violent German attack was repulsed. General Halg reports only raids in which his troops successfully felt out the enemy lines towards the southern end of the British front. E PICKING, June 111. The southern provinces are rapidly making warlike preparations and are negotiating with the southwest provinces to join thc.m. They have been assured of support from this quarter and civil war is not improbable. President Li Yuan Hung is virtually a prisoner. General Chang-IIsun, who has assumed the power of dic tator, has forced the secretarial staff to resign. Former members of par liament and friends of the president are not permitted to enter the pal ace. No compromise has been reach ed on account of the steadily grow ing military opposition to General Cliang-llsun. His nominee for pre mier, l.i Ching-IIsi, is unable to ob tain the consent of officials to serve in a cabinet with him. The military is attempting to force the president to issue mandates dis solving the provisional constitution, pardoning the monarchists and estab lishing Confucianism as the state re ligion. BILLY SUNDAY GIVES NKW YORK, June It). Red Cross "dividends," amounting to $1,035,-.-)00, declared by four corporations today, hrouirht the total contributions to the $lilli,Oii(l,llli(l war fund up to $12,(I33,!I13. Included in this amount is $.18.IMMI received from the Rev. William A. Sunday, who divided be tween the Ked Cross and the Y. M. C. A. the "free will" offering of $1 111,00(1 given to him yesterday nt the close of an evangelistic campaign in Ihis city. The finance committee announced that Liberty loan bonds will be ac cepted in lieu of cash ns contribu tions to the fund, IN IRISH WATERS RED CROSS COLLECTION motdmh PARIWFT AMERICAN FIFTY IWILLIDW DOLLARS A MONTH SAYS HOOVER PURPOSE OF FOOD rMWh COS? OF LUG 8 BILL EXPLAINED TO fTTl 60 PERCENT HIGHER SENATE BY HOOVER fl THAN IN BELGIUM Denies Bill Sets Up Food Dictatorship Object Is to Organize Resources of Country and People to Limit' Ex tortion Living Costs Exceed Those of Europe. WASHINGTON, June 19. Food speculators have been taking $50, 000,000 a month for tho last five months, a total of a quarter of a bil lion dollars, from the American peo ple, Herbert C. Hoover today told sen ators in explaining the purposes of the food control bill now before con gress. Disclaiming entirely that the bill sets up a food dictatorship, Mr. Hoo ver told senators its purposes were entirely to organize the resources of the country and the people them selves into a food administration to limit middlemen's commissions and prevent extortion. "Tho price of flour should not have been over $9 a barrel," he said, "yet it averages $14. In the last five months $250,000,000 has been extracted from the American consumer in excess of normal profits of manufacturers and distributors." . Not a Dictatorship. Not a single national trade associa tion. Hoover told the senators, Is op posed to the food control bill. The prospective food administrator wont to the capltol early today to explain the bill informally to senators in the hope that a full understanding of its objects and purposes may allay some of th opposition. Opposition to the bill in the sen ate is determined and it Is feared that unless this can be overcome the meas ure will not be enacted by July 1, as urged by President Wilson. It Is con fidently believed that the bill will go thru the house by the end of the week. The bill was the unfinished busi ness before the house and senate to day and will be pressed for final dis position. Fears of a senate filibuster led administration leaders to prepare to employ tho rulo to limit debate if necessary. Mr. Hoover outlined broadly the question of prospective food supplies. Heal Question at Issue. "The real question," he said In a prepared Ktatemont preliminary to senatorial questioning, "Is whether the shortage will continue next year and what will be tho needs of the al lies and America. Despite tho reduc ed consumption of the allies they will require larger amount of cereals next year than ever before. The allies are more Isolated In food sources. It takes three times the tonnage and double the trouble to got Australian wheat. Crop failures in tho Argen tine give no hope of relief from there before next spring. "The allies aro dependent upon North America for their food Imports. We should he able to supply CO per cent of what they require. The other 4 0 per cent must he mado up by fur ther denial on their part and saving on ours. Wo can Increase our sur plus. The situation for them next year means tncrcasad privation. With out an adequate food supply no Eu ropean population will continue to (Continued on Page Two.) HA SKI,. Switzerland, June l1). A Vienna dispatch says that the Aus trian cabinet has resigned. AMSTKHDAM, June 10. Vienna ncWNiMr publish u report that the Austrian premier Count ( Inm-.Mur tinic has offered the resignation of the cabinet to the emperor owing to the decision of the I'oles not to vote for the budget. The emeror i re ported to have reserved his decision, IIIUUI SPECULATORS ROB PEOPLE OF IWS Herbert cF Wi-SX iwi Hooray Rife - ilsS."1 -ix LEADS TO ARREST NKW HKUNSWICK, N. J., June 19. A warrant for the arrest of Dr. William J. Condon, a captain in the United Slates anny medical corps at Chattanooga, Tenn., was issued here today in connection with the murder of John V. Piper, a University of Ver mont graduate, whose body was found with n bullet wound in the breast irear Spottsbur, N. J., last Saturday. The authorities have made public soma of the evidence on which the warrant for Dr. Condon was issued. The physician is alleged to have re moved the body from the cellar of hLs home alst week prior tf his depar ture for 'Ij'iinessce. In the cellar was found a line f lime, su tuples of which are declared to be the same as that on Pi per s body and as lime on the Heat of the physician s automo bile. Meside Piper's body was found a pistol containintr four loaded and one empty partridge. Piper was takinp a post graduate course in botany at Nutters, at the same time supporting a wife and two children. lr. Condon also has a wife and two children. Dr. Cmidnn is beintr held by the mil itary authorities it is said, to ewait the arrival of New Jersey .IcteV tives. Ir has been a practicing phy sician here for several years but left last Thursday to o into training for active service. Piper, who was working his way 'hru Hutjrers college, tonic care of the f urnaec of r. 'mid on. A croT ding le (he authorities lie di-appearcd on the nielli of February 17. On Satur day bis body was found by the road side where apparently it bad been tossed from an automobile into the bushes. LONDON, Juno l!i The Poles have completely lirokrn off relations with tho Austrian government, says a dispatch to licuter's from Zurich, quoting Vienna adrrlsn. This action, the correspondent adds, has caused a serious cabinet crisis. After a debato Saturday tho Polish club sent a no tice of the government's budget and saying It would only negotiate with a new cabinet, i P PMJL Thompson OF HUTCHINSON. Kan.. June 10. Announcement was made by tho ijolice today that they hud urresled Dick ( arter of Springfield, Mo., against whom 11 warrant charging first degree murder lias been issued ill connection with the mysterious disappearance nnd death of llaby Lloyd Keet. SPRINGI'TKIJ), Mo., June 1!). Dick Carter, reported to have been arrested at Hutchinson, Kan., today was the first man against whom a warrant was issued charging the murder of little Lloyd Keet, the M monllis old son of J. Holland Keet, wealthy banker, whose body was found in an old well of n deserted farm ten days after Hie hahy was ab ducted. Two other men, previously arrest ed in connection with the investigation of other alleged kidnaping plots, Inter were named in warraiils similar to that against Carter. The two are Chmdo Piersol and ('Ictus Adams, ami were taken last night from Ihe county jail lo St.- Louis to he qucs tioued. CIRCUIT COURT In the eiienit court. Tuesday Judge F. M. Calkins rendered a decision in the suit brought by Charles D. Col by and William Slailey against the city of Medford involving the validity of the paving as-essmenls and the legality of the charter amendment known as the Hansen plan. Judge Calkins in an elaborate opin ion held that the Hansen plan was legal and that the paving asM'-rnents were valid. Attorney F. J. Newman, who repre sented Messrs Folhy ami Stnilcv in Ihe w-uit, announced Unit an appeal would lie taken at once to the su preme court of the state. Il will be several months yet at least before the dcei-jon can be obtained from the latter tribunal. The eitv'n intcre-ds in the suit were represented by F. W. cnrNl city t lorncy, and Evan A. Keames. Hoover Shows How Food Gamblers Are Raising Prices to Extravagant Heights Further Afrvances Likely Unless Prompt Action Taken by Government. WASHINGTON, June 10. Chair man Gore of tho Agriculture commit tee nnd Senator Reed of Missouri, lending the opposition lo the food hill, took ii lending part in questioning Mr. Hoover. "The resort to these exl inordinary powers is only because of tho wart " asked Senator (lore. "T o provide not only more food for tho allies, hut lor ourselves," Mr. Hoover replied, "liven if we had not gotten into the war, wo would hnvo been up against this tremendous de mand from Europe and probably driv en to somo legislation to protect our own people." Mr. Hoover also said Ihe food ad ministration had no desire of regulat ing consumption of food ns is beimr done abroad, saying that would be lett to the voluntary will of tho peo pie." Wants Minimum Price. Senator Goro asked Mr. Hoover if he would deny to the fanner Ihe right to judge the amount of crops no snould grow. "If the government guarantees n minimum price," Mr. Hoover replied, "we might not get the beneficial re sult for Ihe fanner unless we also have the power lo limit imports." Mr. Hoover said "possilily" Ihe hill should bo amended to give farmers the right to delcimino their own pro duction. "Wo don't propose to go to the ex tent of fixing consumers' rations," Mr. Hoover added, "except ns to hotels, restiiuranls, etc., regarding the amount of bread portions to be serv ed nnd the like. Ki.gland did n fool ish thing in trying the fix maximum prices, a failure wherever tried." Mr. Hoover suid with all wheal im ported, bread prices in Belgium were 'ill percent less llian in New York City, while (hose in Kngland nnd Franco aro thirty to forty percent lower with producers realizing the same prices. High Living Cost, "We now have a high cost of liv ing," he continued. "Ileyond the abilities of certain sections of the population lo withstand and lo scenic proper nourishment from the. wage levels. 1,'nlcss we can ameliorate Ihis condition (fbd unless we can prevent further advance in price we must eon front further an entire rearrange ment of the wage level with all the hardships and social disturbances which necessarily follow. We shall in this lunnoil experience large loss ill national cfrificui'.v at a time when we can least a Hold to lose the ener gies of n single man. "We propose itt niohilic a spirit of self denial and self sacrifice in this country in order that we mad reduce national waste. If democracy is worth anything we can do these things l)v co-oHration. If it cannot la1 done, it is licttcr thai we accept Hie German domination anil confess the failure of our political ideals. "We have no hope of complete suc cess but we have liiqie Ilia! we shall success ho far as lo eniihle this coun try and the allies lo remain constant in this war." TO ENTENTE ALLIES WASHINGTON, ,lmi.' 1!).- Another loan of if:i.),0l)ll,llllll wns made today to Great Uritam by the treasury. The Belgian minister also received today $7,rIMI,00ll, the Nccond month ly installment of the $1.-1,(1110,(1(1(1 credit given o Belgium, WAR WRECKS LIVES OF LITTLE ONES AT FRONT French Children In Villages Evacuat ed by Germans, Mostly Orphans, Without Relatives or HomesHor ror Has Stunted Their Existence Underfed, Wounded and Afflicted.' (Correspondence of the Associated Press.)' BEHIND THE DKITIS1I LINKS IN PRANX'K, Juno 1. The French chil dren found In the villages of northern Franco evacuated by the Germans un der the pressure of the British and French offensives, prosent a picture of the savagery of modern warfare as characteristic as the Somme forest, shattered aud broken by months of shell firo. Many of these children are orphans without homo or relatives. Many have been grievously wounded. Most of them suffer from a specullar species of shell shock which afflicts them generally with a sort of tremor not unliko St. Vitas dance. . r Never Noiimil Again. . , They have had llfo and death, hor rors human and inhuman, revealed to them In guises so terrible that they will novor bo quite normal again. All are underfed and frail from confine ment in cellars. Cut oft suddenly from rolntlvca and friends perhaps two years ago, they have continued to live within a few hundred yards of the front lines, listening always to the thud of shells and the crash of ex plosives until their Idea of heaven Is a "place that Is very qulot.'" : ... Tho condition of peasant men and women who have been living under tho shadow of the Invader thru these long months and years has boon bad ouough, hut the condition of the half starved, wounded and mentally de ranged little children has been far warso. All the children were collect ed nnd shepherded by the first en- tento troops into tho newly occupied areas. i . Children Iti-movcd Everything that cun bo done to euro and care for them Is now being done, constituting one of tho most Im portant Immedlato tasks of tho French committees on reconstruction. The rirst Btep was to remove them well behind tho front aroas. Those who wore orphans were taken far away from tho Bight and sound of shells, many of thorn to tho south of Franco. Tho mildest cases were there put under the care of farm mothors. The more serious cases must of course bo kept under closo medical super vision in special Institutions. Children who woro not orphans woro not usually taken away from tho district. Mothers or grandmothers could not hear to part with thciu, al together, so they wero placed on farms nearliy where It Is posslhlo for the parents to visit them frequently. 1110 Wounded (liildivn. , One French organization has a hos pital with four hundred child patients all under twelve years of ago.' Moat of them are wounded. Somo have lost legs or arms, others their sight, others aro suffering from brain fever or a puzzling anaemia under which they rapidly wasto away. "They are the victims of tho ruth loFsnoBS of modem warfare," said the head of the hospital, a French woman wearing tho uniform of the French lied Cross. "There is no bettor argu ment against war than to see those mutilated little victims who will nev er play or enjoy lire as other children do. They aro mere shadows of child hood. It is difficult to make thorn talk and they tremble and start at any noise or sudden movement. Wo men are always gentle with children, hut with these children wo need a spo clal gentleness as If wo wero handling something more fragile than tho most ileliciilo china. SAN I UANCISCO, June HI. -An initial cnnlnliution of 1011,(1110 wna made by William II. Crocker on be half of the lied Cross fund nt tho meeting held here last night to dis cuss (he plans for ruising 1,000,000 as San Francisco's part of tho $100, 000,000 fund being raised tbniout Ihe country.