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BRITISH VESSEL
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IN SEA BATTLE
Shell Sent Into Magazine Causing Ex
plosion Which Splits Submarine
About Midships Each End Sinks
Separately Was Five Miles Away
and Running Off 12 Shots Fired.
' AN ATLANTIC TOUT, June 25.
Members of the crow of a British
steamer which arrived here today re
ported having sunk an attacking
German submarine. The British ves
sel sent a shell into the U-boat's mag
azine causing an explosion which
parted the underwater boat about
amidships. Each end sank separate
ly. The British steamer was unin
jured. The submarine was five miles dis
tant and running away after hating
attacked the Briiished nearly 400
miles off the coast of Ireland.
Duel at Long Itungc.
According to the story told by the
gunner of the British steamer, the
submarine was first seen when she
sctn a shell at the steamer from a dis
tance of about 3,000 yards. 1 fell
short and the steamer immediately
was swung around so that her stern
was toward the U-boat, getting the
navnl gun at work. Eleven shots
re fired in rapid succession and
C(.eh struck very close to the German.
"I knew I had the range after the
second shot and so did the German,"
said the British gunner.
"The'Germnns were using their two
guns, fore and aft, while wo had only
one, but their shells were falling
short and ho started to run. I fol
lowed with shell anil the twelfth, the
one that sent him down, struck just
about aft of tile periscope, lie was
then more than 0,000 yards away.
Ship Itroko in Half.
"We could all sec the boat break
in half and go down disappearing
within a few minutes. I sent four
more shots into the water at the spot
where she disappeared to let an. of
the Bodies who might have escaped
know that wo wen? slill around and
would take care of them it' they ap
peared. "At the same time our battle was
going on the wireless operator piek-
cd up the call of , an Amcican
vessel thnt arrived at an Atlantic
ort last Friday, and also caught a
ifc.ssagc that another American ship
had been torpedoed and was sinking.
The jnessagc said that the German
was firing on the lifeboats. That
vessel was about thirty miles to the
south of us and 1 do not know how
they made out."
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WASHINGTON, June 2."..-Contracts
for ten complete steel merchant
ships, four complete wooden mer
chant vessels and twenty wooden
ship hulls were announced today by
Major General Goelhals, general
manager of the Emergency Fleet cor
poration. Deliveries will be made in
.V18.
vTTho steel ships will be built by the
Moore and Scott Iron Works at Oak
land, Cal.; the complete wooden slii)
by the Newoomb Lifeboat company,
Hampton, Va.; twelve wooden hulls
by the Universal Shipbuilding com
pany, Harris county, Texas; four
hulls by the Portland Ship Ceiling
company, Portland, Maine, and four
hulls by MoBrido and Law, of Beau
mont, Texas.
LONDON', dune 2".. Tho Times
learns that in view of Ihe re-cut de
cision of King George that those per
sons of his family who urc his sub
jects and bear Griman names and
titles should rolinqui-h.thom, the Duke
of Teck takes the title of Marquis of
Cambridge, nnd Prince Alexander of
Bnttenburg becomes Marquis of Cnr-jsbrookc.
SINKS U-BOA
WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, 78. Minimum Today, 42. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow, Fair and Warmer.
Medford Mail Tribune
BRITISH TIGHTEN
GRIP UPON LENS
BY NIGHT RAID WORKED ON THEORY
Allies Keeping Up Pressure On En
tire Front Raids and Artillery
Duels Frequent and Supposed to
Pressage Another Offensive Lull
Along French Line.
(By Associated Press.)
BRITISH HEADQUARTERS IN
FRANCE, June 25. Altho the offi
cial statements report little activity
the British are keeping up their pres
sure day and night along the entire
110 mile front they occupy. Last
night a number of local enterprises
were carried otit successfully.
One of these operations wns rather
important, increasing as it docs, the
British grip about Lens. Under the
light of the stars British troops
stormed and enptured 400 yards of
front line trenches east of Riumont
wood, in the western outskirts of
Lens, thus drawing closer to the min
ing capital of France.
Scries of Raids.
Elsewhere several raids in the dark
ness served to keep the Prussians'
nerves on edge. One of these was un
dertaken west of Ilulluch. Here fif
teen prisoners were brought in, while
during a period of 2 1-2 hours the
British remained in the enemy trench
es. Heavy casualties were inflicted.
upon the Germans and their dugouts
were bombed.
Two more raids were carried out
east of Rocux and in the region of
Vendhuillo, while a local push north
west of Warneton secured two ad
vance posts. In this affair a number
of Germans were killed.
Operations by raiding forces on
this scale are usually the prelude to
offensive movements of moment. Gen
eral llaig has not struck a hard blow
on any extended front since the week
of the Messmes fighting when the fa
mous ridge on the Belgian front was
captured and the way prepared for
further' smashing operations in this
sector.
Lull on French Line.
There is a momentary lull in the
infantry activities on the Aisne front.
.The French have virtually succeeded
in re-establishing in its entirety their
line in the Vauxaillon area, dented
by t ho crown prince's forces in a
sudden drive on a narrow front last
week. Further fighting is in pros
pect to the east of this sector in tho
skirmishing for position on the part
of the two armies, each anxious to
gain dominating points for either of
fensive or defensive purposes. In
this connection tho artillery activity
reported today along various portions
of the Chemiii-Des-Dames plateau is
signiiicnnt.
TIFLIS, Truns-Cnucasin, June 25.
At a congress of Georgian National
Democrats a resolution has been
adopted in favor of the autonomy of
Georgia.
Georgia is n district of Trans-Can
casiiin Russia included in tho gov
eminent of Tiflis nnd Kutnis. The
Georgians, forming about half the
population and celebrated for athletit
men and beautiful women, number
more than 1,000,000, divided into vu
rious tribes.
10 FIGHT GREECE
VIENNA, June 23 M. Radosla
vol!', the Bulgarian premier, left
Vienna Saturday evening. He ex
pressed to the Neu Frei Presse his
great admiration for the young cm
xTor. He referred to the rock-like
firmness of the alliance of the two
countries and said he was firmly con
vinccd that the military strength of
the enemy, the allies, had not been
incrensed by events in Greece, for, he
said, the Hnlgnrians were adequately
prepared.
MEDFORD,
How Womani Lawyer Solved
Ruth Cruger Mm der
'
THAT LOST GIRL
Woman Succeeds Where New York's
Most Famous Sleuths Failed Dis
covers 22 Cellars Where Girls Are
Made Victims of Men Police In
efficient. BY FREDERICK M. KERBY.
NEW YORK, June 25. Why did
Mrs. Grace Humiston, American-wo
man Sherlock Holmes, solve the great
Ruth Cragcr murder mystery when
New York's most famous sleuths
failed!
Because she believed in the innate
goodness of girl nature, as opposed
to the police theory that most girls
who leave home arc bad.
When little 18-yenr-old Ruth Cru-
ger disappeared early in February,
after going to the motorcycle repair
shop of Alfredo Cocchi in West 127th
street to get her skates sharpened
the New York detective bureau made
a perfunctory investigation, winked
its cynical eye nnd said, "Another
girl goes wrong !"
Woman Lawler Called.
But when the distracted parents
of Ruth Cniger called Mrs. Grace Hu
miston into the cusc, sho doeided al
most at once the police were wrong. '
"Ruth was a good girl, I soon found
out from her schoolgirl friends," said
Mrs. Humiston today.
Mrs. Humiston looks anything but
the conventional woman luwyer type.
Of medium build, willi dark hair,
tinged with gruy, and brown eyes.
quietly dressed in a dark purple gown,
Mrs. Humiston is just the kind of
womanly woman on whom a distract
ed mother might call for help to find
her lost girl.
"In the first place," she snid, "there
were just four persons working on the
case, my secretary, two private de
tectives nnd myself. We had utmost
confidence in one another. My first
inquiries convinced me Ruth hnd not
run away; I felt sure she was a good
girl nnd Cocchi could solve tho mys
tery.
foiwe- Hunt Bupernciai.
"We eliminated every clue that led
outside New York city. I searched
morgues, cemeteries and hospitals. I
became convinced the girl had been
murdered nnd Cocchi could solve the
mystery. Wo investigated the cellar
and found the police search of the
ploco had been superficial.
"When Cocchi was discovered in
Italy, I felt my murder theory wns
right. It became necessary to make
a tlmro search of the cellar under his
workshop. We began that work but
were stopped1 by Mrs. Cocchi. I went
to the police and obtained authority
to eontinuo the excavation thut re
sulted in finding the body."
Back of Ibis simple story is Mrs.
Ilumiston's genius for detective work.
She has, thru her law practice, nn
intimate acquaintance with the psy
chology of tho criminal mind. She
has a woman's intuition and insight
into tho workings of tho feminine
mind. Above all, she feels she knows
00 girls in every hundred nrc inherent
ly good and pure.
Twenty-two Collars Discovered.
Mrs. Iluinistnn declares in her three
months' investigation she has discov
ered 22 cellars where girls were made
victims of men.
(Continued on page three)
BELGIAN MISSION
10 VISIT IDE COAST
WASHINGTON, June 25 The Bcl
giun diplomatic mission bus tenta
tively arranged a trip thru the Unit
ed States extending to tho Pacific
const. Invitations have been receiv
ed from scores of cities and it is
practicnlly settled that the mission
will make the most elabornte tour of
any of the foreign visitors,
OREGON, MONDAY, .TUNE 25, 1917
r - "n Alfredo Oocclil, held in Italy for
i p I Ruth Cniger's murder, with his wlfo
1 and children, and below. Sirs. Grace
J I "P" ll Humiston, who uncovered tho Ruth
II ijl Cragcr mystery.
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&HACE. N. OX
FORMED IN CHINA,
CRISIS AVERTED
WASHINGTON, Juno 25. Forma
tion of the new Chinese ministry wns
reported to the Chinese legation in
Peking dispatches today which said
that the governmental reconstruction
was proceeding rapidly.
J.i Ching Shi who refused the pre
miership after Tunn Chi Jui had been
dismissed from that position, cabled
that ho had not accepted the office
in the belief that tho rival factions
were reconciled. Admiral Sir Sab
Chen I'ing has become minister of the
navy and General Wang Shi Clicn,
former chief of the general staff,
minister of war. Other cabinet offi
cers will be announced shortly.
legation ofl'icalis believe that the
trouble in China is now over and that
the situation will develop normally to
the elci'lion of Ihe new parliament ns
ordered by President Li. Until that
time probably several months hence,
the present achninislration will cr
tin no and China will not change her
breach in relations with Germany to
actual war.
Increased confidence in the ability
of tho Chinese lo adjust their in
ternal political differences is shown
in today's dispatches to Ihe state de
partment. The American legation at
Peking refilled that the note of the
t'nitcd Stales in which hope was ex
pressed that, nn amicable solution to
all controversies might be found has
had a beneficial effect and that there
appeared a di-Misilion on the part of
he different factions to compromise.
NATIONAL BANK CALL
ISSUED FOR JUNE 20
-WASHINGTON. June 2.".. The
comptroller of the currency today
issued a call for the condition of
nntional banks nt Ihe close of busi
ncss Wednesday, Juuo 20.
Mystery
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BOLOGNA, Juno 25. Interrogation
of Alfredo Cocchi, self-confessed
slayer of Ruth Cruger in New York,
is kept secret by law in Italy until
just before tho trial when tho coun
sel nro allowed to examine tho con
fession. According to unofficial in
formation, Cocchi snid:
,,"My machine shop gave ma a sat
isfactory position. I earned somo-
times 1(4100 a week. I had never seen
Until Cruger before sho camo to my
shop to have her skates sharpened
From the very beginning Ruth did
all in her power to attract my atten
tion. I felt something strange when
her dark, penetrating eyes fixed upon
mine
"I was still more disconcerted when
sho camo again February 1:1 to get
her skates. An overpowering nt trac
tion for tho young woman seized me.
What happened nt forwards seems like
a dream. My memory ut this point
fails me utterly.
"In view of the facts which rnvc
been presented it must be true that
I attacked and killed her. But God
help me, I didn't mean to. My will
power could not resist any more.
When I returned home I. was like a
person in a trance. I thought I wns
ill. ' ,
'I began to realize tho gravity Of
my osition the morning of February
1.) when newspaper reporters enmc
lo my shop to make inquiries nnd po
licemen questioned me. 1 felt then us
if I wcrclost. My only anxiety was
lo escape. I secured a passport
which I kept among my pacrs and
succeeded in reaching Italy. On my
arrival I was overcome by remorse
I cannot myself believe that my
hi'.hcrto unblemished life has been de
stroyed forever. This is my first of
fense but it is of such a nature that
I cannot believe it to bo true. The
greatest punishment is to think what
suffering and agony my wife nnd
children are undergoing as notwith
standing our misunderstandings we
love each other most tenderly."
DAYTON, Ohio, June 25.--Jack
lliilton, welterweight title holder and
Ted Lewis, English challenger, will
fiulit under canvass tonight ill the
second twenty round decision mute
they have taken purl in.'' The two
men will weigh in at. 1 12 pounds ut
.'I o'clock and the fiulil will start lit
0 o'clock. The champion was a fnv
orite in the betting tolav.
Red Cross Subscriptions
To Be Taken Tomorrow
Tlu1 committee in chai'Ko 'if Ivt'il Cross col
m lections innoiinee.s that, secnritiif siiliserip--LJ
tions in tlio Medford district will continue
until the .f10,XK) allotment is doubled and 0,000 is
subscribed.
Ashland and tho south end of the county have
doubled alloted subscription nnd it is up to the pa
triotic people of Medford and the territory north of
Phoenix to set the same pace or admit that they
nrc not in the same class with Ashland.
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MBARGO UPON
COAL AND GRAIN
President Creates Exports Embargo
Council to Administer Embargo
Provisions of Espionage Act Sen
ate Leaders to Expedite Food Con
trol Bill Passed by House.
WASHINGTON, Juno 25. Presi
dent Wilson by executive order to
day created un export embargo coun
cil to administer tho export embargo
provisions of the espionage act.
By the administration of embargoes
thru this council tho nation will bo
ablo to tuko any steps for tho suc
cessful prosecution of tho war and
also to prevent supplies reaching Ger
many thru neutrals.
, Tho president's order vests in the
secretary of commerce tho execu
tive administration of nil instructions
to bo issued by tho president under
tho net and establishes an exports
council to be composed of tho secre
tary of state, the secretary of agri
culture, the secretary of commerce
nnd the food administrator.
ConJ and (imln Affected.
All mailers of policy in connection
with operation of the net will bo do
cided by the council which will recom
mend to tho president proclamations
to bo issued putting certain com
modities under export control.
Coal nnd grain will bo tho first
commodities to go under tho net
Food exports will be left largely in
tho hands of tho food administration
which will consult the council where
intoriiutionul questions nro involv
od.
One of the first effects of the act's
.operation will be In give the govern
ment n firm control of the domestic
food situation. Shipping too, will be
controlled to a largo extent under the
act. A plan for rationing tho Euro
pean neutral countries has been work
ed out nnd will be put into el led nn
mediately. Secretary Hedfield said
today his department would hnvo the
net in operation within forty-eight
hours.
Many Amendments.
Senate leaders today arranged to
expedite the food control bill passed
Saturday by the house.
Tho bill was referred by the sen
ate today without discussion lo the
agriculture committee. Senator Heed
of Missouri continue;! his attack up
on it.
Chief among the nmcndnients pro
posed urc some extending government
control to iron ami steel and their
products, oil, petroleum products
copper, lend, zinc nnd fertilizers.
Senator Chamberlain, in charge of
Ibo hill, said there was much scuti
ment for having the government con
frol basic materials as well as fond
A half dozen amendments to the bill
were introduced today. Senator
Lewis, democrat, of Illinois, offered
a substitute proposing that the pros
ident shall have general broad author
ity to issue regulations for control
of foodstuffs, sccifieully enumer
ating those held for 'monopolizution
or "unjust prices."
ILLIAN1
COPHNIIACIUN, Juno 25. A ro
port sent out toilay by the (ieriuan
government Buys that In consequence
of tho long dcxlrcd rainfall, tho crop
proHpect In soalhcrn and western (Icr-
many really hi brilliant. In the middle
nnd enstern provinces It Is thoroly
satisfactory.
EXPORTS LIKELY RED CROSS FUND
NO. 81
Medford and North End of County
to Continue Seeking Contributions
Until Allotment Made Is Doubled
and Ashland Record Equalled
Ashland Includes Phoenix District.
"We nro climbing toward tho $20,-
000 mark for Jackson county, north,"
is tho way tho local campaign man
agers for the lied Cross war fund
put it just beforo going to press to
day. "Wo will continue subscriptions
until wo do get it, if it tukes all
week."
Districts still lo hear from nro
Watkins, enptuined by Sheriff Ralph
Jennings, Mound, with Captain Watt
Beebo in command; Eagle Point, cap
tained by J. V. Mclntyre; Jnckson-
ille, captained by Lewis Ulrich; Ta
ble Rock, captained by Col. R. C.
Washburn; and Central Point, enp
tuined by R. II. Pnxon. The outlying
districts from whom practical final
reports have been received nro Sams
valley, Mrs. Horace Pell on captain,
$405.50; Prospect, James Grieve cap
tain, $77; Prospect, Mrs. Geo. Mans
field captain, $1-1.25; Gold Hill, Mar
tin Johnson captain, $281.50; Apple-
;atc, John Pernoll captain, $122.10;
Union, Miles Cantrall euptnin, $47.50;
Sterling, Mrs. Arthur Klciiihammer
nptain, $112; Rogue River, Don F.
Wilson captain, $030.25.
Final reports from nil outsido dis
tricts are expected to npproxinmto
$0000. ' , : -
Medford Wants $14,000.
With Medford committees aiming
at the $14,000 mark exclusive of out
sido contributions Iho work of solic
iting every person in Jackson'eotinty '
(north) is being crowded ns fast ns
possible. Several of the largo orch
ards were being canvassed this morn-
while Captain George Carpenter
and Bruce Wilson wero working tho
Griffin creek district. Campaign
Manager Daniels this morning handed
each worker n curd that read
"$20,000 or bust."
When the campaign districts wero
alloted ill Portland two weeks ago
Medford district included the Phoenix
section. At the request of tho Ash
land committee Medford gnvo the
Phoenix district to Jackson county
(south) covering somo of the best
territory in the counly nnd rencbing
ns far toward Medford as tho Burrell
orchard. Ashland has worked from
this point south wilh tho snmo deter
mination that has characterized tho
work in Ihe norlh half of Iho county.
The total result will be a report from
Jackson county complete that this
section of Ihe slate may well feel
proud of as Ihe Ashland committco
has raised slightly over $10,000 in
its territory.
The local headquarters lias ex
hausted its supply of official receipts
and it will therefore be several days
before contributors will roceivo ac
knowledgement of their subscriptions.
N'luiies of Contributors.
The following list of subscribers
has hitherto been unpublished. H will
be Ihe last of tho week before the
press call give space lo thousands' of
names in the local papers.
Mrs. Frank Chamberlain Clnrk,T.
Illatt, Lillian Ilnzelton, Clarence
Hates, 11. Von (lor Holloa, David If.
Rosenberg, Mr. and Mrs. D, h. Wal
thor, F. F. Loder, O. O. Alendorfer,
A. 10. Hoyd, Gas Htinson, lid llowolls,
13. II. Price, James Itobblns, W. M.
Norman, Mrs. Itoliort It. Elinl, J. D.
Slnnott, K. A. (lenry, Itoliort D. Por
ter, Klmer K. Vromnn, K. W. Sterna,
Allco It. Ilowne, P. C. lllgham, F, S.
Carpenter, II. Chandler Kgan, David
Raymond, Mrs. P. II. Mnbcu, P. H.
Malienu, W. S. Knlpps, L. T. Watson,
(Continued on page three)
MOSCOW, June 25. Tho lieuil
quarlers id' the war industrial com
mittee was vi-ited today by Iho Amer
ican mission headed by Elihu Root.
The mission was warmly welcomed.
Mr. Root in answer to an uddrcss
of welcome said that America was
summoning 10,000,000 men to the col
ors in defense of freedom. His re
marks were appluiiuid. '
$20,0000RBUST
NEW-MOTTO FOR