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Medford Mail Tribune
Forty-seventh Tear.
Dally Twelfth Year.
. MEDFOTt'D, OREGON, WKDNES1) AY, JULY IS. 1917
NO. 100
C;c;:n Exchr.nses
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SLAVS RETAKE
KA 1
GERMAN FORCES
Germans Heavily Reinforce Line and
Battle is Still in Progress British
Fighting With Slavs In Gaiicia
Increased Activity Upon Rumanian
Front French Gain round.
PETROGRAD, July 18. Heavy
fighting is continuing; in Hie region of
Novica, and Knlusznin, eastern Gn
licia, the war offiee announced today.
The Russians were driven from a
height in this region by a strong at
tack but afterwards by a counter
thrust reoccupicd the eminence.
Brltis With Russians.
WASHINGTON, July 38. British
armored motor detachments arc tak
ing part in the Russian offensive
in Gaiicia, according to a semi-official
information received today from
Petrograd by the Russian embassy
here. This is the first mention of
the presence of British forces in Rus
sia and says the armored ears are
co-operating effectively with Belgian
detnehmcnts sent there soon after
the war begun.
BERLIN, July J 8 Increased no-,
tivity on the Rumanian front is rc
Ijfrtcd in today's official statement.
Artillery fighting was revived in the
sectors of Archduke Joseph and
Field Murslinl Von Muckensen. On
the northern end of the Russo-Ga-lician
front in the regions of Riga,
Dvinsk and Smorgon, the artillery
engagements were more severe.
BERLIN, July 18. The trenches
recently captured by the Germans
near Mnlancoiirt wood and on both
sides of the Mnlancourt-Ksncs road
were penetrated by tho French yes
terday, tho war office announcement
says.
On Western Front.
Meanwhile there is notable activity
along the Franco-Belgian front. The
French at Verdun have just complet
ed an important operation in the re
alignment of their front northwest of
Verdun, which was disturbed by Ger
man nttaeks in the vicinity of Hill
304 last month.
The French in fact carried their
successful counter attack even be-'
Nond the original line and drove near
ly two-thirds of a mile into the Ger
man front from Avocourt wood to
west of Hill 301.
The new ground is being firmly
held, several counter uttacks under
taken by the crown prince's troops
last night being repulsed.
On the British front, there is pro
nounced artillery activity and there
lias been u notable amount of heavy
work done by the artillery, partic
ularly along the lines in Belgium,
SEATTLE TROLLEYS
FAIL TO MOVE
SEATTLE, Wn., July 18. The
Paget Sound Traction, Light and
Power company, whose 1 11(10 street
.ir conductors and motornien struck
yesterday for recognition of the un
ion, made no effort today to run
cars, but announced that cars would
be run next Friday and offered to
reinstate those of its men who ap
plied for work. A remarkable fu
ture of the strike is the facility with
which traffic is handled by the linn
dreds of motor buses, which nre cov
ering all portions of the city. Bus
iness is proceeding almost ns usual
in spito of the lack of ear scrvi e.
The city has not decided on n plan
of action against the traction com
pany. Mayor Gill advocates suit to
forfeit the franchises of the com
pany, nnd Corporation Counsel C.ild
well says the-better plan would be to
ask A receiver for the company.
which is in arrenrs in its payment o
taxes to the city.
REGIMENT OF M0R0S
FOR SERVICE IN FRANCE
MANILA, July 18. Plnns are un
der way for the formation of a full
reiriment of Moros. in the lioite that
eventually it will be attached to the
American exieditionary force
France.
PROHIBIT SALES CROP SITUATION
TO GOVERNMENT GROWS ACUTEAS
BY ITS AGENTS CONGRESSTALKS
Senate Adopts Amendment Limiting
Power of Members of National De
fense Council Charges Made De
clared False Vote $15,000,000
for Making Fertilizers at Cost.
WASHINGTON, July IS.. After a
week's discussion and In beginning to
vote on amendments to the food con
trol biTl, tho senate today tentatively
adopted, 54 to 17, a substitute amend
ment by Sonator Pomorone of Ohio,
prohibiting government agents, In
cluding national defense council ad
vlcory members, from executing gov
ernment contracts in which they are
personally interested.
Meets Objections.
The Pomcrone substitute was de
signed to meet objections to the ori
ginal amendment which would have
prohibited such persons from selling
to the government thru any company
in which they were stockholders or
officers. The substitute would per
mit service in advisory capacity with
the existence of the Interest disclosed.
Senators voting against the modi
fied amendment were: Senators Bo
rah, Broussard, Cummins, Gore, Gron-
na, Hardwick, Johnson of California;
Konyon, LaFollottc, McKellar, McNa
ry. Nelson, Norris, Itansdell, Shields,
Sutherland and Trammcll.
Senator Poinerene warned against
enacting any legislation that would in
any way tend to disrupt the advisory
commission and criticized member of
tho senato for attacking officials of
tho government without verifying
their statements In advance.
Kcnyon's Charges False.
Charges wore ropoated yesterday
by Senator Kenyon that the W. II. Mc
Elwaln company, a shoo concern of
which J. F. McKlwaln, chairman of
the advisory commission's shoo com
mittee, is a member, had been award
ed contracts to furnish 100,000 pairs
of army shoes at Sii.17 a pair, fifteen
cents more than tho lowest bidder.
Senator Pomcrcno said he had been
advised by the secretary of war that
this concern had submitted no bidB
and received no contracts since Janu
ary 1, 1917.
Senator Tillman gave notice that
ho would ask for a separate vote to
morrow on tho amendment proposed
by Senator Smith of South Carolina to
have the government spend $15,000,
000 for fertilizer and furnish it to the
farmers at cost.
U. S. ARMY RONS
PARIS, July 18. Offi-ial an
nouncement is made that the I'nitcd
Stales transport service is taking
over control of the French lines from
the port bases to the permanent camp
and the front. Tracks are being laid
and sidings enlarged. The roads
will he manned later by American en
gineer regiments. American loeomo
tives, mostly narrow guage will be
utilized. Most of the supplies wi'I
be imported from the I'nitcd St ites.
A section of the French state lor
ests has been turned over to the
I'nitcd States. American lumbermen
will take ottt lumber ofr railroad
ties, barracks nnd other purposes.
In addition to this .'lO.OIIO tons of
lumber will be imported from Amer
ica monthly.
PALLAS, Ore., July IS. Moro
than one-half million feet of lumber,
It Is estimated, has been destroyed
by a forest fire which has been burn
ing slnco Sunday on the tract of the
Sheridan Lumbor company at Cedar
Mill camp. 12 miles from Sheridan
Ore., according to reports reaching
here. The fire is Mill beyond con
trol. Over 300 acres have been
burned. It Is believed the blaze
started from sparks from a donkey
engine.
Nation Faces Chaos in Handling and
Marketing Crops Unless Food Con
trol Bill Is Passed Old System Is
Demoralized and No Machinery
Whereby Farmer Can Market.
(Staff Special.)
WASHINGTON, July 18. The
harvest and distribution of this
year's wheat, already upset for lack
of authority to stabulizo prices and
stimulate movement when wnr has
disarranged normal trade, will be in
absolute chaos within two weeks un
less the senate stops jamming hot
air nnd passes the food control bill.
.Situation Acute
The situation is more acute daily.
Experienced grain men have shown
administration leaders liow unless
the bill is passed quickly, both the
farmer and consumer will suffer tre
mendous losses and the whole wheat
crop machinery will be deadlocked.
Even the president has pleaded for
action. But congress still tal'.;s.
The food bill, constantly before
congress since May 22, has been the
one subject before the senate for
three weeks. All pet hobbies, fiom
prohibition to reforestation, have
been offered ns amendments, while
the senate ran its whole gamut of
obstructive tactics.
Meanwhile more than one-half the
wheat is in shock nnd winter wheat
threshing i under way. The fanner,
trying llo jnarket bis iwhcalj, only
finds failure of congress to act has
left him in a hole.
Demoralization Rules.
Millers nnd elevator men, ham
pered by bank credits restricted by
uncertainly, arc timid and reluctant
buyers. Prices nre wobbly. Trans
portation is uncertain. Tho whole
grain market is "up in the air."
It is not the threat of what will
happen if the food bill pusses, it
is the overturning of normal con
ditions without the slabalizing influ
ences to meet war conditions, that
is responsible.
In pence supply nnd demand lvgn
late grain prices. On the prices thus
fixed hanks arc willing nnd anxious
to financo the purchase nnd move
ment of grain. All legitimate de ilcrs
millers, elevnlor men, exporters
are normally nble to protect them
selves against speculative fluctua
tions. In war the whole system has gone
to smash. With America the f.nle
wheat source for half the world, n.p
ply and demand no longer work. Eu
rope, paying us with our own money,
would pay any price in open market.
Prices would soar beyond the reach
of millions. An open market would
leave the field wide open to the spec
ulator. At the very best, unless the coun
try sticks a prod under congress and
demands that it. slop talking rnd
vole, it will be August 1 before, the
bill can become a law. It may be
August .r.
FIRST ACTION PICTURES OF I. W. W. STRIKE TROUBLE IN ARIZONA.
imdyHM mm . te
fienernl view of rofimofl rnmp at ColunibiiH, X. !., where 1 1(11 men, deported from Arizona, hit lielng cured
for by V. H. troop In command of Colonel II. ti. nickel. AImiiiI 50 mt cent of the exiles ore Americans, The
foreigners nre Kcrvliin, linllnns, Mct Icons, Austrian, Kiiitllxlimcn and n few (irrman.. Many of tho men had
hern without food for fW hours when Uicy reached Columbus... About 100 am registered for the. draft nnd
mnny linve bought Mlwrty bond nml Bided the Hod Cross fund. Twenty of the men nro Imslncfts men from
lllice.
HE'S MAN OF II HOUR
fcfeiSi,. fin ,
pgrl
Vnrior Cirnenil Korniloff's tairiorship tlio rocent miu vcloiis oiIvhih-c of
the new Russian democracy's amiy toward IxMitlrrrg, raj). till of Gaiicia, has
bcn ttuiric.
LI
SELL COURT-PLASTER
KANSAS CITY, July 18. A plot
to spread terror thru the slaM of
Kansas by the means of disease in
noculation thru court plaster was
slated today by Trod Iiobcrlson,
United States district attorney of
Kansas, at Kansns City, Kan., to
have been broken up thru the arrests
of three different men in that, stale.
Government tests conducted by W.
S. Smirli, government chemist, and
three uidcM were said to have reveal
ed tetanus genus on plasters the
three men men were selling and giv
ing away. Other genus, not yet iden
tified, were declared lo have been
found. The names of the three vcrc
withheld.
Mr. Robertson was at a loss to
find a motive for the nllcgcd plot.
The fact that the names of the three
persons under arrest were of Ger
munic origin and other features con
nected with it. might indicate, he
said, that it was of an enemy nature.
"It is apparent that these persons
wanted to start some sort of trou
ble," he said, "but I don't know just,
how W attribute it. It may be mere
ly the work of cranks orit mav have
a broader scope. We aro continuing
our investigations."
AMSTKHDAM, July 17. The Ber
lin Rcichsnnzcigcr publishes an of
ficial announcement of the recall and
retirement of llcrr Michnclis, the
German minister to Norwnv.
ON THE RUSSIAN FRONT
L ,G. KORJIXLOFF
LONDON, July 18. Sir Kdward
Carson bus relinquished his post as
first lord of I he ailuiirall.y and joined
the war cabinet without portfolio,
according to mi official announce
ment of new ministerial appointment!-
issued this evening. Sir Kdward will
be succeeded by Sir Erie Campbell
Geddcs, who has been director-gen
era! ol munitions supplv.
Edwin Samuel Montague, n former
cabinet minister, is made secretary
lor India.
Sir (ledilcs was born in India 41
years ago. At 17 he left school in
England to seek practical experience
in America. He was with the Home
stead steel works at Pittsburg for a
year and with the the Balliiuore 4
Ohio railroad three more. Then he
returned to India. After six years
ill India he was called to England
in P.MIH by the Northeastern railroad.
When with the outbreak of the var,
Iird Kitchener called on the rail
road managers of England to nid In
the swift, and secret. I ransportntion
of troops to the front, the work of
(leddes attracted attention. Kitch
ener retained him in the service of
the war department to superintend
the transportation of munitions from
factory to the front. Later Sir Eric
was sent to Franco lo help reor,;an
ize the congested French railroads.
REICHSTAG TO
MEET THURSDAY
TO TALK PEACE
New German Chancellor Summons
Parliament for a Communication
From the Government Pan-German
Accent to Speech Probable
Will Likely Ask for 6 Weeks Grace.
LONDON, July 18.-A dispatch to
the Exchange Telegraph company
from Berlin, via. Amsterdam, an
nounces that Chancellor Michnclis
has asked tho president of the reieh-
slag to summon tho members Thurs
day afternoon for a "communication
from the government."
BASEL, July 18. Tho Neustes
Nnchriclilen of Munich sitys tho dec
laration of the new German chan
cellor, Dr. Michnclis beforo the lcich
stag tomorrow will he for pence, hnv
ing the same general trend ns the
resolution prepared by the parties of
the left.
Pcac4 Itftsoliition.
The resolution referred to probably
is tho ono drawn up by tho radical,
socialists and entholie'dcputies In the
reichstng before the resignation of
Dr. Von Bctlimann-IIollweg. This
resolution which the majority bloc
decided to introduce unchanged up
on tho reassembling of the parlia
ment, stated that the reichstng was
laboring for peaco nnd reconciliation,
that forced acquisitions of territory
and political, economic and financial
violations were incompatible with
such a peace, that ceonomic pence
must bo assured and tho reichstng
would promote, the creation of inter
nationul judicial organizations.
Silent ns Sphinx,
COPf'lNIIAOKN, July 18.-Chnn-cellor
Michnclis is preserving the
silence of a sphinx on the Germnn
peace program anil the questions of
internal reform, hut the liberal press
and politicians in Gerninny manil'esl
an increasing apprehension that
when the sphinx finally breaks si
lence ho will spenk with a decided
pun-German accent in his maiden
speech Thursday before tho rcich
slag. The speech is not expected to go
exhaustively into questions of re
fonn or peuse ns the time is too short
for Chancellor Michnclis to elab
orate u definite progrnm. The so
cialist agency reports that in all prob
ability lie will ask six weeks grace
(o inform himself and work out n de
tailed policy. The agency undoubt
edly speaking for llcrr Sclicidemann,
the socialist, leader, demands, how
ever, that llcrr Michacn's immediate
ly and unequivocally mako clear his
attitude' on the Prussian ' franchise
reform mid the peace formula.
WASHINGTON, July 18.-H.land
S. Mums, of Philadelphia, has been
chosen for appointment ns ambassa
dor to Japan to succeed the late
Ambassador Guthrie. It. is under
stood he is persona grata to Japan
and that the nomination will go to
the senate shortly.
Iloland S. Morris, who has been
selected for thn vnrant ambassador
ship to Japan, Is a Philadelphia law
yer, and Is about t l years old. IIo Is
a graduate of Princeton university
and of the law school of tho Univers
ity of Pennsylvania,
.Mr. Morris Is Identified with thn
so-called le-orKiinlzntlon wing of thn
domorcatlc. party In Ponsnylviinls and
was one of the Penuslyvanla lundnrs
who Btood steadfast for President
Wilson In the bnllotllng at tho Bal
timore convention.
SOLDIERS AT FRONT
LONGING FOR STOGIES
CHICAGO, July 1H. -I,ctlers re
ccived here from American soldiers
in Franc ('indicate that a few st.igies
would be much upprcciatcd gifts by
the men at I he front, Pipe, tubacco
and cigarettes nre available, bul,
snys one letter, "we are really suf
fering for good old I'nitcd States
nickel cigars."
COSSACKS USED
TO QUELL RIOTS
MUTINEERS
Council of Soldiers, Workmen and
Peasants Supports Government
and Orders End to All Acts by
Isolated Military Elements, Which
Dishonor Revolutionary Petrograd.
PETROGRAD, July 18. The out
break of armed sailors and soldiers
yostorduy was a repetition of those of
tho day boforo, except that they oc
curred at 2 o'clock In the aftornoon,
whereas the first outbreak occurred
around midnight.
Tho manlfoBtants were grouped ,
along tho same part of the Nevsky
Prospect. A number of Stray shot
wore hoard, followed by tho firing of
rifles against upper windows and roof
tops at a seemingly Imaginary foe, '
'Cossacks Appear. '
For tho first time since the revolu
tion Cossacks appeared and patrolled
the streets. Companies here and
thoro carried machine guns strapped
to their Baddies, tho men loading their
horses.
The council of the now body of sol
diers, workmen and peasants of all
Russia, tho extremists abstaining
from participation, passed a resolu
tion today after an all-night session
rejecting "with Indignation all at
tempts to Influence" the attitude of
that body.
"It IS Inadmissible," continues the
resolution, "that armed demonstra
tions should sock to Imposo the will
of Isolated military elements upon the
whole of Russia. Blood has been Bhed
In the streets of Petrograd. All these
acts towards our revolutionary army,
which is defending tho conquosts of
tho revolution nt tho front, are acts
of treachery and folony."
Orders Knd to Disorders.
"Whoever attacks tho recognized
democratic agencies, whoover sows
discord in their ranks, Is striking a
dagger's blow in the hack ot the rev
olutionary nrmy which is fighting
against tho troops of William." '
The resolution protests against the
"dcplorahlo symptoms of decomposi
tion" which compromise tho whole
national authority and the future con
stituent assembly, and It demands
that an end bo mado once and for all
"to all acts which dishonor revolu
tionary Petrograd."
10 ME LAW INTO
GLOBE, Ariz., July 18. Warning
that, the Industrial Workers of tho
World would take the law into their
own hands if any attempt is mado
to deport Industrial Workers ot tho
World from I he Globe-Miami 'is
trict was contained in a telegram
from F. M. Little, organizer of the
I. W. W. received by Governor
Thomas K. Campbell lust night nnd
made public today.
The telegram from Lillle, who re
cently left. Globe, was dated nt Salt
Lake City and follows:
"rinlcrstand Hint the initio owners
mob will take same action at Globe
and Miami as was taken at Bisbce.
The membership of the I. W. V. is
getting tired of Hie lawlessness of
the cupilali-tic class and will no
longer stand for such notion. If you,
us governor, cannot uphold the Inw,
we will lake same into our twn
hands. Will you act or must we"
In reply, Governor Campbell said
he felt sure no deportations could
occur with federal troops stationed
in Hie dislrict and that he was using
his best efforts to protect rights
of all citizens. Concluding, ho mid:
"I resent your disloyal and untimo
ly threats in view of my earnest ef
forts to bring law nnd order and
such forces as will maintain same
ami furllirr like behavior on pour
part will be punished to tho full Cl
ient of my niilhorily."
President Charles Mover of tho
International I'nion of Mine, Mill rnd
Smeller Workers, wired Governor
Campbell saving be understood 00 ef
fort would be made to bring strike
breakers inlo the district from Mis.
sniiri. He asked that this be tire
vented. Governor Campbell said he
knew nothing of. any such movement,