Medford mail tribune., September 08, 1917, Page 1, Image 1

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AVEATITETk Maxlniuni Yesterday, 88; Minimum To'ilay, 5.1. FORECAST Toniglit. "nii'd Tomorrow, Probably Fair.
DFORD
RIBUNE
Forty-seventh Year.
Dallr Twelfth year.
MEDFORD. OTiEOON, SATURDAY. SBFTKMliER 8. 1917.
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SWEDES ACT ITALIANS TAKE 3 LARGE SHIPS L
Pn nrTZ L TOTAL OF 30,000!SUNK BY U BOATS
. VAR PRISONERS EARLYIN AUGUST
LATEST PICTURE OF KERENSKY AT IRK GERMAN ARMY WHISKY IKING
FIRST1BILIZED CEASES TONIGHT ;
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Swedish Legation In Argentine Served
as Secret Means of Communication
for Germans, Transmitting Infor
mation of Sailing of Ships and Di
rections for Their Destruction by
Submarines Called Minister a No
torious Ass Favored Sinking.
. WASHINGTON7, Sept. 8. 1 low
Sweden's legation in Argentine, aid
ing; as a secret menus of communi
cation between (he (icriiinii i-fti" in
Tlucnns Aires mid the licrlin. foreign
office transmitted information of Hie
sailing of ships nnd directions for
their destruction by submarines was
revealed today in official dispnl'-hcs
made public by the state department.
The following was issued at the
state department.
Nn Comment Made.
Copies of official dispatches seal
lo the Berlin foreign office by Count
Luxburg, Ocrnian charge in liucnos
Aires, in cipjior thru the Swedish le
gation there, as its own communica
tions, were mned public by Secretary
Lansing, without any comment as to
how they fell into the hand sot" this
eovernment. or any indication of
what is to come as the result of Ihe
disclosures.
Copies of the stale department's
announcement were, delivered fit the
same titno llicy were made public lo
Hi Argentine embassy and the Swed
ish legations here.
Jiesides revealing Ihe means by
which Germany used Sweden in her
machinations in Argentina, (he dis
patches show how the German charge,
at the time Aregtinu was having a
critical diplomatic, controversy Willi
Germany over submarine' destruction
of her ships, was sending' thru Hie
Swedish legation information of the
sailings of certain vessels' willi rec
ommendations that they be sunk
"without leaving any I race'' nnd in
other dispatches was informing his
government how to regard Argen
tina's protests against Ihe destruc
tion of her shipping.
Objector Disclosuii'.
In the absence of any official com
ment whalever on Ihe disclosures il
appeared that the manifest purposes
of the Vnitefl States in iiiibli.-liing
the correspondence were two. First,
to show the relations between Ger
many and Sweden, al least so far as
the legations in Argentina were con
cerned; and, second, lo disclose lo
Argentina, where German influence
seems to have been si l ongest in all
South America, Ihe manner in which
the German ilisplomalic agent at her
capital was giving secret instructions
for the destruction of her shipping
and the manner . in which he was
gaiding his government in dealing
with Argentina diplomatically. Ger
many recently gave Argentina a
promise that no more of her ship
ping would be submarined in viola
tion of international law. It was an
nounced that Argentina accepted
Germany's promise as a satisfactory
solution to the situation whic h threat
ened n break in diplomatic relations,
if not actually war.
. Swedes Claim Ignoninre.
Tt,,mn F. Akcrbiilm. the Swedish
charge d'affaires, declared it was
improbable that the Swedish minis
ter at Huenos Aires knew of the con
tents of the dispatches or he would
not have allowed them to go forwaid.
'lie said that not having any ndvices.
from his country, he would not com
ment on iue uii'tici in ni'.s .nil. .
(Continued on 1 age Two.)
F.l'GKNI'.. Ore., Sept. 8.!ddier
who have been gnurtlmg the forests
f llr..,.,m with orders (o "shoot (o
kill" all persons deleted in the net
of setting obt fire- were withdrawn
today as the n-ull of a soaking
rainfall last night. It wa rtlic lirst
rainfall in this section of (he slate
in 77 days-. Fire danger for (he sea
son is bclicud ut uu cud.
Conflicting Stories of Battle on Go
rizia Front Italians Claim Pro
gress, Austrians Claim Recovery
of Lost Ground Germans Claim
Renewal of French Offensive.
WfME, Sept. 8 More than 30,-
000 prisoners have been taken dur
ing the Italian offensive, the war of
fice announces.
The Italians, the statement says
are still energetically exerting pres
sure upon the Austriuu lines north
east of Gorizia (the San Gabriele
region) keeping Iheni under an inten
sive bairage fire. The Carso fight
ing is being mainly carried on by the
artillery, the statement indicates.
, Austrians Claim Victory.
LONHON, Sept. 8 In the. Her
mada sector on the front northwest
of Trieste, the Austrians have recap
tured ground gained by the Italians
according to tin undated official
statement from the Austriun war of
fice received today. The stalment
says Ihe Italians can no longer boast
of having gained a yard of ground.
Up to the present time, according
to the announcement, the Austrians
have taken more than 0000 prisoners
m Ihe Hcrmada region. .
According to official announce
meat, the Austrians pressed back the
Italians from Monte San Gabriele,
northeast of Gorizia. The Italians
are said lo have fled.
On Western FiHint.
liF.RLIN, via London, Sept. 8.
The French have resumed Hie offen
sivc in (he Verdun region, according
lo (oday s war office announcement
They allacked last night on a twenty
mill! front, but 'were repulsed, it is
declared.' This morning (lie buttle
was renewed. '; ' ' ,.
I'AUIS, Sept. '8. 'Gorman' attacks
last week iu'Lorrnine,' east of liheims
and on the Aisne front were repulsed,
it is announced officially. The
French' look prisoners in successful
raids.
LON'HON', Sept. 8. "In patrol
fighting on (he Ypres front last night
the enemy suffered considerable ca's
uallics northeast of St. Julien," says
today's official statement. In the
neighborhood of Gavrelle, a success
ful raid was carried out by a small
party of our troops.
"Lnugeuiarok was heavily shelled
by the enemy yesterday evening and
there was some hostile artillery ue-
tix'ily at other points later in the
night. - No infantry action devel
oped.'' .
T
SO. THEY'LL LAY
WASHINGTON, Sepl. 8- The food
administration's relation to retail
prices was disputed in the senate to
day when Senator Sherman of llli
iinis calling attention particularly to
sixty ccnl eggs, declared bread prices
had not decreased anil that the food
administration admits incut prices
cannot be reduced.
'W here is Hoover?'' lie demanded
"Let linn get niter Ihe recalcitrant
hens."
"Mr. Hoover lias reduced Ihe price
of wheat lo Ihe farmers III! I -II per
cent.' observed Senator Gronnu of
Ninth Dakota.
"Mr. Hoover had nolhing to do with
thai.'' interjected Senator Jones of
Washington. "I waul that respon
-ilulily lived. Wheat prices were
fixed by a committee appointed by
the president, who is responsible.
"The senator is too good a legis
lalor and lawyer to take anv such
evcuse." Senator Gronnu replied
"The rcsmnsibilitv is on Mr. Hoover
as food administrator."
Senator LaFollctte declared the
f I adniii)i-( ration has no legal
power (o control relail prices, as con
gress exprcs-lv withheld such nufhor
ty, while Senator Lodge of Massa
chusetts argued Hint retail regula
tion power was provided in the clause
of licensing food dealers,
British Steamer Turakina of 8492
Tons and White Star Liner Delphic,
of 8237 Tons, and Steamer Mid
dlesex, Formerly the Knight
Bachelor, Victims of Torpedoes. ;
. i
AN ATLANTIC POUT, Sept. S.
News of the destruction of tho 84!2
ton 'British steamship Turakina by a
torpedo from a German submarine on
August 13 was brought here today by
several members of her crow, who ar-
rlvoil on an American passenger ship
from Great Britain. The ship hud
but recently landed at a British port
detachment of 1200 New Zealand
troops and was on her way to Now
York to take a cargo of oil.
According to Charles West, refrig
erator engineer of the ship, three
members of the crew lost their lives
from the explosion of the torpedo
The others, 72 In all, escaped In life
boats and were picked up eight hours
later by a Hritish destroyer. The
attack occurred about ISO miles out,
and although the Turakina was
armed, there was no chance to use
the guns, as the U-boat did not show
herself. The vessel was owned by
the New Zealand Shipping company
and was built in 1902 at Newcastle,
England.
Delphic Sunk.
AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept.
The British steamship Delphic
of
S327 tons, of the White Star Lino
fleet, has been sunk by a German
submarine, according to word re
ceived today. The sinking occurred
August ir, tho advices stated, some
distance off the Irish coast and while
the vessel was under armed convoy.
All tho crew wore saved.
-Advices from the same source also
reported that the British steamship
Middlesex, formerly known as the
Knight Bachelor, a vessel of 7264
tons, likewise under convoy, had been
sunk about' the same time as wub the
Delphic. The Middlesex was built in
1914 In Glasgow and was owned by
the Federal Steam Navigation com
pany of London.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept; 8 The
bruised, mutilated nnd burned, but
living body of Mamie Torkko, aged
II), was found by Crooked Joe Gin-
sky, 100 yards from the road below
the graveyard hero at noon today.
Tho child was still conscious. Her
body had been pushed under a log In
tho deep brush, and other logs piled
over her, In an evident attempt to set
fore to them. Her face was swollen
and black, her yellow hair burned'
and bare arms and legs blackened
A bag of peanuts and a package of
unopened "crackerjacks," tossed over
a log at the side of the road 100 yards
below the graveyard, led to tho dls
covery of the child.
TACOMA, Wash., Sept. . Hy noon
today Ii00 miners were thrcBhing the
woods about Carbonado hunting for
llttlo ten-year-old .Mamie Torkko,
who has been mysteriously missing
since 6 o'clock Wednesday evening
The excitement in the big coal min
ing camp Is Intense over the dlBap
pcaraiico of the girl and of an engl
neer named Bennett. Stoddard, who
Is suspected of knowing more than he
would tell of the child's disappear
ance before he decamped.
REICHSTAG MEMBERS
VISIT MESTERN FRONT
AMSTF.IIHAM. Sept. 8.-Thirty
two members of the German reieh
slag h-fl Herbn yesterday lo visit
the battlefronts "to form some idea
of the strategic situation of the fight
ing," according lo the Weser Zeitang
A. M. Zamzow, a traveling traffic
representative of the Santa Fe rail
way. was a Mcdford business visitor
on Saturday.
i
Hero Is Alexander Kerenslty at
squarely In the face. Ills fuco shows
and perhaps of tho world, rests on his
I'F.TItOGIUO, Sup!. 8. NV fur
ther advance iby the Germans on Hie
Riga fronbis reported In today's of
ficial communication. Tho lfiissinn
positions are being roeonnoifered by
German cavalry. i ' '
PUTROCiKAl), Sept. 8. German
war craft again have been sighted
inthe Gulf of Higa and have been
helled by the llussinn const batter
ies, Ihe war office announced. Iius-
sian torpedo boats discovered a Gor
man submarine, nnd enemy ships, ap
parently trawlers, were observed in
Irbensk sound. I hey were lorccd
by tho Russian bnltr-ries to retire.
AMSTKItDAM, Sept. 8. Fmperor
William has arrived at Riga, a Mer
lin dispatch reports, lie review Ihe
troops and distributed decorations on
(he battlict'ield.
COI'F.NllAGKN1, Sepl. K. Lending
German military circles consider
that with the capture of Ihe import
ant naval bases of Riga and Duciia
inuende, operations on the Riga front
virtually have been ended, says a
Merlin df-patch to the National Tid-
ende. Il is considered loo late in the
yenr to advaince fiirlhcr. This would
require Hie building of new roads and
e establishment of depots. On Ibis
account, ihe dispatch savs, it H un
likely that Field Marshal Von lliu
dcuburg will permit the troops lo con
tinue the advance willi I'ctrograd as
the objective.
.MKXICO CITY, Sept. S. President
Carran.a, it is understood, has de
ellnrd to approve many articles of the
petroleum law submitted by members
of the cabinet, and now Is engaged In
framing a law of his own for submis
sion to congress. It Is said that the
president's mcnmirn will have
drastic features so fnr as luxation or
nationalization of tho oil lauds In
Mexico are concerned, and will con
tain nothing to check or slow up the
production of petroleum.
Congress today officially approved
the proposal of tho president to re
gard cotton factoilcs as public utili
ties which may be taken over ami op
erated by tho government If closed
without Just cause by tho proprietors.
Al.e.xaHde:fs, l-
bis (Irak, looking Itusslu's future
lio realizes tho welfaro of Kussiu,
"boulders.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. ; S.-Goorge
F. Alexander of l'ortlnhd was nomi
nated today by President W"8011 to
bo Unlted States marshal for Oregon.
Other nominations. i wore;.,, ;WI11
Moore of il'ondleton, Ore., to be col
lector of customs at Portland, Ore.
Porry James Lyons of Walla Walla,
Wash., to be leglstor of lands at
North Yakftini, Wash.
POIITLAN'O, Sept. 8. Goorge F
Alexander, President Wilson's noml
nee for United states mursnai ror
Oregon, is a Portland attorney. He
was named to succeed John Montag
Will Moore, who was nominated col
lector of customs, will succeed Thom
as C. Burke. If tho appointment is
ratified.
Alexander was a candidate for Bp
polntmcnt as federal attorney. He
was eliaii-mun or inn ftiuiinomnu
county democratic committed at the
last election, lturko was opposed by
Chamberlain because of alleged dis
loyalty In the 1M campaign, when
he Is said lo have supported Ilanley
for Senator against Chamberlain.
REO CROSS ACTS
WASHINGTON, Sepl. H. -Method
of coinuiiiiiicnlions with persons i
the teiritorics of lb itlrul power
has In-ill worked out by the American
Red Cross at the reipie.-t of the slal
dciiat Intent. The International Red
Cross at Geneva will be the agency.
The official statement points out
thul correspondence of Ibis nature
is possible between Ihe Furopenn
belligerents under an international
agreement, allowing civil or military
prisoners to forward letters. Ger
man cixiliaiis are not classed as pris.
oners in the I nited Stales however,
and suspension of the mails to Ger
many and bi t allies has cul these of t
entirely from friends nnd relatives.
liupiirics should be addressed lo
(he bureau of communication, Wash
ington, in F.nglish, French, Indian,
Riissbm, German, Polish, Hungarian,
Turkish or Greek,; must mention only
be made regarding the welfare ol
the same person not olleiicr Iban
the same person not ol teller than
once in uvcry six weeks.
Testimony at Soiikhomlinoff Trial
Suppressed by German Papers,
Shows That German Mobilization
Was Secretly in Progress When
Czar Issued. Mobilization Order.
COPENHAGEN, Sept. 8. With tho
arrival of Russian newspapers, some
light is thrown on the campaign
which the German government has
been conducting on the strength of
testimony brought out at the trial
of General Soiikhomlinoff In Petro
grad for high treason. Accounts of
the trial published In tho Novo Vrem-
ya of Potrograd show that in the at
tempt to prove that Russia was ro
sponsible for beginning the war, tho
Germans deliberately suppressed im
portant parts of the testimony given
by Geiuiml .IiinuBchke.vito.li," former
chief of tho Russian general staff.
'Goi mans Mobilized Fii'st.
In its report of tho trial, the semi
official German news agency omitted
in its entirety a passage regarding an
interview between General Janus
chkovitch and tho German mili
tary nttacho In Potrograd. It ap
pears from tho Novoo Vremya that
General Januschkevltch testified re
ports had been received that German
mobilization already was secretly In
progress. The Russian staff knew
that this could be done, under the
German law, without formal procla
mation, whereas in Russia a public
manifesto from the emperor was nec
essary. , ' ' ' '.
On the first day a dispatch was re
ceived from the Russian ambassador
ut Berlin confirming tho previous In
formation that the German mobiliza
tion was in progress. The emperor
then expressed bis thanks (q General
Januschkevltch for not having re
voked the mobilization ordor.
Geniutn Misrepresentation.
The foregoing dispatch gives the
first Intimation from a Russian
source In regard to the testimony
which the Gorman chancellor, Dr. 111-
chaolls, said earlier In the week es
tablished "Irrefutably" that It waB
the military party around tho Russian
emperor, and not Germany, which
chose the time, for the war. The
chancellor soid that If the American
government had had knowledge of
this testimony, its Judgment as to the
responsibility for the wnr, as ex
pressed in the 'president's reply to the
popo, would have been quito differ
ent.
The principal point made by Dr.
Mlchaells was that tho Russian em
peror, convinced at length of tho Ger
man oinperor's dcslro for poaco, or
dered cancellation of tho mobilization
oredr, but that "a couplo of crimi
nals" -disregarded Hiu order and
thwarted It A exoeutloii. No reference
was made by the chancellor to the
suppressed testimony which Is now at
hands Indicating that tho Russian
staff had learned the Gerninn mobili
zation was In process secretly and
that when this fact hud been estab
lished definitely, the Russinn emper
or thanked his chief of staff for not
having carried out tho order to cull
col tho mobilization decree
SUN YAT SEN IS CHINA'S
NEW MILITARY CHIEF
PKKIN'G, ' Kept. G. Delayed.)
Ilr. Sun Yat Sen has been designated
commander-in-chief or the nrniy and
novy of a new military government In
China, proclaimed by 70 members ol
tho disbanded Chlnc.w parliament,
meeting at Canton. The military gov
ernor of Cunton Is supporting the
Peking government. Fighting be
tween his troops and the forces of
Sun Yat Sen Is feared. Civilians In
-Canton are going to Gong Kong.
AIRPLANE ATTACK UPON -
TOWN OP LAHR. GERMANY
COl'KNIIAOF.:., Sept. H. Tin
Vossiche Zeil..ng stales lha two per
sous were killed and three serious
ly wounded in uu airplane attack on
the town ol' l.abr, (icrmnuy, on Sep
tember -I.
YEAR OF TRAFFIC
CANAL WITHOUT SLIDES
PANAMA, Sepl. NTndny com
plcled a year in which Irnffie thru
the Panama canal wits not stopped
by slides. The channel now is in
fine shape.
Under Food Control Law, Grain
Heretofore Used Will be Diverted
to Food Distilleries to Make Al
cohol, Yeast, Vinegar and By-Products,
While Some Will Be Closed.
WASHINGTON, Sept. 8. Tonight s
nt 11 o'clock whisky manufacture . ; i
ceases in the United States, under '
provision of tho food control law
and tho millions of bushels of grain !
heretofore, used in making that fonn 1
oil 'drink will bo diverted to food. . i;
- T..I..'.. .-!..':.... ..C ...liit... niui. ulana -.
tonight. ' , , ; . " - , ' i-
Just;liow nnieh grain will be added j
to tho food -supplies as a result is t
not .determinable, but experts say i
about lfl(l,np(,f)0 bushels nro used i
by the distilleries each year, of which
about 40,000,000 bushels aro used ;
, wliiL'v mn ioi fnot nr.
No Mora Whisky. "
Custom officials tliruoiit the conn- ;':
try nfler tonight will seize all im-
porlntions of spirituous liquors
reaching tho United Stales. Officers
of the internal revenue bureau thru-
..,,1 II,,, Mimln ulll men lb, it distill.
eries mako no more whisky. '
Distillers mny continue mnnufne-
turimr alcohol tor commercial nur-
poses and many of them have nrrnng- ,
cd for this work, others turning their s
distilleries into manufacturing plants I
for yeast, vinegar and by products, i
Vtwlii Closed, , i I
PKOKIA, 111., Sept. 8. At 11 I
o'clock tonight Peoria will cease to ;
bo the whisky-making centor of the.;
world. Thousands of gallons of Hq-
nor will remain In warehouses here, ?
but. tho manufacture of . beverages I
ends today under tho national food 1
law, at the direction of Food Director '
Herbert C. Hoover. , ,,-.(
The government permits the distil-J
lery ono week in which to allow the
beer," which is the llquod product ,
of corn, to go through a week's pro- '
nf Hint IllnMnii At tho end nf
that time no more whisky or gin will
be produced from the five big dlstll-
lorles which have been furnishing a
third of tho nations' supply for many
years.
1 list 1 1 levies Close. ;
Clarke Bros. & Co., tho Woollier
distillery and tho Corning distillery,
will close their plants next Saturday '
und about 80 per cent of their hun
dreds of employes will be laid off.
The Grout Western nnd Atlas distil
leries, so-called "trust" plants, will
continue to run full blast, manufac
turing alcohol and spirits for export
purposes and manufacture of powder.
Tho Great Western will keep lip a ca
pacity of 10,000 bushels of corn a
day, und tho Atlas will not at pres
ent cut Its capacity of 10,000 bushels
day, It ,)vas announced this mor
ning. Doth plants may reduce later,
but managers assort they will not be
compelled to closo.
Clarke tiros. & Co. have offered
their plant for salo and Intend to
close permanently. They have been
tho largest straight whisky distillers
in tho world. Woolner's and Corn
lug's mny reopen nftcr the war. ,
FxMrts Continued.
Revenuo office figures here show
the totul output of the five distilleries
hero in whisky, gin, spirits, high
wines ami alcohol for the fiscal year
ending Juno 80, 1917, to have been
ti2,0001?s gallons. Records show
thut U-bonts have tailed to stop ship
ments from Peoria distilleries to the
ullies. Daring tho fiscal year ending
June :I0, 1017, revenuo records show
that lil,40li,SII9 gallons were shipped
to tho allies, presumably for powder
(Continued on Page Two.)
IN EAS1 AFRICA
IIAVltK, Wednesday, Sept. 5.
The following official communication
dealing with tho cnmpalgn In Kast
Africa has been Issued by tho Delgtan
war of rice:
"The Germans have retreatod tc
(be south bank of tho Kellmbcro riv
er in Kant Africa before a convergent'
advance of lletgian and Uritlsh.
troops." I