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Univ ersity ot Oregon Library .i x WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, 81; Minimum Today, 57. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow, Probably Fair. Fortv-ieventh YeaF. . MEDFOHD, OlK(i()NT, MONDAY, SKPTKMIiKR. 10, 1917 NO. 140 Daily Twelfth Year. ir i vti m, i twit w ax xi r. wm . -wr -w-yr. w ni '-a i vi, m MAIL IKIpLIJNE IPPi 1 1 ARMY CHE ASKS POWER AS DICTATOR Kerensgy Regards Korniloff's .De mand for Dictatorial Powers as Act of Rebellion and Removes Him From Command Martial Law De clared in Petrograd Former Pre mier Lvof f Also Arrested General Lakemsky Appointed Commander. PETUOGIIAD, Sept. 10 Premier Kcrensky has declared that a state of war exists in the town and district of rotrogrnd. PKROOHAD, Sop1!, .10. Members of tho Russian cabinet today told tho Associated Press that the pro visional government regarded General Korniloff's pronnnciamento as an act of rebellion which must he ruth lessly suppressed. The government, it was added, believed it had enough loynl (roops and the support of the Russian people to enable it to pul down the Korniloff movement. The members of ibe provisional government in the conversation with the Associated Press refused to be quoted by name, They sjated Hint the ministers had reached nn ngree inent regarding- the following points of view: Act of Itolielllon. "The government regards General Korniloff's pronnnciamento . ns an act, of rebellion, ns a dangerous ad venture and n threat to the rcvoliir tion and liherlv wbii'h, unless Ihe ul timatum is withdrawn, must he ruth lessly suppressed. ''The government has no doubt Mint it has at its disposal snflicicnt loyal troops and the overwhelming support of the population to enable it to ex ecute this program." Ixtkemsky Inclines. PKTHOGIiAD, Sent. 10. An offi cial statement says that General Lo komsky "also proved a traitor," re fusing to lake command of the Rus sian armies in succession tit General Korniloff. The soldiers and workmen's body the statement adds, has ordered all Ibe army organizations to obey the provisional government against Ibe conspiracy, staling that General Kor niloff will he punished for treachery and Hint General Klcmbovsky will provisionally succeed to the chief command. J.yoff Presented llomniids. When M. Lvoff saw Premier Kcr ensky on Saturday anil presented (lenernl Korniloff's demands, it. de veloped today, be told the premier than an organization of damn mem bers, Moscow industrial interests and other conservatives who played 'the role of the opposition at the recent Moscow conference, were supporting General Korniloff. These interests, said M. T.voff, were not against Premier Kcrensky, who wns invited to general head quarters to meet Korniloff. The pre mier refused the demands of M. Lvnff, who was then arrested, and under examination, gave the details of the conspiracy. PETROGItAD. Slept. 1 0. Premier Kcrensky has ordered General Korni loff, commander-in-chief of tho Rus sian armies, to resign In consequence of General Korniloff's demand for su- (Contlnued on Page Two.) CADIZ, Spain, Sept. 10. A Her man submarine, seriously damaned, has arrived at this port, convoyed by a Spanish torpedo boat. The subma rine will be interned In l.a Carraca harbor. BATTLE RAGING NIGHT AND DAY ITALIAN FRONT General Cadorno Continues to Press Austrian Forces Northeast of Go- rizia Number of Men Possible to Employ Limited, But Italians Con tinue to Charge Enemy. HOW,, Sc-j.t. 10 Gomrn1 Ciwlor nn cuntiniu'ri to press the Austrian forces, in the region of tho Anstro Itnlian front northeast of Gori.ia, ac rnrrimg to tho official statement is sued today by the Italian war depart ment. Yesterday there was i very general artillery bombardentnt south of the C'arso. Since the beginning of the battle (he Italians have captured 145 guns. Itnttlo Continuous. I'DIXK, Italy, Sept. 10. The fiht for tho heights northeast of Gori.ia continues night and day during good and bad weather. The continuous contest seems to the observer to ho animated by superhuman force, the Italians and Austrians almost con stantly engaging in hand to hand en counters. A strange situation is brought about by the two forces, very equal in numbers, strength, and de termination, struggling for suprem acy in u circumscribed are where it is impossible for either side to employ more men or artillery. Gaps in t lie ranks are instantly filled nnd thus the contending forces remain so balanced that victory apparently is impossible to either side. The fierceness of the struggle' is proved by the fact that in twelve hours the Italians attacked the enemy five times. ! French Cinch Success. General Petains troops last night flinched the success they won north east, of Verdun on Saturday when they pushed their lines ahead mater ially in the Fosse and Caurieres wood sector. The Germans were obliged to abandon their furious assaulting tactics of the day, probably because of the heavy losses they sustained in attneks which left the French line unshaken. General (laig's men put in u busy niulil in consolidating the positions taken by them, northwest of St. Quentiu, in the neighborhood' of Ilar gicnurt, London announces. Berlin, however, declares" this ground was re taken by the Germans today. Tho German advance in the b'iga region is definitely halted, according to indications in tho current, reports. The only events reported there- to day by Merlin are clashes between liiif-sian raiding parties and German reserves. LONDON, Sept. M.. A dispatch to thn daily Mail from Jibuti, Africa says that a German named Holts and an' Austrian named Karmellch, who with 40 Araha have been wandering In the interior of French Somallland about two months, have been cap tared after a utrojiK resistance in which several were filled. Tho cap turn of llottft and Karmellch is ex pected to result in important revela Nona of German intrigues in Abyun sinln. PRESIDENT VISITS .... (lliOITKSTKR, )!., Sept. 10. President Wilson and Mrs. Wilson ranie aslioro this morning from the president's yacht Mayflower and were met at the pier by Colonel and Mrs. K. M. House, wlfh two auIomoMles, and thn party started Immediately to ward Manchester to play Kolf. The vaiht left New Vork Saturday. T FAILS TO F Socialists Refuse to Collaborate With Premier, Who Is Forced to Aban don Effort Paul Painleur, Pres ent Minister of War, to Be Asked to Become Premier by Poincare. VAUIS, Sept. Ifl. President Poin care, alter conferring this morning with the presidents of the chamber of deputies and the senate summon ed Professor Paul Pamleve, the min ister of war, and asked him to form a cabinet in succession to that head ed by M. Uibot. Professor Pain levc reserved his definite answer un til this evt ning. PARIS, Sept. 10. Yesterday's ac tion of the r-dcinlist parly in refusing to collaborate with Alexandra Hibotj in forming a. new ministry, which caused M. Kibot, after consultation to notifv President IVinenrc that he was obliged to give up the effort, was quite unexpecled. An explanation of the socialist step was given by some of their deputies who declared that when Premier iGbot announced that, a reconstruc tion of the cabinet. wouhMake place the sociAlists were under the impres sion that fundamental changes would be made and it was on that under standing that they ngreed to collab orate wilh tho government. They found cutt, however, that a jnnjorily of the. existing ministers would be retained. That beings the case, the ministry did not offer sufficient guar antees of either n more vigorous con duct of the war or of a truly' demo crat ic policy, the deputies explained, and consequently the party deuided to withlmM its support. Socialists Withdraw. Tn effect, it appears, the pr'wi pal changes contemplated by Jr. Hiln-I were tho substitutions of M. Hien venu Martin for lienc Viviani, as mir ister of justice, of Maurice Long for the much criticised Maurice Viollct te as minister of subsistence and the creation of a new ministry of national reconstruction, to which Louis f.ucien Klotz, president of the chambcrV budget committee, was to have l een nominated. On the withdrawal of ill'1 socialists, M. Nihot proposed to make Louis Loi-heur, who was under sc'i! lary for munitions in charge of lb- maniifactuiing M'clintis had rend? red yeoman service in organizing the in dustries, minister of munitions In place of Albert, Thomas. When the now ministers assembled lute Inst night, Professor Paul Painleve, ihe minister of war, announced thai ho would decline to continue in nlTi-: without socialistic representation in the cabinet. This brought about '.hi callopse of the combination. Painlevo its Premier. Tt is expected President Poincare will ask Professor Painleve to I'unr a cabinet and Ihere is a strong prob ability he will succeed. Professor Painleve, ;is minister of war. ha made nn excellent impression in po lilical circles and on the general i uh lie and in tho army by the men:!!-'1 which he has taken since lie has li' I.I office. Notable among them wn. ihe appointment of General Pet a in lo be com lander in chief of the Fren li armies, and the r-vixal of the post 'chief of stjil f of ihe army for Gej.orul Koch. The.-e h ive been received l':.v orablv. Gonora OIL UNDER REGULATION WASHINGTON'. Sept. 10. The cottonseed crushing anil refining In dustry Is nhout to put Itself under voluntary retaliation by tho food ad ministration. HcnresentntlvcH of the Industry Ivb just held conferences with food administration officials to discuss iie object. The voluntary. control would bo administered In a manner slmlliir to that exercised over the sutrar Itidusirv. 01 M NSTRY N TRIES PRINCIPALS IN CRISIS AIhivo, General Korniloff, who o inaiuled lictJitoiial iowei-s. l'olow, PiViitier Keix-itsUy, who iemoved him from rotnninnd. Koinilofi' lias leen opKiseil Ity the sormlists and work men Iterative ho (h'liiaiKlcd the re.s to rn Hon of the death penalty in the army and strict, discipline. E DEFINI E LONDON, Aug. 27. (By mail.) Throughout official London tho be lief Is held that a very definite peace offer will conio from Germany before winter and that tho offer will suggest immediate cessation of hostilities on a Btatus quo basis. Kntcnto statesmen have fully indi cated that they will refuse such trm:i and no doubt Germany Is aware of this. Hut German leaders regard a status quo offer from the German side as an' Indispensable step in the prepa ration of German public opinion for further concessions. A high official authority gavo the Associated 1'resa today the following statement of tho situation In Germany as regards peace: "Thorn is no doubt that the Ger man government Is anxious to get out of tho war at tho earliest possible mo ment on any terms which will Insure them against revolution at homo uud national collapse. "Great, nuni'bora of people In Ger many toihiy would welcome a peace on a Htatus-nuo basis, this meaning practically a draw, In which no bel ligerent would occupy any territory beyond that which it possessed In July, IIHI. and In which, moreover, each side would hear Its own burden ill respect of the mnterial losses In curred during the course of the var." Eiy RECALL LUX8URG UPKNOrt A IK KS, Sept. 1').- Ai Kon- tlno official, according to newspaper account today, are Ktill unnlilo to hn lleve that the dispatcher! f'nt to Mer lin throiiKh the KwrlMi lenation Iwrr were accurately translated. Tho for eign offiro curly today paid thai il was without official advlceH from A nfhasHiidor N'hoii or American Am bftMndor Htlmson. Newspapers and official generally helleve that the government will dcmtind the retail of Count LuxImrK. (Jerman charge at MiienoH Aires, hut ft rupture in diplo matic iclutloni) with (H'riuaiiy In not. anticipated at present, the Argentine Kovernment preferring, it said, to cotiHldcr tho affair a personal one be tween the German nnd Swedish rep roftontfitlvos here. NOW SHAKING RUSSIA L.G.KoRiLOF, ON LEASE BASIS WASHINGTON, Sept. 10. Ku.vor: able report on Senator Walsh's bill to open for use four million acres of oil anil mineral land, Including about StIOO acres In naval resecvp No. 2 In California, was made today by Ilia senato public lands committee. It proposes the operation by tho govern ment of the leasing of tho lands con taining coal, oil, potash and sodium. Special attention to tho oil situa tion Is paid In the report, which de clares lhal It Is "better to let future wars take care of themselves than to lose tho present one through dreams of far-off conservation, technical dis putes and puerile bickeringa ns to jurisdiction between governmental bureaus." The secn affecting the naval re serve compromise between the plan of the navy department for keeping Ihe entire section Intact for the navy .-.nil the interior department, which believes that ill view of tho oil short age the taiiils should be worked. As a result Ihe bill proposes that Ti'.sn m-res of the unpatented land In the navy reserve, which contains about 2n, ooo acres, should be opened and clMliuiiuts having wells should sur render their claims and In return lie given leases. TAKE OFFENSIVE I'KTIiOGUAl), Sept. 111. llu-- i-iiin IrniipM e-terility look Ihe nf-leri-ive nuiiiti--! the lli-rienn Ihici-h in the region of i-Lreolil, 'M mile nui I lii-iit of Itia. In ciTtiiin'M'i'tors (lie IVtroerjul nllii-iiil stati-ineiil mi.vs Hie I 1 1 -n i r 'Month lialt.ilion" eom nisc, of women ii!'!icrs defeated tin- Teutons nnd t'ori-il them buck in a -i'itlicrlv ilireclion. NATION AWAITS EXPLANATION OF SWEDISH GUILE Unrtcd States to Take No Action Until Somo Indication of How Swedish Government Regards Dis closures of Part Taken By Its Ar gentine Legation in Sending Cables. WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.-Tho gov ernment was still waiting for some Indication of how the Swedish gov ernment regards the disclosures of tho part taken by Its legation in Uuo- nos Aires In transmitting German le gation dispatches to llcrlln. Neither tho Argentine amhassndor nor the Swedish minister hero pre sented any mossngo from their gov ernments, nnd It was Indicated that until olio or both had communicated with tho stnto department, this gov ernment would take no stop toward tho development ot what may lend to a serious alteration of Sweden's po sition among tho neutral govern ments. At tho slate department today It was ninde clear that there was no dis position to question the good faith and honosty ot the Swedish people. Tho distillation botween the pooplo and tho government was carefully pointed out. INxmijit Action Kxpectod. That Argentina will take prompt stops toward securing an explanation from Swodon Ib nasumed, and the state department will bo surprised if tho Argentlno foreign offloo does not force tho recall of Count Luxiiurg tho chnlrgo d'affaires, who advised the sinking of Argentlno ships "with out leaving any traces," and who-referred to tho head of tho foreign of fice as a "notorious ass." That tho Incident has been regard ed by this government as a warlike act by Sweden was absolutely denied. What may develop Is a different thing. At the present time thero has been no change In tho position of tho two governments. This government has attempted no restriction upon free communications between Sweden's representatives and their government nnd thero wns no Indication that any would bo Imposed. This government regards the entire question as a more direct grievnnco of the allies than of the United Stales. Source u Secret. Whether tho government got the dispatches II published from its own agents or from those of one of the allies, remained, a secret. Refusal also was made to discuss the question as to whethor tho information In pos session of the department had been mado public. SENATElllUI WASHINGTON, Sept. ID. Voting on uuifiitlmcnK to the war lax hill, iriuiriitorv to t'imtl a."iiue, hi-vun in the senate imlnv wilh the adop tion, fi lo 'J.'i ol' a milium by Sena tor Hriinssnril tn strike nut the I'irM ei,ii.-umition tn Vhiire, levying two cents it ioiiml mi coffee ami its sub stitutes, designed to rnt-e l-I.S,."itlll,-litltl. Another motion by Senator llrous fcnril to strike out the one niul two cenls n irnllon lux on molasses, ne corilinir to grades, wns adopted, ."id In ''K. The senale voted, .YJ lo 'JS, lo slrike mil nil eoii.siitnpt ion taxes in the bill, iui'luiling lliose on ximur and cocoa, nil designed to raise .Wi,tll(l,WIII, Ity u vole of (ill In 1 1 the iirovisiou lor reieal of Hie present law i;lov itiv; "drawbacks'' or maniil'iiel uriti',' rc-cvport allowances, to suyar re liners wns eliminated, Mr. and Mrs. (1, W. Strucknian will arrive this evening from (.'ellna, Ohio, to visit Mr. and Mrs. V. 1.. Tou vlllo of Jacksonville Mrs. Struck mnn is Ihe sister of Mrs. Touville, SOCIALISTS OF EUROPE UNDER I KAISER'S RULE I vt ?: Sham Character of Proposed Stock holm Conference Exposed Control Vested With German Agents Del egates Pledged in Advance Ger rymander to Aid Germany. BY WILLIAM KNOLISll WALLING. WASHINGTON,' Sept. 10. Tho , self-appointed German agents in Hol land, Seandunnvia nnd Russia, who linvc been nryaiiging 'tho so-called "interim I lonul Stockholm conference of socialists, have finnlly placed all their cards on tho table. All those socialist parties nnd fac tions which have hitherto ngreed of ficially lo nl lend this notoriously German gnthcring-, can bo classed cither as ngenls or ns dupes of the kaiser. As the president lias nlready pointed out in connection with the (icrinun peace nropngiindii in this country, nil of its- promoters ought to bo classified under ono of these two heads. ' Holies of Postponements. , The Stockholm conference was first set for liny 3.rUi; it whs then postponed until June, nnd again until July, nnd utrnin until August, nnd ngain .until September. The reason of these postponements wns that tho socialists and lnhoriles in the demo-" crn!io countries succeeded in demon slralinjr the llioroly German charac ter of the mectine;. Numerous acts of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Itiilgtiriun povermnonts publicly demonstrated that the conference was called wilh their full approval; in deed, this consent was .obtained in advance from the German foreign minister .immerman in nn interview with Troelslrn, the pro-German Dutch socialist who originated the gathering; The renson the German e-ovcrnment is mnkiii!r such cxjrnnixlinnry Vf forts to hriu? nhout tho Stockholm "socialist" pothering, is four-fold: (ominii lteasons. Tt knows it enn rely absolutely on the Germain socialists lof both fuel ions. Ity means of lliese German socialists il has absolute control over the socialists of tho small neutral count ries surrounding Germnny. Next, the Gerninn government knows it can rely upon "its ngents and dupes' in b'ussia; the councils of workmen's deputies have steadily demanded imiuediale pence at al most any price, without deiiiaiidine; the ilcmocriili.nlinn of the Germany or Ihe overthrow of tho kaiser. Fourth, the German government knows if has nbsolule control over Hie so-called "American" socialist parly, wilh its large Gorman nnd ( li't niK li -1 liinkinir Jewish membership. Sinister l-lloinoiifs. There nre other sinister and anti democratic elements in the iuterna lionnl socialist congress in the fu ture iust ns they have absolutely controlled every international social ist congress in the luisl. Hut the nianai;ers of Ihe Stockholm confer-, euee have now betrayed their par tisun animus even more completely than we could have dared to ioH. No matter what the composition of an inlcrnntional socialist giitheting, in view of Hie success of Ihe Gorman liriipnganila, such a meetinir would be decidedly pro-German, and over whelmingly pro-Gcrninn-socialist, for the socialist propaganda and litcra liire has come lo the rest of Ihe world (Continued oa 1 age Two.) APPLE GROWERS TO I'OUTI.ANl). Sept. in,w. n. Aver, federal food administrator for Oregon, has issued n cull for npple i growers and npple box manufneturors ; of Oregon, Washington, Idaho nnd Montana lo meet here September 1U ; lo discuss plans for oonservinjr np- ' pics ii ml apple box material, - !
