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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 5, 1917)
unit Library ATITETltrtsimnnV !''!; intAjmnm ...lay, FORECAST Toiiijrtit and tomorrow: Fair Forty-seventh Year. Dally Twelfth Tear. MEDFORD. OliKCiOX, FRIDAY, OOTOBEJi , 1917 XO. 1G8 - . . . BRITISH HOLD HEARSTS GUESTS TWO GERW1AN DinPF PBFQT OF GERMAN SPY RAIDERS SAIL rnn o inifro AT HIS BANQUET SOUTH PACIFIC run o miLto Extent of German Disaster Reflected ' in Weakness of Counter-Attacks New Positions Consolidate'! HUfi j Ground All Held by British, Who Are Entrenched on Crest of Ridge Can Bombard Menin Railroad, Principal German Supply Line. LONDON, Oct. .r. Tlit- derinnn have undertaken no further cotnit attacks n;ainst the positions east of Ypres gained tiy tlie British in Yes terday's offensive, allho liny kepi them under a heavy fire during tin night. The British are connlidntini: j their newly won ground. Today's of fieia statement follows: "Our new positions east of Ypres were heavily shelled by the enemy during the night, but no further counter-attaeks were made. Our troops have been engaged with or ganizing the captured positions. "A hostile raiding party endeav ored In enter our trendies north of (ioucaacourt. but was driven oil' With loss." . . ! (lest or Uidge Held. British soldiers now are entrench ed on the crest of most of the high ground in the famous Ypres salient, as a result of a tremendous blow given the Germans yesterday on an eight-iuile front east and northeast of Ypres. Driven from the liih ground, the Germans now will be forced to go up hill against the Brit ish, while the British artillery throws shell after shell upon the German de fenses and lines of communication. Field Marshal liaig's latest stroke surprised his adversaries, as they were about to renew their attacks against him. The Mritih barrage mowed the massed Germans down, and those that remained were anni hilated in the rush of the British troops. Mjiny Villages Taken. At no point along the attacking front was the German resistance very great, altho the Britih had dif ficulty in overcoming lite concrete redoubts bristling with machine gun. The villages of Ifeutel, Noorden hoek, l'olderhi!;, MolenareUthoek, Broodseinde and (iravenstafel were captured in their entirety and the greater part of I'oclcapelle was taken. Bv the capture of Ilrood-cimle the British established themselves well over the crest of the ridue live milt east of Ypres. From here they can v ...i i n it . i m . i iiouiijaro me imuicrs-.ucmu ranmau the principal German line of com munication in tlie litres sector. 1 In addition to the loss of positions of great importance, the German sustained verv hea-vv casualties as a result of the British barrage. More than 30(10 German prisoners were taken, half of them being wounded. The German losses were so seven1 that Crown I'rinee Kuppreeht at tempted only a few counter-attaeks. These were easily broken up. E 1V1HTI.ANH, Oct. Ore-on's ex pected .lti.."aio,(Mi(t tiuota ot the lib erty loan has la-en raised to -"J l.'ion. 000, according to information receiv ed today from tlie secretary of the treasury. Instead of the second is sue of three billion dollar-, which i the minimum nmount aetuallv needed, it is exacted that five billion dol lars will be subscribed, and under Ibis expectation the Pacific cna-t di-triet is expected to contribute ,:t.'ii(MMi,(MM) in phn-e id .MO.nim.iiiHi us originally annuuiiced. Names of Those Who Participated In Bolo Pasha's Entertainment Re veals Pro-German Publisher and Wife Details of Financial Con spiracy Sent to France. NF.W Ylil. Oct. ".-- Kxai.'ination today of the testimony in the state's attorney general's investigation into Bolo Pasha's activities while in this country disclosed the names of the persons who, according to various witnesses examined, attended the dinner which the alleged spy gave in this city in .March. l!l(i. Docu IhviteU Quests. Bolo I'ash bad twelve invited guests. The ideality ofjtll of these was not shown in the evidence. Those who were there, according to wit nesses, included Mr. and Mrs. Will iam Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Owen i Johnson, wife of tlie novelist; Jules Bois, a French lecturer; Adolf Puv enstetlt, former partner in a New York exporting firm, which handled some of tlie funds which Bolo Pasha transferred to Paris, and Krnest C. Pignatcl, manager of the commercial credit department of the lioyal Bank of Canada. Tlie witnesses examined said the others present were Ameri cans or Frenchmen. Statements that the two former German embassy at taches, Vim I'apeti and Boy-Kd, at tended the dinner proved incorrect , they hud left the country at the time. Details Sent France. The fall details of the sensafional conspiracy whereby Paul Bolo I'asha. under arrest in Paris as a spy, ob tained the transfer thru well-known and unsuspecting banking houses in New York of a German peace propa ganda fund of 1 ,700,000 to France will be delivered to the K reach em bassy today by Attorney-General Merton l. hewis of New York state. Mr. Lewis announced last, night that his investigation had been completed. The oH'ii-ial copy of the report will be sent to K ranee soon, it was said, to be used as the chief evidence against- Bolo Pasha as the brother of a French archbishop and a man whose loyalty to France was so mi questioned that international bank ing houses literally bid for his pat ronage. TERRORIZES SEATTLE SKATTLK, Oct. :. Five shots were fired by police here today at a fleeing prowler suspected f liciny the so-called wmiiii n sludger, who, with accomplices, attacked five wo men in their homes in daylight here ycsterilav and who is believed guilty of recent similar crimes. The suspect was found loitering in the li.iinier valley rc-idi nee district shortly after daybreak and was or dered to halt. In answer, he lied to a nearby patch of w U, where, un der cover of a blanker fo;r, he made his e-cape. Two nf ye-terday's vietint-:, ifrs. H. Shoperu and Mr. Lena AdcNon. IriJiJencd the biuLrer from their homes by sercauiing wiicn he enter ed. A third. Mr--. Kdwanl Kin-ey. was tied hand and foot and a fourth. Miss K-ther Thayer, was found mi-eon-e ions in the a id of her home alter the ii-nnlt. Mr-. Anna Hun derttnark was nllacl.ed bv two men yc-terday, -truck oei the head willi a ritle. lioitml to a table and robbed. Citizens and diee arc mganiim: patpd- to guard tin- re-idence dr--tnet and tn a--urc tcrn.rie.l women of protection. l;orn Mr. au Mr. William Thompson of Centnil Point, a tf-n-pound son, Ortniirr ", 1!17. Mother and son are doing nicely. Crew of Famous Seeadler Stranded at Mopeha Capture Small Vessels and Raid Commerce Three Amer ican Schooners Destroyed by See adler Before She Was Lost. WASHINGTON, O.-t. r. Willi def inite information of the presence of two German sea raiders in the south Pacific ocean, announced in dis patches from Samoa to the navy de partment, a hunt for the commerce destroyers has been set in motion. The two raiders are manned by the crew of the famous Seeadler, which made her way late last year from Germany thru the allies' patrol into the Atlantic, southward around South America, preying on shipping and thence to the South Pacific, where she stranded on Mopeha island and had to be abandoned. Three- American Ships host. The Seeadler destroyed three American sailing ships, the schoon ers A. B. Johnson, Manila, and C. Slade in the South' Pacific . When she stranded the Seeadler had aboard 27 white men and 17 native prison ers, who, with the crew, reached shore in safety. Part of the Sccadler's crew put to sea a train in a power sloop armed with machine guns, bombs and two months' supplies. Karly in Septem ber thi! French schooner laitece ar rived at Mopeha from Tahiti and. was seized by the remaining members of I the crew, who put io sea September "1. The prisoners were left on the island to shift, for themselves. Captain Ilador Smith of the Amer ican schooner C. Slade, and other prisoners left- the island in an open boat and reached Samoa September 20, where the news of the sea raiders was made known to the American na val authorities. Number ol' Victims, The number of the raiders' vic tims beyond the four mentioned in the dispatches from Samoa cannot he ascertained. At least four American owned vessels are reported overdue on the Pacific coast from South Pa cific ports and lheir owners have abandoned all hope for their safety. XKW YORK. Oct. .". Shipping records show that an American schooner named tlie U. C. Slade sail ed from Sydney, X. S. V., April 1M for San Francisco. She was built in Aberdeen, Wash., in PMI0, and was of ;7.'i tons gross. 17(Ui feet long, :S.i beam and 11 feet deep. Ct ,fj .- , , U, tit, vl f lA , p Jc iJ CK ' 1 h ' ' When the . A N. iimlUwl jumped the ltak at l"i niilen an hour nt flerajhil, l ive l'ullnuui were completely overturned, but not a uiiiulc Jilong In the iiuirsh hind until lirot to u f-top by the foTt earth. 'I ho I net Meel uini U iMlietixl to loivo huvetl ninny I he. A thuuksgiiing Miho HE'S ON THE SINGER BUILDING. RUT HE'S NOT A BIRD : v. : S f 1 ' v :r' - . ' V'-s ' J i ; il i i - 7 . XAapj . ' ' Itidd tins Mj;er n: an angle oi n lienors r.-:ove your head, ami ga.e thereat. Sow you'll have an idea of how Xtw Yorkers felt when teliy liimiHMl this steeplejack at work on tli topmost tip ot" the Singer build ing I'lagiMde. Sore neck ami all. Th American, Iti ltisli and French flags, flung gaily lo the breeze helped mako it a luitroitic ami ptvtty picture, and the cornices of other skyscrapers sMnied nhotu to fall on (he in gaers far hi the aspluilU-tl eauyondeptlw. Central Point will vote upon a modified llansnn plan for refunding improvement indebtedness on Ocfohcr The plan eliminates the objec tions raised by the supreme court to the Hanson plan as adopted bv Mcd foro in that it makes the acceptance voluntary instead of compulsory, so that any property owner who desires can pay his assessments under the I'aneroft act. The legal papers nnd preliminaries have been approved by eastern bond j attorneys in accordance with a plan submitted by Keelor Uros., the hcu ver bond hoii-e. Proceedings have been delayed pending the deci-ina of the supreme court in the Medford cae, nnd the objections raised arc suppo-cd to have been eliminated. FIVE CARS OVERTURNED IN MIR ACLE WRECK; I PKTUO(iltAI), Oct. t, (Delayed) The democratic, connresK, by a vole of SIS II to 10! has passed a resolution declaring that It ts Indispensable, to activo policy tending to the reallza thority which would follow the pro gram of t he Moscow conferetico of last August, and would carry out an activo polity tending to the realiza tion of a general peace. The, congress directed the main committee to choose five of its mem bers to draft a scheme for forming such an authority. The resolul ion was prepared by the committee rep resenting all the parties In the con gress and ets forth the vlewa and principles agreed to by a majority of (lie conference. NO ONE HURT Klrkhmd, -la., seven cnnciet ucie imsietigcr won butt. The cart d thitt- the fast tmlit wav made up of ww held hy the passenycis. CONGRESSVOTES PROBE ORDERED OVER 1 6 BILLIONS E OR WAR WORK All Records Smashed by Special Ses sion Totals for Regular and Ex tra Sessions Exceed Twenty-one Billions Soldiers' Insurance Bill Agreed Uion Other Measures. WAaillXdTON. Oct. r.. rhairman Martin of the senate appropriations committee, in a review of tlie aehiovo menu of Ibis session of congress and of appropriations and contract au thorizations for tho fiscal your 1 111 S Issued Moday says tho session broaks all records. Total appropriations aggregate $1G,!)0l,9f'ti.Xiri, which, with the to tal appropriations for tho second ses sion of tho sixly-fourth congrosa and tho total contract authorizations for tho present fiscal year makes a grand total of $21.:iUO,7:tl),!tlO in appro priations and contract authorizations for tho present fiscal year. "Any criticism levelled at the son ata and house growing out of tho Im patience to place tho country upon a war basts at the earliest possible mo ment," said Mr. .Martin, "in my Judg ment is unfair and indicates a. lack of appreciation of tho enormous amount, of work which tho two hous es of congress havo performed." Insurance Hill Agreed I'pou, Tho soldiers and sailors insurance bill, the last important measure pending before congress, was placed in form for final action today when senate and house conferees reached complete agreement, Including reten tion of the senate amendment restor ing the grades of general and lieu tenant general to tho army. Ab finally drafted, tho bill ts in .substantially tho form as proposed by tho administration. Other Measures. Tho administration bill permitting foreign vessels In (ho coastwise trade except to Alaska during the war and for 1UU days thereafter, was unan imously passed today by the senate. It now goeH to the president. Senator King's bill which would prevent men absent, on account of military servleo from having their en tries in public lands forfeited while away was passed today by tho senate and was sent, to the house. LOSS OF LAND IN DRIVE OF BRITISH lilllM.lX, Oct. :.- The uain of the Pritish in yesterday's attack ea-t of i pres, the warolliee slates, was re stricted to a strip of land one to otu ami a ball kilometer deep, running from PoeleniK lie via t lie eastern spur of oXnuchf kc, nnd almc,' the mad to lieeclaere. The latter illae ami the holtv conlcMcd village of ( i lie I ti veil, 1 lie a tmoiineeinelit adds, remain completely m po -e-i,,n ol the (iermaiis. The aniniiincetneid s;i yester day's Ita 1 1 le was of tin ii-.ua! inten sity, hut (hat the fourth imiiv suc ceeded in wil hsl niiding the Hriti-.lt attacks, Afle,- 1 1 I aiicm-j- ."iU kilo meters, the s.,(.iiicnl add-;, the en ciuv pu-ltcd forward I empiu a i d v, but Id nut hold (lien- in.l. The ISnti-li n-(d at lea-t- eleven division-, the sin ten i eat ivs and their hi-i'- arc repurled to have been lar.'c. The Pnti-h thru-t brnke tliiWll be) 1 1 re fcio luriu' it s nil jce is, u hieh, t he ariuoiiiieenieiit cunt mites, were verv fur di tanl. The (icrman troops in 'landers juc prai-ed for their heroi-m."' SENATOR C"AMBERI.AIN RETURNS TO THE SENATE WA-IIINIi'l'OX, 0,t. r,.--Scimlnr ( 'hiinilit'i ljiiri nt Oi-i'uuii, wlin iiiiitdu -Iv l--i";i(ii'il ntl lipl'i-ntlh iti.-, iicnitii'M, r-liiiiii'tl tohiy lu tin' M-nalc. BY SENATE OF LA JLLEIIE Sub-Committee of Five Directed to Inquire Into Correctness of Wis consin Speech at St. Paul and Statements Made Therein Hear imjs Will Be Public. WASIIINdTON', (), . A fonnal luvliniinaiy i i-- into the ulk'Kcd disloyal spwli of Senator l.n Kid li'ltn of Wisi'uiisiii, niado lii'f'oi'o tlio Niin-I'ailisan league at St. Paul, SI inn., u l'i rl iul; it api, was ordered today by the senate privileges and electioTis cominittee. Aipi)intiiieiil of a sub-eommittee of i'ivo members was dirneted with autlioiity limited first to inquire into the eon'cclness of Senator La. Toi lette's sieei h, and, seeond, into thu eoireelness of his statements made therein. The limited scope of the inquiry was rcitarded as temporary action upon Ilic numerous petitions present ed to the senate tor the Wisconsin senator's expulsion. The Huh-com-miltee, which probably will be up pointed durinir Hie day, and will bo headed by Senator Toim-rene of Ohio, was ordered lo report at tho Heceinher session of congress. Stone Ivvonei'iitetl, The senate committee took up pe titions charinit Senator Stone of Missouri, chairman of the senate for eign relnlions committee, with his. loyal statements and acts, and de cided thai the chnnres made did not warrant any investigation of the Mis souri senator. The senate commit lee's decision was reached after a two-hour ses sion and with a speech in the senalo by S itor I.a Follette impending. The sub-committee was authorized to reipiesl authority to employ stenog raphers and make other necessary expenditures, indicatim; that formal hearings may be had with possible examination of witnesses at St. l'aul. Tlie resolution for authority to make the siib-commiltec inouiry nnd lor its LTiiii't .i I authority was to be brought by the senate later and many thoiilil i, would be the basis of sharp debate in connection with the proposed speech of Senator l.n, Vol Iclle replying to the charges of his critics. Public llcnrinj;. Tlie siili-conimillee expected to hold a preliminary meeting Into today ami bcijin its inquiry next week. The X ral expectation was that public hearings would be held at which Sen alor l.n Kollelle would be niven an opporliiiiity to be heard. Senator I'omereuc made it pluin lliat the siib-coiiimittcc's aulliority is limited solely to the St. l'aul speech and docN not extend In any other ac tions or charges against the Wiscon sin senator. A letter from Senator Stone de-noiiuciiiL,'- impulalions and reflections in the petitions and other communication- on file was presented to the committee and made the basis for its action as to hiui. Senator Stone of fered lo appeal' before the commit tee, hul it was held that investigation a- unwarranted, and also that: "The record ilisclo-cs that tho Senator Stone oppo-ed the declara tion of war, he has since it was adopted voted for all such measures con-iilereil bv thi' senate on which a record vote was taken. '' The report as lo Senator Slono was lirawn by Senator Walsh of Montana. s LA FOLLETTE SCALP liKS MOINK3, Oct. 5. Dennunrlnit Senator l.n Kolletlo as an old to tho enemies of tho flitted States, the Iowa State Council of llefenso to day imKseil a resolution 10 to ! roc omnienilliiK Ills expulsion from Iho railed Slates senate.
