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ATITETltrtsimnnV !''!; intAjmnm ...lay, FORECAST Toiiijrtit and tomorrow: Fair
Forty-seventh Year.
Dally Twelfth Tear.
MEDFORD. OliKCiOX, FRIDAY, OOTOBEJi , 1917
XO. 1G8
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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.
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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
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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;
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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.