Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 15, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textunl- orsFty of Cream . r . Liuiary " "Bf WKATIIKU Ma.muihlvi'stiTilav, 80; niinlmnui toilav, 08. FOlM-jrAST Tonight ami tomorrow: i'alr. 1 m medford Sail Tribune m Forty-aeventh Year. Daily Twelfth Year MEDFORD. OREGON, ZUON'DAY, OOTOHKli 15, 1017 NO. 176 FINAI fiJIf HEADLESS BODY U. Sl$h:Or Svfn RV OF SEATTLE GiRL fin War Like 'MmgratM omen BLOWS UP; FELT HALTS PROGRESS HIiIiLAlU ui cm iKin im ddi iqu ... ...... .... . i i ; -n im duii Anci duia pddmam oumo SCORE 4-2 Chicago Americans Win Sixth and Final Game From New York League Pennant Winners Rwl Faher Pitches Magnificent Game Giants' Defensive Blows Up in the Fourth and Errors and Hits Give Sox Lead Never Overcome. POLO GROUNDS, New York, Oct. 15. The Chicago American leiim pennant winners marched triumph antly off with the baseball champion ship here today. Red Fabcr pitched a superb fame for his Chicago mates. Thirty-three thousand and six towns people saw the Giants' defensive blow np in the fourth inning, which, with a couple of sharp hits, pat the Sox in the lead, and they were never headed. The Giants garnered their two runs on a couple of passes and a three base punch by Ilerzog. The story of crucial innings fol lows : Fourth Inning, First Half. Zimmerman crabbed Collins' grounder and threw wildly to the ... 1 . r'..n: 1 , 1 1 I. smiius, voiniis going 10 secnim. iiaciv son sent np a high one to Robertson, who dropped the ball. Eddie Collins dashed to third, Jackson holding first when Robertson threw to third, lien- ton took Fclsch's grounder and run over to tag Collins, who then tossed to Zimmerman. The Sox second baseman was chased across the plate by Zimmerman, Collins scoriae;. Jack son and Felsch scored on Gandil's single to right. Gaadil was thrown out stretching his hit, Robertson ti Ilerzog. Weaver llied out to Kaulf. Scbalk shot a hot single into left. lied Fuller walked. John Collins struck at a wide one. Fletcher threw out VJohn Collins. Three runs, two hits, Iwo errors. " Fifth Inning, Second Half. Nolkc took a trip to the bench on three pitched balls. Rnriden took a stroll, making Faher pitch to him. Wilhoit, the former' Pacific Coast leaguer, baiting for Benton. Wilhoit nlsp walked, Faher becoming un steady. Burns forced Wilhoit, Wea ver to Eddie Collins, lfaridcn going to third. Ruriden and Hums scored on Ilcrzog's three-base bit off the right field wall. The stands were in a frenzy. Kauff fouled out to Gundil. Two runs, one bit, no errors. Ninth Inning First llnir. Weaver got a single to the left field fence. Schnulk fouled to Zimmer man. On the hit-and-run play Faher (Continued on page six.) IP ANVIL SAX DIEGO, Cab, Oct. ". Jr. danger of foundering, and with more than fifty persons aboard, the motor ship Anvil is reported today in dis tress down the Lower California coast and in need of a wnvslilp to .is sist it back to San Dic.'O. J. H. Franklin, charterer of the slop, sctubi word to that effect by way of a fish ing schooner arriving in the lower const todnv. SALT LAKE CITY, Oct. 1 7, sheriffs posse is today on the trail of bandits vno at .1:110 o'clock this morning hMd up a Western Pacific train enrouto from Salt Lake to Gold Hill, Nov., robbed tho passengers and wounded Charles Harher of this city who attempted reslstaiuc. iiiiitiij Hi Mjii jiji 1 rr Daiie' 01 ,or a!,w' a ow . . irc vvr, 111 run H i r h nrn v H i , n r. Decapitated Corpse of Girl Who Has BccnNMissing for Month Found- Identified by Note From Brother- Last Seen When She Left for Dance With Shipyard Employe. SEATTLE, Oct. lii.-Knrl O'Brien of Seattle today identified the head less body found in the brush here yesterday as that of Miss Ruth l)e Merrill, aged J 7, a resilient of Kirk land, a Seattle suburb. O'Hrien, whose name was signed to a note found on the hotly, said she went to a dance a month ago and has not been seen since. Seattle police today planned to ask aid of the British Columbia offi cials "to assist them in their efforts to find the murderer, ' Parts of an almost undecipherable letter found on the body was signed Earl O'Brien. Police said the body apparently had been lying in the brush about four weeks. The head was found a few feet away from the body. There was nothing in the letter to show to whom it was written or when it was sent. The sender, KarJ O'Hrien, extended an invitation to a Christmas dinner to the recipient and, added that his sister's husband had been called to war. Mrs. Anna Do Merrltt, mother of the dead girl, asserted today that her (laughter never returned from a dance to which she was taken September 13 by a man known as "Cap" McWlnn, an employe of a Ballard, W'n., ship yard. , At the time the girl disappeared the police questioned McWinn but did not hold him as they said he gave a good account of himself. Ho as serted that he saw tho girl to her room in a Seattle lodging house after the dance and then left her. The proprietor of tho lodging house de clared the girl has not occupied the room stneo September 12. SALEM, Or., Oct. .". At least thirteen county clerks in lhe,stute arc subject io removal from office by the governor, under the terms of an act, passed by the last legislature. Un dcr the net county clerks are required to tile with the secretary of state, within ten days after October l,.lhis year, and quarterly thereafter, a re port embodying the following infor mation Number of law net ions filed in the circuit court, equity suits other than divorces filed, divorce suits filed, criminal actions filed, civil eases tried by jury, criminal cases rictl by jury, cquits suits tried by jury, con tested law actions tried by court without jury and a number of other classes of eases, as well as a state ment as to probate proceedings and cost of juries in circuit court and gVund jury work, cost of witnesses nnd the cost of juries and bailiffs in the county court. "Failure on the part of any county clerk to rentier the report as herein required shall subject such clerk so failing to removal from his office by the governor," states the law. . Followinir are the thirteen counties which so far have not rcHirted to Ihe secretary of state under the law ! Itcnlon, Clackamas, Clatsop, Crook, Deschutes, Harney, Jackson, Jet Ter son, Morrow, Tillnmoo!:, Umatilla, Wheeler. LONDON, Oct. 1.-.. The entente allies have increased their shipping, act-iirtliiii; to the Times, thru the ac quisition of the Uoytil Mail Steam Packet company and the Lamport and Ibdt line, and tie controlling; in terest in the Anjenliiie Navigation For Battle, Not for Show, Say Low ell Mill Workers, Who Are Drilling Real Women's Battalion for Actual Service Abroad Officials Back Up Patriotic Factory Girls. l)y J. 1IEHHEKT DUCKWOHTIL LOWELL, Mass., Oct, la America now has u real girl "Battal ion of Death" like Russia's, willing to fight the Germans anil face poison gas and liquid tire for their country. It is being drilled here in Lowell by Captain Eminu Le Clair, .a 'J0-ycar-old millworker. It is already nearly lilt) strong. It is being encouraged by Mayor O'DonncI and bus the sanction of Major-General Ames of the Massa chusetts state guard nnd of the pub lie safety committee of the state. Are Working Girls. These amazons of New England are not idle society girls looking for notoriety and excitement. Neither do they belong to the horned-rim spectacle class. They are dead-earnest, young, healthy patriots, willing to do niiy dirty job behind the front if not al lowed to be actual combatants. "Company A" is no camouflage for a good time. I found Miss Le Clair today at the home of her mother, 712 Cnbot street, busy answering stacks of letters from young women nil overv New England and even from Montreal and Quebec, Can. who want to en list in this woman's regiment. Miss Le Clair, who works in the Lawrence Hosiery Mills, was born here, llcr parents lire French-Canadians, who form a large part of; Lowell's population. She is n well-built, good-natured j looking girl, about 5 feet 4 inches in height and weighing about 1:50 ' pounds. She is not a "nut," cither intellectually or .scntimct: tally. "What made you start this bat talion?" I asked Miss Le Clair. "Partly from looking at the pic tures of the liussian women soldiers," she answered, "and partly from read ing of the women's military corps in Boston and New York. Not Fashionable Fad. When I told her that most of the latter type of organization were merely fashionable fads, Miss Le Clair looked surprised and shoeketl. "Well, then," she went on, "then my company is something different. 1 used to belong to the Hlanebe de Castile Guard, but I got out of that French society business because the girls in it were not really serious and merely wanted to wear a chic military uniform. Then .1 started this regi ment of my own. "I felt our girls might be of real service in the war if properly train, ed, so I went to the mayor iibout it. He liked my plan mid gave me a let ter to Major-General Ames in Boston. General Ames was most encouraging, telling me to go nhead and form the company nnd that he would do what, be could to help. "Major Kcyes of the Lowell Home Guards has promised to give us his services and some of bis officers for drills in the armory. Only Itaclieior aWs. "I want only bachelor girls, and they must speak English nnd be pre pared to go to France anil fight if necessary. "limit's misunderstand me. While Ihe heroic deeds of those wonderful Russian women have inspired us, we do not expect that Uncle Sam will ever be so short of men as to need our girls for the trenches. Hut we mean In train to lit ourselves for real fighting. In the meantime, we un ready to tin any old work near the battlefields, or even at home, bill it nitisl be real soldier's work or we won't wunt it." The Russian women wear men's uniform. The Lowell "Command of Death" will not go so fur as that, but n costume modelled after tin style of a riding habit may be adopted. 'company, ulilch has a capital of $10,1100,111111 nnd owns more than :illll veseN. Three of the leading Fren) h hues and one Italian shipping com pany participated in the traduction. Fir iHljfc$y I Slltw Fmiiut I.o (.'lair, oiganling Anierlcis first, women's "Battal ion of Death," and In tho background two women soldiers of the Ilus slan battalion which Inspired Miss li Clair's act. I PEKING, Oct. I."). China and Ja pan have signed nil agreement con cerning tilt! lease Kirin-Chang Chun railway, Manchuria. Japan will, loan China (i,.jO(l,(Min yen nt .r per cent for a period of thirty years. The rev enue of the railway will be held as seenriry for the property during the term of Ihe loan Ihe Kirin-Chang Chun railway will be under the man agement of the South , Manchuria Railway company. OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF PATRIOTS Ik than that, which ought to actuate each citi.cu to help furnh'h a part of the money which will tie necessary for that purpose. ''-.-.tOHN S1IAUP WILLIAMS, United Slates Senator from .MIm'.Isi-IiiI. "Not by Ihe amount of money realized by the sale of Micro bonds, but liy the number or suii.ncribers to tic loan, by the num ber of Americans who lend their money to their eiivernmeiit Is the. Amei'icaai.iiii of the people of the United Stales to lie demonstrat ed." CAItTKlt (1LAHS, Chairman house commltleo on banking nnd curi'enry. "In protecting the credit of tho Untied states coverument you are protecting your trwn credit, you are proiteiluc your own busi ness, you are protecting every Intereit you have In life and prop erly. In lining that you are rendering n pattjotlr service In sup plying the sinews of war lo your coatitr.'' W. (!. MeAlaui. Sec retary of the treasury. ' "There Is no surer bnr.il btween a man ami his country than that, lie shall he a bomliiolder of his country. Let. iim see that this Liberty loan bond Issue Is n bond Issue of the demoi racy.". TIIKO . IX1HK ROOSIOVELT, "So mii'-h do common sense and sound business judgment com mend the Liberty loan bonds as a safe and remunerative. Invest ment that 1 tan see tie necessity for urging patriotism as a reason for haying such bonds, altlio I recoifitle the pntrlollc nature of Ihe In vest men I." THOMAS It.' MARSH ALL, vlie president. X.lliurtinAA.IIHril'inm 1 . 1 'MS PETROGRAD, del. i:.-The Fin nish diet has been culled to meet on November 1. The Finnish diet was dissolved by the provisional Russian gnveruncii' several weeks ago for its extreme stand on the question of autonomy for the province. New elections were held and completed on October -1, the unified hiairgcoi.se and the social democrats receiving 011,01)0 of Ihe 70,01111 votes cast. f " , . "V I "America ts privileged to spend her blood and her might for the prlueiples that, gave her birth and happiness, ami the peace she has treas ured." l'HK.SIIIKNT WILSON'. "The United Slates lias entered upon the great world conflict, which is to decide whether democ racy shall ha e a safe place to tho sun on the earth or not There Is haidlv any duly higher Nitro-Staich Dry House Explosion at Powder Works, Gilihstown, N. J., Results In Death of Three Ter rific Force Rocks Skyscrapers 20 Miles Away. PHILADELPHIA, (let. lo An explosion in Ihe nilro-stiireb dry house ut the Du Pont Powder works at Gilihstown, N. J., resulted in the in vt n it t death of two workmen. A third man is missing ami probably dead. Another mail was seriously in jured. The ties! roved building was a small one-story struMuro isolated from the rest of the plaid., and the force consisted of four men men tioned. There was no ether damage. The Du Polil company says there is nothing suspicious ihout the explos ion. The terrific force of the explos ion shuttered windows in Philadel phia, twenty miles distant, and sky scrapers were rocked. Gilihstown is uu isolated town IS miles below Camden on Ihe Delaware river. The Du Pout's uiaiiufacture great quantities of wnr explosives there. Woodbury, N. J., ien miles .from Gilihstown, reported Hint the explos ion was the worst over felt here, and llin. .town has felt many from the powder section of the lower New Jer sey nnd Delaware. 'Hundreds of men employed in the'works live at Wood bury, and a few telephone messages from workmen who were unhurt were received. Communication to the scene of the explosion was not possible for a long period after the ilisnster. The belief in Woodbury is that the damage nnd loss of life nre great. LONDON, Oct. LI. No further in fantry engagements have occurred on the front of the llrilish attack in Bel giiun. In successful raids yesterday large losses were inflicted' on Hit Germans, the war office announces. Heavy artillery fighting is again in progress on the Flunders front. Lon don's olTicial report, today speaks of a strung bombardment of the new British positions on the main Pass-chcudnclc-Ghcluvfll. ridge, south of Broodscilide. In (He liudit of previous experience this may be viewed as in dicating licrmaii coullter-haitcrv 1 work aeain-t the inteii-ive British ar tillery fire in prnercs preparatory to i another pu-b. Tlie Itriti-h artillery now has su jpcrior positions from which lo work, j as there must by this time have been ; ample opporl unit v for the heavy guns lo be put in position on the dominat ing high ground taken in the recent advances. It, Hum scetns probable that Field Marshal 11 will not de lay bis next slroke beyond the time i when these guns have had an oppor Itunitv to break such concrete eon ; struetion as tin- Germans Imw- been I able to build in what they describe a j their "defensive one." , 'flic weather, however, is a decid edly iinportiiiil element in this con sideration, as the cuit mini! ion of 1 hard stcinis not tiltlv keeps the 1 ".round in u slate well nich prohibit ' ive of co-iirdinalcd infantry nd jVHUecs, bill interferes scriuuslv with i the vital aerial observation work. EX-POSTMASTER GENERAL DON M. DICKINSON DEAD HfcTRIUT. Oct. l.'i. Don M. Dick inson, postniiisti r ucncral under Pre-iib tit Cleveland, died at hi- home in Trenton, a suburb, ludny. Fighting for Ocsel Island Continues Russian Naval Forces Reinforce Patrol, Accept Battle and Enemy Retires Baltic Fleet Ready to Carry Out All Orders for Defense. PHTItOllltAD, Oct. 1,". German forces which landed on tho Russian. Island of Oesel, at tho head of the (Julf of Riga, on Friday, occupied Arcnsburg, tho capital of the Island, on Saturday, It was announced today by tho Russian war office. Arens bui'K Is on tho southern shore of Oesol Island. Tho northern group of Gorman warships, tho slatomont adds, dls- . patched u torpedo boat squadron be tween the islands of Oesel and Dago, which pressed hack tho Russian pa trols. Russian naval forces rein forced tho patrol and accopted battle, whereupon the Gorman ships retired. Fighting for Oosel island, the war office announced, continued all day yostorday. A third group of German war ships, consisting of cruisers and tor pedo boats, a preached tho southwest coast of Oesel Island nnd hombnrded unimportant parts of the coast. Gor man submarines were observed at va rious times and places in the Baltic. ,t . Itultit: Fleet Frepai-eil. Tho Baltic fleet is ready to carry out all ordors of the government, ac cording to Vice-President Ivanoff, president of tho central fleet, the or ganization which In tho fleet corres ponds with tho council of soldiers and workmen's delegates in Us rela tion to tho army. Immediately on receipt of the news of the German landing the uppeal of the central com mittee was issued, calling up to the sailors to forget Internal strife and take all measures to Improve the fighting capacity of the fleet. Com missioners carrying Instructions has tened to llelslngoors. "Reports that tho fleet Is not ready lo moot the cnomy nre not true. Tho fleet Is full of fighting nrdor and Is ready to repel the enemy. Stories of evil Inflticnco exerted by the Bail ors committees are greatly exaggerat ed. The near futuro will show how honnrubly tho fleet will fulfill its duty to tho country," said Vice President Ivanoff. Xowspniiers Show Alarm. The newspapers exhibit alarm at the landing of the Germans on Oesel Island. The Hoarse Gazette says the situation of tho country is the more complicated because a solution mUBt bo found not only of the unsatisfac tory state of affairs In tho Interior, but of Ihe problem presented by the closing of the Gulf of Riga by the Germans. Tho Itusskaya Volla says: "We nro being led toward our Cal vary, hut perhaps we shall find our resurrection." The Reich atrlbiiles the disaster partly to had visibility nnd the unex ampled political frivolity of leaders of tho Ruslnu democracy. Tho social ist press takes the maximalists to task. Tho Volla Nuroda recalls Pre mier Kereasky's warning of the dan ger of a (li-rmnn roup in the Ilaltlc, which was stigmatized by tho leader of Hie maximalists as an unworthy political maneuver. Tho nowspsper Insists on the necessity of an im placable Btrugglo against maxlnnil Ism. Illntno Maximalists. The Hen declares tho maximalists' (Continued on pago six.) LONDON, Oct. IS. Tho Drltlah mercantile cruiser Champagno has been funk and tho mine sweeping sloop Begonia is over-due and re gardnd as lost, says an official state ment tonight.