Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, October 18, 1917, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUr! rslty c? Orcson "i TYTCATTIFR Max. yestw&iyi &i; niin. today, 29. '-ftOTiECAST Tonight and tomorrow: Fair and wanner; lulling frost". RIBUN Forty-eventh Tear. Dally Twelfth Tear. . MEDFORD. OKECiO THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1917 NO. 379 MAILT E . ' . Jz J : L . 1 . ' ' . UnlP oi Aim oiiiii oLHVH 0Um GULF OF III Old Type of Battleship Goes Down as Result of Being Hit Below Water Several Times Crew Saved by Torpedo Boats Germans Claim to Have Trapped Russian Naval Forces German Guns Superior In Range, Force Russians Back. BERLIN, via London, Oct. IS "Tlio Germans have taken 10,000 prisoners and fifty guns on Oesel Island, the war office reports. BERLIN Oct. IS. The Itussian naval forces In the llulf of Riga have ' been trapped by the Germans, ac cording to the announcement, it says German naval units are lying in the eastern portion of Kassar bay, north, of Oesel island and are barring the passage westward. Portions of tho German naval forces pressed forward thru the mine field in the Gulf of Riga to the south ern exit of Moon sound. The state ment says there was a short engage ment with about twenty Russian war ships, which later retired t6 .Moon sound. . . Xnval Jiultlc l'oimlit. FETROGRAD, Oct. IS. A naval battle has occurred in the Gulf of Riga between Russian and German battleships, the war office announc es. The Russian battleship Slava was sunk as the result of being lilt several times beneath the water line. 'Nearly all the members of the crow were saved by Russian torpedo boats. The announcement follows: "After depriving us of control of Irbo channel, the enemy at night pen jotrated the Gulf of Riga, where at dawn yesterday his naval forces were discovered by our patrol detachment, which was pressed back to Moon sound by enemy cruisers and torpedo boats. Our ships of the line, Gray hdanln and Slava, and the cruiser Mayan went out to meet the enemy In tho Gulf of Riga and drove back his vanguard by tholr fire. They soon oncountered tho principal enemy fighting units and engaged them. Among tho latter were two dread noughts of the Grosser Kurtuersl typo (2n,000 tons). Fh-et Is Outclassed. "During the bombardment tho en emy adopted the tactics of firing at distances beyond the range of our guns, his artillery range being much ships of the line. "In spite of the clearly manifest ed superiority of tho-enemy, our ships "lefended the entrance for a consid. crnblo time and only severe damage caused by the fire of his dreadnoughts forced us to retire Into the waters of the Moon sound. As a result of sov eral hits beneath the waterlinc, the Slava sunk. Nearly all the crew were saved by our torpedo boats. "During tli Is engagement our coast batteries at the entrance of Moon sound dispersed by their fire enemy torpedo boats which attempted to ap proach our ships. Afterward the fire of ono of tho enemy dreadnoughts waB directed on those batteries and they were put out of action in a short time. "Another detachment of our naval (Continued on Pago Two.) WETS LEADING IN PES - MOINES, Iowa., Oct. 1. The wets are holding the lead early today In the returns from Monday's prohibition election, their advantage being estimated from luuO to 2.'oo. It will be about ten days before the official result can bo determined. $1,500,000,000 LIBERTY BONDS NOW SUBSCRIBED One-Half of Minimum Quota of Lib erty Loan Now Raised Commit tees Declare They Will Do Better Yet Clergymen to Preach on Bonds Sunday. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Approx imately if.l,"iOO,OUO,000, or ono-lmlf the minimum quota, of the liberty loan, had been subscribed today, treasury officials estimated, on Hie face of nmiffieinl reports from the twelve reserve banks. "Many subscriptions have been ob tained within the last four days, or since tiie issuance of the president's proclamation,' said a treasury state ment. "Kncouraijed by this new in tensified uetivitv, committees declare they will do better yet. Obtaining subscriptions of more than $400,000, 000 a day from now until the end of the campaign may seem to be an im possible task, but it will be at tempted. Half Million in New York. New York, it was announced, is Irvine; io reach the $.")00,000,000 mark before night. Chicago reported Unit many subscriotiuns from per sons of small means were pourinK in and that country banks were becom- nil more active. "Gornmn-lmrn residents of Chicago ire workinir hard to boost the loan,'' a telegram from the reserve bank there to t lie treasury stated. lioston reported a single subscrip tion of .$ 7,:iOO,000 by representatives of the wool industry. Subscriptions continued fast in the .Minueanolis dis trict, where the estimate of t lie tolal already subscribed was more than .f:io,ooo,ooo. More than 17,000 clergymen iliru- out t lit country will deliver sermons behalf of t lie loan next Sunday, and the "Star-Spangled liunncr" will be sunir in virtually every church m America. Passes Half llillion. XKW YORK, Oct. 18 Liberty loan subseriplions at 2 o'clock today passed the half-billion mark in the New York federal reserve district. The Central Trust company announc ed iin additional purchase of $20, 0(10,1100; the International Nickel ipunv, $1,000,000; the Hankers' Trust company, $1,000,000, and the (iiiaranly Title & Trust company, $1,000,0111). Twenty-five million dollars more were added when .1. I'. Morgan & Co. subscribed that amount. This brought the total subscription with other smaller ones up to $.",:( 1,784. -:t;o, the total for the day reaching $7."i,000,ll(IO. Commenting on the failure of many wealthy individuals to subscribe to the second liberty loan, K. Lou don of the advisory trades commit tee of tin1 liberty loan committee, predicted that if the loan fails con gress will pass n high personal tax amounting to virtual conscription of excess incomes. "The matter, therefore, simmers down to this: Buy liberty bonds now or have your wealth conscripted in the months to come," he said. PORTLAND, Oct. 1 S. Following the arrest of 1 10 men In the virility of the Northwest Steel company's plant last night, on charges of picket ing, an agreement whs reached early today botcen shipyard operators and labor leaders by which the men agreed to stop all picketing and the employers are to hire no more men until the strike is settled. Tnc strik ers in the ctly Jail then wore released. Hearings wero resumed today by the federal wage adjustment hoard here in an effort to clear up iho strike situation. KAISER INVITES PAINLEVE TO TAKE E LONDON, Oct. IS. The corres pondent of tho Berlin Lokal Anzci- ger, who traveled on tho train which took Emperor William to tho Bal kans and who lunched 111 the restau rant car with the emperor, says a dispatch to tho Dally Chronicle from Amsterdam, writes: "His majesty sat down to the ta ble with the observation that ho had Just read Professor Painleve's first speech as French premier. " So M. Painlove wants Alsace-Lorraine, does he?' exclaimed the em peror. 'Good; but he must como and take it.' "The emperor then treated the company to a eulogy of tho late King Carl and Queen Elizabeth of Rumania whose good work, he said, 'has been undone in a few months by tho hun ger for gold and power of certain agitators.' "At tho conclusion of tho lunch, which consisted of meat and fish courses and bread and cheese, about the same as might be served In a mlddlo class household, the kaiser said: 'It Is unworthy Jor any Gor man to live well when even the best people go without things. What wo have of foodstuf.-s :s common prop erty, which by lust division Is suf ficient to keep us alive for an unlim ited time and which permits us to await final victory with calm. Who takes more than his Bharc sins against those who servo the fatherland.' " SCARCITY OF FA1S WASHINGTON, Oct. 1. Reports to tho state department indlcato tliut the German harvests this year have not relieved .the food situation to any appreciable extent. There Is a great scarcity of fats and animal food In general and tho supplies received from Rumania and neighboring neu trals ore not making tip for lack of protein. It has been definitely ea tabl 'bed that while some of the crops wcib normal In volume, the scanty supplies In most coinidltles have been augmeutcd. EVERYBODY HELP FILL 'ER UP TO THE IWIGHAELIS OFFERS OUST HELFFERICH TO SAVE SELF AMSTERDAM, Oct. IS. With a view to saving what the newspaper calls "his sinking chancellorship," Dr. Michaells, the imperial German chancellor, according to tho Boersen Zcltung of Berlin, offered Frledrieh Von Payer the post of vice-chancellor, held by Dr. iielfferlch. Tho newspn per adds that Von Payer, who is a progressive member of the reichstag, declined to accept tho portfolio. The Tageblatt says opinion Is vir tually unanimous in political circles that a quick chungo of chancellors Is Inevitable. Vorwaerts, organ of tho German so cialists, declares that even the sac rifice of a second subordinate in Dr. iielfferlch, following tho displace ment of Admiral Von Capelle, cannot affect its views that Dr. Michaells Is an Impossibility as chancellor. A so lution of tho crisis is exepcted soon after the return of Emperor William from Canstanllnoplc. Help Your Nation Win , Four niillioli people oversubscribed the first Lib erty Lojin, iiil viiitf fur three billion dollars, or one hillion dollars more Hum was offered. No greater Mow fit military (iertiianv eau now he struck than sueh an over-subscript ion to the second Liherty Loan. It will accomplish as much toward ending the war on proper terms as n frrent military victory. In order lo do (his, it is necessary to secure, sub scriptions from twice as many people us subscribed for tlie first Liberty Loan. It is also necessary for many subscribers to the first Liberty Loan to in crease their subscriptions to I bis second Liberty Loan. Our count ry has a mark to reach in t lie subscrip tions to this loan. Its minimum is three billion dol lars. Our Federal LVserve District has a minimum to reach of two hundred and ten million dollars. Aledford has its own minimum and maximum quotas. i J''or the pride of Medford, for (he honor of the Jackson ( 'oiinty for the safety of his count ry, every fit i.eii must luakehis subscript ion as lare as he can possibly stand. , Go to Your Bank Today and Subscribe. BRIM! 'TURED U-BOAT TO BE EXHIBITED AT NEW YORK NEW YORK, Oct. 18. A German submarine captured by the British soon will be on view In New York It arrived in tho hold of un English steamship yesterday and was unload ed today to he assembled as a Central park exhibit to aid the Liberty loan drive. The Liberty loan committee an noii need that tho submarine was the UC-5 of the mine-laying type, eauKht laying mines In the North sea by a IJritish destroyer in April, 1916. The craft Is 110 feet long, beam 11 feet and hiiH a displacement of 200 tons. She carries no guns or torpedo tubes. The craft when placed In Central park will bo used as a Liberty luun bond selling booth, and only those who have bought a bond will be al lowed to Inspect tho cruft. The submarine will carry tho mes sage "Uny bonds and sink a (sub marine." WIRE MINERS TO imp n mm RETURNTO WORK fcn f0 Garfield Refuses to Discuss Action in Case Strike Continues Chicago Shy of Coal Illinois Miners Re turningHalf of Large Mines Are Closed Cold Causes Suffering. WASHINGTON, Oct. IS. John I'. While, president of Iho United Minn Workers of America, leaves tonight for Indianapolis, confident that he will be successful in his efforts to induce the miners of I ho middle west to return to work ill u few days. WASHINGTON, Oct. 18. Labor union officials telegraphed to the fuel administration Ihnt they wero ndvis ine; the Illinois coal mine strikers lo return lo work. Fuel Administrator Garfield will not announce what action he will take in event of the men refusing to re turn to the mines, beyond his tele gram saying he is prepared lo invoke all powers of the government to pre vent diminution of Iho coal supply. IUiIC of Mines Idle. RPRINGKIHU), 111., Oct. 18. About half of the big shipping mines and several hundred smaller shafts in Illinois wero idle today when an order to tUoJt0,(IIH miners of (In state to resume work at once was he me; transmitted thru President Frank FarriiiKton, the miners' slate presi dent, from Dr. Harry Garfield, fed eral fuel atlmiuislralor. Scattering early reports to tho of fices hero of Iho Illinois foal Oper ators' association indicated more mines shut. down. In the extreme south part of the state, it was said the mining industry is practically paralyzed. Miners are insisting (lint wage in creases be allowed at once, while op erators declare advances in pay agreed lo in the proposed Washing ton pact depend on permission of 1 hi fuel administration to increase coal prices. Chicago Shy of Coal. ('lllfAGO, Oct. 18. Many Chi cago homes and business houses were out of coal today and unable to get any more, and on lop of that with a con famine in prospect for the im mediate future, the weather mini pre dicted a cold wave for tonight, with prospects id' snow tomorrow. The office of John I'). Williams, fuel ad ininistralur of Illinois, was flooded -with complaints from consumers whose demands for coal had been turned down bv I In- dealers. Strike IMeii.liiig. KANSAS CITY. M.i., Oct. H. The strike of :tr,ono coal miners in the southwestern district, embracing Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, which was to have begun I loinorrow morning, has I n deferred pending negotiations bet ween repre !sentatives of the Southwestern Coal Operators' assoeiittinu and the men. The decision to defer the strike was reached at a conference hen! to day between Alexander lluwat, pres ident of the Kansas llislriet Miners; 1). A. Frninplon, president of Hie Missouri district, mid John Wilkin son, president of the Oklahoma-Arkansas district. (leorgc II. dishing, editor of nn influential coal pnlilicnl ion, suit Dial bis advices show Ihnt Ihe strike lias not only extended I,, Indiana, bill even lo Ohio, willi evidences of un rest in Pennsylvania. WORLD SEES NETS SOX $3666 APIECE CHIC A(i), Oct. Is. Members of the world's champion W'htte Sox team today received ehockn for their Hhuro of the receipts from the world's ae ries, amounting lo $!i l,7aS. I .". Twen ty flvo players each rccehed a check for $:!iiliii. ur ieuiuno German Sailors at Ostend Refuse to Go Aboard Submarines Austrian Sailors at Vaola Mutiny and Clash With Crews of German U-Boat, In Which Officers on Both Sides Have Been Killed Austrian Crews Revolt Under Ill-Treatment. .AMSTERDAM; Oct. 18. A mutiny among German sailors at the Belgian port of Ostend, who refused to go on board submarines, is reported by the lielgisi-li Ilagblail. The newspaper says an officer was thrown into the sea and (hat thirty mutineers wene removed in handcuffs to Bruges. WASHINGTON', Oct. 18. Official diplomatic dispatches received here today report mutinies in the Austrian navy and clashes between Austrian sailors and prows' of the German Hub mnrino fleet based nt Paolujin which officers on both sides havo been killed, unci which resulted in a de cision to change (he base of tho Ger man flotilla. Clash Between Crown. Despite (he nllempls of the Aus trian admiralty to suppress the news, it reached here (oday, coming by way of Heme. Tho Austrian crews nro said lo have revolted under ill-treat-nicnt of officers and bad food, whilo Ihe clash with (he German submarine crews was caused by the overbenrinj; conduct of the latter. The dispatches say the tension be tween the Austrian and German crews became so strong that extraor dinary measures were taken to pre vent a recurrence of Ihe fighting? be tween them, which included the de cision to move the German submarine flotilla from Ihe Austrian base . lit l'ola to another point further south on tho Adriatic. The fihtiiijr be tween the Iwo sets of crews is de scribed ns having been sitinruiiiury. Submarine .Mutiny. This news of mutiny in the Austri an navy, received in the capital toduy almost at the same time as tho Am sterdam dispatches reporting fur ther mutinies in the German navy this lime anions submarine crews crealcd a profound impression amom; American naval officers and nniong other officials who have been watch iue; the situation with expectation since the first mutinies in the Ger man fleet were reported a few days uo. The first siyus of mutiny in the German licet were ree;nrileil as most significant, since, unlike the army, it has endured little of the hardship of caiupaiuiiin. Dispatches from abroad, however, confirm the opin ion of American naval officers that it probably was due ill part at least to the drafting of seamen for sub marine crews, a service which lias come Iti bold terrors for the Germnn seamen because of the inflexible Brit ish poliey "f never makinir any an nouncement whatever of the fate of captured or lost crews of the Oer- (Continued on Pago 8Ut.) WASHINGTON. Oct. 18. J-'oiir new active sovereign grand Inspect-ors-Kcneial of tho supreme council of Ihn Ancient and Accepted Scottish Itllo of I'rco Masonry, for the south ern Jurisdiction of the United State, havo been elected and crowned by tho supremo council, in Ression hero, thtm brlnuliiK It" total membership lip to Ii- Iiik tho statutory comple ment. The new inspectors-general are: Fred C. Schramm of Salt Dnke City, Utah; Murshall W. Wood 1 of llolan, Idaho; Alexander E. Cochran of St. Louis, Mo., nnd Olln 9, Wright of Plunt City, Fla.