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v- University of Oregon x "WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, 59; Minimum Today, 41. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow: Fair and wider. Heavy frost. Friday fair nnil vannei-Jhrv JACKSON r-.OUNiY 111 C ( iBAAOMETER It. J. 3. Quota tor 1918, $692,000.00 Sales to May 4, $07,254.71 Buy Thrift Stamps Medfoed Mail Tribune Save and Buy lor Victory Buy W.S.S. Thrift Stamps wIm, Safest Investment Forty-elffhth Year. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREGAN, THURSDAY, MAY 9, 1918 NO. 40 (GERM SMASH VAN FLANDERS HUNS LOSE WIS AT Kill Counter Attacks By British During Night Forces Germans to Abandon Slight Gains Made In Yesterday's Struggle .Heavy Fighting In Pro cess On Narrow Front as Enemy Strives In Vain to Advance Artil lery Duels Along Balance of Front. WITH THE BRITISH ARMY IN FRANCE, May 9- ('By the Associat ed Press.) The fighting was still In progress this morning near Vier- street on the front southwest of Ypres. At one time the British were forced back slightly by machine gun fire. All the rest of the original de fenses, however, appeared to be again In the hands of the defenders in the Voormezeele-La Olyctto sector. BY ASSOCIATED PRESS, May 9 Heavy fighting, altho on a compar atively narrow front, is continuing in Flanders, where the Germans be gan yesterday another attempt to drive a wedge into the entente lines and outflank the hill positions south west of Ypres. This attempt failed and only a temporary success was secured by the enemy In gaining a foothold In-the allied front line at points between Voormczecle and La Clyette. Last night the Drltlnh and French drove hack sharply at the Germans and ousted them from the small bits of territory they had won. Heavy casualties were Inflicted on the two German divisions which were en gaged in this operation. Attack Renewed. Notwithstanding their heavy losses the Germans seem reluctant to aban' don the effort and this morning found them renewing tho attack to the north of Koimncl in the Vicr- straet region. A heavy machine gun fire forced tho British line back at ono point, but tho recession was a slight ono, and the ground remained disputed torrltory. The fighting was continuing hero when the day's re port from British headquarters was dispatched. The British are continuing to im prove their position in the Somme re gion on the high ground between the Somme and the Avro. Further prog rcss was made thero during the night. There was local fighting In the lluc quoy region between Albert, Arras and south of the Somme the heavy artillery fire which has been reported for somo days past continues on tho French front on both sidc3 of the Avre. . British Regain (irorml! LONDON, May 9. By a counter. attack delivered last night liy the British troops the Germans wore (Continued on Page Four.) PARIS. Wednesday, May 8. The French labor lenders have not hist nil hnic of reaching an agreement with the American mission on the subject of tin international confer ence which would include Herman del eente, Murcel Cochin, socialist depu ty from the Seine district and a men: ber of the committee which met the American mission on several occa sions to discuss the possibility of meeting the German workmen, snid to the Associated Press today: "The American mission tukc the stand that no conference is possible until the end of the war or until the Herman labor organizations have re pudiated a (ienuaii imperialism. It is impossible to agree on the first hypothesis. A French labor dclca Hoq will visit America in June, U-BOAT SUNK m u.s. American Gunners Score Square Hit On German Submarine Which Lifts Diver Out of the Water and Breaks It In Two Two Other U-Boats Submerge for Safety. ATLANTIS POUT, May I). The sinking of a German submarine by -i Tinted States warship with a shot which lilted the U-hout completely out of the water and broke her in two. was reported by officers of the ship on arrival here today. Ilccause of the tine work of the gunners, the crew of the ship wns given an addi tional furlough of 10 days. On tho voyage over, the warship, previously reported from German sources as having been wrecked. sighted three submarines and the gun ners sprang to their guns. The first two shots fired in quick succession a! the nearest enemy missed. lii.L the third went home. It caught the l'-bout just hulow the water line and so great was its force that the craft was lifted out of the water and in another moment, her hack broken, she doubled mi and sank to the necoin puniiuent of a chorus of yells from the warship's crew. No survivors were seen in the water and the other submarines, ns I he de stroyed submersible disappeared, div cd and did not reappear. L PICKED UP AI SEA AN' ATLANTIC TOUT, May 9. The hydroairplane adrift ut sea and in daptrcr tit' .sinking from a leaking pontoon, Knsijjii Arthur Lnvcrents, naval aviator, and C. C. 1'otton, ob server, were rescued ly n coastwise Mcamship m miles off Miami, Fla., Monday afternoon and brought here today on the steamship. Tho men had heen floating on tho piano 18 hours without food or water after nn engine breakdown They were forced to drop to the surface of the sea. Sharks added to their peril. Tho captain of the resetting steam ship said that a heavy squall was coming up when t ho aircraft in dis tress was sighted and hitfh seas had begun to break over it. The pair v.erc pearly exhausted although they n marked to quarantine officials on their arrival today that "all the dam age we suffered was to our disposi tions.' The hydroairplano, winch weights pounds, was hauled aboard the team.ship and brought here with the aviators. CONLEY OF BOSTON WASHINGTON, May 0. Howard Soonlcy of Boston was appointed to day vice president of the Kmergcney Fleet corporation, to have charge of the legal, financial, auditing, contract, stati.-tical, executive and adnnnistru. five divisions. Naval Constiuctor J L. Aekcrson was appointed assistant o Director General Schwab. SAN K11ANCISCO. May 0. A mil itary trninintf school for one thousand students selected front various uni versities in the western depart nient ot the army, to hcuin.lune ',1 slid lust one month at the Pre-tlio of San Kr.in-li'i-ii (i -.auihoried today by the war department, WARSHIP SIGNAL OFFICERS ASK PROBE OF Charges of Graft Stir General Squier, and Colonels Deeds and Montgom ery to Formally Ask Investigation of Relations to Airship Production Request Deferred for Present. WASHINGTON, May 9. Secretary Baker announced today that he had received from Maj'.r General Squier and Cols. Deeds and Montgomery of the signal corps formal applications for appointment of military boards to examine into the relations of each to aircraft prouctlon. Mr. Baker said that in order to pre vont any interference with the in quiries already instituted by the de partment of justice and the senate committee on' military affairs, he had decided not to act "for tho im mediate present" on these applica Hons. Action PostHiicl. The department Is anxious to fa cllltuto and to expedite In every way possible the Inquiries already insti tuted by the department of justlco and the senai.e committee," said Mr. Baker. "A third and concurrent ex amination of the same set of facts at the same time might delay rtiese In quiries. For that reason I shall hold the applications unacted upoq or the immediate present. ".lV ,:. General Squier, chief signal offi cer, Colonel Deeds, executive offi cer for production, and Colonol Mont gomery. In charge of contracts, are the war department's representatives of tho aircraft board. MonoiKily Planned. - While the department of justice wns starting today Its aircraft Inves tigation, Senator Chnmberlaln of Oregon, chairman of the military committee, opened the way for his committee Investigation' by offering a resolution authorizing it. The res olution will bo taken up tomorrow. Senator Thomas of Colorado, I democratic member of the military committee, declored thero was evi dence that monopoly of production had been planned. "Close control of airplane produc tion is had," Senator Thomas as sorted, thru the organization known as the Manufacturers' Aircraft asso ciation which controls basic aircraft patents and restricted production un der a "cross licensing" agreement. Tho agroement, ho said ho regretted had the approval of the aviation au thoritics and tho attorney general. Patent control, Senator Thomas in dicated, is one of the features of the aviation situation tho military com mittee will Investigate. IT CHICAGO, May fl. A tornado n arked here and there by torrential rains, did heavy damage in central Illinois today. .Miles of railroad Iraek were made inpussiihlo by debris carried by the wind or by washouts. Hundreds of poles toppled over; houses and out buildings were unroofed, livestock kiled nnd gardens inundated. At Franklin, Morgan county, Mrs. Anna Hurt and her grand daughter were re ported killed by a fulling roof. .Mrs, K. 1(. Doner and her son were injured at Lukewiiod, near Dcrutur, when their home wns destroyed. Neur I una, an accommodation train run irto a washout and overturned, but none was injured. CUBA VOTES RELIEF TO ALLIED SUFFERERS IFAVANA, May 8. The house of representatives tonight approved n resolution appropriating 11(1(1 for the alleviation iff suffering among the! peoples of the allied nations, ' AIRCRAFT WORK PROCLAIMING ' 4 ft i , tr I pM - ml i!i VA wii III iA H This is tlio first pictro to nrrlvo in tills country showing tlio procla mation of tho tkrnlninn republic. 1'cAsniit women nro shown with ban ners pitH'hiliiiing the independence of Uioir country. fondon now re Hrl that Germany linn docuired inarlial law in tkralilii on tho basis that tlio Ukrainian government lins boon "too weak" mid that spring sowing lias not liccn what tlin Germans cx(cctcd'. I'krnlninus, Germany fears, will start nn uprising that will break tho wholo fn,bric of tlio "pence" slio forced. They insist on rejil freedom. According to Vienna, reports, the jicnsniits ruined most of tJio crops rather thau feed Uielr oppressors. SUFFRAGE BILL SHELVED BY SENATE: LACKS TOO VOTES WASHINGTON", May 0. Senate notion on tho house resolution pro posing submission to the states of an equal suffrage amendment to tho fed. oral constitution has been postponed indefinitely because a canvass of the members showed that supporter of the resolution number two'loss than two-thirds majority necessary for its adoption. This announcement was made to day by Senator Jones of New Mexico, chairman of the senate woman suf frage committee, after he had hinted in the senate that the resolution would not be called up today. Ife added that formal notice of Die postpone. nent would bo ivvn in the senate tomorrow. Senator Jones said there was no in dication when the resolution would he called up, but declared that no effort would be made to do so until there were assurances of hufficieiit votes to pass it. Willi eonre.-.s planning to adjourn July 1, some senators be lieved that the resolution would not come to a vote at this session. SUFFRAGE FIGHT IN AFillNOTO:, May 9 Senator) Jones of New -Mexico, chairman of the senate women suffrngn rnmrnll-j tee, announced today that pluns to have the senate vote tomorrow on the house recolution proposing sub mission ot an equal suffrage amend ment to tho constitution had been abandoned teiiiporiirl.y. INDEPENDENCE! I I'AUIS, '.May II. Within five min utes Tuesday, Sub-Lieutenant Nun geser, leading French aviator, brought down his thirty-third mid thirty fourth German machines and dam aged another which undoubtedly will be placed lo his credit. On Sunday he knocked out two other enemy air planes which have not yet been of ficially recorded. Sub-lieiiteiiaii( Nugeser during three years of air fighting has been wounded seventeen times mid has served on fifty-two bombing expedi tions. l'Vi'iieh aviation ha! suffered a great loss in Hie death within a few dins of Ihree aces who among them luid accounted for morn than forty- five Germans. Lieutenant Chupul, with sixteen (icrruans to his credit, win killed Ticsday, while, Sub-Lieu If mint lliincivildre, winner of thirteen victories, was killed in the region of Hie Somme yesterday. Captain I lief- Ire met (icalh while oiroeting an in- lanlry attack from a very low alti tude, lie was struck by a mnehini gun bullet fired from, the ground. MAY RAISE DRAFT AGE TO FORTV YEARS WASHINGTON, May 9 lglsla lion raising Ibo draft ago to 10 years r.as discussed as a possibility within a tew months at a meeting today of Provost Marshal-General, f'rowdor and the houso military committee. Altho General Crowdcr mailo no spe cific, recommendations, members of the commltteo said afterward tho war department was considering a plan for changes, $300,000,000 INCREASE FOR RAILROAD IN Wage Commission Recommends to McAdoo Bigger Pay for Employes Unions Protest Ratio of In creases Which Favor Small Sal aried Men Reductions In Hours. WASHINGTON-, May 9. Recom mending wage increases of $300,000,- 000 annually for all railroad em ployes whose wages were less than S2:0 a month in December, 1915, the railroad wage commission made sev eral far-reaching suggestions on the problem of railroad labor which at tracted attention today ot Director Oonoral McAdoo. Mr. McAdoo is expected to an nouno Ills decision on tho recommen dations in about ten dayB. There aro Indications that ho will not ac cept them in their entirety. Some union officials already have expressed dissatisfaction with tho amounts roc ommonded for tho mon of their or gan Izutlons, tho Increases ranging from 43 por cent downward to 4.6 per cent, the hlghost paid men re ceiving the lowost Increases and tho average being 15.02 por cent ad vance over tho 1917 payroll. Deduct last Increases. Perhaps the provision ot tho rec ommendations likely to oncountor most strenuous opposition Is the one that all wage Increases allowed by the roads In 1911! and 1917 shall -be dod noted, from the amounts now to bo given. Tho commission declared that Its conclusions wore based on the principle that tho men were entitled to recompense for the Increased cost of living, and In basing lis recom mendations on tho payrolls ot Do cembor, 1915, In comparison with present prices of necessities, decided It would bo unfair to allow certain omploycs who ulroady had received wago increases to benefit twleo. Tho commission declared In Its ro- port that reductions in hours arc not to be regarded as Increases in pay, a stand frankly at variance with high railroad officials who during the 'i.'arlngs asserted that the Adamson l,;ht-hour law was In effect nn In croase In pay, because the overtime rosultlng was Inevitable and amount ed to many millions ot dollars In money. ICight-lloiir Day. Requests for nn eight-hour day for all railroad employes and for time and a half for ovortlmo wore not acted on by the commission. "At tlio outset of tho hearings," the report says, "It was manlfost that tho matter of hours of servlco Is lodged deep in labor's mind. It would bo a splendid achievement If we could at this time crystallize tho expert enco of tho world Into a conclusion concerning the length of tho work dny that would bo ot universal appll cation. "Hut this Is not the time, In the Judgment ot the commission, to make experiments which might lessen the output of that commodity which rail road men produce tons of freight hniilcd, nnd numbers of passongors carried. The onn thing now impera tive Is volume of, and speed In rail road output. "Hut with this wo earnestly urge that a most exhaustive study be made or this matter of hours of serv ice, not with a view to the adoption of somo arbitrary and universal poli- (Continued on i'ugo Two.) LONDON, My 9. A Glirmun sub marine landed a man on the Irish coast, wbero bo wus arrested by gov ernment officials. .Initios Macl'hor- son, parliamentary secretary to the war office, announced In the houso of commons today that this man was In tho Tower of London and would be court-martialed. VICTORYO'ER ASOUITHWON RY PREMIER Lloyd George Denies That He Misrep resented Strength of British Forces Fighting In France, as Charged By Maurice, and Declares Figures Fur nished By Maurice Were His Au thorityLine Only Extended On Urgent Request cf French. LONDON, May . Kx-l'remier As- quitlrs motion for the appointment of a select co'huniUco to investigate the charges mudc by CJencrnl Mutirice was rejected in tho house of commons to night by a Jfote of to 10(1. LONDON, May !). Iiftho houso of j commons tocoiy Premier Lloyd Ooorgo. was ehecret.' loudly when ho aroso to J speak in reply to a motion made by Mr. Asouilh asking tho appointment of a select committee to ascertain the ) truth of charges lnndo by General : Maurieu that the. premier had lnndo : misstatements regarding the size o j tho Uritish army in France and was misleading tho country, lie Huid ho S hud been treated unfairly. It was the business of General Maurice to vomo to the cabinet and point out where the ministers had mn do mistakes. ,,, Mr. ,' Llovd G'coi'gu snid that if the motion , was carried Mr. Asipiilh would again he responsible for tho conduct of tho : war. Denying Hint Ihc strength of tlio Hrilish fighting forces had been mis represented, us staled by General ' Mnurire, Mr. Lloyd (leorgo asserted j the figures which ho had given were v taken from official records at I lie war i office. Since that lime he had mado ' inipiirics on Ibis point, he added, and 1 the figures were not inaccurate. -( Without Precedent. ' The demand made by Mr. Asquith ' for a select committee wus charac terized by Ihe premier ns without pre cedent in Hie history of the house. During the lime Genernl Maurice mis in office and when be had access f to in formal ion and to tho, ministers: themselves, Mr. Lloyd George snid, ho never challenged I lie statements of the ministers. In regard to the comparison be tween the enemy and the allied forces the premier added, be wus charged with misleading the public, hut all tlui figures on which his statement was -based came from Gcnerul Maurice's depart niciil. The statement that three Hrilish di visions were present in Kgvpl, he ex plained, was made at u cabinet meet ing when, General Maurice was pres ent, and ho never had corrected it' tension of Front. llegaiding tho extension of tho I'.iitish front, the premier went on, General M.turicc was at Versailles, but. was not at. the council chamber. The exti nsion of the front of General Cough's army, the premier declared, was never discussed ut that council, nnd Ihe extension was an accomplish ed fuel before Hie council met. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Iluig, Mr. Lloyd George said, was reluctant I lo extend his line nnd so wns tlio war -rabinel. The extension, ho added, was ' (Continued on I'ngo Two.) $261,513 BONDS WASHINGTON, May fl.-Parlii.t compilation of the third Liberty loan total in the twelfth federal reserve bank dislriet shows a tola! of $2117,-"i7;l,-llMI at noon today, with many more subscriptions still uncounted' The district's quota was If 'J 10,000, ono. ; A total of 1,4(17 honor flags wero awarded to cities nr..l other cmnmuni lies in this district for oversuhscrib-. ', ing their ullolmcnls.
