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Newspaper Page TextIfn! k-sHj- sf Oftpn Library i X, WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, S3; Minimum Twlav, 30,5, FORECAST Tonight and Tvinwrruw: Fait. Medford Mail Tribune JACKSON COUNTY llf C C i BAROMETER j,Yl. J, J. Quota for 1918, G92,000.00 Sales to May 10, $09,493.70 Buy Thrift Stamps Save and Baj lor Victor j BByW,S,S.TMItStaips wS-, Safest Iwestient Forty-etehth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Year. MEDFORD, ORTGON, 31 ON DAY, II AY 13, 1918 NO, 43 STALEMATE ON BATTLE FRONT STILL UNBROKEN Allied Assurance of Ability to Check Germans Grows as Enemy Delays Renewal of Offensive No Gains Made In Past Fortnight by Huns Most of Reserves Used Up. BY ASSOCIATED PKESS, Muy 13. Assurance in their ability to Ktem the tide of German force grows umong the allied leaders as the enemy delays a renewal o his offensive from day to day. . Germany's military leaders have used up most of their rescu es in their attacks sinec Mareh 2 mid the Brit ish ami French armies, with the re serve French force, are deemed fully able to deal with ftirlher enemy on rushes. The allied strategy is aided by the fact that tjie Germans must attack or admit defeat. , Xo Gain in Fortnight, It is now i'o weeks since the dis- ' nstroiis repulse north of Muni Keai mel and in that time the Germans have gained hardly a foot either in Flanders or l'ieardy. The French and British, however, have taken some small and locallv important positions in limited attacks, the latest advance having been made by the French north , of Kemniel village in the capture of Hill 44 and an adjoining farm. It is felt that the Germans cannot delay their attacks in strength much longer and that important seetors southwest of Ypres nnd between Arras ifnd the Soimnc will soon respond again to the elash of mighty battles when the al lied cannon will hurl thousands of shells in the enemy lines, t, , On the Italian front the only fighl injr is become sharper with the Ital ians on the offensive. After the suc cessful operation on Mont Corno, south of Asiago, the Italians have wiped out an Austrian outpost on the important height of Col ltd Orso, be tween the Brenln and the I'iava. Aus trian patrol parties were repulsed north of Lake fiarda and along the line west of the Hrenta. Austrian Situation, Announcement that Kmperor Charles had gone to the front to wit ness the start of a new offensive against the Italians, which has not tlavt'lnppil, has not improved interna tional conditions in the dual mon archy and t!rt existence of a separate Austrian state is reported to be in danger. Baron Burian and the em peror now have gone to German great headquarters, where, it is said, the foreign minister will discuss plans for the military and commercial alliance of Germany, and Austria Hungary. The serious lack of food which has caused outbreaks in Austria and Bo hemia, has spread to Galicia and many are reported to he dying of huii- LETTERS SHOW ' I.W.W.PLANNEO TO BLOCK WAR PLANS CHICAGO, May B!. Letters seized from the private files of branch of fices of the Industrial Workers of the World, containing statements rela tive to th anti-war campaign, were introduced by the prosecution today at the seditious conspiracy trial of 1 LI leaders of the organization. These letters intended to prove gov ernment charges that the organiza tion entered a conspiracy, nation wide in scope, to block America's war plans, and told of results mus ob tained in factories nnd other indus tries. One letter to Albert 1'rashner, sec retary of the coal miners branch at Scranton, I'm., written by an organ izer who was trying to bring about strikes in I'enn-ylvnnia, said: "We are making a grand drie on the factories with the Icatlct cam paign, and if the ammunition holds out, we will In able to give the Imihm1 that which the Germans gave the Serbians," GALLOPS UP STEPS OF CAPITOL 10 GIVE NAUON CONFIDENCE - WASHINGTON, Mny 13. J. C. Qray of Albany, H. Yn eume to town today, hire! a horse ami galloped half way up the Htois of the enpiiol before the police stopped him. Gray ex- plained to his captors that the " eouiitry needed confidence and hor.se sense, lie had the eon ft deuce, Gray explained, and add- ed that the horse had the sense. The policeman agreed with Gray, but sent him lo a deien tion ward for mental observance. 4 AMERICANS WIN SNIPERS NEST ON LUNEVILLE FRONT WITH T11K A1IKRICAN ARMY IN KIIAXCE, May 13. (By the Asso ciated Press.) Three American scouts yesterday afternoon attacked a German strong point in the Lnne ville neetor in which enemy snipers had a nest and had been oeratine; with such success that .several Amer icans had been killed hy their ballets. The scouts found the point held hy an officer and 12 men. The party attacked the Germans, killing the of ficer and fmir men. The officer's pu llers, which were ea pi if red, included a German code and other documents from which important information was secured. The scants retired when German reinforcements appear ed. Vpon the return of the scouts, 2." Americans crossed to the Gentian po sitions ami resumed the fijjhtimr. The report on this encounter 1ms not been received. A0 INAUGURATES BREADLESS DA' LONDON, May Kl The Austrian food controller is considering the in troduction of one , breadless day a week, according to a dispatch from Geneva to the Unify News. Vienna i-ewspapers say the iovemment is forced to take this action owing to (he rapid diminution of the flour sup ply and the small prospects of ob tain! tig more wheat iMjfore the next harvest. SWISS SUFFER FROM POISON GAS VAPORS GENEVA, .May 13,. Swiss troops on the Alsatian frontier have begun to suffer from German poison sas floating hack from the western front toward the Rhine, Swiss newspapers say. The civilian population alons the tihlno has been warned to pro vide i Isei f with gas m ask s. The school chmildren in Muihelm anU Freiburg wear the gas masks dally. ROOMING HOUSE BILL OP 10 WILSON WASHINGTON, May IX The "onference report on the 10,000,0110 hou-iitg hill adopted lust week by the !muM was approved today hy the sennte and the bill now pies to the president. It authorizes the pre-i-dutt to act pit re hou-insr fur govern ment war workers with $10,000,000 to he jcitt in the Irislrict of Colum bia. CURTAIL WESTERN ' PASSENGER SERVICE WASHINGTON. May W. Dinvtor General McAdtm todav ordered cur tailment of Irau-'corif mental pacn ger rhedtiie from thtej wet. ef fective June 2, to save 11,728,000 train mile a er, by diiimitiii;; cnnietitifin and cutting oWn run ning rcJtct!fdo. PATENTEES LOSE $10,000,OOOSUIT FOR ROYALTIES Federal Court of Appeals Reverses Judgment In Favor of Mineral Sep aration Company Against Butte and Superior Mines Proportion of Oil Found Different. SAX FiUXeiKCO, May Li. De cision of the Tinted States district court of Montana which granted the Mineral Separation Limited, owners of a patented process for extracting ore hy flotation, approximately $10, 0(10,000 against the Untie and Supe rior Mining company for infringe ment of jMitent, was reversed here to day in an opinion handed down by the I'nited States circuit court of ap jea!s. The decision held that "inasmuch as the defendant kee out of the limit Biade for the plaintiff by the Tniied States supreme court by us ing more than the critical projxirtion o foil in the process, they did not use the plaintiff's process. The decision was concurred in hv all three judges in effect, Judge W. W. Morrow dissenting on a point that did not materially affect the decis ion. i Appeal From itorgimii. The Butte and, Kija-rior Mining company's appeal was taken from the decision of Jadge G. M, ISnnnniim, of the federal district court of Mon tana. Judge iiouniuiin had upheld the contentions of the minerals sepa ration eorMration that their patented process had been infringed and had granted 10,000,0(10 royalty damages. The question of infringement rest ed nimn the proportion of oil used in the flotation process. The limits of the invention were one-liaif of one per cent of oil, nnd tlip JiWision held that "inasmuch as the lintte and Su perior company had never used more than one-half of one per cent of oil, it has not infringed." Judge Morrow dissented in this iwiiii, holding that use of oil exceed ing one per cent was an infringement. HOBSON SPEAKS TO BIG CROWDS fajitian Itlehmond Pearson Iloh- Fon, who addressed a largo andJeaco at tho I'ago theater Sunday after noon, put in a iiusy day yesterday. tin addressed a bis meeting In ttrants Pass in the morning and Immediately after tha meeting here departed by auto for Ashland where h addressed another large assemblage last night. He speaks at Hoscnurg tonight and at Kugene tomorrow night. Captain Itobson is touring the country under tho auspices ot the Anti-Saloon League, speaking In ad voca'y of national prohibition. Ho l a forceful speaker and mads a .very impressive talk at the Page, con fining his subject to the national pro hibition, iio has given up his eili zenshin in Alabama, his native state, and is now a resident of JSvanston. ill. Ho is giving all his tlmo to Anti-Saloon League work. G000 WORK AT TROUT HATCHERIES Slifte Fi-h omfuistoner I. X. McUeimcr and Stale Game Warden t. Shoemaker returned to Portland Sunday after an examination of the butte creek trout hatchery ami new Klfc creek hatchery. They are much ptca-ed at the protcres made hy rVh t alturi-t W. Hcrrian at Butte Fails where, condition and Ideation an- ideal. fine hundred thonjmti eut throat fry have been hal'died and are in fine conditimt t the Butte hatchery and 7to,(MM! ;.f-d head eugs are being hatched-. The grounds have been bea at i lied a nd new fee ?ig pond confirm ted. .i UK crceK, over a million Meel- liejid es r- being htihed. Mo-t of the tndhon of .otna ahmm have al ready been libera ted. The new build iti'i i nering completion. CHARGES GRAFT IN ; i : 4?. a; t - y 4 7i i -1 ' - fCU Vk WASillXCTON", May 13. In an o letter to Presldoat Wilson published today, Oust on Horginm, tho sculptor, reiterated bis charges of misconduct In tho government a'reraft production organtatlon, denied that he had betrayed the president's friendship and demanded sn open and full investigation by tiis senate military committee of til entire air craft program. His own investigation, ha said, had been hindered "hy tiie war department under Secretary Baker. LOOK TO JAPAN TO CHECK SPEAD OF B0LSHEV1K1SM !.ONrQ,N May 3 3. The Inter change of nwsaRP between Baron Goto, the new Japanese foreign min ister, and the British foreign office, ts sees by the liaily Telegraph as a hapyn omen, emphasizing Uts yalue and reality oC the Angm-Jayauese al liance, "It Is wet!, tho paper says, tliat we should ho reminded from time to time at tho mutual obligations between London and Tokio, obliga tions which have been fulfilled pune tlltnwsly on both sides and recog nized fully by tiie Hading statesmen of both countries as a n!eHariy binding force. Tho time may soon come, perhaps It already has arrived. when Japan may he called upon to play a strong and prominent part tn the war, Aeeordlngiy ntm must be assured of or sympathy if she takes whatever she deems to he the proper steps for prelecting allied interests in the far east. "Japan has her own rponsibi li lies m this matter and can hardty am without alarm tho spread of Bol shevism to Vladivostok aad Mattehu rla. To give a ehanc for the resur rection sf Russia by holding the an archical factors In cheek is a clear and stafesmaniiko policy for the en tente powers who sympathise with Hussia, What country obviously Is marked sat tor energeUe acUoa in this eruaade? "That can only be Japan, whfesh by its position on the Pacific and Its promislty to Siberia is HUd pecu liarly to render efficient and prompt service even m far as to Irkutsk in the west. "We do not dotihi that Premier Count Tersarht and other statesmen In Tokio rerognise what the sit'iaHoa demands and as quite ready to ftear their share ' AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION s FORMER CZAR S REMOVEDTOPREVENT PLOTTED ESCAPE I,ONiH?X( The soviet government, according f a Times dlspateh from I'etrograd tinted Friday, confirms the report that Nicholas Itomsnoff, the former emperor, together with the former empfss sn? of their danghters,.!iaa removed to Kkalerin Inirg from Tohoik, as a result of the discovery of a peasant conspiracy to assist In his escape from rapaivity Alexis Romanoff, the former boJr ap- paratt remains at Tobolsk swing to ill health. The former emperor is ttow con fined in a small house with only one or two attendants, and no strangers aro ailowed to approach hitM i AMSTH!HAM. May 1,1. The t li- jrainlan m&n itttrcaa has received ln- ' formation from Odessa, according to which tho former dowager empress of lsi&it .Maria Feodorovona and Hirand inkcs Nicholas Kichoiaioviteh and Alexander Xlchoiaievlteh (Mlch aHovlti'iifi alio had been living at iJnlbars ntir Aitodnr In thfi Crimea, aro in th hands of tho termans. SACREUGiOUS BUNK FROM II KAISER AMSTKimAM. May VX Hcdymg to a ii?c of 'onsriitHlatmnff frttm King Ludwig of Bavarin on the eon t twm of cacc with ininnrtf Km-M-r Wjiliam ha? Miii the foliimmg tdraffl t '! hmnv I 7?m at one witlf yon in i'iffH eoniidencc that the Ahuighty wdi ieiMl mtr good ea- i victory, Mv iUnl grant thai oar brave and faithful jjciijde will rf the frails of their reiit .iMrifice m long and bav jear? of e;t READING SAYS AMERICAN ARMY N ACTION NOW Both British Ambassador and Secre tary Baker Deny Report That Per shing's Troops Are Not to Be Foily Utilized On Western Front Untii Full Strength Is Reached. VASUIX5TUN, Slay 13. !,nl Heading. ih BriiMi ambanssdor in a Htatement bere today tlet-is! that an announcement vommg way oi Ottawa that the Americas army wokM set he fully utilusd mt the western front until le-eioptti io its full jitrengtS was direeiSy spjHiie t mforiMMtion he had twrnvml from the BriiMi war ehtiei and Mini he as i th Urk as to it taeHismsr, The anibasadMr statement i!is-t! t the; pnxjie m whicli Amenrsn ffiwft fiNl ihrtaH? Uly &n reading the mmmmremvni frm Ottawa, Con fidential in formation n'ai'hing here reeenliy indicated that web a tan as satiincd frtnit Ottawa was nmleri Swwtary Baker nth!?! hm formal denial io Hint at aht& Hea4m? He sahl the facts were directly oel to the iateanlH and that American trMfe wem hetntr ned aHivtly in hattlc nnd ?ei ay as mevt wttli the aj5srivai of flenersils Foeh and Perinnir Itssdiagjs Statemettt. The ambassador sniliomsI -Ihe the fHowin jilaiemeni ; "The stateoHtit attrHll to the UritCKh war cabinet to the effect that ilte allies are so eonfident that hav ing been given the r botes of a fuoaU iaimediiit American ansy t&t 4efenie or vnStmg tilt they are reinforttesi by a eomki puwerfnl, seSf-m3qsrtin Aineneas annv, they have vhmmx im. latter, m liiiimlneally oiHiHl i all mformiion re'cive! hy bw front the Itrittsh wr enhinet ami to all iho re tjtuwiri whieh I have feen askett by them io makr to the I'niSrd Stales a4- !- am tmie m the ilark nn to the origin tf Hie Hiaiemciit. At ireiit all I can i that ! i fMnvineed that tbfftHnimcni has md been Iucd with the knowledge f the jrism lain ter or the Brite-Si war eaSjmei Vmm War t'oinmittm The rerteti il(risin not to u the hnnmrnn nrtny m rrasce nntii it lias hwn huhi np Io rori imm of ;t cofnlcie and nttghy fr'c, diehts in diat'hcK frB Ottawa intM'tl n atlvHH frMfi the war etmtmitttHS of the British enhinet. From the laM ifnaipH that ran In aiere4 her, ne whtml of strat egy has etrtdended fr ohk the Ainericttn fstr fit the battle line as fat as ihev arrie and fr rondnct mj a eniinnus emmier ffcnivi- with ihv of ending th war in Ti tSMrs it is mtfhrUmft; im& fa YtirtHi u4ttg the American grei very htlie, IhsWih litem haek nnii! fnlly ormcd with nil tiie necessary eom- I JensenSs of heavy artiilery asr emft Mini tthereiniineid and tSuen strikm a might? Wow in cnnjomdioB with f 1j Hritih ami French nhieli wml I iit?1i the ftcnuaii lilies mt4 ht'mg a PLAN FOR HON DEW VAHKf;TO, May I3 Th war lepartmts plan for awarding hon or doreirattatta to sahimm dteti&K nnis'hing themselves lit ttm service was fcahmitled today in tho adminis tration hiil forwarded by Sw:retar Haker as a substitute for measures pending conrc.. Tho decorations proposed f a foeiai of honor, a dt-tlnKUishcd serv ice cros and a distinnnishwi stsrvice niedaS. All decorations ndir the hlli eon Id ha awarded Ly an army fofamaader in the fieht. As no sec ond decorations could ts swafsted 'lise hlH proposes aldMioBai bam or other inwinSa to he worn on the em idem freiosIy won, A pay inrrea? of $2 monthly to enlisted men for each decoration and additional bars woaid im giva by fh? bill. IS U-BOAT LOSSES GROWING LESS I EVERY MONTH Effectiveness of German Sutanarine Campaign DecHnina towan Statements False DestrnetfoB of tl-Boats Mow Exceels Cistreli Situation Most FaoraM. VAUm.Usx IX Hie gffectisre ness of the lemian snbmaHas cam p;i)in m rfrrimsn, Tlie Oersa gov emmcni m aware of ibis factt declar ed Uftgm Iygnes, minmisr isa rine, before the naval ?omtmfetee a the elmmher of dqtutfes Way, bul has Tsmt&t the greatest efforts to ess ccat it, H said the? ssts&tMm waa most favorable and that tha makings of submarines in tha first three awatk of l!tlS Ihrmh sHwd mezi- urers wa cater thaa the ci umber bittlt by tJse encmy . Xlnstrr lygties referred is 4& .-.tatiinHint mmh. in the rekfetag on April ST hy Vice Adimral Vaa Ca, iel!et Oeiman mini.ster of marin?, in which tm nhld gOO.OOO imtm i ailiei shippm wx-rc unnk. moutWy , fhl : figure, the stiab4er saidj was igeoS rwt, ; IMminisiis Ooatlaa Jt was rcaehcil ami passed m-Afmb Slay nnd Jnne of ItllT. In JaSy at 4s twined asd in Kumahpr H fell below7 400,tKi0s ami Htne has sisMshed eontinnony. The mmtsier gavs ofc the foHowsnsr comitmtive.tabIa s the tniisng clnimwl io have beam de stroyed by Oermany and tbe lonusga aHoaliy &4 m the mi fiva moatliJi; IeeBJi1wr$ rfaimed 7&2tl)!)0 tens; actual tmm M&t277 loos; 3&ntmrf elaimca 833,380 toss;, aetarf loss 3tl2t4r tans, February etasm imfim Um netnal 332,522 tons, "Marcht claimed SSSSW8 toss; aHnai So?( 358000 i&m 'Aprit eluim&i iHU$ft&& ions; tajtl f. licyics mtd thai : Fcitrg?rys Xfarih ai Aril, 3,723 Frcsh steaia- er and TS8 French saulas, vessefci mcd SbrtMigb the dnnr a wbera a few months ago hvtwn? by torpedo iiiif hmt bcem very heavy. M&i & single ship mm tank, , ' 1Tflf ijasi lfit"r?.e tn the oilier hantf h said, ihs number of mibmannc ddryed had mcrcati irjTstvely siaeg Jsmiarg in Hitch proM:rlioa that tha effgeiive m& of ihe enemy sqaafirofiii caniiofc be maiaiabmi til I he minimum msir etl hy the rc(ilat!n- Ths mtntbef of enemy IMmisIs destmyed m. Jan uary Febrsiary and March was far reaier sn varh month than ihm mim her ctiBsiimeied in the Bams mosth In FehrMsry ad April the member of nbrfmrines deslryed was fess ihau theHtai destroyed ia ifcg previous tlmc msrtitb. The rsnii-s fh ntinkter feriarcd, were dne in ibe mrthodicaJ rharaeter f ttm war ain-i snhmarise So the close eo-rsiimitton at tba aiSmd us vw&i Ut ibe inir?Mdity ami ssrit sni ttutOng the oil Vers and crews of naf val and crii squadron and to the tttleni ileal but of the sg of old methods and the cnsiyiacssi of sew Sii iia fern Favorsin1,: Thf Miaalbm is nmni favorable, the ieitte4er ctnticd, bt it docs md anllHrin the slackening f e fH. HHSbers it is nH-cxttry to re dtoibic sf a the enemy ba jt nmf .-libiiiariiH mi service aad tryis n frh offensive in wfiMt ha 4ays hU lt nirtikr, TIhc wi i fMi has; mt csssnsnnssne. The coiitii ry ds not know ihs terri ble Uf when diHantprs mcnr, Tim connfry knw that mastery e the ?e in tin ceriaia imge f io lory. It 3n!d hwr at thmi the mastery bebm to the allies who hav n if ani who keep ii fhnsks to the iiersnm of tho sailors who are wor thy of tbir siiilier brdher PROBE PE1CES ASKED FOR FiM IMPLEMENTS WAHHIKtrfCfN, May la investi jmtmn hv the federal tra rmmis -!fi of Oh prMbje!ion sad sapply of ifgricaiiarai tmdemeid aad of the prices farnter,- are ctimiwH to pay fr macbssscry is autlmfictl in & res obtbm ssifrbiced today by Ssnatof Thomson of Kansas and adopt wS by the 2engte.