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Newspaper Page TextUniversity af Oregon ' ' Library JACKSON CUDNTY 111 C C i BAROMETER II. J. J. Quota for 1918, "(692, 000.00 Sales to May 14, (71.C23.70 Buy Thrift Stamps Medford Ma Save anl Buy for Victory Buy W.S.S.& Thrift Stamps wIm. Safest Investment Forty-eighth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, . OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, MAY ", .1913 NO. 45 HUGHES APPOINTED il Tribune PRESIDENT OBJECTS TO 1R PROBE ,V Wilson Appoints Hughes as Official Investigator of Aircraft Program and Notifies Senate That Sweeping Probe of War Would Be Equivalent to Voting Lack of Confidence In Administration No Objection to Probe of Aircraft By Senate. WASHINGTON', May 15. Presi dent Wilson lins asked Clmrles E. Hughes to assist Attorney General n : .1. r. vregory lit investigating mo nncraii situation. Mr. Hughes tins replied that he will be glad to assist. Correspondence between the prcsi dent and Mr. Hughes was made pub lie here today. The president said the importance of the aviation ser vice warranted on investigation with as little delay as possible. WASHINGTON, May 35. By i vote of 3 to 2 the senate expendi lures committee ordered a favorable report on the Chamberlain resolution. but a.dded amendments modifying il so as to limit specifically the military committee's activities to army opera tions. A proviso whs added express ly prohibiting the committee from a general inquiry into the conduct of the war. . Senators McKcllnr of Tennessee, democrat, and Smoot of Utah, and 1' ranee of Maryland, republicans, joined in ordering the modified reso lution reported. Senators Thompson Of Kansas, chairman, and Jones of Uew Mexico, oposed reporting Ilic 'solution, und planned to file a mi nority report with the senate to bring the matter up for a vote prohnhly toinovrow. President Protests. WASHINGTON, May 13. In a let ter today to Senator Martin of Vir ginia, democratic lender In the sen ate, President Wilson declared lie would regard passage olj the Cham berlain resolution calling tor an in vestigation of aircraft and other war activities as a "direct vote of want of confidence In the administration" and as an attempt by congress to take over conduct of the war. The president Informed Senator Martin that he had no objection to the most searching inquiry into the aircraft situation, but that he deemed inadvisable at this time any investi gation of the conduct of the war At the last session of congress his oppo sition to such an Investigation put an end to proposals that it be made. Objects to form. It was believed that the presidents attitude was due to the form In which 8enalor Chamberlain of Oregon, chairman of the senate military com mittee. Introduced the resolution. The resolution "authorized and directed" the committee "to Inquire Into and report to the senate trie progress of aircraft production In the Unulted States or into any other matters re lating to the conduct of the war, by or thru the war department." Upon receipt of the president's let ter, Senator Martin called a dozen prominent senators Into conference. Considerable difference of opinion was voiced. Some senators said the (Continued on Page Two.) E ENGINEE CLEVELAND, O., May 15. Dele gates to Uie triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive En gineers In session here today, unanl mously adopted resolutions afflllat ing the engineers' organization with the American Federation of Labor. Samuel Gompers, president of the federation, was officially notified. n artillery FIRE INCREASE I No Sign of Expected Attack French Capture Wood On Avre Front Operation Successful Big Guns Roar About Vpres, South of Albert and Morlancourt. LONDON, May 15. The German artillery fire increased this morning near Morlancourt, south of Albert, and in Flanders, north of Kcinmel, the war office reports. PA KIS, May 15. French troops yesterday evening, attacked German positions near Haillcs, on the front below Amiens, and captured n wood on the west bank of the Avre river, it is announced officially. The Germans made a counter uttnek and were beat en off with heavy losses. During the night there was a violent bombard ment north of Montdidier and ebtween Montdidicr and Noyon. HY ASSOCIATED PHKSS, May 15. The expected renewal of the Ger man offensive having failed to de velop Ihe allies are continuing their tactics of anticipating the thrust by renching out for new vantago jtoints from which the belter to resist it. French Aggressors. The French were Hie hist aggres sors in the last nporution'of this kind, carried out late yesterday. They pushed out from their lilies south of 1 Indies, on the Somine front, their ob jective being a wood situated at about the point where the Germans had made their fartherest westward advance and are within a short dis tance of the Paris-Amiens railway. The operation was entirely success ful, resulting in the capture of the wood, onthe slopes west of Ihe Avre river, possession of which improves considerably the allied defensive posi tion there. The Germans evidently recognized this fact, fur they countered strong ly at night. Their determined attack was a failure, however. The artillery is reported by Paris to have been violent last night north o;' Montdidier, just south of this sec tor, where American troops are hold ing a portion of the front. WASHINGTON, May 15. Air plane mail service between Washing ton and New York went into operation today when the firs! mail carrier, pi luted by l.ieulenant George L .Boyle, le ft Potomac Park for Philadelphia at 1 1 :45 o'clock. President and Mrs. Wilson witnessed the initial start. The president arrived enrlv at the hangars and watched with -interest the preparations preliminary to the flight. The plane from Philadelphia, pilot cd by Lieutenant F.dgcrton, reached Washington at 'J:5 o'clock p. m. It brought 5.(10(1 letters. The airplane that left Washington was forced to descend at Waldorf, Md. PHILADELPHIA, May 15. In six minutes the mail brought from New York hud been shifted to another airplane, some mail from Philadelphia had been added and at 1 :(l(i o'clock, wilh Lieutenant Edgcrtou as Ihe pi lot, the shirt for Wellington, approximately- 1 II miii's distant, was made. NF.W Y 'UK, May 15. Airplane mail service to Philadelphia and Washington was inaugurated today when a govornmentnirplanc, piloted by Lieutenant Torry II. Webb loft Lclmont Park at 11M n. m. fov Washington with (touches containing Mime LvOU letters. WESTERN PRON HUNS PLANNED ARID REVOLT IN AMERICA 191& Testimony Given at Investigation Shows That German Societies Would Be Equipped With Arms From Germany to Combine With I. W. W. and Socialists. NF.W YORK. May 15. Testimony that in HHti Germans in the-United States were planning to revolt against the country was given today at the stale attorney general's inves tigation of reports of hiddfii muni tions. Ivan Norodny, vice president of the Russian-American Asiatic corpora tion, testified Hint Huron Von Gers- lorff, a friend of the German crown prince and a German agent in Mexico, told him that German societies in tin United Stales would be equipped with arms from Germany lo combine wilh I. W. W. and socialists against tin1 governincnu Nnl-oilnv described a trin lo a New- Jersey slorchotise with ('opium Hans rauscher and other Germans.' lie said thev inspected rifles which Ihe Germans were trying to sell him to enable Russian revolutionists to over- irow the autocracy and make a sep arate peace with Genuany. Huron Von Gersdort'f was one of the German agents jn this, country taken into custody soon after the United States entered the war. He was arrested at Toledo, Ohio, in July, 1111, on a charge id' espionage. He came to the United Stales from Ger many in lilllll, according to bis story, locating in St. Louis, lie first came to public notu'c in 11)15, in denying i published report Hint he bad said Ihe Liisitania carried defensive gutis. e also remained for a time in Mexi co, where he claimed to be interested in mining. Anny for .Mexico. NF.W YOHK, May 15. An offer to an agent of the department of jus tico to sinuglc anus into Mexico was described today at the state attor ney general's inquiry into reports of the hoarding of munitions in the Uni ted States for German interests. William R. llenhum, an operative of the department of justice, namde V. illcrd (1. Stanton, a New York law yer who represented himself as n former congressman, ns having vol unteered lo nsist in the smuggling. Henliam on the witness stand said he had conferred with Stanton at tile hotel Ansoiu'a, N. Y., in February, (Continued on Page Two.) mA i aaa. Well, how il'j-e like It Wlllielm? Xol so good, eh? tinmnil of Ing (icnnnn low to explain lo the ticrmnn "my pooplo." (Iianccn nr may kindly leave off Uie losses, o's to keep Mm In belter liunmr. No TO INVESTIGATE Al A " ' Ml & f ' H . i i -- A CI miles K. ut;!ios( lias hcu general by rrcshloiit WiWui to fiml E MOSCOW, Friday, May 10, (Ily the Associated Press.) Hostov-on Don, the largest city In the Don Cos sack territory, was rocaptured today by tho Ttusslan soviet troops, who drove out tho Germans. Tho Ger mans, who had held Mostov for only a few hours, are retreating. AMSTKiiDAM, May 15.---The Vos sische Zeitung of Herlin nn nounees today that war has had to be proclaimed nt Kknterinoslav, Odessa and Poltnva as a strong counter cur rent to the order of things obvious. There are several eroaps of great Russian forces in the . Don region, the newspaper says. MIbs Margaret lirown and Hugh Brown, brother and sister, were visit ors in Medford today from tho A-p pie gate section. KAISER LOOKING OVER MAP OF "MY BATTLEFR0NT." mm,- mjmL'Mm ' mhH Ml RCRAFT SITUATION. . itn))ni(il sprrlnl asslMtant. attorney out the li uih nlxint aircraft situnUnii, ' WASHINGTON, May 15. Secre tary of the Interior Lane left today on an extended trip through the west. lie will inspect, nuui'i'ous govern incut reservation? nno mineral depos its and will deliver several addresses on the war. The secretary's Imir may take him to Honolulu. If war conditions per mit, he will go to Hawaii to obtain personal knowledge of the public land situntiou. MOSCOW. Friday, May 10 (lly the Associated Press.) The Cau- msiis government has propose pence negotiations, Foreign Minister Tchitcher is informed by the. 'I urkish government. Turkey, acting with Germany, has insisted that the Cau casus government send its delegates to Hatoiim. 4 til - fir ' j -'-'- Li. Utile value ami terrible, dully mount. (lint, llm Ik who fix lip Ibo kniwr'it uo ribbln' Uht fur tho vu-mig ay. lIecoIgio"" inspect minerals F OUR BILLIONS RECEIVED FROM WAR TAXATION Revenue Receipts Show That Ameri can People are Paying One-third Expense of War by Taxation and Two-thirds by Liberty Bonds In come and Profits Revenue Large. WASHINGTON, May 15. Revised ef-timiites of revenue receipts iu the current fiscal year ending next June place at !f4.U!l5.(!!)t,000 the sum which the American people will con tribute directly to Ihe government mainly in taxes for prosecution of the war. fhese estimates, reported to day lo the senate by Secretary Mu Adoo in compliance with a request fr specific information throwing light on future revenue needs, show that about one-lhird the expense of the war this year has been met by taxa tion and two-thrids by Liberty bonds. Estl unites Kxcocdod, The report disclosed that about $2, 775,185,0(10 will he collected on the basis of income and excess profits tax returns on file May L about .:UK,II(I() more than Ihe yield esti mated when the war revenue law was enacted last October, but less than I lu. (Kill, (111(1,11110 recently estimated. The total now expected from internal revenue is ,f:i,(li:t,Hi)!l,(mO; from cus toms $18(1,111111,1)110; from miscellan eous sources, including $40,00(1,(1(10 earnings of increased first class post age $li7(l,(ll)0,(l(ll); ami from sale of public land, $1,800,11110. F.stiiuates of ii.ternal revenue receipts Inst lull were about $:t,4lll),l)l)l),l)l)ll. These figures, although not bnsed on nctual collections, represent quite accurately what; may he looked for from ordinary revenue sources this year, the treasury believes, because the largest item, income and excess profits taxes, have been calculated by revenue collectors from returns hi their hands eleven days ago, showing in such cases exactly what will I)l paid in June. Several thousand re turns slill-are outstanding by special permission of Ihe intermil revenue commissioner, hut these are not ex pected to ndd enough (o change the totals greatly. Scanned by Congress. The report will be examined care fully by members of congress in con nection with the pending question whether nw revenue legislution shall he taken up lit Ibis session, ns urged by Secretary McAiloo. The fact that its figures are fairly definite is ex pected lo have some influence with some members who have argued that results of existing revenue legislution should be determined before new bills were framed. The report today did not segregate receipts from incomes and excess profits luxes, however. Karly in Ihe year Secretary McAdoo phicrd estimates of income luxes at $l,'J(ll,(lllll.llllll mid excess profils taxes at 1,-JL'I),MII(I,(III0. WASHINGTON. May 15. I'.slal. lishiacllt of a budget committee to have general supervision over all ap propriation and revenue raising leg islation is proposed in a resolution introduced lodav by Senator Williams of Mississippi, a nu'iiihiT of Hie fi nance coiiimiltec. The committee would he composed of the cli.-iirniati of the appropriations, finance, judi ciary, military, naval nnd foreign re lations committees together with the minority members of the first four named, I'Altm, May I Sergeant Frank L. Ilayllss of New Bedford, Mass., a member of the French flying force, has brought down another Germnn nlrphine. His scoro Is now nlno enu my machines since February 10, A dlHpaich from Paris Tuesday an nounced that llayllxs had brought down his eighth machine. Ho Is a member of, tho "Stork'' CHcadrillu, KAISERS PICK FOUR KINGS FOR RUSSIAN LANDS Austrian and German Emperors Se lect Monarchs for Lithuania, CJour land, Esthonia and Poland Ab sorption of Austria by Germany Completed. LONDON, May 15. The Austrian and German cmicrois nt their meet ing at the German great headquar ters, German newspapers say, ac cording to an Exchange Telegraph dispatch from Copenhagen, selected monarchs for Lituania, Courland, Es thonia and Poland, Kaiser's Groat Joy. AMSTERDAM, May 15. Replying to a telegram from Emperor Charles of Austria, who referred to the cra- ( Tors' conference as li'n rmonioJus, Emperor William said: "It is a great joy to have again es- tablislied in our detailed discussions our entire accord regarding political questions. ' . .. , Combined Offensive. ' 1 LONDON, May 15. The recent meet ing of Emperor William of Ger many and Emperor Onirics of Austria is of absorbing interest to the British public. There are two Viewpoints which appear in Ihe comment on the laeeling, one ns to the immediate re sult of the conference and tho other as to its future results, but both are of paramount importance. The first is the effect which tho meeting is likely to have in military events, whether nnother irrcnt blow at Italy mnv be expected to coincide with the daily expected rencwul of tho onslaught nt the Anglo-French front. Also, whether Austria can be persuad ed to send troops to the western front to sfrenglhcn exhausted German dU visions. Kroiomlc Boycott. The most distuut outcome of the meeting und its cementing of a politi cal and economic defensive alliance of the central powers is u realization. Hint eventually must bo faced in the materialization of the Mittelcuropa policy and it is nrgued that if this is a mplished the natural reply of tho entente nations would bo the placing; ir. operations calling for economic pressure against Gennaiiy, known na the Paris resolution, because it is contended Hint only by tho strongest economic pressure could the entunto deal wiUi the greatest unit power ever known in the world's history. T VANCOFVKIl, B. C, May 15 Flro broke out In the boilor room of tho J. Coughlnn & Sons' shipyards hero at 2:: 110 o'clock this morning and did damage estimated at $1,500, 000. Ouo fireman was killed and, several Injured. Tho blaze was com pletely extinguished about 8 o'clock. The steel steamer War Chariot, about two-thirds complotcd, was en gulfed In flames. The ways which, aro built on piers fell thru and tho hull, twisted by tho host, Is now halt submerged In tho water beneath. Tho hull of tho Wnr Chargor on adjoin ing ways still Btands but the plates) are badly damaged by the heat. The Alaska, already launched, was towed Into the si ream safely. Tho fltllngoiit wharf, tho holler shop, draughtsmen's quarters and va rious other departments are complete ly doslroyed, The buildings saved In clude tho blacksmith's shop, the plato shop, the moulding loft and the rolls. Two ways on which only portions ot keels bed been laid wort saved.