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MEDFORD, . OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, MAY ", .1913
NO. 45
HUGHES APPOINTED
il Tribune
PRESIDENT
OBJECTS TO
1R PROBE
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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
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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
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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,
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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."
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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.
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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.
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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.