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Newspaper Page Text; Uril-nrslty of rjreoon x Library X vTATTTEft Maximum Yosfonlav. (T7; Minimum Tod.-iv, 3.1. FOTiF.OAST ToiiigW and Tmnonw: Fair, LVavy frost Sunday morning. Medford Mail Tmbuni 57m. (BuJ (Sk-3-0 AsO. Owls Forty-elKhth Tear. Dally TUtrtcentb Tnr. MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1918 N HITS ALLIES CUBA Mexico Severs Diplomatic Relations With Cuba and Recalls Envoys May Foreshadow Break In Rela p tlons With United States Search of Baggage of Mexican Minister to Argentina Underlying Cause, for Which America Is Blamed. WASiriXfiTOK, Shy 2.5. Mexi co's sudden and unexpected suspen sion of diplomatic relations with ( uba is looked upon hero as nu indi rect move against the United States which possibly mnv foreshadow a breaking of diplomatic relations with this country. The nnderlyin cause for Mexico's action, it is understood here, was u recent incident in which iSenor Fn l.cla, her minister to Argentina, while on his way to Huenos Aires, was held up in Havana while his hn pnjye was searched by nn official, supposedly a Cuban customs inspec tor, who it is reported found nnionp the minister's effects certain papers, Duo to Germany, If anything was taken from Senor Fcbeln's bujiirne related to tins sit uation it is unlikely that any dis closure of official secrets would In1 made nt this lime but the fcelinir here ).-' that Mexico holds the United States really responsible for 1 tie in cident.. Some 'of those in close touch with the situation and receiving the latest confidential advices lean to the opinion that the break with Cuba pos sibly foreshadows nil extension of a policy of suspended intercourse with the 1'nited States. Confidential reports here from Ha vana have said that, quite outside the Fabela ineident, well informed persons there expected Mexico might tind some pretext to actually sus pend diplomatic relations with the I'nited Stntes. All those who take this view base their opinion on the assumption that German prnpngnndu ngnin is netive. A first rending of the statement issued by Foreign Minister Asruilar in Mexico City conveyed the distinct im pression that in breaking off relations the Mexican government nctuall- is expressing its displeasure and re sentment nt the withholding of Cuban sugar and other supplies. At Request of Allien. The fact that these restrictive measures were adopted by the Cuban government in conformity with the reouests of the Aineriean food ndmin- istrntion nnd in pursuance of the general poliev of the entente allies and America of maintaining absolute control of shipping in the Gulf of Mexico and the Carribenn Sea doubt liss was know 11 to the .Mexican au , thorities. As Mexico cannot expect to make any successful protest to the allies or to the United States against these, restrictions, officials believe she has had recourse to the plan of bringing pressure to bear directly upon Cuba and it was heliced this step, involv ing the severance of diplomatic rela tions, would be followed by retalia tory measures of an economic nature. Knvoys Recalled. MKXICO CITY, May 24. Tlio rc cnll of the Mexican representative to Cuba .and the suspending for an in definite length of lime of the sending of n new- representative official, is explained ns on account of the war in which Culm is involved, that th government lias been obliged to die (Continued on Page Six.) WASHINGTON, May 2-V- Presi dent Wilson today fixed the li'0 id' zmc for a period until next Septem ber as follows: Grade A, 12 cent: plate f. . b. plant, 14 cents; i-hcet f. o. b. plant. I.'i cents. The prices are subject t" Ihe usual trnde discounts and ditfer intials in effect on February 1J Iat. RAIDS DISTURB 1316AMERICAN QUIET EXISTING AIRPLANESNOW ON BATTLE LINE FLY4NGINFRANC No Change In Situation, Except That Weather Changes for the Woise and Rain Is Falling On the Somme and In Picardy Americans Now Patroling Air In Toul Sector. TiY ASSOCIATED l'UESS, May i. Then' lins been no change in the situation im tlio buttle field of northern Frnnce. Itolh sides eon tinue tiieir raiding: operations with (lie Germans paying most attention I I he line between the famine and Al bert. The weather lias changed for the worse ami rain is reported on the Sonmie and Pieardy fronts. This imposes additional hardships on the Hermans who hold the shell-torn low lands while the allies oecnpy the high ..round, most of whieh is unsearred hv war. If the Germans were. not prejared to titlack when the weather was most favorable, it is not likely thev will essav a new offensive op eration while rain and imiil retard their moveiuents. 1 Aineriean airmen now patrol th sector northwest of Toul.' The re eent activity of Aineriean nirmen in the region east of St. Miliel, was ear lied on by this squadron, whieh also is iiuled by other American aviators. The sector northwest of Toul now is all Aineriean. The gunners "are American, ns are the men in the trenches, while over their heads fly other Americans. American troops also may he soon IVIdiic-the Austro-llungnriuns in mountains (it northern Italy. As the climax to Ihe eelebralinn of Italy entrance into the war, in Xew York, Secretary of War linker announced that machine gun and artillery units soon would he on the Italian front. CASUALTY LIS! WASHINGTON', May 2."). The army casualty list today contained 2H names divided ns follows: Killed in action, four: died of wounds, four died of disease, three; wounded se verelv. four: wounded slightly eight. Officers named included: I.ieulen ant AJJicrt K. Johnson, Collinsvill' Conn., died of wounds. Lieutenant I.ee Henry Knapp, Dan hurv, X. II., died of disease. Captain James Xorman Hall, Col fax, Iowa, prisoner, previously re ported missing. Gottlieb Sackman, Fallon, Mont slightly wounded. WITH TIIK AMKIilCAX ARMY IX I'li'ANCK. May 2". (lly the Asso ciated Cross. ) The American avia tors have shot down two more Ger man airplanes northwest of Tool. The victories pained in the fighting on May 22 have been confirmed. The official statement issued at American headquarters in France Friday iiL'lit said that it was estab lished that American aviators brought down two German airplanes May 21. Zl LONDON. May 23. Fishermen re turning to Port today brought re ports that i:i German sailors havo been sentenced to death and two to imprisonment for 20 years by a Ger man court-martial for attempted treason In connection with the recent liritish naval raids asalnst the Ger man submarine bases at Ostcnd and ZecbrlgRO. These reports are based on Inforamtlon said to have come from Urns", llclglum. !E Full Strength of United States Army Now Two Million Men 3,700 Planes In America, and a Third as Many in France, of which 323 Are Combat Planes. WASHINGTON. May 2.1. Full strength of the army, including na tional army, national guard and regu lnrs now is two million men, Chair- ninii Dent of the house military com mittee, announced today in his report on the army appropriation hill. While it has been generally m mored that we had mi airplanes with our nrniv in France, the fact is that we have between ,:I00 nnd 1,400 of them, over :illU of which are fighting machines the report says. The report of the committee di loscd that the exact number of American airplanes in France is 1, till, of which are combat planes. There are :i,7(i() planes in the I'nited States, the report, said. Substitute estimates of the require ments of the quartermaster corps of Ibe.nrmy, lncraasing the original es tiniiito by $1,3:).,HXI,347 for the next fiscal year, weer submitted to con gress today by the war 'department The riviscd figures are based on the "reorganized activities of the quarter master's corps, the total estimates being for :.78l ,!llll'ls:i. The highest estimate is $ l,.rH!U;24,- 1.5 for army pay. Transport als culls for .fti:ri,r(ili,i;!l7 and construe lion iflHl.,r)74.7.S."). WASIHXOTOX, Stay 25. General Perhuitf in his communique for Slay 21, reported to' t lies wnr department the death on Wednesday of tw American officers, First Lieutenant. Waller V. llarneby, signal corps, am: Second Lieutenant Kenneth V. Col bert, United States marines, as a re suit of injuries received in an air plane fell. Before they died they were decorated with the war cross. PAWS, SFny 2.5, Two American aviators, Baul Knrtzson of Philade phia, and Hoy;er Bnbiuni, who came from Cuba, have been killed on th front, the Herald reports today. Both had been in the American nnihnhinr service and transferred to the Atncri can flying: corps. Kurt .on Thursday flew over lb fterniiin lines and shortly afterward lui machine came down in flame Labijini, who was killed Tuesday, was Hie vc:irer of a French military cross awarded fur bravery while acting as an ambulance driver. OSWALD WEST GILS I'OIITLANl), May 2.. Action of the Western Ciiioii in refusing to rec ognize the ri'jht of tch'trraph opera tors is described as "medieval and unpatriotic'' nnd ''hopelessly out of date,' inn letter to that compuny from Oswnld West, made public by West today. Wist sent Ihe letter nlonir with his check for $:t.'i.l!i, representing pay ment of bis April Western I'nion bill. "The day has parsed when preat organizations of capital like yours, particularly when enticed in public sen ice, can deny their employes Ihe riybl of collective burmiinini:,'' wrote West. "Aside from bcin.j hopelessly out of date, votir company's labor m,I icy is wickedly unpatriotic.'' Wr-t related how the povernmciit's labor Htliry and the mediation com mission, headed hv former I'resjilcnt Tuft, had decreed that in the inter ests ,,f effective pro-cculion of the war employers should nowhere deny the rii'lit of employes to organize nor prejudice the standing of employes ho assert that rijjtit. BYANKEES D British Channel Transport Torpedoed and Members of Company B, 58th United States Infantry Missing Probably Killed In Explosion Vessel Carried 480 American Sol diers Names of 53 Published. None From Northwest. LONDON, May 25. With the ex ecution of 56 American soldiers all on board the British tioop ship -Mol davia were saved and have been land ed at a southern British port. No officers' names are among the list of missing and It contains the names of only two non-commissioned officers. WASHINGTON. May 2.1. A brief British admiralty announcement to day told of fit! American soldiers be ing lost In tho contingent aboard tho liritish converted vessel Moldavia, .Moldavia, torpedoed in the English channel. The war department gnvo out the names of 133 members of company 13, 5Sth United States infantry. Fourth division, missing from the torpedoed British, steamer Moldavia. The Moldavia curried 4S0 Ameri can soldiers of the SiSlh Infantry. All those reported lost belonged to Com pany 11. 1,1st of Those I,ost, The list follows: Corporal Fred Chappell, Philadel phia. Corporal Uoy II. Shenk, Lancaster, Pn. Privates: Oscar C. Armstrong, Bridgeport, Okla. Andrew Blackwell, llomlyn, Okla. Geo. D. Boosalls,; Fargo, S. D. Clyde E. Bosloy, North Troy, Vt. Erwin W. Bosley, North Troy, Vt. Leslie C. Bracken, Hoynlton, Minn, Walter G. Bracken, North St. Cloud, Minn. Wm, A. Drown, Hoytsvlllo, Utah Geo. Si. Buchanan, Marionette, Wis, Emll Bueher, K. F. U. No. 2, El Centro, Calif. Joseph I Callan, Mllwnukcc.Wls, Fred D. Canwell, Fall Hlvcr, Mass, Louis V. Castro, San .lose, Calif. Edwin L. Clausing, Grntton, Wis. Virgil C. Cook, llobart, Okla. William G. Croat, Fort Washing ton, Wis. Herman Dlehl, New York City. Herman W. Dicrks, Braiinfols, Tex Conrad Eckel, 'West Allls, Wis. Fred Gerhard!, Chicago. Edward B. Gorl, Nanltowoc, Wis Hedwald Gottenberg, FIdgcon Falls, Wl. Gulseppo Graci, Llcattl, Sicily. Anion V. Lundell, South Chicago, 111. .lames 0. McCarthy, lloslon. Frank McKluey, Stonlngton, III Josso Mars, Shelbyvlllo, 111. Itudolph Mikle, IJo I'ero, Wis. Josso Mllone, Olney, III. Frank Odell, Blythcvlllo, Ark, Kmll J. Bosh, Lankln, S. I). Frank Uoux, Mice Lake, Wis. Leo Iteaser, Cedarvllle, W. Va. Walter B. Seutler, New Hartford N. Y. John Schuh, Portsmouth, O. Joseph Sherman, Ft. Totten, N. I) Lewis P. Spies, Nelson, Wis. Itay Swartz, Pleasant 1(111, O. Maurice G. Kwoetland, Albany, Vt Willow Trapp, Arbor Vltao, Wis. Erwaril N. Weber, Tolley, .V. D, (Continued on Page Six.) FIVE U. S. WASIIIMiTON, May IT). -Tli siles fnr live uvcrnmenl vnrds for huildini; r'in"n-tc sliii have be rcfitminetalcd y cnuincerintf excrt of tlic oluiMiinu hoard. The selection are nndcr-limd to be W'ilrniuiMon, K ('., nnd ..ifk-t-ti illi;, Ha., on Ihe At1 Jit ii I ir- coa-t ; Mobile, Ala., on the (hi! cnnM and San fVaticicn urn Sim hica. Cab, fn Ihe I'aeifie const.' The board him nut ni-led on the rccom meitdaliuil. OST ABOARD MOLDAVIA SURVIVORS OF DISASTER TELL OF Men Are Asleep In Bunks When Ex- plosion Came Assembled In Per fect Order Qlisclpllne: Vlarfcct All Dead Killed By Explosion Liv int Gave Cheers as Board Rafts. ' LONDON, May 2"i. Caplain John son, an Aineriean infantry officer who was un bi:ard the Moldavia, pavi a Daily Telegraph representative this account of the sinking. "The ship was struck just for ward of the engines, on the port side. All the troops were in their hunks slecpiii',' in their uniforms. There was a loud explosion and then the ship's whistle was blown, which a signal for cvryhodv to come leek. The men had been assimi- .1 to particular bonis and boat drill ail been held ever" dify. The men assembled in perfect order. Their discipline was splendid, the best I ver saw. The Moldavia listed to purl, hul ubteil herself and ran on for about minutes to avoid being hi! asaiii Fben she hepin to sink rapidly. Or ders were given to lower the bouts and rafts and we not off. "Destroyers had! lieen circling around us all the time and as soon ns the Moldavia was slruck thev dropped several depth efiarges. No second torpedo was fired ami we snw nothing of the submarine. We ruuiiiucd in Ihe lifcbouls until the ihip sank when we were tuken on jonrd Ihe destroyers. "As soon ns the men got ubonrd the bonis and rafts lliey'began laughing and singing mid when the ship sank Ihcy gave three cheers. Of the Mi missing, two lire cor porals and the olhers privates, I believe all were killed by the explo sion.'V PAYS, SAYS YOUNG I'OIITLAXI), May 2'). Under l!ir direction of F. I). Young, observer for the weather hurciru, Ihe first year's investigation of what, is plan ned tis a study over three years has been completed in connection with frosts and their eflecls upon or chards in southern Oregon nnd Oil iforniu. Air. Young returned from souf! ern Oregon Tuesday nnd will be occupi 1 for some time in making out in grent detail n report, covering the study of the first year, lie wiil es M'cially report his findings in tin- use of orchard healers lor controlling frosts in southern Oregon, where he watched work of this nature tbruoiil the curly spring. Ilcfore n definite onclusion is made the study will em- tiuue for two years. Speaking of the general use of healers in orcliarus, as n result of a year's investigation, Mr. Young this morning said: "I believe that Ihe main trouble in soiilhcrn Oregon has been from the use of insufficient healers in orchards. Of course, the beating system is highly exH.isive, and ha practically been discontinued In nppl orchards, but it is a paying proposi tion where crop prices nre good. As to the best type of healers and sue details a more complete sluily wi prove more.'' I'AIIIS, Friday, May American forces in 'Frunci double by mid-summer the Secretary of War linker rcc 21. The will he number nl I v nn- nouriced ns having been sent there, end by the end of HUM Ihcy will be three limes larger, sfnd Andre Tar dieti, French high commissioner, in a statement i-sueil to the French M'nplc on bis arrival I'rolu the I liitcd Slates today. Secretary linker announced on May H that more than .'iiMl.tlllil Amer ican soldiers already had been sent to Fruncc.. TORPEDOING NO. 54 HID SOLDIERS HOW fypnocn IM Four American Army Officers and 26 Enlisted Men Heretofore Reported Missing Now Interned nt Camps Ka' lsruhe anil Darmstadt and Un known Prisons. WASHINGTON'. Mnv 2" Four Aniericun army oH'icers and 120 en listed men hcrctolorc reported mass in;;, arc now s:iiil to be prisoners ii (icnnanv, the war tlenaiiinent'saiil ti- dny. The (d't'iccrs nre: l.icnlcnaiit Aviator J. J. -Meredith, nddress not known, and Lieutenant .lames F. Crawford of Warsaw, X. Y.; Louis M. Kdcn, Caihool, Mo., and Maurice S. Redmond, I'ittshurtf, Fa. All arc interned at Camp Kurisruhc. Two enlisted men are interned at Camp larmstailt. They arc Corporal Fat rick F. Median, Springfield, Mass., and Private A. Herder Turners Falls, Mas. Thy oilier enlisted men are prison ers nt camps not named. They are : Privates Homer A le ers, Norwood, Mo.; Kdward Pennett, Williamsburg, Ky., Frank Pret -Schneider, Chicago, III.; F. Ibiniels, Lvnii, Mass. RAISING AGE LIMIT FOR ARMY TO 55 WASHINGTOX, May 23. Another move toward full utilization of tho country's mun-powcr wns made today when Secretary linker flont to con gress tho draft of a bill proposing to ralso tho maximum ago limit for vol untary euliatinent In tho army from 10 to 55 years. All men over 40 so onlistod would bo unsigned to non- combatant servlco. In a letter to Speaker Chirk, nsk lug that Iho bill ho pushed, Secretary Ilaker nald: "Kvory man abovo tlio ago of 40 ycarB who is enlisted In non-combat ant branches of the service, will muko available for duty with tho lino troops a man within the prescribed age limit for nil troops. "Many men whoiio long experience us meehaiili'8 nnd nrtlsans will niako them particularly valuable to tho var ious staff corps and depaitnienta may he llius secured instead of younger men without such experience unil tho efficiency of tho staff corps uuil the departments thus will ho Increased. There probably nro 7,500,000 men between the ages of 40 and 55, and many thousands of them already at- tested I heir desire to servo by bom hunting the department with apidlca tlons. While tlio great majority ot Iho men lu this class undoubtedly will bo restrained from enlisting by family and business ties, tho iiiimln at liberty to Join the colors Is expect ed to bo morn than sufficient to meet the purposo In view. 1 Staff corps positions Includo many duties behind tho front. Kveiy head quarters unit includes a number of positions for which tho older men would bo just as well milled as tho present occupants, who, under the now plan, would bo roleased for lino duty. Official estimates nro that a mod ern army to bo maintained an an ef ficient unit, must have between 4n and 45 percent of Its actual strength on duly behind tho fighting zone. This melius ilit of the first "tie, mil lion men sent to France, 4110,1100 servo nloig Iho linn of communica tion, in hospitals, or ut the various hendiiuartiTs ami dchurkatloii bases. STEAMER IN DISTRESS AT SEA IN PACIFIC A PACIFIC POUT, May 25. The steamer Salvador from Honolulu, wan reported In distress about fin miles off this port enrly today, Tho ves sel lost Ils rudder head,, according to messiiges received here. Tugs have gono to her assistance and will tow her to port, imonunioio British ant) American Governments In Possession of Evidence Proving Germany's Untjring Efforts to Promote Revolution In Ireland Sinn Fein Leaders In United States Implicated and Arrests to Follow Nnmher Under Surveilance. WASHINGTON, May 2."). More evidence than that disclosed in 11 lirilish official (statement issued by the jutss bureau of the close connec tion between tb Irish Sinn Fein nnd German influence is in the hands of Ihe liritish nnd American govern ments it was said officially here to day. Arrests nre to be made soon in this country nnd possibly addition al nrresls in Ireland. A number of prominent Irish- Americans, including several here tofore known as Irish putriols ore under surveillance. In most eases, it was said, nrresls will bo niudo ou eclinical charges of seditious uttor- iinces with most of the fuels conceal ed uulil tho trial. Department of justice officials to day pointed to the disappearance of Icrennuh O Ix-ury, nn I ruth-American, former editor of the suppressed pub licutiou Hull, nnd organizer of the American Truth society, on tho .eve of the last week of his trial on charges of publishing seditious mai ler, ns a strong indication Hint O'la'iii'y ami others lire informed ot . other charges which might he brought ngninst them. Hares Hun Conspiracy. . LONDON, May 2."). Germany's nn. tiring efforts to foment revolution in Ireland with the nid of the Sinn Fein nre laid hare in a statement from the official press bureau, re viewing Ibis phase of Ilia Irish po litical situaliou since tho beginning of Ihe war. After Ihe abortive rebellion ot Fasler week, 1111(1, plans were made for u revolt in 11117, but this niisenr- ried because of America's entry into the wnr and Gcrninny's inuhility tn s ml troops to Ireland, An uprising in Ireland wns planned for Ibis year after the (lerninn offensive in tho west had been successful nnd when Great Ilrilain pre'siiinubly would be stripped of troops. One phase of every plan called for the establishment of .siiliiniiriui' buses in Ireland. In Iho present eireiim stunecs, it is milled, no oilier course wns open to the government, "if nse hss bloodshed was to be avoided nnd its duties lo ils allies fulfilled but In intern Ihe authors and abettors of this erimiiiinal intrigue." Ilernstoi-ff AsslsfiMl. Details of how Ambassador Hern slorff assisted in hatching the eon spirncy of lltlti ore given: The statement, from the press bu reau follows: "The revolutionary movement in rreliind which eiiluiinufed in Ihe ar rest of a considerable number of persons hist week consisted of two loscly related scries of netiviiies: "A.- Attempts by the German gov ernment lo foment rebellion in Ire land nnd, "II.- ('reparations made in Ireland In cany these allempis into action. "The story of the active collection between the leaders of tho Sinn Fein movement ami the (lennnns, ns dis closed by documents in possession of Ihe liritish government, fulls into two parts the period prior to and the period since Ihe nbortivu Irish ichcllinn of Ka-ler, Itllli. FOR COFFEE IMPORTS WASHINGTON, May 25. To chock speculation In chartering spaco for rotten Imports which has driven the rates to four and five times tholr normal, the war trade board today suspended all licenses for Importa tion of coffee and will renew them only on proof that they aro bolnfC used under chartering rotes as fixed by the shipping board.