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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.