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Uni' erslty af Oregon X library . . Jk ) WEATHER Maximum Yesterday, 9.'!; Minimum Today, fiO. FARECAST Toiiiglit and Tomorrow: Fair. JACKSON COUNTY 111 C C I BAROMETER VY. J. J. Quota for 1918. 1C52.UO0.00 Sales to May 23, (26,264.70. Buy Thrift Stamps Medford. l Tribune: Save and Buy tor Victory Buy W.S.S. Thrift Stamps world. Safest Investment Forty-nUhth Tear. Dally ThlrloenUi Tear. MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, JUKE 5, 3018 NO. 63 HUM DRIVE D GAL ATTACKS Allien A DM I CO MICCIMP NOT f rheims-a shattered city, but still held by allies. I CHECK TEUTONS FROM CAROLINA Mm$ AT All POINTS RFOIICFO TniO!! Gerirrji - Masses No Longer Hurl Themselves Along Extended Fronts Momentum of Advance Exhatist ei Struggle Changing From War of Movement to War of Position. 1'AHia, Juno 3. Tlio Gormnns continued local attacks last overling and during tlio night on tho main battle front, tho war offlco announc ed today. Attempts made on the i French linos at C'arlopont wood, Do miores, Corey and in tho neighbor hood of Chechy failed. In tho region north of Corey an action by the French infantry, assist ed by tanks roctifled tho French line on tho borders of the forest. Itaids Attempted LI.NDO.V, JimoY,. German troops this morning attempted to raid tho ' Ttrltish lines Eouthwost of Morlan- court in tho region 'oast of Amiens, : tho war ofrico announced today. Al- tho tho cnomy was supported by . heavy artlllory flro ho was repulsed ' and left prlsoncra In tho hands of tho '. British. Associated Press Summary ' German masses no longer hurl themselves at. the allied lines along ; extended fronts. Tho momentum of 1; the Touton advance of last week np- , rears to have exhausted itsolf In ' striking tho ylolding lines of tho French and Urltlsh, which now have stiffened and are holding tho foe ex cept for Insignificant gains hero and Ihero, especially along the front run ning south from the neighborhood from Soissons to Chateau Thierry. Tho struggle apparently Is changing from a war of movement to a war of position. Official reports show that the Ger mans are launching their assaults on Chozy, Corey and near Dommieres, isolated points of vantage. These at tacks wore, roughly, from a five to seven miles apart along tho line which Includes ground whoro tho Americans have established them selves and have fought the Germans to a standstill. Tho French official statement says the Teuton attacks wore all repulsed. American Spirit Kino Tho report of operations along the Urltlsh front falls to show any not able activity on the part of tho Ger mans. At Morlancourt between the Ancro and the Somme, .south of Al bert, tho Germans supported by hea vy artlllory attempted to raid the Urltlsh positions, but wore repulsed leaving prisoners behind. Details or the fighting In which American units have taken part show that General Pershing's men have gone Into battle with a spirit which Is magnificent. In their defense of the bridge across the Mnrno they re pulsed the enemy in a decisive man ner and with their rifles fire prevent ed the Germans making further ser ious attempts to cross the Marno. American machine gune flro con verted tho northern part of Chateau Thierry Into no man's land. The Germans, unable to hold their posi tions under the 'storm of bullets poured Into them by the Americans, have withdrawn to the outskirts of that section of tho city. .New lrlvo Kxpoctcd In addition to tho present battle (Continued on Page Six.) I.KWKS. lel., June ". Reports prevail here tliut the Gorman C-bonts which milled coastwise shipping on Sunday and Monday have strewn the Delaware Hay rlriil the waters uroiim! the Ib'lnwitrc Capes with flnutint? n ines. Ten mines have been found, it is. reported, injl government mine weepers arc searching for others. Survivors Sang Stnr Spangled Ban- i&mltmm ner as They Took to Life Boats- PMmfmmM Army Officers Not Noticed Byj . . . U-Boat Commander-Loss of Life Fp NE WYORK, June 5. A1! but JO nl' Hie 218 passengers nbuard the New York ami I'nrto Rico liner Caro lina, sunk by a submarine, have been aeeonnleil Tor, officers of the line an iiounceil this forenoon. These figures were arrived at by checking up the names of the passen-! gcrs who arrived here today on a schooner and those who reached l.ewcs, Del., and Atlantic City, N. J., yesterday with a list of passengers furnished by Captain Harbour, com munilcr of llie vessel. The na"ies of the missing, it' was said, would he given out later. iS'nmes of Ihe crew are also being i heeked up. Sang Songs lCnvhig Ship After abandoning ship, survivors leaching here said some one in n febcuit began whistling "The Star Spangled linnner," nnd it was almost instantly taken up by those in the other boats the men joining in the whistling nnd many of tho women singing the words of the national 1111 thoin. Veteran mariners who supervised the nlloting of the lifeboats lo those on llie nCrnlimi, declared Ihe ease willi which Ihis lusk whs aocnmplish cil whs remarkable. Few women be came hysterical, they declared, am! must of these eolceted their wils un der the rebukes promptly accorded br other women of stouter courage. Army Officers KscaiMMl Those who reached here after es enping the triple menace of German gunfire, drowning nnd starvation, were unable lo understand why Ihe commander of the U-hoht chose lo let go 1(1 newly commissioned lieuten ants from Ihe second Cniled Stales army officers' training camp nl San Juan. It was manifestly impossible for Ihcse men lo escape the notice of the Hun captain, it 'was said, but he evidenced no mure interest in llicin, seemingly, Ihnn in any others aboard. Captain Uohcrl K. Wrighl of the lirilish navy nnd paymaster in Ihe I). (.'. Crowell of the United ISales navy also appeared on deck without drawing comment from the Teuton undersells men. ' STRIKE MAY TIE-UP CHICAGO, June o. A strike of !.."illll members of Ihe slockhandlers union who demanded fl it month in crease, which tied up the livestock business nt tho stockyards today, was c.xj ted to serve as the signal for similar walkouls in the yards of other cities, according to J. Y. John son, chairman of the organizing com mittee of the stock yards labor coun cil. W. 7i. Foster, (secretary of tin stockyards labor council, sent n tele gram to Secretary of Labor Wilson informing him that the situation wn serious and thut sympathetic strikes bight tie up the meat industry here. PARIS, June 5 One hundred per sons were killed and fifty others In Jured in Monday's explosion In a war materials plant at Ilaussens, In south ern France, says a Ilavas dispatch from Marseilles today. The list of victims it Is added, Is not yet com Pletfl. This remaiknblo photograph of tlio ruined city of Itheims was taken from an airplane, nnd Is ono of Uio latest to nrrivo in tills country. In tlio center stands tho famous cathedral which for three years lias been a target for German shells. Kvidonco of tho German riitlilossnoss is shown bytho fact that tlio roof of Uio onco beautiful. Gothic struct uro lias been completely' demolished. Of Uio civilian MpillatJon which onco occupied it only a fow hundred reiiiained until last woi'k, living in their cellars, and defying tho Jlmi shells. Theso Iiavo now evacuated tlio city. WILLING TO TALK NOT NEGOTIATE LONDON, .lunn r.. "Wo aro will ing to converse, hut not to negotiate willi German labor." pays Arlhur Henderson, labor leader in Iho unuso of commons, in a statement, referring to an announcement made by Chester AT. Wright, a meinour of tlio Amor nn labor mission which visited Kng land, which Implied that tho policy of Mr. Henderson and hla parly had been radically modified, especially regarding fl conferenco between Iho allied and German workers. Mr. Henderson believes this view is likely to mislead tho American public. Ho emphasized the fact Unit (he policy of the allied workers is not that of compromise on any essen tial issno and still less of surrender to the militaristic and Imperialistic j central powers. What tho allied wor- kers want is a peace of reconciliation and undi'istanding in harmony wllh' the principles of International justlcnj and the right of nations to freely de termine their own destinies. EXPECTS LULL TO LONDON, June ii. Tho vlw or tlio military experts here Is thut tho enemy will continue to develop the present operations us long as, but no longer, than they prove fruitful, but that as soon as it become apparent that tho opposing forces are. becoming equalized, thero will be another lull such as followed the .March and April offensives, which will bo a pi-oludu to anothor drive In some new direction. It cannot be denied that the prospect of such a drlvo further north, cither thru Amiens or Ileauvals, or in Flan ders, where an allied retirement would bo a much more serious propo sition. Is viewed with some concern, but confidence Is still felt In General Foeh, and above all. In the fact of tho active help now being brought to tho allies by American troops, ' iL. .i-crtii CASUALTY LIST WASHINGTON, June f. The army casually list today contained 110 names divided as follows: Killed in aid inn, died of wounds, 1:1; died of accident, three, died of dis ease, eighl ; wounded severely, ITi; musing in iicl ion, two. Thirteen ol'lii'ers were tunned. The list included I'rivule Clemmie Atkinson, Denmark, Ore., died of dis ease; I'rivule Rcginuld W. Nonmnii, Snohomish, Wash. The lisl : Killed in nelinn Colonel llerlrniii T. Clayton, Salisbury, N. (',; Cap. tains Harry A. Hullock, Cambridge. .Mass.; I'.ih.arci O. Flour, lies .Moines, In.; Lieutenants Clarence Green, Winlcrscl, la.; 1,'ichard .Moilimcr. Jr., Tuxedo 1'iirk, N. Y.; Sergeants Wil lie l. Murray, Ncwl'iiiiudhiud, Ky. ; Jesse F. TiHman, Creston, In.; Cor poral Walter .1. Iloxim. I'.ronl.lyn; Angus) Multsoti, Kipliii'.', .Midi.; Frank W. Orr, lies M,,i , tuy . uler Fnd X. Iiais-, Luriioer. la.: Cook Jos. Ilouns, KiiMiniuily, III'.! Privates Nicil.i Alon-i, Prig'.-i, Italy; Si-unl o. Ainlcr , Mason city, In.; I'llliolo H.ikeli, .Mason City, la.; Os car linker, lMibniiuv la.: Call I!, lirrersdiirf, I bilniipie, In.; Flank 1!. I. n.vwi, 1,'nl Oak, In.; Lloyd C. Cnill biiiiin, Salisbury, Mil.; (His I). Craig, Cedar Kapids, in.; Urine C. ('roll, Winlei-sel, la.; f-'iiu'oue Ford, Winlcr scl. In.; WilH'onl Fiimlerliiirl;, On mud, (la.; Lloyd W. (iell.vs, Slnarl, la.; Sloilh llann, Winlcrscl, la.; lilnilsloiie C. Ilcrtilt, Crc-lon, In.; Admiral It. Ilnlscy, U, I,,.,.,.,,, (In.; William Kellisr-h, Lnnca-tci. J "a.; Mn rl in l.izdns. Waiikegan, Mis.; Fre,l II. Movers, Nov Tori: ( itv; Kiw-I V. .Minor. Thornton, If. I.; Merle L. Niinmnn. Arispp, In.; Joseph II. I'f.ili, l'iibuiiie, la.; Fverilt Powers, Cnr- li-lc, la.; Jes-o S. Snlsliiiry, I'lltler son, la.; Cli.ilii'l.ls W. Sl llllsler, Hll liii'iue, la.; Karl (I. Shaw, llulimpie, In.; Arthur C. Van Dyne, ("'nliforniii. I'a.; Jolin Znnis.n, Middlctown, Conn. Chas. II. Carlton left this morning on a business visit to Portland and Seattle. PAWS, June -I.-Premier Clemen cciiu gained anolhcr victory over his opponents in Ihe chamber of deputies today before a Inrgu crowd which packed Ihe chamber. Kvery deputy was in his scat. The premier argued Hint this was not Ihe lime lo discuss military op cralions mid the deputies who held him in n stormy session. Calm and collected, as hcMViilkcd hack and forth on Ihe wide tribune while u storm of interruptions from tho so ciulisls surged up from Ihe house, the velcran lender resembled a weather Ijcnlcu caplntn pacing the bridge of his ship, lashed by a heavy gule. The premier spoke without hillerness ant' when rcleriiiig to the sights he had i si. on at the fronl recently his voice I assumed a lone of intense sadness, Snaker Dosoluinel seemed power less lo ipicll ihe sociulisl uproar. 'I premier foldci! his nrius and surveyed 'llie soi-ialisf bcni-lics earnestly mid pa f icnl ly. 'hcti the iiitcrriiplioii! did nol siili-ide lie suddenly descend id li'oin the Iriliuiic, apparently de I , ,,,,1 i;, Al ii r-l I iH'lilli Mien succeeded Ml otiieling soineiv hat the exuberance of his socialist colleagues, Ihe most hi live of whom were Dcpiilics UnlTin, lliiuciis and llegiiise. I'niiicr Clemcnceau resumed I In tribune iil'lcr ('iiehin'i speech nnd eulogized llie French ami allied armies. 1 TIES DP TRADING I CHICAGO, Juno C. An uiiherald I cd strlko of scalemon, feed men and dock men at tho stock) nr. Is today stopped trail lug In livestock. Hotwoon 2100 and 3000 men went lout. After a few hours delay com I mission men thomcclves began hnn Idllng the stock pens. NAVY EXPECTS MANY U-BOATS OFF THE COAST Preparations Marfe for Guarding Commerce Only Two Submarines Yet Reported b'.it More Looked for No Cherk On Flow of Men and Munitions to France Says Daniels. WASHINGTON, Juno (i. What ever the purpose of tho submarine raid oil' Ihe Atlantic coast and what ever number of submarines hereafter may come to American waters there will lie no check on the tfloW of men nnd munitions lo France, Secretary Daniels said today. "The great duty of our navy, said lie, "is lo keep ope ntho door to Franco; to carry our men nnd muni tions lo Ihe grent battle front and to guard food supplies for our co-belligerents. Thut has been accom plished thus far itnd wo will coiitiuel to keep the road open." The navy department had no fur ther advices at noon today from the patrol Heel hunting down the subma rine thai was lust heard from off the Virginia nnd Maryland coasts. Many Submarines Nuvnl officials nro proceeding on tho theory that ninny submarines may he off Iho const or may be ex pected to arrive, although they have nothing to indicate that more than two have boon operating. When Amerieun destroyers and other small era ft were sent abroad for work in Iho wur zone, it was fully realized Hint submarine raids in American waters weer entirely possible and thai Ihe entire costal patrol service was built up on tFiat assumption. Viewed Irom Ml purely American landpoint, officials believed the dis patch of Ihe swift nuvnl era ft to for eign waters wns unwarranted, 1ml American troops could not lie sent to franco with any degree of security and tho Coiled Slates could not take its fair share of Iho burden of wur unless they went. That was the con sideration that impelled the govern ment to east prdueneo usido and to rush the ships ubrond. Kept Holt In ()H-ll II was Ml the key lo Ihe shipping siliinlinn - the neck of Iho -hoi tie was abroad where ships must con verge. The neck must lie kept open at any hazard, and Ihe navy lias kepi II open, Nol an mil ward hound troop ship under Amerieun convoy litis been successfully assailed. Mounnhilc il bus been realized that the length of Ihe Amerieun const lines and the limleil number of swill de stroyers that could he retained at home niiide il possible for raiders lo slriko al eoaslwise traffic or even at the transports. Ailmirnl Hcnson has been watching Ibis phase of nuvnl preparalion nnd has fell Hint- months of drill and practice cruinng wilhoi.t n single at tack might make the pnlrnl forces slale. Recently he visited Atlantic const defense districts. His inspec tion hud hardly been completed when Ihe raiders urrived. PLOT TO SMUGGLE CZAR'S GEMS TO U. S. N F W VOHK. June ". - An alleged plot to smuggle into America the crown jewels of the dethroned Homnn olf dynasty, stones valued nl $-'.111111,-IMIU is believed to have been discover ed by I'liilcd States custom ol'l'iciuls, il wits learned here lodny. Two I'nilcd Stales government of ficials tire under suspicion. One is in Itiissia and Iho oilier arrived at tin A t In lit iff port recently, and is now missing. Two passongers on the vessel Vlndimnr Jogelsen and Motitelier (1 Knhn, were arraigned before n Cnited States commissioner in llobo- ken, X. J., today for aleged complic ity nnd were heid in til). 1)00 bail. Federal ngeuls nro sniil to have located if 150,1100 worth of. the jewels. AMERICANS DO EFFECTIVEWORK ON BATTLE LINE Brilliant Bayonet Attack Drives Huns From Veullly Wood Despite Ma chine Gun Fire Small Forces Which Cross Marne Almost Exter minatedAllies Fight Side by Side. WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, June 4. (By tho Asso ciated Press.) Tho Amerieun troops thrown into the present great battle on the front northwest of Cha teau Thierry in a brilliant bayonet attack drove the Germans from Vcuilly wood, in which the enemy was alV'inpting to establish himself after occupying the village of Veuil-ly-La-Potcrio in severe fighting. The Germans poured a heavy ma chine K'"i f're into, the American ranks hut the Americans rushed for ward nnd destroyed the hastily erected machine gun positions on tho edge of the woods. Continuing their advance, they engaged the Germans ut closo quarters and cleared them entirely from their positions, driving them buck upon the ruined village. -Willed Out Germans In a sharp combat, marked by tho fierceness of the allied machine gun fire, French nnd American troops, fighting sido by side, almost wiped out sinufl German forcos which had reuched (ho left bank of tho Afarno near Jnulgonno cust o Chateau ( Thierry. .Most of tho enemy survi vors worn rounded up in Small groups ttnd mudo prisoners. ' - On Monday in the attack nguinst the Germans ul Vcuillo the Americans drove them buck one nnd a half kilo meters on the front of a narrow an licnt. The ground was taken from Ihe enemy anil the Americans are now holding their position there. Tho American losses, according to Intcst reports available, wero exceedingly light, most of them resulting from shell fire. Mnchlno Gun Battalion Tho first Americans to entcf tho battle zone wero troops of a iniichino gun battalion. They rodo on. trucks during till of Friday night and ur rived nt their new positions on Sat urday morning. Theso wero tho troops which repulsed Iho enemy forces which iittcuipled to cross tho Mu rue river. The machine gunners wero station ed within n certain town and began opernlioiiH by poking tho muzles of (heir weapons through broken walls, hushes and holes knocked in Iho sido of houses. The guns were skilfully hidden and the German swere iinablu to locale I hem. The Germans abollcd the town heuvily and tho Americnns look positions iiecordingly. Lntor on Ihe enemy entered tho outskirts, only lo be pounded by the allied artillery. The correspondent lodny went over the luittlo urea and interviewed many of the American and French soldiers. They uro ill excellent spirits and con fident that the line will hold, although Ihe worst prohulily is yet to come, ns Ihe (lenniins have not been able to bring up much heavy artillery. Until I hen the oitlcomc cannot bo determin ed. In Hilly Country The buttle is raging over n hilly country wdtcrc crops are growing and there lire no prepared trenches. When the Ainerietins entered Iho line the I'lghlihg was shifting back unil forth like a soothing maelstrom. Tho (Continued on Pago Two.) FIX LUMBER PRICES WASHINGTON, Juno ii. Fixing of prices on lumber for tho coininer eial consumer us well as for the gov ernment is under consideration by tho war industries board. This would follow out the government's imlicy oC giving tho private consumer tho samo price ns that obtained by the govern ment,
