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Ur.l" erslty et Orcjan Library WKATJIER Maximum Ycsl onlay, 91 ; Minimum Today, JO. FORECAST Tonight and Tomorrow, Fair and Cooler Toiiiylif. Jackson cwniy ui c c barometer tv. j j. Quota for 1918, S28,C6).Q0 Sales to Juno 12 S7.1S0.00 . Bt'V WAR SAVINGS ST ASH'S dford Mail Tribune Save and Buy for VlGtory Buy W.S.S.Thri!t Stamps wind'. Safest Investment Forty-elfchth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, OREGON, "WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 391S NO. 75 SMASH ME FRENCH REPULSE NEW GERMAN HIS STRIKE AUSTRIA FACES MARSHALL HITS K rmnuf m' m 'm mm ii i mm Jo ALL EXHAUSTED SLAP ON WRIST HI Ml IYID Germans Attack On 14-Mile Front In Semi-circle About Devastated City In Vain Attempt to Straighten Out Lines Heavy Bombardment Fol lowed By Attack In Massed Forma tion to Meet Repulse With Heavy Losses at Ewery Point Assailed, PY AKSOCIATKJ) IMiKSS, .liim If. St;unlin; firmly licl'iirc the war stricken city of lMieinist the Krenrl: have checked n new (jcrmnn drive htunched Inst ni:lit, five dnys alter the offensive on the Moiitdidicr Noyon line ciiiiie to a hnlt. In the fihtinr the nctive hut tit front 'hns bun extended t n point live mil!" southeast ol' the cathedral city. The (erir.nn artillery Tuesday ev ening lu'L-na a heavy homhanhncnl lit t wren Vrimiy. wit of lilicims, tu tl.e village of La l'ornie!h:t on the north hank of thcVcslt river eat of that city. Three hours later the Teu U nic infantry stormed out of their trenehes to bourn the assault. A -rordinjr to the official statement is sued at Paris, the Germans were no where successful m their attempts to nlcr I he lOrcnch lines, bv'mu repulsed with heavy losses. I.VMilt Front -The front over which the new at tack was launched is approximately I miles in length. It lias hecu ex pected that the (icrntans would vn tr or later attempt to straighten out their lines in this region hccaiise the close of the Aisne offensive left the ellies in a favorahle position ahm-.r the front from the Manic, cr.st o: Chateau Thierrv ti the region north of Chalons. Having interior lines, they, are ahle onickly to concentrat their forces on either side of the Aa Hie lmii.r its apex at Klicims. haidm operations are Reported nom i ne itniiMi minis in liic r-Mmmir at:d Ivs sectors. Official I rrndi Stjiltinci.t PA IMS, June The (iermans last niyht, after violent preparatory hoiuhurdmcnl, honiin an attack on the front hetween Vrijiny and I. a Pommelle, the war office aimouuccd today. The Krciich are resist inn the Ger man hlow with entire success. n the western front of (lie attach the enemy was not aide even to reach the French line. In the center, hc- fore the city, the Germans were con plctely re(ulcd. and suffered hcavv losses. Kast of Uheitns the 1-YcnHi were equally siicccs-ful, Ciicliiitf Ithelinm The front of the new German at (Continued on Pago Six.) JC V t Nation On Verge of Starvation All Food Received Is What Ger many Doles Out From Ukraine Bulgaria Also Suffering From Famine. WASHINGTON, dune 1!). Aus tria's :rave food situation, coupled with the apparent, failure of the new ol tensive atrninst Italy, is exciting pessimist ic comment in the Vienna press. An official dispatch today fioni Zurich tpiolcs the Arheiter Zeituni of Vienna as savin;: "The situation will he still more se rious in Vienna when the sanjjuin r.iy defeat of the imperial forces on the Italian front becomes known." Supplies KvliauMotl I.OSDON, dime 1!). Austria's i ii in supplies have been completely t:i(;n over, and all the food of this nature she is eltini; is coming from liat Germanv has jillntcd to her limn the I'krainian supplies, accord in ir In indications in a ( 'openhaen dipatch to tlnj. Ivchaiii:e Telegraph i oiupany. This message ipudes an interview with 1 Icrr Paul, t he A ust riun food n.inister, olituincl by the Vienna correspondent of the lierlin Tiijjo hlat. in which the minister confirmed the news of the recent reduction in the Austrian bread ration. Thi-, he said, was due to insufficient supplies from I'essarahia and Ilunyary. The entire 1!M7 harvest from these .-otnvcs had been ilistrihnled ami run smned, the minister stated, mid the It'iinianian harvest also had been used up. I tularin KIso Shy AMSTKK'DAM, June ll. Accord ing to the Gfrmania of Hcrlin, the food situation in Muliraria brought I'hout i'reniier KudosluvolTs resigna tion. The. food problem in that country, the newspaper adds, is becomiui; in 'rea -iuuly difficult. Its snnlics are entirely exhausted and the nation i-n-Kin-; advances o !rain to cover ibe time i:nhl the next harvest. The central powers, however, Germania ih-clarcs, c;iiin.'l -ive l.ul.mm:! (hi-, to the extent desired. TEST VfllE NEXT WEEK ON SUFFRAGE WASHINGTON, Jump lit The lest in tin- senate mi llii- r-li-r:il woman -iil'l'mjit" iiiiii'iiiliiicnt probably "ill fin Tliiir.-iluy nl' nc.t week. The -niilr woman suffrage riuuniitlcc ln iln v decided In seek a vote I hen on tin- resolution pusi'i liy tin- lioiisi- In -I'lrnit (III- jlllll;!lllllli!lt to till' tntl'S. UNITED STATES MARINES "FIRST V' Vice-President Tells Indiana Demo crats to Support Only the Democrat Who Is Whole-Heartedjy Behind the President In Winning the War , Take Fling at Roosevelt's Policy. lXDIANAPOLlS, lint., Juno 19. "Supiiort only tlio rtomocrat who Is wholo-hnartodly behind the jncsliiunt anil tlio way lio proposos to win the war." Vko I'roxiilKnt Thomas 1!. Mar shall said here today In addressiiiK tho Indiana state democratic conven tion. The vice president said that while he wanted the democrats to win the coming election, "at the risk of being read out of the parly," he urged tho members to voto against tho democrat who was not in hearty accord with the president and his Ideas, and against tho democrat "who Is not in favor of taking the Oorinan languago out of tho schools of In diana and welding Into u united peo ple by the use of a common language, all those who dwell within our bor ders." Candidates for all stato offices, with tho exception of those of gover nor and lieutenant governor will be nominated today or tonight. What Ito Tln-jr Mean "Just what the republican party means by saying that its purposo now is to win tho war most of us do not understand," suld Vlco President .Marshall. "What tho democratic party stands for Is to win tho war as soon as it can ho won anil it holds that to tho speedy winning of It are theso essentials: Conviction of tho justice of tlio cause In which we aro engaged; a fixed and dcflnlto end to bo attained; the whole-hearted disin terested, political and patriotic sacri fice of personal ambition, party pre ferment and Individual success to tlio object attained and confidence, abso luto confidence in tlio commander in chief." .Mr. Mar.-hall referred to "l-ady Theodora" during tho course of his reniarkH, saying: T. H. as "Idiily Thf-oriorn" "l.ady Theodora being left at home concluded to take a hand in tlio war by writing letters In derogation and criticism of lis matifignnient to a newspaper, which newspaper had as its general manager a man who was, at tho declaration of hostilities against tlio imperial German govern ment, an alien enemy of tho United States, and which newspaper had published tlio Rose I'astor Stokes let ter and other seditious documents. "Some men at least aro going to object If she is (lie Republican I'arty anil ir she is going to fight tlio war in , tills way thru the. columns of the Kansas City Star, and notwithstand i lug her great desire to take charge (Continued on Page Three.) TO FIGHT!" GOING "OVER THE 4k- s'WMmrrMi VWtenfe cu THEY LEAD ill ' lf i Itrlgiidii-r (encral .luimvs i. llm-hord, at left, coiiiinaiider of the Amer ican marines ill l-'raiifc, and -eiieriil lYrsliing, cotninaniler-ln-chief of tlio American army in l-'rnnce, photographer recently nflcr a conference., at IVrshiiig's lieadiiiarters. Ilarbord's men have cli-ctrlfiiMl Anicrirn anil her allies liy llio manner in which they illiiig-d into the tierinaii lino on tlio Manic, making a three-mile Kui" and capturing several village. 10 ADD. 250,000 TO GLASS 1 , DRAFT WASHINGTON, June 19. Prelim inary reports indicato that more than 2.0,000 men may bo added to class ono available for Immediate military duty as a result of I'rovost Marshal Gtnoral Crowder's rocont order for revision of deferred classification lists by local draft boards. Thoro will be no reconsideration of I'rovost Marshal General Crowder's decision not to grant deferred draft class! rjcation to coal miners as a class. Members of congress from mining districts woro so Informed to day by General Crowder's office Somo kind of, genoral ruling or what constitutes useful and non-useful employment under ll'rovost Mar shal General Crowder's work or fight order probably will ho issued within a day or two. It was learned official ly today that tho question Is being studied by army offleors in co-operation with the department or labor and other government agencies. Among visitors registered at the hotels today wero A. Trask of lloson, W. C. Michael of Chicago, II. V. I,a l-oudo of liultith, Kugeno Neal of Scapooso, Ore., It. Kltchle of Kilgene, Harris Ottensieln of Now York City, Mr. and Mrs. II. I.add of Seattle, II. Ward of linschiirg, and James K. Perry of Midas, Nov. T0P -THE MEN WHO DROVE THE MP OUR BOYS I LEADS ST. I'All,, June J I).-- The biller ness of the strugle between Nun-partisan league anil republican rnnili ilutcs fur success at the slate wide primary clectimilast jMuniluy, lias been reflected by t lie record break ing vole. In llilti the primary vote was jlH,:il)K. Availablo returns from 2,-711 of .'1,1 111 precincts give u total of 2H.ri,li7K votes. Governor J. A. A. Ilurniiuist lends bis opponent, Charles A. I.inillierg liy j mure man au.nim. j ne micsl ligures, represenling :il!IH precincts out of .lllll in the state, give liurnipiist lll,l."i(i; Lindbergh l.il,l!i:i. lieturns from I'iI.'I precincts gave 1'Ved Wlicalon of Miuneiiiiolis fur demo enilie candidate for governor, 11,170 vol in; Y. j. Ciiin.slock of iMiiuliato, rj.M'J. ST. PACL, Juno ID. A heavy ma jority from St. Louis (l)iiluth) coun ty put Whealon In Iho lead for tho democrat lo gubernatorial nomination lato today. Itoturns from 1S6 pro ducts gave Whcaton 11,19.1 and ConiBtock 111,710. When the cur which ho lines In his work as meter reader for tlio powor company backfired Monday, A. 8. Milton suffered a badly sprained forearm. HUNS BACK ON THE M0RNE LIVE GRAFTERS ASK LEN ENGY FOR ADMITTINGACTS Self-Acknowledged Contingent Fee Agents Hasten to Explain Opera tions, Claiming Ignorance of Law System of Making Commissions From War Orders Most Extensive. WASHINGTON', Juno 19. Many self-aoknowlodgod contingent . fee agonts appeared today at tlio depart ment of justico to cxpluln their oper ations and to ak leniency in any ac tion tho department may tako to break up the exposed systom of de frauding contractors and the govern ment out ot millions of dollars. Jiany of these agents heretofore had been unknown to the department and this fact prompted tho impros slon that the system of making coin missions out of war orders Is oven nioro oxtonslvo than officials had be llovcd. Ask for Lcnit-nry Hundreds of letloi-s telogrnms and porsonnl calls camo to Attornoy Gen eral Gregory and Assistant Attorney Gonoral Houston Thompson, in diroot charge of the campaign against the contingent too system, Inquiring con cerning the legal status, contracts al ready mado, or the logality of main taining reprosontatlvos in Washing ton. Some admitted they had lot contracts not knowing that this was a violation of; the war. Altho no formal statomcnt of pol icy was mado by the dopartmcnt ot Justice officials Intimated that len iency would ho shown In all cases whore It was apparent that tho con tractor or tho commission agent noither protended to ubo nor actually did employ any sinister Influence In obtaining orders. A group of lawyers, working today on tho mass of reports on raids mado on manufacturers offices, found con siderable now evidonco of Impropor, if not lllogal, practlcos In connection with tho soliciting of government war ! contraots. In many casos. It Is under stood, manufacturers havo written to army offleors who formerly held po sitions with them or with American concorns, asking thorn to uso Influ ence in getting contracts. Hill lo Prohibit A bill to prohibit "cost plus" con tracts and annual govornment con tracts, seeurod by paytnen or prom ises of a commission for uso ot Influ ence was Introduced today by Senator Polndoxter of Washington and ro forrod to a senato Judiciary sub-com-mltteo. nobort Pelou.o who lias been ill with spinal meningitis nt tho letter man general hospital In San Fran cisco for several months, Is now alilo to sit up and will soon bo nldo to ninko Iho Journey homo with his mother who has been by his boilaldo sinro ho was stricken with tho dis ease UP TO. THEIR BEST TRADITIONS SLIGHT GAIN BY AUSTRIA WPIAVE Italians Pushed Back Several Miles Toward Venice New Foothold On Montello, Austrians Making Des perate Effort to Drive Italians Off Height Gains Made Not Commen surate With Preparations Made, Shells Expended and Life Lost. VIENNA, June 19. Austro-Hun-garian troops have crossed the Foa- I ,, , fioma Mmt. the Aus- i . , ... . . . trian war office announced today. It is added that the Italians are staking everything In order to stop the ad vance of tho Austro-Hungariana In their offonsivo on the northern Ital ; lun front. ! Italian attacks delivered on each isldo ot tho Oderzo-Trovlso railway, tho etatoniont adds, broke down un der heavy losses. Tho Austrians broko thru sovoral Italian linos at the southern foot of the Montollo. OOOO Anstrinns Captured ROM!-, Juno 19. The Italians have captured slnco the beginning of the Austro-Hungarlan offensive prisoners to tho ntimbor of 9011 and nave taken many guns and several hun dred mnchlno guns, the Italian war office announced today. ', . , . The battlo on tho Piave river broke out again furiously yestorday after noon, the statomont adds. Fresh ef forts oil tho Invaders to cross to tho right hnnk from San Andrea to Can-dol-u woro repulsed. An Intonso struggle also took place in tlio Fossalta soctor north ot Capo Silo. Knemy Uses Unserves PARIS, Juno 19. Tho battlo on. tho Italian front now In Its fourth day, presents a favorable aspect, ac cording to dlsputchos to tho llavaa agency. Tho Austrians havo gained ground along a lino four kilometers In extent on Iho Montello plateau and on a lino four kilometers long on the west side of tho Piavo river. Losses ot tho enemy show that he Is using his reserves whilo tho Italluns are protecting tholrs. Ily tho Associated Pross, June 19. Florin attacks ore bolng made by tho Austrians to ovorcomo the Ital ian resistance along tho Plave but tho dofennlvo lino still holds. Ap parently tho cnomy seems his only hope of success In enlarging his only liopo of success enlarging his gains across tht Plavo, has been given a disastrous check In the moiinlaitiH from west ot Aslago to (ho Piavo, (Continued on Page Six.)