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Unii ,f 0rcfion " at y WEATIIKJ Maximum Yostmlav. X; Minimum Todav.. 54. FORECAST Toniirlit and Tomorrow; Trobabl v Fair. Medford Mail Tribune Jackson umjniy ui c c baromkter iv. j j. Quota for 1918. $238,666.00 Sales to June 12 87.1S0.00 BUV WAR SAVl.VtiS STAMPS Tlio War Cannot Ilo Won WITHOUT M0NE"! Iluy 'War Savings Stamps. r"orty-lifhth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD. OliEGOX, SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1918 NO. 78. 69 DEAD, 115 N-CIRCUS CO HURT SIOM CRCUSTRAIN $ THRPflPm SENT TU FRANCE 'SI mm I1LHI UHM 185 Persons, Mostly Members of Hagenback-Wailace Shows kiiled or Injured When Locomotiv anil Pullmans Crar!: Into Circus S'eep ers Fire Destroys Wreckage En l Ing Sufferings of Those Penned In Debris Groans Testify to Agony. CHICAGO, June 22.--At 2 o'clock this afternoon Hie Michigan Central list, subject to change, showed (1:1 dead and 115 injured in the circus collision. There were XT knoivn dead lit Hammond, Irul. ; seven known dead lit Gury and it was said Unit :!." dead lind been taken from the debris but lnid not yet been removed to morgues. There were !)2 injured at (jury arid 'j:i at Hammond. CHICAGO, June 22. Between 170 ami 2(10 persons, mostly members ol the lliigeiibaeh-Wall;iee shows, were killed or injured in a rear end col lision at Ivanhoo, near Gary, Ind., to day. Tlio wreckage caught fire, de stroying many bodies and ending the sufferings of those penned in the debris. The show was traveling in two scc tions of n iehigun Central train going from Michigan City to llammoiul. -m r.usi ivnnuoce a not box caused the 'second section to slop. A Irninj ol empty Pullmans crashed mlo it, Uic locomotive plowing its way way through the way car ami Inui sleeping coaches. Inl'iirmation from Gary was that the heavy steel rullmans crashed through the circus conches like so much wet paper. In the wreckage legs and arms pro truded and groans testified to the suffering of those still alive. Train master Whipple oT the .Michigan Cen tral, who was on he tniin, was re ported among the missing. Hodics Humeri to Crisp The bodies removed from Ihc wreck were burned beyond recognition. Those who were thrown t'roni the wreck stood helpless walchucj the horror and some were later found w andering half crazed in I he woods, in their night garments. Four sleeping curs, gaudilv paint ed, hut of obsolete type, in which per formers were sleeping, and a wnv car were demolished and the destruc tion completed hy Ihc t lames. They were of much lighter const ntH-on than the modern steel ears of the troop train. Deputy Coroner Green at noon to day said that the engineer of the empty troop (rain, which crashed into the circus train, was in a hospital ai Gary, too badlv injured to talk. The fireman, he said, was in custody. Knglnecr Asleep Searchers were told that the fire man and engineer had been seen after the wreck. It was reported that the fireman before he disappeared said that the engineer was asleep. The engine anil tender of (he mov ing train passed completely over and through the wreck. The engine left the rails but did not overturn. ost of the dead showed only super ficial injuries and evidently were kill ed hy suffocation or burning. (Continued on Pago Six ) 10 PER CENT INCREASE in mm to WASHINGTON, Juno 'JJ.---T.-ii Vvr -em intTea-'C in exprt'-H rtiU-i wh iipppivctl today by (ho ihliTMiih-i m.i- At the Mime lime tho fonimiltcp di--nllnwerl Hn tipliai.tinn lor an in rron.e nf 1" pr cent. The new ra'f will become effective an soon t i!ic eiress rmmmnie lile new t.mtW. Tvbubly within two week?, 100,000 Troops Go In Past Week American Troop Movement Now Five Months Alien 1 of Schadule Present L'.'ll On Western Front Means Only Reforming of Enemy. WASHINGTON. Juno 22 Nine hundred thousand men havo been shipped across the sea General March told nowspaped correspondents at the weekly eonfereneo today. These in clude tlio troops shipped from all American ports of embarkation. The United States is today fivo months ahead of its program ( for placing an army in Franco, General March said. Tho figures on American- troops movement are significant since Gen eral March at his first conference lost week fixed tho number at more than 800,000, the addition of 1011 000 during tho week showing tho rate of progress that is being made While1 tho general ibatllo situation looks good today. General March said (the present lull on tho western front moans only that Gorman combat div isions are being reformed for anothor drive.' Viewing tho whole situation including tho Itnllan front, tho chief of staff said that the Central powers again wero held on all fronts. Stand llattle Tost American troops have done weil wherever the tesl of battle has c Hue thus far, General arch said, regard ing Ihc character of tin troupe, whelhcr regulars, national guari!, na tional army or marines. . The fight at Canligny, tlie mosl impoi-laul cugagcmcnl in which Amer ican roups land tail-tic ipalcd be cause il gave opportunity to ju' ge cf the full measure of their 'training, he said, had been fought by 111.; first division, commanded by Maj. (fen. liobcrl L. Ilullard. This division is now, he said, a Ihoroughly h-cnicd high grade unit ami was the lirsl American division to rc.M It France. AI Canligny, General March said, infantry ami arlillorv operated in clo.e co-operulion to achieve ti-. vic tory, showing the successful wi rk of the sintT officers npnn wiioni ih.it co operation depended. The fight il.-illy showed, he said, thai Ihc tiaiuiic of tho American general -toll' offi cers had reached Ihc poml -where the system would work undv hall!.' strain. Cull icd Ooinumnri One of the most sinking niius on the western front, the che ," -lal'l said, was the supreme impoiiniiee ol a unified command. General March regarded that as one of the yreMlesl single military achievements o! th allies vbich was already showinn ils effect in the fighting. Tho property ownnrs of ihv lty who aro (lolliKpinnt In tholr pnvnniPiH and other aswsHmrti.s nnri have not yet sinned 11 p under the i:t ye-arw ex tended pay men I plan had better Ret tinny and do no between now and Jul lKt as tho period for signing ends at that time. The city will then proceed by law to collect all delinquent assessment nnd Interest with a penalty of 5 per cent added. Hull will bo bewun a pa in. st all delinquent properties, and day later the properties will be sold and certlfic'ateB issued to the purchasers bearing 12 percent Inter est. I'nder the plan to extend pay ments over a period of 13 years, the fli'st three years lntere only will be paid, and one-twentieth of the amount mill due will be paid every fcix mouths thereafter. ' Important to People of "Tliis wiip is one liiindrcd mil lion -iconic war conditions it tins nation is to play its lull part in the contliet. The problem before us not primarily a financial problem, but rather a problem of increased production of war essentials ami the. saving of the materials and the labor neces sary for the support and equipment-of our army anil navy. Thoughtless expendi ture of money for non-essentials usesU .Jlie labor of men, the products of the farm, mines and factories and Overburdens transport'itiou, till of which must be used to the utmost and at their best fur war purposes. "The great results which we seek can be obtained by the participation of every member of the nation, young and old, iua national concerted thrift movement. Therefore, it is urgent that our people" everywhere, pledge themselves, as suggested by the secretary of the treasury, to the practice of thrift, to serve the government to their utmost in increasing the production in all fields necessary to the winning of the war, to conserve food and fuel and useful materials of every kind, to devote their labor only to the most necessary' tasks and to buy only those things which are csential to individual health and efficiency, and that the people, as evidence of their loyalty, invest all that they can save in Liberty Jkmds and War Savings Stamps. So many of the securities issued by the Treasury Department are with in the reach of everyone that the door of opportunity in this matter is wide open to all of us. To practice thrift, in peace times is a virtue and brings great benefit to the individual at till times. With the desperate need of the civilized world today for materials and labor with which to end the war, the practice of individual thrift is a patriotic duty and a necessity. "I apoeal to all who now own cither Liberty Bonds or War Savings Stamps to continue to practice economy and thrift, and appeal to all who do not own gov ernment securities to do likewise and purchase them to the extent of their means. The man who Inn s government securities transfers tho : purchasing power of his money to the United States government, until after this war, and to that same de gree does not buy in competition with the government. "I earnestly appeal to every man, woman and child to pledge themselves on or before the 2Sth of June to save constantly and to buy as regularly as possible the securities of the government. The 28th of June ends this special period of en listment in the great volunteer army of production and saving here at home. May there bo none unenlisted on that day. " (Signed, WOODROW WILSON." CASUALTY LIS! WASHINGTON Juno 22. The stoadlly increasing participation of American troops In tho fighting in Kranco was sharply marked In today's casually liwt. Of tho l.",:t men named fifty two. Including tbreo officers, wero killed in Biitlon. tho heaviest doatb roll from tho battletjleld yot mudn public. The .British casually list last week paused tho 30, (Kin mark. Uiirlng tho woek, so far as known, tho Hritlsh were Involved in no major operation except on Iho Halloa front. A com parison of tho American and HrltlKh lists lu some measure forms a gauge of tlio limited extent to which tho I'liltcd States has as yet been ahlo to bring Its power to hear. WASIIINtlTUN, June 22. The army disunity lil today contained I'.'t unmcs divided as follows: Kill ed in action .i2, died of wounds 2(1, dii-d of accident oik1, died of disease nine, dieil of accident mid oilier causes III, u minded severely 117, wounded, dcL-ivc iiiidcrtcrmincd two, missing in ii'-lion l.'i, prisoners, one. The lisi ini linles I'rivale l-'ranl; II. Smith. Dc'-kcr. Mmil.; killed in ae lioii: I'liwilcs Khncr M. Curtis, 1021 Knsl James strict. Senile, Wash.; Jones I.. Ilcelz, Aurora. Ore.; died of woiimi-: I'rmite Williiun Cornelie, llomcsliike. out ; died nf disease, Cor poral liny Kowmld-., Ontario, (Ire.; I'liviiles .lames It. Walker, Deer Lodge, Mont.; William !. Williiims, 2:i!l Host Curliss street, Hullo, Mont.; wounded severely, I'rivale lnillo W. Barrows, ,,!l Washington street. Miles City, Mont.; wounded degree undetermined, I'rivale Francis Honey, 1 1 I l.ukcvicu boulevard, Seat tle, miing in action. Klll.sl In Action Catain Jesse l.owcn, Chicago; l.iciilcminlo yocniin . Logic, New York; Curler I.. (Kington, Paris, France; T. . Watson, Kalcigh, N. C. ; Sergeants Paul Oegerc, (Irccn liny, Wis.; Frank (inning. Walcrlovui, N. V: (leorge A. !lo, (ironogo. Mo.; Prank I,. Modicro-, .South lloMon, Mass.; Lawrence Trego, Woodward, dkla.; Corporals Kind Meyer. Jr., Syrneifc, N. Y.: Ivie I.. Itigdon, (Continued on rs Two.) i White - ! df nations, not of "'armies, must he ei-ononiicallv and Never beforo In the history of tho world has a mooting 'been called at which over ono hundred millions of men and women aro expected to be j present. Thia Is tho stupendous Idea which la behind tho proclamation of President Wilson calling upon every vitlzon of tho 1'nlted States no matter what his duties or his Inclination to moct at tho school houso in the school district III which they rosldo at 8 o'clock on Friday, June 2Nth. lint then there are so many tre mendous happenings that it takes some hugo thing out of the ordlnnry to move us at all. The meeting en Friday next is for the purposo of lending our country our money In small lots. War Savings Stamps or as they aro Toiidly callod "IJaby bonds" to tho amount of two billion dollars must lie sold within tho year 111 order that tho lioys over there shall bo properly fed. and clothed, and supplied with hotter ammunition, guns and shelter than tho enemy. You can not afford to think: "How little can I get off on." You must say: "Where can 1 deny myself m luxury or even something Hint Is al most a necessity, so that I can buy, buy, buy." if calling a mass meeting of a hugo nation is nnlq.no so also Is the Idea for which It Is called. Power of Taxation Our government has the power to ralso every bit of money which It needs by directly taxing you. It can tax the milk your uahy has to have, It can tux the shoos that protect your feet and tho foot of your whole fam ily, It can and ft must tax every lux ury and every necessity until you stagger under the burden unless the money Is forthcoming for Its needs by means of bonds. Tho money which you save today and lend to t'ncle Sam will come -back to you In four and a half years together with the interest it has earned. 1'very three months for that time It will lie com pounded at 4 per cont Any time that you wish to have your money In your hands you can take your War Saving Stamps to tho nearest post office and with a very short delay can got the cash at par with Interest to date at a lower rate. And that is the (ContlD .ed oo Page Two.) :(V1ASS MEETING 0F1100 MILLION !LOYRICANS Nation IIouso, Washington, D. C, Mav29, 1918. and all of our one industrially adjusted to TIT PORTLAND, Oro., Juno 22. L. C Oilman, president of tho Spokane, Portland and Senttlo railroad, was Portland and Senttlo railroad, was advised today of his appointment as director of the Pugot Sound district, by tho federal railroad administra tion. Ills headquarters will to at Sealtlo and all railroads In Oregon and Washington aro Included under his direction and control. Tho np pointmont, which caino rom II. H. Alshton, fcdoral director In Chicago was effcctlvo Juno 20. Tho railroads which will bo miller tho management of tno now director aro tho Northorn Pacific, Uroat Nor thern, Oregon, Washington Hullroad and 'Navigation Company, Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, Spokuno, Portland and Soattlo and tho South ern Pacific lines north of Ashland Oregon. Iilroctor Ollmnn also announced that A. J. Oavldson, now general sup erintendent of tho Spokane, Portland and Scattlo railroad, has been named federal gcuoral manager for that road. MARINES IMPROVE '.VASMINOTON. June 22. O.-nc ml Pershing's commutiin,uo for yester day, received here today, reporlto im provement of American positions northwest of Chiiiitcau Thierry. Pusk artillery lighting in the Wocvrc, tli'i Vosges and in the Ciiaulcan TiiiiTry region is noted. The communique follows: "Section A. Northwest of f.hiui leau Thierry we advanced on line uinl improved our positions. There, i,i the Woovro. and in t lie Yosircs there wns Crisis urlillcry fighting." SS ATTEWPT TO ARRIVED TO AID iii i pu adi no Battle Situation Unchanged With Italians Forcing Austrian Invaders Back Smash On Mountain Front Indicated Flood Makes Handicap Invaders, Cutting Off Supplies. PARIS, Juno 22. Fresh struggles on tho Italian northeastern front are foreshadowed by the bringing up of fresh reinforcements by the Austro- llungarians, telegraphs the Milan correspondent of tho Temps. German reinforcements also are said to be on the point of arriving at this front. Ilaftle Is Won ItOMM, Juno 22. The (batllo sit uation Is unchanged and Infantry en gagements wero not resumed during Friday, says t-ho statoment Issued last night to the Italian parliament by Promier Orlando. It Is now permis sible to say that tho baltlo has boon won; tho promlor told tlio deputlos Friday morning, according to tho Trlbuna. Tho Austrian.1), the promier added, are now gathering all availaiblo mon In certain sections of the mountain front. Only a small part of tholr ro sorvos havo been drawn on 'by the Italians: ' ' ' ' Flood Hampers AiiNt.rlans ITALIAN ARMY IIUADQUAiiTEHS IN NORTHERW ITALY, Juno 21. (By tho Associated Press). Cavalry men, artlllorymon and ulnnon aro giving oftectlvo aid to tho Italian In fantry In driving buck tho Austriana toward tho Plavo. Ono of tho principal activities of allied aviators, who now havo boon joined by American flyors, Is to pro vent Austrlnn airmen from dollvorlng socks of broad and other dry foods to to tho Austrlnn troops on tho western sldo of tho Plavo whore tho Austrlans still aro fighting tenaciously. Around Montollo and in tho region of the lower Plavo Italian cavalry Is holng used to help push the cnomy back. They aro aided 1y armored cars carrying machino guns. Tho rising waters oB tho Plavo nnd tho activity of tho Italian artillery are making It difficult for tho Aus trlans to obtain food. Whllo the water carries somo bridges away and damngos others, tho gunnors aro sinking bridges anil hammering tho damaged bridges and finals. l lglillng Decreasing Fighting on tho Plavo lino appar ently fs dccroaslng as tho Austrian offcnslvo enters iiKn Its second woek. In tho mountains thoro has boon llttlo activity for sovoral days but tho Austrluns aro reported lo 1io concentrating largo bodies of mon thoro presumably for another attempt to push southward to tho Vonetlftn plain. Italian resistance and coun ter attacks from Montollo to tho mouth of the Plavo aided liy tho BUd don rising of tho river, havo playod havoc with Austrian hopes of captur ing Montollo and dominating tho plain. IRPIANE KLM'IUA, X. V., June 22.-Lew Longwcll and Hector Itordeau, fore men in the Corliss aeroplane factory at. lliimuiondsport were arrested by peeial government ngenU on the barge of violating the act of Afril 20, 1!HH, again-t the willul injiiiy or destruction of war materials, WASHINGTON". June 22.-Tho at- titnde of the house on national pro hilulioii was sounded todav bv n res olution of Representative Randall of California, prohihilionisl, calling on President Wilson In inform the house whether any older has been issued hy the fuel administration curtailing the supply of coal to liquor nianiifai'tur- $. H wus adopted UOl to 47, Reports Current In Amsterdam of Effort On Life of Austrian Em peror Unconfirmed Unrest In Austria Continues Anti-German Riots In Progress German Em bassy Attacked Fatal Rioting at Buda Pest. LONDON, Juno 22. Reports are current on the Amsterdam exchange today that an -attempt has be jn made on tho life of Emperor Charl'R of Austria, says a Central N.ws dis' patch from Amsterdam. Th" roports are unconfirmed. " Tho unrest in Vienna owing to food shortugo continues to, . spread throughout Austria-Hungary and much anti-German feeling is being, manifested in Vienna and in Hun gary. In the Austrian capital loo po tico have prevented an ntt mptcd at tack on tho German embassy, the nob crying thnt Qormany wo., starving Austria. Hroad riots nguin have oc curred in districts of Vienna and tho number of munition workers on strike there has inerensed to 100,000. In Hungary Also AMSTERDAM, Juno 22.' Nino strikers wero killed and 30 others wounded in a clash today with tho polico ut tho government railway shops in Budapest, according to a telegram received hero from tho Hun garian capital. , ' ' ;" Serious an Vienna LONDON, Juno 22. According to tho Vienna Neuo Frcio Presso, during serious street riots in Vienna, tho po lico and military wero called out and! took strict measures nnd issued warn ing to parents making them responsi ble for tho notions of their children, says an Exchange Tolcgrnph dispatci from Copenhagen. According to tho Arboiter Zdtung of Vienna a great strike movement has devolcped in tho Austrian capital though its full extent is not known. ' The Vienna workers' council, the norfspapcr snys, has issued a mani festo saying it hopes tho government will understand in view of the strike movement how necessary it is to im crcaso tho food rations. ' Hungarian Striken BASEL, Switzerland, Juno 22. Ifavas Agency.) Dr. Alexander Wckcrle, the promier, speaking be foro tho Hungarian chamber o deputies yesterday, mado a statement concerning tho industrial strikes and referred to the serious trouble in fac tories and on railways and the exten sion of the strikes to sovoral plants. Tho premier told how Ilia workmen in a locomotivo works stoned the police nnd in return were fired upon, four of their number being killed and wound ed. Tho proceedings in tho chamber ended in n sharp cxehango between Premier W'ckorlo nnd Count Karolyi, leader of tho Independent party. FIGHT : DAHO FOREST FIRES SPOKANH, Juno 22. Tho Unltod Stales forost servlio continued today to send nioro men to fight tho fires In tho forosts In Northern Idaho, whnrn they havo boon burning be yond control for sovoral days. Fifty men woro forwarded to tho Cloar water forest near Oro Kino and an nlhor flro fighting party was ont to tho Solwny forost near Kooskla. Tho Pritchnrd firo In the Coeuf d'AIeno forost, which raged uncon trolled for more than a week ho been put under control. The lookout reported thoro was not much imoke coming from tho forost this mornlngi
