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MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, JUNE 20, 19.18
NO. 81
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UNITS JOIN ALLIES CAPTURlTGREED, FRAUD rm"
APMY QFNT 1400 HUNS IN CAUSE OF WAR ' iS
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U I LNUIIIIIU
General March Announces Arrival In
Italy of Forces to Supplement Rcq-
, 'ment Trained In France First
National Army Division Has Taken
Up Sector On Front Americans
Brigaded With British Returned to
Pershing with Training Completed.
WASHINGTON, .lime 29. IV
first Anrif:in tr("Ms vw l:inl(M in
Italy yesterday, (Jenenil March, ehiel'
of staff, aiinouneed (oclny. These are
not tli fnri'e son. bv (lencral IVr-
hliinjr lint consist of units shi.H'il
from this eountry.
The 1 roups consist largely of sani
tary units, but include other (-penal
organizations, (ierieral Mnivli ex
plained. On the whole, however, it is
made up mostly of non-eomhatant
units. The combat troops will he sent
by General Pershing as previously
aiinouneed.
Draft Men at Front
General March had no annnunee
lnent to make today as to the lotal'
number of troops shipped from this
country to France. Formal an
pouneement, he said would be made
later. Survey in !? the entire battle
front, General March said the situa
tion eould be said to be extremely fa
vorable to the allies. Ilo would make
no comment upon the indications of
in impending German attack.
The first national army division
!ias taken up a sector at the front.
General March also announced. Il
is the 77th, raised in Sew York,
trained at Camp t'pton and irijuin.il
lv commanded by Major General .1.
Franklin Hell. It was taken across
under Major General Johnson.
Training Completed
Five American divisions whHi had
been briuaded with the Hritish tor
training have been returned to Gen
eral Pershing's command with train
ing completed.
One of lbee is the 2.1th division,
composed of Kansas and Mi.-nitri
troops and cinnnaudcd by Majnr Gen
eral M. Wrijiht, when it hit the
I'nited States.
Gen. March disclosed that the of
ficial reports from the Italian front
place the number of Austrians cap
tured at 18.1)00 and a lare amount
f war material. The line of the Piave
has been entirely restored by the
Italians and in some places has been
sliuhtlv advanced.
Military opinion, fieneral Manh
Raid, found tho Austrian attack faulty
because It-was spread over so large a
front as to make It impossible to
carry thru successfully.
Austrian Disaster
The Austrian disaster which fol
lowed Is valuable to the allies not
only In a military sense, hut psycho
logically, the chief of staff said, bc-
(Contin-edwn Page Two.)
ZEITUNG FOR LIBEL
PARIS. June 2!. The libel suit of
Dr. von Kuehlmann, the German for
eign secretary, aguinst the Deutsche
Zoltung of Berlin, concerning publi
cation of articles relative to the sec
retary's conduct while in Durcharcst
In April, will be called next week
according to reports received from
Switzerland and transmitted by the
1 lavas Agency.
The Deutsche Zeltung late In April
published an article asiertlng that
Dr. von Kuehlmann and Count Crer
nln, the former Austrian foreign sec
retary, had acted In a manner whi'h
abased their countries during the ne
gotiations at Bucharest. Secretary
von Kuehlmann, It was said, was seen
often with a well known member or
the underworld.
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British and French Attack Suddenly
On Wir'ely Separated Sectors and
Win Objectives Americans Also
Capture 40 Prisoners Counter At
tacks Repulsed.
HY TI1K ASSOCIATED PliKSS,
June 2i. Positions taken from tb
German by the Frni-1i on Friday
ahmr the vital sector of the line
southwest of Soisons have becu the
scene of vigorous counter thiuts by
the enemy. TIicm attacks, one at
Kor.sce-Kn-ISas and the other at
Cutry ravine, which are about three
miles apart, htive been repulsed by
the French, according to the offi-
inl statement issued bv Hie French
war oltice. I he new I reach lines
have been b'Id intact.
llii Italiiin torces southwest ol
lihcims, on the heights of lil'i-Miy, who
last .veek iralltiit 1 v held their posi
tions against two strong assaults byl
the Germans, have ami in repulsed the
enemy after they bad succeeded in!
uitinini; a foothot( in their lines. I
Americans Active !
American units northwest of Mmit
lidier in the iWnity of Canlii:n
have captured -10 prisoners, accord
ing lo the French oflicial statenu-nl,
which continues bv snyinjr that the
French have taken pri.-uners and ma
terial in Aprcmoitt forest, This posi
tion has been held by American
troops and it is pr.ibhbie that Genera!
Pershing's men were involved in the
fifihtinjr there. Apremtmt forest is
situated east of St. Mihiel and like
Seicheprey, seven miles to the east.
has been the scene of desperate liuht
inn by the Areuiians atiainst the Ger
mans,
Noierrnan counter attacks aguinst
the positions taken on Fridav by the
Hritish near Nieppe forc-t in the Lys
sector are reported. The I'ritish it is
aumutneed, en pi u red more than -It 10
prisoners in their attack.
Capture 1 IOO Huns
Attacking the Germans suddenly
on two widely separated sectors,
French and Hritish t loops have im
proved their positions ratly and
captured 1,400 prisoners.
My their entcmrise in taking the
initiative unexpectedly I he allies ap
parently caught the German-; napp:?iu
iiiyl realized their object ies. Tin
Hritish rectified their line east ot
llazcbrouck in Flanders. South of tin
Aisne the French drove the cncin1
back ori the important Amhlehy-Mtml
t)ber! sector, which bars the open
spnee between I he forests o)' Corn
icin and Yillers-Collerets. Tin
fiiibtinir here continues.
Intcn-e aerial activity continues
The Germans repented their raid on
Paris Friday niiiht, hut only a lev
bombs were dropped. One airplane was
caotured. In the fit: lit inu in the air
.illied airmen have accounted for "::
enemy machines, while Herlin ivpnrl
the sbootinir down of "J") allied air
planes. French airrncn are hirnhim
military targets in Pieurdy and n-crtl
of the Marne and tlic l!i'iti-ii lennli
eix persist in tlu'ir raids inln the re--Mitn
nboiit Metz.
CONFIRM DEATH OF
AMSTKKDAM. June 29. Western
(inrman papers seem to regard 'the
reports of the death of Nicholas Ho
manoff as authentic. Tiie Kussiun
newspaper Novala Zhyzn, edited by
Mnxlm Corky. Is quoted by the Mam
bnri! I'remdonhlatt as printing a Kiev
report that Nicholas, while In a train
with red guards, complnlned acnlnst
being transferred from Kkalerlnbiir
lo .Moscow, and that he got Into a
dispute with his escort and was mur
dered.
The dispatch adds that the rtaugh
tors of the former emperor were un
der guard In another roach and that
tho late of the former empress and
the former crown prince Is unknown
Federal Trade Commission Reports
On Profiteering Meat Packers and
Flour Mills Worst Offenders-
Price Fixing Prevents Market From
Running Away. '
WASHINGTON, June "JO. Investi
gations have led to the fonclllMoi:
hut profiteers t-xiN union;: Ameri
can indii-tries ut the present time,
due in part to advantage Ileitis talicll
of war prcsnrc for heavy prodiv tion
and in part to "inordinate jrreed and
harel'aiH'd fraud," the federal trade
eommission nnnounceil today in a
rport sent to (lie senate. The re
port was siilunilti'il in response to a
resolution asking the commission to
furnish Hie senate with all Mgurcrf and
information relative In profiteering
in order that steps might be taken to
remedy present conditions.
Out-danding features of the repnil.
each supported by extensive data,
are:
Chief Profiteers
The heavy profit made by low com
concerns under a fixed government
price for the whole country.
The heavy profit made by the meiil
nncucrs unci atiicii ministries, into in
the flour millers.
I'lie trade tendency to increase and
maintain prices .tgain.-.t lite forces of
impctition.
The report is based on cost find
ings and ny lite commission lor me
war industries hoard, the food ad
ministration, the fuel mlminislrutio!!
Hid other executive departments on
mliistriiil surveys and through en
forcement of laws against unfair
uetliods of competition. The pro
lucls investigated and which the re
port covers are steel, copper, zinc,
nickel, sulphur, lumber, flour, can
ned mill; and canned, salmon. Sala
ries and bonus paid high officials also
were Hie subject of inouiry.
l'rlco Fixing Results
Price fixing by Iho government, the
report says, has tended to prevent
the market from running away, but
at the same time, il strengthens Hie
stronger factors in industry in their
nosition and enriches them bv pro
fits 'which are without pre' edenl.''
While the orice or flour has been
tabili.cd hv living a mice for wheal
ind a maximum nmr.'in of profit for
Hour, the report shows that profits
'ncrcriM'd from un average of 1'J per
.at ci the itivest'itepl for the four
mis ending June Mil, IHIti, lo nearly
IK per cent in Hie veir ending June
'!', 1"17. "These profits," il is slal-
d, "are indefensible consider nv
hat an average prolit of one mill for
six months of the year shows as high
is 'J a barrel." Many millers ex
pected the government maximum for
polit lied lo that extent "the prolils
were larger and in general were very
rent."
Packers the Worst of All
The report declares that unprece
dented profits are shown in a survey
if I he p ei.-in. inl"strv. In this coii
cftioii t i said: "five meat packers.
Art ir. Swift, Morris, Wilson anil
f'udahv, ami their subsidiaries and
i I'liliateil companies, have nmnopo
'istie control of the meat indiislry and
ire reaching out for like domination
n other products. Their miinipulii
ioiis of the market embrace- every de
vice thai Is useful lo them without re
gard to law. Their reward expressed
n tern's ot protit reveals that four ol
ihcc cieern- in ldl'i-lill'i, 1IM7-
(Continued on Pane Six.)
10 RELIEVE RAILROADS
WASlll.NtSTOV, June 29. Tavor
a!ile report on the plan to construct
linrso lines on t!io MlBslhslppI river
to relieve railroad connection him
been inadn to llircctor-l'.eneral Mr-
Adoo by fharlea A. I'ronty, director
of Iho division of mhlte service of
tho administration.
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Foreign dispatches which confirm tlio nssassliiiition of Xirliolns Ito
ltiiiiioff, former (Vnr of Itussin, also reimrt tlin death of IiIh only son,
Alexis, heir to the throne, reportiMl lo luivo died fmm liscase, Kone of
these reports have liecn officially conflmicd and in tho present cliaolic
conditions existinte in Itnssin, conflrnialion ts iiupocsslhle.
SCORE KILLED BY
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AT SIOUX CITY
SIOUX CITY, la., Juno 20. A
score of persons lire bellnvoo" to hnvo
been killed and as in any more In
jured thin afternoon when a three
story structure known as the Oscar
Ruff building collapsed and fell on a
meat market an. eroccry store. A
number of those Injured were taken
from the debris shortly after the ac
cident occurred and were hurried to
hospitals. Firemen vill-d from every
department In the city to fight the
fire which -broke out after the build
ing fell were working desperately to
reach persons calling for help from
tho ruins.
The building, one of (ho oldest In
the city, collapsed while workmen
wero engaged In remodeHnt; it.
The workmon were Jacking up Iho
first floor of the building when the
crash camo.
Oscar Huff, proprietor f the Huff
pharmacy, is reported to havo been
caught in the ruins. Me was scon
talking with Alfred Hanson, an em
ploye. Just before the building col
lapsed. Hanson is also missing.
Bodies of two unknown dead.
burned beyond recognition, were re
moved from the ruins of the Owar
fluff building.
Several persons trapped In the
Crumpled hufidliiK wero reported 8Uf-
focating from ammonia gus.
More than a dozen tailors woVo be
lieved to havo boon trapped In the
rear of the third Moor of the building
with little hope of rescue. The flames
swept thru th- wrei-k swiftly and oc
casionally there was an explosion, ,
FAIR WEATHER
WASHINGTON', June -!. Weath
or predictions for Dm week tieinnliiK
.Monday, Issued by tho weather bur
euu today nre:
Northern Kinky mountain and pla
teau reixlons Generally fair with
cool nlKhlx until middle of the week.
Showers at end of the week with rl
InK temperature.
Pacific states Fair with moderate
temperatures.
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WASMINOTOX, Juno 29. Tho
army casualty list today contained 42
names divided as follows: . Killed In
action, five; died of wounds, 12; died
of accIJent und other causes, two
died of disctso, two. wounded sovjra-
ly, 14; mlsslnn in Bc.t'on, seven. Toe
list includes l'rirutu ( tirroll C. Gti'-es,
lliiioiano. Ore., died f i (ml wouailJ.
Killed in action: Privates Eufconi
.M. Connor, V'lnchendon, Mass,
Charles Dubuque, Nushua, X. H.;
Charles Pr.y. Lr.wel!, .l"ss.; U:irl li
Severance, Topsfleld, Maine; Fret
bhurman, Calais, Mulno,
Died from wounds: ScrgenntH
Chester .MotiKii, San Mu..n, Huly
John It. Tippet, HoKsor, Ills,; Cor
porals Itobert IZ. (loodykoontz. Co,-
liiinlius, ().; Daw White, Tanksley,
Ky Privates William K. Hell, Cort
land, N. Y.j Carroll C. dates, llllls-
Imro. Ore.; Louis C. Croon, Mldillo-
ton, N. Y.; Henry J. llessen, Hrook
field. Wis.; Adam V. .Mlxtackl, Pulas
ki, Wis.; William II. Osborn, Troy,
.V. Y.; Oakley O. Traynor, Flint Mich.
.Michael ,T. Wllninn, Ashland, Wis.
tiled of disease: Corporals Harold
Martin, Wliineniucca, Nov.; Harry A
Strand, Princeton, Ills.
Hied from accident and other
I causes: Cook William .1. Iliislilaw
jCoboes, N, Y.J Privates John Crey
! I.uurel, Pa.
IKS ON REEF
IIOSTON, Juno 29. Tho stenmor
Onondaeu, Huston for Florida points
struck a reef off Watch Hill and went.
to tho bottom. The crew of 3!i was
saved.
Tho Onondaga, a Clyde line freluli
tor, left here Thursday afternoon In
l oininund of Caplulii GoIiiks. Olfliois
of the Hue learned from naval author.
Itles that the crow had escuped.
XKW YOltK, June 29. - The Onon
diiKo was a vessel of 2'9r, tons uross
reiilKler slid was built In 190,"i at
Philadelphia. Sho wus engaKed ex-
clitslvely in tho coastwise trade.
WAR COSTING J
$50,000,000
FOR EACH DAY W.S.S.PURCHASE
Total Cost to United States for War
to Date Nearly Fourteen Billions-
Expense Daily Increasinrj Cost In
June Billion and a Half Income
Revenues All Breaking Records.
WASHINGTON, June 29. The
Kovorninent today closed its books for
the fiscal year just ending the first
full fiscal year in the war and Mon.
day will open new annual records.
Cabinet members and other heads of
departments will make reports to
President Wilson covering their
stewardships of funds aud responsl
billty for the year closing today or
technically tomorrow.
In it he government financial his
tory tho yeur will go down as a per
iod of expense hardly dreamed of a
decade ttKO. Moro than J12.600.000,-
000 is the actual outlay since July 1,
1917, to meot tho multitude ot big
hills run up for tho army, the navy,
tho shipbuilding program, airplane
construction, coast dofense require
ments, pther govornmont activities
and the needs ot the allies for Amer
ican loans to finnnco purchases of
war materials lu this country. In
peace times, the govornmont spout
loss lliun $1,000,000,000 annually.
Nearly Fourteen llillions
With the addition of tho $l,200t-
090,000 which the government spent
In tho three months ot war preceding
this fiscal year, tho war's cost In
money to dato has been S13, 800,000,
000.
War activities now drain about
0,000,000 a day from the nation's
public treasury, and in Juno the run
ning expenses wore gi-eator than ever
before, tho loans to allies dropped to
less than In any month since April
1917 when tho United Stutes bocumo
a bolllgcrcnt. Including estimntos
for the last two days of the month
not yet recorded expenditures for
Juno -wore about ? 1,500,000,000, or
approximately the same ns the record
figure of Many. Uho of ships to trans
port troops to Ftuiico, instead of for
war material? la considered rosponsl
blo primarily for the reduction 'of
allied loans.
Owing to tho hlg Inflow of Incomo
and excess profits taxes tills month
receipts for Juno have eclipsed all
former records. Receipts aro expect
ed to amount to moro than $2,250,
000,000. Payments on Liberty bonds
and certificates, of Indebtedness havo
yielded nearly 1 ,100,000,000.
Kvponscs Itcuiicd
With figures for yesterday and to
day not yet tabulatod, expenses for
tho cntiro fiscal year were reported
as follows: Ordinary expenses for
various government departments $7,-
507,000,000; payments to allies $1.
7US,000,0UU; Interest on Liberty
bonds and other public'debt items
$175,000,000; federal farm loans to
bo repaid) $i5, 000,000; Panama
canal, $19,000,000. In addition $,-
7 17,000,000 certificates issued ear
lier In tho year wero redeemed; $27,-
1102,000 one-yenr treasury notes wero
paid, and $2i,r:!G,000 national bank
and federal reservo bank notes wore
retired.
ltocelpts for the year, without rec
ords ot tho lust two days, wore ru
ported as follows:
Two Iniys Itecoril
Liberty loans $7, !iii:i, 000,000; In
(Contlnued on Pago Six.)
LONIiOM, Juno 29. Tho German
KOYurnmoul, according to German
newspapers, is taking measures with
a view to Intervention In ltussla, says
a dispatch to the Fxi-hango Telegraph
company today from Zurich. Under
this plan, It is suld, troops will he
sent lo restoro order, assisted hy
maxlmullst forces.
ACKSONCOUNTY
OVER THE TOP
At Least $300,000 Subscribed In
County With Quota of $256,660
Medford Buys Over $100,000 With
Quota of $69,256 Nearly Every
School District Exceeds Quota.
Thirty per cent over the top. Thnt
is the storv of the success attained
in the War Savings Stamp campaign
brought to a close in Jackson county
last night with patriotic mnss meet
ings in almost every school district in
Iho county.
IC enthusiasm in the Wur Stamp
campaign started lust January was
lucking there wus no ovideneo of it
nt tho close of tho big drive. Peo
ple who had paid no attention to the
wnr stump investment in the begin
ning of the campaign bought libornlly
this week nnd then enlisted ns solic
itors nud enthused their neighbors.
Disloyalty Squelched
Oriffin creek district supplied tho
first thrill of the campaign by the .
arrest of ono of its residents on a ,
eluirgo of disloyally nnd pedition ,
whilo report conies from Mutlo Fulls
this morning Unit nt fhe pittriolio
mecliig nl'lhat plueiasl night reso
bilious wero passed conacmuing an
editorial published Tlntrsdny in Iho
AleiH'ord Sun, nnd ordering a copy
sent to the postmaster general witjt .
the request that a thorough investigu- ,
tion he mude nnd the paper be barred
from the mails. It lias been a bad .
week for any ono to criticize the gov
ernment in Jackson county.
Ol'tieinl reports from few outlying
districts hud been received up to noon
today but nssurnnees wero received
Irimi inure than half of the ninety-,
four districts thai they were over the
lop. Only three cases havo been ru-
porled not over tlio top nnd these
iinmillees nra still working to reach
Iho coveted quoins assigned them.
Lain reports from n number of dis
tricts will probably bo duo to tho
Inct that committees will stnv with
tho cnuvnss until they nre over tho
top nnd it will be impossible to givo
final reports before the middle of the
coming week.
County 111 Honor List
Jackson's quoin on tho new as
signment was .ti'ili.u'tiO. This will be
met with a subscription of nt least
t:i00,0im. Medford will givo the
drive $100,1101) against a quota of,
.fdlVJ'iO. Of this amount $(ia,000 was
sold at Hie local post office which
means that tlio efficient Medford
eiimmitleo hns sold $10,000 worth of
slumps in four days' work. Stumps
will be on salu at all posloffices un
til January first and Mcdl'iinl will ni
liuilit have a largo additional Riib-
(Continued on Page Six.)
WASHINGTON, Juno 29. Tho
army appropriation hill carrying
$12,OS9,000,000 tho lurgest Blnglo
budget In world history was passed
today by tlio senalo without a roll
call. Much Important legislation was
added by tho senate but no chango
wus mudo In tho proscnt army draft
ago limits.
Ill disposing ot amendments tho
senalo rejected 4 5 to 19 un amend
ment proposing to specifically direct
tho president to rnlso an army of
flvo million men as soon us etU!t
ment and transportation could bo
provided.
Many senators declared, however,
that tho vote did not really represent
opposition In congress to an army or
such size and that sentiment for great
expansion ns soon ns war department
plans porinlt was overwhelming.