Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, July 09, 1918, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextUnlvertlty ! Oregon , 1 lUrafU J AVIOATIIER Maximum Yrslonlav, 02; Minimum Today, 59. FOIiliOAKT Tonight and Tomorrow: Fair. EXT COIOJ MEDFORD RIBUNE SAVE WHEAT rorty-elKhth Tear. Dally Thirteenth Tear. MEDFORD, ORKCiOX, TUESDAY, JULY fl, 1!)1S NO. 91 FRENCH' HIT GE VOOD 'WILL WIN vi jet- MAILT ye? ADVANCE OF -IVIILEONTWO MILE FRONT Valuable Hip.h Ground Was Between Montdidier and the Olse, Scene of Latest Hun Offensive Counter Attacks Repulsed Germans Drill inq Behind Lines for New Offen siveAerial Activity Slackens Austria Losses Past Week 20,000. ;Y ASSOCIATKI) PKKSS, July 0. The French troops hit the German linos a smashing blow curly this morning in the urea almost directly north of Paris where the Germans t were stopped after five days of fight ing in their thrust toward the capital in the last and least successful of all their 1918 offensives about a id on til ago. The attack was delivered nlnn n 2V2 mile front and at some points General Petnin's troops pushed into the enemy positions for the distance of a mile. Two farms wen; captured and a counter attack which was de livered agninst one of them was re pulsed. Some '150 prisoners were taken. " The area chosen for the blow was nouth of the Mati! river region north vest of the Compiegiie forest an the front between Montdidier' and the Oise. The point , of the (iermnti wedge projected here in the neigh borhood of Antlmeil and it was to the west of this town, astride the Compicgnc road, that the French drove in, tnking valuable high ground Mi both sides of the highway. Assisted by Tanks The attacking forces wer-: as-ist-rd by tanks. Apparently, all the ter rain gained has been maintained in- tact. The new advance will servo Mill further to protect the importnn-t rcil- hay junction at Kslrees-St. Iienis, uliic'h lies seven miles southwest ot Anthticit. Further to the southeast nhnnr the line the French continued to triiii ad ditional ground on the Manic fiont by forcing the Germans buck farl'i-T in the vicinity of (lie t'havin-y farm. On the British front then were finding- operations and the Genmins bombarded the Amiens region. The French war office reports or--siderable artillery activity t'i the west and noth of Chateau Thierrv on the Marne front. It is in this sect r that the Americans on this front are liulflintr several miles of the line.. Huns Prfll Iteliind Macs For several weeks the German have been drilling mid instructing 'ttecinl attacking divisions behind Iho German lines leaving the front ims; lions to be guarded by mciliiiciv troops. German aerial activities have decreased in the hist few days and it is probable the airmen lire niakin; f ready for the next onslnught. !'li Gennun art:llcry tire has increased to above normal onlv 011 certain see- tors. (Continued on Page Six.) PORTLAND. July 9 Despite a slight rain which fell In the moun tains this morninK, conditions In the forests are more menacing than they liave been for several years and tho danner of forest flro Is very great. I'orestry officials, alive to the danger of a bin conflaeration, are In structing all patrols and rangers to keep close to their posts and report any blazo Immediately, no matter how Insignificant. Campers, fisher men and others are warned to be ex tremely careful not to leave any ' tires in the forests. The fires alrenily burning are un der control. I HREE BILLION BUSHELSOFCORN Fl Prospective Yield of Wheat Cut 40 Million Bushels By Unfavorable Conditions But Largest Crops On Record Promised for Barley, Rye, Meat, Potatoes and Rice. WASHINGTON, July !). A reduc tion of 40,(1(10,(111(1 bushels in the prospective wheat linrvets wus shown today m the department of afjricnl t lire's July forecast which is Hill.dOO.- (liill bu-hels compared with !l.'!l,llll(l (WO bushels forecast in June. 1 do nation in June reduced the prospec tive winter wheat crop by MO.fltlO.OOO bushels, and the spring crop by 10, 000,000 bushels. Wheat reiiiaiiiinir on farms July 1, is estimated at H.IMW.OIMI bushels. Kocoitl Corn Crop The corn harvest pinmises to be the lanicst on record with u total iif :!,1(i(),(IO(l,000 bushels as forecast for the first time this season by the frov mimeiit. The acreage is almost five per ceil; smaller than planted last year, the total beinjf llil.SIIo.OOO acres. Kenord crops of barley, rye, sweet potatoes 'and rice are indicated, while forecasts of the oats, white potatoes and tobacco crops show they proh .ihly will equal, (heir records if they have ood jrrowinjr conditions, (Inly half as much wheal remained on farms on July 1 this year us was held on that date last year and the quality was about one-fifth of the average bold over of the five years 1012-10. Production Forecasts Production forecasts of the va rious crops, estimated for their July conditions, follow. Amounts in millions of bushels, i. c, thousands Omitted: Winter wheat f"7, 1017, 418; aver age 052. Spring wheat XII. 1017 2't:t, aver age '27. All wheat 801, 1017 tiM, avcraire. Mill. Corn .'1,1(10, 1017, '',1.j!), average ',7(il. Oals l,i:i7, 1017 1 ,."H7, average l.'-'Wi. Hal'lcy '-:. 1017 JO0, average 2(VJ. live til.li, 1017, (iO.l, average I !..". White polalocs 401!. 1017 1 1:1, av erage 402. Sweet potatoes 01.1, 1017 H7.1, av erage n.'i.5. Tobacco (pounds) 1,187, 1017 1, 10(1, nverajio 1 .):!:(. Rax 1.1.H, 1017. 8:."i, average 17.(i. Hire i:i.l, 1017 IKUI. ii vernce IJH.'l. llav (Ions) 102, 1017 04.(i, average 04.."). Apples totals 10."), 1017 17."), aver age 214. Peaches 40. :i, 1017 4.1.1 . average 40.11. Acreage figures for last year were: Corn 1 10,7")."),0(IO; white potatoes 4, :I00,(I0(I: sweet potatoes O.Vi.UIIO ; to bacco 1.4 17,000; flax 1 .KiiO.ooo : rice Olil.OIIO. Wheat remaining on farms July last year amounted to l.'i.lil 1,000 liushcls and the five vear average U :iO,lllii;,IIOII bushel. Acreage planted to various crop find annouii.'cd for the first time arc Corn 1 1:l,0:i:,.H(iO. While potatoes, 4.. 1 1 .'5.1100. Sued potatoes, !l.",!l.llllll. Tobaccos 1,4.V2,(IIHI. Klax .0(i7,0(IO. Ilice, 1,.120.:i00. RESJSTERS BATTLE I1TTI.K ltOI.K, Ark., July !). Arrest today of five women, alleged harborers of draft resistors In Cle burne county was expected to pre cipitate a battle between the resis tors and pos?e men, including stale guardsmen and selectlves sent out from Heber Sprinas. Tho women are in a house ten miles from the nearest towns and In hills called the "Infamous Alps," a name attached because of the law lessness which Is said to have relcned In the vicinity for years. CROP A 100 KILLED BY TRA1 I Two Pasenger Trains Collide, Six Coaches Demolished and Two Burned Both Locomotives and Two Baggage Cars Smashed Mgst of Dead Negroes. NASHVILLE, Tenn., July 9. One hundred persons, most of them ne groes, are believed to have lost their lives in a head-on collision early to day hotween two passenger trains on the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis railroad, seven miles west of Nashvlllo. Nashville hospitals are crowded with the injurod who number more than eighty. As tho engineers and flromcn of 'both trains wore killed, tho cause of the collision may never he known. One of the trains is said o have disregarded orders. In one car every one was killed. There are said to have been several women passengers in this coach. Their bodies are still in the wreck. Conches Demolished Six passenger coaches In all wero demolished and two cars of the through train caught flro and were burned. Wrecking crews and volun toora worked heroically In the wreck ago to rescuo tho Injured. Tho wreck occurred at 7: in o'clock, seven miles from Nashville. Every available doctor .and nurse .tvas rushed to tho scene. One train was cat hound from .Memphis and St. Louis', and the other frdm Nashville to Memphis. Moth engines and two baggago cars were completely wrocked. A combination coach on tho local, filled with white and negro passengers was ripped from end to end and everyono killed. Head Mostly Negroes Several coaches wero telescoped and parsengers aro being cut out with difficulty. Most of tho dead are Raid to be negroes. 12 or about 40 Injured have reached the city hospital and severul of tho number had died. En gineer David Kennedy of Number 1, was found under a boiler. It is be lieved ho is fatally hurt. Two Pull man coaches escaped serious dam age. Tho entire crew of No. 4 was killed. KAISER DECIDES 10 COPIWlIAflKN', .Inly OKmperor . William Iiuh ('niicontcd In tho rusiK- nation of Dr. Menard von Kuelil- J niann.'the flnrmnn foreign nonrotary, t ho Wolff iifWK hurciju of Berlin gays it in reliably n-ported. N COLLISION ENNESSEE icv (1 -ufc? s .;-. bS-c- .s ' ifJWti.aMM v-jtiSM. hi American ofrirhil phoograili mIiouk a firman vnl.mm Inc Imilly tho Atlantic. It ( shmtn Interned in n Spnnih port, I . RUfflA flu ; " v ! OF SUNKEN SHIP RESCUED Al SEA AX ATLANTIC PORT, July !.- A trans-Atlantic liner In port lato to day brought news of tho sinking at sea of tho Norwegian steamer Ang vuld. Tho liner brought in 1 1 men, part of the crew, who were picked up whilo adrift. Tho AugvaUl was sunk by a submarine. Tho steamer was stopped by shcll firo, tho crew ordered into tho boats and tho ship then sunk with bombs. Captain Kgge of the Augvnld left tho ship with 12 men In his bout anu it became separated from the other life boat containing 14 of the crow. For two days tho laltur boat drifted about and was then upset in a storm. Three of the men wero swept away and tho others managed to reach tho boat and ball her out. They lost all their food and fre.sh water and even their oars wero gone. Thero was a succession of rain storms and tho men wore almost con tinually drenched. Day after day went by and finally on July 4 the rescue ship came over the horizon and tho starving men were soon safe ly on the deck of tho liner. Simultaneously with tho arrival of tho submarined crew, warnings were sent out today that tho hostilo lT boats may be encountered between latitudes '.? and i" north. On July f last an enemy submarine wus re ported in latitude 2.:',2 north, longi tude 4lt.r0 west. AN AMERICAN SHIP FINISHED THIS U-BOAT. I m III I I 1 I ' I I I II - W- n.a,ijf I rfl r.'k Vf t A QJ tm- j.t' . CASUALTY LIST , Fl WASII.I.N'IITO.N', July !) The army casually list today contained ' f7 names divided as follows: Killed In action, 11; died of wounds, 10; died of disease, 1; wounded severely, IS; wounded slightly, 2; missing in ac tion, 11; prisoner, 1. Tho list Includes William II. P. Hall, 3204 Soulh Proctor street. Ta eniae Wush.; Albert C. Damford, Krlo, H. C, wounded severely. Killed In action: Sergeant William A. Hamilton, Hulmar, Tenn.; Cor poral Peter A. Sicberz, .MilwaiiKuo, Wis.; Privates (leorgi! A. llrochu, Newark, N. .1.; Albert .1. Carron, Mll rord, Mass.; Henry Cumniinskcy, New Ucdford, Mass.; Ilarvoy S. Da vid, ConeHVllle, Ohio; William l)o luca, liarllonl, Conn.; Thomas Dun can, .Mourehcad, Ky.; Jack H. Insley, Carneglo, Pa.; Arthur Kennedy, N. C; John F. Ijawson, Worcester, .Mass.; .loo V. Salac, IlucHhults, Tex.; Nik, Sklttlno, Doll Harbor, N. Y.; John J. Stack, New York CHy. Died of wounds: Sergeant .Martin Popiacki, Baltimore; Corporal C. C. ItobiiiHon, Canton, N. Y.; Cook Chas. H. Stipe, Mcdoru, Ills.; Privates Hu bert S. Coon, Itrlggsvlllo, Wis.; John lira'liowskl, Syracuse, X, Y.; Anthony Pnrzyscli, l,a Sulle. Ills.; Jos. Peche ca, fall Itlver, Mass.; Krnest C. Hons, .Mtlner, Ca.; Jos. I), itountreo, Kingston, N. ('.; John Kusklnko, Scranton, Pa. '-StM-' - -lie.V'--"?"'- danwil n the result of an encounter ulili nn Amerleaii pa I ltd (mat oti f ; WIRE SEIZURE PLAN FOR ACTION I BILL FAVORABLY IN RUSSIA PUT REPORTED UPON By Vote of 7 to 3 Senate Committee Rci'omirenils Bill Authorizing Pres iilent to Take Over Telegraph Systems, After Hearing President Carlton Talk On Subject. WASHINGTON., July 9 Ily a vote of 7 to 3 the sonato commerce com mittee lato today ordered a favorable report without further hearings on the resolution authorizing the presi dent to take over tho telegraph, tele phone, cable and radio lines during tho war. Senators demanding Investigation before action on tho house resolution authorizing tho president to tuko over telegruph, telephone, cahlo, ami radio lilies won n partial victory to day when the sennto Interstate com merce committeo heard testimony be hind closed doors, on tho tolegraph situation from 'President Carlton of tho Western Union Tolegraph com pany. A decision regarding furthor hearings was deferred. After examining President Carlton nearly three hours tho committee adjourned for an executlvo sosslon to consider Immedlato reporting of tho resolution to tho senate Chairman Smith statod that no moro hearings wero planned. Fl WASHINGTON, July Publica tion in Swiss papers of the text of Secretary Baker's letler to President WilKon giving tho American troop j iiiuvcmuni 10 mi rope cauei ijerman .authorities to permit Its publication ' In ,.,.nP,ll.. l .ll.,..l,.lt Ml, W'JMIIUIIj, lUI.UMIIIIh lu uinjian u received from Ilerno. The Koelnischo Xcltuug published tho letter under tho heading "Amer ican bluff," the dispatch says, and commented as follows: "Mr. Hither thinks tin will bo able to dlsslpnle all doubts about exacti tude of his figures wilh his reitera tions. It Is, howuvor, only the usual A ni iH-icn ii Kin ff W'n ktwiur frntn rw I liable sources that Ihn fliriirnH In iueHliou are liiordinately exiiggerat- od ami In no way correspond to the truth." BILLY SUNDAY TO LOSE HIS VERMIFORM APPENDIX KOCIIKSTKlf, Minn., July U. I'illy Sunday, the evanyi'IUt, cume lure loilny to unrlernro an iieriilion for hernia tit a loejil h.i-iit jil. Mrs. Smitlfiy aceniNiiini iI her liuslutnd. .. .. 7 Q CP.l UP TO ALLIES Conferences With Japanese and Brit ish Ambassadors Followed By Transmission of Details to France and Italy Execution of Project to Begin Soon as Possible. WASHINGTON, July 9. Prepa rations for action under the policy to ward Russia approved by the Vnited States aro oinir forward steadily ami it was apparent today that thofc would he developments soon. Conferences between President Wilson and Secretary hnnsinir and the entente ambassadors continue. It was learned today (hut yesterday Viscount Ishii, the Japanese ambas sador, e mfV rred wil' tho piesident in regard to the situation in Siberia. Lord Keadin, the British ambassa dor, who has been acting as spokes man for the other entente ambassa dors, nfier having had another con ference wilh Secretary Lansing, transmitted information of Presi dent Wilson's determination to the I'Vench and Italian ambassadors for cotmmmicalions to their home gov ernments. ' . .' So soon n a few details nro ar ranged and the necessary ro-opera- tion and co-ordinnlion of effort is provided for, tho execution of tho project will begin. -. Word from I'nincii WASHINtJTON, July ' !).. Am bassador Krancis at Vologda, in-:n mcssnge dated Jtdy 7, bringing the first word received by him hy tho stale department since Juno 27, has confirmed iho report of the nHsassin ntion of Count Von Mh'hach, Hie Ger mun niubassiulor at Moscow. The assination occurred at II p. m. July (i, n tut Intest reports reaching (he ambiissador said fighting was progressing in the st reels of Mos cow. Wireless messages to the so viet government tol'd of the capture of severul prominent bolshevik offi cials by rcvoluliniiisls and of the ar rest of revolutionary leaders by bol shevik forces. Street righting in Progress Siiniltir iuformalinn reached tic state department from the Asso ciated Press correspondent at Volog da, who said there was street fighting both at Moscow and Jaroslnr. The messages of both Anibnssiulnr'Frnn-' eis anil the Assoumlcd Press corres pondent were sent to the American consul at Archangel and (here rclny ed. They hrough relief to officials, who had feared the Germans had succeded in completely cutting- ot tho ambassador's conmi i mini f ton. AIL ALIEN MALES LONDON, July D Tho parliamen tary committeo recently appointed to consider tho alien question ha.H la Htied reports recommending i mined l alo Internment of every inalo enemy alien over 1.1, except those who for medical reasons, tdiould bo exempt ed, and Ilia repatriation of nil fomalo enemy allenti, with tho exception of thoso whoso hiiHbandri havo boon grnnted exemption from internmont. Tho committeo also recommendH tho immediate dlnrlmrge of nil mich piirsoiiR employed In nny govern ment depiirtment and that all enemy business shall bo wound up within three months. Kord Ituumfnrd, calling attention to thn danger from unlutcrned aliens and expieKsliig tho belief that many ships havo been torpedoed thru In formation furnished by fple.n, natd that a month ago tho llritlxh, allied and neutral tonnage sunk amounted to I3,0o daily. A fortnlMht ago It was Una tons dally and last wook 3000 tons dally. These he declared were satisfactory figures.