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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27

A|RRESTBOMB
SUSPECT IN
FRISCO
Police Believe Perpetrators
Of Outrage That Resulted
in Deaths Of 9 viii Soon
Be Brought to Justice

San Francisco. July 27.--With one
bomb suspect under arrest and Mrs.
Belle LAWN detained for examina-
ton. the police today sent requests
all over the country for the detention
OF Thomas Mooney. who. they be-
lleve. may give them further informa-
ilon regarding the bomb outrage here
which has already cost nine lives.
Such close secrecy has been main
tanned regarding the activities OF the
special bomb squad OF the depart
ment that the police win not even
admit that Warren X. Billings is un-
der arrest. although from other
sources II is known that he Is.
Billings. who has served term
in Folsom prison for carrying dyna-
mite on passenger train. was taken
into custody at I.ahe hospital when
he appeared at the free clinic there
for treatment. No newspaper men
have been permitted to see him and
a sweating" which was begun yes
terday continued today
Immediately after Billings arrest
police hurried to the lodging house
6f Mrs. LAWN, where Billings room
cd. searched his room and took Mrs.
LAWN into custody. This was the
house in which James Mcnamara
and M. A. Schmidt stayed when they
we're planning the dynamiting Of the
Los Angeles Times building six years
ago. At that time Mrs, LAWN was
detained. She was cross examined at
length today.
The search OF Billings room dis
closed two hundred steel-nosed cart
ridges OF .22 and 80 calibre. hid
den In a tin box, According to the
police. these coincide with the bull
lets picked up near Stewart and Mar
ket streets Saturday after the bomb
explosion. An automatic pistol was
also found In the room.
The latest bomb theory OF the
police. It was stated today, Is that
the Internal machine was exploded
In an effort to kill or main represen-
tatives OF the United Railways who
were marching In the parade.
Mooney, who recently attempted to
start a strike OF United Railways
platform men. Is wanted In the be-
lief that he may have Information
that will be Of value to the police In
this connection.
Photographs OF Billings we're
shown today to Newton Potter. pro-
prletor OF the Metal Welding works,
who recently sold two strangers a
steel contalner for explosives similar
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27
PROGRESS OF INFANTHLE
PARALYSIS IN NEW YORK

New York, July 27.--There was a
slight decrease in infantile paralysis
cases reported in Greater New York
today. but the additional sufferers
151-brought the total up to 3.411
since the plague started six weeks
ago.
Deaths today numbered 81, against
25 yesterday. making a total Of 713.
Health officials today issued warn
ing against quack remedies.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27
SLAYER OF COL. BUTLER
TO HAVE HEARING TODAY

III Paso, July 27,--Seemingly
dreading to return to the scene OF
his shooting Of Lleutenant-Colonel
Butler and Mrs. SPANIEL, Harry
SPANIEL left El Paso secretly at mid
night In charge OF armed deputy
sheriifs for Alpine, Texas. He was
scheduled to have a preliminary hear
Ing there today. SPANIEL looked
pale and worn on leaving the local
county jail, to which he was removed
for safety shortly after the shooting.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27
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THE MAYORS
CALLED BY
UNCLE SAM
Dr.. Truaz VIII Join the US.
Army Medical Corps, Be-
ing Ordered 10 Duty al
San Diego Aviation School

Mayor J. p. Truax. who serves the
Municipality q the head Of the busi-
ness administration and the school
district as chairman OF the school
board for glory. but who makes his
living by practicing medicine. has
been called to duty by your Uncle
Samuel. After next Tuesday, and
for at least the next three months,
the school director-mayor-physician
will be Lieutenant Jesse p. Trusx.
M. D.. detailed for duty at the United
States army aviation school at San
Diego.
Before coming to Grants Pass in
1910, DR.. Truax had been IL years
with the medical service in the army.
He enlisted in 1898 when the little
affair with Spain was settled. and
after that he was transferred to Fort
Robinson. Nebraska; Fort Wright,
at Spokane; to Puget Sound, to
Alaska, and other places where the
soldier boys might need pills or
lsplints. He was also on duty with
the army when the labor troubles
were seething in the Occur d'Alene
mining district. and patched up
broken noses and limbs there. Then
the doctor was ordered to the Philip
pines. but with growing family to
take his attention, he concluded to
sever his connection with army life
and establish himself in private prac-
|tice. He therefore resigned his COM
mission and located in Grants Pass.
Here he not only established him
self in a most excellent practice but
became also public-spirited citizen
as well. serving upon the school
board with credit, and last December
being elected mayor by large ma-
jority.
Last March Uncle Sam. who keeps
track of men who may some day be
needed in the service, wrote the doc
tor to know IL he would again enter
the service il called up. The reply
that went back was that II his coan-
TRY needed him he was ready to re-
spond to the call provided the SER
vice was in the field or at a base hos
pital. or where he could see active
duty. Now the doctor has been or
dered to report for duty at the army
aviation school at San Diego. and he
win depart for San Diego next Tues
day.
DIR. Truax has agreed to remain
In the service for 80 days only unless
there should be war. In which event
he would remain as long as needed.
But II peace is maintained he will re-
turn to Grants Pass at the end OF his
30 days OF service and win resume
his practice here. In the meantime
It is expected that his official posi-
tions will be held open for him here,
and that Councilman Demaray, as
president Of the council, will be act
ing mayor. The Doctors family will
remain in this city during his abb
sence.
The doctor expects that the prac-
tice that will come under his direc-
tlon at the aviation school will be
most valuable to him, and will aid
him materially when he resumes
private practice. For the past year
he has been keeping in touch with
the army department through a cor
respondent course OF study, and the
officers OF the medical corps gave him
q rating Of 9S at its conclusion.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27
MISSOURI RAILWAY MEN
IN FAVOR OF STRIKE

st. Louis. July 27.-Between 30
and s5 per cent OF the Missouri men,
bers Of the four railway brotherhoods
are In favor Of strike. This was
learned today from usually reliable
sources. The balloting ended last
night at midnight,
Brotherhood officials OF the st.
Louis district today were preparing
the ballots for delivery to the
brotherhood headquarters in New
York.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27
WIN Publish Tratlic Rules.

copy OF the traffic ordinance will
be published in tomorrow's paper, by
the city council. This is being done
to acquaint the people with the rules
and a good plan would be to cut
these out and paste them where they
can be observed.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1916-07-27
Of
M|LITIAMEN WILL
GET FEDERAL AID

Washington. July 27.--Aid for de-
pendent families Of national guards
men and regulars on the Mexican
border-not to exceed $50 a month
was ordered BY the senate this after
noon as an amendment to the army
appropriation bill.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
STRIKE IS AVERTED.

The announcement that the Joint
committee of coal operators and coal
miners had reached an amicable agree
ment on the controverted questions of
wages and on other important matters,
and that there would, therefore, be no
strike, was grateful news to the peo-
pie Of the four states which are af-
fected directly by the settlement The
bituminous coal fields Of western
Pennsylvania and the states Of Indi-
ana, Ohio and Illinois produce the
greater portion Of the soft coal used
in those states and the great north
west. A strike of the coal miners in
these fields would have been public
, calamity. Hundreds of thousands of
men would have been thrown out of
employment, direct result most la
mentable, and the industries in these
and other states would have been Grip
pied by the scarcity Of coal which
would have followed the strike. The
cost in loss Of wages by the miners
and in the loss of profits by the opera
tors, to say nothing of the losses in
| flicted on enterprises and Industries
dependent upon an ample supply of
fuel if strike had not been averted,
would be enormous.
The coal industry Of Illinois is one
of the most important in itself and
| far the most important In its relation
to other industries of the state.
| The vast transportation utilities of
the state, both water and rail, are de-
pendent upon it, and the output of the
great industrial institutions of the
state would be minimized if not wiped
out should the coal supply fail. There
will be general rejoicing, therefore
over the avoidance of a strike in the
coal mines.
The additional compensation to be
reaped by the miners, even had their
wages been ample, is a small price to
pay by the operators, and eventually
by the people, who are coal consum-
ers, for the benefits secured by the
uninterrupted mining Of coal. The
workman is worthy of and entitled tc
his hire and The Argus believes tina,
the coal miners, under the advanced
schedules agreed upon, are not receiv-
ing more than their share of the profits
on the products of their labor. Their
work is not only heavy, but it is haz-
ardous The most Industrious and ef-
ficient among them are able to earn
under present prices not much more
than a bare living, even when they
are kept constantly employed. The
advance will enable them to live q
little better or save little more fol
rainy day. In either case, it is g
blessing to them and 1t will be but a
light burden upon the small consum,
ers Of coal.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
OPPOSE HURLING AMERICANS
.INTO HE'LL OF WAR;

Representative Decker, democrat, OF
Missouri, expressed what was gener-
ally regarded in congress as the views
Of the minority, who, while ready to
uphold the president If a national
crisis should come, yet were con-
scientiously unable to agree with his
diplomatic position, and therefore
protest against hurting "the miners
voted for the McLemore resolution as
and the farmers into this hell of war
and taking sons from their mothers"
to sacrifice them in the trenches. Mr..
Decker said:
in Germany, the issue was, will we
stand by the kaiser? In England the
issue was, will we stand by the king g?
In Russia the issue was, will we stand
by the car, the little vicar Of God
If war eomes, we will all stand by
the president of the United States. But
this. thank God, is a representative
government. The question now is,
will you stand by the American peo-
pie?
Il have stood by the president of
the United States. l have stood by
him in his efforts to carry out the
mandate of the American people. He
has said that If an American citizen
on board an armed merchant ship is
drowned by German submarine
without warning he will hold Ger
many to strict account.
stripped of its diplomatic Ian
guage, if an American life is lost as
result of the sinking of an armed
merchant ship without warning, it
means war.
Il am willing to go to war for an
American right, but not for doubtful
legal right as Mr.. Lansing says. l
am willing to go to war for an Ameri-
can right, but it must be vital right
In the name Of God. why am trait
or and a coward when l stand in the
halls where Henry Clay stood and
says: you shall not hurl the miners
and the farmers of my district into
this hell of war, you shall not take the
sons from the mothers of my district
and sacrifice them at Verdun or in
the trenches of Europe in order to
maintain doubtful right"
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
FRENCH MERCHANTS
MARK THEIR GOODS

Paris, Feb. 24.-(Correspondence of
The Associated Press. THE tricolor-
ed cockade as a national trademark to
identify French products is the 6ug-
gestion of Monsieur R. Legouez, pres
ident of the National Union of Man
ufacturers' Trademarks association
and one of the directors of the prin-
cipal Paris subway.
1--WE expect" he says, that after
the war the economic struggle be-
tween the present adversaries will be
quite as lively, and will probably be
waged with the same moral concep-
lions as the military operations. Ev-
cry means already known and new
ones will be used and developed to as
simulate products of nationality for
which a certain antipathy has devel-
oped in a great many countries. So
far as our interior marks are con-
cerned, none Of the laws in force
prevent imported merchandise once
having passed the customs house be-
ing sold under the name and the
trademark of merchant establish
ment in France, no matter what that
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
TO CATALOGUE PATRONS.

Did it ever strike you how odd the
old town would seem without grocery
stores or dry goods stores or hardware
stores or shoe stores, if every one did
all of their trading in those lines with
some eastern mail order house? And
did it ever strike you how real estate
in the town would decrease in value if
those conditions prevailed? You may
argue that those conditions will never
obtain, that there will always be
enough people who will do their trad
ing with home merchants to keep at
least some Of them going. The argu-
ment is weak one, for all of your
neighbors have the same rights you
have and might profit (?) by your ex-
ample, do their trading out of town,
too. Then again. if all of those mer-
camille establishments should go out Of
business who would pay the rentals
on the buildings and, more pertinent
still, who would bear the additional
burden Of taxation? Think of 1t, yos
individuals who are in the habit of
sending out Of town when you see
merchandise priced in catalogues for
less than you know the actual cost of
production to be for the standard arti-
Gle. Gold dollars can't be sold for less
than one hundred cents, except as
bait to catch you on something else.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
THE RIDDLE OF THE NAVY LEAGUE
This Organization Won't Tell Only Merely


7 ty-four members, some of them dupli-
Gated in the preceding lists. Many Of
| these members ''interlock," in their
business capacities, with almost all the
| great basic industries of the country.
In at least three cases men who are
members of the Navy league are slso
| connected with the three armor-plate
companies which were specifically ac-
cused by Secretary Daniels of dish6h-
estly combining to fix the prices in
their supposedly competitive bids for
| government contracts.
| Further details are not wanting;
they are, indeed, so numerous as to be
embarrassing.
| But anyone who wants fuller infor-
nation on the subject can probably OBJ
| tain it by writing to his congressman
for the number of the Congressional
Record in which Mr.. Tavenner's speech
is printed.
These facts do not prove any Grim
inality. 1t may be, as Mr. Tavenner
suggests, a mere coincidence that the
IS founders of the Navy league should
include men connected with every
great steel company, every great ar
mor-plate company. and all the great
| metal industries of the United States.
II this did not happen by coincidence
1t may still be true, as Mr.. TaEenner
further suggests, that there is some
sort of psychological connection be-
tween metals and patriotism, and par
! ticularly between steel and patriotism.
| Again, it is possible that the represen-
tatives of iron. steel, copper, nickel,
zine, etc, in the Navy league became
interested in the navy through their
business connections, learned In TINS
way of its needs, and went into the
Navy league with purely patriotic
desire to minister TO those needs
They may have succeeded in keeping
their business interests distinct from
their Navy league interests.
Two suggestions of a more serious
nature remain TO be considered MI
] Tavenner's discoveries may be eEi-
dence of the wide affiliations Of Amerl-
! cas- leading business men rather than
of dishonesty on the part of the Nav!
league. The league naturally sought
the support of leading business men,
and such men had already been leu
into the profitable investment field al
forded by coal, iron and other metals.
Again, the interests of the steel, cop
per and nickel magnates in the Navy
league may be rather in the extensioS
of protected foreign trade than
in the immediate profits from govern
ment contracts. SO much may be sala
for the Navy league.
But. granting the Navy league all
the credence that ii asks. it is at best
unified for this cynical world. Men
who believe that the public will accept
such connections and affiliations VITA
out suspecting the motives OF those IN
volyed are too simple to be trusted
with the laying out of a naval poHey-
The Navy league is either very childish
or 1t is concealing facts and ambitions
which honesty Of purpose would LEAD
it to admit. -
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10

scrutable and past finding out. And
yet there isn't Smart Alec military
expert" writing for any magazine or
metropolitan newspaper in the United
States who can't forecast the military
movements in Europe with both hands
tied behind him.
But isn't it a little surprising that
the French and the English have lain
there on the French front for about a
year and half and never made move
to break through the German lines
1t looks now as though they would lie
there another year and half without
trying their hands at an advance. Rus
STA has not been SO careful. Russia
has attacked; but perhaps the exper-
fence of Russia has made England and
France a little more cautious.
BY the way, the Review of Reviews
military expert" has got 1t all work
ed out. Germany is going to be de-
feated and every colony she has. or
ever hopes to have, is going to be TAX
en- from her And she is going to be
put back to about fourth rate nation
in Europe.
Talk about savagery, II the history
of Europe isn't a history of savagery,
what is it history of? If Europe had
kept the peace for the last five or six
hundred years, who can tell what
blessings the people Of this earth
might not now be enjoying? No one
can estimate the damage that Eu-
ropean savagery and butchery have
done to the people Of the earth.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
(San Francisco Ruiletinl

Anti-militarist leaders in this coun-
try have charged that some of the
most powerful influences behind the
preparedness movement are neither
frank nor honest. The basis for this
belief can rarely be given in full. 1t
ought to be valuable exercise, there
fore, to look over some Of the facts
gathered by Congressman Clyde Tav-
enner of Illinois in his investigation
of the Navy league. Mr. Tavenner pre-
scented his data in a speech printed in
the Congressional Record for Jan. Z of
this year-volume SO, number IL, pages
759 to 779. All that anyone could pos
sibly desire to know concerning the
| Navy league, except the statements
that the league itself might make in
extenuation, is mentioned in Mr.. Tav-
enner's speech.
The Navy league was incorporated
in the state of New York on Jan. 2,
1908. 1t stated as it's object, ito &C
quire and spread before the citizens of
the United States, through branch or
CARNATIONS and otherwise, information
as to the condition of naval forces and
equipment Of the United States and to
awaken public interest and cooperation
in all matters tending to aid, improve
and develop their efficiency"
Mr. Tavenner looked up in the Navy
League Journal for 1904 the names Of
founders" of the league These in
cluded Charles NJ. Schwab, now presi-
dent OF the Bethlehem Steel corpora
ton; the late ]. P. Morgan, an organ
izer and director of the United States
Steel corporation, which controls, in
turn, the Carnegie Steel company, an
armor-plate corporation; S. S. Palmer,
president of the Harvey Steel COM
pany, which owned the patent on
process for hardening armor steel;
Benjamin ]. Tracy, counsel for the
Harvey company and the Carnegie
company; two law partners of Mr.
Tracy; John Jacob Astor. Harry Payne
Whitney and Arson Phelps Stokes.
There are 10 men in the list OF
founders comments Mr.. Tavenner,
and of these 10 the majority were
connected with concerns and establish
ments which. through interlocking d.
rectorates, connect in turn with the
manufacturers of war materials and
things which go into war material
AT the present time Mr.. Tavenner
discovered, the membership of the
Navy league includes men who are also
connected with the following steel COM
panies: the United States Steel corpo-
ration. through Mr.. Morgan. Mr.. Bacon.
Mr.. Gary and others; the Bethlehem
Steel corporation, the Carnegie Steel
company. the Harvey Steel company.
the Lackawanna Steel company, the
Cambria Steel company. the Midvale
Steel company. and l6 others. Copper
is represented by Colonel Robert
Thompson, president of the Navy
league, and by seven other members:
zinc, lead and brass by nine members;
nickel by two, again including Colonel
Thompson: coal and mining by TWEEN
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-03-10
Selected by Tavenner

Copy of telegram sent President
Wilson urging him to permit con-
gress to warn Americans from TAX
ing passage on armed belligerent
ships:
Il find many Americans looking at
the prospect Of war with the COM
placent feeling that it would be a
paper war;" a case of the, elephant
and the whale, a matter OF Silver
bullets"
Il have enough confidence in the
manhood of my country to believe that
| it would not rest at that. just as
Canada and Australia are sending the
flower of their manhood to be sacri-
feed for England in the trenches OF
Flanders and on the racks of Gallipoli,
so the best of cur blood would be sac
rificed. There would be no excuse for
our not sending unlimited cannon fod-
der to pick England's chestnuts out OF
the fire, the fire laid by Edward VII
and lighted by Asquith and Grey. Is
the seventh regiment ready to be an
initiated in the effort to gain hun
bred yards Of trenches? Is Squadron
A prepared to meet the fate OF the
Light Brigade? Is the Philadelphia
City Troop? Are our business men
prepared for the bankruptcy of their
customers? Are they ready to let
their clerks go to the front and con-
tinue their salaries as the Germans
do? Are we ready to bring on the
country incalculable commercial and
financial disaster by further strains
upon international economics already
at the breaking point? Are We will
| ing to give Japan her opportunity I?
Are our brides ready for widowhood?
Are our affianced maidens willing to
| face lifelong maidenhood? Are our
mothers eager to make, pro patria,
the great maternal sacrifice? All
these sacrifices German men and
women are making joyously because
| they believe their cause just and holy.
We, too, will make them if they are
are for the honor and the glory of our
country. But does the present issue
call for such sacrifice? Let us not go
into war blind as to issues and blind
as to the consequences. Shall there
be war or peace? Let not one man but
all the people through their represen-
tatives in congress decide"