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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1918-05-11
aefnlau Report.

BERLIN Via London. May 1n.--Thc
German official communication issued
to-day says:
"On tho hattie frnnt throughout the
day th"ro was lively artillery activity
only in the region Of Mont kcmm"i. on
both sides Of Luc" brook and on the
west hank Of the hvre.
The strong ncrcas" In tho firing III
these sectors was followed by enemy
advances. During tho repulsr "f these
and during lively accommodating activity
we took n number OF prisoners.
TN the evening and during III" nigh;
the artillery battle was frequently re-
v!vcd between the User and tn" biS".
On tho remainder of tn" front tho fight
Ing activity remained restricted /" re-
connoiterinC enEa GcmentS.
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BERLIN. May 10. via London..-
The supplementary official commu-
ncation issued by the war office this
evening says: AN English local at
tack north Of Albert was repulsed.
"a French advance in the Apre-
mont wood also failed"
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UGL|Es7 SCANDAL Of THE WAR
D|VILCED|N SWORN STATEN|I|E: N7S
MADE PUBLIC IN THE SENATE

Sculptor Who Probed for the President Alleged to Have
Negotiated Secretly for Interest in Privately Owned Air
craft Concern to Have Enormous Government Con-
tracts
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Secret Well Guarded.

DOVER. England, May 10.-The
decision 10 send the findictiye to
OStend was made few days after
her return from the ZeebrugSe raid.
and the task Of filling hor with con-
.eret" WAS begun Immediately.
As in TIE joint raid on ZcebruEge
and OsTend. this latest British naval
Continued On Page Nine.)
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Late British Report.
LONDON. May ln.-Th"r" WIS lnraI
pfpbtIng to-day ut Avoluy wood. north u:
(conttnued on Page Eighteen.)
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Fair Saturday.; Sunday Increasing
cToudiness and warmer.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Give Flowers For
The Soldier Boys

The canteen station committee
sends in another s. o. S. call for
flowers to give out to the soldiers
whenever the troop trains pass here.
II is surprising to note with what
avidity the boys from less favored
sections accept the roses and other
flowers given to them when they
stop in Ashland, and in this land Of
flowers nothing is more easily spared
than the quantities of flowers tha.
bloom in every garden in the city.
Mrs. Ira Shoudy has donated 80
dozen beautiful red carnations at
various times during the summer to
the boys who are on their way to the
forts or starting on their long pill
grimage to the battle front. These
have been among the most highly
prized gifts the soldiers have receiv-
ed. and this generous woman has won
the gatitude of many boys experience
ing for the first time the pangs Of
separation from home and mother.
Anyone with flowers to donate fof
this cause may telephone any men,
her of the canteen station committee
and the flowers will be called for
whenever the troop trains are known
10 be passing through this city.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Ashland Boys Meet
Friends In Montana

When the seth regiment left Fort
Stevens last week for the east to
eventually take their place in the
great war, they passed through
Three Forks, Montana, the home of
the H. o. Frohbachs, former well
known Ashland residents. In a let
ter to Mrs. T. II. Simpson, Mrs Froh-
Zach related her meeting with the
hoys aboard the troop trains which
Is OF interest to the parents and rel.
ctives left behind.
Mrs. Frohbach said she was ap-
prised of the boys arrival in Three
Forks that morning by the phone
ringing. Her son Harold answered
It, and said that troop train wab at
the station with the Oregon boys, and
that Glenn Simpson would be on the
next section. Harold went to the
station and saw number of boys he
knew. He gave them the large Ore
son flag the Frohbachs brought with
them from San Francisco in 1851
when Mr.. Frohbach represented Ash
land at the exposition, and the boys
were delighted to receive it.
"As the second section pulled into
the station" Mrs. Frohbach further
related, I'VE rushed along, as the
boys were not allowed to get off. Wei
saw Oscar Silver, Reid Harrell and
finally | saw some one hanging Off
the step and waving, and suSe
enough, there was Glenn, looking as
fine as any soldier boy could. We.
took them some candy, and Harold
gave those who smoked some cigar
cites. We also saw Clifford Var
brough. Mr., the boys all look fine"
Mrs. Frohbach further said that
Glenn Simpson told her there were
only nine of the Ashland boys left
at Fort Stevens. On the first section
Harold saw Slade Songer, Beecher
Danford, Gerald Gunter and a num-
her of others with whom Mrs. FEoh
bach was not acquainted. Merrill
Throne was also on the section with
Glenn Simpson, but Mrs. Frohbacn
did not see him. ar
We were so proud Of the boys"
Mrs. Frohbach said In conclusion
There was big crowd at the depot,
and man said, A fine bunch OF
loys.' | said, Yes, our boys"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Funeral Of Y.M.C.A.
Worker Held Today

The body Of Fred Taylor, who died
last Sunday at Camp Fremont where
he was engaged in Y. M. C. A. work.
was brought tr Ashland last evening
and funeral services were held from
the Methodist church this forenoon
at 10 o'clock. Burial was made In
the Hargadine cemetery, beside the
grave Of his wife who lost her life
in an automobile accident three years
ago. Accompanying the body from
San Francisco last evening was Miss
Adrian Taylor, a niece of the de-
ceased.
Mr.. Taylor was the son-in-law Of
iir. and Mrs. w. A. Patrick of this
city, and was a former resident and
merchant of Ashland. Since leaving
here five years ago, Mr.. Taylor had
been in business In Corning, Cal, up
to few months ago, when he en-
tered Y. NJ. C. A. work and was sta
toned at Camp Fremont.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Commission Ordered
Ashland Hill Paved

The highway commission gave out
The good tidings as a result of their
meeting Tuesday that the state
would proceed at once to complete
.he Ashland hill work and to use con-
crete for the hard surface. r. A.
Booth and S. Benson, members OF
the commission, visited this section
recently investigating the field in
this direction, and while here prom
ised to find funds to complete this
work. This they have succeeded in
obtaining, and now give out the in
formation that this work will prog
ress Immediately. IL will take from
$4,000 to $4,000 to complete the
road.
Other highway work accomplished
" the commission at the meeting
Tuesday was the awarding of the
contracts to the county court of I'm
icn county for grading the Elgin-
Minam road and the Union-Telocas-
set section of the old Oregon trail.
Both roads are post roads projects
and are to be constructed in cooper
alton with the federal government.
The commission instructed the
state highway engineer to make
survey Of proposed road in Crook
county up Crooked river for which
the county has bonded itself in the
sum of $4,000.
Owing to the growing complaint
regarding the absence of sign posts
sion decided to ask the attorney gbn-
eral for an opinion as to what steps
At cross roads the higway commits
can be taken to enforce the law re,
quiring county courts to make roads.
# 1t is found that there is no method
of enforcement new legislation will
lie sought.
The secretary of the commission
was instructed to notify all county
courts that the speed laws of the
state should be enforced. To clear
UP some right-of-way disputes in I'm
ION county the commission decided
TO request the attorney general to
proceed with condemnation suits.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Praise Service
At Crater Lake

There will be a preaching service
next Sunday, August IL, at s p. m ,
at Crater Lake, conducted by Rev.
John w. Hoyt of Ashland, Sunday
school missionary of the presbytery
Of southern Oregon. The meeting
will be held in the hotel at the rim
Of the crater. The meeting will be-
patriotic in character and it is de-
sired that all who find it possible to
be present, co-oprate in making this
meeting success. The praise serv-
ice will be an important part of the
meeting and choir of 20 voices is
desired.
Volunteer your help If you can
be there. Mr.. Hoyt will be on the
ground early in the afternoon, arriv-
ing from klamath county.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Sheriff Jennings
TO Train For Army

Ralph G. Jennings, sheriff of Jack
son county, has announced that he
expects to enter the service of the
United States army shortly. He was
in Corvallis this week where he took
the necessary examination for en-
trance into an officers training camp
and was passed by Adjutant H. p.
McClain, the United States army Of
ficer stationed at the Q. a. c., with
an exceptionally high rating for en-
trance to the infantry officers train
ing school at Camp Pike, Arkansas.
Sheriff Jennings expects to receive
his call to enter the school sometime
between now and September l, and
until then he will not resign his of
flee. When that event occurs the
county court will appoint man to
fill out his term which expires next
January.
1t is also probable that Mr.. Jen-
rings will not resign from the demo-
cratic ticket as a candidate for re-
election until he receives his call, nor
from his membership on the county
draft board until then. The county
democratic county central committee
will name a man TO take Jennings
Place on the ticket and Governor
Withycombe will name his successor
on the draft board
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Normal School Bill
First On Ballot

Ben G. Sheldon was In Ashland
Tuesday evening where he came to
meet the normal school COMMITTEES
and discuss the situation as It ap-
pears throughout the state. Mr.. Shell
don has been making tour of the
state in the interests OF the normal
school campaign, and says that af-
fairs look promising for the outcome
Of the bill to come up before the
fall election. The Dalles, Pendleton,
Le Grande and Baker, the leading
tlties in eastern Oregon, are lined up
and working industriously for the
passage Of the bill, and Mr.. Shell
don says the normal situation looks
good in that section.
State Superintendent Churchill
has Just returned from eastern Ore
gon where he had been recently in
the interests of the bill. lie claims
that indications point to a favorable
outcome for the passage of the bill
next election. The voters pamphlet
IS now on the press and proofs have
already been issued in which it Is
seen that the bill is the first in the
hook and will be the first on the
ballot.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Franco-Americans Drive Enemy
Back and Cross VeSle River

On the French Front, Aug. Z, 2:30
D. INSTRUMENTATION forces were
thrown across the Vesle river last
evening and forced the enemy back.
The crossing was affected east Of
Braisne. The enemy attacked there
and 100 prisoners were taken.
Shortly afterwards the Germans
launched a counter attack with a
heavy artillery barrage, but could
net dislodge the allies, who stuck to
the position they had won.
The enemy appears to have strong
forces In this neighborhood.
On the remainder Of the front
there was comparative calm, except
for artillery fire.
Artillery duels and patrol actions
continue while the allies and Ger
mans make ready for future opera
lions. Indications point to a resump.
tion Of fighting on this line within a
few hours.
1t was to be expected that several
days would elapse before the allies
could he in shape to renew their Of
fcnsive. Bad weather has hampered
the movement of guns and reinforce
ments as we'll as aerial scout work.
Rain Is reported to have fallen along
the battle front Tuesday afternoon.
When infantry fighting does re-
open It will probably mark new
phase in the years campaign. The
Marne pocket has been cleared of the
enemy and the crown prince defeat
ed. Premier Clemenceau announces
that the German losses included S5,-
900 prisoners and 700 guns.
Intense bitterness has marked
what little fighting there has been
between Scissors and Rheims. The
American forces in Fismes and north
Of the river have been subjected to
heavy bombardments, but have held
on West Of Fismes Tuesday Ger
man battalion prepared to attack the
American bridge builders along the
Nesle. The entire force was wiped
cut by American machine gunners.
Southwest of Morlancourt the
Germans took some ground recently
Won by Australians astride the Bray
Corbie road. This morning British
counter attack won back the posi-
tions. Some of the enemy troops
we're taken. London claims that all
the objectives fixed for the counter
attack have been secured.
British troops at the apex of the
German salient in Flanders have
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Report Presented
BY Police Judge

The following is the report of the
ashland city court for the month
ending July 81, 1918:
Number complaints for violation
of traffic ordinance, 5; number Of
complaints for violation of water Or
dinance, 16; number of complaints
for violation of park ordinace, 2;
number of complaints for violation
of booze ordinance, s; number Of
complaints for disturbing the peace,
4; number of complaints charging
use of obscene and vulgar language,
1. Total number of complaints
heard and disposed OF, 3S. Amount
Of money received and deposited In
city treasury, $147.
D. M. BR0WER,
Judge of City Court.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
General Vanderbilt
In Charge Of Camp

Camp Lewis, American Lake., Aug.
7-Brigadier General Cornelius Van
derbilt, of New York, will be the next
commander of Camp Lewis, 1t was
announced here late yesterday. He Is
expected to arrive today. The order
definitely assigning him to command
one of the three brigades arrived by
mail yesterday and officers at divi-
sion headquarters have private ad.
vices, they said, that the general
would report within As hours.
Whether Gen. Vanderbilt will be
division commander is not known.
No further announcement has been
made regarding the general officers
who will be stationed here but, as
senior officer in camp until the ar
rival another who outranks him, Gen.
Vanderbilt temporarily will have
command of the 18th division as we'll
as being camp commander. He will
succeed Col. e. N. Jones, present
camp commander, who will return to
his regiment, relieving Major George
Elolloran.
Major Ragrvald Hvoslef, military
attache of the Norwegian legation In
washington, D. c., who is touring
American cantonments, inspected
camp yesterday.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
65th May Now
Be On Firing Line

The Medford Mail Tribune of We'd
Desday says that relatives of Jackson
county boys in the 65th artillery are
watching the war news from the
front with much eagerness these days
as there is a strong probability that
the 65th is engaged in the great bat
ties. A number of letters received
in the city in the past two or three
weeks told that the 65th was all
ready for duty in the front line and
about to be sent there. Today an
other mail from France arrived in
the city bringing more letters indi-
eating that the boys have been and
probably are still in the fighting.
Mayor and Mrs. Gates received a
letter from Sergeant George Gates,
written June 2S, this morning, in
Which he made the simple statement,
We've been at the front for awhile"
The letter was unusually mutilated
by the censor, who cut away thres
and one-half pages of it. George
wrote that two of his Medford COM
rades while out on the march, COL
lapsed from heat attacks.
Sergeant Ben Plymale wrote on
June 20 to Samuel T. Richardson in
a letter the latter received over two
weeks ago that the 65th was already
TO go to the trenches, having been is
sued their steel helmets, gas masks
and other equipment. He stated that
ne and four other sergeants had just
returned from attending special
school in higher mathematics. Hence
1t is prabable that the Jackson coun-
ty boys of the 65th have been manip-
ulating guns against the Hun in the
recent battles. Sergeant Plymale and
Sergeant Carl Ringer of Eagle Point,
are the only Jackson county boys in
G Of the 65th.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
City Council Met
In Regular Session

The city council met last Tuesday
evening for the first time in three
weeks, at whichc meeting much rou-
tine work was disposed of. The
hearing of reports and auditing of
bills consumed much of the period.
AS no bids had been received for the
Garfield street sewer bonds, which
amount to s5S0.S0, they were pur-
chased by the city from the electric
light depreciation fund.
A petition for sidwalks on Sixth
street was referred back to the pc
titioners with the request that they
get one-half or more Of the frontage
signed up for improvement.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Heavy Frost In
Mountain District

II. G. Mathes and family are
tpending the present month In the
Dead Indian country. They are To-
Gated on the Lindsey ranch ard Mr.
Gathes is looking after the ranch in
terests while there. He was in Ash
land yesterday and stated that it Is
very dry in that section, with not
days and cool nights.
Tuesday morning, Mr.. Mathes
said, he had to thaw out his pump
with hot water before he could draw
any water, and that ice froze to the
thickness of window glass. AS that
locality is only about 20 miles from
Ashland the change in temperature Is
quite radically different from that
in this valley.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Shortage Of Water
Calls For New Law

At the meeting of the city council
last Tuesday evening further restric.
tions in the use of water for sprinkl-
ing and irrigating were approved up
on the recommendation of Water Su-
perintendent Hosler. Several prop
crty owners living in the higher por-
tions of the city appeared before the
council and asked for new regula-
tions governing the use of water in
order that they might get sufficient
to save their growing crops.
Superintendent Hosler explained
The situation that has arisen owing
to the shortage of water in Ashland
creek. and as a result an ordinance
was promptly passed eliminating
lawns and parks, exclusive of shub-
berry, from sprinkling and irrigation
privileges until further notice.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Honey Moon Was
Ruthlessly Ended

Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Jeramont of
Nreka registered at the Hotel Aus
tin Tuesday, having arrived from the
Siskiyou county seat that morning
where they were recently married.
They had come to Ashland prepara-
tory to spending a weeks honeymoon
here, but later in the day the deputy
sheriff arrived here from Yreka at
tho instigation of the brides parents,
who claimed that the young couple
lad eloped, and that they objected
TO the marriage.
AS the young couple claimed to be
Of age, and the deputy sheriff had no
warrant for their arrest, they could
not be held, but the officer persuad-
I'd them to return to Yreka with him
in the evening.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Aged German Enemy
Meets Just Reward

Monday evening Lester Ball, dep
uty United States marshal of San
Francisco, passed through Ashland
on train No. 16 on his way north.
The officer had in his company
Coach Amman, a German, 65 years
or age, who was being conducted TO
McNeils Island, Wash, where he will
undego internment for five years for
seditious talk.
II Is claimed the alien enemy came
from the north a short time ago and
made himself conspicuous on the
train by his seditous utterances.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Twelve Boys Left
For Camp Fremont

Twelve more Jackson count?
drafted boys left yesterday for Camp
Fremont, CAL, to begin their military
service, eleven of whom departed in
the morning on a special military
train from Medford, a1d one from
Eureka, Cal. Those leaving Medford
were Bert l.. Buckmaster, Ira o.
Kinder, James H. Phipps, Bardwell
5. Smith, Floyd E. Mckee, Fred A.
Taylor, Arthur r. Nordwick, c. A.
Avery, Peter Bruno and George W.
Horn of Gold Hill, and william r.
Mckee of Butte Falls, while Cesil A.
Brown, who has been working in the
shipyards at Eureka for some time,
is the member of the contingent who
departed from that city
On one Of the cars containing the
Jackson county boys was cha!lged tne
very significant legend, This car
contains Dutch Cleanser"
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Ashland Has Many
Men In 59th Reg.

Ashland is represented in four
batteries and the supply company Of
The 69th regiment that left Fort
Stevens last week for the east. Only
one commissioned officer, Lieut.. V.
V. Mills, is from this city. Former
Sergeant Electrician Beecher Dan
ford, now rated as an engineer, Is at
tached to the non-commissioned staff
OF the battalion and also went with II.
Sickness caused few changes in the
personnel of the batteries at the last
moment, but the following is a rea-
scnably accurate list of the Ashland
boys now on their way over there
Battery F-Sergeants Donald F.
Stevens and William II. Sans; cor
porals Frank B. Tinker, Orie F. Sui
liyan, Frank L. Rush and John II
Jones; mechanics Robert j. Keller,
Floyd NJ. Lane and Samuel D. Tim
ker; privates first class, Floyd c.
Crosslyn, Frederick S. Permission and
Frederick s. Songer.
Battery D-Sergeant Glenn r.
Simpson; corporal George Q. Evans;
rrivates Dean n. Scott and Ralph r.
Fraley.
Battery E-sergeants Benjamin
Il. Grubb and James A. McGee; cor
porals Alfred f. Payne, Cleo w.
Kirk, Wilbur C. Holmes, Aldon D.
Powell and Edmond NJ. Barrett;
private Aryel A. Settles.
Battery C.-sergeant Alvin NJ.
Throne; corporals Ural G. Coleman
and Reid W. Harrell; bugler Perry
Z. JOY; privates first class Frank T.
Homes, Leon w. Baughman and os-
car F. Silver.
Supply Company-Sergeants Ger
aid L. Gunter and Clifford L. Var,
brough; private Ralph c. Martin.
Paul r. Campbell, of Sisson, CAL,
and Murray Z. Dougherty, of Wed
len, Ore, who enlisted with the Or
isinal 1st company at Ashland and
have been with our boys ever since
the company went out over a yeal'
ago, have gone with the 69th, the
former in Battery E, and the latter in
Battery C.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
AgedssW Died
After Long Illness

Mrs. Annie Maness, widow "A
years of age, died at her home at Tai
ent Saturday morning after linger-
ing illness due to paralysis, Funeral
services we're held Sunday conducted
by ]. M. Beaver of this city, and in
terment was made in the cemetery
at Gold Hill. Mrs. Maness leaves one
son, Frank Maness, who Is the Sou
thern Pacific station agent at Talent,
and two daughters.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08

London, August Tn an attack
carried out this morning southwest
of Morlancourt, the British regained
tie ground taken from them by the
Germans yesterday along the Bray
Corbier road, north of the Somme.
The German line astrlde the Clar.
ence river, on the Flanders front, has
leen abandoned a short distance,
says today's war office announce
ment. A few prisoners were taken
during the course of the operation.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
Card of Thanks

To our friends and neighbors who
were so kind to us in our recent be-
Teavement, and for the beautiful
floral offerings and loving services
rendered during the sickness and
er, we wish to extend our sincerest
death of cur beloved wife and moth.
thanks. W
]. r. COLE and FAMILY.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1918-08-08
NOTICE

Having purchased the Ashland
garage, we will not be responsible
for any of Merle Roblson's bills af-
ter July 26, 1918.
4" ROY CROUCH.
ROY HESSENAUR.