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. FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES rff! $ ft CIRCULATION IS OVER 4400 DAILY FORTIETH YEAR -NO. 155 SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1917 PRICE TWO CENTS ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS FIVE CENTS. fi 7ft f : no D T IS BRITISH S Hindenburg "11 Have To Stage Another "Strategic Retreat" to Explak' 9 4 eatCity Is Center of France's Greatest Coal Distn uid Its Capture Will Greatly Relieve Fuel Situation $' Shells and German Scheme of Destruc tion Have LeKHy a Mass of Ruins London, J une 29. ---How much of a "strategic retreat'' the Germans will announce after the fall of Lens was oc cupying military strategists today the fall of the city being accepted as a foregone conclusion. It yras conceded there will nrobablv be some desDeiate fiehtinr. nroloneed over a number of days before cumbs to the British attacks "kit-" !f tU T 4- suburbs of the city indicated steady progress. The belief here is that with Lens gone, Field Marshal Hindenburg will stage another "retreat to prepared posi tions" along a line running roughly from Zonnebeke (15 miles north of Lille) down to in front of Lille; thence to Garvin and connecting with the famous Drocourt "switch line" in front of Douai, Cambrai and St. Quentin. From the Drocourt line south the Germans would continue over practically their present front. The suggested German withdrawal to the north, how ever, would, it was estimated, release more than 150 square miles of Belgian and French territory to the al lies. The retreat would probably be explained away to the German people on the excuse that it would "straight en out the German line." It would, without a doubt, since the lines above Lens have been broken by the British as saults of Vimy ridge and of Messines into an exceedingly jagged series of twists. Lens was reported today practically in ruins from both the German scheme of destruction and of the shells from the fighting forces. Ordinarily it is a city of 25,000 population. It is in the center of one of the richest coal f ields of northern France, surrounded by two hundred square miles of mines, which prior to the war yielded 15,000,000 tons of fuel a year. . France, as well a3 Italy, is direly in need of coal so that victory at Lens would riot only be a potent moral one, but likewise most valuable in relieving the shortage in fuel. Sinuns Story of Battle. By William Philip Simms. (United Press staff correspondent.) I With the British Armies in the Field, June 29. In a battle where the roar of thunder was indistinguishable, from ince,ant cannonading, tho British west of Lens It was just at dark Thursday. From an elevation just buck of the Canadian troops I watched the battle begin and end. -. A black storm cloud camo up from the west about ti o 'clock. The storm lroke in mid summer fury a few mo ments later. For an hour there was tho play of vivid lightning in the darkened skies, vieing with the flashes of big guns, while the. crash of thunderclaps was a feeble echo to the bolts of steel loosed from the throats of the guns. It was to the accompaniment of this mar in the heavens and on the earth and in a deluge of rain that the Tom- - ' " " I the outskirts of Lens and on the plains to tho south. . Aeroplanes up above defied the jag ged forks of lightning that, shot .peril ously through the dripping clouds, sig- J ABE MARTIN 3 If -I! m -So few people stay at home any' 2.000 yards and gaining the whole ob--mrrfe that it's a wonder th' burglars ;iective sought. (hm't all git rii h an' retire. Beware I" -o' th' girl' that admits she's beautiful.' (Continued on Page Two.) 0 r ALL ITEM the coal metropolis sue- $ but reports today of further 4. A lt-U ; 4-U naling back artillery ranges and the dis position of the German defenders. The British completed their victory before it grow pitch dark. They ad vanced an average of 500 yards along a front of two miles. Some 200 prison- er3 and six machine guns were report ed captured in complete headquurters reports today. Are Still Advancing. At the time this is cabled the British are still advancing. They have gone more than half way through Avion. They have pushed their lines still further southeast of the city. In nil this movement the Germans have not tried to carry out a single counter at tack. They have left the British to con solidate every gain without a stroke in reprisal tor tho losses they sntiered. The terriric storm in which the 15ri-! tish made their gains about Lens did ' not stop for a moment the active aerial1, reconnaissances of the British aviators. ' They literally played with the rain, the j n nil d nnil H i tnhtnuirr Irani.i u ir . . . F' : i proving the deciding factor in the bat- tie. One mere boy in a British battle plane amused the Tommies awaiting the moment of the attack and thrilled eveuiair 1 nn 1 TIi these hardened fighters with dives, i IYi3TKI lUaTKS lUlie spins double loops and all sorts of aerial acrobatics over the fighting lines. Sometimes the wheels of his machine almost touched the ground as he dipped and turned nnd twisted. His antics proved like a tonie to the troops, stimu lating them to the deeds of valor with which they later swept the Germans out of their place in front. Germans Call it Victory. Berlin, via London, June 29. Sweep ing victories were gained over French troops aroned Cerny and Malaucourt, today's official statement declared. "East of Cerny a French position of more than a thousand meters (three quarters of n mile) in width, including Ktrnniflr rlcfpfttlt.fi tnnnel. was storru- attacks." the war office asserted. "West of the Meuse, by a strong rush, a French position was captnred on both side cf the Malaueourt-Esnes road the position being 2,500 meters (neaTly two miles) wide by 500 meters (nbont one-third of a mile) deep." Haig Strikes Hard Blow. Loudon. June '29. Sonth and south west of Oppy today Field Marshal Haig struck a sudden and tremendous blow at the German lines, capturing the en emy's forward positions over a front of RED CROSS LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS NOT COMPLETE The list of Bed Cross con tributors published by the Cap ital Journal was compiled by the general committee in charge of the soliciting campaign ami furnished for publication. It is far from complete, but the com- , niittee has promised to check it up and furnish the additional names as soon as it can be done. When" this additional list is re ceived it will be published In the Capital Journal. DISCOVERS. ANTITOXIN New York, June 29. A gan grene gas infection antitoxin which may save thousands o'f lives for the allies at the front has been discovered by Dr. Car roll G. Bull, of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, it was announced today. A large percentage of leg and arm amputations among wound ed fighting men is necessitated by gas gangrene infection. Dr. Bull's discovery win bo sent to France to be tried out. BELGIANS-TO VISIT US Washington, June 29. The Belgian mission will leave here Sunday for its western tour. It will arrive in Chicago Monday morning and spend the day there and afterwards will visit Milwaukee, Green Bay. Wis.; St. Paul, Minenapolis, Spokane, Se attle, Portland, I.os Angeles, San Francisco, jSalt Lake City, Colorado Springs, Denver, To pekn, Little Rock. Louisville, Cincinnati, Charleston, W. Va., and Tulsa, Okla. I: ARGENTINE NEXT Buenos Aires, June 29. Ar gentina appcnrcd'likoly today to announce a revocation of her neutrality between Germany and the 'United States within a few hours. Sinking of the Argentine steamship Toro re cently by a German submarine has apparently . brought the government to a crisis. Public sentiment here favors following Brazil's course in aligning with the United States. A MECHANICAL AVIATOR New York, June 29. An Si most human machine, said to be able to fly an aeroplane and drop bombs at any designated height up to 5,000 feet is the in vention claimed here today by Stanley Y. Beach, an authority on aviation. The only- thing Beach's automatic flyer can't do is to pick out a place to land. Beach snys Orville Wright thinks this defect can be rem edied. IN STATE OF WAR London, June 28. That the new government in Greece con siders that a state of war exists between Greece and the Central Powers was asserted in a Reuter dispatch from Athens today. No Change In Prices Vow Vnrk. June 29. The New York Evening Sun financial review today said: Waves of professional buying and selling in relatively light volume im parted an appearance of instability to today's stock market, but net changes were not considerable and movements were quite devoid of significance be yond showing tho usual Friday tendency to settle accounts for the week-end. In the prespnt case there was adjust ment 1m by those who proposed to ab sent themselves over the Fourth of i July a well as the ween-ena. - Wall stwwt has an idea that the e curities market will do little more than mark time until after next week. After mid-day prices stiffened on covering operations and with few ex ceptions ruled thereafter narrowly around the previous closing. The copper, motor, rubber and sugar issues were under pressure. Crucible steel was a strong sjiot. The rails were neglected and heavy in general, but showed an improved tone later. The industrial list closed strong. What has beeome of that beautiful (Spanish heiress whose woes once got .n tfnluaa in AmPrifSf Is i, , u . .1 .. ... . . ha lurfWt nnr rlpletinir her tear- stained letterst PRESIDENT ASKS SENATE TO KILL DRYAMENDMENT Sends Word to Senators Fight May Result In Holding Up Food Control PRO-BEER SENTIMENT IN COUNTRY IS STRONG In Addition to Question of Emergency That of Revenue Bears Weight Washington, June 29. President Wil son personally acted today to modify tho prohibition fight in the senate and end debate on thejfood control bill. He sent word to members of the sen ate that turmoil arising about the west and dry right threatened t hold up passage of the fopd bill a month or more. This, he sold, might prove dis astrous. Very much exeiwised at the conse quences of jainmiiig through at the present time a drastic prohibition meas ure which would constitute, as ho be lieves, a blow against personal liberty in the country, the president today is endeavoring to torpe a compromsie of tne senate ury amendment so that dis tilled spirits alone iwill be stopped. The position of the president is re liably stated to be:! That peremptory action by congress, abruptly stopping manufacture of all intoxicants would create uncertainty in business generally a situation which would not be in the best interest of the country now. At a time when the young men of the couutry are being called upon to make great sacrifices, djlois against their personal liberty might-result in a spirit of antagonism which might seriously jeopardize war work. ...... Revenue a Feature. In addition, the question of emerg ency revenue enters into the problem. As evidence of the effect prohibition might have, administration leaders point to tho strike of metal workers at Bay onne, N. J., because they were deprived of their beer. . , - The president conferred yesterday with Senator Phelan and talked today with Senators Gerry and Martin, demo cratic floor leaders, urging a modifica tion of the dry amendments as reported from the senacc agriculture committee. It is understood to be the president 't opinion that if the prohibition amend ment is left in the bill as it is, there is not a chance of food control follow ing for at least a month. The president personally feels, it is said, that the whole amendment should b eliminated in order to facilitate passage of the food bill. The overwhelm ing sentiment in favor of abolishing spirits manufacture, however, has con vinced him that that much, at least, of the prohibition section of the bill can be and will be passed quickly. Shortly after Martin and Gerry left the White House Senator Lewis, Illin ois, democrat whip, introduced a bill in the senate designed to be a substitute for the "drv" amendment to the food measure. It provides for the prohibition of spirits production or any intoxicant containing more than 10 per cent alcohol-Chamberlain Got Action. Chamberlain, in charge of the bill,, developed a strong sentiment on both .;, nf the chamber for quick action on it today when he moved for a vote tomorrow afternoon. A motion by Hard wick to recommit the bill to the agricul ture committee was overwhelmingly de f(,i o,nhasizinir the sentiment for a quick vote. v Strong antipathy developed in debate today to exempting farmery from auth ority by the president to requisition j .riol n farms. Senators Hard wick and Borah led in tne anoca. u this feature of the rood control uut. Whisk ev is doomed. The attitude of foremost senators makes this outcome inevitable. Meantime, there has been a marked change of sentiment in the house and when the food bill goes to conference with the prohibition clause modified, it is believed the house con ferees will not insist on a ione dry sec tion. ' , , ' If however, congress does what now appears impossible and yores absolute prohibition, it U believed President Wilson would veto the bill on. the ground that such a "measure would not be in the best interest of the publie at this time- , . A great sympathy for beer and wine has developed in the nation. Literally thousands of letters and telegrams to senators show a preponderant for pro beer sentiment. Church orgamza ions, however, continue their active work for complete prohibition. There arc few kind words for distilled spirit. United with the senate drys favor ing continuance of wine and beer will be democrats and republicans who have sweltered over the war tax bill in com mittee for weeks in devising means to prohibition, i raise revenue. Most active or 1 il , nr it . , . t t;.t i nrt af who has opposed inclurt ing ber and wines in the prohibition Silly Half Dozen Released From Jail Washington, June 29. Welcomed by their militant suffrage sis'ers and hail ed as heroines, six white house pickets stopped forth early today from the dis trict women's prison after doing "a three day jolt. ' They were happy to be free and all appeared well except Miss Kut'uerine ilorey, of Boston. She had lost weight A group of militants from the Xa tional Woman's Party headquarters peeled the prisoners and whisked them aav to the Cameron house, where a suffrage breakfast was served. The women seem almost famished. Yesterday they had for breakfast boil ed rice, molasses and coffee; today raspberries and crenin, creamed eggs, bacon,-hot rolls and coffee. MAY SETTLE STRIKE Liutte, Mont., June 29. The strike here is more hopeful of an early and peaceful settlement today than it has been for weeks. International officials of the unions have token's hand in the matter and are trying to bring about a settlement and the striking eloetriulnus, the first o go out, arc reported to be consider ing peace. The strike at no time has had the sanction of the - American Federation of Labor, leaders snid today. JIOM CUT TWO OTHERS INJURED All Teachers In School for Feeble Minded Male Teacher Under Arrest Laconia, N. H., Juno 29. In a cot tage on Lake Winnisquam, police early today found Miss Alice Black Richards, head teacher of the school for feeble minded here, dead with her throat cut and two other women connected with the school in a serious condition from assault. , Held at the police station at his own request is JJorris P- Bradford, manual training teacher at . the school. He walked into tho station uud told the eer gcant he had better lock him up and told him to call up Dr. Benjamin Baker, superintendent ox tho school, and find out why. Dr. Baker told the police Bradford had just told him to go to tho cottage on tho lake. The two girls told the police Brad ford had asked them to the cottage to have supper with him. Their condition was such that they could not tell what had led np to the assault. Bradford paddled in a canoe two miles to the police Btation to give him self up. Gamblers Still Juggle With Wheat Market Chicago, June 29. Trading on the corn market was unusually heavy to day. There were numerous selling or ders which, with generally fair weath er promised throughout the belt, made prices generally lower. July corn opened Vi higher at 1.57, later losing V4. September opened at $1.47 1-8, down later going to l.4 December opened 'j off, at $1.08 3-4, later losing another Vj. Announcement by President Griffin, of the board of trado that tho govern ment would abolish all trading in wheat futures had little or no effect on the wheat markot, prices being steady to ' higher. July wheat opened Ws high er at 2.021-., later losing 1. Septem ber opened at 1.80, down 1 subse quently gaining 2. Oats was generally lower in sympa thy with corn. July opened down 3 at 04 718, later losing 1-8. September open ed 1-8 up but later lost 5-8 to "j4 3-8. December was V4 off at the opening, at .r)6 S-4, later losing 8-8. Provisions were slightly lower on a slow and generally lower hoz market. GAVE HER PALS AWAY Portland, Or., June 29. Turning on h'r burglar pals, a pretty 18 year old girl today is responsible for the nrrest of John S'olzenberg and Ben Willis ford, declared by the polico to be two of the coast's cleverest burglars. They made a complete confession, including the statement that they marketed gold they secured at the 8au Francisco mint. ; GERMAN INTRIGUE Washington, June 29. Germany still g stretching her tentacles of intrigue. n South America and Central America. The state department received infor mation today showing that the German . -Li i : ....:..iiw. i consul at Hariooeaa port is especially active and that two of the newspapers in his town had been subsidized at $100 a month in German money." DUTCH WARSHIP ARRIVES An Atlantic Port, June 29. The Dutch battleship Zceland arrived here today. She is the first Dutch warship to put in an American port since the start of the European war. seetion of the food bill, and Senator Simmons, chairman of the finance com mittee, one of the administration lead ers. Behind this "first line" the wets will throw the full strength Of their forces. . . . WITHOUT VICTORY PEACE WOULD BE V0RLDDS A S T E R Peace Must Be Guaranteed by Destruction of Prussian Militarism SO SAID LLOYD GEORGE : IN SPEECH AT GLASGOW Turks Will Never Again Rule Over Mesopotamia or Armenia Glasgow, June 29. Peace can only come in the world when the allies have attained their aims and had their ob jectives guaranteed, Premier Lloyd George declared today. Peace before victory, ho addod, "Would be the greatest disaster in the history of manhind." Tho prime minister's speech was a reaffirmation, in even more vigorous language than that to which he is ac customed, of England's adherenco to her war aims as already announced. He went farther, howovcr, in asserting the aillies' demands for indemnities. "Indemnities," ho declared, "con stitute an essential part of the mech anism of civilization everywhere. With out them we have no guarantee against repetition of other wars. "Tho democratization of Germany would be tho best, guarantee for peace. We would negotiate in a different spir it and with less suspicion with a free government than with tho aggressive, arrogant Prussian militarism. "Peace must be guaranteed by the destruction of the Prussian military fiowor, so that German people's confi dence wilt reposo in their equity,, anil not in military right "The only terms on which Gormany has suggested restoring Belgium are terms of vassalage. No German states man has ever urged that restoration and none evor accepted the status quo ante no indemnity basis for peace. "In determining tho future trustee ship of uncivilized lands, we must learn whether tho inhabitants desire their old masters or gentler hands. -Germany Wants Indemnity "Imperial Chancellor Hollweg nl most, promised independent Belgium, but tho junkers' mailed fist promptly boxed his cars, "Germany asks an Indemnity and a little territory here and there with priv ilege in other directions for her own wronffs. "Germany says the British arc seek ing her colonies as well as Mesopo tamia and Palestine If such aim was true, we needn't have raised three or feur millions of troops our own army would have been capable. "France is fighting to recover the people's patrimony. Mesopotamia was naver rightly Turkish the Turks have converted the Garden of Eden Into a terrible wilderness. j "A great international peace con gress will decide the disposition of the German colonies. Mesopotamia can never be restored to the Turks! blasting tyranny and Armenia also." Lloyd-Georgo dealt at length with Russia's shaking loose of the bondage of absolutism, lie predicted the revo lution would "eventually ensure vic tory of a higher and more exalted na ture than anyone could have contem- platcfl nenirc iwcauau i"e. i " because tney arc now a free people fighting for democracy future, the throes of " While Itussia was the revolution," he continued "it was Britain's strength, flung into tho breach that once more saved Europe to human liberty. America Wars for Freedom "America has always been freedom's mainstay. She has never made war ex cept for freedom. Now she is sending her valiant soldiers to tho battlefields to fight around liberty's standard. "That's another reason why victory along higher lines is assured." Tremendous cheers greeted the pre mier's reference to the United States. The chorus of applause swelled into another great roar and patriotic dem onstration a moment later when the speaker declared: "Every one is doing his utmost here. The king is working as hard as any- one. The audience rose and sang "God Save the King." 'The! governmdnt, "Lloyd-George resumed,' "has carefully reckoned the , lol ht lh sub- .i..u Im derided tnai me marines will be unable to starve those who stav at homo or drive the armies of the allies from tho field. Britannia will rule the waves after the war, he concluded. "We are engaged in great shipbuilding for our fighting nnd our transporting of troops. If employers and workers pull togother to their ut most we will pull through provided the national morals are maintained. "The kaiser has discovered the Lrit ish armv is invincible and is the world s greatest fighting force." But why "Stuart," if King George changes the name of bia royal houselj In its day Stuart was as odious atj Hohenzollern is now. - ERECTING PLANT TO BUILD VOODEH SHIPS FOE UliCLE Yard With' Capacity for Tea Ships At a Time Being Prepared MOUNTAIN OF TI??RF!? is coming from sounr Army of 2,000 Workmen To Be EmployedFirst Ships hi November By George Martin (United Press staff correspondent) Somewhere in . New Jersey, June i!9. Itising from the barren sand lots of New Jersey here today is TJnclo Sam's first wooden shipbuilding plunt. From this place where an army of labor hammers, digs and builds careful ly, etticiently and speedily, will emerge the first of America's fleet of a thou sand 3000 ton wooden ships. Their job will lie to carry food to allied Europe, despite the kairer's submarines. 1 i Diu lumber mills somcwhoro in the south a mountain of dressed and meas ured timber is rolling northward on flati-ars to this spot. A great yard for . its reception is being rushed to completion and will bo ready when the supply arrives a few days hence. - As fast as govornment engineers, con struction' experts of various kinds and a battalion ot laborers can do it, those fifty six flat, gray faced, acres aro be ing transformed into a minnturo city whose population's only task will bo to turn out ships. Runs Day and Night A , comprehensive sysUm of. ' .flood lights is being installed. The plant will run' twenty four hours a day. The keels of the first two woodea ships will ho laid early in July if all goes well. These twin submarine break ers should slide off the wa-ys, ready for war service, by mid-November. Keels for two moro vessels will be laid every two weeks after the first two, until the unit of ten for this plant is in full course of construction. , There is no delay, no bickering, nor stopping to argue here. Tho job is de tailed. Every man knows his own work. Every man is at is. They aro making war on tnis little plot 01 tne Americnn trout" as if they meant it. Scrutiny of the ground plan and talk with the constructors todoy rovoa-led the stupendous preparation necessary before one plank of ship's timber can be laid upon another. In cubby hole oftices not iar away shrewd brains arc inventing new devi ces to speed up woonen sinputuiumK. It tins never been done on a largo scale. Old ideas are being worked over. New ones are adopted. Everytiung up u w l'ilinir ui) on the side lines is mater ial for a complete electric light plant. A small railroad system is being as sembled and built. A b- machine shop, a scientifically arranged lumber yard, motor roads i and out, a power house, an experimental building, a fire protection wratcr sys tem and even' a restaurant and lunch room for the two thousand inhabitants are ii...ing form. Imnginc tho task of rebuilding a city of 2000. Multiply tnat effort to ab- rb the added complications 01 a snip- .,, maohinnrv Bp' will have some notion of what jsgoing on ' Siriiriiuii Ul ii;m " Tho plant is guarded. A government agent oversees every move, no Dars or admits every comer. A man with camera dare not tarry- , No one has time to talk. Everybody busy. - Only one man could command any or the siiipincn's time. That man is tha kaiser. They will be glad to have him call. . . , AUTO SOME ROLLER Portland, Or., June 29. Rolling over and over down a steep 130 foot bank at the east approach to the steel bridgo here today, an automobile truck be longing to II. 8. Montgomery landed at the bottom on a railroad traek, un damaged. Montgomery 's arm was brok en, but two other occupants of toe ear were not injured. THE WEATHER j Oregon: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; warmer east por tion . Saturday; westerly winds. THIS HftH witx oo rvvf