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I ' ' 1 " ' ) .... . .. .. ' ' ...V. . ; " j WKATIIEIt fair and colder;! moderate nor therly winds. ' U !.( nilL'fUlV H'L'llVLVIIIt' lliiliklrii ii vkii.TTT ni TROTZKY i IS AFTER NEW flEGOTIATION zsthn Delegation Reaches Drest-Lirosk To Confer On New ; Peace Terms, Dis patch From Berlin Reports EOLSHEVIKI DOUBTS I SINCERITY OF ALLIES Esirecsxit Press Fears Burden cf Outcome Will Be Put On Russia1 LONDON, Jan. 8. The Russian pne& delegation, including Foreign Minister Trotzky, 1 reached H rest-Li tank Monday for - the reopening of jxtiotlatlon.-j that afternoon, accord ing to a Berlin dispatch received In Copeahagen and forwarded by tho ' Exchange Telegraph company, P There is no Indication thus far of the manner in which Premier Lloyd George' definition of war aims has loen received in Russia, or even whcthe hla. speech has been pub lished there. ,The Bolshevikl pre cf retrograd continues ! to attack Great Brijaa and her allies. The , Prarda aod. the Izvestia published on Sunday an-article based upon iomo words of .Mr. Lloyd George appar ently one of s his speeches. In th house of commons, accuelna him of desiring to1 have the Hussians male peace with the central powers so as to sire the allies a free hsnd to ne gotiate to their own advantage. i ; Russia Feam Rrcln. Other allied leaders (hare ex pressed themselves similarly, the ar ticle says. It continues: ; i,T3i allies are prepnrlng their pablics for peace and think that If Itassla. were forced to come to terms ith the enemr she, ard not the al 1. would bear the cost ! of f peace. The greater sacrifices Russia makes, tu Jess the allies will have to pay. I'. r could reach the samo result by J -ir.ing la the peace negotiations, but f that cise it would le apparent ! : t rtcy had tetrayej PoUnd, Ll t: :an!a, Courland and Rumania, us ing RusHia as small rhanke to pay t' lr debts. By forcing : Russia 0 r;sak peace and allow Germany to bJuRtte the Poles, etc., they ran I'imt 'Russia and clear tliemseve In ths eyes of th'ult peoples. The (Continued on Pace 3 MB41T0SiRffl Some mefeliandiHC uel to wear foo long to nuit the pur chaser when ' atylc waa more important than wearing quality. , . jT - - l '. ' -' ;-j 7 Jhat waa before tlio-Unitrd States entered the war. Now ; however the Government i iTgtw that Freak 8tylf, which I are subject to frequent change, houll be avoided and that nerchandiie which will wear a long time be acleeted with a view of -economixinjc so that we may win the war. Jrerchandisc is changing from atyjc to service very rapidly.'. .- j-f . ' ' Of course there will always be a certain element of style to ronaider but our Government auggesta that conservative ..'styles should prevail! until the close of the war. Unless you have kept posted upon conditions existing in factory districts, yoii cannot realise what a shortage there wiU ho as soon as stocks now on hand are exhausted. Most merchants have large reserve stocks and arc earn estly trying to protect their customers against the heavy advances wTdch must come soon, as retail prices arc actually below wholesale prices in a great many lines. . YOU can help merchants keep prices down liy bcing Reasonable in your demands for service. ? PAY CASH for everything you buy Don't ask to have imiall packages delivered. Don't xroin plain about Hght!imperfcctioiir1n merchamliso whieh -am altnoNt'unavoidaldfl' under present' conditions, be cause there is an unusual denisnd and factories are short of fcflp and raw ''material and are operating only "about GO per cent of their capacity and the Government needs demand fcair of their output, j j 1 "! Every unreasonable demand you make upon a merchant ad'bi to tho expense of doing business, which means higher prices. f j ' on - i .'. f .- ' ,. r- Our store closes at 5:30 every 8 o'clock. j STATE WINS i IN COURT OPINION ON HYDE CASES All But Small Amount of Vast By Fraud ' . I ONE SUIT IS PENDING Government Mast Appear To , Restore Ten Thousand Ex changed Acres When the) atatef supreme court yesterday handed down opinions in six of the Bevn F. A. Hyde land fraud cases Mt held, that all of the acreage involved In the six cases. with the exception of 1240 acres, had been obtained in a fraudulent man ner. About 9130 acres has been re stored to the state, less than half the amount fraudulently obtained by th operators. . ; - . It was further held that about 15, 000 acres had been obtained by fraud, but that it i now Impossible to return it to the state for the rea son that the title has been passed to the government and accepted, si that the government would have to appear In any action to hare the land revested In the state.' " n Government Akel to Appear. J Attorney General Brown has tnadf? efforts to have the government ap pear In the cases, as pointed but br Justice Wallace McCamant, who wrote the opinions. The commis sioner of the general land office and chiefs of departments have alike da clined to make an appearance when ,vislted perconallr by Mr. Brown when he was in Washington. It is still held out as a possibility, how ever, that should the late Institute new proceeding 1 Ithe government wight be : Induced to appear, with the likely result 4hat the 15.000 acres would be" restored to the ftate. Attorney General Brown h.s worked consistently on the cases since his advent into office, i The eases on which opinions were handed downyesterday were thow orlginatlngtln Crook, Jackson, Linn, Iahe, Clackamas ; and Hood river countiea. i Acreage In each of these counties that is to le given back to the state as result of the decision Is: Crook, 8890.31 acre; Jackson, 2360 acres; Linn, C00 acres; Lan-J, 160 acres; Clackamai,' 1360 acr(: Hood River; 70 acre. ; The seventh case on which no opinion was 'given Is that fr Klam ath county In which Circuit Judge Kuykenhalt delayed his decision and ('Continued on Page 3 evening except Saturday t r.mK. vrr.".it nr.i'.iiwi'.n 1VS f,3U. V. It IK. ' . I1LIC12 It I Vli " BIG GERMAN DRIVE PENDS, SAYS BAKER Massing of Troops and Ma terials Has Reojttired Time But Great Offensive on West Front Near Is View ALLIES EXPECTED TO REPULSE ASSAULTS Past Record of Entente Force j Cited as Reason for Optimism WASHINGTON, Xkn. 8. "f he ex pectetl Cermin fferalve In the west," Secretary Tlaker' weekly war review , naya, "will oMIbly be heir areatest assault, but! tha Tlritlsh and Irench armies can be rfellerl unnn If. withstand the shock" Haramarlzlne- the situation on the eve of a possible jcreat offensive, sec retary naker confidently points out that through sixteen fierce battlnn of Rreat masnUueV the Hrltlsh and French ; have steadily pushed ahead with methodical and cumulative gains. The expected offensive, he points out, probably is being- delayed for massing great supplies of muni tions, guns and troops, and the Ger mans mar be expected to "strain every fiber of their remaining strength.' - , T AnMtrlan Drive Slopped. On the Italian front, the secretary points out, French successes hav turned the scale asalnst the Auatr)- German invaders and the west bank o fthe Piavo is being held flrmlv; hamoered bv th tieavv nnwrlla In the Alps, he says, the Invaders hoi art conrronted with a tremendous handican'of maintaining their trans port which neutralizes the advant age of holding higher ground. The nerlod of ad lusfment. Secre tary Haker says, has pessed and It may now be expected thst "th'! French, Drltlafi und Italians, fighting side bv side, wilt be able to maxter the situation." The review for the week endln Jannarv 3 makes no mention of American troons. It follows: f'SIx weeks have elapsed flnce th first rumon renched tti of the great thrust In the went whlh the enem" then announced as Imminent. In order to concentrate large troo masses, adenuate artillery and amp! reserve of munitions much time 1? required. i TerHfle I)Hve rorecn(ef. "Though the German higher com msnd bss so long delayed before beginning operations, advices re ceived seemfnrlr confirm the Infer - . ti Am . mafian fnar imoorrant actions ar icontempiated along - the western ironi, iiiey msv ie connted nnon to strain ever fiber of their remali- eg ftrength In an endeavor to make inefr piana sweceeu. "In considering the general mW- forv s'ttidlion on the eve of a pos s'hlrt Oertnan offensive It must b- recalled " thut through sixteen n cessive battles of rret msgnltut " Flan a erf the jlrlMsh have .ever" time come out victorious and phed steadllr ahead. Their gains .have been methodical and cumulative. , Tho Germans have during 'this Jong series of .major operations Invariably been forced to give way. The Frencb stood like a rock al Verdun and soon after drove forward vigorously in the battle of the Somme snd In turn nlayed a great part In tho repeated drives In Flanders. Offensive to IV Greateat. "The Impending German offens Iv ewill probably be their great a. saolt. The French" and Uritnh ar mies can be relied upon to withstand the shock. y , "In the west no Important opera tions Uook place during the past week. The entire front from the North sea to the Swiss border was very active. .The German continued their widely scattered thrusts wllh numerous reconnolterlng raids and careful! patrolljng. The remained on the qui vlve, taking note of every minor change In the German order of battle, 'keeping rlosely Informed of hostile troop movements and con centrations. "In the Cam bra I area, the enemy undertook an attack In force. Here the German. In attempting a flank- - fr- -i35r-r--'er (Continued on Page 3) M.t XV WANT IIAHV. ; The two weeks old baby boy, found on the door stfp of a home on North Liberty stret Is still at the Deaconness hos pital and ' Is unclaimed. The baby was found Monday night and placed In the Deaconness hOHpital nyithe local pollcemat ron, Mrs, Sarah Horsey. - Several Inquiries were made, concerning the baby, yesterday at the hoHtl. Those Iniulr Inft contemplated the. adoption of the little one. The county court Is looking after the case. HAIG SUTiIS UP ALLIED SUCCESS IN PAST SEASON "We Have Every Reason to Be Satisfied With Results," He Says HUN LOSSES GREATEST Enemy Pushed 'Back Under Heavy Handicap -Americans Are Praised LONDON. Jan. 8. "The addition al ftrength which the enemy can oh tain from the events lu Tlusrla and Italy already has been largely dis- rountedj and the ultimate destruc tion of the enemy field forces ha been brought appreciably nearer," is the coufidnt summing uo by Field Marshal Hals, the rtrltlsh command er In chief in France and Helglum, of last year's work by the l'.rltlsh Jarmy on the wes'rn front. The statement Is contained in an offi clal 'report of General IIalg'9 spring and summer campaign in today's of ficial gazette. i The report covers tho period from the opening cf the Anas offensive, April 9, to the conclusion of the Flanders Offensive Jn NovembeT. Subsequent events of the year. In cluding the Cambral battle will. oc cupy a separate report j which Is to bo published hertly. v Tribute Paid Americans. ) General Halg closes today's report with a brief tribute ta the Ameri can. "During the year," says General Halg." the United States has entered the war and taken up their part with all the well known energy and abil ity of that great nation. Already many thousands of American sol diers are In France. Warm as is the - Owe,co12e they- received from the French people, .nowhere will they find a more genuine or friendlier! greeting than among the ranks of the great English-speaking armies." At the outset of Oils report. Gen eral JIaig explains bow the general allied plan of campaign for the year was settled at a conference at French headquarters in November, 1916. "The plan," the report ay, "com prised, a series of offensives on all fronts, so timed as to assist each other by depriving the enemy of the power of. weakening any of hte fronts to reinforce another." This plan had to be modified on a wholesale scale from the; very start. owing to a variety of unexpected de velopments. Notwithstanding these difficulties, the whole story of the year'a work is a steady continuation or nrltlsn successes and German setbacks. which give General llaig ground for his optlmif tic conclusion, Flanders Kncceas Cited. "The fFlandera -offensive was maintained for thre and a h tnonths under most adverse condi tions," says Field Marshal Hal. "The weather entailed almost super human exertions on the part of the S rCtTnue"doir I'ae3 ) EVANGELIST HITS HYPOCRITE IDEA - - Complainants Are Worse Than Evil Alleged in Church, Says Evans "It Is iust as bad to worry as It Is to get drunk." "Suppose a man refused to Join the United States Arfiy because he heard there were German spies In It! "How much more quickly he should Join to help get them out. Use the same logic In the Army of the Lord." , "If you are stumbling over hypo erlts In tho church, It pfoves one thing. The hypocrite must be ahead of you or you would not stumble ovr him. You must-be worse than he Is for you are behind him. You at least ought to keep your mouth shut till you catcJi up r with him." Hruco Evans spoke last night on the man. at the :ool of Hethesda. Here was a man who had suffered n great deal. Hut he was only one out of five hundred gathered there. Persons who are always talking about healing, asserted the evange list, have missed one of the greatest means by which to grow Suffering holds a sweetening. Kvans asked the audit-nee If It had -not noticed In Its observation that the sweetest characters are those who have snffer- ed the most severely In physical pan. Kvans said that religion was not like property in that men can put it In the name of the female tnemtrtsra of the household. It Is a personal matter. It matters not what men say or do. we are neia accouniarue pert sonallv to God. A man who looks Into the face of Christ sees only one aid of life that Is the bright side. The evangelist addressed the col lege yesterday morning and this af ternoon speaks before the high school. Eraas speaks tonight. i ROTTEN VEAL SAID TO BE PASSED ON Article for Poor Class Report ed Sanctioned by Portland Inspectors While Much Pork Is Condemned HOGS OF SAME HERD HAVE DIFFERENT FATE Wholesome Meat in Salem Thought to be "Infected" ' if in Metropolis ) Uy W. C. COWGILL Rumors became so Insistent and so repeated that Investigation bet) came a matter of necessity to estab lish the fact that rotten meat hides and bones were being shipped from Salem to Portland, and passed In spection In the metropolis, where. It Is reported on good authority, the meat (veal) is sold to the poorer class of trade. , , At the local office of the Great Northern Express company the car rier said to be; shipping veal the carcasses being nothng but skin and bones. It tras admitted that a ship ment of that character was made yesterday morning, and that sever all other ablments bad been made recently. The veal, the agent said, was prob ably killed on the farm, but It Is bought by a local commission firm and consigned, all charges collect, to commission houses in. Portland. . Dr. Lytle, the state veterinarian. Is said to have passed the veal' here, and advised the Portland office "to look out for it". There It readily passed Inspection. When asked If hogs were not also shipped from Salem to Portland, the agent replied that very few hogs were shipped now, and when they did get through to Portland, were inspected and condemned as being tuburculosls Infected, and destroy ed. According to reports made here. My iaformalt stated, and the agent of the express company ad mitted that he had been told same fact that It is greatly to the Interest of the big concerns to have skinny veal sold there, and not hogs, unlets the latter go through the hands of the Union Meat company, whose hogs always pass Inspecton. It is a strange -fact, but It Is vouched as actual truth, that hogs brought Into Salem and sold by the farmers here locally always pass In spection, but when the same farm er dresses and ships a hog, or two, from the same identical herd, kept in the seme her, njiA In the. same feed lots, slaughtered exactely In the same ranltary way, and is then shipped to a local firm in rortiana, it invari ably Inspects as being Infected with tuberculosis. McMinnville and Dallas To Tangle in Basket Ball Soon DALLAS, Or., Jan. 8. (Special to The Statesman) -The Dallas high school basket ball tern will go to Mc Minnville Friday night where they will meet tho fast team f the high school of that city. There has al ways been a great amount of rivalry between the two schools during thd basketball season, raci one making a'Speclal effort to defeat the oppon ent. Tho rames of the past Several years are about equal at present and Dallas Is anxious to break thj "spell" and defeat the Yamhill county boys. A big crowd of root ers will accompany the team. A re turn game will be played with Mc Minnville in this city on the 17th and on the ISth Dallas and Silver ton will meet on the local floor. . RECORDER FILED YEARLY REPORT Balance of $8166.82 Is Shown Officially At End of Year 1917 At the end of the year Just closed the city of Salem bad received in moneys during the year a total or $170,4 13. C6 and the disbursements totaled 1162,2 46.74. leaving a bal- ane of $S16.82. These figures are shown In the annual report or tviiy Ilecorder Earl Hare which was, sub mitted to" the city council Monday night. 1 I The receipt column shows 192, X:93.83 for the general fund. $24. 142.12 for the street fund and $53, 377J59 for the special newer fund, The dMsbursenient column shows $h9,145.k? for the general fund, $21, IX". 21 for the street fund and $31,642.06 for the special sewer fund."- :l ,:. ' !-..."'.: The bndgct estimate for the year was $8S.139 for the general fund. $22,630.23 for the street fund and $32,440 for the special sewer fund. M'ADOOASKS ROAD MEN TO SERVE NATION Work of All Officers and Em ployes As Essential As Trench Fighting FULL JUSTICE PROMISED Labor Problems Soon To Be Considered and Settled Fairly, He Says j WASHINGTON, Jan. 8. Director General McAdoo today addressed an appeal to railroad officers and em ployes to do their utmost to main tain efficient railroad service as a patriotic duty, saying "every officer and employe Is just as important a factor in winning the I war as the man in the trenches." . He promised, to consider labor problems "Justly and fairly and at the earliest possible moment." The men In uniform who are fighting in names of four members of the board to investigate the brotherhoods' re quest for more pay probably will ba announced tomorrow. At the capitol the railroad prob lem was the subject of bearings be fore the-interstate commerce com mittees of both the senate and house. Interstate Commerce Commissioner Anderson explained the purpose and effect of the pending administration bill to the house committee, while Julius Kruttschraitt. chairman of the board of Southern Pacific, coutlnued his testimony before the senate com mittee on the difficulties of railroads under private management. - Special consideration was given to day to the financial straits of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad. Af ter a conference 'bet ween John Bar ton Payne, counsel for the railroad administration, representatives of the road and of the Equitable Trust com pany, which has obtained a Judg ment of $28,000,000 against the road, an agreement was reached by which the receivership will not be Immediately necessary. Eventually a receiver may have to be appointed. It was said, : J ';-. Commissioner Anderson, - who framed the administration railroad bill now before the Interstate com merce committees of both houses, on the stand today, explained that It-Is not intended that there shall be any Interference with state taxation of railroad property by government op eration. The government compensa tion to all roads on the basis of the standard" return proposed, toe said. would be $935,000,000 a year, the average net railway operating in come for the three years ending last June 30. Thil compensation basis Is permissive, not mandatory, and any railroad may enter suit for a higher rate if it- chooses. i Mr, Kruttschnitt praised the work of the railroad war board now dls solved, in eliminating much competl tlon and pooling railroad facilities to a great extent under. private con trol. He said the results and the necessltyf- of government, control showed emphatically that anti-trust and antUpoolIng laws will have to be repealed. V : " Grain men y the countryj Mr. Kruttschnitt said., were the slowest to comply with the war board's rec ommeadatlona providing for the heavier loading Of cars. It was only after rood Administrator Hoover is sued an order providing that no cars of grain be handled 'unless fully load ed, be1 added, that a change was brought about. Canadian Officers Speak in Salem Twice Today Since the old Inter-county bridge nas peen openea ror root passen-J i?crs, wnetner or not special trains are run today between Salem and West Salem, there doubtless will b hundreds from Polk county 40 hear the celebrated Canadian officers, re cently, from the flrlpg lines in France, deliver two addresses on the war in Eurcpe as they experienced It. Custodian Savage of the armory has prepared for large crowds to greet Major II. F. Edwards, IJeute- nnt Colonel McMillan and Captain E. J. Cook. f Music will be furnished by Dan Lanenberg. Polk County Fair Plans on Hooperized Banquet Shortly DALLAS, Or., Jan. 8,--(Hpeclal to The Statesman) -The annual baft quet for the members of the Polk Connty Fair association will be beld at the Hotel Gail In this city Thurs day noon. Tho affair la to bo a Hoover" affair and nothfnsr buf what would be approved by the food dlrectp will be served. After the banquet a business meeting wtll tie held at which a president of the fair association will b selected, C. V. Johnson of Alrlie, the preside elected at the annual meeting sev eral weeks ago having resigned, from the office, r , HMD f gib ; IfflIC Germany Must Free Szzzll I . tions, Pay For Crir.cs Cc initted, and Let Pcirc-!: - ing Peoples lire Ovm Li, AMERICA WILL FIGHT UNTIL END ACII -71 r- 1 1 Message to Find Favcr V." Socialists of Central Pe ers, Fcreccii I r AMKIUCA HAM I'Ol JITI. rt'KPOHl IX Ti!U WAIl. 1 Freedom of seas in peacn and war. v 2Itemoval of ccononi; barriers among nations. 3 Guarantees to reduce ar maments, i 4 Imperial colonial adjust ments. 5 Evacuation, of all Th:3 aian territory. 6 Evacuation of Helglurn. 7 Evacuation of French territory. 8 Readjustment of Italy's frontiers. f" 9 -Free develonment of r co- plea of Austria-Hungary. 10 - Evacuation of EerUa, Rumania, and Montenejfro. . 11 Sovereignty for Turkey In parts of Ottoman empire. 12 Independent Polar.a. 13 Open peace covenant. 14 Guarantee of locSjm l ence of small states. WASHINGTON. Jan. 8, Am ca'a program of war and peace, v : definite terms upon which the ; tions great and small firhtln-r 1 getber against German world c nation are ready to lay down t arms, was given to the worl 1 ' President Wilson today through address to congrers In joint r- ' For this program, baicd upon t righting of wrongs and the f of peace-loving peoplts dolrln live their own 11 res. the pre ; committed the United State to t. and continue to fight until it achieved.. Thus he1 pledrrd t country to the allied pollry of -separate peace. "We cannot bo t arated In interest or divided in 1 pose," he said. "We stand to'tl to the end." . (icrmnn Cltallenge Answerci!. The speech, heard by ronicrtrH ; an hour's notice and accepted v: a wave o fapproval that bmutM get her every element of both lur was delivered as a direct re; to the German challenge in t: , gotiations wtlh . the Rtutftlaru Ilrest-LItovsk. It followed I and' approved the address of 1 Ilritish premier, but was far r specific in statement of termn, t bing of force in advance any f man peace drive designed to eonf the entente and American govn ments snd their people, whlln at same time presenting the four; tlon for genuine negotiations ' ever the central powers are ready f talk of a Just peace. Fourteen concrete proposals 1 down by the pTftddcnt began : the declaration that the days cf r vate International underetandir are gone and that covenants cf must be reached In the open. Ilri , summarized, the other point v.-'-World Justice Keynote. Absolute freedom of the sens f peace or war, except as rosy be 1 ; International action; removal of -nomic barriers among nations a elating themselves to main? peace; guarantees of the redtir? of armaments to the lowent ' consistent with domestic safety; li - perial adjustment of colonial r1!; based up on the principle that t people concerned have equal r!?.' with the governments; evacuation , , all Russian territory and OT'oorf ity for Russia's political drvt ment; evacuation of Itelglum; ..ev? - nation of Freeh territory a rrd-l :' Jng of the Alsace-Lorraine wrr: ; readjustment of Italy's frond along recognisable line of nntlo" 1 itv; free opportunity for autonomy development o flhe people of At tria-Hunary; evacuation of Hum nla. Serbia and Montenegro t?uarantees for all the r,alkan ti sovereignty for Turkey's port! or the Ottoman empire and nf omy for, other natlonalltle; an1 I deDndf nt Poland with secnaj to t sea; and general association of r tlon for mutual guarante or ir: "(Contlaud"oa ViZ .G)