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. AVEATHI'H probably occasional rain; mod erate southwesterly winds. DAILY EDITION SLXT V-S K V 1- NTH YIIAH .YO. 3 l ?0MEN SPIES ARE AT WORK FOR GERMANY Officials Are Tracing Group of Americans Reported to Be Furnishing Berlin With Military Information SECRET MEETINGS IN NEW YORK SUSPECTED Field Glasses Found in Apart ment One Arrest Is Al ready Made , NW YORK. March 12. Federal authorities la this city are said to be investigatlhg'a report that a num ber of women, one an American, trho Is prominent socially, and who re turned recently from Europe, have devised a new method for transmit ting important military Information to Berlin. It is reported that these women, taking advantage .of the freedom allowed their sex under the enemy alien regulations, have been meeting secretly In an uptown hotel. It Is said that several arrests are Impending and, according to one re port, one woman has already been taken Into custody as a spy. : In W'llhelm Korthaus, arrested iere two weeks ago on a presiden tial warrant and confined today in the Tombs as a dangerous enemy alien pending a final disposition of his case, federal officials said to night they believed they had found an arent sent to this country from Brazil In 1913 by the German gov ernment. Korthaus had been occupy ing an apartment in this city over looking the Hudsdn river .where American naval craft were accus tomed to anchor.1 Powerful field glasses and ' three cameras were found ia the apartment, it is said. HOBQKEN. X. J.. March 13. Th , German's . Home In ' this city, which commands a view of the Hud ton river, has been taken over by the government" and after it has been renovated. It probably will be nsed as a barracks for United States sol fliers or sailors. HONOLULU, T. H., March 12. Trial by court martial of Captain Continued on Pace 3.) Do You Realize That You Have Only 18 DaysTin VhichJoPrepare for j aster which will be on March 31st this year. Of course you'll want a dress for the occasion which will be in accord with 'present fashions. You should examine our NEW SPRING ' SILKS ; We aro showing: a complete U119 of weaves for you to choose from in all the popular j colorings. TAFFETA SILKS IN NOVELTY PLAIDS TAFFETA SILKS IN NEW BROAD STRIPES in a great variety of color combinations TAFFETA SILKS IN GINGHAM PATTERNS PLAIN TAFFETAS IN A FULL COLOR RANGE SILK SERGED IN STRIPES AND PLAIDS j NEW FOULARD SILKS in the most approved patterns NEW TUB SILKS I ALL DESIRABLE WEIGHTS OF SHANTUNG PONGEE -. SILKS HEAVY SILK CREPES FOR COATINGS CREPE DE CHINE in several grades. We can "match almost any shade in bur high grade GEORGETTE CREPE now used so extensively in com bination with other fabrics. The quality of our merchan dise is better for the price because our profits are figured on thespot cash basis and our economical plan of business. Our store closes at 5:30 every 8 o'clock. ; - MRS. BREYMAN DIES SUDDENLY AT HOME HERE Revered Salem Woman Shar ed EarlyDay Life With Pioneer Husband FUNERAL NOT ARRANGED Mrs. Charles McNary, Mrs. Boise and Mrs. Snedecor S Are Daughters Mre. Margaret E. Breyman. widow of the late Eugene Breyman, an early and revered Salem woman died sud denly yesterday morning at her home. 619 Court street. She was 78 years old. Mrs. Breyman came direct to Salem from England in 1841 and has lived here almost continuously since. ; She leaves three daughters, all of whom are well known Oregonjans, and one grandson, Breyman Boise, who was among the first volunteers in Company M and is in France. The daughters are Mrs. Frank Snedecor of " Birmingham. Alabama. Mrs. Charles McNary, wife of United States Senator McNary, who is now in Washington, D. C. and Mrs. Reu ben R Boise of Salem. When only a little over a year old,-Mrs. Breyman came to Salem. It Is said that she learned to walk when coming across the plains. Her par ents died and, when she came to Sa lem she lived with a sister, Mrs. Hen ry Rickey. After- two years the Rickey family moved to Walla Walla, Wash, and the child went with them. j Married in Walla Walla. As a young girl. Mrs. Breyman re turned to Salem and visited with the I. N, Gilbert family. It .was there that-she met Eugene Breyman and a romance was started and culmi nated when Mr. Breyman, then one of Salem's rising young citizens, went to Walla Walla, to claim his bride, July 15. 1864. The couple returned to Salem and they first lived in a house which is still, standing, then at the southeast corner of High and Center streets. In 1866 they moved to their home at Court and Chnrch streets, which has been the Breyman residence for fifty two I years. The historical walnut tree which towers high on their their Church street lawn was planted soon after their removal there and Is f Continued on Page 3.) umday evening except Saturday at ! .s -;- ;-' X V - WASTING OF MONEY LAID TO HOOVER Senator Assails Price-Fixing Policy of j . Administration and Business Methods in Three-Hour Speech REASON FOR YEARLY SALARIES OF $1 SEEN Private Industry Pays One of Food Staff $15,000 a Year Is Charge j WASHINGTON. March l2 Sen ator Reed of Missouri. Be moc rat, Re newed his attack on Food Adminis trator Hoover in the senate today, delivering a three-hour speech in which he charqcd that never in the country's history has there been such wastefulness in the expenditure of money as thp.t of the food adminis tration. He demanded -a complete accounting be made before another dollar is appropriated for its use. 1 The speech was made in connec tion with an amendment introduced by the Missouri senator and later rejected, providing for the elimina tion from the urgent deficiency bill of an appropriation of $1,730, 000 for the food and fuel administrations. Price-Fix ng Is Attack-d. Attacking what he termed the" price-fixing policy of the food aumin istratlon. Senator Reed said Mr. Hoovei solemnly assured the mem bers of the aiicjlUne committer when It was considering the control bill, that rricc-fixins undr its pro visions would Lo impossible. A3 soon a? the till was passed, he declared. Mr. Hoover, surrounded by hH "board of trade sharps." picked out an obscure phrase authorizing volun tary agreements and "proceeded to conceive a plan for fixing price?." BninKH Method Criticised. ' The business methods of the ad ministration were also criticised by Senator Reed who Raid he wanted to know what had become of $12, 000,000 received as Income from the grain corporation and from other sources. Sicce the administration was established on August 10, last, he added $5."1 5.000 has been ap propriated of which $1,985,429 has been expended, reports show. The senator c rokd a telegram re ceived by him rom I". W. Kellog. publisher of the San Francisco Call, whicS detiaredthat the growers of the western states are at the mercy of the California packer's corpora tion, from which Charles Bentley. a member of Mr. Hoover's staff, is "drawing an annual salary of $15,000 j Livestock Industry Hurt. I "Now, I can understand," said Senator Reed, "why men work for 1 a year nnder those circumstances fand the country is beginning to un derstand It." Senator Underwood of Aalabama, who was In charge of the hill, ex plained that the money appropriat ed by the measuVe was to be used in extending trie administration', work to the states, and suggested Inat if the senate was dissatisfied with the food law, it should repeal it. Senator Townsond of Michigan, Republican, said that in view of the numerous complaints that had been (Continued on Page 3.) MOTORMAN KILLS HOLD-UP ARTIST P. G. Heath, Former Penit tiary Guard, Shot Con L vict Love PORTLAND, March 12. An 'uni dentified hold-up man was killed tonight at the end of the" Fulton street car line by P. G. Heath, mo torman, after the hold-up man haJ backed the conductor into a corner with the motorman. Heath was for merly a guard t the state peniten tiary and ha flied two shots, the first bitting a police star worn by the hold-up man, and the second, fired througfi . the window striking through the left shoulder ar.d pen trating the lunar. , The dead man fe believed to be the same who on February 2S b"ld up a Fulton car and on March 2 held up vp.ri on the Hawthorne and Mount Tabor lines. The star worn by th? highwayman was a regulation Den ver polite star No. 229. P. G. Heath. Portland motorman, who killed a robber tonight, was, one of two guards at the state peni tentiary who killed a convict named Live about eighteen months ago while Love waa trying to escape from a flax-pulling gang. The other guard was Leland Murphy and both men-shot Love. Indications weie that members of the gang had form ed a plot to kill the guards. Heath left here atfout two months ago. v en-1' SALKJI, OKKGOX, WEDNESDAY M(H!.M(i, MARCH 13. 1918 MORE COMPANIES OF HOME GUARDS ARE FORMULATED Company E Is Organized With J. H. Arnold Elected , As Captain BUSINESS MEN EAGER Meyers, Barnes and Dancey to Report on Third Unit of Forces Last night at the armory assem bled upwards of 500 enthusiastic men, and in less than three hours' time, after Captain Wolport of Com pany D. Oregon Guards, called for order by the companies then drilling on the floor, almost 2fl0 men regis tered their names on the blanks pro vided, and enough were enrolled to form two companies. All were earer to enlist, for local service. Company D as it stands has Its members ready to, go at the call of the state in any part of it where thev ma v be needed. , City Attorney Macy acted as chair man of t.he meeting for the election of officers for the second company, to be known tentatively as Company K. nd as the election ;roveded it was found necessary to ballot on the names . presented for captain, first and second lieutenant. There was nttle difficulty in se lecting as captain. J. H. Arnold, but It took more than half an hour , to lect a first and second lieutenant. Finally Clifford Brown was elect ed first lieutenant and A. L. Wor lock second lieutenant. " As there is still a third company to be raised, the chair appointed as a committee to raise this. company from the business men of Salem Milt Meyers, W. H. Dancy and E. T. Barnes. Enrolled last night in the two companies are many prominent men In the city. Patriotic speeches were made by Lieutenant Hall. First Sergeant Choate, Captain Welport and others. One man when asked the age limit was told it was supposed to be from about 18 to. 55 or may be 60. General Semenoff Runs From Bolsheviki Fire HARBIN. Manchuria, March 12. General Semenoff, aati-Bolsbevikl leader. In Siberia, has retreated Into Manchuria before the advance of a superior Bolshevik force, according to advices from the border.; The ac curacy of the Bolshevik fire durinr figthing, is taken as a result of co operation of former German prison ers. Strike of Massachusetts Firemen Now Is Settled FALL RIVER. Mass.. March 12. The strike of the firemen in the big cotton mills here which has crippled work on government war contracts since Sunday was settled tonight. The men voted to return to work tomor row morning. The" principal point at issue wag an eight'hour day and the manufacturers agreed to take up this matter Friday, March 15. ROLL OF HONOR WASHINGTON'. March 12, To day's casualty list Issued by the war department gives the Barnes of seven enlisted men killed In action, one dead from wounds, six dead from din ease, two dead from undetermined mses, two severely wounded In ae on and Captain Edward Steller and twenty men. slightly wounded. The privates killed In action: wn- Sam H. Darling. William J. IeUsT, Michael Galvin. Edward J. Kelly. Robert Kotolitch, James E. Potts, and Charles W.j Sutter. Private Alexander R. Burns died rtf wounds. Thosp'who died of disease were: Cadet Engineer William Belknap. Wagoner Samuel Harnett and Pri vates Frank L. Adkins, Roy William Brackln. Wilson C, Cochran an 1 Charlie Johnson. Corporal Leroy IT. Crosley and Trlvate James M. Lyons died from undertlmined causes. Private Joe Tylus and Corporal Russell A. Yarnall were wounded severely. The men slightly wounded are: Sergeants Joseph Petrush and Wil liam P. Itees. Corporal Frederic Massey and Bugler Milton H. Folk and Privates Herbert Beaver. Hen ry E. Brown. James H. Burns, Thom as rdello, Clyde A. Gowin. James C. Hanson. Robert E. Hilliard. Earl Howard. Henry W. Janssen. William C. Lindsay, James A. Mahr, Geo. C. Mattox. Maurice Proctor. David M. Reid. Clinton A. Rhoads and Geo. Sharp. The deaths of Privates Thomas G. Bragg. Joe D. Brakefieid. Frank T. Cockrell. Edwin L. Fitch. George E. Hovey. Fred R. McGill and George 8. Sanford. previously listed as hav ing occurred in action, are now re ported as resulting from accidents. T-T NEXT DRAFT WILL START ON MARCH 29 800,000 Men to Be Called Gradually During 1918 to Fill Up Existing Divisions of National Army AMERICA TO RELIEVE STRAIN ON FRENCH Plans Arc Made for General Pershing to Hold 100 Miles of Front WASHINGTON, March 12. Eif.ht hundred thousand men are to be called to the colors gradually during the present year, under the second army draft, which begins on March 29. ! An announcement tday of Provost Marshal General Crowder of the number to be called wai followed closely by an order for the mobiliza tion of 95,000 men during the five, day period beginning March 29, some 15.000 of them to be assembled nnder the second draft. Eighty thousand will be men 6T the first draft of 687. 000 not yet summoned Into service. Withdrawal To Be Gradual. Details of how the second draft Is to be applied will be made public later, after congress has acted upon proposed legislation providing for the registration of youths attaining the age of 21 years and for basing state and district quotas on tho number of registrants in class one. In his first official statement on the subject, however. General Crowder assures the country that no sweeping withdrawal of large numbers of men at one time is contemplated, and that care will be taken to avoid Interfer ence with harvesting. . The 95,000 now called. is under stood, are needed at once to fill up other divisions or units scheduled for early departure, or to take the place of men transferred from other divisions to make np such deficienc ies. Newly organized regular divis ions ate particularly short of men and heavy drafts on national army divisions to make these good hare been neessary, seriously interfering with the training work of the na tional army divisions dawn upon. Divisions To Be Completed. " The call for new nien makes It probable that no further transfers will be necessary. The 8j0,000 men to be summoned this year represent the number nec essary to fill up all existing divisions, to create all the army corps and field army troops to fill out the war ma chine for which the framework al ready exists and to provide a quarter of a million replacement troops. When they have been mobilized, which .wfll not be completed before the first of next year, there will be more than forty full Infantry divis ions of 27,000 men each and all the additional units necessary. No ad ditional divisions of the national army or national guard will be creat ed this year, although the program" for the regular army, now composed; of eight Infantry and one cavalry di visions, may be enlarged. Frencli Need Relief. Tha first purpose of thw war de partment is to complete the first fleM army in France. Probably this will be composed of five army corps of six Inrantry divisions each. It has been estimated that with that force and its necessary , auxiliaries at his disposal. General Pershing would be able to hold a 100-mile sector of the battle front, relieving the strain upon French man power during 1M8 to that extent. What that would men to France may be Judged from published statements of French of ficals that on January 1, 1918, the Belgian army held about 15 miles of the western front, the British forces about 105 miles and the French about 3 50 miles. Food Administrators Meet s to Talk Over Conservation WASHINGTON. March 12. Wheat conservation and the problem of farm labor occupied the attention of the forty-three state food administrators who conferred today with officials of the food administration. The con ference will continue through Thurs day, i. . Balfour to Discuss Japan's Intervention "LONDON. March 12 The subject of Japan's intervention in Siberia is to be raised In the house of com mons by H. B. Lees-Smith, member for Northampton, when A. J. Bal four, secretary for foreign affairs, is expected to reply. On the Fame day the pacifists will initiate a debate on Mr. Belfour'a te ply to the German chancellor's last speech. FOOD WORKERS COPENEHERE THIS MORNING Session to Be Continued Dar ing Afternoon and Also Tonight CHURCHILL IS COMING Dean Milam of Oregon Agri cultural College Speaks to Students A convention of Marion county food conservation workers will be In sewsion In Salem nearly all day to day. Arthnr'M. Churchill, chairman of the educational committee of the Oregon food administration, will be here to lead the convention. Beginning at 10;30 o'clock this morning, Mr. Churchill will take np the work with the delegates attend ing, and at 2:30 In the afternoon Mrs. McCombs or Oregon Agricultur al college will give demonstrations for housewives and an effort Is be ing made to have all wno signed food pledge cards to be present. At 7:80 tonight Mr. Churchill .will speak at a meeting of all food dealers of the city, members of the Salem Business Men's league and members of the commercial clnb. Dean Milam of the school of home economics of Oregon Agricultural college, who Is the director of home economics for the "Tood administra tion for the state, will address the students of Willamette university at 10 a. m. and at 2 p. m. will speak In the commercial club auditorium of the seriousness of the present food situation. v Every woman is urged to be pres ent, since Miss Milam has Just re turned from Washington, D. C, where she was called by Herbert Hoover for a conference in which all states were represented. ' Coming directly from this confer ence Miss Milam has a very impor tant message that It is hoped will reach every housewife In the county who is doing her patriotic-duty by the using of the various substitutes that the government has requested of her to make. 150 Motorcyclists Will Help Protect hone County EUGENE. Or.. March 12. Eugene and LAne county will have approxi mately 150 motorcyclists ready to come to their defense when the plans started last night are fully matured. A branch of the American Federa tion of Motorcyclists was organized in this city with fifty enrolled at the first meeting. Motorcyclists from all over the country will be invited to join. BAKER GOES INTO HOTE CELLAR War Secretary Is Given Safe ty Daring Air Raid in j City of Paris . PARIS,- March 12. Secretary Baker was In conference with Gen--eral Tasker If. Bliss, the American chief of staff, in a hotel suite when the air raid alarm was sounded last night. Secretary Baker was not per turbed by the noise of the firemen's sirens or the barrage of the anti-aircraft guns, but the hotel manage ment, fearing for the safety of the, secretary and his party, persuaded them to descend to a place of shelter in the win. cellar. Mr. Baker and General Bliss con-, tinned their, conference In the cellar, where lafcer they were Joined by Major General William M. Black. Mr, Baker went to Versailles this moring for another conference with General Bliss. . - j Baker Issues Statement. PARIS, March 12. Secretary Paker today made the following statement concerning Monday night air raid on Paris: "it was my first experience of -the actualities or war and a revelation of the methods inaugurated by an enemy who wages the same war against women and children as against soldiers. "If his abjects are to damas property; the results ,are trifling when compared with his efforts. If his objects are to weaken the peo ple's morale the reply is given by the superb conduct ofthe people of Paris. "Moreover, aerial raids on towns, which are counter-part of the piti less submarine war and the attacks against American rights, are the very explanation of the reason why America entered the war. We aro sending our soldiers to Europe to fight until the world Is delivered from these horrors." nucE fivis ciixii YANKS MAKE RAID ON H1I ' LINES ALOIS Surprise Attack Directed en German Trenches South of Richecourt, and Fierce Fighting Is Developed GERMAN PRISONERS ; HELPING BOLSHEVIKI General $emenoff's Forces Are Defeated; Paris Air Raid Kills 34 fBjf The Ataociatcd Prt) The American troops. Holding a portion ef the line of battle north west of Toul. apparently are mak ing raids into enemy territory a part of their daily routine. Following their fncursion of Monday morning, when, afters a bombardment, they raided German front lines for 300 yards without the customary aid of the French. they set out again on Tuesday and! madeVa successful sur prise attack! on trenches sooth of Richecourt, which lies to the north east of Xivray, where some of the hardest fighting In which they have been engaged has taken place. All along the western front Inten sive artillery duels and raiding ope rations are continuing on Isolated sectors. The Australians again have carried out successful raids Into German trenches northeast of Mes sines. In Lorraine the French, near Moncel, put down effectively a strong German attempt at a foray. In addition to a continuation of the artillery duels along the Italian front there ia considerable aerial ac tivity daily. In fights in the' air Monday the Italians' brought down five hostile .planes. fhe BritisJi troops in Palestine are giving the Turks; no rest. Agata they have driven forward their lines northwest of Jerusalem. Numerous casualties were inflicted on the Otto man troops. i Air Raid Kills Thirty-four. Monday night's air raid over Paris was the most disastrous, in point of casualties, the Germans have yet carried out there. Thirty-four per sons were killed-and seventy-nine in jured by bombs in Paris and Its sub urbs and sixty-six other persons were suffocated in the metropolitan rail way tube, where they had fled to es cape the mlssjles of the. raiders. Some sixty -hostile machines carried out the attack, and four of them were brought down by the French. Berlin .says the raid was made as a reprisal for the" bombing of Stuttgart and other German towns. German aircraft attacked , the Yorkshire coast of England Tuesday night, and British aviators have . dropped a ton of bombs on the town of Coblenz, In Prussia. y The situation in Siberia apparently is daily growing more serious. As yet the Japanese government has reached no decision concerning whether Japanese troops are to be sent to Siberia, according to an an nouncement made by Premier Te rauchl. China Sound Warning. In the meantime the Bolshevik forces have defeated General Semen off, the anti-Bolshevik leader, and compelled him to retreat into Man churia. Former German prisoners are believed to be aiding the Bol shevik troops. Whether or not the revolutionists will follow Semenoff Into Chinese territory is not known at present, but a warning has been Issued to them by the Chinese commander a,t Harbin that any invasion of Chinese territory will be regarded as an act of war. An American steamer on its war to France has successfully defended Itself against a German submarine attack. In the encounter the under water boat shelled the steamer, dam aging the bridge and boring a bole through a smokestack. LONDON. March 12. Renter's Limited Shanghai correspondent in a dispatch, dated last Saturday, says the Irkutsk Bolsheviki telegraphed the Chinese authorities at a Maa chtirla .border station that there was no intention to show unfriendliness toward China and that the Bolshevik force were only attack If g rebel Genrtl Semenoff. The dispatch adds that the Chinese replied that China's relations with Russia not having been Impaired, the Chinese were un able to consider General Semenoff a rebel. - ' Vanks Snffer Xo Casualties.. f WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN FRANCE, March 11. The Amer ican troops east of Luneville have axain raided the German positions. Early this morning after a brief ar tillery preparation, one platoon moved across No Man's Land behind a barrage, entered the enemy lines and penetrated some distance with the object of ascertaining whether the German trenches were still evat- (Contlnucd os page f ) -A