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Fall Leased Wire Dispatches Today's News Printed Today I TjBF- jr m -Vjr A:yvyivAV(l U JPH hVniH. i '-i MU'IrtfoES'ttl fit It I 1 H H II II II I J II II II II II I. IpEIGHTHYEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 27. 1915 irT . i w-g. 1 n J Xa STANDS - TIVB CVXJt Hi PROGRESS ROOSEVELT CHAFES BLOOFTEST REVEALS DARiNG DAYLIGHT iTUnilQANnC nHi AND HOLD TERRIFIC AND FIDGETS WHILE WOMAN NOT A NEGRO ROBBERS captured nUUMnlfi'Ur VUlw tK bANNUN flRIVF flF RFRMANS I FTTFHS AHF RFAO Lived Life As Negress Though Oakland Police Take Three mil. i limuimu uuilll nLUIIU lULIV Teutons Are Forced To Evacu ale Two Villages On Bank of Yser ALLIED AVIATORS RUN RIOT IN MID-AIR Missives Show Close Relation Between Colonel and Boss Piatt DEMAND FOR SEATS IS MATERIALLY LESS Lived Life As Negress Though Oakland Police Take Three Italian Government Said. To 'No Startling Disclosures Are Demand Territorial Concessions (BY ED L. KEEN.) London, April 27. With tlieir lines reinforced mid consolidated, nrtillory, liroupht into netion with every avail able Kim mounted, the French, British and Belgian fore.es in Flanders are now not only holding their own against the terrific drive of the Germans, but have actually assumed the offensive and re taken u.-t ground. . This was indiented by the official latements issued today from the war offices in l'nris and Berlin and London as well as by a communication from the Belgian headquarters by public by the lr.'ss bureau here today. Germans Evacuate Villages, The German have been forced to evacuate two villugcs on the west bank of the Yser canal, tnken during their midden ilush against the allied lines. The French have re-occupied He.tsus, a report from the British field heudquurt irs, announced. The Belgian statement A'ported the recapture of l.i.erne by King Albert 's troops, and this was con firmed in the ut't'tv'iul statement from ttertin dumping that village had been evacuated. The TlriTUh continue to nuke progrem in the region of St. Juli en 1iiU aviators ore running riot iu bombarding various German ruilroud junctions iiiul stations such as I ange vii rek, Toureuing, Thielt and Holders. vthilc the greatest interest is cen !"'.!' . fighting nhouf Ypres, the ,ll"t 'I"' -Ustro-Italiau situation "; "gum he approaching u (., wns i"vm-d toni,,!,, ,v tl.mru .rm ""eiiient of new demands as to terri I''"'! ''""' Austria frumed 'J tlie Ilalian government is said to ''v.. been forwarded to Vieutm bv the 'cimnii nnd Austrian ambassadors' The ''"" of tin' demands is kept secret, ;'"t It til.v is sid to have demanded an HlMH.-.i ,;, t,. reply. At the H:e'ii,e, the Italian ambus ''t"i to I'atis. Vienna, London anil I " ' '' sti id to have been summoned ll ' !' p-wmim-nt f,,r a ,.onf)r. Made Today In Libel Suit i cilc, !, f Vp Mm.', foil,, Itiit'. 1 1 . t --i tieit i "t'' llui are i "riiiini Attacks Are Repulsed. 1 A!"'l -'.--The allies arc the ileiiiKiu ,tive to tlie north '-. nn oi'tieiul report from Field ;i1 l iemh to the war office re '"t.v- The French Circes, tho 1 """"Hinder, hud re-occupied "d there is -cry confidence l:" ntta. h, u,,,,,, i ,VH U.IVU iei,n ,"m'" t south of St. .liilien 1 -"1110, mly, Yesteiduv aft I'ntish took the offensive "t'tiiuied op t'ag" Five.) By Bond P. Decides. Syracuse, N. Y., April 27. While Colonel Roosevelt chafed and fidgeted in ,the witness chair, letter after letter wns read ia court today tending to show the close political rolations that formerly existed between the former president, tho late Senator Flatt and William Barnes, Jr., tho latter two re publican "bosses" of New York state. Today's sessions of Barnes' suit for $3U,U00 damages for libel was given over largely to the reading of letters. Counsel for Barnes produced fifty from Piatt to Roosevelt showing tlieir close relations during the closing months of the colonel's administration as governor and also while he was vice-president and president. "You are not nn easy boss," the colonel jocularly wrote to Tlatt on otie occasion, Xo startling political disclosures were made as a result of the reading of the corresiwudonce, but Roosevelt wag obviously norvous and nettled as he was kept upon the stand in idleness during tho hours taken up by the pre sentation of the letters. Downs of letters exchanged between Barnes and Roosevelt between the years 1HU4 and 1!IIH were rend, show ing the cordial relations and political harmony existing between the two. Autobiography Incompetent. When tho autobiography of Roose velt was offered in evidence, it wus held to bo Incompetent by Justice And rows. One letter from I'latt to Roosevelt which wns rear) referred to "our friends the Xew York Central ' ' desir ing tnx exemption legislation. To this the colonel replied he was "exceeding ly sorry" if it was to be a hardship on the railroad, but that he could not prevent the luxation plans from being carried through. Before resuming the stand today, Colonel Roosevelt spent considerable time studying a copy of the late Sen ator Piatt's autobiography. The de mand for scats in the courtroom had materially diminished today. Barnes did not occupy his usual place with his attorneys, having returned to 'Albany. Attorney Itanium openp, the cross examination of Roosevelt by again tak ing Up the question of his opposition to accepting the vice-presidency on the ticket with William MeKinley. The colonel refused t" answer some of the questions put to him categorically, "But you enjoyed being governor, didn't you!"' asked Illinium, "Thoroughly,", was the reply. " And largely because of Piatt's kindness" "Yes." Showed No Signs Of Colored Blood San Francisco, April 27. A scientific Wood test having Bown that Margaret Buckner 25, is not a negress, she has today filed application for an annul ment of her marriage to William N. Lytic, a colored dentist of Oakland. fcver since she 'can, remember, Mrs. Buckner has been under the impression that she was an octoroon she declared today. She married Lytle while still believing herself part negro. A child wus born. Then the woman Wgan to suspect that she was really white, The blood test showed her there was uot a drop of colored blood in h,r veins 80 the annulment proceedings were launched in the superior court hore. Dr. Lytic saul today that no would not contest the suit. "I do not know my name," said Mrs. Buckner. "My earliest recollec tions aro of life In a convent. Then I remember living with an old nogro mammy'. Her nuuie was Buckner 'Mammy' Bucliner, und thut is the name I took. Associated With Negroes, "All my life I was associated vith colored people. Mammy ' told me that I was colored myself, and I believed It, After a while Dr. Lytle called He i a light negro, 'Mammy' told me lip would make a good husband. 1 wa.i 18 years old then. We were married. "Often I stood in front of the mir ror am) tried to see somo murk of the neirro in myself but tlr .,.. After living with Dr. Lytle for a while, 1 went into vaudeville, People did not. know that 1 was suppiwed to be colored, I whs invited out to traities. Blood Test Rovenls Truth. "Finally T confided the HOlTHl til a few close friends. They laughed nt me, and mid it wns Impossible. So 1 began to get auspicious. I consulted my attorney, Mr. ( huynski. Then tamo the blood test and the truth." -Mrs. Bueliner's annulment suit was filed by Attorney Herbert Chovnskl. He said today that he did not believe Lytic would contest the netioii In h- suit the actress asks 2! a month for the support of the child, which is seven years old. j As a rule, times are not as hard as a man tells his wife they are when she asks for inonev. I Into Custody After Reign of Terror Oakland. Cnl.,. April 27. The Oak land police believe they have in cus tody the three daring daylight robbers who have terrorized the down town business district in two sensational day light holdups within the pust toil days. They aro Leigh Hastings, Ruy 'Parker and Harry Harris. On April 10 the three .men held up and robbed Abe Davis, the agent of a lottery company with offices iu the Se curity. Buuk building at F.leventh and Broadway nnd o Saturday last dupli cated tlie Davis holdup by robbing t). II. McArthur, another lottery ugeat with offices at Mltl Broadway. A third robbery,' that of a Chinese lottery joint, conducted by Gee Moy at S27 Franklin street is also charged to the three men. Moy hns Identified Har ris as one of the holdup men. Huntings was positively identified by Davis as one of the two men that held him up and bound him to an office chair in his offices in the Security bunk building. This was at ii o'clock in the ufternooa of April 111. At 2:30 o'clock Hustings walked in to Police Judge Samuel 'a courtroom and testified for the Jiroarution in a case agiiinst two Chiis.;. charged with coa- Hastings attempted to make this fact an alibi but Datis win positive in his idontificntion, American Advertising Must Pay Canadian War Tax San Francisco, April 27. Official no tice wns received by Postmaster Charles W. Fay hero today thut American ad vertising matter scut into Canada will hereafter be subject to a war tux. Pamphlets, cants, poster and other advertising nt; Tetir stumps at tho rate of fifteen rents for every pound, under tho new provision to the postal law which has been amended to cover the stamp tax. It is assumed this action wus taken partly as a means of raising additional revenue, and also to protect us much as possible Canadian firms whose business has been affected by the war. American factories, autoiiioliilc firms nnd other industries have flooded Cunndu with advertising mutter during the past few years. EXPLOSION OF GUNS AND CRASH OF SHELLS ROCK COUNTRY LIKE TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK EXPENDITURE OF AMMUNITION BEYOND COMPREHENSION - FEATHERY ROATING PUFFS IN THE DOME OF SKY REVEAL EXPLODING SHELLS SENT AFTER BOMB DROPPING AIR-CRAFT-REGION COVERING 60 MILES IS VERITABLE HELL ON EARTH-BOOMING IS ENDLESS ROAR OF THUNDER-GREATEST ARTILLERY DUEL WORLD EVER HAD MISFORTUNE TO WITNESS By WILLIAM 0. SHEPHERD. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) (CopVright 1015 by the Fnited Press; copyrighted in (ireot Britain.) Headquarters of the British Over seas Expedition, Northern France, April 211. (10 p. in,) Via London, April 27. The greatest artillery duel in the his tory of tho world is iu progress from the .sea to a print south of Ypres. Kven the artillery experts at the British headquarters will not venture n guess as to the number of guns in use on both sides. But tho number runs far into the thousands and their discharge and the explosion of shells rocks the coun try ns though by an earthquake. There is one little bridgo that crosses the Yser canal at feic point on the allied front, Here, all day long, 20 rgeat Gor man field gnus huve been engaged against 14 Kuglish nud French pieces. As fast s the allied guns could be loaded they were discharged and shells sent screeching against the German po sitions; yet it was not until after night fall thnt tiie German guns were at Inst silenced, Frouch Quits Superior, The famous French "seventy-fives,'' the pride of the government, demon strated o the last Iheir wonderful su periority over cceiy other sn;t of mo bile field artillery. So rapidly were they ilisehurgeil that their booming sounded like an endless roll of thunder null peiil rolling upon the other without any perceptible interval. Tho expenditure of ammunition in this great battle is absolutely fubulmis. As far as the glass wuuhl carry, "one could sco white bursts of exploding shells, the blackening clouds from the exploding ginnt guns of the Germans, as the great artillery fight went on. Far up against the dome of the sky, too, could be seen feathery flontiiig smoke waves that showed where clouds of shells from the anti-aircraft guns were exploding us they search out hos tilo aeroplane spying upon the allied positions. Air Craft la Sky. Far up in tin sky were German and allied airernfts, dashing at full sped, hither and thither, seeking to liinte and determine the movements of the masked troops below. For (10 miles along Flanders front the German ami allied artillery engaged in n titautie duel eclipsing anything ever dreamed of before. The French and British artillery was brought up hur riedly and is being used to straighten out the ib'iils put into the nllied line by the German iliish, Germans Use Gxs Bombs. Tiiroiighuil. Monday, whenever n north wind blew, the Germiins resorted j to the use of poisonous gnses iu a vninj eiuleiivor to asphyxiate the men Iu the! allied trenches. The gas was thrown1 into the ii i r so as to flout across the! trenches, but the British knuw now what to expect when n little breeze stirs up nnd weie prepared to meet tho oituger. Standing on H hill In Belgium, fiv miles from Ypres, it was wsible to detect a sulphurous odor, but it is Im possible to say whether it ram from the German gas bombs or the thousands of shells, which were bursting at all prj.uts on the front and Inside of the buttle lines. ' Fighting Costutnos. London, April 27. I'ndcr a ruin of shells from heavy guns, accompanied by fierce rifln fire nnd over all hang ing the deadly fumes from German asphyxiating bombs, the fighting in Flanders in the terrific attempt of the Germans to break the allied Hue, con tinues without nny sign of diminution today. The Belgians have recaptured the vil lage of I, ierne on the main line of tiie German advance, nccurding to' an an nouncement Issued from the press bu reau. The losses to the Belgians in holding their section of the line are ad mitted to be extremely heavy, but tin (Ioniums lire also said to have suffered greatly and have finally been repulsed. That fighting of the greatest vio lence has bro'ieu out nt ull points through Fliinders is indicated by the pri'ss bureau announcement. Terrible Effcit of Gas. l'nris, April 27. Stories of the tor- (i 'out i lined on I'nge Five.) ROOSEVELT AND FRIENDS ON WAY TO COURT HOUSE ' . FORMER BOSS BARNES IN A LISTENING ATTITUDE Kitchener's Army Not at Front; Situation Not Clearly Understood "'li-ilv Tie- ,, If t Alt ... ,, ifi in", ":.r,. , It i. i,,.. '''i 0 ul i;, " " 'T. "" ' '''' ! 'Ii.. .. By J. w. T. Mason. Vw Y,. April 27.-Vith the ul-l ,! "" to hold in cheek tho' 'y".", 'lm'' ''" Vire canal, it is 1 " '' ,'"l".v that the attack on, I nas pase,l its minimum is decreasing In violence.! -''"''nt is demonstrating It-1 ' "f local significance only.' tlie ni'tiou m no uiajur sig- "he Germans gained 20 '" I'.v far the largest galni i y miigi,. engagement In tho , "'" first battles In Flanders.1 '"""'ig tipparent that the "ii attack was a surprise,' " ee surprise drive. in fm-t, two distinct ef- part of the Germans to "' ''"". The first was a "h of Vpres from t" the western bank of' a'. The Herman sm cesses 'he allies int confusion. ; " nl nig the canal, the 1 "I" d nn entirely new ' tear of their l.ne to the j'"M Ypres itself. This ' the German within , Vie, s Tl,v ...... ,i. i. The British war of 'l'"t troop, ( t. ,,.,( 1 ""a. U "iu an en- ' d -it.intion." , ' ';"''';! that the Germans "!'l'rise General French ' ';!'trouly i beginning ' ''"l-l lltt Uilinn In I ..... "'" first ti-ne tip,, (,,,. '" K'vu th.ired with the responsibility for the loss of a battle. The London Times reveals the ntniK-: iug fuel that Chancellor Lloyd Gcurgf ereuted the wrong impression -w hen he Indicated that there were 7-'il.i"to' British troops at the flout. The Times' declares that this is not so, and su.vs that Kuglnnd is thielt with lroa not yet ent across the channel. If Lloyd George's announcement wus1 made to fool the Germiins, it is inex - plii able how the censor came to puss the Time ronlradli tion. The whole nt 1 fair is evironod with stage eireum j stances which suggest that the war of fico had not yet abandoned the belief that it is good strategy to kit-p thei liti.ens of a democracy Ignorant ofi military matters during a war. j The probable hey to the weming eon- flsirui may 'be tiie inability of tin" British government to supply the field force with ammunition. lir,l Kilch-j (ner must have a verv good reason fin j I1..M111,; trained troops in Kngbind.; which the Time has not discovered.; This reason i, siS'eely oilier thin that; the iiiiiiniiiiilion is not ready, although j tlie tnmps are. r '" 'V' '-' "' i .'. ,'? -,,, .'.;: .- v' . ";. I. . :-:.,."'.:'v:l::';rv., '.:.;:: ; , .".. - -i ' . ,. ,,.' r. ? ' '.;,;; : ':'; ' '' e4 ',. v .'" V : ; '"J:' " V SjV ;'v 1 ''';'' '.V: ' 'J'fTlS'- vif ':. : j' : ' ,: iei,' ; Si v c f' .',?- K.V. . (a stjfii 1 Vi ""h l EKCLISII AVIATOR KILLED London, April 27. Aviator Mo.llicott niiil hi iiic hiiii. i.ni. Hughe, were intanrty killed to, lay when their seaplane cut lapsed while flying St Ga!ho. sfc ifi ift . S t ' ;.. .n , 4i JLv V- x 1 r1" TREATING OF GUESTS ' IS NOT PERMISSIBLE Supreme Court Assesses Manager Worral, of Tillamook Hotel Company, $250 For Liquors Used While Per forming Duties of Host-Also Declares Judge Webster Holmes Imprudent For Sit ting In Hotel Case While n technical disqualification of Madge Welotcr Holmes, of the nircuit the .judge wus not shown to exist with-i court for Tillamook enmity, in the case In the meaniuu of the statute. It would "f , l'.l"Ml1 H""'l''I""n. plliietiff have been more in keeping with j prudence and a fine sense of impartial ily if the preiddilig judge had ilt-cliiicd to try the suit. Where an injunction may be allowed by the court at nny time define the commencement unit ami before du el ce the plaintiff must he requinsl to give an undertaking, with one or more sureties, the tonus f the statute lire i in land respondent, vs. the Tillnmnok hotel company, P. J. orrul, manager; Anna A. Wiiri ul and Chiule Kiiue, defend ants and appellants, by Imposing a judgment agiiinst Woi'iul, ns mnnugcr, in the amount f '-'i0 for the liquor of the compiiny he was alleged to have squandered in the rapacity of host, and diomissing the suit us against the other defendants. This action was brought by llender- lierlltive nod coimnmul the court or tin,'1""1' "wl"'1' " """ "ll""' ' '"" hotel judge to require un uiidertuking before i l"",'h' fl" ""' I""!"""' "' ""sting Wor allowing an injunction. "ll, " miiiinger of the hotel on Ihn The refusal of .b feudunls to piif the Krnd of mismiiiiugcmcnt, hndituiil in- li lutiinls in obi'dience to the orders ! tt.xn-ntai.il, tin. I Impairment or Hie repu- of the court did not furnish ground for1"""" hwi " ""' eompany; a receivership. I'ndcr "II of the i ir-' "' r"r "" "" ouutiiig and the up- cnmstniici s, as we read the history of i p"l"lment of a r Ivor. The record in the litigation, u receiver should' not ""' '''""' "ll"ed that Judge Holmes Imvo I n appointed. wn" ,r"''' ""' ,'"!"'' '""I "wnisl stock in Assilllling that a rt of equity iloes!""' ''"'"I"' "' ,,' lllllt ll(' '""I !- have the power to remove the uiliceis P'""''1 "f i the pliiintil'f prior to the of a corporation and substitute a man- commencement of the suit nnd the lie aging receiver or even to decree the ills ! fe"d""ts laised the question of disipiul solution of the eorporution, neverthe i "'''""" "gainst the triul .judge in sit less it is a well settled rule Hint such ! 1,1 " ""' 'I'hls case has been In rt will pr ed wilh extrei iiution ""' ''""rts sime Jiinuaiy III, Bill, and ,Aivifctf Vw tm, R005CVeUT ARRIVING AT COURTHOUSE. OpLtry JOHN tvfCGRATH PmvArtSicn 'RMT.W.HXfin &EN5CH0TEN, Of CQONStU .. ... . BARNES LISTENING TOK005CVE.IT TtbTlfyiNG in the appointment of r iveis over I corporate inwlies. Minority stoekholders are enti protection agiiinst fraud or gloss reckless misiiiiiiingi'iiicut on the part of the officers of ii private corporation, 1 but under tlie ev idciu c, the Instant ease doe not afford an illustration of fiiuid and no such mismanagement has been shown a h to warrant u court to adopt the extreme measure of takinu com ph le charge of the business ami enn dinting it through n receiver. That the manager of a hotel enmpnny oiniiot or give away propeity of the company ttieniing the guest m coin puny with liquor nt the bar lit the ex peine of the company) iu the oiiunor iiidusted and uliuuhl be enjuined from doing so in fut lire. Cpou the above findings unit olheis f .minor nature the supreme court this loroieg. In an opinion written by Jus( ic llmiis, modified the decree, t,f has attracted widespread attention on Hi-count of tlie prominence of tlie hostel- ,1 niry and the issue involved in the liti- ,,,, , H,.,,.,. The Weather I r I THAT flH-t IS J I'tciin: Fntr In ilil itiiO Wfl Iny; imit .ii'.if rlv wiiiiN,