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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 30, 1915)
A 55 FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES . ' i i HH ' . ft CIRCULATION IS ; OVER 3$00 DAILY ! " ' THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915 nn rmirA mvirfl ON TRAINS AMD NBV.B riuuJCi i n yj Kjiui xj stands fivb omnm "vi 4 f If aovanc BfllTISH ARE II i Reports Defeat of English and Admit French Gains FIGHTING ON EAST FRONT BECOMES DESPERATE German and Russian Cannon Thunder About Dvinsk Fortress Today Paris, Sept. 30. Tho most intense fighting of the vast; combnt on the western front is raging along a line six miles from Loos to Hill 140. The An-glo-French forces have penetrated the enemy's defense in some sections and have been halted in others. Their ob jectives are Lens, the Vimy heights and Douul. Between Souchez and Vimy, the French positions have beon maintained, it is officially claimed. The heaviest battling continues in the Champagne, but there is no cessa tion of the struggle at any point. Mean time, the German forces are making strong attacks at several points in a desperate effort to draw off the allies from the Artois and Champagne regions. Thousands have been slain in the battlo west of Lens. There Germans are dealing big counter attacks in an effort to maintain at this highly im portant point. The bomb battle before the wire cntagleliieiits thoro has been terrible. The first wounded arriving here from the Lens combat reported that the British became hopelessly confused "luring the fight. Smoke of the artil lery enveloped regimonts and. blotted from sight fields and hills, while the roaring guns made it impossible to bear the commands of officers. "We got our directions at the start to charge," said a Trench officer wounded in the head, "and wo just tried to keep running that way. It was impossible to see through the dust and smoke after wo had gone a snort dis. L lance. If a bullet or a piece of shell hit a man's arm he would spin around .Mini perhaps start in the wrong direc tion. "Rut when we got close to the 'bochos' entanglements, we always Know whore we were. Though the din of the guns was great, it couldn't drown out the jells of the men fighting their way through the entanglements. Every fresh yell meant that another group had penetrated the entanglements and were giving the 'bodies' the steel." A famous French commander, it is known, participated in a cavalry at tack and drove the Germans from their guns in the Champagne. Prisoners de clared that the appearance of cavalry surprised them, for it had been be lieved cavalry could not be used, par ticularly in the hilly Champagne region. The cavalry charge against the Ger man guns was planned by. General .loffre, the French commander in chief. For weeks, the horse had been trained for the dash into the Teuton fire zone. , " Mobilization cannot 'continue in definitely," said Premier Venizelos. 11 Greece is prepared to defend Hie in tegrity of her territory and to with stand efforts of any other nation to b"i ome predominant in the Balkns." French Continue Advance. Paris, Sept. 30. Several new points (Continued on Pace Mix.) Ther'a very little discussion o' peace "r war down our way, 'cept by folks talk too blame.l much on any ut. J1!, fi hate t' belong t' th' Bankers' "-wiauon an' have t' listen t' an an '"ens ever few davt. nee is nini TO FAIR GROUNDS Dtl PORTLAND DAY Polk County Wins first Place On Its Agricultural Ex hibit At Fair The Portland Day, Transportation Day and Elks Day at the state fair was drawing thousands of spectators through the gates but it is doubtful if the attendance will reach the record made yesterday which will stand as the record breaker for some time to come, according to old fair goers, who are confident that more people were in side tho enclosure yesterday than ever before. The general program this morning in the new auditorium was largely of the nature of a welcome to the fair visitors and George Hardy, manager of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, made tho principal address. Mr. Hardy is a genuine booster and the things he suid about Oregon made every citizen of the state proud that they had selected Oregon as a home. Mr. Hardy's re marks were substantiated by the exhib its shown and all who attend the fair this year will see the actual works as the evidence behind the volumes of booster talks that have been aivon in the punt. I lie livestock parade was pulled off this afternoon and the blooded stock filed past tho grandstand bearing their ribbons won in the competition. The race program- began at 1:30 with the grandstand jammed to the roof and the two special races scheduled for today aroused keen interest among the lover's of the sport of kings. The judges awarded the prize for the agricultural exhibit to Polk county for me counties ot tlie second district which comprises the counties west of ttie cascade exclusive of tho coast counties. Benton was second, Lane third, Clackamas fourth, Linn filth, .lackson sixth, Multnomah seventh and Washington eighth. Of the counties of the third district, which is the east ern Oregon district, Union comity took first place. Morrow second, Wallowa third, Malheur fourth and Umatilla fifth. The premiums were awarded nro- rata for each district, basing the amount or money to be divided from each district upon the number of Coun ties entered. The money to- be divided according to the score which has not yet been compiled. Each countv exhib it draws $100 if its exhibit qualifies mm in auiimon mere is a special award of $30 for first, $25 for second and $15 for third to go to the three counties scoring the greatest number of points in each district. Marion coun ty eompeter tor the beauty of the ex hihit alone and will doubtless be award' ed first prize in this department. lue i'ortland public scuools won out over aaiem in the manual training de partment by an extremely narrow mar gin among districts of the first class, The quality of the workmanship count ed ior wo points ana tue beauty of the exhibit for 10 points and the judgc9 wrungieu upon tnoir decision uut I 11 o'clock this morning. inree special trains in addition to the regular trains arrived this niornine over the Southern Pacific and the Transportation special alone carried tiOO passengers. Two Elks specials ar rived over tno uregon Klectrie at 10:30 and the roads were lined with autos. lesterday there were about 4.000 autos parked inside the grounds and this morning at W:30 every inch of available parking space was occupied. vt hen Aviator Alunter flew this af ternoon be enrried aloft with him a package of cards which he turned loose in nip nir to noat down to ine specta tors. The cards were from the fair board and bore the welcome of this body to the fair visitors. The cards were printed by the students of the in dustrial department of the Deaf school. Difficult To Understand Changes In Market (Copyright 1015 by the New York Ev ening Post.) New York, Kept. 30. A market such as today's, with early advances of one to five points and subsequent decline of three to ten points in numerous stocks, followed by subsequent violent recovery to tbe.day's highest point will be regarded differeutly in different quarters. To the speculative outside public, the fact thnt the violent mid-day break brought such heavy buying orders as to promptly cancel losse, rs the outstnnd fact. Their inference will be that noth ing can really shake the market. The more conservative are more like ly to remnrk that the mere fact of n break testifies to the precarious nature of tho present speculation. , The dav'a news was only on the pro gress of plans for floating the European loan. This has no immediate bearing on stock values, but is of the utmost im portance a an indication of confidence of our financoial houses in the financial strength and resources of our country. It if particularly fortunate for the borrowing governments that the opera tion eomes at a time when their armies on the western front are achieving something. uIOUE AT HEW OBLEAtiS IS VERY HEAVY Fatalities In City Alone Fill - Number Not Less Than ' Dozen PROPERTY LOSS TOTALS MILLIONS OF DOLLARS Fishing Villages Wiped Out and Railroad Traffic Suspended LOSS OF LIFE. if, Washington, Sept. 30. Con- . siderable loss of life, and great damage to property was report- ed in New Orleans In a direct mossngo to the weather bureau this afternoon from the hurri- cane swept city. Galveston, Texas, Sept. 30. Fragmen tary wireless reports from New Orleans picked up here, indicate storm fatalities there will not exceed a dozen, and that property loss is not us great as at first feared. Tho waters are receding. The message was not complete as the air conditions ure unfavorable for trans mission. it is believed fatalities along the Louisiana coast are heavy and the dam age millions of dollars. Traffic Is Resumed. Jackson, Miss., Sept. 30. Railroad traffic between here and New Orleans was resumed today when a train passed over Loke Ponchartrain, where com inunication was broken last night by floods following in the wake of the New Orleans hurricane. Passnuuinchic reported that the storm struck it with terrific force. Wire communication with New Orleans is still interrupted nnd no direct word had come from there. Albert Fritz waB reported to have been electrocuted by a live wire. Tho levee below New Orleans is re ported broken with the Mississippi flooding in there. Several-fishing vil lages are said to have been wiped out Communication was still shut off at noou. Terrv Out of Commission. San Francisco, Sept, 30. A message received at the Southern Pacific rail road company's offices here today stated the storm which swept over ntirhem Louisiana vesterdav effected New Orleans and adjacent for ninety miles west. The messace stated the Southern Pa cific ferry service to New Orleans is out of commission, but it is expected to be restored by tomorrow. There have been no trains out of New urieans since yesterday, the mesasge said. TRACTION MAGNATES COME. Pnrtlnud. Or.. Rent. 30. Seventy flpven electric traction mniruntes of the east and middle west, en route to the convention of tho American r.iectric Railway association at Kan Francisco next week oje bei'ig entertained hen: today. They nrrid by spcjml train a .'l.J thia itlnrnlntf nnit will leave for the bay city at 8:15 tonight. There are also women ami children, rum ilies of the delegates, in the imty LINER CHINA ABEIVES. San Francisco, Sept. 30. After bat tling with one of the worst typhoons along the Jupunese const in the past Id venrs, the liner China arrived today with 120 passengers, l.OO0,000 in gold nnd an equal amount of silks. The craft was in the 100 mile gule for 30 hours. SMALL SLIDE IN PANAMA. Washington, Kept. 30. A small slide iu the i'unnina canal was reported to the Washington wnr department. Passage will be impossible before Oc tober 5. J THE WEATHER Orgon: Gen erally fair to night and Fri day; variable winds. your I i FRIDAY 8 rKOQRAM. Press Day Manufacturers Day Scandinavian Day. i. . : (Morning.) 0:00 to 12:00 Concerts on grounds by Hebel's Cherrybud band. 11:00 High Wire perform- ance, Prof. C. C. Kck.iart. . 12:00 Aeroplane flight by . Herbert E. Muster. (Afternoon.) 12:30 High Wire perform- ance; t 1:30 Racing program at Lone Oak track. Music by Mc- Elroy s oand, with vocal se- lection by Salem Business Men quartet. Shetland pony race. ) Great western relay race. . 4:00 to 4:30 Aeroplane flight by Herbert E. Munter. , (Evening.) 7:30 (New auditorium) Music by Mchlroy's band. . Vo- cal selection oy Ladies' Fair Glee Club. Vocal selection by Salem Business Men's quartet. 8:00 Annual hnnqtiet of Or- egon Purebred livestock nsso- ciation, in Y. M. C. A. cafeteria on grounds. Annual high jinks of state press in conjunction - with Oregon 'manufacturers, in old auditorium, followed by a big banquet. The manufactur- ers exhibiting at the state air grounds will furnish the viands to constitute the "Feed" and the press representatives will make a "noise ' like the con- Burners. Vocal selections by the Busiiii'Hs Men's quartet, and the Ladies' State Fair Olce. . . 9:30 Fireworks display in front of grandstand nt Lone Oak track. JOHN W. MINTO WILL AS WJIEN'AT PEN New Appointee tlas Made Ex cellent Reputation As An Officer In State .John W. Minto was electod by the Stale board of control this morning to succeed tho late Hurry Minto as wardon of the Oregon State penitentiary . John W. Minto is an older brother of Harry Minto and was one of the applicants for tho place when the appointments were first made. John Minto, however, withdrew when the race narrowed down to himself and his brother. His appli cation was taken up at the meeting of the board this morning and favorably passed upou. Mr. Minto was sheriff of Morion county for four years and before that was chief o fpolice of Salem. From Sulem he 'went to Portland and was chief of police of that city and later served eight ycurs aa post master of I'ortland. He ia the son of John Minto, one of the earliest pioneers of the state, and has always been a staunch republican in politics. As an officer be has made nn excellent reputation and- his appoint ment is expected to preceed an admin istration of success and honor at Jbe state pen. Armenian Babies At Mother's Breasts Slain New York, Sept. 30. Armenian ba bies at their mothers' breasts have been torn to pieces, and men and women have been tortured by slow fire, in organ I zed Turkish massacres, according to the report of the Armenian atrocities com mittee which will be made public Mon day. Detailed information from mission aries and others will describe the whole sale violation of girls in their 'teens and will tell how babes have been im paled on swords, humans burned alive, tee is convinced thnt the Turks are tee is convinced that the Turks arc determined to wipe out the Armeninns, CONDITIONS NOT SO BAD. Ran Inlnnln Ti fionf 30. Flirt Sam Houston's wireless today talked . i . i . u .. r i ii.ii miles ct of (Jalveston, probably in ni.nl. avltll l.ia ir.lMA nt allllkM at VltMt Orleans wharves, and she reported eon- UJIIUUS m inn niwiiii fvt;ffc viijr wem not as bad as at first feared. BANKS MAT INVEST IN FOREIGN BONDS Washington, Sept. 30. Na tional banks mny invest almost any amount of available funds In the allied, .'i00,000,000 bonds, Comptroller Williams ruled thia afternoon. Kansis City Times: The Layfayette county read district that includes both Wellington and Napoleon is Just bound to be a winner. CONSCRIPTION NOW REGARDED AS SURE TO COME TO BRITAIN By Ed L. Keen. . London, Sept. 30. Conscription draws nearer with each fresh charge alonir the western battle Hue. The new allies' successes increase rather than diminish the possibility of such a step on the part of the British government. Something is necessary to fill the gaps made in the linea by soldiers killed or wounded in this, perhnps. the greatest battlo of the war.) Lord Kitchener, it was learned todny, put the situation franklv before the labor union officials during a confer-1 ence Tuosdny. He told them the army is now of required size, but that the greatest, prouiem ib io supply irumeu mon to replace the wastage in France and the Darlunelles. Ho preferred that the situation be met by voluuteer en listments, but warned them, as things are now, recruiting is inadequate to fill the gaps. IS MUTILATED BY IGAN Taken Across Rio Grande and Shot, After His Ears Are Cut Off Washington, Sept. 30. An American private wns taken across the. ltio Grande Friday night, shot, nnd his ears cut off, General Funston reported to the war department toilny. Galveston, Texas, Sept. 30. Uencru! Carranza hns issued strict orders against violation of neutrality nt the border and has provided punishment for any viola tions, ,a cablegram from Vera Crui to Consul' HuriiB said today. ' Gcuerul Nafurotte, tho Cnrran.a com mander at Matamoros, wired that Amer ican troops, instead of aiding in stop ping troubles at the border, had fired on Cnrrnnzistas, killing and wounding ninny. BASEBALUODAY Detroit, Mich.. Sept. 30. It ia now mathematically impossible for Detroit to win the American league champion ship this season. This was the situa tion todav as the result of tho Tigers losing to' St. Louis 8 to 2, while the Ked Sox were Inactive. Up until today the Tigers had to win every game for the remainder of the season and the lied Sox would have had to lose every game for the Tigors to land tho bunting. American League. H. H. E. Philadelphia 4 0 Washington 3 10 4 Sherman and Perkins; Harper and Williams. Itoehling replaced Ilnrper. R. II. E. Hi. Louis 8 14 4 Detroit 2 8 3 Weilman and Agnew; Dauss and Ba ker. National League. II. H. E. Ilrooklvn New Vork 0 4 3 2 9 1 Preffer and McCarty; Tesrcau and Me vers. n. u. e. Philadelphia 2 3 4 lioston 8 9 1 Kixey, Hauiiignrtner and Adamij Huirlies and li ackburn. H. II. E. Cincinnati .'. 0 Q Chicago 8 5 8 McKenery and Wingo; Lavender and Wallace. Federal League. First game K- K. Newark 10 ' llaltlmore 1 3 Kaiserling and Itariilcn; Bin. -It and Uinscll. II. H. K. Kansas City 2 (I 15 St. Louis 4 7 O Johnson and Hrown; Plank and Hartley. R. II. K. lluffnlo 3 7 0 Urnoklvn 2 11 2 Krnpp and Allen; Marlon and Simon. ' - It, H. E. Chicago 4 7 2 Plttsbnru- 1 8 13 0 liuilev, Hendrlx and Fischer; liogge and O'Connor. Second game n. n. e. .Vewnrk 5 10 DaTVimore 17 0 Henlbach and Rarlden; Black ml Russell. I'ittsbnrg still retains the lead In the Federal league with fit. I-onU. second, Chicago third, Only three games to play and the pennant race, still undecided. AMERICAN MEXICAN RAIDERS Kitchener said he did not want to press conscription except aa a last re sort. Personally, he said he planned to divido the country into districts and ask each to furnish a specified number of men. If these wore not forthcoming voluntarily, tho government then would draft among the eligibles, as the United States did during the civil war. This statement deeply impressed tho labor men, and the result was announce ment of a vigorous campaign to recruit the workers. Headquarters telegraphed to recruit ing stations: "The falling off in re cruiting recently has caused Lord Kitchener and the war office the great est concorn," If conscription bocomes nccessnrv It is prohablo that the government will start its drafts with unmarried men be tween certain ages. LUCK ELECTED Chicago Man Will Handle Publicity Matters For Cap ital City Organization . O, H. Luck, of Chicago, was today clouted manager of the commercial club for the coming year, ut a meeting hold at the Marion hotel, attended by nil tho o.fficiiils of the club and the directors of the seven departments. Ho succeeds Hnlph I). Aloores, resigned. Mr, Luck is at present publicity manager for The Hirsh-Wickwiro company,-clothing niiinufucturers of Chica go. Previous to holding this position, he wns assistant advertising man for tho Ed. V. Price company, Chicago. Ho fore engaging iu the publicity business, he was engaged in tho rutuil business at Albany, Oergun. Mr. Luck wns selected from a list of several who had mudo application for the position of munugor. Ihu high recommendations of his present em ployers and those from tho Ld. V. Price company, together with his years of experience in the publicity work, impresses tho directors and otiicruis or the Commorciul club, and there is a gen eral feeling among thorn, that the right man has been chosen. The opinion in general of the club of ficials was that it would be better to securo an outsido man for the work, rather than a Salem man. After thor oughly discussing this proposition, and also tho merits of those who had ap plied for the position, a vote was takon resulting In tho election of Mr. Luck. It is expected that the new manager will be able to make arrangements to be here and take up the work by the first of Novombor, although this is nut pomtivuly settled. Tho new manager of the Commercial club is 37 yours old and was married to an Albany girl while a resident of that city several years ngo. TEN CAES QUAIL FY. Fresno, Cal., Sept. 30. Twenty cars got away today o nthe five mile elimin ation races for selection of the ten to enter the California raisin classic, 150 miles, $5,000 purse nce Saturday after noon. The hest tlmo today was B4.5 seconds for the mile, while tho tracR record held bv Oldfield is 47.'0. The ten qualifying, in order, were: Lou rinmlv (Uandy Mpeciai); .inn rar sons fHtutz: Oeoriie Hill (Mercer); Hoy N. Francis (Stevena Duryea); Ed die S. Waterman (Overland Special); Frank Elliott (Hordon Bpeciul); Dave Iewis (Mercer); V. O. Uood (Unders Special); Clyde Ithodes (Hindi-linker iedal); Dan Francis (StevenesDur ya.) a BURNINO IS HIS MANIA Oakland, Cal., Kept. 30. " I've been burning for six years. I couldn't quit. Soini-times I'd try and force myself out of tho game. But the lure of the fire always got me. I had to burn again." This was the statement of Charles Bnrrlght, eonfessd arson king, in po lice court in' Oakland Today just before he was bound over to tho superior court for triul on the charge of burning homes for insurance. IDs bail was fixed nt 10,000. That of his wife, who whs ar rested with him, wns set at $5,000, They co'ild not furnish the money and went to jail. Cincinnati Times Star: Transatlan tic exchange may be uncortain, but it has not that continuously diminishing value which ia the distinction of Mex ican currency. Seattle Post Intelligencer'. Providing Ktcfansson. finds the new land still at Its Arctic ot when he goes back, just what is he going to tlo with It! NEW SECRETARY El CLUB E TO After All Night Session of Parliament Decisive Action Taken MACEDONIA DECLARED TO BE IN STATE OF SIEGE Rumanian Statesman Demand War On Side of Entente Allies Athons, Sept. 30. Without debate, the chamber of deputies has passed the bill declarlnir Macedonia in a state- of siego and authorizing a $30,000,000 loan for mobilization purposes. Another bill authorised the government to relieve soldiers' families in ease of war. Greeted with an outburst of cheers, Premier Venizelos explained these pre cautions were necessitated bv Bul garia's mobilization. He characterized the Bituution as grave, but expressed the hope that the air may clear booh, so that llroece can discharge her mobilized forces. Tho deputies session continued from yesterday until pust midnight thia morning. Members and galleries joined in an enthusiastic demonstration when former Premier Oounurios, heretofore a violent advocate of neutrality, spoke in support of the "War Premier" in support Venizelos. Rumania Ilaatlly Prepared. " Home, Sept. 30. Rumania is hastily preparing for war, according to the Tribuna today, Meantime, Bulgaria is trying to "back out of a perilous posi tion." ' - ' The paper clnlmed that Rumnnla is moDlllzlng despite. Ausiro-uerinnii threats against her. The resignation of two ministers from tho Bulgarian cab inet was interpreted as meuning thnt Czar Ferdinand has chunged front. M. Mulinoff, who is reported to have asked to form a new ministry, is understood to bo an open sympuvnraer with the al lies' cause. Rumanians Want Wax. Bucharest, Sept. 30. Led by Take . Jonesco, former minister of Interior, (IO statesmen todny demanded that the Rumanian premier tube immediate steps for gonernl mobllizntioti to meet Bul garia's. They likewise demnnded that tho Austro Oorman propaganda be stop ped, and declared it is dishonoring and imperilling Rumnnin. Confirmation Received of Telephone Success San Francisco, Sept. 30. Confirma tion of the success of the experiment in wireless telephony between Washing ton and Honolulu lust night was re ceived by wiroless telegraphy today by the officials of the American Telephone and Telegraph company here. Confirmation in the form of a tele phonic reply could nut be received from the islands last night because there wu only a receiving instrument there. Today's illspiitches told the official, and ,1. J. Carty, the inventor, however, that the words "hello, hello, hello" and the numerals "one, two, three ,four und five" could he distinctly heard in Honolulu shortly after they were spok en in Washington. "The success of this achievement," said .1. .1. Carty, chief engineer for the American Telephone and Telegraph com pnuy, "depends entirely upon high wiivo vibrations. 'We can take any ordinary telephone, hitch it to our apparatus and so modify the current that It will be strong cnotiga to kill any person touching one of the wires. "I cannot give out any of the techni cal details because the apparatus is not patented, and we must protect oiusclve from haying our ideas stolen. "Trnns-Atlnntie, wireless telephone communication is assured as soon aa the European war Is settled. Telephoning by wireless across the continent i much more difficult feat than it wouhl be to talk across the Atlantic. "Communication can now be estab lished between points where it Is im practical to extend wires. Wireles telephony will novor take the place ot wiro system bocause of the Interfer ence of ntnuiHpheria conditions, but it may bo expected to supplement them in many ways. "One disadvantage that must he over come is the fact that anyone suitably equipped tuny listen in on the wireless telephone." MORE JAPANESE STEAMERS. Snn Francisco, Sept. 30. Toyo Klsen Maisha, the JapuncAit steamship com pany will put four more transpacific steamers into commission it was an nounced today. This will give tho lino control of the Pacific pusseuger busi ness with retirement of the Pacific Mail linu, j REE PREPARES VOTING