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A fra 1 flf? ft CIRCULATION IS . OVER 4000 DAILY .4 FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES M THIRTY-EIGHTH YEAR SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 18, 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS UN TKALN8 A.U .NKWS STANDS TM'F KVTS 0 . 1 i m ill ! ill fl I 1) o r IT! DAMAGE FROM STORMS. IfILL . JN INTOIILLIQIIS Orange Belt a Gi Brown Lake Dotted With Floating Houses-Dry Cn Now Raging Torrents Three Miles Wide-Hundreds of Derricks In Oil Fields Blown Down by Tornado Los Angeles Isolated, Wires Down and Railroad Traffic At a Standstill Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 18. With three dead, damage amounting to possibly a million dollars reported, and rail roads crippled, Los Angeles was practically isolated today as the result of one of the worst storms in its history. Since Saturday night, the rain has been pouring with out intermission. At times the precipitation assumed al most the proportions of a cloudburst. Dry creek beds are brawling rivers, and streams that are ordinarily mere brooks are running two and three miles wide, sweeping away ranch houses and livestock to destruction. The dead in the storm so far are Fred Smith, a Loma Linda rancher, drowned trying to cross the Santa Ana . river. Alfonso Rivere, drowned attempting to ford the Ventura river. Carl Throkmorton, Los Angeles, killed in his bathroom by an electric light short circuit due to the dampness. Scores have been rescued from the floods by posses of deputy sheriffs and volunteer bands of citizens. Many of the highways are impassable, telephone and telegraph service is demoralized, and fears are felt for the electric light systems. In the country around Los Angeles scores are home less. Near Redlands, a small tributary of the Santa Ana river flooded many homes. Sixty were rescued on rafts and in small boats. Twelve houses were flooded in East Highlands, where the flood ran five to six feet deep. As the streams approached the ocean they grew worse. At Bell Station, a few miles west of Los Angeles, the Los Angeles river was three miles wide, sweeping everything before it, covering valuable ranch lands with silt and tlebris. The citrus district around Pomona reported heavy damage, due largely to soil erosion and winds. The dam age in the Pomona district is estimated at $500,000. Il'oiirten families wero snatched from dentil by the Sim Dornnrdino police. Joiiu IYnwny nnj his family are still mnrooucd on mi island near there, and I forts to reneh them have filed. . In the Little Knssin district of Los Angeles many wore forced to abandon I heir liouies" by the steadily rising V'liter. Several houses were standing 1 1 to the eaves in muddy lakes. Two hundred passengers of eastern trains were foiced t.) stop at Foinonn List night, with muni! hope of getting cither way. Twenty five tourists were Marooned lit Camp I'nldy while the rain dune down at tec rate of an inch i n hour, sending .1 huge torrent roar ing down the cannon. Stretches of the new stnte highway iii the Pomona district have been rip led away. n nouie places, the gups mo four hundred to live hundred feet long. The northern section of Long Bene'i v us re orted flooded early today, with pcilico rescuing families in skiffs. Jour persons wero taken from the flooded Golden Stnte Woolen Mills dur ing the night, but thirty others were forced to take their elinnc09 nnd re unin there, ns tho police boats were culled away for more urgent rescue work elsewhere. A Great Brown Lake. North of Anaheim road tho land n ape resembled n huge brown lake, fl died with the roofs of dwelling hous- en. Dead chickens nnd other small nn- ill. fflortln t nu iitui Liu ftomehow homely women never siwra t' to at home. TclleM who look like Bryant tinlnt ittrnctin' th' attention. fcUojr wux. 3P! imnls flonted here nnd there. Many of I the homos still contained hungry men, women and children, waiting for res cuers. In Anaheim itself due to the ' breaking of a dyke, the water was a foot deep in many business sctreets. tine of tho I'ncilic. Electric 's tow re maining lines to Long lie.xeh was threatened this morning when the Los iCorritros trestle showed signs of weak I ening. A .'10,OUO bridge over the San tn Ana river oollopsed last night, nnd the Tippeconoe nvenuo bridge a( Hed- iiuhIh is a total loss. The loss to livestock will bo heavy Ou one ranch near Play a Del Key, 100 head of cattlo drowned, their bodies Hunting on the Hood entnngled with trees, bits of houses, furniture, etc. Chicken ranches wero wiped out. Many muses ami cows nave neon seen strug gling in the Santa Ana river. 10,000 Tons of Salt Gone. Xenr Yucaipa suddenly rising waters caught the stage ami tumbled it into the middle of n field. Passengers es caped, but all luggage wajt lost. The Long Ueach Salt Works reported 10, 000 tons to salt being washed nwnv. Tiip system of good roads In southern Culifurnin, built at n Cost of many mil lions, Is practically out of commission. Weeks will bo required to repair the dninnge. It is impossible to gut nnv of the cities near hero by highway, lii some sections lakes cover the roads to a depth of many feet. .Bridges havo gone, leflving huge gaps in the bc-ulu- I vanls. Every town mid city around here is isolated and left to itself, with even wire communication difficult. I Both nuto rouls to Kan Diego, one just opened on Thanksgiving Dav, arc Streets tupped Up By Flood, Caving bnnks along Hunker Hill av enue, threatened several residences. As their foundation collapsed, the houses tottered on the brink of a eliff, and in mates moved out. llutfall sewers in many sections, choked with debris ami water, burst, ripping gap around tho manholes. Forces of men today closely watched the new protective work along the Lo Angeles river and the arroyo in the city limits, whom the damge 'was great in the floods two years ago. Flying i squadrons with sandbags wero rushod1 In threatened dlstricU to throw up! "fortifications" against tho pounding tide. Wllshire boulevard, one of the city 'a most exclusive resldonce streets was rlped and torn by a great washout at Nirinandie avenue. Kb a Fernando boulevard is under three feet of water. Several bridge over the Log Angeles river have ben clewed. Wreck In Oilfield lUkersfield, Cal., Jan. IS. Hundreds of derrick and frnme building were in ruin in (be Pan Joaquin oil fields today a the result of a tornado which (Continued on ur Tares.) BERGEN, NORWAY, BURNED Bergen, Norway, Jan. 18. After raging for several days, fire sweeping tho city was ex- tinguislied todnv. The loss U estimated at $30,000,000 and 3000 persons nro homeless. Ful- ly 4U0 buildings wero swept awiiy. Christianin nnd other cities ore sending relief. , E LIPPITT A HARD DIG "Being Above Military Age Makes Some Senators Rampant for War" Washington, Jan. 18. In n final ef fort to get quick action in tho Mexican situation, a resolution was offered in the senate today, proposing immediate intervention, Senator Lippitt of Rhode Island was tho author, but Senators op posed to tho administration course of "watchful waiting" backed his effort, and an acrimonious debate ensued. Senator Borah had already attacked tho idea of further delay in objecting to referring to the foreign committee tho resolution of Senator Lewis pro posing to empower tho president to use nrmed forco. "What tho Amorlcnns in Mexico need is aid now," ho said. "As far as aid ing them is concerned, tho resolution might ns well bo killed as sent into committee." Lippitt demanded Immediate consid eration of his resolution, but Chairman Stone of the foreign committee ihsistod that it be referred to the committee. "I gee reports that this nation will not net," retorted lippitt,, "until tho other I'un-Americon countries assent. Can Senator Stone inform us how long it will tuko tho government to get per mission to protect "the lives of Us citizens?" To thU-stono answered: "The question is inconsequential and so far beneath ft senator 'a dignity that I decline to answer.'. This seemed to rouso Lippitt. "This situation," he continued, "re sulted from President Wilson's Indian npolis utterance: 'It is all right fqt the Mexicans to spill all the blood they wish.' "With that brutal and pusillanimous course, I hnve no sympnthy. There are different kinds of blood, and one of them is Anierlcun. If I had boon presi dent, n day would not havo passed be fore the army would have been in pur suit of theso Santa Ysnbel murderers," "Thero are two or three senators on the republican side," answored'Stone sharply, "who nro nthirst for war with Mexico. But a declaration of war would break their hearts; it would leave them nothing to talk about. They are past military ngo themselves, but their capacity for volublo declamation is unimpaired." Army Officers Backed by Wealthy Men Plan to Overthrow Government Rio Janeiro, Jan. IS. Timely discov ery of a plot to overthrow the govern ment led today to frustrating It and to the arrest of more than 00 petty army officers. Authorities announced that the re volution had been well planned, but had been nipped in tho bud by secret service men. Tho army men concerned therein planned to scizo the arsenul and forts guarding the bay and other strate gical n ud other points and then force the retirement of President Braz, The leaders wero arrested on tho very dny on which they expected to atart their revolution. Mounted patrols nnd nrmed marine broko up two meetings of soldiers and took into custody all the revolutionists. They were thrown in to prison on nn island In ltio Dejnnlcro bay, some of them confessed that wealthy men hud financed their mach inations. Ostensibly it waa a " ser ges nts' rebellion" over the govern ments failure to raise their pay. OAS CAUSED EXPLOSION Washington, Jan. 18. The fatal ex plosion Saturday aboard the aubini rino K 2 at the Brooklyn navy yard was duo to a combination of hydrogen gas from the new storage batteries with air, ranking a highly explosive' mixture, the navy board of Investiga tion reported to the navy department this afternoon. When easterners are shown these natural color Mrture. of the 'olnmlilu highway it should bo explained that, fine a they are, they are not the real thing. CENTRAL POWERS ABOUT READY TO Meeting of Greek Parliament Monday May Be Deciding Event TROOPS FROM GALLIPOLI ARE RUSHED TO GREECE Bulgarians Fall Out With Austrtans and Withdraw from Albania London, J.in. 18. The attempt of the central powers to storm Salonika is believed to bo near, Meanwhile, allied forces aro prepar ing hastily for the drive. Largo bodies of their men,, presumably from the abandoned GullipJli peninsula, are lanuing in tne uuu or Urrani, SO miles northeast of Salonika to protect the AngloJFrench right wing. That Gen eral Sarrail expects a strenuous Bulgnr smash in that region is indicated by me met tnat ne caused tho railway bridgo nt Deralriiisar. 20 miles north of Orfani, to be blown up. The Berlin report that the allies are landing at Piraeus, five milos from Atnens, and also at Phaloron was with out confirmation. Officials, however, nciicuieu tne Merlin story that the Greek government is about to move to Larissa, 80 miles southwest of Salon ika, because of fear that tho allies are threatening Grecian neutrality. It was I pointed out that if; this report were I true, Greeeo would not bo soeking La rissa, a piaco uo more impregnablo than Athens, the present capital. Diplomatic circle rumored that im portant development yre impending in Greece. Inasmuch a tho Crock parlia ment meets'Monday, it may reopen tho Orcek-ally dispute, and therein lios possibly vast consequences, Bulgarians Withdraw. ondnn, Jan. IS. Bulgarians are withdrawin om Albania because of dissensions with the Austro-aermnns, according to a Home wireless message today. "Athens advices stnte that Bulgnr i and Turkey arc inclined to conclude pesco with the allies," the message said. Tho story was unconfirmed from any courso and was received reservedly. Ac cording to recent advices, tho Uiilgars were pressing the Serbs hard west of Elbassun, Albania. It they have been withdrawn is believed that it was bocause thoy were needed for the pro posed Salonika onslaught, or because their presence In Albania might mean that Italy would begin a Btrong cam paigne in tho Balkans. Greece Gots Ultimatum. Beilin, by wireless to Suyville, Jan. IS. Kngland and France have present ed a virtual ultimatum to Greece, ac cording to a Sofia dispatch tod.iv. The note aeninmliM tnat Urceco give pass-: pnv's to tho diplomats of the central I powers witmn two days. If Greoco does not accept the de mand, the allies will tako tho "nee-1 evsary measures" to enfurce it, tho Ha-' fia inesage slid, This story coupled with reports that tho British hud land ed nonr Athens, left Berlin with no doubt that the allies havo decided up on extreme frcssttro to forco Greece to abandon her neutrality. Torma rf Surrender. Berlin, by wireless to Sayville, Jan. IS. Terms of the Montenegrin sur render to Austria wero related in Vi enna dispatches today ns follows: Tho soldiers must luy down their arms; citiwns must como forward in groups ami also surrender their arms; Austrian Authorities will im..Ii rnn. tcnevro to prevent formation of giioril-' la onnus; an males must congregate in certain districts designated by Austria; Austria will take over control of cities and transportation. REACHES THE WRECK. Seattle, Wash., Jan. 18. After fight ing adverse seas for three days tho Canadian salvage steamer Salvor is re ported today to have reached the wrecked aleamer Kenkon Maru No. 3, ashore on IMIo Chain" reef, off Mnyne Island. The Japanese crew of tho Ken kon Is camped on shore near tho scene of the wreck. THE WEATIIER J Oregon: Tonight and Wednesday generally fair, not much change i n tempera-turo; easterly winds. 1 SALONIKA lD MK To iTAV AAV HEi "WAR NEWS OF ONE TEAR AGO TODAY Zeppelins raided Sandringham just after the king and queen had left. Zeppelin raids in five other English towns killed five persons. Snow storms on all front hindered artillery operations. Russia claimed an effective of- fensivo in North and South I'o- land. SAY WIN PAID THEM TO KILLIR HUSBAND Negroes Who Confess Murder Say Mrs. Mohr Was Mad at Girl's Escape Trovidence, R. I., Jan. 13. ''The public has no idea of what I have en dured. Most women in my placo would havo killed Ir. Mohr long ago." The widow of Dr. C. Franklin Mohr, slain last summer as he rode with a pretty girl, heard these words today in her trial for murder,-attributed to her by Constable James Wallace. As he uttered them, Mrs. Mohr covered her faco with her gloved hands, and her body trembled. Eight other witnesses bad preceded the constnblo to toll of the whereabouts of Cecil V. Brown, tho negro accused with Mrs. Mohr as the slayer of the doctor. Wallace corroborated tho statement of Chief O'Neill that Brown and hig negro companions had confessed killing the physician. "Even in her presence, Brown in sisted that Mrs. Mohr hired him and Henry Spcllman to kilt Mohr." said1 Wallace "Spcllman snid that Mrs. i Mohr often gave him and Brown money, j and gave him hell when thoy did noti Kill Miss Emily Burger (the doctor a companion.) Secretary of War Garrison Intimates This In Speech at Bankers' Banquet Now York, Jan. IS. That the admin istrations fear of defeat for its military prepnrednoss program is very real nnd earnest was the view lending Now York bankers held today after hearing Secro tury of Wur Garrison 'a insistent speech in advoency of tho government plans last night. Ho told his listeners frankly that the opposition to preparedness 1b organized and powerful, nnd suggested thnl unless preparedness advocates stand shoulder to shoulder in united action, tho present system of defense or as ho termed it, luck of defense will persist. I'repuredness devotees, ho snid, are bickering among themselves over de tails. Ho termed tho continental army plan tho only the only feasible one, nnd branded tho militia system ns inadn (liiiito for tho needs of tho nation. He declared authority vested in the feder al government is essential. CANAL OPEN FEBRUARY 20. New York, Jan. IS. Colonel E. P. Glenn, arriving today from the ranainn canal, said it will reopen February BO, and that nlredy there is a 20 foot chan nel through. Theno nro fine made to order evenings for the letter writers. W. Alfc JONXS OUSTED A. H, Lea, of 1'ortland, was ije alec tod secretary of tho Oregon $ State Fair Hoard tiiis after- $ noon over W. Al. Jones, the ije present incumbent by a voto of if fl to 2, nnd J. If. Booth, of i(i Koseburg, president of tho He board, resigned following tho $ election, otherwise, the eesslon was quiet and peaceable. This la the outcome of tho wrap that if has been brewing for some if if time to oust Jones and to place in office a friend of Governor Withyeombo's. W. II. Savage, of Corvnllls, and M. L. Jonoa, of Brooks, 41 were both favorablo to Let ije from the first and West and Booth lined up with W. Al if Jones, whilo Mrs, Kdith Toiler West her red was undecided. To- day 'a vote shows that sho fell . In line with the Lea side nnd this settled the question for W. ije Al. Jones. West and Booth both handed in their resigns- if tion to the governor as a pro- if tost against the action of the ' board in ousting ' Secretary if 1 Jones, . VILLA'S BUTCHER SHOT CARRANZA S GOOD WORK Colonel Manuel Baca Valles Executed by Side of Train Loaf of American Refugees Instead of Facing Firing Sqaad Is Shot by Soldier Whose Brother He KiHed Villa h Hiding But Deserter Says He Has Ordered His Followers to Kill All Americans. El Paso, Texas, Jan. 18. Blood letting continues in Mexico. Colonel Manuel Baca Valles, Villa's "butcher," was publicly executed in Juarez at five a. m. today, within a few feet of several Pullmans in which American women and children refugees were sleeping. Authorities placed his body on view at the custom house, alongside that of the bandit chieftain, Rounguez, as a bloody warning to their cohorts. The execution followed fast upon unconfirmed rumors that two more Americans, Albert B. - Simmons, of Leos Angeles, and Victor Hamilton, of Chicago, had been sacrificed to the blood-lust of the Villa outlaws. Valles was brought under heavy guard f rom Casas Grandes in the day coach of the train near which he died. Awakened just before five o'clock, he was dragged to a spot nearby, and shot. The man, who had been responsible for many execu tions as Villa's chief headsman, met his fate calmly, and without a word. Twenty Carranza soldiers under Captain Regenio escorted him to a clump of cottonwood trees beside an irrigation ditch. Then his arms were, tied with a blue necktie that a soldier supplied. Instead of having an entire firing squad execute him, Captain Regenio selected as executioner a soldier whose brother Valles had killed. This soldier, without an order from his captain, approached the bound man, placed the muzzle of his rifle at the doomed man's heart and fired As Valles sank in a crumpled heap, several soldiers fired a volley into the air, shouting, "Viva Carranza" and "death to the Villa bandits." ' American newspapermen and a few Mexicnns witnessed the death. Fow, if any, of tho sleepers in the l'ullmans wero'awaro of the tragedy being en acted near them. Tho body with its small streak of bloodstain and tho powder burns above tho heart was then placed beside the naked body of Hodnguen at the cus toms house, whero many Amoricans nnd Mexicans viewed them. Two special trains arrived hero to day benring several hundred Ameri cans and other foreigners from thj I'arral district and western Chihuahua. A Villa deserter said that Villa re iterated nt Kubio his threats against Americans four days ago, and urged his followers to sluy ruthlessly any "gringoes" they might encounter. Ho declared that tho rebel chief is hiding in tho mountains of Durungo stato. Other "Murders Reported. Washington, Jan. 18. Mexican de velopments today added fresh confu sion to tho question of General Car- SHEPHERD'S GRAPHIC , STORY OF THE BRITISH RETREA T TO SALONIKA Xote In the first installment of his uncensored story of tho allied retreat from Serbia, Shepherd told of the ar rival of Serbian refugees In Salonika and of permission being granted by (lencriil Sarrail, nllied commander In chier, for a party ot correspondents tt visit tho Anglo-French front. Follow Ing is tho second story of tho scries. Editor. By William O. Shepherd. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Salonika, Dec. 11 Two huge baskets filled with wicker-covered bottles of hlantl wine, from among which peep ed tho white necks of champagne bot tles, mado hp our supply of traveling provisions wtion our party of corres pondents set out for tlie Anglo-French front in Serbia. True, Indeed, thoro was small package for each man boiled eggs, cold beef with tiny paper acketo of salt and pepper but there were- so small we wero able to carry .hem in our pockets. This was an Italian aehemo of pro visions. We had left to two Itulian loumnlist n?wppcrmnn in Italy ii adwoy a journalist the. task, of mrchasing our food supply. We did tot know, as we milled out of the sta ioa on a rattly military train, that we rnre going forward to witness the be inning of an ally retreat. Before us was Krivolak, where the French ' had fought so long and so hard with their ' seventy-five '' -and Genoral Baa-rail rania's responsibility In the massacre of Americuns last week at SunU Ysa bol. Unconfirmed reports that Victor Hamilton of Chicago and Albert- B. Simmons, of Los Angeles, has been murdered by Villista bandits under tho Arricta Brothors, 60 miles west of Tor roon, also gavo the administration new concern. The state department in en deavoring to ascertain the truth of this rumor. Meanwhile Consul Edwarda at Juares and the department are at odd as to whether tho department asked him to gain a safe conduct from the Cnrrnnxa government for the inunlet ed Giisi mining party. Tho department insists it did not aslt him to do so. Kdwurds said that "in pursuance of instructions" he and triod to get a safe conduct for them from tho Cnrranaistiis. If It is proved that Cnrrnnza promised protection for the party, repnrntion for the lives lost will bo demanded. Intervention ngitntion in eongres sinn circles meantime was held in chock. had told na that we should soo Krivo lak and the fighting there. I ri . r.. ... ... .i... n ;;., v. ..nnt -.!... up of veterans who hail gone through tho hell fire of the Dardanelles, I!e foro ua wore all the thrilling thing to soo tout the war affords. - - No Longer Secret We got out of the train at a little railroad station on the shore of Lnhs Dntran and found ourselves in t& midst of British ttoops. I've need tb name of the lake, though before na started out, we were told that we must not mention tho names of places) in our stories. But nine days have changed all that. The Bulgarians have al) tuesa places now. Its no secret. An English captain met us. "Havo you automobiles fur Mies correspondents?" asked : our Fieuch. lieutenant guide. ... "Not a one," said the British offi cer, "unless they want to ride oa tbU load of hay." . He pointed to a big automobile tnick half loaded with bales of.HngHsh ky. ' Into tho truck' wo piled witii balf a. dozen English Tommies giving us lift. Just as wo started off, they cried, imi tating a London, bus conductor! : "Mnrbio Arch, Holburn Cheat, Hank, Elephant and Castle.!' It-wait a cockney's way of saying: "Houston tract only." -or 1 f Wwrtf ass Express.'! .... .,.' "...fl iuauuci oa tgt tit.) ' t