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i- .w. T7TTT T rnorn j. f UIKUULiAHUIN la OVER 4000 DAILY " WIRE DISPATCHES ol IQIBU nlojnj THIRTY-NINTH YEAR PRICE TWO CENTS AV?fi?31 SALEM, OREGON, TUESDAY, MAY 2, 1916 urn :j ifiimraifif GERMANY'S IPLY cST Officials Refuse To Give Hint As To Contents Unl$ ! Note Is Delivered a STATEMENT IS THE NOTE WILL CLEAR SITUATION (General Belief Is Kaiser Has Agreed To Change Mode of Submarine Warfare By Cart W. Ackerman. (United Press staff correspondent.) Berlin, May 2. The German reply to the American submarine demands viii completed today. A few alterations were made in its text, but ttiere were iiu changes in its character, which was decided upon several days asjo. It is thought thnt the message will be cabled to Washington tonight or tomorrow. The Aniericna embassy received from Washington yesterday a message ex plaining the interpretation placed by the I'nited States on several points of international law involved in the note. This message was telegraphed to Am bassador tlerard, who was in conference with the kaiser. The American embassy was informed that Gerard would arrive here this aft ernoon. He will came Washington n long report on his conference with the wmperor immediately upon his arrival. Whether this will contain u private mes wage to President Wilson from the kaiser is not known. Officials prefer that the newspaper correspondents cable nothing indicative of the chnrncter of Germany's reply un til the oifieinl communication is re ceived in Washington. It was stated, however, that nothing has occurred ma terially to change the situation since Wednf sdav. Feeling Is Optimistic. By Robert J. Bender. (United Press staff correspondent.) 'pi'- ', -,,tl.7 V'illlllll t 1111- innton is today awaiting the kaiser's reply to the American submarine de mands. As n result of Ambassador Ger ard's delay in returning to Berlin from the emperor's field headquarters, the dispatch expected from tne American envoy yesterday was not looked for un til tomorrow morning. In the meantime, there. is no official light on Germany's proposed action. Un official dispatches from Berlin said the necond draft of the replv was complet ed. By all accounts the note should be en route to Washington tonight or tomorrow. The fact that the conference between Gerard and the kaiser was more pro longed than nt first planned was taken taken ns a hopeful indication. United Tress dispatches from Berlin todny renewed the optimism which was also felt in administration circles. The general belief was that Germany would yield and promise to cense its "present method of submarine warfare." lot whether this would ear up .VI rtiffi unities immediately, or whether the re ply would concede the pr.'si.leiw's de mands preparatory to furth"r discussion of the permanency of its acipiiefc?nce, officials refused to express an opinion. There was much diseussnn i f Presi dent Wilson's speech of yest'day be fine the navv league women, lie voiced i warning that no n-tvin c:in t.imrer with the honor nnd in'ctiity of the United States. This was I lUen as a plain fT!nntini!i1 nn Paire Sven. 5- ABE MARTIN :-. I 'd hate t ' be a bartender an' have t ' work on Sunday an' holiday. "One Hum! thinij about the modern dance U that you kin win in a walk," said Taw 'cy Apple, treasurers o' th' Majestic live cent thtt-uter. it'' VA .... L Clothing; Tradfc Hard Hit- 650 Tugs Tied Up and Shipping Crippled Tittsburg, Fa., May 2. One hund.ed speciul police from the Carnegie com pany were brought to the Pittsburg i'is trjet today to guard the Kdgar lhomp son steel plant at Braddock. and other establishments where stiikes are thrubt ened. Four hundred mo;i special of ficers are due later. The Paddock plant is operating with a reduced force. The number of strik ers there is estimated at fn.ru I ,ooo to 5,000. Resumption of ri'itiujr by Wot inghouse workers and tneir allied strik ers is momentarily expected. Five hundred employes of the Pressed Steel Car company joiued the strike to day. Leaders claiai a thousand enlist ments to the striken ranks. Forty-five thousand, including 4.000 muchinis'j. who struck yesterday, are said to be out. Wharves Filled With Freight Now York, May 2 Thousands of tons of freight are piling up. on the wharves today with only slight possibility of their being moved until an agreement has been reached with the striking tug boat hands and barge men. Terminals of the railroads are choked with freight. Freight vessels hnve delayed sailing en account of lack of tugs. Much of their freight is war munitions for the allies. Other vessels carry cargoes of perishable goods. No Tugs for Big Liners. New York, May 2. Orders calling out every garment worker in the inde pendent shops as well as in those es tablishments which are members of the Manufacturers' association, threatened a complete tieup of the clothing trade today. President Schlessinger said that hun dreds of non-union tailors would join in an individual, sympathetic strike. The longshoresmen 's strike is spreading, and shipping is greatly affected. Strikes of stevedores, marine engii eers, firemen, cooks, deckhands, ware housemen, and tugmen's union have re sulted in the tieup of 050 harbor tugs, it is claimed. There is a possibility that lack of tugs will hamper the entrat.co of four trans-Atlantic liners tomorrow To Call Out Militia. Pittsburg, Pa., May 2. Police re ports said that three men had been kill ed and 40 injured in strike rioting at the Thompson plant in Braddock this afternoon, i Sheriff Richards after a conference with state officials announced thnt the militia would be ordered out immediate- Street Cars Bun Again. Pittsburg, Pa., May 2 Resumption of street car service with the striko still unsettled is assured today. It was learned unofficially that a vote in fa vor of compromise wage scale had been submitted to the men this morning, nnd that -it w.as heavily in favor of accept ance. fc ijc sjc sjc )(t )fc sfc sc "jc sje sjc f( s(c sfc sc sfc $ TODAY'S BALL SCORES I National. II. I H Brooklvn New York 2 S 0 Pfeffer and MeCarty; Tej cuu and Rarideu. R. H. K. 9 0 7 1 Philadelphia Boston .... j Demaree and Burns; Reulbnch and oonuj. . uunners repiuceu L'euii'.rt.:; Hughes replaced Keulbach. Pittsburg-Cineinnati, postponed, wet grounds. R. H. E. St. I.ouis 1 3 5 2 Chicago 0 2 2 Donk and Snyder; Vaughn and Fish er, Archer. American. R. II. E. Cleveland '. 6 7 1 Detroit 14 2 Morton and O'Neill; Covaleski and Stanae. Boland replaced Covaleski; Baker replaced Stanage. R. II. E. New York V 14 0 Philadelphia 4 5-4 Shawkey aud Nunumaker; Bressler and Schang. Morisette replaced Bress ler. R. H. E. Boston 4 10 3 Washington 7 11 1 Shore and Agaew; Boehlinx anil Hen ry. Pennock replaced Shore; Thomas replaced Agued; Gallia replaced Boeh- Germany Makes Good Loss of the Tubantia The Hague, May 2. Germany is finally convinced that the Dutch liner WAGE I NCR EASE AFFFRTQ M 51 UUU The Average Increase Is 30 Cents a Day But the Total Is Enormous MONTHLY IT IS $5,368,872 . AND YEARLY $64,426,464 Strikes, Lockouts and Labor Troubles Will Effect 508,100 More New York, May 2. Mr. American laboring man is starting the month of May drawing down a daily increaso in wages of $204,010. Statistics gathered by the United Press today show that wage increases affecting 700,500 work ers and totalling $5,308,872 monthly, or $04,420,404 a year, went into effect May 1. At the same time, strikes, lockouts and labor troubles, impending or in force, will affect 508,100 workers. Foremost in the wage increases which became effective May 1 are those granted by the I'nited States Steel cor poratioa 250,000 men, at a monthly in crease in the pay roll of $1,000,000, a further boost to the Bethlehem Steel company employes affecting 24,000 men -Y uuu.ug 9nu,uuu to tno monthly pay Z ' I,ittsl?llrK "strict coal miners, 40,- $215,000 S monthly payroll The eight hour day is the rock upon which the workers and employes have split in most of the impending or pend ing strikes. The crisis in the demand or f,o,000 anthracite coal miners, ask ing recognition of the union, may come this week. A lockout is momentarily expected in' the closed shop dispute of ,?' ,fk cl0!llt"1"lcrs, affecting 200, 000 workers. ' Munitions workers in and around Pittsburg, including the Westinghouse plant, are plunning to force an eight hour day, possibly oy a 8trikc w4h would involve at least 70,000 and pos sibly more men. In the western mine centers wages have been boosted again. Miners are so scarce m the Telluride district of ntfdV.!p.ttbeBl'fl,0ritie8are ""l1 Increases Now Effective. Kslimated increase in monthly payroll. $1,000,000 170,000 1,250,000 Men . affected, tinted States Steel corporation 250,000 Bethlehem Steel corn- Fan-V 24,000 Overland Auto eom- Pnny 18,000 Butte miners and , alters 14,000 Anaconda miners ,. 5 000 Portllnud and Cbeur ' d 'Alene (list rici ,.min,'s 3,000 L. S. Steel (Gary P,ant) 7,000 thicago packing houses 20,000 Hurt, Schnffner & ,,Ml1" 10.0(10 Alhs, Chalmers & Co. 2,000 Milwaukee teamsters 000 St. I.ouis brewers.. 5,000 St. I.ouis machinists 500 Ohio electric rnilwav 1,100 Columbus, O., street car men 700 Youngstown, O., steel workers 20,000 Cincinnati building ,rllM 11,000 Toledo enrpenters ., .100 Toledo electricians. . 200 Fall River cotton operatives in nnn 1S9.000 8,20 3,000 58,000 210,000 70,000 10,800 4,200 30,000 5.000 5,000 2,700 150,000 17,500 210 2,072 108,000 110,000 23,'iO0 19,000 31,000 ?2,000 3.J0O 215,000 125,000 98,000 275,000 291,000 'New Bedford cotton operatives 25,000 American Woolen comoany .10,000 Providence I n d i n Rubber company. . ,1,000 Rhode Island cotton operatives fi.000 Philadelphia carmen 0,200 Omaha railway clerks st. Paul 300 Pittsburg district' coal minprs 40,000 Wr-3t Virginia nnn Eastera Ohio steel 30,000 West Virginia coal miners 90 nnn Other Penn. steel workers mn nnn Cleveland building trades and metal workers 30,000 Total 700,500 $5,38,872 Amount of increases, yearly $04,420,404 Tubantia was toedoeJ Instead of mined, and will replace it by a larger vessel from the Hamburg-American line, it was announced this afternoon. The ownen of the Tubantia will pay the difference in cost between the two vessels. III I LU I U I uu LIST IS GROWING OUKMINS IS COMING Washington, May 2. Sena- tor Cummins will leave for Ore- gou lute this week to support his candidacy for the presiden- tial nomination in the prima- ries. , STRIKE jingle Mills Must Close Or Grant Demands Many Shut Down Seattle, Wash., May 2. I'nless Bal lard mill owners grant demands of the International Shingle Weavers' Union of America at once, 'M0 members iu that district will wnlk out today. The workmen decided on this plan of action at a meeting attended by more than 250 emploves at Ballard, a Seattle suburb, last night. They demand re instatement of the 1914 wage scale, or an average increase of 10 per cent. All milU at Kverett, some at Kapows- io, Inglewood, Mnryville, Three Lakes, Port Angeles anil Granite rails arc closed because of the strike. Grays Harbor mills have granted the increase demanded and all are work ing. To Act on Agreement. Pottsville. Pa.. Mav 2. The tri-dis- trict convention of the United Mine Workers ruet today, either to ratify or reject the agreement with employers miide vestenlnv. There were 1.000 dele gates on hand. It was expected that their deliberation)) would last a week. Mar Strike at St. Louis. St. I.ouis, Mo., May 2. A strike of 10,000 building urtisans was threatened today in sympathy with the hod car riers' walkout last night. Harvester Company Faces Strike. Chicago, May 2. Ten thousand em ployes of the International Harvester company went 011 'strike today demand ing recognition of their union and bet ter working conditiour. Philippines Will Not Be Given Independence Washington, May 2. Senate lenders will probably approve the Philippine bill as it passed the nouse, It was be lieved today. The senate favors inde pendence, but will accept the house measure as better than nothing. The house downed the administration bill with the Clarke tunc ml me 11 1 promis ing the islands independence within four years and accepted as a substitute the Jones bill, which provides for great er self government, nnd declares the lnited States intends to grant the Philippines independence at some later date, which is not given. Thirty demo crats voted with the republicans in smashing the Clarke amendment, which had the support of the president. I his was the first defeat of any administra tion measure of any importance this year. A SMALL SHAKE I.os Angeles, Cal., May 2. A slight earthquake at 0:33 a. 111. today wis recorded at the United States weather bureau here. The disturbance lasted only a few seconds. , Example of Switzerland' Might Serve Good Purpose By WUliam O. Shepherd. f United Press staff correspondent.) Berne, May 2. The men of Switzer land aren't soldiers, in pence times. They are only citizens who know how to be soldiers if they have to. The United States doesn't need 4,000,000 soldiers. What it does need is 4,000,000 men who know how to be soldiers, ia case the need arises. "I had a boy in college," wrote the father of a young British soldier, "fine day he ran off and enlisted In a London foot regiment. After three months' training his regiment was sent to Fland ers. He was killed at Ypres. I am telling you this to help you preach the gospel of compulsory training, not con scription. "I am grieved and proud about my boy. But I feel that this regiment did not have a sporting chance. They only knew how to go ou and die. I feel that the men in England who oppose compulsory military training are guilty of a greater felony thna those who sank the I.usitania." This is the sort of feeling I find, this feeling expressed by this father, that brought about compulsory military training in Switzerland. Hero in Switzerland where, nndiT the marvelous system of military traininir. a fifth of a million of the finest sol diers la Europe were placed on the frontiers of their country to guard them before the first shots at Liege had die' down, you get it driven into your Amer Ill DEATH LIST II 1 E IS HI ABOVE 51 Many Bodies Are Found In Ruins of Buildings De stroyed by Shells 1500 ARE WOUNDED IN SEVEN DAYS FIGHTING Jrials Will Be Held In Eng land-Interest In Fate of Countess Markievicz Dublin. May 2. At least 500 rebels were killed and 1,500 wounded in the seven flnys of street fighting here, it was estimated todny by soldiers who canvassed the city. Rebel bodies were found in ruins of the postoffice,' Liberty hall and other buildings demolished by artillery. The casualties are far in excess of early estimates. Many corpses are believed still undiscovered. Hospitals are over flowing with wounded, including women and children. Lord Donoughmoro, former British commander in Egypt and at one time a member of the cabinet, was shot while motoring north of Dublin. He suffered a slight flesh wound. A smnll squad of rebels determined to die hard fired the last volley of tho in surrection last night near the Westland station. The whole party wnB wiped out by machine guns. Probnblv the final shot of the rebel lion was fired by a sniper concealed in a tower of the gas works. He sent three bullets toward a party of news paper correspondents boarding a tug in the I.iffey. The city Is resuming its normal life. Shops are reopening. To Try Casement First London, May 2. All rebels who bore arms in t(ie Dublin revolt will be brought to England for trial, it was an nounced today. Suspects and .Sinn Fein sympathizers who did not openly take up arms against the government will be tried in the Irish courts. Several hundred prisoners have al ready reached England. They arc liable to trial by court martial, and may bo executed if convicted. The trains will probably be postponed until the govern ment disposes of the case of Sir Roger Casement, whom the Germans sent to head the Irish rebellion. He is a prison er in the Tower of Loudon. Greatest interest b displayed with her force of 100 of Countess Markie vicz, who surrendered with her force of 100 rebels. Troops brought in about 50 insurg"7its from the suburbs of DibMi and from small cities during the uiiit, but no fresh disturbances were reported. 1 ah orers are at work razing walls of buildings wrecked during the fighting. Party Attacks Police, Drogheda, Ireland, May 2. A pnrty of rebels attacked tho police of Gar ristown, 10 miles from Dublin early today, wounding four. Eight rehels were captured. The rest escaped. Slight dis turbances occurred in tho suburbs of Dublin nnd tho outlying districts. ican mind that compulsory military training isn't intended to create sol diers. Its purpose is to create a nntiou of fine, strong young men and hale, hearty old men who will know how to be soldiers if an enemy forces them to play that role. The Swiss aren't fussy; they don't love fighting. All these yenrs of horn ing how to be soldiers, if the need comes, has taught them that fighting is no picnic and that it doesn't pay to start a row just for the sako of rowing. The Swiss are not a fighting nation, like the Serbs, for instance and yet, man for man, the Swiss army is the equal of any army in the world. Every citizen in the ever fighting Balkans is a sol dier; a potential killer. That's one of the troubles with the Balkans. But every citizen of Switzerland, because of his scientific training, is a citizen who 11 be a soldier only when some enemy drives him to play that role. That's the big reason Switzerlnnci is at peace today. , It would cause an uphcavel in the United States to put the Swiss military system into effeet there. In fact we couldn't transplant It in its entirety. There arc some things obout it, that Americnns wouldn't like. One of them is the little blue book. - (Article No. 2 will deal with the lit- 1 Mm hnnV nml h iitihmvel in Amer. lean life aud systems which the Swiss 1:1 . v military system migut cause. The Vote Will Decide Relative Strength of Factions-' Voting Is Very Light San Francisco, May 2. A heavy vote was not expected in San Francisco to day in tho California presidential pref erence primary, although the weather was ideal. Polls opened at 6 a. m., nnd will remain open until 7 p. ni. The only contest was in the republi can division. All the democratic dele gates were pledged to support President Wilson at the convention, and the pro gressive delegates wi ie unp'elge.l. Two tickets for delegates to the O. O. P. convention were in the field. One card was composed of "rogul.i.- repub licans," selected at the republican state convention. The opposition ticket of re publican candidates, called the "united republicans" favored an alliance with the progressives in the support of a "forward looking candidate," and had the endorsement of Governor Johnson. One-third Wui Vote. Sacramento, Cal., May 2 Sacramento couaty took little interest in tho presi dential primary electfon today. It was predicted thnt not more than 8.000 of the 22,000 registered electors would vote. What little interest there is in tho election was stirred up by the tilt be tween the United and Regular republi cans. About 70 per cent of those who voted asked for the republican ballot. Although there were quite a number of progressives registered in this count tho progressive ballots were in small demand. Light Vote in South. I.os Angeles, Cal., May 2. A light vote with 90 per cent of the interest among republican factions was the indi cation todny in the southern California presidential primuries. With ideal weather the small turn out of voters came as a surprise. Great er interest was displayed in smaller sur rounding cities than in Los Angeles. All democrats were pledged to sup port Wilson and the progressives were unpledged. A voto of 150,000 for all territory south of the Tehachnpi, was predicted. Oakland Voto Small. . Oakland, Cal., May 2. Quiet and or derly voting characterized tho early hours at the polls here today. Though Alameda county has been considered a center of progressive party strength, and many of the leaders in tho united republican group are nctivo here, there has been a light vote, in spito of ex cellent weather conditions. I ALLTHATIS NEEDED JUncIe Sam Has More Orders Than He Can Fill Need of Ships Urgent Washington, May 2. "Uncle Sam, manufacturer, is trying to take care of more orders than he is physicially equipped to fill." Except for the foregoing condition, commerce, foreign and domestic, is the best it has been for years. Secretary of Commerce licdfield today said in an interview with tho United Press. Time and on adequate merchant marine arc tho only remedies necessary to niuke commerce of the United States ascend to di.zy heights in bulk and value of shipping. That the European war proved a big incentive to foreign commerce of the United States is shown in statistics given by the secretary. At the same time tho relative importance of ship ments of strictly war articles has been generally exaggerated, he said. "A great many persons believe the munitions shipments form the bulk of our foreign trade," Redfield said. "While it is true that our trado in arms, supplies and articles used by armies of tho bnlligercnt powers is very great, yet the proportion which such exports bear to all exports is not so relatively lurge as is generally be lieved." Japanese Village Is Destroyed by Fire Los Amrcles. Cal.. May 2. The Jap anese village north of Santa Monica, which narrowly escnpea a lanosnnc iwo weeks ago, was practically destroyed by fire bef oro daylight today. Five hundred Japanese, Kussiuns aud Finns, fishermen, are homelr-s. The fire started from a kerosene lamp breaking in a lodging house. A number of the Japanese made a valiant effort to check tho couflngrntioa by formina a bucket brigade between the ocean and tho flames. Their vfforts were useless. There were no casual ties, it was reliably asserted, lhe dam age wns estimated ui oemeeu fiu.uui I. ...1 iiii nnn t""i"v'. MOO AIID LANSING VILL Conferees At El Paso Have Na ftwer To Arrange Move ment of Troops EACH SIDE CAN ONLY ' REPORT PROPOSITIONS American Troops In Stress Position and Ready to Act On Moments Notice By E. T. Conkle. (United Press staff correspondent.) El Paso, Texns, May 2. What wera regarded as final instructions for the American repricntutives ia the con ference with General Alvaro Obregon, Mexican war minister, arrived from Washington today and General Hugh Scott stated that a second meeting; would take p'ace this afternoon. The timo and place will probably be left to the convenience ot the Mexican mem bcrs. The instructions which the Americans are to follow conform to the outlines givon in Washington dispatches aud confirm statements that the conference will have no power to decide future movements of American troops in Mex ico and that there will be no immediate withdrawal of the United States expedi tion. Will Not tacusa It. At the next session, Scott will ad vise Obregon that Washington rcfuse.i to consent to discuss at this conference! the question of immediate withdrawal. Ohreinn is exoected ootitclv to decline to discuss any other question until t proposition of having tho American forces leave his country is settled, in which ease tho confe.eiice can only ad journ in deadlock. Obregon, in a statement to the United Press yesterday, said that, in such nn event, ho would report the whole sit uation to President Carrnnza. This was taken to Indicnte that fail ure of tho conference would be fol lowed by further diplomatic exchanges) rather than by military operations. A break is considered unlikely. The date of the American expedi tion's final withdrawal and details of rio-opcrution Iwith Carranzista troops whilo hunting Francisco Villa in Mex ico are expected to bo fixed by nego tiations between Secretary Lansing and Mexican Ambassador Arrcndondo in Washington. They Want Intervention. Interventionists are still busy alonu the border, especially in t, Paso, trying to bring about a situation that will muko intervention inevitable. The gen eral belief here is that they will fail, unless some hothead among tho Amer ican or Mexican forces permits a clash, to occur, which might be so serious as to render pence impossible. In tho meantime, both the Mexican and American armies aro inactive. At some poinU along the line taken by tho American expedition the forces are only a few miles apart. No alarm i-s felt for General Pershing's command as it has been heavily reinforced, strongly cnuinDcd nnd provisioned to meet any situation which may arise. There are now 17.000 Americans in Mexico, all ex cept about 200 along tho line from thn border to Wnmiquinn, proiecteu ny en trenched and fortified camps. General Funston is confident thnt the Amer icans could hold out indefinitely against much lamer forces of Mexicans, and could take the offensive if it were de sirable. Troops Ready for Action. f..i...t.,,e V At rnv 2. Hristwlier General John J. Pershing is conceutrat liis forces tndnv as imK though an attack were momentarily :n- minent. With tno eonrerence oct-wK-.-i Vfnv;..an ami Amerir.un representative hanging fire at El Puso, the situation is admittedly tense and he is taking no. ; vL'n fiHKi.. ped. nctinir under nctual war conditions. Every movemei t in the conference room is ropurieu in him by wireless. Untnrnil , mKriftln ColumiM h U VC, been drawn into an advanced bas", r'l ndditionnl defensive works eointr wte l at several points. (Continued on Pe Hx.) T THE WkATHKK ? . . . . 1 Oregon: Fair tonight and Wed nesday; norther 'ipai.w i DECIDEQUESTIOn that s7y