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A FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES , je CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY - - ;, TIIIRTY-NINTH YEAR -NO. 165 SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 12, 1916 PRICE TWO CENTS S5F3SEi AUSTRO GFRMANS IN. FULL JETREAT IOf.A'1 HALITZ Made But Ijeak Resistance Several Guns Abandoned Inflight RUSSIANS ADVANCED 20 MILES IN FOUR DAYS Italians Scored Telling Sue ' cesses In Swing South Toward Trieste By Ed L. Keen. (United Press staff correspondent.) London, Aug. 12. The advance guard of the Russian force that occupied Stanislau pressed on two miles north east of the city and crossed the river Zlota Bistritza, 18 miles south of Halitz, necording to Petrograd dispatches to day. The Austro-Germans offered but weak Tr-sistance and then continued their re treat north. Several guns were abond oued by the enemy in their retreat from 1 lie Zlota Bistritza. Two separate Russian forces are now fmiverging on Halitz, the immediate objective of General I.etchitsky In his drive against I.emberg. The first, niov jug eastward along the north bank of the Dniester, is less than 20 miles from Halitz. The second force operating south of the Dniester is composed of tlie detachments that took Stanislau. There is no indication in dispatcher from cither Petrogrnd, Berlin or Vienna that the Russian advance, tho most Tapid made by any army since the Aus-tro-German Balkan campaign has been plowed up. In four days they have pro gressed 20 miles and in the fighting about Stanislau alone they have taken nearly 20 villages and towns. Battling over much more difficult country, the Italians scored successes of equal importance in their southward swing toward Trieste. The news from Itoth Petrograd and Home suggests that the demoralization of the Austrian arm ies may be more complete than earlier advices indicated. No official statement has been made public here thus far of the activities in the Balkans reported from Paris yester day. German Attacks Repulsed. Paris, Aug. 12. The French repulsed heavy German attacks on both sides of the Somme last night, it was officially announced today and made further pro gress on the front northeast of Ver dun. At 9 o'clock last night the Germans launched an attack against the Hem quarry, north of the Somme, losing heav ily. South of the Somme the Germans delivered an attack against La Maison ette. This attempt was checked bv French screen fire befofo the enemy itebouched. On the Verdun front, French detach ments made progress south of Thiau mont work and repulsed two German at1 tacks at Fleury. Artillery combats oc curred on the sectors of Yaux Chapitre and Chenois. Italians Score Victories. Rome, Aug. 12. Italian troops have scored further victories south of Goritz, crossing the Vallone and enrying the Avestern slopes of Monte Nadlogen, it was officially announced this afternoon. Italian detachments have occupied Op jiac.hiasella. Oppnchiasella lies six miles south of Goritz and about two miles southeast (Continued on Pass Six.) Xothin' kin be as utterly burn as a bum actor. Th ' high price o ' meat don't cut any figure with codfish aristocracy. J MEXICAN EXILES ARE Big Landowners at Outs with Carranza Trying to Start Revolution By Webb Miller. (United Press staff correspondent.) El Paso, Texas, Aug, 12. "Trouble for the United States and the Car ranza government is afoot and is being stirred up right here in El Paso by a number of wealthy Mexican exiles who desire Carranza 's overthrow and Amer icas intervention, if necessary," stated a government official today. Several silent and mysterious strang ers, reported to be agents of the exiles, have been seen around Et Paso hotels, conferring with influential Mexicans. These men are under surveillance by United States secret service men. "Behind the projected revolution," stated tho government official, "are a number of Mexicans owning millions of acres of land in Mexico but now living in Los Angeles, San Antonio and other southern places. They are "at outs" with the de facto govern ment and the safety of their wealth depends upon the crumbling of the Carranza regime. They are going about their revolutionary activities cautiously. "Some of the Carranza garrisons are undermined now, I believe," de clared tho official. "Colonel Mariano Tames of the Juarez garrison was bought but loyal C'arranzistas discov ered his plans and forced him to flee for safety." Along the border American customs riders and army outposts are on the alert today to prevent smuggling of am munition into Mexico for the "in surrectos." 19 DEAIHSJ ANY HURT Trolley Cars Collide Head On Near Johnstown, Pennsylvania Johnstown, Pa.. Aug. 12. At least 19 were killed and scores of others were hurt in a head-on collision between trolley cars on the Southern Cambria Traction company line at Echo, several miles north of here this afternoon. The dead: Joseph Ribblett, Johnstown. Benjamin Ribblett, Johnstown. Frank Ribblett, a son. Bruce Ribblett, Mooreville. David Dishon, Coopesdale. Mrs. Benjamin Ribblett, Coopers dale. Little son of John Lentz, of Jamison head cut off. John Lentz, Jamison. Mrs. John I.entz, Jamison. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Good, Johns town. Angus Varner, motorman of runaway car. Taylor Thomas, motorman of out bound car. Six unidentified men. At least a score of the injured have been brought to hospitals here in every kind of automobile conveyance which could be pressed into service. 8cons more are beine treated at the , scene. It is impossible to get the ex act number of injured. All the Johnstown automobile fire en gines were pressed into service as am- Ibulances and there is a constant stream of them to and from the scene. Sev eral women fainted as one of the fire trucks, carrying two young women, ap parently badly Injured, drove its way through the crowds on Main street, headed for a hospital The injured wo men, blood covered, were in plain view. .Mexican Refugees Here In Need of Assistance i Here is a case of actual need, .old people who are refugeesfrom Mexico, who lost all their belongings when Vil la's bandits killed all their stock and what thar did not Lill. carried awav with them. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Foster, who are in distress, are now camped On North Front street. Tll'lr need is immediate' and their story is as follows: Six years ago they went to Mexico from Portland to start life over again. On a farm near Torreon, they had ac cumulated stock and were getting along aicely. Last February Villa's bandits cleaned up their ranch, as a piece of spite worn against tne unngoes. For seven nights they forced their wav towards American soil. They are making their way home and need help. This ia an opportunity for those who wish to aid aged people. Mr. Foster is 73 years old and Mrs. Foster R Now they are on their way back to Portland to start over again. Our chnritabl,' inclined people could do no better than to visit the Fosters, hear their story and assist them to their journey ' end. HUGHES GOES DDI DEEP BUTTE HIE AS T Concludes He Will Make Democratic Inefficiency Main Issue . WILL INCLUDE MEXICO HAS ITEMS TABULATED Has Regained His Old Tricks Including Attention to Babies By Perry Arnold, , (United Press stnff correspondent.) Helena, Mont., Aug. 12. Governor Hughes expects to try a new campnign- ng stunt this ntternoou. He joyfully accepted an invitation to descend 2,800 feet into the depths of the Leonard cop per mine at Butte. Mrs. Hughes, who hasn t quitted her husband s side through the hnrdshipa of the trans-con tinental trip, which her husband Is mak ing to win votes for the presidency, wanted to go, but it was decided she had better not. John Mcintosh, of Butte, who joined the republican nominee's party here to day, made the announcement of the gov ernor's underground' search for vote He told the governor the trip might prove of interest but he wanted to warn uim m advance that mines weren't the safest things in the world and that he did not have to accept the invitation. "You can be I want to go," the gov ernor responded quickly. "There are lots of men who work In mines every day and I m not in the least afraid any wav." : . The Leonard mine is not the biggest of Butte's wilder earth industries, but the commiFfciTTielil it td better adnp ed for sight seeing. The governor will be furnished jumper and overalls. Ready for the Fray. Governor Hughes today reached that point in his assault on the democratic trenches nt which a European army com mander would report himself ready for the concerted attack at a particular point. The republican candidate feels he has done the preparatory work in the 24 campaign speeches he has made since leaving New York one week ago to day. He has Indicated that his main reliance in assault is the weapon of criticism of democratic alleged inef ficiency. From now on the governor pro' poses to back up this general charge with concerted fire. . He is armed with specific instances which the republicans claim will support the general allega tion. In his speeches hereafter, he will use this definite data to back up his preparatory assault. In the one week's campaigning to date it appears that the republican main assault will be against democratic inef ficiency and Included in this criticism will be the Mexicnn policy; the foreign policy; the "pork barrel" policy; the preparedness policy, the tariff policy, and the administrative policy. The phrase which has so far evoked the most applause from the nominee's auditors has been, "I'd like to nave a chance to investigate the democratic ad ministration," anil today, when Hughes "pulled it" here again in slightly dif ferent phraseology, the crowd remem bered that the man now running for the presidency first made his reputation in the senrchinely inquisitive probe of the New York Life Insurance scandal. He r7 I I . .1 A was appinuiieu iu uiti vi-uu. Has Many Political Tricks. Hughes is considerably changed frem the man who late in June stepped out of the cloistered precincts of the su preme court into the vortex of politics. He has regained all his old tricks of oratory, of gesture, of modulation of his voice, of paying attention to bnbies, ot working up laughs, of posing patient ly for ubiquitous photographers, profei sionals and amnteurs. Ho has "come back" into the sort of campaign orator that he was in the (lavs of his nnti-race truck crusade in New York state. Today Hughes' voice was almost normal, strong and clear, and the zip in the air put more and more pep into his gestures and Ins thoughts. Last night tho nominee gave Billings, Mont., 1,100 worth of oratory. The citv paid exactly that much raised by public suoscriptian among republicans to pay expenses of diverting nis train to this city for a speech. After the talk they were unanimous in the asserdtion that it was worth it. Jumps Onto Villa. , He characterized Villa as "an ac complished assasin in his own right;" declared he "had no patience with sub terranean diplomacy," anil asserted j that some diplomats were of about as much use as the Atlantic cable. He labeled his opponents as "that dear old party which has been misunderstanding the people for a long period before I was born," and berated any democratic idea that "public office is a private snap." His speech picked out sections of democratic platforms from 1350 on for ridicule and denunciation. "The executive," he said, "is the ill STUN (Continned on Pag Seven.) ANOTHER GREAT BATTLE v By John H. Hearley. (United Press staff corros-: pondeut.) ,. rp Rome, Aug.: 12. Anew and 'fierce battle' has broken out around the fortified town of . Tolmino, next to Goritz, the greatest Austrian stronghold on the Isouzo. The city, lying 20 - miles north of Goritz, is believ- ed to be in imminent danger of capture. TO Do Not Indorse Hughes But Will Work for Him Just the Same Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 12. Organizers of the National Women's party met here today in the dosing sessions of their first conference to plan a $500,000 campaign in the 12 suffrage states along .the lines lnid but in resolutions adopted yesterday. The declared policy of the party is "to use its best efforts to defeat the democratic candidate for president and tne democratic candidates for congress so long as their opposition to the fed eral amendment enfranchising women continues." While the eonference unanimously "congratulated" progressive, prohibi tion and socialist parties and "com mended" Charles E. Hughes for their stand in favor of national woman suf frage, many of the organizers today announced their determination to wage the campaign strictly in behalf of the republican presidential candidate. Miss Anne Martin stated that the general policy, which did not indorse any specific candidate, was merely "polititnl expediency." A majority of the leaders of the wo men's party are women who have sacrificed comfort and luxury in their home states to tak up legal residence in suffrage states' and - vote. Miss Elsie Hill moved from Connecticut to Colorado. Mrs. Harriet Stanton Blntch left New York and rented an "at tick" in Kansas, she said; Mrs. E. St. Clair Thompson of an old South Caroli na family, has taken up her residence in Arizona. Miss Marjorie Ross of Pittsburg became a Wyoming home steader. l TODAY'S BALL SCORES t National R. H. E. New York 3 8 1 Philadelphia 7 9 2 Schupp, Perritt, Smith and Rariden, Kocher; Demaree and Bums. First game R. H. E. Boston 10 1 Brooklyn 4 9 1 Rudolph, Neiif and Blackburn, Rice; lfeffer, Rucker and McCarty. Second game: R. H. E. Boston 5 12 2 Brooklyn 4 10 1 Allen, Hughes. Rudolph nnd Black burn; Smith, Coombs and Meyers, Miller. R. II. Chicago 0 3 I'ittsliurir 3 7 Lavender and Wilson, Archer; Coop er and Fischer. St. Louis-Cincinnati postponed, rain American First game R. H- E. Philadelphia 9 17 2 'i. q 1 1 Myers a ml" 1 fa 'ley';" Tlogridge, Fisher and Nuuamaker. Second came R. H. E. Philadelphia - 2 3 1 Xew Yol k 0 2 1 Bush nnd Haley; Shocker and Alex auder. II. Washington 1 i Boston 2 10 0 Harper, Johnson and Henry, Ain smith; Ruth, Leonard nnd Cody, Car rigan. v ... .. f f R. II. Detroit - - 0 4 Chirnoo ?. 3 9 Uauss and .MeJvee; tuber ami ncnniK witn rresiueni wuson ueiore nireci nc i Hon is taken by tho men is probablo. Cleveland 0 2 3 Opposing leaders seemed more deter- St. Louis 11 14 0 mined to hold to their widely divergent Morton, Klepfer and U Weill; Plank and Severoid. EEALENTZ WON railroad managers. Colorado Springs, Colo., Aug. 12. "You can state that the railroad Through clouds and an electrical storm managers will not recede from their on the world's highest mountain racing demands for settlement by arbitration, course, Rea Lentz, a Seattle youth, Under no circumstances will this stand drove his "Romano Special" to vitory be deviated from." in the free for all event of the Pikes "We will never consent to arbitra Peak automobile hill climb this after- tion," was the unanimous expression noon. His time for the 12.4 miles was from every member of the executive 20 minutes und 5-i seconds, an average board of the brotherhoods. "The cards speed of slightly under .10 miles an hour. I are too easily stacked in arbitration. Ralph Multord in a Hudson was second We have conceded all we can by agree in 21:40. Fred Junk in a Chalmers was i third, time, 22:40. 1 (Continued on Fan BiO MEDIATION FAILS ARBITRATION SH REMAIN Representatives of Trainmen Will Meet Mediators Tomorrow v RAILROADS REFUSE TO -BUDGE AND SO DO MEN President Tells Both Parties He Wants to Have Talk With Them WILL HEAR PRESIDENT New York, Aug. 12. Mem bers of the executive board of the trainmen's brotherhoods will accept an invitation from Presi dent Wilson to intervene in an nttempt to settle amicably the differences between the brother hoods and the railroad manag ers, A. B. Garretson, brother hood official, announced this afternoon. Garretson said he had not yet received any offer from the president. He indicated the brotherhoods will delay any step until they confer with the president if the latter so de sires. New York, Aug. 2. Settlement of the controversy between 400,000 railway employes nnd the railway managers of tho country this afternoon nppenred im possible without an appeal to President Wilsou or a strike tying up 25 railroads of the country, . Members of the federal board of med iation and conciliation have not aband oned hope. They were endeavoring to fiersuade the employes to consent to ar itration this afternoon. So far this has been rejected. Mediation has failed. The railway managers insist they are ready to face a strike if the men refuse to arbitrate. The employes just as firmly reiterated that arbitration has failed before, and consequently they cannot consent to it now. While continuing their work, the me diators are dubious of success. After a Bession with (100 representatives ot the trainmen which lasted several hours, it was admitted no progress had been made toward bringiug about arbitra tion. One of the brotherhood officers leav ing Webster hull stated that arbitra tion had been rejected. President A. B. Garertson of the conductors brother hood, cleared this up when he emerged, however, declaring that while the broth erhoods still maintained the position announced at the opening of negotia tions, further meetings with the medi ators will be held tomorrow. Mediation Has Failed. "I have nothing to report," suid Gar retson, "other than that efforts of the niediutors to reach some settlement were unavailing. "The next step then is arbitration. The mediation board is now endeavoring j to induce the employes to consent to o this. Tho representatives of the trnin- 'ii . ;.i. .i. me n win meet wiui me ini'iuuiiirn ngiiiii tomorrow for further discussion." The situntioa moved rapidly toward what seemed Ho be an inevitable break today. The mediation board had agreed to make a report to the employes nt 10 o'clock. Their report was that media tion had failed. They suggested arbi tration and immediately went into con fcrenco with the brotherhood represeu- tB!n.Ve"'i . . i .i i i i 1 The heads of tho brotherhoods and tho railway managers wero further apart tins nrieruoon man wnen negoiia tions opened. In enrlier statements the railronils had indicated they would nsk for arbitration but at no time did they show the insistence upon this today. , Arbitration or Strike. With the failure of mediation they left no choice between arbitration and a strike The brotherhood representa tives countered with statements thut they would never agree to arbitration E. and it was with this situation confront 1 1 in7 them that the mediators struggled 1 this afternoon. An appeal or conference positions. "It is now a question of whether I the big brotherhoods will arbitrate," said one of them who is acting with the BUT pi IN DOUBT Chairman IKSgly Urging He Make Trip Through Valley CharlesEvans Hughes, republican candidate for president may or may not deliver a campaign address in Snfem. The situation is about like this; Judge C. L. McNary, chairman of the-republican state central committee has been urging the campaign managers to permit Mr Hughes to speak in the Willamette valley where a large per centage of the rural people of the state live, where he would have opportunity to address from 60,000 to 00,000 people. Judge McNary 's plan is to have the candidate leave Portland, next Wednes day morning on tho . Oregon Electric and muke short stops at Salem, Albany and Eugene, returning that evening in time for the 8 o'clock mass meeting at the ice hippodrome. On account of the bad condition of the candidate's voice this plan was op posed br the campaign managers who contended that Mr. Hughes needed all day Wednesday for resting. On behalf of the Oregon committee, Judge McNary telegraphed the presi dential party ' yesterday in North Da kota, setting forth the advantages of a visit in the valley and asking them to change their present pluns As yet, no answer has been received, and the question as to whether Salem folks will see and hear the candidate is un decided. Mr. Rodney, who has charge to some extent of the itinerary, thought that Mr. Hughes would be willing if his voice holds out Anyhow, Judge Mc Nary feels that he has done everything that could be done to give the people of the valley an opportunity to hear the republican candidate. GETTING READ! FOR Cherrians Perfect Plans for Attending Eugene-Coos Bay Wedding George F. Rodgers, general chairman of all committees for the Marshfield excursion announces that all commit tees are working aud gotting things in shape for the big excursion, August 25. One of the plans is to make several prominent citizens or Mursufield honor ary members of the Cherrians and the initiation committee is working over time that the Marshfield honored ones may duly be prepared for what is com ing to them. " The Cherrian Gazette and Marshfield nc i.n1l..n will lua iamind (1 nil V and iiniaiiiiiiv" ,,.. sometimes semi-daily. George C. L. Sny der is the printer in cliurgo. An is sue will be out just before the excur sionints start, nuother by a local com mittee at Albany, one with a local edi tor at Eugene and a spcciul Marshfield issue. Tho Snlem issue will be sent to Marshfield in advance of tho spe cial in order that the native sons of Coos bay may know what is coming. Nothing will be left to the inspira tion of tho moment. All entertainments and plans of jollification will b ar ranged aud pulled off according to sche dule. Every man will be assigned to his special part and from what Mr. Rodgers says, the people of Coos bay will know thut Snlem and the Cherrians ore on the job when it comes to eclo bruting. ' ' Saturday evening, Marshfield will en tertain tho visitors And that no one may feel there is a stringency in the money aiarket, orders have been given for the printing of Cherrian money to the extent of 20,000,000 kopocks not pecks. Stocks Were Irregular Small Change In Prices New York, Aug. 12. The New York Evening Sun financial review today suid: Price movements exhibited great ir regularity witn the trading active In spots only. Heavy initial dealings were reorted in Rending which opened at a small advance from Kriday's closing and then sold down half. Traders were inclined to cover in many parts of the liBt and to a great extent the general movement represented little beyond ad justments ot speculative accounts Inci dent to the end of the week. Steel sold 0ff fraction and tne cop pers were steady, buying of the latter being encouraged by the reports of large foreign inquiries in the market for copper metal. Profit taking was in the evidence in the munition shares, but sules were well absorbed. Transactions in copper In the last hour were active on advancing range of prices, Marked Improvement being recorded by Chino, Anaconda, Tennes see Copper, L'tnh and Inspiration. CLAIMS ENGLAND SVIPES NEWS AND STEALSB U S I HESS Manufacturers Sales Com pany Officials Makes ' Serious Charges ' STOPS RUSSIAN ORDERS FOR AMERICAN GOODS And Gives Them to Her Own People Is Substance of Accusation Chicacro. Aue. 12. An estimated loss) of $100,000,000 in Russian trade to Am erican firms within the last eight months through theft or delay of cables by the British censors was charged to day by A. H. vPottnikof, president of the International Manufacturers' Hale company. Postuikoi substantiated United Press dispatches from Petrograd stating that efforts are being made to lay a direct nohlo Vmlwopn RimHin. nnH America. He declared this was being done because of tne Inability to get proper caoie iram mission of Russian orders through the Bpitish censor. He charged that Great Britain has been actually stealing American trade, .Ilk V,a jlaolnvofinn Hint! nut. of 50 cables received by his company in the Inst eight montns oniy live nave vm. transmitted in their original form. "Whilo I have no direct proof that Great Britain has garbled our cables to throw trade: to their own manufacture, T nm nrnttv certain that such is the case," said Postuikof. - ' - "In tho past eight months eigni cables from here to our Petrograd of fice nnd from that office to this office seven have been lost, " ' Would Kill Ottr Trad. "No doubt exists in my mind that Great Britain is using every possible means, fair or foul, to interfere, and if possible, put an end to direct trade rclutions between the United States and other countries. Great Britain ia, par ticularly desirous of discouraging such trade botween American firms and their Russian customers. "Prior to the war, Germany enjoyed this lucrative position in all our deat ings with Russia." The International Manufacturer' Snles company is a subsidiary sales or ganization of SO American firms, repre senting a total capital of $400,000,000. Postuikof said his concerns proved to Washington regarding the censorship of their cables and that considerable cor respondence with the state department followed. Nine cables from the com pany's Russian offices are still jnisa ing, Postnikof declared. . "Tho loss to America as a result of the British thefts will run over $100,- nOO 000 " ha aniit. Ho declared that absolute proof of theft by the British censor has been laid beforo the Btate department by a largo American corporation. This cor poration, he said, is located in Pitta burg. Postnikof considers the situation so serious that he plans to leave for New York tonight to confer with Newcomb Carlton, head of the Western Union Telegraph company- regarding the' lay ing of cables between Russia and thia country. Indignantly Denies It. Washington, Aug. 12. Great Britain "indignantly denies" that she has di verted to her own use any cabled Rus sian business orders intended for Uni ted Stutcs firms. The state department revealed today that this has been the upshot thus far of an investigation into complaints that I.'urrhinl wn M dllUllttPll 111 B. tr&Hfl StP&l- imr nrni-eiw. whorebv orders were turn ed to English houeeB. Every complaint by American firms; hns been examined to the fimit. if some instances it developed that while there had been no diversion, there had been cabled "delay" in both England and Russia. The main difficulty in finding any r,rr.'f nt Rl-itiull i II fr t ArOTI P A llM ill i ht fact that America must rely chiefly (Continued on Page Five.) THE WEATHER Oregon r Fair tonight and Sun day except show ers tonight or Sunday north west portion; cooler Sunday east portion; southerly winds, ,