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r- FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES $ CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY . fly PRICE TWO CENTS aSS. THIRTY-NINTH YEAR-NO. 169 SALEM, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1916 SCIENTISTS MEET TO START BATTLE !TE Men Who Have Conquered Cholera, Yellow Fever and Plagues Are There REPORT SHOWS DISEASE SPREADS FAST AND FAR Disease Most Prevalent In Less Congested Districts Is Feature of It Washington, Aug. 17. Men who have "fought and found the way to defeat cholera, fever and scourges cf maay Kinds, gathered today from all parts of til United States to consider a national fight on the infantile poralvsis epi demic now taking the lives of Amer ican babies. When the first session op ened in the United States public health service building there were representa tives present rrom ;s states. They included men who have helped conquer bubonic plague outbreaks, rholera, yellow fever, typhoid, spotted fever and many other malignant enem- ins. They declare themselves honeful of (ueetosa hgninst the present plague. Interest at the initial session centered on the reports of the various state of ficers. The prevalence of the disease was tabled as follows: New Jersey, 1,800. Now Hampshire, 7. Delaware, 2. Massachusetts, 300. Maryland, G6. Michigan, P7. Missouri, 11. - . Montana, 1.1. Nebraska, 10. Connecticut, 232. Illinois, 230. Indiana (since July 11. 37. -Iowa, 25. Alabama (since July 14, 04. Colorado, 4. Mninc, 14. District of Columbia, (since Julv 11. 14. The report of Dr. Haven Emerson, health officer of New York, showed 0,(i53 cases since the outbreak of the . epidemic in the metropolis, with 1.497 deaths, a mortlity rate of over 22 per cent. There is not a case, he said, among Tiie du,uuti children confined in chari table institutions of the citv. The dis ease has been most prevalent iu the less congested boroughs. Sunday Schools Closed. Philadelphia, Aug. 17. Sunday schools in Philadelphia were ordered closed until further notice bv Director of Health Krusen this afternoon be ennso of the infantile paralysis epi demic which is growing worse here. ESCAPED PATIENT CAUGHT W. A. McKay, one of the two patients who escaped from the asylum for the in Mine Sunday night, was caught this morning at about 10:30. Since his de parture from the institution he has been dodging around in the brush north of town. Hits morning he went to n farm house near Clieniawa and his where abouts was teported to the asylum of ficials. McKay was able to give no informa tion as to the whereabouts of Thompson, the other patient who ran nwav Sun day night. He did not leave with Thomp son, he sats, but about an hour later He was not entirely certain that he wished to go at (li. and seems rather glad to get buck. He has been in the institution since ISStl. If th' rich soent as much as those who run in debt we couldn't take care We I'UUUlIl l lUivc i'r h kiwina.a Th unnrr shirt leaves no doubt about th' Adam's apple crop, AGAIN! PIDE1 Vancouver Garrison Has Warlike Fire Vancouver, Wash., Aug. 17. Hun dreds of rifle cartridges exploded early today as fir swept through the old government hospital building at Van couver barracks. When the bombard ment ceased soldiers rushed in and ex tinguished the flames, after thev had done $8,000 damage to the $35,000 struc ture. Private James Hansen, coast ar tillery, was badly cut while fighting the blaze. The bullets were left in the building by troops departing for the Mexican border. IMS MY Some Desert, Some Wound Themselves In Order to Get Sent Home Dallas, Texas, Aug. 17. Nationnl guardsmen are being driven to despera tion by their enforced idleness on the border and are choosing the two most preenrious methods to get home deser tion and self inflicted wounds. This was the statement today of Roy (iambrell, former city fireman and now connected with the hospital corps of "the Texas National Guard. He was in Dal las to take a deserter back to camp. "There are now between 10 and 20 men in the Texas national guard hos pital at Marfa with bullet wounds in their legs, feet, and hands, as a result of their trying to get their relense from border duty," said Oaiubrell. "Since I have been down there a large number of men have been sent to the hospital who shot a finger or toe off, but none of them have been re leased. The officers decided in most of the cases that the shooting was not accidental. We have had a large num ber of desertions lntely. I know of one mnn having deserted four times. "Tho idleness and sameness of every thing is deadly. I- nin ready to come back mvsolf." STREET CAR STRIKE BE Employes Claim Managers Have Violated Promises Made by Them New York, Aug. 17. Upon the suits of a conference to be held ilnv ltpticepil nilitiv nffii-aru 4,a New York Railway company and repre-1 sentntives or the emploves, depends whether New York is to be tied up with another strike which this time may in volve" elevated and subway lines as well as surface cars. Kniployes charge that President Shouts of the railways company broke an agreement to reinstate striking em ployes and that he int.'rferred with the right of the men to form, a union by promotini a counter organization. Shonts. denies the charges. The em ployes have instructed tneir repre- sentntivs to declare a their demands are met. strike unless BRYAN TO MOVE Washington, Aug. 17. Williams Jen - mugs ISryau is to leave Nebraska fin- miles against tho Germans.) ally after the elections this November.l The Knglish made strong attacks from He is to move his home to Ashville, X. j Ovillers and Pozieres and also west of ,'., and re-enter politics in that state, Foureaux wood, but were repulsed. Re wit li the hope of being lected later to i, the United States senate. J (Continued oa Pag Three.! Wonderful Organization and Maze of Railway Lines Supplying French Armies By Henry Tod (United Press staff correspondent) With the French Army on the Sura e. Aul'. 17 hike a itiiiuntic sledge hammer, the French army is smashing wav at the German lines oil the Som me battle front. The new French offensive in no way resembles the Russian stejm roller. In stead, it hammers continually with blow upon blow nt any giveu point until eventually, the French officers believe, it must break down both th German defenses ami the resistance of the German army. The success of this steady hammering is demonstrated both in the actunl a Ivance and the influx of prisoners who have surrend ered in huge numbers. Before going to the fighting front 1 inspected the vast organization behind the lines for feeding the offensive. It is this incredible preparation on which nprently everything has beeii fore seen and nothing overlooked that puts the punch into the French sledgeham mer blows. . . I fir.it vinited one of the eiiht ran I -- ". .. . . nition and material depots estauiisiieu last May miles behind the line. The II STOP RUSSIANS AS WELL ITALIANS Austrian Reinforcements Check Cardona's Advance Toward Trieste HOT COUNTER ATTACKS BRING SLAVS TO A HALT On the Somme Both British and French Make Gains, Though Slight London, Aug. 17. Strong Austro-Ger-mau counter attacks have halted the Russian and Italian offensives tempo rarily, though the great battle of the Somme continues to progress favorably for the allies. . For the first time in more than a fort night, the official statement from the Russian war office today recorded no further gains. Petrograd dispatches carried the admislson that enemy coun ter attacks have checked General Brusi lo'ff 's armies. The German war office reported not only tho repulse of all Rus sian attacks but the capture of a dom inating height In the Carpathians. The arrival of Austrian reinforce ments and the necessity of straighten ing out the Italian front have halted General Cadorna's march southward against Trieste. Officinl dispatches from the German, French and British war offices regarding the outcome of severe fighting on the Somme front vesterday and Inst night contained sharp contradictions. The Germans ad mitted the loss of COO yards of first line trenches to the French south of the Somme, but announced that both the British and French wero driven out of trenches they penetrated north of the river. General Haig in his first report on yesterday's fighting ' on the Som me front, announced the capture not only of positions around Giiilleinont, of ficially reported from Paris last night, but also the taking of 300 yards of Ger man trenches. The French war office reported violent artillery struggles on the Somme front last night, but said the Germans mado no attempt to re conquer positions captured by the al lies yesterday. Similar contradictious are contained in official reports regarding recent op erations in the Balkans. A delayed Bul garian official statement today claimed the repubie of strouir French attacks "tending along a wide front, while the French wnr offico announced successes iu a number of local operations. Reports Conflicting. Berlin, Aug. 17. The Germans drove back Anglo-French troops who succeed ed iu penetrating positions west of Four eaux wood and south of Maurepas, in flicting heavy lussea upon the allies, it was officially announced this after noon. It was admitted that the Freuch ob tained a foothold in German first line trenches to a width of flOO yards near Belloy tn Santerre. Near Kstrees the French were repulsed. (The French wnr office last night ; claimed gains on a front of nearly three depot covers a square miln into which Frauce's northwesters network of rail ways daily pour materials coining from all parts of the world. A Flood of Munitions Tf ' the French offensive has carried terrible destruction in advance of the armies, it has wrought equally incred ible progress iu the rear. The eiifht i munition ileots have been connected with the battle front by a veritable t mystic maze of railways of both broad j and narrow gunge. In peace times it i would have required a years work to construct them. Approaching the bat tle front these lines converge even thicker, and even more intrirutely. So perfected is this railway system that each of the eight depots ran pour out upon the Somme battle front its entire square nnir miie or munitions ana ma terial every 3(1 hours. On other escrially constructed mil ways, all of broad gutigo, gnus are be ing carried to the fiout. France does not tacK ueavy artillery on ine rumm t . i. i. . li.... ..... 4 - I I : . : . ITUIIb UUV IB IIIUnillK I'UIiniUHfr nuillklllUB (Continued oa Pact 8lx.) AUSTRO GERMANS Trying to Save Girl Soldier Is Killed Brownsville, Texas, Aug. 17. James Clement, a corporal in Company C, Sec ond Virginia infantry, was dead today because he tried to save the honor of Sofia Valdez, a Mexican girl. Carl Duncb.es, quartermaster corporal, is alleged to have attempted to assault the girl last night. Clement, hearing her screams, rushed to her assistance. He was shot and instantly killed by Dunches who then shot and probably fatally wounded the girl. Dunches was chased two miles by a posse but eludefl them. He later appear ed at the county jail and surrendered. Clement lived in Warrentown, Va., and was married. E AND TWO ARE DEAD Woman and Man Shot In Jealous Rage in Seattle by Frank Young Seattle, Wash., Aug. 17. Detectives were searching near the university dis trict today for Frank ioung, who shot and killed Miss Martini Antoue and Jack Collinson in a jealous rage near rovidence hospital here at ! o'clock last night. They believe he took his own life after the tragedy. The woman died at - ovidence hos pital at 4:20 oVIock this morning, but Collinson, said to be her husband, with three bullets in his back died a few minutes after he had been removed from the street where the shooting occurred. Young, kuown as Frank Voa Do II Vila, It) months ago when he ran a rooming house at Vancouver, li. C, wished his rival "good luck " a few hours before he killed Collinson. The pair had come down from British Columbia at the request of Young who was suffering from a nervous break down in Providence hospital. Yesterday afte-inoon the thtee went walking together1 and agreed to . go to a moving picture show last night. At 7:40 p. m. Young received a tel enhone call from the woman and slam med the receiver. Nurses noted he was crying. Ten 'minutes Inter he left the hos nital. At tf o clock six shots were heard across the street from the hos pital. Collinson. iust before he died said: "Von lo Hyda shot me, he pulled a un didn t say anytniug just suot Family trouble." He died a few minutes later. ATTACK GERARD Claim English Censors Made Public Correspondence Putting Him In Bad Berlin, Aug. 17. A vigorous attack oa Ambassador Gerard was made today by the Berlin Morgeupost and the Col lege Gazette, the inf liiciitinl Herman newspapers lor the attitude toward the Gorman censorship he is alleged to have displaved in a confidential com munication to the state department American correspondents iu Berlin recently handed to the ambassador a protest against British censorship of cable dispatches and mail mutter tboy had sent to the Tinted States. Tbey pointcd out that the British censor badly mutilated many of their dis patches and that a large per cciilnge of their mail stories failed to reach America at ail. In transmitting the report to the state department, Ambassador Gernril is reported to have sent along a confi dential note, recommending that no ac tion lie taken by the American gov ernment unless Germany removed the c-c:iHor.-hi) on news sent to America. How this alleged confidential note be came public property is not known, but the contents of the message soon be came known, in newspaper circles. "The American government and its organs already have endured many brutal British infringements. " said the Morgeupost. " Kven Americans re proach their officials. They have de graded themselves by giving up their neutrality and honor as accomplices of Knglnnd, so it is presumable that they will also endure this infringement and the attitude of their ambassador, whereby tho British infringement is supported. "We doubt whether the German for eign office will be satisfied with Ge rard's conduct. We iioe the govern ment will find mesns to correct his strange attitude. The German censor ship does nut concern him ami he has no right to criticise measures necessary for the ssfcty of German interests." The Cologne Gazette cdituxial was in similar vein. A Vermont inventor has patented blankets for rattle that cannot be dis lodged by auimals rolling. WILSON CALLS Oil BIG OFFICIALS TO Men Say They Are Prepared to Accept What President Thinks Is Fair CHICAGO NEWSPAPER WANTS STRIKE TO COME Railroads Refuse to Accept Eight Hour DayLooks Like a Deadlock PRESIDENT TALKS PLAINLY Washington, Aug. 17. Presi den Wilson concluded his appeal to the 040 representatives of the brotherhoods at 4 o'clock, having talked to them just one hour. The president told the meu he wanted quick action on his pro posals. He said the people of the country, for whom ho was speaking, were impatient to know the result. He said he would havo to tell the people what he proposed and what both sides replied. If an agreeraeut was impossible, he said, he would be forced to tell nlso what he thought of each side for failing. By Robert J. Bender. (United Press staff correspondent.) Washington, Aug. 17. An eight hour day at once with the present 10 hours' pay and the investigation of overtime pay and other collateral Issues by a com mission appointed by himself was Bug gested by President Wilson this after noon to the 640 representative of the railroad brotherhoods as a means of averting the threatened general strike. The men adjourned to talk It over among themselves tonight, declining the president's suggestion that they use the East room where he had addressed them to ballot on the proposal. However, prominent men among the brotherhood represtntatives indicated strongly as they left the White House that the president's plan is acceptable. Washington, Aug. 17. The first of the 040 members of the railroad broth erhood general committee begnu filing into the Fast entrance of the White House at 2:45 this afternoon. A large crowd witnessed their arrival. Although A. B. Garretson of the sub committee had a copy of the presi dent's proposal 10 lines in length, written on White House stationery by the president himself none of the gen eral committee had read it. I.ee, Gar ter and Stone of the sub-committee had duplicates. It was not discussed, it was declared nt the meeting of tho general committee at the Bijou theatre, which lasted from 1 o'clock until 2. "The president hiaiself is to present it, " said I.ee. As the men passed through the doors, Garretson, I.ee, Carter and Stone identi fied each, to muke certain none hut members of the genernl committee gaia ed admission. The lust man wus inside by 3 o'clock. I.ntcr leaders of tho men announced privately that President Wilson's pro posal is primarily for an eight hour day with postponement of less impor tant matters until Inter. The men went into caucus after leaving the White House and lenders predicted they would overwhelmingly accept the plan. Wilson's proposals were characterized us following substantially the line of discussion in the press tho past few days, though the United Press informant indicated that both punitive overtime and pro rata overtime was suggested for luter disposition. The president's proposition was very short and what he read embodied the granting of the eight hour day immedi ately and the creation of a commission by the president to be given full pow ers of investigation of orln un uiiiin crs of investiirntion by congress. The commission would devote itself only to investigation of the collateral issues, in volved in the application of the eight hour day to railroad operation, it was stated on high authority, , After making his statement the presi dent o'ffered the men the service of the Kast room for balloting Wut they decid ed it would be better to adjouru to their hall. An Apparent Deadlock. Washington, Aug. 17 Reaching what apparently was a deadlock in the at tempted settlement of tho threatened strike on the railroads, President Wil son todny sent a telegram to the presi- .lunt nt tliA (rrent rnilrnnd si-stems of the country, asking that they come to Washington ntuce lor a conference (Continued oa Fago Two.). CONFER WITH Will Not Pay More But Get Less Bread San Francisco, Aug.17. With the price ot wheat and flour ascending, residents of the bay cities may not be forced to pay an extra price for a uickel loaf of bread, but the -bakers may slice their loaves down to the legal minimum. A meeting of the lo cal branches of the California Bakers association will be held here Tuesday to consider the situation. A city ordinance prescribes twelve ounces as the minimum weight of a nickel loaf. IT Hard Hearted Prosecutor Shows Weaknesses of the Archbishop San Francisco, Aug. 17. Tho attor neys for the defense in the case of "Dr." Newo Newi New must prove that he wore corsets and women's stockings or admit that tho "arch bishop of the New Thought church" did not live up to his celibacy teach ings, as the result of testimony offered by the government in Federal Judge Pooling's court today where New is charged with misuse of the mails. Witnesses testified that in the raid made on the New aaprtmcnt, a wo man's corset, stockings and lingerie were found on a chair beside his bed while Mrs. Marie Tully Graham, "bisohess'' under arrest with him, was hiding in the kitchen. The witnesses also testified that a tuft of woman's hair was found on the New thoughtist's bureau, While this testimony was being given, "Dr." New blushed deeply. Starts Rumor It Is Deutsch- land or Bremen, But Noth ing In It New York, Aug. 17. A captured German submarine lushed to the side of a British cruiser was brought Into the English port of Deal while the Cunard liner Alaunin was being de tained there, tho Alauniu s passengers reported on her arrival here today. A British destroyer with a heavy list, and evidently badly battered by shell fire from the U boat was brought into port at the sume time. The sub marine was a large one, but passengers of the Alnuifla. scouted the possibility that she might have been tho Deutsch laud or Bremen, pointing out that neither of these under sea vessels is armed. Thero was no demonstration at Deal as the captive submarine entered port, except aboard the Alaunin. ione or the passengers learned any details of tho action, the Alaunia sailing im mediately afterward. Market Was Bullish and Trading Brisk Voit- Vnrk. Anir 17. TIia New York Kvening Sun financinl review today said: Improvement In prices which started with the opening trnnsnctions was fair ly well sustained throughout the day. .sentiment in the financial district was decidedly bullish with its chief mani festation in the I'nited States Steel and other steel shares, in some of the not, t.ora in ttin Til t Cr llfl t ioMl 1 MerCOH- tilo Marines and Reading, which found new buvers on the advance and wnicn under tieavv nrofit taking refused to seek materially lower levels. U',,11 uirmt nlnceil various internre- tntions upon President Wilson's invita ti,, hi ml that, the executive head's of the country's railroads meet him iu conference to supplement iWi.m-en nlrcHilv held with the man agers and worker's but it apparently whs unwilling to test any or us con elusions ns stock market arguments, it preferred to lrhve the rails much to themselves for the time being, devoting most of its attention to tne inuusiriuis and murines. Further profit taking was reported us the session progressed in the after- . ...i.u .i..i;.,... however cenernllv IIUI'U TtH" .........a - - w - small and offerings well absorbed. In certain parts of the maraei weaa poi developed, due t special cmim In some of the more active issues this afternoon declines from the early high points ran from substantial frac tions to a point or more. Hentiment in the main continued bullish, although there apfenred to be a decided disposi tion on the part of the speculutice ele ment to proceed with great caution. """ Apparatus to sterilize air and medi cate for the use of invalids has been in veuted by a Pittsburg man. HUGHES01IVAYTO CALIFORNIA GETS WHOLE DAY'S BEST Spoke at Portland Last Night Largely About the Philippines "E SCORED THE DEMOCRATS ON TARIFF ATTITUDE Anxious to See Empire of Alaska Opened Right and to Help Do It By Perry Arnold. . (United Press staff correspondent.) Boseburg, Ore., Aug. 17. Charles E. Hughes,, republican presidential candi date, today took then biggest jump in his transcontinental' trip. He was en route from Portland to Han Francisco, with only one Btop of more than a few minutes scheduled for the day, at Shasta. Springs tonight. Three or four points wero scheduled to' hear the ; candidate for a bare three or four minutes, but no formal speeches had been arranged, not even at Shasta Mpriugs. A day of almost solid comfort was in prospect for Hughes. Solid comfort, b it . known, in the governor's opinion, consists in a place to stretch out and time in which to rest his mind by read ing hair raising detective stories, dime novels, to be exact. It is only a trifle less restful to road heavy historical es says, Carl D. iiheppard, Hughes' personal representative, went out in Portland Inst night and raided tho news stands for sufficiently thrilling litornture, as cumulating oue of the largest libraries of lurid detective narartives ever as sembled. But stuck away in this pile of paper bound volumes was a copy of "The Rise and Fall of the Romau Em pire" from the Hughes library. Worried Oyed Philippines. . In his speech nt the Ice rink in Port land last night, the candidate delivered another broadside at the demo cratic policies, concentrating his fire particulnrly on the Philippines situa- ' tion. He declared that the United States undertook to govern the islands properly and that "we assumed obligsv tioas there which we are bound to dis charge." "Wo ought not to consider the sug gestion of scuttling out of the Philip pines," ho said, "to leave them in the predicament which you know ver'eetly well without my describing it. Hughes again made a pronouncement on the tar iff and attacked the administration's nttitude. Asserting that the democratic party has opposed real progress, he said: ' "If I were a member of that party, and lookeil through the platforms of the past, I should feel that I was going through a cemetery richly embellished with monuments." He declared that he wanted to see the "empire of Alaska" developed right. "If I am charged with the high of 'f ice for which I am a candidate," he concluded, "to put my principles to the test, I am not afraid of that test. I have no ambition to hold high office, but I havo an ambition to try, so far as within mo lies, to have efficient American government." The candidate 's train was scheduled for brief stops at Grants Pass, Medford and Ashland during the day, in. addition to the stop here, Island Two Years Old Has Again Disappeared San Francisco, Aug. 17. As strangtly as it npcpnred out of the waters of the south Pacific two years ago the Island Inf Nii.jini of the Bonini group, wluoa jlies 700 miles off the Japanese coast, 1 has disappeared. This was the report to the naval and I geodetic survey offices here by of ficers of the Jupancse steamer jvijw Mnru. Nujiui appeared in 1PH following a volcanic eruption. According to the report, the island has appareatly re turned to ocean bottom, and where it formerly was located is now a wide circle of yellow water. THE WEATHER Oregon: .To night and Friday probably fair west, showers to night or Friday east portion; westerly winds. WOULD GET 1 iff
