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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
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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
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(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