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ft . - l . FULL LEASED WIRE DISPATCHES , CIRCULATION IS OVER 4000 DAILY ' . v Villi- T I I I I . II. . . : I 1 1 J5 - . -I L. II sT 1 1 1 I . . . - '11 .- T'J.- .... TTTT.. pptfip mrnr, ncwTg 9 P"P QTHIRTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 190 SALEM, OKttUUM, MU-NlJAi, stirmMCK ii, imo "" "'" standb- CAPITAL DETERMINED TO DESTROY UNIONISM Attempt Made by New York Traction Companies Is Said To : Be First Move In Industrial War-Financial Interests Use - Companies As Means of Starting FightGompers Recom mends Strike That Will Call Out 800,000 Workers in New York City lsjJYork, Sept. 11. The attempt of the New York Traction" companies to crush unionism is the first direct result of the eight hour legislation passed by congress to prevent a railroad strike, a statement from the Amalga mated Association of Carmen charged today. "Capital does not intend that this legislation shall even go-on the statute books," the statement declared. "The New York traction companies are backed by the most powerful aggregation of capital in the world. The same financial interests back the railroads of the coun try. This attempt to crush unionism is the first in a great fight by capital against organized labor that it may not realize the results of a twenty five year fight won by the eieht hour bill passed by congress." Samuel Gompers, head of the American Federation of Labor, was closeted in his rooms at the Continental notel tddav with union leaders of the city. ' Plans for a general sympathetic strike which would call out 800,000 workers and paralyze the city were still under discussion today. The Central committee repre senting the Central Labor Federation of Greater New York, the Brooklyn Central Labor Union, the New York State Federation of Labor and the American Federation of Labor was to hold hold its first conference at 2 o'clock. This committee has in its power the organization of the proposed general strike. Wheat Takes a Drop In Chicago Market Chicago, Sept. Strong selling pressure halted a sharp rally in wheat prices after a steady opening today. The market scored fractional gains a few minutes after the start but drop ped when bears threw considerable wheat ou the market. September was down below the opening l'-j at $1.51 December down half at $1.53 and May down half at 1.53. An over bought market condition with favorable reports from Iowa and lllionis tumbled corn values from 5-8 to two cents. September was down, two nt 85 3-4, December down lMi at 72 1-8 and May down 7-H at 75 5-8. Oats opened' lower and continued downward on weakness in other grains September was down 1 5-8 nt 45 1-8, December down 1 at 47 7-8 and May down 1 1-8 at 50. Provisions were lower in sympathy with a weak hog ninrkot. MAINE ELECTION HA POLITICIAN S ON ANXIOUS SEAT E TO BRITISH BLACKLIST At Great Demonstration Re taliatory Legislation Is Demanded Republicans Claim Vote Will Be Big and Their Majority 15.000 DEMOCRATS CLAIM THEY . WILL CARRY IT BY 3,000 Taft-Roosevelt Vote in 1912 Greater Than Wilson's by 23,925 New York, Sept. 11. An order re commending a general strike of New York's 800,000 trade unionists, in sym pathy with the transit strike which to session. The recommendation of the confer ences held by leaders last night will go to tho individual bodies and it was ilfiv affected New York. Bronx and said it would take several days to get jeens counties, went out to the union j the proposed sympathetic strike under beads today. way. ' heaving the night session of union I While surfnce lines are practically at two tinura linfnre it closed. Sainu-1 a standstill the strikers are today ninK l Goinners, president of the American j ing an nppeaMo the public to refrain federation of Labor recommended that! from using surface, subway and elevat By Charles P. Stewart .(United Press staff correspondent) Beunos Aires, Sept. 11. The great est demonstration against the new British blacklist staged in any country attracted an immense crowd at the Plaza Conereso Sunday afternoon. The plaza was. packed. Ten politic al and patriotic organizations partici pated in the demonstration, but their members were outnumbered by the great throng of business men and their employes who garnered to protest a gainst the blacklist. The speakers included some or in most prominent politicians ana proies sional men in the Argentine capital. Thev accused the Kntish of attempt ina- to break down tne wnoio structure of international law and declared that no neutral nation should submit to tue throttling of its own trade by any bel liferent. The retaliatory legislation passed dj the United States congress has greatly strengthened the hand of the opponents of the British blacklist Here, in ue manding anti-blacklist legislation at the Sunday demonstration, severai speakers referred to the stand taken lv tiie United States. . The meeting was advertised by pln cardB scattered throughout the city union members give the striking car men "financial and moral support." The union heads recommended a gen eral strike with which action they clnimed Uompors was in complete sym pathy. The union committee which will direct the proposed general strike, op ened headquarters and will be in daily ed lilies upon which strikes are in pro gress, Police reports todav showed that in the Inst 24 hours, thirty two persons were injured in the strike district. Moro than a score of arrests were made and among them were three wo men, charged with inciting to riot. TRIED TO BEAT TRAIN ARE MfflE MORGUE Could Not Wait for Train to Pass, Three Are Dead and Fourth Dying I.ovcland, Colo., Sept. 11. Three persons are dead and a fourth victim is dying today as the result of one of the worst automobile accidents that ver occurred in this region. The auto mobile party of four, consisting of Mr. Hiid Mrs. Juinca L. Hedelson and Mrs. Olara Jones of Loveland and Mrs. DEMOCRATS DO NOT EXPECT TO CABBY MAINE New York', Sept. 11. While the ballots are being cast in Maine todaV, leaders at both the national political headquar ters here are holding their breath and waiting. Medill Mct'onnick of Chica go brought word of a "sure re publican victory" from Maine to republican headquarters trf dny. Vance - McCormick, democrat ic chairman admitted he "hard ly expected a democratic vic tory." He added, however, "of course it isn't as though they were voting for President Wilson directly today." resident to Visit SisterWho Is 111 By Robert J. Bender (United Tress staff correspondent) Long Branch, N. J., Sept. 11. Pres ident Wilson, accompanied by Mrs. Wilson and Secretary Tumulty, left the summer white houso at 9 a. m. today for New London, Conn., where the pres ident's only sister, Mrs. Annie E. ItawA is seriouslv ill. The trip to New York was made by motor. The president planned to catch a one o'clock train for New Lon don. He has cancelled all engagements for the next few days and his stay will bo indefinite. The president and Mrs. Howe were always greatly devoted to each other. Before his marriage to Mrs. uait, Mrs. Howe spent much of her time with President Wilson, paying frequent vis its to the white house. She was with im at Cornish, N. II., last summer. BATTLE OF BREAD FOUGHT IN VILLAGE Enemies Meet While Raiding Bakery, No Trouble While Bread Lasted Hedelson driving the machine, at tempted to cross the Colorado i- South em railroad tracks ahead of a speed ing southbound passenger train. The ear was struck squarely in the center. Mrs. Lent, fatally injured, was thrown to ono sido and the other throe re maining in the automobile and rolled over and over under the engine pilot, were instantly killed and their bodies mangled almost beyondrecognition. liailroad employes worked desperate ly for over an hour before the bodies were removed from under the engine. Prices Go Higher On Very Active Market MAY CALL STRIKE TODAY Kansas City, Mo., Sept. 11. A strike of the miners of the southwest may bo called today. Formal demand that the oper ators accept the new biennial wage contract as proposed by the union miners will be niado today at a joint conference here. Refusal will be met with a strike order effective nt six p. m., according to announcement bv the miners. By Perry Arnold (United Press staff correspondent) Boston, Mass., Sept. 11. Judged from New England's Hub here this af ternoon in the light of fragmentary word from all sections of -Maine, tb Pine Tree stato today will break a records in the number of votes cast at the election which may point the way to the national vote in November, Both democratic and republican lead n nt AiKTiiatn frnilflv declared theil belief that the total Vote Maine cast in 188014.1.000 would be exceeded to dnv. Splendid weather prevailed. The fact that a record, voto is ex pectcd, is also likely to delay securing complete returns. : j ne iuci was i-m nhnsized at botii headquarters in An iiiHin today that ureliniiuarv return might be deceptive and should not be accepted as indicative or tne miui r- suit. Both Sides Claim It. Boston. Alnss., Sept. 11. "Wa down east" took tho center of the n tionnl political stnge today. Mainewaa exercising her proun privilege of exhibiting a line on ho tho nation feels as to democracy nu republicanism. The rock ribbed com mnnwealth's voters were ensting bal (Continued on Psae Sir.) New York, Sept. 11. The New York Evening finnncint review today says: Although the volume of realizing was enormous in today s operations, tue Quebec, Sept. 11. Twenty- live men market's capacity for taking stocks were plunged to their death when the 'central span of the big $17,000,000 Tulia A. Lent of Eureka, Kansas, were Le de dine when recorded i cantilever Quebec bridge over the St. beino confined as a rule within narrow Lawrence river collapsed today just as limits while in the best part of the was being swung ...to plu.e, mar : session the general tendency wns in the 'B what would have been the final work direction of higher levels with marked n " f '? 8r,('st Wigmeer.ng feats BRIDGE SPAN BREAKS WHILE BEING HOISTED INTO PLACE; 25 KILLED returning from a mountain trip last night. At the outskirts of the city i i . improvement recorded nt times by many issues. In the last hour strength was report ed throughout with steel common mov ing to a new high recoru. Commission houses report buying by outsid rs of large financial resources. Big m-rgius huve been prov'ded, while in many instances heavy amounts of stock nave been taken out of the mar ket ou actual eash purchases. The lat ter movement has been pronounced iu United States Steel common and to a small extent in the preferred which of fer prime investment opportunity with out a return at its present level. Lac knwana Steel is being taken on divi dend expectations. ' I Attempt to Have Bear Prove Failure Again Eureka, Cnl.. Sept. 11. AU attempts made Saturday and Sunday nights to move the steamer Bear from the reef on which she went last June failed, 7r. Pinky Kerr is siowiy recoverin . according to announcement uere iuju. Tugs will continue the effort, oowever. from his vacation. Miss Germ Williams will address th' Equal Suffrage I.ea U'ie t' night On "Th Brotherhood o Women. A girl never truly loves a man if she admits that he has faults. in the world. Thousands of persons who had come to witness the spectacle of the completion of the bridge, including cabinet and parliament members and engineers saw the accident. First reports were that the entire force of 90 men who were on the bridge had perished. The Si. Lawrence Bridge company, contractors for the structure announced, however, that their lnteat estimate showed 25 to have been killed. Only five or six survivors of those who were plunged into, the river were picked up. The big span which buckled and then collapsed weiuhed 5000 tons. It was floated down on barges, while thousands in boats of every description and massed on shore, cheered. Steam boat whistles were tooting and the en thusiasm of the great crowd was at its height when the accident occurred. The span had been hoisted but rirteen reet when one corner of the span was seen to be higher than the other. The sup uorting jack on the lower end then gave way, the span broke in the cen ter and "with steel rirders snapping with reports like rifle shots, the struc ture plunged into the wnter. The crowds looked on, dumb with amazement as the great steisl span dived out of sight. GARIA HAS RETAKEN MUCH LOST TERTRI Claim That Since Rumania Declared War They Have Takea From Her Practically All the Towns Which In Last Balkan War They Were Forced by Treaty to Surrender to Ru maniansBritish Capture Some Trenches and French Make Gains On Somme Front By Carl W. Ackennan (United Press staff correspondent) At tho Herman front, near Kovel, Rnssiu, August M (By mail) me great "battle of bread" has just Deen fought at the village of Zwiniueze be tween Russian, German and Austrian troops with tho honors about even. The Uermans enptured , awuum-ir. brought up their army bakery and Had list turned out Hf.oiiu loaves wiieu they were forced to retire. Ihe regi ment on their left flnnk had" failed to advance and tho retirement at Zwiu- UC7.0 wna necessary to straighten tne ines. ' The Germans entrenched a few nun dred yards on one side of the village Tiie Russians entrenched aoout tue time distance on the other side. A group of Germans slipped mm Zwiniueze and started back wittt an th hrend thev coii il carry. Tho Kus sians saw the'm but instead of firing slipped out of their trenches for a rnid on the DBKery. ine sunrmi" lumped iii and for a few minutes mis- sinus. - uermans ana iminii uici v the army bakery with their arms too full of bread to tignt. But. when the supply began to run low some one drew a knife. The bat tle was on in an instant with botn i-iiHhinir un reint'orceraents. Be fn.A It. ended the Bround aboYit the hnkerv was strewn with the bodies of dead Russians, Austrians and Germans. some of tnem sun cmu-unm iuru "- es of bread. BeHin, Sept. 11. More than a third of the territory taken from Bulgaria by the Rumanians at the close of the second Balkan war has been reconquered by the German Bulgarian forces. The Rumanians and Russians are again in retreat to ward the Danube abandoning still more positions east and southeast of the fortress of Sijistra, said Budapest dis patches today. In a little more than a week the combined German Bulgarian forces have captured far more Rumanian ter ritory than the allies have been able to take 01 uerman territory since the beginning ol tne war. lwo Rumanian fortresses, Tutrakan and Silistra, have fallen to the in vaders. The Rumanian and Russion prisoners now total more than thirty thousand. Large captures of guns has seriously affected the Rumanian artillery supply. The capture of Silistra, officially announced yesteraay afternoon, is expected to cause the early withdrawal of the Russo-Rumaman forces still operating near Lrobnc, in southeastern Rumania. The force that occupied Silis tra is advancing eastward while a Bulgarian army con tinues to move northward along the Black sea coast. The pnemv alreadv is in a deen Docket and an eastward ad vance of twenty miles because Germans will make hist withdrawal difficult. ....... Whether the German-Bulgarian advance marks the beginning of a real drive on Bucharest, newspaper critics here confess they are unable, to decide, in some quarters, it is believed the Germans plan to drive the Russians and Rumanians behind the Danube and the Constanza rail way and throw up strong defensive lines to check a Russo'-' Rumanian march on Bulgaria. The Budapest newspaper Az Est declares that the Bulgarians have now conquered practically all the towns which they were forced by the treaty of Bucharest to surrender to the Rumanians. Thanksgiving services are being held throughout Bulgaria because of the victories over the Rumanians and Russians. OF U. S. District Attorney to Question 25 Chicago Bak ers About It It carried with it a smull portion tho south cantilever arm. Four or fi men working on top of the span we hurled into the vater. The rt'Jt we carried down. The fleet of launches and tugs lurried forward but succeed' in rescuing few. The bii; snnn sank in two iiunoreu feet of water disappearing complete In 1907 a section of the bridge co laps- d es it was nearing completio killinir seventy-five men. Arrangements have been made to sen divers down to ascertain if it will possible to raise the span and also find if the channel has been blocked. Government ministers, eminent en gineers aud especially invited guests from all over the world were to wit ness the feat of placing the span. A special train with twenty injured men from the bridge arrived here courtly after noon. They were taken to the Jeffrey Hale hospital. Chief Kngineer McMillan was on the central span when it fell and was badly injured. He was rescued by a tug ana wus brought nere ror treatment. It is now stuted toat twenty-seven men were killed, a number of them being indians from the Cagnawa reser vation. Among the known dead is Kdward Jordanais, aged 22, of Providence, K. I. Before leaing his boarding house last night to go to the bridge he said with a smile: "Say boys, lei 's all join in a song. It Chicago, Hept. 11. Pour investiga tions into the proposed increased price of bread were planned here today. . Assistant United Ktntes district at torney Joseph Fleming was prepared to conduct an examination of breadnuik ers and twenty five Chicago bakers, it was said, would be quizzed. President M I.' MeDrinnld of the Association of Mnsl'nr Bakers, has volunteered to give the government all possible informa tion rlnive to cost of material. Mimilnv fiction is planned by the wtntf.ii nttnriievs office. At the office ot the city scaler, n was stated n force of inspectors will be scattered throughout the city to urge housewives to weigh the bread. It is planned to introduce n resolution nt the next meeting of the city council, UHking that municipal inquiry be made into bread costs. Meanwhile three women's organiza tions, were planning an inquiry of their own. By Ed L. Keen. (United Press Htnff Correspondent.) British Active In Balkans. London, Wept. 11. Tho allies have taken the offensive on both wings in the Balkans. The British fortcd a crossing of tho River Strunn under heavy fire and begun an attack on the Bulgarian (left wing. The french war otfice wired this afternoon that tne crossing waB mado t Orljax about 42 miles uorci east of Salonika. The British are at tucking the towns of Nivolgen und Kn radjcqueil and hcuvy lighting is going on. On the allied left wing the Serbians pressed forward, driving tho Bulgers out of the vilnges of ttinboria and Pa kescliori, Serbiuu artillery also forced the Bulgnrs to retire near Fiorina, Heavy fighting is goini on both north and south of the Somme w here the Uermans lust night luunched seven at tacks against the newly captured Brit ish and French pos.. ons. Tho Uermun war oifice this afternoon admitted the losu of trenches between Uinchy anu Coiubles but declared that the struggle for Uinchy, whose capture wus announc ed by Ueneial Haig Saturday night con tinues. South of the Somme the (iermnns claim the recapture of a few houses in the village of Berny'from the French The Freuch war- office, however, report ed the repulse of five Herman attacks. Ou the Russian front and in south eastern It u inn n iu no important changes have occurred iu the past twenty-four hours. Mouqet farm, but wero driven back. Otherwiso there wero no important op erations on the Somme battle front. Between Neuville St. Vaast and the Lnbasseo canal the British entered en emy trenches at several points, taking a number of prisoners. Germans Admit Lobs Berlin, Sept. 11 Loss of advanced trenches to the British betweon Uinchy and Combles in a furious battle wa admitted by the war office this after noon. Fighting for possession of tho village fif (iiiichv continues. South of the Somme a few houses in the villago of Berny have beeu cap tured from the French. Russians Press Ahead Petrogrud, Sept. 41 Russian troop huve occupied Bannn, on tho Caucasus front, it was officially announced to 'ly. Oreek Cabinet Accepts. Athens, Sept. 11. Tho Oreek cabi not accepted the new conditions impos edby the allies, regarding the mainten ance of order, it was announced to day. The reservist league's headquarter in in Piraeus and Atheus have been closed. Tre -Greek prefects huve been ordered to close tho provincial reser vist centers. - AN EXFEKT ur.niun ON LOVE AND KISSING (Continued oa Pa Twi. New York, Sept. 11. Love is only a chemical reaction; you can get the sTime sensation by stroking cat. ' Dr. A. A. Lindsay, expert psyhopathist, passes this tip out to a world of lovers while the moon is still full. "There is nothing in this so called love; that is, really noth ing but the thrill of physical contnet, as for Instance in kiss ing, " said Dr. Lindsay. "Af ter you have kissed the same girl many times' the thrill goes out of the kiss. Then you or the girl discover that love nevr existed between you." i British Begin Offensive Paris, Sept. 11. ISriiish troops have taken the offensive in the Haitians, it was officially announced here today. The British crossed the Struma river at C'rljax ami attacked the Bulgarian at Nivulgeu and Karadjaquoil. Heavy fighting is going on. French Repulse Attack Paris, Sept. 11. The Uermans laun ched five attacks against the French lines south of the Somme between Ber ny and a point south of t nuuines last night, using liquid fire. The war of-1 fice announced that all these attacks were checked by artillery fire, tho Germans losing heavily. British Make Gains T.nn.lnn. Sept. 11. Two German tor attacks last niifht asainst the village of Uinchy, raptured by Irish reuimonts Saturday were driven off, General Haig reported this afteruooiul Tue Germans also attacked near! Antl-AUy Demonstration. Rome. Sent. 11. A great anti-ally demonstration occurred iu Athena whilu the English and French ministers were in conference with the Oreek cabinet, according to dispatches received here today. A mob feariag that the entente min- (Ceationed on Page Five.) THE WEATHER r m THEV ARE I CALLING THESE) Oregon: Tonight, fair, frost east portion; Tuesday warmer south ami east port io ns; northerly winds.