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QPHD1TY-NINTH YEAR NO. 218
SALEM, OREGON, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 13, 1916
PRICE TWO CENTS
DEAD
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OF
Car On Way From Silvertc
and On Wrong Side Of;
Road Cause j.
MATLOCK
AND OTHERS
nun
COLLISION
AUTO
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EACH TURNED OUT AND
CARS CRASHED HEAD ON
Mrs.LL Weeks Hurt, and
Others In Car Badly
Bruised and Cut --'
Her head crushed in and her right
cheek deeply cut, Mrs. Matlock, wife
of C. M. Matlock who was formerly on
the Salem police force, lies dead in
oroner plough's office ns the result
o" a head on collision in a dense IV;
about S:30 o'clock between a Ford
automobile belonging to llloyd K.
Vecks and a Chalmers car belonging
to Julius Aim,-t)f Liberty Hill, Silver
f ton, this morning about one mile east
-4f Doe's fairgrounds store on the Sil-vi-rton
road.
Mrs. L. K. Weeks, who was driving
the car, received bad sculp cuts, and
bud her hips and shoulders bruised and
sprained. Mrs. Archie Matlock, Jr.,
Ii"r two children eight yenrs old and a
baby about two years of age were also
ladly cut and bruised. The baby had'
its face lacerated and its chin cut open !
Sirs. Maggie Ivy, proprietor of the'
Capital hotel, received severe bruises'
and cuts, and is at her home in the
Capital Hotel.
li( the Chalmers machine were Chris
tian, Aim, Miss -Scott, a Mr. Swan and
n young lady whose name could not bo
. nwertained. J. M. Brown, of SilveMou, i
witnessed the accident and Dr. -Morse
was the first physician on the scene
to give medical aid. The injured were
taken to the Snlem hospital, where Drs.
Morse, Hyrd and (Miles atteuded to
their injuries.
With Mrs'. Lloyd K Weeks nt the
wheel, tho Ford machine was driving
etiBt on the right hand side of the Sil
verton road between twelve and fifteen
miles per hour when the big Chalmers
our dashed out of the fog at a speed
.&iil to be about. forty miles per hour.
Christian Aim was at the wheel of the
Chalmers, which was on the left side
of the road and proceeding west on
the Silvertou road.
The machines met with a crash as
b'jth turned toward the north side of
the road to avoid a collision. The Chal
mers tore into the.rndintor of the Ford
and drugged it twenty-five paces until
a Page wire fence stopped it. When
the machines stoped they were resting
tide by side and headed north with
their noses against the wire fence.
The body of Mrs. Mntlnek, crushed
and bleeding, was taken from under the
rear wheels of the Chalmer'g eur. The
others of the Ford car party were pick
ed up between the cars and on the op
posite side. Some of the Ford party
was hurled through 'the car's wind
s-liield, and some one in the Chulmer's
- ear was hurled through their wind
shield. Tho back of the front seat of
the Ford car was caved in like it had
been struck a hard blow.
; All testimony this- morning shows
the Chalmers cur was on the wrong
jidc of the loud and it appears that
Ms. Weeks when she saw the big ma
bine dashing out of the fog and bear
ing down on her at top seed, turned
t(. the left just as the driver of the
Chalmers turned to the right nnd tho
- rats met in the center of the road, the
left front wheel of tho big car tearing
into the Ford's rndintor and dragging
it along. The Chalmers front wheel
(Continued on page six.)
Lven carrots are gettiu' in on our
prosperity, 'talk is cheap or some
folks would be broke all th' time.
.
FRIDAY OCTOBER 13TH
VITH THE CANDIDATES
3
Republican Charles Evans
Hughes campaigning in Missou
ri. Will deliver set speeches at
Sprngfield and Joplin.
-Democrat President Wilson
en route to Summer capital at
Shadow Lawn from Indianapo
lis. Due at Shadow Lawn, at 2
p. m.
Prohibition J. Frank Hanly
and Dr. Ira Landrith, with pro
hibition special, campaigning
through Southern Illinois and
Indiana, ending with a night
meeting at Evansville, Ind.
Socialist A. L. Benson rest
ing in San Francisco. Scheduled
to address big mass meeting
there Friday night.
ife 4c k? 4t 4t
T p TS T T
Holds That United States Is
Right In Contention War
Must Continue
By Carl W. Ackermau.
(United Press staff correspondent ) '
Dusseldorf, Germany, Oct. .13. Near
ly every big industrial leader in the
Rhine valley industrial center, which
is Germany's Pittsburg, fr.vors ruthless
submarine warfare, regardless of the in
terests of the United States. t
Chancellor Von Bethmnnnllollwog
faces the opposition of the industrial in
terests of both the Rhino-ami Westfal
ian provinces, hot beds of Von Tirpitz
ism. These interests believe that
though they may not Convince the gov
ernment now they will win later. They
arc now centering their hopes of win
ning Field Marshal Von llindenburg to
their side.
"The war must be fought to- a fin
ish," said, the Westfaelische Zeitung,
which fairly represents the sentiment
from the district in this respect. "Eith
er Germany or England must win and
the interests here on the Rhine are
ready to fight until Germany wins."
Directors of Germany's steel trust
and other millionaires in this industrial
country declare unreservedly that Ger
many will not muke pence until Eng
land asks terms. The Rhinelnnd press
is still discussing War Secretary Lloyd
George's statement to the United Press
that tho allies must carry the war to a
"knockout" and they hold that this
statement justifies their contention that
Germany must use every possible weap
on against England. The activities of
the U-5.1 have greatly increased their
faith in the possibilities of unlimited
submarining.
August Thyssen, Germany's Carnegie,
declared in an interview at Homborn-on-Rhine
that since England is still
the great sea power it was necessary for
Germany to operate suomarines along
the Canadian and American coasts to
overcome this advantage.
"It can bo imagined that is uncom
fortable for America, but ij must be
remembered we are at war with Cuuada
and this is one means of ending the
war," said Thyssen. "We can't always
make war as America wants."
"Do you think Germany wants war
with America!" he was asked.
"Never! " waslhe emphatic response.
"First, because we have enemies enough
and second, because in peace timVs our
relations with America are ahvtiys most
friendly nnd we want them to continue
so after the war. We are always sym
pathetic toward America. The word in
terests of both countries will develop
through peace."
Thyssen does not believe nn economic
war will follow the present war.
"We want peace because we desire to
develop our industries in pence, not
war." he said. "A few, who because
they manufacture niumuuition want a
long war, do not speak for Germany be
cause we do not intend to live after the
war by manufacturing ammunition."
Thyssen is- nn intimate friend of the
kaiser. Before the'wur he often met
Judge Gary of the United States Steel
corKration and his sou, Fritz, studied
the Pittsburg steel and coal industries
He is one of the few industrial lenders
who oppose Admiral Von Tirpitz.
Long Ssarch for Wife
Ends in Portland
Portland, Ore.. Oct. 13. Tony Silvas'
long pursuit of his wife and the man
with whom she fled, from Fresno, Cal.,
is ended today. He found the woman
in Portland. The man had gone.
More than a year ago Silvas declares
his wife eloped with Steve Diemnn, a
Greek- She took their little daughter'
Fmma and their marriage certificate.
Silvas followed all through the west,
narrowly missing the fugitives in Al
bany, Ore., recently.
Detectives discovered Mrs. Silvas in
Portlund. When apprehended she hail
two children instead of only one und
she was defiant. "I go away," she
snapped, "because Tony won't work.
Steve is a good man."
Steve, however, is nnfoug the. miss
ing and the police want him. Statutory
charges are being prepared by the dis
trict attorney. Silvas will attempt to
recover his child Emmn by having the
jnvf nile court declare her mother an un
fit custodian-
DESTROYER FLEET
SEARCH COAST FOR
E
Inability to Carry Supplies
Gives Rise to Suspicion of
Secret Help
TAKE STEPS TO PREVENT
VIOLATING NEUTRALITY
Vessels Might Be Supplying
Submarines Now On At
lantic Coast
Washington, Oct. 13. Suspicion that
a belligerent government might bo
maintaining a naval base on tho Atlan
tic coast of this country, caused the
sudden dash to sea of destroyers from
Newport yesterday, Secretary Daniels
said today.
Admiral Mayo, commanding tho At
lantic fleet ordered the ships out yester
day. They will scour the coast as far
north as Eastport, Maine, near :he
Cnnadian border, searching for pos
sible secret submarine bases or wireless
stations. I
"We have no reason to believe any
belligerent is maintaining a base on this
short," Daniels snid. ."During the last
year, however, whenever there has
been a report, or even a possibility that
a belligerent was maintaining a sub
marine base on this side, we have sent
destroyers out to search for it."
Since the arrival of the 17-53. Daniels
Enid, there have been iimuy reports,
particularly in newspapers, that some
belligerent was maintaining a naval
base here. Daniels has received let
ters, it was admitted, suggesting such
a possibility. Tho order for tho sudden
trip to sea though, was made by Ad
miral Mayo on his own initiative.
While the department has no informa
tion on the point the suddenness of tho
departures of tho destroyers gave rise
to tho reports that the Newport naval
men had been "tipped" to the loca
tion of a naval base-
The possible base or bases is not be
lieved to be on land. Instead, accord
ing to official tips here, supplying may
be done by ship masters from Canada,
tho United States and Spain, while uon
slnkable rafts with oil barrels attached
muy be floated out to belligerent war
ressels. The tip here is tllat these sup
plies have been Bent to German sub
marines. One official guardedly admitted his
belitf that there will be more sub
marine raids next month.
It was also snid that agents of the
treasury and justice departments are co
operating in the search. Tho justice do-
(Continued on page two.)
PRESIDENT CARL
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"Billionaire Train" in Seattle
Today and Portland
Tomorrow
WILL TALK IN ARMORY
AT 8 O'CLOCK IN EVENING
Will Also Make Talks at
Roseturg. Grants Pass
and Medford
Seattle, Wash., Oct, 13. Long be
fore the arrival of the Womens Hughes'
train nt tue King street station at 1
p. m. today, representative women ot
Seattle gathered at the Union depot
to receive the eastern visitors. There
were scores of automobiles in the wait
ing line, and Wagner's band was on
hand to lead the parade 1'rora the de
pot to the Moore theatre, where a pub
lie meeting for 2 o'clock was arranged.
Coincident with the arrival of the
Hughes train, a public statement was
issued by the Woodrow Wilson Inde
pendent League here charging that the
multi-millionaire "aristocracy" of
America are financing the trip. The
special is designated as "the billion
aire train."
Mrs. Raymond Robbius and Miss
Freeman were the speakers nt the
Hughes Alliance meeting in Spokane
last night. They were heartily cheered
by an audience which packed the Au
ditorium theatre.
At the Moore theatre here the speak
ers include: Mrs. Maude Howe Elliott,
daughter of Mrs. Julia Ward Howe,
Miss Mary Antin, writer and lecturer;
Dr. Katherine lenient Davis and Mrs.
Rhetn Chllde Dorr, author.
Besides the various womens republi
can eiubs which were on hand to re
ceive the Hughes special, the Women's
German-American club was also repre
sented. Opposition Talkers
Portland. Or., Oct. 13. When the
speciul train carrying women cam
i.uiuin tor Charles hi. Hughes reaches
Portland tomorrow the delegates will
nnd many street' corners occupied by
Wilson women urging votes far the
president.
The republican program includes
Bpecches from automobiles, mass meet
ings, public receptions and a parade,
all of which will keep the visitors
busy for 1 1 hours.
DurinE that same 11 hours the demo
cratic women will have speakers hold-'
in(J forth nt busy points and will con-j
(Continued on page two.) I
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GREGG DONEY OF WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY
HEAVY CUNS ARE
MOVED BACK TO NEW
LINE OF DEFENSE
Germans Move Heavy Artil
lery Back From One to
Two Miles
HAVE 2,100 GUNS IN USE
HAD 2,500 AT VERDUN
Italian Drive On Isonzo Fails
-Fighting Light On All
Fronts
By Henry Wood
(United Press Btaff correspondent)
With the French armies on tho Som
nie Front, Oct. 13. TJic Germans have
withdrawn their heavy guns from one
and a half to five miles behind thoir
Sammo front, Anglo-French aviators
have discovered on recent flights,
The withdrawal was ordered to save
the pieces from capture. In tho recent
dashes of ailed infantry into the Ger
man lines many heavy guns have been
taken before the Germans had an op
portunity to withdraw them. Tho Ger
mans now have "100 guns opposing the
French and British on the Sommc front
compared with 2500 guns they used in
the attack ou Verdun. Of this number
six hundred are south of the Somme,
facing the French and 050 oppose tho
French advance north of the Sommo.
The British are opposed by 850 Ger
man pieces.
Since the allied offensive began moro
than 500 German, guns have been cap
tured. . Italian Drive Fals .
Berlin, Oct. 13. The Itnliari drive
on the Isunzo, launched for the purpose
of relieveing Austrian pressure on Ru
mania!, has utterly failed in its pur
pose, said Vienna dispatches today.-
The Anstrinus have blocked ropeat
eu Italian assaults without summoning
a single regiment from any other front
it was stated. General Cadorna has
failed to make an inportant gain though
he wasted ammunition lavishly in eight
days of bombardment that preceded the
assault.
British and Serbian attacks in Mace
donia, probably for the urpose.of draw
ing off Bulgarian troops from the Ru
manian front have met with a similar
fate. The Bulgars withdrew at a few
places but everywhere maintained thoir
fortified lines.
Britah Rout Bulgarians
London, Oct. 13. Pushing their pa
trols eastward from tho towns of Prose
nik and Topolova, captured from tho
(Continued on page two.)
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Friday the Thirteenth
Does Things in Portland
Portland, Or., Oct. 13. Black Fri
Joseph Rannes, carpenter, won $1000
in a Chinese lottery after months of
losing and was arrested.
Butter went, up lVj cents.
Potatoes and onons rose and it is
feared the goulash' trust intends to
skyrocket the price of stew.
K. Kressler, a butcher, had a scheme
to got the boys out of the trenches by
Christmas. Ho faces deportation as an
insane alien. - . .
Portland man woke up with 18 black
cats in bed with him. They used to live
next door but their folks moved away.
He wants police protection and chloro
form. ,' i
CLAIM HAVE RIGHT
TO CENSOR MAILS
French and English Reply to
American Note Are
Identical
Washington, Oct. 13. Stato depart
ment officials are today studying the
identical French and British reply to
tho American protest of more than four
months ago against certain features of
the allied, mail censorship. Tho notes,
written in French, were delivered to
the department lute yesterday. Arrange
ments are being mado for their simul
taneous publication in tho near future
by the British, French and American
governments.
Although neither department offi
cials nor allied diplomats would discuss
the contents of the reply, it is learned
on good authority that the two govern
ments, taking issue with American con
tentions, maintain:
That they have a right to censor
mnil. . -
That thev are justified in forcing
noutrul ships into British and French
portB to censor mail. -
That they have a right to seize unit
ed States postnl , money orders of
"enemy "..destination.
That because all or tne nciiigercnrs
did not ratify Tho Hague conventions,
their provisions aftccting ccnso(siiip
aro not in forco.
Department Is Investigating
Charges of Conspiracy hi
Many Cities
Washington, Oct. 13. Charges ot
widespread election fraud conspiracies
in Cincinnati, Cleveland nnd Columbus,
Ohio; Detroit and other Michigan cities,
s vcrnl Indiana cities, including Indian
apolis nnd Terer Haute and in Pennsyl
vania, West Virginia and Colorado, are
under investigation todny by the depart
ment of justice. The department hopes
to dispose of the cases beforo tho com
ing election.
Briefly, illegal registration, coloniza
tion and proposed illegal voting at the
November election, nre included in the
charges. The department has been in
formed it is planned to tnko voters
from one stato to another to use them
in elections.
Charges made to the department, it
wus admitted, have been on cxcollent
authority. In many cases they wcr
made by voters' leugues and citizens'
associations. In some instances it is un
derstood direct charges were mado thai
certain political organizations have plan
ned frauds; in other cases, that frauds
of past years were to bo repeated-
Klection fraud cases in Denver, Colo.,
Pennsylvania and West Virgianiu, it
was said, concern past cases. Tho Den
ver investigation has to do with the
Colorado Fuel uud Iron company inves
tigation of some months ago. Tho West
Virginia investigation is a continuation
of u guneraMirube into West Virgiuuiu
politics which has already figured in
the state courts. The Pennsylvania in
vestigation involves alleged campaign
contributions by liquor interests, which
attracted widespread attention some
months ago. These last cases arc un
derstood to be about ready for trial.
Department of justice attorneys snid
today they would make every effort to
prevent the frauds which, it is alleged,
aro to be attempted in the November
elections. In uli cases where changes
have been made, depurtinent agents uru
trying to "cleun up" the cases before
instead of after elections.
O. W. Eyre, who sent down several
blue ribbon hogs to Portland recently
iml received 10.25 per hundred for
them, which was 50 cents nbove top
price, for first class hogs, bus received
notice that they dressed ns follows:
tliniiishire Barrows, til per cent and Po
land Chinas 82.0 per cent. Ho says tho
roidinary. hog dresses from "i'i to 75 per
cent.
OF
NEW PRESIDENT
VERY
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Celebrated Educators From
AD Parts of Cosmtry
Take Part
EMINENT DIVINES
DELIVER ADDRESSES
Presidents of Colleges la
Caps and Gowns Feature
of Event
With solemn impressivenesa and
amid an array of distinguished presi
dents and representatives of 14 col
leges and universities of the northwest
and many from prominent institutions
or learning m iill .partB of lire United
Statos, Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, ex-president
of West Virginian Wosleyan uni
versity, was formally installed ae pres
idont of Willamette University this
morning in tho First Methodist church.
1 he occasion was remarkable for it
dignity and impressive academic splen
dor which has never occurred before '
in the great history of tho oldest educa
tional institution of tho state.
Forming in front of Eaton hall at
tho university, the procession proceed
ed with solemn steps to the church
whore the reservations for over 300
wore taxed to overflowing before the
many distinguished guests and students
could be seated. In the line were the
gowned presidents, alumni, faculty and
members of senior cluss as well as the
greater majority of the student body.
Leading were President Doney . ami
Bishop Matt S. Hughes, T. 8. McDan
iol, president of the board of trustees,
tho visiting college presidents and rep
resentatives, tho deans of the univer-
si.y schools, the members of the board
of trustees, the faculty of the universi
ty schools, the alumni of tho institu
tion, the seniors nnd the juniors of the
eollcgo of liberal arts, the theological
and law s.udeuts, and tne members of
tho sophomore and freshman classes. .
-After invocation by Rov, T. B. Ford,
D. D., and a selection by a mixed quar
tet, T. S. Me Daniels, president ot the
board of trustees, presented the signifi
cance of the coming of ex-senntor K.
A. Booth, who spoke concerning the ed
ucational field of the Christian world.
' ' We have come to tho day when wo
as believers in tho Christian world must
act or be disciplined." The ex-senator
was not sure wnicn musi oe me oeuer
stund.
Bishop Matt S. Hughes, LL. D., of tho
Mc.hodist Kpiscopul church, thon pre
sented a masterful trout meat of "The
Mission of tho American Christian Col
lege." He said in part that Christiani
ty is a religion of reason and where
vital reul principles of church and
school stand side by side, lluinunity
today has a dvsiro tor knowledge ami
litrmslics institutions ot learning to
satisfy thut desiro.
President Doney responded witu n
rcmarkablo address on "Some Kduca
tionnl Ideals" which reviewed the
needs for greater strictness in the col-
egiato curriculum.
As a conclusion to the morning ses
sion President Doney bestowed the buc-
cnlaureato degroe of Willamette uni
versity on Judge Charles II. Cutting or
Chicago, who was a member of the
1H73 class for two years, tno noieu jur
ist coming west purposely to receive
the degree from his old prospective
nlma muter.
With Dr. B. L. Steoves presiding the
ufternoon program was opened by 1'rof.
Frank Willmr t naeo wnu an ois
prelude" "Marclio Fontificalo" by
Tombellc.
Greetings from the state ot uregon
t.milcd tiv Governor Withy-
combe and from educational centers of
the northwest by tho presidents ami
representatives of tho various collegos.
Among these responding were:
President F.dward 11. Todd, D. D.,
College of Puget Sound.
President I . U iHinpueii,. -r
l.'nivorsity of Oregon. -
President Mclvin A. Brannon, I n. v.,
LL. D., University of Idaho.
President Wallace II. bee, I. D., Al
Imny college.
President L. L. Kpley, D. D-, Philo-
(Continucd on page six.)
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tonight and Snt
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mostly northerly.
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