Satin.
FULL LEASED
WIRE DISPATCHES
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CIRCULATION IS
OVER 4000 DAILY
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THIRTY-NINTH YEAR NO. 280
SALEM, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1916
PRICE TWO CENTO 54
STORM IS RAGING
FROM ATLANTIC TO
PACIFIC COAST
Reaches from Canada to the
Gulf With Snow
Florida
in
SLEET AND ICE HAMPER
TRAFFIC IN NEW YORK
Snow Slides In Colorado and
Blizzards Sweep the
Dakotas
New Tone, Doc. 27. Snow and sleet,
driving over New Yurk ami the eastern
aud middle sthates in the most trouble
some storm of the winter, tied up traf
fie and interfered with telegraph and
telephone lines today.
The storm ranged from Jacksonville,
F!a., where it was snowing, to the Can
adian border.
Surface and elevated lines in greater
New York, particularly in Brooklyn and
to Queens, were greatly delayed owing
tfl a thin' .sheeting of ice which hainp
oied trollev connections.
Suowslides iu Colorado.
Denver, Colo., Dee. 27. The cold
Wave which struck the Rocky mountain
region Christmas day still holds this
territory in its icy grip today. R,elow
zero temperatures were reported this
morning from many point?.
The coldest weather in the Rocky
mountain states last night was at
U ivre, Mont., where the mercury reach
ed 18 below.
As a result of snowsiides iu the west
er a part of the state and in Wyoming-,
a!i trains over the Union Pacific and
Dpuvor & Rio Grande railroads are
fi on 10 to 12 hours late.
Blizzard In Dakotas.
Fargo, N. D., Dec. 27. The worst
blizzard of the season is raging in the
Dakotas- The snowfall started Christ
njas day and 141 to noon showed no signs
of abatement. Mandun reports a fall of
58 inches. Williston claims 10 inches.
Businessmen throughout the Dakotas
came to their offices this morning on
ekiis and rural maiL deliveries are an
nulled for fear the carriers will get lost
iu the snow.
Snow Near San Francisco,
Sari Francisco, Dec. 27. Following a
drop in the mercury to within six de
fj'ees of freezing point; San Franciseo
end vicinity was dripping under a cold
rain today. Little relief was promised
: the federal forecaster for the new
j ear celebration.
Mount Tamalpais and Mount Diablo
were snow capped yesterday, and re
ports from all sections of the state, es-
(Uontinned on page two.)
Settles Divorce Suit
with His Revolver
Rainier, Or., Dee. 27 W. ,T. Nor
ton, a logger, ajje '54, and his wife, age
45, arc dead today, the victims of Ilor
ton 's revolver.
. Knraged lecause his wife had start
ed divorce proceedings Horton went
Ji'to a mercantile store where Mrs. Hor
ton was employed as clerk and after a
heated argument fired two shots into
Iiis wife's body, then turned the weap-
" i on himself. Mrs. Horton d'ed tour
liours later, but the husband's death
was instantaneous. Three young chil
dren survive. .
Tt smi ltlrn nnthSn 1 aupcoejltl ll.'it
lxiint noisy these days. My idea o' cavalry, died in the military hospital
nerve is th"' Eastern newspapers makin' at 'Fort Sam Houston today from ia
nuggestiong t President Wilson. juries received in a fall from his horse
Blame for Accident
Is Placed
Both
on
Portland, Or., Dec. 27. Respousibil
ity for Uie accident which last Friday
resulted in the death of a priest nam
ed Castelli and Mrs. .). .1. Cbambreau.
and the serious in jury of Manager Sov
age of the ice hippodrome when a
street car crashed into a jitney loaded
with passengers, today rests with Mo
tormau Picrson of the trolley and .lit
lieur Norman Myers, according to the
verdict of the coroner's jury.
Piersou claimed to have brought his
ear to a stop before the crush, but all
the witnesses contradicted him, while
MyeTs claimed one of his front wheels
ciuight in the flnuge of the street car
rail or h" could have gotten out of
the oncoming cars path.
K. V. Holder ot San Francisco ana
Manager Savage jura
from their injuries.
both recovering
HE
BY ELECTRIC f RAIN
Engine Went Dead As It
Crossed Track Auto
Smashed, No One Hurt
Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Mitchell, who
live north of this city, had a narrow
escape from death yesterday afteruoow
when the ford car in which they were
riding1 was struck by an Oregon Electric
train in front of the court house. The
accident happened at 4:18 o'clock and
serious injury was averted only by the
quick (topping of the electric train by
Motorman Khumwny. As it was the
Ford's left rear wheel was smashed, the
fender bent, and a big gash cut in the
side of the door.
.Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell had just en
tered their machine to drive home after
doing Shopping at the Farmers Cash
Store and he had turned across the
track to go North on High street. Just
las they got on the track the motor
died and he was stalled directly in the
path of the on-coming train. Before
the train was stopped it pushed the
Ford thirty feet along the pavement.
Neither Mr. Mitchell or Mrs. Mitchell
were injured.
E
E
Murder Trial in Which Con
tents of Stomach Will Be
Main Evidence
Ossipee, N. H., Dee. 27. Chemical
analysis of the stomach of Mrs. Flor
ence Small, for whose murder on Sep
tember 28 Frederick Small, her husband,
is on trial, shows that she ato roast
beef on the day of her death, according
to information here today. This simple
fact, the defense claims, will prove the
turning point of the trial and prove the
innocence of the accused man.
Small left his cottage, in the ruins of
rhich his wife's body was found nat
night, at ;-p. m. on the day of the mur
der. For lunch he said his wife had
canned shrimp. The presence of roast
beef in the stomach of the murdered
woman proves therefore, according to
the defense, that she was alive after
her husband's departure, that she ate
supper and was murdered by persons un
known after that meal.
Attorney William iS. Matthews, chief
counsel for the defense, said he is per
fectly satisfied with the analysis of
Ui stomach contents as furnished by
tho state attorneys.
indications are that the jury will be
completed today and that County So
licitor Walter D. H. Hill will make his
opening address to the jury. The jury
probably will view the ruins tomor
row. The jurors will ride in sleighs
eight miles to the ice coated shores of
beautiful Lake Ossipee. The horses will
plunge through two feet of snow to
reach the scene ot the crime;
Fate of the Maryland
Is Still Unlearned
New- York, Dec. 27 The fate of the
steamship Maryland, reported Christ
mas night to be sinking about 350
miles off Sandy Hook, wa still a
mystery early today. Nothing had
been heard from the vessel, or from
government cutters ruahing to her
rescue for nearly twenty-four hours.
Word was expected momentarily from
the coast guard cutters Ureshani and
Acushnet, which are now in the posi
tion which the Maryland last reported
before her wireless failed.
Fear was expressed for the safety of
the Maryland's crew, consisting of
thirty four Spaniards.
MAJOR CLAYTON DEAD
Han Antonio, Texas, iee. n. -n,jor
I'. ujl! iMavtnn .Tl nf thp Sixteenth
. . . m I t ir.;
GERMANY TO SEND
TERMS TO WILSON
IF
Would Ask Though That
These Be Published Only
by Mutual Consent
PRESIDENT ACTUATED
BY TWO STRONG REASONS
One to Bring War To An End,
the Other to Avoid
Complications
By Robert J. Bender.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
Washington, Dec. 27. Despite a gen
eral feeling of hopelessness among gov
ernment heads over prospects for peace,
in the light of Germany's latest com
munication, men closest to President
Wilson believed Today he will strive to
the utmost to prevent the situation get
ting beyond his grasp.
Two reasons they say will actuate
him, namely:
A desire to end the war and a desire,
if possible, to avoid having to put
turougil ins Sussex note threat to break
relations with Geiniauy should she over
step her submarine pledges.
Officials made no secret, of their pes
simism over the allied rejection of the
German proposal for a round talile con
ference. This was the more empMHo because
Germany does, not propo now to link
the idea of a world r . uauty with
the round table session, ently. The
allies want such a theme . uled.
Door is Still Oim-
Men in touch with WiUuii, however,
said the "door is not closed" and that
while the allies may throw down the
German conference idea hard, Wilson
still can move again, especially with the
backing of neutrals.
Wilson's friends held he has placed
himself in the position of at least a
potential mediator and hence cannot
quit now unless his ideas are thrown
down hard and fast.
While the idea of obtaining peace is
uppermost in administration minds,
there is among the inner circle a pro
found idea that a break with Germany
is inevitable if present peace proposals
fail utterly.
In fact one of the highest officials
told the United Press today that
ent plans call for no more iiote writiuc
r w
to vreriuaiiy.
He added, if the Marina, Arabia and
other cases develop clear cut violation
of German pledges in the Sussex cam..
or if Germany starts a new submarine
campaign in case peace Tails, then a
DreaK in relations can be the only
answer.
He declared that President Wilson's
"peace" note and Secretary Lansing's
subsequent "verge of war" statement
werA in a measure educational that the
country would not wonder what it was
all about in event matters came up to
tho breaking point.
Will tSate Her Terms.
Washington, Dec. 27. If President
Wilsoa will get from the entente allies
their terms of peace, Germany "" probab
ly" will furnish to the president the
Teuton terms, it was stated at the Ger
man embassy today.
Central power diplomats agreed with
this belief. They said thev do not ex
pect any move from President Wilson
until England's replv to his peace note
is received. Should President Wilson
thereupon transmit the German reply to
England and should England officially
ask for Germany's peace terms through
the president, it is thought probable
Germany would reply favorably if a
similar concession was made by Eng
land. In such an event, however, Germany,
it was said, would prefer both sets of
peace terms to be hulrl t MtlMntll inn.
: f idential between the belligerents and
i-resiaent Wilson andnot be published
except by mutual agreement.
Think Whiteman
Responsible for Murder
Minden, Lr., Dec. 27. Nine negroes
in jail here today iu connection with
the murder of John Reeves, his wife
and two children Christmas night. Coun
ty authorities suspect that the crime
was engineered by a white man, how
ever, and no charges have been filed
against the negroes.
Fear-of mob violence has abated and
the guard around the jail has been re
duced.
The fifteen months old baby, which
was believed to be dying in a Shreve
port hospital, was repoi ted today to
have a chance for recovery.
during drill ten days ago. The body
will be sent to Washington today ac
companied by Clayton 'a fa mil and Col
onel George T. Ianghorn of the Eighth
cavalry, who arrived from El Paso to
day. Clayton waa a son of General
Powell Clayton, confederate leader.
ENGLAND
DOES
THE BIRTHDAY CAKE
WELL BE UNTOUCHED
St. lyoms. Mo., Dec. 27. A
large white frosting covered
birthday cake with twelve can
dles on top lays untouched in
the home of Charles Trinkler s
i
parents. For Charlie is dead."
Since 1110 the youngster has
been injured on every birth
day. Yesterday he celebrated
his twelfth birthday.
"Mamma, I wonder what
I'll get for a birthday present
today," he said, referring to
pievious accidents on his natal
day.
"Run along son and be care
ful," Mrs. Trinkler said. "I'll
have a little surprise for you
when you return."
A few hours later Charlie's
mangled little body was
brought home. He had been
crushed between two slreet
cars.
DR. 0, A. PAINE DIES
AT E
Prominent Physician and Cap
italist Was Stricken In
Home Today
Eugene, Ore., Dec. ,27. Doctor DT A
Paine, retired physician and banker,
died suddenly at his home here today.
He was born in Germany in 1853 and
came to Oregon in 1888. Mrs. Carrie
Topping, wife of Dr. W. F. Topping, of
)San Francisco, is one of two daughters
and a son surviving-
Dr. Paine was well known in Salem,
having served as superintendent of the
state insane asylum. In Eugene he was
for years president of the Loan & Sav
ings bank and prominent in political
and civic affairs. He had been in
poor health for several years past
A widow, one son, Elmer, cashier oiV"?. n ' 8UIW -
the Loan & ' , -vinos bank, and two
daughters, M
rs. Jj. j. Uoodrich, wite
of tho cashier of the First National
bank, of Lugene, and Mrs. W. F. Top
ping, of San Francisco, survive him.
ZA HAS NOT
ACTEDON PROTOCOL
Government Will Wait Short
Time Meanwhile Troops
Cannot Come Home
By Carl D. Groat
(United lress staff correspondent)
Washington, Dec. 27 Two develop
ments that closely followed each other
today thrust tho Mexican situation to
the foreground here.
The first was an unsolicited state
ment from the state department that
unrest in northern Mexico is growing
and that as a result administration
attention once more is focused toward
the border.
The second was announcement fy
Secretary of the Interior Lane that he
has issued a call for a conference of
the American members of the American-Mexican
commission "at some ear
ly date," probably this week. tJp to
noon no word had been received as to
whether General Carranza had signed
the troop wilhdrawal protocol agreed
upon by the commission.
In its statement the department de
clared it had information that large
groups or bandits are on the rampage
and that the situation "is such as to
give the department fresh eonccrn."
The state department newspaper con
ference this forenoon resulted in a dis
cussion almost entire or Mexican mat -ters.
The department suspects Villa ofi
smuggling all the arms he needs across,
the border. Just how, the department I
does not know. Nor would the depart
ment say whether conditions are worse
than a few months ago when, in a note
to Carr&n.a it characterized them as
"deplorable."
Men In touch with the state depart
ment maneuvers inclined to believe to
day's emtihasis on Mexican affairs was
! intended as a preparation of the public
(Continued on page two.)
I
LOAN BANKS LOCATED
Washington, Dec. 27. Tho
federal farnT loan board today
announced the following cities
in which farm loan banks will
be located:
Springfield, Mass ; Baltimore,
Md.; Columbia, S. C.J I-ouisville,
Ky.r Nr Orleans, La.; St.
Louia, Mo.; St. Paul, Minn.;
Omaha, Neb.; Wichita, Kan.;
Houston, Texas; Berkeley, Cab;
Bpokane, Wash.
One hundred and forty eon
testing citiea were disappointed.
VILLA CAPTURES
CARRANZA'S ARMY
At ntic Reports Say Divis-
en rAA ami a
i til z.duu is l alien m
by Bandit
PLAN, iO TAKE TAMPIC0
and Cirr off oil supply
Thinks This Would Force
England to "Compel"
United States to Act
By Webb Miller.
(Cnited Press staff correspondent.)
El Paso, Texas, Dec. 27. That Villa's
objective is Tampion and that the band
it leader is setting the stage for an at
tack upon that Mexican seaport was in
dicated in reports obtained today by
United State diplomatic agents here.
Although no official confirmation
has been received, authorities here are
inclined to accept the report that Villa
forces are now in possession of Han
Luis Potosi, cutting off communication
betweten Tampico and the west. Mili
tary men here believe that a separate
force o'f bandits must have gono south
if the city is now in Villa 's hands.
Officers close to the bandit chieftain
told foreigners in Chihuahua City that
Villa planned to take Tampico and
forco international complications and
action against the Carranzista govern
ment by the United States. Fuel for
the English fleet is drawn from the oil
fields in that region and Villa bolieves
that England would imedmiately force
the United States government to act if
. i"tne a?Ve or direct reports, nm
ted States diplomatic agents here Villa
in all probability will next move upon
Saltillo and Monterey, the only two po
sitions of any importance between his
present base at Torreon and Tnmpico.
Private dispatches from Queretaro state
that the Carranzista government is mak
ing the greatest effort to round up ev
ory available man into the campaign
against Villa. With the railway cut at
San Luis Potosi, progress of the gov
ernment forces north will be hindered.
Authentic reports received here today
tell of the capture of an entire division
of Carranzistas, numbering 2,500 by Vil
listas at San Pedro, following the fall
of that city. The government troops
were being rushed toward Torreon to
reinforce the garrison there, but were
cut off -and taken prisoners by the
bandits-
New York Is Facing
Big Labor Struggle
New York, Dec. 27. New Years day
promises to find New York engaged
in a big labor struggle.
Nine labor organizations with more
than 150,000 members now plan strikes
to be effective that day.
The big drive of the Hotel and Res
taurant Employes' International Alli
ance will be at its peak when 1917 is
ushered in. Onion officials promise to
carry the strike into the "lobster
zone" and along Ilroadway on that
day, and claim they will have four
thousand waiters out in sympathy with
the union members south of Union
Square, who are scheduled to walk out
tomorrow.
Announcement of plans to call out
15,090 shirtmukers, who are demand
ing a 20 per cent increase in wages,
has been triads by union officials.
Other organizations which are plan
ning strikes include watch muKcrs,
book makers, petticoat makers, white
goods wdtkers and umbrella workers.
Bopp Trial Will Go
to Jury by New Years
San Francisco, Dec. 27. That the
trial of Franz Bopp, German consul
general and attaches of his office will
be ready for the jury before New
Years day, was the belief expressed by
lawyers in the case today.
Taking of testimony is expected to
end tomorrow night or Friday and
then final arguments will be heard.
Speculation was rife today as to
whether President John A. McGregor
cf the Union Iron Works would be
called to the stand.
Theodore Itoche, counsel for Bopp, to
day expressed the belief that if Mc
Gregor was permitted to take the stand
he would tell of his concern's making
submarine parts for England.
light House Tender
Launched at Long Beach
Long Beach, Cal., Dec. 27 The Cedar,
the largest lighthouse tender yet built
for the United States government was
launched at 10:30 this morning at the
yards of the California Shipbuilding
eompany- Mrs. George K roiise Cook,
said to be the only living descendant
of William Bradford, second governor
NEAR
AN
PEDRO
Phoenix Sprinkles
Street with Booze
Phoenix, Ariz., Dec. 26. The old
stories of actresses bathing in cham
pagne are now passed. Today Phoenix'
streets were given a booze bath, with
the city's sprinkling wagons -used as
the means of spreading the spiritous
shower. The amount of liquor seized
from blindpiggers and bootleggers in
the past two years makes a stock that
is sufficient to cause a riot in dry
state. Therefore, state authorities ar
ranged to dispose of it in street sprink
ling, and tomorrow everything will be
dumped into the tank to settle the dust.
Police will be on hand to prevent any
of O. Khayama's 'true belivers" from
grovelling iu the dust after the .water
wagon.
MEN IN TRENCHES
ARE AGIST PEACE
Feeling Is That His Note Sim
ply Smooths the Way for
Germany
By William Philip Simms.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
With tho British Armies in France,
Doc. 27. "Never has the British army
been so prepared to fight; why should
we talk peace?' '
"You can safely give that as the Bri
tish army's answer to all peace talk,"
declared a staff general today in answer
to questions, as to what he and his men
thought of President Wilson's note.
To say that the American note fell
like a bombshell here is putting it mild
ly. Bombshells are always expected
hereabouts, whereas such a step as that
taken by the American president was
remotest removed from all thoughts.
The move was variously commented
upon by the fighting men. Nobody
doubted for an instant the president 's
good intentions in the suggestions, but
the foeling was that strong influences
had succeeded in inducing him to be
liovethis was nn opportune moment to
act. Such action was regarded as smooth
ing Germany 's road and enabling her
to take the second step in her peace
program.
Sentiment at the front is uncondition
ally against peace now. Every indica
tion points to much worse conditions in
Germnny than the world even suspects;
on the other hand, the allies are dally
better situated to wage a successful of
fensive. LEADS TOJIGH PLACES
Woods Says Trail Runs to
Relatives of Those Holding
High Positiins
Washington, Dec. 27. Representative
Woods' search for evidence regarding
tho rumored leuk to Wall strcot of ad
vanco information on President Wil
son's peace note led him into diplomatic
channels and into the homes of relatives
of officials high in the administration,
he told the United Press today.
"I struck a promising lead late last
night," said Wood today. "I am in
formed Hint li lelfltive of u hiirh offic
ial, now in the brokerage business as a
silent partner, is alleged to have profit
ed immensely by advance information
on the president's peace note- I am not
in a position to reveal the name at
present but may do so ut any time.
"I also learned that representatives
of this government in an European cap
ital uprofited by this advance infor
mation. This is not at all unlikely as
I was told members of our diplomatic
corps had the news two days before the
relcaso in this country. This would
have tiven them firnole time to havi'
cabled any instructions to their brok
ers. ' '
Frank R. Roherson Dies
in Denver Hospital
Denver, Colo., Dec. 27. rank B.
Kobersnn, age 46, widely known trav
eler, died at 8t. Luke's hospital here
late last night. Death was the result
of uppendicitis, for which he was op
erated on a week ago. Apparently his
condition improved steadily until yes
terday, when he had an attack of heart
trouble.
lloberson 'a wife, Jessie Wharton
Hoberson, has been living in Boulder
since last summer. When her husband
arrived in Denver from Canada a week
ago she came here to meet him and was
at Ida bedside when he 'died.
Koberson is survived also by his
mother and a brother, both living in
the east.
of the Plymouth colony, chriatened the
200 foot steel vessel.
The ship cost $260,000. She will op
erate off the Alaskan coaat and will be
ready for service about the last o
January.
ENGLAND TO TELL
WORLD WHAT SHE
IS FIGHTING FOB
Ministry In Conference Draft
ing Reply to President's
Note
COMES OFF HIGH HORSE
WILL TALK BUSINESS
Belief Germany Realizes She
Is Weakening Causes
English Pei mess
By Ed L. Keen.
(United Press staff correspondent.)
London, Dec. 27. England intends to
tell the world exactly what she'ie fight
ing for. Her answer to President Wil
son's note suggesting that belligerent
in the great war define their peace
terms will be a clear outline of the ob
jects which Great Brituin and her alhea
hopo to attain.
That this sort of a note is now in
process of formation was learned on un
questioned authority by the United
Press this afternoon.
Presumably it was this busines sof
drafting the reply which called the min
istry into conference at Premier Lloyd
George's official residence in Downing
street today.
It is known that yesterday Lloyd
George conferred at length with Alex
ander Kibot, minister of finanee in the
French cabinet, and Albert Thomas,
minister of munitions and manufactures
of the Briand ministry. This conference
probably had as if a object also the ques
tion of a joint or at least an identical
note from all the allies, not only in
answer to President Wilson 's peace sug
gestions, but also in answer to the Ger
man note.
The outline of the reasons why Kmg
laud and her allies are fighting will
probably not go into minute detail, bat
it will be sufficiently definite on aU
questions to answer comprehensive!'
what the allieg are fighting for.
It is apparent from the above di
patch that England intends diplomatic
ally to force Germany into a positioav '
of strategic disadvantages in her forth
coming answer.
Germany failed to answer what was
considered the main point of the Wilson
note tho suggestion for an outline rf
peace terms. Moreover, she failed to
submit any statement of principles for
which she is contending, which might
be taken as indicative of what her
peace terms would be.
Will Not Accept Proposals.
London, Dec. 27. The allies certain
ly will not accept Germany's proposal
in her note to America, for an immedi
ate peace conference. That was entire
ly clear today.
But the Teutonic reply to President
Wilson 's note was hailed here aa afford
ing a splendid opportunity for England
and her allies to set before the world
a statement which would concretely epi
tomize the ideals and aims of the ea
tento powers in the war.
By her lack of sincere responaiveneas
nnd the inconclusive nalure of her reply,
England declares Germany is self coa
victed of lack of sincereity iu her peace
proffer. Htrong influences were at
work today urging that Great Britain
make this inscereity still more striking
(Continued on page two.)
Submits Plans for
Universal Training
Washington, Dec 27. Plana for a.
universal military training system in
volving no interference with the na
tional guard and designed to avoid
strong objections which have develop
ed to one year training plans, wero
placed before the senate military fom
mittee yesterday by Colonel Wbb O.
Ilaes of Ohio.
The plans were worked out by Col
onel Hayes and Colonel Foote, who are
in chnrie of the artillery school at
Fortress Monroe. Colonel Foote will
be called before the committee early iu
January to explain the planB.
USE WEATHER
DOMT "AST
Orogon: To
night and Thurs
day rain o snow
west, snow east
portion; wanner
tonight; increas
ing easterly
winds.
J
bT.